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01x02 - A Friend In Need

This episode (and the one after) was shown out of sequence when it first aired (unless you lived in London). This is because of a Technician's strike against Thames TV. It was shown after The Sweet Smell Of Failure (London aired a Minder repeat in the same time slot for those 2 weeks)

(This appears to be before they used the Isle Of Dogs area as Canley when showing maps.)

Superintendent Brownlow asks Roy for his opinion on 3 recent bomb hoax phone calls. Roy believes they're pranks, however, the Commissioner and Home Office are both applying pressure on Charles to treat them as potential terrorism; especially as two of them were made to Jewish restaurants.

Roy is reluctant to step on Bob's toes as he has been investigating them since they began. Charles assures him it's no reflection on Bob, it just needs to be seen - by the higher-ups - like it's being taken seriously hence a Detective Inspector over a Uniform Sgt. Charles is also aware Bob has had a heavy workload of late and that he has a graduate probationer, PC Higgins, attached to him.

Roy smirks and is told off by Charles for his refusal to have Higgins in CID for a few weeks, warning him that Higgins could be his governor in 10 years given the accelerated promotion his 'type' are getting. ('Type' being university graduates but the obvious disdain in both men to this thought is wonderful!). "I don't care how you do it but get it done."

Also unimpressed with the graduate is probationer Jim who tells him he just had to watch and listen in his first week. "But with you of course it'll be different. Work experience I suppose." The well-spoken Higgins agrees, telling the gathered officers that he'll be attached to an outer division for the next week and then to Police College for a few years. "And then come back as Sgt I suppose" June drawls. "Destined for high places are we?" Taffy laughs. "That's the theory."

Jim tells Higgins that he's lucky he's been placed with June as she's a good copper and 'one of the best'. June is visibly unsettled by her ex Dave Litten approaching them. She tells him to go and "park his arse" at Ted Roach's table rather than squeeze onto theirs. Taffy and Jim tell Higgins that it's something he's going to have to get used to. "If it's not Ackland Vs Litten it's Galloway Vs The Rest Of The World."

Unmoved, Dave asks "Henry Higgins." ("It's Derek actually...") what he thinks of Sun Hill. He thinks it's quiet for an East End station and he expected more to be going on 'outside'. The officers explain it's not always like this and to treat it as the lull before the storm. They joke that they wouldn't be surprised if Roy had made the hoax calls himself to keep them on their toes. Dave tells them he's already had a run-in with him that morning, muttering about something. Higgins asks if that's what Roy is usually like and, sensing a wind-up, Taffy tells him: "No, not really. Nice quiet chap when you get to know him. You can always knock on his door and ask for a quiet cosy little chat. Very accessible. Especially towards the uniform branch. Father figure you might say."

"Father Figure" Roy is tearing into Bob after reading the file on the hoax calls and accuses him of cocking it up. "You don't bloody listen, do you? You're as pigheaded as ever!" Bob shouts back, warning him they need to be tactful and can't just crash bang wallop into it. Ted and Mike are hilariously making no secret that they're enjoying the show when Roy slams the door to his office. Roy snaps that it's just a prank and claims Bob has inflamed the situation by treating it with kid gloves and in doing so Bob has got no MO and no leads. Bob points out that he's been rostered on the early turn when none of the owners are available. He's bound by procedure and he has to treat each call as real and can't take shortcuts. He reminds Roy that Uniform don't have the luxury of getting cases passed up half worked on with evidence and lines of inquiry found like Roy and CID do. "Don't worry Sarge, the CID - as usual - will sort it all out. Know what I mean?" Bob warns him that when he falls from his high horse and needs help, no one will lift a finger, least of all him. "Get the violins, Robert." He snaps before the men place a bet on Roy cracking the case within 2 weeks.

A fourth call has come through, this time to a Greek restaurant. Tom Penny speaks to the owner and asks him if he's positive it's a hoax. The caller says they've cleared the restaurant and searched it. Tom tells him to double-check thoroughly to make sure. (Cor, imagine doing that now! I was even surprised when they had staff involved in searching the cinema with them in episode 143 but I can imagine that was partly due to having the person who was placing bombs involved in the search). He warns them not to touch anything suspicious and that they'll send the bomb car over. He then arranges for CID to be informed.

Mike tries his hardest to speak to men who mostly only understand Greek and want to go home that Roy is on his way and that no one can leave. Ted is... Ted. ❤ He only stops eating when Roy appears.

Ted tells him it's the same as all the others and that nothing has been found. Roy tells him he can leave and take Mike and uniform with him as he and Dimitri - an old friend - are going to go over everything. "Even if it takes all night."

"Your public is waiting for you out there, God help them!" Bob dismisses uniform from the briefing, placing Higgins and Jim together. Jim hasn't learnt all the bad habits of the others yet so he is partnering them together despite Jim being a probationer himself.

