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- Dalziel and Pascoe investigate when the skeleton of missing miner Billy Farr is found in a mineshaft in the Yorkshire coalfields, four years after his disappearance. At the time, a seven-year-old girl was murdered, and initially, a serial killer who confessed to killing five other girls was suspected. However, she was good friends with Farr, and due to the fact they both went missing on the same day, certain townsfolk believed he was somehow responsible. His son, Colin, fails to cope with the discovery well, and leans on his college lecturer for guidance – who happens to be none other than Ellie. Torn between staying loyal to her husband and supporting her student, Ellie helps Colin to do a runner when a second body is found down the mines – this time that of mining boss Heppelthwaite. Discovering the motive for Billy's killing, Pascoe races to catch the suspect – but Colin manages to find him first.
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Featuring Susannah Corbett as Ellie Pascoe, Joe Duttine as Colin Farr, Russell Dixon as Harold Satterthwaite, Nathaniel Duncan as Tommy Dickinson, Joy Brook as Stella Mycroft, Bob Mason as Arthur Downey, Polly Hemmingway as May Farr, David Fleeshman as Pedro Pedley, Martin Milman as Neville Watmough, David Royle as Det Sgt Edgar Wield, Derek Hicks as Gavin Mycroft, John Vine as Monty Boyle, Robert Whelan as Moffat, Philip Ralph as Uniformed Policeman and Jim Millea as Police Sergeant. (en)
- The funeral of an elderly Italian woman is interrupted by the arrival of her son, thought missing since 1944. Her relatives suspect that his abrupt appearance is only to collect his inheritance, as he is her sole beneficiary. Not all of her relatives are convinced he is who he says he is, but a fraudster. But before his identity can be verified, he is shot at the wheel of his car, parked in the police station car park. Dalziel and Pascoe identify the killer and the rightful beneficiary of the money. Meanwhile, Wield's private life nearly hits the front pages when a friend of his ex-partner threatens to blow the whistle on his sexuality, if he doesn't help him find his father who disappeared many years ago. The chief constable is not best pleased when the news gets back to him, and asks Dalziel to expose his friend.
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Featuring David Royle as Det Sgt Edgar Wield, Margaret Tyzack as Ella Keech, Bryan Pringle as John Huby, Linda Marlowe as Stephanie Windibanks, Jack Hedley as Alessandro Pontelli, Cathy Sara as Lexie Huby, Jamie Glover as Rod Lomas, John Michie as Andrew Goodenough, Gawn Grainger as Eden Thackeray, Eugene Walker as Gravedigger, Marcus Romer as Vicar, Hosh Ibraham as Cliff Sharman, Michael Skyers as Othello, Shaughan Seymour as Ike Ogilby, Fred Pearson as Dr Vickery, Frances Cox as Mrs Sharman, Iain Rogerson as Club Barman and Malcolm Tierney as DCC Raymond. (en)
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