Bergerac
Recovering alcoholic and divorced father of a young daughter, DS Jim Bergerac is a true maverick who prefers doing things his own way, and consequently doesn't always carry out his investigations the way his boss would like.
Cast:John Nettles , Terence Alexander , Sean Arnold , Mela White , Louise Jameson , David Kershaw , John Telfer , Nancy Mansfield , Deborah Grant , Annette Badland , Geoffrey Leesley , Jolyon Baker , Lindsay Heath , Cécile Paoli , Thérèse Liotard , Tony Melody , Celia Imrie , Jonathan Adams
S1.E1 ∙ Picking It Up
Recovering alcoholic Jim Bergerac, a sergeant in the Jersey police force, returns to the island after a period of absence during which he has recovered from injuries sustained on the job. Nonetheless he is not considered fit enough to join the newly-formed Bureau Des Etrangers, headed by Inspector Crozier. Thus Jim does some unofficial sleuthing into the death of colleague Tom Draycott, and, helped by Draycott's girlfriend, artist Francine, uncovers a plot to sell arms to South Africa. His success in catching the culprit leads to his being accepted into the bureau though he still has to contend with the reluctance of his ex-wife Deborah, daughter of shady millionaire Charlie Hungerford, to see their daughter Kim.
S1.E2 ∙ Nice People Die in Bed
Now renting a cottage from Francine, Jim is called in when charity director Sir Edward Lister dies in a Jersey hotel and the pathologist claims the body was moved onto the bed after death. After the room is ransacked, Jim apprehends two journalists who were trying to find a document which Lister had prepared to expose a charity fraud. However, thanks to a fellow attendee at Alcoholics Anonymous, Jim learns that both Sir Edward and his assistant, a young vicar, had secrets that they did not want to be exposed.
S1.E3 ∙ Unlucky Dip
Jim shadows drug courier Raymond Dumoitier from Paris to Jersey but on arrest he is clean, having lost the drugs - to the annoyance of his boss, ex-racing driver Bobby Carnegie, who beats him up. Dumoitier, however, claims Jim assaulted him, leading to his suspension. Jim learns from a friend of Charlie's that her son Simon picked the drug mule's pocket and is now selling his wares around the island. When Carnegie's men grab Simon Jim gets the chance to clear his name.
S1.E4 ∙ Campaign for Silence
Hard-up former military man Furneaux is working on a book about his experiences as a prisoner in the Korean war, when his young ghost writer is killed and the manuscript stolen, after which Furneaux gets a threatening call not to publish the book. After he has been framed for a hit-and-run it becomes clear that his book exposes a recently-deceased supposed war hero who was, in fact, a murderer, and that the man's son and his regiment will stop at nothing to prevent publication, including drafting in an assassin.
S1.E5 ∙ See You in Moscow
Civil servant Margaret Semple, in fact a Soviet spy, gets a call telling her that MI6 are onto her and she must leave London for Jersey, where a boat will take her to France on her way to Russia. Arriving on the island she attracts attention when she goes on the run after accidentally killing her boat-man as she refuses to go on without her lover Grigori. By the time Grigori arrives he has orders to dispose of Margaret, who has become a liability and Jim must get to her first.
S1.E6 ∙ Portrait of Yesterday
On the eve of Sarah and Laurence Mitchell's daughter Felicity's wedding the church is broken into and a register stolen by the driver of a white Mercedes. He is in fact the man whom Sarah, years earlier as a Czech refugee, married to obtain a British passport and from whom she was never divorced. When he sets out to blackmail her she tells Laurence, who takes the law into his own hands.
S1.E7 ∙ Last Chance for a Loser
Several wealthy residents including Charlie are the victims of some extremely well-informed burglars. All are members of the golf club and the burglars' informant is Eddie St. Pierre, a former golf professional, now reduced to giving lessons. When Eddie meets up with an old flame whose millionaire husband is away on business, Jim sets a trap for the burglars, but nobody shows up. Has Eddie outwitted him?
S1.E8 ∙ Late for a Funeral
Diver Terry Castleford is murdered after finding the skeleton of Luftwaffe pilot Karl Scheringer in his aircraft, which crashed into the sea in World War Two. Karl's parents arrive to collect his remains, followed by two German men whom the mother recognizes and who are extremely keen for Charlie's salvage firm to raise the plane. Club owner Ronnie Bishop and ex-Battle of Britain pilot Tuchel are also interested in it, leading Jim to believe that there was something of great value in the crashed aircraft along with the pilot's corpse.
S1.E9 ∙ Relative Values
When wealthy recluse Henry Bernard is taken ill with food poisoning, his estranged son Philip flies in from London, voicing concern that Lisa, the faithful housekeeper, tried to kill him, though Jim is not convinced. Henry later dies, due to a supposedly accidental gas leak, leaving everything to Lisa, strengthening Philip's accusations. Lisa is duly arrested but she has been keeping a secret for many years, which changes everything and leads to the apprehension of the real killer.
