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Episode 84

Haunted

December 23, 1999

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The Bill - S15 - E84

DS Stanton, DC Lennox and DC Proctor are on an obbo at a spooky old building called the Old Pumping Station, which is supposed to be haunted. The trio tell each other ghost stories: back in his uniform days, Proctor was assigned to watch the house of a serial murderer. Investigating a noise, he meets a young woman called Cathy, who turns out to have been on of the killer's victims. A skeptical Stanton reveals how a psychic's assistance with a case she worked on turned out to be a hoax. Lennox, when he was in the Glasgow police, meets a dying crime boss who promises revenge from beyond the grave.

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The Bill: Season 15 - 54 Episode s

15x34 - Old Flame
June 8, 1999
As he and PC Quinnan investigate a burglar alarm, PC Eddie Santini sees Jessica Orton meeting covertly with Ferguson. Making excuses, Santini borrows the panda car and races to the Ortons' club where he confronts Jessica. As she storms off, there is a huge explosion. Santini is shocked when one of the officers assigned by AMIP to investigate the explosion is his old nemesis, DS Rosie Fox. Fox is suspiscious of Santini's involvement, but her colleagues put it down to the animosity between them. As Santini returns to his flat, where his lover PC Vicky Hagen is waiting, he is kidnapped by Ferguson who assigns him the task of picking up a consignment of drugs from Amsterdam.
15x35 - Push It
June 15, 1999
Jessica Orton is brought in for questioning, but is released without charge. When she returns home, PC Santini is waiting for her, desperate to know if she grassed him up. They fight, and Santini hits Jessica, knocking her down the stairs and killing her. Realising her house is being watched, he escapes out the back. Vicki Hagen finds a set of keys under Santini's bed which she brings to the station to return to him.
15x36 - Kiss Off
June 22, 1999
Vicki Hagen finds Eddie Santini's tickets to Amsterdam, and questions him about them, but he is evasive. DCI Pallister takes DS Fox off the Jessica Orton case after her accusations against Santini, but she decides to do some investigation of her own. Santini, meanwhile, acquires a gun and some Class-A drugs to plant in Ferguson's boss's house when DS Timpney and the Area Drugs Squad raid it. Fox stumbles upon the house and is captured by Ferguson. His boss Mr Sherman is displeased that Santini allowed a police officer to find them. When Area Drugs arrive at Sun Hill for the raid, CID realise that both Santini and Fox are in trouble. Sure enough, Ferguson's radio scanner warns him of the forthcoming raid and he locks Santini in the same room as Fox. The two argue, but are pulled apart when Santini attacks Fox. She manages to escape, and Sherman's men are intercepted by SO19. Back at Sun Hill, Fox realises the keys in Hagen's possession are Jessica Orton's - and she arrests Santini for m
15x37 - Foreign Body
June 24, 1999
A suspected armed robber dies after his car crashes during a chase with police. He is identified as Alain Savoie, a French national, and the body of an English woman is found in the boot of his stolen car. The woman is identified as Carol Archer, and scorch marks on her back indicate she was electrocuted in her bathtub, and Savoie was trying to dispose of the body. According to Carol's mother, Carol's husband Peter was in France looking for her. DI Chris Deakin, a fluent Francophone, suggests they send officers to interview Savoie's sister in France. DCI Jack Meadows insists on making the trip himself, and Deakin suggests he take DC Rod Skase with him. Once they are on the ferry, Meadows and Skase realise neither of them can speak French. With some trouble they manage to find their hotel, and despite the language barrier, Meadows clearly hits it off with the landlady Claudette. CID hear that Peter Archer is headed back to England, but he does not board the ferry, and Interpol reports t
15x38 - Borderline
June 29, 1999
A CID raid nets a gun which DS Beech believes could have been used in a recent shooting. New PC Cass Rickman is entrusted with the task of taking the gun to the lab for forensic testing, but when she stops the car to render assistance to a mugging victim, a young man reaches in and steals it. Borough Commander Mannion arrives to take charge of the investigation - Operation Loose Cannon. DS Beech's contacts come up with someone wanting to sell a gun, and he, Brownlow and Rickman organise their own operation to retrieve it, with Rickman posing undercover as the buyer. Rickman meets Leroy Jones, and Endean and Andrews, the original owners of the gun who want it back, but the operation is blown when Mannion's team almost raid the pub where the meeting is taking place. Rickman arranges to meet Jones later, and buys the gun back, but is attacked by Endean and Andrews. She fires the gun in the air, which scares them off, and alerts Brownlow, Mannion and Beech to her position. Leroy Jones is a
15x39 - Confessions Of A Zookeeper
July 1, 1999
Ch. Insp. Derek Conway organises a charity 'lock-up' in the Sun Hill cells - the prisoners for the night being himself, Insp. Monroe, famous boxer Dion Barrie and his manager Max Weir, and Paul Lake, the father of the sick little girl they are raising money for. When Monroe calls in sick, Ch. Supt. Brownlow volunteers to take his place. Sgt. Matt Boyden as custody sergeant must cope with having his superior officers in the cells, as well as a large group of drunken female rugby players. DS Feeney from Barton Street turns up to investigate Barrie for an attempted murder, but Boyden works out that his manager is the man responsible.
15x40 - Pillow Talk
July 6, 1999
Worrell and Harker attend a deliberate hit and run. Quinnan and Garfield are tasked with tracking down the driver, Oliver Beaumann, who has allegedly run over his wife. When they transfer Beaumann to the nick, he passes out in the van. At the hospital a doctor asks one of them to stay, and while Garfield is happy at the idea of staying with Jenny for the night, Cryer demands Quinnan stays. Garfield is suspicious as Jenny is distant with him, and she later mentions to Quinnan she's doubtful over what Garfield wants long term. As they are distracted, Beaumann tries to escape, but Quinnan drags him back in. Beaumann then claims the husband of his wife's best friend is having an affair with his wife, and that he is armed with a gun intent on getting Beaumann out of the way. Quinnan is skeptical, but is quickly drawn into an armed siege.
