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The Bill » 18x45 - Protection (034)
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PC Kerry Young The Bill | Too Close to the Wind | 11.07.2002
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Gina: "You can drop me off first. I'm the guv'nor!"
Cass: *drunkenly* "Seeya, Gemma! I think it's really nice you're a lesbian!"
Probably the only thing I miss from the PM era (and before, they were amazing at this, probably actually better than the PM times during the section house years!) is the bonding and friendships shown between the officers in full flow outside of the station. It made their relationships inside the station much more believable.
Much more believable than the times like the Gun Runner episodes were Smithy said there was *noone* to tell about him going undercover - noone from the army years (ignoring Tony for obvious reasons)? SO/CO19? Stations before Sun Hill (Yeah... ignoring Vickers for the same obvious reasons)? Hendon? His football team? Essex? School? Locals? Bob? Past officers? Nick who could have left Witness Protection or at least made contact with Smithy given Weaver was dead by then. Not to mention his mum and family members (they never did mention his brother again after PC times...) Yes there were station friends that would know through the station, especially Gina, but I don't buy Smithy having no other friends whatsoever given he didn't know how long he'd have to be undercover for and therefore away for - or the risk of drama/potential death.
(Bonus props for this episode making a big thing of the serial killer and getting the girls home safe in a taxi after the night out... only for the taxi to be driven by the very person they're after 😂😂😂)
Think I might have found the real reason Cass gets murdered though - also in this episode....
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Smiffina Episodes - Episode 239
Not technically a Smiffina episode as there is no Gina, however given Gina's history with Irene and her relationship with Smithy it provides background info.
We open where we left off, Kerry punching one of the girls. As Irene and David buy it and leave the room, she apologises and says she had to do it. Later she snarks at Irene saying that they probably get worse from the punters and that it could be worse, she could be cremated in the back of a van somewhere. David asks Irene to take it easier on Kerry. Irene has to concentrate on getting rid of the girls so heads upstairs, followed by David. Kerry places a drink order at the bar - followed by Smithy adding his pint and appearing next to a shocked Kerry.
Ken is angry at Rob, knowing Smithy is onto them and knows what's going on. Rob agrees that he'll go with Ken if it's been blown but otherwise he's to keep his mouth closed. Rob rings Smithy to try settle it - only for him to answer his phone and tell him, loudly so Kerry can hear who it is, that he's at the club. Rob tries to fudge it with Smithy but he doesn't buy it. "You're a dead man. I mean it. I'm getting her out of here."
Literally covering his mouth so they can't be spotted chatting, Smithy orders her to walk out with him there and then. She refuses and tells him she's on to something far too big. She walks away, knowing he can't follow her or shout to her.
Smithy takes a seat back where he was in the shadows, watching the proceedings. Kerry excuses herself to the toilets and gestures discreetly for Smithy to follow her. He tells her they have to leave now or he's calling for backup. She refuses and tells him upstairs there is a roomful of illegals being used for sex trafficking and that the body in the van was one of them - so it's murder as well. She explains Irene is watching her like a hawk and if she's pulled out suddenly, alarm bells will ring before they can get a team in place. Smithy tries to call for back up and Kerry tells him to wait because at 6pm they'll be moving the girls and they'll be vulnerable. She doesn't think they're armed.
She's so close to a massive collar and she doesn't want to throw away the past few days work and risk saving the girls. Behind them appears David and some muscle - Kerry and Smithy explain it away as him thinking she was one of the working girls and that he'd misread the signals. After some threatening staring, David lets Smithy leave.
