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03x09 - Sun Hill Karma

TW: Racist language and behaviour in the terms of the 80's when it was written/filmed. Suicide depiction in final part

Bob and Ken are tasked with feeding the prisoners in the cells with one, Glenda, propositioning Bob to enjoy breakfast in bed with her. He turns her down with humour and she keeps singing Like A Virgin when he leaves.😂 Ken is a little bit wary of waking a cell of drunks, especially when they've puked everywhere. The next prisoner moans that he's not getting egg on toast anymore but Bob informs him the prison bus has changed the route and now arrives before the canteen opens. "They might have asked the customers...!!" It's still slightly frozen so Bob advises him to stuff it down his trousers for 5 minutes.

Bob receives a call to tell him the bus has broken down and won't arrive till 9 now. Nick and Yorkie arrive laden with chairs were used in a fight. The prisoner who used them asks for a slightly smaller paper suit as the one he's wearing swamps him.

Tom Penny has taken up Yoga and is full of the joys about it, trying to get Taffy involved. Taffy sends Dinesh to a burglary call with Dinesh answering his radio with excellent manners. "He's always so bloody polite!" "That's because he's not Welsh..." Tom muses. At the property, Dinesh speaks Hindi to the family as the camera pans to show that their home has been defaced with red paint thrown around.

The cleaners complain that the cells haven't been emptied at the usual time, especially as one is covered in vomit. Bob just laughs. "That's because you can't slip off till 11 instead of 9 like usual." "Bleedin' cheek!" She tells him they do everything they're supposed to and more besides and that he can complain to Brownlow if he thinks otherwise. Bob tells them they can start on the female cells because Glenda won't mind. Hearing that they perk up and march into the female cells for a chinwag with Glenda 😂

Ted arrives to interview the drunk who wanted a smaller custody suit. He tells him he got drunk with 2 other men and attacked them by throwing chairs at them according to the hostel warden. They are now awake in hospital, one with a suspected fractured skull, and want justice. The man is more interest in getting a smaller custody suit and doesn't remember his victims or being at the hostel. He asks Ted if he can keep the custody suit then realises it'd be no good in the rain - he's not remotely bothered at hearing he could be charged with attempted murder.

The cleaners are now in the men's cells and are giving the drunks earache. One of them tells the woman to shut up so she threatens him with her mop until Bob makes her back off. Ted is amused and tells Bob they could use her in the TSG.

Reg tells everyone in CID that Viv has applied to join the Bermuda police force. Viv tells June but asks her not to spread it around (!) She feels guilty because June is stuck looking after her ill dad.

Ted attends the hospital and speaks to the other two men involved in the brawl. "He tried to kill me, the bloody Irish Bastard! Them Irish are all murderers at heart." Irish Ted adds "Present company excluded, obviously." The man doesn't catch on, telling him he was born in Liverpool. He claims that the man is an axe man and would have hidden it when the police didn't find it. He adds that the warden is a liar because he and the other man did nothing wrong!

Tom is sat in a yoga pose on his desk in the Sergeant's Office, trying to get the other two to join in. They don't exactly look enthralled by it..."Back's supposed to be straight, isn't it?" Alec muses. "I have to be lifted into the missionary position, never mind the lotus..." Bob adds. "If each relief had to do 15 minutes of yoga each day we'd all be better prepared for the day ahead." Tom insists. Alec and Bob exchange looks. "... I'll mention it to Inspector Kite." Alec drawls.

Mike is on the trial of a man who keeps fraudulently obtaining refunds from DIY stores. "Ner ner, beat you!" he teases Jim when he arrives seconds after Mike but only Jim gets told he's late.

The Asian family Dinesh dealt with earlier is visited by Jim and Roy. They're desperate to clean up, especially as the paint is all over their religious shrine, but Roy asks them not to until SOCO have taken the pictures and forensics. He explains it's a terrible thing for their Gods to be covered in such a mess. Roy relents and tells him he can clear them up but not to throw anything away. Outside in the garden, Jim complains about the smell of curry and incense. Roy ignores him and tells him that their garden fence looks easy to climb over. Jim thinks it might be the National Front but Roy isn't so sure. "All that paint and no racist slogans?" Jim adds another uncharacteristic racist comment pointing out an area where he reckons the householders must 'sacrifice the goats." "Don't show your ignorance, Carver. Hindus don't believe in killing."

A journalist arrives and is very pushy about gaining access to the house and getting pictures of the shrine covered in paint much to the distress of the homeowner. An Asian council worker has brought him over and she snaps at Roy for not prosecuting the 'vicious violent white thugs' who keep targeting Asian families. He reminds her that he can't prove who it is either way yet and also - she is simply a council employee and not an elected official so has no power to tell him what to do.

