Deep End
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jul 16, 2001
Superintendent Susan Blake returns from maternity leave to head a sensitive abduction case.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jul 16, 2001
Superintendent Susan Blake returns from maternity leave to head a sensitive abduction case.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jul 23, 2001
As Supt Blake fights to defend the Division, Larry forces Steve to face the future following Dee's death.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jul 30, 2001
Bill's determination to prove himself in the pursuit of two thieves leaves him faced with a potentially life-threatening decision.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Aug 6, 2001
Susan gets caught up in a family crisis when a pregnant woman gives her an off-duty confession.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Aug 13, 2001
When Jim reveals to Mike Carterthat the man who killed his daughter has been let out of prison, the distraught father takes justice into his own hands.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Aug 20, 2001
Miriam faces an internal investigation following her handling of a domestic violence incident.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Aug 27, 2001
Jim's past returns to haunt him when local businessman and persistent offender, Jay Chadwick , slips through his grasp again. Jim's day can't get much worse when he returns home to a nasty surprise.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Sep 3, 2001
When Jim confronts a man wielding a shotgun, he finds himself spilling every painful moment of his marital problems in an effort to empathise with him.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Sep 10, 2001
When Connie is involved in a car chase that ends with a fatality, Susan has to choose between standing by her officer and obeying her superiors.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Sep 17, 2001
Susan's stalker returns, with shock consequences for Al. The officers rally but it's clear the situation isn't as simple as they originally thought.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jun 24, 2002
The past catches up with both Jim and Susan.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Jul 1, 2002
Larry meets an old acquaintance.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Jul 8, 2002
Jodie investigates a possible case of child abuse.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Jul 15, 2002
Steve maintains his silence over Blue.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Jul 22, 2002
Leading the investigation to find Susan's attacker, Jim finds he has little to go on.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Jul 29, 2002
A psychic has some insights for Jim, while Steve comes under pressure from a businessman.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Aug 5, 2002
Steve has to investigate the attack on Brack.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Aug 12, 2002
As Inspector Oulton decides to call it a day with his wife, he also tries to stop his daughter's marriage.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Aug 19, 2002
Has Susan's attacker been found?
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Aug 26, 2002
Susan tells Jim she knows the identity of her attacker, while Caroline's visit to see Al and the kids spells disaster. Last in the current series.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Nov 18, 2002
Jim has a stressful time on Jenny's big day.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Nov 25, 2002
Jenny returns from her honeymoon looking tired and unhappy. Jodie is threatened by a violent suspect.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Dec 2, 2002
The search is on to find the joyriders, while Jenny demands Jim's help in finding Kit.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Dec 9, 2002
Jackie decides to take some risks, while Jim is forced to question his father during a murder inquiry.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Dec 16, 2002
Steve loses control when he has a surprise visitor. Meanwhile Susan, her powers diminished, is having doubts as to whether she can stay in herjob.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Jan 6, 2003
Jim promises Connie a promotion but is thwarted by the unexpected arrival of Inspector Eden.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2003
Charlie has a wedding to attend but gets embroiled in a domestic case involving a young prostitute.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2003
When Steve's brother is assaulted by a notorious racist, the siblings make an uneasy truce.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Jan 27, 2003
Jim and Charlie investigate a bomb scare.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2003
Chris Traynor 's violent assault on Peter Orton comes back to haunt Steve.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Nov 17, 2003
Kim and Tom Vale return from their honeymoon to sounds of a scuffle in the next door flat and a child screaming.Tom goes to investigate and finds 11- year-old Callum being attacked by a thug looking for money. Both Callum and Tom are injured. But why is Tom, even though he got a clear view of his attacker, so reluctant to testify? At Newton Park police station, DI Pete Hammond knows the truth about why Tom Vale won't speak out but he too is reluctant to explain to Supt Jim Oulton. But when events take a tragic turn and the case becomes a murder investigation, it may be that some home truths will have to be faced by all parties.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Nov 24, 2003
