13x18 - Take Away

February 13, 1997

Ackland investigates a complaint from a prisoner that he was given a pizza topped with cigarette ends.

13x19 - Your Call Too

February 14, 1997

Croft and Skase disagree when they have to choose between investigating an assault charge and a cocaine deal.

13x20 - Breaking Up

February 18, 1997

Rawton investigates a woman's claims that her ex-husband's mistress is trying to kill her.

13x21 - A Price To Pay

February 20, 1997

Boulton tries to trap a roomful of crooks, but Greig gets his man.

13x22 - Just Looking

February 21, 1997

Boyden deals with a man stopped for soliciting who claims he was searching for his missing daughter.

13x23 - A Tangled Web

February 27, 1997

Deakin and Croft investigate when a man is found shot with his brother's wife, as two unhappy marriages reach crisis point.

13x24 - Rolling In It

February 28, 1997

Slater and Quinnan find drugs in a Lamborghini, but the owner blames his unemployed brother-in-law.

13x25 - Added Bonus

March 4, 1997

Greig tries to establish why a man has confessed to a burglary that he didn't commit.

13x26 - Holding On

March 6, 1997

Cryer and Blake respond to a young man's claim that his stolen car had his four-month-old baby inside, but Blake suspects that the man's wife may know more about her son's disappearance than she is letting on. The plot thickens when Cryer interviews the man responsible for stealing the young man's car and he claims that he fed information about the man's extra marital relations to his wife.

13x27 - Crime Management

March 7, 1997

DI Chris Deakin has a word to DS John Boulton about his team's informants. Boulton has done pretty well, but DC Tosh Lines hasn't recruited a snout for months. Under pressure, Lines tries to recruit Karen Walsh, the wife of the victim of a recent attack which he'd investigated, but she refuses to grass on her husband or his associates. Lines puts pressure on the Walshes' landlord Pat Beresford who he believes was responsible for the attack, and is delighted when Beresford contacts him offering information.

13x28 - Age Gaps

March 11, 1997

Boulton and Rawton try to persuade a teenage girl to turn informant after her boyfriend is attacked by drug dealers.

13x29 - In The Dark

March 12, 1997

A blind woman, Tracy Cooper, helps the police catch a dangerous sex killer. She doesn't realise, however, that the guilty party is her husband.

13x30 - Crying Wolf

March 13, 1997

Monroe is called in to mediate when a former mental patient is accused of threatening behaviour by his elderly neighbours.

13x31 - Confidence

March 14, 1997

Keane uses information supplied by a friend to help C.I.D. in an operation against a drug dealer.

13x32 - All For Love

March 18, 1997

Greig and Lines investigate an assault on a man who has previously killed two people in a drink-driving accident, and suspect that a relative may have sought natural justice.

13x33 - Only The Lonely

March 20, 1997

Deakin and Skase investigate a fire, and find that a mother's grief has had unexpected repercussions.

13x34 - Copier

March 21, 1997

Rawton investigates the assault of a woman in her new flat and tries to link the attack to an unsolved case.

13x35 - Fashion Victims

March 25, 1997

Slater and Garfield arrest a boy for selling stolen goods.

13x36 - Hook Line & Sinker

March 27, 1997

Beech investigates a woman who uses her sexuality to con her business partner and clients.

13x37 - No Claims Bonus

March 28, 1997

Croft is concerned when Boulton decides to use a former colleague, now down on his luck, as an informant.

13x38 - Joker

March 31, 1997

Beech and Croft investigate the killing of a stand-up comic.

13x39 - Typecast

April 1, 1997

Boyden and Page try to find who is responsible for a series of graffiti attacks.

13x40 - A Hard Rain

April 3, 1997

Boulton and Croft have to deal with rival drug dealers when a customer suffers tragic consequences.

13x41 - Rings On Her Fingers

April 4, 1997

Jarvis and Rawton investigate the ram raiding of a shop.

13x42 - Strang Meeting

April 8, 1997

Conway coordinates the search for an escaped sex offender and a missing teenager who was last seen in his company.

