New Tricks

Three detectives are brought together to crack unsolved crimes from the past. Tonight, the UCOS team reopens the case of young police cadet Kate Daniels, brutally murdered in 1987.

The Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad gets a taste of royalty when they are brought in to investigate art fraud in the Queen's private collection.

The seasoned cop team investigate the murder of a young peace protester, killed near a nuclear base in 1984. Are they about to expose a cover-up?

This week, Sandra Pullman and her Unsolved Crime and Open Case team are called upon to investigate the apparent suicide of a teenager from 20 years ago.

The UCOC squad fears they may have uncovered a serial murderer when they revisit a missing mother and baby case from 30 years ago.

A visit to a clairvoyant leads to the UCOC squad investigating the case of a girl left to die in a transport container more than 20 years ago.

The team looks into the unsolved case of a top barrister, found dead in his car in 1980 after being bound and gagged.

The squad try to trace the attacker of an Asian woman in Southall.

The team re-investigate a bungled murder case where the body of a young girl was misidentified.

The team are approached by a tabloid newspaper editor, who claims a celebrity chef murdered her husband.

To investigate a multi-million pound jewellery heist, Sandra and Gerry must pose as an unlikely couple.

Gerry agrees to pay back a debt by investigating the death of a bookie.

UCOS re-opens the unsolved abduction of two 10-year-old boys.

The team must identify a murder victim from just her torso, with the help of a bizarre pathologist.

Pullman re-investigates the death of Nancy Murray, a housewife who died in a car crash.

The team probe the death of a unionist suspected of embezzlement.

A serial dog killer starts stalking local parks and the team are forced into taking on the case.

The team go after the vile Chopper Hadley, back in the country for just one week.

An unhinged woman insists the death of a lonely librarian was due to witchcraft.

The team target Ray Cook, a criminal turned celebrity.

The case of the ice-cream bandit, an armed robber who targeted ice cream vans, is re-opened.

Pullman struggles to keep the boys in line as their chequered pasts begin to catch up with them.

Jack decides to take revenge against his wife's killer by running him down.

The team look into a suspicious death in an old people's home.

A case is re-opened when a security van is found at the bottom of the lake.

An elderly lady's body is discovered, partly consumed by her horde of cats. Jack thinks it's murder.

The team probe a case of one of the last men to be hanged in Britain.

When Brian's dog finds a body on a common, it prompts two people to confess to murder.

The team probe a murder in a photographer's shop.

The team investigate the death of a circus ringmaster.

The team probe the murder of a wealthy businessman and uncover an organ donor racket.

The team return to the case of an actor, shot dead by his own wife on stage.

The team reopens the case of a popular DJ who died on air after an arson attack at an 80's music station.

When a guitarist is killed, Gerry gets to meet his heroes, rock band Bad Faith.

The team probes a death at a brewery, which proves an intoxicating experience.

A session with the Magic Circle's Dr Moroni leaves Gerry feeling paranoid.

As Brian struggles to control and conceal his desire to drink again, he finds the perfect refuge in a commune.

The team re-investigate the medical trial death of soldier Eric Trimble.

Rehab can be murder. Soon after Brian starts treatment for alcoholism, a chance remark sends him on the trail of an unsolved death. The rest of the team is supposed to stay away, but they can't resist joining in.

When the team reopens the case of a respected journalist's death, they confront UFO conspiracry theories and American government cover-ups. What did the journalist see before he died? Did he really kill himself, or was he murdered?

After a desperate man insists that he saw his dead wife at a playground, Gerry agrees to help him learn the truth. An exhumation and a DNA test raise more questions than they answer. Meanwhile, Brian has pr.blems at home,

When disturbing clips from a 1990 film noir are posted on the Internet, the team takes another look at an actress's disappearance and a producer's murder. Brian and Jack learn more than they want to know about modern policing

A former call girl finds God and confesses her sins, including one that leads the team to reconsider the death of a dodgy timeshare dealer. What was formerly judged a suicide may be murder, especially when a fingerprint points towards a notorious criminal.

