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If ever a gif summed up a large proportion of the PM period of the show...

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Sheelagh gives birth, with help from a reluctant Gina.

Episode 176

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Whoever could have thought that PC Literally-Straight-Up-And-Down was built...!

Shameless lust post especially for @everythingisdragons ;)

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I'm working on updating some of the 'extra pages' and I'm starting to become amazed at how quickly some of the relationships progressed.

Honey Harman and Scott Burnett:

They met in Episode 278 when Scott's wife was murdered.

They slept together for the first time 282 just a couple of episodes after Scott's wife's body was found. (She didn't dump Steve Hunter until episode 283...!)

They got engaged in episode 291.

The wedding was episode 307!

29 episodes from first meeting!

Dave Quinnan and Jenny Delaney

Whilst Dave and Jenny had a longer period from the first meeting, given that y'know... Dave was unconscious [2nd March 99/Badlands], they didn't hold back!

Dave found out George and Jenny were dating on 22nd April/Look Away Now.

They realised they wanted each other in Pillow Talk/6th July when Dave was on an overnight guard job at St Hughes.

George wanted to propose to Jenny in the next episode 8th July/Heavy Plant Crossing (he's another fast mover, but I haven't included it because Jenny clearly doesn't feel the same and it's more plot device than actual romance) but Jenny postpones and won't let him know how she really feels. Jenny and Dave get it ooooon and Jenny escapes to Colombia as part of an earthquake clean-up crew.

George goes to propose properly on the 12th October in Love And War part 1 because Jenny is finally returning from Colombia. He sees Dave and Jenny together and part 2 continues with the chaos and George leaving.

18th November/Security is Dave trying to find time to propose whilst uniform gives Jenny the cold shoulder.

15th December/A Night To Forget - Dave's stag night and Jenny's hen night.

16th December/A Day To Remember - the wedding.

So whilst it is officially 70 episodes from the first meeting, if we go from their affair starting, it is only 42. If we go from 'Love And War' when they were actually 'together' without George's interference, then it is 19 episodes from a proper relationship without the complicated stuff and wedding!

Our final couple beat everyone hands down!

Jim Carver and Marie Graham.

Marie and Jim end up in bed on their first meeting, Episode 099.

Jim tries to put distance between them in episode 100, but he's still her FLO after the death of her daughter.

They have a slightly rocky relationship from episode 101 to 112 when Marie proposes to Jim.

Jim accepts in 113 (with June thinking that he's going to propose to her after her 'break' in episode 115).

Jim and Marie get married in 119!

20 episodes from meeting each other, and 18 episodes from actually getting together!

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05x36 - Communications

Derek enters CAD in a good mood. It's a much better mood than everyone else! He's only too happy to ask how everything is going and tells them all to keep up the good work.

Tom: : "What on earth was all that about?" June: "Did he just-" Tom: "Smile and say good morning(!?)" June: "Something's wrong I don't like it!" Tony: "He smiled!!!" June: "Exactly, it's like a vampire sniffing blood!"

It all feels a bit mean because Derek is routinely seen as one of the team members who has their backs against Brownlow, etc. He's also seen as the one who knows everyone's names and problems/ambitions, etc. They also moan about the notices he's been putting up with June explaining to Ken that they essentially say they're not talking to each other enough. "Can't be aimed at Reg Hollis!" Tom pouts, adding that Derek should shut his 'always open' door lest he get a chill. Ken points out that he [Derek] attended a stress counselling course the week before at Bramshill.

Derek tells Charles that the course he attended was big on communication and senior officers being accessible. Because of this, he has made an effort to get around and see everyone. The next step is response. "And if I don't get one, there's going to be trouble!"

Claire and Taffy attend the Woodvale Estate and talk to the parents of a missing child. They're going to start the house-to-house calls and promise to update the parents as soon as they hear anything.

Christine enters Derek's office. She tells him she's not entirely sure she understands his posters. He explains that they need to start being more open and discussing the problems that their colleagues might be facing, including problems at home. Christine is amused that that appears to be the total sum of the week-long course he attended. Derek asks Christine if there are any problems she can think of with the team at the moment. She can't and reminds him that not everyone wants to talk about their problems. "They must, it's important! We need honesty around here!" He's drawn up a rota and wants to speak to everyone.

One of the Pickard Twins (I think it's the one that played David in 2.4 Children with Gary Olsen/Dave Litten) answers the door to Taffy and simply says 'Not today, ta' before he closes it. "Charming..." Taffy tuts, knocking again. Claire is having a more communicative time at least as the residents stop to listen. Claire's questions an elderly woman who recognises the missing girl as Ingrid. Claire corrects her on the name and the elderly woman says she saw the girl playing by the bins on Friday. She was speaking to a black man who gave her sweets and she followed him into a car. The woman's son comes to the door and tells Claire that his mother has dementia and was in her care home on Friday - he'd only picked her up that morning. Claire apologises and moves on.

Tom finds the rota for people to see Derek and laughs as he tells Ken - who appears to be reading a comic! 💗 - that Mr Conway wants to see him. Ken isn't happy and puts his head in his hands. Tony mocks him before Tom tells him he's next on the list!

Reg complains to June that everyone is in a bad mood and that he blames Derek for it. Derek magically appears behind Reg whilst he's bad-mouthing him. Reg tries to cover quickly when he finally catches on and claims he's talking about the enormous amount of interest that his notices have created. Derek says it hasn't translated into actual visits yet, not even from Reg, who quickly makes his excuses and leaves. Derek asks June if she wants to have a chat and June responds that it's exactly what she'd like to do.

Taffy and Claire have finally meet in the middle after their house-to-house enquiries. Taffy declares it was useless; they either weren't in or didn't want to help. He decries the lack of community, even for a missing child. Claire points out she's 13, probably off with a boyfriend, and will return in a day or two. "You're just as bad as everyone else. Nobody cares! We're looking for a missing child and nobody gives a damn!"

Derek reassures June that anything she says is confidential. She asks him what he thinks her chances of promotion are. [Note: June passes her Sergeant exams in 12x111 so a while yet...] "Oh... right... Sergeant..." Derek tells her that he doesn't consider her mentally tough enough. June says she is and that people always tell her she's good Sergeant material. Derek says that a good Sergeant should be able to sort out any problem without it reaching his ear. He asks her how well she handles problems, including her own and brings up the death of her father and how it was brought into work. She claims she talked to Sergeant Cryer about it, but Derek points out she didn't. Bob found out and approached her about it. "That's why he's a Sergeant, and a good one." June insists she faced up to it in her own way and Derek tells her he's not criticising. June gets upset and storms out, cutting off Derek trying to tell her to apply if she really wants to be a Sergeant!

Reg doesn't see why he should tell Conway about his private life. "You don't want to tell him about that hunky bloke you live with then?" Ken grins.

It seems out of character for Reg to be complaining about talking to a senior officer about anything! Normally he'd kill for the ear of those upstairs! He claims he's going to talk to the Federation about it because it's an invasion of privacy. Tom claims it's a waste of time - in the old days, people would talk to their Sergeants about problems - he thinks they should tell him! Ken just turns around tactfully!

A car alarm is now going off in the car park of the flats, and a man is threatening to damage the car if it's not stopped. He's gathered an audience who are loving it! The man works nights and was woken by the alarm. He doesn't know who the owner is, but if it isn't stopped in 30 seconds, he's going to break in and stop it.

Reg backs away from Derek who has cornered Tom to ask him to encourage people to come up to see him for a chat. Tom is enthralled.

He asks him if he knows where Reg is...

Taffy asks the angry man not to damage the car. The man counts down from 30, and as he reaches 1, Taffy shouts at him to stop and that he'll run the registration through the PNC. The man agrees to wait whilst he does so, but he winds the crowd up by swinging the hammer around. Tom treats it as a joke, but runs the check.

Ken and Bob wind Reg up by talking about him running away from Conway. Bob suggests he might be guilty about something. Reg admits he's dodging Conway because he doesn't want to talk to him. Ken tells him it's better to get on with it - he was asked if he had any worries, said no, and Derek let him go. "But what if you were worried?"

The crowd are encouraging the angry man whilst Claire and Taffy wait for the answer from Tom. Finally, the owner of the car makes himself known and despite threatening the angry man with violence if he touches his car, he refuses to turn the alarm off because of said angry man! Taffy warns him he'll nick him if he doesn't. The man doesn't care as no one threatens him. It becomes clear why the man is so upset - and why there's a crowd - it goes off frequently and the man leaves it going because people protest about it to him and he refuses to be told what to do (!). What a prince! He runs off into the house. Just hammer it, mate! (ahem!)

Ken is sent back to the CAD room because Reg isn't talking. Reg is sure Mr Conway knows, and that's why he's chasing him. Bob asks again, and Reg confesses that he put the proceeds of the Body Scanner Appeal on a 'hot tip' at Newmarket [Horse racing]. Bob tells him that it's a serious disciplinary matter and asks how much he has lost. Reg says nothing - the race was abandoned. Bob says he still has to tell Derek about it and he will be kicked out if he does it again.

Reg is concerned when Derek approaches him 'about the scanner appeal'. He quietly says he was going to come and see him. Derek hands over a tenner, saying it wouldn't do to leave him out of the donations!

With the car owner refusing to turn the alarm off, the man flips and smashes the car up. The owner comes running and is held by back crowd members and Taffy, leaving Claire to tackle Angry!Man and his hammer! Taffy asks where the keys are and the man tells hm he's flushed them down the toilet. The van appears and the man with the hammer and car owner are put in the back of it. This will end well, I'm sure. The alarm is still going until Taffy finally pulls a wire out of the bottom. A man approaches him and tells him that the missing girl was seen in the market on one of the fruit stalls. The two men are led into Custody, still going for each other. Taffy finally gets it out of him why he didn't stop the alarm. No one said please. Men!

