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Smiffina Episodes: Gun Runner Part 4 -Spray And Pray (4/5)

Max and Terry are in place to watch the workshop where Smithy will be recommissioning the guns as part of his undercover job. However they have to set up the cameras first. One appears to be faulty but they don't have much time as Cutler and Smithy are on the way back.

Just in time the expert manages to make the sound and vision clear and he and Max. It's very tight and they can't drive away without being seen, so Max has to cover and pretend to be a security camera salesman. "We're in the area today offering top of the range security monitoring." Mwahaha. He gets away with it and leaves.

Neil and Heaton update/remind us uniform on what Smithy has found out so far. Cutler has gotten his hands on pistols and Mach 10's and wants to sell them to the street gangs. As long as he gets his money he doesn't care whose hands they fall into.

Wallace arrives with Tommy Rose, an enforcer for the SE1 Gang, to the workshop.Rose is returning a gun he leased - £200 to rent it. £500 if it's been fired. Wallace suggests he's heard that "Jay" got shot. Rose threatens Wallace who seems intimidated. Smithy has to tell Wallace to stop playing with the gun and takes it to look it over. On inspection, Smithy agrees that it's been fired. Rose tries to make out it hasn't and Smithy squares up to him as Cutler arrives and tells them to calm down. Faced with Smithy and Cutler, Rose stumps up the full £500 and then takes Cutler for a private chat about meeting up with a Bob Gatting, the SE1 Boss. Smithy counts the money and hands it to Wallace, asking him to try find out when the guns might be arriving. With Wallace putting the money in the safe, Smithy shows the gun Rose brought back to the CCTV. Terry and Max mutter about it having to come in for forensics as they watch.

Neil asks Kezia to trawl MET records for gun crimes in the last 24 hours and to get search CRIMINT for anyone called Jay or similar who could have dealings with the SE1 gang. Cutler is splitting the risk to himself, using the SE1's funds and muscle in the deal.

Stevie attends the workshop to meet up with Smithy and to get the gun. She kisses his cheek in greeting but he tells her no one is around. Smithy says she can have the gun but they have to get it back sharpish. The door starts rattling Stevie grabs Smithy and kisses him as cover when Wallace appears. Wallace makes a cheeky search of Stevie and she complies to show she has nothing to hide. Stevie is cheeky and forward, teasing Wallace on his soft touch. Smithy joins in to help the banter distract him and stop him checking her bag (seriously - you'd think he'd check the bag more than Stevie!) and discovering the gun and envelope the cash arrived in from Rose. He winds him up about not having a girlfriend. "See you later, darlin'." she calls back as she leaves. "And you, Smithy."

Callum tells Neil that they've found a possible scene of the shooting with blood, 2 case shells, a bullet and drag and tyre marks at a building site on Barton St's patch. A neighbour reported hearing two bangs at 2.15am too but thought it was kids and firework.

Cutler arrives and pays Smithy for his time and tells him to take the afternoon off. Smithy mentions taking Stevie away that weekend as a way of trying to find more information out about deliveries and Cutler tells him he can't as they're in the middle of a deal. Smithy says he's only doing bits and pieces at the moment and it's not worth waiting round - unless the shooters are arriving that weekend. Cutler admits he's not sure. Smithy uses that to question him about who is really running the show. He admits that they're using SE1 as insurance. Cutler threatens Smithy's life if he 'has to terminate his employment' and tells him he'll give him a time and place when he's ready and that the guns are in London and there's a meeting that night about it.

There's no one in London hospitals with a bullet wound that fits and noone has been linked to be 'Jay' through the police intelligence at the moment. Eventually the blood comes back to a Sean Seaton. They tell his wife they're searching for him, she gives them the numbers of likely friends who might know where he is. The phone is still moving - or someone else has his phone. Jo rings it when it stops and they track it to the back of a skip lorry. Jo has a look inside and teases Roger over a plunger... and then finds Seaton's body.

