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Episode 1
UCOS investigate into the death of a policewomen-whose case was closed years ago-following the recovery of the murder weapon from a lake.  Brian's wife Esther moves out when he becomes too self absorbed in clearing his name.

Episode 2  
The discovery of a fake painting in the Queen's art collection sends the UCOS team on a hush-hush mission to uncover the forger.  Their investigations swiftly uncover a trail of high class frauds and suspicious deaths, but also lead to suspension for one of the squad.
Gerry finds out he is about to become a grandpa.  The team rib him about this and about the bright yellow Fiat Panda he is driving.

Episode 3  
The UCOS team investigate the murder of a young peace protester, killed at the outskirts of a nuclear base in 1984, and realise that they may be in danger of exposing a Special Branch cover up.

Episode 4  
Det. Supt. Pullman returns from a holiday in Italy to find her team keen to re-open the case of a child murdered on a prestigious golf course.  The teenager accused of the crime committed suicide when the police made him their only suspect and Jack wants to clear his name for the sake of his dying father

Episode 5
When a missing person case which Lane originally investigated gets re-activated, he's determined to crack it.  But when the team swiftly uncover another two mysterious disappearances, they start to think they've got a serial killer on their hands.

Episode 6: Season Finale
Jack goes to see a clairvoyant, trying to reach his late wife Mary and instead gets to meet a girl who died in a shipping container in 1982 and gets the case re-opened. Det. Supt. Pullman is tempted away with a job at S010.

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Episode 1
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Robert Strickland is the new boss in charge of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS).  He asks the team to look into the death of David Barrie, a top barrister found in his car in 1980 after being bound and gagged.

Episode 2  
In 1996 a beautiful newlywed, was attacked and left for dead.  The only thing taken was her wedding ring and she has been in a coma ever since.  The man jailed for the crime is now a born-again Christian and is protesting his innocence.

Episode 3
The team re-examine the case of Hannah Taylor who was kidnapped from her home in 1992.  A body, previously thought to be Hannah's, has just been identified as that of another kidnap victim.

Episode 4  
Tabloid editor Chris McConnell asks Sandra Pullman to help him prove celebrity chef Kitty Campbell killed her drunken husband Bertie 40 years ago at the height of their 60s TV fame.  Kitty is about to be made an MBE and Chris wants some justice.  Esther has an accident in the kitchen, causing Brian to realise how much he relies on her and how little he really knows about her.

Episode 5
Attractive widow and probate assessor Elise Allen asks Halford to find the rightful owner of a large, uncut red diamond, worth £15 million.  She found the rare jewel in a flat rented by John Newman who died in 1982.

Episode 6
Luck turns against Standing when he loses a poker game, owing bookie Michael Jacobs £10,000.  But Michael offers him a chance to clear his debt by finding out what happened to his dad Joe, who died after being mugged outside Walthamstow stadium in 1983.

Episode 7  
Lane indulges his obsession with fishing when UCOS investigates the case of two boys abducted from a fishing lake in 1979, believing it could be linked to a recent spate of snatches near the M25.

Episode 8  
The Home Office pathologist asks the team to identify the remains of an unidentified woman, whose remains were found back in 1987.  These remains are the only body that he was unable to identify.  With his help and that of his attractive assistant, not only must the team identify the body bits, but how she died and who killed her.

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Episode 1 - Lady's Pleasure   
After 5yrs the Police have to return a car in which an attractive woman was killed.  Pullman had worked on the original case and been troubled throughout by the lack of emotion shown by Nancy's husband Stephen.  Convinced that the accident was in fact murder, Pullman re-opens the unsolved case, hoping her team can track down the dead woman's secret lover, and a clue soon leads them to a male prostitute.

Episode 2 - Dockers  
The murky death of Joe Walsh, General Secretary of the Crane Driver's Union, whose body was found in the Thames in 1975, is reinvestigated.  At the time of his death, Walsh stood accused of stealing money from the union's account.  The team find themselves at the center of a political minefield, with suggestions of misappropriated union funds, MI5 involvement and a union leader whose threats of strike action were gravely threatening the national interest.

