#brian capron

Frank, Tosh and Jim are out for a drink when they spot Pete driving past in a panda. "TAXIIII!" Frank calls, putting his hand out. "That's handy!" "He's probably naff all else to do!" Pete is heading to Whitechapel Road - now via Sun Hill. "Why?" "Why? If you want to get back in CID, you wanna make some friends!"

Tucked up in the back, Jim pouts that the panda isn't 'exactly a Porshe'. "Yeah, you never did tell us how you got that Porsche, Peter."

"Playing cards, wasn't it?" Tosh adds helpfully from the back before Burnside tells him to stop sulking and drive. Before he can, they're interrupted by banging on the window from Mrs Mancini, last seen in Trouble And Strife.

Mrs Mancini asks for help as there's someone in her car. The three CID officers get out to help her and Pete is ordered to stay where he is. Frank tries to get Jim to stay in the car too, but spotting the chance to chat Mrs Mancini up, Jim refuses and follows - even walking in front of Frank which earns him a "CARVER!!!!" Frank moves in front and introduces himself - and his "junior colleagues." They follow Mrs Mancini to the underground car park. "That's a lovely perfume you're wearing, Margrief [too many echoes to catch it 100% but it's v similar sounding to that and links into the next line] isn't it?" "I'll give you grief!" Frank mutters to Jim. On reaching the car, the men laugh at finding a 'romancing' couple inside. "Would you mind... adjusting your clothing... and stepping out of the car?" Frank calls on identifying themselves as police. Tosh and Jim go to comfort Mrs Mancini, but she loses her temper after seeing who steps out of the car and launches something over the car at the man. It's only Mr Mancini enjoying a bit of quiet time with his mistress. Or at least he was.

Mrs Mancini attacks them both and the car with an oil canister and is held back by Frank. The Mancini's spit at each other. 'OI! .... Mind my coat!" snaps Frank. The Mancini's continue to argue with Mr Mancini shouting at his wife that the much older woman who had run off could teach her a thing or two! The boys are enjoying the show but are very surprised to hear that one of Mrs Mancini's more prominent upsets at what had happened is that not once, in 15 years of marriage, had they ever been intimate in a car. "The woman's crazy! She's crazy! What about our honeymoon?" he shouts back. "We don't want to know!" Frank cuts in. She bursts into tears, grabs Frank closer and wants her husband to be jailed for indecent behaviour.

Frank hands over his handkerchief and checks his suit and tie for signs of tears. Mr Mancini's mistress collars Jim and Tosh at the other end of the carpark and discreetly asks them to return her clothes to her before she has to go home to her husband as she only had the chance to quickly pull her dress back on. Pete approaches and Mr Mancini instantly takes a step to hide behind Tosh. "Take that gobsmacked look off your face and come here, Mancini!" Mancini tries to hide behind the car and promises Pete he hasn't been up to any of his 'nasty little tricks' as he's still on probation. Pete tells Mrs Mancini to remove her sunglasses. Both her eyes are black.

Jim excuses himself with the underwear of the other lady. Pete brings Frank and the others up to date on his prior dealings with the Mancini's. They were moved onto the estate 2 months previously after destroying their home. Malcolm has already been called to their flat to deal with their domestics twice. "You seem to know what you're doing. You sort it out." Frank tells him, walking off with Tosh.

Jim doesn't understand why a man with an attractive wife would go off with a much older woman. "It's not the age, Jim." Frank educates him. "It's the mileage that counts!" Tosh agrees. "Age doesn't come into it; some people have just got it!" Frank continues before they all turn and go running back onto the estate at hearing a scream and thud.

On the floor is Mr Mancini's affair partner, Mrs Andreas. "What do you think, was she pushed?" "Get Ramsey and get an ambulance!" Frank orders, noting that Andreas' jumper is inside out. Jim tells him she'd mentioned a husband. The Mancini's come running over with Pete so it can't have been either of them. She lives on the floor below them at number 31. Frank sends Tosh to her flat to look for any signs of what might have happened and to see if her husband is home.

Jim and Tosh attempt to race up the stairs and are sent flying by a gang of vocal Italians running down them. Tosh manages to grab one man and bring him down in a headlock until Jim can stagger back to his feet and help him.

Outside Pete and Frank attempt to stop the Italians from attacking the Mancini's. Jim helps restrain one as Tosh brings out his little friend from the stairs. "Where the hell did these people come from?!" Frank yells.

Jim stops one of them from stabbing Mancini - or Pete who he's right next to - by shouting a warning. Pete smacks him on his arm to make him drop the knife. Thankfully, Uniform backup comes running and helps contain the fighting.

"I want all these people arresting!" Frank orders, pointing at one man who comes running towards him about to strike him. "You so much as sneeze in my direction, and it'll be GBH!"

Pete forces Mancini against a wall and orders a man who has come armed with a tool to "SCRAM!" Thankfully, Tosh appears and grabs him away. Trapped in the lift with Pete, Mr Mancini is arrested and then further arrested for assaulting Pete, who fell against the side of the lift when Mancini tried to dodge him. Pete quotes several parts of the Police Act legislation, warning Mancini that he's going to teach him to 'stop swinging it around, you slaaag!'.

The paramedics finally arrive and load the victim onto a stretcher. WPC Extra is tasked by Frank to go in the ambulance with her whilst Tosh and Jim are to coordinate what's happening. Jim asks Pete to look after a group of arrested men. "They're Italians!" "I don't give a toss if they're Martians. I'm looking after Mancini!" Tosh shouts him back and asks PC Extra to take Mancini to the ambulance instead. He warns Pete to stop behaving like a one-man band as it's an attempted murder.