S1.E10 ∙ The Hood and the Harlequin
When Annie Escale, fiancée of notorious French gangster Jacques Tabouis, turns up on Jersey, Jim determines to follow her in the hopes that she will lead him to Tabouis, but the man whom she meets in the night club and is found dead after giving Jim the slip is somebody completely different. At the same time Jim is not happy that Francine, for some time his live-in girlfriend, is spending so much time with a charming Canadian photographer whom she met on the ferry - and he has every right, for this man is not who he claims to be.
S2.E1 ∙ A Message for the Rich
Mrs. Honeyman and her son Eric, disgruntled ex-employees of Charlie, are caught stealing a necklace from his safe by Jim's young daughter Kim, whom they take with them onto their boat, hoping to escape to France. When the boat breaks down they ring Charlie to demand a ransom. Charlie disagrees with Jim about police involvement and drives off with the ransom money. Fortunately Jim has him followed.
S2.E2 ∙ Always Leave Them Laughing
Comedian Andy Galbraith and Charlie are on the judging panel of a local beauty contest, after which beaten finalist Christine Bolton accuses Andy of attempted rape. Everything points to the charge being trumped up by a sore loser, whose ex-boyfriend also arrives to put the financial screws on Andy. The appearance of Andy's neglected wife finally helps Jim to get at the truth.
S2.E3 ∙ Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
Charlie's attempt to enter local politics is blighted when Donald Early, an old flame of hotelier Diamante Lil who Charlie crossed some years previously, threatens to expose a secret from his past. Charlie is in the frame when Early is murdered, though the killer is part of the entourage of shady American businessman Eugene Field, who is on Jersey to do dubious business. Marianne Bellshade, the businesswoman leasing Field his villa, is in danger when she helps Bergerac but ends up as the sergeant's girlfriend.
S2.E4 ∙ Prime Target
Jim is sent to France to help solve the murder of an unidentified Jersey resident. He turns out to have been Jack Moberley, a private eye, who was trailing eccentric lawyer Lionel Carteret on behalf of his family. Lionel has plans to marry a countess, whose house has been repossessed by the local casino, due to her late husband's gambling debts. When a gun is found in her bedroom it would seem that she killed Moberley, but there are other suspects, including Lionel and his family and the casino owner.
S2.E5 ∙ Almost Like a Holiday
Whilst staying at Diamante Lil's hotel with his wife Eva, inveterate liar Vincent Parkin is mugged by a young crook called Mitch but refuses to finger him at the identity parade. Mitch is involved with ex-con Frank and his glamorous barrister lady-friend Felicity in a plan to rob a safe of a cache of diamonds. After Vincent's lies are exposed at a party thrown to give him a free holiday after his ordeal, Jim suspects that this seemingly harmless old man is also part of the gang.
S2.E6 ∙ Fall of a Birdman
Portuguese stuntman Antonio is killed in an apparent hang-gliding accident though the pathologist claims he was strangled. A dental appointment card is found by the body and, though dentist Paul Verrier denies all knowledge, his patient, rock climber Jean-Pierre, comes to tell him he killed Antonio in self-defence. The dentist and the climber are engaged in stealing rare falcons nesting on the cliff and Antonio surprised Jean-Pierre as he was about to take one. After Jean-Pierre has killed again, Jim finds himself halfway down a cliff with him.
S2.E7 ∙ A Miracle Every Week
Guileless young Indian faith healer Ravi Chavan, a money-spinner for the New Dawn Foundation, run by greedy Barry Hardaker, comes to Jersey to ask the foundation's accountant Ivor Wyatt to see that the money he has earned for the foundation goes to Indian charities. Ravi is unaware that Wyatt and Hardaker and his wife have embezzled funds and, rather than allow Ravi to find out, they have brought over a hit-man from France to silence him. Jim has to stop them.
S2.E8 ∙ A Perfect Recapture
Inspector West arrives in Jersey in pursuit of escaped prisoner Keith Prescott, who, a decade earlier, hacked into police computers and stole two million pounds. The presence of Keith's ex-wife Catherine and the landing of a mysterious plane suggest he is on the island and seeking plastic surgery from a doctor Lister. West arrests a man who answers Prescott's description but Bergerac comes to work out that more than one person could be on the island requesting Dr. Lister's services.
S2.E9 ∙ The Moonlight Girls
The morning after Simone, a Belgian stable girl, is found dead on a beach, Marianne identifies her as an escort girl whom she saw at a bankers' convention. Bryony Green, the stable owner, is initially unhelpful but later admits that she is one of several people who agreed for money to nominally employ the girls, who are in fact part of a call-girl ring. Simone's friend Nikki, who saw her die unintentionally at the hands of a man who liked rough stuff, has gone into hiding but Jim persuades her to help him set a trap for Simone's killer.
S3.E1 ∙ Ninety Per Cent Proof
During a court case in which he is trying to prove that Jerry LeFevre burnt down the Bishops Rock Hotel for the insurance, Jim is approached by glamorous Irene Maybank, who says her husband is trying to kill her. Next day Crozier gets a call from a very drunk Jim, stating that Irene has been murdered, However, with Deborah's help, Jim uncovers a plot, using an actress and a cleverly-doctored tape recording, to discredit him and lose the case against LeFevre.
