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Season One
The
Mad Woman In The Attic
(A 2-part story)
A woman is murdered on a train and a man is found unconscious by the tracks.
He claims to remember nothing. Reluctantly the police turn to Fitz, who is
busy trying to save his marriage and quit gambling. The pressure begins to
mount as Fitz finds out more about the police's one suspect in the brutal
murder inquiry. Kelly can't help them and they are forced to let him go, but
he agrees to be released into Fitz's care, and more and as more of his past
comes back to him, Fitz realises that the case wasn't as straight forward as
Bilborough thought.
Kelly Adrian Dunbar
Anne Appleby Kika Markham
Simon Appleby Ian Mercer
Hennessy Nicholas Woodeson
Hennessy Snr Don Henderson
Director: Michael Winterbottom
To
Say I Love You
(A 3-part story)
The ever-troubled Fitz finds he has a modern day Bonnie and Clyde to sort
out at the same time as his wife is laying down the conditions upon which
she will return to the marital home. But Fitz has a rival for Judith in the
form of another psychologist, Graham, whom Fitz dislikes with some obvious
intensity. Bonnie and Clyde, in the form of Tina and Sean, dispose of a
dangerous loan shark who has been pestering Tina, and the police begin
interviewing people who knew him. DS Giggs meets Tina, who lures him back to
her flat so that Sean can kill him, as he has become too inquisitive. This
only intensifies matters for Giggs' colleagues, and when Fitz manages to
entrap Tina events move towards an explosive climax. Sean takes Tina's hated
sister, Sammy, hostage in her own home and turns on the gas, not realising
that the heating is on a timer switch that will destroy the whole building
when it comes on. Then Fitz has to go in to try and persuade Sean to give
up. At the same time, there is an unexpected turn in Fitz's relationship
with 'Panhandle', while he himself lives a double life where the chilling
deduction and analysis of murder and murderers bears no resemblance to a
private world that goes from bad to worse. "If I was a house I'd be
condemned," as the man says himself.
Fitz's mother Beryl Reid
Katie Fitzgerald Tess Thomson
Tina Brien Susan Lynch
Mrs Brien Patti Love
Mr Brien Keith Ladd
Sean Kerrigan Andrew Tiernan
Graham David Haig
Sammy Susan Vidler
Judith's father Tim Barlow
Director: Andy Wilson
One
Day A Lemming Will Fly
(A 2-part story)
When a boy goes missing, Fitz and the police are called in to find out what
has happened. Matters are complicated when a crowd, demanding action,
gathers at the police station. Pressure mounts as DCI Bilborough's wife is
about to give birth and he is distracted from his work. The police make an
arrest, but their focus on one man has violent consequences.
Nigel Cassidy Christopher Fulford
Julie Lang Francis Tomelty
Mr Lang Tim Healy
Andy Lang Lee Philip Hartney
Lindsay John Vine
Catriona Bilborough Amelia Bullmore
Leslie Trevyn McDowell
Director: Simon Cellan Jones
Season Two
To
Be A Somebody
(A 3-part story)
After a violent murder, Fitz knows the police are on the wrong track, but he
and Bilborough have yet to resolve their differences. And his relationship
with 'Panhandle' is even worse after he left her standing at the airport. As
the police clutch at straws, Fitz, hell-bent on self-destruction, has to
decide whether to help. Help he does, but Bilborough doesn't like what he
comes up with, that the murderer, Albie Kinsella, is out to avenge the
deaths at Hillsborough football ground by killing an equal number of
policemen. His first target is Bilborough himself, and Albie lures him into
a trap, fatally stabbing him. Albie goes on the run, breaking into a
quarry's explosives store on the way, but Fitz is able to successfully
predict where he will turn up. Albie is arrested and charge, although he
doesn't mention the surprise package he has sent to newspaper reporter Clare
Moody...
Albie Kinsella Robert Carlyle
DC Harriman Colin Tierney
Clare Moody Beth Goddard
Jill Kinsella Tracy Gillman
Catriona Bilborough Isobel Middleton
DCI Wise (intro) Ricky Tomlinson
Chief Superintendent Edward Peel
Director: Tim Fywell
The
Big Crunch
w Ted Whitehead
(A 3-part story)
With the disappearance of a teenage girl, Fitz comes face to face with
the dark side of suburban life, and the complexities of over-enthusiastic
religion. As if things weren't complicated enough, Fitz's wife has left him,
taking half the furniture and their daughter with her. However, he is proved
right when the girl, Joanne, is found alive, in a distressed an incoherent
state. She gradually weakens and later dies in hospital. The boy who saved
her is then arrested by Beck and threatened into signing a confession. Fitz
does a good job in rectifying the matter, but the boy, mentally restricted
and in some confusion, hangs himself in his police cell. Tormented by
another senseless death, Fitz sets out to bring the Trant family to justice,
pursuing them almost to the point of obsession. Panhandle does her best to
help him, and, after an evening in, they decide to spend the night together.
