Seasons & episodes

Morgan and Woods investigate a serious assault and are led to a case of kidnap and extortion.

Meadows and Conway fall out over the handling of an informant. Quinnan traces a vanload of stolen meat.

Meadows is annoyed when a lorry carrying cigarettes is hi-jacked. Stamp and Ackland intervene in a fight in a pub car park between two thieves who have fallen out over the landlady.

The shooting of a jeweller has Chris and Suzi investigating as an armed man is arrested by Reg and Steve.

Meadows and Morgan investigate what appears to be the violent death of an old soldier in a drugs-related burglary.

Stamp and Ackland respond to an anonymous call and find a man in a curious state of undress.

McCann finds Tony Wright sleeping rough on a bench, yet learns that he owns a house just around the corner. His curiosity leads to an investigation by Pearce of the Irish roofer, Samuel O'Rourke, who has targetted Tony, depressed and alone, for large weekly payments for roofing work he never carried out.

When a teacher seems reluctant to bring a charge of indecent assault against a pupil, Woods has to question her motives. Is Stephanie telling the truth or is she being used to get at the boy?

Aggro between the West Indian and Chinese communities threatens to escalate as Steele and McCann investigate.

A couple of kids in a stolen Jaguar are causing all sorts of trouble and accidents throughout Sun Hill. PC Tony Stamp and PC Reg Hollis pursue in the Area Car, but all police efforts to stop the car fail. The kids seem to always be one step ahead of the police, until Stamp realises they must have a police radio or scanner. Changing frequencies, they force the Jag into an abandoned bottling plant, where the driver, Rob Orme, has vowed to 'teach the police a lesson' after his father has been sentenced to twelve years in prison. Climbing to the roof of the building, Rob taunts Stamp and Ch. Insp. Derek Conway as they try to talk him down, but accidentally slips and falls to his death.

Investigating a sawn-off shotgun found in a house fire, Lines is led to Lee Ruddick, a crack dealer. When Lines and Johnson team up to raid him, Ruddick eats the evidence, with fatal consequences.

When Lee Ruddick dies at St Hugh's, CIB is called in and DI Johnson is accused on manslaughter. Claudia Morris, the complainant and chief witness, later withdraws her allegation, but just as Johnson seems to be in the clear, Ruddick's family serves her with a private prosecution for manslaughter.

Ackland and Datta are drawn into the past when a couple are pestered by a young woman claiming to be a long-lost daughter. Meanwhile, a death message to an old lady reveals a relative she had forgotten she had.

A young man is stabbed by a member of a notorious family of criminals, but no witnesses are prepared to come forward.

A man holds a woman hostage in a flat. Jarvis is faced with the task of talking him out. As Jarvis builds a rapport with him, the investigation led by Monroe constructs a worrying picture of the hostage-taker. Can he be talked out or will force be necessary?

Morgan owes an old villain a favour, but pays a heavy price for her loyalty.

Jarvis, Loxton, Page and Cato deal with a trio of squatters and a violent landlord.

When Meadows arrests notorious robber Kenny Stone in a drugs-for-money exchange, Stone isn't in possession of the drugs. Meadows fails to detain Stone long enough to charge him, but he dies in his cell as he is about to be released.

Meadows is worried that a vicious attack was meted out in revenge for the conviction of a loan shark.

Johnson's seeking vital information concerning a gang of payphone thieves. She comes into conflict with Custody Sergeant Boyden when she asks to speak to a prisoner with a history of mental illness.

Sun Hill are at the Coroner's Court for the inquest on Stone, who died in custody. Did the Great Bullion Robber die of natural causes or are Sun Hill officers in some way to blame for his death?

Johnson investigates an apparently racially-motivated attack.

Lines retraces the steps of an alcoholic who comes out of a two-day blackout and believes that he has committed a crime.

Page deals with the sudden death of an unidentified man in the bathroom of a high class prostitute.