Mike and Ted are in bright and early to continue working on their cases. They're very amused that, come 9.20am, there's still no sign of Roy, nor did he write anything in the book about the case. He finally makes an appearance a few minutes later - paler than usual which is quite some doing.

Mike goes to make him a black coffee whilst Ted finishes dressing him, warns him to take water with his Ouzo and the boys try to find their boss some aspirin to dull his whimpers.

"The things I do for this job." Roy pouts before telling Ted he's found the specific phone box the calls came from as there are roadworks audible in all the phone calls and it's the only one that has had roadworks happening nearby all week. He suspects it's a way for 2 men to avoid paying their bills when eating out by getting a friend to ring and make a bomb threat. Through his investigation, Roy has found 2 men in particular who requested the bill at each restaurant just before the threats came in and they had to evacuate. Being the 80's, there's no one at BT to speak to over the weekend so Roy tells Mike and Ted to visit every local eatery to ask them to keep their eye out for 2 men making large orders and behaving suspiciously. He wants them to call the station so that officers can catch those responsible.

Roy tries to relieve his hangover by dunking his face in cold water much to Bob's amusement. Bob mocks him and his 'for the sake of the job' excuse and says he has no sympathy for him. He does however help him locate the towel dispenser when Roy misses it by a mile and almost faceplants into the wall... even if it is empty!

Mr Rutherford arrives at the station and insists on speaking to Roy about the bomb hoaxes. He gets riled when Rutherford implies that the police aren't doing much and directs him to "the thirteenth hole at the golf club" to speak to Brownlow.

The two men [one being Perry Fenwick] in question for the bomb hoaxes speak to their 'friend', a gullible magazine seller on the high street. He is oblivious that he's being set up to take the wrap should the police become involved. They slip him a few quid and ask him to make a call to a Chinese restaurant at approximately 2.30pm.

Roy takes his mood out on uniform by reading through the report book, first bollocking Taffy to redo his crime reports, then telling Bob he wants to see Hollis. As he does, a frequent flyer drunk called Lampton tries to make a donation to the police widows and orphans. "Charity, Dear Sgt, begins at home. And I'm beginning to feel like I live here." "I think I'll stick to vimto..." Higgins remarks after seeing Lampton out. "Me too!" Jim adds - if only you did, Jim!

Lampton finishes his bottle and places it in the gutter. Jim asks Taffy if he's nearly finished as there's only 5 minutes left. Taffy says he'll be 15 minutes and to get him a drink and he'll meet him at the pub. (The barmaid, Sadie, guests in several episodes over series 1 to 4. Cheryl Hall who goes on to play Smithy's mum. If only she'd been called Sadie and not Pauline it could have been a nice nod 😉) By the time Sadie serves Jim, they've already been paid for by Lampton. When he arrives, Taffy is horrified that Lampton brought them drinks and tells Jim they're leaving. Sadie asks Jim to remove Lampton, claiming he's his responsibility as he's drinking with him. Taffy explains it's a disciplinary offense to associate with a criminal on bail and they need to leave before the drink is misconstrued as a bribe. Jim feels bad but Taffy says Jim can do what he wants but he's not losing his job for a drunk. Jim wrestles Lampton out and tries to take him home.

At the Chinese restaurant, the suspects have arrived and work their way through the menu. At 2.15pm the older one asks for the menu again. The younger one groans and says he only wants a coffee as he's full up. Just after half 2, their friend makes it to the call box but the phone line has been cut. He hurries into a nearby shop to make a call. The shop assistant asks what he's doing, startling him. He runs off before he can end the call, leading to the assistant speaking to the person on the other end. Now sure of what is happening, the owner of the restaurant gestures to a waiter who alerts the other staff. Panicking, the older suspect shouts out that there's a bomb and there's a stampede of people to leave the restaurant, causing people to get hurt. The chefs leave the kitchen, entering the main room with huge machetes, looking for the suspects!

Outside Jim is trying to escort Lampton home as people scream and run from the restaurant. He has to leave Lampton - who drops his wallet in the confusion and runs over to take charge. At the station Tom and Reg are sorting the ambulance and police response to the restaurant. "[The staff] have caught the bomb hoax pair..." Reg smirks when he's asked for another ambulance. Roy hurries to the scene and congratulates Jim, telling him the two suspects will live - just - after their run in with the staff.

The next morning, Bob asks for volunteers to take Higgins out for his final shift...

No one volunteers so Bob asks Higgins who he wants to go out with and he replies, "With the hero of the moment, Sergeant. Carver." Unfortunately for Jim however, Lampton is in the front office to make a complaint, alleging that Jim has stolen his wallet.

