The Bill

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16x1
Angel
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04, 2000
Things turn nasty for Burnside when he tries to catch a male rapist turned murderer.
16x2
In the Firing Line
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06, 2000
PC Smith is working undercover as a bodyguard for a South African drug importer named Tony Rourke. Rourke offers Smith a contract to kidnap and torture a senior police officer to find the location of a police informer they need kept quiet.
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Thug on the Tyne, Part 1
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11, 2000
Northumbria Police arrest one 'Frank Bentley' with a boot full of drugs and a handgun, after a high speed car chase through Newcastle. 'Bentley' and his 'lawyer' Liz McAuley are actually .. show full overview
16x4
Thug on the Tyne, Part 2
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13, 2000
Burnside and Rawton's cover is nearly blown due to Rawton's family connections in Newcastle.
16x5
Riot City
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18, 2000
Ch. Insp. Conway and a team of Sun Hill officers undergo riot simulation training at the Met's training depot in Hounslow. Meanwhile, DC Glaze goes undercover at the Cockroft Estate and .. show full overview
16x6
Crime and Punishment
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25, 2000
Ch. Supt. Brownlow is implicated in an insurance fraud. PC Hollis investigates suspicious events at a crematorium.
16x7
Zero Tolerance
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27, 2000
Insp. Monroe has trouble dealing with a gang of boy-racers who are harassing and intimidating an elderly couple. When the old man dies after an altercation with the gang, Monroe is urged .. show full overview
16x8
Scoop
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01, 2000
Ch. Insp. Conway encounters the "Sun Hill Angels" at a function, an escort service which DS Boulton believes is also dealing in drugs. Their investigation and sting operation against the .. show full overview
16x9
Beasts
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03, 2000
PC Sam Harker infiltrates a group of animal rights activists, whose leader is suspected to be planning some terrorist action. Harker takes part in some protests and animal liberation actions, and begins to sympathise with the cause.
16x10
Trusting the Enemy
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08, 2000
DS Beech investigates an assault on a drug dealer, and uncovers a corrupt officer.
16x11
On the Wagon
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10, 2000
PC Jim Carver returns to duty after undergoing treatment for his alcoholism. Unfortunately for him, he is paired with PC Dale Smith and their first case involves alcohol.
16x12
The Untouchables
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15, 2000
DC Danny Glaze sees a man set alight on the Larkmead Estate, and becomes determined to solve the case.
16x13
Streetwise
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17, 2000
Investigating a young boy's disappearance, DC Rod Skase takes a career-ending shortcut when he encourages a witness to implicate a man he considers to be the main suspect.
16x14
Inside Straight
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22, 2000
DI Deakin and DS Beech take part in an high stakes poker match.
16x15
Reasons To Be Fearful
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24, 2000
Sgt. Boyden and PC Worrell arrest a man dealing drugs to schoolchildren, but DS Beech needs to use the man's mother as a witness against a major villain.
16x16
When the Bough Breaks
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29, 2000
Insp. Monroe's daughter is arrested for shoplifting.
16x17
Nightwork
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02, 2000
PC Worrell goes undercover as a prostitute after a punter is assaulted and robbed.
16x18
Meltdown (1)
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06, 2000
PC Quinnan volunteers to work with the community centre on the Jasmine Allen estate, where he was stabbed, but DS Boulton threatens to undermine the initiative in his pursuit of a suspected drug dealer.
16x19
Meltdown (2)
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07, 2000
PC Quinnan disobeys orders to find a missing youth as the police face an uphill struggle to gain control of the Jasmine Allen estate.
16x20
Meltdown (3)
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09, 2000
PC Quinnan and DS Boulton agree to set aside their differences to nail Mick Glover, but the strain of the case starts to disrupt Quinnan's domestic life.
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Kiss Off Part 2
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18, 2000
Santini is determined to find out if Jess Orton has grassed on him, and when he breaks into her home to challenge her, he causes her to fatally fall down the stairs. Fox is ordered off .. show full overview
16x23
The Trial of Eddie Santini
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21, 2000
Santini goes on trial at the Old Bailey accused of the murder of Jessica Orton, but tries to talk to CIB and implicate Quinnan and Rawton. A prison guard tells Santini that Sherman's .. show full overview
16x21
Kiss Off Part 1
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02, 2000
Eddie Santini tries to convince his lover, Jess Orton, to set him up with some drug dealers – he wants out of Sun Hill, and DS Timpney, his friend in Area Drugs, has promised him a place .. show full overview
16x22
The Driver
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11, 2000
PC Vicky Hagen goes undercover as a driver for Alison Spencer, the manager of a string of massage parlours in Sun Hill. As Hagen gradually earns Spencer's trust, she becomes privy to more of Alison's schemes.
