Overview of 'The Bill' Season 12

Datta is called to a burglary and is subjected to the unwanted affections of a civic-minded admirer. Monroe is suspicious when Loxton tries to settle an old score.

Uniform and CID are on the lookout for escaped prisoner Jim Brodie, so both Brodie's wife and his drug dealer are under observation. PC Nick Slater and WPC Cathy Marshall pursue two burglers down to the riverfront, where one of them gives Slater a severe beating. Marshall sees a person on the barges and gives chase. By the time their backup arrives, delayed by PC Reg Hollis' dodgy belly, Marshall has disappeared. When her dead body is fished out of the river, the two crooks she and Slater had been pursuing are questioned over her possible murder. Searching the barge that Marshall was last seen, CID find evidence that someone has been sleeping rough on board - and it looks like it's their escaped prisoner, Brodie. The river police intercept Brodie fleeing to Amsterdam on his friend's boat, but there is not enough evidence to charge him for Cathy Marshall's murder.

Episode 10 - Old Dogs New Tricks

Release Date: 1996-01-23

As Sun Hill gets to grips with its new computer system, Boyden discovers that it pays to stay one step ahead of the opposition.

Episode 11 - Worst Fears

Release Date: 1996-01-25

While Deakin investigates the kidnapping of a five-year-old boy, Conway gets some unsettling news.

Episode 12 - One Night With You

Release Date: 1996-01-26

Five-year-old Tommy Laker is still missing, and Deakin discovers an evil and sinister ring which may hold the clue.

Episode 13 - Someone Else's Problem

Release Date: 1996-01-30

Datta and Quinnan look into the mysterious death of a jogger, while Ackland and Jarvis try to reconcile a couple of warring lovers.

Episode 14 - Bounds Of Decency

Release Date: 1996-02-01

Slater and Garfield struggle to keep the peace when two women fall out over the same man.

Episode 15 - Happy Birthday

Release Date: 1996-02-02

Meadows and Croft investigate the murder of an elderly woman, and question two young children living on the floor below who may have heard what happened.

Episode 16 - Stop The Music

Release Date: 1996-02-06

Croft and a badly-hungover Beech investigate when a body is found in a car with a large amount of crack cocaine.

Episode 17 - Cold Light Of Day

Release Date: 1996-02-08

A reconstruction brings forward an unexpected witness to an assault on a 15-year-old boy.

Episode 18 - Back In Business

Release Date: 1996-02-09

Acting Superintendent Conway is stirred into action by a face from the past.

Episode 19 - Separate Rooms

Release Date: 1996-02-13

Lines investigates an allegation of underage sex.

Episode 20 - Going Guilty

Release Date: 1996-02-15

Cryer and Slater follow up on a murder but a legal loophole may allow the perpetrator to get away with it.

Episode 21 - Pieces Of Cake

Release Date: 1996-02-16

Beech is caught in the crossfire when uniform and C.I.D. fall out over a directive from Brownlow.

Episode 22 - Somebody's Home

Release Date: 1996-02-20

Quinnan and Keane have to help someone with a conviction for assaulting a police officer.

Episode 23 - Pointing The Finger

Release Date: 1996-02-22

Carver and Skase investigate an assault on an Asian schoolboy.

Episode 24 - Boy Meets Girl

Release Date: 1996-02-23

Croft investigates a series of vicious sexual assaults.

Episode 25 - Confession

Release Date: 1996-02-27

A man comes in to Sun Hill and confesses to murdering a woman who disappeared five years ago. D.C.I. Meadows, who headed the original investigation, and D.C. Carver talk to him and, when they are convinced he is lying, throw him out. The man soon returns, and this time he tells Carver something that wasn't in the news stories making the police take his confession more seriously.

Episode 26 - Home From Home

Release Date: 1996-02-29

Stamp and Slater are called to supervise the eviction of a father from his home.

Episode 27 - Open Wound

Release Date: 1996-03-01

Skase and Deakin deal with a wounded crack dealer shot in the yard of a pub.

Episode 28 - Perfect Match

Release Date: 1996-03-05

Beech and Croft try to track down a violent attacker.

Episode 29 - Someone Special

Release Date: 1996-03-07

Lines and Skase investigate a possible arson attack on a nightclub.