Episode 3 - Old Dogs
When a serial dog killer starts stalking Hampstead Heath, the team re-open a 30yr old case and must understand what the killers motives are and why the have re-started killing now.

Episode 4 - Diamond Geezers  
Halford receives a mysterious invitation to a funeral and when he attends realises whose it is.  After Jack is assaulted and intimidated the team must work out why he was invited and by home.  And why is Chopper Hadley back in the country?  Desperate measures are used and Brian is sent undercover to get Hadley once and for all.

Episode 5 - Wicca Work  
A young woman insists that the suspicious death of a local librarian was because of witchcraft and the team are drawn into the world of magic and the supernatural.  A series of strange events occur and they are put under increasing pressure.  The squad gets convinced that the supernatural exist and struggle to remain cynical.

Episode 6 - Bank Robbery
The return of one of Gerry's informants leads to the team re-opening a botched bank robber, which left a cashier dead.  The prime suspect at the time is now a celebrity - is he a suspect, but was he responsible, or is he as innocent as he claims?

Episode 7 - Ice-Cream Wars  
The team are on the case of the ice cream bandit, an armed robber who's targets were the ice cream vans of two feuding ice cream manufacturers in the mid 1990s.  The battle between the two families erupts into violence, so UCOS decide to track down the bandit and stop the conflict once and for all.

Episode 8 - Congratulations  
Pullman struggles to keep the boys in line as their chequered pasts begin to be revealed.  Halford is determined to nail a vicious criminal who has so far eluded him and in doing so he puts himself in grave danger.  Standing receives a surprise visitor which shocks him.  Pullman is increasingly frustrated and weighs up an opportunity that could end her time in UCOS.

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Episode 1 - Casualty   
The future of the team is threatened and without having that to deal with, Sandra has to take drastic measures to prevent Jack from exacting revenge against the man who killed his wife Mary.  Sandra also has the added benefit of trying to keep Jack’s actions from shady new recruit DCI Karen Hardwick while working on a 10-year-old murder case.

Episode 2 - God's Waiting Room  
Sandra's private and professional worlds become intertwined when her mother has a fall and goes into a care home - but the establishment is revealed to be a scene of a suspicious death a year earlier.

Episode 3 - Ducking & Diving   
When an armoured van is discovered at the bottom of a lake, the team makes a link with the murder of a women 17 years ago.

Episode 4 - Nine Lives  
A family feud erupts when a rich and lonely old woman, Dorothy Hepple, is found dead in her home.
Dorothy leaves all her money and property to her beloved cats, rather than her nephew, Harry, and niece, Caroline.  Her body lay undiscovered for two weeks and the cause of death is undetermined, but the fact that her cats were deliberately locked in the house, forcing them to start eating their owner's remains and any evidence, makes Jack suspicious.  There appears to have been no love lost between the late Ms Hepple and her neighbour, Tim Cuswell.  Meanwhile her carer, Dale , seems to have been devoted to her, his motives are questionable.  When the last of Dorothy's feline beneficiaries dies, her estate suddenly comes up for grabs.  With no shortage of people laying claim to the estate, the team decides to reopen the investigation into Dorothy's death.

Episode 5 - Powerhouse
The team reinvestigates the 1950s murder of a young wages clerk at Battersea Power Station.  Richard Dunne was hanged for Frederick Tully's murder, but his granddaughter, Hannah, is waging a campaign to have Dunne posthumously pardoned.  The discovery of a suitcase containing used fivers in the attic of the Tully home sheds new light on the case, revealing a possible blackmail plot.  A trace on the used fivers reveals that they should have been destroyed in the Battersea Power Station furnaces back in the 1950s, but were actually being saved by Douglas Murray, a friend of Tully's.  It also becomes clear that the Battersea furnaces were being used to destroy other sensitive documents as well as used bank notes.  When the team discovers a classified document relating to a massacre of civilians carried out by the British Army in Kenya, they uncover a blackmail plot spanning more than 50 years.

