Taggart
The Maryhill CID investigates gruesome murders against the bleak backdrop of the city of Glasgow.
Cast:Blythe Duff , James MacPherson , Robert Robertson , Iain Anders , Colin McCredie , Mark McManus , John Michie , Harriet Buchan , Alex Norton , Michael MacKenzie , Alastair Duncan , Lesley Harcourt , Leigh Biagi , Stuart Hepburn , John McGlynn , Gilly Gilchrist , Tamara Kennedy , Lewis Howden
S1.E1 ∙ Killer, Part 1
In Glasgow, DCI Jim Taggart and DS Peter Livingstone investigate the murder of a young blonde. Her body was found by a footpath along the water. Before the investigation is over, they've found more bodies and examined several suspects.
S1.E2 ∙ Killer, Part 2
A second girl is discovered, this time by a passing cyclist. Liz is convinced that her partner Michael is involved in the two killings.
S1.E3 ∙ Killer, Part 3
A group of kids discover a third body, one that predates the other two, Taggart is now hunting for a serial killer. Frustrated by a lack of progress, the locals take matters into their own hands.
S1.E4 ∙ Dead Ringer, Part 1
The discovery of a skeleton under the floorboards of a house leads to the release of a man Taggart arrested for the murder of his wife 9 years prior.
S1.E5 ∙ Dead Ringer, Part 2
After the baby nephew of the man he falsely accused for the murder of his wife is kidnapped, DCI Taggart finds himself eager to help despite the protestations of both the baby's parents and his boss.
S1.E6 ∙ Dead Ringer, Part 3
The skull of the corpse is finally located which leads Taggart to an entirely unexpected solution to a 9 year old mystery.
S1.E7 ∙ Murder in Season, Part 1
Eleanor Samson, an opera star, is Taggart's main suspect in the murder of her husband's mistress. Meanwhile, a local publican blackmails a youth into murdering his wife.
S1.E8 ∙ Murder in Season, Part 2
Keith and Jimmy plan Lily's murder but it all goes hideously awry. Taggart faces off against both Peter and McVitie when he decides Eleanor is innocent. John finds out that Graeme, his son, was having an affair with Kirsty.
S1.E9 ∙ Murder in Season, Part 3
After her father dies, Eleanor Samson seems to be set to inherit his fortune but then another claimant shows up with a previously unknown will signed by two recently murdered people.
S2.E1 ∙ Knife Edge: Part One
Taggart and Peter are on the trail of a mentally disturbed butcher leaving the limbs of a female corpse at various locations around Glasgow. Meanwhile, a smarmy hypnotist uses his powers to seduce married women.
S2.E2 ∙ Knife Edge: Part Two
Taggart becomes friendly with a local tartan saleswoman, Peter digs for body parts at a garbage depot, Rosy falls for the not so friendly butcher George, and a gang of angry husbands show up at the hypnotist's door.
S2.E3 ∙ Knife Edge: Part Three
Taggart sacrifices a holiday for the sake of the case which puts his marriage on the rocks and then just as Peter and he zero in on George, the butcher turns up dead.
S2.E4 ∙ Death Call Part One
After a rich couple turns up dead, Jamie, a young lad who was the last to see them alive is suspected. However, Taggart doesn't believe he's guilty and instead focuses his attention on a snobby golf club the victims owned.
S2.E5 ∙ Death Call Part Two
Eager to get a conviction, DS Forfar falsifies evidence against Jamie leading to a dramatic foot chase. Meanwhile, Taggart becomes involved with Peter's old flame from university.
S2.E6 ∙ Death Call Part Three
Kenny's in trouble when it becomes obvious that Jamie's not guilty, Taggart links the murders to a ring of illegal baby traders, but what is the meaning of the phone call the victims were so nervously expecting the day they died?
S3.E1 ∙ The Killing Philosophy Part One
Taggart investigates a failed rape attempt by a masked attacker. However, his job is complicated when the victim commits suicide and the criminal strikes again, and his attacks soon turn to murder.
S3.E2 ∙ The Killing Philosophy Part Two
Patrick, a college student, and his married lover Kim plan to murder her husband and make it look like the Glasgow Bowman had done it. Meanwhile, a psychic tries to convince Taggart to let her help.
S3.E3 ∙ The Killing Philosophy Part Three
After Patrick bungles the killing and runs away, a horrified Kim has to finish the job herself. Suspicion falls on Patrick's best friend Alan, a crossbow enthusiast, when Patrick drops his keys at the crime scene.
S3.E4 ∙ Funeral Rites Part One
While a hapless dentist keeps trying to kill his invalid wife, Taggart and his new partner, Mike Jardine, investigate the murder of a satanist private eye found burned in a tunnel on the day of the equinox.
S3.E5 ∙ Funeral Rites Part Two
Taggart's former sergeant turned private detective, Kenny Forfar, begins poking his nose into the investigation. Mike Jardine goes undercover at a hippy commune.
