The Best Episodes of Inspector George Gently Season 5

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(560 votes)

   #1 - Gently in the Cathedral

   S5:E49/16/2012

   Gently finds himself suspended from duty – powerless, unprotected and persecuted. Gently must confront his deepest fears and fight to the death…

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   8.3/10(564 votes)

   #2 - Gently Northern Soul

   S5:E18/26/2012

   In Newcastle, the haven of equality found at the Carlton Ballroom all-nighter is destroyed when a young black girl, Dolores Kenny, is murdered, leading Gently to uncover a disturbing and racist undercurrent growing within the local community.

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   8.2/10(588 votes)

   #3 - Gently with Class

   S5:E29/2/2012

   The indefatigable Chief Inspector George Gently and Detective Sergeant John Bacchus experience the inflated authority of their "social betters" first hand, when a beautiful young girl called Ellen Mallam is found dead in the passenger seat of a an upturned car registered to local aristocrats.

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   8.0/10(476 votes)

   #4 - The Lost Child

   S5:E39/9/2012

   Gently and Bacchus are thrown into an emotionally-wrought case when a middle class couple’s adopted child is kidnapped. It takes them to a mother and baby home where young single mothers are forced to give up their infants, where the shame of illegitimacy still burns the cheeks of single mothers.

   Director:Nicholas Renton

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