NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Buried
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/23/2009
The 20-year-old unsolved death of a young boy leads to the discovery of repressed memories, and a risky case for James and Alesha.
Director: N/A
Writer: Catherine Tregenna
NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Community Service
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/2010
A homeless man is found beaten and unconscious in a park. Because he is bipolar his testimony is disjointed and make him unable to identify his attacked. A neighbourhood resident is charged with the premeditated attack.
Director: Ken Grieve
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Defence
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/2010
When three people are brutally murdered in a shop in central London and a fourth left for dead, Matt and Ronnie are up against the clock to find the killer who they fear could strike again at any moment. The nature of the attack was frenzied and brutal with the killer using a bayonet to slay his victims. With this information and a photofit, Matt and Ronnie are quickly must identify the killer before they strike again. James assumes a straightforward case ahead of him. However, things take an unexpected turn when he learns that the defendant has brilliant legal support. With the case for defence looking very strong, James' only hope is to convince a deluded defendant to accept responsibility for his crimes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Confession
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/2010
This week's case hits close to home for DS Matt Devlin when investigating the death of a police officer, and his best friend, PS Pete Garvey. Devlin and Garvey had known each other since childhood and when Matt discovers Pete had recently been in contact with their childhood parish priest Jonathan Nugent (Matthew Marsh), his suspicions are alerted as Pete claimed to have been sexually abused by him as a child. With nothing but suspicions and unfounded rumours to go on, a murder charge cannot be brought against Nugent. Now a married man with a family of his own, can Matt really be sure they've got the right man? James and Alesha take an unusual approach in order to bring a charge - any charge - against the accused in a desperate attempt to get the case home.
Director: N/A
Writer: Terry Cafolla
NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Masquerade
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/2010
The mystery surrounding the stabbing of student, Archie Rahman, has our cops chasing their tails when the only clue they have to go on is a library book checked out on the day of his murder. Two students connected to the book have given an alibi for each other but one of them is lying and it's down to our cops to find out which one. When the perpetrator eventually confesses and claims to have acted in self-defence, Alesha is forced to face past demons. It's a delicate balancing act for James who is tasked not only with prosecuting the offender but also with defending a dead victim. Unless the truth of what happened that day is uncovered, a murderer could walk free or an innocent victim be wrongly convicted.
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard Stokes
NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - Anonymous
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/2010
For two years, Stephanie Blake (Michelle Bonnard) has been stalked by a man who calls himself 'Giovanni'. She knows nothing about him but he knows everything about her right down to the finest details of what she keeps in her bathroom cabinet. Over time, his e-mails and calls have become more intimidating but without an actual physical threat against her, there is very little the police can do for Stephanie. After initial investigations lead nowhere, the police are forced to abandon the case. Then something happens which shakes our police heroes to their very core. What should be a straightforward prosecution becomes complicated when a key piece of evidence is excluded. Up against Defence Barrister Evelyn Wyndham (Anna Chancellor), James has his work cut out for him. When one of the cops becomes a key witness for the prosecution, the question arises of whether his motivation is genuine or borne out of guilt. Will he perjure himself in order to get the right result?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Help
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 3/7/2011
The police investigate the murder of a former professional footballer, Robert Nichols, who is found lying beside his car bludgeoned to death. He was on his way to meet his sister and was apparently replacing a flat tire when the attack occurred. The only thing taken was his very expensive watch. They manage to trace a passerby, Mike Jones, who initially denies having seen anything but eventually admits he was helping Nichols fix his flat. The police are naturally suspicious and believe Jones may have been the perpetrator. In checking into Nichols's background however, they learn he was a big-time gambler and owed well-known mobster Don Marsh a quarter of a million pounds. Jones obviously has good reason to lie since he saw who killed Nichols but the mobster has made it clear that his life is in danger if he testifies.
Director: N/A
Writer: Terry Cafolla, Dick Wolf
NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Denial
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 3/14/2011
A judge is badly injured when she is shot during what appears to be a car robbery. The investigation reveals that a hitman had been hired to kill her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - Shaken
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 4/4/2011
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Director: N/A
Writer: Emilia di Girolamo
NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - Skeletons
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 4/11/2011
DS Devlin and DS Brooks investigate the murder of a 13 year-old boy boy, Sean Monroe, the son of a fellow police officer who was killed and put down a storm drain. A note found on the body points to the work of Andrew Dillon, who was sentenced for an earlier racial murder and is serving his sentence. The racial motivation for the killing seems confirmed when a second boy, Dev Desai, is found strangled with the same note in his pocket. However, their investigation leads to a security guard, Marcus Wright, who admits to having encounters with both boys at the shops where he works. He says the boys deaths were God's will and he was simply doing God's work. If Wright is to be believed, it means that Dillon was wrongfully convicted. The case becomes personal when James Steel is accused of having purposely buried a witness statement that would have likely exonerated Dillon. He finds himself in dock but the judge allows him to conduct his own defense.
