The Sweeney displaying "1979". In "Sweeney 2" (1978), George and Jack eventually find themselves going to the island of Malta in order to track down a group of particularly violent armed robbers who have been committing bank and payroll robberies all over London and kill anybody that gets in their way, even members of their own gang, Jack & George were assigned the case by their recently convicted chief inspector as his last order, as he is about to be charged with corruption. In "The Sweeney" (2012) the setting moved to the present day, with Regan being played by Ray Winstone, Carter
The Sweeney the series timeline, the character had done "National Service in the Signals Corps in a minor intelligence role" (as revealed in the episode "Stay Lucky, Eh?"). He is frequently seen at odds with Regan, preferring more conventional 'by-the-book' policing methods. The main 'Haskins episodes' are "Golden Fleece", in which he is set up to be the victim of a corruption enquiry, and "Victims", in which his wife suffers a mental breakdown, owing to her memories of a miscarriage. Although he appeared in the opening titles of every episode of the first three series, he did not appear in all of