The Bill (series 23)
Series 23 of British television drama The Bill was broadcast from 3 January until 28 December 2007. The series consisted of 92 episodes, and saw the conclusion of the show's longest running-storyline, featuring the disappearance of schoolgirl Amy Tennant. This series saw the return of single-themed episodes, removing much of the serialiased format formally introduced in 2002 under producer Paul Marquess. This series also became the first series where episodes were aired out of production order, making the broadcast order significantly different to the production order.
| The Bill | |
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| Season 23 | |
 Series 23 DVD cover | |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 92 |
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| Original network | ITV |
| Original release | 3 January – 28 December 2007 |
| Series chronology | |
This series saw the return of several multi-part story arcs, the likes of which had last featured in the second half of Series 17. Again, several new characters were introduced into the show, including several semi-regular characters, such as non-operational police staff and crime scene examiners. The series also saw the departure of the show's longest-running cast member to date, with Trudie Goodwin leaving the role of June Ackland, and her final episode being broadcast on 8 March 2007. This was also the last episode not to feature an on-screen title. A new title sequence was introduced at the beginning of the series, however, the theme tune remained the same, albeit slightly re-arranged.
Episodes 484 and 485 were the first episodes to be broadcast out of production order. Despite at the time not even being billed for broadcast, and the 'previously' and 'next time' segments not matching the episodes around them, the episodes were brought forward due to heavy demand from the British viewing public, who were on tenterhooks to see the conclusion of the long-running Zain Nadir and Kristen Shaw storyline. This also meant that the 'previously' and 'next time' segments on the subsequent episodes had to be re-edited to show this, and that two small additional scenes had to be recorded to be placed into Episode 480 to reference the death of Honey Harman. For the DVD release, to avoid confusion, these episodes have been re-numbered and now serve as 480 and 481, with the following four episodes re-numbered to 482–485 respectively.
On 2 April 2014, the complete series was released on DVD in Australia as a Region 0, playable anywhere in the world. The DVD release carries in the episodes in broadcast order, rather than production order; meaning that the DVD synopsis printed on the sleeve is heavily incorrect. The DVD synopsis also removes all titles (including those carried on screen), and continues to tally the episodes by number. The DVD release does not contain episodes 540–542, "Moving Target" Parts 1–3, due to licensing rights for these episodes not being available.
Cast changes
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Episodes
| # | Title | Episode Notes | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod # |
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| 1 | "Games of War" | New title sequence and theme introduced | Laurence Moody | Chris Smyth | 3 January 2007 | 471 |
| Manson investigates when grieving father Rick Harris appears to abduct a young boy from outside a local medical centre, unaware that the boy is a diabetic and must have regular medication to ensure his blood sugar levels remain the same. With the help of James Tennant, Manson manages to track Rick down to a houseboat which he used to live on – but soon discovers that the boy is nowhere in sight. Meanwhile, Ackland investigates when the youngest of the lottery winning Hendersons, Kyle, begins a campaign of harassment against headteacher Rod Jessop. Events take a dramatic turn when Rod and Kyle are hospitalized in separate incidents. | ||||||
| 2 | "'Till Hell Freezes Over" | TBA | Alan Macmillan | Simon Moss | 4 January 2007 | 472 |
| CID begin the investigation into the arson attack on the home of lottery winning family the Hendersons. Manson discovers that the fire started in identical fashion to two previous fires investigated by Nixon and Turner, at a foster home and a B&B. Warren Pritchard, the man jailed for the previous two fires, is re-arrested after the team discovers he was bailed at trial. Further digging clears him, not only from the Henderson fire, but the previous two, leaving CID back at square one. In uniform, Smithy leads the troops on a search for the car involved in Rod Jessop's hit and run, and it's not long before CCTV footage puts truant Kyle Henderson in the frame for the attack. However, with his brother watching his every move, Stamp and Hollis try to trip up a friend of Kyle's into exposing the truant's involvement. Meanwhile, Meadows and Heaton interview candidates for the new DI post, but Meadows tries to persuade Nixon to apply. | ||||||
| 3 | "The New Generation" | Karen Henthorn guest stars | Alan Macmillan | Mark Johnson | 10 January 2007 | 473 |
| Nixon and Turner's quest to discover the identity of the serial arsonist takes an interesting turn when they discover that Jay Henderson's ex-girlfriend, Cheryl Wilkes, who claims to be pregnant with his baby, has links to all three of the locations where fires took place – the first being her childhood home, and the second being a foster home where she was placed while she was in care. Elsewhere, Smith and Walker investigate after a seemingly minor spat between a market trader and a customer leads to an assault on the customer's heavily pregnant wife, but would the market trader go so far to attack her in retaliation? Smithy asks Walker if she wants to move in after struggling to find a place to live, while Nixon tells Turner and Hunter she'll be the new DI. | ||||||
| 4 | "Two-Time Loser" | First appearance of Nurse Tash Niles | Richard Signy | Malcolm Campbell | 11 January 2007 | 474 |
| Gold and Valentine find a parole officer assaulted and locked in the boot of his car, but the victim may just be a suspect in another crime when his assailant claims he raped his incarcerated wife. Nixon and Masters discover he has been offering sex in exchange for parole, but their investigation takes a dark turn when one of the prisoners attempts suicide. Meanwhile, Hardy witnesses a mugging on his way into work, but discovers that the alleged victim may be heading up a scam exchanging cash for passing marks on the British Citizenship test. After getting injured twice, Hardy takes a shine to St. Hugh’s nurse Tash Niles, who later suggests he moves in with her after the departure of his grandmother to Jamaica. | ||||||
| 5 | "An Article of Faith" | TBA | Richard Signy | Richard Ommanney | 17 January 2007 | 475 |
| Panic and speculation swirls around Sun Hill as Heaton reveals the station may be about to close. Hobbs is left furious at the discovery, but Heaton insist the team needed to know before a press leak; Gold, who was notified ahead of time, suspects the super may know more than he's letting on. The suicide of a young mother leads to a loansharking ring targeting vulnerable mothers, so Harman is sent in undercover as a single mother, accompanied by Wright's young nephew. An arrest leads to a sting to catch the kingpin behind the loansharking, but Webb is furious when the deceased mother's ex wades in and blows the OBBO, leaving Heaton to intervene in an attempt to force a confession. Elsewhere, Valentine helps an old friend when his pub is allegedly raided by a man in a chicken outfit, but Roger is disappointed to discover the culprit may be closer to home. | ||||||
| 6 | "A Week from Next Tuesday" | TBA | Reza Moradi | Chris Murray | 18 January 2007 | 476 |
| Nadir gets two shocks on his return from holidays as Haskew decides he doesn't need Nadir onside, while SOCA stun him by revealing they know the Colombian deal is happening a month ahead of the time he told them. Using it to his advantage, he gets back in by relaying the info to Haskew. Nadir suggests giving a dummy location for the drop, but his plan could be compromised when he tells barman Chez Williams that he was undercover when Chez introduced him to Kristen. Furious, Chez refuses to follow Nadir's request - can he persuade him he is bent now when he wasn't before? Elsewhere in Alvarez case, Harman is assigned to a safehouse with drugs mule Eva Garcia, but her relationship hits the rocks when she suggests taking a holiday with a reluctant Fletcher. In CID, Hunter and Turner clash yet again over the suspects in a hammer attack. Turner believes an ex-con is involved, but Hunter believes the woman's son is responsible. When Turner's suspect confesses, he thinks he has the upper hand, but could Hunter's suspect be guilty of more than lying about his lavish lifestyle? | ||||||
| 7 | "Lead on a Merry Chase" | TBA | Reza Moradi | Tom Higgins | 24 January 2007 | 477 |
