Smiffina Episodes - Episode 344
Usual rules - no Smithy but it's an important reason it's included so...
Gina is amused by a bet between Dan/Area Car/Roger and Honey/Normal Police Car/Laura. June thinks it's a bad idea but Gina points out it's making them work harder to get better quality arrests, how can there be a down side?
Amanda approaches and asks Gina to make a written explanation about why she's over budget on the overtime for the first quarter of the year (You know, in no particular order, permanently being an officer down on the streets because Yvonne was station bound, Losing Honey to be a longterm FLO and then Honey quitting (at first) and going on the run with her murderer husband, Only having half a station due to a rogue PCSO 'teaching them a lesson' and losing Andrea (and Marilyn and Ken for civililian staff/CID too) to it and Smithy being signed off sick due to his injuries, Amber and Leela being away for a few days for a driving course, Funerals to attend so cover needed for various officers, Gina's treatment meaning Smithy was occasionally working doubles any of these and more on top of the usual overstretched and underfunded issues surrounding a police station. take your pick, Amanda!)
Roger is lamenting agreeing to the bet after it starts to be a quiet day, he's worried he's going to have to fork out for the beer and curries with Dan. ... and then a call comes in. I had to gif it, i couldn't not for Dan's adorable reaction <3
Amanda chases up the report and Gina makes a quick escape to go out with the troops, telling June to tell Prosser if she asks that she's doing it for her benefit before she ends up chinning her.
Unfortunately Amanda is in the CAD room and overhears the commentary about The Bet - she's not impressed.
Gina and the girls attend a shout at a pub where Dan and Roger are already in the carpark. After they've all dealt with it, the new landlord thanks them and offers them a free drink. As it's time to knock off, and get changed back at the station Gina agrees, allowing the girls and Dan half a lager and herself and Roger are on the orange juice as they are driving, they enjoy them in a quiet back room out of the gaze of the public and try to decide a winner in the bet. Arrest wise it's all tie - but Gina decides Roger and Dan had an advantage with the area car so she decides the girls are the winners!
Back at the station they arrive to get changed - and told off by June until she sees Gina with them. June can smell the alcohol and so Gina explains what happened before they go change. Amanda asks June about the bet and June tells her Gina thought it a good motivational idea and that they're all in high spirits. Amanda looks down the corridor at them all laughing and says it looks like they've been at the spirits... she gathers from that and June's silence that they have! (Seriously how hard would it have been to say 'haha ma'am' and walk off? Especially as she knows Amanda has a knife in Gina's back!)
