Seasons & episodes

Quinnan and Cato close in on a den of thieves, centred around an ageing hippie inciting youngsters to steal car radios.

A drugs raid on a pub is a great success until Lines finds a body. Johnson has to move fast to achieve a result.

Page is assaulted during a domestic. Cato is furious that Sgt. Steele has included some off-the-record remarks in the minutes of a meeting. Carver acts on information received to catch a villain.

The key witness to an attempted murder vanishes.

Boyden receives an anonymous tip-off but suspects that he has been set up. His suspicions are confirmed when MS15 turn up at the pick-up point.

Meadows interrogates a convicted sex offender whose father can't face the truth about his son.

A seemingly straightforward burglary becomes complicated when one of Johnson's informants is given a false alibi.

Monroe investigates a fatal road traffic accident and begins to suspect that the driver may have crashed the car on purpose.

Meadows and Cryer try to gain the trust of a small boy from Devon found wandering about in his pyjamas.

A gang of teenagers cause a nuisance on an estate, and a boy on a scrambling bike is almost decapitated.

Meadows receives a tape of a deathbed confession to murder.

Lines and Meadows uncover two counterfeiters who haven't quite been clever enough.

Loxton and Quinnan are called to a canal where a familiar tramp claims to have fished out a DSS inspector.

Stamp is called to deal with a 14-year-old car thief who has badly injured a young girl. Conway and Monroe deal with the consequences.

Skase investigates some crack dealers but bites off more than he can chew and faces a mauling from Meadows.

A young black student is accused of a savage attack on a schoolmaster, but Lines thinks that the teachers have something to hide.

Meadows investigates when a man who appears to have fallen to his death from a block of flats is found to have a knife wound in his back. Investigations lead to a second body.

Boyden investigates an assault and helps a former lover deal with her violent husband. Garfield thinks the sergeant may be up to his old tricks again.

Skase's informant needs protection, but he is compromised when he uncovers the full extent of her criminal activities.

A murderer is released from prison on licence. Cryer deals with the victim's parents, who are unable to accept that their other daughter befriended him while he was in prison.

Page finds her loyalties tested when she arrests an old school friend in a drugs raid.

Woods investigates the activities of a cowboy builder, and uncovers a customer's scheme to exact revenge.

D.I. Johnson's raid on a flat goes wrong when a young boy flees and falls from the third-floor balcony. Brownlow has to pick up the pieces.

Greig realises that a house has been burgled twice. Conway helps to arrest a most unusual burglar with a very special talent.