The Shadow Line - Season 1 (2011)

After refusing to accede to his ex-mistress's request that he tell his pregnant wife about her Gabriel gets a visit from Beatty, who turns out to be a customs officer. He tells Gabriel that Harvey Wratten got his pardon for saving his life and also giving a tip-off about a drug deal, though the drugs turned out to be already in Harvey's possession, hence the rift with Babur, to whom he did not deliver. Beatty also arrests one of Harris' pushers, Harris's rent boy lover naming Jay Wratten as the informant, though Wratten denies this. Through studying CCTV, Gabriel ...

Bede starts an affair with Petra, Peter Glickman's girlfriend; whilst Glickman himself, now posing as Paul Donnelly, a watch-maker in Dublin, lures Gatehouse to a showdown which both survive and, oddly back off. Glickman rings Gabriel, who learns that his dead partner Delaney was corrupt, but Patterson defends the amnesiac Gabriel's integrity. Glickman meets up with Bede. It transpires that Gatehouse had the money for the drugs in the transaction with Babur but Glickman failed to pay up. Meanwhile, Harris is killed and his young boyfriend Ratallack proposes to take ...

Glickman meets Gabriel, telling him that Gatehouse will give him the answers he needs but to beware that Gatehouse will use his 'secrets' to hurt him. Gabriel assumes that this means his ex-mistress Alison and her son and, after visiting retired commander Penney, he mentions 'Counterpoint' as instructed by Glickman. Gabriel attempts and fails to get Allison to move to a hotel. After a scare, at Laura's ultrasound visit, the baby is confirmed to be healthy. On checking police evidence, Gabriel and Leah find the the heroin is being recycled by corrupt police into ...

Khokar is forced to retire after Gabriel rumbles that he had Petra try and kill Gatehouse. Gabriel is summoned by the retired Commander Penney who tells him that Counterpoint was a scheme set up to get dirty money from crooks via supposed laundering in order to finance police pensions. Wratten's discovery of this sealed his fate,thanks to the always trigger-happy ex-Secret Service man Gatehouse who was employed by Counterpoint. Beatty alerts Gabriel to Bede's deal with Babur and Ratallack but is not prepared for a change of plan. As villains fall out Gabriel goes to ...