The Vice - Season 5 (2003)

The ambitious manageress of a pole-dancing club suspects her uncle of using it to run a prostitution racket. Inspector Joe Robinson sends Chief Inspector Vickers undercover to investigate but begins to imagine his boss is colluding with the suspect.

When a prostitute is murdered Joe offers the Serious Crime Group assistance on their investigation. Joe is ready to kick his belligerent constable Kirsty out of Vice, but Vickers suggests he give her one last chance as liaison to the SCG detective in charge. A suggestion he quickly regrets as his sultry cohort gets up close and personal in an attempt to find a new niche for herself.

With Vickers and Kirsty away on an Home Office jaunt, Joe sends his team in against a reviled club owner suspected of profiting from drug dealing on his premises. The last thing they expect to find is human trafficking - but whilst Adam's irrepressible sexual urges promise to unlock the case, in the event it's family-value man Cole who delivers the essential witness and seals the club owner's fate

The threat of a scandal looms over the vice team when Lorraine's dangerous obsession with a known pimp is discovered. But although both CI Vickers and Inspector Joe Robinson stand to lose if the affair is made public, Vickers' Machiavellian attempts to sacrifice Lorraine for his personal ends finally exposes what Joe has long suspected, the dark heart of his corruption.