Episode 6 - Buried Treasure
When Brian's dog finds a body, it prompts two people to confess to murder.  It turns out that the body is over 600 years old, so Sandra, Jack, Brian and Gerry must discover why the pair took responsibility for a crime they couldn't possibly have committed and if they are the perpetrators of other killings.  Elsewhere, Strickland is rather keen for them to solve an even more tricky mystery that is closer to home.

Episode 7 - Father's Pride
When a camera and film belonging to a photographic lab assistant murdered in 1987 are found in a Soho pub toilet, the team reopen a 20-year-old case.  Elsewhere, Gerry is less than happy when his daughter Emily joins the team and looks to Sandra as a role model.

Episode 8 - Big Topped  
The news that Sandra's father, a DI, killed himself while under investigation for corruption, throws into doubt everything she believed in.  Her mother, Grace , is in hospital following a stroke, and she wastes no time in confronting her, but she doesn't get the answers she's looking for.  Unfortunately, her father's service records provide Pullman with some revelations she may never come to terms with.  Meanwhile, Christy Berlin asks the team to look into the death of the man she's recently discovered was her biological father - ringmaster The Great Miraculob.  But will the investigation at Spingles Circus be enough to distract Sandra from feeling betrayed by her colleagues?

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Episode 1 - Spare Parts
Jack confronts his nemesis in court when Ricky Hanson stands trial for his attempted murder, and Gerry faces the consequences of lying to his 'daughter', Emily. The team uncover a shady organ-donor racket when they reinvestigate the murder of a wealthy businessman who left a three million pound fortune to a prostitute.

Episode 2 - Final Curtain
The team return to the 1992 case of actor Michael Austin, shot dead by his wife on stage during the opening night performance of Death at the Masked Ball. Already a man down when Halford goes AWOL, the case looks like claiming another member of the team as Lane embraces his newfound love of acting and the theatre.

Episode 3 - Face For Radio
The team reinvestigates the murder of a popular DJ who died live on air after an arson attack at 80s music station Roxy Radio. Brian Lane is determined to find the missing Jack Halford when Sandra and Gerry threaten to quit rather than work with a new team member.

Episode 4 - Loyalties and Royalties
Gerry meets his heroes, the 70s rock band Bad Faith, when the team investigate the death of its lead guitarist. It is over 30 years since the group split up, however, and the ageing rockers do not quite live up to the legends Gerry remembers. Meanwhile, determined to prevent UCOS from disbanding, Brian finally tracks down Jack and tries to persuade him to return.

Episode 5 - Couldn't Organise One
The team investigate the death of the Chief Brewer at Felspar's Brewery which proves to be rather intoxicating for the boys. For Sandra Pullman, the case has a more personal agenda and she learns some difficult truths about her dead father.

Episode 6 - Magic Magestic
The team investigate the art of illusion when they reopen a case involving a magic trick that ended in murder. Powerful mind games and hypnosis prove a dangerous mix for Brian Lane, however, sending him down a destructive path. Meanwhile, a session with the Magic Circle's Dr Moroni leaves a sceptical Gerry Standing feeling paranoid and his colleagues a little nervous around him.

Episode 7 - Communal Living
As Brian Lane struggles to control and conceal his desire to drink again, he finds the perfect refuge in a commune at the centre of the team's investigation into the death of a university student. The case also helps Gerry face up to his relationship with Emily, who has not spoken to him since she discovered the truth about the DNA test at Ricky Hanson's trial.

