The Bill (series 24)

Part One: Dean Clark, an 11 year old boy, is abducted at a shopping centre. Connections are made to two notorious abductors, Alistair Haig and Linda Johnson, but Haig is dead and Johnson is in prison. Manson visits Johnson with Turner, but she isn't interested. She calls Manson and requests to see him alone, and tells him about her boyfriend, Mike Wilson. She explains they split, and he would prove he loved her. Wilson's flat is raided, and he appears to be obsessed with the case. He is arrested and confesses to murdering Dean, but it is ruled out when Dean calls his mother.

Part One- Innocent Blood: Smithy and Emma attend an out of control party on the Jasmine Allen Estate, where a teenager, Tito Morientes, has been stabbed. Smithy's old informant, Carly Samuels, now a stay at home mother, points out Eric Benton, an illegal landlord to whom Morientes owed for rent. Carly's boyfriend, Marlon Reed, is the owner of £500 stolen from Morientes at the party, for admission. Marlon is found attacking Benton, and after a lengthy chase, Benton is arrested by Gold. He denies stabbing Morientes but confesses to mugging him. Carly reluctantly tells Smithy that Marlon was the attacker, and a dog finds a knife and bloodstained hoodie. Marlon is charged with GBH, but bailed. A suspected revenge attack sees Carly gunned down standing next to Marlon on the estate. Nate and Sally meanwhile, investigate a child carer, who relieves himself setting fires.

Part Two- Wall of Silence: Carly Samuels is rushed to hospital after the shooting, where she dies of her injuries as her devastated mother Leanne arrives. The drive-by car is found alight, along with shell casings. Tito Morientes is suspect number one, but is given an alibi by girlfriend Alisha Daniels, who was also Carly's best friend. Uniform set up a mobile unit on the Jasmine Allen Estate. Smith is assigned as Leanne's FLO, but she throws him out after a mechanic feeds Sun Hill duff information about Carly being pregnant. Dwayne Fox, the father of Carly's daughter Brooke, tells CID Marlon Reed is dealing and producing crack cocaine, and Alisha says Carly was moving to Sheffield with Brooke. Marlon is found with a gun to Tito's head, and is charged with dealing & attempted murder. Tito confesses at gunpoint, but retracts it in interview. Problems mount as the investigation breaks down, and a wall of silence falls on the Jasmine Allen.

Part Three- Breaking Point: Nate and Diane attend when Dr. Adam Tyler is attacked and robbed of his surgery keys. Local addict Brendan Connor confesses he robbed Tyler, but denies attacking him, and claims he was thrown from a car, which is backed up by CCTV. Tyler and his partner, Dr. Rachel Cartwright, are found in the middle of a disturbance, and they are revealed to have been involved in aiding the recovery of two injured burglars. The victim is also stabbed, and a race against time to find the injured victim and burglar is launched. Leanne Samuels reveals her psychic Dawn Stanley, knows about Tito's involvement through her boyfriend Pete Oldman. Oldman refuses to testify, and Smithy & Tony find Leanne in her bathtub with her wrists slit. Stanley gives info on a murder weapon, and it is recovered in the canal by divers. Leanne accepts Smithy as her FLO once more.

Part Four- Deadly Secret: On the day of Carly Samuels' funeral, a fight breaks out on the Jasmine Allen as Tito Morientes shows up at the procession. A gun is discharged, and Tito is arrested again. Nate investigates a series of burglaries, including one at the Samuels residence. The suspect appears to be a criminal's son, who had a crush on Carly, and wanted to leave his abusive father. Alisha Daniels runs out of the funeral during a moving speech, and is brought in. A pair of shoes used to dump the weapon are traced to none other than Dwayne Fox, and Alisha finally cracks, breaking Tito's alibi. CID arrange raids on Dwayne and Tito.

Part Five- Protection: Meadows launches the raid on Dwayne Fox's home, and Nixon coordinates one at Tito Morientes'. Tito is arrested, but Dwayne isn't home. Dwayne's mother Beverley breaks his alibi, but his boss kidnaps Brooke. Smithy and Nate use the boss in a sting, and Dwayne is arrested for his part in the shooting. Alisha's phone signal puts her at the scene of the murder, so she gives another statement. With Tito & Dwayne are charged, Alisha reveals there was a third man in the car, and as she returns to the Jasmine Allen under police protection, she is hit full speed ahead by a sports car.

