The Bill (series 23)

Part One: Nadir comes back to work in a relieved state after Meadows all but admits defeat in their search for Kristen Shaw. However, he is brought back to earth with a bump when Gold reports Harman missing to Meadows, with her last phone call coming on the day Eva Garcia disappeared. Tracking down Shaw, Nadir and his lover execute a plan to plant a lookalike on Harman's flight to Tenerife, but the Sun Hill team aren't fooled when they find the CCTV. With phone signals pinging at Bonham Wharf, Nadir panics that he is about to be caught and plans to flee. Keane and Hardy find a heavily pregnant female at the bottom of a flight of stairs after an apparent burglary, but it appears her partner may be implicated when it is revealed her stolen watch was originally stolen in another burglary, involving Heaton's estranged wife Rhiannon.

Part One A family event to remember the one year anniversary of missing girl Amy Tennant escalates when her father James gets into a fight with Shelley Fitzgerald, the best friend of Amy's mum who accused James of killing her when she first disappeared. A raid on Shelley's allotment leads to the discovery of a body, but it turns out to be her daughter Clare, who died as a baby. Despite Manson's concerns over her mental health, she is bailed, but the team find new evidence to blow the case wide open. Elsewhere, Walker and Masters investigate a case of bigamy involving a witness in the Tennant case, and Noble and Keane's RTA turns up a stolen flock of sheep.

Part One- Sticky Fingers: Ackland's hopes of a quiet exit from Sun Hill are scuppered when Aldbourne Estate resident Frank Harris assaults property developer Brian Stevens. Ackland is skeptical when Harris accuses Stevens of corruption. An insider gives her evidence to suggest there is more to Frank's allegations than she expected. A series of high-level arrests lead to nowhere but a lecture from Hobbs to Heaton about arresting council official Jerry Davis. With all avenues covered, Ackland thinks she's found the vital evidence on CCTV, but she is rammed off the road delivering back to the station. Elsewhere, a woman arrested with stolen property is tied to a scam involving a man living above a travel agent's. Wright and Noble investigate how he gained access to the agent's data.

Part One- The Party is Over: Jim Carver, now a detective sergeant with Greater Manchester Police, shows up at Sun Hill to track down drug dealer Pat Hadley, whom he has been trying to catch for eighteen months. Ackland is furious to spend her last day at Sun Hill with her ex-husband, as the pair investigate Hadley's right-hand man, Greg Burns. Burns provides info on a raid but it goes belly up, leaving Ackland and Carver in grave danger. Elsewhere, Hollis and Hardy investigate a decomposed skeleton found on railway lines, and attempt to track down some stolen medals, leading Hardy to the home of his girlfriend's mother and younger brother.

Part One- Blood Money: Nixon, Wright and Noble deal with a young woman who was pushed from a walkway on the Cole Lane Estate. Nixon, Wright and Smithy are then called to deal with the attempted suicide of the woman's husband. Wright and Noble are called to a disturbance at her flat the next day, but she has disappeared without trace. Webb deals with an assault, while Perkins, Stamp and Casper go undercover to trap a confidence trickster.

Part One: Kapoor and Stamp discover the body of a supermodel who had recently fronted an anti-fur campaign despite her lack of real conviction. Hart notes that the crime scene has been arranged to resemble a shot from the film, suggesting animal rights activists may have resented her hypocrisy. Subsequent investigations reveal a host of rival male admirers with reason to kill her and Perkins digs up evidence of a more sinister side to the woman's life – a porn film with footage of a missing 15-year-old runaway being at the dead woman's house. Meadows prepares to testify at disgraced detective Nadir. Turner makes a move on new crime scene photographer Rachel Inns.

Part One: Newly transferred PC Sally Armstrong arrives at Sun Hill, alongside young probationer Billy Rowan, where the team are anxious to find the man who stabbed Sergeant Doug Wright. Paired with Wright and Keane, the foursome attend the raid on a suspect in Doug’s stabbing, with Rowan heroically detaining the man when he resists arrest. They later get called to attend a disturbance at a jewellery shop, where Rowan helps Armstrong nail a thief who swallowed a ring. After another successful result, they are later called on to deal with a report of stone-throwing at an abandoned factory – where an ambush leads to Rowan's first day becoming his last.

Part One - Man Down: Hardy ends up spending the day with Dominic and members of the Sken gang after his suspension for events the night before. After being caught up in a kidnapping and the resulting revenge shooting, Hardy acts as courier to deliver the kidnap victim in return for a stolen gun. When an investigation Webb and Walker conduct into stolen dynamite reveals the Skens are buying, Heaton sets up a sting. Hardy attends along with Dominic and two Skens, later blowing the op after seeing an unmarked CID car. When Valentine finds Hardy fleeing and confronts him, a Sken demands Hardy shoot his best friend, or he’ll shoot both of them.