Stevie tells Smithy that Max is pressing to find out the time of the delivery. He tells her he's been trying but Cutler won't talk. The gun isn't back from forensics yet. Smithy asks her to arrange a meeting with Max. At the Workshop, Cutler's supplier "Demitri" turns up. He's ready to do the deal whenever they are. Max tells Smithy this when they meet and that the gun still isn't back as it's been linked to a likely murder and they'll just have to hope it's not asked for. Smithy is NOT happy - understandably!

Smithy meets up with Cutler, Bob Gatting and Tommy Rose at The Boat Inn. Gatting asks Smithy what brought him into being an armourer. "I used to be in the army." Cutler reassures him Smithy is trustworthy and explains he got him out without being caught by the police the other week (at the football game). They toast to the job.

Now Seaton's body has been found, forensics are holding the gun as key evidence in a murder trial. Poor Smithy! The driver picked the skip up from the building site and had no idea about the body. There's a mobile message from a man who calls himself Jay. It says 'they need to sit down and sort things'. Jay is George Jacobs and Sean took the wrap for him fencing goods for the SE1 crew. He's shocked Seaton has died but isn't surprised. He claims Sean had a habit of finding trouble and was in a state when he last saw him 2 days ago because 'someone was squeezing him for money'. He admits leaving a message that morning and says he hasn't seen Julie - Sean's wife - for months. He agrees to come down to the station but goes to phone his lawyer first. As he does, Kezia tells Neil that Sean's wife said she didn't know anyone called Jay.

Wallace helps Smithy cleaning out gun barrels. As they chat, Smithy tells Wallace he was in the army for 5 years and did a couple of tours in Northern Ireland after being in Sunday Cadets as a kid. Wallace says he wanted to join the army and was in the cadets too. He admits Cutler is his uncle and he offered him more money to work for him than the army would pay. Cutler appears and sends Wallace off to clean his windscreen again so he can talk about the guns with Smithy. They're meeting the next day and Demitri will be bringing a sample of the mach 10's so Smithy is needed to check it before they pay. Cutler doesn't know when so sends Smithy home to rest.

Forensics have found fingerprints inside the gun and matched them to George Jacobs. However if they reveal this to Jacob's solicitor then they'll know they have the gun and put Smithy at risk. They also can't give it back to Smithy incase Cutler destroys it. Kezia has found pictures on Sean's phone of his wife with Jacobs. Jacob's alibi is that he was at a club at the time of the murder but the keyholder of the club is proving impossible to get hold of. Neil suggests he brings up the potential affair to show his lie and use that to keep and question him instead. Jacob's insists he isn't having an affair with Sean's wife and that he'll be on the CCTV of the club when the murder was supposed to have happened. He spots Julie when he's being returned to his cell and they lock eyes but neither say a word.

Smithy worries if word gets out Jacob's has been arrested for murder, Cutler will want the gun destroyed. Stevie suggests subbing it for a different gun but Smithy says it won't work because it's too distinctive and besides, Max promised him he was getting it sorted. He leaves to meet Cutler and Gatting with a warning to tell Max to get it sorted or he is stuffed.

Heaton says he's going to pull Smithy out and keep the gun for the murder case. Max worries that they're so close to seizing a huge amount of arms and suggests returning the gun but reclaiming it in a stop and search if Smithy can plant the gun. Gina thinks it's risky and worries for Smithy but says Callum can manage it. If it works they'll keep Smithy in but if not they'll have to pull Smithy out.

Smithy's concerns come home to roost as Cutler finds out that Jay has been arrested. He and Bob want the gun to disappear. Smithy goes to the loo and tells Max they have minutes to get the gun in place or it's all over. Max tells him Stevie is already at the workshop and is putting the gun back. All he has to do is plant it with Wallace and disappear whilst Callum and Roger pull him over. Stevie struggles opening the safe. A few minutes later, Smithy opens it with Wallace right behind him, praying the entire time that it's in there.