16x23
Protect and Survive
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13, 2000
New DC Mickey Webb rankles Sgt. Ackland with his attitude towards the case of violent prison escapee Craig Ronson. As the injuries pile up in an already short-staffed uniform relief, .. show full overview
16x24
Take It or Leave It
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18, 2000
DC Holmes investigates a suspected money-launderer named Terry Jowit, who is wanted by police in Scotland. Holmes discovers a cheque in Jowit's mail from an antiques dealer, which leads .. show full overview
16x25
Over the Edge
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20, 2000
Ch. Supt. Brownlow and Ch. Supt. Mannion are on the panel for a Metropolitan Police hearing against a PC who is charged with disobeying a direct order which resulted in the serious .. show full overview
16x26
Loyalty
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25, 2000
DC Lennox carries out an unofficial investigation on behalf of a friend, to the consternation of his colleagues.
16x27
Wheels
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27, 2000
Sgt. Boyden, DC Proctor and PC Hagen hit the streets of Sun Hill in the station's new "Crime Car", an unmarked rapid-response vehicle introduced as one of the Chief Super's initiatives. .. show full overview
16x28
Warm Bodies (1)
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02, 2000
A man is found beaten up behind a club belonging to Vince Carter. Was he beaten up for selling drugs on the club which Vince tries to keep clean? A young woman is hit by a car which .. show full overview
16x29
Warm Bodies (2)
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04, 2000
The relationship between DS Boulton and DS Stanton heats up, but Stanton is really working for the CIB investigating corruption at Sun Hill.
16x30
Blurred Around the Edges
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09, 2000
PC Smith has to decide between his loyalty to his colleagues in the job, and his old squad mates in the army.
16x31
Catch a Falling Star
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11, 2000
Ch. Insp. Conway jumps at the chance of helping Sixties pop idol Sadie Tyler. He tries to catch an obsessive fan, alleged to have stolen the draft of her autobiography, but his personal feelings get in the way of his professional judgement.
16x32
The Squad
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18, 2000
PC Tony Stamp has been brought in as a driver for the Flying Squad, as they investigate the abduction of a bank manager and his family.
16x33
White Lies
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23, 2000
A Barton Street PC is stabbed when he pursues two robbery suspects into Sun Hill. A black youth, identified as Mark Okin, is found bashed and unconscious at about the same time. PC Jim .. show full overview
16x34
Search Me
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25, 2000
An outbreak of street robberies leads to stop-and-search (or stop-and-talk) being resumed. Filling in for the borough commander, Ch. Supt. Brownlow angers his officers with his comments .. show full overview
16x35
Love or Money
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26, 2000
DS Stanton investigates DS Beech's involvement with a credit card fraudster.
16x36
Going Public
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01, 2000
DC Webb investigates an assault but is rather taken with the victim's beautiful wife.
16x37
Trust: A Sprat to Catch a Mackerel (1)
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02, 2000
Operation Trident is called in after a drug-related murder by Yardie street gangs. An overzealous cabbie brings a suspect, who is found to be connected to Leroy Jones, and PC Rickman is sent undercover to contact Jones.
16x38
Trust: The Hare and the Hounds (2)
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06, 2000
To finance Leroy Jones' buy-in to the Bronte drug-dealing syndicate, PC Rickman accompanies Jones and his gang to rob a bank. Rumours begin to circulate round the relief that Rickman has "gone native".
16x39
Trust: The Deep Blue Sea (3)
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08, 2000
Rickman emerges from her undercover assignment and briefs Trident. PC Harker fears Rickman and Leroy Jones have fallen in love.
16x40
Room Service
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09, 2000
DS Stanton and DS Boulton night together at a hotel is ruined when Sun Hill officers arrive to investigate an assault and robbery. When DS Beech finds out about her and Boulton's affair, Stanton ends the relationship.
