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Ricky Hanson (David Troughton) (2006–2009): Ricky Hanson is a career criminal whom Jack and Sandra were investigating for at least three murders in Jack's last case before he retired. This was no coincidence, as an investigation by UCOS several years later eventually revealed that Hanson had run over Jack's wife, Mary. Jack retired to care for Mary, although she did not live very long after the incident, which was thought to be a simple hit-and-run. When Jack confronts Hanson, he cruelly confesses the crime in detail, prompting Jack to attempt revenge by running the criminal down, but Jack is prevented from doing so. Hanson later attempts to murder Jack in hospital by smothering him with a pillow, but is stopped by Brian. When Hanson attempts to strangle Brian, Jack strikes him with an oxygen cylinder. Hanson is subsequently found not guilty on the charge of attempted murder, although in an apparent continuity error no reference is made to a ward nurse having been attacked by him during the incident. Later, in the sixth series, Hanson is linked to the disappearance of two Anti-Fascist activists. UCOS discover from Frank Patterson that Hanson's son, Luke, was in the car that ran down Mary. Luke admits this when it is revealed that Ricky has had an incestuous relationship with his secret daughter. Luke also had a relationship with the girl, although neither knew they were half-siblings at the time. Ricky is arrested for running down Mary, as well as the murder of the activists, and is sent to prison.
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Jean Bennett (Ellie Haddington) (2008-2009): Jean was a prostitute in London during the 1970s and for a time an associate of Gordon Pullman, Sandra's father, due to his use of prostitutes in the local area. Whilst looking for answers about corruption allegations against her father, Sandra tracks Jean down and forces her to admit Gordon's involvement in vice and prostitution, which later leads Sandra to discover his responsibility in the death of local pimp, Ian Randall. A year later, Sandra again confronts Jean and forces her to admit that Gordon fathered an illegitimate child with another prostitute who died. Jean had taken the boy to a church and abandoned him for adoption so Sandra forced Jean to take her to the same church, where she later discovered the identity of her half-brother.
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(Dodgy) Roger McHugh (Keith Allen) (2005, 2011): Later nicknamed 'Roger the Dodger', Roger is a former police officer, notorious for his inept police work and history of selling out, who later becomes a somewhat ineffective private investigator. He appears in two episodes; the season 2 episode "Family Business" and much later in the season 8 episode "End of the Line". He requires a great deal of persuasion to reveal any information about his previous dealings and associations and only cooperates after the UCOS team threaten his reputation and work. He changes his name in his second appearance and attempts to climb out of a window to escape Gerry and Brian's questioning. He has a sleazy personality and is regarded with contempt by most of the people who meet him.
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Deputy Assistant Commissioner Donald Bevan (Nicholas Day / Tim Woodward in the Pilot) (2003–2004): Deputy Assistant Commissioner Donald Bevan is the founder of UCOS, originally intending it as a public relations gesture, to prevent an ex-convict from suing the Met for wrongful arrest. In contrast to the team, he is stereotypically obsessed with modern bureaucracy and buzzwords. Relations between him and the team are strained: UCOS's successes anger him as they are achieved in the 'wrong' way, and sometimes show serving officers and the respectable people Bevan wishes to associate himself with to be careless and even corrupt. He knows both Jack Halford and Gerry Standing personally, and strongly opposes Standing's inclusion in the team. Bevan claimed that Standing had taken a bribe to botch a stakeout of a gangster he knew through greyhound racing. Standing claimed Bevan's choice of position exposed his unit, so when Gerry left his position to tend to a badly beaten girl and his partner absconded, the gangster got away with the money. Bevan then accused Standing of beating the girl himself, prompting Gerry to break his jaw. In his final appearance, he tries to get Sandra Pullman hired by SO10 (covert operations), and suffers politically as a result.
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Tom Eldridge (Jo Stone-Fewings) (2009-2010): Eldridge works in management at the Smithfield Meat Market and comes across the UCOS team when they investigate the murder of his father, Harry Eldridge. Harry had been missing since 1976 and had been the prime suspect in the murder of Dr Simon Lockhart, who had been found dead in his butchers' shop on the day Harry disappeared. During the course of the investigation, it was discovered that Harry Eldridge had indeed murdered Lockhart after he revealed that he had an affair with Eldridge's wife, Julia, and carried out a botched abortion on her that meant she couldn't have children. Harry had tried to kill Julia at their home on the same day but had accidentally died after falling onto the knife he was wielding during a struggle with Tom and Julia, the death subsequently being covered up until the body was discovered 33 years later. At the same time, Sandra discovered that Tom was really her half-brother, the result of an affair between her father Gordon Pullman and a prostitute. Tom had been left at a church by Gordon's associate Jean Bennett and subsequently adopted by Harry and Julia. In the aftermath of the Smithfield case, Tom tried to become part of Sandra's life but she kept rejecting and avoiding him until having a change of heart a few months later. Tom isn't seen again after Sandra agreed for them to begin being part of each other's lives.
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DI Greg Johnson (Patrick Baladi) (2004): Greg is a member of Special Branch who tries to prevent UCOS from finding out uncomfortable truths about the death of peace protestor Josh Livesey at a NATO base in the UK in 1984. However, Greg later helps the team in the investigation by admitting the involvement of Special Branch in disposing of Josh's body and the murder weapon to avoid harmful publicity but denying Special Branch's responsibility for the killing, leading UCOS to the real murderer. A mutual attraction between Greg and Sandra led the two to begin a relationship, which became more serious over several months. However, the relationship later ended and Greg is not seen again beyond the first series.
(DI Greg Johnson) (Recurring characters)
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