The Bill Season 7, Episode 81: Nutters

Grief

Norika and George are on traffic duty. He failed to see the D.A.C. so didn't salute him. Brownlow's wife is giving grief about the roof of his summer cottage.

22 min

The Chase

A man complains about his car being trashed. Norika goes to a service station which is being held-up by men with a machete. Steve and Dave give chase. During the chase Steve collides with a car.

22 min

The Attack

Cathy is on the beat and notices 2 men acting strangely. When she tries to arrest them, she is attacked. A black youth not involved tells George about it, who gives chase. Insp. Monroe takes an interest and wants it investigated as a sexual assualt. Burnside is watching a firm that could be done over by an ex-security guard. Tosh is worried about the security guard. When the raid does go down, Tosh can't get through to the security guard.

22 min

Crown V. Cooper

Loxton is going to court with Garfield. One of the witnesses is giving them a hard time. Dashwood is also there griping about missing paperwork. Garfield is worried about his notes and Loxton is very confident the attacker will get charged. Loxton and the defendant tell 2 different versions of the attack. The defendant gets off and he is last seen heading into a pub with a child left crying in the car.

22 min

The Girl Can't Help It

A girl is missing and Reg is moaning about his mealtime being curtailed. Dave finds an incriminating notebook that indicates the girl is on the game. When Dave goes to tell the family, he finds out the father already knows. Conway has an argument with Brownlow after he contacted a radio station about the missing girl. While Burnside is having lunch, he notices the girl lunching with a businessman.

22 min

Machines

Roach and Carver put pressure on a defendant who postpones his appearance in court due to illness. Lines is on the trail of photocopiers stolen from an American base.

22 min

Loophole

Brownlow gives Conway a hard time about sick figures. Young is not feeling well and June thinks it could be stress related. Loxton goes to investigate something suspicious in a scrapyard. CID helps uniform combat burglaries on an estate. Viv and Jim pay follow-up calls to the victims. Jim is told it is kids.

22 min

Bottle

Sgt. Maitland thinks there is a problem with a local pub landlord of the Overton Arms as well as drinking on duty. The prisoner makes allegiations about being threatened with a shotgun. It is possible that Sgt. Maitland is blowing a CID operation. When Roach is assualted at the pub, Maitland gets the attacker. Brownlow is getting a bee in his bonnet about wearing hats.

22 min

Samaritan

Stamp and Stringer come across a man and a woman struggling. Stamp grabs the woman who collapses. The man says he saw her wandering and went to help her and she attacked him with her nails. Initial reports from the hospital are that she was the victim of an attempted rape but the bruises were from an epileptic fit.

22 min

Fear or Favour

Jasmine Allen Estate representatives are visiting the station. Tony and Delia walk the Estate and talk to one of the residents. They chase a drug dealer to a club and the men on the door won't let them through. June and Steve arrest the dealer after he leaves the club but June is attacked when the men from the club turn up. The man who assualted her was one of the representatives from the Estate on the council.

22 min

Start To Finish

Brownlow is having transport problems to get to a meeting. He helps at an accident. Tom Penny who now is security guard comes in to check an arrest Dave made of a supposedly pregnant woman. He talks to Tad about the amount of stealing at the business he is now at.

22 min

Night and Day

Tony and Barry are stopped in the street by a man who says his flat has been burgled and the burglars are still on the premises. They surprise a flat owner who is in the bathroom. Tosh finds out the lady was lying about her whereabouts because she was with a married man. Delia visits an old man who wanted to report a prowler to an Inspector. He rings again and Delia chases a man to a car park on the Jasmine Allen. Delia and the old man are hit by a car.

22 min

Favours

Dashwood and Roach investigate a burglary at a scrapyard. Dashwood recognises the name of an ex-copper who knows Roach and Dashwood thinks Roach is prejudiced and too helpful. The ex-copper turned security guard's wife comes up with a possible suspect. Cathy investigates poison pen letters sent by the recipient's husband. Bob says the police can't do anything about them. the husband comes to the station and asks for protection.

