The team return to the 1992 case of actor Michael Austin, shot dead by his wife on stage during the opening night performance of Death at the Masked Ball. Already a man down when Halford goes AWOL, the case looks like claiming another member of the team as Lane embraces his newfound love of acting and the theatre.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 5 Episode 2 of New Tricks resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

New Tricks Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Spare Parts
• s05e02 - Final Curtain
• s05e03 - Face For Radio
• s05e04 - Loyalties and Royalties
• s05e05 - Couldn't Organise One
• s05e06 - Magic Majestic
• s05e07 - Communal Living
• s05e08 - Mad Dogs

New Tricks Show Summary

New Tricks follows the work of the Metropolitan Police Service's Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

The series title is taken from the popular expression "You can't teach an old dog new tricks". The "old dogs" are successful in adapting their skills and experience to modern policing, with their knowledge of past cases proving especially useful.