Nest of Vipers

Nest of Vipers is the 17th episode of Taggart.

It was originally broadcast on the ITV network in three weekly parts from 9 to 23 January 1992.

SYNOPSIS
The discovery of two skulls at a building site causes DCI Jim Taggart to re-open a missing person enquiry from four years earlier. As an eminent professor begins to reconstruct the faces of the murder victims, a batch of poisonous snakes and spiders is stolen from a Glasgow biotech company, and are then used in a bizarre killing spree. Is the killer trying to cover up his crimes, and can Taggart crack the case before more people die?

CAST

 * Jim Taggart - Mark McManus
 * Mike Jardine - James Macpherson
 * Annie Gilmour - Ann Mitchell
 * Dr. Nielson - Ken Drury
 * Morag Nielson - Lorna Heilbron
 * Derek Amlot - Michael Cochrane
 * Prof. Hutton - Jeremy Young
 * Christine Gray - Leone Connery
 * Jackie Reid - Blythe Duff
 * Supt. McVitie - Iain Anders
 * Dr. Andrews - Robert Robertson
 * Jean Taggart - Harriet Buchan
 * Maureen Macdonald - Juliet Cadzow
 * Angus Mackay - Geoffrey Beevers
 * Colin Murphy - Dougray Scott
 * Madeleine Brown - Emma Currie
 * Dennis Taylor - Calum Shaw
 * Jill Cramer - Alison Sterling
 * Carl Young - Grant Cathro
 * Frank Sullivan - Niven Boyd
 * Janet Gilmour - Diane Taylor Whitehead
 * Caroline Peterson - Simone Lahbib
 * Doctor - Iain Wotherspoon
 * Newsreader - Shereen Nanjiani
 * Locksmith - Gary Grochla
 * Cleaning Lady - Betty Bright
 * Address to the Haggis - Bill Denniston
 * Hairdresser - Michelle Gomez
 * Reporter - David Gallacher
 * Truck Driver - Jim Boyce
 * Maureen's Daughters - Louise Dobbie, Paula Fraser