Roy is in a buoyant mood which doesn't dim even when catching up on station gossip. "All that good work gone to waste." he sighs before laughing at Bob calling the Chief Super in on a Sunday. Bob explains he's hoping Lampton will come to his senses when he realises the importance of what he's accusing Jim of before it can go any further. Roy tells Bob that he knows where he is if there's anything he can do. "Esprit de corps." (Team moral) Bob sighs.

Brownlow reminds Lampton he was "under the weather' when he left the station and that he could have misplaced the wallet. Lampton insists he had it when he left and in the pub only for it to be gone when he returned home. "Who else could it have been? He took me home - why should he do that?" No good deed goes unpunished, JimJim. Lampton asks Charles what happens now - will the police sub him as he needs 'groceries' (ha!) Charles tells him he's jumping the gun and that he needs to speak to Jim and uniform. If he's satisfied there's a crime then he'll call in CIB.

No one believes Jim is guilty other than Lampton but it has to be looked into. Bob gives Jim a subtle heads-up whilst Taffy speaks to Brownlow. "It's not what you've done, it's what they think you've done!" Bob is more disappointed than anything, telling Jim he keeps making stupid mistakes and that he's a policeman, not a social worker. Jim is near tears, telling Bob that he's never taken anything from anyone in his life. He admits he felt sorry for Lampton because he has a problem. Bob tells him he's not the only one with a problem and sighs, telling him he's stupid enough to do it again.

Ted and Mike discuss Jim and they watch Taffy enter the canteen. Ted tells Mike that Taffy might be up for disciplinary if the Chief Super sticks to the book. Ted teases Taffy by calling him a 'Scab' (Taffy had swerved the uniform group staring silently at him and moved to sit alone before Ted spoke) and asks what happened. Taffy sighs and admits that each time he opened his mouth he seemed to drop Jim further in it. Charles had asked if Jim had ever mentioned being short of money. "Oh god..." Mike sighs.

Higgins is annoyed at being called in too as he wants nothing to do with it. "It's not going to do my career any good." "Right born leader of men you are." June drawls. Roy asks Bob how things are going and Bob admits the Super thinks Lampton is trying it on. As they chat an elderly lady makes a fuss at the front desk. Bob asks her to wait and then when she continues to complain he asks Higgins to deal with her. Lucky for Jim she's very honest. She's handing in Lampton's wallet! Bob has to pay up on the bet after Roy cracked the case in well under a fortnight. However, instead of keeping the money, Roy hands it to Jim and tells him to create a hamper of food for the lady who handed the wallet in. "She won't get a reward from Lampton will she and she's not got two pennies to rub together." Bob is absolutely gobsmacked at Roy's generosity. "I never thought I'd see the day, Detective Inspector Roy Galloway - Social Worker?" "Oh piss off!" Roy scoffs and hurries to the safety of his office.

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Funny Valentines: Silent comedy at Slapstick 2023

This February, comedy fans will head west to Bristol, Unesco City of Film for the annual Slapstick Festival. As usual, there is plenty for fans of silent cinema in the programme, with stars from Charley Bowers to Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin to Marlene Dietrich. Presenters include Kevin Brownlow, Steve Massa and Polly Rose, as well as the marvellous Ayşe Behçet, whose Charlie’s London posts you…

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#Ayse Behçet #Bristol #Buster Keaton #featured #Fred Karno #Gunter Buchwald #Harold Lloyd #John Sweeney #Kevin Brownlow #Laurel and Hardy #Lucy Porter #Marlene Dietrich #Raymond Griffith #Silent comedy #silent film #Slapstick Festival

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ninthearlofdorset · 7 months

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Belton House is a Grade I listed country house in the parish of Belton near Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, built between 1685 and 1687 by Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet. 🇬🇧

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corallapis · 9 months

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Edward Clifford, details from A Lunch Party at Ashridge House (1892). Sitters identified below.

Rt Hon. John ‘Yvo’ Vesey, 4th Viscount de Vesci (1844-1903), husband of (3)

Colonel Hon. Sir Reginald Chetwynd-Talbot (1841-1929), husband of (4), brother of (5, 7, 12, 14, 16)

Viscountess de Vesci (née Lady Evelyn Charteris) (1849-1939), wife of (1)

Margaret, Lady Chetwynd-Talbot (née Stuart-Wortley) (?-1937), wife of (2)

Countess Brownlow (née Lady Adelaide Chetwynd-Talbot) (1844-1917), wife of (15), sister of (2, 7, 12, 14, 16)

Miss Pamela Wyndham (later Baroness Glenconner; Viscountess Grey) (1871-1928), daughter of (10)

Hon. Alfred Chetwynd-Talbot (1848-1913), brother of (2, 5, 12, 14, 16)