| The Alvarez case takes a sinister turn when Eva Garcia's brother turns up at the safehouse. Nadir persists on trying to talk Shaw out of the drug deal, but she refuses. When Garcia's brother is severely beaten whilst confronting Alvarez, the sting looks compromised, with Eva doing a runner from the safehouse after locking Harman in a room. Leaving for her holiday in Tenerife, Harman clashes with Fletcher when he decides not to come, but her journey home throws her right back into work when she finds Eva roaming the streets. Her attempts to lull her back to Sun Hill leads to both women being abducted, and a call from Haskew demanding Nadir at Bar Morocco quickly follows; has he been rumbled? Meanwhile, Perkins investigates a string of robberies involving lone businessmen staying at private hotels, and Hardy finds himself reprimanded by Wright for being heavily hungover at work. | ||||||
| 8 | "School of Hard Knocks" | Final appearance of PC Honey Harman | Diana Patrick | Tom Needham | 25 January 2007 | 478 |
| With a gun to Harman and another on him, Nadir is forced to admit he is undercover. As Haskew, Shaw and Nadir dispute on whether or not Nadir is actually bent, Alvarez silences the room by shooting informant Eva Garcia. As Haskew drags Harman and Nadir to the drug deal, Nadir explains all to Harman, leaving her disgusted. With SOCA at the wrong location, the lorry is intercepted with it continuing in the wrong direction, but it is a bust. Nadir proves to Alvarez that the police are going to the wrong place to regain his trust, but he loses Haskew's when he tries to shoot him in attempt to stop Haskew killing Harman. A heart to heart between Nadir and Shaw sees them decide to elope with the cash, but not before CO19 storm the deal and engage in a firefight. As bullets fly and bodies drop, the Sun Hill team are left looking for their own in the casualties. | ||||||
| 9 | "Burn Off" | TBA | Diana Patrick | Steve Griffiths | 31 January 2007 | 479 |
| Nadir awakes from a living nightmare to discover Jose Alvarez is in custody and Paul Haskew was killed in the firefight. He returns home to discover Shaw made it out of the bust in one piece, but both break down over the death of Harman. With Alvarez keeping quiet, Nadir thinks he's in the clear, until he hears a body was found in the water after the raid; has Harman been found? Alvarez hints at what Nadir has done, but the comment about betrayal makes Heaton and Meadows send Nadir into a safehouse. Meanwhile, Keane and Hardy investigate a burglary and discover that the homeowners were gassed with Nitrous Oxide before being ransacked. Their prime suspect is their former nanny, fired for having an affair with the husband, but his constant arguing with his wife impedes Keane and Hardy's attempts to get to the bottom of the case. | ||||||
| 10 | "Dead Man's Hand (Part 1)" | TBA | Paul Wroblewski | Sarah Louise-Hawkins | 1 February 2007 | 484 |
| Nadir comes back to work in a relieved state after Meadows all but admits defeat in their search for Kristen Shaw. However, he is brought back to earth with a bump when Gold reports Harman missing to Meadows, with her last phone call coming on the day Eva Garcia disappeared. Tracking down Shaw, Nadir and his lover execute a plan to plant a lookalike on Harman's flight to Tenerife, but the Sun Hill team aren't fooled when they find the CCTV. With phone signals pinging at Bonham Wharf, Nadir panics that he is about to be caught and plans to flee. Keane and Hardy find a heavily pregnant female at the bottom of a flight of stairs after an apparent burglary, but it appears her partner may be implicated when it is revealed her stolen watch was originally stolen in another burglary, involving Heaton's estranged wife Rhiannon. | ||||||
| 11 | "Dead Man's Hand (Part 2)" | Final regular appearance of DC Zain Nadir, Lin Blakley guest stars | Paul Wroblewski | Sarah-Louise Hawkins | 7 February 2007 | 485 |
| With Harman's body found and Nadir in custody, MIT swoop in to investigate. Meadows tries to think the best of Nadir and allows him to go home and get changed, but lives to regret it when Nadir slips surveillance, just as DNA proves he was at the scene. He heads off to meet Shaw, but begins to change his mind when he discovers Shaw still has the gun that killed Harman. With MIT and CID trying to track down the runaway lovers, Zain is left battling his conscious. Fletcher struggles to cope when Harman's mother asks to see him, finally accepting that he took her for granted. Elsewhere, Keane's emotions over Honey and another fight with Matt sees her lose her cool with a pair of bickering sisters when their father has angina attack, caused by their fight over a missing family heirloom. | ||||||
| 12 | "The Good Old Days" | Leslie Grantham guest stars | Olivia Lichtenstein | Andrew Taft | 8 February 2007 | 480 |
| Ackland and fiancee Rod Jessop work together when Valentine and Casper find a pupil from Harvey Wallace school, Martin Clarke, with stab wounds. Noble is frustrated when Hollis' stomach ache keeps him indoors looking at CCTV into the theft of bandages. Meanwhile, Gold and Smith attempt to locate a missing prisoner, Jimmy Collins. All three cases collide when it appears that Collins has a link to prime stabbing suspect Tom Ryan, while Hollis spots Collins on CCTV stealing bandages. Ackland stuns Jessop by suggesting early retirement. | ||||||
| 13 | "Don't Cut No Ice" | Samantha Nixon is promoted to DI | Olivia Lichtenstein | Chris Smyth | 15 February 2007 | 481 |
| Ackland investigates a theft of copper piping from the Aldbourne Estate. With troubles escalating on the estate, she confronts a developer over a drug den in one of the empty flats. She later meets with resident Frank Harris, who is concerned about the legality over the redevelopment, but a fight with a local yob sees him hospitalized. Ackland decides to tell Gold, and later Stamp and Hollis, she plans to take early retirement. Smith's disastrous birthday sees him bail a man for dangerous driving, only to realize after his release that he is not only using a fake name, but that he is driving a car stolen as part of a scam. His attempts to arrest him a second time leads to a shootout, but when he's tracked down, Smithy hatches a mischievous plan to get his own back. After disputing with Walker over his birthday, they agree to call time on their relationship. | ||||||
| 14 | "The Lone Wolf (Part 1)" | TBA | Gill Wilkinson | Chris Ould | 21 February 2007 | 482 |
| A family event to remember the one year anniversary of missing girl Amy Tennant escalates when her father James gets into a fight with Shelley Fitzgerald, the best friend of Amy's mum who accused James of killing her when she first disappeared. A raid on Shelley's allotment leads to the discovery of a body, but it turns out to be her daughter Clare, who died as a baby. Despite Manson's concerns over her mental health, she is bailed, but the team find new evidence to blow the case wide open. Elsewhere, Walker and Masters investigate a case of bigamy involving a witness in the Tennant case, and Noble and Keane's RTA turns up a stolen flock of sheep. | ||||||
| 15 | "The Lone Wolf (Part 2)" | TBA | Gill Wilkinson | Chris Ould | 22 February 2007 | 483 |
| With Amy Tennant seen on CCTV with Shelley Fitzgerald, Manson breaks the news to her distraught dad James that she is alive and in Canley. Investigation determines that Shelley has been in France and after arresting her boyfriend Felix, they try and use him to track her down. Feeling disillusioned over recent events, Keane's spirits lift when she makes a breakthrough that leads to Shelley, but her spirits are crushed once more by Matt. The trail leads the team to Brighton where, accompanied by James, they begin the search for Shelley and Amy. After a year of searching, James lays eyes on Amy at last, but her reaction to seeing him leaves James wondering if she'll accept him again. | ||||||
| 16 | "Sticky Fingers (Part 1)" | Mike Reid guest stars | Alan Grint | Chris Smyth | 28 February 2007 | 486 |
| Ackland's hopes of a quiet exit from Sun Hill are scuppered when Aldbourne Estate resident Frank Harris assaults property developer Brian Stevens. Ackland is skeptical when Harris accuses Stevens of corruption. An insider gives her evidence to suggest there is more to Frank's allegations than she expected. A series of high-level arrests lead nowhere but a lecture from Hobbs to Heaton about arresting council official Jerry Davis. With all avenues covered, Ackland thinks she's found the vital evidence on CCTV, but she is rammed off the road delivering back to the station. Elsewhere, a woman arrested with stolen property is tied to a scam involving a man living above a travel agent's. Wright and Noble investigate how he gained access to the agent's data. | ||||||
| 17 | "Within Striking Distance (Part 2)" | Final appearance of DAC Georgia Hobbs, guest appearance of now-DS Jim Carver, Mike Reid guest stars | Alan Grint | Julia Wall | 1 March 2007 | 487 |