After celebrating Gerry's birthday at a comedy club, the team reinvestigates the 25 year old disappearance of two young ploitical activists. Their inquiry leads to an extreme right-wing group with links to Ricky Hanson, the man who murdered Jack's wife.

Jack intervenes in a dispute on a luxury yacht and learns surprising news about an deadly riverboat disaster. At the time, it was called an accident, but the daughter of the tug captain winsists it was sabotage--and she has a witness.

Decades after a butcher went missing, his body is found neatly cut into pieces. While reinvestigating a related mlurder, the team uncovers more connections than they expected. Gerry is forced to connfront his past, and Sandra makes a shocking discovery.

When a psychic tells a dead man's daughter that her father left unfinished business, the team reinvestigates the death of a wealthy financier. Sandra is convinced the psychic is a fraud--until he reveals a conflict involving her late father.

Brian goes undercover at the London library, his "spiritual home" to learn what really happened to a cold case victim. When university professor and book lover Richard Symes fell off the roof of his college, was it suicide or murder?

Soon after being released from jail, pedophile John Davies confesses to abduction and killing a 5 year old boy 25 years earlier. Suspicious of Davies's motives, the team reopens the case--to prove his innocence, not his guilt.

After a recent rape is linked to two unsolved attacks at a chocolate factory, the team examines all three cases and discovers even more dark secrets. Meanwhile, Gerry enlists Sandra's help to quit smoking.

Celebrated graffiti artist Danny "Flak" Tyler was murdered four years ago . So why is "I Killed Flak" graffiti suddenly appearing around London? While the ream focuses on Flak's former crew members, Brian's obsession with Twitter proves distracting

Eight years prior, fashion desighner Ritchie Levene was stabbed to death. There were plenty of suspects, but no evidence. On the eve of a retrospective exhibition of Levene's work, the team takes another look at the crime.

`When the team receives new information about a fatal fire, they are drawn into a dangerous criminal underworld. The original investigation was blocked by a wall of silence, which may be crumbling--if a witness can be trusted.

The 1983 abduction of and 18 year old debutante is a very cold case that just got warmer, a former member of the Irish Republican Front as come forward with new information. Can Sandra and her team learn the truth

A talented young boxer was shot and killed 11 years ago, but the case stalled when the murder weapon was never found. Now that the gun has surfaced, the team reopens the case and learns more than they wnat to know about proffessional boxing.

DI Frank Paterson joins the team to reinvestigate a 30 year old armed robbery during which 10 million Pounds were stolen and two guards were killed. Paterson's belief that new evidence points to high-level police corruption puts Sandra's team in jeopardy.

The team reinvestigates a decades old death at the Natural History Museun. Did senior palentologist Bernard Fletcher die from a fall, or was he murdered? To solve the case, the aging detectives must walk amoung the dinosaurs.

When DNA tests on a suspected robber prove his innocence, they also point to an earlie r crime: the 15 year old murder of an unarmed vagrant on a tube train.The trailleads the team to the victim's posh relatives, and Brian has a run-in with the homeless community.

When DNA tests on a charred remains from 1996 reveal family ties to a fingerprint analyst at the Home Office, drawing the team into a world of immigration loopholes and Albanian gangs. Meanwhile, Gerry takes a class in French cooking and meets a saucy woman

New information sheds light on the 2009 death of a popular market trader. It seems that she was drugged and killed by a serial rapist, but with that case still ongoing, the team must look elsdwhere for clues. It doesn't help when Sandra's mother comes for a visit.

A psycologist arrives to conduct a study of older men in the workplace and asks the team for help on a personal matter, Years earlier, her berother, a bicycle messenger, was the victim of a hit and run that left him with severe memory loss. Now he claims he was a target--and still is.

Reinvestigating the murder of a respected antiques dealer reunites Sandra with an old flame, DCI James Larson. Will she follow her head or her heart? Meanwhile, Brian faces his own crisis at home. His wife, Esther is behaving very oddly. Is she having an affair?

In 2004, a prominent physics professor disappeared from a train bound for Paaris. When his wife receives emails from someone claiming to know the reason, the team reopens the case. Then their boss, DAS Strickland, is warned off by a shadowy Whitehall figure.

