

A vice cop discovers Liverpool's underworld is literally all in the family.
Season 2 • Episode 6
LatestDCs Callaghan and de Pauli investigate the shooting of a bouncer outside a nightclub.
Day to day, on the streets, they're at the sharp end of the fight against the drug pushers, porn barons, paedophiles and pimps who run this great port's crime networks. In this dark unequal world DC Isobel de Pauli is a stranger - not to crime, but to the ancient, unseen blood connections that pulse in the veins of Liverpool's criminals... and cops.
Acting
Real-life Womacks bring messy authenticity.
Production
Liverpool locations breathe post-industrial menace.
Creator
Allan Prior
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Allan Prior created Z-Cars and The Sweeney, making this his Liverpool love letter to the genre he built.
Samantha Womack went from this to EastEnders' Ronnie Mitchell, completing her transformation into British TV's patron saint of damaged women.