Taffy is asked to go up to see Derek so he has to pass on the message about the missing girl to Tom. Tom sends June down to the market to check it out. Derek asks Taffy if he has a problem and soon regrets it. Taffy tells him that he isn't happy at Sun Hill and he's tried not to let it affect work, but it isn't easy. His wife doesn't like London, and she's nagging him to move back home to Wales and the Welsh community. Derek suggests he has a barbecue as a way of meeting the neighbours! Derek shoots to his feet and tells him to reconsider. Taffy tells him he can't as their house is now on the market. Derek is regretting his plan to talk about problems, now he has an actual problem....! Derek tells him to reconsider and angrily shouts 'COME IN!' when there's a knock at the door. Unfortunately for him, it's Brownlow who seems to be in a good mood! He tells Taffy that the missing girl has been found. Derek warns Taffy to think hard before he does anything else.

"How's it all going?" "As well as can be expected, sir."

Taffy goes to speak to the young girl and asks her how she is. Her parents say she won't tell them either why she ran away. Taffy deduces that it's likely to do with the attacks on her flat. The parents look shifty as they hadn't complained about them [They are Sri-Lankan] and Taffy tells them he'd guessed and for them not to be afraid to approach the police.

The episode ends with Derek storming into CAD and removing and screwing up his posters about Communication much to the laughter of Tom. "Normal service has been resumed!"

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05x35 - Only A Bit Of Thieving

Ted arrives at an address and notes that a panel on the front door has been broken and covered up with a thin piece of wood. He introduces himself to the house owner, Mrs Power. She is confused by his arrival as she's already spoken to an officer about her recent break-in. She thought she was safe as she had all the - at that time - mod cons and non-electric security features available to secure the house. She's now very paranoid as she and her husband moved from their last home due to a burglary. Her husband is away on business, so she's home alone. Ted tells her there has been a spate of burglaries in the area. There is a pattern that shows the burglars return soon after to take what they missed. Ted asks if she has a room that overlooks the back garden, she tells him she has a sewing room on the top floor that does and agrees for them to use it for an obbo.

Ken has a three-day secondment with CID and is very excited because he doesn't see himself ending his days in uniform. [Oh, Kenneth 😪]. He's very excited to stake out the house with Ted, despite Alistair's claim of there being no available overtime. Ted has told Ken that he will get them overtime, so Ken is waiting for him. "The wily old pole cat! He sleeps, you keep watch, and he gets paid for it! How does he do it?!" Alistair exclaims. Alistair and Ted declare the first two rules of CID. 1 - from Ted - know your angles. 2 - from Alistair - don't believe anything that comes from Ted! Ted confirms that, through telling a 'minor untruth,' he's managed to get 4 hours of overtime approved by Brownlow.

At the house, Ted tells Mrs Power that they'll let themselves out of the house when they're done and won't disturb her so she can go to bed as normal. Ted smokes whilst Ken keeps watch, telling him that he can see right into other people's houses with the night sight. "Dirty minded berk!" "Not like that!" Ken asks how Ted managed to swing the overtime, and all he replies is 'politics'. Ken asks again and we get the third rule of CID. "Ask no questions, you get told no lies" He pauses before smirking that Ken was right about seeing right into people's houses. Who was it with the dirty mind?

The night sight allows them to spot three dodgy-looking teens creeping into the garden and taking a ladder. They approach the house and climb onto a flat roof, and start to break in. Ken and Ted leave the house and creep into the garden to see what they're doing. Ken is told to stay out of sight whilst Ted climbs the ladder to disturb the criminals as they break in. Ted warns them to keep still and then shouts to Ken to get the van. Two edge to the side of the roof, whilst one that Ted tackles brings out a knife and threatens to cut him. Ted asks him to give him the knife. The kid contemplates jumping off, but Ted tells him not to as it's too high. Moments later, there's the sound of a scuffle and the lad falls to the ground with a scream. Ken checks on him and shouts for Ted. Ted tells him to call an ambulance.

Uniform arrive and arrest the other two suspects whilst the paramedics load the injured lad into the ambulance. Bob tells Ken to go to the hospital with the injured lad as he's technically a prisoner. "I can feel it already..." Tony tells the uniformed officers. "Nasty...."

Mrs Power feels sorry for the lad, but Ted is unmoved. "He shouldn't have been up there, should he?!" Christine enters without knocking and tells Ted to follow her. Ted charms Mrs Power and thanks her for everything, but Christine cuts in with "Now!" She tells him the lad was only 14. "Old enough to go out stealing!" insists Ted. Christine demands a full report from him for what happened and tells him she'll be getting one from Ken too, and she'll know if he's intimidated Ken.

At Sun Hill, the other two teens are overwhelmed as they're led into a loud and chaotic Custody. Claire and Tony call the boys' parents and inform them of their arrests and that they need appropriate adults. One of the dads, Mr Wilson, Is furious that he's been woken in the middle of the night and is even more angry to be asked if he knew where his son was. Bob tells him his son he is being charged with attempted burglary. "Didn't get inside, didn't have a chance because of that poxy copper!" Paul then alleges that Ted pushed his friend from the roof.

Bob orders Ken to return to Sun Hill after replacing him at St Hughes. He asks Claire to bring Ken straight to his office and to not let him talk to anyone, especially anyone from CID. Upstairs, Ted is writing his statement and has a call from Christine to go down to her office. Ken returns and goes straight to the Duty Sergeant's office whilst Ted signs his statement and heads down to Christine's office. Their paths do not cross.

Bob asks Ken to tell him exactly what happened, without the aid of his notes. Ken admits that he was in the garden, but he couldn't see what was happening on the roof from where he was. Bob asks him if he realises how serious it is, because it could mean Ted being up for attempted murder. Ken repeats that he was on the ground and couldn't see it. Bob calls it convenient(?!?!) He then suggests that in the 5-10 minutes before the ambulance arrived that Ken and Ted 'compared stories.' If he didn't see it it is the kid's word against his. "You don't have to cover up for him!" It's obvious he's trying to break him to get to the truth and Ken is visibly upset.

Ted hands Christine his statement and she asks if it "displays his usual use of imagination". Considering their past, she's really harsh on Ted and calls Brownlow in. Ted thinks it can wait, but Christine doesn't - especially as CIB are going to be involved.

In an interview room, June recaps Paul's statement, which details Ted moving toward his friend in a threatening manner and his arm being thrown out before his friend fell. She asks him to sign the statement and he hesitates. June asks him if he doesn't agree with the statement and his father tells her that he can't read or write. June tells him to put a cross against it instead and has his father sign the statement. He asks if his son is going to be prosecuted and June says it's up to the juvenile department and the inspector and may take several weeks until they know the answer. Tony updates Bob that the injured lad is now in a coma.

CIB arrive the next day and are greeted by Alec, who leads them to their office for the day.

Ted packs up his things into a briefcase. It's difficult to get the pics to show everything, but the essentials are there: a newspaper, scotch and aspirin.

Derek tells him off for causing aggravation over a juvenile thief. His bollocking is very unlike a Brownlow one as it's obvious he very much has his back and has knowledge of him as a person rather than a pawn in the station. Ted, being Ted, is very defensive and points out that he is there to arrest criminals, no matter who or what they are.

"I hope for your sake CIB sees it the same way!"

The father of Ted's accuser enters the station and asks to see the boss. He refuses to tell Claire what it's about and demands to see Bob. Alec tells Bob that Ken is getting a right grilling from CIB. Bob reveals the hidden biscuits....

... and tells Alec he has no faith in CIB making the right decision. "You know who and what I mean." He suspects that Ken is going to end up as the loser. "If they put Ken off being a copper, they're not doing anyone any favours." "You've got to admit he's a bit soft sometimes." Bob sums up that Ken is 'dead honest' which won't make him a lot of friends in the long run.

Claire brings Mr Wilson some tea and tells him that Bob has been delayed. He tells her to shove the tea because 'he wants to make a complaint.' Paul looks unsure and wants to leave, but Wilson shouts at him to shut up twice. Bob finally makes it over and tells him that he needs to see the Chief Inspector and CIB, and as CIB are being very thorough, there's no end to the length of time they'll have to wait. Paul looks very uncomfortable and clearly doesn't want to be there. Bob tells him that anything that is found to be untrue will add a charge of perjury to his offences. Wilson snaps that that's a threat and Bob tells him it's a warning and asks Paul again if he's sure. He clarifies that whatever is said has serious consequences for either him or Ted. Wilson accuses him again of threatening his son. Paul looks very uncomfortable and tells Bob that his friend is a nutter and jumped of his own accord. "I'll have you for this!" Wilson snaps at Bob.

At the end of the day, Derek arranges for CIB to be seen out and goes into CID, where Ted is unpacking his suitcase. "Any comments?" "He'd never have made it stick." Ted shrugs. Derek advises him to fork out for a few pints for Bob to thank him for what he did. He tells him he's been very lucky considering his record and how close he came to suspension. "Just get back to your duties."

In CAD, Alec takes a telephone call and tells the caller that he's very sorry to hear that. He goes up to CID and has to tell Ted that the boy has died from a haemorrhage. "I'm sorry, Ted." "What are you looking at me for? Don't go on about it. It wasn't my fault!" Ted says - but his face says a different story.

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05x34 - Free Wheel

CID are undercover, centred around the Hilton National Hotel on the case of an arms dealer. Alistair is on reception, Ted and Jim are drivers for a fashion wholesaler with a convenient office across the road. Tosh is a general lookout hiding in an upstairs room at the wholesalers. Alistair alerts Tosh to the movement of their target. "Buttons and Bows..." Tosh drawls into the radio to alert Jim and Ted in an effort to give himself something more interesting than staring out of a window and eating. "Alright, we don't need a comedian!" Ted scowls, following the man in the van. He drops Jim off behind him to follow him on foot.