Part Six- Hit & Run: Uniform go all out to track down the hit and run car. Roger and Tony locate the Cougar in the Area Car, but the pursuit is abandoned when it goes off-road. Emma and Nate locate the car on fire, but it had just been lit and it is quickly extinguished. Alisha retracts her statement and the case goes downhill. The car owner claims he was attacked by a child, and it is confirmed as CID find youngster Danny Pearce on CCTV. He is interviewed in the presence of his brother Joel, who disappears when it is revealed the car wasn't destroyed. Alisha identifies Joel as the third drive-by suspect, but her father Oscar gets there first. Joel agrees to give evidence, to the delight of CID, Smithy and Leanne.

Part Seven- Truth & Lies: The Carly Samuels murder trial kicks off. The defence barrister, Sunil Davdra, is an ex of Dasari. Joel Pearce has been intimidated out of testifying when he shows up covered in bruises, and tells the court he lied in his statement. Jo and Kezia investigate an assault on a pregnant woman. Her boyfriend, Raheem Woods is the suspect. When Wood is arrested, he smashes his face into a cell wall, claiming it was Nate. He is released by Gold, but riles the estate up about 'police brutality'. The judge consents for Alisha to give her evidence. A mob try to attack her leaving the estate, and a group of yobs bombard Reg & Beth with bricks whilst in the mobile unit. The estate backlash goes on when the IRV transporting her to court is rammed onto its roof by a mystery assailant.

Part One- Pay Back: Stone, Green, Gayle and Armstrong chase a Ranger Rover, which ends up colliding with a skip. The driver is a child, but the owner is a known criminal, Dylan Morrison. His briefcase with explicit material is recovered and Morrison is implicated in a potential blackmail, and is found later found with word 'SCUM' tattooed on his forehead. When it appears anybody connected to the blackmail is targeted, the joyrider's father is found with a stab wound in an RTA.

Beth and Emma are on shift with hangovers. Their day starts badly when they turn up late to a briefing with the Super, covering uniform for investigations while CID work a fraud case. It only gets worse when Heaton volunteers to join the duo on patrol. Gold and Wright go to Canley Market, mainly so Gold can keep an eye on Heaton! Nate and Roger stumble upon an electronics van, abandoned with driver tied up in the back. Heaton freaks out a female drug dealer when he arrests her, due to a history of abuse. Green, Keane and Heaton find a young boy working his mother's stall, and two robots stolen from the van are found. The drug dealer, Rachel Compton, has her flat turned over, and her brother Matty is found assaulted, surrounded by several damaged robots. Green and Heaton find heroin in the back of one of the two they seized. Rachel's boyfriend, James Maguire, is suspect number one, and he is being hunted down by Jaz Desai, the van's owner, wanting his drugs, and he's holding Rachel hostage.

Part One: Emma and Roger respond to a disturbance and find a teenager with her wrists slit. It appears she is being groomed as part of an online paedophile network. When her friend goes missing, CID launch a manhunt, with Terry looking through offenders. Grace is seconded to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection group to work with Detective Superintendent Tom Faraday, and tries to open up professional yet compassionate Detective Inspector Phil Ashley. Just when it seems they've busted the ring, a post by a user named "Domino Man", promises a live feed showing the abuse of an 8-year-old boy in 24 hours.

Part One: Ben and Tony discover the body of drug addict Abbey Ferguson in a derelict building, whilst searching for a distressed young girl, and the trail of evidence leads back to her pimp Danny Peters. A prostitute claims she saw the violent client dragged Abbey's body downstairs. When this turns out to be false, she is arrested and has to give up Danny. When it conspires he killed Abbey for not sleeping with the violent punter, he injected her with a large dose of heroin. As Stevie and Stuart confront him, he arms himself with a needle.

