The Bill: Season 20
Season 20 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Bill Season 19.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 20 Progress Shield
The Bill Season 20 Episode 1
Jan 7, 2004
Having discovered the CCTV tape of PC Cathy Bradford with his wife on the night she died, and the body of Cathy's fiance, Max Wyatt, the Murder Investigation Team are called in. DC
The Bill Season 20 Episode 2
Jan 8, 2004
Leo Price agrees to help Sgt. Dale Smith and CID with some information when his little brother is attacked and left injured. When the information leads to several arrests on the es
The Bill Season 20 Episode 3
Jan 14, 2004
Sgt. June Ackland has discovered PC Cathy Bradford has barricaded herself and DC Brandon Kane's kids in the station's boiler room. When Cathy promises to release the kids in exchan
The Bill Season 20 Episode 4
Jan 15, 2004
TSG storm the boiler room and Supt. Adam Okaro arrests a screaming Cathy Bradford for murder. Despite his colleagues' warnings, DC Brandon Kane insists on returning to work at CID,
The Bill Season 20 Episode 5
Jan 21, 2004
Marie Carver is in court on charges of domestic violence against her husband, PC Jim Carver. Despite testimony from PC Gabriel Kent, who witnessed one of Marie's attacks on Jim, Ma
The Bill Season 20 Episode 6
Jan 22, 2004
Supt Okaro faces a difficult time with the fraud investigations into his wife's bank accounts and her relationship with the Reverend Andho. How will Okaro deal with the subsequent
The Bill Season 20 Episode 7
Jan 29, 2004
Sergeant Sheelagh Murphy is shaken by the previous night's sighting of Des Taviner. Confused about why Des should come back to Sun Hill, Sheelagh becomes frantic when she believes
The Bill Season 20 Episode 188
Feb 5, 2004
Sergeant Sheelagh Murphy is rushed to hospital with her baby's life hanging in the balance. With news of the baby's tragic death, Sheelagh struggles with the loss especially when
The Bill Season 20 Episode 9
Feb 11, 2004
When DS Debbie McAllister has trouble with her babysitter, she is forced to bring Andrew into the station. While McAllister is indisposed, DC Eva Sharpe is assigned to what looks l
The Bill Season 20 Episode 10
Feb 12, 2004
Sgt. Sheelagh Murphy reports to Insp. Gina Gold and DCI Jack Meadows that she was visited by Des Taviner the night before. Having learned of baby Niamh's death, Taviner finds PC Re
The Bill Season 20 Episode 11
Feb 18, 2004 · 69 min
A covert operation is planned to trap Des at Niamh's funeral despite Sergeant June Ackland's promise to Sergeant Sheelagh Murphy that this will not happen. Sheelagh is upset when
The Bill Season 20 Episode 12
Feb 19, 2004
The hunt is still on for Des Taviner who holds Sergeant Sheelagh Murphy and PC Cameron Tait hostage. Sheelagh has left her mobile on and connected to DCI Jack Meadows to give th
Episode 193
Feb 25, 2004
Sergeant June Ackland confronts PC Gabriel Kent over the shocking discovery that he is her son. With her world in turmoil, she is horrified to hear him confirm that he is her so
The Bill Season 20 Episode 14
Feb 26, 2004
PC Gabriel Kent fears exposure and confronts Sergeant June Ackland who tells him that she will keep his identity secret if he gets her the address of her son. The difficulty of
The Bill Season 20 Episode 15
Mar 3, 2004
Sgt. June Ackland threatens to expose PC Gabriel Kent's true identity, but Kent insists he loves her and his job. Ackland agrees to a compromise, she will keep quiet about Kent's a
The Bill Season 20 Episode 16
Mar 4, 2004
DCI Jack Meadow's former lover and ex-prostitute Rachel Heath (Lysette Anthony) is due in court to stand trial for assault. With the news that she's pregnant with his child, she
The Bill Season 20 Episode 17
Mar 10, 2004
PC Andrea Dunbar arrives in the force and her keenness seems to good to be true, but little do the relief know that they have an undercover reporter among them. When Eva discover
The Bill Season 20 Episode 18
Mar 11, 2004
PC Nick Klein and PC Yvonne Hemingway attend a disturbance at a funeral home and discover an unusual case: the body and casket of the mother of the Coombes brothers has disappeared
The Bill Season 20 Episode 19
Mar 17, 2004
Paramedics fail to revive Des Taviner, and MIT's DI Madden who has arrived to question Des about the Sun Hill bombing finds himself investigating the suspect's murder instead. Sgt.
