Episodes

Series One

Daughters

Meanwhile the Vice Squad's competing against the AMIP squad to find the killer of a high-class hooker, Valerie Cooke. AMIP arrest Cooke's husband, but Inspector Chappel's convinced that he's looking at a turf war between Hinkley and Guy Walsh, another pimp. Valerie Cooke was recruiting Walsh's girls for Hinkley.

The situation becomes more volatile when Walsh kidnaps Hinkley's daughter, Natasha. Unknown to Hinkley though, Natasha was the only witness to his attack on Nikki.

Sons

Years ago, Cheryl and Chappel worked on a case with a rent-boy, Patrick McAteer. Unfortunately Patrick disappeared and was found in a freezer after being raped and tortured. Davies was the main suspect.

Cheryl also finds out that Wilson makes hardcore S & M videos. She goes undercover to watch the videos being made, but blows the operation when she sees a young homeless boy, Brendan, similar to Patrick, about to be abused. Following that Cheryl loses Brendan, when his parents find out where he's staying. Chappel decides to send her for counselling with Dr Christina Weir, but is Cheryl the only one who hasn't got over Patrick's death? The situation isn't helped by the fact that Christina is Chappel's married lover.

Dabbling

PC Dougie Raymond's a bit of a loose cannon in the Vice Squad: basically the job turns him on, so not everyone's convinced that he's ready to go undercover alone with prostitutes.

Pat Chappel's busy trying to help a couple of toms who are being threatened and intimidated by an MP, who in turn is being blackmailed with a video of him and these women.

Meanwhile, the Drugs Squad's working with the rest of The Vice Squad when they suspect that an escort agency is expanding into drugs. Cheryl and Dougie are to go undercover. Cheryl's role is a potential recruit for the agency and Dougie's acting like a punter. The problem is when he becomes besotted with a girl working for the agency, and consequently blows Cheryl's cover.

Home Is The Place

The Vice Squad has recently been bringing in more than their usual amount of under-age prostitutes. Chappel gets a lead when he finds out that some are coming from a children's home in Sheffield. He and Sgt. Joe Robinson go up north to investigate, leaving Cheryl to look after Louise, one of the girls they arrested. However, Mikey, Louise's pimp helps her to escape, beating Cheryl up in the process.

In Sheffield, Chappel establishes a link between Mikey and one of the care-workers, but is too late to stop the pimp from recruiting another girl, Sam, and Louise from being raped by a dangerous punter.

Walking On Water

Chappel, Cheryl and Joe all go undercover at a dodgy night-club, The Jupiter, which they also suspect to be an illegal gambling nest along with a brothel.

Since being dismissed from The Met, Dougie still has a taste for the life in fast lane. He's now considered to be part of the management at The Jupiter, but this fails to impress Chappel, who is assaulted when caught snooping around. Joe's having more luck as he gets to know the bouncer, Max, and is invited to use the facilities upstairs. Unfortunately, his success is limited to the job, as his marriage is on the rocks back at home.

Betrayed

After Cheryl accidentally allows a prisoner, Julie Evans, to escape following a raid in a brothel, Chappel continually treats her harshly, forcing her to consider accepting a job at AMIP. That is until she discovers Chappel helped to set it up after she saw him grieve over Dougie's death.

Meanwhile Julie contacts Chappel and offers, under certain conditions, to help him put away the brothel-owner, Harrison. Harrison's also been bringing Eastern-European girls into the country and forcing them to become prostitutes. However, Chappel refuses to meet her demands, as he has another witness, Sofia.

Chappel assigns Joe to look after Sofia, but this ends up being the straw that broke the camel's back for his wife, Shirley. Things get even more complicated when Julie's mother is killed in an arson attack on their home, and Sofia refuses to give evidence when she finds out that she's pregnant.

Lovesick

Joe's life has reached rock bottom. His wife has left him and taken his children, and to make matters worse he's suspended for murder. Cheryl witnessed him go OTT with a cocky pimp who was later found stabbed to death.

Cheryl's assigned to the AMIP team who are investigating the murder, but is whether DI Greer, the Supervising Officer, is building her case for racist reasons.

In the mean time, Chappel manages to get personally caught up in the case when he begins an affair with the murdered pimp's mother.

Out Of Mind

After raiding a brothel, Chappel stumbles across more than one blast from the past. He discovers DS Vickers, a pimp and policeman, in the disused basement of the building, and then later finds an old flame and ex-prostitute, Jane, when trying to uncover the truth behind a young prostitute's disappearance over fifteen years ago.

Cheryl and new recruit PC Kirsty Morgan go back return to the brothel to try and get more information when they're mistaken for a pair of working-girls and nearly assaulted by a couple of policemen who obviously aren't there on legitimate business.

Into The Night

During the trial of a young prostitute, Chappel makes a comment to the defence barrister that he doesn't know much about the world that the working-girls live in. This motivates the barrister to investigate the world of Soho, but his research ends up doing more harm than good when he begins to be drawn into the sex-industry.

At the office, Cheryl suspects that Joe and Kirsty's relationship is developing into one that isn't purely professional, and is eventually forced to intervene.

Forces Of Nature

The Vice Squad get a report of a gang rape in a sex offenders prison, and it appears that this isn't the only time this has happened. Chappel goes undercover inside and Cheryl is assigned the role of his girlfriend. At first they think that the attackers target prostitutes, but later discover that the victims are any prisoner's wives, girlfriends, etc.

Chappel begins to feel the strain when one night he hears a woman screaming for help, but is powerless to act, and then a prisoner, Aaron commits suicide. But is it worse on the outside? Cheryl's been selected to be the next of the gang's victim, but can she rely on her colleagues as she puts herself in their hands...and those of half a dozen rapists.

Falling

Chappel's girlfriend, Jane, is back working as a prostitute, and DS Vickers is trying to recruit her to work in one of his organisations. As Vickers begins to get his claws into Jane's daughter, Chappel seems to make a breakthrough when one of Vickers' colleagues agrees to help to prove the bent-cop's corruption. Things don't go according to plan though as Chappel is accused of having under-age sex with a 15-year-old prostitute and an undercover operation is blown. How far will Chappel go to catch Vickers?