S3.E6 ∙ Funeral Rites Part Three
Just as Taggart begins closing in on the murderous dentist, he receives a phone call from the dead private eye. Did the pathologist misidentify the body or is there black magic at play?
S3.E7 ∙ Cold Blood
When a woman shoots her husband after discovering that he was having an affair, it appears to be a clear-cut case - until the police realise the man was already dead when he was shot.
S4.E1 ∙ Dead Giveaway Part One
After a mother and son are found dead, Taggart hunts after a murderer who's putting rat poison into food products made by a company called "Wonderland".
S4.E2 ∙ Dead Giveaway Part Two
The investigation focuses on the shop from which the victims bought their food run by a married couple. Meanwhile, a mother-son pair of scam antique dealers seem to be having an Oedipal relationship while targeting an old woman.
S4.E3 ∙ Dead Giveaway Part Three
As more people across Glasgow are poisoned by eating tainted food products, Taggart and his team look for an elusive connection between the victims.
S4.E4 ∙ Root of Evil Part One
Taggart and Jardine investigate a brutal dismemberment of a local loan shark. After his main competitor is killed by a car bomb in broad daylight, they begin suspecting a vigilante is targeting Glaswegian moneylenders.
S4.E5 ∙ Root of Evil Part Two
Taggart's daughter returns home with news of her engagement, Jardine falls for an actress with a mysterious past, and a local moneylender fights for custody of his son. Then the killer strikes again.
S4.E6 ∙ Root of Evil Part Three
Taggart discovers that his daughter's fiance spent time in prison for armed robbery, Jardine's actress worked at a gentlemen's club, and the two Edinburgh cops following the case from afar might not be as pure as the driven snow.
S4.E7 ∙ Double Jeopardy
Taggart and Jardine go to Munich in order to prove that a man they suspect of murdering his wife is having an affair with her daughter. In order to placate his wife, Taggart brings her along as well but doesn't tell her he's on the job.
S5.E1 ∙ Flesh and Blood Part One
Jim Taggart attends the wedding of social worker Jane Ross and jailbird Charlie Forbes. Janie Ross is later found murdered and a chain of seemingly unrelated events begins.
S5.E2 ∙ Flesh and Blood Part Two
A small-time Glasgow thief gets his hands on a shipment full of explosives which he plans to use for a daring robbery but has to contend with an IRA fixer sent to retrieve it. Jardine infiltrates the role-playing club Janie was a part of.
S5.E3 ∙ Flesh and Blood Part Three
After the Ross' cabin is blown up and a recluse heiress buried under her extensive newspaper collection Taggart finally connects the dots between the IRA explosives and the murder of the role-playing social worker.
S5.E4 ∙ Love Knot
A body is dredged up from the bottom of the Clyde, setting Taggart and Jardine off on an investigation which takes them beyond Glasgow into the Scottish Highlands.
S5.E5 ∙ Hostile Witness Part One
A seemingly disturbed young man keeps confessing to murders he clearly didn't commit driving Taggart to distraction as he has to deal with a husband who killed his prostitute wife and a hit-and-run.
S5.E6 ∙ Hostile Witness Part Two
A local parliamentary candidate notable for supporting the death penalty and her agent are found half-naked and dead. Taggart suspects the agent's wife and her American boyfriend of being guilty but can't prove it.
S5.E7 ∙ Hostile Witness Part Three
Jean runs in the by-election but with both of his main suspects turning up dead, Taggart has no time to devote to her political pursuits.
S6.E1 ∙ Evil Eye Part One
On the run after killing a policeman, a trio of robbers get into a car crash and are tended to by a local traveller. They kill her to keep her quiet but unfortunately for them, her death is quickly connected to that of the police officer.
S6.E2 ∙ Evil Eye Part Two
As the robbers begin dying one by one, seemingly victims of the dead woman's curse, Danny, the person who actually stabbed the traveller fortune teller, takes up with Jane Antrobus, a gangster's moll.
S6.E3 ∙ Evil Eye Part Three
Jean Taggart falls into a coma after a car accident just as Danny, the only surviving member of the trio, plans to escape to Spain with Jane Antrobus.
S6.E4 ∙ Death Comes Softly Part One
Taggart and Jardine are called to investigate the murders of elderly residents.
S6.E7 ∙ Rogues' Gallery
Taggart and Jardine investigate a case linking the world of drug pushers with the world of art and artists.
S7.E1 ∙ Violent Delights
Sixth former, Philip Dempster, has a crush on his French teacher and sees what looks like a murder when he spies on her through a telescope.
S7.E2 ∙ Nest of Vipers Part One
The discovery of two skulls at the site for a new by-pass road leads the team to a pharmaceutical company. Someone doesn't want the skulls identified and will go to any length including murder.
