Tue, Jan 1, 1991
Brownlow gets grief about a tree damaging the roof of his holiday home, and more grief for Garfield's failure to salute DAC Hicks as a senior officer. Furthermore, more grief is in store for officers on emergency traffic duty - and Dashwood's none too happy when paperwork for his court case is delayed, and lashes out at a member of Sun Hll's crime support unit.
Tue, Jan 15, 1991
Veronique, a 14-year-old girl, has gone missing. Quinnan and Ackland visit her parents to try to find out exactly what's happened - and Quinnan finds out maybe more than he'd bargained for. Meanwhile, Conway has been away on a course, and clashes with Brownlow when he uses one of his new-found techniques to involve the media in the missing girl's disappearance.
Thu, Jan 17, 1991
Ted Roach isn't too convinced when a serial fraudster fails to turn up for a court hearing yet again - due to his apparent need to be at home and connected to a kidney dialysis machine - and vows to plot a way into causing him to break his bail conditions. Meanwhile, Tosh is on the trail of some bent photocopiers from a stolen shipment.
Tue, Jan 22, 1991
PC Young is feeling out of sorts, and isn't best impressed when Loxton and Quinnan play a practical joke on him while on his beat. Meanwhile, Carver investigates some violent burglaries on elderly residents' homes on a sprawling high-rise estate, and finds things may not be quite as they first appear.
Tue, Jan 29, 1991
A seemingly well-to-do man is arrested after he's seen appearing to attack and sexually assault a disturbed woman patient who has absconded from St Hugh's Hospital. He claims he's completely innocent, and was playing 'Good Samaritan' to help the woman - but Burnside isn't convinced.
Thu, Jan 31, 1991
Brownlow's attempts to smooth things over on the crime-ridden Jasmine Allen estate - by consulting with community leaders back at the nick - comes unstuck. Later the same day one of them is arrested for assaulting June Ackland - after a drugs bust on the estate goes seriously wrong. Should the political implications of the arrest for Brownlow outweigh justice being done?
Tue, Feb 5, 1991
Brownlow has an important interview at the selection board - but circumstances seem to conspire to stop him even getting there. Meanwhile, Tom Penny is back - now working as a security officer at a car parts' factory - where staff appear to be pilfering. But is it really a matter that warrants serious police investigation?
Thu, Feb 7, 1991
Following a night-time burglary at an attractive young woman's flat, Stringer seems more than keen to offer his own brand of victim support. Meanwhile, French investigates repeated calls from an elderly man who thinks he's seen suspicious nocturnal goings on via his household telescope.
Tue, Feb 12, 1991
Following a burglary at a scrapyard, suspicion falls on the security company who were keeping an eye on the place - and who are run by an ex-copper friend of Roach's, Kemble. Can Roach really conduct an impartial investigation into Kemble's affairs - or could he be likely to do an old friend a favor?
Tue, Feb 26, 1991
Sun Hill are trying to help a brave doctor who is being lured to the dangerous Blackfield Estate - then attacked and robbed by drug addicts. When the first operation fails due to the over eagerness of Reg and Dave, Inspector Monroe is less than impressed - but the boys get another chance.
Thu, Mar 7, 1991
Ackland is baffled as to why the CPS has decided not to proceed with ABH charges against the man who assaulted her in the fracas at the Jasmine Allen. Her respect for the law is further challenged when a middle-aged man is arrested for having a 15-year-old girlfriend - with the couple apparently happily cohabiting and planning a life together.
Tue, May 14, 1991
Ackland decides to press ahead with a private prosecution against the man who assaulted her earlier in the year on the Jasmine Allen estate, despite being urged to do otherwise. Will Brownlow finally get her to see sense, and to not stir things up at Area - or has he perhaps had a change of heart?
Tue, May 21, 1991
When Carver and Lines see a car being driven into a scrapyard, they are surprised to discover it belongs to the respected manager of a local young offenders' centre - also a personal friend of Conway. But when it's reported stolen soon after the sighting, a whole web of politics opens up which seems in danger of stalling their enquiries.