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DCI Banks - Season 3

Series: DCI Banks

4.6

(457)

Episodes

Rating

TV14

Year

2014

Language

English

Publisher

BBC Studios

About

Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot in these chilling crime stories. Based on the Inspector Banks novels from award-winning international crime writer Peter Robinson, this series features carefully worked stories crammed with twists and turns, and intriguing and memorable characters.

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Episodes

1. Wednesday's Child Part 1

45m

When a man and a woman claiming to be social workers come to Katy Heath's house and tell her that they need to take away her son Kyle, Katy complies. But when they fail to return her son and are unknown by social services, DCI Alan Banks is quickly drawn into a full-scale search for the missing boy.

2. Wednesday's Child Part 2

45m

Banks and his team now have a murder enquiry on their hands, as the body found on the moors is identified as eleven-year old Andre Petri. With Kyle Heath still missing, Banks has to divide his team. Is there a connection between the death of Andre and the disappearance of Kyle?

3. Piece of My Heart Part 1

45m

When investigative journalist Matt Barber is found dead in a holiday chalet in a remote village, Banks and his team are initially confronted by an overwhelming number of leads. As Banks identifies a connection between Barber and a mysterious death in the 1980s revolving around the surviving members of cult rock band 'The Crystal Kiss', he must begin to unpick decades of lies.

4. Piece of My Heart Part 2

45m

With David Hornby now a suspect in the case, Annie is forced to admit that the father of her baby doesn't know anything about her pregnancy. Banks tries to be supportive, but soon Annie finds juggling the affections of her boss and her former lover leads her to a difficult choice.

5. Bad Boy Part 1

45m

When Banks' old neighbor tells him that she has discovered a gun in her teenage daughter's bedroom, his instinct is to quietly retrieve the weapon. But when Helen convinces him that she should lead a firearms team to take possession of the gun 'by the book', neither she nor Banks foresees that the incident will lead to an innocent man being critically injured.

6. Bad Boy Part 2

45m

Banks begins a desperate search for daughter Tracy and her abductor, Jaff Kitson. Convinced that Al Jenkins is Jaff's accomplice in the murder of Richard Martin, Banks puts pressure on Al to lead him to Jaff, but Al remains defiant.