S7.E5 ∙ Double Exposure Part One
Racial violence or something more sinister? The Taggart team are baffled by murders with no connection other than a possible racial link. Or is it something not so obvious to the all seeing eye?
S8.E1 ∙ The Hit Man Part One
An old friend from Taggart's past gets out of prison and the bodies start piling up. But is there some fishy business going on that muddies the waters for the Taggart Team.
S8.E4 ∙ Ring of Deceit Part One
A research scientist is murdered by an unknown assailant but it soon becomes clear that she is another victim of a serial rapist - 'The Mechanic'.
S8.E7 ∙ Fatal Inheritance
When Dr Janet Napier walks free from court on a "Not Proven" verdict, Taggart begins a more personal investigation. However as more murders are commited Taggart must admit that even he might have been wrong about the good doctors guilt.
S9.E1 ∙ Death Benefits Part One
Julia Fraser, wife of a police sergeant, is brutally murdered whilst he is on duty. During a search of the house a list of names is found. It appears that the names on the list are rapidly meeting with a series of accidents - and yet the only connection between them is the list.
S9.E4 ∙ Gingerbread Part One
The murder of his father sets young Simon Barrow on a nightmare journey, and his dying words on Simon's answer-phone throw the police on a trail of confusion.
S9.E5 ∙ Gingerbread Part Two
12-year old Simon believes there is a connection between the murder of his Father and an isolated cottage in the woods, but no one believes him. Part 2.
S9.E6 ∙ Gingerbread Part Three
12-year old Simon believes there is a connection between the murder of his Father and an isolated cottage in the woods, but no one believes him. Part 3.
S9.E7 ∙ Death Without Dishonour Part One
The Taggart team are responsible for protecting witnesses involved in a "cab war" trial. It seems there may be a hidden agenda when the prosecuting barrister is found murdered.
S10.E1 ∙ Instrument of Justice Part One
Taggart has a new boss and he must take his orders from her even though he has his doubts about the guilt of a gang member.
S10.E4 ∙ Forbidden Fruit
Taggart and Jardine are confronted by a bizarre case which revolves around a fertility clinic.
S10.E5 ∙ Secrets Part One
The Scottish literary world is abuzz with speculation as a major prize is due to be awarded. The Taggart Team are called in when one writer, recently returned to Glasgow, is threatened. When a university lecturer in creative writing is found murdered and the manufacture and transport of illegal drugs is thrown into the mix things become very interesting for Jim Taggart and the team.
S11.E1 ∙ Hellfire Part One
On Walpurgis Night, April 30th in German folklore, James Martin is murdered after selling his whisky distillery for five million pounds.
S11.E3 ∙ Prayer for the Dead Part One
Taggart is promoted to Acting Superintendent so when two young girls are murdered and the wife of a leading suspect also, he starts to wonder if Jardine and Reid are up to the job.
S11.E6 ∙ Black Orchid
Tony Sabina is in town again, "The Great Sabina" to his fans. His hypnotic show relies on volunteers, among who is a young man called Stuart Fraser, and a girl called Frances Shaw. Frances who is hypnotized to believe that she could swim the channel is found drowned after the show. The resulting publicity leaves Sabins career in tatters and he decides to get even with all those who contribute to his downfall. Jardine and Reid investigate a series of killings that may have been carried out "to order".
S12.E1 ∙ Legends Part One
The re-release of a track by sixties rock group The Adders sees the murder of the lead guitarist in bizarre circumstances that sends Jardine's team into the seedy world of rock and roll and drugs.
S12.E4 ∙ Devil's Advocate Part One
When a clever lawyer gains an acquittal for his client on an apparently straightforward murder charge, the Taggart team are compelled to restart the investigation from scratch - and then the killing starts again.
S12.E7 ∙ Angel Eyes Part One
The murder of a musician sees Jardine's team mixing with the gay community. When a second murder with the same MO is committed Jardine is forced to face his deep seated prejudice's to get to the truth behind the murders. DC Stuart Fraser realises his secret is no longer safe and is 'outed' by a former boyfriend.
S13.E1 ∙ Dead Man's Chest Part One
A 15 year-old gold bullion robbery leads the Maryhill team on a race against time as one by one the robbers are murdered. With pirates, treasure chests and secret maps to buried treasure muddying the waters will the team solve the murders and find the lost treasure before the last robber is killed?
S13.E4 ∙ Apocalypse Part One
The bizarre murders of opponents and ex-members of a religious cult have the team baffled. Each murder follows the Biblical plagues of Egypt which according the Book of Revelation will proceed Armageddon. There are more than fifty members of the cult, most of whom would kill if asked to do so by the cult leader, David Burns. Who is responsible and who will be next?
S13.E7 ∙ Babushka Part One
Mail order brides or women to order? Glasgow takes on a Russian flavour when the trail from the murder of wealthy local business man hots up and Jardine's team try to unravel the mystery around the Anastasia Agency.
