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When a raid on a known drug addict goes awry, Boulton is spiked by the desperate criminal's needle, leaving Sun Hill's tough guy frightened and angry – and in need of a HIV test.
A family are strangely silent about the death of their landlord.
Beech and Carver go in search of a haul of £30,000 in banknotes, missing from a six-year-old robbery.
When an old man loses his life savings in a mugging, Boyden and Stamp suspect it was no coincidence.
Boyden deals with a frail old man brought into custody accused of attempted murder.
A father wants revenge for his murdered son.
When a young girl has to carry a knife to defend herself at school, Keane and Stamp know it is time to step in.
Stamp is cynical when he feels a woman with a sob story may be playing games, but Ashton is taken in by her charms.
Stamp and Page are sceptical as Ashton suggests there is more to a burglary than appears.
It's a life or death situation for Skase and Proctor when an assassin comes looking for his money.
Jarvis is full of his secondment to the Diplomatic Protection Group, so Stamp and Quinnan hatch a mischievous plan to take him down a peg or two.
New PC Eddie Santini, tall, dark and handsome with a dubious past, causes a stir when he arrives to join the team at Sun Hill.
Rawton and Skase assist a woman receiving anonymous threats.
Ashton goes missing from the scene of an accident.
A car belonging to a rival Chief Superintendent's wife is stolen right from under Santini and Quinnan's noses.
Proctor and Skase investigate the stalking of Proctor's ex-girlfriend.
A series of muggings on a local estate lead Proctor and Carver to the house of a rather unusual couple.
Meadows and Skase discover a modern-day Robin Hood who appears to be alive and well and robbing the rich in Sun Hill.
PC Santini is irritated at being paired with PC Hollis on a cold, wet night in Canley.
While in a rush to catch a crook, Ashton trips and falls foul of the law.
Ackland sets out to trap a man who wants to take the law into his own hands.
Croft is puzzled by a couple who want their daughter arrested.
Ackland and Quinnan are on the case when a man falls from his bedroom window. But was it an accident or office politics?
Carver is let down by an unreliable snout, and needs Beech to get him out of a tricky situation.
Rawton and Skase realise they may be onto a serial attacker.
Page and McCann investigate what appears to be a straightforward case of attempted child abduction.
A clever lawyer runs rings around Beech in court in a case involving a notorious robber.
The tit-for-tat violence escalates between rival gangs in Sun Hill.
Beech's involvement with rival racketeers becomes more complicated.
A hungover Garfield injures a member of the public during the pursuit of a burglar, but Monroe is sceptical of Garfield's motives when he names a potential suspect.
Meadows and Daly get a tip-off about a gang of young muggers, but their information comes from an unlikely source...
Garfield and Keane try to discover the cause of death of a woman found dead in a church hall.
When a girl goes missing by the river, Deakin sees an opportunity to nail an old adversary.
McCann is sent in search of a valuable exotic bird.
Rawton and Daly investigate an assault on a resident of an old people's home.
Conway is the target of a blackmail attempt following a drunken night out.
Boulton is after a villain known to have an eye for the ladies.
Quinnan and Blake search for a missing French au pair who has been moonlighting as a stripper.
Cryer attends the death of a teenage girl and is subject to a complaint by the grieving father.
Boyden uncovers an illicit pornographic video operation.
Ashton tries to help a reformed teenage joyrider.
Ashton's sense of compassion is crucial in solving a cruel assault case.
Quinnan and Ackland pursue a dangerous driver.
Deakin and Carver investigate a case of male rape.
A speeding Pontiac and three ageing James Deans give Stamp and McCann a headache.
Boulton and Carver head for the river, chasing a particularly slippery customer.
Boulton and Carver continue thier investigation into illegal immigration and find their case complicated by an attractive woman.
While football fever grips Sun Hill, Deakin hopes to get his man by following a tip-off. With Hollis to help him, how can he fail?
Page tries to trace the mother of an abandoned baby, while Boulton and Rawton investigate an apparently racially motivated attack.
Skase is sceptical of a 14-year-old girl so smitten with him that she accuses her parents of being drug dealers.
Ashton, on his first solo outing, is distracted by a decoy while a nearby shop is burgled.
Boyden introduces the relief to new Area Car driver Vicky Hagen, but her reputation takes an immediate blow when Jarvis reveals she grassed on a friend of his at another station.
Despite knowing the animosity between Jarvis and Hagen, Cryer pairs them in the area car on her first day, but Jarvis dubs her a "stupid cow" on the radio after she loses a suspect, putting his career and a potential transfer to the Diplomatic Protection Group at risk.
