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New Tricks: Season 4

8 episodes Premiered Apr 9, 2007
Previously on New Tricks

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of New Tricks Season 3.
  • Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (5): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (3): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S4·E1 Mytharc

Casualty

Apr 9, 2007

The future of the team is threatened and without having that to deal with, Sandra has to take drastic measures to prevent Jack from exacting revenge against the man who killed his

S4·E2 Core

God's Waiting Room

Apr 16, 2007

Sandra's private and professional worlds become intertwined when her mother has a fall and goes into a care home - but the establishment is revealed to be a scene of a suspicious d

S4·E3 Core

Ducking & Diving

Apr 23, 2007

When an armoured van is discovered at the bottom of a lake, the team makes a link with the murder of a women 17 years ago.

S4·E4 Mytharc

Nine Lives

Apr 30, 2007

A family feud erupts when a rich and lonely old woman, Dorothy Hepple, is found dead in her home. Dorothy leaves all her money and property to her beloved cats, rather than her n

S4·E5 Mytharc

Powerhouse

May 7, 2007

The team reinvestigates the 1950s murder of a young wages clerk at Battersea Power Station. Richard Dunne was hanged for Frederick Tully's murder, but his granddaughter, Hannah, i

S4·E6 Core

Buried Treasure

May 14, 2007

When Brian's dog finds a body, it prompts two people to confess to murder. It turns out that the body is over 600 years old, so Sandra, Jack, Brian and Gerry must discover why the

S4·E7 Mytharc

Father's Pride

May 21, 2007

When a camera and film belonging to a photographic lab assistant murdered in 1987 are found in a Soho pub toilet, the team reopen a 20-year-old case. Elsewhere, Gerry is less than

S4·E8 Mytharc

Big Topped

May 28, 2007

The news that Sandra's father, a DI, killed himself while under investigation for corruption, throws into doubt everything she believed in. Her mother, Grace , is in hospital foll