Alan Rockliffe has relocated to Maidenport CID and stumbles upon Hannah Grierson who's husband is dead upstairs. The postmortem shows he died from a pesticide not used on the farm. Mrs. Grierson claims the Keeble's poisoned their land.
Billy and Tom have run away from a children's home and are living in an empty caravan, by the seaside. After a number of burglaries, Sgt. Rockliffe has been tasked with finding the boys but the situation escalates when a farmer is shot.
Alan Rockliffe goes undercover to find a woman who has contracted AIDS and intentionally having unprotected sex. Schoolgirl Josie Everdene's family are Pagan. When a young biker crashes near her locals turn on her believing she is a witch.
The Cunningham's are a pair of con artists visiting Dorset and targeting large houses where people live alone. Harriet Dawson reports that £5,000 was stolen from her mother's home in Winterbourne but Sgt. Rockliffe believes she knows more.
Jimmy Henty and his girlfriend Tania have been sailing on a yacht. Henty has been on the run for 15 years following a bank robbery but now returned home. Alan Rockliffe recognises him and the Met Robbery Squad are keen to get him help.
Ted Treherne looks after his blind brother Herbie, on an isolated farm in Bantry Wharton. DS Rockliffe receives a number phone calls fearing for Herbie's life. Now Ted wants to marry wealthy landowner May Gilbert. Will he kill Herbie?
George Maplethorpe wants DS Rockliffe to investigate businessman Jeremy Bryce. He says Bryce bought council land, under a proxy, to build a riding school. He sold the land for £200,000 and the new owner plans to build an housing estate.