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August 14th, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, August 14 on ABC1

PCs Kirsty Knight (Sarah Manners) and Leon Taylor (Dominic Power) discover the body of a Venezuelan woman on a rubbish dump, triggering a desperate race to find the woman's partner and son before further tragedy strikes.

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August 7th, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, August 7 on ABC1

An abandoned car registered to wealthy businessman Ajay Kapur (Alex King) is found with traces of blood leading from the scene. When PCs Ben Gayle (Micah Balfour) and Nate Roberts (Ben Richards) visit Mr. Kapur's home, his wife Nalira (Shelley King) and daughter Arshira (Menaka Das) fail to convince them that all is well.

Meanwhile, Di Neil Manson (Andrew Lancel) finally tells the team about his son's leukaemia.

And DS Max Carter (Christopher Fox) threatens DC Terry Perkins (Bruce Byron) if he reveals to DI Manson about Max's coke habit.

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July 31st, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, July 31 on ABC1

DS Max Carter (Christopher Fox) leads an investigation into Nigel Wren (Celyn Jones), a man they believe is grooming young girls on the internet.

Meanwhile, DI Neil Manson (Andrew Lancel) is at the hospital awaiting the latest test results on his sons Jake's leukemia, and his absence is felt at the station as Carter's ongoing erratic behaviour has his team on edge.

On Carter's instructions, DCs Terry Perkins (Bruce Byron) and Jacob Banks (Patrick Robinson) conduct a search of the Wren's house and make a copy of his hard drive, but they're caught on the hop when he decides to return early. Carter finds an ingenious but dangerous way to delay Wren's return.

A search of Wren's computer leads the team to suspect he has set up a meeting with the 13- year-old girl, and two officers follow him, but panic sets in when he catches a cab and manages to give them the slip.

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July 24th, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, July 24 on ABC1

After the death of an 11-year-old boy, DC Grace Dasari (Amita Dhiri) is acting as Family Liaison Officer, and DS Max Carter (Christopher Fox) mounts an investigation into a truck high-jacking operation that might involve the boy's father Craig Gant (Jai Armstrong).

Exhibiting increasingly erratic behaviour, DS Carter conducts the operation without DI Neil Manson's (Andrew Lancel) approval - leaving the rest of the team in the firing line when Manson finds out.

With DI Manson distracted by his son's fight against leukemia, his lack of leadership leaves the team vulnerable to Carter's heavy handed bullying and they are becoming resentful.

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July 17th, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, July 17 on ABC1

Police officers always find the murder of a child upsetting, but for DI Neil Manson (Andrew Lancel) whose son is in hospital with leukemia, it is especially so.

As he oversees the investigation into the murder of an eleven-year-old boy, Manson's team - who don't know about his son's illness - wonder why he is unusually short-tempered and making strange decisions Manson assigns DC Grace Dasari (Amita Dhiri) as Family Liaison Officer, but won't take her advice or consider her opinions, as she takes in the family's circumstances - a family that is already in crisis with the boy's young sister in hospital to undergo a kidney transplant.

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July 10th, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, July 10 on ABC1

A young girl is found dazed and confused on a busy road outside Bristol, and tells police she was trying to get back to her boyfriend Hassan (Cesare Taurasi) in London.

She's identified as Helen Harris (Lisa Greenwood), who was reported missing two years ago when she was just 15 years old. She appears to have been abused - both physically and sexually.

With doctors worried that Helen is too fragile to be interviewed, DI Manson (Andrew Lancel) and his team are desperate to discover where she has been, and with whom.

DC Terry Perkins (Bruce Byron) and DS Max Carter (Christopher Fox) find Hassan in the company of another under-aged girl, Abi (Abby Rakic-Platt), and he tells them Helen hasn't been his girlfriend for two years.

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The Bill

July 3rd, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, July 3 on ABC1

Paul Rayner (Lee Ross) is accused of assaulting a man who, while running a gym 23 years ago, molested him.

But it turns out to be a case of mistaken identity.

Meanwhile, DI Neil Manson (Andrew Lancel) is told his son may have leukaemia, and although he doesn't confide in anyone, all his team notice his preoccupation.

DI Manson takes pity on Rayner, and when he mentions there was another boy called Martin who he was sure was abused at the same time, Manson decides to take action.

Gym records reveal a Martin Wendell (Robbie Gee) was a member at the same time as Rayner, and DC Jacob Banks (Patrick Robinson) pays him a visit. However, unlike Rayner, Wendell has a stable life with a wife and two children, and refuses to drag up the past because he doesn't want his family to know.

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June 26th, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, June 26 on ABC1

Police are called when a man, Mark Pierce (Alec Newman) causes a disturbance in a hotel claiming his wife is upstairs. When police arrive they discover a badly-beaten man, Alan Marsh (Charlie De'ath) in the room she booked, but the man's wife, schoolteacher Julia Pierce (Emily Bruni), has disappeared.

By tracking her mobile, police trace Julia to a colleague's house, but she refuses to say why she won't go home. They bring her in for questioning but she sticks to her story about meeting Marsh for sex, and claims she has no idea he was attacked.

