The Sweeney: Season 2
Season 2 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 Sweeney Season 1.
- 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 2 Progress Shield
Chalk and Cheese
Sep 1, 1975
Giles Nunn and Carrie Selhurst are an upper crust couple who, partly for kicks and for the profits, commit highway robbery in lonely country lanes, along with the lower class boy T
Faces
Sep 8, 1975
When a gang hijack an armoured security truck, Regan, Carter and the Flying Squad set up an ambush to catch the crooks. But who's the informer ?
Supersnout
Sep 15, 1975
An informant of Regan’s tells him about a hijack involving a lorryload of cigarettes where he will be the look-out man. But can Regan trust his snout?
Big Brother
Sep 22, 1975
Regan loses his patience with a thug he is questioning about a wages snatch, and soon the press are sniffing round for a police brutality story.
Hit and Run
Sep 29, 1975
A case of mistaken identity provides tragic circumstances when a hit goes wrong; Regan and Carter manage to break the hit-and-run ring, and then try to stop another accident.
Trap
Oct 6, 1975
Regan and Carter are confronted by a newsman with information on an unsolved robbery. And why are the pair being photographed ?
Golden Fleece
Oct 13, 1975
Chief Inspector Haskins is framed for corruption while Regan and Carter investigate a spate of break-ins. Is there a connection ?
Poppy
Oct 20, 1975
Violent criminal Vic Labbett returns to England to recover the proceeds of an earlier robbery, and Regan and Carter must stop him before he can get his hands on the loot.
Stay Lucky, Eh?
Oct 27, 1975
Regan and Carter are on the case when a pair of robbers are themselves robbed at gunpoint.
Trojan Bus
Nov 3, 1975
Regan and Carter investigate an art deal that is more than it seems, and ends up in a wasteground shoot out.
I Want the Man
Nov 10, 1975
Regan's snout is abducted after passing on information about a switch of some stolen diamonds. Regan and Carter must catch the villains while protecting their source.
Country Boy
Nov 17, 1975
Regan and Carter are called in when alarm bells start ringing all over their patch. Who is setting them off - and why?
Thou Shalt Not Kill!
Nov 24, 1975
Regan and Carter are called to a siege at a bank, where two armed robbers are holding hostages.