The Bill · SEASON 4

The Trap

Episode 18 · 1988-09-15

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Episode overview

D.I. Burnside sets up a trap on a residential street: an open vanload of video recorders. He, Carver, Roach and Dashwood sit in wait for some villains to take the bait. Eventually, a man pulls up in a BMW and takes one of the videos into his house. Roach and Dashwood arrest him, and back at the station he turns out to be Julian Pembridge, a slimy solicitor well known to Burnside. Pembridge claims he was merely exposing a police entrapment campaign, and manages to escape with a fine. With Sgt. Peters on leave, Sgt. Cryer and Insp. Frazer are concerned about Sgt. Penny's state of mind. Ch. Insp. Conway has a word with him and asks him to take some leave. Penny insists he's fine and refuses, but when the air conditioning breaks down in the CAD room, Penny's temper rises with the temperature. He spills a coffee on his keyboard, and tries to attack the electrician - taking leave is no longer optional.

Season 4 episodes

1. Light Duties1988-07-19 2. The Three Wise Monkeys1988-07-21 3. Good Will Visit1988-07-26 4. Home Sweet Home1988-07-28 5. All in Good Faith1988-08-02 6. Just Call Me Guvnor1988-08-04 7. Caught Red Handed1988-08-09 8. Homes and Gardens1988-08-11 9. Country Cousin1988-08-16 10. Alarms and Embarrassments1988-08-18 11. Stealing Cars and Nursery Rhymes1988-08-23 12. Hold Fire1988-08-25 13. Bad Faith1988-08-30 14. Requiem1988-09-01 15. Trespasses1988-09-06 16. Save the Last Dance for Me1988-09-08 17. Runaround1988-09-13 18. The Trap1988-09-15 19. Community Relations1988-09-20 20. A Dog's Life1988-09-22 21. Trouble and Strife1988-09-27 22. Running Late1988-09-29 23. They Say We're Rough1988-10-04 24. Blue for a Boy1988-10-06 25. Chasing the Dragon1988-10-11 26. The Coop1988-10-13 27. The Quick and the Dead1988-10-18 28. Witness1988-10-20 29. Here We Go Loopy Lou1988-10-25 30. Stop and Search1988-10-27 31. Spook Stuff1988-11-01 32. Evacuation1988-11-02 33. Personal Imports1988-11-08 34. Paper Chase1988-11-10 35. Intruder1988-11-15 36. Conflict1988-11-17 37. Duplicates1988-11-22 38. Snout1988-11-24 39. Old Habits1988-11-29 40. The Silent Gun1988-12-01 41. An Old-Fashioned Term1988-12-06 42. Getting Stressed1988-12-08 43. Tigers1988-12-13 44. Guessing Game1988-12-15 45. The Assassins1988-12-20 46. Outmoded1988-12-22 47. Digging Up the Past1988-12-27 48. Taken Into Consideration1988-12-29