The Bill - Smithy chases after the hit-and-run car

31 January 2008 @ 8-9pm on ITV 1

Sergeant Smith (Alex Walkinshaw) chases after the speeding car that has just hit Alisha Danniels (Amandla Crichlow), while PC Nate Roberts (Ben Richards) tends to the unconscious teenager.

Later at the hospital, Smithy is devastated when Alisha comes to and says that she is now too scared to testify against key suspects Tito Morientes (Christian Reyno) and Dwayne Fox (Syrus Lowe).

Elsewhere, PC Emma Keane (Melanie Gutteridge) and Nate visit the owner of the hit and run car, Amolak Tahir (Guy Rhys). He tells the officers that he was car jacked by a teenager, but they are suspicious.

After further investigation, they discover that Amolak sells bullets on the Jasmine Allen estate. Shocked that his secret has been uncovered, he provides the names of everyone who is dealing firearms.

Elsewhere, the car jacker, Danny Pearce (Xavier Bernardin) is tracked down but Smithy refuses to believe that he is responsible for the hit and run. Danny's older brother Joel (Richard James Harris) accompanies him to the station where Danny admits to the hit and run but says it was an accident.

However, the officers aren't convinced that he's telling the truth and when Joel later disappears from the station, Danny admits that his brother was in the car with him and made Danny drive.

At the hospital, Smithy is stunned when he shows a picture of Joel to Alisha, who recognises him as the third man she saw in the car the night Carly was murdered.