Smithy causes a delay by dropping a box of bullets and asking Wallace to pick them up and box 50 for him to deliver. The camera pans to reveal Stevie crouched behind some boxes. Smithy goes outside and hides the gun in the glovebox of Wallace's car and then smashes the brake light. Smithy goes to fake a delivery whilst Callum and Roger stop Wallace and question him about the broken brake light. They do an index check and Roger asks him if he has any documents. Wallace doesn't know and Roger goes to look - 'finding' the gun in the glovebox. He tries to run away but Callum rugby tackles him and brings him down, arresting him.

Julie's reaction to finding out her husband has died is not very believable. It seems he left the club at 1.15am and was dead within the next hour. Now Kieran Wallace has been arrested, the gun is brought into the interview where he's told his fingerprints are on it. Neil says he has enough to charge him but the solicitor produces the CCTV they'd been struggling to obtain showing Jay at the club as he'd said. They check the neighbour again to see if she is really sure that the time was 2.15am. They haven't questioned Julie about lying about knowing Jay because 'she was too upset about Sean'. She admits she and Jay were having an affair and claims things were over with her husband. Her husband however wouldn't accept it. Neil tells her that there are Jay's fingerprints on the gun and she stammers that it's her fault. Kezia tells her that Sean mistreating her and making her fall in love with another man doesn't make his death her fault. She misses the fact that it DOES make it her fault if she's the one who shot him though! And yep. She is. She shot him in self defence when he tried to kill her. Jay came and put the body int he skip before taking her home again. Neil arrests her for the murder as she admits that she took the gun with the idea of using it.

Max and Terry watch Smithy and Cutler rowing about Wallace getting arrested on the CCTV. Smithy tells him he doesn't know why he was arrested - he just came out of the pub to see him with police. "You left the gun with Wallace? That muppet?!*" He growls at Smithy. He then tells him has to square the gun getting found with Gatting because Jay is part of the SE1 crew. Smithy scoffs and says he doesn't, after all he's the one putting it on the line as Cutler's suppliers could be 'rip and run merchants' who dump him in a ditch somewhere. Cutler pulls a gun on Smithy and warns him to toe the line, not question him and that he warned him already people do not walk away from him - especially not when involved in something as dangerous as this. "So what? You're going to shoot me. So? Shoot me." He growls back. THIS FUCKING MAN! I wish they'd stop doing that 😂 Cutler eventually lowers the gun and walks off. Smithy shouts that he's sick of getting half the story and turns and walks out, telling him to ring him when he's ready to deal properly.

Max finally releases a breath and tells Terry to arrange a meeting with Smithy because they're too close for it to explode now. Smithy arrives to meet Stevie and Max soon after and he admits he doesn't know if he can hack it any longer because he can feel his entire life running down the back of his neck when he's with Cutler. Stevie and Max offer him the chance to walk away if it's become too much. Max reassures him that he's playing a blinder and that they're a team. He reminds him that he's doing it for the Carly Samuel's of the world and tells him that he - Max - is doing it because in CO19 one of his colleagues was murdered by a mach10 held by a kid. Smithy assures them both he's still in - whatever it takes. He pulls his hood up, gets out the car and walks off.

*This is a strong area where they were let down by having lots of different writers on multipart stories, This episodes Wallace is quite likeable, sympathetic and behaves like a teenage boy who loves his mum (he was going to be heading to his mums birthday party after the gun drop off) lead astray from the path of good - the army - by his big bad uncle who treats him like a loser. He's repeatedly (sometimes the same task several times in the same day) made to do menial tasks like washing his car windscreen just to get rid of him so the real men can talk. He's easily intimidated - like he was by Rose earlier and easily embarrassed - Smithy saying to Stevie that the closest Kieran'd gotten to sex was having his pocket picked when he was searching her to distract him and make him want to get Stevie away quicker so he didn't check her handbag. He's nothing like this big feared gangster with a bad history that he was made out to be in the first set up!

