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COLLECTION · Series · 1997

Trial & Retribution

Devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect, this vast police procedural follows police detectives in England as they investigate crimes and the trials that come about as a result.

Source: TMDB
* 6.8 (13)CrimeDramaUnited Kingdom
Creators
Lynda La Plante
Countries
United Kingdom
Studios
ITV1 · La Plante Productions · Isle of Man Film
Runtime
60–100 min/ep
Release
19/10/1997
Score
6.8 / 10 (13)
Where to watch
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
2 episodes · 1997

A five-year-old girl goes missing and the police are called to search for her. When her body is found, it becomes a murder investigation, headed by DS Michael Walker.

Episode 1. Trial & Retribution I (Part 1)
1997-10-19 · 101 min

Five-year-old Julie Harris goes missing after being seen playing at the local playground. Suspicion immediately falls on Julie's mother's new boyfriend, Peter James. But when her body is found inside a sewage pipe, evidence points towards…

Episode 2. Trial & Retribution I (Part 2)
1997-10-20 · 101 min

When items relating to the case are found in Dunn's flat, Walker has no doubt that Dunn is responsible. However, when it's revealed that a frantic young officer who found Julie's body planted evidence, Dunn's trial is thrown into jeopardy.

Season 2
2 episodes · 1998

DS Walker pursues Damon Morton, accused of brutally attacking women, but the case is complicated by false confessions and alibis.

Episode 1. Trial & Retribution II (Part 1)
1998-10-18 · 102 min

When Susan Harrow does not return home, her mother reports her missing to the police. Her body is later discovered on wasteland and an investigation is launched, once again headed by Walker. Following a second murder, the team realise…

Episode 2. Trial & Retribution II (Part 2)
1998-10-19 · 102 min

Marilyn Spark's identification of Morton as her attacker is given credence when the severed breasts of the dead victims are discovered on Morton's premises and he is set for trial. He is defended by the formidable Corinna Maddox, known as…

Season 3
2 episodes · 1999

15-year-old Cassie Black goes missing on her paper round in south London. An anonymous phone call leads the police to a boathouse in Putney where they discover her blood-stained jacket and trainers. An inquiry is launched.

Episode 1. Trial And Retribution III (1)
1999-10-07 · 101 min

A fifteen year old girl goes missing and her blood-stained clothes are found. Det. Supt. Walker heads the investigation into her murder. Meanwhile, D.I. North is sent to see a persistent complainer, Warrington, who has been hounding the…

Episode 2. Trial And Retribution III (2)
1999-10-14 · 95 min

A fifteen year old girl goes missing and her blood-stained clothes are found. Det. Supt. Walker heads the investigation into her murder. Meanwhile, D.I. North is sent to see a persistent complainer, Warrington, who has been hounding the…

Season 4
2 episodes · 2000

DI Pat North is assigned to look into a 15-year-old case that may clear a man convicted of murder eight years ago.

Episode 1. Trial And Retribution IV (1)
2000-10-04 · 103 min

D.I. North re-investigates an eight-year-old murder case and finds that Det. Supt. Walker was in charge of the inquiry. She begins to suspect that he's covering something up and he is suspended from duty. He returns to his roots to find…

Episode 2. Trial And Retribution IV (2)
2000-10-05 · 94 min

D.I. North re-investigates an eight-year-old murder case and finds that Det. Supt. Walker was in charge of the inquiry. She begins to suspect that he's covering something up and he is suspended from duty. He returns to his roots to find…

Season 5
2 episodes · 2001

Walker investigates the discovery of a 17-year-old skeleton underneath the patio of a former bed and breakfast. His situation is worsened as he's partnered with North's ex-boyfriend.

Episode 1. Trial And Retribution V (1)
2001-06-19 · 89 min

Walker is assigned to investigate the discovery of a 17-year-old skeleton, which he isn't too happy about - especially as he's working with D.I. North's ex-boyfriend. They soon discover more skeletons buried at the house.

Episode 2. Trial And Retribution V (2)
2001-06-20 · 104 min

Walker is assigned to investigate the discovery of a 17-year-old skeleton, which he isn't too happy about - especially as he's working with D.I. North's ex-boyfriend. They soon discover more skeletons buried at the house.

