List of Law & Order: UK episodes

Law & Order: UK is a British police procedural and legal television programme, adapted from the American series Law & Order. The programme is financed by the production companies Kudos Film and Television, Wolf Films, and Universal Media Studios. Head writer Chris Chibnall based the first two series of episodes on scripts and episodes of the parent series. Although Chibnall left the programme after the first 13 episodes were complete, the practice of adapting episodes from the American series has continued through series four. Law & Order: UK is based in London and stars an ensemble, including Bradley Walsh, anchoring the "Law", and Freema Agyeman, during "Order"

The series was premiered worldwide on ITV1 on Monday, February 23, 2009. As of November 27, 2010, a total of 26 episodes have been shown globally. The programme has been broadcast as two 13-episodes seasons worldwide, with the exception of the UK, where it is shown in seven and six episode series. This resulted in episodes 7–13 and 21–26 being broadcast internationally months before their British transmission. The programme had its American debut on 3 October 2010 where it is shown on the cable channel BBC America. On 18 October 2010 ITV announced it had commissioned an additional 13 episodes.

Series overview

Series		Episodes	Originally aired		DVD releases
			Series premiere	Series finale	Region 2	Region 1	Region 4
	1	7	23 February 2009 (2009-02-23)	6 April 2009 (2009-04-06)	11 January 2010 (2010-01-11)	23 March 2010 (2010-03-23) (Target stores) 26 October 2010 (2010-10-26)	11 February 2010 (2010-14-11)
	2	6	30 July 2009 (2009-07-30) (Canada) 11 January 2010 (2010-01-11) (UK)	3 September 2009 (2009-09-03) (Canada) 15 February 2010 (2010-02-15) (UK)	22 February 2010 (2010-02-22)		2 March 2011 (2011-03-02)
	3	7	9 September 2010 (2010-09-09)	28 October 2010 (2010-10-28)	7 March 2011 (2011-03-07)
	4	6	4 November 2010 (2010-11-04) (Canada) 7 March 2011 (2011-03-07) (UK)	9 December 2010 (2010-12-09) (Canada) 11 April 2011 (2011-04-11) (UK)	11 July 2011 (2011-07-11)
	5	6	10 July 2011 (2011-07-10) (UK)

Episodes

Series 1 (2009)

Law & Order: UK premiered featuring Bradley Walsh, Jamie Bamber, Harriet Walter, as the lead "Law" actors, and Ben Daniels, Freema Agyeman, and Bill Paterson, leading "Order".