22 min

In Chambers

Greig gets the evidence for an arson case from the property officer and goes to a conference in chambers and parks in the wrong space. The suspect is not responsible for his actions, according to pschriatics unfit to plead. Greig is not happy that the case he spent months on might be chucked out. Delia and Su are being given cheek by 2 black youths. Delia takes home leaving su to deal with an alleged shoplifting. Su wants to let the shoplifter off with a caution but, on taking home, finds a room full of goods stolen from supermarkets.

22 min

Kids Don't Cry Anymore

June sees a boy being bullied at a playground. On investigation she finds a lunch box with packets in it as well as a notebook with a list of names and some drawings. The list is of drugs but the prices are kids prices and the packets hold grass clippings and flour - almost like the children are playing shop. She goes to the local school to see if she can get some names. Dashwood's transfer has been turned down. Burnside thinks Brownlow stopped it because Dashwood is dressed smarted than Brownlow. The retired head of the murder squad offers to help Dashwood. Roach's ex senior officer comes into CID asking for help with a case. He is now head of a security firm and wants to impress the partners and wants Roach's help because Ted is a good thief taker. Roach doesn't want to help because he still hasn't forgiven his boss for putting an innocent man in prison. He nicks a man at the pub with stolen watches.

22 min

Too Many Chiefs

After dropping off a girl at a children's home, Dave and Cathy get called back in for a potential suicide. The girl Dave brought back in the morning seems to be the last person to see the dead girl alive. The man in charge of the home resigns. The dead girl had a boyfriend who, according to her diary, took her to Spain and Wales as well as other places. There was an unreported break-in. This and some photographs the disappearing girl had seem to be connected to the suicide.

22 min

Every Mother's Son

June, Tony, Dave and Reg are doing an obbo. Dave and Reg are lost while the doctor is attacked. The doctor was called to a hoax emergency call. The lady who was supposed to have made the call is being harassed since her son was arrested for murder. Reg comes up with a Trojan Horse idea to protect the doctor. The mother of the murderer commits suicide. Barry and Steve are called to a burglary at a chemists. One of the suspects collapses. Steve is getting cocky about his arrest.

22 min

Furthers

A man is murdered by a shotgun after talking to Dashwood. A man who has escaped from prison turns up in Dashwood's flat after he has put the safety chain on the door. A gunshot has been reported at Dashwood's because the escapee's girlfriend was shot. He turns the gun on himself after making Dashwood look like a prat.

22 min

Closing The Net

A young girl is approached by a man in a playground. Burnside thinks that they can't do anything until a crime is committed. tosh is noticing the suspect getting bolder. Ron has also noticed a pattern. A girl goes missing from a playground. A shop keeper is pushing the armed robbery button when he is being spat at by children.

22 min

The Public Interest

A man comes in to talk to someone in authority because an ex-employee is having sex with a 15 year old. CPS has thrown out June's assault case. She is thinking of taking a private prosecution and ends her shift feeling very cynical.

22 min

Photo Finish

Datta is watching a pub when a youth is seen leaving with drugs. While reading a playboy in the boy's room, Garfield finds over £200 hidden in the magazine and an acqinance of the boy is seen going into the pub and then arrested of possible possession. Garfield thinks the boy, whose room they are using for the obbo, is a dealer. Sue gets a hot tip for a double but Steve never placed the bet. Her first horse won and the second horse had a photo before being confirmed as coming second by a nose.

22 min

Just Desserts

burnside and Lines go for a lunchtime drink. Tony and George go to a building site where a self-employed tiler fell off the top floor. An eye witness says he was pushed. The victim had killed a woman about 5 years before in a drink driving accident.

22 min

832 Receiving

June and Delia catch a girl who has stolen a purse. June suspects the mother of fraud. Delia goes back out and watches 3 youths interfere with a car before she is told to investigate reports of screaming coming from a flat. The lady's baby has died. Delia is badly affected by the death.

