Inspecteurs associés

- Season 5

(2000)

Having recovered from his wounds Andy Dalziel returns to the fold just as Peter Pascoe is in the midst of an undercover operation trying to capture a serial killer. Peter corners the man who then jumps to his death but the only witness turns out to be Abbie Hallingsworth who was kidnapped 19 years before and presumed dead. More difficult however is that her kidnapper, Gus Mullavey, confessed to her murder and is still in prison, though now on his deathbed. Dalziel has a great deal of difficulty in accepting the situation and Abbie's family has mixed feelings about her...

After Georgina Webster dies following a fall from her horse during a fox hunt, it's put down to an accident. When the Master of the Hunt, James Marsham, receives an anonymous letter saying her death was a good thing, he asks the police to investigate. ACC Rebecca Fenning puts Dalziel in charge of the case and he would rather be doing almost anything else. He doesn't object to fox hunting as much as he does the hunters who he sees as the privileged gentry who treat working class people like him as dirt. They exhume Webster's body and find that her fall may not have ...

Peter is asked to protect Barney Winkler, a German academic whose book on the Cold war has put him in danger from former Stasi members. Winkler is seen in conversation with an ex-associate Leon Falke, who is murdered, Winkler disappearing soon after, his abandoned car dumped in the sea. Andy is holidaying in Scarborough where he meets old flame Florence Stockton, a much-married lady. Several of Florence's ex-husbands turn up mysteriously dead in Yorkshire. Andy is called back to look into the German's disappearance. Florence also knew Winkler. Is she the link to the ...

Judge Jerry Chance is shot dead at point blank range and immediate suspicion falls on Kenneth Barbour, a large scale drugs importer being tried by the judge. Then Christina, his widow and prospective Euro MP, tells the police that they both had male lovers. When Simon, the judge's boyfriend is also found dead and an attempt is made to kill Christina, Andy is convinced the link is the successful businessman Peter Ransom. He employed Simon, was the former business partner of Christina's lover Peter Deller, and was once tried and acquitted by the judge for insider ...