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No Offence

Episode #1.1

Mon, May 04, 2015
Single mother Dinah Kowalska, an off duty detective constable, pursues a murder suspect through the streets of Manchester, only for him to get knocked down and killed by a bus. As a result DI Viv Deering, her outspoken superior, instructs her to withdraw her application for sergeant, the promotion going instead to her nervous colleague Joy Freers. On a visit to the morgue Dinah sees the corpse of a Downs Syndrome sufferer, the second girl with that condition to be hauled out of a river in recent weeks, and suspects a serial killer is at large. Cathy Calvert, who appears to have the syndrome, following hospital surgery, is missing and Dinah persuades Viv to over-rule superintendent McClaren in no uncertain terms and start a search for her. Cathy is located and Dinah saves her but the killer escapes and Cathy is unable to identify him. With Cathy's family under arrest on drug charges Dinah suggests that she moves in with her.
7.6 /10
Episode #1.2

Mon, May 11, 2015
Dinah is taken off the murder case as her involvement with Cathy has made her too subjective but Viv asks her to assist when a student is found dead in the street of an overdose and drugs expert Miller directs the team towards a house suspected of being a drugs factory. Angelina Costeros, a former chemical factory employee, is brought in but refuses to incriminate likely co-defendant Jensen Raphael until Dinah and colleague Spike unite to get her to talk. Consequently Dinah and Joy go undercover to bust Raphael. The operation is successful and Viv praises the two women to McLaren as well as suggesting that Dinah be reassigned to Cathy's case in the hopes that she can get her to give more information about her abductor.
7.8 /10
Episode #1.3

Mon, May 18, 2015
Following the death of Samina Hassan in an arson attack the team goes undercover at a wedding to arrest the groom Jimmy Webb, a known racist. CCTV had shown him arguing with Majib, Samina's widower, to whom he had lent a large sum of money, whilst Samina's father, a strict imam, has quarrelled with her over her feminist stance. In the event the previously reserved Joy proves herself by solving the case and flushing the killer out into the open. Spike interviews Patrick Llewellyn, an unassuming gay man who runs the support group attended by murder victim Lucy - who had a crush on him. For all his gentle air Viv sees him as a prime suspect. Meanwhile Dinah is surprised when Cathy gets a visit from her boy-friend Alpha, who has served time in a young offenders' unit.
7.7 /10
Episode #1.4

Mon, May 25, 2015
As Dinah is driving to work she sees David Brazier kill himself by stepping in front of a car and when the police visit his house they find his wife dead in bed with a huge operation scar. Later they arrest a teenager following a disturbance. He also has a scar and a wad of notes and tells of a traffic in human organs for cash. Joy and Dinah track down another potential victim, leading to a successful arrest. Meanwhile Teresa Adamson is found dead after joining a website, whose organizer identifies a subscriber calling himself Handyman, whose interest is in Downs Syndrome girls. Viv has an uncomfortable moment when her other half Laurie is arrested for drunken brawling and Dinah is not happy when Cathy tells her she plans to move in with Alpha.
7.7 /10
Episode #1.5

Mon, Jun 01, 2015
Forensics officer Miller is engaging Handyman online posing as a young girl when the team is called out to a stabbing. The victim is Christy Feeney, now given a new identity as Noel, but who, aged ten, was convicted of murder. After hearing his confession pregnant wife Liz feels especially vulnerable but Viv suspects Christy's aggrieved uncle of offering a bounty to his nephew's killer. Christy does not help matters when he flees police protection to speak to Liz, though he does lead them to his attacker. Olivia, another Downs Syndrome girl, agrees to be bait to catch Handyman but instead he attacks Cathy and Alpha though Cathy recognizes the tattoo on her assailant's wrist.
8 /10
Episode #1.6

Mon, Jun 08, 2015
Cathy has information leading to a suspect in her abduction, but later tells Dinah there was also an accomplice. A badly beaten man is found outside a scrap yard and appears to be connected with a man police find locked in a shed.
8.1 /10
Episode #1.7

Mon, Jun 15, 2015
A jogger is shot and killed, but Viv believes their young suspect acted on behalf of an adult with a grudge. Dinah begins her own secret investigation to determine if Viv is protecting the identity of the Handyman's accomplice.
8.1 /10
Episode #1.8

Mon, Jun 22, 2015
Dinas clashes with Deering, setting off an irreversible chain of events, and an attempt to save the lives of a mother and baby goes disastrously wrong.
8.1 /10

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The Last Porno Show

The Last Porno Show

Wayne, a struggling method actor, inherits the city's last porno cinema from his estranged father Al. Seeing this as an unconventional opportunity to reconcile their relationship, Wayne absorbs himself in the underworld of the pornography business. While running the cinema Wayne meets a cast of characters including Ralf, a slimy business partner of Al's, James, a young man with special needs employed by Al, and Athar, a young boy who lives in the upstairs apartments. Each character acts as a piece of a puzzle in helping Wayne rediscover the father he barely knew. But the old cinema turns out to be much more than Wayne anticipated. Between the community's pressure to have it closed and the antics of the devoted patrons, unresolved traumatic experiences from his youth bubble their way to the surface and begin to paint a clearer picture of Al. Landing his first lead role in a film, Wayne can't help but recognize the similarities between this fictional character and his father. Wayne slowly takes on Al's persona in preparation of filming, but begins to lose his own identity in the process and eventually his grasp on reality. As Wayne lives and breathes everything Al, he finds himself in a much darker place than anything he ever could have imagined. No longer just a character study, Wayne painfully reconstructs his traumatic experiences using Athar in the role of himself as a child. But Wayne goes too far and ends up on the wrong side of his memory. It's only then that he realizes the errors of his ways. He must now find reconcilement with the people he has affected along the way. In a final act of closure, Wayne decides to close the porno cinema and embrace his own identity.

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