Graeme Rooney

Maxxie is looking after Tony, but he has his own problems. He desperately wants to leave college and follow his dream to become a dancer, but his dad Walter,(Bill Bailey), is giving him hell about it.

Sid's mood is not improved when his grandad, a notorious Glaswegian hard bastard arrives, dying of cancer, to say his final goodbyes.

Rebus finds himself being investigated by an old friend after a murderer walks free on a technicality. Matters are made worse when the suspect and his brother are found dead, and the prosecutor in the case is found to have been paid off to discredit Rebus and his colleagues.