The worst episodes of New Tricks
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- 01
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
- 02
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.
- 03
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.
- 04
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.
- 05
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
- 06
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
- 07
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.
- 08
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
- 09
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
- 10
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?
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