Crabbe gets pulled away from his kitchen to provide security for a new housing development being targeted by angry area residents. Back at Pie in the Sky, one of the ingredients of Crabbe's salads also appears to be flouting the law.

Crabbe and his colleagues are assigned the task of protecting the jury from intimidation during a well-connected financier's trial. Soon, another legal case looms as one of the restaurant's customers threatens to press a charge of his own.

While investigating animal-rights activists who are protesting at a local meat factory, Crabbe makes a surprising discovery about what goes into the company's signature sausages. Margaret suspects deception of another sort when a rich widow falls for a dashing young pilot.

A senior police officer's son is being bullied at his boarding school, and he tells Fisher to look into it. Fisher passes the case on to Crabbe and, for some reason, insists he doesn't mention Fisher's name at the school.

A private security firm seems remarkably well informed about ongoing crime, and Crabbe suspects it's benefiting from inside information. Suspicion falls on a detective with shady connections and a drinking problem-but Fisher is more interested in recruiting the man for the police soccer team.

Crabbe gives a teenager a part-time job at Pie in the Sky, but money goes missing from the cash register and the boy disappears soon after. The detective discovers that the youth is mixed up with a gang of violent thugs the police have been chasing.

The Crabbes take a getaway to London and stay at the apartment of a well-heeled ex-policeman who's out of town. After hearing a disturbing message on the man's answering machine, Margaret starts to worry about his well-being.

Crabbe is losing his sense of taste and smell, but hasn't yet lost his nose for the truth. When Fisher orders him to investigate a wealthy businessman for no apparent reason, Crabbe begins to smell a rat.