List of Love/Hate episodes

This is a list of episodes of Irish crime drama series Love/Hate.

Season 1

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Scottish air date
1	1	"Episode 1"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	3 October 2010	21 March 2011
Darren Treacy (Robert Sheehan) returns to Dublin from Spain, having spent time there while trying to avoid the Gardai in Ireland for gun possession. Darren's brother Robbie (Chris Newman) is released from Wheatfield prison (called "Sarsfield" in the episode). While waiting to be collected by Tommy, Robbie is shot outside a newsagents in a drive by shooting. Darren rings Tommy to see what his delay is, which he covers up since he is sleeping with Darren and Robbie's sister Mary at the time. He is too late to meet with Robbie and on his arrival Robbie is dead. Nidge (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) is Robbie's closest friend who has just purchased a gun and is currently learning how to use the weapon via a "YouTube" video. Darren is soon re-arrested but gang boss John Boy Power (Aidan Gillen) pays for a solicitor to bail Darren out of his gun charges, which are thrown out of court on a technicality. Darren's ex-girlfriend, Rosie (Ruth Negga), is now pregnant with Stumpy's baby.
2	2	"Episode 2"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	10 October 2010	28 March 2011
Mary Treacy gets advice from a psychic who tells her that Robbie is trying to get free from his past, which he insists is often the case with deaths involving violence. Darren isn't impressed by his sister's belief in what the psychic is telling her and is quick to confront the psychic, telling him that if he doesn't tell her that Robbie has moved on that he will be around again. John Boy is up in court and has organised the collection of drugs from Dublin Port by the rest of the gang. Tommy and Darren check out the warehouse where they are to sort out the drugs. Darren is quick to realize that the Gardaí are watching the warehouse. He calls John Boy to inform him that changes have to be made. Nidge has gone to collect the shipment. He is told to continue driving until a new place is found. Tommy finds a place from an old friend (JP) whose father has a car dealership; he asks him for the use of the garage for a half an hour. There the gang sort out all of the drugs into other bags to be distributed to other drug dealers around the city. Darren and Rosie plan to meet up in secret to discuss their relationship, while the rest of the gang are at John Boy's party at his apartment. John Boy tries to convince JP to use his father's dealership again. Nidge proposes to Trish. Darren stalks Jimmy Byrne whom he believes killed his brother Robbie.
3	3	"Episode 3"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	17 October 2010	4 April 2011
Nidge and the lads return from Nidge's stag weekend in Prague, Jimmy Byrne has returned from London. Nidge, Darren and Tommy attack Jimmy Byrne on his way home from the pub and drag him into the back of a Van to interrogate him about the murder of Darren's Brother. Jimmy insists he did not kill Robbie, Darren believes him and lets him go, both Nidge and Tommy are not happy. John Boy orders Hughie to kill Jimmy. Hughie gets a favor returned by Martin to help him with the murder. Hughie and Martin kill Jimmy in front of his wife and child. After a heavy night of drugs Hughie discovers that Eric, Nidge, Tommy and Darren have been taken in for questioning, while John Boy is arrested on his return from Amsterdam. Hughie begins to get paranoid as the newspaper suggest that he is a loose cannon and someone who John Boy will want dead. Hughie returns to Martin's caravan and kills him in a frenzied attack in which he thinks Martin talked to somebody. Hughie admits to John Boy - who is his half brother - that he killed Robbie over €300 he was owed. Stumpy's jealousy of Darren and Rosie reaches boiling point when he beats her and puts her in hospital. The Gardaí go to arrest Stumpy only to find he has left Rosie on her own. Stumpy asks John Boy for help, John Boy gives him a place to hide out. Darren calls John Boy after hearing of Jimmy's death, pointing out that it was Hughie who originally blamed him for Robbie's death and implying that Hughie is therefore the likely assassin. Clear divides have been made with John Boy, Hughie, Elmo and Stumpy on one side and Darren, Nidge and Tommy on the other.
4	4	"Episode 4"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	24 October 2010	11 April 2011
Rosie loses her baby and explains her pain to Darren. She doesn't want Darren to kill Stumpy but she wants him to feel pain. As Stumpy leaves his house Darren attacks him. Nidge goes to tell John Boy that he can go to the wedding but then John Boy backs out since Mary is Trish's bridesmaid. Hughie and Elmo attack Tommy and Darren. Elmo is shot during the shoot out. Hughie returns to John Boy and suggests revenge at the wedding. John Boy on the other hand decides to go to the wedding. Hughie makes a scene at the wedding, showing up Nidge's and Tommy's indiscretions in front of Trish and Mary. John Boy wants to leave the country with Hughie until everything dies down. Hughie decides to hunt down Tommy, with Elmo and his cousin Potsy. However, Hughie accidentally shoots himself while showing his gun off to Potsy. As he lies dying, Elmo decides to leave him rather than calling the emergency services. Darren leaves to join Rosie in London. Nidge and Tommy carry Hughie's coffin with John Boy. Darren meets with John Boy to shake hands and to put an end to the problems. After leaving with John Boy, Darren is fired upon by Stumpy in a drive-by shooting and is left for dead.