#	№	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original airdate	Viewing figures	Original Law & Order episode
1	1	"Care"	Omar Madha	Chris Chibnall	23 February 2009 (2009-02-23)	6.96 million	"Cradle to Grave" (31 March 1992 (1992-03-31))
An evacuation of a hospital after a bag is found leads to the call out of DS Ronnie Brooks and DS Matt Devlin to investigate the death of a dead nine-month old child who was found inside a sports bag in the parking lot of the hospital. The first obvious suspect is child's mother, Dionne Farrah (Venetia Campbell), but they learn that she had left the child at home by himself pending the arrival of the babysitter as she was concerned that she would be fired if she was late to work, The sitter was refused entry to the building and the boy was poisoned by carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty central heating system from the gas heater in his flat. A fellow tenant, Mike Turner (Tony Maudsley), had been bribed by the landlady, Maureen Walters (Lorraine Ashbourne), to harass the occupants into leaving so that she can renovate the building for more profitable developers as means for getting higher rent and he is charged with tampering with the heater as means of getting rid of tenants who refused to vacate their homes, and in the process killed the child. However, the case is declared a mistrial when it is claimed that the testimony of the building's French caretaker was wrongly translated. However, the trial back on track when the team finds that Mrs. Walters has also been bribing environmental health officers and persuades Turner to testify against her. When that fails, they decide to try and prosecute Walters for gross neglect and corruption of public officials.
2	2	"Unloved"	Andy Goddard	Terry Cafolla	2 March 2009 (2009-03-02)	6.24 million	"Born Bad" (16 November 1993 (1993-11-16))
Brooks and Devlin are emotionally affected by the case of an unidentifiable 13-year-old boy who was kicked to death at Euston Station. Their initial assumption is that he is a runaway but the autopsy reveals that he was well fed and in good health. DI Chandler holds a press conference which leads to identifying the victim as Danny Jackson who was in foster care as his mother, Mandy Jackson (Nicola Stephenson) is a former drug addict and currently in a rehab facility. She recently left her live-in boyfriend, Stevie Agnew (Neal Barry), who is already suspected of physical abuse towards the victim but he denies ever touching the child and claims not to have seen him since he left his mother. The trail leads to the arrest of another young boy, Jono Blake (Richard Wisker), who was also in care at the same house as Danny. Steel and Phillips face an "old flame" from Steel's past in defence barrister Beatrice McArdle (Dervla Kirwan), who attempts a bizarre and audacious line of defence of genetic predisposition towards violence: the suggestion that genes could be responsible for aggressive behaviour. This could upset the whole British legal system since other defendants could claim that genes means that they are not responsible for their actions.
3	3	"Vice"	Omar Madha	Chris Chibnall	9 March 2009 (2009-03-09)	6.61 million	"Working Mom" (26 February 1997 (1997-02-26))
The body of ex-vice squad officer, Frank McCallum, is found in the rear seat of his own car in an underpass in Paddington. He was apparently killed after oral sex and Brookes and Devlin soon trace his movements to a young prostitute who has McCallum's wallet in her purse, but forensics eliminates her as a suspect. Though married to his adoring wife, Annie McCallum (Polly Kemp), Frank had a roving eye and according to the victim's boss, Josh Pritchard (Sean Pertwee), money from the paintballing firm for which he worked for is unaccounted. As they look into their ex-colleague's background, Brooks and Devlin trace McCallum's company credit card and are surprised to be led to a respectable children's clothes shop in Barnes run by two friends, Emma Sandbrook (Juliet Aubrey) and Kate Barton (Deborah Cornelius), only to discover that it is a front for an escort girl service and the two women are moonlighting as high-class prostitutes to pay for their sons' school fees. They charge the women with murder and determine a motive for one of them to have killed the man. Emma's unique and expensive lipstick is identified amongst the forensic evidence in the back of the car. Her "formidable defence barrister", Phyllis Gladstone (Lesley Manville), argues that McCallum was blackmailing Emma for free sex and attacked her when she tried to get out of the car and he subsequently tried to force her to have sex and she killed him in self-defense. Steel and Alesha are not convinced and prepare to do battle with Gladstone.
4	4	"Unsafe"	Andy Goddard	Chris Chibnall	16 March 2009 (2009-03-16)	6.24 million	"American Dream" (9 November 1993 (1993-11-09))
When a treasure hunting pensioner with a metal detector uncovers a nine-year-old skeleton in shallow grave aside the Thames mudflats, it forces Brooks and Devlin to reopen a contentious murder case when they identify the remains as those of David Ackroyd who disappeared in 1999. His supposed killer and business partner, Luke Slade (Iain Glen), was eventually convicted of murder although no corpse was found and an unreliable witness claimed that Slade told him he had slit his victims throat but the medical examiner finds that he was shot in the head. As a result, it would appear that Slade is the victim of a miscarriage of justice. Steel, however, is far from convinced and, when Slade represents himself in court, it becomes less about the trial and more about the vendetta between the two men. Slade soon files a writ to have his conviction overturned and the Crown prosecutors learn that Slade will represent himself at the appeal. Whilst in jail Slade has become skilled in the law and wins himself a re-trial, putting James Steel's career on the line in the process as was the original trial prosecutor as this was his first case with the Crown Prosecution Service, it becomes less about the trial and more about the vendetta between the two men. Steel and the police have to build an entirely new case against him and Steel soon finds himself before his own hearing alleging misconduct in his pursuit of Slade but fortunately for Steel, a visit to Slade's old cell-mate yields results. Original episode and this adaptation inspired by the Billionaire Boys Club case.