Part One: Smithy attends the scene of an assault on an elderly man. He turns out to be Johnnie Jackson, an ex-East End gangster and bank robber. When Smithy and Max visit Johnnie, he is visited be his grandson, Jacko, and Johnnie claims he is dealing for Bosnian drugs warlord Andreas Audra. The team are perplexed why a gangster would 'grass', but when Johnnie points the team in the direction of 'Tailfeathers', a nightclub owned by Jacko and Roger Hutton, who turns out to be Johnnie's bastard love child. As Jacko is implicated in a smuggling op, Johnnie hopes they can bring down Roger. Events take a sinister twist when Jacko is found dead in Johnnie's house.

R.I.P. P.I: DC Jacob Banks joins the Sun Hill watch in time to help a hung-over Mickey investigate the murder of a private detective. It appears he was looking into the disappearance of a woman, Geraldine Lawson. When a witness is tipped off, her family suspect she is dead. A complicated case brings up a suspect, but he proves elusive for the CID team. Emma is disappointed when Stone refuses to put through an application for her to go undercover on the case.

Part One- Shockwave: Sally and Emma are first on scene when two explosions rock a local street. With multiple injuries, fatalities, and severe damage to several buildings, Stone & Will quickly respond to assist. Gold arranges backup from the station, under the eye of Meadows & Heaton. Emma is injured chasing a passer-by who gropes a victim, claiming to be a doctor. A general sense of shock around the relief is affecting the job, but they band together to help the wounded. When Stone wants to deal with the phoney doctor, Emma accuses him of being bent and storms off. She finds a building on fire, and during the response, a suspect package is found. As she finishes clearing the building, the bomb goes off, and radio silence stuns the station.

Part Two- Aftershock: The relief struggle to deal with Emma's death, none more so than Sally, who argued with Emma about Stone's gang before her death. Sally nearly attacks the suspect, and SO15's DI Karen Lacy confirms the bombs contained fertilizer. Kezia finds herself in a life and death situation when she triggers a pressure pad, but the bomb is a fake. An email is sent and Grace decodes it to be about the "Four Evils of the Internet". A paranoid fraudster, victim number three, is released when it appears he was set up by the bomber.

Part One: Upon return to Sun Hill after going on the Undercover Training course, Beth teams up with Sally. The pair find a man, Alan Marlowe, beaten up in an alleyway of a known red light district. CCTV shows him arguing with his stepdaughter, Lucy Burton. Burton is remanded in custody, but is quickly bailed. When her mother confesses to the assault, Burton intervenes and admits she assaulted her stepfather. She explains to Beth that Marlowe attacked Lucy's mother for every time she tried to contact her, but her mother won't make a statement. Sally tells Beth she thinks she got too involved with Lucy.

Part One- Trigger Happy: Bansky, Roger and Ben are first on scene when a young boy, Emile Grover, is found with a loaded gun. Banksy talks him down, and it is identified as an army issued Browning high power pistol. Emile identifies the man who gave him the gun as Andrew Tyrell. Captain Charlie Shaw of the army identifies the owner of the gun as Corporal William 'Billy' Figgis. Conveniently, Figgis already dealt with Smithy and new PC Mel Ryder, but after holding them hostage with a replica handgun, he goes missing. Billy's wife, whom he'd been harassing, reports their son Josh missing. Billy is arrested on suspicion of abduction, but he reveals Tyrell is holding Josh so he can get more weapons. Sun Hill up the ante when Henry Grover reports Emile missing, and he was last seen with Josh Figgis.

Part Two- Undercover: Suspected gun runner Andrew Tyrell mentions supplier Billy Figgis has been working with Kieran Wallace, a thug converting firearms for an as yet unknown kingpin. With nerve damage from the stabbing by Tyrell, Figgis agrees to introduce Smithy to Wallace. Smithy gets an in, and prepares to go deep undercover with Stevie acting as his girlfriend as a way of contact. Meanwhile, after Nate arrests a woman involved in a hit and run, Bansky discovers she was sexually assaulted in her home. The main suspect is a disgruntled ex-boyfriend, but after he is implicated with an alibi, it leaves them asking, who'd agree to rape someone for a friend?

Part Three- Kick Off: Derby day. The Sun Hill relief find themselves on security for the Millwall vs Leyton Orient game. With Smithy attending alongside Kieran Wallace, uniform find another issue; a stolen case of volatile fireworks being set off by kids. With rival intelligence claiming the Orient fans would welcome the home fans with a bang, uniform have to go all out to find the rest. Smithy loses his cool with one of the gang, which impresses ringleader Darren Cutler. Gina goes into meltdown when Mel is nearly killed when a vehicle full of fireworks explode, but she carries on when she & Will have to take a woman in labour to hospital in the transport van.

