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Law & Order: UK

TV·2009–2014·8 seasons, 53 episodes·ITV1·Drama, Crime, Legal·1h·7.3

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In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime, and the Crown Prosecutors who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Law & Order: UK S01E04UnsafeS01E04 · 9.3When a metal-detecting pensioner unearths a shallow grave by the side of the Thames, DS Ronnie Brooks and DS Matt Devlin are forced to reopen a contentious murder case. Their investigations into the case of Luke Slade threaten to unravel a conviction made by James Steel eight years ago, with questions over the handling of the prosecution, James' career is on the line.
  2. 02Law & Order: UK S01E05BuriedS01E05 · 9.3When the remains of an eight-year-old boy are uncovered, twenty-five years after he was reported missing, DS Brooks and DS Devlin re-interview the man arrested during the original enquiry. The boy's childhood friend reluctantly agrees to undergo EMDR therapy and appears to recall the events of the night that Tommy disappeared, but George Castle is sceptical about the value of her recovered memories.
  3. 03Law & Order: UK S01E07AleshaS01E07 · 9.3When Alesha Phillips' gynecologist touches her inappropriately during a medical examination, she purses justice with both the police and CPS. However, when no additional evidence surfaces, Alesha takes drastic action to secure a case against the doctor.

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Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode7Episodes2009Aired 9.0Season avg
  1. S01E01Law & Order: UK S01E01CareFebruary 23, 2009 9.0When the evacuation of a central London hospital leads to the discovery of a tragic death, DS Ronnie Brooks and DS Matt Devlin investigate.
  2. S01E02Law & Order: UK S01E02UnlovedMarch 2, 2009 8.7A 13-year-old boy is found kicked to death at Euston Station. DS Brooks and DS Devlin discover that the boy's mother is a reformed drug-addi
  3. S01E03Law & Order: UK S01E03ViceMarch 9, 2009 9.0An ex-vice officer is found beaten to death in a Paddington underpass. Investigating, DS Brooks and DS Devlin uncover some uncomfortable tru
  4. S01E04Law & Order: UK S01E04Season's bestUnsafeMarch 16, 2009 9.3When a metal-detecting pensioner unearths a shallow grave by the side of the Thames, DS Ronnie Brooks and DS Matt Devlin are forced to reope
  5. S01E05Law & Order: UK S01E05BuriedMarch 23, 2009 9.3When the remains of an eight-year-old boy are uncovered, twenty-five years after he was reported missing, DS Brooks and DS Devlin re-intervi
  6. S01E06Law & Order: UK S01E06ParadiseMarch 30, 2009 8.7DS Brooks and DS Devlin investigate an arson attack on a Turkish social club, which leaves seventeen undocumented immigrants dead. A complex
  7. S01E07Law & Order: UK S01E07AleshaApril 6, 2009 9.3When Alesha Phillips' gynecologist touches her inappropriately during a medical examination, she purses justice with both the police and CPS

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2010Aired 9.1Season avg
  1. S02E01Law & Order: UK S02E01SamaritanJanuary 11, 2010 9.0When a tragic communication error leaves PC Nick Bentley caught in the cross-fire of armed drug-dealers with no back-up, DS Brooks and DS De
  2. S02E02Law & Order: UK S02E02Season's bestHiddenJanuary 18, 2010 9.3When the body of missing ten year old, Jodie Gaines, is found dumped in a skip in Euston, DS Brooks and DS Devlin are faced with two suspect
  3. S02E03Law & Order: UK S02E03Community ServiceJanuary 25, 2010 8.7When a bi-polar man living in a camper van is found beaten nearly to death with an iron bar at the centre of a well kept square, DS Brooks,
  4. S02E04Law & Order: UK S02E04SacrificeFebruary 1, 2010 9.0DS Brooks and DS Devlin are called to investigate an unusual crime, a man has been attacked and had his kidney surgically removed. The team
  5. S02E05Law & Order: UK S02E05Love and LossFebruary 8, 2010 9.3When DS Brooks and DS Devlin are called to the death of a drug mule, they are surprised to discover she is a middle class white girl, Debbie
  6. S02E06Law & Order: UK S02E06Honour BoundFebruary 15, 2010 9.3Ronnie agrees to help his old friend and partner, DS Jimmy Valentine in an undercover drug sting, but a gun is pulled and someone ends up de

