The Last Detective
He's gentle, old-fashioned, decent, and nice even when he's drunk. But these qualities only earn Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies the scorn of his fellow detectives in a small London police station. His boss tells him straight out that he's the last detective he would assign to a major crime-solving mission. Unlucky in love, rumpled, and accident-prone, Dangerous muddles on and, with help from his eccentric friend Mod, he proves the merits of his dogged, unglamorous method. He likes being a detective, and occasionally he gets to do some good.
- 2003-2007
- 4 seasons
- Acorn Media Group
- Comedy, Suspense, Drama
He's gentle, old-fashioned, decent, and nice even when he's drunk. But these qualities only earn Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies the scorn of his fellow detectives in a small London police station. His boss tells him straight out that he's the last detective he would assign to a major crime-solving mission. Unlucky in love, rumpled, and accident-prone, Dangerous muddles on and, with help from his eccentric friend Mod, he proves the merits of his dogged, unglamorous method. He likes being a detective, and occasionally he gets to do some good.
Season 4 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2007
Episode 1
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
75 mins
Infamous diamond heist organizer Jimmy Vincent - affectionately known as Gentleman Jimmy by his old friends and the police force - is released from prison after twenty years. Within a couple of hours of his release a major heist is pulled on a armed vehicle carrying, what else, diamonds! Jimmy and his former gang members are immediate suspects of the list of Davies' boss, DI Aspinall.
Episode 2
Dangerous Liaisons
68 mins
When the police find Dominic Sylvester murdered in his home, they also find something far more sinister among his belongings: an 8mm snuff film made sometime in the 1980s. Sylvester was a bit off-kilter and was living the life of a hermit. As the police look into his background, they find that he once was an avid amateur photographer who had an interest in pornography. He is divorced and his ex-wife has re-married; he is also estranged from his now adult son. Dangerous tries to identify the murdered young girl in the snuff film but makes little headway until a lip-reader suggests to him that the girl in the film isn't speaking English. Meanwhile Dangerous' friend Mod finds himself a job in what he grandly calls children's entertainment that leads to a relationship with a rival.
Episode 3
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden
67 mins
Bunny Hopper is half of a stand up comedy act who were once on the brink of stardom but are relegated to playing to small crowds in social clubs. When Bunny collapses on stage, everyone assumes a heart attack but the post-mortem reveals that he had ingested rat poison. Despite his age, Bunny was quite a ladies man. Not only was he married, he had a long list of lady friends all over the country with three regular girlfriends in Willesden alone, all of whom were at the club the night he died. With most of the squad away on a special assignment, Dangerous and his friend Mod start interviewing all of the suspects in the case only to come to the realization that he's got it all wrong.
Episode 4
The Man from Montevideo
75 mins
DC Davies investigates the murder of a limousine driver who is found in his limo, his neck was slashed with a broken bottle. The investigation focuses on his previous evening's customers but it appears the driver also had secrets. He'd been living in Uruguay until a few months before and apparently had undergone extensive plastic surgery. The case takes a decisive turn when the victim is identified as a former London cabbie who disappeared after a passenger left a case with 2 million pounds in his cab.
Episode 5
The Dead Peasants Society
69 mins
Dangerous Davies investigates the death of Daniel Boden who is found dead sitting in his car on a football pitch. According to Bowden's wife, her husband was having an affair, but Dangerous learns that he was a member of a lodge that was involved in shady financial dealings. The case becomes ever more complicated when Davies learns that a colleague is also a member of the same lodge and now suspects there may be a cover-up. On the home front, things are not going well as Dangerous fears his wife may be having an affair.
