Someone is sabotaging the Notting Hill Carnival and organiser Tania Jones is receiving threatening letters. Businessman Adrian Wesley is attempting to use these events to take over the running of it and bring in sponsorship.

Anna is assigned to look for Dee Jackson, who her parents say has been missing for six months. She discovers a seedy world of video pirating and pornographic movies. Then suddenly a woman Anna interviewed is discovered murdered.

Anna discovers that her old school friend Lauren Lambert is a drunken shoplifter. Now married to gourmet chef Dominic Jones, Lauren is convinced that he is cheating on her and asks Anna to find out who it is.

Pop star Dawn Blake is found dead on a beach. Her manager Mark Taplin had encouraged her to sign for William Gilmore's label Wreck Records but now believes she was cheated out of money and dropped by the label to stop her from finding out.

Anna is assigned to what appears to be a straightforward missing person case. She acts for Robert Thurman, who wants to recover money owed by Eddie Marsham unaware that this is a falling out thieves from 1982 Post Office raid.