Seasons & episodes

Greig tries to establish why a man has confessed to a burglary that he didn't commit.

Cryer and Blake respond to a young man's claim that his stolen car had his four-month-old baby inside, but Blake suspects that the man's wife may know more about her son's disappearance than she is letting on. The plot thickens when Cryer interviews the man responsible for stealing the young man's car and he claims that he fed information about the man's extra marital relations to his wife.

DI Chris Deakin has a word to DS John Boulton about his team's informants. Boulton has done pretty well, but DC Tosh Lines hasn't recruited a snout for months. Under pressure, Lines tries to recruit Karen Walsh, the wife of the victim of a recent attack which he'd investigated, but she refuses to grass on her husband or his associates. Lines puts pressure on the Walshes' landlord Pat Beresford who he believes was responsible for the attack, and is delighted when Beresford contacts him offering information.

Boulton and Rawton try to persuade a teenage girl to turn informant after her boyfriend is attacked by drug dealers.

A blind woman, Tracy Cooper, helps the police catch a dangerous sex killer. She doesn't realise, however, that the guilty party is her husband.

Monroe is called in to mediate when a former mental patient is accused of threatening behaviour by his elderly neighbours.

Keane uses information supplied by a friend to help C.I.D. in an operation against a drug dealer.

Greig and Lines investigate an assault on a man who has previously killed two people in a drink-driving accident, and suspect that a relative may have sought natural justice.

Deakin and Skase investigate a fire, and find that a mother's grief has had unexpected repercussions.

Rawton investigates the assault of a woman in her new flat and tries to link the attack to an unsolved case.

Slater and Garfield arrest a boy for selling stolen goods.

Beech investigates a woman who uses her sexuality to con her business partner and clients.

Croft is concerned when Boulton decides to use a former colleague, now down on his luck, as an informant.

Beech and Croft investigate the killing of a stand-up comic.

Boyden and Page try to find who is responsible for a series of graffiti attacks.

Boulton and Croft have to deal with rival drug dealers when a customer suffers tragic consequences.

Jarvis and Rawton investigate the ram raiding of a shop.

Conway coordinates the search for an escaped sex offender and a missing teenager who was last seen in his company.

Rawton and Skase investigate an attempted suicide by an ill woman, and suspect her son and daughter of assisting her.

Meadows investigates a murder by strangulation and suspects the homeless schizophrenic man whom the victim had befriended.

Daly and Croft investigate the suspicious death of one of three sisters.

Beech investigates the sudden death of a baby on the night that his parents celebrated their anniversary.

Loxton and W.P.C. Keane deal with the burglary of a pharmacy and a violent stabbing.

Greig and Croft investigate a burglary and discover that the married householder had been in contact with a girl through a "lonely hearts" column.