No Offence

A contentious mayoral election is being fought between incumbent liberal Kashif Hassan and political underdog and local-girl-done-good Caroline McCoy.

Killer Beckett's next target is Manchester's children and Viv and the team must track down the poisoned batch of halal meat that Beckett has unleashed on the city before it's too late.

Election day looms and the team is on high alert, as Beckett's reign of terror appears to be escalating when an elderly Jewish man is found dead in a graveyard.

The team has lost Beckett by a hair's breadth - but they have gained a potentially priceless opportunity. With Bonnie and Dennis in the station, Viv and the team have 48 hours to get Dennis to betray his best friend and turn police informant.

Caroline McCoy's political reign begins, inciting chaos on the streets of Manchester, and catapults the hardline, no-nonsense DCI Terry Taylor into Friday Street cop shop, to bring the police in line with her agenda.

Beckett's death leads the team with no option but to go after the Mayor herself and they put a spectacular plan in motion to bring her down once and for all.