Liverpool 1

- Season 1

(1998)

DC Pauli, joins the the vice squad from the Met, in the middle of a highly personal struggle between the team and a local villain just released from prison. We see a community where the criminals and enforcement officers grew up together.

The disappearance of a young girl with a conviction for prostitution alarms Callaghan and De Pauli. Meanwhile, the investigation into the abortive arrest of Mikey Sullivan gets underway.

Callaghan and Pauli investigate the case of a missing boy, and soon they are hot on the trail of a previously convicted pedophile named George. At first it sounds too easy that George could have done it again, but soon Pauli finds a breakthrough that stuns the team. Being a father to three little girls the same age of the missing boy, DI Jones begins to take this case personal. All he so desperately wants is to find the missing boy alive and well. Meanwhile, Callaghan has to watch his back for there are some people in Liverpool who aren't willing to forgive or forget ...

DC de Pauli investigates a case of petty violence, and is drawn into John Sullivan's gangland past. Gang warfare erupts when Johnny Boateng moves in on Sullivan's territory, and De Pauli and Callaghan investigate a stabbing at one of Sullivan's clubs - but Boateng arrives for questioning aided by top lawyer J. Rex Negus.

DCs Callaghan and de Pauli find their private lives dragged into the station. The squad investigate the murder of a prostitute. De Pauli has trouble on the home front when her boyfriend, Will, announces that he has had enough of Liverpool and quit his job.

DCs De Pauli and White, who has finally been kicked out by his wife, are on night surveillance. De Pauli gets into trouble when she is trapped in a chip shop with the very people they are supposed to be observing, and White is nowhere to be seen. De Pauli is forced to choose between the job and her fiancé following the outcome of the operation.