Episode 8 - Mad Dogs
Ministry of Defence spooks try to silence the UCOS team when they reinvestigate the death of British soldier Eric Trimble, in the final episode of the crime drama. Just weeks before a tour of duty in Iraq, Trimble, along with three other squaddies - Andy Merrill, Keith Sharratt and Ronnie Glazebrook - was sent to the MoD's Influenza Research Unit (IRU) to take part in a medical trial. All four did a bunk one night, but Trimble never returned. He was later found beaten to death two miles from the Unit. Was Trimble the victim of a racist attack or an Army cover-up, or was his death a direct result of the experiments being carried out by the IRU? When the MoD's DI Hamilton tries to stifle the case and the Army becomes obstructive, Jack Halford and DAC Strickland form an unlikely bond that sees them breaking protocol to get answers. With the three surviving soldiers now suffering from either serious psychological, drink or memory problems, the team hopes that the Unit's Dr Matheson can shed light on the true nature of the trials. Brian's behaviour, meanwhile, causes concern. He appears to have improved since being fooled into thinking he can drink just one glass of wine, however, his alarming new obsession is masking the truth.

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Episode 1: The War Against Drugs
After being pestered by his wife Esther, Brian checks himself into a rehabilitation clinic run by monks to try to cure his alcohol problem. After hearing about an unsolved death there some years before he calls in his colleagues to investigate, but there is one problem: Esther doesn't want them anywhere near him!
After deciding to help anyway, Gerry goes in undercover in the guise of a sex addict to try and piece together exactly what happened.

Episode 2: The Truth Is Out There
Jack investigates a UFO conspiracy

Episode 3: Fresh Starts
Gerry takes pity on David Fleeting, who claims a sighting of his wife Victoria, who apparently died in a car crash eighteen months earlier while he was working abroad. The body was identified by her sister Sarah, but it seems she was lying and she disappears. An exhumation shows the dead woman is a Turkish immigrant whom Victoria, a lawyer at a drop-in centre, was advising and who went missing.  

Episode 4: Shadow Show
Gloria Gransford, an ex-actress, draws the UCOS attention to an internet-posted clip of her being assaulted in a film she made in 1990 called 'Shadow Show', after which the producer, Gloria's ex-husband Max Stone, was stabbed to death and the leading lady, Eva Roderick, disappeared. The director Don Maddox, another of Gloria's ex-husbands, is egotistical and evasive when questioned. While the only other surviving crew member from the film - who posted the clip - is found dead, and his young boyfriend goes on the run in search of Eva, who now has a new identity. Brian finds himself defusing a developing siege situation.

Episode 5: Death of a Timeshare Salesman
When former escort girl Alice Hill finds God and decides to confess her sins, the UCOS team find themselves reinvestigating the death of well-known timeshare magnate Dean Scott. But the case takes a remarkable twist when the team link the dead man's business partner to notorious criminal Johnny Tevis.

Episode 6: The Last Laugh
The team reinvestigate the disappearance of two young political activists who had waged a very public campaign against racist comedian Ray Harris. But the case takes a dramatic turn when UCOS discover the missing persons had infiltrated an extreme right-wing group with links to dangerous criminal Ricky Hanson, the man who murdered Halford's wife, Mary.

Episode 7: Blood Is Thicker Than Water
UCOS reinvestigate a high-profile riverboat disaster on the Thames after a new witness comes forward claiming the collision was the result of sabotage, rather than an accident. But the case means putting DAC Strickland's wealthy sailing chums under the investigation spotlight; what better motivation could the team have?

Episode 8: Meat Is Murder
When the team reinvestigate the murder of a doctor at Smithfield Market 33 years ago, Gerry is forced to admit to his past. But it is the results of a routine DNA test that lead Pullman to make a shattering discovery about her own family.

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Episode 1: Dead Man Talking
When Sandra attends a psychic reading with the daughter of a dead man, she is forced to reconsider her thoughts about psychics. The team therefore investigate a crime previously closed as an accidental death and reclassify it as murder.

Episode 2: It Smells of Books
When Professor Richard Symes of the London Library is killed, Lane goes undercover to investigate.

Episode 3: Left Field
When the team start to investigate the disappearance of a 5-year-old 25 years ago, the parents are re-interviewed as their extremist political views may have had something to do with the boy going missing.

Episode 4: Dark Chocolate
The team investigate a recent rape at a chocolate factory which is similar to a spate of rapes from 10 years ago. During the course of the investigation, they uncover more buried secrets that also need to be looked in to.

