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While at a
police function on the Thames with Supt. Chandler
and DC Spears, DI Cullen spots a man climbing
through the window of a riverside house. Cullen
calls Sun Hill, but the rather inept team of
Hollis and Taviner fails to capture the intruder.
Embarrassed by the spectacle, Chandler assigns
Spears to work on Sun Hill's burglary statistics,
and she finds a link between a number of other
break-ins. Chandler is furious when Cullen hires a
criminal profiler, Roy Stenning, but his
information gets CID close to a likely suspect.
Rumours about the relationship between Spears and
Chandler are rife throughout the station, and
Spears is not popular with her colleagues, who
accuse her of sleeping her way to the top. When
Reg Hollis is caught by Chandler for unauthorised
use of the PNC, Des Taviner threatens to reveal a
secret from their past at Hendon, but finds his
own use of the PNC under scrutiny. Chandler and
Spears meet for dinner, but Chandler is hesitant
to move too fast. The intruder strikes again, this
time setting a house alight, killing two children.
With only DC Webb willing to help her, Spears
tracks down the drifter responsible, Charlie
McGann, whose family was killed in a fire in
Glasgow, and who wrecks or torches houses out of
jealousy.
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