The Interceptor

Finished with nicking the small fry, Ash seizes his chance to bring down the serious criminals when he's recruited to a new undercover unit. But what will his obsession cost him?

Ash is closer to the bigger criminals than he has ever been. The Unit has its hooks into an important drug dealer: Xavier. They're following his every move in the hope he'll lead them to someone even higher in the organisation, and ultimately to the man at the very top. They follow Xavier to a meet with a rival dealer in a busy market. Events take a shocking turn when guns are drawn, panic ensues and an innocent boy is killed.

The Unit are beginning to make inroads into the criminal organisation. Ash's job isn't great for family life, but he's doing the kind of work he's dreamed of. Phone taps have just revealed that a big sum of money is being sent out from Xav's dry-cleaners on behalf of 'someone bigger', and it's a great lead - if they follow the money, it could lead them back to its source, and one step closer to identifying their 'Mr Big'.

The Unit's war of attrition on Roach and his gang is beginning to take effect - under pressure, and low on drugs and money, they're forced to turn to a new foreign supplier, a Norwegian nicknamed the Viking. The Unit know how vital the Viking could be in learning more about the crew they're targeting, but he's proving hard to pin down. Clever and ruthless, the Viking thwarts the Unit at every turn. If they fail this time, the city will be flooded with a tonne of dangerous drugs, and Roach will be a step closer to achieving his expansion plans.

A young girl is dead - the second pill-related death in recent days. A new batch of toxic pills has hit the market, and the police are struggling to find the source. When the Unit discover a link between the pills and the gang they're investigating, Cartwright agrees it's worth pursuing, but only if it's to further their aims of getting higher up the organisation. No-one wants this more than Ash, but he's equally determined to stop more lethal pills from hitting the streets. As Roach waits to hear news of his foray into the pill business, he's unaware of the net closing around him.

After the failure of the pill operation, Roach turns to Yorkie, a violent armed robber, to solve his cash flow problems. Troubled by the terrifying intel they gather on Yorkie, and his links to their crew, the Unit set out to find and track him. Yorkie could help them get deeper, but with Cartwright's old adversary DCI Stannard determined to shut down the Unit, finding a wanted man like Yorkie could also get the police off their backs.