No Offence

Follows a group of police officers on the front line wondering what they did to end up where they are now, on the ugly side of Manchester.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cast:Joanna Scanlan , Elaine Cassidy , Will Mellor , Paul Ritter , Ste Johnston , Tom Varey , Saira Choudhry , Alexandra Roach , Neet Mohan , Charlie May-Clark , Conor MacNeill , Kate O'Flynn , Colin Salmon , Hannah Walters , Sarah Solemani , Rakie Ayola , Zackary Momoh , Risteard Cooper

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Episode #1.1

Tue, May 5, 2015

Single mother Dinah Kowalska, an off duty detective constable, pursues a murder suspect through the streets of Manchester, only for him to get knocked down and killed by a bus. As a result DI Viv Deering, her outspoken superior, instructs her to withdraw her application for sergeant, the promotion going instead to her nervous colleague Joy Freers. On a visit to the morgue Dinah sees the corpse of a Downs Syndrome sufferer, the second girl with that condition to be hauled out of a river in recent weeks, and suspects a serial killer is at large. Cathy Calvert, who appears to have the syndrome, following hospital surgery, is missing and Dinah persuades Viv to over-rule superintendent McClaren in no uncertain terms and start a search for her. Cathy is located and Dinah saves her but the killer escapes and Cathy is unable to identify him. With Cathy's family under arrest on drug charges Dinah suggests that she moves in with her.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Episode #1.2

Tue, May 12, 2015

Dinah is taken off the murder case as her involvement with Cathy has made her too subjective but Viv asks her to assist when a student is found dead in the street of an overdose and drugs expert Miller directs the team towards a house suspected of being a drugs factory. Angelina Costeros, a former chemical factory employee, is brought in but refuses to incriminate likely co-defendant Jensen Raphael until Dinah and colleague Spike unite to get her to talk. Consequently Dinah and Joy go undercover to bust Raphael. The operation is successful and Viv praises the two women to McLaren as well as suggesting that Dinah be reassigned to Cathy's case in the hopes that she can get her to give more information about her abductor.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Episode #1.3

Tue, May 19, 2015

Following the death of Samina Hassan in an arson attack the team goes undercover at a wedding to arrest the groom Jimmy Webb, a known racist. CCTV had shown him arguing with Majib, Samina's widower, to whom he had lent a large sum of money, whilst Samina's father, a strict imam, has quarrelled with her over her feminist stance. In the event the previously reserved Joy proves herself by solving the case and flushing the killer out into the open. Spike interviews Patrick Llewellyn, an unassuming gay man who runs the support group attended by murder victim Lucy - who had a crush on him. For all his gentle air Viv sees him as a prime suspect. Meanwhile Dinah is surprised when Cathy gets a visit from her boy-friend Alpha, who has served time in a young offenders' unit.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Episode #1.4

Tue, May 26, 2015

As Dinah is driving to work she sees David Brazier kill himself by stepping in front of a car and when the police visit his house they find his wife dead in bed with a huge operation scar. Later they arrest a teenager following a disturbance. He also has a scar and a wad of notes and tells of a traffic in human organs for cash. Joy and Dinah track down another potential victim, leading to a successful arrest. Meanwhile Teresa Adamson is found dead after joining a website, whose organizer identifies a subscriber calling himself Handyman, whose interest is in Downs Syndrome girls. Viv has an uncomfortable moment when her other half Laurie is arrested for drunken brawling and Dinah is not happy when Cathy tells her she plans to move in with Alpha.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Episode #1.5

Tue, Jun 2, 2015

Forensics officer Miller is engaging Handyman online posing as a young girl when the team is called out to a stabbing. The victim is Christy Feeney, now given a new identity as Noel, but who, aged ten, was convicted of murder. After hearing his confession pregnant wife Liz feels especially vulnerable but Viv suspects Christy's aggrieved uncle of offering a bounty to his nephew's killer. Christy does not help matters when he flees police protection to speak to Liz, though he does lead them to his attacker. Olivia, another Downs Syndrome girl, agrees to be bait to catch Handyman but instead he attacks Cathy and Alpha though Cathy recognizes the tattoo on her assailant's wrist.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Episode #1.6

Tue, Jun 9, 2015

Cathy has information leading to a suspect in her abduction, but later tells Dinah there was also an accomplice. A badly beaten man is found outside a scrap yard and appears to be connected with a man police find locked in a shed.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Episode #1.7

Tue, Jun 16, 2015

A jogger is shot and killed, but Viv believes their young suspect acted on behalf of an adult with a grudge. Dinah begins her own secret investigation to determine if Viv is protecting the identity of the Handyman's accomplice.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Episode #1.8

Tue, Jun 23, 2015

Dinas clashes with Deering, setting off an irreversible chain of events, and an attempt to save the lives of a mother and baby goes disastrously wrong.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Episode #2.1

