P.C. Pete Ramsey arrives as Sun Hill, nearly running P.C. Taffy Edwards over with his Porsche and parking in the Chief Super's spot. He has been transferred from Barton Street CID for cheating at cards, and has been put back into uniform. Ramsey cops a warning from Ch. Insp. Conway to keep his nose clean, but he is clearly still up to his old tricks: taking a bribe from a street hawker and generally winding up his fellow officers. Sgt. Alec Peters and P.C. Malcolm Haynes go to the Royal Navy to arrest a group of sailors who trashed a nightclub, but are told they can't charge the sailors as they are due on an important naval exercise. D.C. Carver and D.C. Dashwood watch and arrest two Chinese men with a van full of an unidentifiable substance which they suspect may be drugs. Ramsey identifies it as the rare spice saffron, stolen from a warehouse the previous month. Ramsey takes his car to be repaired at a garage owned by a friend of Sgt. Cryer's, but takes it back without paying after f

DS Debbie McAllister is determined to investigate links between her boss, DI Neil Manson, and a possibly corrupt magistrate when a drug dealer makes accusations during interview. PC Gabriel Kent plays on PC Kerry Young's feelings of guilt after her night with Sgt Dale Smith, by suggesting that Smithy may have raped her. Polly Page finds her home trashed and covered in offensive graffiti. She suspects her next-door neighbour, but could journalist Frank Fisher be involved? Out at the pub, PC Cameron Tait sees DS Phil Hunter meeting with crime boss Dennis Weaver.