Gary and His Demons: Season 1

Dalziel is forced to accept new recruit Sgt. Peter Pascoe as the pair team up for the very first time to investigate a serious murder case. Wetherton Rugby Club's golden boy, Sam Connon, wakes up after arriving at home with a hangover, to find his wife, Mary, dead in the armchair. Being vice-president of the rugby club himself, Dalziel decides to ruffle a few feathers and find out who had enough of a motive to want to kill her. However, with the murder weapon nowhere to be found, evidence of the

Dalziel and Pascoe are thrown into university life when the body of a former university principal, Alison Girling, who supposedly died in a bus crash in Austria, is found underneath her own memorial statue in the university car park. Speaking to all of the staff who worked with Girling prior to her death, Dalziel struggles to make any headway until the body of Anita Sewell, a student accusing another staff member of sexual harassment is found naked on a nearby golf course. Suspecting they may ha

Having persuaded Pascoe to marry the long-suffering Ellie, Dalziel finds himself with the opportunity to whisk himself away on holiday while Pascoe is on honeymoon. But, as ever, events fail to go to plan when Dalziel's car breaks down and he finds himself amidst a river funeral procession. Invited to stay at the deceased's house by his attractive widow, Dalziel believes all his dreams have come true, until her son goes missing, the housekeeper ends up dead in Epping Forest and an insurance inve

After being kept late by "The Fat Controller", as Ellie puts it, Pascoe and his wife finally head out on their romantic weekend break to meet up with some old friends, only to find a house full of dead bodies and his best friend nowhere to be found. Pascoe is thrown into the middle of a complex investigation, involving villagers' secrets, an unpublished manuscript and a suicide note. Meanwhile, back home, Dalziel is on the trail of a burglar who urinated in a elderly woman's kettle while robbing

Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves on the trail of "The Choker", a serial killer who strangles young girls and then phones the local newspaper with quotes from Shakespeare's Hamlet. His latest victims include 18-year-old bank worker Brenda Sorby, who is found in the Wetherton canal the morning after meeting up with her boyfriend and asking him to marry her. Having been spotted at a nearby funfair shortly before her death, Dalziel decides to pay a visit to the clairvoyant after she reveals to Bre

Dick Elgood, the owner of a local firm specialising in bathroom products, makes an off-the-record complaint to Pascoe about one of his employees, Patrick Aldermann, who he suspects is responsible for murder. An investigation into the complaint suggests that over the course of thirty years, six people in relation to Aldermann have all died suspiciously, and that each time, Aldermann has benefited from their death. Dalziel recognises Aldermann's mother, Penny, as one of his old flames from the rug

After leaving a country-house do a little more than worse for wear, Dalziel and his best mate Arnie head home, only for their car to collide with a passing cyclist on a country lane, knocking him down, and killing him. Arnie says he was at the wheel at the time of the man's death, but neither Pascoe nor the chief constable are 100% convinced, and the testimony of a waitress at the do seems to add to their suspicions. Meanwhile, Pascoe investigates the murder of a former soldier, who is found dea

Dalziel and Pascoe investigate when the skeleton of missing miner Billy Farr is found in a mineshaft in the Yorkshire coalfields, four years after his disappearance. At the time, a seven-year-old girl was murdered, and initially, a serial killer who confessed to killing five other girls was suspected. However, she was good friends with Farr, and due to the fact they both went missing on the same day, certain townsfolk believed he was somehow responsible. His son, Colin, fails to cope with the di

The funeral of an elderly Italian woman is interrupted by the arrival of her son, thought missing since 1944. Her relatives suspect that his abrupt appearance is only to collect his inheritance, as he is her sole beneficiary. Not all of her relatives are convinced he is who he says he is, but a fraudster. But before his identity can be verified, he is shot at the wheel of his car, parked in the police station car park. Dalziel and Pascoe identify the killer and the rightful beneficiary of the mo

Dalziel witnesses a death by gunshot in his neighbourhood, with the two men involved protesting that they were simply trying to stop the victim killing herself. Dalziel believes her husband, Philip Swain, murdered her, viewing him as the embodiment of evil. The other suspect, Greg Waterson, absconds, and Wield is beaten up by a group of local homophobes. Theatre director Eileen Anstiss casts Dalziel as God and Swain as Lucifer in a community mystery play, while Dalziel is sent a series of letter

A group of animal rights protesters who break into a medical facility find more than they bargain for when one escapes from the clutches of security into the nearby woods, only to find the remains of a dead body. Dalziel's not best pleased when he is forced to give up watching his rugby match to attend the scene. Meanwhile, after his grandmother suddenly dies, Pascoe tries to find out what happened to his grandfather who, during World War one, apparently deserted from a medical hospital to sail

Dalziel and Pascoe investigate the disappearance of a young girl, in similar circumstances to another girl who had disappeared in the same place fifteen years before. The initial suspect at the time of the first investigation was Benny Lightfoot, a local farmhand who himself vanished shortly after the girl's disappearance. And when graffiti in the words of 'Benny's Back' appears close to the site of the recent disappearance, Dalziel suspects that he may be back to strike again. However, all is n

The thirty-year-old murder case of Pamela Westropp is reviewed when the accused, Cissy Kohler, states she was coerced into giving a false confession. Having investigated the original case himself alongside his former boss, Wally, Dalziel is immediately told to stay away from the case, and instead, a high-flying DCC from London, Hiller, is brought in to lead the case. Unhappy with the decision, Dalziel decides to do a little investigating of his own, and manages to obtain papers on the case, whic

The death of young man, Zachary, who lapsed into a coma at a rave after taking illegal drugs, is investigated. It is initially suspected that he died of an overdose, but when the post mortem report reveals that the drugs contain traces of cyanide and high concentrations of nutmeg, Dalziel realises the boy had been poisoned. And when someone breaks into Zachary's garage looking for a photo, and Zachary's dad's shop is turned upside down, Dalziel suspects that someone has a vengeance against this

At a restaurant to celebrate his birthday, Gary thinks his teenage waiter could be the new chosen one. Nobody buys it, but Gary is determined to prove this kid is his replacement so he can finally retire.

When a suspected serial killer jumps to his death from the roof of a homeless hostel, the only witnesses are Pascoe and a homeless girl, who goes by the name of Abbie Hallingsworth—a girl who has been missing for nineteen years. DC Shaz Kendall, on attachment to Wetherton CID, invites Abbie to stay while she tries to find out more about the events leading up to her disappearance. However, her coy tactics of introducing her to her long lost family lands her in hot water with Dalziel. As her long