Duty Calls

THE BILL
Duty Calls: Episode 027
Thursday 21 January 2010, 21.00 to 22.00, ITV1
Repeated on ITV3 on Monday 25 January at 23:00
*Guest starring Kara Tointon as Ami Ryan, Barry Sloane as Josh Hunt and Gareth David-Lloyd as Jeremy Preston*

Sergeant Stone (Sam Callis) and P.C. Leon Taylor (Dominic Power) are called to a flat where distressed Ami Ryan (Kara Tointon) leads them to her boyfriend, Josh Hunt (Barry Sloane), who is restraining Jeremy Preston (Gareth David-Lloyd) on the floor.

Ami quickly explains to the officers that she was in bed when Josh returned home after work to find Jeremy had broken in. Jeremy claims he was drunk, thought the flat was abandoned and broke in, looking for somewhere to sleep it off.

Back at the station, D.C.’s Jo Masters (Sally Rogers) and Grace Dasari (Amita Dhiri) talk to Ami and Josh who both say that they’ve never seen Jeremy before. The case takes a sinister twist when Jo discovers Ami and Jeremy work in the same building and forensics show that Jeremy’s fingerprints have been found on Ami’s kitchen knives and above her bed…

Jeremy is eventually released, but Jo and Stone are later called to Ami’s workplace where she explains she found a note and a gift from Jeremy in her locked drawer.

Jo believes that Jeremy may be stalking her, but she is shocked when Jeremy tells her he and Ami have been having an affair and to prove it, he reveals intimate details about her. Jeremy tells Jo that Ami is making up the story that he broke into the flat to cover up the fact they had just slept together.

Back at the station, Ami is horrified by the allegations Jeremy has made and insists to Jo that she’s never even met Jeremy before. During the investigation, Stone and Jo realise that Jeremy has been abusing his position as a security guard, by using the CCTV cameras to follow Ami’s every move around the building.

In particular, he has been using a camera nearest to Ami’s desk in order to spy on her computer and her personal belongings, in order to gain an insight into her life. Jo realises the only way she can stop him from getting to Ami again is to make him confess.

During an intense interview, Jo attempts to make Jeremy realise he’s been living out a fantasy. However, when Jeremy finally confesses to breaking into Ami’s flat to hurt her, Jo suddenly discovers she’s the one in trouble…

At the end of a long and difficult shift, Jo is called into a meeting with Superintendent Meadows (Simon Rouse) who tells her how impressed he’s been with her work. Meadows shocks Jo by offering her a position as a Sergeant, working alongside Stone…

THE BILL is a talkbackTHAMES production and a direct commission by ITV. This episode was written by Patrick Homes, directed by Reza Moradi and produced by Sylvie Boden.