| Gold is stunned when Ackland reveals Hobbs and Heaton are having an affair. With Hobbs seen in an email offering the land below Sun Hill to crooked property developer Brian Stevens, Gold and Ackland take their suspicions to Heaton, but he shuts them down. Worried that Heaton will cover it up, Ackland grills Stevens when his son is arrested on suspicion of running Ackland off the road. Heaton reprimands her and orders her off the case. Back on the Aldbourne, a near-riot kicks off as they try to evict the final residents. With time running out, Heaton tries to trip Hobbs up over her relationship with Stevens to save the station. | ||||||
| 18 | "The Party is Over (Part 1)" | Guest appearance of DS Jim Carver | Alan Macmillan | Si Spencer | 7 March 2007 | 488 |
| Jim Carver, now a detective sergeant with Greater Manchester Police, shows up at Sun Hill to track down drug dealer Pat Hadley, whom he has been trying to catch for eighteen months. Ackland is furious to spend her last day at Sun Hill with her ex-husband, as the pair investigate Hadley's right-hand man, Greg Burns. Burns provides info on a raid but it goes belly up, leaving Ackland and Carver in grave danger. Elsewhere, Hollis and Hardy investigate a decomposed skeleton found on railway lines, and attempt to track down some stolen medals, leading Hardy to the home of his girlfriend's mother and younger brother. | ||||||
| 19 | "The Last Stop (Part 2)" | Final appearances of Sgt. June Ackland and DS Jim Carver | Alan Macmillan | Maxwell Young | 8 March 2007 | 489 |
| Ackland's leaving do turns into a rescue mission after she and Carver are kidnapped by Greg Burns and Pat Hadley. The pair try to complete a drug deal that goes wrong, leaving one suspect dead, with the other collapsing in custody after claiming brutality during his arrest. With Ackland and Carver being held in a warehouse, old wounds are opened as they reminisce on their old relationship. He throws a spanner in the works by saying he still loves her, but will she really go back to him, should they escape Burns and Hadley's clutches? | ||||||
| 20 | "Sweet Revenge" | Michael Maloney guest stars | Robert Knights | Matthew Bardsley | 21 March 2007 | 490 |
| Nixon seizes the chance to put away a villain from her past after investigating the assault of his ex-wife, who is now running an adult webcam service. A check into her finances reveals she recently had £40,000 deposited in her bank account, which Nixon suspects is some of the proceeds from a securivan robbery seven years previously – but Hunter's impatience leads him to undertake an illegal search of a storage locker belonging to the suspect, where he finds the stolen cash. Meanwhile, Mickey undertakes PR work with the local Neighbourhood Watch group on the Jasmine Allen Estate, but soon finds himself investigating a hit-and-run incident involving the leader of the group. | ||||||
| 21 | "Killer on The Run" | Michael Maloney and Cheryl Hall guest star | Robert Knights | Chris Murray | 22 March 2007 | 491 |
| Smithy deals with a routine traffic stop which turns out to be anything but, when he finds the battered corpse of the driver's wife in the boot. As suspect Ryan Jones manages to elude Valentine and Noble by escaping onto the underground network, armed with a gun, the team begin to build up a picture of their target, only to discover that neither his friends nor family really know what he is like. When Smith and Gold manage to corner him in a nearby park, he opens fire and shoots two innocent bystanders. However, it soon becomes clear that his personal vendetta is against Smithy – and that further targets are on the cards – beginning with Smithy's mother Pauline, whom he attacks at gunpoint. | ||||||
| 22 | "Dead Men Don't Tell Lies" | Mark Bonnar guest stars | Kim Flitcroft | Len Collin | 28 March 2007 | 492 |
| Turner and Webb investigate an arson attack on the home of an alcoholic, which resulted in his death – but when Turner interviews a possible witness, Heaton is furious to learn that it is none other than psychopathic gangster and former colleague Ray Moore – an ex-copper turned villain who has plagued his career ever since leaving the force. However, a post-mortem examination reveals that the deceased is not the man Turner and Webb first thought. Meanwhile, youngster Jimmy Cunningham is in court to testify against a local thug, Nathan Cole, who violently assaulted a local businessman, leaving him wheelchair bound. However, when Jimmy absconds, it's Stamp and Hollis' job to track him down. | ||||||
| 23 | "Brotherhood" | Mark Bonnar guest stars | Kim Flitcroft | Hilary Frankland | 29 March 2007 | 493 |
| Masters and Hunter investigate the stabbing of a member of the Skens, and Hardy's joy at reuniting with cousin Dominic is quickly extinguished when he discovers Dominic may be involved. Meanwhile, Noble and Fletcher tail a van reported stolen earlier that morning, but during the pursuit, a young boy is knocked off his bike, and later dies of his injuries in hospital. When they uncover the identity of the driver, they discover a link to Heaton's arch enemy, Ray Moore – and when the driver later disappears, Heaton suspects foul play. | ||||||
| 24 | "Daddy's Girl" | Mark Bonnar guest stars | Laurence Moody | Chris Dunn | 4 April 2007 | 494 |
| Noble and Keane answer a distress call to the home of Ray Moore and find his ten-year-old daughter, Annie, threatening a youth with a gun. Meanwhile, Heaton suspects that hit-and-run driver Paddy Morgan may have been killed by Moore's henchmen – and that his daughter may have been witness to his death. However, with no body and the only piece of usable evidence corrupted during the earlier armed stand-off, Moore threatens to evade capture again. Meanwhile, Noble and Keane deal with the theft of a pedal bike and criminal damage on a clothes mart – all the hallmarks of an initiation to a long-forgotten local cult known as the 'Canley Crew', who appear to have resurfaced. | ||||||
| 25 | "End of the Affair" | TBA | Lawrence Moody | Doug Milburn | 11 April 2007 | 495 |
| Gold finds herself caught in an awkward situation when Peter Harris' wife Mary turns up at the station with a ransom note – claiming that Peter has been kidnapped. Forced to reveal her night of passion to Manson, suspicion immediately falls on another of Peter's lovers, who arrives the scene of the planned drop to collect the ransom money. However, Manson soon realises that the team have been duped, and it's not long before Gold realises who the kidnapper really is. Meanwhile, a youth is badly assaulted on the Larkmead estate, and with a little help from Niles’ brother, Hardy and Valentine investigate a local youth club owner who they suspect may be responsible for dealing drugs. | ||||||
| 26 | "Exit Wound" | Simon Merrells guest stars | Robert Del Maestro | Scott Cherry | 18 April 2007 | 496 |
| Perkins and Masters investigate when a man is found badly beaten in some local woodland, but uncover a strong lead straight from the off when it appears that the perpetrator later made the 999 call which lead officers to the man's location. They discover the victim is an employee of a security firm who has details of a planned delivery of rare and valuable antiques. Meanwhile, Gold, Casper and Hollis investigate a charity scam after one of the donors suffers a heart attack during a botched burglary. However, when they discover that a broken window disguised as the point of entry was actually broken from inside the property, they realise that they may have already found their suspect. | ||||||
| 27 | "Pride Before a Fall" | TBA | Robert Del Maestro | Nicholas McInerny | 19 April 2007 | 497 |
| Turner plays a practical joke on Hunter that ruins his investigation into a robbery at a nail bar. When Meadows comes across the pair fighting in CID, he jumps to the conclusion Hunter is the guilty party, and would learn more respect for the job by having a spell in uniform. Valentine is left unimpressed when Hardy ropes him into laborious paperwork to get some background on the mysterious skull Niles’ brother Rudy discovered a few weeks ago, but his hard work discovers a link to an-ex soldier who disappeared after being involved in the Balkans conflict, only to realize their missing man may be a murder suspect. | ||||||
| 28 | "Hunter on the Street" | DS Phil Hunter is seconded to uniform, Richard Hawley guest stars. | Christopher King | Chris Murray | 25 April 2007 | 498 |
| Hunter squeezes back into uniform and teams up with Kapoor to investigate a girl accused of robbing a shop. Perry and Heaton work together on the case of an escaped prisoner who has returned to the area seeking revenge on a local businessman, and after flirting all day, they give in to temptation. | ||||||
| 29 | "Role Model" | TBA | Christopher King | Tom Higgins | 26 April 2007 | 499 |