5	5	"Buried"	Mark Everest	Catherine Tregenna	23 March 2009 (2009-03-23)	6.69 million	"...In Memory of" (November 5, 1991)
The remains of a small boy are uncovered in a wall by a construction crew and later identified as Tommy Keegan, who disappeared in 1983 at the age of Eight, 25 years after he was reported missing. The boy had his skull crushed with a blunt object and his body was bricked into a wall. Brooks and Devlin meet with the retired policeman in charge of the original investigation, who was convinced that he knew the culprit, Edward Connor (Anthony Higgins) a neighbour and a suspected paedophile, who was arrested but the police couldn't get - or beat - a confession out of him so he was released for lack of evidence. Afer interviewing Connor, who refusses to talk to them, they meet with Tommy's Mother, Phillipa Keegan (Barbara Marten), and seeing the grief the boy's mother is still living with, makes the detectives determined to solve the case. They also meet, Julia Mortimer (Holly Aird), a childhood friend of Tommy, who used to play with him when they were she was younger. She tells the police that she had seen Tommy the day before he died but they notice an anomaly in her statement and ask her to undergo EMDR therapy, also known as regression hypnosis, to see if they can retrieve any additional memories as they believe that is subconsciously suppressing her memories of the events of the time. Julia names her estranged father Vernon (Keith Barron) not only as the killer but as a paedophile himself who molested her too. This leads to a history of sexual abuse and abuse of trust and it's left up to Steel to get the man to admit it on the witness stand but the court trial leads to angry exchanges between Julia and her father. However, Steel soon finds that his whole case rests on a very upset and potentially unreliable witness. Original episode and this adaptation inspired by the George Franklin case.
6	6	"Paradise"	Tristram Powell	Chris Chibnall	30 March 2009 (2009-03-30)	5.87 million	"Heaven" (26 November 1991 (1991-11-26))
When an arson attack on a Turkish club kills 17 people, all undocumented illegal immigrants, Brooks and Devlin are under pressure to discover just who was behind it. At first it's assumed a racial hate crime, but soon they uncover evidence of something much more complicated than what they thought. Using CCTV, they manage to trace a suspect to a nearby hospital and what was first thought of as a racist attack soon turns out to be a lot more complicated. The perpetrator, Nazim Kazaba (Nabil Elouahabi), is caught as part of the device he used went off in the blast and something embedded in his leg but is refusing treatment, the situation is not helped when a suspect's human rights gets in the way of obtaining the crucial evidence. Steel's attempt to to force the man to undergo treatment is unsuccessful so the police just wait for the wound to fester and, with evidence finally in hand, charge him with murder. The defendent decides to cut a deal and his information leads them to Ediz Kilic (Ken Bones), one of the most prominent members of London's Turkish community who is also a people smuggler who Kazaba claims forced him to silence the clubbers, who were ready to expose his activities. The prosecutors struggle to build a case as a conflict emerges between justice, community relations and racial harmony. Steel jeopardises his friendship with a Turkish school mate, who resents being under suspicion, from his student days to get information to bring Kilic down. Original episode and this adaptation inspired by the Happy Land fire caused by Julio Gonzalez.
7	7	"Alesha"	Mark Everest	Catherine Tregenna	6 April 2009 (2009-04-06)	6.02 million	"Helpless" (4 November 1992 (1992-11-04))
When Phillips' gynaecologist, Dr. Alec Merrick (Derek Riddell), touches her inappropriately during a routine medical examination, she files a complaint with the police and accuses the respected Doctor of sexual assault. Brooks, Devlin and Chandler struggle to find any firm evidence to investigate and the team becomes divided, but can't seem to find any former patients who may have made similar claims. They do however find that he did sleep with some patients, even if they won't accuse him of misconduct, making the conflicting reports from previous clients impossible to make an arrest. After learning that they have insufficient evidence to proceed, Phillips then resorts to desperate means to obtain justice only to make things worse for herself. Returning for a follow-up exam, Merrick drugs and rapes her, which she records on a spy camera. Steel is pitted against formidable defence barrister Phyllis Gladstone (Lesley Manville), who at trial claims entrapment. Merrick also claims that the sex was consensual and the apparent rape was in fact role-playing as agreed to by both of them. It's left to Steel to become creative but with no corroborating witness and a hidden secret which Alesha had not shared with anyone, that ruins the case, so the jury takes Merrick's side, but it is not over yet. In a June 2009 interview with Digital Spy, Freema Agyeman (Alesha Phillips) described the episode and its content as "the biggest challenge I've ever been faced with in my career".

