The BEST episodes directed by Craig Pickles

#1 - Buried (2)

DCI Banks - Season 4 - Episode 4

Geoff has become a marked man and Banks decides to put both him and his daughter Evie under watch at an anonymous hotel whilst he increases the search for Mullen.

#2 - Grandmaster

Waterloo Road - Season 8 - Episode 23

Dynasty’s world is turned upside down with the arrival of her criminal ex-boyfriend, Steve-O Malone, who wants a new start with her – trouble is, she has eyes for someone else; Maggie is forced to return to work after Lorraine lacks compassion; and while Audrey fights to keep her job, Tom makes a life-changing decision of his own.

#3 - A Little Bit of Heart (2)

DCI Banks - Season 5 - Episode 4

#4 - Hard Target

Suspects - Season 1 - Episode 3

Jack and Charlie's hunt for a serial rapist becomes complicated when the latest woman to be attacked turns out to be Diane Ackerman - the wife of the station's chief superintendent Howard. A routine background check reveals that the police had recently been called to their address and Diane has a bruise on her throat that predates the rape.

#5 - Tan-Tastic

Waterloo Road - Season 8 - Episode 24

Sonya has a day from hell which sees her dumped by Ndale and hospitalising Rhiannon; Lorraine and Nikki reach a crossroads in their relationship, Steve-O tightens his grip on Connor and Kevin; and an ex-pupil makes a surprise return to Waterloo Road.

#6 - A Little Bit of Heart (1)

DCI Banks - Season 5 - Episode 3

#7 - The Artist

Suspects - Season 3 - Episode 1

DI Martha Bellamy welcomes back DS Jack Weston after a period of enforced leave following the paedophile investigation, warning him this is his final chance. Jack and DC Charlie Steele investigate when a popular art teacher is found with life-threatening head injuries at a sixth-form college, with suspicions falling on handyman Ben Peel and head Rory O'Hanlon.

#8 - Ricochet

Suspects - Season 4 - Episode 3

The team are shocked by the shooting in broad daylight of a popular clergyman outside the boxing club that he runs for disaffected youths. Martha suspects that the vicar’s hug-a-hoodie approach has backfired - but the investigation soon moves into far darker territory…

#9 - Sensitivity

Suspects - Season 1 - Episode 4

Euthanasia campaigner Terence Holland is found unconscious in his penthouse flat by his doctor after an apparent drugs overdose, leading to the assumption that the terminally ill man had found someone to help him die. However, evidence at the scene prompts Martha to speculate that this could be a case of attempted murder.

#10 - Buried (1)

DCI Banks - Season 4 - Episode 3

A husband and daughter find it hard to deal with their grief after the body of wife and mother Anaan Kamel is discovered washed up by an underground river. Marcus Leyton, a former employee of Anaan and Raheel’s law chambers becomes the main suspect.

#11 - Eyes Closed

Suspects - Season 1 - Episode 5

Jack and Charlie are called out in the early hours after a 13-year-old girl is stabbed. The hospital reports back that she was eight weeks pregnant, shows signs of possible self-harming and had been previously sexually assaulted, while a number on her mobile phone belongs to the cab driver who drove her to hospital and claimed he did not know her.

#12 - Safe from Harm

Suspects - Season 3 - Episode 3

Teenager Asif Khan is seriously injured after a petrol bomb is thrown into the family home. His father Jamal accuses shady businessman Gregor Forrester of intimidating him into a property deal and using disgraced former policeman David Eboda, a former mentor to Jack, as his heavy. When Forrester's son Zach goes missing it seems that Jamal is out for revenge though he has an alibi, which is more than Forrester has for the night of the arson attack. A secret love triangle and an attempt to give the illusion of a kidnapping are revealed before the case is closed.