Season 6
2 episodes · 2002

Back on the murder squad, North is asked to investigate when a young mother of two is abducted. The confession of a local sex offender complicates matters, as Pat looks into the possibility that the father of a young protégé of the woman may be responsible for her disappearance.

Episode 1. Trial And Retribution VI (1)
2002-10-06 · 60 min

D.I. North investigates when a girl is snatched from a wood, but the confession of a local sex offender complicates matters. Detective Chief Superintendent Walker is little help, as he has worries of his own.

Episode 2. Trial And Retribution VI (2)
2002-10-07 · 60 min

D.I. North investigates when a girl is snatched from a wood, but the confession of a local sex offender complicates matters. Detective Chief Superintendent Walker is little help, as he has worries of his own.

Season 7
2 episodes · 2003
Episode 1. VII: Suspicion (1)
2003-09-01 · 60 min

A severed female hand is found in the Thames, which brings D.C.I. Conner in contact with Walker (who is now back in uniform). No body is discovered, and the case soon becomes a battle of wits against the killer.

Episode 2. VII: Suspicion (2)
2003-09-02 · 60 min

A severed female hand is found in the Thames, which brings D.C.I. Conner in contact with Walker (who is now back in uniform). No body is discovered, and the case soon becomes a battle of wits against the killer.

Season 8
2 episodes · 2004
Episode 1. Trial And Retribution VIII: Blue Eiderdown (1)
2004-10-11 · 60 min

A young prostitute, Angela Dutton, plunges to her death from the eleventh floor balcony of a block of flats. The police begin a murder enquiry and discover that she was the daughter of a seventies TV star who was also found murdered…

Episode 2. Trial And Retribution VIII: Blue Eiderdown (2)
2004-10-12 · 60 min

A young prostitute, Angela Dutton, plunges to her death from the eleventh floor balcony of a block of flats. The police begin a murder inquiry and discover that she was the daughter of a seventies TV star who was also found murdered…

Season 9
2 episodes · 2005
Episode 1. Trial And Retribution IX: The Lovers (1)
2005-11-07 · 60 min

No synopsis

Episode 2. Trial And Retribution IX: The Lovers (2)
2005-11-08 · 60 min

No synopsis

Season 10
10 episodes · 2007
Episode 1. Sins Of The Father (1)
2007-01-14 · 60 min

The apparently happy Harrogate family is torn apart when they return home to discover their daughter, Emily, dead. Connor and Satchell begin to sift through the case and discover that the family isn't as stable as it first appeared.…

Episode 2. Sins Of The Father (2)
2007-01-15 · 60 min

No synopsis

Episode 3. Closure (1)
2007-01-21 · 60 min

A young school girl is raped and murdered, but D.C.I. Connor still has no leads a month into the investigation. When Walker orders a review of unsolved cases, they turn up similar cases of raped and murdered teenage girls over the last…

Episode 4. Closure (2)
2007-01-22 · 60 min

A young school girl is raped and murdered, but D.C.I. Connor still has no leads a month into the investigation. When Walker orders a review of unsolved cases, they turn up similar cases of raped and murdered teenage girls over the last…

Episode 5. Paradise Lost (1)
2007-01-28 · 60 min

A serial rapist is targeting the black community by raping white women with black boyfriends. When an attack ends in murder and the boyfriend is cleared, Walker brings him on to the investigation to help, but could Connor's relationship…

Episode 6. Paradise Lost (2)
2007-01-29 · 60 min

No synopsis

Episode 7. Curriculum Vitae (1)
2007-02-04 · 60 min

A mother returns home from work to find her baby girl dead in her cot, and her nanny has Vanished. D.C.I. Connor and the team take on this emotive case involving this ultimate abuse of trust. With the nanny on the run, it seems an obvious…

Episode 8. Curriculum Vitae (2)
2007-02-05 · 60 min

A mother returns home from work to find her baby girl dead in her cot, and her nanny has Vanished. D.C.I. Connor and the team take on this emotive case involving this ultimate abuse of trust. With the nanny on the run, it seems an obvious…

Episode 9. Mirror Image (1)
2007-02-12 · 60 min

The murder of a Police Commander and his wife puts Walker, Connor and the team under pressure to get a quick result. Jewelery has been stolen from the house, which would indicate a burglary gone wrong, but several relatives profit from…

Episode 10. Mirror Image (2)
2007-02-13 · 60 min

No synopsis

Season 11
10 episodes · 2008
Episode 1. Rules of the Game (1)
2008-01-17 · 60 min

