Ashes to Ashes

DI Alex Drake is shot and lands in 1981, coming face-to-face with Hunt.

The royal wedding looms, and it's up to Gene and a restless Alex to keep the streets quiet.

With two faithful sidekicks, Hunt is drawn to the action and intrigue of the London Met, where he turns his attentions to taking on London's criminals.

When the body of a worker at a nuclear research centre disappears from the morgue, Alex smells a conspiracy.

Simon Neary is a gangster Gene has wanted to nail for years. But is stifling his gun deal a way to keep Alex from getting shot in 2008?

Alex thinks she's close to death and has to keep her brain alive by solving the case: a raid at a Post Office. Gene believes the culprit is Chas Cale, a blagger he once crossed.

When thousands of pounds of charity money is stolen, Gene resorts to his 'fists first, questions later' method.

Alex believes that if she can go back to the day her parents were killed and prevent their death, she can leave the prison of 1981 and get back home to her daughter Molly.

The team must venture into dangerous territory when a fellow officer is found dead, while Alex's whole perspective on this world is threatened when she is kidnapped.

The team is on the hunt for major vehicle thief Jed Wicklow, but when a car chase leads to his death, Gene stands accused of causing it through reckless driving.

When animal rights activists threaten a series of attacks in London, placing the daughter of a laboratory owner in hospital, Gene is determined to track them down.

A visitor from Gene Hunt's old stomping ground of Manchester has a surprise in store. Alex is desperate to get to the bottom of the corruption she believes is in the force.

When a violent burglary occurs at Alex's in-laws' house, she comes face-to-face with their son Peter, the 14-year-old future father of Molly.

When a dead body in a canal is identified as a man reported missing by his glamorous wife, the investigation puts both Gene and Alex in danger.

What looks like a simple drugs-drop at a building site turns into a murder case. And Alex is haunted by thoughts of her parents' death.

Alex has caught a hospital infection, and the doctors in 2008 are losing hope for her. A wedge develops between her and Gene, and it threatens to tear the team apart.

Change is in the air at CID following Alex's shooting, as the team works on the kidnap of a young girl and Gene puts his career on the line.

When DC Chris Skelton opens CID's post and discovers a human hand, DCI Gene Hunt and his team find they have a murder to solve.

It's the run up to the 1983 General Election and pressure mounts on DCI Gene Hunt and his team as they investigate a series of politically motivated arson attacks.

Gene and the team must protect an undercover policewoman investigating a drugs ring on their patch, while Alex continues to be haunted by the ghostly constable.

When DCI Gene Hunt's former Manchester colleagues, DCI Litton and DI Bevan, turn up on his patch he immediately smells a rat.

After an attempt to stop a prison riot goes badly wrong and one of their own is left behind, the team try everything they can to save their colleague.

Having almost finished his report into Gene Hunt and his team, DCI Keats continues to push Alex to find out what really happened to Sam Tyler.

Tension mounts in the final episode of the police drama as Alex pursues her investigation to the bitter end, and she and the rest of the team learn the truth about Gene Hunt.