The BEST episodes written by Trevor Preston
#1 - The Car Lot Baggers
Minder - Season 4 - Episode 5
When an unscrupulous builder wants a piece of land that is occupied by a local car dealer he hires a gang of thugs to move him out and tries to lay the blame at the door of the local gypsies.
#2 - Bait
The Sweeney - Season 4 - Episode 7
Lyn Hurst is injured in a road accident but, in the ambulance, she produces a gun, forces the vehicle to stop and escapes. Regan and Carter discover she was part of a gang behind the wages theft at the Local Education Authority.
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#3 - Poppy
The Sweeney - Season 2 - Episode 8
Violent criminal Vic Labbett returns to England to recover the proceeds of an earlier robbery. He intends to exchange the cash for diamonds, and return to exile abroad.
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#4 - Stay Lucky, Eh?
The Sweeney - Season 2 - Episode 9
Two young villains, Tyson and Jenner, working for gang boss Tony Kirby, are relieved of the spoils of their robbery by a mysterious gun-man, who shoots Jenner in the leg. Nobody knows who he is until Regan has a word with Jenner's disgruntled father-in-law, which leads to a shoot-out in a theatre. At the same time Regan is made a tempting offer to go into private security work.
#5 - Messenger Of The Gods
The Sweeney - Season 4 - Episode 1
Regan and Carter have a suspect in mind for the theft of a consignment of mercury, but he has an alibi.
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#6 - The Placer
The Sweeney - Season 1 - Episode 7
Jack Regan goes undercover as a lorry driver to trap a ring of hijackers.
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#7 - Ringer
The Sweeney - Season 1 - Episode 1
Regan's girlfriend's motor is nicked. Unfortunately it contains most of the evidence from Regan's current surveillance of gangster Frankie Kemble, and it doesn't take long for the evidence to find its way into the hands of Kemble.
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#8 - Abduction
The Sweeney - Season 1 - Episode 13
Jack Regan's tip off of a robbery lead him to close to the action, so the gang planning the robbery kidnap Jack's daughter to use as a hostage, to keep Regan off the scent of the action until they make a getaway. Regan wants his daughter back so takes it in his own hands to track down his daughter and to prevent the robbery, going against his ex wife, the orders of his bosses and the detective investigating the kidnap.
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#9 - Big Brother
The Sweeney - Season 2 - Episode 4
Regan loses his patience with a thug he is questioning about a wages snatch. Soon the press are sniffing round for a police brutality story and the suspect's gangster brother puts out a contract on Regan.
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#10 - Money, Money, Money
The Sweeney - Season 4 - Episode 6
Regan and Carter try to catch a man trying to blackmail a pools winner about the part he played in a robbery.
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#11 - Chalk and Cheese
The Sweeney - Season 2 - Episode 1
When a wealthy couple are robbed of their possessions while driving down a country lane, Carter gets to meet up with an old friend, but not in the circumstances he would have wished.
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#12 - May
The Sweeney - Season 3 - Episode 7
Regan tries to help out the son of an old friend when the lad is implicated in a brutal assault.
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