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The second episode of the first series of the British time travel police procedural television series, Life on Mars, was first broadcast on 16 January 2006. It was produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One.
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An armed robber is brought in with no evidence, as a preventive measure. Tyler allows him to be bailed, and the man then goes on to commit a further robbery from a jewellers, resulting in an innocent woman working in CID being seriously injured. After Forensics is messed up by Chris, Sam finds new hope in solving the case with Lenord. Sam tries to persuade him to testify by offering him police protection but Gene, Ray and Chris don't take the protection seriously resulting int the lives of Annie and Lenord being at risk.
Sam is still very uncertain as to whether he is really in 1973 or in a coma in 2006 and dreaming the whole thing up. He decides that all he can do for the time being is help the team with their investigations. Nothing else seems to be bringing him closer to an answer. The team arrest Kim Trent, a notorious robber, very high on the list of wanted persons. Sam realises that Gene has planted evidence to ensure that Kim is successfully convicted and is disgusted with his boss and his underhanded methods. He releases Kim and Sam and Gene clash. Sam believes Kim has human rights, although Gene doesn't think Kim qualifies. Kim continues his string of robberies and a cleaner at the police station is seriously wounded. Sam realises that losing track of what he stands for may take him further away from solving his strange problem, but at the same time he has to make things right. Using a combination of his skills and Gene's sneaky techniques, he manages to track down and arrest Kim and his gang.
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- When Sam and Gene fight in the hospital, Sam does a couple of "martial arts-style" moves ending with the famous Bruce Lee "Come and Get It" hand gesture later used by Neo and Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy.
- Trent said "Cookery class, I’m having it off with Fanny Cradock." Fanny Cradock was a television cook who appeared from the mid-50's until 1976 on a variety of BBC cookery shows and she is credited with the invention of the modern prawn cocktail.
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