2019 - January (TV)
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- DirectorDavid KerrCatherine MorsheadStarsJoanna ScanlanElaine CassidyAlexandra RoachSingle mother Dinah Kowalska, an off duty detective constable, pursues a murder suspect through the streets of Manchester, only for him to get knocked down and killed by a bus. As a result DI Viv Deering, her outspoken superior, instructs her to withdraw her application for sergeant, the promotion going instead to her nervous colleague Joy Freers. On a visit to the morgue Dinah sees the corpse of a Downs Syndrome sufferer, the second girl with that condition to be hauled out of a river in recent weeks, and suspects a serial killer is at large. Cathy Calvert, who appears to have the syndrome, following hospital surgery, is missing and Dinah persuades Viv to over-rule superintendent McClaren in no uncertain terms and start a search for her. Cathy is located and Dinah saves her but the killer escapes and Cathy is unable to identify him. With Cathy's family under arrest on drug charges Dinah suggests that she moves in with her.01-01-2019
- DirectorDavid KerrCatherine MorsheadStarsJoanna ScanlanElaine CassidyAlexandra RoachDinah is taken off the murder case as her involvement with Cathy has made her too subjective but Viv asks her to assist when a student is found dead in the street of an overdose and drugs expert Miller directs the team towards a house suspected of being a drugs factory. Angelina Costeros, a former chemical factory employee, is brought in but refuses to incriminate likely co-defendant Jensen Raphael until Dinah and colleague Spike unite to get her to talk. Consequently Dinah and Joy go undercover to bust Raphael. The operation is successful and Viv praises the two women to McLaren as well as suggesting that Dinah be reassigned to Cathy's case in the hopes that she can get her to give more information about her abductor.01-01-2019
- DirectorCatherine MorsheadStarsJoanna ScanlanElaine CassidyAlexandra RoachFollowing the death of Samina Hassan in an arson attack the team goes undercover at a wedding to arrest the groom Jimmy Webb, a known racist. CCTV had shown him arguing with Majib, Samina's widower, to whom he had lent a large sum of money, whilst Samina's father, a strict imam, has quarrelled with her over her feminist stance. In the event the previously reserved Joy proves herself by solving the case and flushing the killer out into the open. Spike interviews Patrick Llewellyn, an unassuming gay man who runs the support group attended by murder victim Lucy - who had a crush on him. For all his gentle air Viv sees him as a prime suspect. Meanwhile Dinah is surprised when Cathy gets a visit from her boy-friend Alpha, who has served time in a young offenders' unit.02-01-2019
- DirectorMisha Manson-SmithStarsJoanna ScanlanElaine CassidyAlexandra RoachAs Dinah is driving to work she sees David Brazier kill himself by stepping in front of a car and when the police visit his house they find his wife dead in bed with a huge operation scar. Later they arrest a teenager following a disturbance. He also has a scar and a wad of notes and tells of a traffic in human organs for cash. Joy and Dinah track down another potential victim, leading to a successful arrest. Meanwhile Teresa Adamson is found dead after joining a website, whose organizer identifies a subscriber calling himself Handyman, whose interest is in Downs Syndrome girls. Viv has an uncomfortable moment when her other half Laurie is arrested for drunken brawling and Dinah is not happy when Cathy tells her she plans to move in with Alpha.02-01-2019
- DirectorCatherine MorsheadStarsJoanna ScanlanElaine CassidyAlexandra RoachForensics officer Miller is engaging Handyman online posing as a young girl when the team is called out to a stabbing. The victim is Christy Feeney, now given a new identity as Noel, but who, aged ten, was convicted of murder. After hearing his confession pregnant wife Liz feels especially vulnerable but Viv suspects Christy's aggrieved uncle of offering a bounty to his nephew's killer. Christy does not help matters when he flees police protection to speak to Liz, though he does lead them to his attacker. Olivia, another Downs Syndrome girl, agrees to be bait to catch Handyman but instead he attacks Cathy and Alpha though Cathy recognizes the tattoo on her assailant's wrist.02-01-2019
- DirectorMisha Manson-SmithStarsJoanna ScanlanElaine CassidyAlexandra RoachCathy has information leading to a suspect in her abduction, but later tells Dinah there was also an accomplice. A badly beaten man is found outside a scrap yard and appears to be connected with a man police find locked in a shed.02-01-2019
- DirectorHarry BradbeerStarsJoanna ScanlanElaine CassidyAlexandra RoachA jogger is shot and killed, but Viv believes their young suspect acted on behalf of an adult with a grudge. Dinah begins her own secret investigation to determine if Viv is protecting the identity of the Handyman's accomplice.02-01-2019
- DirectorHarry BradbeerStarsJoanna ScanlanElaine CassidyAlexandra RoachDinas clashes with Deering, setting off an irreversible chain of events, and an attempt to save the lives of a mother and baby goes disastrously wrong.02-01-2019
- DirectorRod HolcombStarsKen WahlJonathan BanksJim ByrnesFBI Agent Vinnie serves 18 months in prison to establish cover to infiltrate the Mob. He impresses the crime boss and earns himself a job, opening the door to access the mafia's highest echelons.03-01-2019
- DirectorLyndon ChubbuckStarsKen WahlJonathan BanksJim ByrnesIn an attempt to take over Sonny Steelgrave's business, mob head Paul Patrice frames Sonny for several murder attempts he makes on the life of the special prosecutor investigating Sonny.04-01-2019
- DirectorLarry ShawStarsKen WahlJonathan BanksJim ByrnesVinnie's girlfriend, a police widow, knows he is a cop; his biggest threat comes from Sonny's unbalanced nephew.04-01-2019
- DirectorRobert IscoveStarsKen WahlJonathan BanksJim ByrnesWhen Vinnie's young cousin, a boxer, is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, Vinnie jeopardizes his cover by going to "legals" -- the coroner, the homicide cops -- to get them moving on what he knows was a murder.04-01-2019
- DirectorReynaldo VillalobosStarsKen WahlJonathan BanksJim ByrnesWhen the local cops put the heat on Sonny Steelgrave and bust up several of his secret deals, he smells a rat in the inner circle and Vinnie finds himself the number one suspect.05-01-2019
- DirectorCharles CorrellStarsKen WahlJonathan BanksJim ByrnesAfter his mother is mugged in Brooklyn, an enraged Vinnie sets out to find the punk who did it, but when he visits his mother in the hospital, it breaks his heart that she still won't forgive him for his life of "crime."05-01-2019
- DirectorCharles CorrellStarsKen WahlJonathan BanksJim ByrnesSonny's cruel punishment of a lounge singer who wants out of his contract triggers a cascade of events that leads to Vinnie's being photographed with McPike -- a photo that is to be delivered to Sonny.05-01-2019
- DirectorZale DalenStarsKen WahlJonathan BanksJim ByrnesSonny's impending marriage to a syndicate boss' daughter begins a supposedly businesslike realignment of "families, " but Vinnie learns that the wedding is a pretext for a bloody gang war.06-01-2019
- DirectorRobert IscoveStarsKen WahlJonathan BanksJim ByrnesAn outraged Sonny Steelgrave accuses Vinnie of betraying him to his arch-rival, then realizes the devastating truth--that his paisan is an undercover federal agent.06-01-2019
- DirectorBill CorcoranStarsKen WahlJonathan BanksJim ByrnesIn the aftermath of the Steelgrave case, Vinnie tries to vindicate himself of his lingering feelings of betrayal and disloyalty by risking his life to save an old friend from the Brooklyn neighborhood who has a contract out on him.06-01-2019