All six episodes from the first season of the BBC1 crime series in which a motley crew of retired police officers
- Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman), Jack Halford (James Bolam) & Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong)
- is recruited by Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman) to re-open troublesome cases that were never laid to rest. From the discovery of a new motive in the killing of a college lecturer, to the tracing of a missing child, the team finds a way through the detail that eluded the original officers. But they are finding a surprising incidence of cover-up & conspiracy in their new investigations. Are their superiors about to close ranks? Or is someone feeding them particular files? Either way, the suspicion that they are being manipulated is high
- & the team is determined to get to the bottom of it. These old dogs won't roll over too easily...