15x41 - Heavy Plant Crossing
July 8, 1999
Sgt. Matt Boyden organises a simple obbo to catch a gang stealing an excavator from a building site. The situation is made more complicated when another gang turn up carrying guns and a man is shot and abducted. As Boyden angrily collars his snout, PC Garfield and PC Quinnan volunteer to check the hospital. Garfield's girlfriend Jenny is about to leave for South America, and he is keen to ask her to marry him, however Quinnan gets word that Jenny actually has feelings for him. As Garfield tries to organise a romantic dinner, DS Beech poaches Boyden's snout, but he too is given bad information. Garfield's dinner plans are a disaster, but he manages to catch Jenny at the nurses' home. He pops the question, but she declines, as Dave Quinnan watches from the car outside.
15x42 - Good Relations
July 13, 1999
Rising crime levels on the council estates sees Ch. Supt. Brownlow with two additional problems: a gang of over-zealous security guards patrolling the Copthorne Estate, and a ""mobile community liaison unit"" - a caravan done up by PC Reg Hollis. When these two initiatives rankle a local gang, the guards are attacked at one end of the estate and Hollis finds himself a hostage in a potentially explosive situation. Managing to get the potential arsonist Tony Leyton on side with tales of his past misdemenours, Hollis convinces Leyton to make a statement naming Danny McCormack as the ringleader in the attacks, but the rug is pulled out from under him when Brownlow cuts a deal with McCormack in order to preserve their public image.
15x43 - Big Fish
July 15, 1999
Skase is skeptical when an informant tells him a small-time dealer is in cahoots with a South American dealer. However, when his informant mentions a major contact, Skase gets his hopes up and pushes Deakin to conduct a raid. When the raid goes down, Skase is concerned when the cash briefcase is a dud, but he uncovers multiple kilograms of cocaine in the seller's briefcase. Skase and Deakin are paraded as heroes in the wake of the raid, but their glory is about taken from them by the National Crime Squad after they identify the seller as Ben Carter, who is wanted in several countries around the world. Events take a sinister turn when Skase's informant turns up dead, and things only gets worse when it appears the two NCS officers who took Carter to their station for questioning were actually imposters. With Deakin's rep in particular taking a major blow and the real NCS officers keen to make someone pay, the team are left scrambling to find their target and save the DI's career.
15x44 - Taxed
July 20, 1999
PC Luke Ashton and PC Dale Smith chase a stabbing suspect onto an estate, but are separated and Ashton is paralysed with fear when confronted by the knife-wielding youth. Smithy is contemptuous of Ashton from that point on, who starts to feel that the rest of the relief is ganging up on him. The stabbing seems to be part of a racially-motivated vendetta between two families on the estate, the Wests and the Cords, but DS Daly and Sgt. Cryer work out that the Jasmine Allen's Estate Manager is behind the harassment. When Doreen West is abducted, the police find her in an empty council flat, but as Smithy pursues the Cord and his accomplice, Ashton stands frozen in fear. Stamp and Quinnan rescue Smith, who is furious with Ashton for not backing him up.
15x45 - Cracked Up
July 22, 1999
Ashton reels after being accused of cowardice by new boy Smithy. The team attend a group counselling session over Smithy's attack, but tensions only rise further between the uniform officers. After Ashton leaves the meeting, Rickman speaks up for him, but Ashton is convinced his colleagues have turned against him. Paired with Quinnan, Ashton investigates claims by a reformed dealer, Larry Moore, that a bag of drugs have been planted at his home. When a local youth accuses Moore of dealing again, Beech arrests him and comes down hard, but his methods leave Moore unhinged. After discovering his wife was responsible for the drugs, he abducts his young daughter. When Moore feels he has been backed into a corner, he snaps and takes horrific action, with a shell-shocked Ashton questioning his capability for the job in the wake of the day's shocking events.
15x46 - Wedded Bliss
July 27, 1999
PC Smith and PC Rickman deal with a disturbance at a registry office, and DC Proctor and DC Holmes discover an ingenious immigration scam in which British lookalikes of Romanian illegals marry Irish women to gain UK residency. Smith and Rickman follow up a case of forged speeding tickets, and come across a mail holding centre run by Colin Briggs at his garden centre, where they discover a stash of Romanian passports. Undercover at the registry office, CID and Immigration arrest the 'Romanian Godfather', Ion Goga, behind the scam and his wife, Sheila Devlin.
15x47 - Lucky Jim
July 29, 1999
Worrell and Garfield fail to catch a stolen 4x4 in pursuit, the latest in a long line of such vehicles being stolen, but luckily the vehicle is abandoned for them to analyse. Meanwhile, Carver and Harker intervene at a domestic where a man is being refused access to his daughter by his ex-wife. After talking to Carver, the woman invites him to a drink with her father, local car dealer Gerry Metcalfe. Carver meets Metcalfe's associate Samantha as they have a drink, and after having a meal, they go back to a hotel. The following morning, he discovers that Metcalfe's daughter has reported her ex-husband has abducted their child because Carver failed to make a meeting between the warring parents. Worse still, he discovers a £500 deposit in his account from Metcalfe, and that his associate Samantha is an escort who has skimmed Carver's cards. Using a rival car dealer for leverage, Carver sets out to nail Metcalfe without his "bribe" being exposed.
15x48 - Screwdriver
August 3, 1999
Holmes and Proctor investigate the rape of a woman inside a mental health facility. After discovering a separate attack occurred at another facility six months earlier, DS Acton from Park Rise Station is seconded to Sun Hill to help investigate both cases. A staff member from the other facility claims Acton had a relationship with a nurse, Ken Forbes, who moved from the facility where the first attack occurred to the second. After Forbes uncovers a condom in the victim's room, Proctor is infuriated that he has corrupted the evidence. As Forbes is implicated by a security guard who spotted his car at the time of the attack, Proctor and Acton arrest him, and a besotted Proctor ignores Forbes protesting that Acton planted a screwdriver with paint at the scene. As the guard reveals he saw Acton at the scene scraping something off a window, Proctor realises the plant allegations may be true.
