Major Crimes Unit – Series 1

Taking Down the Gangs

After nine figures attack a silver car in darkness - and a gun is fired at point blank into the vehicle - the unit steps in. Could this be a violent conflict driven by territory, drugs and status?

Terror in Suburbia

In Dudley, after gunfire rips through a young mother's front door and a shot strikes her in the hip, the team are tasked with identifying the perpetrators, leaving no stone unturned.

Shooter on the High Street

Following a targeted shooting in West Bromwich, the unit must act fast to track the perpetrators' vehicle, facing a race against time to bring charges against the suspects.

Ransom

Six men with machetes, swarm a vehicle, bundling the driver into a car's boot. With little to go on, police must reconstruct the attack from digital, financial and forensic evidence.

Payback

Police investigate separate cases of a man in Wolverhampton who was run over and robbed, and a man in Birmingham whose injuries might be linked to a shooting the previous night.

Episode 6