Season 2

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Scottish air date
5	1	"Episode 1"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	6 November 2011	5 January 2012
A year has passed since Darren's quest for his brother's killer ended in him being shot by Stumpy as he tried to walk away from John Boy Power's toxic gangland world. Now, almost fully recovered but tortured by PTSD, he is working as a gofer for newcomer on the scene Fran, a mid-level cannabis and hooky cigarettes smuggler and loan shark. Meanwhile John Boy himself is spiraling. He's haunted by a mysterious ghostly figure he keeps seeing on the security CCTV system at his apartment stronghold. Profits are down in the ailing Irish economy and the police are closing in, the forensic accountants of C.A.B. seizing assets and generally making business impossible. John Boy plans to get his money out of the country and to retire to Spain, but his increasing cocaine use is making him more and more unpredictable and paranoid. All is not happy families with Nidge and his pregnant wife and he starts to make overtures towards Fran's wife, Linda.
6	2	"Episode 2"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	13 November 2011	12 January 2012
Disaster strikes the gang as a drug mixing factory is busted by the gardai. John Boy blames Stumpy who he believes sold them out. Darren, desperate to get out of the game, robs an ATM and makes a down payment to John Boy against the debt he owes. John Boy, however, wants Stumpy taken care of and he wants Darren to be the one to deal with it.
7	3	"Episode 3"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	20 November 2011	19 January 2012
When a container of drugs is busted at the docks, John Boy decides to double cross Fran on their deal. Fran retaliates against John Boy, who is left furious and orders Nidge to pipe bomb Fran's house with Linda still inside.
8	4	"Episode 4"	Anthony Byrne	Stuart Carolan	27 November 2011	26 January 2012
The crew are in festive spirits as Trish has the baby on Christmas Day, while Rosie has come back to Dublin and Darren falls in love with her all over again. However the gang war is still raging, and John Boy orders Tommy - already caught between his friendship with Debbie and his worries about Siobhan's money runs - to kill Fran. The hit goes wrong, and someone else becomes fatally caught up in the aftermath.
9	5	"Episode 5"	Anthony Byrne	Stuart Carolan	4 December 2011	2 February 2012
As tensions come to a head the gang threatens to implode: Luke's obsession with Mary is becoming more dangerous, while Siobhan's panic attack at the airport could get Tommy killed. A paranoid John Boy finally tips over the edge when he finds Debbie taking heroin and interrogates her, getting her to admit it was Aido who's been supplying her. Giving him one last job to square his debt, John Boy orders Darren to kill Aido. Darren is conflicted as to whether he can kill again and discusses his concerns with Nidge. Then, with Luke as his accomplice, a masked Darren enters the pub where John Boy, Nidge, Aido and the gang are drinking. Darren turns his gun on John Boy and kills him with two shots to the head, revealing a double-cross that he and Nidge had been planning. This episode had 41 per cent audience share on its original airing.[1]
10	6	"Episode 6"	Anthony Byrne	Stuart Carolan	11 December 2011	9 February 2012
Nidge swiftly fills the power vacuum and gets the gang back to business as usual. Rosie has realised what her lover has become, and Darren is devastated when she breaks up with him. Meanwhile Mary finally realizes the extent of Luke's psychosis as she finds him lurking in her bedroom at night. This episode had high viewership levels on its original airing.[2]

