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Silent Witness (BBC, 1996–) is a long-running and successful forensic crime drama. Although academic attention to the series has thus far focused on the iconic original protagonist Sam Ryan (Amanda Burton), an intriguing period featuring a team of three protagonists followed her departure in 2004. This article analyses this ‘team era’ of Silent Witness, suggesting that these later series can use their new team dynamics to dramatise a tension between individualism and communality. Until 2012, Silent Witness developed this team's bond, yet also occasionally created tension between an individual protagonist and the team – disrupting the latter's normative cohesion. To demonstrate this, this article provides a close analysis of character interaction in the team era episode ‘Body of Work’ (2006, series 10, episodes 5 and 6). While describing the patterns of individuation and team cohesion found therein, it also explores their connection to innovations in aesthetics and cumulative narration and to a wider cultu...

Prunes and Posses: Individuation and Team Cohesion inSilent Witness