13x43 - A Bitter Pill

April 10, 1997

Rawton and Skase investigate an attempted suicide by an ill woman, and suspect her son and daughter of assisting her.

13x44 - Dial M For Marmalade

April 11, 1997

Meadows investigates a murder by strangulation and suspects the homeless schizophrenic man whom the victim had befriended.

13x45 - Sisters

April 15, 1997

Daly and Croft investigate the suspicious death of one of three sisters.

13x46 - Flesh & Blood

April 17, 1997

Beech investigates the sudden death of a baby on the night that his parents celebrated their anniversary.

13x47 - Parklife

April 18, 1997

Loxton and W.P.C. Keane deal with the burglary of a pharmacy and a violent stabbing.

13x48 - Two's Company

April 22, 1997

Greig and Croft investigate a burglary and discover that the married householder had been in contact with a girl through a "lonely hearts" column.

13x49 - Inside Edge

April 25, 1997

Meadows and Rawton investigate the assault of a prison officer.

13x50 - You & Me Versus The World

April 29, 1997

Boulton and Lines investigate a vicious hammer attack.

13x51 - Pay Back

May 1, 1997

Beech and Carver investigate a vicious attack, but have to piece the evidence together when neither the suspect nor victim can remember what happened.

13x52 - A Place of Your Own

May 2, 1997

Garfield and Page search for a missing teenager and come across a man who exploits children in care.

13x53 - Don't Want To Hear The Bad News

May 6, 1997

Daly and Skase investigate a burglary and uncover a deep rift between the suspect's girlfriend and her mother.

13x54 - It's Good To Talk

May 8, 1997

Monroe coordinates a search for the victims of a kidnapping.

13x55 - Split Second

May 9, 1997

Page ends up in a hostage situation following a failed armed robbery.

13x56 - Old Fools

May 13, 1997

Greig and Croft enlist the help of two pensioners to trap a team of burglars.

13x57 - Auld Lang Syne

May 15, 1997

A man found nursing a broken ankle in a private garden claims he was taking a short cut over a fence. Rawton does not believe him, but can she prove otherwise?

13x58 - Warnings

May 16, 1997

Boyden and Datta respond to an apparent sighting of a missing woman by her daughter.

13x59 - Calling Time

May 20, 1997

Boulton and Rawton investigate when a pub landlord is run over after giving Boulton information.

13x60 - Black & Blue

May 22, 1997

Jarvis and Keane arrest a nanny for stealing from her employers.

13x61 - A Bunch Of Fives

May 23, 1997

DS Don Beech is found brutally beaten in an alley adjacent to a Chinese restuarant. Whilst his colleagues wish to extract retribution, Brownlow attempts to use more amenable methods, leading to a race for both CID and Uniform to find his attackers. But was Beech on police business at the time?

13x62 - Short Sharp Shock

May 27, 1997

Boulton and Skase investigate a mugging, but the victim's father takes the law into his own hands

13x63 - Get You Back

May 29, 1997

Quinnan and Keane deal with a teenage girl with a broken nose who claims that her ex-boyfriend assaulted her.

13x64 - Powers Of Persuasion

May 30, 1997

Rawton and Boulton have to decide whether to find the driver of a car involved in a hit-and-run incident, or to prosecute the witness.

13x65 - A Rock & A Hard Place

June 3, 1997

Deakin and Carver come under pressure from Conway to find a vicious robber who has been preying on elderly victims.

13x66 - The Wrath Of God

June 5, 1997

Skase and Carver have to deal with a preacher who specialises in dodgy miracles.

13x67 - Knight Errant

June 6, 1997

Loxton struggles to cope with a young female suspect who makes no secret of her attraction to him.

13x69 - Best Eaten Cold

June 12, 1997

Greig and Rawton investigate a journalist's claims that he acted in self-defence to stop an intruder.