Tom is on a real health kick now as he tells a disinterested Alec about an experiment on the benefits of reducing refined carbs, fizzy drinks and unhealthy food and replacing them with fruit juices, fruit and wholemeal goods. It provoked "a 40% reduction in lying, fighting and stealing in young police offi-.... er, adolescent delinquents."

Out of nowhere, as Roy is driving back to the station, Jim comes out with a concerning statement. "Guv...? I don't think I like Asians." Roy lets him keep digging his hole. "I dunno, I've tried. When I was on the beat I used to force myself to talk to them and go into their shops. It's weird, I can handle proper blacks, I really do like 'em but it's Asian's. Perhaps it's the smell?" Roy can barely hold back his eye-roll and tells him it's because they're too clever for him and he can't patronise them like he does other ethnic minorities, stressing the 'PC' in "PC Carver showing his ethnic awareness" "I like 'em!" Jim protests and Roy gives him another dressing down. "Who's 'them'? They're all just people. Some are likable, some aren't worth a toss."

Viv finds out that Reg is spreading the news of her application to the Bermuda police force and Dasher's is buying knickers on work time for his 24" waist ladyfriend. He receives a call straight after to attend a DIY store where his suspect is in the shop. He makes it in time to watch him put rolls of wallpaper into a carrier, head to the tills and attempt to get a refund for them without a receipt after spinning a line about his recently deceased wife purchasing them. Mike lets him obtain the refund whilst he watches and then follows him outside where the man offers his wrists for him to arrest him.

Roy and Jim talk to Mr Radhakrishnan, a Pujari (Hindu Priest). Jim watches as he prays and pours milk over a statue of one of the God's whilst talking to Roy. The Pujari explains the Indian caste system. At the bottom are the 'ordinary working people' - like those who the attacks have been made against. They have all done well for themselves in England where the caste system means nothing to most people. He suggests they could be being targeted by those who are on the caste level above them but who have not done so well for themselves. "A sense of injustice is common." he tells them. "Some cannot accept that the rules have changed." He tells Roy he has no one specific in mind but is suggesting it as a line of inquiry. Roy suggests they might find someone who those who have been attacked have in common who might see themselves a higher caste. Jim scoffs. "You don't take all that crap seriously do you guv?" "I'm beginning to get disappointed in you." Roy sighs.

Mr Lane is very helpful when speaking to Bob about what he's done. He had claimed refunds three times in the same day by telling the cashiers his wife had died and had done it 20 times previously. "It's a very accurate account of events." he nods when Mike tells Bob what had happened. He tells Bob that his wife isn't really dead "But I will be when she finds out!"

Alec gives Bob a 3-minute warning that "Betty's coming." "Shit..." Bob sighs. Betty is a homeless frequent flier who turns violent and throws things at people when bothered. She can be heard coming for a good minute before she arrives onscreen. It takes both Nick and Yorkie to try get her in and she's still stronger than them.

Bob manages to calm her down and gets her to sit down but she stands straight up and throws a phone at Nick. Yorkie and Ken wrestle her into a cell whilst Bob helps Nick up. "That'll teach you for bringing her in!"

"Keep your hand on that, it'll stop your brains leaking out." Bob tells him, getting Yorkie to take him to casualty.

June is fed up of hearing about Bermuda from Viv carries on explaining how blue the sea is and that she'd have to marry a Bermudan man if she wanted to stay after the initial 5-year contract. "And of course, no one ever wants to come back!" She pauses and then asks where June is going for her holidays. "Hastings." "Again?" "Dad likes it." "Apparently it's a passport for all over." Viv continues. "The rest of the Caribbean, the states...-" "Apparently it's time you shut up about Bloody Bermuda." June drawls.

They find a man in a bear costume who was warned about causing an obstruction the day before. June asks him to 'take his head off' "I can't, I'm a bear... me 'ead doesn't come off!" he says to the laughter of the public who boo June for arresting him for obstruction.

The bear's surname is Baer 😂 he's charged with obstruction. The DIY fraudster tries to help the 'bear' with his rights and Brian asks if he's a solicitor. He beams. "No, I'm a prisoner!" Brian takes Bob outside and asks him why he hasn't been put in a cell and Bob explains they're either full or out of action due to a plumbing issue or broken lock. Brian tells him to double up but Bob explains again he can't do that before one is being held on attempted murder and the other 2 have been requested to be kept apart by the station that is on their way to collect them. He doesn't have a cell for Mr DIY or Mr Baer. Mr DIY doesn't want to escape after all - in fact quite the opposite. He returns to find Tony and Ken having a natter and Mr DIY having a natter with Mr Baer too with each leaping apart. Worth giffing just for Tony and Ken trying not to laugh at the run.

