The worst episodes of No Offence
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- 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
The search for another girl abducted by the serial killer leads to a big breakthrough.Dinah attends to a man who walked out in front of a car to commit suicide, but the case becomes more complicated when the police inform the next of kin. Viv's team desperately searches for a missing girl, concerned she may be the serial killer's next victim.
- 03
As Paul Abbott's procedural saga continues, there's no shortage of fresh problems for DI Vivienne Deering and her team. The police are readying a trap for the prime suspect in the serial killer case, but their best-laid plans soon come unstuck. The long-suffering law enforcers risk their operation being derailed entirely when a notorious child murderer's new identity is leaked online, so the team have to come up with a new approach - and fast.
- 04
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.
- 05
The serial killer is showing no signs of slowing down, while local racial tensions are also running high when an Asian woman is killed in a suspected racist attack
- 06
The fatal shooting of a respected surgeon leads the team to an unlikely suspect. Meanwhile, Dinah and Deering make disturbing new discoveries in the serial killer case, fearing it might not be over.
- 07
The dead vape shop kids are all identified, as Dinah and Deering hunt for those aiding the Attahs in child exploitation. They uncover tensions and secrets within the Attah family that could provide a crucial breakthrough. Friday Street's beat cops are called to an armed robbery at a pub in a converted bank, but it's turned into a hostage situation. Jonah is forced to find another way to apprehend a man posing as a paramedic, as the faker continually slips through legal loop holes.
- 08
Tensions run high between Joy, Dinah and Deering as they look at the possibility of the Attahs' operations stretching to the collusion of one of their own Friday Street team. An urgent search ensues when a father reports his teenage daughter as missing, but the case grows even more complicated when the cops discover that the girl has clearly been groomed online.
- 09
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.
- 10
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.
- 11
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.
- 12
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.
- 13
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.
- 14
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.
- 15
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.
- 16
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.
- 17
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
- 18
The team are running out of options and their strategy is threatened when one of their own is placed in peril.
- 19
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...
- 20
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.
- 21
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.
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