VIDEO: A nervous Fran comes face-to-face with Nidge in new teaser clip from new series of Love/Hate

It's mere seconds long but unbearably tense as a nervous Fran comes face-to-face with Nidge and Micha in what appears to be an unlit garage.

Nidge appears from the shadows and hands a baseball bat to MIcha who then stands beside a visibly nervous Fran, who opens the conversation with, "What's the story Nidge?"

However, Nidge is in no mood for small talk as he ignores Fran and addresses Micha.

"Micha, I' gonna talk to Fran now and if he lies I want tyou to give him a belt of that, yeah?"

Fran replies, "Nidge, what the f*** is this about?" and Nidge says, "The dentist."

The clip follows yesterday's teaser in which Fran is being questioned about the murder of the unfortunate dentist Andrew who got caught up in the gang’s drama.

The new series of ‘Love/Hate’ sees Nidge broaden his horizons to Spain as he makes an effort to start afresh are in vain.

Speaking about what series five will bring for himself, Fran, Tommy, Elmo and the rest of the cast, Nidge - aka Tom Vaughan-Lawlor - has been revealing some of the direction the hit crime show will take, but without giving too much away.

"This year there's a reawakening and rebirth in Nidge and he's kick-started into the Spain thing with the renewed appetite for dining at the top table of European drug dealing," said Vaughan-Lawlor.

"His ambition is back, but there are ghosts that are still haunting him and he can't deal with them - he doesn't have the tools to understand his inner feelings.

"That's why this character is so rich to play, there's such depth to him."

The fifth series of ‘Love/Hate’ starts Sunday 5th October, 9.30pm on RTÉ One.