The Bill : Season 16

Sgt. Matt Boyden, DC Tom Proctor and PC Vicky Hagen hit the streets of Sun Hill in the station's new ""Crime Car"", an unmarked rapid-response vehicle introduced as one of the Chief Super's initiatives. When Borough Commander Mannion springs a surprise visit on Sun Hill, Ch. Supt. Brownlow is eager for his idea to show positive results. Unfortunately, a series of blunders occur - the CAD room is disabled when an electrician cuts the main power line, and rivalry with the TSG (Territorial Support

A man is found beaten up behind a club belonging to Vince Carter. Was he beaten up for selling drugs on the club which Vince tries to keep clean? A young woman is hit by a car which doesn't stop. But a blind witness claims it was a 4x4 that hit her deliberately. DS Boulton doubts him until they find the 4x4 burnt out. The young woman is the daughter of Carter's accountant. Is there a link? DS Stanton makes a TV appeal for witnesses to the beating. Shortly after the young man is attacked in

Boulton rushes to the hospital to see Claire, and is relieved to find she's relatively unhurt. He takes her home and they share an awkward moment, John revealing he likes Claire, but Claire brushing him off - she lies and says she's seeing someone else. She meets her real boss, Superintendant Hodges, and tells him that it wasn't -really- an accident, the car that drove her off the road had been following her for a while. They tie up the case. John takes Claire to his 'secret place' - a roof

PC Tony Stamp has been brought in as a driver for the Flying Squad. They're shadowing a suspect called Barwood, who has just gone into a bank with someone. The person is a keyholder so it must be a manager. The Squad trace the manager's address and send someone round to see if his family is being held hostage. Someone in the bank triggers the alarm and uniform arrive, scaring off the getaway car. Despite Stamp's best efforts, they lose the getaway car and the car with the hostage family. Barwood

A Barton Street PC is stabbed when he pursues two robbery suspects into Sun Hill. A black youth, identified as Mark Okin, is found bashed and unconscious at about the same time. PC Jim Carver is assigned to the Okin family in his new role as Family Liaison Officer, but further investigation by CID makes Mark a suspect in PC Brennan's stabbing. Carver is horrified when DS Daly wants him to use his position of trust with the Okin family to collect evidence against Mark. John Wilson, the boyfriend

There has been an outbreak of street robberies and stop & search (or stop and talk) is being resumed Ch Supt Mannion asks Brownlow to stand in for him on a TV interview. The interview shows footage of the police doing 2 stop and search operations. Brownlow tries to shift some of the blame on his troops, which is greeted with some displeasure. To show the troops that he leads from the front, Brownlow and Derek decide to lead from the front and head onto the streets in the CID car. They respond t

What looks like a drug-related murder by Yardie street gangs on Sun Hill's patch causes Borough Commander Mannion to call in Operation Trident, who think that the gangs are trying to muscle in on the Larkmead Estate. A new scheme to encourage taxi drivers to help the police bears fruit when an overzealous cabbie brings a 'prisoner', Wesley Carter, to the station, saying he heard him making a drug deal. Checking Carter's phone reveals the number of Leroy Jones (see Borderline). Trident get PC Ric

To finance their buy-in to the Bronte drug dealing franchise, Leroy Jones and his gang, including PC Cass Rickman, rob a building society, although the police are waiting for them at the wrong bank. The relief buzzes with rumours that Rickman has ""gone native"", although DCI Rostron of Operation Trident believes she is still undercover, and sends PC Sam Harker to watch her flat. Rickman and Jones buy in to the syndicate, but they are kidnapped when Leroy's friends betray him to rival dealer Tou

Sun Hill station is rife with rumours that PC Cass Rickman has ""gone native"" and joined Leroy Jones and his gang. As Rickman arrives at the plush hotel room of a City businessman to pick up the cocaine, Toussaint and his thugs burst in and kill him, and Leroy is ordered to kill Toussaint's main rival, Nathan Clarke. As Sam Harker fears, Cass and Leroy have fallen in love, but Rickman returns to Sun Hill the next day to brief Operation Trident. As she and Leroy return to Toussaint's garage, SO1

DS Claire Stanton is desperate to be discharged from the Don Beech case, but her CIB boss assures her she is doing well. DS John Boulton accepts a free night at a plush Docklands hotel, and invites Stanton to join him. Sure enough, as the pair settle down for their evening of luxury, an assault and robbery at the hotel sees Sun Hill officers arrive to investigate, and their night is ruined. The next day, CID investigates the theft of a laptop computer, and DS Beech is intrigued by reports of a "

Ch. Insp. Conway is astounded when an elderly man (and former police officer) turns up at the station with a suitcase containing half a million pounds, which he claims he found on the street. As PC Rickman counts the money, Conway decides to do some digging, as surely no-one could be that honest.

PCs Carver and Klein arrive at the scene of a disturbance to find builder Kenny Gould smashing up an upstairs room at a greengrocers. Kenny claims he took part in an illegal poker game there, but that his winnings were confiscated by Sgt Boyden of Sun Hill police. Back at the station, Boyden denies all knowledge of this raid, but other events make it clear there are three men impersonating police officers on the patch. The real Boyden goes undercover as a poker player, and sure enough is shaken