Series 2 (2010)

#	№	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original airdate	Viewing figures	Original Law & Order episode
8	1	"Samaritan"	Andy Goddard	Chris Chibnall	30 July 2009 (2009-07-30) (Canada) 11 January 2010 (2010-01-11) (UK)	6.51 million	"Manhood" (12 May 1993 (1993-05-12))
Police constable Nick Bentley (Ashley Rolfe) is on foot patrol when he gets caught in a war between two drug dealers and is shot and killed. His partner, PC Ray Griffin (Jamie Forman), says Nick shouldn't have been on his own but they got separated while on foot patrol. Brooks and Devlin think it's a tragic but pretty straightforward case and Brooks and Devlin eventually locate a witness who identifies one of the parties to the drug transaction and soon catch drug dealer Theo Carson (Ashley Chin). Carson shocks them and their boss, DI Natalie Chandler, when he tells them he saw another police constable standing in the shadows while the injured policeman was calling for help. Brooks and Devlin find an anomaly in Griffin's formal statement and they decide to investigate. Brooks and Devlin discover that Nick was gay and that Bentley's fellow constables had recently learned of his sexual orientation, also that Griffin is the head of a Christian group that doesn't accept homosexuals on the force. At the CPS, James Steel and Alesha Phillips think they can prove Griffin was duty-bound to help his dying partner. But their boss, George Castle, doesn't agree. He doesn't want to upset the working relationship they have with the police and thinks the force won't be with them. James and Alesha don't want to let Griffin off the hook, though and argue that Griffin had a duty of care and was obliged to help his dying partner.
9	2	"Hidden"	Julian Holmes	Emilia di Girolamo	6 August 2009 (2009-08-06) (Canada) 18 January 2010 (2010-01-18) (UK)	6.53 million	"Bitter Fruit" (20 September 1995 (1995-09-20))
When a 10-year-old Jodie Gaines goes missing after being dropped off to go to to her guitar lesson by Taxi. It was assumed that she may have gone the wrong way by accident and found herself lost. However, 2 weeks pass, and there are still no signs of the girl. The next day, she is found dead, murdered, in a rubbish bin. Brooks and Devlin interview the cab driver, who insists he dropped her off at her teacher's house, but the teacher says she never arrived. The police re-interview the cab driver who confesses that he didn't drop Jodie off outside the Guitar teachers shop, like he said but a few blocks away because of road works. This means the police have been looking at the wrong CCTV footage. So after taking another look at different CCTV cameras they uncover footage a white van in the area following the Jodies cab. After some more investigating it is identified that the girl was in fact kidnapped before being murdered and they soon arrest Nick Carlton (Philip Wright), a ex-con working with a van company whose alibi doesn't add up and forensic evidence tying him to the crime. He is soon charged with the kidnapp and murder of Jodie but unexpectedly gets bail. He is no sooner released when he is stabbed and killed by the dead girl's grieving mother, Kayleigh Gains (Anna Madeley), a recovering drug addict who is separated from her husband who had formal custody of the child. Crown prosecutor James Steel seeks a murder conviction, even though he knows that Kayleigh will likely have the sympathy of the court. When it appears that Kayleigh is to be set free until Devlin and Brooks uncover a crucial piece of information. Original episode and this adaptation inspired by the Ellie Nesler case, with some aspects of British crimes including the faked kidnapping of Shannon Matthews and the murder of Sarah Payne.
10	3	"Community Service"	Ken Grieve	Catherine Tregenna	13 August 2009 (2009-08-13) (Canada) 25 January 2010 (2010-01-25) (UK)	6.07 million	"Volunteers" (29 September 1993 (1993-09-29))
A mentally ill homeless man is found severely beaten in a neighborhood park on a well-cared-for residential square. The police start to investigate the attack on the victime who is is later identified as Roland Kirk (Sean Harris), a bi-polar drifter, whose unofficially moved into the community and living out of a campervan and sometimes hanging out with his homeless friends. The law becomes a minefield for detectives Brooks and Devlin as they discover their list of suspects is long. Kirk's not really welcome on the estate and taunts the residents with his presence, the people living on the estate have made loads of complaints to the police about Kirk but as soon as they move him away he comes back again. The investigation reveals that the CCTV cameras had been turned away indicating that the attack may not have been random. They also find that many in the neighborhood are tight-lipped about the incident or about anything that might have happened on the night in question, as they unprepared to give up the person who did what so many of them wanted to do. That's until the police arrest the wrong man. The courage of his convictions desert him and he sets the police on to architect Harry Morgan (Kevin McNally). Morgan's motive is that his son, Nate Morgan (Jonathan Readwin), preferred Kirk to his family and Morgan didn't like that. It then falls to Steel to make the case.
11	4	"Sacrifice"	Robert Del Maestro	Terry Cafolla and Nathan Cockerill	20 August 2009 (2009-08-20) (Canada) 1 February 2010 (2010-02-01) (UK)	6.06 million	"Sonata for a Solo Organ" (2 April 1991 (1991-04-02))
12	5	"Love and Loss"	Mark Everest	Terry Cafolla	27 August 2009 (2009-08-27) (Canada) 8 February 2010 (2010-02-08) (UK)	6.34 million	"Consultation" (9 December 1992 (1992-12-09))
13	6	"Honour Bound"	Andy Goddard	Chris Chibnall	3 September 2009 (2009-09-03) (Canada) 15 February 2010 (2010-02-15) (UK)	6.28 million	"Corruption" (30 October 1996 (1996-10-30))

