Puppet on a String

Puppet on a String is the 67th episode of Taggart.

It was originally broadcast on the ITV network on 6 January 2005.

PLOT
The team is called to the hospital where an enraged Dr Mellor claims he has been attacked with a lethal syringe full of drugs by one of his colleagues, Dr Finn.

Finn has a cast iron alibi, so it's back to square one. At the hospital where Mellor and Finn worked, DS Reid discovers that the pair were such rivals. Finn had been conducting a drugs trial, which resulted in a woman's death. Mellor took action and had him struck off.

Meanwhile, acting on a hunch, Burke follows Mellor's soon to be ex-wife to a meeting with a known hit man, Ian Redman.

When Mellor discharges himself from hospital, Burke and Reid go to his house and find him dead.

The team steps up the investigation with Redman the prime suspect. But their skills are pushed to the limit when a macabre discovery sends them in a completely different direction.