S3.E2 ∙ A Hole in the Bucket
Drug addict Terri Fuller arrives on Jersey with policewoman Liz Phillips under the witness protection scheme, as she is to testify against her gangster boyfriend Webster. Only Jim and Liz know her whereabouts but a call to London to the journalist paying her for her story puts her in the sights of her pursuers - men with guns. Jim foils an attempt to snatch her but that is not the end of the matter.
S3.E3 ∙ Holiday Snaps
Whilst Jersey couple Tony and Janet Morel are staying at a French camp-site Janet is murdered, requiring Jim to liaise with the French police. A local found with some of Janet's possessions is arrested but Jim learns that Janet was a domineering wife and Tony is the subject of a hate campaign by local youths. Kim tells Jim that Tony was also a voyeur, who took secret pictures of young girls. Certainly he is an obsessive photographer and his photo albums hold the key to both Janet's murder and one at the same camp site some years earlier.
S3.E4 ∙ Ice Maiden
Philippa Vale is a lady with a reputation as a jewel thief so that, when she comes to Jersey on the eve of George Thomas's private auction of a diamond worth a quarter of a million pounds, Jim is on his guard. Despite warnings George goes ahead with the auction, during which a power cut blows all the lights after which the diamond has gone. Though George's wife can explain what has happened, it would seem that Philippa was after an altogether different booty - but can Jim prove it?
S3.E5 ∙ Come Out Fighting
Boxer Eddie McCord comes to Jersey to challenge arrogant Frenchman Jacques Laronde for the middleweight title. Eddie and his wife Donna are black and are subject to racial abuse by local thugs, in addition to which a clumsy attempt is made to frame Eddie for theft. But when Donna is kidnapped, is this still the work of bigots, or of Lacorde trying to weaken his opponent, or is there a third explanation? Jim has to find out.
S3.E6 ∙ A Touch of Eastern Promise
Charlie invites Arab businessman Zaki Mansoor to invest in his all-weather leisure complex, not knowing that Zaki's government are aware of his illegal transactions and have asked his colleague Adnan Rashid to persuade him to leave Jersey. Instead Adnan agrees to front the deal on Zaki's behalf. Jim is asked to provide protection after attempts on Zaki's life but when Zaki kills an assassin sent by Adnan and Kim is endangered, he realizes that Zaki is lethally capable of protecting himself.
S3.E7 ∙ A Cry in the Night
At a party given on his boat by former rock drummer Boy Buckley, Rupert Galliers and his wife Emerald fall overboard and Rupert is pronounced dead whilst Emerald is in a coma. Jim learns that Galliers was heavily in debt, had caused a company to go bankrupt, imported cocaine and was unfaithful. This leads to the conclusion that one of the party-goers had cause to murder him. Jim must find out which one.
S3.E8 ∙ The Company You Keep
Two London burglars, Cook and Langdon, are targeting the homes of Jersey residents, their accomplice being thrill-seeking Angela Marshall, sister-in-law of one of the victims, who tips them off when the owners will be out. Angela is married but having a fling with Cook and loving every minute of it. However it looks as if her fondness for living dangerously will end in disaster for her and her felonious friends when she gets just that little bit too clever.
S3.E9 ∙ Tug of War
Ex-convict Jack Broughton snatches his young son from ex-wife Pam and takes him to Jersey, where he collects his share of the loot from Julian West, who master-minded the bank job for which Jack served time. Befriended by sympathetic divorcée Marie, the pair go on the run when Pam and new husband Ken arrive and call in the police. Ken catches up with Jack on a lonely cliff top but is he merely a concerned partner or does he have his own reasons for following Jack?
S3.E10 ∙ House Guests
Financier Sir Gervase Ewell invites a clutch of international bankers to a conference at his house but, due to the connivance of his idealistic daughter Fleur, three terrorists break in to rob the delegates. Jim, investigating after a man is shot, is also taken hostage with the others whilst Ewell raises the money. Fortunately he is able to call the intruders' bluff - much helped by the greed of one of then.
S4.E1 ∙ The Last Interview
Television journalist Arlene Roskin comes from New York to interview Howard Bailey, a reclusive, retired television interviewer with particular interest in an interview he had with a former Mafia boss Abbalini, who squealed on his associates. Arlene is followed by a mystery man who robs her hotel room looking for that taped interview and efforts are made to blackmail Bailey into keeping quiet. Then Jim receives an interesting piece of news to suggest that Arlene is an impostor, who will do anything to get at Abbalini - but not for the reasons she is claiming.
S4.E2 ∙ Off Shore Trades
Jim's date with new girlfriend, estate agent Susan Young, is interrupted when he is called in to investigate the death of young scuba driver Jacques Laval, whom the pathologist believes was murdered. Jim finds evidence that Jacques was smuggling in heroin with another diver. At the same time Moira Montauban, trophy wife of an arrogant French film star, disappears. When Jim catches up with her he finds she has made a new life for herself - but unfortunately, it is with the chief suspect.
S4.E3 ∙ What Dreams May Come?
Photographer Jerry Grant throws himself in front of a car and dies raving in hospital. Jim learns that he worked for a newspaper and had befriended Helene Duvall in order to gain entry to a black magic coven headed by occult writer Bart Bellow. Jim is initially sceptical, but when a neighbour of Bellow's dies mysteriously having released sacrificial animals, realises that he must take the matter very seriously. Helene offers to help but this places her in danger with Bellow and Jim must race to save her.
