Major Crimes Unit

In the first edition, the team is called in when nine men ambush five men in a car on a quiet residential side street, with a gun being fired into the vehicle. The officers' instincts tell them this wasn't random, but was planned and executed with precision. Could this be a violent conflict driven by territory, drugs and status?

Late evening on a quiet, leafy street in Dudley. Inside her home, a young mother quietly moves through the hallway. Upstairs, her children are asleep. Then without warning, gunfire rips through her front door. One shot strikes her in the hip. In pain and unable to move, she reached for her phone, she calls 999, pleading for help as police and paramedics race to the scene. The Major Crime Team take charge, with DS Lucy Mooney and DC Charlotte Smith tasked to find out who could have committed such a crime. This is no random act and detectives knows it.

The officers investigate a shooting in West Bromwich in which a driver was hit in the back and shoulder and quickly realise that this was a targeted attack. The detectives' only lead is the suspects' vehicle and the hunt begins as the team gathers hundreds of hours of CCTV, tracking the car across the city, painstakingly mapping its movements before and after the shooting.

Just after midnight on a residential street in Alum Rock, Birmingham, a red Mercedes is boxed in by two cars and six men armed with machetes swarm the vehicle. Two passengers escape with serious injuries, but the driver is dragged out, beaten and bundled into the boot of a black Volkswagen Passat. West Midlands Police's Major Crime Team 1, led by DI Francis Nock, must reconstruct the attack from the evidence left behind, and the case darkens when footage shows the kidnappers forcing their bloodied captive into a nearby property while searching for something hidden there.