Episode 30 - Bits & Pieces

Release Date: 1996-03-08

Boyden and Slater search for the owner of a severed hand found on a rubbish tip.

Episode 31 - Home Help

Release Date: 1996-03-12

Cryer and Slater handle a tricky case involving a disabled former police officer and his wayward son.

Episode 32 - Kicked Out

Release Date: 1996-03-14

Jarvis and Page are called in to help in the deportation of an illegal immigrant who escapes from custody.

Episode 33 - On The Block

Release Date: 1996-03-15

Boulton loses a suspect during an arrest and has to ask Monroe to help get him back.

Episode 34 - Getting Off

Release Date: 1996-03-19

Boulton investigates a convicted drug addict and clashes with a drugs worker.

Episode 35 - Girls' Night

Release Date: 1996-03-21

Loxton and Page deal with a bridegroom who disrupts a hen night.

Episode 36 - Blood Brothers

Release Date: 1996-03-22

Meadows tries to get the truth from a terminally-ill Asian man after one of his sons is fatally injured during a family dispute.

Episode 37 - Broken Homes

Release Date: 1996-03-23

Loxton and Keane chase a local tearaway, who gets injured. Conway has to deal with the resulting accusations of police harassment.

Episode 38 - A Hornet's Nest

Release Date: 1996-03-28

Greig is accused with police brutality following a raid on a burglar's home.

Episode 39 - Dead Of Night

Release Date: 1996-03-29

Quinnan's whereabouts are questioned when he fails to notice an injured woman on the station doorstep. June Ackland becomes acting Sergeant.

Episode 40 - Party Pooper

Release Date: 1996-04-02

Slater's ability is questioned when he appears to mishandle two violent thugs at a party and his wallet, containing his warrant card, is stolen.

Episode 41 - More Haste

Release Date: 1996-04-04

Keane has a bad day in court, while Monroe follows up on a domestic incident.

Episode 42 - Beating The Odds

Release Date: 1996-04-05

Boulton investigates a notorious local bookie and prompts suspicions about Beech's private life.

Episode 43 - Animal

Release Date: 1996-04-09

Boyden and Datta try to secure a conviction against a vicious pimp.

Episode 44 - Dangerous Game

Release Date: 1996-04-11

Boulton, Carver and Deakin take part in a Flying Squad operation against a vicious gang of armed robbers.

Episode 45 - Dancers

Release Date: 1996-04-12

Ch. Supt. Brownlow organises a tea dance for the Met Police Pensioners & Widows society. PCs Jarvis and Quinnan spend the afternoon dancing with admiring elderly ladies, WPC Polly Page is harrassed by a wheelchair-bound admirer, and PC Reg Hollis does a magic show. Brownlow is dreading the arrival of Geoffrey Allerton, an ex-copper who goes out of his way to complain about everything. When the minivan misses Allerton, Brownlow asks PC Tony Stamp to pick him up on the way to the bakery to pick up some cakes. When Stamp steps out of the bakery, he is horrified to find Brownlow's car has been stolen whilst Allerton was buying some tobacco. Packing Allerton and the cakes onto a bus, a desperate Stamp tries to retrieve Brownlow's car after it is impounded. When Allerton arrives at the dance at last, he causes a fuss when he recognises an armed blagger from a fifteen year old case at the wedding next door.

Episode 46 - And Nothing But

Release Date: 1996-04-16

Loxton arrests a black man he suspects is responsible for a mugging and is accused of racism.

Episode 47 - Tale Of Two Cities

Release Date: 1996-04-18

Greig is in pursuit of a local drug dealer. Two teenagers arrested for possession refuse to provide any information about their supplier.

Episode 48 - Cheating

Release Date: 1996-04-19

Quinnan and Hollis have to decide whether a pub quiz champion is breaking the rules. Skase deals with the unfaithful wife of a local villain.

Episode 49 - Decent Proposals

Release Date: 1996-04-23

Loxton and Quinnan investigate an employment agency that provides lucrative opportunities to women with financial troubles.

Episode 50 - Going For A Song

Release Date: 1996-04-25

Carver calls on a former colleague to help with an antique clock that is a target for theft.

