Series 8

2014 · 8 episodes · 5h 59m in all · 7.2/10

1. Flaw
12 Mar 2014 · 45 min · 6.5/10
Ronnie and new partner Joe Hawkins, who has come from the child protection unit, investigate a gruesome double murder where the victims' hands and teeth were removed.
2. Safe from Harm
19 Mar 2014 · 46 min
Philip Gardner, a psychiatrist specialising in troubled adolescents, is stabbed to death and Ronnie initially believes that one of his clients is the culprit.
3. I Predict a Riot
26 Mar 2014 · 45 min
When a car is pulled from a river with a skeleton in its boot the pathologist reckons both have been there for a quarter of a century and eventually the dead man is shown to be Taylor Kane, one of the first black undercover officers, who disappeared at the time of the Brixton riots.
4. Pride
2 Apr 2014 · 45 min
Unemployed family man Neil Lester is battered to death with a paper-weight in his own home, having convinced his wife that he has been working for the past nine months
5. Customs
9 Apr 2014 · 45 min · 8.0/10
The body of elderly businesswoman Ranya Habib is found at a suicide spot but foul play is suspected after a neighbour tells Ronnie he heard her arguing with somebody.
6. Bad Romance
16 Apr 2014 · 45 min · 7.0/10
Maids find blood-stained sheets but no body in a hotel room, booked with a credit card stolen from businessman Charles Hutton by Rufus Barton, a school classmate and secret lover of Hutton's daughter Georgia.
7. Hard Stop
23 Apr 2014 · 43 min
When a spate of shootings claims one of Ronnie and Joe's own, Wes Leyton, the pair are left with a race against time as the next target the shooter has in his cross-hairs is CPS boss Henry Sharpe.
8. Repeat to Fade
11 Jun 2014 · 45 min
Still affected by the death of one of their team, Ronnie and Joe have a new case to deal with when a young mother is stabbed to death in a busy London marketplace.