Sergeant Smith's Deadliest Mistakes
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In his grief over losing his beloved Kerry, Smithy changed into a very different person. Vulnerable and lonely without her, he later went on into making the biggest mistakes of his life when he foolishly let himself begin a relationship with Louise Larson, the sordid and disreputable wife of violent gangster Pete Larson. Things came to a head when the relief questioned Larson on possession of a firearm, but were forced to release him soon after. Larson returned home and, despite several warnings from Smithy's colleagues, discovered Smithy and the fact that he was having an affair with his wife.
Larson beat Smithy up, bound and gagged him and forced him into the boot of a car and drove him to an empty warehouse. He attempted to shoot Smithy, but CO19 arrived in time to rescue him. On arrest Larson incriminated Louise, as he had made her sign documents for money laundering. Louise refused to testify against her husband, stood by him and broke off her relationship with Smithy. However, she changed her mind about testifying several months afterwards, but this meant she would have to go into Witness Protection and asked Smithy to move to Australia with her. This never happened though, as Louise was killed in a hit and run. Smithy was kidnapped and forced to drink alcohol and probably drugged; he was later found slumped across the wheel of his car, which forensic evidence confirmed as the car that killed Louise.
While being interviewed by Barton Street officers, Smithy could not remember a thing. A witness, Caplin, identified Smithy as the driver of the vehicle and he was arrested for Louise's murder. He was put on remand, while his friends and colleagues at Sun Hill tried to prove his innocence. He could not stop policing even on the inside though, and attempted to sort out the problems of his cellmate, who was wrongly accused of dealing drugs inside.
Due to the detective work of DCs Zain Nadir and Mickey Webb, Caplin finally admitted to lying, in an attempt to solve his debt problems. Larson had given him a loan in exchange for saying he saw Smithy at the wheel of the car that killed Louise. Larson was arrested at Louise's funeral. Mickey then visited Smithy in his cell and told him that his cellmate was in the clear and that Smithy was free to go.
Smithy later returned to his job at Sun Hill. Upon coming to his senses, Smithy realised that getting involved with Louise was a huge mistake, not only because it almost got him killed, but because he didn't really feel for her what he thought he did and she was nothing more than a substitute. In reality, he had only turned to the first person who had made a move on him for comfort and attention as he was in such distress over losing someone who meant so much to him who he could never replace: his one and only true love - Kerry Young.