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode7Episodes2010Aired 9.2Season avg
  1. S03E01Law & Order: UK S03E01Season's bestBrokenSeptember 9, 2010 9.3DS Brooks and DS Devlin investigate a particularly heartbreaking case when the body of a 5 year-old boy is discovered in an empty flat. They
  2. S03E02Law & Order: UK S03E02HoundedSeptember 16, 2010 9.3When the body of a 16 year-old schoolgirl is found dead in her home in the middle of the afternoon, the investigating police cannot be sure
  3. S03E03Law & Order: UK S03E03DefenceSeptember 23, 2010 8.7When three people are brutally murdered in a shop in central London and a fourth left for dead, Matt and Ronnie are up against the clock to
  4. S03E04Law & Order: UK S03E04ConfessionSeptember 30, 2010 9.3A case hits close to home for Matt Devlin when investigating the death of a police officer, and his best friend, Pete Garvey. Devlin and Gar
  5. S03E05Law & Order: UK S03E05SurvivorOctober 7, 2010 9.3When Prison Officer Charlie Tyner is found shot dead on a council estate in Hackney, it soon comes to light that, rather than being the good
  6. S03E06Law & Order: UK S03E06MasqueradeOctober 14, 2010 9.3The mystery surrounding the stabbing of student, Archie Rahman, has Devlin and Brooks chasing their tails when the only clue they have to go
  7. S03E07Law & Order: UK S03E07AnonymousOctober 21, 2010 9.3For two years, Stephanie Blake has been stalked by a man who calls himself ‘Giovanni'. She knows nothing about him but he knows everything a

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season04Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2011Aired 8.6Season avg
  1. S04E01Law & Order: UK S04E01HelpMarch 7, 2011 8.7When as ex-premier league footballer is beaten to death with a tyre iron on a London street one evening in what looks like a robbery gone wr
  2. S04E02Law & Order: UK S04E02DenialMarch 14, 2011 8.5When high court judge Rachel Callaghan is shot in an underground car park, in what looks like a car robbery gone wrong, it soon becomes appa
  3. S04E03Law & Order: UK S04E03Season's bestIDMarch 21, 2011 9.0When a pregnant junior doctor, Alice Cullen, is found beaten to death in the car park of the hospital where she works, the prime suspect bec
  4. S04E04Law & Order: UK S04E04Duty of CareMarch 28, 2011 8.0When a fire at his home leads to the death of a teenager with severe disabilities - DS Devlin and DS Brooks soon discover the fire was no ac
  5. S04E05Law & Order: UK S04E05ShakenApril 4, 2011 9.0An unfolding tragedy takes unexpected twists and turns as what initially looks like a cot death of 6 month old Alex Raines is later diagnose
  6. S04E06Law & Order: UK S04E06SkeletonsApril 11, 2011 8.5The body of a missing child is found with a note reading 'They Must be Destroyed' - a terrifying echo for DS Brooks of an old case in which

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season05Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2011Aired 9.2Season avg
  1. S05E01Law & Order: UK S05E01Season's bestThe Wrong ManJuly 10, 2011 9.3Brought into an extremely busy A&E with flu-like symptoms and leaving in a body bag, Suzanne Morton's death is treated as suspicious by
  2. S05E02Law & Order: UK S05E02SafeJuly 17, 2011 9.3When two year old Ryan Stark goes missing from a high street merry-go-round, his distraught mother reports him kidnapped and a massive polic
  3. S05E03Law & Order: UK S05E03CrushJuly 24, 2011 9.0Found in a hotel lying in a pool of blood, call girl Katka Cizek, seems to have only one admirer capable of her murder. A man with her on th
  4. S05E04Law & Order: UK S05E04Tick TockJuly 31, 2011 9.0A night club peppered with bullets. Two victims bleeding out on the floor. The start of a deadly gun rampage through the streets of London.
  5. S05E05Law & Order: UK S05E05IntentAugust 7, 2011 9.3Stabbed to death while they slept, the killings of David and Elaine Lerner prove a mystery to DS Devlin and DS Brooks. Universally loved, th
  6. S05E06Law & Order: UK S05E06DealAugust 14, 2011 9.3When Lia Brown is killed by a stray bullet, the team struggles to understand the involvement of 12-year-old Kaden Blake in the shooting. Kad

