The Best Episodes Directed By David Richards

The team are dismayed to discover that an arson attack at the Osgood's house has injured Michael and killed his autistic son Robbie.

A young Estonian woman is found dead on a piece of waste-ground, suspected of being buried alive. As the team piece together her movements, they uncover a world of prostitution and drugs hidden behind a respectable veneer.

DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the mysterious death of a businessman found floating in the water under the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.

A woman is convinced that her daughter's riding accident was murder and through his investigation Jackson must confront some difficult truths about the destructive nature of love. His relationship with his own daughter, Marlee, gets more complicated too.

July 1945. Sam moves in with Adam Wainwright to help run his guest house though, due to his shyness, they are not a couple. One of the tenants, Mandy Dean, is having a tough time, raising a baby fathered by black G.I. Gabe Kelly. Her old boyfriend Tommy Duggan is devastated when he returns and makes the discovery.