Ashes to Ashes

When a dead man is found in a Soho strip club, it looks like a sex game has gone wrong. So when the deceased is discovered to be a police officer, Gene and Alex are ordered to keep the case under wraps. Meanwhile, sounds and messages from that future suggest to Alex that her circumstances have changed.

The team is on the hunt for major vehicle thief Jed Wicklow, but when a car chase leads to his death, Gene stands accused of causing it through reckless driving. Alex is adamant that there was something wrong with Jed at the wheel and wants to prove that the crash wasn't Gene's fault.

Animal rights activists have threatened a series of attacks in London and the first victim - the daughter of a commercial laboratory owner - is in hospital. Gene orders his team not to sleep until those responsible are behind bars.

There's a visitor from Gene Hunt's old stomping ground of Manchester. Jackie Queen is a journalist who's had run-ins with Gene in the past and this time she has a surprise in store. She's pregnant with Gene's baby!

When a violent burglary occurs at Alex's in-laws' house, she comes face-to-face with their son Peter: the 14-year old future-father of Molly! Alex is desperate to help Molly's grandparents all she can, but Gene wants a big collar to bury the press stories of police corruption - and dismisses the case as trivial.

A dead body found floating in a canal is identified as Colin Mitchell, a man recently reported missing by his glamorous wife, Donna. Gene discovers that Colin worked for Trevor Riley, a nasty loan shark with a habit of hurting those who messed with him. Gene sets his sights on bringing this cocky and unscrupulous man down but Alex can't shake the feeling that Donna is hiding something.

What looks like a simple drugs drop at a building site turns into a murder case when CID find a body buried in concrete. The site owner, Michael Lafferty, is working on major redevelopments to the London Docklands and is resistant to having CID trampling on his turf. But there are many that think Lafferty is crooked.

Gene grows increasingly suspicious of Alex's behaviour, and at the same time his head is turned by Jenette, an attractive woman whose uncomplicated nature and simple belief in him offers him everything Alex can't. A wedge develops between Alex and Gene that threatens to rip the whole team apart - and their relationship is put to its toughest test yet in a heart-stopping showdown.