There are only four female commanders in the Metropolitan Police and only one of them specialises in murder. The Commander follows Commander Clare Blake of the homicide dIvision, whose team consists of the sinister D.C.I. Hedges, who is against her from the beginning.
Entrapment (Part 1): Newly promoted, Commander Clare Blake (Amanda Burton) vows no cover-ups. When a previously convicted killer, James Lampton (Hugh Bonneville) gets released on parole, Blake's judgement is put to the test.
Entrapment (Part 2): DCI Mike Hedges conceals evidence of his involvement in the police shooting of an unarmed civilian, Lionel Cripps.
Virus (Part 1): Commander Blake is in trouble. Her relationship with convicted killer James Lampton made the tabloids, and her supervisors are not amused.
Virus (Part 2): Commander Blake's terminally ill sister moves in with her while Blake deals with the dangerous computer hacker who has threatened to kill more patients every 24 hours.
Blackdog (Part 1): Patient and persistent, Deputy Chief Constable Stephen Blackton (David O'Hara) has earned his nickname, "Blackdog," as he is called in to re-open the investigation of the Lionel Cripps shooting.
Blackdog (Part 2): After Graham Warner, the officer implicated in the Lionel Cripps shooting, is found dead in a park. Commander Blake continues to bury evidence of her relationship with James Lampton.
Blacklight (Part 1): A young woman disappears from a nightclub, and a mental patient, Reginald Aitken (Nickolas Grace) escapes from a hospital. Hours later, the two are found together covered in her blood.
Blacklight (Part 2): Dutch DI Count Eric Van Hauten offers to help DCI Hedges with a new murder case. Commander Blake pledges to remain uninvolved, but will she be able to as the threat of more victims increases?
The Devil You Know (Part 1): Commander Blake clashes with the drug squad and the preserved body of a two-year-old child found at an abandoned mental hospital remains a mystery. Blake is accused of having blood on her hands.
The Devil You Know (Part 2): Commander Blake and DCI Doug James pursue two former patients as suspects in the case, Eric Thornton, a schizophrenic and John Littlewood, a violent drug user. DCI James remains skeptical about the direction of the investigation.
Fraudster (Part 1): When self-made millionaire Donald Griffith is found dead in his swimming pool, it seems like justice.
Fraudster (Part 2): Commander Blake learns that Griffith's wife and mistresses all stand to benefit if his death was not a suicide.
Windows of the Soul (Part 1): After a popular priest is stabbed 29 times in his church, Commander Blake interrupts her holiday to investigate the murder.
Windows of the Soul (Part 2): A vicious attack puts a police officer in the hospital. Commander Blake learns that there's more to the story than DCI James has told her so far.
Abduction (Part 1): Commander Blake is assigned to investigate the bludgeoning death of an elderly woman as quickly and quietly as possible while DCI James' wife Zoe goes into labor.
Abduction (Part 2): Did Brian kill his own mother in an alcoholic haze? Who stole DCI James and Zoe's baby? Clare feels the heat of two high-profile cases with personal connections.
Abduction (Part 3): Brian believes that someone else was in the room with him when he found his mother's body. Commander Blake is forced to take extreme action to find the truth and accept the repercussions. Will they find the abductor of DCI James' baby?
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