Cracker - Episode Guide

When a young woman is found brutally murdered on a train, the police call in a brilliant but unstable psychologist.

Kelly is put into Fitz's care after a lack of evidence. But after another murdered woman is found, Kelly is arrested and DCI Bilborough orders Fitz off the case. Fitz and DS Penhaligan collude to find out the truth.

Tina and Sean are two of societies rejects. Tina hates her parents and has moved out, living in a squat. Sean stutters badly except when he sings or is angry, which is the case most of the time. They meet in a pub one night and become, in Tina's words, just like Bonnie and Clyde. They first murder a local loan shark but then set their sights on one of the detectives looking for them. Fitz brings his insight to the case but continues his testy relationship with the the police. His home life is still in a shambles. He very much wants his wife to move back in with him, but she will only agree if he joins Gamblers Anonymous. There is also a growing sexual tension between Fitz and Detective Penhaligon, which is obvious to both of them.

The search for Sean and Tina is intensified when someone close to Fitz and his police team is murdered.

Fitz has Tina in custody, but is racing against time to get her to reveal Sean's whereabouts before he kills again.

A young boy goes missing and is soon found dead in a wood, and Fitz is asked to join the investigation.

Fitz duels it out with the prime suspect while an angry mob builds outside the police station.

A working class man, distraught at the recent death of his father, impulsively becomes a skinhead and murders a Pakistani shopkeeper over a perceived insult.

Fitz and the police bury their differences in an attempt to track the killer, and Fitz realises the killer's a man with a very particular mission.

Fitz is convinced that the legend of Albie Kinsella looks set to become a tragic reality, but the police are sceptical.

A charismatic cult preacher finds that he has impregnated one of his 16 year old students and must silence her to protect his position.

Trant and the others discover that Joanne is still alive and immediately turn their attention to Dean whom they trusted to dispose of her body. However, a hospitalised Joanne is unable to tell the police anything.

Another death pushes Fitz closer to the edge in his pursuit of the Trant family. But they've closed ranks and proof seems impossible to come by.

A young black man, product of an interracial marriage, seethes with resentment and turns from being a serial rapist to murder.

The police have paid a horrifically high price for their failure to catch Floyd. When Fitz makes a breakthrough, it serves to drive his prey to even more desperate measures.

Fitz exposes the savage price of racism as he digs deeper into Floyd's past. The investigation reaches a climax as not one, but two victims seek revenge.

A married father of four, addicted to kinky sex with prostitutes, kills one when he cannot pay and she threatens to expose him to his wife.

DS Penhaligon has no choice but to work with DS Beck despite her conviction that he raped her.

As DS Jimmy Beck and DS Penhaligon face up to the dramatic events of the past.

Stuart Grady, a lonely factory foreman, befriends a young male employee and the disturbed runaway involves them both in murder.

Fitz is pitched against Grady and Nash, whose relationship is now spinning dangerously out of control.

A lab technician, working at the same university as Fitz, begins to electrocute male students in order to gain the attention of the psychologist.

When the female killer strikes at the very heart of Fitz's own family he must use all his powers of interrogation to find his son before it's too late.

A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he faces bankruptcy.

Fitz returns to Manchester for his daughter's wedding, but is soon involved in another murder investigation when an American comedian is killed, apparently without motive.