S4.E4 ∙ Low Profile
Looking for sunken treasure, the Deep Gold diving expedition makes the mistake of trying to scam crooked property developer B. J. Farrell into financing their supposed finds and end up having to leave Jersey. Jim, however, is more interested in why Farrell is visiting Miss Broome, a drunken recluse, with whom he would seem to have no connection. In fact she is his mother but she is being used by a rival of her son to draw him into a trap, which Jim must prevent.
S4.E5 ∙ Return of the Ice Maiden
Philippa Vale returns to the island to recover the stolen diamonds she hid underwater on her last visit, unaware that Jim had anticipated their hiding place and recovered them. Her presence attracts the arrival of a criminal gang and a bent copper, in whose capture Philippa ends up by assisting Jim.
S4.E6 ∙ Chrissie
A trio of young punks are snatching handbags around the island, their victims including fashion designers Simone and Paul Demoins, whose latest sketches are stolen. Louis, the least cold-hearted of the three robbers, befriends teenaged runaway Chrissie, who has come to Jersey to look for an aunt and who is the nanny to the Demoins' neglected little girl Michelle. Whilst Paul and Simone are in Paris, Chrissie and Michelle go on the run with Louis. Jim tracks them down but there is no happy ending.
S4.E7 ∙ The Tennis Racket
When temperamental tennis star Rory O'Brien comes to play in Charlie's charity match, accompanied by manager McKennon and brother Frankie, Frankie asks Jim to give Rory police protection, shortly after which Rory is the victim of a hit-and-run. On the face of it somebody seems determined to stop him from taking part in the match but why are two shadowy men interested in a tennis racket Rory gave to Deborah, and how is a sweet old lady whose mother was a tennis champion innocently involved? Jim must find out.
S4.E8 ∙ Sins of the Fathers
Piggish German actor Henry Hoffman antagonizes everybody on set whilst making a film about Jersey's occupation by the Nazis, a fact which adds to local hostility and to the list of suspects when Hoffman receives death threats. Further complications are provided by the fact that Hoffman's father, a Wehrmacht officer, was executed by firing squad during the war for raping an islander who is still alive and whose family may be seeking revenge. Thus when Hoffman is blown up at sea Jim is left with no end of potential murderers.
S4.E9 ∙ Avenge O Lord
Jim feels exploited when MP Geoffrey Newton asks him to catch would-be assassin Mick Davies, who is threatening to disrupt the government's trade deal with Ahmed, a former terrorist who massacred Mick's Arab friends but is now a leading politician in his own Middle East country. Arms dealer Nigel Ripley, supplier of the guns for the massacre, also receives Mick's calling card, 'Avenge O Lord'. Jim encounters Mick, who spares him, but can a by-the-book cop outwit a seasoned commando?
S4.E10 ∙ Fires in the Fall
Jim investigates when Charlie expresses concern at the influence supposed medium Raoul Barnaby has over elderly Mrs. Jardine with his story that he was contacted by the spirit of a little girl who died in a fire twenty years earlier. Jim finds that she was accidentally killed by Mrs. Jardine's son, who then committed suicide out of remorse but Plemont, the detective in charge, hushed matters up. After Mrs. Jardine has accused Barnaby of being a fraud, her niece Pauline, who is in league with Barnaby to rook the old lady, pushes her aunt downstairs. Following Mrs. Jardine's funeral a ghostly hooded monk appears to Plemont, who is later found dead. The monk exacts retribution once more before Jim discovers his identity - though even then there will be room for - supernatural - doubt.
S5.E1 ∙ The Memory Man
After a man is found wandering Jersey nude and suffering from memory loss, Susan's eccentric aunt, yachtswoman Belle is asked to make a no questions asked trip to France but refuses. Jim discovers that the mystery man, Smythe, has actually murdered his wife, though Smythe genuinely cannot recall it. His friends, however, are extremely dangerous and will stop at nothing to get him off the island. Jim calls on Belle's help to stop them.
S5.E2 ∙ Winner Takes All
Grumpy software designer Jarvis McLeod receives death threats through his computer and his wife Monica's dog is poisoned. Then the speaker deputising for him at a conference is blown up. McLeod is not popular but the chief suspect seems to be John Logan, the embittered ex-partner in his business - though he has an alibi. Bergerac wonders if McLeod is actually behind the so-called death threats. Certainly the culprit seems to be somebody close to home.
S5.E3 ∙ Root and Branch
Deborah is being stalked and receiving sinister phone calls. The culprit is Sydney Sterrat, whom Jim had sent down for six years for arson, during which time his wife committed suicide. Believing that Jim is still married to Deborah, Sterrat sets out to get revenge, holding her, Kim and Charlie at gun-point in Charlie's house. Jim sets out to rescue them all on his own.
