The Bill - Episode 286 - Part 3

PC Andrea Dunbar’s ‘Blue Murder’ copy deadline is looming and failure means certain exposure for the undercover journalist. She is paired with PC Gabriel Kent on his old vigilante stomping ground, the Cole Lane Estate, and Andrea seizes the opportunity to pump PCSO Laura Bryant about Gabriel’s past on the estate. The pattern in his behaviour leads her to deduce that Gabriel has a connection with the Sun Hill sniper…

When Andrea informs Sergeant Dale Smith of her hunch, he confides that the clue to nailing Gabriel could lie in his family history, and he drops the bombshell that he believes Sergeant June Ackland is the crazed cop’s mother. Meanwhile Gabriel senses that Andrea is on to him and threatens her with violence. Is Andrea set to be next in Gabriel’s long line of victims?

Meanwhile DI Neil Manson prepares to leave his wife and move in with Andrea. As if Andrea hasn’t got enough on her plate, she is spotted by Neil talking to her editor and he later accuses her of being the station leak. Will Andrea reveal the even worse truth behind her posting at Sun Hill?

Elsewhere DC Jim Carver is confident his marriage is back on track. How wrong could he be? When June finds a red rose taped to her locker she automatically assumes it’s from PC Roger Valentine rather than from her own husband…

PC Leela Kapoor and PC Amber Johannsen take their response level driving tests at Hendon with PC Dan Casper, a hunky copper from another station. Amber knocks over a dog on a practice run, and flounders in her attempts to flirt with the female instructor. Will she drown her sorrows in the bottom of a bottle?