The Bill - Season 2 - Eps 5: Hostage

Name: Eps 5: Hostage
Released: 1985-12-09
Rating: 3.4

1985-12-09 • ? min • ⭐ 6.7/10

Sgt. Cryer is taking half the relief out on Sun Hill's annual fishing trip. P.C. Smith and D.C. Dashwood go to serve a warrant on Russell Archer over a non-appearance in court on a poaching charge. Archer manages to escape from Dashwood and Smith, and is later seen menacing a milkman with a sawn-off shotgun. He later holds up a bookies and a greengrocer, until he is spotted by P.C. Carver and P.C. Frank. who give chase. Frank is shot and wounded during the chase, and Archer ends up taking an elderly woman hostage in a retirement village. With the fishing trip cancelled, D.S. Roach takes charge of the siege operation until D.I. Galloway and Ch. Supt. Brownlow arrives. Attempts to contact the increasingly unstable Archer fail, until he asks to speak to Sgt. Cryer whom he saw in the betting shop. Cryer enters the flat, and attempts to talk Archer into giving himself up. With W.P.C. Ackland posing as a Meals-on-Wheels driver, Galloway, Roach and PT17 officers storm the flat and shoot Arche

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About The Bill

Title: The Bill

First Air Date: 1984-10-16

Last Air Date: 2010-08-31

Status: Canceled

Rating: 6.7/10 (from 38 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 27

Total Episodes: 2373

Network: ITV1

Genres: Crime, Drama

Production Companies: Talkback Thames, Thames Television, ITV

Synopsis

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.