Smoking Demons
Mar 24, 2004
As PC Nick Klein recovers from his forced heroin overdose at the hands of Dennis Weaver's henchmen, Sgt. Dale Smith and PC Kerry Young try to prove Nick's innocence beyond doubt as
The Bill Season 20 Episode 22
Mar 25, 2004
With PC Nick Klein in a police safe house, an enraged Dennis Weaver throttles DS Phil Hunter, demanding Klein's location. Having woken up with Sgt Dale Smith, PC Kerry Young realis
The Bill Season 20 Episode 23
Mar 31, 2004
DS Debbie McAllister is determined to investigate links between her boss, DI Neil Manson, and a possibly corrupt magistrate when a drug dealer makes accusations during interview. P
The Bill Season 20 Episode 24
Apr 1, 2004
DS Debbie McAllister is determined to investigate links between her boss, DI Neil Manson, and a possibly corrupt magistrate when a drug dealer makes accusations during interview. P
The Bill Season 20 Episode 25
Apr 7, 2004
PC Nick Klein is back in the safe house, but when DS Phil Hunter gives the address to Dennis Weaver, a hitman is contracted to kill Klein. Meeting with the hitman to retrieve the g
The Bill Season 20 Episode 6
Apr 8, 2004
PC Nick Klein is back in the safe house, but when DS Phil Hunter gives the address to Dennis Weaver, a hitman is contracted to kill Klein. Meeting with the hitman to retrieve the g
The Bill Season 20 Episode 27
Apr 14, 2004
A major road traffic accident in Sun Hill sees a seriously injured man, Adrian Collins, rushed to St Hugh's Hospital. When Uniform discover a handgun and balaclava in Collins' car,
The Bill Season 20 Episode 28
Apr 15, 2004
PC Kerry Young is found injured but alive in the rubble after the explosion behind the bank, but the bank manager was killed in the explosion. As DS Samantha Nixon investigates the
The Bill Season 20 Episode 30
Apr 28, 2004
DC Terry Perkins is undercover in prison, where he investigates convicted paedophile Charles Mawdsley who is believed to be running a paedophile ring with the help of one of the pr
Episode 211
Apr 29, 2004
DS Sam Nixon and DS Debbie McAllister investigate when the stolen digger turns up at a transport site. DI Neil Manson's suspicions are proven correct, but nobody else knows that Ma
The Bill Season 20 Episode 33
May 6, 2004
After failing to capture Trevor Little and his gang after their aborted diamond raid, DI Neil Manson begins to have his doubts about his Australian colleague, DI Peter Cavanaugh, a
The Bill Season 20 Episode 34
May 13, 2004
DI Neil Manson's suspicions about DI Peter Cavanaugh continue during an obbo on the diamond heist suspects. When the suspects get away from them, Cavanaugh doesn't seem particularl
The Bill Season 20 Episode 35
May 19, 2004
Don Beech has the only evidence that could incriminate corrupt DI Peter Cavanaugh. DCI Jack Meadows is reluctant to have to rely on the slippery Beech, but Supt Adam Okaro insists
The Bill Season 20 Episode 36
May 20, 2004
DCs Rob Thatcher and Ken Drummond are on an obbo watching a witness in a fraud case, when Ken's son Alex turns up on the doorstep in a state of shock. While on a night out with his
The Bill Season 20 Episode 37
May 27, 2004
PC Gabriel Kent and PC Kerry Young attend a call to what initially appears to be the case of a ""bunny-boiler"", Sharon Wallace, stalking her ex-boyfriend, Chris Loftus. Kent, howe
The Bill Season 20 Episode 38
Jun 2, 2004
DS Phil Hunter is desperate to find his daughter Madison, who has been abducted by Dennis Weaver. DCI Jack Meadows orders him not to get involved in the investigation, and assigns
