The essential episodes of New Tricks
Watch these 12 in order and you've got New Tricks — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Three detectives are brought together to crack unsolved crimes from the past. Tonight, the UCOS team reopens the case of young police cadet Kate Daniels, brutally murdered in 1987.
- 02
Brian goes undercover at the London library, his "spiritual home" to learn what really happened to a cold case victim. When university professor and book lover Richard Symes fell off the roof of his college, was it suicide or murder?
- 03
Shadowy Whitehall intellegence figure Stephen Fisher arrives to tell the team about their coldest case so far: a 160-year-old murder. Then Jack stuns trhe others by announding that he's quitting.
- 04
The team reopens the case of Sean Docherty, a talented younf Belfast poet whose burned body was discovered 10 years ago in a known gangster's scrapyard. Gerry believes the murder was realted to Sean's cruiminal connections but Brian is sure the answer les in his poetry
- 05
Someone has just tried to kill Stephen Fisher, and Strickland may be next. Thirty years earlier, both were part of a group involved in a covert operatioon for MI-5. Other members of the group are already dead, Stricklad turns to Sandra ad her team for help
- 06
In 1997, on the eve of the Labour Party's landslide victory, a younng political aide was murdered, The discovery of an offshore bank account in his name containing 40,000 Pounds puts the team on the trail of a mysterious Bosnian woman.
- 07
A photo of a missing 19 year old surfaces on the 17th anniversary of her disappearance. That case was Sandra's first, and now she's determined to solve it, despite pressure to hand over the investigation. Faced with a new opportunity, Sandra turns for advice to a beloved voice from the past
- 08
With Sandra gone, Gerry, Steve, and Danny await the arrival of their new boss, DCI Sasha Miller. Arriving fresh from a SWAT raid, she jumps into her first case with the team: the 25 year old unsolved murder of an Italian immigrant. Gerry struggles to accept the new regime
- 09
The team has 24 hours to investigate a corrupt senior official who may haave surressed evidence. The case has ties to Sasha's past: a crime boss jailed because of the official's actions may have murdered her former partner on the force.
- 10
During a visit to his old neighborhood, Gerry meets a childhood friend who needs his help. Ralph Paxton's grandson, a talented young architect, died in a fall from an abandoned building; Ralph is convinced he was murdered. Meanwihile, Gerry objects to his daughter's fiancé, and Sasha is forced to work wtih her ex-husband, Ned Hancock
- 11
In the first part of a double episode, Gerry is spooked by the discovery of a cop whose body has laid untouched in a basement for 30 years. Gerry learns he will have to face up to his past, as deep-rooted accusations of police corruption begin to emerge. It is a race against time for the UCOS team as they attempt to help Gerry before his dark past begins to catch up with him.
- 12
In the ultimate series finale, UCOS are threatened with closure following their perceived mishandling of the Henway case. Their final case begins with the bloody murder of a political activist 15 years ago at the Madhouse - a hub for people with mental health issues. Just as the team are getting somewhere, the order comes from above for Ted, Danny and Steve to cease the investigation. But in true UCOS spirit, the boys throw away the rulebook and uncover something much bigger than just a straightforward murder, involving some top officials, a multinational drugs company and signs of a massive cover-up.Danny and Fiona's relationship hangs in the balance as she must give an answer to the job offer in Aberdeen, and Sasha is pulled into a game of political cat and mouse as she realises UCOS are merely puppets in Cynthia's game.
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