Series 3 (2010)

#	№	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Viewing figures (including HD)	Original Law & Order episode
14	1	"Broken"	Andy Goddard	Emilia di Girolamo	9 September 2010 (2010-09-09) (UK) 16 September 2010 (2010-09-16) (Canada)	5.27 million	"Killerz" (29 September 1999 (1999-09-29))
Brooks and Devlin investigate the murder of five-year-old Connor Reid, found strangled in an empty flat. The detectives interview people on the estate to determine the boy's identity. A teenaged girl, Paige Ward (Annie Cull), claims to have seen a man take the boy into the building; her friend, Rose Shaw (Romy Irving), affirms the story. CCTV footage reveals that Rose and Paige lead Connor into the building, not the man they described. In an interview, Paige admits that she and Rose were unofficially babysitting Connor, and that Rose killed him. When the police take Rose in for questioning, she blames Paige for the murder. The CPS charge both girls with Connor's murder. However, Steele defies his superiors and takes instruction from Connor's mother, who pleads leniency for Rose given her upbringing by an abusive prostitute. The prosecution pleads the girl's upbringing as grounds for diminished responsibility, seeking to place her in psychiatric care. However, Rose's brief, Kim Sharkey (Deborah Findlay), wants an all-or-nothing verdict. Steele puts her mother in the witness box to prove the prosecution's case and save Rose from a murder charge. Original episode and this adaptation both inspired by the Mary Bell case with some elements of the murder of James Bulger.
15	2	"Hounded"	Julian Holmes	Catherine Tregenna	16 September 2010 (2010-09-16) (UK) 23 September 2010 (2010-09-23) (Canada)	4.42 million	"Mad Dog" (2 April 1997 (1997-04-02))
Original episode and this adaptation both inspired by the Megan Nicole Kanka case.
16	3	"Defence"	Mark Everest	Debbie O’Malley	23 September 2010 (2010-09-23) (UK) 30 September 2010 (2010-09-30) (Canada)	4.83 millon	"Pro Se" (8 May 1996 (1996-05-08))
Devlin and Brooks investigate the murder of three people, Two workers and a customer, in a vintage clothes shop, who were found by an employee on returning from lunch, apparently killed with a sword or long knife. The medical evidence later indicates that the weapon was a bayonet. There is a fourth, surviving, victim who helps the police in their investigation and the police soon focus their search on a street person who was seen nearby who is eventually identified as John "Zero" Smith (Rupert Graves), an educated but homeless ex-military man, who is arrested with the weapon on him. Smith who hasn't taken his medication for several months was previously charged with stalking a young woman but sloppy prosecution led to the case's collapse. It is also revealed that Smith is a law graduate, who has several law degrees. Smith has a long history of mental illness and occasional violent behavior but as long as he remains on his medication, there's a high degree of normalcy about him and his medication decides he will defend himself at his trial. He proves to be a formidable opponent against Steele, and trying to avoid both hospitalization and jail, argues that he is not a danger to society so long as he is medicated and claims that he was not himself that day and therefore not the killer, while Steel attempts to prove that Smith is likely to stop taking his medications yet again. Steel brings in Smith's sister, Patricia (Amanda Root), and uses Smith's paranoia to get his conviction.
17	4	"Confession"	James Strong	Terry Cafolla	30 September 2010 (2010-09-30) (UK) 7 October 2010 (2010-10-07) (Canada)	3.75 million	"Bad Faith" (26 April 1995 (1995-04-26))