Boyden gets friendly with Ashton's mother.
Beech wangles an expenses-paid trip to Brighton with Skase, but his night does not go as planned.
Skase persuades Brighton C.I.D. to help track down the missing Beech.
Stamp and Hagen clash over what makes a good area car driver.
Daly and Carver try to get evidence against a young drug addict suspected of brutally assaulting a police officer.
Carver and Proctor respond to a tip-off about the theft of some fish.
Boulton is less than thrilled to be placed on an interviewing course with Hollis, but gets the chance to exact revenge on an ex-colleague.
Keane and Garfield look into allegations that a New Age cult leader is encouraging under-aged girls to engage in sexual activity.
Carver is shocked when a woman names his friend from a neighbouring station as a flasher.
Boulton and Hollis find themselves in pursuit of the same villain.
Santini and Keane investigate a mysterious assault.
Rawton and Deakin investigate the mysterious disappearance of a woman who has been campaigning to free her husband from jail.
Tosh Lines and June Ackland investigate the death of an old acquaintance.
Harker rushes to the aid of a woman in danger, but gets himself into trouble over his use of CS spray.
Hollis goes from a hero to a laughingstock when he arrests a notorious cat burglar before receiving an official complaint for throwing his lunch into a nearby garden. When the burglar asks to be interviewed by Hollis, he senses a chance to shut his mocking colleagues up.
Hollis is due to collect his commendation, but his colleagues know he doesn't deserve one.
Page is shocked when a man shows up at the front desk armed with a gun, claiming to have shot a man and left him for dead.
Cryer re-opens an unsolved case in response to an attempted suicide.
Boulton suspects that Hollis is involved in a series of burglaries.
Garfield teams up with an attractive young journalist when the wreckage of a World War II Spitfire is discovered in Sun Hill.
Datta pairs with Quinnan to investigate a case of domestic abuse, and receives a surprise offer from Monroe.
Harker and Keane's failure to properly search a prisoner leads to them being held at gunpoint in custody with Boyden.
Skase and Rawton investigate a woman's claims that she is being harassed by a former lover.
Boyden and Page investigate a death from asphyxiation and try to establish whether the paving stone placed on his chimney was an act of murder.
Beech and Carver investigate the theft of a grandfather clock.
Page is on top of the world as she moves out of the section house and finds a boyfriend, unaware he has a criminal history.
Boulton asks Page to spy on her own boyfriend.
Feeling she has wrecked Boulton's operation, how can Page continue her relationship with Danny?
D.S. Greig's tenure runs out.
Garfield and Quinnan fear for the safety of a boxer who has disappeared, abandoning his young son.
Hollis suggests using an old caravan as a mobile police station.
Hagen and Harker have to contend with an unreliable witness.
McCann and Santini fall out over a vicious assault on a black youth.
Boulton is kidnapped by an aggrieved ex-con.
Skase and Daly investigate an assault outside a gay club, but a key witness is reluctant to come forward.
New W.P.C. Rosie Fox is partnered with P.C. Eddie Santini to investigate when the body of a junkie is washed up on the banks of the Thames. Santini and Fox argue over their cases, and it seems their working relationship will not be a smooth one. Santini reckons graduate Fox will not be able to handle the pressure when she goes undercover as a prostitute in a CID operation, then nearly ruins the operation when he finds himself attracted to her. Celebrating a successful arrest, the two share a drunken snog back at the station, but moments later Santini forces himself on Fox in the locker room, leaving her confused and frightened.
P.C. Santini tries to apologize to W.P.C. Fox for going too far against her wishes the night before but she tells him to stay away from her. Santini obtains Fox's address from CAD and calls on her but she doesn't want to speak to him. Fox tells a Federation representative from Stafford Row about the assault but can't decide whether to make a formal complaint. The next day, the pair are assigned together. Santini loses a prisoner and blames it on Fox. Santini calls at Fox's flat that evening. She refuses to let him in. He threatens that if she wants a war, she's got a war.
W.P.C. Fox takes the day off with a migraine but turns up for the relief's paintball charity challenge, where Santini continues to bully and humiliate her. Her request not to be partnered with Santini is refused, and they are assigned together again the next day. Fox confides in W.D.C. Rawton. The relief are on the trail of a dangerous prisoner and Santini disregards the order not to separate from his partner. The man grabs Fox from behind and P.C.s Santini, Quinnan and Ashton run to the rescue when she screams for help. Fox manages to overpower the man. When challenged, Santini claims that he was with Fox when the prisoner appeared from nowhere.
