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The Best Episodes of No Offence

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Keeping these streets clean is a Herculean task, enough to demoralize even the keenest rookie – but there’s a reason why this hotchpotch of committed cops are on this force, on this side of town.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    No Offence Season 2 Episode 7 - Episode 7
    8.4/10(220 votes)

    #1 - Episode 7

    S2:E7

    With Deering, Dinah and Joy's friendship in jeopardy and Donna Calvert missing, the race to prevent the Attahs' escape and to bag them once and for all puts the team's lives at stake. The final action-packed showdown sees Viv at her finest, deconstructing Nora's family, and trying to repair the fractures that have crept in to her own...

    Director:Robert Quinn
    Writer:Paul Abbott

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  2. No Offence Season 3 Episode 1 - Assassination Attempt
    8.3/10(258 votes)

    #2 - Assassination Attempt

    S3:E1

    A contentious mayoral election is being fought between incumbent liberal Kashif Hassan and political underdog and local-girl-done-good Caroline McCoy. Crowds gather for a mayoral debate between Hassan and political underdog McCoy - only for the hustings to end in bloodshed when an assassin strikes. As Viv Deering and her team investigate, they are forced to infiltrate the far right, and their murky world of political benefactors, if they are to catch the culprit.

    Director:Catherine Morshead
    Writer:Paul Tomalin

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  3. No Offence Season 3 Episode 6 - Payback
    8.3/10(175 votes)

    #3 - Payback

    S3:E6

    The team are running out of options and their strategy is threatened when one of their own is placed in peril.

    Director:Misha Manson-Smith
    Writer:Paul Abbott

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  4. No Offence Season 1 Episode 6 - Episode 6
    8.2/10(258 votes)

    #4 - Episode 6

    S1:E6

    Deering leads a manhunt through Manchester as the net closes in on the serial killer. Joy and Spike discover an unsettling slavery case after a brutal attack on a young homeless man.

    Director:Misha Manson-Smith
    Writer:Mark Greig

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  5. No Offence Season 1 Episode 8 - Episode 8
    8.2/10(279 votes)

    #5 - Episode 8

    S1:E8

    In the final episode, Dinah clashes with Deering, setting off an irreversible chain of events, and an attempt to save the lives of a mother and baby goes disastrously wrong.

    Director:Harry Bradbeer
    Writer:Paul Abbott

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  6. No Offence Season 3 Episode 5 - Loyalty
    8.2/10(174 votes)

    #6 - Loyalty

    S3:E5

    Caroline McCoy’s political reign brings chaos to the streets of Manchester, and catapults hardline DCI Terry Taylor into Friday Street cop shop, to bring the police in line with her agenda

    Director:Misha Manson-Smith
    Writer:Julie Rutterford

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  7. No Offence Season 1 Episode 7 - Episode 7
    8.1/10(256 votes)

    #7 - Episode 7

    S1:E7

    The fatal shooting of a respected surgeon leads the team to an unlikely suspect. Meanwhile, Dinah and Deering make disturbing new discoveries in the serial killer case, fearing it might not be over.

    Director:Harry Bradbeer
    Writer:Paul Tomalin

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  8. No Offence Season 3 Episode 2 - Botulin Burgers
    8.1/10(188 votes)

    #8 - Botulin Burgers

    S3:E2

    Killer Beckett's next target is Manchester's children and Viv and the team must track down the poisoned batch of halal meat that Beckett has unleashed on the city before it's too late. In the hunt to get closer to Beckett, Dinah attempts to win the trust of the undercover cop in the midst of the far-right group Beckett used to be involved in - and uncovers explosive secrets.

    Director:Catherine Morshead
    Writer:Paul Abbott

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  9. No Offence Season 3 Episode 4 - In His Head
    8.1/10(166 votes)

    #9 - In His Head

    S3:E4

    Paul Abbott's award-winning drama returns for a third series and sees DI Viv Deering and the Friday Street team face off against their most formidable antagonist yet: the far-right.

    Directors:Catherine Morshead, Robert Quinn
    Writer:Tom Grieves

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  10. No Offence Season 3 Episode 3 - Death in a Cemetery
    8.0/10(172 votes)

    #10 - Death in a Cemetery

    S3:E3

    Election day looms and the team is on high alert, as Beckett's reign of terror appears to be escalating when an elderly Jewish man is found dead in a graveyard. The team is right on Beckett's tail, and a meeting between getaway driver Dennis and Beckett promises to be the key to capturing him.

    Director:Catherine Morshead
    Writer:Paul Abbott

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  11. No Offence Season 1 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    7.9/10(250 votes)

    #11 - Episode 5

    S1:E5

    The police set up a trap for the prime suspect in the serial killer case, but their plans could be derailed entirely after a notorious child murderer's new identity is leaked on the internet.