S14.E1 ∙ Berserker Part One
Illegal body building drugs combined with mind bending additives cause a series of deaths around the muscle scene in Glasgow. In a race against time to find the source of the deadly drug the Maryhill team call on the help of a famous chemistry professor at the University. But is he helping or is he the source of the drug?
S14.E4 ∙ Out of Bounds
Jardine investigates a triple murder at an exclusive boys' boarding school. In each case the victim is a disciplinarian schoolmaster. Eventually he discovers a further link in that several years earlier they had all been prefects who bullied a boy called John Chisholm. John Chisholm has now come back to get revenge, though not in the form that his victims would have recognized.
S14.E5 ∙ Dead Reckoning Part One
Two women who work for an apparently respectable escort agency are separately murdered. At the same time Peter Letham, who runs an outward bound activity course for executives in the Highlands, reports the disappearance of his wife on a shopping trip to Glasgow. Peter's employer is a principal suspect, causing Jackie to go undercover as a course member.
S15.E1 ∙ A Few Bad Men Part One
Mike Jardine investigates the death of a soldier at his barracks, in the company of gruff Sergeant Renshaw. New arrival Robbie Ross, a man with a chequered past, teams up with Jackie to look into the theft of a race horse and a murder at the race track. The different crimes eventually prove to be linked by another theft and murder from thirteen years earlier.
S15.E4 ∙ Long Time Dead
In this feature length investigation, Jardine and Reid find themselves embroiled in a disturbing case that leads them to the dark underbelly of human nature. It is the annual Strathclyde CID Dinner at the Crawford Hotel, and the last place you'd think a murder would be committed. However, as the part is in full swing with The Sweet Muffins (The Oddballs) performing on stage, the body of the hotel owner is discovered strangled and dumped in the rubbish. When the main suspect is found murdered before the police can question him it is the start of a complex case that will effect Jardine in a way he cannot yet expect.
S16.E1 ∙ Bloodlines
After serving a life sentence for murder, Susan Keller is released from prison. Not long after that members of her family begin to die mysteriously.
S16.E2 ∙ A Fistful of Chips
The apparently motiveless murder of a woman leads the team to a microchip factory.
S16.E3 ∙ Fearful Lightning
Karen Lennox is found electrocuted in what appears to be a lightning strike, but then another body turns up and the team begin looking for a murderer.
S17.E1 ∙ Ghost Rider
A charred body is found in a car, leading the team into a web of police corruption and cover-ups.
S17.E2 ∙ Skin Deep
When a man is found bleeding to death in a health club and two of the female members claim to have had intimate relationships with him, Reid and Ross uncover a world of health-obsessed women with dark and dangerous secrets. Meanwhile, Ross becomes the subject of a corruption inquiry, and Jardine is forced to face up to his own mortality.
S17.E3 ∙ Wavelength
A therapist returns home after his late-night radio phone-in show to find his wife murdered.
S17.E4 ∙ Football Crazy
Jardine and the team investigate a series of murky goings-on at a football club whose lack of success on the pitch is matched by an unaccountably high death rate among its employees.
S17.E5 ∙ Falling in Love
Chief Inspector Jardine and the team investigate a series of mysterious deaths among members of a tango club after a pre-wedding parachute jump ends with the bridegroom plunging to his death. And as Jackie Reid's wedding day approaches, Ross tries to persuade her that she is rushing into marriage too quickly.
S18.E1 ∙ Death Trap
Johnny Innes, son of local politician Malcolm, is shot dead after interrupting one of his father's council meetings. Mike Jardine clashes with Malcolm Innes and is taken off the case but pursues his own line of enquiry. Embittered Liam Kennedy is a qualified sniper and therefore becomes a major suspect, especially as he has a grudge against both Innes and Jardine, one of whom, at least, will find their days are numbered.
S18.E2 ∙ Fire, Burn
The King is dead, long live the King. And this is the new regime...
S18.E3 ∙ Watertight
When teenaged prostitute Dee is found murdered Robbie goes gunning for Willie Strachan, a man whom he has long suspected of being involved in sex trafficking. However, he is not the only suspect as law student Craig Colhoune, son of a widowed sheriff who dotes on him, also finds himself in the vicinity with unexplained blood on his sleeve. And there is Mo, violent husband of reformed prostitute Sadie.
S18.E4 ∙ The Friday Event Part One
The apparent suicide of a sixth former at an elite boys' school turns into a murder enquiry and a journalist, much to the headmaster's displeasure, publishes an article linking the boy to drug-dealing before he too is murdered. A third body indicates a serial killer and the manner of the slaying leads to a famous painter.
S19.E1 ∙ Hard Man
Investigating the discovery of a mangled body at a Clyde shipyard, DCI Burke and the team soon find themselves dealing with a case of murder.
