The Bill Series 2 Episode 5 Hostage ( Air Date 1985-12-09 ) Genre Crime, Drama category. Overview "Sgt. Cryer is taking half the relief out on Sun Hill's annual fishing trip. P.C. Smith and D.C. Dashwood go to serve a warrant on Russell Archer over a non-appearance in court on a poaching charge. Archer manages to escape from Dashwood and Smith, and is later seen menacing a milkman with a sawn-off shotgun. He later holds up a bookies and a greengrocer, until he is spotted by P.C. Carver and P.C. Frank. who give chase. Frank is shot and wounded during the chase, and Archer ends up taking an elderly woman hostage in a retirement village. With the fishing trip cancelled, D.S. Roach takes charge of the siege operation until D.I. Galloway and Ch. Supt. Brownlow arrives. Attempts to contact the increasingly unstable Archer fail, until he asks to speak to Sgt. Cryer whom he saw in the betting shop. Cryer enters the flat, and attempts to talk Archer into giving himself up. With W.P.C. Ackland posing as a Meals-on-Wheels driver, Galloway, Roach and PT17 officers storm the flat and shoot Arche".
The Bill Series 2 Episode 5 Hostage
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- Stars: Simon Rouse, Sarah Manners, Andrew Lancel, Alex Walkinshaw, Amita Dhiri, Ben Richards, Bruce Byron, Chris Simmons, Christopher Fox, Dominic Power, Gary Lucy, Jason Barnett, John Bowler, Lucy Speed, Micah Balfour, Patrick Robinson, Rhea Bailey, Sally Rogers, Sam Callis
- Director: Charlie Morgan, Andy Pask, Mark Russell, Lawrence Oakley, Miles Bould, Mike Westergaard, Jim Copperthwaite, Paul Pritchard