PC Skelton Wilbert Johnson
Kenneth Trant Jim Carter
Virginia Trant Maureen O'Brien
Norma Trant Cherith Mellor
Michael Trant James Fleet
Joanne Barnes Samantha Morton
Dean Saunders Derren Tighe
Mrs Barnes Ellie Haddington
Mr Barnes Roger Sloman
Director: Julian Jarrold
Men
Should Weep
(A 3-part story)
Fitz faces a series of chillingly executed attacks on women. The rapist, a
young mini-cab driver named Floyd, is a particularly arrogant character who
not only turns up at a police reconstruction of one of his earlier attacks,
but also calls up a radio phone-in featuring Fitz to ask how the rapist
should best protect himself against detection. For Fitz and Penhaligon it is
the most stressful case they have worked on and one which changes their
relationship forever. DS Beck is still suffering from the nagging certainty
that he was responsible for the death of Bilborough, and Fitz's wife returns
to their family home with a surprise - she is five months pregnant, and Fitz
is going to be a father again. The police pay a terrible price for failing
to catch Floyd: Penhaligon is raped by a copycat attacker, although this
doesn’t become immediately apparent, and Floyd decides to kill his latest
victim to prevent any unnecessary risk of capture. Fitz exposes the savage
damage of racism as he delves deeper into Floyd's story, once the rapist has
been apprehended. But there is not enough evidence to support Fitz's
theories, and Floyd goes free, only to strike at Fitz's weakest link -
Judith. At the same time, Penhaligon is taking the law into her own hands in
an explosive climax to the season.
Floyd Malcolm Graham Aggrey
Tom Carter John McArdle
PC Skelton Wilbert Johnson
Andrew Wiley Andrew Readman
Deborah Wiley Clare Hackett
Marcia Reid Marianne Jean Baptiste
Catriona Bilborough Isobel Middleton
Director: Jean Stewart
Season Three
Brotherly
Love
w Jimmy McGovern
(A 3-part story)
A prostitute is found raped and murdered, opening old wounds at the
station. Beck returns to work after a breakdown, and tensions rise between
him and Penhaligon. With the main suspect under lock and key, the police are
stunned to uncover two more brutal murders in the space of a few days, and
whilst suffering the distraction of becoming a father again, Fitz has to
cope with a complex case, the tormented Penhaligon, and a far from recovered
Jimmy Beck.
Michael Harvey David Calder
Danny Fitzgerald Clive Russell
David Harvey Mark Lambert
Maggie Harvey Brid Brennan
Denise Fletcher Polly Hemingway
Jean McIlvanney Ruth Sheen
Barney Ron Donachie
Pathologist Paul Copley
Helen McIlvanney Barbara Young
Katie Fitzgerald Tess Thomson
Catriona Bilborough Isobel Middleton
Chief Superintendent Edward Peel
Director: Roy Battersby
Best
Boys
w Paul Abbott
(A 2-part story)
Despite attending his funeral, Fitz finds that Jimmy Beck is still
twisting the knife in his relationship with Penhaligon. While he tries to
come to grips with that, and the difficult time Judith is having with the
new baby, a murder is committed as a result of the strange relationship
between two men, Grady and Danny, one a thirtysomething ex-soldier and the
other a naive teenager who has been bought up by a series of foster parents.
Skelton Wilbert Johnson
Chief Supt Edward Peel
Danny Fitzgerald Clive Russell
Grady Liam Cunningham
Bill John Simm
Aileen (Jimmy's sister) Aisling O'Sullivan
Diane Nash Annette Ekblom
Mrs Franklin Jackie Downey
Mr Franklin David Hill
Pathologist Will Knightly
Gloria Carla Richee
Brian Nash John Langford
Steven Nash Anthony Lewis
Philip Nash Dominic Rigby
Janet Emery Jane Wheldon
Director: Charles McDougall
True
Romance
w Paul Abbott
(A 2-part story)
Now his home life is beginning to settle into something approaching
normality, and he strives to kick the gambling and drinking, Fitz receives
love letters while on a new, relatively minor murder case when a student
becomes obsessed with his motives and methods. Even though the woman,
Janice, is caught after her first three murders, she still brings Fitz as
close as possible to breaking point when she refuses to reveal where Mark
Fitzgerald is being held captive. He is her intended fourth victim, and is
bound hand and foot to the instrument of his impending death, the minutes of
his life ticking away.
Chief Supt Edward Peel
Danny Fitzgerald Clive Russell
Janice Emily Joyce
Irene Jackson Rosemary Martin
Reenie Wise Liz Estensen
Nena Fleur Bennett
Skelton Wilbert Johnson
Special Episode
White
Ghost
w Paul Abbott
(A 1-part double-length story)
While on a lecture tour of Hong Kong, Fitz is called in to investigate
the motives behind the bizarre murder of a high-flying businessman and the
disappearance of a young Chinese girl who was about to abort the child of a
failed English businessman.
DCI Janet Lee Cheung Freda Foh Shen
Dennis Philby Barnaby Kay
Cmdr Gordon Ellison Michael Pennington
Su Lin Rene Liu Jo Ying
Junior Detective David Tse
Detective Lawyer Tom Wu
Catherine Wilson Zoë Hart
Freddie Dennis Chan
Gerald Freeman Mark Hadfield
Doctor Sunny Glen Goei
Wei Wei Pik Sen Lim
Frank Carter David Bradley
Director: Richard Standeven
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