16x41
Soft Talking
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13, 2000
PC Smith has to deliver a baby in the street. Worried about the mother's condition, he investigates her background, and discovers a history of prostitution and drug abuse.
16x42
Beyond Conviction
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27, 2000
PCs Klein and Hagen are called to a stabbing at a shopping centre, and find themselves on the trail of a Rwandan war criminal.
16x43
Whispers
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04, 2000
DC Proctor, under pressure over his poor performance, decides to trap a burglar to avoid being transferred from Sun Hill.
16x44
Caught Short
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11, 2000
DC Lennox has to decide where his loyaltes lie when he sees his wife visit a suspect's home.
16x45
Bad Habits
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18, 2000
PC Smith carries out the wrongful arrest of a drugs rehabilitation worker for possession of illegal substances, and is forced to confront his racial prejudice.
16x46
Say It With Flowers
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25, 2000
DCs Glaze and Holmes investigate the apparent suicide of a local councillor and uncover a plot to pervert the course of justice by ensuring that massage parlours with links to the local freemasons' lodge are not raided.
16x47
No-one's That Honest
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01, 2000
Ch. Insp. Conway is astounded when an elderly man (and former police officer) turns up at the station with a suitcase containing half a million pounds, which he claims he found on the .. show full overview
16x48
No Man's Land
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08, 2000
Sgt. Cryer is angry at DC Webb's couldn't-care-less attitude towards a body found on a roundabout, so sets about identifying the man himself.
16x49
Time to Kill
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15, 2000
Sgt. Ackland adopts a new "virtual" identity to trap a sinister cyberstalker who is dating and attacking women.
16x50
Doppelganger
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22, 2000
Sgt. Boyden goes undercover at an illegal poker game to catch a man impersonating him to confiscate the winnings.
16x51
Lullaby (1)
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25, 2000
PC Smith takes a young Chinese boy under his wing, after the disappearance of his parents.
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Lullaby (2)
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29, 2000
PC Smith gets closer to Tim Tze as the search for his parents continues. DI Deakin discovers that the family's restaurant has been put up for sale and uncovers details of an extramarital affair.
16x53
Lullaby (3)
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01, 2000
PC Smith and Tim Tze are abducted by a money-laundering gang.
16x54
Gentle Touch (1)
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05, 2000
A terrified young woman fears that she has become the victim of a stalker. But as PC Polly Page investigates the case she finds that she too is being drawn into a nightmare world of unseen terror.
16x55
Gentle Touch (2)
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08, 2000
As her friendship with stalking victim Emma Roberts develops, PC Polly Page is determined to find the stalker and starts to believe that he might be closer than she thought.
16x56
Gentle Touch (3)
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12, 2000
PC Page learns what it's like to be a victim of crime as the crazed stalker targets her, making nuisance calls and breaking into her flat. DC Lennox and DC Glaze focus their .. show full overview
16x57
Some Like It Hot
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15, 2000
DC Lennox is stung by comments about his physical fitness and determines to beat Ch. Supt. Brownlow at squash, as soon as he has arrested a villain from his past. PC Page reaches out to PC Quinnan after her stalking experience, but he rebuffs her.
16x58
First Impressions (1)
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19, 2000
Probationary PCs Ben Hayward and Roz Clarke arrive for their first day at Sun Hill, and are subjected to a series of wind-ups by the relief.
16x59
First Impressions (2)
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22, 2000
PCs Hayward and Clarke try to redeem themselves after a disastrous first day, and decide to exact revenge on the wind-up merchants on the relief.
16x60
Old Enemies
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26, 2000
PC Carver stops a driver who appears a little the worse for wear – former DS Ted Roach. He opens up and says he is after a villain from his past, and rekindles his relationship with a former informant.
16x61
New Friends
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29, 2000
Former DS Ted Roach, now working as a private investigator, helps Sun Hill CID nail local villain Mickey Owen.
16x62
Supping with the Devil
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03, 2000
DS Don Beech is bribed by 'businessman' Howard Fallon to find who hijacked one of his lorries. DS Geoff Daly is suspicious when Beech tries to get involved with the investigation.
16x63
Touch and Go
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04, 2000
Beech is alarmed when his mobile number is amongst the possessions of Rachel Booker, a dancer at one of Howard Fallon's clubs, when she is attacked.
