The Sweet Smell of Failure

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"The Sweet Smell of Failure" is an episode of the long-running British police drama The Bill, broadcast on the ITV Network. This is the eleventh episode of the first series.

[edit] Synopsis

PC Carver and Ackland follow up a series of burgularies in an area, which leads them to a bogus perfume factory. Galloway faces some ghosts from his past.

[edit] Main Credits

  • Written by Barry Appleton
  • Directed by John Michael Phillips

[edit] Notes

  • Carver has 'dressed up' for his and Ackland's plain clothes operation, which he admits is because he was thinking that they might be able to go for dinner after they're done. Ackland accepts this invitation for a date, although by the time Series Two begins there is no mention of it, so we must assume a long-term relationship fell through. It would be seventeen years before the Carver and Ackland romance would be reintroduced.