Director: Andy Goddard
Writer: Dick Wolf
NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - Safe
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/2011
When two year old Ryan Stark goes missing from a high street merry-go-round, his distraught mother, Kayla reports him kidnapped and a massive police hunt is launched to find the missing toddler. In spite of public appeals and additional police manpower, the search throws up more questions than answers. The legal case uncovers a history of dealings with the social services before Ryan went missing, something which alerts our heroes to the possibility that his mother isn’t being entirely truthful. With more than one suspect and little physical evidence, will Ryan’s family ever learn the truth of what happened to their baby boy?
Director: N/A
Writer: Emilia di Girolamo
NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Crush
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/2011
Lying in a pool of blood, call girl Katka Cizek, seems to have only one admirer capable of her murder. A man with her on the night, a man without an alibi, a man with everything to lose were his secret obsession for her revealed. A seemingly cut and dry case, Alesha, given the reins to lead the cross-examination, begins to suspect someone has reason to frame the accused. Dogged in her pursuit of the truth, she unearths a betrayal of such enormity proving there are no winners in this case.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Tick Tock
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 7/31/2011
A night club peppered with bullets. Two victims bleeding out on the floor. The start of a deadly gun rampage through the streets of London. With the media swarming all over the case and a hostage to find, DS Matt Devlin and DS Ronnie Brooks are up against the clock as they try to track down the Bonnie and Clyde duo wreaking havoc on the city streets. Capture is far from closure when defence barrister, Phyllis Gladstone, takes the case on, arguing that one of the pair was more innocent victim than violent killer. Did the defendant act out of fear - beaten and bullied into submission by her partner-in-crime, too terrified to escape and alert the police? With two sides to every story, the team are under pressure to make sure someone is held responsible for a murderous spree that cost five lives.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - Intent
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 8/7/2011
Stabbed to death while they slept, the killings of David and Elaine Lerner prove a mystery to DS Matt Devlin and DS Ronnie Brooks. Universally loved, there’s not a single lead that points to grievances held or enemies made. The previous owner of the house soon emerges as a much more likely target for attack - Camilla Mallon, a banker embroiled in a hedge fund scandal. Could the brutal murders be a case of mistaken identity? As our Crown Prosecutors navigate this seemingly senseless crime, Jake’s old mentor, Margaret Rumsfield argues the accused should face only manslaughter charges. Without motive, without intent, can our heroes make a murder charge stick?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - Deal
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 8/14/2011
The team investigate, when mother and carer Lia Brown is killed by a stray bullet,what the involvement is of 12-year-old Kaden Blake in her death. Kaden is caught up in the local gang culture, so keeping silent is his only protection. DS Matt Devlin is drawn to this damaged boy, saddened to see a life so doomed by circumstance, and furious that local dealer and gang leader Mark Ellis remains untouchable by the law.
Director: Andy Goddard
Writer: Emilia di Girolamo
NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - Survivor’s Guilt
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2012
A drive-by shooting outside the Old Bailey leaves one police officer dead and another wounded in what appears to be a targeted attack on a witness in an attempted murder trial. However, Ronnie and the team are surprised to learn the gunman was specifically targeting police officers, believing his family victims of a police cover-up. The defense team argues their client has been subjected to racism by the police. Can Jake and Alesha convince the jury that the defendant ought to be tried as a murderer and not a victim?
Director: Andy Goddard
Writer: Emilia di Girolamo
NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Immune
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2012
A bungled robbery leads to an innocent hero being shot dead and a hostage with a potentially life threatening medical condition being seized by two armed gunmen. It's up to Ronnie and Sam to beat the clock and find the hostage in just ten hours.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - Haunted
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2012
When a petty criminal makes a deathbed confession to the murder of a teenage girl, Ronnie is left shaken to the core as he is forced to reopen a case he thought he had put to bed fourteen years ago.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - Trial
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/2012
The murder of an elderly janitor in his home is carried out with such precision and planning that the only evidence the killer leaves is designed to lead the detectives around in circles.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - Line Up
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/2012
A murder investigation is launched when a concerned citizen alerts the police to a shocking video that is spreading like wildfire on the web, in which a teenage girl is attacked and shot.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - Dawn Till Dusk
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 2/10/2012
Over the course of one long day, the team works on three separate cases, including tracking a serial killer, intervening in a family dispute turned murderous, and disproving an accusation of police intimidation. Will all of the team make it through with their careers intact?
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard Stokes
NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - Fault Lines
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 2/17/2012
The frenzied stabbing of a police forensic lab technician unsettles the team in a way they never expected when Detective Sam Casey falls for the killer's next intended victim.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - Tracks
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 7/14/2013
A suicidal man kills several people when he causes a catastrophic train crash, and Sam struggles to cope after one of the young victims dies in his arms.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Tremors
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 7/21/2013
When a person is found dead in the cells, Sam becomes the main suspect, leaving Ronnie and Wes facing a race against time for them to get their hands on the real culprit.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - Paternal
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 7/28/2013
A man is found dead in a hotel room owing his ex-wife thousands of pounds in child support. The child's grandfather is the only suspect, but is the case that easily solved?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Law & Order: UK
Every episode of Law & Order: UK ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Law & Order: UK!
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal...
Genre:Drama
Network:ITV1
Worst Episodes Summary
"Buried" is the worst rated episode of "Law & Order: UK". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Catherine Tregenna, it aired on 3/23/2009. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Community Service".