Thief Takers - Season 3 (1997)

The pregnant wife of an armed robber turns to crime herself, holding up a baby shop and accidentally shooting a security guard. The Flying Squad are put on the case and when, encouraged by her sister, she commits a second robbery a jewellery store she goes into labour with the squad closing in.

A gang of villains, in need of a big score, return to Britain from Spain and quickly hijack a lorry of computer parts. However, on their escape two traffic officers come near to foiling their plan and are gunned down by the gang. The dead officers' boss, Chief Inspector Sansom, is an old friend of Hall and presses Hall to put his team on the case.

Matteo and the squad investigate a robbery on a gold bullion warehouse. The links between one suspect, a veteran armed robber, and a local stripper provide the most obvious line of investigation. Meanwhile, Hall uses his connections in the Asian business community to look into the local gold trade leading him into danger.

The Flying Squad foil the attempted kidnap of a Japanese metal trader by the Mafia. Their investigation sees the squad caught in the middle between the Mafia and the Yakuza as war threatens to break out. Meanwhile, D.C. Oxford has been taken off active duty and is bottling up his feelings over the shooting of Garry Parker.

An unarmed Oxford is caught in the middle as the Mafia and Yakuza do battle in a shootout trying to capture the witnesses being guarded by him and McCarthy. As the two sides come closer to war, the team try everything to find Takahashi whilst trying to avoid being caught in the crossfire.