Keane was injured during a raid on a pub (The Old Pal's Act); Daly tried to persuade the wife of a known rapist to help police put her husband away (All's Fair); and a loan shark asked his mate Beech for help when his business records were stolen (Bad Debt). An old flame of Boyden's turned up but unfortunately she now had dodgy connections (Once Bitten); Daly and Skase investigated a doctor who was over-prescribing drugs to patients (Professional Opinion); and Garfield became frustrated when uniform were forced to work alongside a group of security guards (A Policeman's Lot).
Meadows and Rawton investigated a consultant accused by a nurse of murdering a patient (Grey Area); Conway and Brownlow showed the relief that they could still spend a day at 'ground level' (One Big Happy Family); and Quinnan was nearly killed by a television set thrown from a balcony (Say a Little Prayer). Boulton and Carver investigated a football star accused of unlawful intercourse (True To Life Player); a pizza delivered to a prisoner topped with cigarette ends caused problems for Ackland (Takeaway); and Skase was attacked whilst buying drugs undercover (Your Call Too).
In a one hour special (In the Dark) Skase and Croft suspected the husband of a blind woman had killed a prostitute but they needed her help to prove it without her knowing; CID mounted a 'sting' operation to catch bail absconders by luring them to a hotel with the promise of free video equipment (A Price to Pay); and Boyden tried to help a father desperately searching for his teenage daughter who'd run away (Just Looking). Quinnan and Slater pulled in a red Lamborghini driver on suspicion of having drugs (Rolling In It); new recruit PC Jamilla Blake used her female intuition when investigating the possible abduction of a baby from its father's stolen car (Holding On); and Lines was shocked into action when Deakin told him his informants were 'well past their sell-by date' (Crime Management).
In the wake of a burglary, a wife's evidence led Skase to suspect that the victim's husband was a serial killer (In the Dark); Boulton encountered an old colleague from Barton Street who had teamed up with a fence whilst suspended from duty (No Claims Bonus); and Rawton was able to see past a pretty face when a wealthy man's wife tried to distance herself from her past by committing bigamy (Rings On Her Fingers). Monroe and the team tried to get to the root of a crime that could be heard on a mobile phone (It's Good to Talk), Page tried to single-handedly overpower robbers fleeing from a post office (Split Second); and Greig enlisted the help of two pensioners to trap a team of burglars (Old Fools).
All of Sun Hill was on the look-out for who was responsible for beating up Beech after he was found unconscious - it turned out to be an irate husband! (A Bunch of Fives); Boulton fell under scrutiny when it was alleged he encouraged the father of a mugging victim to take the law into his own hands (Short, Sharp Shock); and Lines (pictured) was told to smarten up his act (Lucky Day). Half a million pounds worth of counterfeit money and a 14 year old tearaway gave Rawton and Page serious grief (No More Milk); Loxton and Keane investigated a severe case of bullying which led to the stabbing of a fifteen year old boy (Do Unto Others); and Meadows had his fingers burnt by a hairdresser suspected of arson (Playing with Fire).
PC Blake was seconded to CID with a none too impressed Carver (Gentleman Jim); Boyden was intrigued by a missing girl who seemed to have a boyfriend for every day of the week (Mr. Friday Night) and DC Tom Proctor joined CID (Foxed). Boyden and Beech went head-to-head in an attempt to find a violent man and his wife before a vicious drug-dealer did (Hunt); Hollis went undercover with customs and excise when he discovered a hoard of illegally imported wildflower bulbs (Flower Power); and in a two-parter, Blake and Daly tried to keep one step ahead of a dangerous stalker (Breach of Trust).
Boyden and Quinnan used an aspiring stand-up comic as an informant but found he was as hopeless off-stage as on (Fool); CID and Uniform competed against each other in a race to solve the most crimes (Performance Anxiety); and after a number of successful undercover operations, PC Slater left to join SO10, getting more than he bargained for as a leaving present from Debbie Keane (Free to Speak?). A 12-year-old boy ran amok on a local estate, with the residents taking matters into their own hands (A Bad Lot); after being accused of no longer being 'at the cutting edge', Monroe went out on the beat with Jarvis (Force); and CID were in pursuit of two children who had been abducted by their father who wanted to take them out of the country (Shades of Grey).
Loxton landed himself in hot water when he did a stop-and-search on an off-duty black policeman (P.C.); disenchanted, he left the force for good, not before fitting up a bent solicitor (No Trace); Ackland ended up behind bars on a charge of accepting bribes (The Same Stripe) and PC Luke Ashton made his debut when we met him finishing off his training at Hendon (Potential for Conflict). Ashton then had a baptism of fire in a 3-parter when he witnessed a young boy fall to his death from a roof (Humpty Dumpty); Sun Hill's finest finished the year in triumphant fashion by putting on a decidedly dodgy version of the pantomime Aladdin (Twanky); and PC Harker made his debut (Things That Go Bump In The Night).
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| Preceded by: 1996 Episodes (Series 12) |
1997 Episodes (Series 13) (Episode Chronology) |
Succeeded by: 1998 Episodes (Series 14) |