Episode 5: Good Morning Lemmings
When references to a dead graffiti artist turn up around the city, the team get involved to investigate if someone really did kill him.

Episode 6: Fashion Victim
Fashion designer Ritchie Levene was murdered 15 years ago however, his ex-wife has never given up on having the case re-opened. The UCOS team investigate but there is a question over the motives of the primary witness.

Episode 7: Where There's Smoke
UCOS reopen the case of a fire at a London club in which a notorious criminal was killed. New evidence provided suggests that a serial arsonist is at large and that the killing of gang leader Mark Johnson may have been accidental.

Episode 8: Coming Out Ball
When 18-year-old debutante Barbara Linden-Warner disappeared without trace 27 years ago, the assumption at the time was that she had been kidnapped and her father, a wealthy British arms manufacturer, paid a ransom for her return. When new evidence emerges about her last movements, the indication is that she may still be alive.

Episode 9: Gloves Off
The 15-year-old murder of a talented young boxer is re-opened when the weapon used to kill him is used in the perpetration of a recent armed robbery.

Episode 10: The Fourth Man
When Strickland authorises the purchase, at auction, of a classic Jaguar car, the team are forced to go underground with their investigation of high level police corruption.

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Episode 1: Old Fossils
The murder of a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in 2001 opens the new series. The team discovers the victim was a respected but outspoken scientist with a knack for rubbing people up the wrong way - and when it comes out he was strongly opposed to the museum's sponsorship deal with a large fuel company, the ex-cops soon have plenty of suspects.

Episode 2: End of the Line
The team reopen the case of an unidentified vagrant who was murdered on a tube train 15 years ago when the victim's son is discovered as a result of a DNA test.

Episode 3: Lost in Translation
DNA tests on charred remains found in 1996 lead the team to Home Office fingerprint analyst Anna King, who was brought to the UK from Albania as a child by her brother, David Celaj. Anna was adopted by a British couple, while David went to work as a police interpreter. His last assignment was to translate for a witness in a murder case against a notorious Albanian criminal.

Episode 4: Setting Out Your Stall
The death of Kathy Green, who ran a popular market stall, may be linked to a current series of drug rapes.

Episode 5: Moving Target
Psychologist Samantha Gerson comes to UCOS to conduct a study of older men in the workplace. She asks the team to investigate the hit-and-run accident that left her brother Darren Gerson with a brain injury and memory loss. Darren was working as a bicycle courier and he believes that he was targeted for a package he was carrying.

Episode 6: Object of Desire
Sandra's old flame DCI Larson, head of the Met's arts and antiques squad, asks the team to reinvestigate the murder of antiques dealer Mal Baxter. His death was originally thought to be the result of a burglary gone wrong, but new evidence suggests Baxter was a police informant who was conducting underhanded deals of his own.

Episode 7: The Gentleman Vanishes
A woman is sent anonymous emails from someone claiming to know what happened to her husband Phillip Mackenna, a prominent scientist working on cold fusion who disappeared while on a train to Paris. As the team investigate, DAC Strickland receives a warning from Whitehall.

Episode 8: Only the Brave
As part of his initiation into a motorbike gang called The Braves, Reece Chapman plans to murder the rival gang member he believes killed his father Eddie, the former leader of The Braves. Desperate to stop Reece, his girlfriend Stephanie Parr turns to UCOS for help in solving Eddie's murder to prove he's targeting the wrong man.

Episode 9: Half Life
The investigation of the murder of Christopher Collins, who was listed on a website as missing by a former employer, meets a dead end until it is revealed that he was in the witness protection programme. Meanwhile, the team wonder what effect the upcoming cuts to the police force will have on UCOS.

Episode 10: Tiger Tiger
The team reopen the case of zookeeper Zac Halsey, originally thought to have been mauled to death by a tiger, when blood evidence discovered in his lodgings suggests he was killed before he was found in the tiger's enclosure.

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