Bill Spoilers Thursday 5th Feb 2009

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Thursday 5th February - One Year On - 8pm - 9pm

Out on patrol, Sergeant Smith (Alex Walkinshaw) finds cab driver Barry Holworth badly beaten, with his takings missing. An Oyster card registered to Ellie Gladstone (Rhiannon Harper-Rafferty) is found nearby and Smithy, along with DC Kezia Walker (Cat Simmons) questions her at home. Ellie’s sister Carmel Daly (Nicole Lecky) opens the door and is dismayed to see the police, turning her back to them to see to her daughter.

The officers speak to a cagey Ellie, who tells them she lost her Oyster card a couple of weeks ago and that she stayed in the flat the night before, with Carmel. Back at the station, Kezia discovers Ellie lied to them and suggests that she and Smithy head to a support centre on the Jasmine Allen estate where Ellie volunteers, to question her further. Smithy is nervous when heading to the centre, as Leanne Samuels (Lorna Brown), the mother of Carly, who was caught in the crossfire of a gangland drive-by a year ago, helps to run it.

Although anxious about meeting her for the first time since Carly’s murder trial, Leanne is delighted to see Smithy, but frustrated when he tells her he needs to speak to Ellie. When Ellie sees Smithy and Kezia, she makes a run for it and as the officers catch up with her outside, a huge stash of money falls from her pockets.

Back at Sun Hill, Ellie is questioned and tells Smithy she didn’t steal the money from the cab driver and doesn’t know anything about his attack. Leanne accompanies Ellie to the station and is furious about the way Ellie is being treated. She tells Smithy that Ellie has recently tried to turn her life around and helps Carmel look after her daughter. Leanne is adamant that Ellie has nothing to do with Barry’s attack and seems to be losing her faith in Smithy, leaving him despondent.

Later that day, Smithy and Kezia go back to the girl’s house where they find Leanne with them. Ellie finally confesses to attacking Barry but tells the officers she hit him over the head with a bottle when Barry attempted to sexually assault her in the back of his cab. She swears that she didn’t steal his money, but in shock, ran off and left him unconscious. Still confused by the events, the case takes another twist when the set of prints found on the bottle belong to Carmel, not Ellie.