Heartbeat

New schoolteacher Jo Weston learns that one of her students is having serious troubles at home: her mother's boyfriend, Derek Ramsey, was just sent to prison for attacking PCs Rowan, Bellamy and Ventress.

Nick must question the new teacher when her students are charged with trespassing, and he takes the opportunity to ask her out.

A villager starts getting crank calls when a recluse moves next door. Meanwhile, Gina regrets hiring her boyfriend as chef.

Greengrass hatches a plan to help his friend Joss Harrop get ahold of a stud of good-breeding stock for his mares. Harry Schofield's son runs away from home.

A large quantity of fine wine is stolen from a wholesaler and the # 1 suspect is the hauler Charlie Wallace, to whom PC Ventress happens to owe a substantial sum of gambling debt.

Maggie is a suspect in a hit-and-run accident that leaves a young woman injured; Nick studies for the sergeant's exam; Greengrass dabbles in taxidermy with disastrous results.

A fashion photographer has the town abuzz when he arrives, and a hostage crisis threatens Nick's romantic weekend with Jo.

Greengrass goes into the jukebox business, but a rival threatens to rock his world if he doesn't bow out. Meanwhile, Ventress is bilked over his daughter's wedding.

A friend of Nick's, a black Londoner, visits Aidensfield and soon becomes a suspect in a robbery. Meanwhile, Nick's outspoken mom ruffles feathers after arriving in town.

Nick rushes to the scene when a bus carrying his daughter crashes; Greengrass vies with an enemy in a quoits match; Nick meets Jo's parents for the first time.

The threat of a demotion sends Blakeland into a depression. Meanwhile, Greengrass is sent to the hospital.

A famous wrestler is coming to Aidensfield and challenges all locals to a match with a prize set for anyone who can unmask him. Tim Phillips makes trouble when he learns his mother is leaving his father for the pub owner Mike Scott.

An obsessive woman focuses on Nick after he rescues her from a burning house.

After serving her sentence for manslaughter, Susannah Temple-Richards returns to Aidensfield.

A financial advisor arrives in town on the hunt for new clients. George Ward and some others receive malicious letters, all written on the same typewriter.

Nick participates in an undercover operation to snag an escaped bank robber.

Jo and Nick are stranded in a cottage by a snowstorm, and when a plane crashes nearby, they attempt to rescue the sole occupant.