Jim follows him onto the local High St whilst Ted returns to the hotel to update Alistair. Ted is concerned that the receptionist is giving him funny looks and answers Alistair's insistence that everything is OK with "It's got to be better than OK!"As they get into the lift, a man exits with a woman who's clearly not his wife. Ted, of course, has a good look! Alistair reassures him he'll talk to the receptionist.

Yorkie finds CID empty. Bob similarly finds the front desk unmanned and presses the door to let a waiting couple in. They don't move, so he goes to ask if he can help. "We're being seen, thanks."

Ted and Alistair search Rouse's room with great care to return everything exactly as it was. Jim has to duck into a shop doorway to avoid being seen when Rouse turns round after checking his watch. Ted finds the mini bar and gets Alistair to come and unlock it. "I hate the smell of too much money," Ted says, purposely shaking the bottle of champagne. "Especially if it's bent and especially if it belongs to someone else." For what's meant to be an expensive room... It's really not. Even the view isn't that great! They find absolutely nothing.

Yorkie comes back down and sees Bob in the front office. He tells Bob that the couple waiting at the door are odd. They have been in half a dozen times that week already and he doesn't want to deal with them anymore. He wants CID to take over, but no one is in! Bob tells him that CID are all on a job. Yorkie explains that the couple's car was stolen 10 days ago and they won't rest until it's found. They'd left the keys in the ignition and didn't realise until it was too late. It all adds up to an unsolvable crime, and Yorkie is at his wits' end. (Interesting fact: this couple were married IRL, which probably helps them bounce off each other so well).

Alistair returns the suspect's door key to him when he arrives back at the hotel. He's very polite and asks the receptionist, who clearly hates him, to tell him if he's overdoing it. "I will. You're overdoing it."

The car theft victims are surprised to hear there's no news on their car. They tell Yorkie that they've been doing their own surveillance to try and locate the car. Yorkie smiles politely as they speak at the same time, and are generally a bit eccentric. "No other car will do for us, just that one. We just want our own car back. Please."

Ted can't believe that their suspect didn't do anything of note whilst out - he didn't talk to anyone, buy anything, or meet anyone. Ted doesn't let the job stop him being Ted, however....

Rouse is not making any calls out of the hotel and no one is ringing in to speak to him either. Jim says he is playing £100 a night (now £260) to walk around the block and look in a few shop windows.

The boys aren't happy. They've got most of CID sat tied up on someone else's case whilst their own cases are getting left behind. Rouse hasn't had a conviction for arms dealing for 8 years, but Ted, who has had experience with him in the past, is adamant that he's up to something. Ted points out that the lack of conviction doesn't mean he's turned over a new leaf - he just hasn't been caught. Ted reminds Jim that their suspect is the subject of special reports from almost every major crime unit in the country. "If they couldn't get a case against him in 8 years, what chance have we got?" Jim sighs. "Our brief is to watch and wait, night and day. Ok?" Ted snaps. Jim scowls, claiming it only needs two of them and not the entire CID team. "You know why? I'll tell you why. Burnside." he spits. "He wants the arrest to take place here and nowhere else. He's got two fingers up to all the crime squad and all the surveillance teams across the country!" Tosh isn't happy to hear that he's got to remain at the wholesalers, keeping watch for a second night. "I've got an oversexed wife waiting for me at home!" "What you need is domestic backup - an oversexed lodger!"

Alistair watches as a courier drops off a parcel with only 'to be collected' written on it. "Can't you read?" the receptionist snaps. She admits it's an unusual experience but is too busy to consider it further. Alistair opens it with a view to replacing the envelope. It's what looks like a car key. Rouse is still in his room, and the cars in the car park are all accounted for as owned by guests. Ted suggests it could belong to any vehicle and so could not be involved in their operation, so keep an eye, but don't let it draw focus. Alistair returns to the receptionist. "Keep smiling."

The doorman clarifies that Rouse arrived via taxi and says he recognises Ted. "Are you the er..." "Department of Trade and Industry."

Tosh asks if they're bugging Rouse's phone. Jim says that wasn't possible, but the switchboard is logging calls to and from his room. The only problem is that there aren't any! Tosh reckons he has to be waiting for something or someone, given the £100 a night luxury.

Bob tells Yorkie that the odd couple have rung back and want to speak to him. Bob took pity on poor Yorkie and told them that he was busy. The couple want to ask for Yorkie's permission to advertise their lost car. "They didn't want to cut across your process of investigation." He warns him that they're going to ring back.

At the hotel, Alistair keeps watch over the parcel as Rouse approaches. "You seem to work long hours." Alistair simply smiles and explains that they're short-staffed at the moment. Rouse asks for matches and doesn't touch or mention the envelope despite it being right in front of them.

The next morning, Jim is quick to wake Tosh from the sleeping bag on the floor so they can swap over.

The receptionist asks Alistair when they're going to be gone, as she wants everything to return to normal. She asks what Mr Rouse has done. Alistair gestures for her to be more discreet and tells her that - so far - Rouse has done nothing. The doorman tells them that a guest booked in last night with a car and he gives him the registration. Alistair questions that because he was on shift and no guest arrived with a car mentioned. The doorman points at a shabbily parked car and complains about it. Alistair tells Ted - it could be bent or it could be someone simply using the hotel car park to park for the night. With that and the key being left for Rouse it's concerning. It's even more concerning when Tosh tells them that there are no such number plates registered.

Ted passes on a message from Frank for everyone to stay in place. Alistair suggests they're going to need a changeover before long as Rouse spoke to him and questioned him about working such long hours. Ted reassures him that whatever is going on can't take much longer. Known associates of Rouse have turned up at a hotel in Southampton situated near the dock. It looks like they're about to ship out - literally. The local police did the same searching of the room - carefully - as Sun Hill did and found not only the name of the hotel they're staking out but also Rouse's room number on a scrap of paper.

Yorkie's favourite couple return and ask for him. They think they've found their car but it's got a different number plate on it. They do have a spare set of keys with them but haven't approached it or tried them yet as they didn't want to destroy finger print evidence. You can see where this is going, right...? They tell Yorkie that the car is parked in a hotel carpark. He agrees to have it looked into - in the hope he'll get rid of them.

Alistair returns to the reception desk to find the package gone. The receptionist tells him Rouse collected it when he paid his bill. He's currently packing in his room. Alistair updates Tosh, Ted and Jim and they all prepare 'for lift off'. The car reported is still in place, for now. All parties drive to the hotel, ready to pick Rouse up. Unfortunately for them, Yorkie arrives in a marked police car with the couple so they can show him the car. Yep, it's the target car. He goes inside to speak at the desk as Rouse approaches. The look on the receptionist's face gives them away as Rouse looks at her. He notices Yorkie arriving and approaches the desk, calmly telling them he collected the key package by mistake. "It's not mine after all." Rouse leaves and Yorkie approaches the desk, asking Alistair what he's doing there. Thankfully Rouse is far enough to have not heard, but the damage was already done. Alistair radios the others and tells them the operation has been blown. "You bloody fool!" he chides Yorkie, jumping over the desk [captured in gif for... reasons]. "What's going on?" Yorkie blinks, following him outside.

Rouse walks away as the doorman approaches the irritating couple and asks them to move their car. The husband gets in the car. Alistair looks at Rouse's retreating back as the car is about to be started...

People start screaming after the explosion and the officers run towards the scene. It's obvious it's too late - even with the almost instantaneous fire engine sirens.

Ted can only watch the horror as Rouse walks away into the distance.

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05x33 - Out To Lunch

Frank, Tosh and Jim are out for a drink when they spot Pete driving past in a panda. "TAXIIII!" Frank calls, putting his hand out. "That's handy!" "He's probably naff all else to do!" Pete is heading to Whitechapel Road - now via Sun Hill. "Why?" "Why? If you want to get back in CID, you wanna make some friends!"

Tucked up in the back, Jim pouts that the panda isn't 'exactly a Porshe'. "Yeah, you never did tell us how you got that Porsche, Peter."

"Playing cards, wasn't it?" Tosh adds helpfully from the back before Burnside tells him to stop sulking and drive. Before he can, they're interrupted by banging on the window from Mrs Mancini, last seen in Trouble And Strife.

Mrs Mancini asks for help as there's someone in her car. The three CID officers get out to help her and Pete is ordered to stay where he is. Frank tries to get Jim to stay in the car too, but spotting the chance to chat Mrs Mancini up, Jim refuses and follows - even walking in front of Frank which earns him a "CARVER!!!!" Frank moves in front and introduces himself - and his "junior colleagues." They follow Mrs Mancini to the underground car park. "That's a lovely perfume you're wearing, Margrief [too many echoes to catch it 100% but it's v similar sounding to that and links into the next line] isn't it?" "I'll give you grief!" Frank mutters to Jim. On reaching the car, the men laugh at finding a 'romancing' couple inside. "Would you mind... adjusting your clothing... and stepping out of the car?" Frank calls on identifying themselves as police. Tosh and Jim go to comfort Mrs Mancini, but she loses her temper after seeing who steps out of the car and launches something over the car at the man. It's only Mr Mancini enjoying a bit of quiet time with his mistress. Or at least he was.

Mrs Mancini attacks them both and the car with an oil canister and is held back by Frank. The Mancini's spit at each other. 'OI! .... Mind my coat!" snaps Frank. The Mancini's continue to argue with Mr Mancini shouting at his wife that the much older woman who had run off could teach her a thing or two! The boys are enjoying the show but are very surprised to hear that one of Mrs Mancini's more prominent upsets at what had happened is that not once, in 15 years of marriage, had they ever been intimate in a car. "The woman's crazy! She's crazy! What about our honeymoon?" he shouts back. "We don't want to know!" Frank cuts in. She bursts into tears, grabs Frank closer and wants her husband to be jailed for indecent behaviour.

