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- Season 4

(1999)

What happened to little Mary? Eight years ago, the town was sure they knew: Benny, a boy with a metal plate in his head, who also disappeared. When another little girl is gone, Dalziel's squad investigates, but Pascoe is sidelined by his daughter's meningitis. Mary's bereaved family adopted Betsy (now called Elizabeth), who has become a well-known singer; she has come home to sing a requiem for Mary. Townspeople claim to have seen Benny; his aunt had a visitor asking about money close to her death; Betsy's fathers (birth and adopted) and even little Rose Pascoe are ...

Over 30 years into her sentence for the murder of her lover's wife, Cissy Kohler claims she was coerced into a false confession. When she is released, she is in protective custody while Dalziel and his comatose former boss are being investigated for their roles in the conviction. Among the discoveries: faked deaths, a book purchased just to be suppressed, blackmail, treachery in the espionage department, and another murder. Dalziel wants the truth, but he also wants to be vindicated in Kohler's case. Can he have both?

The drugs-related death of young man who lapsed into a coma at a rave club attracts the interest of Dalziel (Warren Clarke) and Pascoe (Colin Buchanan). As the detectives investigate deeper into the rave club they discover that the club is owned by Nicholas (Andrew Lee Potts) and Sophie (Sarah-Jane Potts), intense, inseparable twins, and financed by their seemingly benign Uncle Henry (Bernard Cribbins), a maker of perfume. This bizarre trio cause problems enough for Dalziel but he comes under more pressure when, during a drugs raid, he arrests the son of his ex-wife, Mary Waddell (Harriet Walter). After another strange murder at the club, Dalziel and ...

Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel goes to The British Grenadier to console the pub's owner Stella, who has just had a serious fight with her husband. Suspecting her of infidelity, Stella's husband returns with a gun, and takes his wife, Andy, and a number of patrons hostage.