S5.E4 ∙ A Desirable Little Residence
Susan is selling Carol Miles's late grandmother's bungalow but she cannot understand why shady builder Nick McVie, camp mainlander Toby Newsom and surly young Kirk Barnett are all so eager to pay tens of thousands of pounds over the asking price. Is it because they believe that stolen jewels never recovered are buried in the ground over which the property is built? Or is it connected to the development plans Charlie has for the adjacent land? Either way one of the potential buyers is an obsessive, with a secret, and that places Susan in great danger.
S5.E5 ∙ The Deadly Virus
Three well-meaning animal rights activists, including Kim's boyfriend Kevin, liberate three monkeys from Gaines' research unit, unaware that one has the deadly Marburg virus. It bites Kevin and also attacks a holidaying couple. Jim and his team must hunt the animals down without putting the whole of the island in a panic but after Kevin dies and the monkeys are caught, one of the activists, possibly infected herself, goes on the run.
S5.E6 ∙ S.P.A.R.T.A.
Philippa Vale approaches Jim after being threatened by a thug who claims she has a notebook listing the members of S.P.A.R.T.A, an ultra-right wing organization though Philippa denies all knowledge. She does, however, recall robbing industrialist Sir Clive Hamer of a diamond choker some months earlier and deduces that he is the group's leader. When she sets out to find out more from Sir Clive without telling Jim, she lands herself in hot water from which Jim has to save her, but fortunately they have a valuable ally in Hamer's wife.
S5.E7 ∙ Thanks for Everything
Shortly after womanizing financier Peter Hughes has disappeared, along with seventy thousand pounds from his firm, French Inspector Dupont asks Jim to identify a body in France, that of Jean Pichet. Pichet would appear to be Hughes, keeping two wives who know nothing of each other. But when the corpse is identified as that of a third person again, Jim and Inspector Dupont have cause to wonder why their man has the need to do a disappearing act.
S5.E8 ∙ Poison
Alec Price dies after drinking poisoned wine whilst being received into the local Masonic Lodge. At his wake another mason dies, seemingly a random victim, having eaten a poisoned cake. Jim learns that the lodge were raising money to build a community hospital on the island but the funds have disappeared. Jim knows that the killer was one of the other masons but the culprit's motives turn out to be very strange indeed. The case solved, Jim is reunited with Susan, who, fed up at being neglected because of his work commitments, has had an affair with another man.
S5.E9 ∙ Treasure Hunt
Tony Bragg, suspected fence in a huge diamond heist is pushed to his death from his London flat. Bragg had visited Jersey some while earlier and Scotland Yard ask for Jim's help. Then Philippa Vale arrives on the island with Bragg's associate Ormond, who is also killed. Philippa tells Jim that Ormond asked her to rob three local worthies, one of whom double-crossed Bragg and stole the diamonds. As the pair of them work outside the law to locate the culprit - who also murdered Ormond - they find that nobody can be trusted.
S6.E1 ∙ Whatever Lola Wants
Supergrass Reggie Betts arrives in Jersey with his domineering mother Lola to escape the wrath of fellow criminals anxious to locate a cache of stolen diamonds. They are followed by Joey Brown, whom Reggie double-crossed, and his men, and Jim is assigned to be Lola's minder until the police recover the jewels. Lola knows the stay on Jersey will not be forever and has plans of her own, including dating Charlie and selling Reggie out for a cut of the diamonds. By the time Jim has caught the villains and found the diamonds he has been dumped by Susan, who feels he puts the job above their relationship.
S6.E2 ∙ Crossed Swords
At an open day at their fencing school the Lefevre brothers are accused by Paul Rousillon of stealing his ancestors' swords. The families have been involved in a long-standing feud, not helped by Paul's cousin Marianne's marriage to Jack Lefevre, and Paul is found murdered after fighting a duel with Jack. There are other suspects, including Dolly Hayward, who has reasons for Rousillon not buying her hotel, and Jack's hot-tempered younger brother Alain. Jim catches the killer, getting injured in the process, which at least brings Susan back into his life to console him.
S6.E3 ∙ A Horse of a Different Colour
Valuable stud horse Crimson Cavalier is stolen from unpopular breeder Chester Ackerman and a ransom note for three million pounds delivered. Jim suspects that another stable owner, Miles Cockburn, in debt to Ackerman, has taken the horse and passed him off as his brother to win a prestigious race, and the fact that Ackerman's stable lad and Cockburn's stable girl are a couple adds to the list of suspects. Phillipa Vale, released from prison, returns to Jersey and follows her own investigation, helping Jim to recover Crimson Cavalier, as well as being an unlikely go-between for him and Susan.
S6.E4 ∙ Burnt
Jim is appointed to liaise with a DTI team investigating crooked financier Sir Anthony Villiers, who has fled the London press to arrive at his Jersey home. Villiers clearly has something to hide, destroying his computer and accusing his aide of leaking information to the papers. Jim follows him to Sark, where he meets pig farmer Anne Granger, who proves to be an excellent ally in beating Villiers at his own game.
S6.E5 ∙ The Sin of Forgiveness
Jim agrees to unofficially help Nazi hunter and concentration camp survivor Aaron Rosenbaum track down the man who killed his family at Treblinka and who now lives on Jersey. The island is holding its first music festival, sponsored by wealthy George Draycott, whom Jim identifies as being the former Nazi guard and when Crozier forbids Jim from taking the matter any further, Draycott's daughter Anna, having recently learned of his past, steps in to help Aaron secure justice.