Frank hands over his handkerchief and checks his suit and tie for signs of tears. Mr Mancini's mistress collars Jim and Tosh at the other end of the carpark and discreetly asks them to return her clothes to her before she has to go home to her husband as she only had the chance to quickly pull her dress back on. Pete approaches and Mr Mancini instantly takes a step to hide behind Tosh. "Take that gobsmacked look off your face and come here, Mancini!" Mancini tries to hide behind the car and promises Pete he hasn't been up to any of his 'nasty little tricks' as he's still on probation. Pete tells Mrs Mancini to remove her sunglasses. Both her eyes are black.

Jim excuses himself with the underwear of the other lady. Pete brings Frank and the others up to date on his prior dealings with the Mancini's. They were moved onto the estate 2 months previously after destroying their home. Malcolm has already been called to their flat to deal with their domestics twice. "You seem to know what you're doing. You sort it out." Frank tells him, walking off with Tosh.

Jim doesn't understand why a man with an attractive wife would go off with a much older woman. "It's not the age, Jim." Frank educates him. "It's the mileage that counts!" Tosh agrees. "Age doesn't come into it; some people have just got it!" Frank continues before they all turn and go running back onto the estate at hearing a scream and thud.

On the floor is Mr Mancini's affair partner, Mrs Andreas. "What do you think, was she pushed?" "Get Ramsey and get an ambulance!" Frank orders, noting that Andreas' jumper is inside out. Jim tells him she'd mentioned a husband. The Mancini's come running over with Pete so it can't have been either of them. She lives on the floor below them at number 31. Frank sends Tosh to her flat to look for any signs of what might have happened and to see if her husband is home.

Jim and Tosh attempt to race up the stairs and are sent flying by a gang of vocal Italians running down them. Tosh manages to grab one man and bring him down in a headlock until Jim can stagger back to his feet and help him.

Outside Pete and Frank attempt to stop the Italians from attacking the Mancini's. Jim helps restrain one as Tosh brings out his little friend from the stairs. "Where the hell did these people come from?!" Frank yells.

Jim stops one of them from stabbing Mancini - or Pete who he's right next to - by shouting a warning. Pete smacks him on his arm to make him drop the knife. Thankfully, Uniform backup comes running and helps contain the fighting.

"I want all these people arresting!" Frank orders, pointing at one man who comes running towards him about to strike him. "You so much as sneeze in my direction, and it'll be GBH!"

Pete forces Mancini against a wall and orders a man who has come armed with a tool to "SCRAM!" Thankfully, Tosh appears and grabs him away. Trapped in the lift with Pete, Mr Mancini is arrested and then further arrested for assaulting Pete, who fell against the side of the lift when Mancini tried to dodge him. Pete quotes several parts of the Police Act legislation, warning Mancini that he's going to teach him to 'stop swinging it around, you slaaag!'.

The paramedics finally arrive and load the victim onto a stretcher. WPC Extra is tasked by Frank to go in the ambulance with her whilst Tosh and Jim are to coordinate what's happening. Jim asks Pete to look after a group of arrested men. "They're Italians!" "I don't give a toss if they're Martians. I'm looking after Mancini!" Tosh shouts him back and asks PC Extra to take Mancini to the ambulance instead. He warns Pete to stop behaving like a one-man band as it's an attempted murder.

Malcolm tells Frank and Tosh that the next-door flat is empty and that no one else appears to have seen anything. Frank tells Malcolm not to let anyone else in until it's been checked over by SOCO. "What have you found?" Tosh asks. Frank knows it's not a suicide. There's one shoe left in the living room, which indicates a struggle from inside the flat.

The A&E department is overrun by angry Italians. One of the women shouts "SCREW YOU AND THE REST OF YOUR FAMILY!" at Mrs Mancini and they argue in Italian. Frank arrives as a porter shouts for help. He has blood on him and tells Frank that a patient is being attacked by a man with a kebab knife. Jim, Tosh and Frank run in the direction he pointed and hear screaming coming. The injured man is Mancini, who is found collapsed on the stairs. They split up into all directions, looking for the suspect with PC Extra remaining with Mancini.

Jim and Pete follow blood trails and Jim expresses surprise that Mancini isn't dead from the blood loss. "Yeah, it's a shame." Pete drawls in a tone that suggests it really isn't. They head into the dark boiler house. Pete has to go inside alone with a lighter to try and find the man with Jim remaining by the door as there's no other light source he can find. "Remember he's got a kebab knife." Jim warns him, telling him he doesn't like the look of this. "Chickeeeeen." Pete calls back.

Pete finally finds a light switch deeoer inside the room and turns the lights on which finally allows Jim to join him. They remain as quiet as they can and hope their movements are hidden by the sounds of the machines.

Ken questions a porter about what is in the bag he's carrying as he leaves an operating theatre. "A leg." he answers calmly. Ken decides against checking it!

Pete climbs to the next level just above Jim. Both he and Jim are spotted by the suspect, who draws back into the shadows. He's wearing a mask and holding the knife and it's all very horror movie like. He then gets to the switches and turns the lights off before leaving the boiler room all together.

Jim smacks his head and shouts 'OW!' and then for Pete. Pete is too busy running after the man! Jim catches up and spots their suspect running down a corridor opposite them.

Tosh wants to speak to the unconcious Mrs Andreas. The doctor is astounded and tells him she can't speak, she's just had surgery and she's under anesthetic! Tosh says he'll used a board to communicate with her but a statement is vital incase she dies. She's out for the count still, how he expects her to function is anyone's guess! "DID YOUR HUSBAND PUSH YOU!?" he shouts in the British way of trying to communicate with the locals when abroad. The doctor tells him to leave.

Frank chastises Jim and Pete for letting the suspect get away. "I'm quite glad he has, Guv. He's got a kebab knife!" Jim reminds him. Frank tells Jim to get a description of the victims husband whilst taking Pete with him into the Intensive Care Unit. Pete literally bumps into a nurse, apologising with a cheeky smile and a "Sorry love..." He's still distracted and watching after her as Frank walks on. "I'll have to come back and check out some of these nurses later!" he grins. "What woman in her right mind would want to go out with a wrist job like you, Ramsey?" Pete just looks amused. "You're the second person to call me that!" Pete suggests Frank has a problem with him because of his car. Frank clarifies. His problem is with Pete himself because he behaves like a prat. The hospital has been remodelled and Frank is getting dizzy trying to find the ITU. They're spotted by a doctor who leads them there whilst they continue to talk. Pete calls Mike 'a clotheshanger' and claims he has more right than Jim to be in CID. "You may not like me but I get results!"

The doctor asks if it's Mrs Andreas that they're visiting and asks if she was pushed. Frank tells him they're not sure. Pete tells Frank quietly that the doctor is the man they're looking for. "Are you sure?" "Think so, he could have dumped the kebab knife." They charge after him and ask for identification - the poor man is innocent and really was just a helpful doctor who doesn't have his ID so ends up getting shoved against the wall and frisked. The real suspect, Mr Andreas, is climbing the stairs towards the Intensive Care Unit. "What's that?" " A packet of extra strong mints!"

Mr Andreas pushes a cart up behind Ken who orders him to wait there. Andreas side steps the cart and escapes further into the unit, still armed with the knife. Ken, Pete, Tosh and Frank end up running after him.

Mr Andreas shouts at them to keep away from him when he tries to find his wife. He takes one poor innocent victim hostage - thankfully she's unconscious - asking to know where his wife is. Some quick thinking from Tosh tells him his wife is dead and in the mortuary when really she's in the operating theatre again. Andreas breaks away and runs down the corridor with Pete following and Jim joining the police conga. Andreas blocks the door he runs into with a mop so Pete continues down the fire escape with Ken tasked to call for further back up direct to the mortuary as CID bang on the door for someone to let them in.

A nurse lets them in and directs them to where Andreas went. Claire spots him coming and jumps to the side behind a heavy door and kicks it closer just as Andreas reaches it. It knocks him clean out cold, allowing Pete to safely arrest him. Pete shouts for a doctor. "RAMSEY! What you done?!" Frank demands. "Claire done this!" he tells him with Tosh sounding absolutely astounded. "... Did she?" Frank congratulates her whilst grinning. He then calls Ken a prat for 'letting old Shish Kebab' ere' get past him. "If you don't keep your eye on things son, Jesus will not be your friend, he'll be your next door neighbour!" When Mr Andreas comes round, Frank lets him know he's nicked.

Jim congratulates Claire for what she did and asks him to put a note on Mancini's body. Claire didn't know he was dead. Jim gives her rather exact instructions which part of the mortuary to find him in. Not at suspicious. Claire enters and looks around, going to drawer 16 as requested. As she pulls it out, the 'body' leaps up and spooks her with Jim and Tosh laughing.

Tosh pretends he spots Ken approaching and they talk Claire into playing the body to give him a scare, giggling as they shut the door.

It's not Ken approaching however, it's Frank. They all leave the mortuary with the boys still giggling! "What's up with you lot?!" Frank asks, not in on the joke.

All goes quiet for a few moments...

"... Hello?!" Claire calls. "... Pete?"

[forensicated]

05x32 - No Shelter

Interesting fact: Terry Marcel is directing and his daughter, Kelly Marcel (actor sister of Rosie Marcel) plays an extra at a party.

A PC 'extra' who later becomes Timothy Able in about 20 eps is guarding the front desk as an Italian gentleman asks for directions. Timothy disappears into the back of the front office (nice picture of it here...) to ask Tom what he should do.