22 min

The Better Part Of Valour

Burnside and Reed go to an accident involving a security van. Ted thinks it is an inside job. Ted finds a job application for a man with form. Tosh talks to the guard. Martella talks to a witness who is worried about the wrong people finding out. She is supposed to be in Scotland.

22 min

Double Or Quits

Delia and Viv talk about a perpetual villain before they go to court. Viv's witness is having second thoughts. D.C.I. Reed gets a phone call about Viv reading previous charges in court. Jim and Ted watch 3 men enter a house. A girl is hastily let out who turns out to be a friend of Ted. Jim watches 3 youths enter the house . Jim gets punched in the nose.

22 min

We Could Be Heroes

Tony and Dave rush an injured woman to hospital when the ambulance is delayed after an accident. They go to see the driver of the other car. He is a sales rep who hopes to be banned from driving. A man complains to Monroe about obstruction by Tony and Dave.

22 min

Cold Turkey (1)

Tony and Dave go to a sudden death. Monroe arrives and thinks it is a suspicious death. The man was a locum working at the doctors. Dave and Tony are called to a flat where arguments were heard. A man is holding a child hostage. June takes a mother to a chemist. While in the chemist a customer becomes abusive when his prescription is not filled. Greig thinks he might have killed once already. Reg talks to a doctor about a break-in at her surgery where prescription pads were missing. Conway is there to negotiate.

22 min

Cold Turkey (2)

Dashwood talks to one of his snouts to find out the name of the man. June talks to the man on the phone after George left a phone outside the flat. Conway negotiates for the man to be shot if all options fail. Brownlow gives the go ahead to shoot the man.

22 min

Now We're Motoring

Reg helps a man tow away a car. The owner comes to complain about the towing. Reg comes across another towing. Lines talks to a man about welding his car to make the MOT. He is getting grief from Reed. He seems to be setting up a deal where he delivers a car across the channel.

22 min

Dead Man's Boots

Cryer tries to stop an elderly woman, who gave evidence as a witness in a murder trial, from being victimised on a council estate. The vacant position of duty sergeant is on offer at Sun Hill.

22 min

Caught Napping

The Metropolitan Police Serious Crimes Squad sweep into Sun Hill and commandeer the station's briefing room, setting a few noses out of joint in the process. They are there to investigate the murder of a police informant, who at the time of his death was under the protection of Sun Hill CID. DI Burnside and DS Roach come to blows when Roach refuses to share the blame for withdrawing officers from the safe house, and accuses Burnside of corruption.

22 min

Hammer To Fall

In an attempt to end the rift between D.I. Burnside and D.S. Roach, D.C.I. Reid partners them together on a joint operation with the drugs squad.

22 min

Cry Havoc

Quinnan and Stamp go to Whitegate Estate to arrest a man involved in a glassing the night before. When Peters tries to apprehend the assailant, he is stabbed and rushed to hospital.

22 min

Rules Of Engagement

Viv goes to a club. A bouncer is suspicious and when she goes outside to call in Burnside, he hits her over the back of the head. Her assailant is possibly involved with stolen property. Viv is worried her boyfriend is involved.

22 min

Delivery On Time

Barry and Cathy are walking the beat when they are called to a burglary. Cathy and Barry are doing follow up calls when they are told the van is back. Jim is hungover and goes with Tosh to investigate the burglary. It turns out to be someone conning their way into houses by claiming to have a parcel. Tosh is called to court although he wants to catch the delivery man. Tosh just catches sight of the delivery man when he is called back to court. Grieg, Martella and Dashwood investigate stolen motorcycles at a bike shop.

22 min

Black Monday

Tosh's car gets towed. He catches a bus and see a man who is supposed to have died 5 years ago. Burnside thinks it is a windup. After being spotted by Norika, he goes into the river for real this time. Carver brings in a car that is made up of 3 other cars.

22 min

Jobs For The Boys

Burnside investigates a break in at a cash and carry. Jim is suspicious of the security guard. Some meat as well as cash was taken. Hollis sees an old man trying to take a packet of meat out of a car. The custody Sgt. is having a bad day and doesn't like briefs who don't give trouble. Norika and Tony bring in a man for the burglary at a second-hand shop who turns out to have robbed the cash and carry.

