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Deakin's surveillance on convicted kidnapper Frank Tully's release from custody is immediately blown out when Tully spots them, revealing his already released partner in crime told him he was also under surveillance. Deakin then confronts his partner, Richard Hackett, demanding information on a missing ransom payment from a kidnapping 8 years earlier. Deakin sends Holmes undercover as Hackett's girlfriend, but when they set up an observation, Tully pulls a gun on Hackett and Holmes after discovering there is no money in their safety deposit box. Tully is arrested when Hackett reveals the gun is empty, and suspicion turns to bank manager Roger Carlson, who decided to go on holiday the day of the raid. However, when all he is found with is a small bag of heroin in customs, they discover he may have been framed for someone else to steal the money without Hackett or Tully's knowledge.
During an operation investigating a Cafe illegally operating as a Casino, an officer is kidnapped, prompting DCI Meadows and the team to search through the night.
Kerry Holmes goes undercover in a women's prison after a serious assault takes place there.
An informant turns up dead on his boat but questions are asked about this apparent suicide as well as Don Beech's loyalty.
Garfield and Hagen are assigned to protect a horse jockey due to give evidence against a corrupt bookmaker.
Boyden picks up an attractive young girl at a nightclub but quickly realises that she was not as old as he thought.
DCI Meadows has to deal with violent protests when a local newspaper reveals the location of a registered paedophile in safe accommodation in Sun Hill.
DescriptionGarfield has got problems juggling a body with no head along with a clingy reporter who fancies him.
D.C.I. Burnside and D.C. Rawton pursue a serial rapist and his accomplice.
Meadows goes to court and finds himself on trial.
Boulton and Rawton clash when a house fire reveals a sordid secret.
Gritty action with the boys and girls in blue; Burnside investigates a predatory gang of women with Lennox and Skase as bait.
DS John Boulton is determined to catch a pair of brutal thieves, and he is certain that local crook Mick Glover is one of them. Ignoring protests from Uniform, who already have Glover under surveillance, Boulton leads a disasterous raid on Glover's flat, which puts PCs Quinnan and Garfield's informant Janie in grave danger. When Quinnan and Garfield find Janie's flat on the Jasmine Allen estate vandalised, Quinnan pursues the suspects, but finds himself seperated from Garfield, who can only watch in horror as his friend is beaten and stabbed by a gang of youths.
With PC Quinnan in a critical condition in St Hugh's Hospital, the police descend on the Jasmine Allen estate, determined to catch those responsible. PC Garfield manages to identify most of the gang, and a young boy, Kevin White, bought in for questioning names them as the 'Sun Hill Massive'. Garfield and DS Boulton come to blows when Boulton denies any responsiblity for the attack on Quinnan. Acting on a tip-off, the police raid Mick Glover's flat again, finding he is responsible for the burgleries, and that his son Ben and Kevin White were the ones who stabbed Quinnan.
Tension between DS Boulton and PC Garfield over Dave Quinnan's stabbing reaches boiling point on an obbo with PC Hollis. Garfield explodes when pushed too far, and he headbutts Boulton, nearly breaking his nose. It's up to Reg to step in and help Garfield come to terms with his feelings of helplessness over the incident. PC Dave Quinnan, still at St Hugh's, resolves to help Juke, a fellow patient who claims the police have done nothing to find the person who stabbed him, although he soon comes to realise that Juke's wounds are self-inflicted.
Conway gets beginner's nerves on his first radio talk show, but has to find his feet fast when a caller starts confessing to a crime.
Burnside is on the trail of two Indian crime bosses but just how far is DS Boulton willing to help?
Conway gives up his weekend to cover for Brownlow and Meadows, when a wanted man surfaces however he is faced with a moral dilemma.
Luke catches two men trying to commit an arson attack in the dead of night.
Ch. Supt. Brownlow has agreed for a fly-on-the-wall documentary crew to film in the station. D.S. Boulton and D.C. Carver soon become the subject of their attention, as they film a raid on a drug dealer that Boulton has been eyeing up for sometime.
P.C. Quinnan is back from sick leave, but can he still cut it as a police officer?
PC Ashton is accused of getting a teenage girl pregnant and to make matters worse she is also the key witness in a domestic violence case.
DCs Lennox and Rawton go to Salisbury to bring in a con-man for questioning, but he proves to be a slippery customer.
DC Proctor attempts to make a name for himself in CID whilst Lennox learns about forensic science.
PC Harker comes into loggerheads with CID on how to deal with a problem family.
Boulton pursues a suspect aggressively which leads to the suspects death.
Boulton awaits to hear back from the jury investigating his conduct regarding a criminals death whilst he was pursuing him.
PC Harker is informed from a woman about a robbery taking place the next night, however Boyden questions this information.