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Smiffina Episodes: Gun Runner Part 2 - Undercover (2/5)

This episode starts on the same day as the last with an exhausted Mel glad that she only has half an hour left of her first shift. Roger suggests the canteen for some caffeine when a call comes in.

(Another of Smithy's favourites is to see who blinks first 😂😂)

Their call is to a young lad who has been knocked off his bike. He's ultimately fine but his bike isn't! Nate and Ben are the latest victims of the 'No you can't drink your tea, officer!' trope and have to pour their just purchased drinks away to chase after the car. They stop it a short distance away to find a traumatised Becca behind the wheel with head injuries. The paramedics tell Mel they suspect sexual assault. She made DV claims in the past against her former partner but withdrew them soon after. Banksy asks Mel to take her to the Haven, bag her clothes collect the swabs for investigation.

Max and Neil tell Heaton the Figgis sting was a success and that they overheard a mention of a deal with a Wallace. This has turned out to be Kieran Wallace who has form for ABH, GBH, Aggravated Burglary and everything else not very nice. His name has been mentioned a couple of times by Trident connected with the trade of guns from Eastern Europe. Figgis insists he knows nothing of a Wallace until Stevie points out that over the last few months there's been over 50 calls to Wallace's mobile from his. Stevie says he won't be charged if he helps them. If he doesn't, then they'll find out another way and arrest him too and he'll likely never see his son. Figgis reluctantly tells her he's been reactivating guns for Wallace who hires/sells in London on a large scale. He doesn't know where they're kept, where they're going to or anything else as he's only done a couple of jobs for them.

Stevie reports back about Wallace and an unnamed boss. Figgis isn't able to do the job anymore due to the damage to his arm when stabbed. Heaton sums up the options. Human/electronic surveillance and hope to catch them out or put someone undercover. Wallace trusts Figgis and there's a valid excuse for someone taking over at his recommendation. It needs to be someone who can go undercover for a while without leaving any loose ends like partners/family etc as they don't know how long it will be for. Neil suggests Max who says he's up for it given his CO19 background. Heaton suggests they need someone with a similar background to Figgis and experience of the Army weapons. It can only be Smithy! Max isn't too sure, he thinks that Smithy is too emotionally involved with gun crime after Carly's death. Smithy instantly says he'll do it and that he understands he could be undercover for a long time - weeks, months - maybe longer. Neil tells Smithy to speak to Figgis the next day to set up their story and background together and places Max as his handler. The two exchange a rather... wary... look (though the second bit makes it look like Christopher might be about to laugh!)

(Can Nate stop jogging everywhere? He makes me tired just looking!)

The next morning Smithy is in a contemplative mood and barely acknowledges the relief whilst they walk in. Max takes him straight through to an interview room to talk to Figgis. He can keep Smithy/Smith as his nickname/surname so he reacts naturally to being called it but they change his first name to Laurence - the name of his best friend at Primary School. They're going to get Figgis to contact Wallace with them in the room and tell them he can't do the job after a gun backfired on him but that he knows a man who can.

Hairs were found on Becca's clothes that didn't belong to her and the CSE are at her flat looking for a point of entry. She was washing up and an unknown man crept up behind her and pawed at her. She was so frightened she ran away as soon as he loosened his grip - because she cried - and part of that was getting in her car and just driving anywhere he wasn't. She didn't see his face and can only remember he was about 6ft wearing black jeans and rough leather gloves that were old and scuffed white trainers. Becca's boyfriend, Pete, is present. Becca seems stilted and awkward around him and admits that she has a dodgy lock on the door. Pete says he showed her that the door can be opened with a credit card swipe. Her ex boyfriend also knows about the dodgy lock. They split up a about a month and half ago and he's been harassing her since with a brick through the window, graffiti on the door and more.