Lady Alice Gaisford (née Kerr) (1836-1892)

Mr Harry Cust (1861-1917), cousin and heir of (15)

Mrs Percy Wyndham (née Madeline Campbell) (1835-1920), mother of (6)

George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke (1850-1895), husband of (12)

Countess of Pembroke (née Lady Gertrude Chetwynd-Talbot) (1840-1906), wife of (11), sister of (2, 5, 7, 14, 16)

Countess Cowper (née Lady Katrine Compton) (1845-1913)

Admiral Hon. Walter Carpenter (né Chetwynd-Talbot) (1834-1904), brother of (2, 5, 7, 12, 16)

Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow (1844-1921), husband of (5), cousin of (9)

Marchioness of Lothian (née Constance Chetwynd-Talbot) (1836-1901), sister of (2, 5, 7, 12, 14)

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film-classics · 5 months

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Louise Brooks - The Flapper Icon

Mary Louise Brooks (born in Cherryvale, Kansas on November 14, 1906) was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as "The Flapper Icon," in part due to her trend-setting bob hairstyle and modern fashion sense. Those that do not recognize her name almost certainly know her look.

Born in a typical a typical Midwestern community, Brooks joined the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts in Los Angeles at the age of 15. She soon found work a as a chorus girl in George White's Scandals and as a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City.

Her Follies stint attracted the attention of Walter Wanger, a producer at Paramount Pictures. He had her sign a contract with the studio in 1925. During this time, Brooks gained a cult following in Europe for her role in the Howard Hawks' film A Girl in Every Port (1928).

Dissatisfied with her mediocre roles in Hollywood films, Brooks went to Germany in 1929 and starred in some of the silent era's films, including Pandora's Box (1929).

When Brooks returned to Hollywood in 1931, she was cast in some mainstream films such as God's Gift to Women (1931). However, her career prospects as a film actress significantly declined by 1940. Brooks briefly returned to Wichita, where she was raised, and then moved to New York City, where she worked numerous jobs.

Following the rediscovery of her films by cinephiles in the 1950s, Brooks began writing articles about her film career and had had special relationships with film historians James Card, John Kobal, and Kevin Brownlow.

After suffering from degenerative osteoarthritis and emphysema for many years, Brooks died of a heart attack in her apartment in Rochester, New York at 78.

Legacy:

Served as the inspiration for the long-running Dixie Dugan (1929-1966) newspaper strip by John H. Striebel, the comic books of Valentina (1965-1996) of Guido Crepax, and Ivy Pepper in Tracy Butler's Lackadaisy (2006-2020) comic series

Is the basis of the movie Show Girl (1928) and its subsequent musical Show Girl (1929), and the graphic novel entitled Louise Brooks: Detective (2015)

Opened a dance studio in Beverly Hills and Wichita, Kansas in the 1940s

Authored a booklet titled The Fundamentals of Good Ballroom Dancing in 1940

Became a noted film writer in the late 1950s for various journals like Film Culture and Sight and Sound

Inspired many cinematic and literary characters such as Sally Bowles in Bob Fosse's Cabaret (1972) and Lulu in Something Wild (1986)

Published a collection of autobiographical essays, Lulu in Hollywood, in 1982, which was ranked number 44 in the Hollywood Reporter's "100 best film books of all time" in 2023 and number 28 in the Los Angeles Times' "50 best Hollywood books of all time" in 2024

Presented with the George Eastman Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Film in the 1982 Festival of Film Artists

Ranked number 44 by Empire magazine's 100 sexiest stars in film history in 1995

Is the subject of the Emmy-nominated documentary Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu, which was commissioned by Turner Classic Movies in 1998

Is a central character in the PBS film The Chaperone (2018), which depicts her initial arrival in New York

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John Howard Davies and Robert Newton in Oliver Twist (David Lean, 1948)

Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, Mary Clare, Anthony Newley. Screenplay: David Lean, Stanley Haynes, based on a novel by Charles Dickens. Cinematography: Guy Greene. Art direction: John Bryan. Film editing: Jack Harris. Music: Arnold Bax.