22 min

Without Consent

A prostitute comes into the station to report a rape. Loxton tells her it is classed as non-payment of goods. June has problems making people treat it as a rape.

22 min

Saints and Martyrs

June investigates a break in and thief of a pension book. June is told CPS won't be taking up her assault case so she brings a private summons. Brownlow, surprisingly, defends June at a senior management meeting. Hollis goes to talk to Brownlow about the air conditioner in the custody suite. Tosh goes to talk to the victim and is told that one of the two men was caught dropping maggots out of a tin into the sink. The sick man recognises one of the men.

22 min

Observation

Reid takes over a joint surveillance operation. Burnside and Martella are asked to leave the flat they are observing from by the drunken tenet who then beats his wife. When he comes into the street after her, Burnside arrests him.

22 min

The Greater Good

Tosh and Jim are watching a wrecking yard. A car is seen driven into the yard stolen from a man who runs a youth centre. Tosh thinks it is an insurance fraud involving cars disappearing and claimed as stolen.

22 min

The Best You Can Buy

June's case goes to court. She gives evidence as does Tony who is questioned as to being prejudiced towards the defendant as is dave. The defendant also gives evidence. The rest of the relief arrive in time to hear a not guilty verdict. Tony is angier than June.

22 min

Addict

Quinnan arrests 2 men in the underground because 1 has a knife. Sgt. Peters' wife gives him a ride to work. Brownlow, Conway and Reid have a meeting with publicans.

22 min

Black Mark

Dashwood talks to one of his snouts, who has been charged with stealing, on the way to court. The prisoner makes a complaint against him. Brownlow thinks it is serious enough to bring in MS15. Roach is worried it is him. The snout later withdraws the complaint after Dashwood has been interviewed. Loxton brings in a joyrider who bursts into tears. Garfield is made to go back to a burglary to get full details of the stolen items.

22 min

The Right Thing To Do

Lines and Carver go to a club where they find drugs in the band's jackets. The manager thinks it is very funny that a paper is interviewing the band 5 minutes before they are raided. Tosh now thinks they were fitted up not by an ex-manager but present one who is also their publicist. A man charged with drink driving and hitting a girl on a crossing is making a racket in the cells. Sgt. Peters arrests his solicitor for drunk driving.

22 min

The Harder They Fall

Loxton is attacked after a break-in at a night club and helped by a cabbie who is a special constable. Loxton blacks out and can't remember the incident. One of his attackers later dies. Most of his collegues think Steve is lying about the memory loss. Meadows is back leading the murder squad.

22 min

Something Personal

Dashwood and Carver are driving along when they notice a man trying to break into a house. His girlfriend has overdosed. Dashwood spots a snout who tells him she took methamphenine. Mike is very relucant to hand it over to the drugs squad. Stamp chases a burglar and pulls his trousers off trying to stop him climbing over a wall. Datta and French spot the man jogging into a charity shop. The man denies knowing his trousers when interviewed in custody.

22 min

Hijack

Burnside talks to the driver of a lorry who was hi-jacked. Martella raids the house of the snout who complained about Dashwood. Burnside wants Dashwood to use him again as his snout. The driver says that the man who threatened him with a gun gave him a beating 18 months previously.

22 min

With Intent

Lines and Carver are going to court about a burglary case. CPS are reducing the charges against 2 of the defendants. Carver discovers documents are missing that are needed in court and is not impressed during the afternoon training session with CPS. Munroe organises a training session about treatment of prisoners in cells ans a further session with the CPS.

22 min

Initiative

George and Phil are talking to a lady about fireworks through her letterbox when they see a purse snatching. CID are working on a murder that might have occured during a street robbery. A man comes in after seeing a poster on the murder. His flat is later torched.