When a frightened young woman offers new information about the killin of the leader of a biker gang, the team agrees to take another look at the case--and perhaps prevent a second murder. A former colleague tells Sandra that she is wasting her career.

A man found murdered in an alleyway seven years earlier is identified on a website about unsolved cries. The team reinvestigates the case, but the man seems to have no past. Meanwhile, job cuts are imminent, and Brian and Gerry fear being downsized

In 2006, when a zookeeper's body was discovered in the tiger enclosure, the death was ruled a tragic accident. New evidence now suggests it was murder. As the team tracks down clues, animal rights activist Brian clashes with the zoo's PR department.

Shadowy Whitehall intellegence figure Stephen Fisher arrives to tell the team about their coldest case so far: a 160-year-old murder. Then Jack stuns trhe others by announding that he's quitting.

When a body is found near an elite boarding school, the team reinvestigates the disappearance of a young PE teacher five years earlier. Preparing for a visit from a prominent MP, the school isn't very helpful. Brian, meanwhile, struggles to keep a secret.

Did a young diplomat commit suicide, or was she murdered? She had suffered personal tragedy and professional disgrace shortly before her death, but Sandra isn't convinced. Ignoring warnings from her boss, Sandra explores a possible cover-up at the Foreign Office

In 2003, a 17-year-old girl went missing in Scotland and was presumed dead. When her DNA turns up at the scend of a recent London robbery, retired Glasgow detective Steve McAndrew aarrives to help. A bundle of Scottish energy, he immediately ruffels feathers,

The body of a computer expert turns up in the wrong place--the morgue of a teaching hospital--under a false name. The case pulls the team into the high-tech world of online hacktivism, and Brian has a hard time accepting Steve as the new team member

Two years earlier, 16 year old tennis champion Alice Kemp fell to her death from a balcony after losing a crucial match. Did she jump, or was she pushed? As the ream looks for answers, Gerry wonders if he did enough to encourage his own daughter's sports ambitions.

The team reopens the case of Sean Docherty, a talented younf Belfast poet whose burned body was discovered 10 years ago in a known gangster's scrapyard. Gerry believes the murder was realted to Sean's cruiminal connections but Brian is sure the answer les in his poetry

In 2007, Max Klein, an East German immigrant, bled to death. His mysterious last words were "blue flower". Piecing together his story, the team learns that Klein once had connections with the Stasi, East Germany"s dreaded secret police. But did he work for them or against them?

Strickland sends Gerry and Steve to Glasgow to help with the formation oa a new Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad. Once there, the two are caught up in a case from 1993, the still-unsolved murder of a wealthy bookie, and Steve comes face-to -face with an old adversary.

Someone has just tried to kill Stephen Fisher, and Strickland may be next. Thirty years earlier, both were part of a group involved in a covert operatioon for MI-5. Other members of the group are already dead, Stricklad turns to Sandra ad her team for help

Brian Lane's future at UCOS is threatened after he assaults one of the Met's most successful officers at a retirement function in an act of revenge for his own retirement from the force. With a team member down, it's business as usual for Sandra, Steve and Gerry after the discovery of a mysterious gun in the Thames re-opens the unsolved 1998 murder of a playboy shipping heir and a killing that leads the team to the Rock of Gibraltar. In the UK, Brian finds life without police work unbearable and defies his superiors once again by flying out to Gibraltar.

As the team works to unravel two related murders that happened years apart, a third body turns up, and the Gibralter police cheif blames Sandra for stirring up the past. A young boy's drawings provide valuable clues, and Brian takes an action that seals his fate.

New evidence frees a getawy car driver who was jailed 16 years go for killig his wife. Gerry is furious, he worked the original investigation and feels his reputation is on thel ine. Brian, meanwhile, faces the possibility that his career is over

Brian has been dismissed and there's no going back, With time on his hands, he agrees to help his wife's friend find her missing brother. He crosses paths with Sandra and the team, whose investigation of a con man overlaps his case.

Armed with new DNA evidence, the team looks into the unsolved 20 year old murder of a Soho pornographer. Recently retired detective Danny Griffin arrives as Brian's replacement. He soon proves his worth, but Gerry thinks he's a mole.