After George Cukor's 1935 David Copperfield, this is my favorite adaptation of Dickens for film or TV. What Lean does right is to treat the Dickens book as a fable, not a novel. A novel takes its characters seriously as human beings; a fable sees them as embodiments of good and evil. And there's plenty of evil on display in Oliver Twist, from the brute evil of Bill Sikes (Robert Newton) to the venal evil of Fagin (Alec Guinness) to the stupid evil of Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan) and Mrs. Corney (Mary Clare). Oliver (John Howard Davies) is innocently good, whereas Mr. Brownlow (Henry Stephenson) is a man of good will. Nancy (Kay Walsh) and, to a lesser extent, the Artful Dodger (Anthony Newley) are potentially good people who have been corrupted by evil. The performers are all beautifully cast, especially Davies as Oliver: He's just real-looking enough in the role that he doesn't become saccharine, the way some prettier Olivers do. This is Lean in what I think of as his great period, when he was making beautifully filmed movies with just the right measure of sentiment: Brief Encounter (1945) and Great Expectations (1946) in addition to this one. But he would be bit by the epic bug while working on The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and its success would betray him into bigger but not necessarily better movies: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and the rest of his later oeuvre would have the same attention to visual detail that make his early movies so rich, but they seem to me chilly in comparison. Here he benefits not only from a perfect cast, but also from Guy Green's photography of John Bryan's set designs. There are probably few more terrifying scenes in movies than Sikes's murder of Nancy, which sends Sikes's dog (one of the most impressive performances by an animal in movies) into a frenzy. Running it a close second is Sikes's death, seen from a vertiginous rooftop angle. We don't actually see the death, but only the swift tautening of the rope as he plunges, punctuated by a sudden snap. The film is not as well known in America as in Great Britain: Guinness's portrayal of Fagin elicited charges of anti-Semitism, especially since the film appeared so soon after the world learned about the Holocaust. Guinness doesn't play to Jewish stereotypes, but Fagin's absurdly exaggerated nose (which makeup artist Stuart Freeborn copied from George Cruikshank's illustrations for the novel) does evoke some of the caricatures in the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer. The film was edited to remove some of the shots of Fagin in profile, and was held from release in the United States until 1951.

#Oliver Twist #David Lean #John Howard Davies #Robert Newton

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(Image of The Belton Conversation Piece by Mercier, Philippe (1689-1760)から)

Philippe Mercier (Berlin 1689 London 1760). Oil painting on canvas, The Belton Conversation Piece by Philippe Mercier (Berlin 1689 London 1760), signed: Ph. Mercier Pinxit, circa 1725-26. Eight full-length portraits of figures in the park at Belton with south front of Belton House in the left background. The figures are, left to right: Philippe Mercier seated on the ground facing right, his right leg outstretched, a sketchpad on his lap, a drawing implement in his right hand. Above him stands Sir John Brownlow, Viscount Tyrconnel, a cane in his left hand, dressed in a fawn velvet suit, wearing the sash of the Order of the Bath and its insignia. Mrs Frances Dayrell, Lady Tyrconnel's cousin is seated in a swing wearing a pale green satin closed gown with a muslin apron and a muslin kerchief with pink bows on the bodice and a white muslin cap also with pink bows; A black page wearing a turban stands behind her dressed in a dark brown suit with gold buttons and gold edging to his coat, brown breeches and brown stockings. The invalid Lady Tyrconnel is seated in a wheeled chair set on a green platform with red wheels, a dog on her lap. She is dressed in a closed gown comprising a brown satin bodice and skirt both decorated with gold military style frogging. She also wears an ornament (jewelled?) of flowers in her hair. Francis Dayrell stands next to her, his left hand in his pocket, his right hand tucked into his open grey coat which is buttoned at the waist; Savile Cockayne Cust pulls a rope attached to the swing and wears a pink coat buttoned to the neck trimmed with silver edging. William Brownlow, Lord Tyrconnel's brother, leaned against a tree trunk, his left leg crossed over his right, wearing a pale brown coat, unbuttoned, with deep pink cuffs and a matching pink waistcoat. He also wears pink stockings. With the exception of the black page, all the men wear shoulder-length powdered wigs parted in the centre. Belton House, Lincolnshire (Accredited Museum)

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kindtobechurlish · 6 months

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I go out in public, you see the complete opposite of what the Christian would want.. if he learned. Women don’t have the head covered, and i have my head covered. The Asian is here. Mark Twain talking about procession negroes with that hat, now I talk a cap and knight. The Egyptian incense.

The Asian is here, and women aren’t covering their head.. they don’t want to hear about Jeremiah ten and they don’t want to hear about Corinthians and Apostle, but they all get some information they want to be governor Brownlow. They want to promise 40 acres and a mule, they want separation between church and state, and they don’t want to debate Fredrick Douglass. You get nervous as hell because I would call a guy dad, Old Bed, Albert Pike, the rest, and reject all else who try, these living fools, Jerome Jackson tried his best and because of my level you see I am not letting a random man try. I would make gentry my parents, just to say I’m not a foolish servant. I know who to condemn, and it’s not Lincoln, he got what was coming to him, “negroes were put in slavery.” John Booth has a seat for ya, look at these bitch ass dudes who are scared of brothel but they want to entice an idiot bitch who can’t do it locally, she wants more signs from the government. You are a bitch, with that black trying to act as a dad, he isn’t calmly, he isn’t what Ben Franklin personified, a swarthy fucker, a tawny fucker. He isn’t my parent, or grandparent. I reject all efforts. Offended? He can go and have kids, and see if his son will get on rivals dot com - to too have a gym built because of his efforts and crowds he brought. Fuck Governor Brownlow and his promise, I got to know my family, and I would rather my dad if he was enabled, he tried his best, many would disagree because they don’t have the mom and dad I have.. they would see what I resort to, my mom remarried, and I’m saying my dad tried his best. You want me to be like a Turkish immigrant that says, “my friend”, when he sees a negro, and the negro feels awkward?