    Director:Catherine Morshead
    Writers:Paul Abbott, Jimmy Dowdall

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  12. No Offence Season 2 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    7.9/10(232 votes)

    #12 - Episode 2

    S2:E2

    As the team quell the riots that are exploding throughout Manchester, Dinah's discovery of young casualties in a gang-owned property pushes investigations in an unexpected direction. Joy is thrown into freefall after a shock discovery at Friday Street.

    Director:Catherine Morshead
    Writer:Paul Tomalin

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  13. No Offence Season 2 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    7.9/10(218 votes)

    #13 - Episode 3

    S2:E3

    The dead vape shop kids are all identified, as Dinah and Deering hunt for those aiding the Attahs in child exploitation.

    Director:Sarah O'Gorman
    Writers:Paul Tomalin, Mark Greig

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  14. No Offence Season 2 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    7.9/10(210 votes)

    #14 - Episode 4

    S2:E4

    Tensions run high between Joy, Dinah and Deering over the Attah case and the Friday Street team. And an urgent search ensues when a father reports his teenage daughter missing.

    Director:Sarah O'Gorman
    Writer:Jimmy Dowdall

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  15. No Offence Season 2 Episode 6 - Episode 6
    7.9/10(204 votes)

    #15 - Episode 6

    S2:E6

    With Deering suspended from duty, she runs rogue determined to get Nora. Back at the station, Lickberg tries to control the team, as they urgently up the manhunt for one of the Attahs' missing victims. And an unlikely alliance is agreed between Deering and Nora, who wants to stop an FGM cutter arriving on her patch - and Teegan is sent in under cover.

    Director:Robert Quinn
    Writer:Paul Tomalin

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  16. No Offence Season 1 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    7.8/10(289 votes)

    #16 - Episode 2

    S1:E2

    Kowalska is taken off the murder case as her involvement with Cathy Calvert has made her too subjective but Deering asks her to assist when a student is found dead of an overdose. Drugs expert Randolph Miller directs the team towards a house suspected of being a drugs factory. Former chemical factory employee Angelica Costeros is brought in but refuses to incriminate potential co-defendant Jensen Raphael until Kowalska and Spike Tanner unite to get her to talk.

    Directors:Catherine Morshead, David Kerr
    Writer:Paul Abbott

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  17. No Offence Season 2 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    7.8/10(257 votes)

    #17 - Episode 1

    S2:E1

    On full surveillance mode, the Friday Street squad have an explosive start to the day, at the funeral of the son of notorious gangster Nora Attah. Straight back in the deep end, DI Viv Deering and the team fight to prevent the breakout of a gang war in the city. Meanwhile Joy and Tegan literally uncover a body of work to piece together a case against the dodgy crematorium owners.

    Director:Catherine Morshead
    Writer:Paul Abbott

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  18. No Offence Season 2 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    7.8/10(201 votes)

    #18 - Episode 5

    S2:E5

    The race to nail the Attahs sows seeds of mistrust and secrecy between Deering, Dinah and Joy. And controversy rains when Deering recklessly co-opts mouthy Donna Calvert to infiltrate the Attah gang. Dinah has to solve a chaotic puzzle at an abortion clinic where a peaceful staff protest takes an unexpected turn and quickly starts to spiral out of control.

    Director:Samira Radsi
    Writer:Paul Abbott

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  19. No Offence Season 1 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    7.7/10(268 votes)

    #19 - Episode 3

    S1:E3

    The serial killer is showing no signs of slowing down, while local racial tensions are also running high when an Asian woman is killed in a suspected racist attack.

    Director:Catherine Morshead
    Writer:Paul Tomalin

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  20. No Offence Season 1 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    7.6/10(344 votes)

    #20 - Episode 1

    S1:E1

    Single mother and off-duty detective constable Dinah Kowalska pursues a murder suspect through the streets of Manchester, only for him to get killed by a bus. As a result, Vivienne Deering, her outspoken detective inspector superior, instructs her to withdraw her application for sergeant, the promotion going instead to the nervous Joy Freers. On a visit to the morgue, Kowalska sees the corpse of a girl with Down Syndrome, the second victim with that condition to be hauled out of a river in recent weeks, and suspects a serial killer is at large.

    Directors:Catherine Morshead, David Kerr
    Writer:Paul Abbott

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  21. No Offence Season 1 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    7.6/10(253 votes)

    #21 - Episode 4

    S1:E4

    The Friday Street team uncover a scam encouraging people in debt to sell their kidneys, while the search for another girl abducted by the serial killer leads to a big breakthrough.

    Director:Misha Manson-Smith
    Writer:Jack Lothian

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Best Episodes Summary

"Episode 7" is the best rated episode of "No Offence". It scored 8.4/10 based on 220 votes. Directed by Robert Quinn and written by Paul Abbott, it aired on 2/15/2017. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Assassination Attempt".