Strangers: Season 4
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 Strangers 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.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
The Moscow Subway Murders
Sep 25, 1981
Now promoted to Detective Chief Inspector, Bulman, frustrated with the office-bound nature of the job, is soon challenged by an intriguing murder case.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Copper
Oct 2, 1981
A convict makes a daring prison break but leaves a trail to ensure his recapture is handled by the inter-city squad. He has an old score to settle with supervisor Lambie.
A Dear Green Place
Oct 9, 1981
A routine assignment — escorting a prisoner from Glasgow to London — turns into something altogether different when the woman escapes and her escorts on a merry cross-country chase
Stand and Deliver
Oct 16, 1981
The squad investigates a series of armed robberies committed by a gang of modern-day highwaymen.
The Flowers of Edinburgh
Oct 23, 1981
Bulman and Willis arrest a man carrying an incriminating roll of film. This triggers off an enquiry which takes them to Edinburgh, where they tangle with a gang specialising in pol
Soldiers of Misfortune
Oct 30, 1981
The squad investigates a murder and a series of knee-cappings committed by rival groups of mercenaries.