Policemen were trying to set a drug dealer up in a undercover operation in a park. The dealer ran away and Hawkins came after him: the alley was a dead end, so the criminal threw his drug backpack in the river. The police divers looked for the bag under the stream, but there was something else hidden at the bottom: an old-fashioned car with a skeleton inside the trunk. The only things forensic manage to emphasize was the non caucasic origin of the victim and a broken collarbone. The main hint came from the car: it belongs to a hairdresser who sold it in cash to a black guy, missing in the eighties. He was an undercover officer, working to set a Jamaican gang up in Brixton borough. There were riots at the time and racism was highly widespread even among police officers. A racist policeman (Ralph Brown) is the main suspect, but there is a missing statement leading to corrupt coppers that prosecutors must find.
Brooks is disappointed by knowing that everyone, even his most closed colleagues at the time, had a price. The trial become a political one, mainly because almost thirty years back media paid attention to the black guy disappearing, thanks to the pressure made by his family.
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