9x1 - A Dark Blue Perfume

January 10, 1996

A middle-aged man returns to his home town and meets the woman he was in love with as a teenager thirty years before. Liz and Mark are soon an item again - but the past comes back to haunt them.

9x3 - Simisola: Part Two

February 2, 1996

Wexford visits the victim of another attempted murder in hospital, and notices a pink Volkswagen Beetle in the car park. Later, another attempt is made on her life. The car is traced to the Epson family, who are away, having left their children with a childminder - who turns out to be Melanie Akande. Wexford closes in on the link - Annette Bystock and Zack Nelson.

9x4 - Simisola: Part Three

February 9, 1996

9x5 - The Secret House of Death: Part One

March 8, 1996

Susan Townsend is a young woman who goes to see her reclusive next-door neighbour and finds him hacked to death. When another body is found on the neighbour's property, Susan gets mixed up in a tale of mayhem and murder, with the killer adding her to his list of future victims.

9x6 - The Secret House of Death: Part Two

March 15, 1996

Part two of two. Susan Townsend finds herself in danger as details of the double killing begin to emerge.

9x7 - A Case Of Coincidence: Part One

March 22, 1996

The action begins in the year 1954, when a woman's body is found in the fen-land of Norfolk, and a murder investigation gets under way. In the end, Detective Inspectors Masters and Moore find themselves dealing with the deaths of five women, all apparently by the hand of the same murderer. A young man becomes their principal suspect - but is he really a serial killer?

9x8 - A Case Of Coincidence: Part Two

March 29, 1996

Part two of two. Eddie Brannel's protests of innocence urge Masters to go against orders, and as a consequence he learns the true identity of the killer.