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- Eternal Law is an intriguing, fresh drama about angels living among us, helping and guiding humans when they are at their most desperate, set in the ancient city of York (England).
- English archaeology professor 'Dolly' Parton's team handles high-profile finds. Often those prove relevant in the present, as such as symbol for a cause. The team runs personal danger, on top of their messy love - and other personal lives.
- When a young couple inherit a farm, they are determined to turn it into a success, but strange supernatural forces soon intervene, threatening their marriage and their lives.
- After being shot in 2008 while investigating DCI Sam Tyler, DI Alex Drake wakes up in 1981.
- When a prostitute complains of rape, Alex has a tough time convincing Gene to take the case seriously. She is the lone voice in CID, and only the link to a recent murder victim makes Gene take the investigation further. The pursuit of the attacker takes them undercover to a fancy dress boat party, but has Alex's determination got the better of her, and is her effort to prove a point masking her judgement?
- When the body of a worker at a nuclear research centre disappears from the morgue, it smacks of conspiracy to Alex. Was Martin Kennedy killed because he had proof the government was testing neutron bombs? Gene is adamant that murder has simpler motives, and a link to Alex's mother gives him at least one suspect in an investigation that leads them onto dangerous territory.
- It's the week of the Royal Wedding, and CID is under pressure to keep the streets quiet. Realising she is stuck here for now, Alex is desperate for escapism. She goes on a date with a handsome Thatcherite and makes contact with her mother, Caroline. As bombs threaten to ruin Charles and Diana's big day, Gene needs Alex to stop being distracted and acknowledge this world has the power to hurt.
- When DI Alex Drake is shot and lands in 1981, she comes face-to-face with DCI Gene Hunt, the relic of old-fashioned policing she read about in Sam Tyler's reports. Alex thinks she is in a coma and needs Hunt's help to go after Layton, the man who shot her in 2008. She is confident she knows the rules of the game, but with no contact from the outside world Alex has to contend with a terrifying possibility.
- Simon Neary is a gangster Gene has wanted to nail for years. When the team discovers that his latest deal is to obtain guns, the case takes on another imperative for Alex. Is stopping the guns a way to stop herself getting shot in 2008? Gene is shocked by how far Alex is prepared to go, including trying to persuade Neary's young boyfriend to turn informant. Would she put a civilian at risk?
- Alex thinks she's close to death and has to keep her brain alive by solving the case: a raid at a Post Office. Gene believes the culprit is Chas Cale, a blagger he crossed swords with years ago. When Chas claims he's too ill and too old, Gene reflects on whether he too is over the hill. For once, Alex needs Gene to be strong for her. She fears she can't solve the case alone and is desperate not to die in 1981.
- Thousands of pounds collected for charity have been stolen, and the only lead is Gil Hollis, the man who raised it. Alex is sure that Gil knows more than he realises and that she can coax it out of him. But when Gene is humiliated on a TV appeal, he resorts to his 'fists first, questions later' method. Can Alex prevent Gene going off the rails just at the point when she needs to stay in control, and if she can't, will someone die?
- It's the biggest day of Alex's life: the day her parents were killed. She believes that if she can prevent this from happening she can leave the prison of 1981 and get back to her daughter Molly. With Gene waylaid by a station inspection, Alex needs to use every ounce of her strength and energy to stop the elements coming together, throw a cog into the wheel of fate, and finally return home.
- Archaeology professor Gregory 'Dolly' Parton's dig in Somerset stumbles upon mysterious early 14th century remains from both parties of the Knights Templar crusade fight against the Turkish Saracen sultan Mamluk's troops for Jerusalem. The Templars seem to have fled France after their order's disbanding, carrying the priceless relic of the Holy Cross. The affair arouses interest from modern day British Christian heritage extremist Edward Laygass's movement which prepares a new 'holy war' contra Islam.
- Professor Gregory Parton's team digs up manacles and mutilated corpses with the wreck of the aristocratic Carr family's 18th century ship Somerset near a Bristol channel bridge. It seems a beached 'tringular trade' slaver, which stirs modern political commotion, just now Afro-American presidential candidate senator Joy is visiting England. But DNA proves the bodies aren't slaves, Admiralty records the ship was falsely reported destroyed in Northern America. More research unearths a long-covered story involving Oban's Jamaican Maroons and George Washington. It's political dynamite, and violence follows.
- An earth tremor near Bath exposes what the discovers to be its cause, a secret 'mine field' in the Roman-Celtic underground. They work out from digs and a Victoran manuscript it's all linked with Roman military commanders Marcus Quintanus and Cassius, Britton insurrection queen Baudicca ('Boadicea') and complex treason and cover-ups. But the danger is worse then appeared.