For years ago, a man disappesred during his morning run. When his bloodstained ID card is found, the team is called in to investigate what seems like a perfect vanishing act. Meanwhile Gerry faces a childhood fear, and Sandra copes with the anniversary of her fathers death.

In 1997, on the eve of the Labour Party's landslide victory, a younng political aide was murdered, The discovery of an offshore bank account in his name containing 40,000 Pounds puts the team on the trail of a mysterious Bosnian woman.

A photo of a missing 19 year old surfaces on the 17th anniversary of her disappearance. That case was Sandra's first, and now she's determined to solve it, despite pressure to hand over the investigation. Faced with a new opportunity, Sandra turns for advice to a beloved voice from the past

With Sandra gone, Gerry, Steve, and Danny await the arrival of their new boss, DCI Sasha Miller. Arriving fresh from a SWAT raid, she jumps into her first case with the team: the 25 year old unsolved murder of an Italian immigrant. Gerry struggles to accept the new regime

The team has 24 hours to investigate a corrupt senior official who may haave surressed evidence. The case has ties to Sasha's past: a crime boss jailed because of the official's actions may have murdered her former partner on the force.

During a visit to his old neighborhood, Gerry meets a childhood friend who needs his help. Ralph Paxton's grandson, a talented young architect, died in a fall from an abandoned building; Ralph is convinced he was murdered. Meanwihile, Gerry objects to his daughter's fiancé, and Sasha is forced to work wtih her ex-husband, Ned Hancock

When a new witness comes forward with information about the violennt murder of a brilliant young doctor, the team uncovers evidence of her unhappy past: a possible stalker, a tutor who was suspiciously close, and the husband of a patient who died under her care. Dan is depressed because his daughter has left home for university

Thirty years after the death of a suspected terrorist, the man's daughter receives an anonymous note claiming he was murdered, Clues lead the team to the Greenham Common anti-nuclear prostests of the 1980's. Sasha had dinner with Ned, who's angling for a reconcilliation

An 80 year old woman with dementia walks into a police station to report the 60 year old murder of her husband, a London bobby. The official report says he fell into the river, but the team's investigation uncovers old secrets, After Steve's teenage son is arrested for buying weed, Steve encounters the ex-wife he hasn't seen in 10 years.

When the discovery of a film critic's body in a sewer relates to the unsolved murder of an artist 20 years earlier, Sasha must work with her ex again. Ned's team tackles the latest crime, while UCOS digs into the cold csase. Danny's knowledge of underground London may be the key to solving both.

Traces of blood on a Roman sword are linked to an unidentified, headless corpse found in 2008, Taking up the unsolved case, the team enters the world of Roman battle re-enactors. Just as Danny starts having feelings for someone new, he learns that his wife might be discharged from the secure hospital where she has spent several years.

After the 2009 death of a pub landlord in a fire, his live-in barmaid, an illegal Turkish immigrant, disappeared. When the Turkish woman is arrested,UCOS re-examines the events surrounding the landlord's demise. As the team looks for answers, Sasha enters them in a local sports competition.

When a teenage boy trrows a brick onto a busy highway, DNA on the brick provides a link to the killer in the 2010 murder of a 55 year old interpreter and chess enthusiast. Steve brings his dying father to a hospice in London.

After an amateur sleuth is murdered, a photo of Danny is found at the scene. It trns out Danny was her friend, and he vows to find the killer. Clues lead to a 25 year old murder and a trip to the countryside. Sasha deals with an overbearing fellow officer, and Gerry moves in with Steve for a spell.

After a 30 year old time capsule is unearthed, a cassette tape inside reopens the unsolved murder of a 16 year old girl. Part of the tape includes a state secret; words from a speech written for the queen during the Cold War. Gerry attends his furture son in law's stag party, and Sasha has her first romance since her divorce from Ned.

In the first part of a double episode, Gerry is spooked by the discovery of a cop whose body has laid untouched in a basement for 30 years. Gerry learns he will have to face up to his past, as deep-rooted accusations of police corruption begin to emerge. It is a race against time for the UCOS team as they attempt to help Gerry before his dark past begins to catch up with him.

