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Law & Order: UK

A crime drama that's half police procedural/half legal drama focusing on the Criminal Investigation Department (C.I.D) Detectives who investigate murders involving the people on the streets of London and the Crown Prosecutors who prosecute the defendants in court. The police half focuses on the exciting case load of London Metropolitan Murder Investigation Unit (M.I.U). The police start pounding the streets in the pursuit of their prime suspect by piecing together the clues of each and every heinous crime. They do not stop until the jigsaw is complete and they have enough evidence to make an arrest. But catching the killer isn't always enough, once the crooks are caught and the evidence has been gathered, the Crown Prosecution Service (C.P.S) takes over for the second half and in a tough criminal justice system founded up the belief of 'Innocent until proven guilty' the burden of proof falls on the shoulders of the Prosecutors of the CPS. The CPS team tackle the biggest and most controversial case where life and liberty hang in the balance, These are their stories.

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Bradley Walsh
DS Ronnie Brooks
Robert Glenister
Narrator
Harriet Walter
DI Natalie Chandler

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Episode 1

Flaw

47 mins

Ronnie and new partner Joe Hawkins, who has come from the child protection unit, investigate a gruesome double murder where the victims' hands and teeth were removed. One of the dead men is jeweller Harry Bernstein and suspicion falls on his wife Lindsay and her lover David as well as business partner Micky Belker. However when a box containing Harry's missing hands is sent to his sister Rebecca the case takes a different turn as she is on the jury in the trial of Dale Horgan, a gangster and drug dealer whom Ronnie is desperate to see convicted after he was acquitted of shooting a little girl in the back and jury intimidation is now a clear motive. The prosecutors are afraid that an over-emotional Ronnie may be a bad witness in the face of Horgan's icy barrister Eleanor Richmond and coach him in staying objective. Jake applies to have Eleanor discharged from the jury and ultimately the whole case is to be tried by a single judge. It looks as id Ronnie is never going to nail Horgan but then Joe comes up with an unexpected witness.

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Awards

  • 2011 - GLAAD Media Award - Outstanding Individual Episode (In a Series Without a Regular Gay Character) - nominated
  • 2009 - TV Quick Award - Best New Drama - nominated
  • 2014 - National Television Award - Radio Times - TV Detective - nominated
  • 2014 - TV Choice Award - Best Actor - nominated

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