The Bill

Saturday October 25, 9:15pm

DS Max Carter (Christopher Fox) and DC Terry Perkins (Bruce Byron) are stuck in a traffic jam, and are increasingly getting on each other's nerves. Meanwhile, PC Roger Valentine (John Bowles) interviews a young Polish woman Halina Lesnik (Ania Wendzikowska) who's come to the station because she's worried about her fiancé, whom she thinks has gone missing. Suddenly all hell breaks loose, and Terry and Max witness a car-jacking which results in a fatal stabbing. However they can't agree about who stabbed the car owner. Investigations point to Polish brothers, Feliks (Laurentiu Possa) and Stephen Adamski (Rad Kaim), and the search leads the officers to Halina. She tells them that her fiancé Stephen would never hurt anyone, but his brother is a dangerous man. Increasing conflict between the two detectives makes progress difficult, but Max's Polish background reaps some rewards.

Saturday October 25, 8:30pm

Sgt. Nikki Wright (Gillian Taylforth) and PC Roger Valentine (John Bowles) come across a young schoolboy Alfie Eagan (Adam Arnold), who's been assaulted. When they arrive to tell his mother Charlotte (Charlotte Randle), they find the flat's been ransacked. Charlotte tells them that Alfie's dad Carl, who's on parole after a seven year stretch for drug dealing, was living with them, but bolted three weeks ago.

Saturday, October 18 at 9:15pm

Saturday, October 18 at 8:30pm

After the death of their colleague PC Emma Keane, the Sun Hill team is dealing with another bomb threat, and they're no closer to finding the bomber. DCI Jack Meadows and CO15's DI Karen Lacy (Liz May Brice) now suspect it's the work of one person - someone targeting 'the four evils of the internet', but the only other clue they have is a man with a motorbike helmet spotted on CCTV at several of the sites.
As they desperately search for clues, DC Grace Dasari (Amita Dhiri) conducts an interview with the men targeted in the earlier incidents, in an effort to find a common link, but it's not until they've left the station that they realise they have let the bomber go. As the other uniformed officers attend PC Keane's funeral service, Sgt Stone excuses himself to help CID, but ends up putting his own life on the line...

Saturday October 11, 9:15pm

With the Sun Hill team left reeling from the death of their colleague PC Emma Keane (Melanie Gutteridge), DI Karen Lacy (Liz May Brice) from the Counter Terrorism Unit takes charge of the investigation into the bombings. All hands are on deck to join in the investigation, especially PC Sally Armstrong and Sgt Callum Stone, who were the last to talk to Emma. At first, the evidence suggests an attack against a racist organisation, but email evidence leads them to Carl Adams (Mark Bagnall), who has all the ingredients for bomb-making in his flat. Adams denies involvement, and the team begin to suspect he's not smart enough to be the perpetrator. As DCs Mickey Webb (Chris Simmons) and Kezia Walker (Cat Simmons) search his home for more clues, they walk into a trap. Meanwhile, tensions between Sgts Stone and Dale Smith (Alex Walkinshaw) reach boiling point when Smithy tells a very emotional Stone to go home.

Saturday October 11, 8:30pm

PCs Emma Keane (Melanie Gutteridge) and Sally Armstrong (Ali Bastian) are in the vicinity when there are two large explosions near a local estate. They come upon a scene of carnage and share a moment of complete shock.
Sgt Stone (Sam Callis) coordinates the efforts of officers from Sun Hill and Barton Street as they deal with the dead and injured, terrified people desperate for information, and the threat posed by opportunist criminals. When police receive a warning about a third explosive device, PC Keane puts her life on the line…

Saturday October 4 - 8:20PM

DC Jacob Banks (Patrick Robinson) arrives at Sun Hill just in time to join the investigation of the murder of a private investigator, Harry Burroughs.

A loving husband and pillar of the community, Harry seems to have no enemies. But then Bob Flanagan (Dominic Carter), an insurance fraudster, comes across their radar, having sent Harry threatening phone calls. Then, Harry's files reveal a case of betrayal, where a wife discovers her husband has an illegitimate son, and divorces him.

Also, Harry was working a case that had him trawling bars late at night looking for a missing young woman. Were any of these cases related to Harry's murder, or was the answer closer to home?

Meanwhile, PC Emma Keane (Melanie Gutteridge) is feeling that Sgt. Stone (Sam Callis) is deliberately picking on her.

Saturday October 4 - 9:15PM

PC Sally Armstrong (Ali Bastian) goes undercover at a city trading house to investigate the possible involvement of a group of traders in the disappearance of a missing twenty-one-year-old woman, Geraldine Lawson.

However, when Sally sees one of the traders meet with a woman who looks like Geraldine, it seems there is some sort of deal being arranged, so Sally stays on the job. DCI Jack Meadows (Simon Rouse) sends in a very eager PC Emma Keane (Melanie Gutteridge) as well, much to the chagrin of Sgt. Callum Stone (Sam Callis), who's been keeping Emma busy with more routine work of late!

Meanwhile, as other Sun Hill detectives investigate a counterfeit money case, they discover a woman posing as Geraldine, and the trader's secrecy starts to make sense.

Hoping to catch them out, Emma disobeys orders and goes off with one of the traders, just as the detectives discover Geraldine's body in the boot of a car...

