Episode list

A police officer is killed while responding to a domestic disturbance call. When DCI Alan Banks is called to investigate the grisly scene, he discovers it's the home of a serial rapist and murderer.

Thanks to a Chief Superintendent who is obsessed with damage-limitation, Janet is charged with manslaughter though Annie makes sure that she gets off. A friend of the missing Leanne leads Alan to believe that Payne had a female accomplice to lure the girls into his car and Lucy is the obvious suspect, though she denies it, at the same time admitting she knew her husband was a killer. She also blackmails Maggie into paying for a lawyer for her though Maggie counters by ringing the press to explode the 'accomplice' story. Investigations show Lucy to have been the victim in a famous abuse case as a child and she is diagnosed as mentally ill and incapable of having a mind to murder. Alan must discover to what extent she really was involved in the killings and if she knows where to find Leanne, alive or dead.

Two bodies are found after a fire on some narrow boats and Banks and DS Annie Cabbot find themselves on the trail of an arsonist who has killed two people.

Banks gets a warning for hitting Aspen,after which more money and forgeries are found at the burnt out scene of McMahon's murder.Banks deduces that Gerry,Christina's girl-friend,is one of the forgers and she tells him she believes the killer is called Gary Morrison,who sold the artists' fake paintings but had a sinister hold over them. Banks is displeased to learn that Annie is having an affair with Keane - who also admits to being afraid of Morrison,though he has worked with him. With the evidence pointing to one of two suspects Banks must make a mercy dash to save a life before exposing a sordid secret.

A student is attacked in the middle of the city and in another part of Yorkshire a woman has her throat cut, but the two different murders have disturbing similarities.

The team is in shock after Kevin's murder. They deduce that he was acting as a vigilante patrolling the alleys to prevent further murders but the witness who saw his death presumed he was out to harm her. She identifies the slayer as a woman but pathologist Dr. Waring disputes this and sees no link with Lucy Payne's death,causing Annie to doubt. Randall is cleared of Hayley's murder when he is given an alibi and,with several likely suspects,Banks is back at square one. Annie however learns of a former rape victim whose perpetrator was murdered before she disappeared,providing a link to Lucy Payne and a clue to the identity of the double murderer.

A case terrifyingly close to home occurs as Banks is asked by his boss to find his missing teenage daughter.

Banks and Cabbot come to suspect one of their team may be implicated in a criminal conspiracy.