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Detective Chief Inspector Michael Jardine joined the Taggart team in 1987 in the episode The Killing Philosophy as a young DC working alongside Jim Taggart and Taggart's then right-hand man, DS Peter Livingstone. After DS Livingstone left the area, Jardine became Taggart's new neighbour working with him on all of his cases up until Jim's death in 1994. Taggart was always very fond of Michael, saying that they 'were from the same drawer' which was referring to the fact that DS Livingstone was a graduate policeman whereas both Taggart and Jardine had worked their way up the ranks. Jackie Reid was a policewoman assisting CID on a case in the episode 'Death Comes Softly'. Mike and Jackie seemed attracted to each other until Taggart noticed and put a stop to it. They didn't ever get together bu

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rdfs:comment	Detective Chief Inspector Michael Jardine joined the Taggart team in 1987 in the episode The Killing Philosophy as a young DC working alongside Jim Taggart and Taggart's then right-hand man, DS Peter Livingstone. After DS Livingstone left the area, Jardine became Taggart's new neighbour working with him on all of his cases up until Jim's death in 1994. Taggart was always very fond of Michael, saying that they 'were from the same drawer' which was referring to the fact that DS Livingstone was a graduate policeman whereas both Taggart and Jardine had worked their way up the ranks. Jackie Reid was a policewoman assisting CID on a case in the episode 'Death Comes Softly'. Mike and Jackie seemed attracted to each other until Taggart noticed and put a stop to it. They didn't ever get together bu
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abstract	Detective Chief Inspector Michael Jardine joined the Taggart team in 1987 in the episode The Killing Philosophy as a young DC working alongside Jim Taggart and Taggart's then right-hand man, DS Peter Livingstone. After DS Livingstone left the area, Jardine became Taggart's new neighbour working with him on all of his cases up until Jim's death in 1994. Taggart was always very fond of Michael, saying that they 'were from the same drawer' which was referring to the fact that DS Livingstone was a graduate policeman whereas both Taggart and Jardine had worked their way up the ranks. Jackie Reid was a policewoman assisting CID on a case in the episode 'Death Comes Softly'. Mike and Jackie seemed attracted to each other until Taggart noticed and put a stop to it. They didn't ever get together but became firm friends. Michael had a series of failed relationships with women, who always seemed to be involved in the cases somehow, apart from one woman who was a legal advocate. They all ended up letting him down in some way apart from later in the series when he finally seemed to have found someone suitable, this was in the form of policewoman Heather McIntyre. After Jackie got married to Brian Holmes we didn't see Heather again so nothing seemed to have come of that relationship after all. In the 2002 episode Death Trap, DCI Matthew Burke was put onto a murder case and Michael got suspended, leaving Burke in charge of the case. Michael was later lured to the edge of the Clyde at night by a recently released prisoner who blamed Michael for sending him to prison, knocking him unconscious and into the water below, leaving him to drown to death. Jackie Reid, Robbie Ross and Stuart Fraser were all devastated by his death. In 1994 after Mike was promoted to DI, Stuart Fraser took over his job as the long-suffering sidekick. In 1998 after Jack McVitie's death Robbie Ross joined the team, taking on the role of Jardine's former position as Detective Inspector and Michael was promoted to Detective Chief Inspector. Michael died on 14 January 2002 aged 41. The plaque on his gravestone shows that he was born in 1961. In the episode Apocalypse, Michael Jardine's brother Ian shows up and is revealed to be part of a religous cult group; in a conversation he once had with Jim Taggart, he mentions his brothers, so we know that he had more than one besides him. In Gingerbread, it was revealed by an old flame of his, Gemma Normanton, that he used to bring half a bottle of vodka to school and keep it in his desk. This was a surprise as Michael had been teetotal as far as we knew, the main reason for this was that his father, who was also a policeman, had his career ruined by alcoholism. The only time we ever saw Michael have an alcoholic drink, was when Taggart insisted he have a whisky with him in the episode 'Ring of Deceit' and when Michael had a drink after being suspended in the episode 'Death Trap', but ended up throwing the rest of the contents of the whisky bottle down the sink. Gemma also revealed that he was going to be an airline pilot. DCI Jardine was played from 1987 to 2002 by James MacPherson.

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