The Sweeney: Queen's Pawn (1975)
Season 1, Episode 4
6/10
Queen's Pawn
13 December 2019
The most important element of Queen's Pawn were the strokes the police used to bring down villains. No wonder old timers get misty eyed for the old days when they could not bend the law, just break them.

Tony Selby plays Johnny Lyon who has been found not guilty with his two henchmen for an armed robbery. The high profile case has left the police with egg on their faces. Lyon celebrates his freedom like he has just won an Oscar.

Regan has been given carte blanche by his superiors to bring Lyon in for something. Regan stages a kidnap on one of the henchmen to get them to turn informer.

It is only Carter who is unhappy with Regan's tactics, it it something that leads the other henchman in danger as Lyon thinks he might grass on him.

It is an episode with familiar faces ranging from Christopher Ellison, Tony Caunter and Julian Glover as a smarmy lawyer.
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