Episode
The Bill: Full Throttle
Overview
Sun Hill officers investigate an armed robbery at a jewellers and are shocked to discover the true identity of the criminal.
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 25
- Episode
- Episode 32
- Air date
- 2009-06-03
Episode context
Full Throttle is Episode 32 in Series 25 of The Bill. It aired on 2009-06-03.
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Episode 31: Smash & Grab: Part II
Brown and the sister of a suspect in an armed robbery investigation are taken captive by armed drug addicts. Carter, convinced he knows who is behind both the robbery and the kidnapping, mounts an observation with Armstrong and Gayle, but their operation is compromised when the kidnap victim's ex-husband arrives at the scene to confront their prime suspect. When Carter discovers his prime suspect is not responsible, he enlists his help to identify two of his employees, the men suspected of the abduction. Fletcher is intrigued to discover the toy shop manager was victim of another armed robbery a few years earlier; is he foolish enough to try it again or is it pure coincidence?
Episode 33: Blame Game
Grace becomes concerned when Stevie completely loses her temper with Barry when questioning him.
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Episode 30: Smash & Grab: Part I
Gayle, Armstrong and Smith attend an armed robbery at a toy shop, with the manager shot during the raid, but a pursuit fails to prevent an escape. Carter takes charge of the investigation, and CCTV footage appears to show two known thieves casing the shop the day before. Carter suspects that a woman seen arguing with an employee moments before the robbery was acting as a decoy, but while Brown is convinced of her innocence, the rogue DS is only interested in undermining her opinion.
Episode 34: Down South
Schoolgirl Lily Walmsley goes missing and CCTV footage shows her getting into a car with a man. Rebecca her friend tells the police that she has not been happy recently and that Lily had bruises on her body. The car she is seen getting into ends up just being a mini cab driver. Lily calls her mother in serious trouble and the team try to find her before it is too late.
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.
Episode 35: To Die For: Part I
A restaurant is put under surveillance as it hardly has any customers but its owner Maloud Senac has been putting large deposits into his bank account. An informant tells Stevie that Senac is going to import thirty kilos of cocaine into Britain. When a sting is set up, things don't go to plan. Senac's daughter Salma is kidnapped and when Samantha finds out she wonders why he not told the police.
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 36: To Die For: Part II
When Daniel Pfeiffer is questioned he ends up admitting that he and Salma Senac are in a relationship. He insists that is was his brother Gary who was involved in the drug deal with Senac. After Kenny regains consciousness he informs Terry that it was Gary who shot him but it was Daniel who goaded him into doing it. Samantha announces that she has resigned and that today is her last day.
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 37: Prodigal Son: Part I
Petal Ford is knocked out just outside a known drugs den. When Leon attends the crime scene a man trying to help her runs off. After Mickey questions her he is not convinced she is telling the truth. The man who was helping her is identified as Ben Meadows, Jack's son, who has just been released from jail. Ben does not want Mickey telling his father after he admits that he is Petal's boyfriend.
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 38: Prodigal Son: Part II
Jack thinks that his son has lied to him following the failed drugs bust. After talking to Sennett in hospital though he finds out that Ben actually tried to help the police. Petal calls the police when Linton Barry tries to break her door down. When Jack shows up he finds out that his son is OK but Petal has been taken hostage.