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- DirectorJames HawesStarsMonica DolanSian BreckinMichael KeoghA police officer is killed while responding to a domestic disturbance call. When DCI Alan Banks is called to investigate the grisly scene, he discovers it's the home of a serial rapist and murderer.
- DirectorJames HawesStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweSamuel RoukinThanks to a Chief Superintendent who is obsessed with damage-limitation, Janet is charged with manslaughter though Annie makes sure that she gets off. A friend of the missing Leanne leads Alan to believe that Payne had a female accomplice to lure the girls into his car and Lucy is the obvious suspect, though she denies it, at the same time admitting she knew her husband was a killer. She also blackmails Maggie into paying for a lawyer for her though Maggie counters by ringing the press to explode the 'accomplice' story. Investigations show Lucy to have been the victim in a famous abuse case as a child and she is diagnosed as mentally ill and incapable of having a mind to murder. Alan must discover to what extent she really was involved in the killings and if she knows where to find Leanne, alive or dead.
- DirectorPaul WhittingtonStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweLorraine BurroughsTwo bodies are found after a fire on some narrow boats and Banks and DS Annie Cabbot find themselves on the trail of an arsonist who has killed two people.
- DirectorPaul WhittingtonStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweLorraine BurroughsBanks gets a warning for hitting Aspen,after which more money and forgeries are found at the burnt out scene of McMahon's murder.Banks deduces that Gerry,Christina's girl-friend,is one of the forgers and she tells him she believes the killer is called Gary Morrison,who sold the artists' fake paintings but had a sinister hold over them. Banks is displeased to learn that Annie is having an affair with Keane - who also admits to being afraid of Morrison,though he has worked with him. With the evidence pointing to one of two suspects Banks must make a mercy dash to save a life before exposing a sordid secret.
- DirectorBill AndersonStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweLorraine BurroughsA student is attacked in the middle of the city and in another part of Yorkshire a woman has her throat cut, but the two different murders have disturbing similarities.
- DirectorBill AndersonStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweLorraine BurroughsThe team is in shock after Kevin's murder. They deduce that he was acting as a vigilante patrolling the alleys to prevent further murders but the witness who saw his death presumed he was out to harm her. She identifies the slayer as a woman but pathologist Dr. Waring disputes this and sees no link with Lucy Payne's death,causing Annie to doubt. Randall is cleared of Hayley's murder when he is given an alibi and,with several likely suspects,Banks is back at square one. Annie however learns of a former rape victim whose perpetrator was murdered before she disappeared,providing a link to Lucy Payne and a clue to the identity of the double murderer.
- DirectorMarek LoseyStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweLorraine BurroughsA case terrifyingly close to home occurs as Banks is asked by his boss to find his missing teenage daughter.
- DirectorMarek LoseyStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweLorraine BurroughsBanks and Cabbot come to suspect one of their team may be implicated in a criminal conspiracy.
- DirectorTim FywellStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzA new case becomes personal when Banks discovers that his brother Roy is missing and Roy's girlfriend has been shot dead.
- DirectorTim FywellStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzThe police discover that Jennifer and Roy were involved in a prostitution ring. Roy was importing women through his travel agency, although business partner Lambert claims ignorance. Because he is related to a victim, Banks is taken off the case but D.I. Morton agrees to let him help in an advisory role, warning him he may be in danger. He seeks out Carmen, the face of the escort agency fronting the prostitution racket and finds that she is pregnant. That pregnancy, linked to a baby-selling arrangement, holds the key to the double murders.
- DirectorJim LoachStarsStephen TompkinsonCaroline CatzLorraine BurroughsBanks is called in to investigate the death of a mild-mannered accountant who appears to be the victim of a contract killing.
