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The Flying Squad try to bust a gang who are targeting supermarket takings. An informant makes a police operation seem easy when he offers them information on a plate. But that was before the robbers changed their plans – leaving the special force with nothing but explanations of what went wrong.
Following a successful pilot, this exciting police drama returns for a series. It's based on the Metropolitan Police's Armed Robbery Squad. The crack officers are hunting a prisoner who has blasted his way out of jail with explosives. DI Charlie Scott, leads his elite band of officers in hot pursuit. The squad investigates a security van robbery which looks like an inside job. Meanwhile, escaped convict Dennis Worsley wants revenge – and Tate is top of his list.
The squad is after a gang that's robbing banks in order to repay a debt they owe to a gangster, but DC Oxford's attempts to nail the gang put his informant, Marcus, in danger. Tate finds himself alone and unarmed in a deadly confrontation.
DS Helen Ash finds herself torn between work and home when she's put in charge of a large-scale stake-out operation to catch a gang of armed robbers. It's an important assignment, but Helen's husband David, who's also a police officer, is doing everything he can to make her job harder. He's jealous of her position as a detective sergeant in the Flying Squad while he's only a constable, He wants her to transfer out of the Squad, but she lives for her job and she can't let go.. When David refuses to look after their children, Helen has to leave her observation point to go home. But where does that leave the rest of her team? A serious of violent robberies prompts the Armed Robbery Squad to launch a he-tech surveillance operation on the suspect, Gil Rogers. However, he uses his army training to stay ahead of the squad – until Ash makes a shocking discovery.
An armed gang bursts into a plush London casino and shoots Detective Sgt Bob ‘Bingo' Tate who's working undercover as a punter. The raiders take a terrified croupier hostage before escaping with thousands of pounds, and it's touch and go for Bingo. Harris stays undercover to find out who tipped off the villains, while the squad tracks down the people who escaped.
The Flying Squad investigates a series of robberies in Triad-controlled Chinatown. Tate goes undercover to help and gets caught in a deadly power struggle.
The Chinatown robberies are continuing and Scott uses Tate's cover to set up a ‘sting' operation. But it means Scott risking his own career and Tate's life.
The squad are baffled by a string of audacious armed robberies apparently committed by a teenage couple. The modern-day Bonnie and Clyde head for the coast with the squad in pursuit. A dramatic showdown ensues.
This action-packed series draws to a dramatic close with DC Grace Harris raiding the blazing headquarters of a sinister religious cult called the Core. She goes in undercover posing as a new recruit, to infiltrate them (a dangerous task as the charismatic cult leader has a habit of chopping off people's fingers) to help catch members of the sect who have robbed a bank. But the case becomes very hot to handle when the cult leader sets the building on fire in a Waco-style siege. Harris's undercover work confirms Scott's worst fears – that the cult members are prepared to die for the charismatic leader. On a lighter note DI Scott hears his wife Stephanie has gone into labour just as the squad go into action.
The new series opens in dramatic fashion, when DCI Alan Oxford goes undercover to infiltrate a Manchester gang. But his true identity is known by them and they take him hostage. In one harrowing scene Alan is taped up from the neck down, with a strip over his mouth, and put in a coffin.
DS Tate infiltrates a gang of armed robbers, posing as the boyfriend of their getaway driver. But the closer he gets to the heart of the gang, the more the operations is threatened.
As three robbers make their getaway with £2.5 million worth of rubies, a second gang, disguised as the Flying Squad, takes the gems, and its leader, Frank McGrath, shoots the robbers. Scott is hampered by an officious lawyer and by McGrath's mission to exterminate his cohorts.
When DC Grace Harris falls into bed with a robbery witness, she ends up putting more than her heart on the line. The normally tough-as-old-boots copper endangers her career and her life when she falls for smooth-talking Francis Conte, who turns out to have all the charm of a rattlesnake.
Donachie's past comes back to haunt him in the shape of an armed robber he helped frame. The tables are turned on DC Ted Donachie when he's found with the loot from a bank raid. The plot thickens alarmingly when the real thief claims he was framed by Ted for a sex crime and is now taking revenge. So, apart from the affair he once had with colleague Grace Harris, what other skeletons is the strong, silent but looking-guiltier-by-the-minute Ted hiding in his closet?
The squad believes a multi-million pound robbery at a safety deposit centre could be an inside job involving the manager. A dangerous undercover operation pits the squad against Russian mobsters and forces DS Anna Dryden to confront the demons in her past.
The squad clashes with other departments when it arrests Dolan, at terrorist turned Special Branch operative. Tate becomes the scapegoat for a top secret MI5 operation and uncovers a career and life-threatening conspiracy.
There's a tragic twist in store as this tense police drama reaches a dramatic crescendo with the trial of evil Frank McGrath. The cruel hit man has launched a vendetta against DI Charlie Scott but it soon becomes clear that the detective's wife and child are also in danger from the villain. Charlie Scott's a dedicated copper but he's also a devoted husband and father, who would give his life to protect his family. Is that what he's going to have to do? After McGrath is found not guilty, Scott considers his future in the Met. He and Stephanie take a break in Cornwall, but they are pursued by McGrath.
Anna Dryden is desperate to prove herself as Acting DI, but her plans go wrong. Struggling to comes to terms with the loss of their leader, the squad is thrown into turmoil by a racially explosive case. As the situation spirals out of control, a trouble-shooter is brought in to manage the media, ruffling many feathers.
Fashion can be a cut-throat business but it rarely descends into murder. The Flying Squad discover a gruesome side to the glamorous world of haute couture, though, when the investigate an international ring of designer clothes counterfeiters. The team is forced to take on help from Pieter Kluivert, a Dutch detective who has a personal vendetta against the ring's Mr Big. However, DI Glenn Matteo has a feeling not everything about Kluivert's role in the investigation is above board. Armed robbers ambush a fashion show and steal thousands of pounds worth of clothes. Then a visiting Dutch detective appeals for the Flying Squad's help in tracking down an arms dealer who murdered his son and claims that the man is linked to the fashion raid.
DCI Nick Hall finds old adversaries from his past on his patch. Matteo clashes with Hall, the new DCI, over the theft of army explosives. But when a gang war threatens to erupt, Hall is the perfect man to lead the undercover operation at the society wedding where gun-men are massing for a shoot-out.
Heavily pregnant Carol Mason is lured into committing a raid on a jeweller by her glamorous, manipulative sister Lorraine. The squad is baffled by a series of gem robberies, until the two sisters attempt a robbery that goes horribly wrong. The women unwittingly hold vital evidence, but can the squad reach them before tragedy occurs?
The squad is shocked by the deaths of two motorway patrolmen after a shoot-out with four ruthless villains. Frustration reaches fever pitch as the villains torment them – until a last-minute tip-off leads to a final confrontation.
A raid on a gold bullion warehouse leads the squad to investigate the relationship between a veteran armed robber and an Asian stripper.
The Armed Robbery Squad have to deal with s sinister threat from the Far East. After the team foils a raid on a Japanese bank, DC Alan Oxford discovers the crime wasn't what it seemed. The investigation soon reveals the violent underworld of the Yakuza (the Japanese version of the Mafia). And the fashion-conscious Oxford has to baby-sit a vulnerable trader.
As Oxford fights to save the Japanese witnessed, the squad races to his aid. With a full-scale Yakuza/Mafia war around the corner, Matteo must jeopardise personal and professional relationships to find Takahashi before the mobsters.