Smithy and Figgis set up a backstory of meeting at The Boat Inn a year ago - long enough to trust him but not to know all dirty little secrets. The see each other about once a fortnight at the pub. They set up a meeting at 11am at a nearby park bandstand. Neil tells Smithy to read his body language to see if he's jumpy and rushed and if he needs the job doing quickly or if they have time. They're hoping that Figgis vouching for him means that he's more likely to accept Smithy as his replacement but they have to be alert to work with what they get just incase he doesn't get in.

Banksy rules the boyfriend out as he has a clear alibi. Roger finds Becca's ex's car parked nearby when reviewing CCTV. His flat is miles away. When searching his flat, Mel finds a picture of Becca in the bin. Rick claims he doesn't know what's happened and he says he was checking up on Becca to make sure she was OK. They'd been together five years and he claims he still cares about her. He then switches to calling her cheap and filthy and insisting he never touched her. Banksy reminds them they have his DNA and will be checking it against that on Becca. He just smirks and says it'll prove he wasn't there. Banksy still has a strong suspicion he was involved, even when Roger and Mel don't find the trainers or gloves and float the suggestion that he could have had an accomplice. "Who would do that? it's not your average favour is it!" Mel shudders.

Smithy tries to calm Figgis down as he paces the bandstand. Wallace finally arrived and approaches the bandstand. A goon blocks the gates behind him so Max can't 'casually' get near whilst walking through the park. Wallace is not happy with Figgis, squeezing his wound and making it bleed again. Smithy distracts Wallace and gets Figgis away by claiming he was there for a job and if they're just playing around he hasn't got time and they're leaving. Figgis warns him he really shouldn't get involved with Wallace. Smithy has to drive him to the hospital to get his arm checked again - it turns out Wallace has made the damage even worse - not that Max could care less.

Max growls at Smithy that he wasted the opportunity and that he "should have sealed the deal before stropping off." Smithy points out it's not over yet and that he wasn't biting so they had to change tact. Stevie agrees and it would have been worse if he was too keen and it made him look like he's worth chasing. Smithy repeats he knows what he's doing and he did the right thing by all concerned. Max scoffs and tells him he lost the biggest arms dealer in London.

Smithy receives a call a short while later from Wallace. Stevie arrives and starts speaking. Smithy intervenes to cut her off and tell her he's on the phone. He excuses her interruption as 'his girlfriend' and continues, agreeing to meet Wallace. Smithy reports upstairs to Max and tells him he has the job. Wallace wants him to check some handguns to check his skills at the Bull And Bush pub at 5pm and won't be moved on day or time. Max tells him to update Neil and the Super and he'll start getting everything in place.

Nate reports the landlord of a pub recognises the description of Becca's attacker. He says he was jumpy, drank a lot of whiskey in a short amount of time and called a cab from the payphone. The camera is broken but Nate has gotten hold of the two cab numbers by the phone. Pete, Becca's boyfriend is nearly arrested for assaulting Rick, claiming the police should have kept him in. Rick says he doesn't want Pete arrested. Pete goes back to check on Becca.

Max has been working with covert ops to arrange a driving licence, tax records, credit cards and accomodation (complete with CCTV) in the name of Laurence Smith with Stevie as Laurence's girlfriend. They'll track him on GPS via a new mobile and Max's number is stored as 'solicitor' in it. The danger code word is Eagle and can be said to Max/Stevie by text/call/in person and they'll get him out immediately. They're telling uniform that Smithy will be taking some time out for personal reasons. Heaton takes him aside before he goes to work through his new life background with Stevie to ask him if he's fully aware of what he's taking on. They can't say how long he'll be undercover for and obviously there's no contact with friends or family. He asks if there's any family "It's only really me mum so..." and he asks what he's going to tell his friends. "Mainly this lot and that will be taken care of officially." Ugh. My heart. I also don't believe it for a second! He's roughly 30ish at this point. Smithy's been over various nicks, CO19, in the army and through school/Hendon etc. He's a personable bloke on the whole - played for at least one police football team, there was Vickers and Tony Mitchell seen onscreen from his past and whilst yes, they're not great examples, they were still longish term mates and wouldn't be the only ones (*cough* Bob. Nick (now Weaver's dead he could be out of Witness Protection😉 ), Julie Stanley?). I know this makes it convenient and removes complications from an already complicated and complex story but... I'm too protective of this damn boy after like what... 25 years!?