S6.E6 ∙ A Man of Sorrows
When a secret operation Crozier is conducting with Scotland Yard goes wrong and a drugs courier is murdered, Jim is sent to London to work with melancholy Sergeant Alan Hallowes, though he has no idea what he is doing there. However, it would appear that Hallowes is a rogue cop, who stole the heroin he was meant to hand over to feed his own habit and Jim's job is to expose him, whilst it also looks as if Crozier has gone over to the bad guys. All is revealed at a midnight rendezvous, though the result leaves a bitter taste for Jim.
S6.E7 ∙ Private Fight
Blackmailer Peter Retford phones Susan's client Harry Johnson and Charlie to 'remind' them of past financial discrepancies and, after Charlie is forced off the road and one of Retford's heavies is hospitalised due to Harry, Jim investigates. However he is suspended after being tricked into appearing drunk. This makes Charlie confide in him how he once fixed a building contract and, with things in the open, Charlie agrees, along with Harry, to help Jim trap Retford.
S6.E8 ∙ Retirement Plan
Jim is summoned from Jersey to spend Christmas on the Costa Del Sol where a pair of small-time British crooks have tried to muscle in on Charlie's latest business venture. When Jim gets involved he finds himself in the middle of a local gang war whilst back on Jersey a group of French thieves are causing havoc and Susan's life is put in danger.
S7.E1 ∙ Sea Changes
A dead sailor is found floating alongside a barrel of chemicals traced to a Spanish factory, though other barrels are missing from the cargo. The Moroccan shipping importer, who shares an office building with Susan, disappears - as do several English girls, all of whom were last seen with a man called Alex. Ambitious policewoman Maria Duvane defies Jim by acting as bait to catch Alex, who is also involved in the transportation of chemical waste.
S7.E2 ∙ Natural Enemies
Charlie calls Jim in after he receives sinister phone calls and a newspaper cutting implying he was responsible for an old woman's death. Jim suspects arsonist Jacky Cook, a girl in care, who is on holiday in Jersey with other London delinquents and their case worker Ruth Gardiner. Jacky is involved with a local boy whose father hates the incomers but why should she want to harass Charlie? Susan, meanwhile, helps Charlie to beat two American bunco artists at their own game.
S7.E3 ∙ Tangos in the Night
Lady Trowbridge's diamonds are stolen following a visit from Rita Smith, her rival in the upcoming tango contest. Jim suspects her Ladyship's dance teacher Pepe Mendoza, especially when he turns out to be from Liverpool and not Spain. However it seems that the worlds of dance and Jersey society are equally as cut and thrust and some competitors will stop at nothing to be on top. Fortunately events lead to a real partnership.
S7.E4 ∙ The Other Woman
After playwright Graham Hawkesworth has been found murdered, his widow Bonnie tells Jim she is certain he had a mistress, but no-one can identify the other woman. Jim learns that Bonnie was also unfaithful. Susan becomes a suspect through her acquaintance with the dead man and evidence starts to build against her. Convinced of her innocence Jim knows that either somebody is trying to frame her or that Graham had fantasized about her as his girl-friend. Whatever the motive she is in danger and Jim has to protect her.
S7.E5 ∙ Weekend Off
Jim's weekend plans are spoilt when he is asked to look after a valuable hostage negotiator Anton Charet, though he is soon aware that his charge is a police decoy as the real Charet has been kidnapped in London. Jim travels to England and visits ex-wife Deborah, an old flame of the kidnapped man. Her subsequent information leads Jim into a hostage situation of his own ending in double-cross.
S7.E6 ∙ When Did You Last See Your Father?
A dancer is robbed in her cabin on the ferry coming over to Jersey and Bergerac has two suspects on his hands, from very different backgrounds.
S7.E7 ∙ Old Acquaintance
Former Olympic medallist Peter Jason is threatened, to prevent him exposing the use of steroids in sport and arrives in Jersey to hide out with his old flame Philippa Vale. Heavies follow to keep him quiet and accidentally abduct Susan, believing her to be Philippa, to divulge Peter's whereabouts. Jim and Philippa team up to rescue her, at the same time uncovering an illegal gambling ring.
S7.E8 ∙ Trenchard's Last Case
Retired Chief Superintendant Trenchard arrives in Jersey, supposedly for the fishing. However he makes it his business to harass local philanthropist Olly Sutton, whom he is convinced was behind the robbery four years earlier which paralyzed a colleague and whom he goads into action. Having helped Trenchard secure justice, Jim, disillusioned after Crozier's promotion to the mainland and feeling his relationship with Susan is dead, borrows Charlie's boat to take a sabbatical year off.
S7.E9 ∙ Second Time Around
David Mason murders Ted Grob by throwing him into a swimming pool, handcuffed to a patio recliner. Jim returns to duty to solve the murder and is asked by an ex-con who believes he was framed to go back over the details of the robbery of a courier company some years earlier which has a connection with the recent death.