A suitcase is found abandoned at Heathrow Airport, and panic ensues, but it is soon discovered to be no terrorist threat. Inside is the naked body of Sofia Petrenko, a high-class prostitute, who has been strangled to death. The suitcase…

Episode 2. Rules of the Game (2)
2008-01-24 · 60 min

Another working girl, Maryna, is put on trial for assaulting Malikov. She claims self-defence but the trial is mishandled and walker is even more adamant then before that he will get the Ukrainian. Roisin, however, believes that his…

Episode 3. Kill the King (1)
2008-01-31 · 60 min

When well-known paediatric surgeon Jonathan Carlisle is found dead, DCI Connor uncovers conflicts stirred by a recent operation that resulted in a young girl's death. The team soon learn that the girl's father, Gary Webster, was the…

Episode 4. Kill the King (2)
2008-02-07 · 60 min

The aftermath of Gary Webster’s suicide begins – a DPS enquiry, a very shaken Palmer, and a shocked but stoic Gemma, still convinced of a cover-up at the hospital. Gary wasn’t the killer; all he ever wanted was a straight answer. Adrian…

Episode 5. Conviction (1)
2008-02-14 · 60 min

Terry Dyer has been recently released from prison, where he was imprisoned for a crime he still maintains he did not commit, and he returns to his East London estate in search of the truth. The father of the victim he was convicted of…

Episode 6. Conviction (2)
2008-02-21 · 60 min

Dyer is released and Ken Randle confesses to Fisher's murder and goes on trial. However, Sarah comes to see Walker. She is anxious to tell him what really happened on the night that her brother was killed. As a consequence the charge of…

Episode 7. The Box (1)
2008-02-28 · 60 min

D.C.S. Walker goes on leave back to Glasgow, where he is taking care of his increasingly senile mother, he soon becomes involved in the case of a missing woman, who is the sister of an old friend. Walker begins to delve into the life of…

Episode 8. The Box (2)
2008-03-13 · 60 min

Whilst Anna's diary entries initially suggest that Ronnie was stalking her, they are eventually dismissed as forgeries. Ronnie also had an alibi for the time that Margaret went missing and it looks as if he is being framed, possibly by…

Episode 9. Tracks (1)
2008-03-20 · 60 min

The body of a teenage girl, Maria Cole, is discovered in a chalk pit, and the tracks of three different vehicles are discovered at the crime scene. They eventually lead D.C.I. Connor and D.C.S. Walker to the local hardman, Ray Harper. His…

Episode 10. Tracks (2)
2008-03-27 · 60 min

Ray Harper is devastated to find that Andy has hanged himself. Darren admits that he and Andy were a gay couple but dared not tell their families. The case against him collapses and he is released. Mike Walker is having troubles of his…

Season 12
6 episodes · 2009
Episode 1. Siren (1)
2009-01-09 · 60 min

An ambulance is forced off the road as it is carrying a famous patient in the back. The patient is then shot in the head.

Episode 2. Siren (2)
2009-01-16 · 60 min

Imogen's mother makes a plea for her daughter's safe return. Things happening between McGill and Connor threaten the investigation.

Episode 3. Ghost Train (1)
2009-01-23 · 60 min

When a girl falls to her death from a ferris wheel, it is thought to be a tragic accident - until DS Satchell's aunt comes forward with suspicions of foul play.

Episode 4. Ghost Train (2)
2009-01-30 · 60 min

Despite the presence of Tess, the police find the funfair workers unwilling to cooperate. An arrest is eventually made, a Romanian worker called Pavel, who had actually gone out with the girl who fell from the Big Wheel, but he is not the…

Episode 5. Shooter (1)
2009-02-06 · 60 min

DS Satchell and his family find themselves the target of a notorious crime family when he witnesses the slaying of an informer following a jewellery raid.

Episode 6. Shooter (2)
2009-02-13 · 60 min

DS Satchell is desperate to find his wife and daughter now that they are misssing. Walker and Connor try to find the evidence to put the Bilkin family behind bars. Satchell decides to take matters into his own hands when he feels he has…

Cast by season
David Hayman
David Hayman
Michael Walker
Dorian Lough
Dorian Lough
David Satchell
Kate Buffery
Kate Buffery
Pat North
Richard Durden
Richard Durden
Dr John Foster
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