22 min

Careless Whispers

Burnside arrests a man on suspicion of robbery with violence. Tosh and Carver get given wrong addresses. Burnside's suspect is identified in an id parade but she tells Jim his snout told her the suspect is guilty. It turns out he is not guilty of robbery with violence but his mum brings in her vacuum cleaner with drugs in the bottom. Reg chases a mother who tried to buy a watch with a stolen credit card and recognises her as a habitual criminal.

22 min

Minimum Force

Tony and George go to a burglary. The home owner caught the burglar and beat him up. The wife comes back and says the burglar was a work mate collecting some pills for her. Viv and Jim check on the husband and find out that a work mate, who had his nose broken by him, has form for burglary. A drunken lady gets violent with some of the relief after making a disturbance outside a newsagent. She causes a nuisance while locked in the cells until she knocks herself out.

22 min

Skeletons

WPC June Ackland finds a man stabbed in his car, and DC Lines' investigation into the incident are impeded by the victim's unhelpful wife. PC Reg Hollis and PC Tony Stamp discover a number of human skeltons in a supposedly vacant flat. Hollis and DI Burnside think they have stumbled across a mass murderer on the manor, but upon arresting the flat's resident, they discover he has legally imported the skeletons from the Philippines in the hope of selling them to medical laboratories.

22 min

Targets

The D.A.C talks about street robberies and taking the streets. D.C.I. Reid talks about her pilot project on street robberies. Tony is at a traffic depot by a cemetery and talks to a youth he suspects of criminal damage. The boy talks about being bullied so carries a knife for self defense. Jim talks to Reg about the bullies. Jim and Tosh get the go-ahead from Burnside to do surveillance on them.

22 min

The Negotiator

Reg chases a man with a shotgun into a shop. Reg tries talking the gunman, who held up the building society. into letting the assistant go. June and George check at the man's house and find a body upstairs. the man talks to Reg about terms. Reg didn't think he had the bottle to shoot him.

22 min

Reputations

Carver talks to his snout about a security job and gets a name for a burglary instead. Tosh had made a bet with Burnside about the burglar staying straight. A bag is found in the man's shed who claims to have been fitted up. Jim's snout gives another name who is a psycho

22 min

The Juggler and the Fortune Teller

A court case is adjourned. Burnside and the defense council have an argument in the corridor. Viv goes back to the station to warn witnesses. The rape victim is upset. While Viv is making a car, her car is broken into and her case is stolen with the exhibits in it. while checking out a car park, Tosh and Carver catch a gang who turned over a post office.

22 min

Joey

June is watching a p.e. class at a school before talking to them about theft and robbery. Loxton chases a boy who has stolen a lady's chain. The boy appears too frightened to tell his name.

22 min

Your Shout

Cathy is spoken to by Brownlow about a promotion board. There is a possible child abduction and the mother is complaining they weren't fast enough. Cathy is feeling guilty about not noticing the call at shift change. Reters talks Monroe out of making an appearance at a pub where C relief is having a knees-up and trying to throw kegs over the wall.

22 min

Ladykiller

Martella drives to a car fire to find a lady was trapped in the car. A man who tried to get the lady out of the car saw a man watching as he arrived.

22 min

The Corporal of Horse

Cathy is acting Sgt. with C relief. She watches one of the relief drive away in an unmarked police car without wearing his tunic after Smollett pointed it out. She tries to sort out a problem without backup from C relief's inspector. Sgt. Cryer shows Brownlow the arrest figures for C relief.

22 min

Cause and Effect

Delia and Tony discuss the merits of follow up calls. They get a call out to research labs. Loxton finds a security guard on the floor.

22 min

Getting Involved

Stamp talks to a man about paint stripper on his car - 2nd time in a month. Ron knows him. Reg and June are later called to an industrial estate where a man is damaging the car. The man damaging the car turns out to be the son of a man supposedly killed by the owner of the car. Carver and Greig investigate a fight in a pub at closing time. The victim is not talking but the girlfriend knows who he might have been drinking with. Ron helps Carver and Greig catch him. The girlfriend wanted her boyfriend to stop thieving.

