List of New Tricks Episodes - Series 6 (2009)

After being pestered by his wife Esther, Brian checks himself into a rehabilitation clinic run by monks to try to cure his alcohol problem. After hearing about the unsolved death of a heroin addict there some years before, he calls in his colleagues to investigate, but there is one problem: Esther doesn't want them anywhere near him. After deciding to help anyway, Gerry goes in undercover in the guise of a sex addict to try and piece together exactly what happened.

Conspiracy theories and government cover-ups face the team when they reopen a case involving the suspected suicide of respected journalist Peter Edelmann. Halford is rattled when confronted at the funeral of a colleague by his widow, Cheryl Brooker. She plans to drag her former husband's name through the mud in order to contest his will, proving he wasn't of sound mind when he wrote her out of it. It's a question of honour and Halford is determined to protect his friend's name – even at the cost of his own reputation.

Gerry notices a man behaving suspiciously at a children's playground, and he is quick to act and have him arrested. However, he is forced to take pity on the suspect, when he claims of information of a sighting of his wife Victoria, who apparently died in a car crash eighteen months earlier while he was working abroad. The body was identified by her sister Sarah, but it seems she was lying and she disappears. An exhumation shows the dead woman is a Turkish immigrant whom Victoria, a lawyer at a drop-in centre, was advising and who went missing.

Gloria Gransford, an ex-actress, draws attention to an internet-posted clip of her being assaulted in a film she made in 1990 called 'Shadow Show', after which the producer, Gloria's ex-husband Max Stone, was stabbed to death and the leading lady, Eva Roderick, disappeared. The director Don Maddox, another of Gloria's ex-husbands, is egotistical and evasive when questioned. While the only other surviving crew member from the film - who posted the clip - is found dead, and his young boyfriend goes on the run in search of Eva, who now has a new identity. Brian finds himself defusing a developing siege situation.

When former escort girl Alice Hill finds God and decides to confess her sins, the team find themselves reinvestigating the death of well-known timeshare magnate Dean Scott. But the case takes a remarkable twist when the team link the dead man's business partner to notorious criminal Johnny Tevis.

Emily takes a reluctant Gerry and the team to a comedy club to celebrate Gerry's birthday. Racist, sexist and homophobic comedian Ray Harris isn't everyone's cup of tea. Gerry's enjoyment is certainly at odds with a group of hecklers who cause such a commotion that they are manhandled out of the gig. Somewhat affronted by their treatment, Pullman intervenes and discovers that the most vocal of the hecklers, Jo, is the niece of a political activist, Sarah Jones, who went missing with her boyfriend 25 years earlier after waging a campaign against Harris and his act. The team enter the shady world of far right extremist group the 20-4s and ultimately discover a connection to the team's nemesis, Ricky Hansen.

Team drinks on board Strickland's sailing boat are rudely interrupted by a heated argument on a neighbouring gin palace. There's drama on the high seas, as wealthy property developer Lawrence Fisher receives a drink in the face and some choice words from a young woman, before she is bundled away. Gallantly, but ill advisedly, Halford intervenes – only to uncover evidence of a brutual murder and a forced disappearance.

When the desiccated, neatly carved-up body of a butcher who disappeared more than thirty years ago is discovered, Sandra and the team to pay a visit to Smithfield meat market in London, the original murder scene. As the butcher is dead, he is unable to answer questions on why the body of a doctor was found hanging from a meat hook all those years ago at the back of his market stall. Gerry discovers his very interesting family history – he's descended from French Huguenots and is thus tormented by his colleagues for being a fake cockney, much to his annoyance, and Sandra has to face up to a startling personal disclosure, that has a direct bearing on the case and also throws a whole new light on her father. For once Gerry, Brian and Jack are left completely speechless.