Heartbeat

To impede Mike's criminal investigation a livestock auctioneer contacts Jackie as if to become her client, and Vernon tries to make water a money-spinning matter.

Dr Summerbee has a difficult case on her hands when a sixteen-year-old wants to go on the contraceptive pill.

Dr Summerbee's surgery is burgled and the drugs cabinet raided. Young lovers Debbie and Carl are frustrated and plan to runaway together. Vernon brings Las Vegas glitz to Aidensfield.

Mike investigates a report of a man standing on the railway line, Tricia deals with a difficult patient suffering chest pains and Vernon receives a business proposal from a Russian.

Probationary constable Tom Nicholson joins Aidensfield Police. Elsewhere someone is stealing Lord Ashfordly's priceless African artifacts.

Blaketon is hired to investigate the death of an old lady who changed her will right before her death, to include the owner of her Nursing Home, and not her son.