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Working undercover, agent Peter Church (Peter Phelps) steals a truckload of tyres from the railway yards with brothers Ronnie Gallagher (John Brumpton) and Garry Gallagher (Garry Waddell). Church’s colleagues Oscar Stone (Ian Stenlake), Kaye Kelso (Jessica Napier), Bernie Rocca (Joe Petruzzi) and Ellen ‘Mack’ Mackenzie (Anita Hegh) keep the operation under surveillance from a truck concealed nearby. It doesn’t run as smoothly as planned. Church’s wire drops out of range just as an unexpected security guard turns up, who could blow his cover.
Curator’s notes
This scene generates dramatic tension on two levels. Within the operation, tension comes from the risk of Church being found out. At the same time, writer Roger Simpson uses the scene to generate drama between two core characters, Mack and Rocca, as they disagree about tactics. In this respect, the scene functions within both the contained episodic narrative – the crime story – and within the series as a whole, in which ongoing characters are established and interact dramatically.
