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05x05 - The Chain Of Command

TW: Domestic Violence in terms of the late 80's.

June teases Pete when she finds him eating again (and he litters, dropping a wrapper on the floor!) Pete claims he's a growing boy. They pass a group of drunks with an old lady laughing and slumping on the ground. "Oi oi, Inspector Frazer!" Pete laughs with June. He crouches beside the drunk, recognising her as Dolly. She tries to bottle him in return! June calls up the van to take her in to sober up. Pete can't see the point but June suggests she could bottle someone else.

Mrs Lavery (played by Stella Gonet) enters the front office to report being assaulted. Yorkie tells her he'll get the doctor to see her and assumes from her words that it's her husband who attacked her. A very grumpy (and posh) Mr Trevelyan keeps trying to get Yorkie's attention, telling him he has an appointment to see Mr Conway. Yorkie is busy with Mrs Lavery so asks him to wait.

Yorkie asks Viv to look after the woman he suspects of being beaten by her husband. Tom agrees to let her go as long as Yorkie tracks Taffy down to get him to drive the van to where Pete and June are. "If you can find Taffy, mate, you deserve a medal..." Malcolm mutters.

Tom - who already is known to Bob at least as having beaten his wife, Wendy, claims that domestics are not their job and that they never used to get involved. He claims if some baby-faced plonk came to interfere in his marriage he'd show them the door. "As long as your wife would say the same thing..." Malcolm muses. Tom asks what he's insinuating and Malcolm interrupts by finding what he'd been looking for on an FM radio - Radio Sun Hill, a pirate station - that had changed frequency to avoid being caught by the police.

Yorkie finds Taffy - he's apparently been spending most of his shift in the toilet after a vindaloo at a place Yorkie warned him to avoid. He's well enough to go to the shout though.

Derek drives past June and Pete who are still waiting for Taffy. He has to make an emergency stop as a drunk wanders out in front of him. He tells the officers that people 'shouldn't be living like this these days, not with Social Security and the NHS' and orders them to move because he's running late. "Give it a rest..." Pete sighs as he drives off.

Mr Trevelyan moans about being kept waiting by Derek. Yorkie arranges for Bob to come and have a word to 'keep him happy'. It doesn't work and he mutters about not knowing what it is about 'you people'.

Tom tells Malcolm to turn Radio Sun Hill down but he tells him he's using it as a snout as it runs all the local gossip. Tom thought Pirate Radio went out with Sgt Pepper. Malcolm is lost. "Is that a mate of yours, Sarge?" "No!!! Sgt Pepper!" "I've never met him...!" Tom walks off calling him ignorant.

Derek finally arrives at the same time as Taffy is about to leave. They face off and both reverse to allow the other to move but what happens is two Dynarod vans overtake Derek instead! He finally makes it in and is told that Mr Trevelyan is waiting for him. He knows - and tells Bob to do something about the amount of drunks on their patch. He doesn't care what it is he just wants them to move on! He also wants 5 minutes of space before Bob shows Trevelyan up.

Taffy finally arrives with June and Pete and they argue about who is going to get in the back with the drunk. Pete has an ace up his sleeve.

Bob asks them to wait there, they're coming to round up more drunks. Poor June stuck in the back...!

Mrs Lavery tells Viv that Kevin has assaulted her before but it's never been on her face so she's been able to hide it. She tells Viv she's made things worse by coming to speak to them when Viv says they can make arrangements for her so she doesn't have to go home.

Bob surveys the drunks. "Morning Campers. It's time to break up the party, we're going to take you down the nick!" Several are quite obviously happy to make their way into the back of the van for a free meal and somewhere warm. One threatens to 'tear Pete into pieces' and claims he has rabies. "Who's bloody stupid idea is this?" Taffy sighs. "No way to talk about Mr Conway, is it!" Bob retorts.

Trevelyan tells Derek that the Department of Trade And Industry insist that 'this matter' (Radio Sun Hill) is treated as a matter of urgency. Derek points out that the DTI are clearly not aware of how many cases make up a policeman's caseload. They can't pick and choose as every single job is a priority to someone. Trevelyan claims that it is urgent - even more so as he'd had to wait half an hour in the public lobby of the station and he has his job to do too.

"This isn't Westminster." Derek reminds him. "It's the East End. It's the Frontline." "I'm afraid I fail to see how this involves me." Trevelyan frowns, Derek politely tells him to essentially mind his own business and do his own job. Trevelyan says he doesn't see the point in continuing the conversation. By law, there needs to be a police presence to prevent a breach of the peace and he's going in that day. Derek warns him not to lecture him about the law. They will assist but they're undermanned and overstretched. Derek asks him to wait a short while so they can have a proper response. Trevelyan refuses. He wants Radio Sun Hill shut down NOW.