Tom calls upstairs for Jim because he knows a little bit of Italian. When asked, Jim admits he knows 'a bit' but doesn't look too keen on the thought of being able to understand properly.

Yorkie's having trouble with his girlfriend and they argue on the telephone. Tom urges him to hurry up and he promises he'll only be a couple more minutes.

In the canteen, Taffy, Viv, Claire and Malcolm are reading the papers and discussing how much the wind kept them awake. Taffy says it's the deterioration in the ozone layer, also known as the greenhouse effect. Malcolm reckons his flat felt like someone had started up a nuclear winter. [You forget how big the threat of Nuclear War was then. How things change... ha!] Behind them, Tosh is frying something at a cooker and tells them they've got a 'nice morning' outside where it's peeing it down. Tom calls for his uniform lot to finish and get back outside. "It's only a little bit of rain!"

Jim reports that the driver is Scilian and he wants to get to the Blackwall Tunnel but Jim can't remember which is left and which is right in Italian.

Pete clearly had a good night if the others didn't...! The boys think it was from a fight, but it definitely doesn't look like it! He tries to find a scarf to cover it up but only Jim has one he can borrow - and it's bright yellow. That's a no then. Tom leads briefing as Pete comes in late and with a plaster over his bruise, having 'cut himself shaving'. "I thought perhaps a vampire had got you."

Heading out on the beat, it's still peeing it down and is pitch black. Pete wants to nick the driver of a broken down van for blocking the station carpark exit and pissing him off. It's the Italian from the front office. Tom sends him out on foot patrol with Yorkie instead, as they can't get the cars out. Yorkie disappears when Pete wants to nick someone for a naff crime just to get back in the station; he's clearly still worked up about his argument with his girlfriend.

Malcolm and Vic are trying to hide under a canopy but are still getting wet through. I love their friendship, they really have a natural rapport together. Just look at their grins! Viv is supposed to be going out that afternoon. Malcolm asks if she plays Trivial Pursuits(!) "Often!"

Yorkie makes his way over to a phonebox and calls his girlfriend again. Their argument is interrupted when Yorkie is asked to go to a report of an all night party. He tries to get his girlfriend to agree to see him that afternoon, but she refuses and he has to leave it to go to the call.

Pete tries to stop someone for cycling the wrong way down a one-way street but unfortunately for his dreams of a dry uniform and warm station - he gets away!

Tosh reports to Tom that the ceiling in CID is leaking but Tom claims he already has enough on with the carpark being blocked.

Viv and Malcolm keep hiding under a shop doorway before Alec radios them to attend to an ongoing alarm.

Thankfully it stops raining, but the officers are all still wet through. Pete has to give directions to a young woman... and then he gets splashed by a massive lorry!

Viv and Malcolm find the gate to the trading estate locked. "Ladies first..." Malcolm grins before both of them climb over. The estate is vast so they split up. Viv calls in her location and spots someone so she advances on them. The man claims he's a builder before wrestling with her and hitting her to the floor. He aims a gun at her before being interrupted by Malcolm shouting. Viv shouts a warning that he's armed and Malcolm does an impressive leap into the bushes.

Viv runs after him, closely followed by Malcolm. A few moments later, the van speeds towards her and she throws something at it to try to stop it. At the same time, the man aims the gun at her and takes a shot. Malcolm hears her scream and runs immediately towards her whilst the van crashes into another parked car.

"Oh god, BASTARD!" Malcolm shouts, gently turning Viv over and believing she's been shot. Thankfully it looks like there's just a cut from a bit of window shrapnel or the side of the bullet because for a horrible moment there it looked like he'd shot her in the face. She reassures him she's OK and tells him to go after him. Malcolm only leaves her when he's truly sure she's OK and calls it in before running after the burglar. He advances on the van and shouts for him to throw his gun out the car. There's no movement inside, so he slowly moves nearer and looks inside. The burglar has gotten away.

Pete shelters in a doorway, miserably eating a packet of Munchies.

Taffy pulls over a car with a faulty break light and does a vehicle check. The driver doesn't speak but does do as he's asked by both him and Claire. Taffy tells him to clean up the inside of the car and to get his light fixed as they let him go. It's only the burglar who shot at Viv....!

Yorkie asks the partygoers to turn the music down. The young woman whose party is it protests that it's almost time to get up so she doesn't have to because 'it's not that loud'. Yorkie asks again and she snarkily snaps 'OK'.

Tom, Jim, Tosh and some other Uniform have reached the Industrial Estate. Tom tells them that Viv is OK but in pain with cuts and bruises. They've found some studs and similar that came off his jacket in the fight. Tom's going to accompany her to the hospital. Jim sniffs through the gap of the door that the man was trying to break in and tells Tosh it smells 'funny' like an Indian Takeaway. Tosh laughs and tells him not to be daft, but he sniffs and claims it smells more like a Chinese. They need to work out what's in the room, who owns the targeted premises, and if he had a larger van there to load up, where did the little one that he drove off in come in? Tosh makes a proper Dad joke about getting a cup of tea and sends Jim off to get him a drink from the nearby snack bar so he can ask the owner what he saw.

Viv relives what she saw and thought when she was held at gunpoint. It's all too similar to Tom's own thoughts when he thought his time was up. Tom sympathises with her and says that it's said that the chances of them being in those circumstances again is very rare [If only it was for poor Viv...]

"Didn't even have me truncheon with me..." she almost whimpers and refuses a hug, telling him she's alright. "Me bag..." she mutters, "I've left me bag behind!" Luckily, her nose isn't broken and her teeth are still in place. It will be a bit sore for a while, but she will be OK.

The van was stolen 2 days ago in Chigwell. It's a new food importing company and they're trying to locate the unit owner. Tosh makes another joke but Jim isn't feeling it and reminds him that Viv and Malcolm could have been killed. "That's the sort of sobering thought that gets me drunk!" Tosh frowns, telling Jim that he has to keep a sense of humour in the job." "Everyone tells me what I need in this job..." Jim mutters.

Pete smirks to himself as he stops at the side of a large puddle far enough back as another van approaches. He thinks he's swerved that bad luck...

Pete calls at his most recent flings and asks if she can let him in to dry off and warm up. She is about to refuse before he promises it's only to dry his trousers. When he leaves, he's sure they've shrunk but he doesn't mind given how they spent their time. It becomes clear that it's Yorkie's girlfriend... uh oh!

The owner of the unit arrives and has no idea who might want to steal from him. Inside is a kitchen and Jim tells the owner they could smell the Chinese food from outside. "We are Vietnamese." Whoops. Jim is saved by a well-timed radio call! The unit owner tells Tosh he employs 16 people, alongside some family members. Tosh asks for their names and addresses.

Jim's radio call was a follow-up on the yellow escort seen hanging around by the snack bar owner. The man has previous and soon Tosh and Jim are outside the mans house with armed support.

Armed support force their way in and arrest the man. Or rather they will in a couple of minutes after squirting a bit of air freshener. At least he won't have problems with constipation.

Tom drives Viv back to the station and they stop at a disturbance that is called in just as they drive past. It's the party girls again! They're refusing to quieten down and are rocking the police van as Taffy, Yorkie and Claire try and arrest them. Tom tells Viv to wait in the car and goes to assist. Seeing the chaos Viv goes to get stuck in and ends up being assaulted herself [By Kelly Marcel as mentioned above, the directors daughter]. The girl is dragged off by Taffy and shouts that it's police brutality! Tom checks on Viv who is holding her face. The poor love has only gotten hurt on the other cheek.

At the station at the end of the shift, Viv goes to attempt to put lipstick on but one look in the mirror stops her. Claire asks if she's alright. She's clearly not, despite what she says. Claire tells him that they've got the burglar and that he had a lock up of things he'd stolen from other jobs. She also thinks Viv will get a commendation. Viv is unmoved. "Have I got any hair missing?" she asks. Claire tells her no and asks if she's alright again. She says she didn't do anything and 'today was a day like any other day.' She recounts what happened and starts to cry.

Malcolm tells Pete and Taffy that he knew the man had a gun and still doesn't know why he chased him. Taffy tells him he'll get a commendation for it. Pete asks him for a drink and Malcolm agrees as he's going to get absolutely legless to forget it all. "She's lucky, she's not a bad looker, our Viv." Pete muses.

Viv asks Malcolm if he's alright. He congratulates her for stopping him. Pete jokes that they're alright on the beat with Malcolm. Malcolm asks Pete if he's wearing perfume...

Tosh comforts and congratulates Viv and tells her that the prisoner says she put up a good fight and that he wants to see her to apologise. Viv walks off to the cells and peeks in through the grill. The man moves nearer the grill and has a look at her face. He says he didn't aim to hit her and wouldn't kill anyone. He claims they shouldn't use women to patrol at night because it's dangerous. Finally, he adds a 'sorry, love!' Viv just shuts the grill in his face.

At the front desk, Timothy comes back to speak to Tom. He has another problem. A rather angry young woman is there demanding to know why her sister has been arrested. "Your thugs broke into a respectable party, beat up my boyfriend and arrested my sister." She wants to make a complaint. Tom looks flatly at her before he's called back by Tosh. Tosh presents him with a present - it's what the thief was after. He jokes that it will be replacing them soon enough!

The angry woman shouts and so Tosh just smirks and tells Tom to wait...

[forensicated]

05x31 - One For The Ladies

Tosh and Alistair visit Victoria Park Hotel and speak to the manager. A man has been found dead in one of the rooms. The hotel isn't the best and the officers opt to take the stairs due to a staff member being stuck in the lift with overflowing bins. The stairs are no better, filled with used trays, dirty bedding and rubbish. "The Health Department should wipe this place off the map!" Alistair wouldn't be surprised if they didn't know the rundown hotel existed.