Season 3

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
11	1	"Episode 1"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	11 November 2012
After successfully removing John Boy, Nidge is determined not to make the same mistakes as his predecessor, but is blinded to the cracks appearing in his gang. When one of his gang is mistakenly shot by the Continuity IRA(CIRA), Nidge plays the diplomat... but a mad drunken Paddy's night slides out of control towards disaster.
12	2	"Episode 2"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	18 November 2012
After Darren kills Git, his son Dano becomes suspicious. He lies about being with Git. Siobhan struggles to come to terms with what happened to her.
13	3	"Episode 3"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	25 November 2012
Nidge struggles to remain on good terms with Dano, as his web of lies and excuses threatens to unravel. Siobhan confides in her friend Donna - but it is only a matter of time before the secret gets out.
14	4	"Episode 4"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	2 December 2012
Pressure builds on Nidge as the leaders of Dano's organisation send an inquisitor down from the north to thwart him, and matters only get worse as his lies start to catch up with him.
15	5	"Episode 5"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	9 December 2012
Donna is convinced by a friend to rat to the police about the rape of Siobhan again completely defying Siobhann's wish to keep it secret and the police eventually connect the dots and arrest and imprison all people in the gang (including Siobhan) except Darren and Fran for questioning but they all refuse to talk. Meanwhile Dano is told info about this and pieces it together realising that Nidge and the lads were responsible for Git's death and plots to have him clipped against the wishes of the inquisitor.
16	6	"Episode 6"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	16 December 2012
Boxed into a corner Nidge contemplates a new life in Spain but realises it's only a matter of time before Dano catches up with him. Nidge decides to return to his house to collect money, passports, etc. While there he meets Darren and gives him some of the money he owes him to help finance his move to London. As he leaves, Nidges car is ambushed by Dano and his accomplices and Nidge is loaded into the boot of Dano's car. Darren comes to the rescue and rescues Nidge. Nidge decides he will have to confront the situation,and goes to Dundalk to meet with Tony and arrange a deal, which involves betraying one of his own. In the closing moments, Darren is shot and killed by Lizzie, whose brother he killed whilst saving Nidge. This episode was watched by 970,600 people on its first air date.

Season 4

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
17	1	"Episode 1"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	6 October 2013
Nidge has his hooks into a client who has fallen behind on his tab at the brothel, and sees an opportunity to extort him into helping to import a large consignment of drugs. A tiger kidnapping goes wrong.
18	2	"Episode 2"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	13 October 2013
Nidge extorts his tame dentist into cooperating with him. Unaware that Detective Inspector Moynihan is setting up a complex undercover operation to track Nidge and ultimately bring him down.
19	3	"Episode 3"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	20 October 2013
Tommy is released from Prison as he suffers injuries from his head wound. The dentist decides to get involved with Nidge's business while Fran plots a gruesome revenge on Tommy after ratting on him to the Gardai.
20	4	"Episode 4"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	27 October 2013
Nidge has both Moynihan's surveillance operation and the IRA closing in on him. Fran meanwhile wants revenge for the loss of his teeth.
21	5	"Episode 5"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	3 November 2013
A paranoid Nidge must clear his mind before the drug import that Moynihan has his eyes and ears on, meanwhile Siobhan is offered help by Detective Moynihan for Tommy's sake.
22	6	"Episode 6"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	10 November 2013
The last shipment of drugs are about to arrive into Dublin Port with Nidge unaware that Moynihan and his crew are following his steps.