S19.E2 ∙ Fade to Black
A young nurse is found strangled in her home, with no sign of forced entry and two glasses of wine on the table. On finding a large quantity of cash hidden in her flat and signs of an affluent lifestyle, Burke and the team begin to suspect that the murder victim had a secret double life. Meanwhile, a mysterious and sinister person is following and filming Burke with a camcorder.
S19.E3 ∙ Blood Money
When a boxing promoter is found strangled with wads of bank notes stuffed in his mouth, the team investigate. Successful fighter Andy Corbett was having an affair with Elaine, the victim's widow and the ringside doctor, Dr. Heron, has also been behaving suspiciously in trying to get rid of the boxers' medical record. Following another death, however, the motive appears to stem from fight fixing.
S19.E4 ∙ New Life
A top research scientist is blown up in his car having arrived in Glasgow to address a medical conference. There has been opposition to his research and initially, this is where the investigation heads. However, it soon comes to light that there are others within the scientific community who could benefit from the murder.
S19.E5 ∙ Bad Blood
A Kurdish taxi driver is murdered and the team is joined by D.S. Fairchild, who is experienced in the matter of racially-motivated crimes. Whilst the rest of the team get on well with her, Burke is peeved as he believes that political correctness is hampering the course of the enquiry, particularly in view of the fact that noone seems any closer to establishing a motive for the killing.
S19.E6 ∙ Halfway House
When an anonymous victim is shot dead in a local park the only clue on him as to his identity is a library card for a city college. This in turn leads to a half-way house for recently released criminals, some of whom are known to the team. Unfortunately the hostel warden is not keen to cooperate.
S19.E7 ∙ An Eye for an Eye
When a doctor at a clinic for women which advocates birth control is murdered the immediate suspects are a militant fundamentalist group who oppose abortions. However, drug links between the clinic and a local crime boss extend the scope of the investigation further, though Stuart believes the murderer may have had a more personal reason.
S20.E1 ∙ Penthouse and Pavement
A famous novelist is found murdered in an alley the morning after a prestigious book launch and the police team's only lead is a drugged and confused prostitute.
S20.E2 ∙ Atonement
Billy McCree is murdered in his work-shop and his severed hand is found next to him. The obvious suspect is Jim Naysmith, just out of jail after a twenty year stretch, thanks to Billy's evidence. Burke investigates the Naysmith gang whilst Robbie is flattered when Mary, a young law student, asks to shadow him. Forensics office Gemma, however, believes that Mary may have an ulterior motive for her interest in Robbie.
S20.E3 ∙ Compensation
The team travel to rural Fenmore after a farmer is suspiciously killed in a house fire, but find few clues and the villagers unwilling to offer any information.
S20.E4 ∙ Saints and Sinners
When lawyer Richard Fleet is shot dead suspicion initially falls on his widow Adele and his partner Charlie Muir who were having an affair. However, when Muir is also murdered, Burke uncovers a wholly different motive. A group of residents were taking a company called Arcadia to court on the grounds that they had caused pollution, leading to illnesses such as leukaemia. Both lawyers represented the residents and therefore may have attracted powerful enemies.
S21.E1 ∙ Puppet on a String
Dr. Mellor is attacked by a masked assailant carrying a syringe full of lethal drugs. Dr Mellor points the finger at rival doctor Thomas Finn, but Finn has an alibi. Dr Mellor is found dead the next day. Finn again has a cast-iron alibi.
S21.E2 ∙ The Wages of Sin
A taxi driver is found dead outside a Jewler's shop and the team discover links to the underworld.
S21.E3 ∙ The Ties That Bind
DCI Matt Burke's professional life is left hanging in the balance when the body of a librarian is found behind the wheel of his car in the Clyde after an apparent hit and run. The detectives are baffled - it appears that the victim had been tied up and was already dead before the car hit the water.
S21.E4 ∙ In Camera
Robbie is all set to spend a romantic weekend with his new lady love Eve Hamilton. Unfortunately the mood is soured when the corpse of a young man, a photographic assistant, is discovered at the romantic hideaway. In investigating the boy's death and subsequent others, Robbie begins to discover to his cost that Eve is perhaps not as innocent as she would at first appear to be and their meeting may not be coincidental.
S21.E5 ∙ Mind Over Matter
The team are called to investigate when members of a therapy group are murdered.
S22.E1 ∙ Cause and Effect
When an attractive young trophy wife is found dead in her home, it sparks intrigue around an affluent marina - her husband initially seems to be the prime suspect.
S22.E2 ∙ A Taste of Money
When a caustic restaurant critic is found murdered, suspicion falls on the thief who fled the scene. But could a chef with a score to settle be the culprit?
S22.E3 ∙ A Death Foretold
When the body of a student is discovered in an alley, a bloodstained leaflet at the scene is traced back to a church. Could the parish priest be involved?