15x49 - Inside Out
August 5, 1999
Beech and Glaze are sent to Shadwell Prison to investigate allegations that three prison officers are responsible for the assaults of two prisoners. With the prison on lockdown, they try to get through to the angry victims, but they soon face outrage from the prison officers when one of the suspended officers is burgled and another is assaulted. Glaze tries to talk to a lifer but ends up being held hostage, however he provides info after the incident about a death in custody five years earlier. One of the victims is identified as a family member of the prisoner who died five years ago, and his brother is suspected to be the man behind the burglary and assault, but they are forced to turn to one of the accused for evidence. Will he turn on his colleagues to help them solve the case?
15x50 - Critical Mass
August 10, 1999
Insp. Monroe is skeptical but cautious when a young woman, Emma Crawford, rings Sun Hill and says she thinks her boyfriend may have hidden a bomb in the station. At Emma's flat, Ackland and Stamp find bomb-making equipment and a faxed warning due to be sent on a timer. PC Carver discovers a suspiscious paint can hidden in the ceiling - enough to trigger the evacuation of the station and the calling in of the Bomb Squad. The suspect, Ben Wallace, has been in trouble with the police before, and he is apprehended by DCI Meadows when he returns to the flat. As the Squad begin defusing the bomb, Ackland and Stamp visit Ben's parents whom he despises. The bomb is dismantled and the station declared safe, but Ackland and Stamp watch in horror as Ben's father is killed by a car bomb planted by his son.
15x51 - Ring A Ring O Roses
August 12, 1999
June and Cass are called to the flat of a prostitute named Allie after tracing malicious calls made from her phone, only to find her lying unconscious on the floor from a vicious assault. Turning her over reveals the words 'Join The Club' written on her back. The case matches several other recent assaults on prostitutes in the area, most of whom are being pimped by Robert Stern. After being apprehended it is revealed that Stern attacked Allie but was not responsible for the calls she made or the writing on her back. Meanwhile June saves Beth, another of the victims, from throwing herself under a train believing herself to be HIV positive after her attacker revealed this to be the words sinister meaning. When he is eventually caught and brought back to the station, Liz identifies him as ex-boyfriend Andy Marshall, a search of his houseboat turns up HIV medication. The calls were being made to his wife Julia Marshall who is pregnant and living on her own, unaware of his supposed HIV stat
15x52 - The Only Way Is Up
August 17, 1999
Meadows is approached by DCI Calder of Barton Street, who was a DC of Meadows at AMIP. Calder admits while he is on the verge of promotion to Superintendent, an armed robbery that went wrong has left him under the kosh. With a suspect vanishing right before the job, Calder claims CIB are investigating a theory that one of the Barton Street CID team tipped the gang off, but Meadows is skeptical and leaves Calder to it. Coincidentally, Calder's elusive suspect is found as the victim of a beating attended by Garfield and Stamp, with a member of the public attempting to help savagely assaulted as a result. Beech identifies one of the men fleeing the scene as DC Bonford of Barton Street, proving they have found their inside man. However, the discovery may come too late as Calder is found atop of a high-rise tower block intent on committing suicide. Can Meadows and Conway talk him down?
15x53 - Rock Bottom
August 24, 1999
Harker is disappointed when he fails to save the life of an overdosing man, so when Conway offers him the role of Youth Diversions Officer, he takes it. Meanwhile, Boyden is tasked with giving a view of custody to new drugs referral worker Dexter King, a reformed addict with a history with the Sun Hill team. Daly is fuming to discover King is working in the area, no less with Harker as part of the Youth Diversions scheme, and his vendetta against King leads him to raid King's flat whilst Harker is there. Brownlow is left furious as a result, and despite Meadows warning Daly off the case, he jumps back into it after a local addict is assaulted by major dealer Barry Lomas. King gives info on where Lomas keeps his drugs, but he turns the tables on King, and Daly jumps at the chance to arrest him again. However, Daly is then left to eat humble pie with King once more when the assault victim dies, in order to nail Lomas for murder.
15x54 - Sunhill Boulevard
August 31, 1999
PC Cass Rickman calls in sick after over-indulging at a barbecque for the relief the previous night. PC Harker and PC Stamp are called to the Sun Hill Lido swimming pool, where a young girl's body has been found in the water. Harker goes undercover at the pool, where he runs into the miraculously-recovered Rickman. The pair team up to catch a peeping-tom with a digital camera, but Rickman's warrant card is stolen when her locker is broken into. Eventually they discover that the pool's Australian lifeguard Steve Kellerman is dealing drugs and that the dead girl died in an accident when she joined he and his friends for a late night pool party.
15x55 - Lola
September 1, 1999
DI Deakin leads CID and Uniform on a series of disasterous raids to catch alleged DSS fraudsters, while PC Polly Page is given the boring task of serving a court order. As she does so, she hears scratching at the wall from the house next door, which they believe is a trapped dog. With the help of the RSPCA, they force entry and discover a young Spanish woman named Lola imprisoned in a hidden cellar. The owner of the house, Ricky Lee, insists that Lola is a fugitive from a Dutch prison who stowed away in his van and took refuge in his house. When Lola disappears from the hospital, Page and DC Kerry Holmes pay Ricky Lee another visit. Page is suspicious and asks to see the cellar again, but Lee attacks them. Once subdued, they find Lola in the cellar once again, and it looks as if Lee was planning to kill her.
