DI Cramer's life is in the balance following the shooting, and when Dr Paige confirms a hitchhiker's death, skin found under the fingernails links him to a number of previous murders.

Dr Paige is called to attend Bailey, a paranoid police informant held at a safe house. But Bailey's paranoia proves correct and Cramer suffers when the bu I lets start to fly.

When a man is found hanged, Dr Paige and DI Cramer discover a suicide note and a blackmail note, and their investigations revive memories of the village publican's son who disappeared six years before.

A woman falls to her death from the roof of her house and her husband becomes withdrawn, but when Dr Paige investigates, he unearths some family troubles.

Dr Paige is called out to the body of a man dressed as an angel, but his suspicions are aroused when it is claimed he accidentally fell out of a hot-air balloon.

Paige's son Charlie attempts to have a heart-to-heart with his father regarding his medical studies. However, his problems are overtaken by those of a friend organising a rally against government interference in the farming industry.

A local composer and cellist who has been to the surgery suffering from noise pollution from a neighbour, flees when he is found over the strangled body of the girl upstairs. Meanwhile, Shaaban walks out on the practice.

A local artist is found dead at her home, but when Dr Paige discovers injection marks on the body, DI Cramer becomes suspicious.

DS Diamond's investigation into Stanley Courtney 's confession to murder is interrupted by Dr Paige, who believes Courtney is mentally unstable and unfit for police questioning.

Dr Paige assesses a young schizophrenic man and advises his mother that he needs professional help. She persuades Dr Paige that she can cope with her son, but the next day she is found dead.

A pub brawl sets Dr Paige and DI Cramer at odds after a body is found.

Dr Jonathan Paige is immediately thrown into conflict with the new DI, Gillian Cramer, over a drunken teenage girl and a suspicious death.