Dalziel & Pascoe. Series Two Episode One: Ruling Passion

Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. The blunt-talking Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel does not suffer fools gladly, but he has even more trouble with what he calls the "smart arses" of this world. So when the inexperienced Peter Pascoe joins his team at Mid-Yorkshire CID, the omens don't look good, Pascoe is one of the new breed of career police officers, armed with a degree, a caring attitude and a sharp brain, But just as Pascoe is surprised by the intuitive methods of his brash boss, so too does Dalziel begin to recognise the ments of his Detective Inspector.

Ruling Passion.
In Wetherton, Dalziel and company are dealing with a series of robberies perpetrated by a robber they've dubbed "the Micturater"–after he urinated in one victim's kettle. However, Peter Pascoe has nabbed some time off so that he and his very pregnant wife Ellie can visit some old college friends in the Cotswolds. The occasion: to celebrate Colin Hopkins' new book, which, as it turns out, dishes the dirt on the village of Thornton Lacey. When Peter and Ellie arrive, however, they find that Colin's wife and their two other guests have been murdered, and Colin is nowhere to be found. Who is responsible? In the process, Pascoe steps on the toes of the local Superintendent, Derek Backhouse–not exactly a slouch in the detection department himself–and finds out some ugly truths lurking beneath Thornton Lacey's pretty exterior… as well as the solution to the case of the mysterious micturater.

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