Episode guide
New Tricks: Series 9
10 episodes · first aired Aug 27, 2012
Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman heads The Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS), cracking previously unsolved crimes from the past. Her team are ex policemen who have opted for early retirement. In series nine Jack Halford deals a devastating blow to UCOS - he's quitting. But before the team can question the reasons behind his decision and persuade him to stay, shadowy Whitehall Intelligence figure Stephen Fisher arrives with one of his secret cases, the unsolved murder of a woman dating back 100 years. UCOS have just 24 hours to solve it.
- 1 A Death in the Family Aug 27, 2012 · 1h Jack announces that he he has decided to leave the team, but before Sandra, Brian and Gerry can question his reasons, Whitehall figure Stephen Fisher shows up with one of his secret cases…
- 2 Old School Ties Sep 3, 2012 · 1h The team are called in to reinvestigate the disappearance of PE teacher Jason Bowe after a body is found on the perimeter of the elite public boarding school where he was employed. The…
- 3 Queen And Country Sep 10, 2012 · 1h DS Pullman breaks the rules to explore a possible cover-up at the Foreign Office.
- 4 The Girl Who Lived Sep 17, 2012 · 1h Retired DI Steve McAndrew from Glasgow joins the team to reopen one of his old cases when the DNA of a woman who went missing as a teen turns up at the scene of a petrol station robbery.
- 5 Body of Evidence Sep 24, 2012 · 1h The team become concerned that undercover police operations may have been compromised when the body of a computer expert who worked with the Met turns up under a false name at a teaching…
- 6 Love Means Nothing In Tennis Oct 1, 2012 · 1h The team investigate the death of a 16-year-old tennis star who fell—or was pushed—from a penthouse balcony after she lost an important match to a rival.
- 7 Dead Poets Oct 8, 2012 · 1h UCOS re-open the case of Sean Docherty, a talented young poet whose burnt body was discovered ten years ago in the scrapyard of a known gangster. While Standing is convinced that the…
- 8 Blue Flower Oct 15, 2012 · 1h The team investigate the murder of an East German immigrant, but they only have his mysterious final words to work with. As they attempt to piece together his remarkable story, Sandra…
- 9 Glasgow UCOS Oct 22, 2012 · 1h McAndrew and Standing are sent to Scotland by Strickland for a week, to help the Glasgow Police try and establish a new UCOS section led by DCI Fiona MacDougall. While there, they end up…
- 10 Part of a Whole Oct 29, 2012 · 1h Thirty years ago, Strickland and a group of his associates, including Stephen Fisher, were involved in a covert operation on behalf of MI5. Now, someone is trying to kill all the members…