The Bill

Name: Soft Target
Duration: 30 min

Series 8 Episode 30
Soft Target
Duration: 30 minutes
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PC Smollett discovers that a local villain is driving people out of their flats and reletting them to squatters.

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S8 E1 · Up Behind
CID are trailing a known criminal believed to be responsible for a series of burglaries.
S8 E2 · Appearances
Following an argument with a drunken pub customer, a young barman is hit by a car outside.
S8 E3 · Principled Negotiation
DI Burnside and DS Roach look favourably on an ex-villian with a loan-shark problem.
S8 E4 · Sign of Our Times
DC Lines speaks to an armed robber about why he has taken to crime to solve his problems.
S8 E5 · Priorities
PCs Stringer and Loxton attend to the theft at an old people's home.
S8 E6 · Users
DI Burnside suspects that a drug dealer is using teenage girls as couriers.
S8 E7 · Man of the People
PC Stringer wins the election for Federation Rep, beating the incumbent PC Hollis.
S8 E8 · Runaway
DS Roach investigates the beating of a teenage girl.
S8 E9 · Exposures
A young model claims that she was sexually assaulted during a photographic session.
S8 E10 · Better the Devil
PC Stringer gets involved with a household and discovers a case of parental cruelty.
S8 E11 · Prisoners
Sgt. Boyden has anything but a quiet night on duty in the custody suite.
S8 E12 · World to Rights
WPC Marshall, on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit, is attacked.
S8 E13 · Do the Right Thing
PC Stringer is mugged by a gang and determines to get his own back.
S8 E14 · Hiding to Nothing
PC Stamp is ambushed by a gang of youths on a local estate.
S8 E15 · Punching Judy
A woman lies critically injured in hospital, beaten up by her husband.
S8 E16 · Vicious Circles
PC Hollis arrests a woman for being drunk in charge of a baby.
S8 E17 · Up All Night
P.C. Garfield is assaulted while in pursuit of a suspect, but where was Sgt. Boyden?
S8 E18 · Part of the Furniture
DC Dashwood is to be transferred to the Arts and Antiques Squad.
S8 E19 · Snake and Ladders
It's PC Garfield's first day back at Sun Hill after the attack.
S8 E20 · Street Cleaning
Sgt Cryer gets the relief to put the Garfield-Boyden conflict behind them and get to work.
S8 E21 · Hands Up
Chief Inspector Conway decides he needs to get back on the beat.
S8 E22 · A Scandalous Act
PC Garfield brings in a teenage girl arrested at a drugs party, and she accuses him of sexually assaulting her. Det Supt Kim Reid comes back to question him.
S8 E23 · Raiders
A ram-raid ends in tragedy when a boy is killed. But what was his part in the affair?
S8 E24 · Talk Out
A middle-aged couple arrive at the front desk and report their neighbour missing.
S8 E25 · True Confessions
DS Roach is put under pressure when a suspect retracts a confession.
S8 E26 · Private Enterprise
A bumbling minicab driver claims to know nothing about the blood stains in his boot.
S8 E27 · Getting Through
The night shift is saddled with a feud between two men.
S8 E28 · Last Night of Freedom
Someone is stabbed on a stag night, but the likely suspect can't remember anything.
S8 E29 · Cutting Loose
A prisoner is brought down from Manchester for an identity parade.
S8 E30 · Soft Target
PC Smollett discovers that a local villain is driving people out of their flats.
S8 E31 · I've Never Been to Harrogate
An elderly lady is found unconscious after apparently having been burgled.
S8 E32 · Human Resources
Two con men are preying on women through the small ads in the local paper.
S8 E33 · Exit
A loan shark is attacked. DS Greig has a vital witness who then disappears.
S8 E34 · Loyalties
Burnside mounts a raid on crack-houses, however details of the raid are leaked.
S8 E35 · Snapshot
A complaint over loud music quickly escalates into an armed siege.
S8 E36 · Letting Go
PC Hollis is looking for a place to live as he is moving out of the section house.
S8 E37 · Travelling Light
WDC Viv Martella helps WPC Donna Harris dress up for a reconstruction of a murder case.
S8 E38 · Radio Waves
Inspector Monroe talks to Chief Inspector Conway about a problem with a car chase.
S8 E39 · A Blind Eye
WDC Martella brings in an elderly mugging victim who helps makes an identikit picture.
S8 E40 · Sympathy for the Devil
Burnside sets a trap for an armed robber and is surprised to find he is in his sixties.
S8 E41 · Force is Part of the Service
Brownlow and Conway have a meeting with councillors about the change in the police force.
S8 E42 · On the Record, Off the Record
CID investigates a break-in at a warehouse which resulted in the theft of CD players.
S8 E43 · Stoning the Glasshouse
Sgt Cryer visits a friend who is the head of a neighbourhood watch.
S8 E44 · Tip-Off
A burglar gives Tosh information that there might be a bank robbery.
S8 E45 · Open to Offers
P.C. Quinnan is in trouble when a prisoner recognises him.
S8 E46 · Playing God
A burglary suspect of DS Roach may have been be released as he is at court.
S8 E47 · Crack of Doom
A former boxer is mistakenly arrested for possession of drugs.
S8 E48 · Spit and Polish
Quinnan is nearly run down by a speeding Mercedes, but Loxton has a score to settle.
S8 E49 · Overdue
Burnside has a promotion board, leaving Meadows to deal with an informant's tip-off.