In the room, the officers find a doctor covering the body. From his initial examination, the doctor believes the man died of a massive heart attack during the night. The doctor tells them he has had dealings with the deceased before. He is Polish, in his mid-fifties and called Stefan Grodzinski. Grodzinski didn't look after himself and travelled a lot so the doctor considers it was only a matter of time before it happened. Nothing looks suspicious to his opinion. Tosh lifts a stinking plate of food from the floor. "Are you sure it wasn't food poisoning, doctor?" He asks - only half joking! The manager insists that Grodzinski always sent out for his meals, so it isn't one of theirs! It has been sitting there a while, however! Grodzinski was a regular visitor who stayed 4-5 times a year due to his job as a travelling tie salesman. Tosh presses play on the adult video that Grodzinski was last watching, calling it 'Blue Peter' with a grin to Alistair. The doctor clarifies that the man definitely had an eye for the ladies.

Reg teases Ken and Claire about being a couple after they're partnered together. "Ignore him, Ken. You know what a prat Hollis is." Brownlow admonishes Reg for standing around grinning and tells him to find something useful to do.

Ken pouts that even just talking to girls in the station means that people instantly start thinking they are sleeping together. He has a steady girlfriend and doesn't want stuff like that going around.

Claire: "What does Reg Hollis do all day?" Ken: "... Collates?" Claire: "Half the day he collates. The other half he snoops around the station trying to find out who's doing what to who!" Ken: "Suppose so." Claire: "And why? Because he's doing nothing to nobody. That sort never is. You lot are all the same, it's all you ever think about." Ken: "Not all of us!!!" [long pause] "Well, not all the time."

Derek calls down to Sgt Penny and asks him to send Tony and Pete up to his office when he can.

Avon and Somerset police have located the wife of Mr Grodzinski. She is travelling up to formally identify the body that afternoon. Alistair is confused as the manager of the hotel had just rung him to tell him that Mrs Grodzinski had been to the hotel looking for her husband. He put her in a taxi that should arrive at the station anytime now. Tosh thinks there's something not right about it; they'd been all through his belongings in the room, but there's no address book with names of his clients found - surely that would be indispensable for a travelling salesman.

Derek bollocks Pete for not following through on his cases, including one with a set of lost keys being handed in over a month ago. Pete reckons he phoned the owner but can't remember when. Derek points out the owner had the keys changed by the time he actually rang her. "... So she doesn't need her keys back?" "But she wants the keyRING as it has sentimental value!" Derek tasks him with using his refs to go through the property store to find said keyring and return it to the woman. "Word of advice, son." he says as Pete starts to leave. "Try not to let your thoughts show quite so obviously on your face."

Tosh tells Alistair he'd checked back on the phone call and that Mrs Helen Grodzinski will arrive within the hour. Alistair stops him and opens the door to the Sgt's office to introduce him to Mrs Rita Grodzinski. He tasks Tosh with taking her statement whilst he goes to fetch them drinks. Tosh struggles for what to say at first!

Claire and Ken find a group of youths messing around at the back of a bingo hall. The boys run off as soon as they spot the police. Claire stops him from chasing them as she recognises one of them and says they'll visit his mum once she finishes her usual bingo game inside. Claire pauses and realises that it's the fire exit that they appear to have cut the lock off - why would it be locked up if the bingo hall was open? Ken follows her inside and they ask to speak to the manager. The unhelpful staff member shouts after them to stop them because 'no one is allowed down there' but can't be bothered to follow and stop them. Claire guesses the manager is knocking his secretary off and forgot to open it. Suddenly, they hear shouting from the manager's office and walk in on a robbery!

The robbers have the secretary held with a knife to her throat and one orders the officers to leave the room or he'll cut her throat. Claire tells them all they've done so far is attempted robbery, so they should let the girl go without making it worse. One wants to, as Vince - the one in 'charge' - told him it would be a piece of cake and he didn't sign up for violence. A man barges the door into the back of Vince and causes him to fall forward, which in turn allows Ken to grab him, get him off the secretary and restrain him. Claire grabs the other, who puts up no fight.

Having taken the statement, Tosh sees Rita Grodzinski out of the station. She seems to have a thing for tubby mid-fifties men and flirts at Tosh as she leaves. Tosh tells Alistair she's definitely married to the dead man and proved it with a copy of her marriage certificate so they believe that Avon and Somerset have cocked up with the identifying of Helen Grodzinski.

Tony tells Derek that he has been an Area Car Driver for 4 years (1989 so 1985). Derek informs him in that time he has had 8 POLACs (police accidents), "10 if you count the two you squared up." Derek tells him he's cost the force 16K in repairs. [This is doubly interesting because in 1998 in Making Up, just after the Simon Atwell accident, it's said that Tony has been an Area Car Driver for 11 years (so 1987) and has had 10 accidents (which surely must also count Simon Atwell's death) and cost the force £16K in repairs. One of these things is not like the other...!] Each time he had an accident he was suspended from the role and then reinstated later because they were short of Area Car Drivers. Tony claims he was only directly responsible for 2 of those 8 accidents. (and definitely not the one where he murdered a postbox!) Derek reads Tony's opinion where the car skidded on a wet drain cover and he couldn't regain control. However, the official report suggests he took a corner too quickly, overcorrected and lost control of the car. He's given a final warning and reinstated as an Area Car Driver - against Derek's wishes, again because they don't have anyone else who can do it! He warns him to drive as though he is in an invalid car as he'll be in one for real if he has any more accidents.

Tosh asks Reg to do him a favour and look up Stefan Grodzinski and bring him every bit of information that he can between London and Bristol. Alistair introduces Tosh to Helen Grodzinski and asks him to take her statement.

Charles has had a request from Reg to allow him three days off to attend a Federation Conference. Charles had previously allowed him a day and half, but Reg has now decided he wants to attend the entire thing so he can properly represent Sun Hill's officers. Charles refuses as there's no way he can get cover for Reg's Collator role. He's well aware Reg has an ambition to become Chairman of the Police Federation 'and appear daily on television' but he isn't there yet and so only has permission to attend the day and half originally agreed.

Helen Grodzinski identifies Stefan's body to Tosh via a picture. She shows him a copy of their marriage certificate. They met at a singles club in Clifton and have been married for 6 years.

Claire and Ken bring their arrests to the station. Vince is kicking off and trying to threaten Tony to keep quiet but Claire tells him not to listen because he can't do anything.

Tosh returns to the hotel and asks to see Grodzinski's room again. It's already been cleaned and let out. Tosh walks in on a couple getting dressed and has to identify himself. He tells them that a man died in the bed the night before and that rigor mortis was setting in as they arrived. The couple can't get out quick enough! He searches the room and finds Grodzinski's passport under the mattress.

Reg finally catches up with Tosh and tells him that Grodzinski had at least 7 different addresses. Two of them are in London, and one is a restaurant he owns with his wife. Tosh stops Alistair from popping out for some clarinet reeds and takes him to visit the restaurant.

Reg stops Claire and Ken and asks if it's true that they had been involved in a hostage situation. Reg asks if they would consider it was a stressful and dangerous occurrence. ".... Yeah?" Ken shrugs in an offhand manner and tries to leave. Reg nods and says he likes to know when it happens so he can report it at the Fed Rep conference, as stress is a real problem for officers. "It didn't give us much stress, did it, Ken?" "Like falling off a log, Claire."

Alistair is extra surprised at hearing how Grodzinski had 7 addresses tied to him as he found him a rather undesirable character. He's definitely a bigamist, but as he's dead nothing can be done about it. Tosh is taking him to the restaurant to meet the third Mrs Grodzinski and they have to break the news. When they leave Tosh 'jokes' that he wouldn't mind attending the man's funeral for when the wives all come face to face.

Pete meets the owner of the keyring Derek bollocked him about at the front desk and hands it over. He admits to Tony afterwards that it took him ages to find it. Tony smirks and pushes him out of the way so he can deal with an attractive blonde wanting to speak to them. She's there to report a missing person... and it turns out she is the fourth Mrs Grodzinski!

Begs the question with at least three wives in the area - why did he stay in a grotty hotel rather than with one of them?! And how did they not see each other out and about?

[forensicated]

05x30 - The Visit

Uniform are struggling to clear an area inside a shopping center from gawkers after a man is found shot. Malcolm even has to stop one woman with 2 kids in a pram from stopping and staring front row center! Alistair and Frank are the CID officers called to the scene. Alistair confirms that it's too late; the man has already died.

Pete and Viv are visiting Wormwood Scrubs to speak to Davis, a prisoner on remand. Or rather, Viv is. Pete remains in the panda to smoke and relax. Pete radios in to say he's going to be waiting for a while, so to remove him from patrol.

Poor Ken is shouted at by Alistair for not intervening when the man was shot. All Ken can tell Alistair and Frank is that 2 black men shot the man at point-blank range. He heard the shot, looked down and saw 2 men walking off casually afterwards. By the time he'd gotten down to check on the man and look for them, they'd already disappeared into the crowds.

Latest shock: Pete Ramsey can read! 😂😂

Dashers joins Frank et al at the shopping center and tells him a Superintendent Dunmore is going to head up the investigation. Some of his team are on the way but he's given his permission for Sun Hill to continue helping out as he's tied up with a double shotgun attack. Forensics and the Crime Scene Photographer are on the way. Frank tasks Mike and Ken with following the body to the morgue when Forensics are finished to fingerprint and search him to try and identify who he is.Alistair is to take charge on the scene whilst Frank disappears to talk to a snout. Frank is concerned that if he has another late night at work that week, his girlfriend might finally off him! Alistair is unusually sassy when asked by forensics how many people have been around the victim since the shooting happened.