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

Season06Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode7Episodes2012Aired 8.0Season avg
  1. S06E01Law & Order: UK S06E01Survivor's GuiltJanuary 6, 2012 7.8A drive-by shooting outside the Old Bailey leaves one police officer dead and another wounded in what appears to be a targeted attack on a w
  2. S06E02Law & Order: UK S06E02ImmuneJanuary 13, 2012 7.8A bungled robbery leads to an innocent hero being shot dead and a hostage with a potentially life threatening medical condition being seized
  3. S06E03Law & Order: UK S06E03HauntedJanuary 20, 2012 7.8When a petty criminal makes a deathbed confession to the murder of a teenage girl, Ronnie is left shaken to the core as he is forced to reop
  4. S06E04Law & Order: UK S06E04TrialJanuary 27, 2012 8.0The murder of an elderly janitor in his home is carried out with such precision and planning that the only evidence the killer leaves is des
  5. S06E05Law & Order: UK S06E05Season's bestLine UpFebruary 3, 2012 8.3A murder investigation is launched when a concerned citizen alerts the police to a shocking video that is spreading like wildfire on the web
  6. S06E06Law & Order: UK S06E06Dawn Till DuskFebruary 10, 2012 8.0Over the course of one long day, the team works on three separate cases, including tracking a serial killer, intervening in a family dispute
  7. S06E07Law & Order: UK S06E07Fault LinesFebruary 17, 2012 8.0The frenzied stabbing of a police forensic lab technician unsettles the team in a way they never expected when DS Sam Casey falls for the ki

Season 6 ranked & reviewed

Season07Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2013Aired 7.5Season avg
  1. S07E01Law & Order: UK S07E01Season's bestTracksJuly 14, 2013 7.8A suicidal man drives his car across a railway causing a massive train crash and killing over a dozen innocent passengers, but somehow he su
  2. S07E02Law & Order: UK S07E02TremorsJuly 21, 2013 7.8DS Sam Casey is suspended over the death of Finn Tyler and DI Leyton gets hands on with this investigation, with a reluctant Ronnie as his p
  3. S07E03Law & Order: UK S07E03PaternalJuly 28, 2013 7.5A man is found shot dead in a hotel room and the cash he was carrying has gone missing. Sam and Ronnie learn that the man owed his ex-­wife
  4. S07E04Law & Order: UK S07E04Fatherly LoveAugust 4, 2013 7.2The body of Charlotte Leigh is pulled from the Thames, and after ruling out suicide, Ronnie and Sam focus their enquiries on the victim's ab
  5. S07E05Law & Order: UK S07E05MortalAugust 11, 2013 7.5Following a break-in, a frail, elderly woman is found dead in her flat. DS Brooks and DS Casey suspect a robbery gone wrong and treat it as
  6. S07E06Law & Order: UK S07E06DependantAugust 18, 2013 7.4A gay father is found beaten to death and his adopted son is missing. Ronnie and Sam track down the baby's biological parents, a recovering

Season 7 ranked & reviewed

Season08Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode8Episodes2014Aired 8.0Season avg
  1. S08E01Law & Order: UK S08E01FlawMarch 12, 2014 8.3Ronnie and his new partner DS Joe Hawkins are leading an investigation into the death of jeweller Harry Bernstein, who is found dead with no
  2. S08E02Law & Order: UK S08E02Safe from HarmMarch 19, 2014 8.0The stabbing of a psychiatrist who treated teenagers and children initially leads Ronnie and Joe to question his violent adolescent clients.
  3. S08E03Law & Order: UK S08E03I Predict a RiotMarch 26, 2014 8.3Whilst helping out the drugs squad on a bust, Ronnie and Joe stumble upon a body that has been hidden inside the boot of a car in the Thames
  4. S08E04Law & Order: UK S08E04PrideApril 2, 2014 7.5The death of a seemingly innocent family man leads Ronnie and Joe to go on the hunt for the murderer, but they soon discover that the accuse
  5. S08E05Law & Order: UK S08E05Season's bestCustomsApril 9, 2014 8.6When Ronnie and Joe are called to a suicide it doesn't take long for Ronnie to suspect foul play: Ranya Habib had no reason to kill herself.
  6. S08E06Law & Order: UK S08E06Bad RomanceApril 16, 2014 8.3A bloody hotel room and a stolen credit card lead Ronnie and Joe to Charles Hutton, a member of the wealthy upper-class who dotes on his wif
  7. S08E07Law & Order: UK S08E07Hard StopApril 23, 2014 7.8When a series of shootings claims one of their own, Ronnie and Joe have little time to grieve – they must catch the killer before he or she
  8. S08E08Law & Order: UK S08E08Repeat to FadeJune 11, 2014 7.3After a fatal stabbing in a crowded market place, the pressure is on to make Londoners feel safe again. Ronnie and Joe have a new boss to co

Season 8 ranked & reviewed

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