S8 E50 · We Should Be Talking
PC Garfield is following a silver car that might have been involved in a ramraid.
S8 E51 · Reasonable Grounds
Datta sees a man about a missing child and Stringer has to tell a man his brother is dead.
S8 E52 · Discipline
A man arrested outside a club but turns out to be a suspended detective.
S8 E53 · Minefield
Sgt Maitland finds himself in the wrong when he discovers a serious procedural error.
S8 E54 · Gamers
DC Lines Investigates a fire bombing of an Asian shop.
S8 E55 · Occupational Hazard
When sex appeal doesn't get him what he wants, Harry Osborne turns vicious.
S8 E56 · Just Send Some Flowers
WDC Martella investigates a burglary that occurred during a funeral.
S8 E57 · Waifs and Strays
An old lady brings in a blood-stained book belonging to a missing girl in to the station.
S8 E58 · Happy Families
DI Burnside wonders what's a smart girl like Sharon doing with a villian like Daniel Batt.
S8 E59 · Well Out of Order
Meadows and Burnside want to go to the Tankeray estate to root out the criminal element.
S8 E60 · Into the Mire
CID receive information that leads to the arrest of a prolific handler of stolen goods.
S8 E61 · Master of the House
The body of a respectable family man is found on a notorious patch of wasteland.
S8 E62 · Fireworks
Stamp uses old-fashioned policing methods to tackle kids playing with railway detonators.
S8 E63 · Cold Shoulder
A local youth is stabbed in the centre of a densely populated housing development.
S8 E64 · Safety First
Burnside investigates when a pawnbroker is shot in the leg with a legally-acquired gun.
S8 E65 · Counting the Cost
Ackland intervenes when a family is being subjected to harassment from a scrap dealer.
S8 E66 · Compassion
A probation officer seems eager to assist DI Burnside over the murder of a prostitute.
S8 E67 · Finders Keepers
DC Carver finds a buried treasure, but DC Dashwood takes the case away.
S8 E68 · Return Match
Mike Dashwood returns to Sun Hill looking for stolen antique dolls.
S8 E69 · High Places
D.I. Burnside investigates the death of a former high-wire artist and cat burglar.
S8 E70 · When Push Comes to Shove
Sun Hill officers are drinking after shift when some troublemakers arrive at the pub.
S8 E71 · A Dying Breed
D.I. Burnside investigates an armed robbery where D.C. Carver is shot at.
S8 E72 · Fact of Life
Greig and Quinnan trap a burglar with the assistance of schoolboy on work experience.
S8 E73 · All Through the Night
Stamp escorts a noise control officer on her duties.
S8 E74 · New Tune, Old Fiddle
Changes are afoot at Sun Hill, and not everyone sees things the same way.
S8 E75 · Delinquent
A persistent young offender is arrested for burgling his parents' house.
S8 E76 · Bringing Up Baby
A new-born baby is missing, and the mother's account of what happened is rather confused.
S8 E77 · Rainy Days and Mondays
The police are called when a residents at a women's hostel claims to have been assaulted.
S8 E78 · Supply and Demand
"Operation Bumblebee" takes off at Sun Hill.
S8 E79 · On the Cards
Martella is less than enthusiastic when taken off a murder hunt to work on another case.
S8 E80 · Shock to the System
Brownlow is horrified to discover that Conway has been given a new role.
S8 E81 · Living it Down
The search for a missing victim of abuse uncovers a child pornography ring.
S8 E82 · Heat of the Moment
Martella is unhappy with the way Meadows treats a woman suspected of killing her husband.
S8 E83 · Shake, Rattle 'n' Roll
PC Mike Jarvis has an unusual first day as Brownlow loses his temper with Monroe.
S8 E84 · No Thanks to You
PC Garfield finds an unconscious teenage glue-sniffer who later dies in hospital.
S8 E85 · A Better Life
DS Greig deals with a burglary suspect, but the victim doesn't believe he is responsible.
S8 E86 · Echo
A girl goes missing, and DCs Carver and Woods suspect a known villian of murdering her.
S8 E87 · Fagins
DI Burnside let's Sun Hill's burglars know he and Operation Bumblebee mean business.
S8 E88 · Cried Too Late
An arrested women shoplifter refuses to talk to the police.
S8 E89 · Gone for a Soldier
Ackland is teamed up with a military policeman who has come to Sun Hill to find a soldier.
S8 E90 · Persuasion
A female drug-dealer is attacked by another dealer to get off his patch.
S8 E91 · Hard Man
A drunk flees before he can be arrested, only to end up being stabbed nearby.
S8 E92 · Missionary Work
Conway is settling into the job of Community Liaison Officer.
S8 E93 · Hypocritical Oath
DC Carver and DC Woods deal with a fatal drug overdose. Is the victim's doctor involved?
S8 E94 · Trivial Pursuits
PC Loxton finds himself staring down the barrel of a gun.
S8 E95 · School of Hard Knocks
DI Burnside investigates the abduction of a villian's son.
S8 E96 · Keeping in Touch
An employee of a security firm is identified by the elderly blind woman he assaulted.
S8 E97 · If it Isn't Hurting
Trainee investigator Suzi Croft learns some old-style policing methods from DI Burnside.
S8 E98 · Keeping Out of Trouble
A woman claims to have inside information about a series of raids on petrol stations.
S8 E99 · Out of the Mouths
Hollis takes the Bumblebee message into a local school, asking for help to fight burglary.

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