Pete Garvey, a childhood friend of DS Matt Devlin, is found dead from a gunshot wound in the park by two uniformed officers and Brooks and Devlin are called out to investigate. Devlin and Garvey had known each other for a long time and takes the news badly. When Brooks and Devlin interview Pete's wife, he discovers he had recently been in contact with their childhood parish priest Jonathan Nugent (Matthew Marsh) and that he had recently been plagued by nightmares which were affecting their marriage. Matt's suspicions are alerted as Pete claimed to have been sexually abused by him as a child when Devlin and Garvey were altar boys together and it was rumored by other lads that Nugent was an undetected child molester but as a priest and pillar of the community no one believed them. Matt emidetly jumps to the conclusion that Nugent killed Garvey, but it soon turns out that a gun from Garveys station house that a gun had gone missing after Garvey was on a case involving a suspected pedophile, which reminded him of the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of Nugent. It looks like Garvey was shoot with the missing gun in a scuffle, but soon the apparent murder quickly turns out to be a suicide, when forensic evidence and coroners report don't add up. The two officers who found the body even confess to tampering with evidence and it soon becomes apparent that Garvey was suffering from Posttraumatic stress disorder. Since everything points to Garvey taking his own life, it leaves the Crown Prosecutors with a dilemma as to just what to do. The now-married Nugent and Devlin face off as CPS decides to engage in a risky gambit and charges Nugent with manslaughter for causing the PTSD on the fact that Nugent's abuse so unbalanced Garvey that he killed himself as a result. The case becomes increasingly difficult, and Nugent claims that Garvey was blackmailing him, which tips the jury on his side. Meanwhile, James Steel must do a deal with the Catholic church if he is to get a conviction on Nugent. Original episode and this adaptation inspired by the James Porter case.
18	5	"Survivor"	Andy Goddard	Emilia di Girolamo	7 October 2010 (2010-10-07) (UK) 14 October 2010 (2010-10-14) (Canada)	4.82 million	"Punk" (25 November 1998 (1998-11-25))
19	6	"Masquerade"	Hettie MacDonald	Richard Stokes	14 October 2010 (2010-10-14) (UK) 21 October 2010 (2010-10-21) (Canada)	4.90 million	"Good Girl" (7 October 1996 (1996-10-07))
The police find a university student, Archie Rahman, stabbed to death in his flat and a library book on Persian pottery, taken out in the name of Becky Anderson (Charlene McKenna), is found in his flat, which becomes their only clue. DS Brooks and DS Devlin question Becky, who tells them her friend Sally Douglas (Kimberley Nixon) swapped library cards and whilst the girls give each other alibis, saying they were studying in the library at the time the young man was killed. Then Becky later admits she was lying for Sally and the officers soon focus on several inconsistencies in Sally's story until she finally admits that Archie, who she did not know, lured her to his flat where he drugged and raped her. The police and CPS are skeptical but when the media get hold of the story, the whole case takes on racial overtones with the press clearly taking Sally's view of the case. It's left to Steele and Phillips to sort just what is the truth as they learn that Archie was once suspended from school for sexual misconduct but evidence also points to Sally having known Archie for some while, rather than being the casual pick-up she claims, whilst the heavy influence of her racist father (Andrew Dunn) is another factor which throws doubt on Sally's innocence. Both of these will be exploited by the prosecution.
20	7	"Anonymous"	Mark Everest	Debbie O’Malley	21 October 2010 (2010-10-21) (UK) 28 October 2010 (2010-10-28) (Canada)	5.05 million	"Stalker" (15 April 1998 (1998-04-15))

