Skase and Croft investigate a series of hoax phone calls that are tearing a family apart.

Loxton and Slater deal with a woman drink-driver.

Meadows offers a bottle of scotch as a reward for catching an elusive burglar.

Lines and Skase try to avert an ice-cream war in Sun Hill after a vendor is assaulted.

Ackland and Jarvis follow up a vicious assault.

Boulton is determined to arrest a local drug dealer, at any cost.

Beech and Croft investigate the murder of a hairdresser who had been fighting for a share of her dead fiancé's estate.

Datta is called to a burglary and is subjected to the unwanted affections of a civic-minded admirer. Monroe is suspicious when Loxton tries to settle an old score.

Uniform and CID are on the lookout for escaped prisoner Jim Brodie, so both Brodie's wife and his drug dealer are under observation. PC Nick Slater and WPC Cathy Marshall pursue two burglers down to the riverfront, where one of them gives Slater a severe beating. Marshall sees a person on the barges and gives chase. By the time their backup arrives, delayed by PC Reg Hollis' dodgy belly, Marshall has disappeared. When her dead body is fished out of the river, the two crooks she and Slater had been pursuing are questioned over her possible murder. Searching the barge that Marshall was last seen, CID find evidence that someone has been sleeping rough on board - and it looks like it's their escaped prisoner, Brodie. The river police intercept Brodie fleeing to Amsterdam on his friend's boat, but there is not enough evidence to charge him for Cathy Marshall's murder.

As Sun Hill gets to grips with its new computer system, Boyden discovers that it pays to stay one step ahead of the opposition.

While Deakin investigates the kidnapping of a five-year-old boy, Conway gets some unsettling news.

Five-year-old Tommy Laker is still missing, and Deakin discovers an evil and sinister ring which may hold the clue.

Datta and Quinnan look into the mysterious death of a jogger, while Ackland and Jarvis try to reconcile a couple of warring lovers.

Slater and Garfield struggle to keep the peace when two women fall out over the same man.

Meadows and Croft investigate the murder of an elderly woman, and question two young children living on the floor below who may have heard what happened.

Croft and a badly-hungover Beech investigate when a body is found in a car with a large amount of crack cocaine.

A reconstruction brings forward an unexpected witness to an assault on a 15-year-old boy.

Acting Superintendent Conway is stirred into action by a face from the past.

Lines investigates an allegation of underage sex.

Cryer and Slater follow up on a murder but a legal loophole may allow the perpetrator to get away with it.

Beech is caught in the crossfire when uniform and C.I.D. fall out over a directive from Brownlow.

Quinnan and Keane have to help someone with a conviction for assaulting a police officer.

Carver and Skase investigate an assault on an Asian schoolboy.

Croft investigates a series of vicious sexual assaults.

A man comes in to Sun Hill and confesses to murdering a woman who disappeared five years ago. D.C.I. Meadows, who headed the original investigation, and D.C. Carver talk to him and, when they are convinced he is lying, throw him out. The man soon returns, and this time he tells Carver something that wasn't in the news stories making the police take his confession more seriously.