| CID investigates when a gang of youths carries out a number of audacious daylight robberies, and Keane is stabbed during the undercover operation. Witness Josh Carey makes a startling confession to Wright, and his behaviour gives her cause for concern. Meanwhile, Perry is awkward with Heaton following the previous night's encounter – and Webb guesses she has been unfaithful; will he work out who she has cheated with. Fletcher and Casper arrest a member of a gang of steamers, and Perkins and Webb investigate an assault on the boy's mother. One of the victims is revealed as an old friend of Hinckley’s, and he drops a bombshell on Fletcher that could be key to exposing Hinckley. | ||||||
| 30 | "And Nothing But The Truth" | Michael Elwyn guest stars | Reza Moradi | Frank Rickarby | 2 May 2007 | 500 |
| Webb distracts himself from Perry’s apparent cheating by investigating a drowning death in the pool at a high ranking official’s home. When he comes face to face with Perry, he finds out Heaton was her other man, leading Webb to thump the Superintendent for his indiscretions. When he goes to resign, Webb is stopped in his tracks by Meadows, who gives Heaton a reality check. When Webb clashes with Heaton over a complaint from the homeowner in the drowning case, Meadows wonders if the pair can work together professionally again. Elsewhere, Fletcher confronts Keane over allegations that Hinckley’s ex-girlfriend is alive, and after coming face with Lloyd, Keane confronts Hinckley, with disastrous results. | ||||||
| 31 | "Day of Reckoning" | Final appearance of SCP Matt Hinckley | Reza Moradi | Simon Moss | 3 May 2007 | 501 |
| Heaton briefs Gold and Masters on the alleged events the night before at Emma and Matt Hinckley's home. Fletcher is horrified to learn Matt is pressing for a charge of attempted murder against his wife, and sets out to expose the control freak's vicious bullying tendencies with help from former girlfriend Nina Lloyd. Manson organises a raid on a crack house, with Hardy determined to track down the dealer when he escapes. Enlisting the help of the dealer's young runner, things go awry when the boy's mother interferes in the case and is put in danger as a result. Meanwhile, Casper takes pity on a drug addict who takes him hostage during the raid, only for the girl to let him down by falling back into drugs. | ||||||
| 32 | "Blood Money (Part One)" | Simon Slater guest stars | Robert Gabriel | Stuart Morris | 9 May 2007 | 468R |
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Nixon, Wright and Noble deal with a young woman who was pushed from a walkway on the Cole Lane Estate. Nixon, Wright and Smithy are then called to deal with the attempted suicide of the woman's husband. Wright and Noble are called to a disturbance at her flat the next day, but she has disappeared without trace. Webb deals with an assault, while Perkins, Stamp and Casper go undercover to trap a confidence trickster. This episode originally supposed to be broadcast in December 2006, but was cancelled when a mastertape was stolen from the filming studios in November 2006. | ||||||
| 33 | "To Honour and Obey (Part Two)" | Jenny Eclair guest stars | Robert Gabriel | Stuart Morris | 10 May 2007 | 469R |
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After the discovery of Reshna's body the previous day, Nixon and Meadows wait for the forensic report. They find out that Reshna was strangled before being left in the Thames. In the meantime, Valentine and Hardy track down Marcus and take him in for questioning. Marcus is distraught to hear about Reshna's death and as a result, fails to answer any of Meadows and Nixon’s questions. Noble and Webb’s questioning of an alleged mugging victim, Maggie Carpenter, leaves them confused. Smithy tells the officers to go over Maggie's statement again, as he believes her to be more of a drama queen than a victim. This episode originally supposed to be broadcast in December 2006, but was cancelled when a mastertape was stolen from the filming studios in November 2006. | ||||||
| 34 | "Baby Trade" | First appearance of PC Beth Green | David Innes Edwards | Stuart Morris | 16 May 2007 | 502 |
| Keane is feeling raw after her marital difficulties boiled over into violence and shows her tough side to new recruit Beth Green, as they investigate a woman's claim her baby has been stolen. Perkins and Masters lead the search for the missing baby. Meadows is anxious to prove he's a worthy DCI and agrees to go undercover with Nixon to get a lead on the illegal baby-selling business, but his mistake puts his colleague in danger. | ||||||
| 35 | "Lies That Kill" | Elizabeth Rider guest stars | David Innes Edwards | Nicholas Martin | 17 May 2007 | 503 |
| Fletcher and Wright investigate the suspicious death of a child protection officer on the Cheetham estate, after attending a disturbance at a family court. New recruit Green delivers her first caution following an affray between a car salesman and a woman protesting against the dangers of 4x4 vehicles, but Casper is sure that there's more to the conflict than first meets the eye. | ||||||
| 36 | "Inner Demons" | First appearance of Crime Scene Examiner Lorna Hart, Richard Standing guest stars | Simon Massey | Carolyn Sally Jones | 24 May 2007 | 504 |
| Wright coaxes a potential suicide victim, Josh Carey down from a factory building and urges him to give information on the child pornography ring he has been invited to join. Hollis and Hunter are called to a funeral home where a valuable necklace has been taken from a corpse in a sealed coffin. Perkins approaches Manson for permission to mount an undercover operation to expose the child-pornography ring that Josh Carey is involved in. | ||||||
| 37 | "Getting Away With Murder" | Mark Bonnar guest stars | Simon Massey | Mark Johnson | 31 May 2007 | 505 |
| Hunter’s spell in uniform comes to a triumphant end when he borrows a bike to chase a mugger and recovers £15,000 in cash. The case gets more interesting when the victim admits he is being blackmailed. Heaton reassures terrified prosecution witness Martin Turnbull he will be given protection following threats from Ray Moore, only to discover the villainous ex-cop has subtler ways of intimidating people when Keane and Hollis attend the scene of a road traffic accident. | ||||||
| 38 | "Trigger Happy" | Temporary departure of DS Phil Hunter, Mark Bonnar guest stars | Karl Neilson | Richard Ommanney | 6 June 2007 | 506 |
| Gang member Wesley Meeks is shot, and Niles witnesses his dying words; the name of corrupt ex-policeman Ray Moore. Heaton struggles to find evidence linking the victim with his arch enemy, but Hardy’s cousin Dominic reveals the red scorpion tag sprayed on all of Moore's properties was Wesley's handiwork. Hunter’s first day back in plain clothes gets off to a bad start, after he and Turner interview a young joyrider, and follow up a report that he plans to take part in an armed robbery. Manson tells the warring DSs about a temporary switch with a Specialist Crime Directorate, and Hunter can't help but gloat when he gets the secondment. | ||||||
| 39 | "Do or Die" | Mark Bonnar guest stars | Karl Neilson | Neil Clarke | 7 June 2007 | 507 |
| Niles is attacked in the hospital car park, raising the terrifying prospect that Ray Moore is targeting people who could testify against him. Noble encounters a pensioner who turns out to be a fan of Reg's podiatry Regflections – and clearly has other guilty secrets to hide – including what appears to be a series of robberies from the homes of other pensioners. Heaton directs a search for further evidence into Ray Moore's activities. | ||||||
| 40 | "On the Edge" | Suzanne Shaw and Mark Bonnar guest star | Robert Knights | Steve Griffiths | 13 June 2007 | 508 |
| Following the shooting of young brother Rudy, Niles agrees when Hardy tells her she now has more incentive to bring down Ray Moore. However, when Rudy’s condition deteriorates to the point where he isn’t expected to survive the next 24 hours, Hardy takes matters into his own hands, unaware that the case against Moore is rapidly getting stronger. Meanwhile, Green, Casper, Fletcher and Noble attend a suspicious high-impact RTC. When Green notes the driver wouldn’t have been tall enough to be driving, she suspects the woman’s boyfriend or husband could be responsible. | ||||||
| 41 | "Better Off Dead" | First appearance of DC Grace Dasari, final appearances of DOPA Mia Perry and Nurse Tash Niles | Robert Knights | Emma Goodwin | 14 June 2007 | 509 |
| After finally getting evidence to nail Ray Moore for the murder of Wesley Meeks and attempted murder of Rudy Niles, Heaton is devastated by the discovery of Moore’s body at the bottom of a multi storey car park, with the team stunned when Hardy’s prints are later found on a gun at the scene. After visiting the killers and his girlfriend Niles, seeing her agonise ahead of Rudy’s expected death leads Hardy to return to Sun Hill, where he confesses to his crime. However, when the killers are found after fatally overdosing, Heaton decides not to arrest Hardy for his role in Moore’s death. Meanwhile, DC Grace Dasari, seconded from specialists crimes as part of the job swap with Hunter, teams up with Webb to help a woman trace her son, who has been missing for eleven years. Heaton ends his affair with Perry after estranged wife Rhiannon decides to give him a second chance. | ||||||
