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ACTOR | CHARACTER | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barry Ingham | DCS Canning | ||
| Richard Griffiths | Ronnie Harries | ||
| Jo Warne | Gloria Bartley | ||
| Ralph Nossek | Duxbury | ||
| Andrew Downie | Bishop | ||
| David Casey | Jackson | ||
| Jane Cussons | Sonia Driffield | ||
| Dan Gillan | Desk Sergeant | ||
| Anna Nygh | Jean Jackson | ||
| Matthew Scurfield | Kieran Kennedy | ||
| Andrew Paul | Teenager | ||
| Peggy Ann | Jones Lady | ||
| Frank Lee | Driver | ||
| Stephen Gordon | Driver's Mate | ||
| Linda Hooks | Ivy | ||
A security van pulls into a lay-by for the driver to relieve himself. A camper pulls up and three men hold the guards at gunpoint whilst a fourth keeps a look out. One of the guards is shot at point blank range and the other two whilst trying to escape.
George goes upstairs to see the photographer to see if he has developed the film of his sister in a beauty contest.
Whilst there he sees a negative of two men at a wedding, one who looks similar to the identikit picture one of the guards gave of the villains so he asks to have some enlargements made. George shows Jack and they decide to follow it up.
Jack is with Colin Anderson, the photographer, in a TV rental van taking pictures of the other man in the picture; one Ronnie Harries. They follow him back home.
Jack goes to see the desk sergeant to see if he has any form. He is told that Harries has a motor accessories shop so Jack and George go to have a look.
Whilst sat outside the see a teenager leaving with a suspicious parcel. George follows but the boy realises he's being followed and runs off but is caught later. The parcel contains 2 false number plates. Jack lets him go hoping he'll lead them somewhere interesting but he just dumps the parcel and runs off. They question Harries about the plates but he says a man ordered them over the phone.
Back at the factory Colin is showing Jack and George a film he took the day before showing Harries transferring a set of number plates from the boot of his car to another. They arrest Harries and Jack threatens to show his wife numerous photographs of him with other women if he doesn't admit to making up bent plates. He tells them he had a regular meet in a pub called The General Wolf and was once given a parcel and asked to dispose of it and he did so off Kew Bridge.
Jack and George are on a boat on the Thames with police divers. They find the parcel and it contains 2 number plates, a brick and a gun. When they confront Harries with the gun and tell him he's an accessory after the fact he gives them the names of all the people involved and the squad begin to bring them in for questioning.
Jack goes to arrest Kieran Kennedy but he hasn't been home for three weeks but his landlady has the phone number of his girlfriend. George goes to see her and, on searching he purse, finds a receipt for a boat yard at Thames Ditton.
Jack and the squad converge on the boatyard with two marksmen. As they approach the boat Kennedy appears with two guns firing and George fails into the Thames. Kennedy is wounded in the leg and arrested.
Jack and George are on their way to the Old Bailey as Jack is collecting a judy's commendation when they are called back to the yard where he is charged with "that in 1968 he attempted to pervert the course of justice and accepted bribes". He is placed in a cell.
The desk sergeant tells George that around that time Jack was friendly with a typist from CID, one Gloria Bartley.
George visits her and asks her to write a statement of what happened that particular night eight years earlier. Jack is released on bail and later told he is to be reinstated but after the way he's been treated he says he's had enough and is resigning.