Season 5

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
23	1	"Episode 1"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	5 October 2014
After almost losing everything to DI Moynihan's sting operation, Nidge travels to Spain to negotiate with wholesale supplier Terence May for a new drugs shipment. Meanwhile in Dublin his enemies are closing in: Siobhan is acting as informant to Moynihan; Patrick has returned to Dublin determined to kill Nidge; and tensions between Nidge and maverick Fran are reaching boiling point. Recently released from Jail, Lizzie is murdered by Glen on Nidge's order.[3]
24	2	"Episode 2"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	12 October 2014
With Pauley's help, Nidge is back in business and arrangements are made for the first shipment under the new deal. Meanwhile Moynihan wrestles with a labyrinthine Garda bureaucracy.[4]
25	3	"Episode 3"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	19 October 2014
Fran is banged up in prison but he and Nidge both still conspire to have each other killed, while Siobhan finds her dangerous drug fuelled double life is spiralling out of control.[5]
26	4	"Episode 4"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	26 October 2014
Siobhan is increasingly caught between her quest for revenge and her growing love for Pauley - while Nidge may have found a way to get to Fran in prison.[6]
27	5	"Episode 5"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	2 November 2014
In the aftermath of Pauley's death, Siobhan must face her most terrifying opponent yet as Terence May flies in from Spain to lay his nephew to rest - and to find the truth.[7]
28	6	"Episode 6"	David Caffrey	Stuart Carolan	9 November 2014
Nidge is summoned back to Spain, where Terence demands a terrible price for his continued support, while Siobhan and Moynihan reach an unholy deal of their own. Terence orders the brutal murder of Janet to set an example to possible rats in Nidge's gang. After being rearrested, Fran is gang-raped in prison by Noeley Hughes and his accomplices. Siobhan plants Git Loughman's finger bone in Nidge's bathroom and calls it in to Moynihan. She finally reveals to Nidge that she was the rat in his gang, enraging him. In a twist ending, Patrick attacks Nidge and Siobhan is fatally caught in the crossfire.[8] As wife Trish and son Warren look on in horror, Nidge is finally shot and killed by Patrick.[9] The episode was watched by over 1 million viewers.[10][11]

Season 6

A sixth season will air in 2016 or 2017.^[12][13]

References

1. Campos, Adelina (6 December 2011). "659,000 tune in to see (major spoiler alert)". Evening Herald. Independent News & Media. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
2. "Over 600,000 watch Love/Hate finale". RTÉ Ten. Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 13 December 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
3. "Love/Hate week 1 recap: Nits, Fran's arse and Jeremy Kyle". The Journal. 13 October 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
4. "Love/Hate week 2 recap: Janet's knees, Patrick's vest and Fran finds out". The Journal. 13 October 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
5. "Love/Hate week 3 recap: Elmo's gnomes, Aido's ham and pineapple and the EYE". The Journal. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
6. "Love/Hate Week 4 Recap: Jesus Saves, Giraffes, And Two Big Deaths". The Journal. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
7. "Love/Hate Week 5 recap: Crocodile Tears, The Great Escape and Fancy Mots". The Journal. 3 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
8. "Love/Hate Week 6 Recap: Tasty Tax, Coming Clean, and the Big Finale". The Journal. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
9. "Love/Hate's Nidge confirmed DEAD: Actor Tom Vaughan Lawlor admits he's moving on from hit show". Irish Independent. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
10. "'Love/Hate' finale draws more than 1 million viewers". Irish Times. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
11. "1,005,400 tune in for final episode of Love/Hate, but RTE shouldn't lose the run of itself". Irish Independent. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.