In Deep (2001)
Lying, cheating, thieving—they’re the best undercover cops in the business. Liam Ketman (Nick Berry, Heartbeat) and Garth O'Hanlon (Stephen Tompkinson, Wild at Heart) take on false identities to infiltrate society’s underbelly and stop crime at its core. As they put their lives on the line, Liam tries desperately to hold his marriage together, while Gareth keeps his personal life a mystery.
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Episode 1 - Untouched (1)
Release Date: 2002-01-07Liam and Garth pose as drug dealers in a bid to capture Jamie Lamb, the country's biggest cocaine importer. They infiltrate his trusted entourage and fit in so well that when Lambs wife leaves him taking his two daughters with her, he asks Liam and Garth to kill her and bring back proof in exchange for a shipment of cocaine.
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Episode 2 - Untouched (2)
Release Date: 2002-01-08The second part of the story in which Liam and Garth infiltrate drug baron Jamie Lamb's gang. Kelly persuades Tania Lamb to help them fake her murder. Only when the ""proof"" is taken back to Jamie, he turns nasty and ups the stakes, declaring that the deal is not complete until his daughters have been returned to him. Liam and Garth have are forced to use Lamb's daughters as insurance to make sure the exchange of drugs takes place. In a fit of guilt, Tania calls Jamie and unwittingly exposes Garth and Liam's set-up leaving them cornered with no back up.
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Episode 3 - Jekylls (1)
Release Date: 2002-01-14Police Chief DI Holland challenges gangster Charlie Pearce in order to regain control of a tough area of the city, but is shot dead on his way back from a public meeting with the area's residents. Pearce is, of course, the chief suspect. Liam, Garth and Kelly set themselves up as an operation selling expensive fake watches and it's not long before Pearce and his heavies call round for their first 'insurance' payment. Liam is embraced into Charlie Pearce's fold when, through a stroke of good fortune, he saves Pearce's life. Unfortunately Garth's unresolved issues with his brother Chris land him in deep trouble when Chris tracks him down and blows his cover. Liam's nerve is tested to the limit as he faces the choice of killing his partner Garth to prove his allegiance to Pearce, or coming clean and risking being killed himself.
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Episode 4 - Jekylls (2)
Release Date: 2002-01-15Gangster Charlie Pearce invites Liam to get involved with a lucrative gun shipment for Jeff Mohandas. The deal becomes further complicated by Pearce's daughter-in-law, Kim, who is having an affair with Mohandas and has hatched a plot to kill both her husband David and Charlie Pearce. Liam, once again, finds himself out of his depth and without backup as a series of double-crosses turn a simple deal into a bloodbath.
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Episode 5 - Blood-loss (1)
Release Date: 2002-01-21A group of anarchists kidnap the grandchildren of millionaire media mogul Clayton Waddington, but the family is adamant that the police should not be involved, thus avoiding a public scandal for their business. Liam and Garth are brought in under the guise of insurance company ransom negotiators and Kelly goes undercover living on the streets in an attempt to trace a homeless girl who has been linked to the scene of the abduction. Waddington agrees to the ransom demand, but tries to get the upper hand on the criminals by marking the cash. Garth is sent to deliver the money, but the kidnappers are smarter than anyone has realised and he finds his safety is severely compromised.
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Episode 6 - Blood-loss (2)
Release Date: 2002-01-22Part two: Liam and Garth assume the guise of insurance company ransom negotiators when a millionaire media tycoon's grandchildren are kidnapped. Garth befriends Waddington's granddaughter and tries to save her, only to find that she has a quite different agenda.
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Episode 7 - Abuse of Trust (1)
Release Date: 2002-01-28A woman is found murdered in her flat in almost identical circumstances to one six months earlier. The victims have one thing in common – they are both members of the same Internet dating site. Kelly goes undercover and builds up a relationship online with prime suspect Dark Angel, but her tactics come close to entrapment. Liam's colourful love life threatens to compromise the operation when a spurned girlfriend starts to stalk him.
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Episode 8 - Abuse of Trust (2)
Release Date: 2002-01-29Part two of an investigation into a series of murders of members of an Internet dating agency. Garth falls back on a part he has played before – that of a sex offender – in an attempt to get close to Grendle, but his attempts to lure Grendle into revealing his secrets backfire spectacularly. Exasperated by Liam's womanising, his estranged wife, Pam, joins the very same Internet dating agency unwittingly sets herself up as a potential victim. The series reaches a terrifying climax as it transpires that the real killer is much closer than anyone realises.