Day to day, on the streets, they're at the sharp end of the fight against the drug pushers, porn barons, paedophiles and pimps who run this great port's crime networks. In this dark unequal world DC Isobel de Pauli is a stranger - not to crime, but to the ancient, unseen blood connections that pulse in the veins of Liverpool's criminals... and cops.
CreatorAllan Prior
Fresh Meat
Sep 7, 1998
DC Isobel de Pauli is transferred to the vice squad at Bridewell, Liverpool 1. Her new partner, DC Mark Callaghan, is in court for the trial of drug dealer Mikey Sullivan. De Pauli and Callaghan follow up an incident where a man was thrown from a balcony, but the victim refuses to cooperate. The squad is called to a disturbance at a club owned by a major drug supplier.
Cut from the Same Cloth
Sep 14, 1998
DC Callaghan and de Pauli try to trace a young girl with a conviction for prostitution who has gone missing. Both officers are interrogated about the abortive arrest of Mikey Sullivan.
Lead Balloon
Sep 21, 1998
DC Callaghan and de Pauli interview a convicted paedophile in connection with the disappearance of a young boy. Callaghan is appalled to learn that local drugs baron Sullivan has put money into his brother's new bar.
Paper Trail
Sep 28, 1998
DC de Pauli investigates a case of petty violence and is drawn into John Sullivan's gangland past.
Death by Misadventure
Oct 5, 1998
The vice squad investigates the murder of a prostitute. DCs Callaghan and de Pauli find their private lives dragged into the station.
Pipe Dreams
Oct 12, 1998
A surveillance operation is threatened, and DC de Pauli is forced to choose between the job and her fiancé.