- DirectorJim LoachStarsStephen TompkinsonCaroline CatzLorraine BurroughsBanks defies orders by informally speaking to Martin Fleming on his own, though he gets no results. Tom Rothwell returns from America for his father's funeral and tells the police he fell out with his father after seeing him with another woman. Pamela identifies her attacker as a rough-looking Irishman named by police records as Arthur Jameson, an arms fan and former client of Norcliffe, but Jameson kills himself before he can be questioned. Following Tom's information, Banks discovers that the woman in question was not Pamela. The trail leads to a house where all is revealed - including a money laundering scheme which justifies Banks' suspicions. The case closed, Helen at last begins to integrate with the rest of the team.
- DirectorMat KingStarsStephen TompkinsonCaroline CatzLorraine BurroughsBanks gets a call-out to Owen Pierce's house, which has been vandalised whilst Owen was in prison, but Banks makes it clear he still believes Owen was the killer. However, after Helen has seen CCTV footage of Ellie getting into a car with somebody who is not Owen Pierce, Becca comes forward to say that Tyler Judd sexually threatened her and was perpetually shadowing Ellie after she dumped him. Then Becca is found dead in the same spot as Ellie. Focus now switches to Judd, who admits to stealing Simon Harris's car after Simon warned him off Ellie. This in turn leads to the discovery of some incriminating photographs and the identity of the murderer.
- DirectorMat KingStarsStephen TompkinsonCaroline CatzLorraine BurroughsThe strangling of a wealthy financier's 16-year-old daughter unearths a complex web of lies and secrets for Banks to solve.
- DirectorBill EaglesStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzWhen a mother reports her child as having been abducted by a man and a woman masquerading as social workers, Banks is drawn into a strange and unsettling search for the missing boy.
- DirectorBill EaglesStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzBanks and his team now have a murder inquiry on their hands, as the body found on the moors is identified as 11-year-old Andre Petri.
- DirectorEdward BazalgetteStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzFollowing the death of a journalist, Banks and his team discover connections to a suspicious death in the 1980s involving the surviving members of a pop band.
- DirectorEdward BazalgetteStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzWhen Banks and Helen learn that Ian Basset has returned to the country, the surviving members of The Crystal Kiss are reunited, and the trio seem tighter than ever.
- DirectorStephen WoolfendenStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzA terrible chain of events is set in motion when an old neighbor of Banks' finds a loaded gun in her daughter's bedroom.
- DirectorStephen WoolfendenStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzCircumstances take a dramatic and unexpected turn when Banks begins to fear for the safety of his own daughter.
- DirectorDavid RichardsStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzThe investigation of a young Estonian woman's death leads Banks to uncover a world of prostitution and drugs hidden behind a respectable veneer.
- DirectorDavid RichardsStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzThe team are dismayed to discover that an arson attack at the Osgood's house has injured Michael and killed his autistic son Robbie.
- DirectorCraig PicklesStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzA husband and daughter struggle to come to terms with their grief when the body of wife and mother is found washed up by an underground river.
- DirectorCraig PicklesStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzBanks puts Geoff and his daughter under watch at a hotel while he widens the search for the gunman.
- DirectorKenneth GlenaanStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzWhen the body of a university undergraduate is found dumped in a ravine, the investigation reveals he was far from being a model student.
- DirectorKenneth GlenaanStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzHelen works hard to win back Alan's approval as they try to find the killer and prevent Josh's father from seeking a revenge of his own.
- DirectorCraig PicklesStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzWhen a devoted husband and father goes missing, a ransom demand takes Banks and his team on a journey into Leeds' Chinese community.
- DirectorCraig PicklesStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzXun's death makes the team realize the case is more complicated than they first thought, and it's not necessarily connected to the kidnapping.
- DirectorMark BrozelStarsStephen TompkinsonAndrea LoweCaroline CatzBanks and the team begin the painful job of finding out exactly who was responsible for Annie's death, an incident that has affected all their lives.
- DirectorMark BrozelStarsStephen TompkinsonCaroline CatzJack DeamBanks' mission to solve Annie's murder is made all the harder by the fact he has been taken off the case and sent on gardening leave - but that won't stop him.