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#Armut #bestseller #CharlesDickens #classics #deutsch #Diebstahl #Klassiker #London #Roman #Verbrechen #Waisen

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augustusaugustus · 3 months

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10.124 Backlash

It’s time for Sally’s manslaughter trial, and I am so here for her business lesbian style for it. Sally’s always really beautiful, but she’s downright stunning in this episode.

Love the little IC touch of Rod & Steve looking at cars in Auto Trader together in the witness room.

QC: Were you acting in your own best interests, do you think? JOHNSON: Judging by where I am now, definitely not.

WITNESS: I’m going to be the most unpopular person on this estate. CONWAY: And if you don’t give evidence, you’re going to be the most unpopular person at Sun Hill nick.

(Danny John-Jules looking fiiiiine in a guest role, although he always looks wrong with his real teeth.)

FOREPERSON: Not guilty.

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forensicated · 5 days

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03x02 - Some You Win, Some You Lose

Ted is keeping an obbo on a building suspected of being used as a drugs den. Of course, he's eating while doing so; he wouldn't be Ted if he wasn't ❤ Roy calls in for an update and Ted feeds back to the waiting officers in CID, CAD, the canteen, a nearby bus and CID car that all seems quiet in the surrounding area. A motorcycle approaches as TSG start to head over but Ted tells them he thinks it's just a man picking up his girlfriend. "I wouldn't touch her, not even with Dashwood's." Dashers laughs. "Thanks Ted."

First appearances of PC Dinesh Patel and PC Ken Melvin as well as it being the first credited appearance of PC Tony Stamp.

Terry, Mike's snout gets in the back of his car and reports that yes, a major delivery is about to go down at the den that night. He's not happy about Jim being involved, however. He tells Mike that, if tonight's operation goes to plan, their main target, Bishop, will likely ring him in the morning to tell him that he wasn't able to collect. Terry will put the squeeze on to try and get details from him to find the main factory creating the drugs. He'll ring Mike at about 10am. "I'm not sure I know what all this is about," admits Jim. "It's best only a few of us know." Mike reasons.

Reg sulks that he's not been told anything about 'a secret operation' "Perhaps no one wants you to know." Bob reasons. "I'm the collater, I ought to know!"

The estate Sun Hill are targeting the supply has been like a no-go area for the police for months with concrete dropped on patrol cars and offers threatened and spat at. Hopefully, this is the start of it getting cleared up.

Bob is fed up of being stuck inside in the new CAD room learning the systems and wants to be out on the streets. Brian reassures him it will mean a better and more streamlined response for the public ones everything is implemented. "More efficient bureaucracy you mean, we're losing touch with people." "You're not changing with the times, Bob. That's part of your trouble." Kite adds.

Under cover of darkness, Sun Hill raids the drug den with Mike crowing that it's going to lead to the nicks biggest result. Jim is adamant that he recognises Terry's face, he just doesn't know where from. Mike tells him that if he tells Jim he doesn't recognise Terry, he doesn't recognise Terry.

Roy and Alec find a massive amount of drugs hidden with the piping of the building but CID!Extra shouts Roy to tell him there's a problem. The suspects are kicking off and the police are struggling to keep control. Roy shouts at Melvin to pull back and radios for back up. "Are there any tension indicators?" Brownlow asks through the radio. "... Tension indicators?" Roy repeats sarcastically. "They're throwing petrol bombs at us!"

Ted and the other backup charge in with Ted almost getting burnt alive with a petrol bomb and a PC obtaining a head wound whilst another gets knocked out cold after having concrete thrown at him. Cars are getting overturned and set alight and the rioters are using anything they can get their hands on as weapons.

Jim is amazed at what is happening as they drive around with Mike asking what he expected once addicts' supplies were threatened. They spot their main target, Bishop's Range Rover. The building itself is starting to be targeted in the hope of burning drugs before the police find them as chaos reigns. "We're rather busy at the moment, 3-0..." Roy replies when Mike keeps asking if he's receiving his messages. Jim watches Bishop return to his car and tells Mike he doesn't look like a dealer. "What did you expect? A sandwich board with 'stop me and buy some'? I wonder how he feels having just lost half a million quids worth of crack." "... Choked?"