S22.E4 ∙ Running Out of Time
Burke is shot whilst taking a break from work, and on the same day, another fraud squad detective's body is found by a colleague. When both victims' properties are searched, large amounts of cash are found, leading to fears of bribery. With Burke's reputation and life on the line, the race is on to find the perpetrator.
S22.E5 ∙ Cause to Kill
Burke investigates a killing inspired by a 20 year old case. With the help of a forensic psychologist, he tries to solve the case before there are more victims, because it seems the ultimate target may be someone on the investigation team.
S22.E6 ∙ Do or Die
Following a poor career appraisal Robbie aims to redeem himself by going undercover at an army base where a young private died in suspicious circumstances. It is a brutal regime, exemplified by the sadistic Sergeant Kent, but there are two further deaths, both of instructors known for their harsh treatment of recruits. The investigation leads to the female Private Lombard, who was the apparent victim of a gang rape by soldiers at the base.
S22.E7 ∙ Dead Man Walking
The team investigate the seemingly motiveless murder of a mechanic. Suspicion soon falls on his business partner, Tony Benton, but it turns out that Benton was in fact the intended victim.
S22.E8 ∙ Law
The murder of a teenage girl leads the team to travelers working at a nearby fairground.
S23.E1 ∙ Users and Losers
gambler is found dead, and it is discovered that he had thousands of pounds stashed in his flat, leading the team to suspect that he was part of an illegal betting scam. The wife of the owner then gets killed out riding and the investigation heats up further. Meanwhile, Burke is convinced that a former heroin addict and petty criminal has changed, until he is left with a decision to either arrest a killer or do a deal to catch a more major criminal.
S23.E2 ∙ The Thirteenth Step
Ex-con Eddie Monroe is found stabbed in a Govan alleyway. Burke meets Angus Ford - a retired police officer who was responsible for Monroe's arrest and subsequent convictions - who remains adamant that Monroe was a bad man who deserved to die. But who was his killer? All roads keep leading back to old acquaintance Daniel Tulloch and his family. In the course of uncovering the truth Burke is forced to face some demons of his own.
S23.E3 ∙ Tenement
When a local activist is found murdered in her flat, the team discover that her protesting had incurred the wrath of many people and anyone could be the culprit.
S23.E4 ∙ Pinnacle
Tina Brogan, leader of the Pinnacle pyramid finance group, is found murdered with wads of bank notes stuffed in her mouth. Her estranged husband Terry, an alcoholic cancer victim, is the main suspect though the recently-widowed Jackie feels sorry for him, especially as Tina was carrying another man's child. However,Tina was under surveillance by the Fraud Squad because her enterprise was a scam and she was hoping to escape to Australia with cash conned from investors.Was she killed by a client she had cheated perhaps?
S24.E1 ∙ Genesis
A woman dies on her way to a fertility clinic, then one of the nurses there is attacked - are these linked with the crowd of "peaceful protesters" who are demonstrating outside the clinic?
S24.E2 ∙ Judgement Day
Burke's father Andrew dies, supposedly of liver failure though the actual cause turns out to be more sinister. When another member of Andrew's pensioners' club also dies, coincidence seems unlikely, particularly as a twenty thousand pound savings plan is involved. Burke has to keep in check his less than fraternal relationship with his brother John whilst having to consider various helpers at the club as being likely murderers and discern the motive.
S24.E3 ∙ Island
A young lad is murdered and mutilated on a Scottish tourist island and the local vicar, who knows all the inhabitants, tells Robbie and Jackie, who are investigating,that he is a stranger. At first a ritual killing is suspected until a South American connection is established and it becomes clear that the island is being used for drug smuggling. A stranger claiming to be a reporter arrives just as a fisherman goes missing and is later found dead. The problem for the visitors is to establish who are the good guys and who are the bad.
S24.E4 ∙ Trust
Burke meets up with Kathy, the woman who jilted him years earlier, now seeing ambitious politician Frank Morgan, whom she believes is being threatened by shady businessman Robert Shearer. Burke discovers that Shearer runs a brothel which he visits, undercover, but when it gets raided he is seen on CCTV, the excuse his pushy female superior wants to have him put out to grass as a dinosaur. Three murders are also linked to Shearer but the team find out that Morgan is less innocent than he appears. Could Kathy be using Burke to help him settle an old score with Shearer?
S24.E5 ∙ A Study in Murder
College principal Simon Nimmo is crushed to death in a lift shaft by a lift whose mechanism had been tampered with. Suspicion falls on his wife and on his daughter's boyfriend Brian Meehan until Robbie discovers that Ross's deputy had experience of building maintenance and could have rigged the lift. Stuart, following the death of his adoptive mother, tracks down his birth mother via the adoption agency. The meeting is not a happy one, any more than his confrontation with the killer - by the lift.
