
Cracker (1993)
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Barbara Flynn as Judith Fitzgerald
Episodes 15
A behind the scenes look at the making of Cracker. Included as a special feature with the 9/11 DVD.
Read MoreThe Mad Woman in the Attic (1)
Following the break-up of his home life, criminal psychologist Fitz discovers that a young woman he knew has been viciously murdered.
Elsewhere, a blood-splattered man is found beside the railway tracks but on recovering consciousness, he claims memory loss.
Read MoreThe Mad Woman in the Attic (2)
Criminal psychologist Fitz is frustrated when another murdered woman is found and he is ordered off the case.
Despite this initial setback, Fitz and DS Penhaligan are determined to find out the truth.
Read MoreTo Say I Love You (1)
Problems between criminal psychologist Fitz and his wife Judith continue after Fitz is arrested outside his in-laws' house and taken to the station.
There he meets Sean and his partner Tina, car thieves who embark upon a spree of violence.
Read MoreTo Say I Love You (2)
Whilst on their spree of violence, Tina and Sean murder a police officer.
Criminal psychologist Fitz turns down DS Penhaligon's offer of a bed for the night, but is then approached by Tina who asks him to accompany her to her flat.
Read MoreTo Say I Love You (3)
Criminal psychologist Fitz interrogates Tina and realises that her psychological problems stem from her relationship with her family and she finds expression through provoking Sean.
Read MoreOne Day a Lemming Will Fly (1)
Fitz continues his uneasy relationship with the Manchester constabulary when the crime fighters are called in to find a missing boy.
Extra pressure is piled on when an angry mob gathers at the police station demanding action and DCI Bilborough awaits the imminent birth of his child.
Read MoreOne Day a Lemming Will Fly (2)
Criminal psychologist Fitz realises that Cassidy's confession is flawed, but he will not retract his statement.
DS Bilborough needs to be seen to make an arrest and when he does, he incurs Fitz's wrath.
Read MoreMen Should Weep (3)
Fitz exposes the savage price of racism as he digs deeper into Floyd's past.
As the investigation reaches a climax not one, but two, victims seek revenge.
Read MoreBrotherly Love (1)
A Catholic father-of-four is arrested after a prostitute is found murdered, but he denies the crime.
Beck returns from sick leave to work alongside Penhaligon, who is privately convinced that Beck raped her but has no forensic evidence.
While Fitz faces a family tragedy, a second prostitute is attacked while the chief suspect is still in custody.
Read MoreBrotherly Love (2)
An identical murder takes place while David Harvey is in custody.
Fitz visits his priest brother Michael and accuses him of murder, while Maggie Harvey demands that her husband is released.
Read MoreBrotherly Love (3)
After another prostitute is slain, Fitz comes to believe that David Harvey's wife Maggie is the killer, in spite of vehement protesting by the police and his brother, Father Michael.
Read MoreBest Boys (1)
Bill Nash smiles at Stuart Grady, and, in those few seconds, changes the course of their lives and inadvertently turns them both to murder.
Meanwhile, on the domestic front, Judith finally rebels.
Read MoreBest Boys (2)
Fitz is pitched against Grady and Nash, whose relationship is now spinning dangerously out of control.
Read MoreTrue Romance (1)
Fitz privately advises a patient who seems to be having problems with her husband.
Fitz's advice, for which he charges her £50, leads her to conclude that she should leave him.
Read MoreTrue Romance (2)
Fitz is asking DCI Wise to replace him with Irene as the killer may stop killing if she realises she is not getting the shrink's undivided attention.
Irene agrees to change, but finds the nature of the job, and the pictures of her dead students too much to stomach and goes missing.
Read MoreWhite Ghost
While in Hong Kong on a lecture tour, Fitz is asked by the local police to help investigate the murder of a Chinese businessman.
Read MorePrime Cracker: The Matchmaker
Cracker's Fitz and Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison collaborate in this 1997 Comic Relief short titled The Matchmaker, mocking both shows. As well as Robbie Coltrane and Helen Mirren, also features Pete Postlethwaite.
Read MoreNine Eleven
Fitz returns to Manchester for his daughter's wedding, but is soon involved in another murder investigation when an American comedian is killed, apparently without motive.
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