The Bill - Complete Series 17

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Douglas Henshall, Christopher Fairbank, Katherine Parr, Louis Mahoney, Shay Gorman and David Blake Kelly On temporary assignment to the Serious Crime Group, DC Lennox is surprised to find Liz Rawton is Acting DI at SCG. The body of a young girl, later identified as Hayley Mills, is found in a concrete slab in a cement works. Rawton and Lennox question the new owner of the cement works, Digby Leake, and Rawton tells Lennox off for his aggressive approach to the case. Hayley's ex-boyfriend tells them of a modelling agency which doubled as an escort service where Hayley worked and that Hayley was pregnant, and the owner Leon Walsh is certainly suspiscious, especially when the police find a car of his containing Hayley's blood. Forensics reveals that Hayley died of an ectopic pregnancy, and was not murdered, Leake admits that he was the father and that his assistant Harry Rawlings dumped the body when Hayley died from the complications. Lennox forms a bond with Hayley's friend Karen, who confides to him that Rawlings and Leon are involved in smuggling heroin from Hong Kong, and the pair are New title sequence and theme introduced, final appearance of Nurse Jenny Quinnan, Paul Popplewell guest stars Part One was set to air on 11 September 2001 however was delayed for 3 days by the ITV Network Centre. EPG listings still stated this was to be transmitted on 9/11.

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Season 17 Episodes

First appearance of DCI Kim Reid, final appearance of DCI Gordon Wray, Robert Wisdom and Morgan Deare guest star Part One: With the Section House closing, Hollis is not only looking for a new place to live, but is also applying for a transfer to SO14, the Royal Protection Unit. As he closes on a sale to buy a flat owned by an elderly friend, Doreen Tyler, she changes her mind at the last minute, so he moves in with Stamp. Hollis's intuition gives CID an important lead on a planned armed robbery, but his uniformed colleagues conspire against him to have Klein organise the Section House closing party instead of him. Upset that his colleagues no longer value his credibility, Hollis decides to skip the party and goes round to visit Doreen, only to find her lying on her living room floor with head injuries. Webb and Riley wait outside a cafe, whilst inside McAllister is conducting a rather clumsy undercover sting on a suspected drug dealer. Cullen is furious when the suspect is released without charge following McAllister's poor handling of the case. Resentful of Singh's success in recruiting local informants, McAllister manages to coax some information from solicitor's clerk Jamie Ross, which eventually leads to a successful arrest when information from Ross blows apart a stabbing suspect's alibi. Pleased with her success, McAllister is determined to convince Ross to work as an informant for her. Meanwhile, Riley meets up with his brother Joe, who seems to be in some trouble with the Nottinghamshire Police. Taviner and Hollis attend when a gang of masked girls armed with baseball bats raid gifts at a wedding. The gang's violence intensifies and the bride's sister, Debbie Pike, is found badly beaten after an altercation with a mother and her baby on the high street. Chandler sends Spears to visit the local schools, ostensibly to encourage students to join the Met's Volunteer Cadet Corps, but secretly to obtain information on the gang and its members. As rumours about her and Chandler fly around the station, Spears pushes an eager schoolboy informant too far.

Part Two: Under pressure from Chandler and the NCS to release Phil Brown, Meadows convinces Moira Scott to admit to George Stubbs's involvement in the armed robbery, as well as drug dealing. Meanwhile, Spears goes undercover as a cocaine buyer, and with some help from NCS and SO19, they catch Stubbs and his supplier red-handed with the drugs. During his interview, Stubbs makes an allegation of corruption against Chandler. Meadows realises that his allegations could be the final nail in Chandler's coffin, and goes all out to substantiate Stubbs' claim. Part One - The Dark Side: Hayward breaks down during a talk with primary school pupils, when he gives a powerful speech about the death of his sister to teach them the dangers of drugs. Gilmore is not happy, but the teacher thinks Hayward's sensitivity will help the students get the message, and may also help them trust Hayward enough to report a bully. An old friend of his sister's asks him out, although when he meets her at a gallery opening, Hayward thinks her friends are dealing drugs. Klein and Hayward find the bully, "Red", who has been using two fierce dogs to steal money and mobile phones from school children. They trace the dogs to the flat of drug-addicted prostitute Stacy Dodds, and a search of her flat uncovers a large stash of heroin. CID are drafted in when Red accuses Stacey of sexual abuse. Whilst on a week's secondment to Scotland Yard's Art and Antiques Squad, Lennox is tasked with investigating a young woman, Tessa Gannon, who tried to sell a forged painting to a gallery. Lennox soon finds a receipt from a gallery owned by an art dealer named Ivor Gregory, who has form for deception. Lennox befriends an artist named Richard Townes, who charges into Gregory's gallery as Lennox peruses the paintings. In the hope of getting a closer look at one of the paintings, Lennox arranges for his wife Shona to buy one of them. He gets it verified, and is disappointed when it is an original. When the painting is returned for re-framing, Lennox realises Gregory has swapped it for a fake. minute special, guest appearances of ex-DS Don Beech and now DI Claire Stanton, John Noble and Jason Clarke guest star A spate of graffiti taggings in Sun Hill sees the police showing zero tolerance to the perpetrators. Carver is sympathetic towards an alcoholic teacher at Canley Art College when his classroom and students' work are defaced. Boyden asks Hagen to move in with him, but she is reluctant, wanting her own space. To her outrage, Boyden moves her belongings to his house as a surprise. Boyden arranges for the council to paint a wall blank to set a trap for the graffitists, catching quite a few in the process. However, with all them pleading innocence for the art school incident, they are left looking elsewhere.First appearance of DS Danny Pearce, Anne Reid, Matilda Ziegler, Tim Wylton and David Sibley guest star Meadows is approached by a German lawyer, Eva Melchor, who has an interesting proposal from her client, a notorious armed robber named Paul Kerrigan. Kerrigan's sister Rene is dying, and provided he is allowed to see her one last time, he will not only turn himself in to Meadows, he will also identify members of the M25 gang, a vicious gang of armed robbers who have been terrorising London. True to his word, Kerrigan shops Kevin Lee, the gang's armourer, and a search reveals a cache of weapons in Lee's pet shop. With MIT and OCG eagerly awaiting Kerrigan's information, Meadows places Kerrigan in a safe house. When a series of car bombs outside the safehouse distract Carver and Worrell, Kerrigan escapes. Thinking Kerrigan has fled, Meadows is stunned when his nemesis turns up dead. Attention turns to Melchor, the only other person besides the police who knew where he was being held, but is she a suspect or the next victim?