Malcolm tells Frank and Tosh that the next-door flat is empty and that no one else appears to have seen anything. Frank tells Malcolm not to let anyone else in until it's been checked over by SOCO. "What have you found?" Tosh asks. Frank knows it's not a suicide. There's one shoe left in the living room, which indicates a struggle from inside the flat.

The A&E department is overrun by angry Italians. One of the women shouts "SCREW YOU AND THE REST OF YOUR FAMILY!" at Mrs Mancini and they argue in Italian. Frank arrives as a porter shouts for help. He has blood on him and tells Frank that a patient is being attacked by a man with a kebab knife. Jim, Tosh and Frank run in the direction he pointed and hear screaming coming. The injured man is Mancini, who is found collapsed on the stairs. They split up into all directions, looking for the suspect with PC Extra remaining with Mancini.

Jim and Pete follow blood trails and Jim expresses surprise that Mancini isn't dead from the blood loss. "Yeah, it's a shame." Pete drawls in a tone that suggests it really isn't. They head into the dark boiler house. Pete has to go inside alone with a lighter to try and find the man with Jim remaining by the door as there's no other light source he can find. "Remember he's got a kebab knife." Jim warns him, telling him he doesn't like the look of this. "Chickeeeeen." Pete calls back.

Pete finally finds a light switch deeoer inside the room and turns the lights on which finally allows Jim to join him. They remain as quiet as they can and hope their movements are hidden by the sounds of the machines.

Ken questions a porter about what is in the bag he's carrying as he leaves an operating theatre. "A leg." he answers calmly. Ken decides against checking it!

Pete climbs to the next level just above Jim. Both he and Jim are spotted by the suspect, who draws back into the shadows. He's wearing a mask and holding the knife and it's all very horror movie like. He then gets to the switches and turns the lights off before leaving the boiler room all together.

Jim smacks his head and shouts 'OW!' and then for Pete. Pete is too busy running after the man! Jim catches up and spots their suspect running down a corridor opposite them.

Tosh wants to speak to the unconcious Mrs Andreas. The doctor is astounded and tells him she can't speak, she's just had surgery and she's under anesthetic! Tosh says he'll used a board to communicate with her but a statement is vital incase she dies. She's out for the count still, how he expects her to function is anyone's guess! "DID YOUR HUSBAND PUSH YOU!?" he shouts in the British way of trying to communicate with the locals when abroad. The doctor tells him to leave.

Frank chastises Jim and Pete for letting the suspect get away. "I'm quite glad he has, Guv. He's got a kebab knife!" Jim reminds him. Frank tells Jim to get a description of the victims husband whilst taking Pete with him into the Intensive Care Unit. Pete literally bumps into a nurse, apologising with a cheeky smile and a "Sorry love..." He's still distracted and watching after her as Frank walks on. "I'll have to come back and check out some of these nurses later!" he grins. "What woman in her right mind would want to go out with a wrist job like you, Ramsey?" Pete just looks amused. "You're the second person to call me that!" Pete suggests Frank has a problem with him because of his car. Frank clarifies. His problem is with Pete himself because he behaves like a prat. The hospital has been remodelled and Frank is getting dizzy trying to find the ITU. They're spotted by a doctor who leads them there whilst they continue to talk. Pete calls Mike 'a clotheshanger' and claims he has more right than Jim to be in CID. "You may not like me but I get results!"

The doctor asks if it's Mrs Andreas that they're visiting and asks if she was pushed. Frank tells him they're not sure. Pete tells Frank quietly that the doctor is the man they're looking for. "Are you sure?" "Think so, he could have dumped the kebab knife." They charge after him and ask for identification - the poor man is innocent and really was just a helpful doctor who doesn't have his ID so ends up getting shoved against the wall and frisked. The real suspect, Mr Andreas, is climbing the stairs towards the Intensive Care Unit. "What's that?" " A packet of extra strong mints!"

Mr Andreas pushes a cart up behind Ken who orders him to wait there. Andreas side steps the cart and escapes further into the unit, still armed with the knife. Ken, Pete, Tosh and Frank end up running after him.

Mr Andreas shouts at them to keep away from him when he tries to find his wife. He takes one poor innocent victim hostage - thankfully she's unconscious - asking to know where his wife is. Some quick thinking from Tosh tells him his wife is dead and in the mortuary when really she's in the operating theatre again. Andreas breaks away and runs down the corridor with Pete following and Jim joining the police conga. Andreas blocks the door he runs into with a mop so Pete continues down the fire escape with Ken tasked to call for further back up direct to the mortuary as CID bang on the door for someone to let them in.

A nurse lets them in and directs them to where Andreas went. Claire spots him coming and jumps to the side behind a heavy door and kicks it closer just as Andreas reaches it. It knocks him clean out cold, allowing Pete to safely arrest him. Pete shouts for a doctor. "RAMSEY! What you done?!" Frank demands. "Claire done this!" he tells him with Tosh sounding absolutely astounded. "... Did she?" Frank congratulates her whilst grinning. He then calls Ken a prat for 'letting old Shish Kebab' ere' get past him. "If you don't keep your eye on things son, Jesus will not be your friend, he'll be your next door neighbour!" When Mr Andreas comes round, Frank lets him know he's nicked.

Jim congratulates Claire for what she did and asks him to put a note on Mancini's body. Claire didn't know he was dead. Jim gives her rather exact instructions which part of the mortuary to find him in. Not at suspicious. Claire enters and looks around, going to drawer 16 as requested. As she pulls it out, the 'body' leaps up and spooks her with Jim and Tosh laughing.

Tosh pretends he spots Ken approaching and they talk Claire into playing the body to give him a scare, giggling as they shut the door.

It's not Ken approaching however, it's Frank. They all leave the mortuary with the boys still giggling! "What's up with you lot?!" Frank asks, not in on the joke.

All goes quiet for a few moments...