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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.

A thriller centered on a serial killer in a rundown London suburb.

Follows the life of transgender contract killer Mia, who travels to West Yorkshire to seek out her ex girlfriend.

A father and son story, with a thriller motor. It explores a mystery from the past with a brutal and shocking revelation.

The adventures of Professor Wolfe Kinteh, a crime scene investigator in the north of England.

A teenage boy is gunned down outside a nightclub and a young girl dies in a hit and run in two seemingly unrelated deaths. Deeva Jani, returns home to clear her brother Vipon of the shooting and soon discovers a much deeper conspiracy.

You know the odds. But not the truth.

Sacked after an affair with the boss's wife magazine writer Tom Ronstadt returns from London to Bacup where his sister Nancy is caring for their father Sam, a former journalist,now suffering from Alzheimer's.Forced to stay and help Nancy, Tom finds it impossible to communicate with a father with whom, even in better days, there was plainly friction. Tom goes for a drink with old school friend Mike Eldridge, who is unaware that Tom slept with his wife Mandy, after picking her up in the pub where she works. Tom tells him he left home as a youngster when his father severely attacked him for opening a file he was working on, marked 'Metzler'. Metzler is now head of the local council. Nancy and Tom discover that huge sums of money have been paid into Sam's account and it would seem that Metzler was trying to bribe him to keep a secret. Tom's investigations are interrupted when Mike, learning of his one night stand with Mandy, punches him.

Tom learns from a newspaper archive that Metzler was a doctor at Greenlake psychiatric hospital in the 1970s. He seeks out Wendy Smith,his father's former secretary who is cagey but tells him that J. Cleaver, who has paid the money into Sam's account, was probably a patient at the hospital. Hoping that familiar faces may jog his memory Tom takes his father to his old paper's charity dinner where Sam is cordial to Metzler but Richard, a colleague of Sam's,confirms to Tom that his father was indeed investigating Metzler for malpractice. When Sam gave up Richard assumed it was for lack of evidence. Tom resumes his relationship with Mandy after Mike moves out of the house and,after his car has been rammed and two policemen threatened him to return to London he receives an envelope. The document inside confirms that Tom's real surname is Cleaver.

After Tom has shown Nancy his discovery they return to see Wendy, who sent the envelope. She reveals that Sam and his wife Edith, believing themselves unable to have children, adopted Tom. The siblings manage to get Sam to say that Metzler gave them a baby but Mandy's mother, a former nurse at Greenlake, believes that a ward orderly named Ricky Tulse, not Metzler,was the truly sinister figure who encouraged vulnerable patients to have sex whilst he watched. Tom tracks down Tulse, dying of cancer, who admits, before killing himself, that he is Tom's father, having raped his mother. He claims that Metzler was aware that patients were being sexually abused and their babies sold - Metzler being the man who paid Sam the money. Tom now has his evidence to bring down Metzler, do what is best for Sam and start a new life back home with Mandy and Nancy, following his exile.

An assassin kills their mark and is revealed to be a woman, Mia. However she is a pre-op transsexual, who was born Andy and receives a message from ex-lover Wendy, who is dying of cancer and who is the mother of Andy's child, eleven year old Ryan. Wendy dies but makes Mia Ryan's legal guardian,along with his half-siblings, teen-aged Riley and the younger Levi and Leoni. Mia arrives at the farm-house where the kids live and is greeted with hostility, largely because of her sexual position. In the village she meets John, the kids' surly landlord and his affable younger friend Ben. Mia provides the rent from one of her hits, beating up John when he threatens her and gaining some affection from Ryan, by getting him to stand up to John's son, who has been bullying him at school.

In revenge for his beating John threatens to put the farm-house up for sale, rejecting Mia's offer to buy it. The kids blame her and are still wary of having a transsexual guardian but Levi breaks down and admits to Mia how much he misses his mother and even Riley comes to appreciate that having another female presence in the house lightens her work-load. Eddie, the boss from whom Mia takes the orders for her hits, turns up with another job for her but has his name put on the lease, which ensures that Mia and the kids can stay. They have a party to celebrate but Riley slips out to meet the married John, by whom she is pregnant.

Mia has now established a better relationship with her new family despite Leoni's insistence that she can see her dead mother. She forces John at gunpoint to sell her the farm and he agrees but takes it out on his wife and on Riley, whom he demands has an abortion when she announces her pregnancy. Mia and Ben start dating but she carries out another hit - successfully - though she is hit by a car and taken to hospital, from where she escapes. In her weakened state she is taken home by Ben and decides to tell him her true situation. He is initially repulsed but eventually reconciles with her.

Whilst finally bonding with her young charges Mia is finding it hard to juggle domesticity with her work for Eddie, who refuses to let up on hits. A mysterious man temporarily kidnaps Leoni and, when he returns her, gets set upon by the family. He turns out to be Liam, Wendy's brother who has an interest in looking after the kids. Riley tells Mia she is pregnant and wants an abortion but Mia, feeling maternal instincts, dissuades her and offers to help her raise her baby. John arrives at the farm-house and demand Riley have an abortion. When she refuses he tries to strangle her but she shoots him dead with Mia's gun.

Mia discovers John's body but dissuades the traumatized Riley from involving the police, instead calling in Eddie, who helps her chop up the body and get rid of it in pieces. Eddie also tells Mia he has two hits for her to take place in the same day. Mia has - fully-clothed - sex with Ben but is annoyed to find evidence that he has been with another woman whilst Riley's pants are found in John's car at much the same time that his head washes ashore .

Mia meets Claire, her mother, at a funfair but has trouble in persuading her to accept her as a woman and is attacked by her brother, who calls her a freak. She disappears but is tracked down by Ben, who admits he loves her, and Ryan, who says "Come home, Dad, we need you." Riley is about to admit to John's murder but Liam takes the rap for her instead. Mia carries out her first hit but bungles the second. She returns to the farm-house, and tells Claire, who has finally decided to accept her, and the children that they must leave. However Eddie turns up, telling Mia that unless he kills her he will be killed by the people who ordered the hit. He points his gun at Mia but Ryan appears and trains a shotgun on Eddie.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.