Wed, Jan 4, 2017

Viv, Dinah and Joy attend the funeral of Herbie, son of gang boss Nora Attah but there is no corpse in the coffin, only an explosion which rocks the building. Pathologist Miller is called in and finds twenty bodies, including Herbie's, buried under the crematorium - apparently because the owners, the Kornicks, could not afford to maintain it. Resenting the arrival of by the book superintendent Christine Lisberg Viv finds a link to rival gangsters the Kennedy family, whom Nora believes lured her and ex-husband Manni to the scene of the explosion. Following an award ceremony to celebrate Viv as outstanding policewoman of the year she has to give her version of why she has closed the investigation of her husband's death to Joy, Dinah and Spike, whilst the retaliation against the Kennedys she had feared begins.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Episode #2.2

Wed, Jan 11, 2017

Following Earl Kennedy's murder riots break out across Manchester, Attah properties being prime targets. Whilst Miller links the crematorium bomb to Jacky Kennedy and henchman Kilmartin Dinah risks her life to evacuate people from one of Nora's fire-bombed shops, and is shocked when five casualties appear to be under-age child workers. However when she confronts Nora she is rebuked by Viv for making Nora aware of her suspicions, allowing her to take alternative action. Joy is also horrified when a young girl, Charlie, dies in her custody and is cheered by sergeant Ewan Murray. Kim Garvey, the cocky, sullen boy who killed Earl, is linked to one of the arson victims but refuses to tell Dinah who put him up to the murder.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Episode #2.3

Wed, Jan 18, 2017

The team is called to an armed robbery in a pub but the elderly robber is an Alzheimers sufferer who believes the pub is the bank it was once and a visit to his wife exposes a bogus paramedic. Meanwhile a cocky Nora brings Manni to the station to convince Viv of their innocence in Earl's murder but, having discovered that Manni is not Nora's husband's son, Viv determines to work on him. Dinah arrests Kerry Fowley, part of the child slavery gang, hoping she will denounce Nora but Nora sends in her solicitors before any statement can be taken, leading Viv to suspect a traitor in the ranks. Joy is exonerated over Charlie's death and congratulated by Ewan but a comment by fire survivor Hayley gives her a shock.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Episode #2.4

Wed, Jan 25, 2017

As large numbers of Nora's drug peddlers are lifted from the streets Dinah tries to persuade Joy that Ewan is the mole, tipping Nora off about the police's every move but Joy is too enamoured of him to believe her despite evidence that when he was in Child Protection he deliberately moved several of the dead youngsters to care homes where Nora could get to them. Whilst other arrests are made for procurement Viv finally traps Ewan but finds that somebody else has got to him before her.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Episode #2.5

Wed, Feb 1, 2017

Whilst Viv attempts to arrest Manni in connection with Ewan Murray's death Miller finds evidence to show that Murray deliberately suppressed evidence regarding the disappearance of a boy called Roland Berry. The team searches Murray's room for more proof of his duplicity but are thwarted by Christine Licksberg who takes all the contents for examination elsewhere. Consequently Viv recruits Cathy Calvert's mouthy sister Donna to infiltrate the Attah's gang. Meanwhile Dinah is caught up in a pay dispute at the Daffodil abortion clinic where a stand-off leads to a demonstration by a pro-life group and the accidental death of co-director Dr Robert Bix, who is later found to have supported the protesters. Unfortunately Viv is involved in a car crash leading to her suspension from duty.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Episode #2.6

Wed, Feb 8, 2017

Whilst under suspension Viv attends a meeting opposed to female genital mutilation, where an angry father accuses Nora of killing his daughter. Dinah and Joy visit Viv to voice their fears that Nora may have been blackmailing Christine into suspending her whilst Joy and Spike bring in haughty Ms Bata for her role in the mutilation ring and, after officer Tegan has gone undercover, arrest the doctor responsible and a head-mistress who is also complicit - ironically with help from Nora. Meanwhile, thanks to Dinah, Miller finds Roland's body but, back in her office, Viv is alarmed to hear that the Attahs have abducted Dinah, leading to a rift between Viv and Joy.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Episode #2.7

Wed, Feb 15, 2017

All the team's lives are at stake as they try and bring down the Attahs once and for all. Deering is at her finest, deconstructing Nora's family while trying to repair her own.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Assassination Attempt

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

A gunman tries to shoot a mayoral candidate, starting a city wide manhunt.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Botulin Burgers

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

A terrorist threat puts the entire force on high alert. Even knowing the means and perpetrators may not be enough to prevent deaths.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Death in a Cemetary

Thu, Sep 27, 2018

Beckett's reign of terror seems to be escalating when an elderly Jewish man is found dead.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ In His Head

Thu, Oct 4, 2018

The team have 48 hours to get Dennis to betray his best friend and turn police informant.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Loyalty

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

Caroline McCoy's political reign begins, inciting chaos on the streets of Manchester, and catapults the hardline, no-nonsense DCI Terry Taylor into Friday Street cop shop, to bring the police in line with her agenda. While avoiding Terry's interferences, the team focus on using Bonnie and Dennis to expose Caroline and bring in killer Beckett.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Payback

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

The team are running out of options and their strategy is threatened when one of their own is placed in peril.