15x56 - Integrity: Part I
September 16, 1999
Sun Hill efforts to protect the organisers of a community festival are in vain when the convoy is attacked. New PC Nick Klein is friends with the organiser, Anil Indrani, but the brother of Klein's girlfriend Pam is arrested by PC Dale Smith as he rushes to fight off the attackers. Paired with Smithy the next day, Klein manages to defuse a tense situation when Smith confronts a group of black youths at the market. That night, Indrani's club is raided by officers from Barton Street, led by DS Vickers. Klein is certain that Vickers team has planted drugs on the Billy the DJ, and begins to suspect they were also responsible for the attack on Indrani. PC Smith is in trouble: the youths at the market were undercover police officers conducting an 'integrity test' and Smithy's attitude to racial matters leaves a lot to be desired. As Klein lights up a joint at Pam's house, DS Vickers raids the place and threatens to arrest him for possession unless he helps him destroy Indrani.
15x57 - Integrity: Part II
September 19, 1999
With DS Vickers blackmailing him over his use of cannabis, Klein is more determined than ever to bring the corrupt officer down. Brownlow asks Worrell to join the case, but she accuses him of going after her skin colour, rather than her ability to do the job, and turns it down; instead, the role goes to Rickman. She is tasked with going undercover as Sally Holland, with her cover being an ex-girlfriend of Anil Indrani in order to lure Vickers into planting drugs on Indrani. Vickers calls on Smith to help him with an unauthorised OBBO, and when he recognises Rickman, he blows her cover. Klein confronts Vickers as a last resort, but he is devastated to discover that Vickers has arranged for Area Drugs to bust Indrani, and he is arrested along with Klein's girlfriend Pam. Klein is furious to discover that it was Smith who blew their undercover op, and presents him with all the evidence he has on Vickers in an attempt to open his eyes to what his friend is really like.
15x58 - Cold Calling
September 21, 1999
Rawton is furious when Meadows pulls her OBBO on convicted rapist David Trigg, due to budgetary reasons. She is quickly put on a series of robberies, then onto the case of a missing teenager. She is determined to prove Trigg could be involved due to the proximity of his home to the missing girl. However, Trigg comes forward as a witness and gives a description of a man that the missing girl's friend identifies as Paul Myers, who is brought in due to a suspicious bruise on his knuckles. The girl is later found as the victim of a serious assault, but Trigg's relationship with a local suddenly returns him to the top of the list of suspects, but the biggest shock is that he has abducted a woman he wrote to whilst in prison. As the ramifications of Trigg's actions come to light in the fallout, Rawton clashes with Meadows about financial planning taking priority over people's safety.
15x59 - Millennium
September 23, 1999
DCI Jack Meadows introduces new DS Claire Stanton to the rest of the CID team, who are jealous when she manages to land an eco-terrorism case on her first day. Someone has been injecting mercury into oranges as a protest against GM foods. Security footage shows a 'New Age' couple lurking around the fruit section, but when they are questioned, it appears they were stealing oranges rather than contaminating them. Supermarket shelf stacker Darren matches the description of the perpetrator, and when challenged, he incapacitates DC Proctor and takes him hostage. Locating his flat, the police find Proctor alive and well, but then word comes through that Darren is in the children's ward at St Hugh's armed with a gas grenade. SO19 arrive at the hospital, but DS Stanton manages to talk Darren into giving himself up.
15x60 - The Three Sergeants
September 28, 1999
Sgt. Matt Boyden is not looking forward to another night shift in Custody, but a noisy prisoner demanding food turns out to be the least of his worries. Sgt. June Ackland and PC Dale Smith bring in a drunk and disorderly vagrant who they nickname 'Olly'. Chaos sets in as a drink-driver, some cat-fighting prostitutes, an immigration officer with two deportees and two lay visitors conducting a surprise inspection arrive. As the F.M.E. takes a blood test from the drink driver, Boyden has Olly placed in a cell to rest. When the lay visitors inspect his cell, he is dead. Faced with a death in custody, Ch. Supt. Brownlow calls in CIB, and the three Sergeants on duty, Boyden, Ackland and Cryer argue amongst themselves over who was responsible. Ackland manages to find Olly's real identity, and his widow threatens to sue the Met, but June talks her out of it and discovers that his wife blames herself for his death.
15x61 - Trade Off
September 30, 1999
Deakin is furious when Carver and Rickman blow an OBBO to arrest a major dealer. Furious at constant put-downs by his former CID colleagues, Carver decides enough is enough and accepts an offer from an old friend to manage security at his nightclub. In the meantime, Deakin demands Carver track a former informant linked to their target, and after being arrested in possession of heroin by Rickman, tells her about an armed robbery. However, Deakin is further infuriated when the robbery goes down at the wrong bank, so Rickman and Carver arrest their informant once again in possession of heroin. Offering him rehab so he can reunite with his wife, Carver makes a breakthrough, but he gets a personal blow when he misses out on the security manager job. Slipping into a depression, Carver turns to drink to deal with his problems.
15x62 - Treading Water
October 5, 1999
PCs Jim Carver and Cass Rickman wander through a CID obbo, allowing suspect Micky Harris to go free. Trying to make amends, Carver tries to contact a former snout from his CID days, Steve Raines. As they make enquiries, Carver's old friend, nightclub manager Alan Brooks notices Carver's dissatisfaction with uniform work and offers him a job as security manager at his club. Carver finds Raines, now a junkie, who gives Rickman a duff lead on a building society robbery. Carver convinces Raines's estranged wife Alice to give him a second chance, and eventually Raines agrees to testify against Harris. With the nightclub job all but his, Carver reluctantly prepares to hand in his notice, but when the job just as quickly falls through, he turns to a hip flask of vodka in his locker to console himself...
