Episode
The Thin Blue Line: The Green Eyed Monster
Overview
Inspector Fowler proposes to Sergeant Dawkins so as to help his chances for promotion, but his lack of sensitivity during the proposal prompts her to leave him instead. Fowler tries to find a new woman, but loses his interest when he hears that Dawkins is now with someone called "Toby."
Details
- Series
- The Thin Blue Line
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1996-12-23
- Runtime
- 29 min
Episode context
The Green Eyed Monster is Episode 7 in Season 2 of The Thin Blue Line. It aired on 1996-12-23. The runtime is 29 min.
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Episode 5: Come on You Blues
Gasforth Football Club is about to play Premiership team Chelsea, and Mayoress Wickham orders Fowler and his officers to personally see to it that nothing goes wrong in exchange for her recommending him for an MBE. However, things get complicated when the football players get up to no good.
Episode 4: Alternative Culture
Constable Habib finds her younger sister holding drugs during a drug raid in a rave club, and hides the drugs to protect her, but she is discovered and charged for withholding evidence. Fowler, unhappy with the injustice, does his best to protect Habib.
Episode 3: Fly on the Wall
Fowler receives a letter from the BBC, which then comes to make a fly-on-the-wall documentary about Gasforth Police Station. Unfortunately, Grim convinces the officers, sans Fowler, that they are all going to become international television stars, prompting them all to undergo many changes to look "nice for the telly" and end up making fools of themselves in front of the cameramen until a farmer enters the station with a gun.
Episode 2: Ism Ism Ism
Dawkins discovers circumstantial evidence of a domestically abused wife, Grim applies to join the Todgers, and Mayoress Christabel Wickham informs Fowler of the presence of an illegal immigrant in Gasforth. Fowler apparently solves the crimes, but soon realises that they seemed a little too easy.
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