TSG starts to push the crowd back which in turn lets Alec, Roy and CID!Extra leave with what they've found so far whilst the other officers fight to regain control.

The next morning, Bob enters CAD to find Tom, Nick and Reg ringing round police stations to find stations with enough room in their cells to take some of their prisoners. They anticipated 20 arrests and ended up with 40.

In the Collators Room, Jim goes through a load of identity cards until he comes across the one he wants with 'Terry's' details on. Upstairs Charles tells Roy he's impressed with the information from Mike's snout. Roy tells him that raid was just a den to stash the gear. The factory is a different kettle of fish and he wants to speak to him. Charles tells him that's not a good idea and it should stick to just Mike as Mike has his confidence. Mike tells Roy that his snout was suss of Jim so anyone else would tip him over and cause him to not give them more information. Little do they know that Jim is threatening that by contacting the collator at West End Nick. He's found out that Terry is really 'Dougie Gardener'

Jim goes to CID to try to tell Ted what he's found out. Ted is too busy dealing with suspects and tells him 'later!'. Mike waits in Roy's office for Terry's call, having given him Roy's direct line to save problems. He gets a meeting set up for 10 minutes time with Roy making him take Jim.

Ken worries that he's lost a prisoner as a result of being told to pull back by Roy. He has to stay in the station on standby just in case and isn't allowed to leave, even for half an hour to try to locate the man.

Roy asks Ted if he's aware of any of Mike's snouts, particularly Scottish - perhaps Glaswegian. Irish Ted shrugs. "They all sound the same to me."

A grumpy Jim and his little Russian Hat come out to meet Mike to head over to visit 'Terry'. "Are you throwing a moody?" Mike sighs.

At the same time, Dinesh and Bob set up a stolen property viewing area in the rec room for people to try and reclaim what they've had stolen. Dinesh laments the lack of postcodes on items to help them trace the owners.

Thankfully for Ken, he doesn't have to worry about going out to find his prisoner. He reports to the station, still with his hands cuffed behind his back.

June comforts the young girl as she starts to violently shake through withdrawal after they've gotten her to the FME's room, needle marks up her arm. Viv on the other hand has no sympathy whatsoever.

Jim finally tells Mike that he knows who his informant is. Mike starts to give him a speech and Jim snaps that loyalty cuts both ways. Jim claims that he's misled everyone including the Chief Superintendent. So far Gardner has gotten them half a million of crack cocaine and Mike thinks it's a good enough result for the risk. Jim tells him that he's a murderer and that in covering up who it's from and claiming he's called Terry Watts, he could end up losing his job.

Brownlow asks Kite and Tom to make an official report on the raid and how difficult it was to police. He keeps talking over Brian who repeats himself until he's able to finish. Brian is concerned how long they're keeping the suspects before they're charged. Brownlow says they're well within the times but Kite insists he doesn't see the justification to keep people who will just go on to be released. Tom is asked for his view and explains some may be charged with serious offenses and they all need interviewing before they can be released. Brownlow thanks him and dismisses him before telling Brian to mind his own business and let the Custody Officer deal with Custody. He tries to school Brownlow over PACE. Brownlow tells him he's well aware and doesn't need him pushing his own interpretation onto the ranks. "This is a matter I feel strongly about. To deprive a man of his liberty is a serious matter." Brownlow reminds him it's his station and they deal with practicalities at Sun Hill, they do not treat things like an idealistic operation from Hendon.

A vicar 'browses' the stolen property, claiming he's simply curious about what people 'mislay'. Bob explains they have a husband and wife burglar team in custody and that this property was found in their garden shed when their home was searched.

A man focuses on an expensive snuff box and, when asked by Dinesh what he's lost, tells him he's there about a silver teapot. Dinesh tells him they have three and to wait there and he'll go and get them. When he returns, the man has gone as has the cigarette case. Alec sulks that he can't get a game of snooker in!

Mike's snout appears later than agreed. He presses Mike for a bigger payment because it's more risky than he'd realised. Mike is unsure but it turns to a definite no when the snout wants paying in half kilo of drugs, claiming no one would ever know. "It depends." "On what." "How much you value your freedom." Mike tells him things stick how they are or he'll nick him and that he has a witness - pointing to Jim - who will swear anything he asks him to. The snout is incensed, telling him they could have done a lot more work together but now this is the last job he'd give Mike. Mike presses for the address.

In the yard, Brownlow briefs the troops by saying he knows they've been on duty all night (this must be approx half 10/11am now) but they're onto the final stage - closing the drugs factory - and it's imperative they stick to the same officers so there can be no leaks of information.

Roy tells them their target is a drug baron with international links to very important people. The factory is located in a squat inside the old council premises.