15x63 - Look Again
October 7, 1999
PC Reg Hollis turns up late for parade, and an angry Sgt. Boyden assigns him to an eviction followed by traffic duty on Malpitt Road. The evictee is Colin Boswell, a notorious racist who has been terrorising and bullying fellow residents on the Bronte Estate. Boswell puts up a fight, and threatens Hollis and Page with a kitana sword, so he is arrested. As the Canley Council clean out his flat, they discover a passport and benefits book belonging to Murali Kumarathungum, a Tamil refugee who Boswell has been threatening and stealing his benefits. As Hollis follows up Kumarathungum's case, Boyden is outraged that he has neglected the Malpitt Road traffic duty, but finds himself drawn into the situation when Kumarathungum's cousin accuses him of racism for ignoring their original plea for help some months ago. Boswell is arrested when he tracks Kumarathungum to St Hugh's Hospital, but Hollis is horrified as a terrified Kumarathungum runs into the path of a speeding lorry. Boyden realises t
15x64 - Love & War: Part I
October 12, 1999
PC George Garfield is in quite a state - his girlfriend Jenny Delaney has just returned from South America and he is eager to know if she has considered his marriage proposal. Unknown to him, PC Dave Quinnan is also trying to contact Jenny. Both are distracted, but Quinnan nearly blows an obbo to catch a disqualified driver when he tries to call again. As Quinnan makes his excuses and tries to visit Jenny at the nurses' home, he is observed by CID who are staking out St Hugh's Hospital. When Garfield also turns up in a panda car, CID must get him out before their target sees the police car. Finally, Garfield finishes his shift and rushes to the nurses' home in time to see Dave and Jenny kissing at the door.
15x65 - Love & War: Part II
October 14, 1999
Back at the section house, George Garfield confronts Dave Quinnan about his relationship with Jenny, and then storms off. Polly Page and Tony Stamp go looking for him, while Quinnan rushes off to see Jenny. Later in the night, a very drunk Garfield turns up at the nurses' home, demanding to see Jenny. He causes such a disturbance, the police are called, and when Garfield punches one of the attending officers, it takes the persuasive powers of Tony Stamp to convince him not to press charges. Amazingly, both Quinnan and Garfield turn up to their shift the next day, and despite their colleagues' best efforts to keep them apart, the two come to blows during a critical operation. Insp. Monroe is livid, the two clearly cannot work together, one of them has to go. Quinnan is about to apply for a transfer, but Garfield takes leave to travel.
15x66 - Hot Money
October 19, 1999
Hollis and Hagen are laughed off by CID when they provide a tipoff on an upcoming armed robbery at a casino, provided by former getaway driver Jerry Mulligan, after he is arrested for stealing a milk float. However, it comes back to haunt them when a casino is robbed overnight, with Hollis wasting no time in mentioning CID's indiscretion to a furious Burnside. He tasks Lennox and McCann, on attachment to CID, with tracking Mulligan down. He provides info on another raid, so Burnside leads an undercover team there to catch the gang in the act, but Mulligan is attacked and the gang make a breakaway, leaving Burnside to pick up the pieces.
15x67 - Crash Landing
October 21, 1999
Daly makes a daring rescue as he and Holmes witness a light aircraft crash outside a local stadium. He identifies the passenger as ex-DS Janet Campion, his boss at Child Protection seven years earlier. Coming in the following morning, Daly is shocked to discover Campion is under investigation by OCG. Daly's link to both Campion and his investigation into a local villain leads him to be brought onto the case, and he goes to dig deeper when she invites him to dinner. He goes above and beyond to save her when she is implicated in a scam, offering her a deal to sell out her boyfriend to OCG.
15x68 - Father's Day
October 28, 1999
Boyden is surprised when his estranged daughter Amy shows up at the station, offering third-hand info that her boyfriend, Phillip Cooper, witnessed two drug dealers killing a man. While there are no reports and he demands Amy leaves, he later discovers the story is true. After Amy is arrested for shoplifting, Boyden discovers she has recently had a baby, his granddaughter Sophie. Boyden then confronts Cooper, dragging him down to Sun Hill to make a statement. Beech and Glaze arrange a safehouse as AMIP continue their investigation, but Cooper sneaks out overnight to buy drugs. Unaware he has blown the security of the safehouse, Sophie is abducted as Amy has a walk with her father, leaving Boyden determined to find the murder suspects and rescue Sophie, but he struggles to impress onto Amy that she needs to get away from Cooper for her own good.
15x69 - Sweet Sixteen
November 2, 1999
Deakin mounts an OBBO to catch a girl gang who have been robbing punters in nightclubs and casinos. Sending Skase undercover to pick up one of the girls, he finds himself ambushed and humiliated, but Deakin is furious about his decision to go to the girl's car instead of his own where the OBBO team was situtated. The following morning, Skase and Lennox get another case in which a car dealer was robbed for his car and a quantity of cash at a local casino. Meanwhile, Boulton is left heading up a drugs investigation when Proctor has to conduct CPR during the raid and another girl comes in reporting her sister fatally overdosed, with both users told the drugs are called "flat-liners". Elsewhere, Harker and Rickman attend a disturbance where two local girls have vandalised the house of a neighbourhood watch coordinator, whose camera has recorded an apparent drug deal. As the dots connect, it appears all three cases are all down to the same girl gang.
15x70 - Denial
November 4, 1999
Leaving a pub, a drunken Jim Carver is approached by Alec Facer, a former DI who he met while in CID. Facer offers him a job at Marlowe's, a prestigious private investigation firm, and Carver jumps at the chance. With the job all but his, Facer asks Carver to look up the location of a woman he suspects of embezzling, which turns out to be in a women's refuge. To Carver's horror, Facer turns out to be an alcoholic wife-beater who has just used him to find his estranged wife, and as he and DC Lennox race to the women's shelter, CAD radios through a report of an assault there.
15x71 - Walking The Line