The Bill Season 20 Episode 39
Jun 3, 2004
DS Samantha Nixon drags a wounded DS Phil Hunter out of the line of fire of an enraged Dennis Weaver, and the two escape into an abandoned Tube tunnel. PC Yvonne Hemmingway is frus
The Bill Season 20 Episode 40
Jun 9, 2004
PC Kerry Young is in turmoil after her rape at the hands of the evil PC Gabriel Kent. Naturally, Kent denies the charge, and he insinuates that Kerry has ""cried wolf"" before, whe
The Bill Season 20 Episode 41
Jun 10, 2004
A skeptical DI Neil Manson reluctantly agrees to DS Samantha Nixon's requests to hire a profiler to help catch Sun Hill's serial rapist. Nixon and profiler Dr Hugh Wallis review th
The Bill Season 20 Episode 42
Jun 17, 2004
PC Cameron Tait dives into the Thames to rescue the two children from the sinking car. He manages to get the girl out, but the boy is missing and the girl later dies in hospital. C
The Bill Season 20 Episode 43
Jun 24, 2004
DC Rob Thatcher is keeping a close eye on the Radfords despite the warnings of his colleagues. He eagerly arrests David Radford for selling bootleg DVDs on the Coal Lane Estate, bu
The Bill Season 20 Episode 45
Jul 7, 2004
PC Yvonne Hemingway puppywalks probationer PC Steve Hunter on his first day at Sun Hill. Eager to impress, Steve lets slip some gossip about Phil's impotency, which soon is all ove
Episode 227
Jul 14, 2004
DS Samantha Nixon and Dr Hugh Wallis are concentrating on the Royal Navy link to the serial rapist, and interview a Scottish prostitute whose rape over ten years previously matches
The Bill Season 20 Episode 49
Jul 21, 2004
The net is closing in on Alan Kennedy, the main suspect for the serial rapes. Kennedy is not at home when the police raid his flat, and several other leads - an allotment he keeps,
The Bill Season 20 Episode 50
Jul 22, 2004
With insufficient forensic evidence to charge him, DI Neil Manson and DS Samantha Nixon have 24 hours to extract a confession from serial rape suspect Alan Kennedy. CPS laywer Jona
The Bill Season 20 Episode 51
Jul 28, 2004
DI Neil Manson orders PCs Tony Stamp and Lance Powell to stay out of the wreckage of the pub where the bomb has gone off while he summons help. When Stamp realises Supt. Okaro is s
The Bill Season 20 Episode 232
Jul 29, 2004
PC Lance Powell tries to work out who sent him the text message about the bomb, and realises only three people had his new number: his family, his boyfriend... and Conor Murphy. Po
The Bill Season 20 Episode 54
Aug 5, 2004
PC Sheelagh Murphy turns to her Catholic faith for guidance after her son Conor's announcement that he is gay, but the Church is not very helpful to her. She then asks PC Lance Pow
The Bill Season 20 Episode 59
Aug 26, 2004
PC Kerry Young and Sgt Dale Smith are minutes away from a bullet in the head from Wayne Radford's goons, when a raid on Hedley's Club, lead by Sgt June Ackland and DCs Rob Thatcher
The Bill Season 20 Episode 60
Sep 1, 2004
PC Kerry Young and Sgt Dale Smith are minutes away from a bullet in the head from Wayne Radford's goons, when a raid on Hedley's Club, lead by Sgt June Ackland and DCs Rob Thatcher
Episode 242
Sep 8, 2004
Wayne Radford has been found dead in his prison cell. It appears to be suicide, but Radford also has a number of bruises and cigarette burns on his body. Insp. Gina Gold hears from
Episode 243
Sep 9, 2004
Malcolm Willard has been shot dead from long range, and once again DC Terry Perkins and his brother Ben are in the frame. Perkins is shocked when he turns up at CID to hear that Wi
The Bill Season 20 Episode 65