S24.E6 ∙ Point of Light
Private eye Andrew McHendry is murdered having phoned Alex Sternwood to say he has found his wayward daughter Stella, who has disappeared from home. Not long afterwards Stella's corpse is also found. Chief suspect is her brother-in-law, whose child she was carrying and Eddie the stable boy, who carried a torch for her ,is another likely candidate. Meanwhile Jackie sticks her neck out on behalf of the dead man's girlfriend and her rights to his baby son.
S24.E7 ∙ Safer
Emily Patrick, founder of the Safer campaign against domestic violence is murdered, having threatened to name and shame several wife-beaters. One of them, Kevin Nash, brings charges against Robbie for beating him up after he has assaulted his wife. Another visits Emily's meeting under an assumed name and his failure to recognise her throws suspicion on her co-worker.
S24.E8 ∙ The Caring Game
A young woman is found dead in a bath full of water. She's been dead a week. A sister she's fallen out with, a neighbour who's had enough of her and many lies disguising her actual lifestyle. Who killed her?
S24.E9 ∙ Homesick
A building site security guard and a hotel housekeeper are both shot within a period of twenty-four hours. Both were Polish. When Anglo-Polish lawyer Paula Socacz, who runs the Kaczynski social club, is on a local radio phone-in show, a sinister caller owns to being the killer, with a racial motive. However, the discovery that the victims were cousins points towards a more personal reason for their deaths.
S24.E10 ∙ Crossing the Line
When a disused coal pit is excavated to re-open as a mining museum, two corpses are found, belonging to a young married couple who disappeared twenty-four years earlier, seemingly to escape rent arrears, though none of the neighbours are forthcoming and Jackie, who grew up in the area, is angry with them. More deaths occur before a secret stretching back to the days of the miners' strikes is exposed.
S24.E11 ∙ Lifeline
Bookshop owner Derek McGrath is found dead in his car, an apparent suicide, which is ironic because he was a volunteer counsellor at Lifeline Central, a Samaritans-type organization. Evidence suggests that he was having an affair with Rachel, another counsellor at Lifeline, behind his wife's back. Jackie, meanwhile, discovers to her horror that somebody has been using her credit card in her name, jeopardising her standing at the bank - and ultimately her life as her situation and the murder case seem to connect.
S25.E1 ∙ Cold Reader
When student Elaine Donohoe goes missing, Clare Vorland, a professed psychic, comes forward to help the police, though Burke is cynical. She claims to have had a vision involving a white van and indeed one is traced, belonging to another girl on Elaine's hockey team, whose brother has a dodgy past. Still not wholly convinced that Clare is genuine, Burke attends one of her meetings where he is shocked to find her disclosing facts from past that she could not logically know. This makes it all the more disturbing when she predicts where Elaine's corpse may be found.
S25.E2 ∙ Grass
Robbie meets a one-night stand called Manda but she steals his book containing the names and details of his informants. One of them, Duffy, is found murdered with the word 'Grass' spray-painted next to him. When a second informant is shot dead, Robbie has to enlist Jackie's help to recover his book before there are any more deaths.
S25.E3 ∙ The Knife Trick
During a reconstruction of a knife crime for trainee police officers, one lecturer, Michael Shearer, accidentally kills another, Alistair Matheson. Matheson had beaten Shearer to promotion and he is certainly suspect, particularly after his daughter Katie attempts suicide and he attempts to get rid of her encoded diary. But then another witness comes forward that she saw a suspicious looking student loitering around Matheson's office before the demonstration. When it is revealed that the knife has been tampered with, it is clear that the charge is murder.
S25.E4 ∙ So Long Baby
Robbie finds an abandoned baby on the doorstep of wealthy Jack Revie, who is lying murdered indoors. Jack was something of a philanderer and his wife Joan claims that she had been to see his mistress whilst a girl called Lisa turns up to say that the baby is hers, fathered by Jack. Jack's son Jamie seems to have been indoors at the time of the murder but he was stoned out of his head and his dodgy friend Davy is on the run, whilst half a million pounds has gone from Jack's account.This is a puzzler indeed for Burke and his team.
S25.E5 ∙ Fact and Fiction
Three years earlier Jimmy Melville's corpse was found floating in a river. His mobile phone was sold on e-bay and at one time had been in the possession of Mark Joffe, a part-time English lecturer and crime writer, whose new novel 'Chaos' describes a murder identical to Melville's. He is an arrogant, evasive interviewee but he once had an affair with an Anne Scoular, to whom he was violent and threatening after she left him for Jimmy Melville.This gives Burke's team an opening, as does the cooperation of an older female colleague spurned by Joffe.
S26.E1 ∙ I.O.U.