November 9, 1999
A Polish shopkeeper tells police he was attacked by three black youths, and DC Duncan Lennox and DC Tom Proctor arrest the main suspect, Davy Rawlings. After an attempted escape, Rawlings accuses Lennox of racial abuse, saying that he called him a 'black bastard' during the arrest. As usual, Ch. Supt. Brownlow scrambles into damage control with more regard for the Met's public image than for the welfare of his officers. DC Danny Glaze is furious when Brownlow insists he take DC Proctor's place on the case to ease the 'racial sensitivities', but thanks to PC Gary McCann, he and DS Geoff Daly manage to find the 'third man' involved in the beating, who tells them what really went down. The other suspect in the van, Errol Price, is brought to the station by his father and he clears DC Lennox of any racial abuse during the arrest.
15x72 - Cover Stories
November 16, 1999
Burnside recruits a team of Sun Hill officers as he goes undercover with Stanton, posing as his wife, to track down a group of property scammers. Carver is assigned to the team, who shows up late and is immediately reprimanded when Ackland reports the night shift found a bottle of whisky under the passenger seat of the Area Car after his shift. Burnside is furious when he works out Carver has become an alcoholic, and tries to make his old friend face his problem, but he gets another shock when his prime suspect's partner in crime is a face from his past, and when Ackland discovers this she suspects Burnside's personal motives may jeopardise the case.
15x73 - Security
November 18, 1999
Stamp and Page attend a break at the home of Barton Street PC Steve Bennett, who returns after a night out with Quinnan to find his daughter's bedroom has been vandalised. He enlists the help of Stanton to investigate what Bennett's wife claims has been an ongoing campaign of harassment. Bennett points Quinnan in the direction of an ex-lover, but it proves to be a non-starter. Attention then turns to local villain Dougie Davis, who has history for a similar campaign of harassment against another Barton Street PC, however he is incarcerated. Attention then turns to an unlikely source, but events take a dramatic turn when Bennett is injured in a hit and run. Meanwhile, Jenny has a frosty encounter with uniform at Stamp's birthday party, dampening her relationship with Quinnan.
15x74 - Up In Smoke: Part I
November 23, 1999
DCI Meadows and DC Skase are furious when PC Jim Carver turns up drunk to give evidence in a court case - evidence which is so unreliable the judge throws the case out of court. As his colleagues begin to realise the extent of Carver's problems, Insp. Monroe decides to put him on an easy task - escorting a convoy of confiscated drugs to a Home Office depot for destruction. As Carver enjoys a sly drink with depot floorman Vernon Liggett, he accidentally mentions the convoy's destination. The next day, he and Stamp drop behind as Carver dashes out to be sick. When they catch up, the convoy is under attack from four armed men. With little regard for his own safety, Carver dashes forward and tackles one of the men, who abandon their assault, although an SO19 officer is shot during the raid. Despite his heroics that day, Carver is in trouble for breaking procedure, and it could be far worse as there could be an inquiry into how the convoy route was known.
15x75 - Up In Smoke: Part II
November 25, 1999
DCI Scanlon from Kent Constabulary arrives to investigate the attack on the Home Office convoy. PC Jim Carver pays Vernon Liggett a visit, but he denies any involvment. Scanlon and Meadows interview the warehouse staff, with Liggett high on their list of suspects, but when DC Lennox goes to his flat, Liggett has disappeared. One of Liggett's colleagues mentions him drinking with a copper named Jim, and Lennox confronts Carver and demands he admit his mistake to Meadows. Insp. Monroe makes Carver go on leave, but when Carver returns to the station he is so drunk he passes out in the yard. Sgt. Ackland and hide him in the FME's room and a van, but he ends up in the Elcott Arms where Lennox drags him out and forces him to confess. Tracing a call Liggett made from the pub to a hotel, Lennox poses as a taxi driver to drive their suspect to a nightclub where he and his associates are arrested in an SO19 raid.
15x76 - Homework
November 30, 1999
On a romantic night with her new boyfriend Steve, Ackland's neighbour interrupts after revealing she has found a gun in her tenant's room. Beech is determined to set up an OBBO at her flat, but Deakin warns him off. Ackland is determined to avoid it, not just because of her past, but because she wants another night in with Steve. However, when no suitable OP is found, Ackland reluctantly agrees to let Beech and Lennox have the OBBO in her flat. The situation gets compromised when Ackland clashes with her neighbour after finding a spliff in her house, but they get back on track and arrest their suspect. When he is alibied, Beech and Lennox realise they’ve been looking at the wrong person.
15x77 - Knowing You
December 2, 1999
Daly leads a raid on the home of a violent pimp who has been recruiting teenage girls. However, the prime suspect vanishes after attacking Proctor during the raid, with Holmes distracted by a car driven by Rita Davis almost hitting her, Davis a prison inmate with Holmes when she went undercover at a woman's jail (Follow Through). Davis tracks Holmes and asks for help; the pimp has been trying to recruit her 14-year-old daughter, but the info she provides for two potential leads go nowhere. Events take a sinister turn when one of the girls rescued from the brothel is subjected to an acid attack, while Daly's informant turns up dead. When Davis and her pimp report that their suspect has abducted Davis' daughter, Holmes gets personally involved, however Proctor threatens to undermine her efforts.
15x78 - Consumers
December 7, 1999
Carver is assaulted before his shift and mugged, and as he wanders the streets dazed and confused, he befriends a group of homeless drunks. When they point Carver in the direction of a local pub that sells out of hours, Carver bribes his way in to get free drinks. At the pub, he begins talking to a petty thief, who after robbing a local off license for booze, takes him back to his home to meet his wife. Realising the man prostitutes his wife, she discovers Carver is a copper, but rather than tell her husband they bond and she tells Carver he needs to get his life sorted out before it's too late. However, as he tries to come to terms with his problem, he gets a horrendous shock that threatens to sidetrack any hopes of getting his life back on track.