Sep 16, 2004
DC Suzie Sim arrives to join CSU, and she excels on her first day when she and trainee DC Gary Best investigate the racial harrassment and sexual assault of an asylum seeker. The p
The Bill Season 20 Episode 66
Sep 22, 2004
DC Suzie Sim arrives to join CSU, and she excels on her first day when she and trainee DC Gary Best investigate the racial harrassment and sexual assault of an asylum seeker. The p
Episode 247
Sep 23, 2004
DCI Jack Meadows arrives in a sleepy village for the funeral of old friend and colleague Ted Roach, who has been killed in a hit-and-run on a lonely country road. Also attending th
The Bill Season 20 Episode 69
Oct 6, 2004
Insp. Gina Gold warns PC Kerry Young that her job is on the line if she continues to consort with David Radford. PC Gabriel Kent and PC Andrea Dunbar find an 11-year-old blind girl
The Bill Season 20 Episode 72
Oct 14, 2004
PC Kerry Young is missing and fears for her safety grow after David Radford's public vow to kill her. Many officers are desperate to find her- but for the wrong reasons. PC Gabriel
The Bill Season 20 Episode 73
Oct 20, 2004
After being gunned down by PC Gabriel Kent, PC Kerry Young is left fighting for her life in the arms of Sgt Dale Smith. Moments after declaring their love for each other Smithy cra
The Bill Season 20 Episode 254
Oct 21, 2004
After being gunned down by PC Gabriel Kent, PC Kerry Young is left fighting for her life in the arms of Sgt Dale Smith. Moments after declaring their love for each other Smithy cra
The Bill Season 20 Episode 86
Dec 9, 2004
A new PC Leela Kapoor is transferred to Sun Hill but she finds it hard to get on with her partner PC Sheelagh Murphy because she was involved in the suspension of one of Sheelagh's
The Bill Season 20 Episode 85
Dec 8, 2004
Yvonne has to deal with her niece when she is found unconscious having taken ecstasy pills left lying around her flat. Jim returns to work telling his colleagues that the trip has
The Bill Season 20 Episode 88
Dec 15, 2004
Sgt Mark Rollins surprises his boyfriend PC Lance Powell with a shock marriage proposal. PC Amber Johannsen kisses a barmaid at the Christmas do and PC Andrea Dunbar kisses Smithy,
The Bill Season 20 Episode 89
Dec 16, 2004
Shirley finally accepts PC Yvonne Hemmingway's apology but Shirley takes a turn for the worse and Yvonne has to face up to the uncomfortable fact that she could be responsible for
The Bill Season 20 Episode 90
Dec 21, 2004
Irene Radford is back in town Sun Hill officers are called to an incident at her house when a dead dog is found floating in her swimming pool which could possibly be something to d
The Bill Season 20 Episode 91
Dec 22, 2004
Inspector Gina Gold is taken prisoner at gun point by Irene Radford. The two women talk and realize they have more in common than both of them had realized but Irene orders the dea
The Bill Season 20 Episode 92
Dec 23, 2004
DS Ramani de Costa is left to cope with the new Vulnerable Persons Unit which is low on staff while most of the other officers are dealing with a robbery so DCI Jack Meadows assign
The Bill Season 20 Episode 93
Dec 29, 2004
Inspector Gina Gold is taken prisoner at gun point by Irene Radford. The two women talk and realize they have more in common than both of them had realized but Irene orders the dea
The Bill Season 20 Episode 94
Dec 30, 2004
DS Ramani de Costa is left to cope with the new Vulnerable Persons Unit which is low on staff while most of the other officers are dealing with a robbery so DCI Jack Meadows assign