13x70 - Lucky Day

June 13, 1997

DC Tosh Lines is going stir-crazy as DCI Jack Meadows has them transcribing interviews for the CPS. Asking Meadows if he can follow up a snout's information, Tosh heads for the Beckwith Arms pub, where he spots a dodgy motor. Approaching the owner, Pete Gapper, Tosh tries to ascertain if the car is stolen, and Gapper offers to sell him another car. Returning to the station, Tosh finds a furious D.I. Noble from the Stolen Vehicles Squad, who accuses him of compromising their operation. To make the best of the situation, and since Tosh believes this will be the suspect's last sale, he goes undercover to ensnare Gapper. As the police move in, Gapper pulls out a handgun, but the timely arrival of an SO19 team soon sees him arrested. Back at the station, Tosh is resentful that his younger colleagues get all the breaks and resources, but Meadows tells him that his experience earns him more respect than he thinks.

13x71 - For Richer For Poorer

June 17, 1997

Quinnan and Garfield look into the disappearance of a man reported missing by his mother, although his wife has her doubts.

13x72 - No More Milk

June 19, 1997

Rawton and Page have to deal with a 14-year-old tearaway and half a million pounds in counterfeit money.

13x73 - An Englishman's Home

June 20, 1997

Garfield and Blake are called to help enforce a demolition order on a home extension, when an ongoing dispute between neighbours erupts into violence.

13x74 - Loyal To The Last

June 24, 1997

Blake arrests a woman for assault and Beech tries to persuade her to help convict her husband for forgery.

13x75 - Rent

June 26, 1997

Boyden and Keane investigate the hit-and-run of a young busker.

13x76 - Last Respects

June 27, 1997

Meadows hopes that a family funeral will lure a couple of jewel thieves into the open.

13x77 - Too Much To Lose

July 1, 1997

Stamp tries to persuade an unhappy convict not to ruin his chances of release.

13x78 - Do Unto Others

July 3, 1997

Loxton and Keane try to sift the truth from three conflicting stories when a severe case of bullying results in a fifteen-year-old boy being stabbed.

13x79 - Mid Life Crisis

July 4, 1997

Daly and Skase discover that a jeweller is fencing stolen goods.

13x80 - Performing

July 8, 1997

Boyden and Page come to the aid of a former porn actress who is worried that her younger sister faces a similar fate.

13x81 - Playing With Fire

July 10, 1997

Meadows and Lines suspect that the owner of a beauty salon set it on fire herself to claim on the insurance policy.

13x82 - No Guarantees

July 11, 1997

Rawton tries to stop a loan shark who is terrorising his female customers, but finds it hard to get the victims to talk

13x83 - Gentleman Jim

July 15, 1997

WPC Jamilla Blake rejoins the Met, and to the envy of the relief, is placed on attachment to CID. DC Jim Carver, behind on his paperwork, is far from pleased when Blake drags him around Sun Hill following up leads on a trivial car theft case. Their investigations, however, lead them to a gang of armed robbers.

13x84 - Rift

July 17, 1997

Slater and Ackland attend to what appears to be a teenage catfight over an older man.

13x85 - Stand By Your Man

July 18, 1997

Daly tries to find out who is forcing a convict to smuggle drugs into a prison.

13x86 - Replica

July 22, 1997

Loxton and McCann confiscate a gun.

13x87 - Mr Friday Night

July 24, 1997

Boyden and Page grill a witness after the disappearance of a good-time girl.

13x88 - Hitting The Nerve

July 25, 1997

Greig and Carver react when one prosecution witness disappears and another ends up in a coma two days before the trial.

13x89 - Thicker Than Mud

July 29, 1997

Deakin and Beech investigate an arson attack on a small, respectable clothes shop.

13x90 - Alternative Therapies

July 31, 1997

Skase and Boulton investigate the theft of illegally imported body parts of endangered animals from a Chinese pharmacy.

13x91 - Foxed

August 1, 1997

Daly and Carver investigate the burglary of an antiques shop and are struck by the strange behaviour of the sales assistant.

13x92 - These Foolish Things

August 5, 1997

D.C.I Meadows leads an investigation into the snatching of a child from his pram and uncovers a case of extortion.

13x93 - Neighbours

August 7, 1997

P.C. Garfield and W.P.C. Keane try to settle a neighbourhood feud.

