The essential episodes of No Offence
Watch these 15 in order and you've got No Offence — each pick states its reason.
- 01
DI Deering and her team must crack the case of a twisted serial killer - by whatever unconventional means possible.After a harrowing experience, DC Dinah Kowalska learns she's on the shortlist for a promotion from her no-nonsense boss, DI Vivienne Deering. Later, Dinah connects a body at the morgue to a series of murdered girls with Down's syndrome.
- 02
After Deering and her team lose the serial killer case to Maclaren, the cops see a chance to redeem themselves by investigating a dangerous new street drug.Dinah invites Cathy, the girl she saved, to stay at her house, but their arrangement causes trouble for the investigation. After watching a teenager overdose, Viv and her team trace a bad batch of drugs to a wealthy couple.
- 03
Deering leads a manhunt through Manchester as the net closes in on the serial killer. Meanwhile, Joy and Spike discover an unsettling slavery case after a brutal attack on a young homeless man.
- 04
In the final episode, Dinah clashes with Deering, setting off an irreversible chain of events, and an attempt to save the lives of a mother and baby goes disastrously wrong
- 05
Paul Abbott's award-winning drama returns for a second series of rollercoaster cases to be cracked by the brilliant, but dysfunctional crime fighting family of coppers. On full surveillance mode, the Friday Street squad have an explosive start to the day, at the funeral of the son of notorious gangster Nora Attah. Straight back in the deep end, DI Viv Deering and the team fight to prevent the breakout of a gang war in the city. Meanwhile Joy and Tegan literally uncover a body of work to piece together a case against the dodgy crematorium owners.
- 06
Paul Abbott's award-winning drama returns for a second series of rollercoaster cases to be cracked by the brilliant, but dysfunctional crime fighting family of coppers. As the team quell the riots that are exploding throughout Manchester, Dinah's discovery of young casualties in a gang-owned property pushes investigations in an unexpected direction. Joy is thrown into freefall after a shock discovery at Friday Street.
- 07
The race to nail the Attahs sows seeds of mistrust and secrecy between Deering, Dinah and Joy, while a peaceful protest at an abortion clinic starts to spiral out of control.
- 08
With Deering suspended from duty, she runs rogue determined to get Nora. Back at the station, Lickberg tries to control the team, as they urgently up the manhunt for one of the Attahs' missing victims. And an unlikely alliance is agreed between Deering and Nora, who wants to stop an FGM cutter arriving on her patch - and Teegan is sent in under cover.
- 09
With Deering, Dinah and Joy's friendship in jeopardy and Donna Calvert missing, the race to prevent the Attahs' escape and to bag them once and for all puts the team's lives at stake. The final action-packed showdown sees Viv at her finest, deconstructing Nora's family, and trying to repair the fractures that have crept in to her own...
- 10
DI Viv Deering and the Friday Street team face off against their most formidable antagonist yet: the far-right. The series opens amidst a contentious mayoral election fought between incumbent liberal Kashif Hassan and political underdog and local-girl-done-good Caroline McCoy. DI Viv Deering and the Friday Street team are drawn into their rivalry when a mayoral hustings between the pair becomes a flashpoint for deadly violence as assassin Beckett enters the political fray.
- 11
Killer Beckett's next target is Manchester's children and Viv and the team must track down the poisoned batch of halal meat that Beckett has unleashed on the city before it's too late. In the hunt to get closer to Beckett, Dinah attempts to win the trust of the undercover cop in the midst of the far-right group Beckett used to be involved in - and uncovers explosive secrets.
- 12
Election day looms and the team is on high alert, as Beckett's reign of terror appears to be escalating when an elderly Jewish man is found dead in a graveyard. The team is right on Beckett's tail, and a meeting between getaway driver Dennis and Beckett promises to be the key to capturing him.
- 13
The team have 48 hours to get Dennis to betray his best friend and turn police informant. When Viv tunnels down to Dennis's deepest insecurities she unleashes more than she could have bargained for.
- 14
Caroline McCoy's political reign brings chaos to the streets of Manchester, and catapults hardline DCI Terry Taylor into Friday Street cop shop, to bring the police in line with her agenda. While avoiding Taylor's interference, the team focus on trying to engineer a face-to-face meeting with Beckett.
- 15
The team are running out of options and their strategy is threatened when one of their own is placed in peril.
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