Saturday September 27, 8:30pm

Who takes charge of an operation when the boss, DCI Jack Meadows (Simon Rouse) is the best qualified to go undercover? It should be DI Sam Nixon, but she's miffed when the DCI tries to call the shots!

Jack's interest in antiques sees him trying to find the culprits from two robberies - one that resulted in a murder. Meanwhile, as DS Stuart Turner (Doug Rao) and DC Mickey Webb (Chris Simmons) investigate, it seems that an insurance fraud might be at the heart of the case.

The team sets up a sting operation, but the suspect, Roy Summers (Michael N. Harbour) proves elusive, and lures Jack out of the team's reach...

Saturday September 27, 9:15pm

PCs Emma Keane (Melanie Gutteridge) and Sally Armstrong (Ali Bastian) are called to a break-in, but the knife-wielding intruders run off, having been fought off by the householder, Tim Lock (Adrian Scarborough).

There's a lot of blood at the scene, and one of the intruders is found badly injured in the back garden. The evidence suggests that Lock may have used unreasonable force, so he's arrested for attempted murder.

Keane and Armstrong are convinced of Lock's innocence, but are unable to find the knife. Frustrated that the now identified accomplice Joe French (Philip Correia) is taunting them, they concoct a plan to trap him.

Meanwhile, DCs Mickey Webb (Chris Simmons) and Kezia Walker (Cat Simmons) discover that Lock's business is in trouble, and that he's in debt to loan shark, Ray Baker (Jonathan Coyne). However, Baker gives them information that puts Lock's daughter Caroline (Joanna Horton) in the frame...

Saturday September 20, 8:30pm

Acclaimed British actor Edward Woodward guest stars in The Bill, along with his son and grandson.

Old man, former East End gangster Johnnie Jackson (Edward Woodward) is found badly beaten, but won't tell the police who did it.

CCTV footage reveals the assailant is a man associated with Bosnian gang leader and drugs importer Andreas Audra (Ivan Marevich). Audra, along with local villain Roger Hutton (Tim Woodward), owns the local pub where Johnnie drinks, and Johnnie's grandson Steven 'Jacko' Jackson (Sam Woodward) lives upstairs.

Sgt Dale Smith (Alex Walkinshaw) and DS Max Carter (Christopher Fox) discover that 'Jacko' appears to be involved in the gang's activities, and is also listed as the licensee of a lap-dancing club that uses illegal immigrants as prostitutes. With Johnnie unwilling to tell the police why he was bashed, they struggle to unravel the connections. Then tragedy strikes...

Saturday September 20, 9:15pm

Small time criminal 'Jacko' Jackson is found dead in his grandfather Johnnie's (Edward Woodward) flat. Sgt Smith (Alex Walkinshaw) is not convinced the old criminal would kill his grandson, especially after Johnnie's efforts to get Jacko away from the influence of his uncle Roger Hutton (Johnnie's illegitimate son) (Tim Woodward), who is now in custody for drugs trafficking and prostitution using illegal immigrants.

But DS Max Carter (Christopher Fox) thinks otherwise. So when Johnnie is found at the cemetery covered in blood, and can't remember what happened after he and Jacko exchanged heated words earlier on, they take him in. But Doreen Fallon (Ann Mitchell), Johnnie's long-time lover and the mother of Hutton, says Johnnie was with her.

Saturday, September 13 at 9:15pm

DS Stuart Turner (Doug Rao) is injected with a lethal dose of heroin by murder suspect Danny Peters (Neil Bell) and is rushed to hospital. As he recovers, he is devastated to discover that Peters used an HIV-infected needle.

However, after his arrest Peters engages a well-known brief Graham Boyd (Brendan Patricks) to negotiate a reduction in the charges - murder and grievous bodily harm - by promising to reveal a major heroin smuggling operation.

With information supplied by Peters, DC Stevie Moss (Lucy Speed) goes undercover as one of his heroin-addicted girls to penetrate the importing ring. However, Stuart's prediction that it's much too dangerous comes true when Stevie's mobile - carrying the tracking device - is driven away in another car.

Saturday, September 13 at 8:30pm

A missing teenage girl is found dead of a drug overdose in a derelict building, and the trail leads to the house where she was working, along with several other girls, as a prostitute. Initially her pimp, Danny Peters (Neil Bell) is the chief suspect, but he gives the police an alibi, so their attention turns to her last client, Jimmy Gibbs (Gary Lammin).

Gibbs is arrested, and although he admits to roughing her up, vehemently denies he killed her.

When Danny Peters' alibi falls over, and one of the other girls in the brothel disappears, DS Stuart Turner (Doug Rao) and DC Stevie Moss (Lucy Speed) set out to find her before Peters does, as she is probably a witness to the murder.

However, the officers don't count on just how ruthless Danny Peters is…

Saturday, September 06 at 9:05pm

In this very exciting and important episode, the Sun Hill team acts on information gained from a suspect in a pedophile case that an 8-year-old boy is about to be abused on the internet.

With only 24 hours to find the boy, they join forces with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre to try to find the person running the paedophile ring, but find the technological sophistication of the net hard to penetrate.

For DC Terry Perkins (Bruce Byron) it comes as a shock that Peter Williams (David Scholfield), a man he believed had changed, may be involved.