DI Baynham investigates the body a woman pulled from the canal. PC Sydenham is trapped in a burning house when Alex Moore sets light to petrol to avenge his wife. Kevin Hadley takes extreme measures to get help for his dying grandfather.
DS McCormack re-interviews Laura Mason and learns Hayley Morris met up with her estranged father on the day of her murder. Barnard pulls DI Baynham off the case to investigate a break in. DS Pickering investigates a post office robbery.
Geoff Morrison's bedsit hideout is found with blood stains matching his daughter Hayley. Tony Baynham attempts to end his relationship with Barnard's teenage daughter Lucy. PC Redfern tracks down builders who cheated £800 from a pensioner.