The Bill

Name: Old Habits
Duration: 30 min

S4 E39 ∙ Old Habits ∙ 30 min

After a burglary at her home, an old lady has a fatal heart attack in front of WPC Brind.

Contains Mature Themes

S4 E1 · Light Duties
Carver and Roach investigate the murder of an informant.
S4 E2 · The Three Wise Monkeys
An escaped prisoner takes a woman hostage.
S4 E3 · Good Will Visit
PC Pete Ramsey is transferred to Sun Hill and immediately causes trouble.
S4 E4 · Home Sweet Home
A homeless mother's desperation leads to a horrific situation.
S4 E5 · All In Good Faith
Roach becomes obsessed with bringing down gangster Pat Duffy.
S4 E6 · Just Call Me Guvnor
DI Frank Burnside takes over Sun Hill and immediately takes on some football hooligans.
S4 E7 · Caught Red Handed
Burnside and Carver suspect Yorkie is taking illegal drugs.
S4 E8 · Homes and Gardens
CID step in when Yorkie is abducted.
S4 E9 · Country Cousin
DS Jarvis works with Burnside to capture a wanted man from the country.
S4 E10 · Alarms and Embarrassments
Yorkie is forced to investigate an armed robbery at an off-license.
S4 E11 · Stealing Cars and Nursery Rhymes
Yorkie volunteers to do some work at a youth club, a decision he will later regret.
S4 E12 · Hold Fire
A traffic accident leaves many people dead and Yorkie in hospital.
S4 E13 · Bad Faith
When a known burglar escapes from custody, CID begin a stake out at his old estate.
S4 E14 · Requiem
Human remains are discovered in a sub-divided townhouse.
S4 E15 · Trespasses
Ramsey finds a baby dumped in a skip. CID investigate a spate of thefts at a church.
S4 E16 · Save the Last Dance for Me
An escaped convict arrives in Sun Hill to settle an old score with his ex-girlfriend.
S4 E17 · Runaround
An agoraphobic old lady thinks her neighbours are being burgled.
S4 E18 · The Trap
CID attempt to catch known villains using an open van packed with video recorders.
S4 E19 · Community Relations
Conway's attempts to make some changes on the Jasmine Allen estate results in a riot.
S4 E20 · A Dog's Life
A theft at a library leads CID to a gangster from Manchester.
S4 E21 · Trouble and Strife
Ramsey befriends a pregnant woman who is trying to deal with her abusive husband.
S4 E22 · Running Late
Brind makes an enemy of Burnside when she gets in the way of a CID operation.
S4 E23 · They Say We're Rough
Cryer and Martella investigate possible stolen goods at an army surplus shop.
S4 E24 · Blue For a Boy
CID investigate the kidnapping of a young baby.
S4 E25 · Chasing the Dragon
In the course of closing down a drugs ring, Haynes and Ramsay are involved in a car crash.
S4 E26 · The Coop
Ackland and Edwards uncover a shed full of rotting chicken corpses.
S4 E27 · The Quick and the Dead
A corpse disappears from the local undertakers.
S4 E28 · Witness
Ramsey and Smith decide to take a witness to the races.
S4 E29 · Here We Go Loopy Lou
Bob, Claire and Taffy investigate the report of a man carrying a cross.
S4 E30 · Stop and Search
A man arrives at Sun Hill to confess to the murder of his wife - thirty years previously.
S4 E31 · Spook Stuff
Martella and Stamp take an American woman who has been caught shoplifting into custody.
S4 E32 · Evacuation
The bomb squad is called to Sun Hill after a hold-all is left at the front desk.
S4 E33 · Personal Imports
Melvin sees a chemist being robbed. Martella investigates a truancy case.
S4 E34 · Paper Chase
Burnside is determined to find an abducted schoolgirl.
S4 E35 · Ep 35 Intruder
While Melvin and Haynes are on the beat, they are nearly decoyed away from a robbery.
S4 E36 · Conflict
Tosh and Carver carry out an observation on a man who might lead them to an arms dump.
S4 E37 · Duplicates
Brind reluctantly agrees to perform a reconstruction of a missing woman's disappearance.
S4 E38 · Snout
Burnside visits Carver's prisoner, and interrogates him alone, against regulations.
S4 E39 · Old Habits
After a burglary at her home, an old lady has a fatal heart attack in front of WPC Brind.
S4 E40 · The Silent Gun
Haynes arrives at a house where a bailiff has been shot while trying to evict a lodger.
S4 E41 · An Old Fashioned Term
Edwards and Martella find the body of a woman who appears to have gassed herself to death.
S4 E42 · Getting Stressed
Frazer witnesses an accident on the way to work. Ramsey deals with a lady who was raped.
S4 E43 · Tigers
Burnside helps a boy who is frightened that a gang will attack his father's restaurant.
S4 E44 · Guessing Game
Officers investigate the secrets of an elderly man who is found dead in his maisonette.
S4 E45 · The Assassins
Burnside and Tosh try to catch a gang of upper-class thugs who trash restaurants.
S4 E46 · Outmoded
The station is plagued by a series of bogus emergency calls.
S4 E47 · Digging Up the Past
CID investigate the discovery of human remains at a building site.
S4 E48 · Taken Into Consideration
Carver and Dashwood investigate a spate of burglaries.

S4 E39 ∙ Old Habits ∙ 30 min

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