- Gillian's ex-lover, an Iraqi archaeologist, comes to Bath. He wishes to take back some valuable relics, which were stolen from Iraq.
- Gilly continues her search for the greatest sword in history, the same hunt which made her mother. a world-renowned archaeologist as well, go mad.
- When a British WW1 tank is found in France with remains inside, tensions between the British and the Germans escalate.
- After a pep talk from new broom superintendent Mackintosh who is anxious to stamp out police corruption, Hunt and his team are called to a Soho strip club where P.C. Irvine is found dead and, to quote Hunt, "looking like Hilda Ogden" in a photograph with stripper and wannabe actress Sally. Soon after Sally is shot dead. Irvine's widow Ruth is initially evasive, chiefly because she has been having an affair with Mackintosh, but she does give the team a diary, exonerating him from extortion but putting his young colleague Kevin Hales in the frame as the officer on the make, out to silence his worthier partner. The case resolved, Chris tries to atone to Shazz for his sexist comments by performing a full strip in public.
- Gypsy car thief Jed dies after Hunt has pursued him in a high speed chase and Hunt and Mackintosh put out a cover-up story to exonerate Hunt. Drugs are found on the corpse and the whole camp is arrested including an old lady who tells Alex's fortune and recognizes her parallel existence. The deceased was known to abuse his pregnant girlfriend Alva and Alex believes that seemingly altruistic local Dr. Battleford, the camp's G.P., fed Jed lethal pills, as he was in love with Alva and is the baby's father. She is eventually proved to be right and Alex and Hunt deliver Alva's child. An even more bizarre alliance is formed when Hunt buys Alex's view that Hales was a pawn in a conspiracy to kill officer Irvine and joins the Masons to gain Mackintosh's confidence.
- Alex hears that young Hales has died in prison, endorsing her conspiracy theory, and when Mackintosh wants the case closed even Hunt starts to agree with her. After a man who runs an animal research lab and his little girl are injured by a bomber Alex visits dogged anti-vivisectionist Robin Elliot, serving a jail term for a similar attack seven years before. He seems unnervingly aware of Alex's position but offers no help when the police are told to expect more attacks. After he has starved himself to death Alex learns from his effects who is continuing his campaign. The resultant shoot-out brings her closer to recalling her life in the 2000s but a celebration of her being saved coupled with the fact that Shazz and Chris are getting engaged is soured by the news that Mackintosh wants Hunt transferred to Plymouth.
- After Alex and Hunt bug Mackintosh's office for evidence of his corruption they are visited by Jackie Queen, Hunt's journalist old flame who has come from Manchester to investigate the disappearance of teenage runaways,including her niece Rachel. A stake-out at the coach station leads to businessman Ralph Jarvis, a friend of Mackintosh,who denies everything. However Rachel appears and offers herself as bait, enabling the team to interrupt one of Jarvis's sex parties, also arresting him for another young girl's murder which Mackintosh covered up. A shoot-out between the two villains prevents Hunt's transfer to Devon but one's dying word "Rose" is a mystery which Alex believes is intended for her.
- Having heard television puppet Orville claim that she 'has made it to hospital' Alex attends at a burglary of her future in-laws and 14-year-old spouse-to-be, who obviously fail to recognize her. The thief's fingerprints are those of a crook who faked his death years earlier but has had a sex change, re-emerging as home beautician Gaynor who uses her work to locate victims like the Drakes. Alex is visited by ex-cop Summers, who is also from the 2000s, and who offers her a path home by subscribing to the dodgy Operation Rose, but she is wary, knowing that it implies the corruption Hunt is anxious to kill, following adverse press reports of police behaviour in the wake of the death of Mackintosh and his equally dishonest buddy.
- Colin Mitchell's corpse is found in a canal and his father Stanley points the finger at vicious loan shark Riley who once employed Colin. Alex - witnessing her successful operation in the 2000s via an out of body experience - finds Riley too obvious, even though Colin and his wife Donna were planning to flee the country to escape him, and first Stanley, then Hunt, are assaulted by Riley's goons. Hunt terrorizes Riley in a junk-yard but Alex's belief in his innocence is eventually exonerated. Shazz and Chris, after arguing, agree on their wedding plans.
- Alex and DCI Hunt lead a raid on a construction site where a drug deal is being finalized. They also discover a partially buried body in a bed of freshly poured cement. For Hunt, making the drug bust and finding the the body is just a bit too convenient. He suspects the building site foreman of being up to something but can't quite put his finger on it. He soon realizes however that someone on the team is leaking information and he sets an elaborate trap to learn who it is. Alex meanwhile knows she's about to come out of surgery in her waking life and Summers, the rogue copper from her own time, warns her that her time is running short. She is shocked however when she meets the young PC Summers who approaches Hunt with a story about crooked cops and requesting his assistance.
