Bodie and Doyle are both enjoying a bit of leave from their CI5 duties for a couple of weeks at their respective homes. All seems quiet, until an attractive young woman, Jill, shows up seeking Doyle's help.
It transpires she's the daughter of notorious gangster Bill Haydon - jailed seven years earlier for murdering a rival gangster and, on the same night, also murdering Doyle's former police partner Syd Parker - Doyle being a copper before being selected for the elite CI5 squad.
Jill believes her father was framed for the murder, and begs Doyle to look back into what happened that night - convinced he can find new evidence to have her father pardoned and released from prison. Doyle is reluctant at first - he's emotionally involved, and is still smarting over the tragic loss of his former partner whom he was sure was murdered by Jill's father. Nevertheless, he takes a shine to Jill and decides to do some digging. Will what he finds turn out to be what he's expecting to find?
This was an intriguing episode to finish off what had been an excellent first season, and unusual to find the boys operating away from their usual CI5 remit. Lalla Ward, shortly to find fame as the 'new' Romana in Dr Who, is convincing as Jill, and it's easy to see how Doyle falls for her charms. Also look out for Grange Hill's Mr Bronson (Michael Sheard) in a brief appearance too!
The episode was filmed around Christmas/New Year, and looks wintry - adding to the bleakness of the plot. It's good too to see Doyle in the flashback scenes at the start in his former guise as a policeman - yet still sporting his bubble perm under his cap!
The story unfolds nicely, and there's a clever twist at the end which is well worth the wait.
It transpires she's the daughter of notorious gangster Bill Haydon - jailed seven years earlier for murdering a rival gangster and, on the same night, also murdering Doyle's former police partner Syd Parker - Doyle being a copper before being selected for the elite CI5 squad.
Jill believes her father was framed for the murder, and begs Doyle to look back into what happened that night - convinced he can find new evidence to have her father pardoned and released from prison. Doyle is reluctant at first - he's emotionally involved, and is still smarting over the tragic loss of his former partner whom he was sure was murdered by Jill's father. Nevertheless, he takes a shine to Jill and decides to do some digging. Will what he finds turn out to be what he's expecting to find?
This was an intriguing episode to finish off what had been an excellent first season, and unusual to find the boys operating away from their usual CI5 remit. Lalla Ward, shortly to find fame as the 'new' Romana in Dr Who, is convincing as Jill, and it's easy to see how Doyle falls for her charms. Also look out for Grange Hill's Mr Bronson (Michael Sheard) in a brief appearance too!
The episode was filmed around Christmas/New Year, and looks wintry - adding to the bleakness of the plot. It's good too to see Doyle in the flashback scenes at the start in his former guise as a policeman - yet still sporting his bubble perm under his cap!
The story unfolds nicely, and there's a clever twist at the end which is well worth the wait.
