New Tricks

Latest Episodes

• Season 9 Episode 10: Part of a Whole

  Strickland's Whitehall pal Stephen Fisher is targeted by an assassin, so the UCOS boss enlists the team to find whoever was responsible. He reveals that 30 years earlier, he and Fisher were involved in a covert MI5 operation to break into the house of a journalist believed to have information on an IRA arms deals. But with several of the original agents having died in suspicious circumstances, he believes someone is out to kill them all - and when a connection is made between a gangster and MI5, it seems the threat may be coming from within the security service itself. Tim McInnerny (Blackadder) and Kerry Fox (Shallow Grave) guest star

• Season 9 Episode 9: Glasgow UCOS

  In a special edition of the detective drama that features only two members of the team, Gerry Standing and Steve McAndrew travel to Glasgow where a new UCOS section is being set up. While there, they agree to assist the investigation into the 1983 unsolved murder of James Soutar, the wealthy owner of a string of betting shops. Cathy Sinclair, one of the beneficiaries of the bookie's will at his death, had a care-home upbringing in common with Soutar, but she claims to have no idea who he was or why she was left £15,000. McAndrew has a personal stake in the case - the original investigating officer was corrupt cop Frank McNair, who had an affair with his wife, and their paths soon cross. The London-based officers' questions soon begin to unsettle someone and a campaign of victimisation against them begins, but it's a revelation from McAndrew's girlfriend Charley that reawakens a long-dormant scandal and clears the path to a solution. Dennis Waterman and Denis Lawson star

• Season 9 Episode 8: Blue Flower

  The detectives investigate the murder of an East German immigrant, but all they have to go on are his mysterious final words, which translate as 'blue flower'. As they piece together his remarkable story, Sandra tries to gain the trust of his estranged daughter. Crime drama, starring Amanda Redman