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Set in London, each episode is a self-contained story, starting with a news report, then following the team of three detectives as they investigate the circumstances the crime. The cases themselves are hard-hitting with contemporary themes, such as the search for a soldier with PTSD, a murder that has been made to look like an assisted suicide and the gang rape of a young teenager.

5 Seasons
23 Episodes
Ended
Crime Drama
episode image Eyes Closed
7.6/10 (58 votes)

#1 Eyes Closed

S1:E5

Jack and Charlie are called out in the early hours after a 13-year-old girl is stabbed. The hospital reports back that she was eight weeks pregnant, shows signs of possible self-harming and had been previously sexually assaulted, while a number on her mobile phone belongs to the cab driver who drove her to hospital and claimed he did not know her.

episode image Hard Target
7.4/10 (59 votes)

#2 Hard Target

S1:E3

Jack and Charlie's hunt for a serial rapist becomes complicated when the latest woman to be attacked turns out to be Diane Ackerman - the wife of the station's chief superintendent Howard. A routine background check reveals that the police had recently been called to their address and Diane has a bruise on her throat that predates the rape.

episode image Alone
7.1/10 (109 votes)

#3 Alone

S1:E1

A two-year-old girl is abducted from her home and her dysfunctional family comes under immediate suspicion, but then a convicted child killer is also connected to the case.

episode image Calling Card
7.1/10 (74 votes)

#4 Calling Card

S1:E2

Jack and Charlie investigate an assault on the owner of the Green Pit nightclub in east London and discover the victim's sister unconscious in the cellar, with blood pouring from a head wound. The detectives' efforts to piece together what happened are hampered by the lack of CCTV footage, and the case takes a confusing turn when a 19-year-old student is found dead with a flyer for the club in his pocket.

episode image Sensitivity
7.0/10 (52 votes)

#5 Sensitivity

S1:E4

Euthanasia campaigner Terence Holland is found unconscious in his penthouse flat by his doctor after an apparent drugs overdose, leading to the assumption that the terminally ill man had found someone to help him die. However, evidence at the scene prompts Martha to speculate that this could be a case of attempted murder.

episode image Nobody Else (Part One)
0.0/10

#6 Nobody Else (Part One)

S2:E1

In the first of a two-part story, DI Martha Bellamy's neighbour, barrister Jonathan Moxton, is discovered at his home with serious head injuries, his wrists bound with a belt and a pair of knickers stuffed in his mouth. DS Jack Weston guesses he was involved in a sex game that went badly wrong and suspicion falls on Saul Hammond, the man who found him.

episode image Nobody Else (Part Two)
0.0/10

#7 Nobody Else (Part Two)

S2:E2

The body of a student, Michael Collins is found on Crowford common. The killer is suspected to be the person who attacked Moxton.

episode image Vigilante (Part One)
0.0/10

#8 Vigilante (Part One)

S2:E3

Jack leads an investigation into the dark world of child sex offenders. He becomes too emotionally involved within the case after a brutal attack is made on an amateur paedophile hunter Scott Freeman.

episode image Vigilante (Part Two)
0.0/10

#9 Vigilante (Part Two)

S2:E4

The suspected leader of the paedophile ring is murdered and the hunt is on to find the killer.

episode image The Artist
0.0/10

#10 The Artist

S3:E1

The London detectives investigate a brutal attack on a popular art teacher at her college.

episode image Victim
0.0/10

#11 Victim

S3:E2

The team investigates the case of a badly burned young woman who has been dumped in the Thames.

episode image Safe from Harm
0.0/10

#12 Safe from Harm

S3:E3

In the team's investigation of a petrol-bomb attack, Jack sets his sights on a reprobate property developer who has so far managed to elude conviction.

episode image Connections
0.0/10

#13 Connections

S3:E4

After a teenaged girl is found naked and severely wounded, Charlie tries to identify the victim and connect her to the case of a recent girl gone missing.

episode image AWOL
0.0/10

#14 AWOL

S4:E1

The team investigate a missing persons case when a soldier suffering from PTSD fails to turn up to his mother's funeral.

episode image Revenge
0.0/10

#15 Revenge

S4:E2

The team reopen an old case of a fatal stabbing, after a criminal involved in the original attack is left for dead in a copycat crime.

episode image Ricochet
0.0/10

#16 Ricochet

S4:E3

The team are shocked by the shooting in broad daylight of a popular clergyman outside the boxing club that he runs for disaffected youths. Martha suspects that the vicar’s hug-a-hoodie approach has backfired - but the investigation soon moves into far darker territory…

episode image Rough Justice
0.0/10

#17 Rough Justice

S4:E4

When an elderly widow is brutally attacked in her own home on a notorious London estate, the team set out to find her attacker.

episode image The Enemy Within (Part 1)
0.0/10

#18 The Enemy Within (Part 1)

S5:E1

New colleagues join the team when DI Bellamy is shot dead.

episode image The Enemy Within (Part 2)
0.0/10

#19 The Enemy Within (Part 2)

S5:E2

episode image The Enemy Within (Part 3)
0.0/10

#20 The Enemy Within (Part 3)

S5:E3

episode image The Enemy Within (Part 4)
0.0/10

#21 The Enemy Within (Part 4)

S5:E4

episode image The Enemy Within (Part 5)
0.0/10

#22 The Enemy Within (Part 5)

S5:E5

episode image The Enemy Within (Part 6)
0.0/10

#23 The Enemy Within (Part 6)

S5:E6

Alisha obtains evidence to incriminate Drummond from his wife Chrissy and, after she is attacked and it is stolen, its recovery proves that Drummond's son Luke was the attacker. Realizing that the game could be up for him Drummond goes to see Joseph and asks him to keep a secret. The connection between Joseph, Mo Jones and Drummond will eventually solve the mystery as to who killed Sarah, and Martha and her husband and bring Drummond down.

Cast & Chracters

character image DS Jack Weston

DS Jack Weston

Actor: Damien Molony
character image DC Charlie Steele

DC Charlie Steele

Actor: Clare-Hope Ashitey
character image DI Martha Bellamy

DI Martha Bellamy

Actor: Fay Ripley

The highest rated episode of Suspects is "Eyes Closed" (S1E5) with a rating of 7.60.

This episode received 58 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Sensitivity" (S1E4) with a rating of 7.00.

This episode received 52 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Eyes Closed" (S1E5) with a rating of 7.60.

This episode received 58 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Sensitivity" (S1E4) with a rating of 7.00.

This episode received 52 votes.

Name Department Job
Craig Pickles Directing Director
Jackie Malton Writing Writer
Paul Marquess Writing Writer

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