Meanwhile, fingerprints on the vodka bottle used in the attack belong, not to Mrs Pierce, but to Craig Chapman (Ryan Pope), a known associate of the victim years ago in Manchester. With no evidence that the couple did have sex, DC Jacob Banks (Patrick Robinson) and DS Stevie Moss (Lucy Speed) are baffled about the connection between the three.

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May 22nd, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, May 22 on ABC1

The Sun Hill team is investigating the death of a young man, Paul Sorrel, who was found dead in a local park. Initially, Sgt. Jo Masters (Sally Rogers) thought he was the victim of a recent traffic accident she had attended, where the victim had run off after being hit. However, upon closer examination, it was discovered he had been shot.

The prime suspects in the shooting are released because of lack of evidence, but the search for the killer begins to gain momentum as the victim's cousin reveals Paul had been part of a cannabis deal.

DC Mickey Webb (Chris Simmons) falls out with DS Max Carter (Christopher Fox ) over the handling of an informant.

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May 15th, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, May 15 on ABC1

Sgt. Jo Masters (Sally Rogers) and PC Kirsty Knight (Sarah Manners) attend a road traffic accident to find a youth hit by the vehicle has fled the scene. When Masters is called away to deal with an injured youth in a nearby park, they assume it’s the car crash victim, but find a young man with a gunshot wound. DC Mickey Webb (Chris Simmons) and DS Max Carter (Christopher Fox) investigate.

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The Bill: Red Tape

May 1st, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, May 1 on ABC1

Sgts. Stone (Sam Callis) and Jo Masters (Sally Rogers) have to control a violent disturbance outside a nightclub, where Stone is accused of assaulting a member of the public, David Gresham (Philip Perry).

The man accusing Stone, Darrell Cooper (Aiden Kelly), is identified by the club manager Andrew Gray (Tim Faraday) as the one who kicked off the fight. Gray also claims that he was robbed during the melee.

Stone insists that he only pushed Gresham after repeatedly telling him to stand back, but having had an epileptic fit due to the fall, Gresham wants to prosecute.

Meanwhile, DS Stevie Moss (Lucy Speed) and DC Jacob Banks (Patrick Robinson) investigate the robbery only to find that club owner Andrew Gray may have robbed himself to get out of paying a debt-collector - namely Cooper.

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April 24th, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, April 24 on ABC1

Sgt. Callum Stone (Sam Callis) decides to take the law into his own hands when he is the victim of a brutal attack...

Off duty and on his way home, Stone sees a couple arguing, and when the man starts to hit the woman, he intervenes, but is badly beaten.

As Stone struggles with the thought of being a victim, Sgt. Jo Masters (Sally Rogers) and her team, including new PC Kirsty Knight (Sarah Manners) investigate the attack. A car registration leads them to Clarinda Blake (Caroline O'Neill), a local hotel owner who claims she was the victim of a random mugging and doesn't want to make a statement. But they doubt she is telling the truth.

Told there was an incident at Blake's hotel a few weeks earlier, Sgt. Masters and PC Knight interview the manager Tim Hardacre (Danny Midwinter), and find he fits the description Stone gave of the attacker.

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Guilty of Neglect on The Bill

April 17th, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, April 17 on ABC1

Ex-policeman, Alan Wilcock (Ivan Kaye) returns home to find his estranged wife Carly (Jo McInnis), who has a history of mental illness and drug abuse, locked in his house with their four-year-old son, claiming he is guilty of neglect.

Sgt. Jo Masters (Sally Rogers) is called in to negotiate with the distressed mother via Skype, and is told a very different story of the circumstances leading to her drugs arrest and sectioning than was recorded by the police.

But Carly is brandishing her husband's gun, and as the armed response squad surround the house, and Sun Hill officers are despatched to find the truth, Sgt Masters knows she has only one chance to get Carly and the young boy out safely.

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A Letter Bomb on The Bill

April 10th, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, April 10 on ABC1

PC Ben Gayle (Micah Balfour) oversees the evacuation of an office building while Sgt. Callum Stone (Sam Callis) deals with the terrified PA who is left holding a letter bomb.

The bomb explodes harmlessly, but DC Grace Dasari (Amita Dhiri) is convinced that the bomb-maker poses a genuine threat to the office manager.

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An Aggravated Burglary on The Bill

April 3rd, 2010

8:30pm - Saturday, April 3 on ABC1

In her first case as a uniformed sergeant, Jo Masters (Sally Rogers), and her team are called to an aggravated burglary to find the homeowner near death.

Suspicions arise when forensics find a blood pattern that doesn't fit the scenario as told to them by the man's wife Tanisha Baker (Nisha Nayar) and her son Ian, (Misha Crosby).

DC Grace Dasari (Amita Dhiri) discovers the widow has been on the missing persons register for 20 years, and concludes that her Indian heritage might have seen her leave her family to be with a man they disapproved of.

Investigations reveal that the dead man had been having an affair, and that his son, Ian, had found out about it in the past few days. His mistress Jenny Marton (Gabrielle Glaister), tells police that Baker had moved in with her three days before after being confronted by his son, but had gone home to get some more clothes the night before.

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