Series 5

Dr Jonathan Paige takes over from Paul Dangerfield as the police surgeon and meets new DI Gillian Cramer. A well-loved local farmer is found dead and the team look towards his stormy family life for an explanation… An army recruit, home on leave, confesses to the murder of his brother following an argument between the two at a fairground. However, when he is called to the station to help with another case, Paige learns the truth.

After a punch-up in a pub, debonair Dr Paige helps patch people up. One drinker is in a very bad state and what he has to say gives the doc even more cause for concern… A fight and a fire break out in a pub. One witness is brought in for assaulting a woman constable. He is suffering from a head injury and is haunted by violent flashbacks during which he sees a dead man. Paige investigates.

Paige assesses a young man, Kevin Wilson, who has been brought to the police station for his own protection and discovers he is a schizophrenic and aggressive towards his mother. However, Mrs Wilson insists she can control her son and Paige releases him – a decision he comes to regret when Mrs Wilson's body is found the next day.

Paige's request to section a man who claims to have killed his allegedly adulterous wife comes up against pressure from the police, who want to question the suspect.

When the body of an artist is found by an art critic, the dead woman's agent, Beth Saunders, is taken to the station for questioning. Meanwhile, Dr Jonathan Paige is forming a friendship with Beth, which does not go unnoticed by DI Gillian Cramer.

Local composer and cellist Brian James, a patient known to the practice, becomes the prime suspect when his young female neighbour is found strangled. Meanwhile, the pressures of work are starting to take their toll on Shaaban.

Paige's son, Charlie, arrives back for the weekend a day early at the police station, after being involved in a brawl outside a bowling alley. Meanwhile, David, a friend of Charlie's, is struggling to keep hold of his farm, while organising a rally against government interference in the farming industry.

Anna Harris a mum of a teenage girl in a vegetative state, calls Dr Jonathan Paige to examine her. But from there unfolds an uncharacteristically spiritual storyline, involving healing, angels and stigmata. Paige is called out when two boys discover the body of a man who appears to be dressed like an angel. Although DS Diamond receives a call which clears up the mystery surrounding the man's death, later events convince Paige that things aren't as they appear.

Despite the best intentions, the caring approach isn't always appreciated. Dr Paige is called out to a nasty accident scene where he tends a woman who's fallen off a ladder. She dies while receiving treatment and her husband Dave is inconsolable. He accuses Dr Paige of not doing his job properly but it's not his fault. The debonair doc and his new lady love give a dinner party for the gossips at the surgery. When Liz Franklin falls to her death, her husband becomes strangely withdrawn. Dr Paige is convinced Dave is suffering from anxiety attacks, but he won't accept help. When Dave's son Jason calls for Paige's assistance, he decides to investigate further.

A gruesome discovery by the local publican's daughter reveals a tangled web of secrets and lies for Dr Paige and DI Cramer. Seems there's a serial blackmailer at work in leafy Warwickshire. All seems well in the village of Thornton until Mrs Bennett finds out her husband is having an affair, Mr Newman is found dead hanging from a tree and a six-year-old boy goes missing. Incriminating letters have been sent to all three households and Diamond takes on the case of finding out who is sending them while Paige and Cramer join forces to look for the missing boy.

Violent events at a supposedly ‘safe-house' where a lone gunman has infiltrated, leaves one police officer dead as he attempts to kill a protected witness. He then blasts DI Gillian Cramer but can Dr Jonathan Paige save her? Dr Paige and DI Cramer are called out to assist Pc Lyle when a small-time crook-turned-super grass whom the police have been guarding causes a commotion.

Continues from the last episode, in which DC Joe Christian was killed and DI Gillian Cramer was shot and wounded. While Gillian hovers between life and death, Dr Paige tries hard to look pleased when his girlfriend Beth tells him she's moving and will be living closer to him, but she's beginning to suspect that his heart lies with Gillian. While DI Gillian Cramer undergoes emergency operations, Dr Paige is called out to confirm the death of a young hitch-hiker, a case which turns out to be linked with a murder investigation headed by DS Diamond.