Episode
The Bill: Mud Sticks
Overview
A woman is found beaten unconscious near a brothel.
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 10
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1994-01-27
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Mud Sticks is Episode 11 in Series 10 of The Bill. It aired on 1994-01-27. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 10: Just Say No
Conway is at a meeting when he sees a girl kicking a car and then tells Conway about the murder of a crack dealer. The girl is scared of her parents. Meadows and Conway are arguing over the girl's info. Tony and Reg are in an electrical store dealing with a shoplifter who gave her name as Elizabeth Barrett. She has a passbook in her possession belonging to the girl connected with the dead crack dealer. She turns out to be the girl who was being raped by the dealer when he was killed.
Episode 12: One Bad Turn
Norika and Steve are patroling 9 beat and later will be taking Ch. Insp. Cato out. They put out signs and caution kerb crawlers. They nick the tom when she is brought back and caution the punter who turns out to be a supplier of drugs. She is later found beaten in an alley. Dave and Mike are also patrolling 9 beat and removing cards from phone boxes. They talk to one of the toms. Driving around Dave spots a man wanted for jumping bail and lose him in the market.
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Episode 9: The Mourning After
Tony and Reg are called to a stabbing in canley fields. Sgt. Cryer and June arrive to help. the victim is DOA at the hospital. The doctor thinks he was attacked 3 hours previously. D.S. Morgan goes to see the victim's mother and discovers she is blind. When the mother checks the body, she discovers it is not her son. Alan talks to a shopkeeper who saw a group of men chasing another one. tosh talks to the party thrower and finds a leather jacket similar ro the one on the body. The wallet inside belongs to the owner of an incorrectly parked mini who never came home the night before.
Episode 13: Faith In The System
Jim and Tosh are in a transit van when they hear shouting. Jim goes to investigate and finds a man being beaten up by D.C Boulton from Barton St. Jim is not prepared to lie for D.C. Boulton about the arrest. The suspect makes a complaint against Boulton. Boulton is not happy Jim won't back him up as a witness to the arrest. Monroe is pressurising Jim into turning Boulton in and Pearce is pressurising him to back up Boulton. The suspect is also pressurising Jim. Jim and Tosh catch a girl breaking into a car and talk to Conway about her. Jiom gets a place in a house for the girl via Conway. She gives the name of the man who told her to get the BMW.
Episode 8: Judge & Jury
Quinnan brings in a shoplifter. A woman talks to Jim and Suzy about being mugged. Jim thinks he knows who the mugger is. They go to talk to the suspect. The duty solicitor is not happy about how Jim conducted the interview. On checking an acquaintance of the suspect, they find designer jackets in his lock-up. He is brought in under suspicion of receiving stolen goods. June and Tony talk to a service station owner who had a car drive off without paying for the petrol she had put into the car. Her husband is the duty solicitor. Driving off is not an arrestable offense. June is concerned that this is not the first offense the suspect has committed.
Episode 14: Keeping Mum
Greig and Crofts call on a boy, who had been nicked previously as a pick pocket, because they want to talk to him about burglaries. When they arrive, the boy calls them in because his mother has been assaulted by his father. The boy sold a stolen brooch to a man so he could use the money for his mother. Donna comes up with a link with the burlaries to an alarm firm - 3 of the houses only had dummy boxes. Greig and Crofts visit the security firm manager who mentions a lad in the firm also plays with the boy with the brooch. Lines talks to the mother as he is now handling the assault case. The victim couldn't give a reason for the attack but previous attacks have been over very little. Her son was also hit.
Episode 7: No Job For An Amateur
June and Adam go to a nurse's home where a nurse was attacked. They discover a door wedged open. A nurse told June the man had called earlier to see another nurse. June calls Adam a narrow minded bigot in the canteen. The nurse who had the male visitor the night before is attacked and turns out to be moonlighting as a tom. Tony and Mike are told to go to a hotel where a woman was assaulted. Boyden talks to the injured woman before her pimp appears. He talks to Monroe about a pattern appearing of toms being beaten as soon as they get into a room.
Episode 15: Double Vision
D.C.s Skase, Lines and D.I.Johnson along with Morgan, Pearce and Woods watch a man get into a vasn to do a deal to buy wine that had been hi-jacked. DCI Meadows thinks this arrest of the men in the van has stopped some hi-jacks. Steve is not happy he was left out after feeding Pearce the information. Steve goes and complains to the man who gave him the info. Pearce also gets into trouble because he had got the info from a man he had never seen. Meadows talks to the man watched in the morning who has a license in a false name but he is not prepared to grass on the man they believe was behind the hi-jacks. Monroe argues with Johnson about holding the prisoners. Their mother comes to check on them. Johnson talks to Loxton about running a snout and she apologises. They then go to talk to the snout and find out he had told the other men held about the deal.
Episode 6: Dealer Wins
A tom is in family court on trial to work out whether her daughter should stay with her althought she was charged with possession. Jim and Suzy talk to some of the tom's friends to be able to help her. They are told that the tom's boyfriend is trying to put her daughter on the game and she doesn't know. Meadows organises teams to lead raids on 4 different targets.
Episode 16: No Access
A boy has been assaulted and Donna comes up with a possible suspect. Another boy has been reported missing and his mother is concerned because of the attacks. The boy was last seen near to where the suspect lives. Morgaqn and Carver talk to the suspect who denies doing anything. Carver then goes to talk to a counsellor at the sunhill Men's Group. Morgan talks to some boys who saw the missing boy go off with a man. The man turns out to be his dad. The suspect admits to assaulting two boys but denies abducting the missing child. He was very upset about visits with his children.
Episode 5: Mix & Match
Pearce and Steele are looking for a stolen car that has a tracking system installed. The car is not there. The rep from the tracking company is very enthusiastic about the system. Pearce and Steele find a range rover in a lockup that is stolen along with the missing car. They think the garage could be a good spot for an observation. Monroe is not too happy but Cato is all for it. Tony and June are part of the surveillance team. A car drives into the yard and June recognises one of the men that Pearce then follows.
Episode 17: Ways & Means
Carver and Lines are on the way to speak to witnesses when they see a man wrestling with a woman who is known to the police. She has some info about shoplifters which she gives to Boyden. Cathy and Dave deqal with a break-in which turns out to be a boy gaining entry to his own home because his mum isn't home. Polly arrested her for shoplifting. Norika and Cathy talk to a complaintive who is being intimidated by her husband into dropping the case. Her husband is released on bail and later stabbed.