Major Crimes Unit - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Taking Down the Gangs
In the first edition, the team is called in when nine men ambush five men in a car on a quiet residential side street, with a gun being fired into the vehicle. The officers' instincts tell them this wasn't random, but was planned and executed with precision. Could this be a violent conflict driven by territory, drugs and status?
Terror in Suburbia
Late evening on a quiet, leafy street in Dudley. Inside her home, a young mother quietly moves through the hallway. Upstairs, her children are asleep. Then without warning, gunfire rips through her front door. One shot strikes her in the hip. In pain and unable to move, she reached for her phone, she calls 999, pleading for help as police and paramedics race to the scene.
The Major Crime Team take charge, with DS Lucy Mooney and DC Charlotte Smith tasked to find out who could have committed such a crime. This is no random act and detectives knows it.
Shooter on the High Street
The officers investigate a shooting in West Bromwich in which a driver was hit in the back and shoulder and quickly realise that this was a targeted attack. The detectives' only lead is the suspects' vehicle and the hunt begins as the team gathers hundreds of hours of CCTV, tracking the car across the city, painstakingly mapping its movements before and after the shooting.
Recently Updated Shows
Granite Harbour
Granite Harbour centres on the story of Lance Corporal Davis Lindo who arrives in Aberdeen as a new recruit to Police Scotland. Having completed his final tour with the Royal Military Police, Lindo dreams of being a detective at New Scotland Yard. However, he finds himself being sent to train as a Detective Constable in the North East of Scotland, he must quickly adapt to his new life in Aberdeen, a world away from anything this soldier has known before.
Lindo finds an ally in his mentor, DCI Tara ‘Bart' Bartlett, a razor-sharp, streetwise Aberdonian who is used to going solo. Together, this unlikely partnership must navigate the choppy waters of their first case – the murder of one of Aberdeen's most recognisable faces from the Oil Industry. Suddenly, Lindo and Bartlett find themselves thrust into a corporate battle between old and new energy.
Shifting Gears
Shifting Gears centers on Matt, a stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt's estranged daughter and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.
Ancient Aliens
Ancient Aliens explores the controversial theory that extraterrestrials have visited Earth for millions of years. From the age of the dinosaurs to ancient Egypt, from early cave drawings to continued mass sightings in the US, each episode in this hit History series gives historic depth to the questions, speculations, provocative controversies, first-hand accounts and grounded theories surrounding this age old debate. Did intelligent beings from outer space visit Earth thousands of years ago?
QI XL
Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies and comedy stars swap even more funny facts on every subject under the sun. It doesn't matter if they're right, as long as they're quite interesting.