Episode 51 - Value Added

Release Date: 1996-04-26

Hollis goes undercover in the seedy world of vice in pursuit of the unscrupulous owner of a clip joint.

Episode 52 - Professional Ethics

Release Date: 1996-04-30

Greig and Lines investigate graffiti attacks on motor vehicles and uncover a fraud.

Episode 53 - Accidents Will Happen

Release Date: 1996-05-02

Boyden and Page look into a protection racket.

Episode 54 - Time Spent

Release Date: 1996-05-03

Beech uncovers the relationship between a former boss and a local crime lord. Carver is caught between two troubled lovers.

Episode 55 - Conspiracy Of Silence

Release Date: 1996-05-07

Deakin and Boulton investigate a fatal stabbing and uncover jealousy and deceit.

Episode 56 - Cold Feet & Hot Coffee

Release Date: 1996-05-09

Loxton and Page go undercover at a wedding to prevent a jilted lover spoiling the bride's big day.

Episode 57 - Rollover

Release Date: 1996-05-10

Deakin comes down hard on a snout who tries to buck the system, and gets an unexpected result.

Episode 58 - Tough Love

Release Date: 1996-05-14

Hollis and Garfield deal with an attack on a school bully.

Episode 59 - With This Ring

Release Date: 1996-05-16

Keane comes across a suspect antiques dealer. Greig and Croft investigate a burglary and reopen a feud between two sisters.

Episode 60 - Final Drive

Release Date: 1996-05-17

P.C. Mike Jarvis is on the last few days of the Advanced Driving Course at Hendon. He gets on well with fellow team-member W.P.C. Sommer, but both of them cannot stand the third officer in their group, P.C. Penrose, the smug, over-bearing son of a ""Black-Rat"" (traffic officer) who sees himself as the best driver on the course, let alone in the Met. The trio attends a quiz night the night before their ""final drive"", the all-important test of their advanced driving skills, and Jarvis stops Penrose from drinking too much before the test. Battling station rumours that he is being re-assessed, P.C. Tony Stamp arrives at Hendon to check on Jarvis's progress - and is pleased when Jarvis passes his final drive easily - just a few points short however of becoming a Class 1 (Area Car) driver. A hung-over and ungrateful Penrose also misses out on his Class 1 rating, but W.P.C. Sommer makes it.

Episode 61 - Voices

Release Date: 1996-05-21

Datta and Greig suspect that a woman who claims she can hear voices may hold the key to a series of sexual assaults.

Episode 62 - Party On

Release Date: 1996-05-23

Deakin and Croft have to deal with a gang of delinquents when one of them is bottled at an ecstasy party.

Episode 63 - Hard Enough

Release Date: 1996-05-24

Boulton and Carver clash when a householder is arrested for murdering a burglar with a baseball bat. Boulton thinks it is justified to kill an intruder, but Carver does not; will it impede their investigation?

Episode 64 - Cuckoo

Release Date: 1996-05-28

Page and Monroe are dragged into a family squabble.

Episode 65 - Helping Hands

Release Date: 1996-05-30

Datta and Garfield arrest a G.P. for possession of cannabis, but he claims it is for use by one of his patients.

Episode 66 - Jekyll & Hyde

Release Date: 1996-05-31

Brownlow witnesses a violent outburst on the road.

Episode 67 - Knocking On The Door

Release Date: 1996-06-04

New DS Geoff Daly steps in to help Skase when a straightforward drugs bust goes wrong.

Episode 68 - Lies & Statistics

Release Date: 1996-06-06

Boyden tries to help a young offender.

Episode 69 - Butting In

Release Date: 1996-06-07

Jarvis steps in to help Page deal with a violent attack, but there are complications.

Episode 70 - The Bagman

Release Date: 1996-06-11

Deakin investigates a violent attack on a small-time crook whom he suspects to have fallen in with bad company.

Episode 71 - Overstepping The Mark

Release Date: 1996-06-13

Lines tries to get a juvenile offender to inform on a gang of dangerous thugs, while Daly is troubled by a determined probation officer.

Episode 72 - Filth

Release Date: 1996-06-20

Deakin and Boulton investigate when a pimp is discovered badly beaten in a pile of rubbish.

Episode 73 - Camper

Release Date: 1996-06-21

Slater and Boyden are involved in a drugs bust involving a camper van.