Inside the prison, Viv is shown into a visiting area. Outside Pete watches a woman in a mini skirt approach with a rather large smirk on his face. Viv's prisoner is bruised and tells her he 'slipped on a bar of soap'. He had written to Viv to tell her he had information. He's had enough of being on remand after 9 months. "It's only for house breaking!" "22 cases! You were already on bail for another 7!" Leon continues to banter with her rather than answer the real question.

Frank's snout, Doris *ahem* Delores owns a string of massage parlours which are definitely only for aromatherapy - alright? 😉 Frank explains what happened and asks her if she knows or has heard anything. He thinks it could be something to do on the unsavoury side where there's money involved - such as MP's or Judges. Delores can't help him and Frank admits he was only scratching just incase. He has to leave a few moments later when he's paged. Delores suggests he use oil of jasmine if he has any twinges as it's "very uplifting." "Yeah, so I remember..." Frank smirks cheekily. "See you, Doris."

Alistair's murder victim is zipped into a body bag as a busker sings nearby. Mike reports that he's found three witnesses who all corroborate what Ken said happened. Alistair dispatches him to go with the body. Alistair asks the busker if he saw anything. True to Mike's suspicions, he claims he saw nothing. Alistair gives him a fiver and he tells him that the victim arrived in a gold coloured Ford Granarda taxi but clams up when asked more. "What do you expect for a fiver?" DI Warrick arrives at the scene to take over and asks Alistair for everything Sun Hill have found out so far.

Viv is starting to get frustrated with Leon as he won't give her a straight answer and she raises her voice. Leon shifts awkwardly in his seat and waves politely at another prisoner who looks over, asking her subtly to keep her voice down. Leon tells Viv he's not had a visitor in the entire 9 months since he was put inside. He then starts to explain that he's been racially harassed. Across from them, the prisoner starts to passionately kiss the woman Pete saw outside. Viv watches the man remove something from his mouth and put it in his pocket seconds later. Leon tells her 'she never saw anything' but she knows it was drugs. Viv says she has to report it and Leon points out that he'll be the one who gets blamed. Viv grits her teeth and asks him to tell her why he asked her to visit and then she'll leave.

Leon tells her that she'd have to look after him with a 'few bits and pieces' if she wants the information as she'd likely not be searched as a police officer. Viv immediately realises what's going on and what he really wants her to bring in for him. She is disgusted and stands to leave but Leon leaps over the table and grabs her by her throat, producing a pair of scissors from the table in front of him...!! [How the hell would he have EVER gotten them into the visiting room, especially when he had them in quick reach on the table?] The prison guards try to talk Leon down, but he threatens to cut Viv's throat if they don't open the door and let him out of the room. The guard quickly lets them out into the corridor and sets off the alarm.

At the morgue, the assistant is taking the victim's fingerprints. The clothing has foreign labels, and the victim is carrying notes held together by a gold money clip. Mike suggests he could be American. Alistair rings the morgue and asks Mike to follow up on the taxi lead. Mike asks the Coroner to take a couple of mugshots of the body so he can show them to potential witnesses.

A guard casually leaves the men's toilets despite the ongoing alarm. Leon orders him to move out of the way before dragging Viv into the toilets. Once inside, Leon throws Viv to the floor and she drops her handbag, which sends a pair of handcuffs flying. "There's no need for that. I'm not going to do anything stupid!" Viv insists.

The taxi company's phone operator recognises the description of the gold Ford Granarda as belonging to a 'Terry'. He cross-checks the jobs and tells them that the customer was called Mr Jones and he was collected from the Menarge Hotel on Davenport Street.

Pete looks up as three police cars flashing their blue lights speed into the carpark of the prison. He pulls a 'huh' face and settles back in his seat to keep reading! Inside Leon has cuffed Viv to the sink.

The Deputy Governor of the prison runs to the toilet door and shouts through to Leon to ask if the police officer is alright. He doesn't answer so Viv shouts that she is. Leon shouts at her to keep quiet. He tries to talk to him but Leon shouts back that he only wants to talk to him now because he has a hostage. He threatens to harm her if anyone comes through the door.

Mike and Ken visit the hotel and hear that two men called to the hotel to visit Mr Jones that morning, but he had already gone out. They are described as black, in their thirties and wearing smart suits and sunglasses. They disappeared as soon as they heard Jones had left. They are led up to the room to find it in complete disarray, having already been ransacked. Ken asks the manager to wake up the staff member who booked Mr Jones in the previous night and to leave them to search the room.

Leon fiddles with the taps for a few moments and finds some white powder that he then starts to rub into his gums. Viv tells him that she's not his passport out of the prison as they won't let him leave. Leon says it's not about that and that she is 'the same as the rest of them'. The Deputy Governor asks if he can enter the toilets unarmed and alone. Leon warns him if he does then Viv will die. Viv shouts at him to stay outside and to give her a few more minutes. Leon tells Viv that he'll kill her if he's rushed. "If you kill me, then everything will be for nothing." She cries and then asks him to tell her his problem. She begs for her life. Leon just tells her to shut up.

Mike looks through the man's suits and claims that the clothes don't go with the man in the mortuary. Ken doesn't recognise any of the labels in the shirts. Mike admits he doesn't either but he does recognise that it's good quality. The clothes that Jones was wearing when killed were nothing like the quality of those in the room. Ken suggests he could be a Columbian drug dealer. Mike is concerned there's no passport in the room or on the body, nor any flight tags or other ID. He spots Ken flicking through the bible. "It's not the time for a sermon." Ken simply smiles. "Seek and ye shall find," he says, holding up a left luggage ticket from Paddington.

Leon has been taking more drugs, including pills as well as cocaine. Viv begs him not to continue. Leon tells her what it's like being a black man in prison. He claims he was even stabbed at one point and that the wardens all turned a blind eye. Viv asks why he never tried to speak to the Governor about it. He claims he'd never have been allowed to speak to him. He continues to show her more scars and tells her he's been in the prison hospital three times. Viv begs him to let her go and he says he's a dead man if he does. "They don't want me alive because I know too much!" Outside, more police are arriving and one is putting a ladder just beside the toilet window and quietly climbing up to broadcast what is happening to those outside the door.

The manager calls down to Mike and Ken that he's woken the receptionist up and she's ready to speak to them. Mike essentially shrugs and tells them to lock the room up and not let anyone in as he and Ken continue out of the hotel!

Leon is clearly heavily under the influence of the drugs and keeps shouting at Viv to shut up when she pleads for him to let her go. The officer watching outside reports that he's stepped away from Viv and so officers burst inside the loos. Viv cowers as Leon shouts at them to stay back and takes swipes at them with the scissors. He then shuts himself in a cubicle and tries to block the door, but the officers and wardens are fighting to get in. An officer undoes Viv's handcuffs and helps her to her feet with the Assistant Govenor as Leon is wrestled out of the toilets. They offer her a cup of tea and she asks if they have anything stronger!

Dashers shows the man behind the desk at Paddington his warrant card and asks where he might find the left luggage. He lets them in and produces the suitcase. Ken thinks it's going to be filled with coke. "You've got drugs on the brain!"

The Paddington Staff member happily recounts the last time the police wanted to see left luggage as he forces the suitcase locks. "Turned out to be a dismembered body, didn't it!" he grins. Mike slowly opens it and finds that it's a sniper's rifle. The man who checked it in was from Cape Town. The description sounds similar to that of the men who visited the hotel looking for Mr Jones. The staff member is certain it was not the man in the picture that Mike showed him of the man in the mortuary. The staff member suggests he could have been a member of the diplomatic agency from Africa. "I could be wrong." "Or you could be completely right..." Mike frowns, asking to use his telephone.

The deputy Governor pours Viv a healthy measure of scotch as she tells him what Leon said about being beaten up and hospitalised. He clarifies the one on Leon's stomach is an appendix scar and that the other two were self-inflicted. The head wound was from banging it on the cell wall when high on drugs. He says he had talked to Leon several times. One of his complaints was that he didn't get a decent job whilst on remand. The job system is different for those on remand compared to prisoners who have had their sentence but to appease him, he placed him in the kitchen - where Leon put disinfectant in the food - and then in the library - where he set fire to the books both due to being high on drugs.

DI Warrick tells Frank he's disappointed with how little Sun Hill have done. Frank protests that he has had people everywhere looking into every angle they've found. Mike rings as Warrick and the Mortuary Assistant discuss the marks on the gold money clip. Mike tells Frank he suspects that it is a political matter. The guy in the mortuary was due to collect a sniper's rifle from Paddington's Left Luggage that was deposited by a man from South Africa. He suspects that the men who were at the hotel looking for Mr Jones were from the ANC (African National Congress) He suggests that the case get passed on quickly as Sun Hill are out of their depth with it. The Mortuary Assistant suggests the money clips hallmarks are from South Africa at the same time. "You mean they got to him before he got to them." Frank mutters, telling Mike he's done a cracking job and to stay with the rifle but not to make any further inquiries.

Warrick asks Frank to get the gold teeth from the dead body and have them tested as there's some suggestion that South Africa features heavily in the man's background. Frank tells Warrick that he should forget all about it; he's not giving the job to him. He calls immediately through to Special Branch rather than explain further.

Viv finally makes it outside the prison. "What took you so long?!" Pete growls at her, starting the car. Viv remains silent and stares out the window, visibly choking back tears.

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05x29 - Fools Gold

Feat: Guest appearance from Billy Murray as DI Brian Jackman from the Serious Crime Squad.

Jim practically runs into the station after Pete and Yorkie have apprehended an armed robber. Pete reminds Jim that the man is Uniform's collar and not his! The prisoner, Hill (Played by Daniel Webb) snaps that he wants to see the boss immediately. Jim tells Yorkie and Pete to take Hill to the interview room and checks the gun in with Tom.