| 42 | "Old Wounds" | Georgina Bouzova, Nick Brimble and Brian Croucher guest star | Jan Baeur | Julian Perkins | 20 June 2007 | 510 |
| Fletcher and Casper attend to a woman who claims to have been raped – but her plight prompts Meadows to reopen a cold case from twenty years previously, with help from an old colleague, DCI Roy Atherton. Keane reveals a maverick streak and puts her career on the line to help a reformed drug addict stay out of jail. Green and Valentine call to enforce an injunction in a domestic dispute and uncover a case of credit card cloning. | ||||||
| 43 | "Judgement Call" | TBA | Jan Baeur | Steve Attridge | 21 June 2007 | 511 |
| Sleeplessness and a taxing workload catch up with Meadows, who is lucky to escape from a road accident so bizarre his colleagues begin to suspect he is losing the plot. Webb sets out to rescue his boss's reputation and save his career. An explosion in a lock-up on an industrial estate alerts Manson to possible terrorist activity, and the owner’s father in law makes a startling confession, but is he telling the truth? Turner and Dasari investigate the possible connection with religious extremism. | ||||||
| 44 | "A Model Murder (Part One)" | First appearance of Crime Scene Photographer Rachel Inns | AJ Quinn | Clive Dawson | 27 June 2007 | 512 |
| Kapoor and Stamp discover the body of a supermodel who had recently fronted an anti-fur campaign despite her lack of real conviction. Hart notes that the crime scene has been arranged to resemble a shot from the film, suggesting animal rights activists may have resented her hypocrisy. Subsequent investigations reveal a host of rival male admirers with reason to kill her and Perkins digs up evidence of a more sinister side to the woman's life – a porn film with footage of a missing 15-year-old runaway being at the dead woman's house. Meadows prepares to testify at disgraced detective Nadir. Turner makes a move on new crime scene photographer Rachel Inns. | ||||||
| 45 | "A Model Murder (Part Two)" | TBA | AJ Quinn | P.G. Morgan | 28 June 2007 | 513 |
| Known stalker Larry Franks emerges as prime suspect in the Cindy Statham murder case – until CCTV footage reveals the model had a furious row in a restaurant with her half-brother on the day she died. Meanwhile, Kapoor reports an attack by an intruder at her flat, but she is put in a compromising situation when her colleagues turn up and discover a bag of heroin. | ||||||
| 46 | "Match Day Violence" | TBA | Richard Signy | Andrew Taft | 4 July 2007 | 514 |
| Perkins, Casper and Hollis go undercover, hoping to arrest a supplier of illegally imported goods. When a brawl breaks out in the pub, a team storms in. Wright’s husband Doug, on attachment from Barton Street, ends up stabbed. When the smuggling suspect, seen armed with a knife, is arrested after head-butting Doug on his headcam footage, their hopes of a quick result are squashed when he is cleared of the stabbing. Elsewhere, Hardy’s inside knowledge is called upon when Nixon and Walker investigate an assault linked to the new leader of the Sken gang. | ||||||
| 47 | "Cop Killer (Part One)" | First appearance of PC Sally Armstrong, first and last appearance of PC Billy Rowan | Richard Signy | Chris Murray | 5 July 2007 | 515 |
| Newly transferred PC Sally Armstrong arrives at Sun Hill, alongside young probationer Billy Rowan, where the team are anxious to find the man who stabbed Sergeant Doug Wright. Paired with Wright and Keane, the foursome attend the raid on a suspect in Doug’s stabbing, with Rowan heroically detaining the man when he resists arrest. They later get called to attend a disturbance at a jewellery shop, where Rowan helps Armstrong nail a thief who swallowed a ring. After another successful result, they are later called on to deal with a report of stone-throwing at an abandoned factory – where an ambush leads to Rowan's first day becoming his last. | ||||||
| 48 | "Cop Killer (Part Two)" | Final appearance of Sgt Doug Wright, Rachael Elizabeth guest stars | Michael Cocker | Tom Higgins | 11 July 2007 | 516 |
| Fired up by the attack on her husband Doug and the murder of Billy Rowan, Wright is determined to nail the killer. However, the identity parade proves a disappointment when she fails to pick out Greg Farnham and has to watch as he is set free to pursue his vendetta against the police. Undeterred, Wright and Armstrong trail him to a friend's house, where she learns he is in an agitated state of mind – and armed with a knife. Wright finds herself held hostage by the killer, but then ends up going all out to save his life when he locks himself in his deceased daughter's home. | ||||||
| 49 | "Behind Closed Doors" | TBA | Michael Cocker | Julia Wall | 12 July 2007 | 517 |
| After making a complaint about Gold’s bullying behaviour, Keane is embarrassed to find herself working alongside the inspector on a tricky rape investigation, with the evidence not adding up. Hardy and Valentine attend to a young boy found collapsed with a bag of ecstasy pills in his pocket. Turner and Masters uncover the source of the tablets, and a link to a drugs bust, but no one can foresee the events that follow. | ||||||
| 50 | "Man Down (Part One)" | TBA | Robert Del Maestro | Maxwell Young | 18 July 2007 | 518 |
| Hardy ends up spending the day with Dominic and members of the Sken gang after his suspension for events the night before. After being caught up in a kidnapping and the resulting revenge shooting, Hardy acts as courier to deliver the kidnap victim in return for a stolen gun. When an investigation Webb and Walker conduct into stolen dynamite reveals the Skens are buying, Heaton sets up a sting. Hardy attends along with Dominic and two Skens, later blowing the op after seeing an unmarked CID car. When Valentine finds Hardy fleeing and confronts him, a Sken demands Hardy shoot his best friend, or he’ll shoot both of them. | ||||||
| 51 | "Death or Glory (Part Two)" | Final appearance of PC Lewis Hardy | Robert Del Maestro | Maxwell Young | 19 July 2007 | 519 |
| Heaton briefs CID and Gold of Hardy’s undercover role with the Skens. He explains that Valentine’s “shooting” was part of his cover, however speculation is rife in uniform with them still in the dark over Hardy’s involvement. Having been told by Dominic that the Skens are raiding a cash in transit van, Hardy is unable to alert his colleagues when he discovers they’re actually highjacking a prisoner transport. The gang are found after the escape and they are pursued, with Meadows proving support from the air. The gang escape capture, allowing Hardy to reunite with Dominic, but they then get a reality check when they realise the danger they’re in. As SO19 track them down, a shootout ensues, but will Lewis and Dominic get out alive? | ||||||
| 52 | "Copy Cat Killer" | Darren Day, Alice Henley and Laura Aikman guest star | Julie Edwards | Jane Marlow | 25 July 2007 | 520 |
| A photographer is arrested on suspicion of murdering one of his models. The discovery of a blood-soaked t-shirt at his trashed studio, and the evidence of his own pictures, suggests a second suspect may have delivered the fatal blows to the victim's head. Emma and Beth tangle with a trio of truculent young women whose troubled history of deceit and blackmail leads to violence, putting the young officers in danger. Sally and Reg attend the scene of a suspected assault. | ||||||
| 53 | "Trail of Blood" | TBA | Julie Edwards | Sally Tatchell | 26 July 2007 | 521 |
| CID officers attend the funeral of murdered supermodel Cindy Statham, only to learn that killer Larry Franks has been transferred to hospital following a suicide bid. When he makes a break for freedom, a frantic search of the building ensues and Beth is first to pick up the trail of blood. Smithy's first day as Acting Inspector goes from bad to worse when he calls in the Firearms Command to sort out a building society robbery by two bungling ex-employees. | ||||||
| 54 | "A Model Murder: Uncovered" | TBA | Alan Macmillan | Si Spencer | 1 August 2007 | 522 |
| Larry Franks withdraws his confession to the murder of supermodel Cindy Statham and Jo reopens the case, convinced they have the wrong man in custody. Crime scene photographer Rachel Inns helps her work late into the night re-examining the evidence. Mickey investigates a smash-and-grab raid on a jewellery shop and ends up arresting an old friend, Mod café owner Jerry Harper, whose daughter owns the scooter used as a getaway vehicle. | ||||||
| 55 | "Caught by the Killer" | Final appearance of Crime Scene Photographer Rachel Inns | Alan Macmillan | Matthew Bardsley | 2 August 2007 | 523 |