15x79 - Lock In
December 9, 1999
Jim Carver wakes up to find himself in bed lying next to the dead body of Clare Sullivan, an aged prostitute. He is utterly distraught, and, not knowing what to do, he takes JohnJo's clothes and leaves the scene. Vicky Hagen and Reg Hollis discover the body while searching for Jim. Jim's warrant card is found at the scene, and Jim's tie is around Clare's neck. Ex-Sun Hill DCI Frank Burnside is assigned to the case - something he does not relish as he is also Jim Carver's best friend. Jim meanwhile, is suicidal, considering throwing himself in the Thames, and then falling at the knees of a priest, confessing to his ""crime"". Eventually he finds himself eating a discarded pizza from a skip. He takes a swig from a bottle of wine, then catches a glimpse of his reflection. He regards his reflection for a moment, shaking his head - then tips the rest of the wine away. Frank eventually locates Jim at a hostel. He is arrested on suspicion of murder and taken back to Sun Hill.
15x80 - Money For Nothing
December 14, 1999
Boyden leads a dog racing syndicate with Klein, Stamp, Rickman and Quinnan. He is keen to keep it secret from fiancee Jenny, however she ends up finding out, and joins in to help boost the wedding fund. Things only get worse when he falls victim to an ATM scam that drains his account, leaving Boulton liaising with OCG to track down the gang of scammers responsible. The first race fails, but they soon uncover an elaborate scam that gets them a windfall on the second race. However, it's inevitable that they’ll be found out, leaving them in hot water with Brownlow. When they track down the ATM scammers off duty, they jump at the chance to earn some brownie points.
15x81 - A Night To Forget
December 15, 1999
As Dave Quinnan's stag night begins, an old friend turns up - Steve Loxton. A newly sober Jim Carver faces temptation and ridicule from his colleagues as the night wears on. Jenny and her friends rope DC Procter into helping them investigate a stripper who is indecently assaulting the patrons of the strip club they attend, but Vicky Hagen is forced to take matters into her own hands. Insp. Monroe waits desperately for the duty inspector to relieve him, but he is delayed for most of the night. Paranoid that the lads have hired a stripper, Quinnan takes refuge at Polly Page's flat, where she drops a bombshell that she is in love with him. Dave returns to the party, but falls on a bottle, injuring his hand. Arriving at St Hugh's, he is alarmed when his 'doctor' removes her clothes and tells him he's been a very naughty boy and will need to be punished!
15x82 - A Day To Remember
December 16, 1999
Dave Quinnan wakes up on the day of his wedding with a splitting headache and bleached eyebrows. Despite the incompetence of his best man, Reg Hollis, the actual wedding goes ahead with only a few minor hitches - including the attendance of a known fugitive arrested by Tony Stamp and Polly Page, and the unexpected appearance of George Garfield. As Hollis hasn't organised any transport to the reception on a boat, Dave and Jenny hitch a ride in a police transit van. As Steve Loxton gives the other PCs a lift to the pier, he is pulled over by Stafford Row police for speeding, and it turns out his car is flagged by Manchester Drug Squad. Meanwhile, the reception turns out to be a disaster as they run out of food and drink, and one of Jenny's aunts falls into the river, only to be rescued by the extremely sober Jim Carver.
15x83 - Judgement Day
December 21, 1999
DC Liz Rawton arrives at the station to find an envelope on her desk containing cut-up lingerie and rose petals. After the action-packed arrest of Joseph Anderson, a man suspected of organising lorry hijackings, Rawton receives a phone call asking if she liked her 'gift'. DC Duncan Lennox offers to let her stay at his house, and the two end up nearly kissing after a few drinks. Anderson abducts Rawton when she stops at a cash machine, and reveals that he is an associate of Brian Hill, a man she put away while she was with SO10. Anderson hands Rawton over to Hill, who is obsessed with her and takes her to a hotel room. An interview with another of Hill's associates reveals the name of the hotel, and CID and SO19 storm the room - but Hill jumps to his death rather than go to prison again.
15x84 - Haunted
December 23, 1999
DS Stanton, DC Lennox and DC Proctor are on an obbo at a spooky old building called the Old Pumping Station, which is supposed to be haunted. The trio tell each other ghost stories: back in his uniform days, Proctor was assigned to watch the house of a serial murderer. Investigating a noise, he meets a young woman called Cathy, who turns out to have been on of the killer's victims. A skeptical Stanton reveals how a psychic's assistance with a case she worked on turned out to be a hoax. Lennox, when he was in the Glasgow police, meets a dying crime boss who promises revenge from beyond the grave.
15x85 - When The Snow Lay All Around
December 24, 1999
A young runaway waiting for his foster parents, a bickering Russian barbershop quartet and a drunk and disorderly elf from the North Pole are all part of the job for the Sun Hill night shift on Christmas Eve.
15x86 - Blowing It All Away
December 30, 1999
On a night out with her friend Lynn, Cass Rickman meets two men, Jamie and Ben, who offer her some dope which she refuses. To her horror, Ben is arrested the next day by DS Boulton for possession of drugs, a charge which Ben manages to drop onto Rickman when he insists the drugs are hers. Rickman is investigated by CIB, and things look bad for her when her friend Lynn makes a statement that Cass took drugs the previous night. DS Beech and DS Boulton follow Lynn and discover that she is the drug dealer, and she is linked to another dealer, Cairns, whom Boulton has been after for a long time.
15x87 - All Change
December 31, 1999
It's New Year's Eve 2000, all police leave has been cancelled and even CID officers are back in uniform for the night. Chief Insp Conway and DCI Meadows just want to enjoy a drink of whiskey, but their plans are dashed at every turn. An obsessed DS Boulton drags PC Hollis around the city in pursuit of a suspect. PCs Quinnan and Page are trapped in a lift, and DC Lennox and PC Stamp have a wager going on who can make the first arrest.

