Episode 490 - Sweet RevengeWednesday 21 March 2007 8.00 to 9.00pm ITV1DI Sam Nixon (Lisa Maxwell0 and Pcs Diane Noble (Kaye Wragg) and Will Fletcher (Gary Lucy) deal with an assault on Jess Parker (Marion Bailey) at her home which seems like a burglary gone wrong. Will talks to a group of scantily clad women who were first on the scene and discovers that Jess runs a seedy web chat service from her home. Jess is frustratingly unhelpful with the investigation but neighbours mention a suspicious car parked outside earlier. Taking over the investigation, DS Phil Hunter (Scott Maslen) and DC Jo Masters (Sally Rogers) discover the car belongs to Ryan Jones (Michael Maloney) and arrest him on suspicion of burglary. Jo and Phil question Ryan at the station where he admits to being at Jess’s house because he was trying to find one of the girls he had been talking to over the internet. Phil threatens him with a harassment charge unless he helps them with their enquiries and Ryan reluctantly complies, if only to make sure that his wife, Connie (Sarah Mowat) doesn’t find out about him using the website. The detectives are pleased when Ryan assists with the investigation but an already stressed Sergeant Smithy (Alex Walkinshaw) isn’t amused when Phil asks him to hold Ryan in the bustling custody cells a little longer while he checks some details out. Hours later, apologetic Smithy finally reunites Ryan with his concerned wife, but when Ryan riles him, Smithy tells a shocked Connie that her husband, Ryan was arrested for stalking a prostitute.Will smithy live to regret his cool . . .?

Meanwhile, Mickey is assigned to a clean-up operation to a clean-up operation at the Jasmine Allen Estate as well as doing some local PR with Liz Clifton (Maureen Hibbert), head of Neighbourhood Watch for the area.

Along with PCs Emma Hinckley (Melanie Gutteridge) and Roger Valentine (John Bowler), Mickey makes several arrests when a drug deal goes down. However, when two innocent passers-by get mixed up in the commotion, Carl Haycock (Sam Green) and Liz Clifton’s daughter, Kelly (Azuka Oforka) – the operation leads to the investigation of a joyriding incident. . .