Episode 74 - Spill

Release Date: 1996-06-25

PCs Quinnan and Stamp are first on the scene of a major chemical spill when a tanker truck hits some scaffolding near the Sun Hill tube station. Insp. Monroe arrives to supervise the evacuation of the area, as the fire department try to work out what chemical has been spilt, although a lack of documentation on the truck makes this difficult. The driver dies in hospital, but when his wife in informed by Uniform, she doesn't seem very upset. Further investigation reveals she is behind a scheme to provide unlicenced or disqualified drivers to the trucking company.

Episode 75 - Apron Strings

Release Date: 1996-06-27

Cryer and Keane discover a woman dead in her bath and suspect her son of foul play.

Episode 76 - One Step Ahead

Release Date: 1996-06-28

Meadows and Skase pursue an ex-convict who has sworn revenge on an informant. Boyden is called to help a prostitute who believes she is being followed.

Episode 77 - Starting Young

Release Date: 1996-07-02

Jarvis and Keane deal with a boy in possession of a pensioner's prescription.

Episode 78 - Tarts Cards

Release Date: 1996-07-04

Boyden and Slater investigate a series of offensive telephone calls.

Episode 79 - Born Again

Release Date: 1996-07-05

Boulton investigates an assault on an old man.

Episode 80 - Kick Me Hard

Release Date: 1996-07-09

Daly mounts an operation to catch muggers. Page goes undercover as a pregnant woman to act as bait.

Episode 81 - All Or Nothing

Release Date: 1996-07-11

Quinnan and Keane discover the body of a young girl in a pub toilet. Meanwhile, Monroe and Stamp both have words with Slater about his extensive overtime.

Episode 82 - Unlucky In Love

Release Date: 1996-07-12

Boyden investigates a dating agency that is rumoured to be providing underage girls.

Episode 83 - A Quick Return

Release Date: 1996-07-16

Cryer and Keane investigate a series of street robberies and find four teenagers trying to buy their way into drug-dealing.

Episode 84 - Sartorial Elegance

Release Date: 1996-07-18

Carver and Jarvis misjudge the condition of a witness, threatening Operation Eagle Eye.

Episode 85 - Don't Leave Me This Way

Release Date: 1996-07-19

Loxton and Keane follow up a mugging but suspect that the victim knows more than she is letting on.

Episode 86 - Big Bullies

Release Date: 1996-07-23

Monroe investigates a schoolboy's claim that he was assaulted by his teacher.

Episode 87 - Playing It By The Rules

Release Date: 1996-07-25

Deakin is handed the chance to bust a drug dealer when his wife turns informant.

Episode 88 - True Colours

Release Date: 1996-07-26

Daly is determined to find out why a white teenager is trying to take the blame for his black friends.

Episode 89 - Target

Release Date: 1996-07-29

While speaking to Ackland and Loxton about the problem of local dog mess, a woman is shot dead by a sniper. Meadows and his CID team are tasked to investigate, and suspect that the woman was not the intended target, and it is strongly possible the sniper was after Loxton, who is set to testify in court against an attempted murderer that afternoon. However, when Ackland's house is set alight that night, CID come to the conclusion that she is the intended target. Writing up a list of possible suspects, Ackland gets sucked into a deadly cat-and-mouse game to try to draw the killer out - resulting in the death of one of Sun Hill's best officers.

Episode 90 - Dead Man's Hand

Release Date: 1996-07-30

Beech investigates the claim of one compulsive gambler to have murdered another.

Episode 91 - For Their Own Good

Release Date: 1996-08-01

Boulton uses an informant as the bait to catch a dangerous villain.

Episode 92 - Theory & Practice

Release Date: 1996-08-06

Ackland and McCann take the sergeant's exam. Cryer deals with a woman who is miscarrying and claims that she was assaulted by Page.

Episode 93 - Drinking Partners

Release Date: 1996-08-08

Greig and Skase investigate when a drunk man is found unconscious and badly injured at the bottom of a flight of stairs.

Episode 94 - Lean On Me

Release Date: 1996-08-09

Hollis gets ideas above his station when Barbara, a local tom with whom he has become friendly, tries to become his informant. Although Barbara claims that known fraduster David Gough is back out on the patch, Hollis struggles to convince Deakin and Meadows.

