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Season 5 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 8
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

	5x01 Spare Parts Jack confronts his nemesis in court when Ricky Hanson stands trial for his attempted murder, and Gerry faces the consequences of lying to his 'daughter', Emily. The team uncover a shady ...	Jul. 07, 2008
	5x02 Final Curtain The team return to the 1992 case of actor Michael Austin, shot dead by his wife on stage during the opening night performance of Death at the Masked Ball. Already a man down when Halford ...	Jul. 14, 2008
	5x03 Face for Radio The team reinvestigates the murder of a popular DJ who died live on air after an arson attack at 80s music station Roxy Radio. Brian Lane is determined to find the missing Jack when ...	Jul. 21, 2008
	5x04 Loyalties and Royalties Gerry meets his heroes, the 70s rock band Bad Faith, when the team investigate the death of its lead guitarist. It is over 30 years since the group split up, however, and the ageing ...	Jul. 28, 2008
	5x05 Couldn't Organise One The team investigate the death of the Chief Brewer at Felspar's Brewery which proves to be rather intoxicating for the boys. For Sandra, the case has a more personal agenda and she ...	Aug. 04, 2008
	5x06 Magic Majestic The team investigate the art of illusion when they reopen a case involving a magic trick that ended in murder. Powerful mind games and hypnosis prove a dangerous mix for Brian Lane, ...	Aug. 11, 2008
	5x07 Communal Living As Brian struggles to control and conceal his desire to drink again, he finds the perfect refuge in a commune at the centre of the team's investigation into the death of a university ...	Aug. 18, 2008
	5x08 Mad Dogs Ministry of Defence spooks try to silence the UCOS team when they reinvestigate the death of British soldier Eric Trimble. Just weeks before a tour of duty in Iraq, Trimble, along with ...	Aug. 25, 2008

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Season 5 Characters

Brian Lane	played by Alun Armstrong
Det Supt Sandra Pullman	played by Amanda Redman
Jack Halford	played by James Bolam
Gerry Standing	played by Dennis Waterman
Esther Lane	played by Susan Jameson
D.A.C. Strickland	played by Anthony Calf
Emily Driscoll	played by Hannah Waterman
D A C Strickland	played by Anthony Calf
Brandon Skye	played by Mark Bazeley
Grace Pullman	played by Sheila Hancock
James Strickland	played by Will Kemp
Guy Carse	played by Sam Kelly
Jeremy Kirk	played by Reece Shearsmith
Mark Lane	played by Sam Hazeldine
Diane King	played by Penny Downie
Paula Standing	played by Paula Jennings
Lulu Questor	played by Sara Stewart
Helen Brownlow	played by Claire Bloom
Ricky Hanson	played by David Troughton
Bobby 'Tar' Mcadam	played by Donald Sumpter
Cameron Wyatt	played by George Asprey
Charles Preston	played by Paul Antony-Barber
Sharon Revie	played by Alison Egan

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Season 5 / Episode 5: - Couldn't Organise One

TV Reporter: [on TV] After hearing the guilty verdict, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Robert Strickland gave this reaction.
D A C Strickland: It is hard to comprehend how a detective of McAdam's rank and experience could have deceived his fellow officers for so long.
Gerry Standing: 'Cause you were in charge of him, you pillock!
D A C Strickland: We will now undertake a full and thorough review of all the major investigations led by DCI Mcadam during the last fifteen years.
Brian Lane: Ouch.
Jack Halford: Fifteen years.
Gerry Standing: Pity the poor bastards who've got to sort that lot out.
Det Supt Sandra Pullman: [holding a thick file] Yes, pity.
Brian Lane: But it's nothing to do with us; those are all closed cases.
Det Supt Sandra Pullman: All except this one.
Gerry Standing: No way!
Det Supt Sandra Pullman: You don't want to do it?
Jack Halford: No.
Det Supt Sandra Pullman: Nineteen ninety-eight, a twenty-six-year-old named Graham Thompson drowned in a vat of beer. Felspar's Brewery, Hoxton - as in the still functioning, still making beer Felspar's. [pause] OK. Fair enough.
Brian Lane: Felspar's. I must have drunk gallons of the stuff.
Gerry Standing: We could have a *little* look.
Jack Halford: Wouldn't hurt.

Season 5 / Episode 5: - Couldn't Organise One

Gerry Standing: The brewery paid for most of this, didn't it?
Jacinta Felspar: I got this the hard way: I married someone.
Gerry Standing: Tell me about it.

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Season 5 Trivia

Episode 08 - Goof (continuity error): When Brian Lane was briefing the rest of the team about the murder, the photographs of the victim and his friends who were the last people to see him alive were fastened to a notice board by magnets of various different colours. In the long shots of Brian in front of the board and in the e
Episode 07 - Goof (continuity error): When Heidi is being interviewed her hair is over her right eye, then in the closer shot it's tucked behind her ear, then it's back to where it was. The intervening shots do not show any movement that could have done this.
Episode 02 - Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Sandra Pullman says that actor Bruce Lee died during filming. Acutally Bruce Lee died of a cerebral edema while taking a nap in a hotel room. She confuses him with his son [url=
Episode 03 - Goof (continuity error): Johnny Deacon's gravestone shows that he died on 30 September 1998, but on the day of his death he says on his radio show that it is a year ago this week since Diana Princess of Wales died. In fact she died on 31 August 1997, thirteen months earlier.

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