Alec is not impressed to see his new 'visitors', especially as half the cells are unusable because of the drains. He has to double up the cell residents and try not to vomit as the vagrants are searched.

Ted is asked to help the DTI. Ted also doesn't think it's urgent enough to go in the same day and that it doesn't require the presence of a CID Sgt. He, like Malcolm, has been gleaning information from Radio Sun Hill, in fact, they recently netted a rather large result from what started as a whisper on the station. Trevelyan refuses to listen.

Mrs Lavery wants to forget everything she told Viv. Viv encourages her to finish her statement but Lavery insists it's a waste of time and she doesn't want to put them to bother. Viv says she's bet she's come to report it before but hasn't been able to walk into the station. Mrs Lavery admits that she's right and Viv tells her hundreds of women wish they could do the same. Mrs Lavery tries to walk out but Viv practically frogmarches her to see the force doctor.

Viv finds Bob in the collater's room looking through the drawers. Viv thinks they should take the decision out of the woman's hands and charge the husband themselves as it's not the first time he's hurt her and he sounds like he has a real temper. Bob doesn't think she will see it through to conviction and claims that for some women it's a way of life like bingo and a roast dinner. Viv is irritated but he points out that she has to make up her own mind to leave him and keep to that decision. Viv agrees she wouldn't.

Mike and Jim enter CAD and moan about the volume Malcolm is playing Radio Sun Hill at. They also moan at hearing that Taffy and Ted have already set off with the DTI bloke ahead of them.

Mrs Lavery has finished with the doctor and says she's going home because her husband will be expecting his dinner. Viv tells her that she's phoned a women's refuge and they've got space for her and she'd be safe. She tells her not to go home either way even if she doesn't go to the refuge. Viv says that, even if she hasn't signed her statement, they can still charge her husband and probably will. She's shocked when Mrs Lavery corrects her. It's not her husband who assaulted her, it's her lover. She's only scared to go home because her husband will see her black eye and cuts and want to know what happened.

Alec has to hit the panic alarm when one of the groups of drunks in the cells start fighting. The officers pile in and separate them. One tries to make his escape and is stopped by Bob physically pinning him down as he goes to help in Custody. He clearly recognises him. "Hello, Bob."

Mrs Lavery refuses to name her boyfriend and walks out, saying she's got an idea what to say to her husband now. "Thanks for the tea!" "Bye-bye Handsome...." she coos to Yorkie as he leaves.

Bob sits down with his 'old friend' in an interview room. He'd realised that Bob had clocked him when they were being brought in. Bob works out that he's an undercover officer from the army. "You're like the Masons you lot... alright, one phone call." Bob discovers that the IRA are rounding up homeless drunks with no connections or known history to drive cars to be outside barracks or department stores where they'll later be replaced with car bombs.

Malcolm explains to Tom how Radio Sun Hill helped with recent cases but admits it's all done via code. Tom sees it from another direction - he reckons it's incitement to riot against the police and is worth 18 months inside for those who set it up. They're interrupted by the sound of banging coming from the radio and the station host relaying that the station is being raided by the "Babylons."

The officers make their way inside and find the equipment but crucially there are no people and no transmitter. The suspects are on the opposite roof and are making a break for it. One is played by future Rob Thatcher - Brian Bovell. They make a run for it and Mike and Jim just shrug at each other and go back inside.

Derek rings down to Custody and asks how much room they have left. Alec explains that they're full and have no space left. "On second thoughts I don't see the point in holding onto the tramps. The best thing you can do is kick them out and make sure they don't come back. Alec can hardly believe it given that they're only there because of Derek in the first place. He shouts through to Ken to open up the cells and kick them out. Ken is completely confused but Alec tells him that someone upstairs is playing silly buggers and to let them out before they change their minds again.

Mike and Jim tell the DTI man that the suspects got away as they were on the roof of the next building. Trevelyan is absolutely furious. "You had the building surrounded!" "...There's only two of us!" Mike points out. Ted is amused and points out that he didn't listen and wait until more officers were available to help. Trevelyan is furious - they got away with the transmitter and will set it up again somewhere else. He doesn't see how he caused his own misery (!)

Derek invites Bob upstairs to speak to a Major from the Ministry Of Defence. The major is grateful that Bob didn't let on to anyone other than Derek that he recognised his old friend and thinks that incidents like that add authenticity to cover. He reminds him that 'this never happened'.

Mrs Lavery is dragged in by her angry husband who accuses Yorkie of assaulting her when she came in to report their dog missing. He drags him half across the desk and Yorkie manages to press the panic alarm. Officers hurry through to help him from all rooms!

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