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Some pretty poor reviews here but this is one of my favourites. Great cast, it rips along with plenty of action.

It's only the sixth episode but things are already well established and continued this way until a few weak episodes in the last series.

Released in early 1975 I was only 13 when it was first shown and the time is caught so well, particularly the big old pub full of people smoking and drinking.

John Thaw gets a bit more time talking, particularly with the main woman but it never gets boring. If only there were more programs that could be this good now. No worrying about offending anybody or including every type of background, just coppers and wronguns, sometimes with a bit of overlap.

When you take the stage actors away from the stage, they'll simply bring the stage onto television, as is this episode mostly taking place in the sleazy apartment of Jack's ex girlfriend, a lush living above a noisy pub providing background noise straight from a neon neo noir, and like Larceny Inc there are surrounding bank robbers using her room as an in-between to break into the bank next-door... Meanwhile the dialog is pulpy and good, and these two have the right amount of anti-chemistry chemistry; although there's not a tightened sense of anticipation, i.e. Tension, which would have made it a great episode as opposed to a pretty good one.

The brother of the creator of The Sweeney, Troy Kennedy-Martin writes this one.

It starts out as unusual but then loses its way. Regan is called into action as a bank robbery is taking place. The robbers have used a cellar of a pub to get through. They seem to be interested in the safe deposit boxes.

Staying in the pub is an old flame of Regan. He needs to find out all she knows. The supervising officer is gung ho who likes media glory. To protect his back, Regan calls Carter and make sure he is in the pub with a cop who has a good shot.

A lot of it is Regan sparring with his ex girlfriend. It includes a scene where she puts his gun in a dishwasher. There is a big pub fight as an elderly customer finds out that the police are in. Inexplicably Regan sends the cop with a gun home and then he finds himself in big danger.

This could had been a classic episode with a cast that includes Derrick O'Connor, Peter Childs and Nick Brimble. However there was some bad writing here.

Tony Sympson who plays who the elderly customer was a familiar face on television and commercials.