S8.E1 ∙ A True Detective
Jim returns early from his voyage and stays with Charlie, who is getting ready to go to a trade convention. Susan is also due to attend but never gets there, her body being found next morning washed up on a beach. The pathologist suggests she was murdered. Crozier, recalled from head-quarters, arrests surly doorman Withers, the last person to see her alive and who bore Jim a grudge. Jim is more interested in John Tetteh, a West African delegate anxious to meet Susan. He is investigating a fraud perpetrated by his government and Susan's company, behind her back. Exposure of the fraudster will solve the murder.
S8.E2 ∙ My Name's Sergeant Bergerac
Shlomo Denkovitz, an incompetent fraudster, claims to be Jim whilst working as a private eye for his uncle, in pursuit of Giles Grey, a charmer who rooks wealthy widows. Chased by two criminals whose forged identity papers he has forged but mislaid, he has to be rescued by Jim whilst Charlie's friend Eva sets a honey-trap to catch Giles. In addition the drugs squad has unceremoniously taken over the bureau for a stake-out on the island - one way and another it seems unlikely that Jim will get the night's rest he badly needs.
S8.E3 ∙ The Dig
Locals are hostile when a party of archaeologists embark on a dig with eccentric blacksmith predicting doom at disturbing a supposedly sacred site. Then one of the group is mysteriously attacked and another falls to her death from a cliff. Charlie also succumbs to the myth when he collapses at home but Jim is cynical. However, even he is taken by the surprise when the dig's leader Carol unearths what she is looking for.
S8.E4 ∙ Roots of Evil
Seemingly respectable widower Nigel Carter is threatened by two armed bogus policemen but his evasive response leads Jim to believe he is holding something back. Years earlier his daughter Joanna was kidnapped in Beirut and Jim suspects that threat of another kidnap is being used to force him into action on behalf of past criminal associates. The two intruders threaten to expose a guilty secret unless they are paid off or else Joanna will be taken again. Jim must prevent it and identify who exactly the gunmen are.
S8.E5 ∙ Entente Cordiale
Michel Carbonnier, a French private detective, is found murdered in Charlie's house, leading Jim to the dead man's native village St. Armand in Provence. Here he learns that Carbonnier had recently come into a lot of money and had been hired by Danielle Aubry to investigate the suspicious death of her husband. Having deduced that Carbonnier was blackmailing the killer of Danielle's husband he solves both murders, as well - with help from Charlie - as uncovering a local wine production scam.
S8.E6 ∙ In Love and War
Former South African resident and ANC sympathizer Karen Markham agrees to shelter black fugitive Roland, who has shot a white supremacist policeman in Pretoria, until a boat comes for him. A local businessman, keen to trade with the South African government, sends for an Afrikaan policeman who tricks Charlie into betraying Karen. The result is a shoot-out, which does not endear Jim to Danielle's father.
S8.E7 ∙ Under Wraps
Disaffected lab assistants Julie and Richard steal nerve gas from a research facility in Wiltshire and bring it to terminally ill Dr. Whittaker on Jersey. He threatens to release it unless he gets a million pounds from Sir Matthew Osterson, a former scientist whom he blames for his illness. Whittaker only wants what he considers his due but the young couple get greedy - and that helps Jim to catch them.
S8.E8 ∙ All the Sad Songs
Jim befriends former pop idol Tony Hubbard, now singing at a local night club. The first night audience includes Dawn Gray, Tony's old flame and ex-singing partner whose surly husband Nick is less than enchanted by Tony's presence as the erstwhile duo still seem to have feelings for each other. Then Tony is found shot dead. Is he the victim of a jealous spouse or did he stumble upon something illegal at the club? Having solved the case Jim is joined on Jersey by Danielle, who has been disowned by her father.
S8.E9 ∙ The Messenger Boy
It's a different kind of case for Jim as he goes to London on a private investigation into the kidnap of his ex-wife, Debbie, at the request of his father-in-law Charlie Hungerford.
S8.E10 ∙ Diplomatic Incident
With less than a month's service before he quits the bureau, Jim is recalled from his French holiday to help protect Per Wemstrom, a political economist whose enemies wish to stop him from attending a conference in support of Russian economic growth. Wemstrom survives an assassination attempt, after which Gillis, his male secretary, disappears, causing Jim to suspect his involvement. And what of the American, Colley, supposedly advising Danielle on viticulture but overly interested in Jim's work? Before he can retire to France, Jim must find who is out to kill Wemstrom.
S8.E11 ∙ There for the Picking
Jim is now at the vineyard and it is grape-picking time. One of the young casual workers is English boy Roderick. However, he is also a computer hacking genius who is able to transfer 90% of the previous day's takings on the Tokyo stock exchange into his own account. The son of the wealthy Hargreaves, he also targets Charlie and other Jersey residents. In addition to Roderick's activities Jim is recalled to the island when a consignment of hand grenades is discovered in a cargo of whiskey and a French connection is suspected.
S9.E1 ∙ Something to Hide
Jim has quit the force to live and work with Danielle at the vineyard. They attend a fashion show in Aix staged by her cousin Alain, after which one of Alain's best customers, Etienne, is shot dead and Alain is framed. His girlfriend Denise, who saw what happened, disappears. Her brother Gerard was once Alain's manager but was sacked for corruption and Alain's original backer, Leon, infatuated by Denise, wants all his money back. Most of Alain's associates seem to have something to hide. Whilst Alain was clearly not the murderer was Etienne the intended victim? Jim finds out.