Episode 95 - Reminders

Release Date: 1996-08-13

Hours after his release from prison, Dael Abbott is hauled back into custody by Daly and Carver following a stabbing. Daly pressures Emma Gilmore, the girlfriend of Abbott's associate, Michael Ceely, into giving evidence.

Episode 96 - Minding

Release Date: 1996-08-15

Loxton and Keane arrest a woman for shoplifting, and later bail her from custody when she openly admits to the charge. But when she is discovered to have given a false identity, Grieg and Croft link the incident to a nanny believed to have kidnapped two of her charges.

Episode 97 - Follow The Van

Release Date: 1996-08-16

Don Beech investigates a set of aggravated robberies, trying to prove the owner of a red van committed them.

Episode 98 - Don't Kill The Messenger

Release Date: 1996-08-20

Mike Jarvis receives death threats from a youth who cannot accept that his father is a sex offender.

Episode 99 - Junior

Release Date: 1996-08-22

When fifteen-year-old Mickey Hoyle is arresting for joyriding, Beech employs him as a snout to expose a crooked car ring run by the Hislop brothers, Wayne and Paul. DS Frank Thomas from Scotland Yard assists Beech and a less than impressed Lines with the investigation.

Episode 100 - Pony Express

Release Date: 1996-08-23

Deakin has to decide whether to trust a Nigerian drug smuggler who offers to help catch a local dealer.

Episode 101 - Out Of Control

Release Date: 1996-08-27

Jarvis deals with a young tearaway and tries to persuade the boy's father to take responsibility for his son's actions.

Episode 102 - Day Tripper

Release Date: 1996-08-29

Greig hopes that a tip-off will help him to nail an old enemy but things don't go to plan.

Episode 103 - Waiting For Frank

Release Date: 1996-08-30

DI Deakin poses as a nervous printer, waiting at the dog track to meet a mysterious man named ""Frank"" and a bent copper called ""Beech"". It all turns out to be an elaborate sting operation with Wimbledon police to catch a conman dealing in stolen credit cards.

Episode 104 - A Day In The Life

Release Date: 1996-09-03

Keane is held hostage by a desperate armed robber.

Episode 105 - Second Chances

Release Date: 1996-09-05

Deakin gets a vital lead on an unsolved murder, but his witness is an illegal immigrant who is about to be deported.

Episode 106 - Repossession

Release Date: 1996-09-06

A petrol can, a lighter and a desperate man threatening to burn down a house. Can Conway talk him round?

Episode 107 - Liar

Release Date: 1996-09-10

Rawton gets involved in a dispute between a drug addict and Croft, who is trying to find a witness who can testify that she was assaulted.

Episode 108 - Detained

Release Date: 1996-09-12

Garfield and McCann investigate a vicious mugging.

Episode 109 - Karma

Release Date: 1996-09-13

Deakin and Boulton are called into a women's prison to investigate claims by an officer that an inmate was pushed down a flight of stairs by the prison psychiatrist.

Episode 110 - Stolen Moments

Release Date: 1996-09-17

McCann and Slater arrest a woman for petty theft, and she claims to have killed a cyclist while driving two years before.

Episode 111 - A Good Night Out

Release Date: 1996-09-18

The results of the sergeants exams are in, and W.P.C. June Ackland has passed - but P.C. Gary McCann hasn't. As the relief organise a big night out in celebration of Ackland's promotion, McCann volunteers for night shift duty with P.C. Reg Hollis. Ch. Supt. Brownlow offers to pull some strings at Area to allow Ackland to stay as Sun Hill rather than transferring. Ackland politely invites Brownlow to the pub, and is horrified when he accepts. When Brownlow finally heads home, Dave Quinnan calls several minicabs to go out for a late night curry, but June and Polly are seperated when their cab driver makes off with their bags and warrant cards after being pulled over by a Stafford Row probationer, P.C. Oliver Oxley. Oxley is about to arrest them until the Stafford Row CAD officer vouches for June. June helps Oliver overcome bullying at his station, while they search for her missing bag. With the help of McCann, Hollis, and some Stafford Row officers, the cab driver is found and arrested.

