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Season 1



Episode 1
DI Alex Drake is taken hostage and shot, and wakes up in a brothel... in 1981. Rescued in a police raid, she quickly recognises DCI Gene Hunt and his team from detailed reports made by DCI Sam Tyler about his own trip to 1973.

Gene is determined to address London's growing drugs problem, and has targeted city playboy Edward Markham as the brains behind the operation. Alex suspects Arthur Layton, the man who kidnapped her in 2008. Could Layton be the key to her return to her own time?

Episode 2
DCI Hunt is determined to keep a lid on protests against the London Docklands development. When a suspected member of the London Liberation Front is arrested, Alex asks her mother, a lawyer, to defend him. Meanwhile, Prince Charles is marrying Lady Diana Spencer and the in-crowd is partying at the Blitz Club.

Episode 3
Fresh from a successful drugs bust, Gene and the team investigate a prostitute's rape allegation. A dangerous serial attacker may be at large, but the case is hampered by an unreliable witness and the suspect's connections.

Episode 4
CID investigate a murder, and discover a plot to sell stolen nuclear secrets to the Revolutionary Workers Front. When Gene and Alex get trapped in a secret Government facility at Edgehampton, the temperature rises.

Episode 5
Gene and Alex discover that a notorious pimp and drug dealer has a major firearms deal in the pipeline. In an attempt to locate him, the team go undercover in a gay club, and Ray goes beyond the call of duty to get his man.

Episode 6
Gene suspects a renowned criminal of involvement in an armed robbery. The realisation that Chas Cale is too old and ill to have been involved makes Gene wonder whether he is getting past his prime himself. Alex sends Ray and Chris undercover in an attempt to crack the case.

Episode 7
The team investigates the armed robbery of a fundraiser who has been travelling across the country in a bathtub full of baked beans to raise money for Children in Need. Alex thinks that a crime reconstruction on Police Five will do the trick, but Gene prefers some old-fashioned police work.

Episode 8
Alex is determined to prevent the murder of her parents in a car bomb attack. Gene, meanwhile, is determined to give a good impression to a visiting Lord Scarman, but the station is still dealing with the aftermath of a Gay Pride demonstration.

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Season 2



Episode 1
A police officer is found dead in a Soho strip club. Gene suspects that PC Sean Irvine had been corrupted, but Alex is unconvinced, and the team investigates the possibility that Irvine was murdered by another officer.

Episode 2
Gene is accused of causing the death, by dangerous driving, of a known car thief. The team discovers evidence that Wicklow, a Romany gypsy, had been given sleeping pills and that the car he was driving had been tampered with, but members of the close-knit Romany community prove uncooperative.

Episode 3
Animal-rights activists launch a new terror campaign, and a 10-year-old girl is injured in a petrol-bomb attack. Alex, interviewing a jailed animal-rights campaigner, becomes convinced that he knows about the campaign, and that he holds the key to her time-travel predicament.

Episode 4
A journalist calls on Gene to ask for his help in tracing her missing teenaged niece, and to tell him that he is going to be a father. Shaz goes undercover to investigate the disappearance of a number of young women from the north. Gene discovers that Supermac has connections with their prime suspect.

Episode 5
With the reputation of the Met at a new low, the team investigates a violent robbery at the home of Alex's future husband, prompting unpleasant memories. The fingerprints of a supposedly dead gangster are found at the scene, but Alex suspects the Drakes' neighbour of involvement.

Episode 6
A body is discovered floating in a canal, and the evidence points to murder. Gene and Alex investigate the connection between the dead man and a loan shark. Alex becomes convinced that events in 2008 are about to bring her sojourn in the 1980s to an end.

Episode 7
CID discover the body of a Polish workman buried in the foundations of a docklands building site, but the site owner proves obstructive. When vital evidence goes missing, Gene becomes convinced that one of the team is responsible, and sets a trap.

Episode 8
Gene and the team investigate the brutal murder of a police informant. When they receive a tip-off that a group of rogue police officers, aware of a planned bullion heist, intend to trap the thieves and make off with the gold themselves, the stakes have never been higher. Gene finds himself attracted to a key witness and at odds with Alex, whose behaviour is becoming increasingly bizarre.

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