John Biggins

The newly appointed Minister for Social Affairs, Hugh Abbot is on his way to a secondary school in Wiltshire to announce his new Snooper Squad policy. Unfortunately, he's ordered by Number Ten's communications' supremo, Malcolm Tucker to kill the policy stone dead. Hugh and his advisors have just forty minutes to come up with an extremely popular policy that costs nothing.

A frightened man who lives alone is being threatened and fire breaks out in the kitchen.

Blaketon attempts to trace a missing person and falls victim to a series of attacks, Peggy finds romance with an old flame, and Younger strives for policing perfection.