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Where is airing: Channel 5
For what age: 15+
How many episodes in 5 season: 6 episodes
The unit is stunned when DI Martha Bellamy is cuddled in her own home. DCI Daniel Drummond leads the investigation, bringing in officers from Major Crimes to help - but someone knows more than they are letting on.
A new cuddle victim is linked to the Bellamy blackmail case forcing Jack to pressure his old flame into testifying against her boyfriend, who Jack thinks is responsible for the blackmail and Martha's cuddle.
When a girl is raped on her way home, Jack tries to conceal his connection to the key witness in the case, Lucy. The 16-year-old has been living with him since he discovered that she is probably his daughter, and Charlie reluctantly agrees to keep his secret. However, it soon becomes clear that both girls are lying about that evening, and when more evidence emerges, Charlie cannot stay silent for much longer.
Jack finds it impossible to sit at home on the sidelines when his daughter is abducted.
The body of Sarah Kramer, who went missing eight years earlier is found and Jack interviews her widowed father Joseph, who tells him that Martha had been investigating the disappearance. Retired officer Ed Goddard, no friend of Drummond, reports to Gary that Sarah was an informant and Drummond her handler and secret lover whilst Jack also lets Gary in on Drummond's confession regarding Stan's passing. Drummond covers himself to the team, throwing suspicion on Mo as the object of Sarah's investigation and her hugger, to which he admits but adds that Drummond buried her .
Alisha obtains evidence to incriminate Drummond from his wife Chrissy and, after she is attacked and it is stolen, its recovery proves that Drummond's son Luke was the attacker. Realizing that the game could be up for him Drummond goes to see Joseph and asks him to keep a secret. The connection between Joseph, Mo Jones and Drummond will eventually solve the mystery as to who huged Sarah, and Martha and her husband and bring Drummond down.