| Concern grows for Jo's safety when she fails to show up for work and further study of the videotape made by Larry Franks yields vital clues to the killer's identity. A frantic search begins for the missing DC when Beth discovers the evidence Rachel was examining has been stolen from the station store – and the culprit makes a break for freedom carrying a gun and ammunition. As Diane and Will lead the search, Stuart and Grace review her casework hoping for a clue to her whereabouts. | ||||||
| 56 | "Good Cop, Bad Cop" | First appearance of Sgt. Callum Stone, Michael Angelis guest stars | Kim Flitcroft | Jonathan Rich | 8 August 2007 | 524 |
| New sergeant Callum Stone makes an instant impact at Sun Hill by subduing a violent drunk in the station, but his maverick methods instantly alarm Dan and raise Smithy's hackles. Terry, Sam and Kezia trace a series of threatening calls made to elderly women back to a single suspect, a supervisor at a kitchen fitting company, who is less than pleased to be arrested in a lift stalled between floors. Stone investigates the circumstances leading to the collapse of a woman brought in to the station by Dan and Tony. | ||||||
| 57 | "Killing Me Softly" | TBA | Kim Flitcroft | Matthew Leys | 9 August 2007 | 525 |
| Following a report of vandalism on a church, Terry finds himself investigating a case of assisted suicide in which conflicting evidence from the grieving family members suggests someone has something to hide. Meanwhile, Beth and Roger are called to a pet shop where the owner has been tied up and several dogs let loose, but it's Sun Hill's own bloodhound Stone who realises there is something more sinister than youthful high-jinks going on – leading to the discovery of an assault at the home of a drug addict. | ||||||
| 58 | "Dicing with Danger" | Return of DS Phil Hunter, Michael Brandon guest stars | Diana Patrick | Carl Austin | 15 August 2007 | 526 |
| A woman is robbed of her winnings on the way home from a casino, and suspicion soon falls on the barman who called her a taxi – which was driven by his friend. The case against the men grows stronger when it turns out they once before arranged transport for a woman who was attacked, so Emma is sent undercover as a casino punter – only for events to take a surprising turn. Callum and Dan are called to a domestic disturbance, and uncover infidelity and drug use. | ||||||
| 59 | "Deadly Secrets" | Final appearance of PC Dan Casper | Diana Patrick | Len Collin | 16 August 2007 | 527 |
| An elderly woman with Alzheimer's goes missing with her great-granddaughter. Uniform run the case led by Smith and Stone, with Nixon and Webb covering the CID angles. Fletcher gets his first FLO case, and just as it seems he's doing well, a blood stained blanket appears nearby. The great-grandmother appears on a dual-carriageway but there is no baby in sight. Nixon works on her to find the baby, while Fletcher works on the mother, who is arrested when she claims she got rid of the child. It appears she left her daughter at St. Hugh's, but the great-grandmother did pick her up. Fletcher and Casper find the child, but Stone only acknowledges Fletcher's part in the finding of the baby, and Casper hands in his resignation when he is offered a security job in Ibiza. Meanwhile, Dasari and Hunter help Louis Dreyfuss deal with a man blackmailing his wife. | ||||||
| 60 | "Diamonds Are Deadly" | Dermot Crowley guest stars | Ben Morris | James Hall | 22 August 2007 | 528 |
| Whilst on patrol, Stamp and Fletcher witness a near hit and run. The hysterical driver claims her husband has been abducted so that men can rob his jewellery store. SO19 storm the building and the woman's husband has been shot, and his brother is tied up. CID hunt for the suspects, and Masters and Hunter are surprised to see one of the brothers show up at the main suspect's house and attack him. They are both arrested, but the prime suspect has an alibi, and both are bailed. The suspect appears to be closer to the action than they first thought. Hunter helps Monica Dreyfuss when she thinks she sees someone in her garden, and when she is robbed and found extremely drunk in a restaurant. Manson clashes with Heaton over an arrest in the armed robbery case. | ||||||
| 61 | "Code of Silence" | Christopher Fox guest stars | Ben Morris | Chris Murray | 23 August 2007 | 529 |
| Armstrong and Keane investigate a missing person's case and uncover a rape. It is believed to be a gang control situation, but the victim won't press charges, so Armstrong tries to convince him to make a statement. He is apparently gay, and it was due to him hitting on a man in a club. Manson coordinates a raid, but the police are shamed by the residents of the estate. Armstrong tries to unite the family when his sexuality comes out, when the victim of the rape tries to commit suicide. Keane completes her probationary period. | ||||||
| 62 | "Crash Test" | TBA | Karl Neilson | Stuart Morris | 29 August 2007 | 530 |
| Perkins is working on an undercover operation involving a mother and son loan sharking car scam operation at a local mechanic's. One of their clients causes a road accident and when he messes up the scam by drink driving, his daughter has acid sprayed in her face. Manson and Meadows are determined to catch the attacker, and Green gets her first undercover role pretending to be Perkins' drug addict daughter. Armstrong and Stamp are paired together for the first time, and they bond well, helping a Ukrainian immigrant and her lorry driver boyfriend who were involved in the crash. Heaton and Manson clash over methods again and they have a loud argument outside CID. | ||||||
| 63 | "Up in Smoke" | TBA | Karl Neilson | Nicholas McInerny | 30 August 2007 | 531 |
| Smith and Noble attend to an assault. The victim is stabbed and the suspect accuses her of dealing drugs from her burger van. Stone and Noble OBBO her flat and a man who enters leads them to a house. Gold returns from her leave and sends the police chopper to do a fly by, and heat sources confirm it's a skunk factory. Stone tries to take credit, which is noticed by Noble and Smith. Hunter and Turner work on a simple assault involving a former couple, and the girlfriend is now going out with her ex's best friend. The ex-boyfriend abducts his friend and the friend ends up ditching his fiancée at the altar, but they become friends, and the former couple reconcile their relationship. Turner tells Hunter his ex left him for her best friend, which he is teased about. The OBBO goes belly up when Noble is held captive by the suspect. | ||||||
| 64 | "Deadly Shame (Part One)" | Chris Walker guest stars | Simon Massey | Chris Ould | 5 September 2007 | 532 |
| Fletcher and Smith deal with a missing person's case. The victim, a 16-year-old girl, is found dead at the bottom of a fire escape. Fletcher is assigned as FLO. Investigation reveals the girl was on a downward spiral. Her boyfriend is arrested due to a serious assault in his past. The investigation takes a whole different turning point when Fletcher discovers a gruesome video clip given to him by her best friend. | ||||||
| 65 | "Deadly Shame (Part Two)" | Chris Walker guest stars | Simon Massey | Chris Ould | 6 September 2007 | 533 |
| Martin Parks is the prime suspect for the murder of his daughter Chloe. Ben Jackson is still in custody as Nixon continues his interview. Fletcher convinces Karen Parks to speak out against her husband. Martin is arrested as Ben's alibi is checked. Just as they seem they've got Parks, he clams up. The verdict determines suicide, and Fletcher and Stone find Parks at the top of the fire escape where Chloe's body was found after he assaults his wife Karen. | ||||||
| 66 | "A Life of Lies" | Michael Brandon and Anna Wing guest star | Steve Kelly | Sally Tatchell | 12 September 2007 | 534 |
| Fletcher tries to convince Stone to tell the truth about Martin Parks' suicide. Stone tells him What goes around comes around and that he wanted Parks to jump just as much as Stone did. While the events unfold, Fletcher and Kapoor work on several vigilante assaults on drug dealers. Meanwhile, Dasari and Hunter investigate a burglary and assault on Monica Dreyfuss. | ||||||
| 67 | "Russian Roulette" | Michael Brandon guest stars | Steve Kelly | Steve Griffiths | 13 September 2007 | 535 |
| After a night of passion with Monica Dreyfuss, Hunter is held hostage by gunmen and forced to rob Louis' casino. Monica is kept tied up and gagged with tape. He manages to tip the cops off, but can't stop the gunmen escaping. Dasari is convinced Louis is behind it, but Hunter thinks the culprit is closer to home. With his hard work, the mastermind, and one of the two gunmen are arrested, so Nixon and Manson decide not to report him to the DPS for misconduct. | ||||||
| 68 | "Identity Fraud" | Stephen McGann guest stars | Kate Robinson | Alan Pollock | 19 September 2007 | 536 |
