The Truth Will Out

THE BILL
The Truth Will Out - Episode 36
Thursday 25th March 2010, 21.00 to 22.00, ITV1
Repeated on ITV3 on Monday 29th March at 23:00
*Featuring Julie Graham as Commander Lisa Kennedy*
*Featuring Joel Beckett as Peter Grigson*

When Billy Edwards a four year old boy goes missing from his father’s garden, the team leap into action pulling in all the resources necessary to find him.

They begin door to door enquiries canvassing all local residents and look into a possible sighting 100 yards from Billy’s home of a small boy getting into a car.

CCTV images confirm the boy is Billy and the team immediately begin tracing the car. In the meantime Superintendent Jack Meadows convinces Billy’s parents (who are separated) to conduct a joint press conference.

Further investigations by D.S Stevie Moss (Lucy Speed) and D.C Jacob Banks (Patrick Robinson) reveal the number plates on the car involved in Billy’s abduction are false, leading them to a local scrap yard where they discover that the owner’s son Danny Lord has sold the plates to Peter Grigson (Joel Beckett)

The team track down Peter Grigson’s ex wife Helen Grigson (Tor Clark).When questioned by D.S Stevie Moss and D.C Jacob Banks she reveals that she left Peter Grigson when she became concerned about his inappropriate behaviour towards a neighbour’s son.

Billy’s mother Jenny Sullivan (Claire-Louise Caldwell) has never heard of Grigson but Billy’s father Ray Sullivan (Laurence Mitchell) becomes a suspect in his son’s abduction when CCTV from the local pub shows him speaking to Grigson about Billy, his routine, likes and dislikes. Ray is shocked and denies any involvement in Billy’s abduction.

Sergeant Callum Stone (Sam Callis) (who is still on suspension) is at Sun Hill discussing his own situation but as an observer to the whole abduction case, feels certain Edwards is a victim and convinces Inspector Smith (Alex Walkinshaw) to treat him as such rather than as a suspect.

The team track down Peter Grigson who is not with the missing boy. He is taken into custody for questioning where he admits to taking Billy but claims he quickly dropped him off at a local market and called the police. However P.C Leon Taylor (Dominic Power) tracks down Grigson’s phone records that reveal Grigson was not in the market when he claimed he was but was in fact four miles away.

Smithy calls the whole team in to help in the search for Billy including suspended Sergeant Stone.

The phone records and forensic evidence retrieved from Peter Grigson’s clothes lead the team to a building site a few miles away next to the river Thames. When banging is heard coming from a storm drain at the far side of the building site, Smithy and P.C Mel Ryder (Rhea Bailey) quickly climb down putting themselves in danger as the water is rapidly rising, but can they save the boy?
THE BILL is a talkbackTHAMES production and a direct commission by ITV. This episode was directed by Karl Neilson and produced by Ciara McIlvenny.