A New Clue in a Cold Case Leads the Squad to a High-level Conspiracy on Waking the Dead By The cast of the BBC One police procedural crime drama series, ‘Waking the Dead.’ It takes a special police force to be able to contend with society’s most reprehensible crimes, including fanaticism within different religions, international organized crime, war crimes and murder. But the fictional London-based Cold Case unit is readily able to handle any challenge that comes its way on the hit British crime drama television series, ‘Waking the Dead.’ The team is composed of highly skilled CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist who fearlessly do whatever it takes to track down the perpetrators of unsolved transgressions.