The Best Episodes Written By Lynda La Plante

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   #1 - Part 2

   S1:E23/23/1983

   Dolly meets Boxer Davis, working for the Fisher brothers, when she returns home. Shirley and Linda find cars for the heist, but neither seems to be much good. Linda goes to a garage to get it fixed and meets the owner, Carlos, who she begins a relationship with, much to Dolly's disgust. While Linda is at work, she encounters old friend Bella, to whom she tells everything, and subsequently takes her to the headquarters.

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   #2 - Part 3

   S1:E33/30/1983

   Dolly tells Boxer Davis that Harry is still alive to try to keep the Fisher brothers off their backs. Tony Fisher visits Eddie and tells him what Boxer Davis has been telling them. Later, Eddie visits Boxer and takes him out and gets him drunk, and then leaves him in a back alley - where a mysterious driver runs him down. The women go to the mountains to practice for the robbery - and an unexpected face returns from the dead.

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   #3 - Part 1

   S1:E13/16/1983

   One of Harry Rawlins' robberies goes wrong, resulting in the deaths of three robbers. His widow Dolly is given some keys at Harry's funeral by Harry's cousin Eddie. The police begin a search for Harry's ledgers, in which he kept all his notes on past and future robberies, as do the Fisher brothers, who were rivals. Dolly finds the ledgers, along with a gun and money, in Harry's deposit box at the bank. The police tail Dolly, but she gives them the slip a few times to meet with Shirley and Linda, whose husbands also died in the explosion. They decide to carry out the robbery themselves. When Dolly returns home, she finds her house in a mess and someone in the living room.

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   #4 - Part 6

   S1:E64/20/1983

   Dolly comes up with a plan to get rid of the watch on her house and get them safely out of the country. Shirley phones her mother to disguise as her and drive out in Dolly's car, so that Eddie will follow her. Dolly and Shirley leave in Shirley's brother's car to the airport. Shirley asks a man to help her out because she thinks her luggage will be too heavy and gives him the money case. Meanwhile, Harry, Eddie and another man turn up at Dolly's house. While Harry and Eddie go in, the other attacks Resnick, watching from afar. Dolly finds out that customs will search their bags and they have to change plans.

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   #5 - The Red Dahlia: Part 3

   S2:E31/6/2010

   The case is drawing to an end as Travis and Langton close in on the copycat killer, their investigation of the main suspect uncovering long-buried secrets of sadistic cruelty and murderous intent.

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   #6 - The Red Dahlia: Part 2

   S2:E21/5/2010

   Travis becomes romantically involved with the tabloid journalist covering the murder, and an anonymous phone call leads Langton to aristocratic ex-army surgeon Charles Wickenham as the chief suspect.

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   #7 - The Keeper of Souls (2)

   S3:E212/20/1993

   A local photographer is questioned after being caught destroying evidence linking him with the victim, and further searches of his studio reveal some shocking video evidence.

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   #8 - Silent Scream: Part 2

   S4:E21/16/2012

   After interviewing Josh Lyons, publisher of Amanda's scandalous memoir, Travis convinces Langton she did not ruin his promotion chances. The police also pull in Helena Mitchell, wife of another of Amanda's lovers, who visited to ask her to end the affair, but left while she was still alive. She does however report seeing a man at the flat, and then, another corpse is found.

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   #9 - Price to Pay (2)

   S1:E24/8/1991

   The investigation continues.

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    #10 - The Keeper of Souls (1)

    S3:E112/19/1993

    Transferred to a new station with the new job of 'cleaning up the streets' of Soho, DCI Jane Tennison and her new team become involved in the seedy underworld of vice involving rent boys and transvestites, pornography and sickening abuse.

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    #11 - The Red Dahlia: Part 1

    S2:E11/4/2010

    The discovery of the mutilated body of a young woman seems to echo that of the notorious unsolved 'Black Dahlia' murder of 1940s Los Angeles.

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    #12 - Silent Scream: Part 1

    S4:E11/9/2012

    Frustrated at being passed over for promotion to commander in favour of the younger, less experienced Sam Power, Langton heads the investigation into the murder of temperamental, promiscuous film star Amanda Delaney, who was seemingly about to embark on tell-tale memoirs. Langton and Travis are interested in a crucifix found on a corpse not belonging to the victim.