W.P.C. Fox makes an official complaint about P.C. Santini.
P.C. Stamp is involved in a serious accident in which he kills a pedestrian while reversing the area car down a one-way street in response to a call for urgent assistance. Tensions are high as P.C.s Quinnan and Ashton offer differing accounts of the events leading up to the accident.
PC Tony Stamp attends the funeral of Simon Attwell, the pedestrian he killed driving the area car, and Attwell's girlfriend makes a complaint of harassment to Inspector Monroe. Stamp and Ashton try to help a young boy whose mother is in court. Stamp is furious when Dave Quinnan tells him he has been called as a prosecution witness in Tony's trial.
Poor old Tony - he's in the dock! On the day of Stamp's trial, Quinnan is called by the prosecution while Ashton has an attack of nerves when he's the key witness.
Stamp's future hangs in the balance as he awaits his disciplinary hearing. Beech encounters an old flame who is working for the Complaints Investigation Bureau.
It's Stamp's first day back in the area car - but will things go smoothly after all his problems?
Sun Hill has a new WDC - Kerry Holmes. Unfortunately, she is Partnered with John Boulton. Oh dear!
DS Boulton and DC Carver travel up to Manchester on the trail of a suspect. Getting into trouble with a local gang, they find themselves rescued by none other than Frank Burnside, who left Sun Hill in mysterious circumstances five years ago.
Stand by for a shock - Burnside is back in Sun Hill - in handcuffs! Lock up the petty cash!
PC Santini is first on the scene of a serious car accident, and becomes a bit of a local hero when he bravely dives into the river to secure the car. Before the driver dies from his injuries, he begs Santini to "take care" of a present for his mistress: a box of cocaine! Santini duly disposes of the package, but finds himself in trouble when PC Harker hears about the missing drugs, and the accident victim's mistress sets some thugs onto him to retrieve them.
Skase calls in sick so he can moonlight as a bodyguard. He is charged with providing protection for the two teenage sons of a very wealthy Asian aristocrat. During a shopping trip, one of his teenage charges does a runner, taking his Mercedes with him. When Harker and Page spot the vehicle travelling at high speed, Skase is nearly caught out. However, when he discovers that the boy is hiding out at a nearby drugs den, he arrives to find Boulton ready to raid the joint. Forced to explain the situation, Skase enlists Boulton to help him recover the boy without blowing the operation, and in turn Skase manages to pinpoint the location of the dealer's stash.
When Meadows and Conway are both up for promotion against each other, there are both some comic and some life-threatening repercussions.
Holmes investigates when a woman is attacked in her flat and left for dead in a particularly violent domestic violence case. She initially suspects that the woman's landlord, Jamie Morgan, is responsible for the attack, but when she catches the woman having a row with her boyfriend, she arrests him for criminal damage, unaware that she has inadvertently jeopardised a surveillance operation on a major drugs dealer. As Merseyside area drugs become involved, Holmes manages to locate the factory where the drugs are being produced, but a sting set up to catch the villains in the act takes an unexpected turn when they become involved in a violent shootout, and take a young boy and his mum hostage.
Cryer attends the scene when a prostitute is slashed across the face with a machete and subsequently hospitalized. The prime suspect, Alvin Morton, was released from prison just ten days previously, and Cryer is determined to send him back there. Meanwhile, when the prostitute retracts her statement, and Alvin's girlfriend provides him with an alibi, Santini mishandles the situation and gives Alvin's location to two of her friends who have vowed revenge on her attacker. When Alvin is shot and doubly kneecapped, Cryer is curious to learn just how they found out where Alvin was staying. A box of matches with Alvin's address written in it then surfaces during interview, landing Santini in deep trouble.
Skase attends the scene of a fire at a 'sex cinema' club, where a reportedly angry punter set alight to the club after being refused entry. However, it later transpires that the culprit caught two foreign men watching a police interview tape of his girlfriend, aged twelve, who was being interviewed over sexual assault claims made against her father. Assigned to investigate, Rawton teams up with a DS from the Child Protection Unit, and the pair try to find out how a number of police evidence tapes have managed to worm their way out for general consumption. Skase isn't convinced that the manager of the club is telling the whole truth, while Rawton investigates a dodgy practice lawyer who copied the tapes.