Jim Carver is due for tenure in 2 months, which means he will have to go back to uniform and transfer to a different station, but his old friend and trainer June comes up with an alternative compromise.
It's Jim Carver's first day back in uniform, and he puts up with some good-natured ribbing from his new colleagues. Paired with P.C. Luke Ashton, they are called to the Canley Arms Hotel, where the landlord has been brutally attacked and robbed. When D.C. Rod Skase and Carver's replacement, D.C. Danny Glaze, arrive to investigate, Carver can't help putting his detective skills back to work - while following a lead on the case, he gets into trouble with Sgt. Boyden when he leaves Ashton dealing with a gang of teenage shoplifters on his own. Forensic evidence points to the Baker brothers, and Carver's persistence pays off when he finds out the location of the missing brother, Mark Baker.
Senior officers at Sun Hill and Barton Street are dragged off to a team-building exercise.
A young gypsy girl is attacked in the street and Holmes suspects a racial motive.
PC Eddie Santini tries to convince his lover, Jess Orton, to set him up with some drug dealers - he wants out of Sun Hill, and DS Timpney, his friend in Area Drugs, has promised him a place in the squad if Santini can get him evidence on them. At parade, Sgt. Bob Cryer assigns the relief a door-knocking campaign to warn the elderly residents of the area about two bogus callers posing as social workers who are responsible for a string of robberies. Leaving PC Hagen to cover for him, Santini meets Jessica, but not before hearing the culprits have been following the local Meals-On-Wheels van. Jessica has met up with an old friend, Ferguson, who is a big-time drugs importer. She wants Eddie to pose as her husband when they next meet to seal the deal. When Eddie returns to duty, Cryer is furious. An old army Major has had all his medals stolen by the bogus callers, and Santini had neglected to warn him. A desperate Santini gets Hagen to investigate the Major, and finds his claim is a scam.
As he and PC Quinnan investigate a burglar alarm, PC Eddie Santini sees Jessica Orton meeting covertly with Ferguson. Making excuses, Santini borrows the panda car and races to the Ortons' club where he confronts Jessica. As she storms off, there is a huge explosion. Santini is shocked when one of the officers assigned by AMIP to investigate the explosion is his old nemesis, DS Rosie Fox. Fox is suspiscious of Santini's involvement, but her colleagues put it down to the animosity between them. As Santini returns to his flat, where his lover PC Vicky Hagen is waiting, he is kidnapped by Ferguson who assigns him the task of picking up a consignment of drugs from Amsterdam.
Jessica Orton is brought in for questioning, but is released without charge. When she returns home, PC Santini is waiting for her, desperate to know if she grassed him up. They fight, and Santini hits Jessica, knocking her down the stairs and killing her. Realising her house is being watched, he escapes out the back. Vicki Hagen finds a set of keys under Santini's bed which she brings to the station to return to him.
Vicki Hagen finds Eddie Santini's tickets to Amsterdam, and questions him about them, but he is evasive. DCI Pallister takes DS Fox off the Jessica Orton case after her accusations against Santini, but she decides to do some investigation of her own. Santini, meanwhile, acquires a gun and some Class-A drugs to plant in Ferguson's boss's house when DS Timpney and the Area Drugs Squad raid it. Fox stumbles upon the house and is captured by Ferguson. His boss Mr Sherman is displeased that Santini allowed a police officer to find them. When Area Drugs arrive at Sun Hill for the raid, CID realise that both Santini and Fox are in trouble. Sure enough, Ferguson's radio scanner warns him of the forthcoming raid and he locks Santini in the same room as Fox. The two argue, but are pulled apart when Santini attacks Fox. She manages to escape, and Sherman's men are intercepted by SO19. Back at Sun Hill, Fox realises the keys in Hagen's possession are Jessica Orton's - and she arrests Santini for murder.
An armed robber dies after his car crashes during a chase with the police, and the body of an English woman is found in the boot. When it appears she has been murdered, D.C.I. Meadows and D.C. Skase head to France to interview the suspect's sister.
New PC Cass Rickman loses a gun that Beech believes was used in a recent shooting.
Conway organises a charity 'lock-up' in the Sun Hill cells.
Quinnan thinks guarding a prisoner in hospital will be easy, until an armed intruder walks in.
Garfield proposes to his girlfriend, whilst Boyden and Beech come to loggerheads whilst chasing gangs.
Things always seem to turn sour as Reg's caravan becomes the target of a young arsonist on its triumphant return to the streets of Sun Hill.
Despite what people say, they still catch the odd villain at Sun Hill as Deakin nets an international drug dealer.
PC Ashton is faced with contemptuousness from Smithy after losing his nerve in a confrontation with a knife-wielding suspect.
With Dale Smith on his case and his colleagues thinking he has lost his bottle, is this the end of the line for Luke Ashton?