Part One: Fletcher and Smith deal with a missing person's case. The victim, a 16-year-old girl, is found dead at the bottom of a fire escape. Fletcher is assigned as FLO. Investigation reveals the girl was on a downward spiral. Her boyfriend is arrested due to a serious assault in his past, but the investigation takes a gruesome turn when Fletcher discovers a horrifying video clip given to him by her best friend.

Part One: Hollis is stabbed whilst responding to reports of a prowler on the Aldbourne Estate, but he manages to stop an attack on a local mother, Shelley Cooper. Manson and Dasari lead the investigation and discover Cooper lives on the same floor as a recently released man, Michael Simms, a paranoid schizophrenic that Manson jailed four years prior for attacking a woman. Stone draws reference to Cooper's resemblance to Simms' previous victim, leading to a clash with Manson. Enlisting the help of Simms' psychiatrist, Julia Bickham, Manson's digging leads to Simms being exposed and attacked. With pressure on him, spearheaded by Cooper's ex-boyfriend Chris Ramsden, Simms snaps and abducts Cooper. When her son Jas comes between Simms and Manson during negotiations, a gunshot rings out in the chaos. Meanwhile, Smithy deals with a community leader causing havoc whilst protesting the traffic on the Aldbourne, but later uncovers a shock link to the prowler attacks.

Part One: Wright and Stamp investigate a suspected racial assault. Masters and Perkins discover the victim was whipped. Heaton suspects that three racists from a supremacist gang; The Bulldogs of Patriotism, but Masters is sceptical. His wounds and a bandaging makes her think that his mother knows something, and she says it was his father who gave the beating. Noble and Stone investigate a break in at the office of local MP Paul Sagger, but does the assault victim know more about it than he should? Sun Hill are patrolling a concert, Rock Against Racism. Things turn ugly when the event coordinator and a possible police witness; Nadim Mura, and Sagger are shot as they appear on stage.

Part Two: The Sun Hill team are left dealing with the fallout of the shooting at the Rock Against Racism concert. Event coordinator Nadim Mura gives Heaton a name, Abdul Muntaqim, but dies due to a bullet in his lung, while Paul Sagger survives with a shoulder wound. Ahmed Hassar is questioned but denies his involvement, although he confesses he set of a firecracker, which solves the mystery of four gunshots but only three she’ll casings. Heaton continues the investigation into Sagger's alleged artefact smuggling, but the artefact, an ornamental dagger, which Sagger uses as a letter opener, has gone missing. Dasari makes a breakthrough, and identifies the name Heaton was given by Mura as Haqim Abd-Al Muntaqim. Masters and Perkins arrest a doctor, a member of the Bulldogs, who might have been responsible for killing Mura in hospital. He is not responsible as Mura's post-mortem reveals he was killed by a heart attack, but it's not in vain, as the uncover a conspiracy where the Bulldogs were going to kidnap Mura. Manson and Dasari discover that Heaton was the target from the third bullet, and as the DI calls to warn the Super, two bullets go through his car as he takes Sagger back to Sun Hill.

Part One: Disgraced detective Zain Nadir is interviewed about drug trafficking in Hayesend Prison, where he is serving ten years for perverting the course of justice, after Stone and Fletcher discover the body of a drug addict recently released from prison. He agrees to help his former colleagues infiltrate the gang involved. Meadows is not sure whether he can trust his mole and he suspects his fears have been proved true when a riot breaks out just as the police move in to arrest the operation's kingpin and Nadir’s cellmate Jason Forbes, who makes good his escape in the confusion.

Part One: Perkins receives a tip-off regarding an armed robbery from an old informant. He pairs with new DS Max Carter, a transfer from SO19. When a car stolen in front Armstrong and Gayle is linked to the robbery, Perkins discovers the thief is his informant’s son. When the informant goes in as the inside man, he is shot by ringleader Jimmy Duncan, and later dies in Perkins’ arms. When Stone and Fletcher attend a report of a drunk man refusing to leave a pub, they find Perkins drowning his sorrows. Meanwhile, Armstrong and Gayle arrest two girls for failing to pay their cab fare. Suspecting them of being drug mules, a search of the home of the cab driver who confiscated their bags uncovers a poisonous snake. When their release is delayed, their boyfriends arrive and take drastic action.