Stevie cheekily grins at the thought of digging into Smithy's past. She asks about girlfriends first so she knows who she's going to base herself on, asking for the most recent or the one who meant the most. Smithy describes Louise Larson but makes her totally different to what she really was, not able or wanting to tell the truth as obviously it would mean mentioning her death and him being set up and going to prison. He tells her they dated for 6 months and that it ended because she met another teacher at the school she 'worked at'. Stevie knows he's not telling the truth. He has to tell her the truth - it's not easy! He then goes on to explain that he doesn't know where his dad was, he hasn't seen him for 10 plus years as he was a violent alcoholic who knocked him and his mum about. Smithy still feels the guilt that he'd go out with his mates rather than stay home 'because it was easier'. [They've also forgotten about the younger brother he mentioned he had when he was a PC because he details climbing out the window of his bedroom and leaving her home alone with his dad]. "Blimey, how much do you charge? I feel like Tony Soprano."

Stevie asks Smithy if he misses the Army. He replies with an emphatic no, but he might do if he hadn't joined the police. "I obviously need order, discipline and uniforms." Max arrives shortly after with a new passport, house keys for 52 Breem Street and other personal documents and takes Smithy's warrant card from him.

Nate has a partial address for the man that they suspect to have attacked Becca. They run facial recognition once they find him and his address but he has no previous. He's confused as to why he's been arrested, he is very awkward but he admits that he was 'visiting Rebecca' and he slid his credit card down the yale lock like she told him to to get into the flat. He admits to creeping up on her and putting his hand over her mouth and then touching her up all as she'd told Mel in her interview but he surprises Banksy by telling him it was all consensual and previously agreed and Becca had told him over email and in a chat room that she wanted him to do it to her and to pretend to force her. He says she was very clear what she wanted from him before it happened. Banksy explains that it's not Becca that he'd been talking with. He still has some of the emails to back himself up. "I'm not a lunatic! I know it was her, I know I got the right house! She sent me a photo! A lovely one of her on the beach." - The same photo that Mel pulled out the bin at Rick's. He insists he was just acting out a fantasy and he thought at first it was just her pretending to resist but he stopped when she cried. The tech guys trace it all back to Rick for sending the emails. Rick simply shrugs when Banksy asked him why he sent Jez to rape Becca. Banksy suggests that he was going to play the hero and rescue her. Rick scoffs, claiming he doesn't want her back. He insists he was going to stop it from happening as he'd realised he'd gone too far, but noone was there when he got there so it must have happened earlier than they'd agreed. He arranged it to get back at her for dumping him. Becca is horrified to hear what happened. Mel assures her Rick will likely be going to prison for causing a person to engage in sexual activity without their consent. Jez will be charged with sexual assault.

Neil sends Max to sit at the bar in the pub that Smithy will be meeting Wallace at. Stevie is sat outside in the car. They're not to step in unless they hear the codeword 'Eagle' from Smithy. Wallace keeps Smithy waiting before finally arriving 2 heavies. Smithy is abducted and taken out to the car where he's forced inside. At an abandoned warehouse Smithy is blindfolded and has a gun pressed to his temple. The gun is moved to his hand and he's told to strip it. Smithy does whilst still blindfolded and then puts it back together in seconds and hands it back to Wallace. They remove the blindfold. "Figgis is right. You're pretty good. Nice one, I'm impressed. And you kept your cool... you're in. Now get out. I'll be in touch." He tells him. Smithy calls Max once he's alone and tells him that he's in.

He then heads to his new house and is less than impressed There's dogs barking, neighbours music blaring and it's sparse and unwelcoming to say the least. In his head [a voiceover for the viewers], Max and Heaton's words echo, asking if he's sure he knows what he's taking on for the next however long.