- A voice from the future tells Alex she must fight post-op infection, which she interprets as Summers. Hunt's grass 'Rock Salmon' Doyle is murdered after divulging an upcoming heist, which Alex realizes is Operation Rose, in which corrupt cops will rob a bullion van. She even pinpoints where the crime will take place, correctly leading to successful arrests and several deaths, including Summers. And so she wakes up in hospital in her own time, free at last... except for an annoying face which crops up on her television screen.
- Alex wakes up to find herself back in 1983 where Gene Hunt is on the run after shooting her, three months previously. His unit is being run by none other than Ray! Meanwhile the rest of the unit in involved with the abduction of Dorothy, a young girl, on her way to school. To make matters worse a ransom is demanded by the kidnappers, and it's up to the team to find the culprits - fast.
- A severed hand is sent to the police station and investigations link it to the murders of several women around the country,all of whom had used the Crescent Moon dating agency. After Alex has unsuccessfully carried out an experiment in speed dating, Shaz,disillusioned with her job and seeking a challenge,goes undercover to trap the killer.
- It's Election Night and an arsonist is setting fire to polling stations. Ray believes they have a military background given the devices used but is reluctant to believe the culprit, identified by an eye-witness, is fireman and ex-Falklands War hero Andy Smith who saved Ray's life. Andy is taken into custody,during which another fire is started, leading Alex to believe that a triangle involving Andy,his wife and his brother is the key to the crimes.Jim tries to persuade Ray to leave Hunt's team and join him.
- Hunt is out to get father-and-son gangsters Terry and Daniel Stafford,who have bumped off rival drug dealers in the area, and is annoyed that undercover cop Louise Gardiner has been sent into his manner behind his back to work with the Staffords. There is no love lost between the Staffords,each out to get control of the racket from each other,and when her cover is blown Louise is attacked by Daniel,who gets beaten up by Chris as a result. However this jeopardises any charges against young Stafford. He is released and apparently abducts Louise, Hunt's team giving chase and a shoot-out ensuing. A couple of surprises are revealed before once more Alex sees the disfigured policeman.
- Two loutish policemen, Litton and Bevan, whom Hunt knew in Manchester, turn up on his patch in pursuit of ageing comic Frank Hardwick,who has allegedly robbed the Police Widows Fund. However, when someone takes a pot shot at Frank ,Hunt and his team suspect that the visitors are lying. In fact he has evidence of their corruption and is fleeing for his life. With Frank safe at Luigi's Hunt takes great pleasure in playing the couple off against each other at a police gala.
- Hunt heads a team sent in to quell a prison riot during which station officer Viv James is taken captive by scary lifer Jason Sacks. Sacks' cell-mate Paul Thordy escaped during the riot but is caught. He tells Alex he is Sam Tyler,though he was Sam's last arrest before he died.Ray and Chris pose as journalists going in to interview Sacks and are also taken prisoner by him.Alex does a deal with Thordy,allowing a successful storming of the jail though there is a surprise and a fatality. Jim Keats is useless throughout,his main concern being to get Alex to find out if Hunt killed Tyler. The disfigured man makes another appearance.
- The penultimate episode where the investigation of Gene Hunt is almost at an end, with Alex being pulled in two directions. Jim still wants to know whether Gene had anything to do with Sam Tyler's death, and Alex is best placed to find out everything they need to know so he's leaning hard on her to get the information. Gene and his team are called to an ANC illegal drinking den where things are not as they first appear to be. Initially it's a simple case of a public disorder but things soon take a turn for the worse.
- The question remains - did Gene hunt kill Sam Tyler? Alex needs to know and all is revealed in the final episode. Meanwhile the rest of the team are dealing with a Jewelry robbery and triple homicide: diamonds are missing and the bodies of three gang members have been discovered. Things don't help with Jim Keats stirring up trouble as usual between team members.
- Zak Gist and the young,inexperienced Tom Greening are angels,trained in the law and sent to Earth by their celestial boss Mr Mountjoy to defend the needy and innocent. They arrive in York and room with Mrs Sheringham,who tells them they must not get emotionally involved with their clients but are soon witness to a sniper attack on a wedding party,the wounded numbering Hannah,a woman Zak clearly knows and herself a lawyer. They are charged with defending the man with the rifle,Sean Yearling,sent to prison for drunk driving two years earlier on the evidence of then girlfriend Lucy,who just happens to be the bride.The prosecutor is also somebody known to Zak,Richard Pembroke - literally a fallen angel. Whilst Tom proves that Yearling could not have fired the shots his client's outbursts in court do not help and it is apparent that he is shielding somebody. However,in finding out the truth to get an acquittal it is Zak,who should know better,who is guilty of bending the rules and getting himself involved.