13x94 - Glass House

August 8, 1997

D.S. Boulton and D.C. Lines try to persuade a woman to help catch her husband, who is involved in a drug deal.

13x95 - This Old Man

August 12, 1997

Garfield is affected by the death of an old man.

13x96 - Tommy The Hero

August 14, 1997

W.D.C. Rawton has to choose between solving a minor domestic dispute and finding two violent robbers.

13x97 - Driven To It

August 15, 1997

When a local cabbie offers his services to help ensnare a drug pusher, Daly jumps at the idea.

13x98 - A Man Out Walking His Dog

August 19, 1997

Boyden is unsure as to the cause of death when a man's body is found in a car, poisoned by alcohol and exhaust fumes. Is it really a straightforward suicide?

13x99 - Hunt

August 21, 1997

Sgt. Boyden and D.S. Beech try to find a couple before a vicious drug-dealer gets to them.

13x100 - Has Anyone Here Seen Bigmouth?

August 22, 1997

D.S. Daly and D.I. Deakin try to find an informant who has disappeared following a failed police operation.

13x101 - This Land Is Ours

August 26, 1997

Sgt. Cryer and Ch. Supt. Brownlow police a demonstration at a development site after peaceful protesters are threatened with violence.

13x102 - Paying The Piper

August 28, 1997

D.S. Boulton's investigation is hampered by an informant who is putting family loyalty first.

13x103 - On The Hurry Up

August 29, 1997

When a flying bottle causes Slater to crash a panda, Monroe bans all pandas from responding to priority calls, a move that leads to frustration amongst the relief. Slater is suspicious as to why Loxton won't assist him in the investigation into a series of hoax calls linked to his crash.

13x104 - Not In The Script

September 2, 1997

When Slater is recommended by Rawton for undercover work, he is overjoyed. His colleagues however ridicule him, and their interference almost costs them a trial operation. Will he bottle it?

13x105 - Flower Power

September 4, 1997

P.C. Hollis discovers a hoard of illegally imported wildflower bulbs and helps in the subsequent Customs and Excise operation.

13x106 - A Breach Of Trust: Part I

September 5, 1997

Daly's worst fears are realised when a nurse reports that she has received malicious phone calls from a mentally-disturbed ex-prisoner.

13x107 - A Breach Of Trust: Part II

September 9, 1997

Daly and Blake are forced to release their prime suspect, and the race is on to prove his guilt before he strikes again.

13x108 - Fool

September 11, 1997

P.C. Quinnan and Sgt. Boyden want to use a would-be stand-up comedian as an informant, but he is as hopeless off-stage as he is on.

13x109 - Armed & Dangerous

September 12, 1997

P.C. McCann is convinced that a gun remains unaccounted for when a gang of armed robbers is captured.

13x110 - Animals

September 16, 1997

Ackland and Blake investigate the dangerous world of dog fighting full of vicious dogs and hard men.

13x111 - Look Into My Eyes

September 18, 1997

D.I. Deakin and W.P.C. Blake follow up allegations of attempted rape against a stage hypnotist.

13x112 - Performance Anxiety

September 19, 1997

Sun Hill's performance comes under scrutiny, and officers from C.I.D. and uniform compete against each other in a bid to solve the most crimes.

13x113 - Different Strokes

September 23, 1997

P.C. Slater goes undercover in an attempt to draw out a thief.

13x114 - Sparks

September 25, 1997

Beech loses his cool with an antsy DS from stafford row, while Skase falls for the charm of his female DC.

13x115 - The Lion's Den

September 26, 1997

Slater goes undercover as a Bouncer at a club run by the notorious Guy Walsh. As Slater gains his trust, will he be exposed?

13x116 - The Needs Of The Many

September 30, 1997

P.C. Slater is surprised when, in uniform, he bumps into the target of his undercover investigation.

13x117 - Cross Purposes

October 2, 1997

13x118 - Free To Speak?

October 3, 1997

Its Nick Slater's final day at Sun Hill, and takes Keane out for a farewell dinner. Loxton, Quinnan and Skase do their best to extinguish any intimate moments.