Frank is impressed with Jim and Uniform as Hill is responsible for a number of Post Office armed robberies. Frank goes to talk to Hill as he requested but he's clammed up. Jim can't resist gloating to Hill how they caught him - he'd shot at the ceiling to intimidate customers and staff in each Post Office and it was as good as a signature now they have the gun. Hill growls that he only wants to talk to Frank and not Jim. "We're all friends here..." Frank shrugs. Hill eyes him off before claiming he wants to do a deal. Frank removes the PC who had been guarding him and Jim out of the interview room. Hill knows he can be tied to all the Post Office jobs but he has some knowledge of 'bigger jobs' that he wasn't part of but heard all about. The Post Office jobs are nothing compared to them money wise. He mentions a gold bullion robbery but won't say anything more until he knows if Frank will give him a deal.

In the canteen, Jim is moaning about Frank swanning in and taking over. Bob points out that Hill isn't even Jim's collar. "That's not the point, is it!" He protests as Pete and Yorkie join the queue. The two officers aren't happy to hear that their collar is currently 'deal-making with Frank'. "He's grassing..." Bob clarifies for Yorkie.

Frank has softened towards Steve and lighs a cigarette for him as he tells him that he wants the lowdown on the other jobs.

[He could not be more monotone when he says that!]

Hill agrees, if Frank will give him protection from the gang members. Frank stares at him so Hill starts talking. The boss, Micklewhite owns a sweatshop. The back wall of his office is false and it's where they hide the guns. He doesn't know where the cash is kept. Micklewhite's boyfriend, Paul Craig, works for a gold courier. He provided them with polaroids of the inside of the vans and other inside information. He still works for them so as not to arouse suspicion. Hill asks Frank again for the deal.

Viv has brought in a 14-year-old shoplifter who has stolen condoms from every chemist on the High St. Both she and Tom are fighting to keep straight faces. "It was the Beano and Dandy in my day." Tom states.

Frank takes Hill's information up to the Chief Inspector. Frank is keen to act on it, but Derek asks how they can be sure he's not filling him full of rubbish? Frank says Hill knows too much, they've been able to confirm that three of the men are known associates of Micklewhite and the two of them were inside together a few years back. The Serious Crimes Agency have been contacted and are sending over DI Brian Jackman. Derek agrees to move forward and give Hill a deal but he wants it all above board. He orders Tom to bail the two prisoners in the female cells and to place Hill in there alone so he's isolated from anyone else they bring in.

Hill is marched through the station by Frank with an unimpressed Pete and Yorkie following. Bob joins the procession once they reach Custody and Hill is placed into the women's cell block. Frank tells him to ring the bell if he needs anything and Sgt Penny will bring it through to him. "I'm not room service, you know." Tom frowns at Frank. "Well, that's good because you're not getting any tips."

June and Viv are complaining about every call to each estate always being up several flights of stairs. This one is the third floor. It's to visit the young lad's mum to inform her that her son has been arrested for stealing condoms! Tom takes him a sandwich, cuppa and comic in the mean time. He tells Tom that they won't get an answer from her because she'll be with her boyfriend as she has been for the last three days. She'd left him in charge of his sisters who are 4 and 6. Tom realises this means the girls are home alone and he flies out the cell to tell June and Viv. It feels like a big explanation as to why he was shoplifting condoms was removed - surely food/drink/sweets would have been a better idea? Or toys/clothing/blankets?

Viv peeps through the letterbox and calls out to the girls to ask them to open the door. She explains they're police officers and are there because Christopher asked them to come and see them. He wants them to join him at the station. The elder of the two shakes her head and tells Viv to go away.

Frank shows Ted and Jim the record of David Micklewhite. They're due to move on the sweatshop that evening. He also tells them that DI Brian Jackman is on the way. He and Ted used to be DC's together. "... Should be like old times."Frank smirks. Ted does not look happy to be meeting an old 'friend'.

Frank sends a radio down to Hill for him to use in his cell. Tom is clearly not impressed by the special treatment he is receiving. Tom also passes him the comics he'd tried to give Christopher. "A 14-year-old kid was offered them. Thought they were a bit juvenile."

Jackman goes straight to meet Hill in his cell. Hill asks what he can get in return for helping them and Jackman says 'The usual for turning Queen's evidence." (without actually saying what that is!) Frank suggests that helping them might also help him keep his girlfriend. When he gets out they suggest he walk off into the sunset.

Jackman and his snazzy tie then head into the canteen to catch up with Ted who is not overly pleased to see him and barely says a word.

Jackman tells Ted that he didn't expect that Frank Burnside was still in the job - "not that there aren't a few people surprised by that, if you know what I mean." Ted warns him not to try it on with him as it won't get him anywhere. He walks off to the surprise of Frank who walks over and asks Jackman what happened. Jackman claims that they were good drinking friends until he was made DS over Ted. It was never the same after that, according to him.

A rather posh blonde, Janet Spencer, attends the front office, asking to speak to Frank Burnside about Steve Hill. Bob takes her name and asks her to wait whilst he tries to see if Frank knows about her visit.

Jackman lets his guard down when noone else is around to hear his phone call and tells his boss that he considers Sun Hill a Mickey Mouse outfit. He clams up when Frank appears and plays the game again. Frank tells him he can offer him 6 members of uniform and a photographer. He is clearly not buying Jackman's Mr Nice Guy act.

Taffy and Bob admire Ms Spencer and Taffy claims she's a cracker that would make him consider bigamy. Frank passes and Bob shouts over to him to get his attention before pointing Spencer out to Frank. Frank is pleased and shows her through personally.

Viv and June collect Christopher from the station and bring him - and Christine - to the flat to collect the girls. Christine is horrified to see the state of the place and the girls sat alone watching the only cartoon that it appears TPTB bought the rights to to show - Count Duckula!

Frank and Jackman lead the procession of police officers to Micklewhite's sweatshop. They burst inside and Micklewhite seems to think they're there for the workers, claiming that they're all legal 'as far as he knows'. He's concerned to hear they're there for him and that they're aware of the false wall in his office. Frank stops him from phoning anyone, and Jim brings in a sledgehammer, taking great chunks out of the wall. Micklewhite gives up any pretence and tells them Hill is the only one who knew about the wall and he's a dead man walking.

The mother of Christopher and the girls arrives at the station and demands to see her children. She claims they had no right to take the kids and she wants them back. Bob warns her that their Inspector wants a word with her.

Jim manages to break through the wall and they find several bags stuffed full of cash and guns. Jackman tells Frank he can't possibly trust Sun Hill with that amount of cash before claiming it was just a joke. Frank - alongside Ted and Jim - are not amused. "Don't start getting on my nerves Mr Jackman."

At the station, Ted and Jim are horrified that Frank is ordering them to change into shorts and t-shirts to count the money. Not only that, but Tom is going to search them before and after the search as a precaution. He assures them that he trusts them but he's not giving Jackman the opportunity to try anything on.

In CID, Jackman is on the phone urging his station to nick the rest of the gang before they hear about Micklewhite's arrest. They've already arrested his boyfriend and his sister. The boyfriend started telling them everything before he reached the station! Frank is less impressed to see Jackman ordering Yorkie to go out to collect a takeaway for Hill. Hill hands over the cash but asks him to get a receipt so he can claim it back. Yorkie looks to Frank who is unhappy but quietly tells him to do it.

Yorkie almost charges into June and apologises but explains he's annoyed because that morning he was arresting Hill for holding a sawn-off shotgun to a postmaster's head and now he's got the VIP treatment and he has to go out to get him a Chinese takeaway. [Good job he's not an officer where I live. A local joke is that they take to the roof and throw tiles for a few hours when they want a free takeaway from the police considering how often it happens.]

Jim and Ted finish counting the cash. There's close to 2 million pounds there. (Inflation-wise that's around £5million now) Ted tells Jim that that sort of money makes him think about never having to work again and laying on a beach somewhere hot, drinking sangria and pulling women. Jim shrugs and claims it's just like playing Monopoly to him and that he doesn't really think about it.

Outside the cell where they counted it they have to get patted down by Tom - who is also not happy about having to do it.

Christine goes to speak to Mrs Simpson, the mother of the three children. She tells her they've been taken into care and that she's lucky she's not going to prosecute her for leaving them. It's not the first time that Christopher has been left to look after them. She hands over the telephone number of the social worker and leaves the room, unimpressed by her sobs that she wants them back.

Yorkie returns with the takeaway for Hill. It's the first Tom has heard about it and he thinks it's out of order too. Hill's girlfriend is in the cell with him and Hill snarks about the food that Yorkie has brought which further pisses Yorkie off. Tom has to pull him away when he shouts at Hill. Jackman overhears and warns him that if he was in his station he'd have Yorkie on a charge. Frank ignores him and bollocks Hill for winding Yorkie up and tells Yorkie to remove the food and the girlfriend. Jackman reassures Hill they'll have him moved somewhere else as soon as he can okay it. Frank orders Jackman to his office.

Ted is amused to hear Jackman and Frank's raised voices approaching CID. Frank accuses him of having it all planned and Jackman admits as soon as they saw the amount of money involved that Sun Hill was not the place to hold him. Frank accuses him of being a smooth-talking user. Jackman accuses Sun Hill of being an amateur outfit, and "strictly a black and decker job." whereas he is the professional. Frank throws his coat at him and orders him out of his nick within the next hour, otherwise he'll bounce him out.

Frank catches Ted watching and the men exchange a long look. They talk about the money and he tells him it's all been counted and is currently locked in a cell awaiting collection. They both admit it would be nice for Sun Hill to get hold of the rest of the group but at least it means Jackman has to do the paperwork now. Frank admits that Ted was right about Jackman and offers to buy him a pint.

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