Episode
The Bill: Learning Curve
Overview
Deakin and Carver find their Friday night ebbing away as they tackle a particularly difficult robbery suspect. However, Keane's enthusiasm soon pays dividends and the pair find some buried treasure in a Chinese takeaway. Slater shows his caring nature when he and Garfield accompany a drunk man home, however his attempt at giving the man relationship advice ends with disastrous results.
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 11
- Episode
- Episode 37
- Air date
- 1995-04-07
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Learning Curve is Episode 37 in Series 11 of The Bill. It aired on 1995-04-07. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 36: Hair Trigger
Deakin investigates the fatal shooting of a mother by her teenage son, who claims that the incident was a pure accident, as the gun had a hair trigger, which caused it to go off when the boy backed into a wall. However, with the gun having also been previously used in an armed robbery, Deakin soon realises that the boy's relatives may let him face a murder charge in order for them to get away with their own crimes.
Episode 38: Not Just For Christmas
Hollis discovers that dogs are not just for Christmas when he investigates a series of Bull terrier abductions, and discovers that an organised gang are stealing the pets to ransom in exchange for substantial sums of money. Meanwhile, Quinnan and Datta investigate a missing persons case, only to encounter a very irate husband who soon discovers that his wife has cleaned him out of everything he owns.
More episodes from this season
Episode 35: Lost & Found
Skase and Woods find themselves an unlikely ally in a dosser who uncovers a buried gun used in a petrol station robbery, and then takes full descriptions of two suspects who turn up looking for it – much to the delight of Deakin, who is determined to nail the pair responsible. Meanwhile, Loxton and Quinnan investigate the assault of a homosexual man who is attacked and robbed by a rent boy.
Episode 39: Swan Song
Loxton and McCann attempt to discover why a young girl is so frightened after having committed a robbery. Harris is approached by a flirtatious informant. Meanwhile, Page and Garfield arrest a man for stealing a scarf. However, it's not long before Greig and Ackland arrest the man again on suspicion of a jewellery robbery, unaware that he has been framed by his less than hapless housemate, who is none other than Harris' informant.
Episode 34: Never Too Young
Ackland and McCann attend an RTA when a young girl is mowed down in the street. Meanwhile, Woods investigates the hijack of a heavy goods lorry, and Cryer and Hollis attempt to solve the truancy problem for the borough's schools. However, when the three cases unlikely link together, CID and uniform work together to catch a callous thief and his family trying to make a quick buck off a cartel of stolen perfume.
Episode 40: In On The Game
Sgt. Boyden and probationer PC Nick Slater are called to the house of an elderly lady who claims a couple are fornicating in her garden. A search of the surrounding area turns up the guilty parties: a wealthy local businessman and his companion, Lisa Royle. Drugs are also found in their car, so the two are taken into custody. Lisa flirts with Boyden, and gives him a phone number to call to vouch for her identity. She turns out to be DS Lisa Holm on an undercover operation, and an angry DI Raymond turns up at Sun Hill to ensure the operation is not further compromised. Slater is confused when Boyden suddenly releases the pair and demands to know why, but Boyden tells him that as a probationer, there are a lot of things he doesn't need to know.
Episode 33: Little Green Apples
Slater and Stamp pursue a man seeing lobbing a dustbin through a window, but Slater's bull-in-a-china-shop routine leads to him taking the man's front door right off the hinges. Forced to wait for a carpenter to repair the door, Slater becomes distracted and the house is robbed whilst his back is turned. A series of blunders then puts him on a collision course with Stamp and the new Chief Inspector.
Episode 41: Your Witness
Deakin and Greig investigate a serious assault, but the only witness to the incident is frightened to testify. Unable to promise 24-hour protection, Deakin is forced to apply the pressure in order to get her to testify, but Woods is worried about the woman's safety. When both her car and home become targets in an attempt to prevent her from testifying, Deakin strikes an unlikely deal with the culprit in order to prevent any further incidents.
Episode 32: Value For Money
Loxton investigates when a stolen TV turns up in the window of a local electrical shop. Loxton has a funny feeling about the owner, and reports the incident to Deakin. When he investigates, Deakin is offered a bribe by the dodgy dealer, who then implies Carver may have taken a bung in the past. Meanwhile, Carver's arrest of a young boy caught in possession of 6,000 packets of Tobacco yields some exciting information.
Episode 42: Life's A Bitch
Beech and Carver investigate a case of vandalism against a car dealership. Beech's snout informs him that the owner is involved in a long-running dispute with a loanshark, but before he and Carver can make headway, they realise they have been drawn into the middle a gangland war. However, Beech is sure that the mysterious disappearance of villain Mickey Rates has more to do with the case than meets the eye.
Episode 31: Stopping Time
Page is called to a disturbance outside a pub, and discovers that it is simply a group of football fans trying to cross the road. As she halts the traffic for them to cross, a maniac comes out of nowhere and runs one of the supporters down. When a busker with a grudge against the police claims Page instructed the man to walk right into the path of the car, she sets out to try and trace the driver to clear her name.
Episode 43: Old Habits
Ackland and Loxton deal with an assault on a council official, attempting to re-house some particularly difficult tenants before a tower block is stripped prior to demolition. While Ackland attempts to find a way around the stubborn resident, Loxton speaks to some workmen who have discovered some long-hidden secrets behind a radiator, leading him and Boyden to investigate a case of suspected paedophilia.