Series 4 (2011)

Series 4 of "Law & Order: UK" saw the departures of lead actors Ben Daniels and Bill Paterson during the series finale.

#	№	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original airdate	Viewing figures (including HD)	Original Law & Order episode
21	1	"ID"	Andy Goddard	Emilia di Girolamo	4 November 2010 (2010-11-04) (Canada) 21 March 2011 (2011-03-21) (UK)	4.35 million	"Promises to Keep" (10 February 1993 (1993-02-10))
When a pregnant woman is murdered in a car park Devlin and Brooks believe it to be a crime of passion and suspect her ex-boyfriend. When the ex-boyfriend's alibi is confirmed they look to Joe Nash, the current boyfriend, who says he was with his psychiatric social worker, whom he sees for a severe sleeping disorder. Based Joe's behaviour Brooks believes him to be an ex-con who is hiding something. When Joe is arrested he admits that his real name is Billy Wells and that his new identity was arranged by the Home Office because he is on a life licence for the murder of his teacher when he was eleven years old. When he recants the admission to being Billy Wells attempts to verify his identity expose a conspiracy that involves high ranking government officials.
22	2	"Denial"	Robert Del Maestro	Catherine Tregenna	11 November 2010 (2010-11-11) (Canada) 14 March 2011 (2011-03-14) (UK)	4.71 million	"DNR" (6 October 1999 (1999-10-06))
Brooks and Devlin investigate the shooting of Rachel Callaghan (Juliet Stevenson), a well-known High Court judge, who is shot in the underground car park of her apartment building, in what looks like a carjacking gone wrong. They retrieve the car from a dupe who purchased it, and arrest the middleman in the sale. The middleman blames the crime on a man named Eddie. It becomes apparent that Eddie was hired to kill Callaghan, but his attempt went awry. The detectives believe that Callaghan's husband, Dan (John McArdle), was involved in the murder plot. However, Callaghan takes steps to defend her husband from prosecution, even when she is presented with evidence proving his guilt. Callaghan eventually has her medication withdrawn, prompting Steele to seek the court's permission to question her before she dies. When Callaghan tries to commit suicide, Steele seeks to have her declared mentally incompetent but Judge Mary Hall (Diana Quick) overules Steeles motion. CPS Director Castle is torn between friendship and respecting a person’s right to die as he tries to get Rachel to accept the truth of what has happened.
23	3	"Shaken"	Paul Wilmshurst	Emila di Girolamo	18 November 2010 (2010-11-18) (Canada) 4 April 2011 (2011-04-04) (UK)	4.69 million	"Homesick" (15 April 1996 (1996-04-15))
An infant is found dead in his cot and the coroner determines that the baby died as a result of being shaken. Brooks and Devlin initially suspect the live-in nanny because she admits being the only one with the baby in the 12 hours preceding his death. Things get complicated when it is discovered that other people were in the house that day.
24	4	"Duty of Care"	Julian Holmes	Debbie O'Malley	25 November 2010 (2010-11-25) (Canada) 28 March 2011 (2011-03-28) (UK)	4.37 million	"Endurance" (18 October 2000 (2000-10-18))
When a fire starts in a flat above a corner shop, a young mother is forced to leave her disabled 13-year-old son to die. Brooks and Devlin first suspect the shop owner, who has been renowned for insurance scam operations in the past. However, it later becomes clear that the fire was caused by the young boy's mother, who, after believing he had died from an epileptic seizure, decided to start the fire to kill herself. However, is she telling the truth, or is her lawyer, bending the truth in an attempt to fool the jury? James and Alesha must deal with her lawyer, Dominic Peck (Oliver Dimsdale), who is determined to win at all costs, including bending the truth in an attempt to fool the jury.
25	5	"Help"	James Strong	Terry Cafolla	2 December 2010 (2010-12-02) (Canada) 7 March 2011 (2011-03-07) (UK)	5.70 million	"We Like Mike" (30 April 1997 (1997-04-30))
When Devlin and Brooks investigate the death of a Premiership footballer, Robbie Nichols, the evidence leads to a passer-by Mike Jones (Lorcan Cranich) who helped Nichols change a tyre. However, the man is about to get married, and forced to interrupt his nuptials, they interrogate him for details, which unveil a disturbing link to a gangster with connections in the police force and judiciary. Senior Crown prosecutor Steel must convince a man whose wedding was ruined by the investigation to give evidence in public against a renowned thug, whilst holding his own against the obsessive compulsive genius defence barrister Jason Peters (Eddie Marsan).
26	6	"Skeletons"	Andy Goddard	Catherine Tregenna	9 December 2010 (2010-12-09) (Canada) 11 April 2011 (2011-04-11) (UK)	4.71 million	"Trophy" (31 January 1996 (1996-01-31))
When a series of murders are committed across London with the same motive, it is suspected that a serial killer from 6 years previous has returned to commit further crimes. Brooks and Devlin manage to track the man down, and it seems that he feels ready to confess to his wrongdoings. However, an alibi provided by his girlfriend seems to leave him in the clear, despite the fact there is no evidence to back it up either way. When it comes to court, however, Steele leaves out the defendants alibi and is accused of perverting the course of justice. Finding himself on the wrong side of the law, Steel battles for his career and his freedom.

