The team are called in to reinvestigate the believed sleeping of a young Foreign Office diplomat called Annabel Tilson, who had suffered a miscarriage the week before her body was found in a frozen London lake. She had also suffered with a huge professional fall from grace, after a government laptop was stolen from her hoouse.
Episode Viewers and Ratings
Season 9 Episode 3 of New Tricks resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
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.
New Tricks - Queen And Country Synopsis and Schedule