Shots fired! Officer hit!

Shots fired! Officer hit!
Shots fired! Officer hit! (Image credit: Steven Peskett)

Patrolling Sun Hill in an area car, Pcs Nate Roberts and Ben Gayle are shocked when a bullet cracks through their rear window and smashes through their windscreen, skinning Nate’s neck on the way past. He’s not badly hurt, but a second bullet has injured someone at a bus stop. Inspector Dale ‘Smithy’ Smith and Sergeant Jo Masters rush to the scene with back-up and get details from Keith Shipley of a car he saw speeding away. It belongs to Malcolm Christie and he becomes their prime suspect… When Commander Lisa Kennedy (guest star Julie Graham – Survivor, William and Mary) is again drafted in to take care of Sun Hill business, the team is unhappy. They think Sergeant Callum Stone has been treated harshly (following the beating he gave to the man who assaulted him) but Lisa isn’t interested in making friends… Angry that Nate and Ben are still on duty, she orders Smithy to send them home. Meanwhile, DS Stevie Moss and DC Mickey Webb think they’ve got their man in Malcolm Christie, who has been threatening his girlfriend, Lisa, who lives in the area of the shooting. But evidence suggests they’re looking in the wrong direction… The gun is found near witness Keith Shipley’s home and it seems his 10-year-old son, Scott, knows a lot more than he’s letting on…

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.