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    #13 - Price to Pay (1)

    S1:E14/7/1991

    DCI Shefford dies suddenly whilst investigating a murder case. Jane Tennison is given the opportunity to take over the investigation which involves the brutal murder of a young girl. The girl's body has been badly mutilated and her hands have been tied behind her back. Jane suspects that it is the work of George Marlow. Jane also has to win the respect and approval of her male colleagues.

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    #14 - Operation Nadine (2)

    S2:E212/16/1992

    The investigation continues...

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    #15 - Silent Scream: Part 3

    S4:E31/23/2012

    After the body of Felicity Turner, another of Amanda's old flatmates, is dragged from the river, the remaining college contemporary, Jeanie Bale, is brought in. She admits to having Amanda's diary, which she was planning to sell for £5,000.

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    #16 - Trial & Retribution I (Part 1)

    S1:E110/19/1997

    Five-year-old Julie Harris goes missing after being seen playing at the local playground. Suspicion immediately falls on Julie's mother's new boyfriend, Peter James. But when her body is found inside a sewage pipe, evidence points towards local misfit Michael Dunn.

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    #17 - Trial & Retribution I (Part 2)

    S1:E210/20/1997

    When items relating to the case are found in Dunn's flat, Walker has no doubt that Dunn is responsible. However, when it's revealed that a frantic young officer who found Julie's body planted evidence, Dunn's trial is thrown into jeopardy.

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    #18 - Trial And Retribution III (1)

    S3:E110/7/1999

    A fifteen year old girl goes missing and her blood-stained clothes are found. Det. Supt. Walker heads the investigation into her murder. Meanwhile, D.I. North is sent to see a persistent complainer, Warrington, who has been hounding the station. North begins to get stalked and Walker has a prime suspect for the murder. But then they find a connection between Warrington and Walker's prime suspect.

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    #19 - Trial And Retribution III (2)

    S3:E210/14/1999

    A fifteen year old girl goes missing and her blood-stained clothes are found. Det. Supt. Walker heads the investigation into her murder. Meanwhile, D.I. North is sent to see a persistent complainer, Warrington, who has been hounding the station. North begins to get stalked and Walker has a prime suspect for the murder. But then they find a connection between Warrington and Walker's prime suspect.

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    #20 - Part 4

    S1:E44/6/1983

    The plan is underway as the vehicles and the strategy are sorted out. Dolly tells Linda about Carlos' relationship with Arnie Fisher, but she doesn't believe it at first. But when she sees Carlos with Arnie Fisher, she tips off the police and they are lying in wait for him the following morning. He makes a run for it, but is killed when he runs into a post van - making Linda feel guilty about calling the police. DI Resnick is ordered to drop the investigation and furiously resigns. Dolly gets hold of the details of the security van, and they realise they will carry it out two weeks earlier.

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    #21 - Part 5

    S1:E54/13/1983

    Linda gets the van and the plan is ready. Everything runs smoothly until Shirley twists her ankle as they flee. Dolly later finds Shirley desperately trying to start her car, and takes her to her house. The police suddenly turn up at Dolly's house and take her to the station to identify photographs. Eddie turns up at Dolly's house while she's still with the police, but Shirley attacks. Dolly returns home, but soon realises that they both need to get away as soon as possible, but first she hides the money in the top of the new lockers at the convent. Shirley recognises Eddie on a photograph - and Dolly realises that Harry is still alive.

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    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #22 - Operation Nadine (1)

    S2:E112/15/1992

    The body of a teenage girl is found and the investigation leads Jane into a community who distrust the police. Jane has recently had an affair with DS Bob Oswalde and he is assigned to the case. David Harvey confesses to the murder but neither Jane or Bob believe him. Bob is convinced that it is really the girl's young neighbour Tony Allen. Together they are able to discover who the real murderer is.

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    #23 - Above Suspicion: Part 1

    S1:E11/4/2009

    For eight years, some has been murdering women, following the same brutal ritual each time. The most recent victim doesn't fit the profile, but evidence links her to the others. Rookie DC Anna Travis volunteers to go undercover to crack the case.

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    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Above Suspicion: Part 2

    S1:E21/5/2009

    DCI James Langton permits Travis to go on a date to the ballet with superstar Alan Daniels, the prime suspect in serial killings involving low-rent prostitutes to gain information and mislead him.

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    #25 - Trial & Retribution II (Part 1)

    S2:E110/18/1998

    When Susan Harrow does not return home, her mother reports her missing to the police. Her body is later discovered on wasteland and an investigation is launched, once again headed by Walker. Following a second murder, the team realise that they have a serial killer on their hands.

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