In the second part of the double episode, Gerry has to fight to be able to clear his name before the past, and his enemies catch up with him. Fiona is enlisted to help examine the evidence, while Danny and Gerry go on the run in a desperate attempt to prove his innocence. The pressure is on as the team go after one of the biggest crime families in London. Gerry and the team are put in the firing line in a dramatic stand-off.

Danny and Steve are introduced to their new boss Ted while Sasha recovers in hospital from her gun-shot wound. The team are a cautious of Ted Case becoming a new member of the UCOS team. The team investigate the brutal murder of a vicar who received racist hate mail in the lead up to his death. Elsewhere Danny meets Fiona's parents with disastrous consequences. Steve attempts to make himself more sharper in comparison to his new boss.

Ted leads UCOS into the investigation of an apparent suicide of a city trader in the 1980s. The team delve into the dark world of the macho fraternity of the so called 'Wolfpack' however the team soon discover a world of debauchery, and secret all-nighters to bond the traders together. Is their tight bond worth killing for? Elsewhere Sasha returns to UCOS to find herself pushed out of her office by Ted.

The UCOS team investigate the death of a promising talented cricket player. He was the star of the pitch and the prodigal son however he was loathed by his team-mates. New evidence shows the death was not a misadventure as originally thought however UCOS are soon surprised by the list of murder suspects. Elsewhere Danny realises Steve is having money-problems so he asserts himself as a personal financial advisor. Danny however is unable to escape his own concerns about revealing his relationship with Fiona to his fragile ex-wife.

Danny, Ted and Steve investigations leads them to a lookalike agency where their two top acts were found dead in an apparent double suicide over a decade earlier. The team are convinced there is more to the case than meets the eye. Elsewhere Steve is overwhelmed when their enquiries lead them to the door of one of his football idols. His excitement is soon short-lived when he remembers an expensive birthday gift. Sasha is occupied with trying to instil discipline into her son Alex as well as taking on an intensive training course.

The UCOS team investigate the murder of a private investigator. The victim was stabbed through the heart in a suspect robbery. The team believe the answers are in the victims last three cases however it will take the whole team's expertise and instincts to be able to crack the case along with a mysterious notebook. UCOS believe the movements of a rare collectable stamp, The Russian Cousin, could hold the key to the investigation- will UCOS be able to track it down? Elsewhere Steve rents his flat out to a pair of demanding Italians. Also Ted is fearful of a trip to the doctors after concerns of his own mortality.

Under the foundations of a swimming pool a skeleton is uncovered. The victim is identified as Cheryl - a young and pretty lottery winner who was reported missing seventeen years ago. UCOS begin to investigate the prime suspects who are her quiz team mates, who won their lottery win as part of a syndicate. Although some of the winners have put their money to good use, Cheryl's boyfriend has fallen on hard times. The media remain convinced he is the prime suspect, and he is unable to escape the allegations of murder, affairs and fights. The begin to wonder whether money is really the root of all evil. Elsewhere Sasha decides to spend the night studying however the team have a different plan.

A sinkhole in a cemetery unearths an unusual murder weapon: a large marble bust. The victim was Jason Henway,, herbalist and co-owner of Nature's Zenith, a controversial holistic health center. Both Fiona and Sasha contemplate job promotions that would take them away from UCOS

In the ultimate series finale, UCOS are threatened with closure following their perceived mishandling of the Henway case. Their final case begins with the bloody murder of a political activist 15 years ago at the Madhouse - a hub for people with mental health issues. Just as the team are getting somewhere, the order comes from above for Ted, Danny and Steve to cease the investigation. But in true UCOS spirit, the boys throw away the rulebook and uncover something much bigger than just a straightforward murder, involving some top officials, a multinational drugs company and signs of a massive cover-up.Danny and Fiona's relationship hangs in the balance as she must give an answer to the job offer in Aberdeen, and Sasha is pulled into a game of political cat and mouse as she realises UCOS are merely puppets in Cynthia's game.