Part Four- Spray and Pray: Smithy finds himself holding a gun that Wallace claims was used in shooting. Stevie recovers the gun, but Smithy spends the entire day concerned his cover is blown. Max suggests setting up Wallace to plant the gun, and when Wallace is arrested, Smithy finds himself looking down the barrel of Cutler's gun. He is introduced to Bob Gatting, the boss of the SE1 gang, organizing security and cash for the deal. Cutler meets the supplier under surveillance at his workshop. CID use the gun to investigate the murder of an ex-con.

Part One- Blind Alley: A young woman, Paula Merrick, is found unconscious in an alleyway. During a chase from Nate, the suspect drops a stun gun. Signs suggest she was raped. Nixon runs the investigation. Will joins CID on attachment from uniform, and is paired with Terry. He looks for a supplier of the stun guns, and ends up with a foot in the stomach during an arrest. Nixon's suspect is male stripper Tom Norris, but forensics aren't strong enough to charge him with rape, as he claims he had sex with Paula.

Part One: Whilst on operation at the docks to arrest thieves, Meadows is stopped by Karen Lacy, now an Intelligence Officer with the Serious and Organized Crime Agency. She convinces Meadows his theft operation based around dock boss Dave Monks is small fry; she has him under surveillance for 60 kilos of cocaine bound for the docks. Max, working undercover, has to warn one of the thieves, Dave's son Pete. Accomplice Tom Harris agrees to give Meadows and Lacy evidence after he is arrested. For his help, Dave Monks agrees to give Max more work. Beth goes undercover in the Monk's club with Dave's daughter Chloe, but Meadows & Lacy spot Dave telling Pete to kill Chloe's boyfriend and business partner Asif Perreira. Pete bottles it and Asif goes into protection. Beth blows her cover with Chloe to gain trust, and takes her to Asif. Max tips off Meadows about a bust, but Dave set it up as a decoy run. Meanwhile, Stuart gets a clean bill of health after being stabbed with a hypodermic needle a few months earlier.

Part One- Demolition Girl: Whilst on cordon duty for a high rise demolition, Sally is approached by a woman, Sian McGuire, who claims her son is in the block. When it appears Sian was lying, after the search, she reveals her diary is inside detailing a rape at the hands of her uncle, Graham Boyce, when she was a child. Gold agrees to arrange a delay to the demolition, on the condition Sian makes a statement against Boyce. When the diary isn't found, the demolition goes ahead. As alarms ring, signalling the warning, Sian runs at the block, chased by Sally. As the building collapses, the pair are nearly crushed to death. Sian, with the help of Stevie, Jo and Sally, arranges a meeting with her aunt, Yvonne. However, the team are left with no choice but to arrest Boyce. Sian's diary is recovered from his shed, and he confesses. As Sally gets reprimanded by Gold for interfering with the interview, she goes to get drunk with Ben. After a drunken encounter, she drives off and hits another car. Meanwhile, Leon and Stone look for a missing pedigree dog.

Part One- Before: Rachel and Roger attend a serious assault. A drug dealer has been brutally assaulted and has broken his jaw in a hammer attack. Weston tries to get the victim to talk, while Grace looks for a suspect. A teenager is brought in, but he has to be bailed for his own safety, when it is revealed he is witness protection. After Grace tears him apart in interview, he agrees to help her out. The fallout has disastrous consequences however, when he is found dead at the bottom of a tower block.

Part One: Millie and Arun respond to an assault in a car park, with the victim none other than Banksy's wife Naomi Woods. The suspect, Bobby Henshaw, is after retribution, when Woods defended Alistair Finch, a driver who killed Bobby's brother Michael in an RTA a few months earlier. Banksy tries to get Bobby's parents to open up, but his mother Judy blames him for his Michael's death. His associate Gavin Wishart, points CID in the right direction. When Banksy goes home to speak to Naomi, he finds Bobby holding a knife to her throat.

