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PCs Des Taviner
and Reg Hollis investigate a disturbance at a
local lap-dancing club, Polestar. A waitress has
been hit and Mark Mansfield is accused but the
charges are dropped. Meanwhile PCs Polly Page and
Tony Stamp gather complaints of credit card fraud
in the area. Taviner and Hollis investigate
another disturbance, this time a woman's flat has
been turned over. Rachel reveals she's a dancer at
Polestar. Superintendent Tom Chandler links the
attacks and orders an undercover operation in the
lap-dancing club. PC Cathy Bradford agrees to pose
as a waitress, while PC Nick Klein and Sgt Craig
Gilmore act as punters keeping an eye on her... a
job greeted more keenly by Klein than Gilmore!
Cathy learns a few tricks of the trade on her
first night but concludes Polestar is all above
board. She overhears Rachel evicting another one
of the dancers, Sonia from her flat and suggests
she takes the room. Soon after, Mansfield forces
his way in to Rachel's flat and Cathy has to
arrest him, blowing her cover. During questioning
he still denies any involvement in the ransacking.
Sonia is then found badly beaten outside a nearby
hotel, the Orissa, and Rachel is coerced into
helping Sun Hill's enquiries. Cathy discovers that
whilst Polestar may be operating legally, it's the
bar manager that organises off-site liaisons at
the hotel. She lets him know she's interested in
earning some extra cash doing whatever it takes.
Meanwhile, Chandler's been acting suspiciously
like the cat that got the cream and books into the
Orissa under the name Mr. 'Dickson'.
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