PC Smith and PC Rickman deal with a disturbance at a registry office that leads to Proctor and Holmes discovering an immigration scam.
Carver, depressed at the prospect of a life in uniform, develops a drink problem.
Tom Proctor finds himself compromised when during a rape investigation he becomes enchanted by the shady female cop brought in to head the case.
Beech and Glaze go into a prison in the wake of a riot to investigate allegations of brutality by the warders.
Insp. Monroe is skeptical but cautious when a young woman, Emma Crawford, rings Sun Hill and says she thinks her boyfriend may have hidden a bomb in the station.
A punter could be trying to infect the prostitutes of Sun Hill with the HIV virus; Ackland and Rawton investigate.
Meadows has a crisis on his hands when he fails to hear a cry for help.
Harker and Daly lock horns over the integrity of a reformed drug dealer.
PC Cass Rickman calls in sick after over-indulging at a barbecue for the relief the previous night. PC Harker and PC Stamp are called to the Sun Hill Lido swimming pool, where a young girl's body has been found in the water. Harker goes undercover at the pool.
DI Deakin leads CID and Uniform on a series of disasterous raids to catch alleged DSS fraudsters, while PC Polly Page is given the boring task of serving a court order. As she does so, she hears scratching at the wall from the house next door, which they believe is a trapped dog. With the help of the RSPCA, they force entry and discover a young Spanish woman named Lola imprisoned in a hidden cellar. The owner of the house, Ricky Lee, insists that Lola is a fugitive from a Dutch prison who stowed away in his van and took refuge in his house. When Lola disappears from the hospital, Page and DC Kerry Holmes pay Ricky Lee another visit. Page is suspicious and asks to see the cellar again, but Lee attacks them. Once subdued, they find Lola in the cellar once again, and it looks as if Lee was planning to kill her.
Sun Hill efforts to protect the organisers of a community festival are in vain when the convoy is attacked. New PC Nick Klein is friends with the organiser, Anil Indrani, but the brother of Klein's girlfriend Pam is arrested by PC Dale Smith as he rushes to fight off the attackers. Paired with Smithy the next day, Klein manages to defuse a tense situation when Smith confronts a group of black youths at the market. That night, Indrani's club is raided by officers from Barton Street, led by DS Vickers. Klein is certain that Vickers team has planted drugs on the Billy the DJ, and begins to suspect they were also responsible for the attack on Indrani. PC Smith is in trouble: the youths at the market were undercover police officers conducting an 'integrity test' and Smithy's attitude to racial matters leaves a lot to be desired. As Klein lights up a joint at Pam's house, DS Vickers raids the place and threatens to arrest him for possession unless he helps him destroy Indrani.
The second of a two-parter as Smith's involvement with a dangerous racist puts Brownlow's covert operation in jeopardy - and Klein's career on the line.
Rawton and Meadows clash when a violent ex-con returns to Sun Hill.
It only comes around every 1,000 years, but life must go on for the Sun Hill team as it grapples with millennial madness; DS Claire Stanton has a tough first day in CID.
Sgt. Matt Boyden is not looking forward to another night shift in Custody, but a noisy prisoner demanding food turns out to be the least of his worries. Sgt. June Ackland and PC Dale Smith bring in a drunk and disorderly vagrant who they nickname 'Olly'. Chaos sets in as a drink-driver, some cat-fighting prostitutes, an immigration officer with two deportees and two lay visitors conducting a surprise inspection arrive. As the F.M.E. takes a blood test from the drink driver, Boyden has Olly placed in a cell to rest. When the lay visitors inspect his cell, he is dead. Faced with a death in custody, Ch. Supt. Brownlow calls in CIB, and the three Sergeants on duty, Boyden, Ackland and Cryer argue amongst themselves over who was responsible. Ackland manages to find Olly's real identity, and his widow threatens to sue the Met, but June talks her out of it and discovers that his wife blames herself for his death.
Beech pulls rank when Glaze arrests one of his informants, and they agree on a deal which Glaze lives to regret.
PCs Jim Carver and Cass Rickman wander through a CID obbo, allowing suspect Micky Harris to go free. Trying to make amends, Carver tries to contact a former snout from his CID days, Steve Raines. As they make enquiries, Carver's old friend, nightclub manager Alan Brooks notices Carver's dissatisfaction with uniform work and offers him a job as security manager at his club. Carver finds Raines, now a junkie, who gives Rickman a duff lead on a building society robbery. Carver convinces Raines's estranged wife Alice to give him a second chance, and eventually Raines agrees to testify against Harris. With the nightclub job all but his, Carver reluctantly prepares to hand in his notice, but when the job just as quickly falls through, he turns to a hip flask of vodka in his locker to console himself...
Poor old Reg Hollis faces tragedy when he uncovers a protection racket on a housing estate.