| Kapoor, Fletcher and Stone find a woman covered in blood, above her stabbed personal trainer. Things are complicated when a search team find crystal meth in his flat. The woman is cleared when she says the drugs were stolen from a club owner. A handover takes place, but is nearly compromised, but the owner denies the stabbing. As they dig deeper it appears that the woman's husband may know more than he's letting on. When attending an incident at a registry office, Stamp and Armstrong investigate a case of identity fraud involving a British man living in Australia. | ||||||
| 69 | "Back from the Brink" | TBA | Matt Bloom | Simon Moss | 20 September 2007 | 537 |
| Kapoor and Fletcher investigate a string of robberies. Stone forces her to lie in interview, when Fletcher tries to force a confession from a suspect by holding him over a balcony. She has a frank conversation with him. Walker and Green tease Webb and Armstrong over flirtation between the two. They both work on an assault, and make a connection to a domestic Wright and Keane dealt with. | ||||||
| 70 | "Dead and Buried" | Final appearance of PC Leela Kapoor | Matt Bloom | Simon Moss | 26 September 2007 | 538 |
| One of Stone's informants calls him about an assault on a fellow escort. Kapoor takes them out of the punter's house but as they return to arrest him, he produces a diplomatic immunity card, and he is confirmed as Valatin Turivic, a European embassy official. Kapoor and Stone hope they can get him for drugs, so Fletcher and Stamp tail him. As Turivic hands over the drugs, Stone's informant tells Kapoor that Turivic may have killed an escort. Heaton orders a raid on his home, but time is of the essence as Turivic is flying out of the country. Dasari and Hunter investigate the theft of a £20,000 painting. Leela is offered a job at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, but little did she know, Stone pulled the strings that secured her transfer. | ||||||
| 71 | "Cracking Under Pressure" | First appearance of PC Benjamin Gayle, Anton Phillips guest stars | Roberto Bangura | Nicholas Martin | 27 September 2007 | 542 |
| Turner leads the investigation into the disappearance of two children, and his professionalism sees him selected for a new crime appeal TV show. Perkins is concerned when they see the children talking to a known sex offender. The mother suspects the father is involved. Fletcher is paired with new recruit Ben Gayle, and they deal with an assault. The rookie PC is cornered by three yobs, but Fletcher is surprised when they're on the ground and not him. | ||||||
| 72 | "Rough Justice" | TBA | Roberto Bangura | Scott Cherry | 3 October 2007 | 543 |
| Turner launches his new crime appeal TV show; Wanted. He then leads the investigation into his first crime, an aggravated burglary at the house of a barrister, who subsequently had a heart attack during the robbery. Hunter clashes with Gayle over the handling of a hostile witness, and their argument catches the attention of the entire CID office, but it's not in vain, as the witness comes forward. As a suspect is arrested, the witness mentions the name of the victim's son, who disappears from the station. Why is there the sudden guilty conscience? | ||||||
| 73 | "Back from the Dead" | John Rogan, Nicky Henson and George Layton guest star | Diana Patrick | Doug Milburn | 4 October 2007 | 544 |
| Armstrong and Keane find a badly beaten woman. She claims to be an asylum seeker whose political activist husband was murdered in Zimbabwe. When her son is found with a bag full of forged passports, CID intervene launching a major investigation. The son is abducted, it appears his violent and vengeful father is not dead, but is planning to take his son home to Zimbabwe. Gold discovers a bank robber, she believed had died in a bank vault blast she was involved in years ago is alive and well – and back in the country, forcing her to re-open an investigation into a twenty-year-old bank robbery which nearly killed her. | ||||||
| 74 | "Take it to the Grave" | Nicky Henson, John Rogan and Linal Haft guest star | Diana Patrick | Tom Higgins | 10 October 2007 | 545 |
| Gold tries to jail armed robbery suspect, Vince Murray, who nearly killed her in the Tozer Street bank explosion in 1983. She enlists the help of her former Sergeant, Tom Ryan, who was paralysed in the blast. Lack of evidence sees Murray bailed, but not before Gold and Meadows put him under surveillance. He meets up with the two survivors of the robbery and as they make a hoax armed robbery call, a real one goes down on the other side of the borough. Vince is again released and Armstrong finds herself held captive by the robbers, Vince's son Darren, and his best friend Kieran, whose father was killed in the blast. When Kieran discovers his father died, a heated standoff occurs with Darren and Vince both as viable targets, on the sight of the wasteground where the Tozer Street bank was. | ||||||
| 75 | "Uncut Killer" | TBA | Robert Knights | Richard Ommanney | 11 October 2007 | 546 |
| Dasari is paired with Masters on her last day at Sun Hill. She tries to connect with a teenager who has a cocaine and eating habit, by giving up her best friend and dealer. Events turn sinister when the dealer is kidnapped by her supplier, and Meadows takes over the case. Dasari tells Meadows she wants to stay at Sun Hill CID, and when Hunter clears it with Special Projects, he is offered a DS post at the yard, and he tells his shocked CID team mates he's accepted the posting. | ||||||
| 76 | "Collateral Damage" | First appearance of PC Nate Roberts, final appearance of DS Phil Hunter | Robert Knights | Si Spencer | 17 October 2007 | 547 |
| Noble and Stone are paired and investigate a fire in a squat on the Jasmine Allen Estate. Masters and Walker investigate the fire. Smith joins door to door with new recruit PC Nate Roberts and they discover one of the victims, Billy McLaughlin, an old army friend of Diane, had a bust up with a local thug, Ross McGuiness, and they discover his brother Tam is desperate to find them. Ross turns up dead, stabbed in the boot of a car in a scrapyard, where Billy used to work. Noble is held by Billy, but Tam shows up, not before badly beating Billy's girlfriend to get his location. Billy confesses to stabbing Ross to death, but Diane suspects he's not responsible. Hunter spends his last day at Sun Hill clearing his desk, and tells Nixon about his 'injury' he obtained vaulting a pub table whilst he was seconded to Special Projects, when they tell her as she gives his reference. | ||||||
| 77 | "Line of Fire (Part One)" | Tim Preece guest stars | AJ Quinn | Clive Dawson | 18 October 2007 | 550 |
| Hollis is attacked by a prowler on the Aldbourne Estate. A screaming woman, who was attacked by the prowler, whom Hollis was responding too, is a near lookalike of a woman held hostage by a paranoid schizophrenic, Michael Simms, who lives three doors down from the victim, Shelley Cooper. Her ex-boyfriend, Chris Ramsden, spreads a rumour about Michael and tensions rise on the Aldbourne. Manson discusses the case between Dasari and his therapist, Julia Bickham. Chris Ramsden appears at Sun Hill tells CID that Michael has assaulted Shelley, but Michael's mother claims she's his girlfriend, which is backed up by Shelley's son, Jas. However, Michael has abducted Shelley and taken her to a warehouse where he held his last victim. Jas shows up at the warehouse, a gunshot rings out and Michael flees as Shelley lies wounded on the ground. | ||||||
| 78 | "Line of Fire (Part Two)" | TBA | AJ Quinn | Steve Trafford | 24 October 2007 | 551 |
| Manson launches an SO19 raid on Julia Bickham's office as he hunts for armed schizophrenic Michael Simms. Meadows and Heaton run as gold Commanders from Sun Hill, while Manson and SO19 run as silver Commanders from the office. Manson hears distress shouts from Julia's office, so SO19 storm in. Michael is shot dead but all that remains is his camcorder. The DPS are called in to investigate Manson as the Sun Hill team race to find the gun to save their DI from the axe. Shelley and Jas Cooper confirm the whole incident was caused by Chris Ramsden planting a ski mask and knife in his flat. Walker makes a breakthrough that could save Manson's career. | ||||||
| 79 | "Deadly Intent" | Orlando Wells and Albert Moses guest star | Richard Signy | Steph Lloyd-Jones | 25 October 2007 | 548 |
| Noble attends to a disturbance in her block of flats, paired with Stone. They find a man with a head injury, sustained by an iron. They suspect the wife is at fault, but she is found dazed and confused with an iron burn on her arm. A file shows she previously self-harmed and suspects she still is. As they go to talk to her they find her overdosing on sleeping pills. An envelope is found with photos of her and a threatening note. Diane believes a neighbour is responsible, but before he is arrested, the husband and neighbour are found fighting in the hallway of the building. As the case collapses, some hard graft and persistence from Stone sees the case turn around. Stone issues a harsh warning to the suspect. | ||||||
| 80 | "Stealth Attack" | Sid Owen guest stars | Richard Signy | Steve Ballie | 1 November 2007 | 549 |