Episode 112 - Chatterbox

Release Date: 1996-09-19

Quinnan and a teenage burglary suspect are trapped in a broken lift in a housing estate.

Episode 113 - Too Close For Comfort

Release Date: 1996-09-20

Page and Daly take opposing views in a case of alleged rape involving two cousins.

Episode 114 - Blame

Release Date: 1996-09-24

Garfield and Datta deal with a family that is torn apart when the mother commits suicide by overdose of sleeping tablets.

Episode 115 - Once A Thief

Release Date: 1996-09-26

Beech gets a result when a barrister on his blacklist is robbed.

Episode 116 - Party Animals

Release Date: 1996-09-27

Quinnan and Datta are called to a stag party where the strippergram accuses the guests of trying to gang-rape her.

Episode 117 - Natural Causes

Release Date: 1996-10-01

Slater and Ackland try to establish whether a pensioner who died on confronting a thief was murdered or died of natural causes.

Episode 118 - Known To Someone

Release Date: 1996-10-03

Daly and Croft obtain information from a conflicted young man who suspects his brother of a series of violent attacks on women.

Episode 119 - Champing At The Bit

Release Date: 1996-10-04

Jarvis and McCann attend the scene of an accident involving a woman driving a horsebox, who tests positive in a breath test. Deakin is after a violent attacker.

Episode 120 - Taking Out The Rubbish

Release Date: 1996-10-08

Carver and Greig investigate a burglary but the residents on the estate are too scared to give evidence. Monroe determines to clear out all the known trouble-makers.

Episode 121 - Presumed Innocent

Release Date: 1996-10-10

Cryer and Keane uncover the murky past of a teenage girl who has been killed in a road accident.

Episode 122 - Change Of Heart

Release Date: 1996-10-11

Meadows and Rawton try to persuade the girlfriend of a rape suspect to help in his arrest.

Episode 123 - Hedging Your Bets

Release Date: 1996-10-15

Tensions arise between Deakin and Beech after a bookie is robbed.

Episode 124 - Out Of The Past

Release Date: 1996-10-17

Meadows has to decide where his loyalties lie when an old friend is accused of murder.

Episode 125 - Road To Recovery

Release Date: 1996-10-18

Hollis is concerned about a patient who has recently been discharged from psychiatric care, and clashes with social services.

Episode 126 - Three Fools

Release Date: 1996-10-22

Greig and Skase investigate when three small-time villains are beaten up over their involvement in a counterfeit money-laundering operation.

Episode 127 - Track Marks

Release Date: 1996-10-24

Carver disapproves of Boulton's ruthless handling of an informant.

Episode 128 - In For The Kill

Release Date: 1996-10-25

Meadows and Croft interview a young waiter accused of trying to kill his boss.

Episode 129 - Remote Control

Release Date: 1996-10-29

Daly and Lines investigate a series of muggings at knifepoint.

Episode 130 - Telling Tales

Release Date: 1996-10-31

Quinnan tries to persuade an assault victim to testify against her former boyfriend. Boulton and Skase are led on a wild goose chase.

Episode 131 - Old Codgers

Release Date: 1996-11-01

A retired Police Sergeant arrives at Sun Hill claiming to know who murdered a girl more than 50 years previously. Against Quinnan and Greig's will, they both investigate.

Episode 132 - Trap

Release Date: 1996-11-05

Slater gets into trouble after following up on a tip-off about a till snatch.

Episode 133 - All In The Mind

Release Date: 1996-11-07

Monroe and Ackland suspect that a series of apparently unrelated incidents across Sun Hill may be linked to the release of a psychiatric patient trying to find her children.

Episode 134 - Trust Me

Release Date: 1996-11-08

Carver and Rawton follow up an irregularity on an insurance claim submitted by a decorator and uncover a double life.

Episode 135 - Nice Boy

Release Date: 1996-11-12

Croft and Boulton disagree on how to question a teenager who might be able to lead them to a violent gang.

Episode 136 - A Woman's Place

Release Date: 1996-11-14

Ackland introduces single-manning at Sun Hill, causing problems for Brownlow.

Episode 137 - Finishing School

Release Date: 1996-11-15

Slater and Keane reach the end of their probationary periods and face a final assessment.