Garfield is anxious to know where he stands with Jenny; Quinnan is behaving strangely, and seems to have something to hide.
Crime fighting takes a back seat as Quinnan and Garfield clash.
Burnside and Meadows take a gamble when they set up an undercover operation in a local casino.
A plane makes a crash landing in Sun Hill, plunging Daly into an investigation in which his ex-lover plays an uncomfortably crucial role.
Family ties are rekindled at Sun Hill; Boyden's estranged daughter asks him for protection and when Boyden helps her out, they start to rekindle their relationship.
Skase feels he is the laughingstock of CID when he is abducted and robbed by a gang of teenage girls and he's determined to get revenge.
Carver loses a lot of friends when they realize how much he has changed; self-interested and drinking to excess, he finally goes too far.
A Polish shopkeeper tells police he was attacked by three black youths, and DC Lennox and DC Proctor arrest the main suspect, Davy Rawlings. After an attempted escape, Rawlings accuses Lennox of racial abuse, saying that he called him a 'black bastard' during the arrest. As usual, Ch. Supt. Brownlow scrambles into damage control with more regard for the Met's public image than for the welfare of his officers.
Burnside discovers Carver's drinking habit, but he has secrets of his own to protect.
Quinnan tries to catch the person who is threatening his friend, making it difficult to find the right moment to propose.
DCI Meadows and DC Skase are furious when PC Jim Carver turns up drunk to give evidence in a court case - evidence which is so unreliable the judge throws the case out of court. As his colleagues begin to realise the extent of Carver's problems, Insp. Monroe decides to put him on an easy task - escorting a convoy of confiscated drugs to a Home Office depot for destruction. As Carver enjoys a sly drink with depot floorman Vernon Liggett, he accidentally mentions the convoy's destination. The next day, he and Stamp drop behind as Carver dashes out to be sick. When they catch up, the convoy is under attack from four armed men. With little regard for his own safety, Carver dashes forward and tackles one of the men, who abandon their assault, although an SO19 officer is shot during the raid. Despite his heroics that day, Carver is in trouble for breaking procedure, and it could be far worse as there could be an inquiry into how the convoy route was known.
DCI Scanlon from Kent Constabulary arrives to investigate the attack on the Home Office convoy. PC Jim Carver pays Vernon Liggett a visit, but he denies any involvment. Scanlon and Meadows interview the warehouse staff, with Liggett high on their list of suspects, but when DC Lennox goes to his flat, Liggett has disappeared. One of Liggett's colleagues mentions him drinking with a copper named Jim, and Lennox confronts Carver and demands he admit his mistake to Meadows. Insp. Monroe makes Carver go on leave, but when Carver returns to the station he is so drunk he passes out in the yard. Sgt. Ackland and hide him in the FME's room and a van, but he ends up in the Elcott Arms where Lennox drags him out and forces him to confess. Tracing a call Liggett made from the pub to a hotel, Lennox poses as a taxi driver to drive their suspect to a nightclub where he and his associates are arrested in an SO19 raid.
Sgt. June Ackland is planning a romantic evening alone with her new boyfriend, Steve Bryant, when her neighbour arrives from across the street with a shotgun she found under the floorboards of her lodger's room. CID arrive and want to set up an obbo - with June's flat as the perfect location.
Holmes falls out with Proctor when he publicly undermines her.
Jim Carver has gone missing. Among the relief fears for his safety grow when a youth is arrested in possession of his credit card.
Jim Carver hits rock bottom when Burnside is forced to arrest his old friend for murder.
When the Sun Hill team forms a syndicate to buy a greyhound, Quinnan's Jenny discovers she is part of it.
Quinnan's stag night is being organized by Hollis, who hopes it will go right; the evening certainly promises a few surprises.
Things start going wrong on Quinnan's wedding day; Garfield's unexpected reappearance is only the beginning.
Lennox and Rawton are drawn closer together when a dangerous ghost from Rawton's past returns to haunt her.
DS Stanton, DC Lennox and DC Proctor are on an obbo at a spooky old building called the Old Pumping Station, which is supposed to be haunted. The trio tell each other ghost stories: back in his uniform days, Proctor was assigned to watch the house of a serial murderer. Investigating a noise, he meets a young woman called Cathy, who turns out to have been on of the killer's victims. A skeptical Stanton reveals how a psychic's assistance with a case she worked on turned out to be a hoax. Lennox, when he was in the Glasgow police, meets a dying crime boss who promises revenge from beyond the grave.
A young runaway waiting for his foster parents, a bickering Russian barbershop quartet and a drunk and disorderly elf from the North Pole are all part of the job for the Sun Hill night shift on Christmas Eve.
PC Rickman becomes increasingly friendly with a drug user and soon comes under suspicion of using drugs herself.
It's New Year's Eve 2000, all police leave has been cancelled and even CID officers are back in uniform for the night.
