Tommy McKay was born in 1969 or 1970; sent into care after his parents were killed in a car accident. The crazy impulse side shown in episode Heroes indicated undiagnosed ADHD as I updated the character for the 21st Century; when I first started writing fan-fiction for The Pros way back in 2010-2013. It helped me to imagine what a CI5 agent with ADHD would be like for William Bodie and Ray Anthony Doyle. He still has that black Mk2 Capri but in the condition it was since it was last seen in Minder during 1989 or 1990.

Tommy McKay was with his parents John McKay who has had an extensive career guesting in 1960s ITC productions such as The Prisoner, the BBCs epic I, Claudius and their 1994 remake of Little Lord Fauntleroy. Madge McKay was a housewife born in 1935 originally from Surrey, England after giving up her job as a club receptionist after Tommy was born on 14th January 1969 or 1970; she was considered as an older parent for 35 or 36 years old at the time in the late 60s to early 70s era.

In fact the real target for the car accident that killed both his parents years since the original crime was John McKay (Tommy's father) a seemingly inoffensive accountant who actually has been given a new identity after he gave evidence against a gang of American mobsters.

Flashback to Tommy McKay's childhood circa 1978-1989

"I'm a Chartered Accountant. I've been an accountant all my life. The only injury I could have ever done anybody is to overestimate their tax liability... that's hardly a motive for murder... Or perhaps it is these days!" said John McKay nervously as he stepped on to the witness stand in court against the American mobsters, one who eventually became a corrupt New York Police Department officer in the mid to late 1980s. This was when some corrupt CI5 agents ignored their boss George Cowley's orders and began probing Mr. McKay's past.

Tommy McKay had been a loose cannon as he was born with ADHD, the condition simply wasn't named in the late 60s-early 70s and it was left undiagnosed in his earlier childhood; he was placed in one of Greater London County Council's children's homes instead, after the police found out his relatives didn't want their daughter and son's hyperactive but naughty and noisy child.

"Dear god, no I'm not having Madge's crazy naughty boy; she shamed the family name by bringing an impulsive boy into the world!" Tommy's grandmother shouted at the police officer and slammed the door on PC Henry Williams who held the jet black haired little boy's hand who wore a blue Addias jacket with white stripes, flared denim jeans and a Tiswas T-Shirt adorned with trainers. "Looks like your social worker will have to find you a children's home, young man, since your relations don't want to keep you." he informed young Tommy whom kept asking for his parents "I want my mummy and daddy!" resisting any attempts to enter Muswell Hill Sunnyside Children's Home nicely. The kindly male care worker knelt down to little Tommy McKay's level "I'm here to look after children who don't have their own mummies or daddies, so why don't you Tommy, come inside with the policeman who helped you? There's beans on toast for tea tonight."

But it was simply diagnosed as hyperkinetic impulse disorder during 1976 aged 6 or 7 until he was 10 in 1979-1980 when for the first time in the DSM (DSM-III) manual, Tommy McKay's condition was renamed ADD with hyperactivity; then in 1987 aged 17 or 18 changed the name to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

When he was first learning to drive in 1989 or 1990 he had a black 1977 Ford Capri MkII 1.6 L with black vinyl roof; which he still has to this day since aged 19-20 years old; filmed in a Minder episode adorned with a Sex Pistols sticker he put on the rear right window saying "Hit Me!" in that very same year.

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Children like CI5 agent Tommy McKay could not control their behaviour the way a typical child would; Bodie and Doyle knew this when they were ordered to ensure he couldn't put his own life in danger during an assignment to chase up the three criminals who supplied Rufus Collins a.k.a "Tin Can" with drugs when Bodie drove his 2002 Ford Puma coupe in stratos silver to the old brewery near the derelict Jock's Café in Watford. The area - including an entire row of shops - has been almost completely redeveloped since 1977 (this was before William Bodie and Raymond Doyle were even thought of) and a year before Tommy McKay's parents John and Madge were hassled by the American mobsters in 1978; with little Tommy being eight or nine. Tommy McKay's dad was only seen in the occasional ITV detective show like Midsomer Murders or Taggart to prevent his identity from being known, that is until Sally Pendle's younger brother used by the original 1978 American mobsters to murder him in a decrepit council estate the Pendle family live on in North London.

It does seem incredible someone that has a diagnosis of ADHD would be employed by CI5.

The following day Doyle buys a newspaper and texts Bodie of the updates via their Nokia Microsoft Windows smartphones on Station Parade, Denham to discover the witnesses identities have been revealed on social media platforms.

Cowley drives past the pub and pick-up shots in his Ford Scorpio Ultima saloon of the villains' first hideout.

Cowley, over the hands free Bluetooth device: "Tommy's in pursuit of raiders. Find him, help him and report."

Bodie, imitating sarcastically: " 'Find him, help him'." in his usual sulky teenage boy styled mood.

Doyle: "He means stop him!"

Bodie: "Yeah... before it develops into a massacre, thanks Cowley Junior." replying over his own Bluetooth device as he parks his beloved Ford Puma coupe in silver to a halt outside the old abandoned brewery.

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Doyle: "Be cool with Tommy - you know he's got a diagnosis of ADHD."

Bodie: "Cowley's son Jackson wouldn't accept that: nobody in the Big A is crazy with the ADHD diagnosis to match."

Doyle: " 'Motivated', then. His parents were wiped out by American mobsters in a council estate a year before I was 17."

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Upon entering the brewery.

Bodie: "Unlucky... that Social Services overlooked Tommy."

Doyle: "That's a lousy thing to say!"

Bodie: "Tommy's a lousy thing to be - he's got ADHD and can you imagine having impulsive behaviours?"

Doyle: "And what makes you so different?"

Doyle as he, Bodie and Tommy have little cover as they get close to the gang's hideout: "No Man's Land." inside the old Ale Cow brewery.

Bodie: "Thing is, Tommy's a bit full on, even as an adult CI5 agent he acts like a schoolboy with the impulsive behaviours; what if Health & Safety get wind of his mucking up assignments?" he frowned with eyebrows raised "It'll impact the risk assessment papers!"

Upstairs entering the empty room where all the beer barrels used to be long ago.

Tommy McKay: "Someone has to cross it... if we want to be home in time for tea!"

Bodie, nervous as the trio saunter across: "Tommy, can I ask a question? Why are we walking?!"

Tommy McKay, nonchalantly: "It's a lot of space - walk or run, it'll make no difference."

Bodie: "Yeah, only no-one's given me the choice!"

Tommy McKay: "Then make a choice!"

Bodie: "Thanks!"

The trio leg it and chase after the three drug dealers who supplied ex heroin addict Rufus Collins with pure uncut types which destroyed all his organs in Central London NHS's rehabilitation ward, the doctors and nurses combined with today's medicinal technology couldn't save Mr. Collins as a result of his ingrained drug abuse and cardiac arrest.

Tommy McKay: "You're under arrest on suspicion of supplying Rufus Collins with pure uncut heroin, anything you do or say may be given in evidence which you later rely on in court!" as the three drug dealers were placed in a Metropolitan Police Mercedes Sprinter arrest van.