PCs Larry Barton and Glenn Freeman discover a dead woman in the river. Her husband breaks down in the interview room and thinks he must have killed her while having one of his frequent stress-related attacks. DI Pete Hammond s delighted to have a result but Inspector Charlie Eden isn't so sure… Relationships are further strained at Newton Park as PC Larry Barton has to face up to the tragic aftermath of a police car chase which went wrong, while DI Pete Hammond and Charlie Eden find that past romantic liaisons have a habit of catching up with them.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2003
PCs Jackie Brown and Jodie Finn are dealing with the case of a "home alone" kid.Young Lewis Roe has been left in the house while his dad has been cavorting in Majorca, but Lewis's mum left the family home some time ago. Can Jodie reunite Lewis with his mother? Meanwhile, the situation between DIs Pete Hammond and Charlie Eden has become increasingly tense – it's looking impossible that they can ever bury their differences and work together. But for PC Larry Barton, tensions of a different kind beckon – it's his wedding day
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2003
Kerry Johnstone is arrested for stealing a baby from a maternity unit, but is she a distraught mother who deserves understanding or are her motives rather more sinister? At the same time, DI Pete Hammond is investigating a local adoption agency. He needs to find out whether the agency is offering babies for sale to the highest bidders. He and DI Charlie Eden pose as a couple who are desperate to adopt, but playing husband and wife is rather too close to home as secrets kept for 15 years are finally revealed.Where do Pete and Charlie go from here? Back at Newton Park station, Liverpool footballer Danny Murphy turns up to make a presentation to Sgt Cartwright's under-11 girls football team. But for Supt Jim Oulton, an ardent Everton fan, this proves to be a step too far.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2003
Maureen Bradshaw reports that her late father has had £25,000 stolen from under his bed – but the only visitor he had before he died was local priest Father Hopkirk. Early investigations discover that Father Hopkirk is coincidentally raising money to send a local boy to America for a life-saving operation – surely the priest can't be in the frame? But when it emerges that Albie Bradshaw is an exarmed robber, is a different kind of morality at work? Meanwhile, an unsound conviction comes back to haunt Sgt Bill Gentle (David Hargreaves) when he attends the funeral of a man he put away for murder. Gentle revives his former partnership with retired copper Bernard Oulton (Supt Jim Oulton's father) to turn over some old stones. Did they really get it so wrong all those years ago? And, if they did, who was really the guilty party?
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2004
There is a serial rapist on the loose but his latest attack ends in failure and is witnessed by a young boy. DI Pete Hammond needs to crack the case before the rapist strikes again, but Supt Jim Oulton, still feeling like a fish out of water as "the man upstairs", wants to be involved in the case too. It's crucial that the two men bury their differences to get a result. Station receptionist Natalie Vance's brother is brought in for stealing cars. PC Glenn Freeman believes he is fronting an operation that procures expensive cars to order and sells them on.When Natalie confronts her brother with the truth, she faces an agonising dilemma: does she turn him in to save him from a long-term career in crime … and the nick?
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Jan 12, 2004
A young drug smuggler has been horrifically murdered, but the victim, Clare Robinson, is a model student with a blameless past.What could have convinced her to smuggle drugs into the UK from Jamaica? DS Roz Kelly, from Newton Park Drugs Squad, is brought in to help DI Pete Hammond but their investigations throw up more questions than answers, until they meet up with Helen, a girl Clare met while travelling 18 months previously. DS Kelly and DI Hammond know that Helen is hiding something, but the question is, what? All is not what it seems for DS Roz Kelly either. Who is the man who loiters outside the station, waiting for her? It seems that Kelly also has something to hide…
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Jan 19, 2004
Fifteen-year-old Amy Wright has fallen in love with a man from an internet chat room. PCs Larry Barton and Jackie Brown are called in to investigate after Amy's mother raises concerns that the man might be older (and more dangerous) than he seems. Larry risks everything on a strategy of posing as Amy in order to lure the man out into the open… DS Roz Kelly (Claire Sweeney) has an unwelcome reunion with her armed robber father, Eddie Lewis. She suspects he's working on another job and warns him off. But taking a different kind of interest in Lewis's visit is DI Pete Hammond, who decides to do some digging of his own. An altercation with Gary Naylor, a local hard case with a reputation for selling guns, leaves Hammond for dead on a deserted building site. Can he be reached in time?