Series 5 (2011)

Law & Order: UK Series 5 featured the first major cast changes, with Dominic Rowan and Peter Davison joining Freema Agyeman as "Order", with "Law" still being anchored by Bradley Walsh, Jamie Bamber, and Harriet Walter.

#	№	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original airdate	Viewing figures (including HD)	Original Law & Order episode
27	1	"The Wrong Man"	Marisol Adler	Debbie O'Malley	10 July 2011 (2011-07-10) (UK)	TBA	"Prescription for Death" (13 September 1990 (1990-09-13))
28	2	"Safe"	Julian Holmes	Emilia di Girolamo	17 July 2011 (2011-07-17) (UK)	TBA	"Precious" (9 November 1994 (1994-11-09))
29	3	"Crush"	Mat King	Nicholas Hicks-Beach	24 July 2011 (2011-07-24) (UK)	TBA	"Humiliation" (22 November 1995 (1995-11-22))
30	4	"Tick Tock"	Mark Everest	TBA	TBA	TBA	"Hot Pursuit" (8 November 1995 (1995-11-08))
31	5	"Intent"	Julian Holmes	TBA	TBA	TBA	"Privileged" (5 April 1995 (1995-04-05))
32	6	"Deal"	Andy Goddard	Emilia di Girolamo	TBA	TBA	TBA

See also

• List of Law & Order: UK characters

External links

• Template:Tv.com episodes
• Law & Order: UK at epguides.com
• Law & Order: UK at IMDb
• Law & Order: UK episode guide at BBCAmerica.com