Smithy returns to the station and orders Ken and Rob outside. He's fuming, he can't believe that Rob and Ken have let it happen and get that far. Rob takes the blame and admits he set up the undercover ID for her. Smithy shouts at him that she's a mess and doing it only to prove she's still up to the job and is willingly putting herself in danger to do so. He explains the plan that Kerry had told him and that they're going to do a raid. Rob points out that if they do and Kerry gets found she'll lose her job. Smithy knows this and says it sounds like Rob is trying to cover his own back there still. He says he couldn't care less what happens to Rob, he deserves it all - but he will not let Kerry pay the price for it. He organises for Rob and Ken to set up the raid and keep it right with just some Sun Hill uniform. He's going to return to the club and, if they can time it right, get Kerry out before she's seen.
Smithy returns to the club and keeps to the shadows out of David and Irene's way. Once they disappear he heads up into the private areas to search for Kerry. Smithy hears the girls crying in a room and thinks it's Kerry and tries to get in - caught by David. Smithy is taken into another room and beaten as they try to get who he is out of them. He tells them he's called Dale, they go through his pockets and find his warrant card. He tells them it's nothing official, he's not on duty and David goes to find his mother to update her.
Irene questions Kerry over what she told Smithy in the toilets. She insists it was nothing and follows them upstairs. Smithy tries to front it out as having been looking for 'business' as word on the street is that a few girls like to work out of the club. "Come on, even the old bills got needs." Irene doesn't buy it and orders David to get him tied and gagged - they're moving the girls now. Before the door is closed, Smithy and Kerry exchanged worried looks.
At the station, June can't spare the officers for an operation for Reg. It doesn't look good for the operation at the club. Especially when Okaro gives him the green light - and then Rob and Ken come with half an hours notice. She'll do her best but she can't promise...
David tasks Kerry with taking the girls passports. Whilst he's not looking she hides a couple. Irene checks on Smithy who is tied up amd rips his gag off. She asks what a copper is doing snooping around her club with no radio or back up.
Smithy tries to stick to his 'looking for business' excuse. She says they don't have working girls on the premises as she knows it's illegal. ... all whilst having Smithy bound and held prisoner. Definitely not illegal. He asks if they can come to an arrangement, Irene says it's difficult to see how as she thinks he's been given information about 'something going down'. She thinks it's either a plant or an informant - she asks which. Smithy plays dumb.
The girls are out of the way and Irene just has 'one more bit of business to deal with and we're done.' She wants Smithy 'gotten rid of'. Kerry is furious and tries to talk to David about doing something different. David assures Kerry he couldn't have gotten through the last few days without her and he kisses her - only for Irene to interupt.
With the warrant, June agrees to allow Rob and Ken a few officers and then realises it hasn't been signed off by a senior officer. She refuses to let it go ahead. The boys apply pressure, it's now or never.
At the club, Irene tells Kerry she's suspicious of how she got to know David, especially as she got in so quickly. She wants her to prove her loyalty to the Radfords... as David hands Kerry a gun, Irene orders her to kill Smithy. Kerry points the gun at Smithy, before turning and pointing it at Irene and David. She tries to untie Smithy and keep Irene and David back - only when she tries to shoot Irene as she won't keep away from them - the gun isn't loaded.
"Sorry love, I was right about her wasn't I. I wish I was wrong... looks like we've got two coppers to get rid of now."
Gloria
Kerry Young
ISBN 1620400758
Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act alters the course of her life forever. Taking along her younger sister, she flees their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. But in a capital city awash with change, a black woman is still treated as a second-class citizen. From a room in a boarding house and a job at a supply store, Gloria finds her way to a house of ill repute on the edge of the city, intrigued by the glamorous, financially independent women within.It is an unlikely place to meet the love of your life, but here she encounters Pao, a Chinatown racketeer and a loyal customer who will become something more. It is also an unlikely place to gain a passion for social justice, but it is one of the house's proprietors who instills in Gloria new ideas about the rights of women and all humankind, eventually propelling her to Cuba, where even greater change is underway, and where Gloria must choose between the life she has made for herself and the one that might be.
Alive with the energy of a country at a crossroads, this is a story of love in many forms, and of Gloria's evolution-from a frightened girl on the run to a woman fully possessed of her own power.