| Turner and Masters investigate a missing person's case. The case doesn't add up but it appears the victim was trying to hit on a celebrity. The victim is found assaulted and raped. Her boyfriend and the celebrity, Danny Peters, are both in the frame, but Stuart suspects someone else is involved. Smith gets involved with the Samuels' family again. This time, Carly's mother Leanne is arrested for assaulting a store owner. | ||||||
| 81 | "Tortured Soul" | TBA | David Jackson | Si Spencer | 8 November 2007 | 552 |
| Gayle and Armstrong investigate an assault on a teenager. A fellow pupil is suspected, but he is in Scotland. Then suspicion falls on the father who is seen nearby on CCTV. The victim claims his step father is sexually abusing him, but CID are sceptical. A video is leaked of him forcing his girlfriend to strip, which is motive for the assault, but who sent it out? CID suspect the abuse came from the victim's deceased father, but when his mother is sceptical, she is found at home, and her son is standing over his tied up mother with a hammer. | ||||||
| 82 | "Moving Target (Part One)" | Tom Chadbon, Colin McFarlane and Vic Tablian guest star | Paul Wroblewski | Steve Ballie | 14 November 2007 | 539 |
| Wright and Stamp investigate a suspected racial assault. Masters and Perkins discover the victim was whipped. Heaton suspects that three racists from a supremacist gang; The Bulldogs of Patriotism, but Masters is sceptical. His wounds and a bandaging makes her think that his mother knows something, and she says it was his father who gave the beating. Noble and Stone investigate a break in at the office of local MP Paul Sagger, but does the assault victim know more about it than he should? Sun Hill are patrolling a concert, Rock Against Racism. Things turn ugly when the event coordinator and a possible police witness; Nadim Mura, and Sagger are shot as they appear on stage. | ||||||
| 83 | "Moving Target (Part Two)" | Tom Chadbon, Colin McFarlane and Vic Tablian guest star | Paul Wroblewski | Steve Ballie | 21 November 2007 | 540 |
| The Sun Hill team are left dealing with the fallout of the shooting at the Rock Against Racism concert. Event coordinator Nadim Mura gives Heaton a name, Abdul Muntaqim, but dies due to a bullet in his lung. Paul Sagger survives with a shoulder wound. Ahmed Hassar is questioned but denies his involvement, but confesses he set of a firecracker, which is the source of the first 'gunshot'. Heaton continues the investigation into Sagger's alleged artefact smuggling, but the artefact, an ornamental dagger, which Sagger uses as a letter opener. Dasari makes a breakthrough, and identifies the name Heaton was given by Mura as Haqim Abd-Al Muntaqim. Masters and Perkins go to arrest a doctor, who is a member of the Bulldogs, who might have been responsible for killing Mura in hospital. He is not responsible as Mura's post-mortem reveals he was killed by a heart attack, but it's not in vain, as the uncover a conspiracy where the Bulldogs were going to kidnap Mura. Manson and Dasari discover that Heaton was the target from the third bullet, and as the DI calls to warn the Super, two bullets go through his car as he takes Sagger back to Sun Hill. | ||||||
| 84 | "Moving Target (Part Three)" | Final appearance of CSE Lorna Hart | Paul Wroblewski | Frank Rickarby | 28 November 2007 | 541 |
| Gold runs the scene of the shooting at St. Hugh's. Heaton and Sagger escape unscathed but the suspect escapes. Heaton continues the artefact smuggling investigation, while Meadows runs the shooting investigation. Heaton discovers Sagger's assistant Derek Jacobs may be responsible. The man fleeing St. Hugh's is identified as private investigator Alfredo Ruiz, and he gives CID Muntaqim's address, but it's too late. Jacobs got there first and Muntaqim is dead. Heaton gets ready to transfer Sagger to another station, but Jacobs shows up armed with a gun, with a bomb strapped to himself. | ||||||
| 85 | "Love, Lies and Limos" | Sid Owen and Dominic Power guest star | James Larkin | Andrew Alty | 5 December 2007 | 554 |
| Turner's driver Trevor Jones helps CID with useful information about a limousine operator who is rumoured to be supplying cocaine as part of the champagne service. Noble and Fletcher respond to a call regarding a hijacked limousine, and Gold investigates an assault on the driver's wife. Webb poses as a city banker to gather evidence against the owner of the limo company, but has a few uncomfortable moments when it becomes clear his cover has been blown. | ||||||
| 86 | "Trapped" | Sid Owen and David Ryall guest star | James Larkin | Will Shindler | 6 December 2007 | 555 |
| CID continue to hunt for The Postman. Turner's friend Trevor Jones is assaulted, and the woman next to him has cocaine on her. Another major dealer is arrested, in the hopes that he is The Postman. Gayle and Roberts investigate several attacks on a café and its owners. | ||||||
| 87 | "Blackmailed" | Sid Owen and Harry Landis guest star | Matthew Whiteman | Chris Dunn | 12 December 2007 | 556 |
| Turner is in hot water following the discovery that his friend Trevor Jones is the notorious drug dealer "The Postman". He returns the evidence on his PDA, but when a raid goes down, Trevor is suspicious when Stuart tries to tape him confessing to blackmail. However, the problem is that Walker and Perkins both work out that Trevor is "The Postman". As Turner goes to arrest him, he is stuck on his boat as he tries to flee the country. | ||||||
| 88 | "Operation: Brass Balls" | Sam Kelly guest stars | David Jackson | Andrew Taft | 13 December 2007 | 553 |
| Uniform set up a sting on a second hand store. The suspect asks to speak to Masters about people selling him stolen goods, which may be related to a warehouse robbery on a local industrial estate. The sting goes belly up when ram-raiders crash a 4X4 through the front of the store. First it appears that the ram-raiders wanted a camera that a woman in sex videos on the camera wanted it back to cover her secret, but her boyfriend is a villain from Meadows' past, and they uncover a cash-in-transit armed robbery plot. | ||||||
| 89 | "Zain Inside Out (Part One)" | Guest appearance of Zain Nadir | Robert Knights | Stuart Morris | 19 December 2007 | 566 |
| Disgraced detective Zain Nadir is interviewed about drug trafficking in Hayesend Prison, where he is serving ten years for perverting the course of justice, after Callum and Will discover the body of a drug addict recently released from prison. He agrees to help his colleagues infiltrate the gang involved. Jack is not sure whether he can trust his mole and fears the worst when a riot breaks out just as the police move in to arrest the operation's kingpin, Zain's cellmate Jason Forbes, who makes good his escape in the confusion. | ||||||
| 90 | "Zain Inside Out (Part Two)" | Guest appearance of Zain Nadir | Robert Knights | Sarah-Louise Hawkins | 20 December 2007 | 567 |
| Zain gets a frosty reception at the station when Heaton secures his release from prison to help Meadows with the recapture of escaped killer Jason Forbes, and Will can't help taking a swing at the man who callously disposed of Honey's body in a bid to save his own skin. Unsurprisingly, Zain encounters hostility from several of his former colleagues. The pursuit leads to a gunpoint showdown, giving Zain a clear choice between escape and doing the right thing. | ||||||
| 91 | "Assault on Sun Hill (Part One)" | First appearance of DS Max Carter | Darcia Martin | Matthew Bardsley | 27 December 2007 | 568 |
| New recruit DS Max Carter joins the Sun Hill team from CO19 to investigate a tip-off about an armed cash-in-transit robbery, only to find partner Terry drowning his sorrows after the informant is killed for his pains. Sally and Ben arrest two girls for failing to pay their cab fare, and a catastrophic train of events is unleashed when their release is delayed following the escape of a deadly cargo smuggled in from Ghana – and pushing their boyfriends into taking drastic action. | ||||||
| 92 | "Assault on Sun Hill (Part Two)" | Joseph Kpobie guest stars | Darcia Martin | Len Collin | 28 December 2007 | 569 |
| Sally and Tony - followed by Ben and Nikki - are taken as hostages by the gun-men, John and Gina taking charge of the situation to evacuate the station when an officer is hit by a bullet. Terry sleeps off his hangover in a cell and finds himself in a waking nightmare, trapped in Sun Hill with two murder suspects, two drug mules in a bad way and a pair of reckless maniacs threatening to kill if they don't get their girlfriends back. | ||||||
gollark: What do you mean "logging everything [you] do on the browser"?
gollark: I could host it on osmarks.tk, but then add formatting to spite you.
gollark: ```haskellmain = putStrLn . (take 1666) . cycle $ "<:bees:724389994663247974>"```
gollark: tio!debug
gollark: ```haskellmain = putStrLn . (>>= id) . cycle $ "<:bees:724389994663247974>"```
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