Dinesh reports to Reg about the man missing man with Reg not having seen him. Bob earns himself a kiss from a woman who is overjoyed to be reunited with a silver tray. She asks about the snuff box which means Dinesh has to come clean to Bob.

There are approximately 10 squatters at the premises that Mike's snout said is the drugs factory and they'll likely have a lookout so the element of surprise is a nonstarter and they'll be going in blind as they don't have enough time to obtain plans.

Sun Hill arrive at the location to hear music pouring from the squat. They send a PC Extra out to try and obtain an answer but no one answers the door. Jim does some rather impressive acrobats to scale a window with bars on and then up onto the roof and then in via a window! (the last one is fun to watch on a loop)

They're spotted by a young girl as the officers break inside. They've been fed duff information. It definitely is not a drug factory - it's just a squat where some young people live!

The old lady who is the real owner of the snuff box is very lovely about it being stolen from the station. Bob tells her to write to the commissioner for compensation and he apologises profusely. "Oh dear, I won't get you into trouble will I?" she smiles.

"Why would he have me over?" Mike fumes about his snout. Why do these officers never learn not to fuck off a snout right before a massive deal? We all know you can't pay him in drugs, but you don't need to tell him that upfront when he knows the address of a drug factory! Mike got the reg of Bishop's car so they circulate it in the hope of being able to trace it to the real drugs factory. Roy has to report back to the Superintendent for a briefing and he orders Jim and Mike to attend as well.

Bob is not best pleased when he reaches custody. Tom asks him what's wrong and he explains that about £4K of snuff box has gone walkies from the station. Both Sgt's burst out into peals of laughter.

Charles isn't as upset about losing the drugs factory as you'd think given the haul from the night before. He authorises CID to have 4 hours of overtime. In Roy's office, he tells Ted and Mike that something smells about the operation. He dials a number and tells Mike to speak to his informant. Mike nervously asks for Terry Watts when a woman answers before Roy snatches the phone from him and asks for Dougie Gardner. The woman asks who is speaking and then claims that she doesn't know any Dougie Gardner, hanging up.

Mike thinks that Jim informed Roy but Roy explains he knows only 6 'jocks' in London who could have knowledge on that scale and someone from Sun Hill has already been making inquiries about one which really narrowed it down. Mike says it was his job, his informant and he didn't want to share the glory. Roy says he knows how to deal with people like Gardner, unlike Mike, and would have had the job sewn up by now. "Villians like Gardner to not sell people like Bishop down the river unless it's for a good reason and that reason would not be a few quid from the informant's fund. Before they can continue, Jim bursts in with a report on Bishop's car. "With some luck we might be able to save this job but, Mike, don't you ever do that to me again!

CID sit in the back of a van, keeping eyes on the car. Underneath Jim is poised for action. Alec and Yorkie are slumped in the front seats of a car watching, neither expecting Bishop to turn up.

Viv and June are told by Tom that the girl they brought in has AIDS. June feels sorry for her but Viv says she's going for a shower and they can stick procedure. June agrees and follows her through. Tom offers to lend a hand lathering up.

"No chance." "Just thought I'd ask, that's all!"

A low loader breakdown wagon approaches Bishop's car before starting to load it onto the back. Ted reports it to Roy and Mike checks the reg of the lowloader. Roy reminds everyone to stay still until they get confirmation on the wagon. It's a legitimate garage. Roy follows it to the garage who tells him that the owner rang in and said he'd broken down and asked him to collect it.

"When was the last time you had a bath, Ted....?" Mike muses, trapped in a car with him. Ted pauses, frowns and starts to sniff himself. The name given to the garage was McCloud. Roy just scoffs and walks off, knowing it was Gardner who rang it in.

A council official rages at Kite for not consulting him before making the raids on public property - namely the former council offices. There'd been no hurry to evict the squatters but he has been in negotiation to sell the land to developers. With the squatters in place, he would have had to obtain a court order to get the bailiffs in and squatters out. Expensive and would take a lot of time. Now it looks as though they could have been in collusion with the police to get them out. It's a dangerous structure and the floor collapsed into the basement so they had to have it bricked up. Brian's ears prick up. The officers hadn't searched a basement as they hadn't known about it.

Roy tells Alec to arrange for the car to be towed back to the nick and then they can book off and head home to sleep. Roy then heads over to Mike and Ted. Kite radios in about the basement and they speed back to the premises. As they get there, it's already being raided by the drugs squad! "You've been well and truly screwed, mate." Ted tells Mike. Bishop had 2 students knock up the drugs for a hundred pounds a week. Gardner took his information to the Drugs Squad to really piss Mike off. Roy tells him they robbed the job from Sun Hill who had done the grunt work. "It's all part of the game Roy, some you win. Some you lose." replies the Drug Squad DI.

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