STEALTH ATTACK

STEALTH ATTACK
Episode 549 1st November 2007, ITV1, 8PM

Kim Hayes’ sister is missing: Gemma is eighteen and was last seen at 7pm last night. Not too unusual for some teenagers, but Kim insists it’s very out of character for Gemma. She went to a gig last night to see pop star Billy Peters and she hasn’t been heard from since. Nixon agrees to catalogue her as a MISPER whilst Jo and Stuart investigate further.

Billy won a TV talent show and shot to stardom briefly, before a downward decline in his career, leaving him broke and in rehab. Now he’s enjoying a comeback – people like Gemma still really like him – so much so, she got drunk for the first time in her life and went home with him…
Tony and Reg find Gemma unconscious with a severe head injury near a market. Handbag, cash and cards are still in her handbag, so she’s not been mugged. Worse: Gemma’s been raped. The prime suspects are identified and one by one; so are each of their lies.

Meanwhile Smithy and Emma find Mr Simpson, a shopkeeper in the middle of a row over giving short change to Leanne who looking after her daughter Carly’s baby. Smithy smoothes over the situation the best he can. Only later he has to break into Leane and Carly’s flat as baby Brooke’s been left alone.

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