dougie persuades grant to help him out with a raid on a supermarket, promising him a vast financial return, but grant starts to have second thoughts when he finds dougie's sawn-off shotgun. after doing some investigating, grant discovers that dougie had been discharged from the paratroopers because psychological tests had revealed that he was psychopathic. dougie tried to stop the medical officer from filing the results, and when he refused dougie shot him in the head and then raped his wife. realising that he has left sharon alone in the vic with a convicted murderer and rapist, grant flees home and arrives just as dougie is attempting to sexually assault sharon. a fight ensues and grant is knocked unconscious, after which dougie holds grant, sharon and barmaid michelle fowler (susan tully) hostage with his shotgun, and demands money.