22 min

Benefit of the Doubt

A barrister is arrested for GBH on a prostitute. He uses his phone call to ring D.A.C. Hicks. Brownlow is concerned about wrongful arrest. Greig gives Mike some disturbing news about the witness who sticks to her story. After being informed the victim was HIV positive the man is let go because of circumstantial evidence.

22 min

Crack-Up

Reg is in a pawn brokers when a man wearing a hat, scarf, and glasses leaves carrying a bike helmet leaving behind a bag with a gun in it. The shopkeeper calls CID as he thought he was going to be held up. The gun is thought to be linked to the shooting of a P.C. Reg brings in a drunk for criminal damage but when asked to remember the man in the pawn brokers he can't. After being told about how close he was to being gunned down he talks to Sgt. Cryer

22 min

The Last Laugh

Quinnan and Garfield respond to an armed robbery. Turns out to be a wind-up. There was a struggle and the informant got injured. CID thinks he is very bent. Monroe thinks the informant has a case against Quinnan for assault. Quinnan thinks an earthmover is dodgy parked outside a transport cafe. A cafe owner comes in to see Inspector Monroe to try and become a snout. Reg investigates a noise complaint and finds out where the earthmover was resprayed.

22 min

Access

CID investigate a burglary of an O.A.P. who has an asthma attack. Stamp talks to a lady who turned away a man supposedly from the Gas Board. Stringer and Loxton finish dealing with a van and go to a domestic. The man later threatens his ex-wife's boyfriend with a cleaver.

22 min

Six of One

P.C. Stringer chases a girl, on foot, who has stolen goods from a jewellers but P.C. Stamp arrests her because she was in a car. Stamp gets bullied, as does Inspector Monroe, by the jeweller when he returns the jewelery. Stringer feels fingers pointing at him when a necklace is still missing. D.C. Dashwood investigates the theft of a hire car later used in a crime.

22 min

Married To The Job

Stamp and Ackland go to a domestic. they also deal with a burglary of a pub. Tony's girlfriend has broken it off after talking to other police wives. Sunhill is getting ready for visitors from area.

22 min

Domestic

Reid goes to see the CPS about a case. She is late for a meeting with Meadows from the Murder Squad. A rape victim says the allegation was false after CPS gave the go ahead for the case to go to court. Burnside doesn't believe her. Barry and Norika are called to her flat after reports of a woman screaming but she dies of injuries. Burnside talks to the manager of a furniture shop after a cashier is mugged on the way to the bank.

22 min

Stress Rules

Brownlow comes back from a conference and wants to startan anti-stress program. A boy is stabbed and Young and Marshall investigate. Young finds the suspected stabber who says he had been done over with some bad gear. Cathy and Barry chase a gang of youths who snatch bags in a market.

22 min

They Also Serve

The relief is reserve troops for a demonstration. It is very boring waiting on waste ground. At a meal break, Delia, Norika and June find a distressed probationer in the toilets. Tempers are getting strained. Young is starting to question why he is still on the job. On the way back to the station the van is attacked by youths with sticks and petrol bombs. All the windows are broken and someone's arm catches fire.

22 min

Inside Job

A shop assistant is attacked and robbed of the week's takings by thieves on a motorcycle.

22 min

Bones of Contention

Sgt. Cryer investigates when anonymous letters expose P.C. Stringer's affair, in police time, with a prisoner's wife. W.P.C. Datta and P.C. Stamp lie in wait for a blackmailer. Ch. Insp. Conway is frustrated at a lack of promotion.

22 min

Wide Off The Mark

A professional hired killer is active in Sun Hill. A dubious informant provides a tip-off that divides D.I. Burnside and D.S. Greig.

22 min

Hitting The Mark

D.I. Burnside hunts for a hired killer to prevent him from making his next hit.

22 min

Bending The Rules

A yob arrested for shoplifting turns out to be a respected police officer. D.I. Burnside unravels the story of the change in his behaviour.

22 min

Skint

It's P.C. Garfield's birthday, but a party only adds to his money troubles.

22 min

Friday and Counting

Hollis, a missing handbag, and a recluse police pensioner, all help to unravel a murder investigation.

