Seasons & episodes

Meadows and Rawton investigate the assault of a prison officer.

Boulton and Lines investigate a vicious hammer attack.

Beech and Carver investigate a vicious attack, but have to piece the evidence together when neither the suspect nor victim can remember what happened.

Garfield and Page search for a missing teenager and come across a man who exploits children in care.

Daly and Skase investigate a burglary and uncover a deep rift between the suspect's girlfriend and her mother.

Monroe coordinates a search for the victims of a kidnapping.

Page ends up in a hostage situation following a failed armed robbery.

Greig and Croft enlist the help of two pensioners to trap a team of burglars.

A man found nursing a broken ankle in a private garden claims he was taking a short cut over a fence. Rawton does not believe him, but can she prove otherwise?

Boyden and Datta respond to an apparent sighting of a missing woman by her daughter.

Boulton and Rawton investigate when a pub landlord is run over after giving Boulton information.

Jarvis and Keane arrest a nanny for stealing from her employers.

DS Don Beech is found brutally beaten in an alley adjacent to a Chinese restuarant. Whilst his colleagues wish to extract retribution, Brownlow attempts to use more amenable methods, leading to a race for both CID and Uniform to find his attackers. But was Beech on police business at the time?

Boulton and Skase investigate a mugging, but the victim's father takes the law into his own hands

Quinnan and Keane deal with a teenage girl with a broken nose who claims that her ex-boyfriend assaulted her.

Rawton and Boulton have to decide whether to find the driver of a car involved in a hit-and-run incident, or to prosecute the witness.

Deakin and Carver come under pressure from Conway to find a vicious robber who has been preying on elderly victims.

Skase and Carver have to deal with a preacher who specialises in dodgy miracles.

Loxton struggles to cope with a young female suspect who makes no secret of her attraction to him.

Skase and Croft investigate the circumstances leading to a mother ending up unconscious at the foot of a stairway.

Greig and Rawton investigate a journalist's claims that he acted in self-defence to stop an intruder.

DC Tosh Lines is going stir-crazy as DCI Jack Meadows has them transcribing interviews for the CPS. Asking Meadows if he can follow up a snout's information, Tosh heads for the Beckwith Arms pub, where he spots a dodgy motor. Approaching the owner, Pete Gapper, Tosh tries to ascertain if the car is stolen, and Gapper offers to sell him another car. Returning to the station, Tosh finds a furious D.I. Noble from the Stolen Vehicles Squad, who accuses him of compromising their operation. To make the best of the situation, and since Tosh believes this will be the suspect's last sale, he goes undercover to ensnare Gapper. As the police move in, Gapper pulls out a handgun, but the timely arrival of an SO19 team soon sees him arrested. Back at the station, Tosh is resentful that his younger colleagues get all the breaks and resources, but Meadows tells him that his experience earns him more respect than he thinks.

Quinnan and Garfield look into the disappearance of a man reported missing by his mother, although his wife has her doubts.

Rawton and Page have to deal with a 14-year-old tearaway and half a million pounds in counterfeit money.