Screen Two - Episode Guide

Paul, an underworld hitman, recruits his childhood friend AD on his next job - the execution of a corrupt lawyer involved in drug dealing. But the hit goes wrong.

The Precious Blood

Episode: 13x05 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1996 (80 min)

Rosie Williams is haunted by the murder ofherhusband 12years previously. Herteenage son John is heading for a life of delinquency fuelled by revenge. Then, he meets Billy McVea , who runs a boxing gym, affecting all their lives

Century

Episode: 13x06 | Airdate: Jun 15, 1996 (210 min)

At the close of the 19th century, Paul Reisner is one of an elite group of young doctors working on the cutting edge of medical research, under the leadership of Professor Mandry. Paul shows every sign of a brilliant career, and falls in love with Clara, a laboratory assistant. But his world is shattered when he makes a startling discovery about the professor.

Season 14

Crossing the Floor

Episode: 14x01 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1996 (75 min)

In a desperate bid to save his political career, scheming Home Secretary David Hanratty resigns from an unpopular Conservative government to join forces with the Labour Party and its charismatic new leader Tom Peel.

Deadly Voyage

Episode: 14x02 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1996

A small group of Ghanaian stowaways are discovered on board a cargo ship and all but one brutally murdered by its crew. The survivor tells his story.

Loving

Episode: 14x03 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1996 (95 min)

Ireland, 1941: while the rest of Europe is at war, the inhabitants of Kinalty Castle find themselves overwhelmed by uncontrollable feelings of lust and passion. Before long, Charlie Raunce, the castle's butler, has fallen head over heels in love with Edith the housemaid.

Flowers in the Forest

Episode: 14x04 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1996

Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become convinced that the children are part of a ritual child abuse network, the small community is thrown into disarray. See today's choices.

Look Me in the Eye

Episode: 14x05 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1996 (75 min)

A recently married schoolteacher becomes infatuated with an enigmatic photographer after a chance encounter. But when she discovers that he has covertly been taking pictures of her, she aims to destroy this part of his portfolio.

Dallas Doll

Episode: 14x06 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1996 (100 min)

Dallas Adair, an American golf guru, comes to live with a middle-class family in suburban Australia. With her riotous antics and her capacity to attract both sexes, she soon sets about sexually awakening the Sommers household.

Burn Your Phone

Episode: 14x07 | Airdate: Dec 31, 1996 (30 min)

Andy works at the Hastings Telephone Exchange. All day, every day he copes with emergencies, from squashed seagulls to suicide attempts. Buton this particular day he takes a series of calls from someone who is threatening to murder him.

Season 15

Stonewall

Episode: 15x01 | Airdate: May 17, 1997 (95 min)

It's summer 1969 in New York City. Young, gay and full of dreams, Matty Dean arrives on a Greyhound bus and heads downtown. It's the time of the Vietnam War and the Apollo moon walk, but gay people are still being persecuted.

I.D.

Episode: 15x02 | Airdate: Jun 1, 1997 (105 min)

Four young police officers are sent undercover to infiltrate a gang of hooligans linked to a London football club, but only total commitment will gain the officers the acceptance they need to do their job.

Stone, Scissors, Paper

Episode: 15x03 | Airdate: Jun 7, 1997 (85 min)

Seeking refuge from a violent husband, Jean secretly moves into the riverside cottage that belonged to her mother to clear out her possessions. Here, she meets a married stonemason - Redfern - with whom she gradually forms an intimate relationship. Both experience feelings of guilt for their inadmissable love for one another, and it isn't long before the couple's quiet affair of the heart is violently and tragically shattered.

Butterfly Kiss

Episode: 15x04 | Airdate: Jun 14, 1997 (85 min)

Eunice travels the motorways in a fruitless search for Judith, the only person who has ever understood and loved her. She meets Miriam, who is fascinated by the violent and unpredictable Eunice and follows her, only to find herself an accomplice to multiple murder.

Brothers in Trouble

Episode: 15x05 | Airdate: Jun 21, 1997 (100 min)

Amir, an illegal immigrant, makes his way into Britain buried beneath piles of vegetables, finding refuge in a bleak terraced house with 17 other men in the same situation. Things look up when he gets work at a mill, but then Hussein Shah, the house leader, brings home Mary, an attractive woman with a murky past.

Mothertime

Episode: 15x06 | Airdate: Dec 28, 1997

When a single mother's drinking binge threatens to spoil yet another Christmas, her five children lock her in the sauna to dry out.

Small Faces

Episode: 15x07 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1998 (105 min)

In the Glasgow of 1968, young teenager Lex Maclean is torn between the artistic life of his middle brother Alan, and the thuggish world of his older sibling, Bobby.