Chief Inspector Proctor is sent a set of new directives from the Home Office that amount to an instruction to carry out racial profiling. Stuck with having to persuade her team to adopt a set of rules that even she finds offensive or risk her job by angering her Home Office masters, in desperation she even tries to enlist support outside her department from the baggage handlers.

Two rowdy drunks from a hen party give Clive a hard time. Grant falls for a beautiful Ukrainian, who isn't laughing at his jokes. Andy is trying to avoid Proctor and find a way to shed her `no fun' image.

The death of one of Northend's best mechanics throws Andy and Tariq in a quandary as they try to remember who he was. Meanwhile, Grant tries to get others to join in drowning his sorrow and Clive keeps dropping broad hints that he is expecting a surprise birthday party.

The regular flight schedule into Northend Airport is suspended, and a special guest is in the building, in the form of Detective Terry Bradshaw from the London Met. This silver tongued, handsome charmer takes the morning briefing, and explains that a renowned international criminal has been extradited back to the UK, and they'll be landing at Northend later today, at which point aTerry will then escort them down to London. All he needs is someone to stamp the criminal's passport.

The team deal with their first case of an asylum seeker. Dr Jamilah Apeloko is a highly respected university lecturer from Nigeria and the team resolve to do everything in their power to help her, even if it means working into the night...

Clive is leaving to join the police, but his colleagues have more important things on their minds. Proctor is concerned about a derogatory photo of her going viral, and Tariq and Andy are confused about their relationship.