S9.E2 ∙ The Dark Horse
When Jim returns to Jersey to give evidence in court, Charlie asks him to find Anne-Claire Leighton, French wife of a business associate, who has gone missing and whose signature is required for an important transaction for Charlie's syndicate. Jim discovers that she is having an affair with D.C. Lomas but Charlie works out that bank manager Wenslow could profit if the deal falls through and goes to Charlie's rivals, and that Anne-Claire could be colluding with him and using Lomas. Jim must therefore find the lady and save his ex-colleague's job, as well as dealing with a proposal from Charlie that he sets up as a private eye.
S9.E3 ∙ Snow in Provence
Jim is conned by Charlie into house-sitting in Provence for the Calders whilst they are in Milan, a task which involves looking after the boisterous Clarissa and her sister and their rowdy friends. When a consignment of cocaine is found hidden in a well in the grounds, an undercover policeman tells Jim it is being used as a sting to trap Mafia man Bonetti who is coming to buy it. Jim poses as the dealer but is betrayed and has to rescue Danielle and Clarissa from the mob.
S9.E4 ∙ The Evil That Men Do
Now working as a private investigator, Jim is approached by petty thief Eddie Lyle who explains that he was hired by property developer Jacques LeRozier to burgle Harriet Mallin in the hopes of obtaining documents to force her to sell him her land. On entering her house he found her dead and believes he will be accused of her murder. Jim takes the case, stumbling upon a second corpse, and, helped by old colleague D.C. Pettit, uncovers a plot to discredit a dead war hero.
S9.E5 ∙ My Friend Charlie
Charlie is suspicious when American businessman Karl Goldman asks him to invest seven million pounds in a deal that needs a swift closure. Then Goldman's daughter Giselle arrives and asks Jim to help abduct him and return him to Florida to stand trial for her mother's murder ten years earlier. Matters are complicated when it turns out that the police are surveying Goldman as a possible drug smuggler. Jim is reluctant to help in an illegal abduction and Giselle's persistence makes him wonder if she is all she claims to be.
S9.E6 ∙ On the Rocks
Jim drives Charlie to the eightieth birthday party of his friend Constance Battiston. Family tensions and money problems are barely concealed, as is Constance's grand-daughter Camilla's secret meeting with young English boyfriend Jeff, when she is destined to be part of an arranged marriage. When Camilla is robbed of a family heirloom, a valuable diamond necklace, Jim is unconvinced by her account of events and is proved right, though Constance herself has the last word.
S9.E7 ∙ The Waiting Game
Solicitor Lesgate from the Economic Advisors' Office asks Jim to investigate a company's application for a Jersey trading licence but there is no evidence that the firm existed. Danielle becomes suspicious of Faraday, a friend of Charlie, who seems overly interested in Jim's activities, which is not surprising when Lesgate asks Jim to look into a second company, also owned by Faraday. The businesses are a front for something far more sinister and a man dies whilst gathering evidence for Jim. Faraday claims he is merely being used but can Jim believe him?
S9.E8 ∙ Warriors
Jim travels to England in pursuit of Norman Atherton's wife Laura, who has joined a group run by her old flame George Bolingham. He believes in self-discovery by studying the lost city of Atlantis and organizes Atlantean weekends, for which Jim signs up. George appears to be a sincere man, certainly not a charlatan, but when an angry Norman arrives, threatening violence, it becomes clear that his hostility towards George dates back to the Second World War when they were soldiers together.
S9.E9 ∙ The Assassin
Jim is invited to a castle in Brittany by a man named Hapgood, who has survived an attempt to kill him. Jim discovers that Hapgood was formerly a professional assassin, who has now turned his back on the job and wants to go straight. However his ex-employers want his silence and have sent another assassin to kill him. Hapgood hopes to dissuade the man but Jim has his doubts as to whether he will succeed and the two men await the killer together.
S9.E10 ∙ The Lohans
Rosa Zeenak asks Jim to guard the Lohans, a set of porcelain figures she is putting up for sale, though there is a suspicion that they were stolen from the valuable Wiess collection in Switzerland. When a burglar takes the figures Rosa accuses prospective buyer John Kelp, but she has held back one of the figures as bargaining power and asks Jim to act as broker with Kelp. However, the death of an innocent antiques expert whose help Jim had sought leads him to suspect collusion between Zeenak and Kelp and he goes after them - and the reward offered for the collection's retrieval.
S9.E11 ∙ All for Love
After receiving a letter from Danielle ending their relationship, Jim starts drinking again. To keep him out of trouble, Charlie takes him to Bath, where art dealer Rupert Draper will be buying a painting that Charlie was given as payment for a debt. Once in Bath, Jim falls for the charms of Rupert's faithless wife, unaware that she is using him to take the rap for a murder, back in Jersey, where a body is found in the burnt-out remains of Rupert's shop. Fortunately Deborah helps Jim to clear his name, after which Charlie recommends him to head a new crime unit on the island.
