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Cast for season 20, episode 16 "Don't Bring Me Down (196)"

Rachel Heath stands trial for assaulting a burglar the previous summer. She tells Meadows before the trial that she is going to go public to clear her name, but he offers to confess all himself for the sake of their baby. Webb makes a return to testify in the trial, and after failing to dissuade Meadows from destroying his career for Rachel, confronts her in an attempt to make her face up to the assault charge. McAllister and Sharpe investigate an assault on a teenager working at a factory, discovering it is not only a racist assault, but homophobic. Meanwhile, Manson is mortified when Sharpe implies she knows about his father-in-law's sordid sexual practices involving rent boys, and so he confronts the DAC in an attempt to cover his own back. When a mischievous McAllister tells a seemingly uninterested Manson about Meadows having an affair with Rachel Heath, he uses it to blackmail Meadows, leaving Sharpe's days in CID numbered.

Former series regular DC Mickey Webb guest stars

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