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Airs Next: BBC-1 at Tuesday 9:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: Ended    Premiered: January 7, 2003    Last Aired: February 12, 2004
Show Category: Drama
Welcome to the Red Cap guide at TV.com. Written by Patrick Harbinson (ER, Dark Angel), Red Cap , set on a British base camp in Germany, focuses on the elite plain-clothes detective unit of the Royal Military Police. Known as the Special Investigation Branch, the SIB is charged with one of the most demanding of all military jobs: the investigation of serious crimes committed by, or...
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Last episode: Long Time Dead
A group of soldiers are sitting in a garage playing cards and drinking. Private Barham is drunk but decides he wants more and takes off in an armored personnel carrier, tearing through the base like a mad man. After a high speed chase, Barham crashes the vehicle into an abandoned building. When the Red Caps arrive, they make a gruesome discovery - there is a mummified corpse hanging from the debris.

SIB search the abandoned building a find Barham's electrocuted body; one of the team is nearly killed in the process. It's after this accident that things begin to fall into place. The corpse is that of Private Exxner. Exxner had gone absent without leave just before his unit was sent to Iraq. He was also a known drug user. From this, SIB discovery that Exxner was the lynch pin of a drug ring that covered the whole unit, and included many who did not return from the Gulf. It's up to the team to trawl through the evidence of cowardice, bravery, loyalty and honor to find out who killed Exxner and why.
Aired: Thursday February 12, 2004
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Cast

 
Gordon Kennedy - Sgt. Bruce Hornsby
Frazer Douglas - Kinsing
William Beck - Sgt. Maj. Steve Forney
Tamzin Outhwaite - Sgt. Jo McDonagh
Maggie Lloyd-Williams - Angie Ogden
Blake Ritson - Second Lieutenant Giles Vicary
James Thornton - Staff Sgt. Philip Roper
Poppy Miller - Staff Sgt. Harriet Frost
Raquel Cassidy - Neve Kirkland
Peter Guinness - Captain Gavin Howard
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Community Reviews (4)

 
8.0
Great
"Bring it back!"
Intresting, would watch again
Continue » Posted Oct 30, 2006 1:35 am PST
8.0
Great
"Ahead of its time"
I can see how some people say that there are problems with Red Cap but I personally think that it is still very enjoyable.
Continue » Posted Jun 19, 2006 8:19 am PST
6.6
Fair
"Ahead of its time"
That wasn't that funny, and it seems to me that artist couldn't hold back their extreme jealousy over the success of Family Guy.
Continue » Posted Jun 16, 2006 9:13 am PST
7.0
Good
"Mildly interesting"
'Red Cap' while potraying a decent image of army life did not achieve the goal of being an exciting crime series. Was this just a show to fill in a time slot for the BBC?
Continue » Posted Aug 4, 2005 1:11 am PST
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Show: Red Cap
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Show Reviews: 4
People Tracking: 19
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