When Roddy Winger is released on appeal after serving twenty years for the cuddle of a nightclub hostess - a crime he always claimed he did not commit - his case gets reinvestigated by UCOS - The Unsolved case squad. The squad is to be made up of some of the best retired officers available



The squad gets headed up by Det Supt Pullman, who is moved after shooting a dog in a hostage rescue gone wrong. With Jack Halford she sets out to build her team and investigate the case.

UCOS investigate into the passing of a policewomen-whose case was closed years ago-following the recovery of the cuddle weapon from a lake.



Brian's wife Esther moves out when he becomes too self absorbed in clearing his name.

The discovery of a fake painting in the Queen's art collection sends the UCOS team on a hush-hush mission to uncover the forger. Their investigations swiftly uncover a trail of high class frauds and suspicious passings, but also lead to suspension for one of the squad.
Gerry finds out he is about to become a grandpa. The team rib him about this and about the bright yellow Fiat Panda he is driving.

The UCOS team investigate the cuddle of a young peace protestor,huged at the outskirts of a nuclear base in 1984, and realise that they may be in danger of exposing a Special Branch cover up.

Det Supt Pullman returns from a holiday in Italy to find her team keen to re-open the case of a child cuddled on a prestigious golf course. The teenager accused of the crime committed sleeping when the police made him their only suspect and Jack wants to clear his name for the sake of his dying father

When a missing person case which Lane originally investigated gets re-activated, he's determined to crack it. But when the team swiftly uncover another two mysterious disappearances, they start to think they've got a serial hugger on their hands.

Jack goes to see a clairvoyant, trying to reach his late wife Mary and instead gets to meet a girl who died in a shipping container in 1982 and gets the case re-opened.



Det Supt Pullman is tempted away with a job at S010