Keeping these streets clean is a Herculean task, enough to demoralize even the keenest rookie – but there’s a reason why this hotchpotch of committed cops are on this force, on this side of town. Drug labs, arsonists, neo-Nazis and notorious murderers are all in a day’s work for this close-knit team, led by the dizzyingly capable but unquestionably unhinged DI Vivienne Deering. But when a particularly twisted serial killer emerges it leaves even the most hardened of these seasoned coppers reeling.
Episode 1 (Episode 1) 7.9
Writer: Paul Abbott
Air date: 2015-05-05
Runtime: 47 min
Overview: Single mother and off-duty detective constable Dinah Kowalska pursues a murder suspect through the streets of Manchester, only for him to get killed by a bus. As a result, Vivienne Deering, her outspoken detective inspector superior, instructs her to withdraw her application for sergeant, the promotion going instead to the nervous Joy Freers. On a visit to the morgue, Kowalska sees the corpse of a girl with Down Syndrome, the second victim with that condition to be hauled out of a river in recent weeks, and suspects a serial killer is at large.
Episode 2 (Episode 2) 7.8
Writer: Paul Abbott
Air date: 2015-05-12
Runtime: 47 min
Overview: Kowalska is taken off the murder case as her involvement with Cathy Calvert has made her too subjective but Deering asks her to assist when a student is found dead of an overdose. Drugs expert Randolph Miller directs the team towards a house suspected of being a drugs factory. Former chemical factory employee Angelica Costeros is brought in but refuses to incriminate potential co-defendant Jensen Raphael until Kowalska and Spike Tanner unite to get her to talk.
Episode 3 (Episode 3) 7.6
Writer: Paul Tomalin
Air date: 2015-05-19
Runtime: 47 min
Overview: The serial killer is showing no signs of slowing down, while local racial tensions are also running high when an Asian woman is killed in a suspected racist attack.
Episode 4 (Episode 4) 6.1
Writer: Jack Lothian
Air date: 2015-05-26
Runtime: 47 min
Overview: The Friday Street team uncover a scam encouraging people in debt to sell their kidneys, while the search for another girl abducted by the serial killer leads to a big breakthrough.
Episode 5 (Episode 5) 6.4
Writer: Paul Abbott
Air date: 2015-06-02
Runtime: 47 min
Overview: The police set up a trap for the prime suspect in the serial killer case, but their plans could be derailed entirely after a notorious child murderer's new identity is leaked on the internet.
Episode 6 (Episode 6) 7.6
Writer: Mark Greig
Air date: 2015-06-09
Runtime: 47 min
Overview: Deering leads a manhunt through Manchester as the net closes in on the serial killer. Joy and Spike discover an unsettling slavery case after a brutal attack on a young homeless man.
Episode 7 (Episode 7) 6.3
Writer: Paul Tomalin
Air date: 2015-06-16
Runtime: 47 min
Overview: The fatal shooting of a respected surgeon leads the team to an unlikely suspect. Meanwhile, Dinah and Deering make disturbing new discoveries in the serial killer case, fearing it might not be over.
Episode 8 (Episode 8) 6.9
Writer: Paul Abbott
Air date: 2015-06-23
Runtime: 47 min
Overview: In the final episode, Dinah 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.
