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Wednesday, March 7th

It’s Sergeant June Ackland’s last day before she retires and with her ex-husband, DS Jim Carver, walking the corridors of Sun Hill, it’s going to be an awkward one. Any plans to keep their distance from each other are ruined when DI Sam Nixon volunteers June to assist Jim with his case. Now based in Manchester, Jim has followed notorious drug dealer, Pat Hadley, down to London. Determined to find out what he’s up to, Jim organises an observation on Hadley.

However, it seems Jim isn’t just in Sun Hill on police business. As the tension mounts, he opens up to June telling her that he has turned his life around, and asks her if she really wants to marry Rod? June is shocked and angered by Jim’s arrogant outburst but things soon take a turn for the worse when the investigation turns out to be bigger than expected. After uncovering a robbery, June and Jim find themselves held hostage at gunpoint…

Meanwhile, a skeleton is discovered on some waste ground and uniform are tasked to search the area. PC Lewis Hardy is surprised when the investigation leads him to his flatmate, Tash Niles’ brother, Rudy.

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Thursday, March 8th
Following the drug deal that went wrong, Sergeant June Ackland is held hostage in the back of a van with ex-husband, DS Jim Carver. Meanwhile, June’s Sun Hill colleagues and fiancé, Rod Jessop, wait in the pub for her to arrive at her leaving party.

Angry and upset, June blames Jim for screwing things up for her again by involving her in the case and putting her in danger. As Jim tries to reassure her that they will be OK, they are driven to a warehouse and tied up, their situation looking increasingly bleak.

The following day, with their lives on the line, Jim tells June that he loves her and wants them to try again – he’s worked hard since they split and he can now pay her back the money she used to bail him out of his gambling debts. He tries to convince June that she needs excitement in her life, not a quiet retirement in the Cotswolds with Rod.

As they struggle to stay alive, Sun Hill CID finally locate the warehouse where June and Jim are being held and they are rescued. As arrests are made, Jim and June cling tightly to one another. Ultimately, June is forced to make a decision as to which man she wants to spend her future with.

Back at Sun Hill, DCI Jack Meadows calls a shaken June to a debriefing which turns out to be an ad-hoc leaving party where the team are waiting to toast her retirement. As the party is in full swing, June makes a quiet exit, but with whom – Jim or Rod?

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Wednesday 14th March

DI Sam Nixon (Lisa Maxwell) and PCs Diane Noble (Kaye Wragg) and Will Fletcher (Gary Lucy) deal with an assault on Jess Parker (Marion Bailey) at her home which seems like a burglary gone wrong. Will talks to a group of scantily clad women who were first on the scene and discovers that Jess runs a seedy web chat service from her home. Jess is frustratingly unhelpful with the investigation but neighbours mention a suspicious car parked outside earlier.

Taking over the investigation, DS Phil Hunter (Scott Maslen) and DC Jo Masters (Sally Rogers) discover the car belongs to Ryan Jones (Michael Maloney) and arrest him on suspicion of burglary. Jo and Phil question Ryan at the station where he admits to being at Jess’s house because he was trying to find one of the girls he had been talking to over the internet. Phil threatens him with a harassment charge unless he helps them with their enquiries and Ryan reluctantly complies, if only to make sure that his wife, Connie (Sarah Mowat) doesn’t find out about him using the website. The detectives are pleased when Ryan assists with the investigation but an already stressed Sergeant Smithy (Alex Walkinshaw) isn’t amused when Phil asks him to hold Ryan in the bustling custody cells a little longer while he checks some details out.

Hours later, apologetic Smithy finally reunites Ryan with his concerned wife, but when Ryan riles him, Smithy tells a shocked Connie that her husband, Ryan was arrested for stalking a prostitute. Will Smithy live to regret losing his cool?

Meanwhile, Mickey is assigned to a clean-up operation at the Jasmine Allen Estate as well as doing some local PR with Liz Clifton (Maureen Hibbert), head of Neighbourhood Watch for the area. Along with PCs Emma Hinckley (Melanie Gutteridge) and Roger Valentine (John Bowler), Mickey makes several arrests when a drug deal goes down. However, when two innocent passers-by get mixed up in the commotion - Carl Haycock (Sam Green) and Liz Clifton’s daughter, Kelly (Azuka Oforka) - the operation leads to the investigation of a joyriding incident…

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Thursday 15th March

Sergeant Smithy’s (Alex Walkinshaw) day gets off to a bad start when he comes across Ryan Jones (Michael Maloney) who is holding up traffic when his car runs out of petrol. Smithy fails to notice Ryan’s agitated state and as he helps to push his car out of the road, notices blood on the car boot. It’s too late to stop Ryan who has made a run for it and Smithy is horrified when he opens the boot to find Ryan’s wife’s body - she’s been beaten to death.

DCI Jack Meadows (Simon Rouse) and DC Mickey Webb (Chris Simmons) arrive on the scene and are updated by Smithy who admits that he dealt with Ryan the day before and that he let slip to Ryan’s wife, that her husband had been using an internet sex site. PCs Roger Valentine (John Bowler) and Diane Noble (Kaye Wragg) receive a call-out to a possible sighting of Ryan, armed with a gun, going down into Charing Cross underground station. Roger and Diane give chase but Ryan manages to jump onto a tube just before the doors close. Back at Sun Hill, Jack leads a briefing, reminding the troops that Ryan has already killed once and must be found quickly.

Smithy and Gina respond to a sighting of a man acting aggressively, deducing that it must be Ryan, they speed to the location and spot Ryan sitting on a bench in a crowded area. They clear the area as best they can, but an agitated Ryan reacts, and shoots at two passers-by, seriously injuring them as he makes his getaway. It becomes clear that the gunman is driven by a personal vendetta against Smithy and after visiting Ryan’s workplace, Mickey realises he has got hold of Smithy’s address.

Turning up at Smithy’s house, Mickey is too late to catch Ryan, but there is evidence of a break-in, and it’s soon discovered that Smithy’s address book is open at his mum’s address. Racing against time, the officers seem to be frustratingly one step behind Ryan. Meanwhile, arriving at Smithy’s mum Pauline’s (Cheryl Hall) house, Ryan threatens her at gun-point but makes his getaway when Smithy leaves a message on his mum’s answer-phone. When Smithy spots Ryan lurking outside the house, he gives chase, following him back down into the London Underground. The Sergeant is unable to spot the gunman on the platform. But when the tube pulls away, Ryan appears, gun in hand accusing Smithy of ruining his life…