When pathologist Bob Ruxton is suspended on the grounds of negligence UCOS are forced to reopen one of his cases. Dr Bernard Fletcher, a senior palaeontologist specialising in fossil birds at the Natural History Museum, was found dead following a corporate event in the Central Hall.

Episode 2 - End of the Line

When Peter Offord is arrested in connection with a warehouse robbery, DNA tests prove his innocence but link him directly to an unnamed vagrant who was strangled on a tube train 15 years earlier, prompting UCOS to reopen the case.

Episode 3 - Lost in Translation

The UCOS team are drawn into a world of immigration loopholes, Albanian gangs and family feuds when they reinvestigate the death of an unidentified male discovered on farmland in 1996.

Episode 4 - Setting Out Your Stall

The UCOS team reinvestigates a highly sensitive case, when new information links the unexplained death of popular market trader Kathy Green, to a series of drug rapes in East London.

Episode 5 - Moving Target

When psychologist Samantha Gerson arrives at UCOS to conduct a study on older men in the workplace, she is greeted by a mixed reception. But Samantha isn't just interested in the three ex-coppers. She needs a favour and asks Pullman to look at her brother's case. Darren Gerson, a cycle courier, was the victim of a hit and run in May 2006 which left him with a serious brain injury and complete memory loss.

Episode 6 - Objects of Desire

Some past memories and feelings are stirred up when Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is reunited with an old flame. Now head of the Met's arts and antiques squad, DCI Larson asks Pullman and her team to reinvestigate the murder of antiques dealer Mal Baxter.

Episode 7 - The Gentleman Vanishes

The UCOS team reinvestigate the disappearance of a leading scientist when his wife receives a number of anonymous emails from someone claiming to know what happened to him. UCL physics professor Phillip Mackenna disappeared on a train when travelling to a conference in Paris in 2004. CCTV shows him leaving his seat to go to the buffet car but he was never seen again. Mackenna was working on a revolutionary cold fusion project when he went missing. W

Episode 8 - Only The Brave

The UCOS team reinvestigate the murder of Eddie Chapman, leader of a notorious criminal motorbike gang, The Braves, when new evidence is brought to them by an unlikely source. Stephanie Parr, the girlfriend of Eddie Chapman's son Reece, risks her own safety to turn to UCOS with information about Chapman's death. Reece is about to be put through the final initiation into The Braves – to avenge his father's murder by killing the rival gang member they believe was responsible. Desperate to stop Reece, Stephanie reveals the gang are targeting the wrong man and urges Pullman to reopen the case. But no one who speaks out about The Braves lives to tell the tale and, despite the team's reassurances that Stephanie will be protected, word leaks out.

Episode 9 - Half Life

UCOS reinvestigate the murder of an identified male found in a West London alleyway seven years ago when the victim is named on a website highlighting unexplained disappearances. The victim, Christopher Collins, is named by Lisa Carlisle, wife of garage owner John, who employed Collins as a mechanic six months before his death. The Carlisles assumed that Collins had just moved on. Neither seems to know anything about him beyond the fact that he could strip a gearbox.

Episode 10 - Tiger Tiger

UCOS reopen the case of zoo keeper Zac Halsey, who was mauled to death in the tiger enclosure at Harefield Zoo in 2006. Originally ruled as a tragic accident, blood found in Zac's lodgings during a recent refurbishment at the zoo suggests he was killed before being found in the enclosure. Not all the team are happy about visiting the zoo. It brings out the animal rights activist in Brian who soon clashes with the zoo's PR, Tabitha Hall-Chalmers, over keeping wild animals in captivity. A loner, Zac appeared to have few friends other than the animals he tended. But the team discover that Zac was something of an adrenaline junkie with a passion for high-risk activities, some of which contradict his animal-loving reputation

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