No Offence

Paul Abbott's award-winning drama returns for a second series of rollercoaster cases to be cracked by the brilliant, but dysfunctional crime fighting family of coppers. On full surveillance mode, the Friday Street squad have an explosive start to the day, at the funeral of the son of notorious gangster Nora Attah. Straight back in the deep end, DI Viv Deering and the team fight to prevent the breakout of a gang war in the city. Meanwhile Joy and Tegan literally uncover a body of work to piece together a case against the dodgy crematorium owners.

Paul Abbott's award-winning drama returns for a second series of rollercoaster cases to be cracked by the brilliant, but dysfunctional crime fighting family of coppers. As the team quell the riots that are exploding throughout Manchester, Dinah's discovery of young casualties in a gang-owned property pushes investigations in an unexpected direction. Joy is thrown into freefall after a shock discovery at Friday Street.

The dead vape shop kids are all identified, as Dinah and Deering hunt for those aiding the Attahs in child exploitation. They uncover tensions and secrets within the Attah family that could provide a crucial breakthrough. Friday Street's beat cops are called to an armed robbery at a pub in a converted bank, but it's turned into a hostage situation. Jonah is forced to find another way to apprehend a man posing as a paramedic, as the faker continually slips through legal loop holes.

Tensions run high between Joy, Dinah and Deering as they look at the possibility of the Attahs' operations stretching to the collusion of one of their own Friday Street team. An urgent search ensues when a father reports his teenage daughter as missing, but the case grows even more complicated when the cops discover that the girl has clearly been groomed online.

The race to nail the Attahs sows seeds of mistrust and secrecy between Deering, Dinah and Joy, while a peaceful protest at an abortion clinic starts to spiral out of control.

With Deering suspended from duty, she runs rogue determined to get Nora. Back at the station, Lickberg tries to control the team, as they urgently up the manhunt for one of the Attahs' missing victims. And an unlikely alliance is agreed between Deering and Nora, who wants to stop an FGM cutter arriving on her patch - and Teegan is sent in under cover.

With Deering, Dinah and Joy's friendship in jeopardy and Donna Calvert missing, the race to prevent the Attahs' escape and to bag them once and for all puts the team's lives at stake. The final action-packed showdown sees Viv at her finest, deconstructing Nora's family, and trying to repair the fractures that have crept in to her own...