Season 3 • Episode 6
LatestThe team are running out of options and their strategy is threatened when one of their own is placed in peril.
Keeping these streets clean is a Herculean task, enough to demoralize even the keenest rookie – but there’s a reason why this hotchpotch of committed cops are on this force, on this side of town. Drug labs, arsonists, neo-Nazis and notorious murderers are all in a day’s work for this close-knit team, led by the dizzyingly capable but unquestionably unhinged DI Vivienne Deering. But when a particularly twisted serial killer emerges it leaves even the most hardened of these seasoned coppers reeling.
Acting
Joanna Scanlan's Viv Deering: unhinged, magnificent, terrifying.
Writing
Paul Abbott dialogue that bites harder than the crimes.
Direction
Manchester as character—grey, furious, weirdly beautiful.
Creator
Paul Abbott
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paul Abbott created it after Shameless, wanting female-led chaos to match his male antiheroes. The Manchester setting was non-negotiable—he refused London.
Scanlan based Viv's physicality on watching actual senior detectives—specifically how they occupy space like they own the building. The 'no offence' catchphrase became involuntary office slang across Greater Manchester police stations.
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