Meadows asks Deakin to have more of a 'hands-on' approach after a row erupts between Beech and Daly. All three of the CID sergeants, meanwhile, are having problems. Daly's operation into a known stolen goods handler is blown when Carver spooks the suspect by accident. Boulton has had word that a known criminal who is due for sentencing in just two days plans to do a final job in order to tide him over whilst he is inside. However, his snout is cornered by the suspect and the gang arrive at the planned location - only to give Boulton the eye that they are onto him. Lastly, Beech is troubled when an old flame offers him £3,000 to reveal details of an investigation into her current boyfriend by Daly.
Cheif Superintendent Brownlow attempts to solve a previoulsy unsolved jewellery robbery with the help of a criminal on his deathbed and DCI Meadows, although Conway doesn't prove much assistance.
PC Quinnan and DC Kerry Holmes try to track down a mysterious opera singer connected with a shady criminal.
Inspector Monroe heads an investigation into an abduction which leads him into conflict within the Chinese community as well as drugs, vice and violence.
Proctor and Lennox compete to take on the case of an abducted baby, but Lennox seems doomed to fail as he has to pass his safety training course.
Holmes and Boulton investigate the latest in a long line of arson attacks.
Holmes, Hagen and Ashton become embroiled in a baby abduction from his hospital bed. The baby taken by the woman who was supposed to be caring for him - the nurse.
Burnside arrives at Sun Hill with a well-known villain in tow - convicted child sex offender Carl Jones. Jones has been granted early parole on the basis that he reveals the location of the body of a young boy who disappeared eight years previously, and also provides information on members of the gang who were responsible. Burnside initially suspects Jones is leading them a merry dance, so decides to organise a meeting between Jones and the young boy's parents, in the hope that their pain and suffering will convince Jones to clear his conscience. A search of a nearby school grounds reveals the boy's remains, but Burnside is determined not to let Jones walk free without being made a spectacle of first.
Explosive stuff from Sun Hill as a bomb in the park is a bomb too many. But where are the other eight, and will they go off?
Rawton goes undercover as a lonely heart to trace a killer preying on vulnerable women
Beech is approached by gangster Jimmy Smith for a favour after his house is ransacked. However, when Jimmy's girlfriend is also attacked and ransacked in her home, Burnside arrives from crime OCCU to take on the case. The latest burglaries are the work of a violent gang who have been operating up and down the country. The gang's vehicle is linked to David Evans, currently serving a prison sentence in Strangeways. Smith gets his son to plug Evans for information, and two members of the gang are identified. When Jimmy's girlfriend approaches Beech to say she has been having an affair with a member of the gang, Beech goes as far as secretly attacking Burnside in an attempt to cover up evidence.
Daly and Rawton go undercover as the landlord and landlady of a local pub while investigating a gang who have operating a protection racket on the local pubs and clubs. Daly befriends a small-time petty crook who offers him some dodgy gear on the sly. Meanwhile, Garfield is in court for the case of a shoplifter who assaulted him during the arrest. When the woman is cleared of the assault, Garfield is positive that one particular magistrate was responsible for the dismissal. When Conway invites her to spend a day on patrol with Garfield and McCann, Garfield loses his cool. As Daly and Rawton think they have lost their prime suspect, the crook who Daly has befriended manages to salvage a deal.
Quinnan investigates when his vet is forced to treat a dog that has been injected with heroin. Quinnan catches the owner in possession of cannabis, but he refuses to reveal how the dog was attacked. Meanwhile, Boulton has had word that a nasty pair of Turkish brothers are back in town. When Quinnan investigates a burglary at the address of the dog owner, he finds the owner in possession of a quantity of heroin stashed inside a plastic elephant. Boulton then discovers that his Turkish friends are the ones who after getting it back, so the pair set up a joint operation. Meanwhile, Hollis organises an inter-station pub quiz, and has trouble protecting the questions from the opposing teams, and an opportunist thief.
Santini and Page investigates when a young girl is knocked down in a hit-and-run incident. Santini manages to trace the owner of the car, but he denies all knowledge of the incident. Santini isn't convinced and decides to arrest him anyway. With the young girl recovering in hospital, Santini discovers she is a big fan of Arsenal FC, and in particular, Emmanuel Petit. Santini has a contact in the sports promotion industry and boasts that he can make a dream come true for the young girl by getting Petit to visit, but Page isn't sure he can deliver. Meanwhile, Stamp has the job of organizing the relief Christmas party, and finds a very cheap supplier for the booze, until he gets caught up in the middle of a Customs raid.
Fun and games at Sun Hill in this Christmas special. P.C. Ashton and P.C. Harker bring an unwelcome visitor to Sun Hill, while Sgt. Boyden is put off mince pies for life.