Ted brings in the two previously hospitalised homeless men after the hospital discharged them. They have to be kept in custody because they apparently tried to murder each other. "It was that Irish bastard!" one tries again, only for Ted to shout at him to sit down. "Put them all in a cell, give them some chairs and let them finish the idea!"

One of the Asian families who have been attacked won't speak without the council worker present and the other admits to sacking 2 people in the last 6 months at their restaurant but can't remember their names. The final one hasn't sacked anyone but has changed his Indian spice importer as at least one another has done. Roy summarises that the original importer is now losing business but still has to pay the rent on his flat which is owned by a brother of one of the men. Roy sends Jim out of his car. "You've been having like a prat all morning, you're no good to me if you can't grow up." He tells him, calling for Dashers to join him.

Dashers is wrapping the knickers he bought his lady friend (what a gift 🤦‍♀️🙄) He attaches a bow and looks rather pleased with himself.

Taffy directs him to go meet Roy "He said you should be able to do this because you've got sod all else to do." "... Thanks for that, Taffy." Roy takes him to see the original spice dealer. The door is answered by his wife who doesn't understand Roy.He asks again for her husband who tells him that he cannot invite him in as his home is not like he would wish it. Roy says that's ok and invites him to come down to the station with him.

Yorkie and Viv attend a disturbance that apparently 'doesn't sound too serious' outside a pub.

Viv earns a knee to the stomach and doubles over. Yorkie goes to catch those who ran away and leaves Viv catching her breath outside. A Woman approaches and asks Viv to come with her as 'something' is happening at the top of the multistorey flats. As they reach it it's clear that someone is threatening suicide. Viv calls it in and climbs to the top of the flats. She tries to talk to the woman and clings to her hands, shouting to her to hold on. The woman sobs that she's sorry and lets go, falling to the ground below. When Dinesh arrives as backup he finds Viv sat with her head in her hands, sobbing.

Ted reports that the drunks from the hostel are all friends now and without witnesses his hands are tied. Bob's day doesn't get much easier as the plumber finishes in the 2 cells because Yorkie and Nick bring in a number of the men who had been fighting outside the pub.

Custody is heaving as Bob attempts to process the teens and their parents as well as the three drunks. One approaches the table and vomits all over Bob and the desk.

The spice man explains to Roy that his wife is of a high caste and she shouldn't be cleaning the toilet or removing their children's shoes - which are often soiled with oil and excrement due to what has been spread in front of their house. He says if her father knew what sort of life she had with him in England he would send men armed with swords to kill him. He was born in the Rulers and Warriors caste level but he has been reduced to 'buying and selling dealing day by day with people who are not fit to touch my sleeve'. He gets angry that he's been dependent for a roof over his head and his business spurned by those he deems lower than him. He admits smashing up one family's car too. "I have no car now, what right have they to a car? They demand the rent on behalf of the landlord." He desecrated the shrine because he doesn't believe they are true gods for not helping him. "Around me, the scum rise and prosper whilst I sink. Is that the will of a just God or one that is worthless?" In CID, Jim is sulking at his desk. He apologises for behaving like a brat and Roy lets him off - as long as he buys him a beer.

The drunks are finally released and try to steal an ambulance and stall it repeatedly. Ted sighs and manages to catch them and haul them out. "Gently!" the cheeky one insists. "Don't tear me suit!"

June brings Viv a cup of tea to try and comfort her, listening as she explains what happened. "Yorkie could have saved her, or Nick or Taff." "She didn't want to be saved," June tells her. Viv has lost faith in her own abilities and strength, believing that she doesn't deserve to be paid as much as the men because she can't handle the rough and tumble as well as them. June tells her she can't return to the 'good old days' when they were left to deal with kids and female prisoners only. Viv starts to cry again. "I'm not helping anyone anymore."

She withdraws her application for Bermuda, deciding Sun Hill is where she should stay.

After 'helping' his fellow prisoners know their rights, Mr Lane is about to be bailed. He doesn't want to leave and has been enjoying himself in the company of Bob. "Another time maybe?" He suggests. Bob sarcastically suggests he skip bail so a warrant has to be issued for him. He looks quite excited at the thought before Bob clarifies it was a joke. "You do see life, don't you Sergeant!" Mr Lane smiles. Bob has to excuse himself to a quiet cell to get a breather for a few seconds by himself, attempting Tom's yoga position!

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