Episode 138 - Death Of A Nobody

Release Date: 1996-11-19

The murder of a taxi driver has all the hallmarks of a gangland execution. But why would anyone want to kill a complete nobody? Meadows and Deakin investigate this special 1 hour episode.

Episode 139 - Up The Wall

Release Date: 1996-11-21

Hollis learns an important lesson in community policing when some friendly advice that he gives a resident on noise pollution backfires.

Episode 140 - Boiling Point

Release Date: 1996-11-22

Loxton is investigated by the Complaints Investigation Bureau over an accusation that he assaulted a suspected burglar, although he claims to have been acting in self-defence.

Episode 141 - Mirror Image

Release Date: 1996-11-26

Boulton arrests a woman for drug dealing, but Rawton suspects that she may be a victim of mistaken identity.

Episode 142 - Public Relations

Release Date: 1996-11-28

Skase and Hollis demonstrate two differing approaches to police work when a young journalist writing about policing spends a day at Sun Hill.

Episode 143 - Lock 'Em In

Release Date: 1996-11-29

Cryer and Page assist the distraught wife of a prisoner who reports her son missing and who fears that her husband is out to get her.

Episode 144 - Opportunity Costs

Release Date: 1996-12-03

Brownlow orders Meadows and Conway to review their budgets, but Meadows decides to investigate the unsolved murder of a prostitute instead.

Episode 145 - Paying For It

Release Date: 1996-12-05

Beech and Rawton investigate the apparent assault of a father by his son and uncover a family secret.

Episode 146 - Many Happy Returns

Release Date: 1996-12-06

Boulton and Skase take part in a joint exercise with Customs and Excise to crack a fencing operation. Meadows is concerned that Sun Hill might end up footing the bill but not getting a result.

Episode 147 - Black Money

Release Date: 1996-12-10

Croft and Rawton investigate some shady Romanian businessmen and a suitcase full of black paper.

Episode 148 - Scorned

Release Date: 1996-12-12

Croft and Rawton investigate a dentist accused of indecent assault by one of his patients.

Episode 149 - Stolen Kisses

Release Date: 1996-12-13

Monroe, Datta and Loxton talk down a nursery cleaner when she holds a 3-year-old girl hostage, then investigate the woman's claims she is the girl's biological mother.

Episode 150 - Jumping To Conclusions

Release Date: 1996-12-17

Carver's patience is tested by a compulsive liar. Ackland and Quinnan search for a girl allegedly abducted by a religious cult.

Episode 151 - Toe The Line

Release Date: 1996-12-19

Monroe and Conway uncover a bogus wheel-clamping operation.

Episode 152 - A Gun To The Head

Release Date: 1996-12-20

Beech and Daly are put in an impossible situation when a judge decides to reveal the name of their informant.

Episode 153 - Merrily On High

Release Date: 1996-12-24

The Assistant Commissioner has declared Sun Hill Police Station an alcohol-free zone - terrible news for Ch. Supt. Brownlow and Ch. Insp. Conway who hope to enjoy a ""liquid lunch"" when they take the A.C. to a posh French restaurant. It's even worse news for the detectives in C.I.D., who have decided they are not going to give up their Christmas party without a fight. D.C. Skase shows D.C. Croft how a police officer can get ""donations"" for the party from the local publicans, but as they return, Hicks, Brownlow and Conway arrive back from their lunch for a tour of the station. They are forced to pretend Skase is a prisoner, and an unhappy Rod is locked in the cells for several hours. An elderly man is arrested after a road rage incident in a supermarket carpark, but the police manage to reunite him with his estranged family for Christmas.

Episode 154 - Hers

Release Date: 1996-12-26

Stamp and Page look into the theft of a hearse containing the coffin of a thief who died in a traffic accident.

Episode 155 - Hat Trick

Release Date: 1996-12-27

Boulton and Skase investigate a car-ramming incident involving a member of a local pub team.

Episode 156 - The Right Thing

Release Date: 1996-12-31

New WPC Jamila Blake joins Sun Hill after three years away from the job. She pairs with Stamp, and they find an overdosed boy during a foot pursuit, and Cryer takes an interest when he discovers the victim is on the basketball same team as a former Sun Hill officer’s son.