22 min

Lest We Forget

Ch. Supt. Brownlow is questioned by Yorkshire Police about his involvement in a murder enquiry seventeen years before that led to a wrongful conviction.

22 min

Downtime

A suspected violent break-in begins to suggest more clues about the house's occupants than anything else – especially as they are missing.

22 min

Out Of Order

P.C. Young reaches out to W.P.C. Datta and, when she rejects his advances, he sexually assaults her.

22 min

Empire Building

Duty Sgt. Cryer sets up a major operation to arrest defaulters on fine payments. Sgt. Peters accuses him of empire building.

22 min

Innocence

Following his interview about a wrongful conviction and allegations of corruption against a former colleague, Ch. Supt. Brownlow meets up with him. Two boys are reported missing and are believed to have been abducted.

22 min

Losing It

P.C. Young discovers a suicide and is deeply affected. Later, he visits Datta in the section house and attacks her.

22 min

Shots

Sun Hill officers attend a firearms training course. When an armed villain is reported in a building, P.C. Loxton shoots.

22 min

The Square Peg

Young goes missing on his beat. Monroe orders a search. Quinnan and Loxton find Young's body in his car. He has committed suicide by feeding exhaust fumes into the vehicle.

22 min

A Question of Confidence

22 min

Balls In The Air

On his first day at Sun Hill, Sgt. Matthew Boyden's past life catches up with him. Boyden shows that he knows all the angles, and Insp. Monroe is not impressed with his casual approach.

22 min

The Taste

Smollett discovers he still has the taste for action.

22 min

Turning Back The Clock

D.I. Burnside is determined to clear up a three-year-old case of robbery and murder when an old acquaintance is released from prison. D.C.s Carver and Lines begin to have their doubts when they learn their tailing operation is "unofficial".

22 min

Discretion

On his first day as Home Beat Officer, P.C. Smollett investigates the mugging of an old lady and discovers a rather unusual high-rise supermarket. Meanwhile, P.C. Stringer deals with a boy found unconscious by the canal.

22 min

Chapter and Verse

D.I. Burnside wants to question a man about a missing girl, but he is "drunk and incapable" in the custody suite and Sgt. Maitland is determined to uphold P.A.C.E.

22 min

The Whole Truth

W.P.C. Datta is in court to testify in a drink-driving trial, but the case is complicated by a mouthwash that the defendant claims to have taken.

22 min

Profit and Loss

Sun Hill C.I.D. investigate a suspicious death.

22 min

Thicker Than Water

P.C.s Loxton and Stringer are called to a domestic disturbance. The man found beating his wife turns out to be a P.C. from Stafford Row.

22 min

On The Take

D.S. Roach is investigating an armed robbery. A series of unexplained tip-offs reveals the possibility that a D.S. at Sun Hill is guilty of corruption.

22 min

Caring

W.P.C. Ackland and P.C. Smollett deal with a possible case of wife battering. The alleged victim, the mother of a schizophrenic son, is uncooperative.

22 min

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

D.C.I. Reid tries to overcome the continuing clash of personalities with D.I. Burnside. D.S. Roach has problems when a juvenile prisoner lies about his age, then has an epileptic fit in his cell. D.C. Carver finds himself in a conflict of loyalties.

22 min

Imposters

Maitland and Monroe investigate a pornography racket. Marshall and Stamp look for a beggar who seduced a mentally disabled girl.

22 min

A Woman Scorned

June and Ron call on a lady about her husband's dog who has dug up a skeleton in the garden. There is a new D. Supt. of the Murder Squad replacing Meadows. Reid talks to Burnside about paperwork.

22 min

Vital Statistics

A Relief is stung into action on discovering that their arrest rate is inferior to that of B Relief.

22 min

Decent People

P.C. Quinnan works undercover on a building site to investigate the theft of kitchen units but finds himself in a compromising situation.

22 min

Breakout

On New Year's Eve, a learner driver backs into a prison van, allowing a dangerous prisoner to escape from custody.

22 min