Episode 473
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 10th January 2007  14th August 2007 |
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23 (2007 Episodes) |
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The Sun Hill arsonist is still on the loose and DS Sam Nixon briefs the team about the latest attack was on the Hendersons’ house. Cheryl Wilkes was spotted walking away from the inferno so Sam partners with DS Phil Hunter and they pay her a visit at work. Cheryl tells them she is pregnant and went to the house to talk to her boyfriend, Jay Henderson about their baby. She admits they had a row about whether to keep the baby but denies having anything to do with the fire. During door to door questioning, PCs Tony Stamp and Reg Hollis find an empty vodka bottle by the side of the burnt out house and discover that the shed was also broken into.
Later, Sam and Phil are called to Cheryl’s workplace to find her being treated by paramedics. Cheryl tells them that Jay punched her after accusing her of starting the fire. Phil and DS Stuart Turner leave to visit Jay at the hotel where he is staying and when he does a runner, Phil and Stuart competitively race each other to see who gets to him first. Phil finally arrests him for assaulting Cheryl and they escort him back to the station. During the interview, Jay says that Cheryl is a compulsive liar and is adamant that she did start the fire. There is a breakthrough in the case when Tony and Reg find CCTV footage of Cheryl buying some vodka before fire started and forensic evidence shows her finger prints all over the empty bottle found at the house. The team are relieved when Cheryl eventually admits to starting the fire at the Henderson’s house but when Phil and Sam dig a little further into her past, they still wonder whether they have really found the Sun Hill arsonist…
Elsewhere, Sergeant Smithy and PC Lewis Hardy are called to a local market where Robert Crawley is found smashing up Eddie Marsh’s stall after claiming to have been sold a dodgy computer game. Begrudgingly, Eddie eventually agrees to give Robert a refund and, content, Smithy and Lewis leave. Later, the officers attend a shout where pregnant Belinda Crawley has been assaulted on the street. Smithy and Lewis discover that Belinda is Robert’s wife and, as she is taken away in an ambulance, the officers wonder who Robert has been mixing with and why they would want to hurt his pregnant wife. Smithy later arrests Robert when he is found to be attacking Eddie and Trainee DC Kezia Walker sees the softer side of Smithy when he works out a way of pleasing all parties concerned.
Also, Smithy puts up with a grumpy Lewis who has just discovered his Gran, who he lives with, is moving to Jamaica to be with his mother - Lewis has never lived on his own and is dreading it. And, Sam announces to Phil and Stuart that she will be the new DI. But how will her ex-lovers take to her being their new boss?
