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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:12 pm

Thursday 8th

PCs Roger Valentine (John Bowler) and Dan Casper (Chris Jarvis) are called to an incident where Martin Clarke (Oscar Humphreys), a student from Harvey Wallace School has been stabbed and another student was witnessed fleeing the scene. At St Hugh’s hospital, Martin can’t remember anything about the attack on him, much to Sergeant June Ackland (Trudie Goodwin) and PC Tony Stamp’s (Graham Cole) disappointment. Martin’s father Carl (Malcolm Ridley) arrives and angrily announces that the attacker must be Wayne Tindle (Arnold Oceng), as he’s been threatening Martin; Wayne’s sister is pregnant and he believes Martin is the father.

Tony and June speak to Rod Jessop (Richard Hope), the headmaster at Harvey Wallace and ask to interview all the kids who were late to school that morning. June and Tony interrogate Wayne who admits to threatening Martin, but he was at the doctor with his sister at the time of the assault. Next in, is Tom Ryan (Tom Stewart), who, surprisingly, admits to stabbing Martin because he is fed up with his bullying. He intended to scare Martin with the knife, but slipped and stabbed him. Roger and Dan retrieve the blood covered knife and send it to forensics. During a locker search, Tony discovers Wayne’s shoes which are covered in blood and after sending them off for tests, June and Tony take the students back to Sun Hill for further questioning.

At the station, Inspector Gina Gold (Roberta Taylor) is mortified when Sergeant Smithy (Alex Wilkinshaw) disturbs her opening gifts from married lover, Peter Harris (Peter Guinness); an evening dress and ballet tickets, neither of which she appreciates. Gina wipes the smile from Smithy’s face by handing him a file - they must find Jimmy Collins (Leslie Grantham), who hasn’t returned to his open prison, even though he is due for release in a couple of months. Gina and Smithy visit his house to speak to his wife Dawn (Julie Peasgood), who denies any knowledge of his disappearance. Jimmy suddenly appears from the back of the house and drives away in Dawn’s car. Smithy and Gina ask Dawn about where he is going and she says that he told her that he had to sort something out before going back inside.

Meanwhile, Tony and June interview Wayne, after a witness identifies him as seen running from the scene. Eventually, Wayne admits that he was at the scene of the crime, hence his blood-covered shoes but he didn’t stab Martin. Roger confirms this when the knife comes back from forensics with Tom’s prints on it. At St Hugh’s, June picks up on Martin’s unease at hearing of Tom’s arrest when visiting him. She doesn’t believe he’s telling the full story when he says he was stabbed by Tom as revenge for the bullying…

Elsewhere, PCs Diane Noble (Kaye Wragg) and Reg Hollis (Jeff Stewart) are called to a burglary at a chemist. A man ran in, stole some bandages and pushed a woman over in the process. Diane is frustrated with Reg when he suggests ploughing through CCTV tapes, but when Gina asks them to search CCTV for Jimmy Collins’ car – she is pleased it’s a little more exciting. Diane and Reg finally view a CCTV image of Jimmy and Reg remembers he’s also the guy from the robbery at the chemist. After relaying the news, Tony and Smithy find Jimmy’s car covered in blood, which explains the need for bandages – but Jimmy is nowhere to be seen. Gina asks Tony to bring Dawn in for questioning. Dan arrives with the blood results from the knife used to stab Martin and June and Gina are baffled to discover that both types of DNA found on the knife match with Martin and Jimmy. Further investigation reveals that Jimmy and Tom’s dad, Bob, were best mates. Before Bob died, he entrusted Jimmy to look out for Tom. He always sees Tom when he’s on a home visit and this time they went out to lunch together. Gina informs Smithy that’s she’s contacted Tom Ryan’s mum, Maria (Sarah Joseph) to find out where Jimmy is and she is on her way to see her. Diane shows Smithy earlier CCTV footage of Jimmy Collins entering Maria’s house. Smithy immediately gets on the PR to warn Gina, but it’s too late, Jimmy walks in wielding a knife, ordering Gina not to answer the PR…

At the end of the shift Smithy and June share a smile as they notice Gina tottering out of the station in her high heels and evening dress. June meets Rod and shares her thoughts with him; they both work so hard to help other people and receive little reward for it. June is tired of the job. She would love for them to bring the wedding forward and then retire together. But what does Rod think..?