Bank clerk Craig Williams is murdered at the dog-track,where,for a change,he would have won - forty five grand. Evidence suggests that the race was fixed and the favourite dog nobbled. Had Craig lived he would have claimed his winnings from bookie Niall McShane and his violent son Ged,who threatens the trainer. But then Ged McShane is killed in the same way as Craig. An ex-wife who stood to gain from Craig's life insurance and a married colleague with whom he had a fling while her husband was abroad are now in the frame alongside the bookie and the trainer.
S26.E2 ∙ Local Hero
A body is found hanging from the swing frame in the playground on the recently rejuvenated Allerdykes Estate by a local 'Community Watch' member doing his early morning check.
S26.E3 ∙ The Rapture
Edward Muir and his son Luke,members of the austere Triune Family religious group,are brutally murdered with open bibles by the corpses,referring to the Rapture or promise of eternal life. Karen,the young daughter of Jackie's friend Eileen,is also murdered and a bible found by her body. Karen's lap-top shows that she was dating Luke Muir,against his religion's rules. The group leader's family come under suspicion when his wife and younger son reveal they want to leave the Triune Family as Luke did and the other son puts up opposition to their wishes.
S27.E1 ∙ Bad Medicine
Newly qualified doctor Scott Clarkson is found tortured and murdered in an empty warehouse. Two London detectives, Moretti and Casey, the latter an old friend of Burke, arrive in Glasgow whilst investigating a similar case, though Jackie and Robbie do not warm to them. Scott's girlfriend Lucy, another medic, is arrested for manufacturing recreational drugs and admits that Scott also made and sold Ecstasy to pay his student fees. Lucy is arrested and commits suicide in custody after a visit from the London policemen. Were Jackie and Robbie right to be suspicious of the visitors' motives?
S27.E2 ∙ Abuse of Trust
Coming out of a meeting with employers Seaward Systems over job losses, union activists Cam Beattie and Will Ramsey are shot, in the latter's case fatally. A colleague claims Will was about to disclose 'something big' and the Seaward boss tells Burke that he was about to accept a deal with him. Beattie discharges himself from hospital and is attacked again. The workers' clubhouse is torched but union man Patrick Carr admits he only did it to dissuade them from accepting the deal and denies murder. Jackie, however,interviewing Beattie's wife and daughter, uncovers dark family secrets involving incest, pointing to a wholly different set of motives.
S27.E3 ∙ Silent Truth
Farid Mamood,son of an Iranian refugee family is burnt to death in an alley way. Joined by liaison officer Mita Rahim,the team initially discount a racial motive and believe a family member may be hiding something. Then,after Jackie has discovered graffiti relating to Lockerbie, Farid's sister Delkash is also attacked. Another sibling, Yusi,who is gay,also dies after trying to bribe immigration officer Kirkwood into extending the family's stay,putting Kirkwood in the frame along with Iraqi veteran Billy Geddes,who married into the Mamoud family and smug local entrepreneur Keenan,to whom Mamoud Senior was a business rival. Ultimately the motives are indeed racial though the remaining family members still find themselves facing deportation through insufficient grounds for remaining in Glasgow.
S27.E4 ∙ Fallen Angels
Unemployed depressive Peter Ferguson hangs himself after apparently killing his four children with drug over-doses,though one,Callum,survives. However pathologist Duncan believes that Ferguson died some while before the children. Lou,the widow,was once the baby-sitter for a child who died in her care,whose mother never forgave her. Furthermore Lou was having an affair with work colleague Greg and someone alerted Peter to the fact. And Peter was due to give evidence at a tribunal over his dismissal. The truth,when it comes,is ultimately both simple and shocking,touching even the hard-nosed Burke.
S27.E5 ∙ Bloodsport
Noel Cash's battered corpse is found dumped by the motorway. His father Eddie, unaware of his son's fate, complains to the police that the lads from his boxing gym are being lured into cage fighting by shifty Don McGreevy, at whose fight club Robbie is a regular visitor and where Noel boxed to get himself out of debt. Texts on Noel's phone lead to pole dancer Anita, who also worked at the fight club and whose boy-friend, pimp Bomber Dunne, was jealous of her friendship with Noel. When Eddie is also murdered, Burke leans on McGreevy's right hand man, ex-boxer Alamo Higgins, to lead him to the killer.
S27.E6 ∙ Ends of Justice
Whilst Jackie is celebrating her promotion to inspector Robbie is beating up a pusher in his efforts to wean Katie,a drug addict he has befriended,off heroin. However he is reported,put under investigation and suspended from the investigation into the murder of busker Jacko. CCTV places council official Clark Donovan and gangster Benny Docherty in the area,both photographed together by art student Micky Dawson,taking photographs for a project. Micky is placed in a safe house but shot,due to Robbie's disclosure of his whereabouts to Docherty,who has abducted Katie. When Katie is also killed,Robbie,fuelled by rage,returns to give Jackie a vital piece of information,though Jacko's murderer is revealed to have also been a victim. Docherty is ultimately caged as the team close ranks to save Robbie's job.
