New Tricks Season 1, Episode 1 : ID Parade

The team reopen the case of young police cadet Kate Daniels, brutally murdered in 1987. Daniels had gone to a pub alone on the night she was killed and the only witness to the murder was a six-year-old girl, Patricia Lee. Now an optician, she tells Supt Sandra Pullman and Gerry Standing she still has a recurring nightmare about a man she saw running from the scene. The finding of a gun in a cache of weapons trawled from a lake leads the team to petty criminal Philip Sheppard. Brian Lane and Jack Halford are trailing Sheppard as he stalks women, all petite and blonde like Daniels. Sandra admits she was at Hendon Police College with the victim and knew her personally. Meanwhile, each team member seems to have a personal problem to deal with. Brian's delicate emotional balance goes into freefall when his wife leaves him - not helped by the fact that he has thrown his medication down the toilet. Gerry is also facing a shock in his personal life when he discovers he's going to be a grandfather, through his unmarried daughter Paula. Back at UCOS, Brian becomes convinced that the case is connected to Nick Gilbert, another of Pullman's fellow trainees who was Daniels' lover but who dropped out. Gerry takes drastic action to help Patricia identify Sheppard in a line up, while Brian visits a still bitter Gilbert and, while he's not looking, swipes something from the house and takes it for forensic examination. Pullman is enraged at his actions and Brian is forced to confront how his obsession with the past is ruining his life. He decides to try to woo Esther back. But can Pullman confront her own past as a rookie copper and get the truth out of Gilbert?

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