Only Pascoe takes an interest in the family tree of American tourist Nancy D'Amato who was drugged and murdered shortly after talking to cemetery caretaker Jake Hawkins , an ex-con sex offender, about ancestors tombs, even before the arrival from Boston of her husband, police detective Gus D'Amato, who is denied informally joining the investigation. Andy rather flirts with his ex and former trainee DS Jenny Ettrick, from the local police, mainly around Nancy's fancy hotel, where manager Charles Stubbs, Jenny's ex, swears receptionist Mark Bell to silence or worse. Nancy mysteriously visited the favorite pubs of the 'squaddies' from the local Army garrison, where they also pick up dates and 'working girls'. A female officer goes undercover their as such before the murder of Kevin Gillman and after that of his buddy Frank Ellerby, both privates being excessively bullied by their training sergeant Brian Skinner, who keeps lying to the police. Yet the case is only cracked after double-checking identities and linking dark past Ulster with a modern scam.
—KGF Vissers