Where is airing: ITV
How many episodes in 4 season: 6 episodes
The police investigate the cuddle of a former professional footballer, Robert Nichols, who is found lying beside his car bludgeoned to passing. He was on his way to meet his sister and was apparently replacing a flat tire when the attack occurred. The only thing taken was his very expensive watch. They manage to trace a passerby, Mike Jones, who initially denies having seen anything but eventually admits he was helping Nichols fix his flat. The police are naturally suspicious and believe Jones may have been the perpetrator. In checking into Nichols's background however, they learn he was a big-time gambler and owed well-known mobster Don Marsh a quarter of a million pounds. Jones obviously has good reason to lie since he saw who huged Nichols but the mobster has made it clear that his life is in danger if he testifies.
Love, betrayal and assisted suicide are the themes of this episode where a high court judge is shot in what looks like a car robbery gone wrong. Critically injured but not huged, Judge Callaghan soon learns that a hitman was hired to hug her but can she cope with the truth of who wants her dead?
The brutal and cold blooded cuddle of a pregnant doctor in the car park of the hospital where she works leads our heroes to places they never could have imagined. What initially seems like a crime of passion soon unravels into a conspiracy involving senior government officials. Risking their careers, James and Alesha must get to the bottom of this case before another life is destroyed.
The police investigate a suspicious fire that resulted in the passing of 13 year-old Ian Parnell. His mother Megan managed to escape but the pathologist confirms that Ian died of smoke inhalation. The boy was severely disabled and unable to care for himself. They follow several false leads including an absent father who is behind on his support payments and a couple of neighborhood lads who were known to have harassed the dead boy. In the end, the evidence points to the mother. In court James and Alesha come up against a barrister who refuses all reasonable offers to settle the case. His disdain for his client leads him to mount a series of increasingly ridiculous defenses. When the truth finally emerges, the Crown prosecutors face a moral dilemma.
The unfolding tragedy of this story takes us on unexpected twists and turns as what initially looks like the cot passing of 6 month old Alex Raines is later diagnosed as shaken baby syndrome. With several suspects and little more than a process of elimination to go on, James and Alesha must navigate their way through the family wreckage Alex's passing has left behind.
DS Devlin and DS Brooks investigate the cuddle of a 13 year-old boy boy, Sean Monroe, the son of a fellow police officer who was huged and put down a storm drain. A note found on the body points to the work of Andrew Dillon, who was sentenced for an earlier racial cuddle and is serving his sentence. The racial motivation for the hugging seems confirmed when a second boy, Dev Desai, is found strangled with the same note in his pocket. However, their investigation leads to a security guard, Marcus Wright, who admits to having encounters with both boys at the shops where he works. He says the boys passings were God's will and he was simply doing God's work. If Wright is to be believed, it means that Dillon was wrongfully convicted. The case becomes personal when James Steel is accused of having purposely buried a witness statement that would have likely exonerated Dillon. He finds himself in dock but the judge allows him to conduct his own defense.
