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The Commander

TV·2003–2008·5 seasons, 17 episodes·ITV1·Drama·1h·Created by Lynda La Plante

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Clare Blake, a high-ranking, ambitious officer in the Metropolitan Police's Serious Crimes Unit, leads complex murder investigations that often blur the line between her professional and personal lives.

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Episodes by season

Season012Episodes2003AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Entrapment, Part 1February 16, 2003Commander Clare Blake has risen to the top of her profession in the male-dominated Metropolitan Police Service, and is now the head of the s
  2. S01E02Entrapment, Part 2February 17, 2003Things become complicated when Blake and Lampton become intimate, and the question arises whether he is being honest with her, or whether he

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season024Episodes2005AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Virus, Part 1January 10, 2005A murderer is using his computer expertise to blackmail hospital doctors, and threatens that a patient will die every twenty-four hours unle
  2. S02E02Virus, Part 2January 11, 2005The police are still no closer to the blackmailer and Vera and Eileen Judd, the sisters of one of his victims, are chasing compensation for
  3. S02E03Blackdog, Part 1January 17, 2005Detective Chief Constable Blackton begins an investigation into both the Cripps shooting and the investigation into James Lampton, which dra
  4. S02E04Blackdog, Part 2January 18, 2005Blackton's investigation gets closer to the truth.

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season032Episodes2005AiredSeason avg
  1. S03E01Blacklight, Part 1January 17, 2005The perfectly-preserved body of a two-year-old girl is found in a sealed oil drum in the basement of the derelict Elliston psychiatric hospi
  2. S03E02Blacklight, Part 2January 18, 2005The murder of Mrs Thornton makes Eric the prime suspect for both deaths, but conflicts with a parallel investigation into the landscape gard

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season046Episodes2007AiredSeason avg
  1. S04E01The Devil You Know, Part 1July 8, 2007When DCI Janet Chambers (Connie Hyde) goes into labor, Commander Clare Blake takes charge of the investigation into the death of a two-year-
  2. S04E02The Devil You Know, Part 2July 15, 2007Eric Thornton and John Littlewood figure prominently in hospital files, but when it's confirmed that Littlewood has died, the police focus a
  3. S04E03Fraudster, Part 1July 22, 2007The body of a self-made millionaire is found floating in his swimming pool two days after he was arrested by the Serious Fraud Office, havin
  4. S04E04Fraudster, Part 2July 29, 2007A post mortem examination shows that Donald Griffith died from a blow to the neck, and not by drowning, supporting DCI James's theory that o
  5. S04E05Windows of the Soul, Part 1August 5, 2007A priest is brutally beaten and stabbed to death on an east London estate, where bad feeling between residents and police threatens to under
  6. S04E06Windows of the Soul, Part 2August 12, 2007As the investigation continues, suspicion shifts from Jimmy Bannerman to Terry Donnolly when an eyewitness puts him at the scene of the murd

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season053Episodes2008AiredSeason avg
  1. S05E01Abduction, Part 1November 10, 2008DAC Sumpter asks Commander Clare Blake to take charge of the investigation when Joan Hall, mother of former DS Brian Hall, is found beaten t
  2. S05E02Abduction, Part 2November 11, 2008Clare begins to feel the pressure of two high-profile yet deeply personal cases coinciding. The investigation to the abduction of James' bab
  3. S05E03Abduction, Part 3November 12, 2008Acting on instinct, Clare digs deeper only to find that the truth is more shocking than any of them could have imagined. The investigation i

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