- Gemma Manes,whose teenage son Paul was murdered a year earlier,is charged with the manslaughter of Mark Yalling,a stalker who entered her house. She is considered to be a local heroine and Tom,mystified that Mr Mountjoy wants him and Zak to prosecute and not defend Gemma,quits the case. Then Zak gets evidence to suggest that Gemma suspected Yalling of killing her son and was conducting a different agenda to avenge Paul. Once more he breaks the rules by intervening though this effects a bizarre happy ending. Meanwhile Hannah is intrigued that Zak knows so much about her but Mrs Sheringham,unhappy that Tom is seeing so much of office junior Jude,has the girl transferred.
- Major John Parker asks Zak to represent Private Laura Pearson,charged with attempted desertion after supposedly wounding herself to avoid a tour of duty.Laura's colleague Sophie believes she was stabbed by obnoxious Sergeant Faber for spurning his advances. Zak,with Hannah as his junior, wins his case but not before he has rescued Tom from a minefield and revealed that in a previous life he was the Angel of Mons. Mrs Sheringham,meanwhile,finds romance with her late husband's friend Carl whilst Hannah accepts a date from the handsome major,to Zak's annoyance.
- Brothers Marcus and Felix Hale,who took over their father's engineering business,literally come to blows when Marcus is opposed to a contract to make parts for the army,believing it goes against their father's principles. After a third brother Bruno sees Marcus standing over Felix's corpse a charge of murder is brought,with Tom and Zak defending Marcus,who claims the death was an accident and in court Zak manages to prove the exact reason for Felix's demise.Mrs Sheringham rejects Carl on learning that he is working for Richard to get her to betray her angelic lodgers but Zak finally finds romance with Hannah.
- In the present a young mother called Lara, a descendant of Nathan, is troubled by seeing Gabriel's ghost and travels to Shepzoy to commune with him and persuade him to tell Nathan he forgives him. In 1895 Nathan's increasingly odd behaviour forces Charlotte to take over the management of the farm, dealing with handsome neighbour William Payne, rather to Nathan's annoyance. Lara is the ghostly woman who keeps appearing to Nathan and she aims to ease his grief, appearing to Charlotte and stopping Nathan from killing himself. An unusual object is unearthed on the farm, leading Nathan's employees to tell him they believe that it has caused the recent supernatural events and its discovery will bring them to an end. Gabriel stops troubling his father and it would appear that Nathan has found closure at last - though a séance some thirty years later may suggest otherwise.
- When Nathan Appleby inherits his family estate in 1890s Somerset following the death of his mother, he attempts to use his psychiatric background to cure a disturbed local girl, while learning to cope with running a farm in the age of mechanisation.
- A little boy is disturbed by terrifying visions and Nathan must do everything he can to protect him. But Nathan has been having visions of his own.
- Haunted youngster Peter Hare hears a voice telling him to kill his mother Maud and later imagines seeing a dead woman in the river. When fish die in the mill-pond and the wheat field is threatened by beetles Peter admits that the ghost of Clarity Winlove is inciting him to make a blood sacrifice to ensure a good harvest and whilst Charlotte rescues the crop by smoking out the beetles Peter is still mistrusted in the village. Nathan must then save the lad from his enemies as well as laying the ghost of Clarity. Meanwhile Charlotte has good news of her own.
- Whilst Nathan tries to contact Clarity for the reasons she was haunting Peter Hare Charlotte discovers sabotage on the farm, and Peter's tormentor, the exiled Jack Langtree, is suspect. School-teacher Martha Enderby tells Nathan she is concerned for Alice, a young girl who was about to elope with Langtree and takes Nathan to the woods where he is living, only to find that Alice is dead. When cornered Langtree denies her murder, leading to a surprising confession from Martha which endangers Charlotte, who is now fearful for her unborn child.
- As Nathan is made aware the villagers believe that his presence is attracting ghosts the locals prepare for All Hallows Eve but are nervous as this is the anniversary of a seventeenth century massacre by Roundheads and there are fears that their spirits will return to wreak havoc. Nathan, however, is more concerned with contacting a female ghost - not Clarity - that he has seen and believes is orchestrating the hauntings. At nightfall the villagers, including Charlotte, see the spectral riders in the woods but they appear to disperse after the reverend Denning performs an exorcism but come the morning Charlotte has another cause for concern as Nathan insists on the presence of their dead son Gabriel in the house.