15x34 - Old Flame

15x35 - Push It

15x36 - Kiss Off

15x37 - Foreign Body

15x38 - Borderline

15x39 - Confessions Of A Zookeeper

15x40 - Pillow Talk

15x41 - Heavy Plant Crossing

15x42 - Good Relations

15x43 - Big Fish

15x44 - Taxed

15x45 - Cracked Up

15x46 - Wedded Bliss

15x47 - Lucky Jim

15x48 - Screwdriver

15x49 - Inside Out

15x50 - Critical Mass

15x51 - Ring A Ring O Roses

15x52 - The Only Way Is Up

15x53 - Rock Bottom

15x54 - Sunhill Boulevard

15x55 - Lola

15x56 - Integrity: Part I

15x57 - Integrity: Part II

15x58 - Cold Calling

15x59 - Millennium

15x60 - The Three Sergeants

15x61 - Trade Off

15x62 - Treading Water

15x63 - Look Again

15x64 - Love & War: Part I

15x65 - Love & War: Part II

15x66 - Hot Money

15x67 - Crash Landing

15x68 - Father's Day

15x69 - Sweet Sixteen

15x70 - Denial

15x71 - Walking The Line

15x72 - Cover Stories

15x73 - Security

15x74 - Up In Smoke: Part I

15x75 - Up In Smoke: Part II

15x76 - Homework

15x77 - Knowing You

15x78 - Consumers

15x79 - Lock In

15x80 - Money For Nothing

15x81 - A Night To Forget

15x82 - A Day To Remember

15x83 - Judgement Day

15x84 - Haunted

15x85 - When The Snow Lay All Around

15x86 - Blowing It All Away

15x87 - All Change

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