Season 3
8 episodes
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A relentless detective confronts political corruption and personal demons, risking everything to uncover truths that shake the system.
Episodes
Barlow's involvement in the security arrangements for a number of open-air pop festivals appears to be routine, but when things go adrift, at least one chief constable is glad he is there.
Barlow volunteers to take charge of a political kidnapping. Millionaire industrialist Joseph Miller is snatched off the street by the People's Freedom Front. The terrorists want to exchange him with Farouk Allah who is in Reading Jail.
The Home Office send Det. Chief Supt. Barlow to Italy to discuss cross border policing. While staying there he stumbles on to a massive scam where locals are looting antiquities and selling them to dealers funded by the Syndicate.
Mafia head Rizzi returns to Britain despite being deported previously. Barlow suspects that he is behind the murder of villain Tommy Robbins and has set his sights on his associate Roger Toder and his gambling empire.
Barlow gets drawn into building industry politics following a bomb attack on Sir Arthur Tillyard's home. Tillyard claims it was the work of the "lump", men opposed to tax concessions given to builders who regard them as self employed.
Spin-off from Softly Softly Task Force, in which Detective Chief Superintendent Barlow undertakes special assignments for the Home Office.