16x64
Fake Fur
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06, 2000
Another dancer at Howard Fallon's club reveals a money laundering operation to DS Stanton and DS Boulton.
16x65
In Safe Hands
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13, 2000
PC Sam Harker finds out that a 14-year-old boy has been sleeping with his foster mother. It's a dilemma, but Harker makes the painful decision to inform the Child Protection Team and the .. show full overview
16x66
Find the Lady
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17, 2000
DS Stanton and DS Boulton locate Lynette, their key witness against Howard Fallon, who orders Beech to stop her from testifying. Beech reaches out to Boulton to persuade him to give up Lynette, with tragic consequences.
16x67
Fifty-Fifty
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20, 2000
The death of a colleague deeply affects Don Beech, prompting him to take the biggest gamble of his life.
16x68
The River
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24, 2000
The corrupt DS Don Beech turns himself in to CIB to bargain with Det Supt Hodges, despite DS Stanton's pleas.
16x69
All Fall Down (1)
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27, 2000
CIB sweep into Sun Hill and suspend the entire CID with immediate effect. As the disgraced detectives are interviewed to establish their connection to Don Beech, DCI Meadows hurriedly calls in some favours at Scotland Yard.
16x70
All Fall Down (2)
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31, 2000
The future of Sun Hill CID hangs in the balance; Stanton, meanwhile, is on a personal mission to catch Beech.
16x71
On the Hook (1)
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03, 2000
The new CID team arrives at Sun Hill, along with the new Superintendent, Tom Chandler. DCI Meadows is facing a disciplinary hearing, but is ordered to lead a racial harassment investigation which has a personal aspect for him.
16x72
On the Hook (2)
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07, 2000
Under pressure from the new superintendent to solve the Freeley murder case, DCI Meadows questions the prime suspects, and takes some risky shortcuts to keep his relationship with Helen Freeley secret.
16x73
A Girl's Best Friend
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10, 2000
PCs Klein and Quinnan finds the body of a man who has died of a heart attack in a car. Quinnan tries to deliver the man's effects to his wife, which includes a gift for the man's mistress.
16x74
Carnival
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14, 2000
DC Glaze and PC McCann end up at loggerheads over each other's attitudes to policing when they work together to investigate a drugs case. A heated conversation and a brush with death for .. show full overview
16x75
Behind Enemy Lines
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17, 2000
DC Spears and PC Smith are taken hostage when an armed bank raid goes terribly wrong.
16x76
A Gathering Storm
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21, 2000
PC Smith is suspected of having racist or personal motives when he fails to respond to an urgent assistance call from PC McCann, who is badly beaten by a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads.
16x77
Sorted
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24, 2000
PC Klein spends all night DJing at a local nightclub, and lies to Sgt Cryer when he skips work the next day. Klein's career is on the line when Cryer finds out what really happened, and .. show full overview
16x78
Team Colours
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01, 2000
A post-match fight is being arranged between two rival gangs of football fans, and Sun Hill is the venue.
16x79
Two Way Burn
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05, 2000
Two young girls are trapped in a house fire, and end up in hospital in a critical condition. When the fire brigade turns up evidence of arson, DCI Meadows is assigned to lead the investigation, with DCs Webb and Spears.
16x80
Friends
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12, 2000
A raid on a brothel uncovers several illegal immigrants from Croatia forced to work as prostitutes.
16x81
Bad For Your Health (1)
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15, 2000
A series of brutal beatings reveals a turf war between two rival gangs of cigarette smugglers, and PC Klein is abducted by the McBride gang when he tries to buy a mixing desk.
16x82
Bad For Your Health (2)
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19, 2000
Klein is missing from morning parade, and is later found injured in a crashed van belonging to the McBride cigarette smuggling gang. DS McAllister is determined to prove that Klein is corrupt and involved with the gang.
16x83
The Night Before
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22, 2000
Reg Hollis organises the Sun Hill Christmas party, but Debbie McAllister ruins his plans forcing him to find another venue. A fight breaks out, and Dave Quinnan and Polly Page end up in bed together.
16x84
The Morning After
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29, 2000
PCs Quinnan and Page are acting suspiciously, and try to rekindle their affair without their colleagues noticing.

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