Episode
The Bill: Learning Curve
Overview
Nate has to investigate drugs being taken at Deansgate School after a pupil is taken to hospital after taking ecstasy. Everything is not as it seems though as he investigates the case.
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 25
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 2009-04-09
Episode context
Learning Curve is Episode 23 in Series 25 of The Bill. It aired on 2009-04-09.
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Episode 22: Back To School
Nate Roberts is assigned as the Safer Schools Officer at Deansgate School after investigating a case of arson there. When he and Smithy investigate a fight in a local park, Smithy ends up being stabbed. Nate is determined to catch the guilty culprit as Smithy recovers in hospital.
Episode 24: Peer Pressure
When Rhys Tanner's home is broken into Nate investigates. Nate discovers that two school pupils could be involved and investigates further.
More episodes from this season
Episode 21: Got You Wrong
Sgt Stone, called to the scene of a reported theft, realises that the suspect is the victim of domestic violence. She alerts Stone to a meeting between her husband and his criminal associates, so TDC Fletcher and DS Carter mount a surveillance operation.
Episode 25: Growing Pains
Nate has to break up a fight between two parents at the school. Nate later finds out that one of them has become slandered in a rape case. After he is beaten up CID investigate and are shocked to discover the identity of the real culprit.
Episode 20: Deal Me Out
Sally and Millie attend a domestic disturbance at a house. Larry is throwing his girlfriend out who is a former drug addict as he believes she is using drugs again. When Larry's daughter later disappears he believes that his ex girlfriend is involved.
Episode 26: Class Action
Nate and Mel investigate a burglary in a class at the school which leads on to a whole another case.
Episode 19: On The Money
After Callum and Leon investigate a burglary they are called to say the missing goods have been returned. Connor Deegan admits his guilt and when his flat is searched by the police his sister is discovered beaten up there. It is she revealed that she is the the real thief and commited the crime to help pay for her drug habit. Connor agrees to help the police catch local drug dealer Darren Bailey.
Episode 27: School's Out
School pupil Kim Patterson gives Nate some surprising information. Nate discovers that her father was involved in the theft of Becky's computer. Becky tells Nate the reasons why she split up with Kim's father but is everything as straight forward as it seems.
Episode 18: Decision Time
Art Minshull is found unconscious injured in a layby. Smithy thinks the lorry he was driving has been hijacked for the cigarettes it was carrying. CTV footage shows Art and woman and a child getting into the back of the lorry though. Art will not tell the police the identity of the people who seem to have been smuggled into the country but does admit he was attacked.
Episode 28: Old Habits
Former Sun Hill PC Diane Noble, now a Sergeant, joins Sun Hill for a night before joining her new post at Barton Street. She and Smithy lead the troops to a rooftop party at a building site, but events take a sinister twist when a boy falls from a ledge whilst high on ecstasy. Tests at hospital reveal they were mis-labelled as ketamine. Backed by Turner and Fletcher, uniform go undercover at a club to snare the dealer, with Taylor keen to impress Noble after getting off on the wrong foot. As Noble prepares to bow out of Sun Hill for one last time, she is called back to St. Hugh's when the overdose victim's father stands on the roof in a bid to commit suicide.
Episode 17: Leap Of Faith: Part II
Beth and Nate discover a woman lying unconscious at the bottom of her stairs after they are called out to a domestic incident. It is revealed she is married to the owner of the boxing club, Charlie. Charlie insists that his wife just fell. Later their daughter is arrested for stealing money from her father's shop. Beth kisses Nate goodbye.
Episode 29: Forensic Evidence
Leon and Roger find Tommy Mackenzie and his wounded father when thay attend a call out.A friend of Tommy's mother fits the description that has been given but their ends up being more to the case than first seems.