Part One: The trial for Tom Norris starts, with the charges rape and murder. Banksy's wife, Naomi Woods, is defence counsel. Sam continues her persistent work. Fallon Thomas runs from Millie and Beth when they go to pick her up, to bring her to court. Paula Merrick suffers a dose of nerves and is found out of her face on vodka, but Mel cleans her up and brings her to court. She is torn apart on the stand, and when the is found in the bathroom talking to fellow witness Sophie Oduya. Naomi witnesses the incident and the judge throws it out for police orchestration of collusion between witnesses. Nixon issues a warning to Norris about witness intimidation; and a call comes in about an assault in the same alleyway where Paula Merrick was found.

Part One: With Nate, Leon and Rachel off sick, Heaton joins Gold on patrol. Stone, Roger, Millie & Ben attend a stabbing. The victim, Jake Quinn, claims his girlfriend Nicola's husband, Gerrard Parry, did the stabbing. When Stone & Millie go to his home, he makes a quick escape. Nicola claims Jake's obsessed with her, but there are more phone calls to Jake than from. When Parry is found, he denies the stabbing, and forensics prove Jake may have stabbed himself. At his work, Smithy and Gold find a gun holder in his locker, and he is seen leaving with Sophie Parry, Nicola and Gerrard's daughter. As Smithy and Gold go to Sophie's school, Jake is found waving a gun around.

Part One: Uniform start a search party for a missing eight year old, Bethany Riley. As a search party gets underway, Roger is assigned as FLO. Arun tragically finds her body a few miles from her school. Suspicion falls on her father, who is significantly older than his wife, after a dodgy alibi. Suspicion then falls on football coach Ryan Kemble, whose van was seen nearby when Bethany vanished. When one of her blazers appears in his van, he is arrested. Camera footage shows that one of Bethany's fellow pupils has a fixation on her, but is he capable of murder?

Part One: Terry goes on the 'big job' with cab boss Alan Brady. As they're parked up, Brady points a gun at a teenager and shoves her in a cab. Hajo Trautzschke and Ina Zimmermann of Leipzig PD arrive when it appears the victim, Charlotte Wenger, is a German national. Hajo's brute tactics annoy Jack, especially when he manhandles Terry in a raid on Thompson & Ray. Jimmy Thompson has already taken Charlotte away, so Terry meets him in Piccadilly Circus. Both Charlotte and Jimmy run off; Jimmy is arrested by SO19, but Terry and Charlotte go missing, kidnapped by the ringleader. He reveals his name as Viktor Hauptmann, and he is meeting a computer hacker, Hans Muller, at City Airport. Hajo arranges for an undercover cop, Jan Maybach, to swap with Muller. As soon as Terry leaves with Jan, the gang get on a plane bound for Germany.

Part One: Jo is on scene when a pub landlord discovers the body of a prostitute, Kelly Hunter. Her ex-boyfriend Andy Donnelly is a suspect for Kelly's fatal overdose. His girlfriend, Jen Kilshaw, is obviously underage, so Jo focuses on getting her away from Andy. Jo promises Kelly's mum that she will bring down who is responsible. Kezia, Heaton and Jo look at two overdoses, including Kelly's, and a chain of locations where the girls came from and ended up, and fear that a sex trade operation is spreading across the UK, and Andy appears to not be the main suspect in Kelly's murder or the smuggling operation.

Part One: Stevie sets up an OBBO on Rob Towler, but when nothing happens overnight, Stuart suggests she goes back under. Stevie's SO10 handler, DS Jim Rutherford, comes to Sun Hill to help with the case. Stevie dislikes Rob's partner, Gordon McCardle. She sees him at Rob's before a deal, and fears he is being set up. She voices this to an uninterested Stuart, and has to intervene herself.

Part Two: With a gang member and SO19 officer down, Stevie and Rob speed off on a bike, chased by the gang. Ben and Arun call in to say they lost both targets. Stuart receives a cryptic call from Stevie, but it is quickly cut off. She confronts Stuart at her storage unit, after failing to find her passport at home. After putting a gun on him, Stuart is grounded. When he finds Towler and Stevie at Towler's father's home, but after he is shot, Stevie and Towler flee, and Stuart finds himself suspended.