LEWIS and HATHAWAY investigate the death of REUBEN BEATTY, a research fellow from the University of Oxford's Department of Psychology. He is found dead - injected by etorphine, a powerful paralysing agent - in the offices of psychic 'Randolph James'.

While HATHAWAY takes time off in Kosovo, LEWIS pays a visit to LOUISE CORNISH, who is devastated that her husband JACK CORNISH has walked out on the family. An embalmed body is discovered dumped by an isolated farm track. The funeral director, identifies the body; the GP, MATT WHITBY confirms he died of cancer. But the crematorium confirms that a body was burned - who?

The body of RICHARD SEAGER is discovered lying beneath a Jaguar Mark 2. The previous day the victim had been collected from prison by his wife Martha after serving a year for causing death by dangerous driving. He scratched the number '500' into the car's paintwork. Martha claims not to have heard anything and insists that RACHEL, the sister of Seager's victim, is the killer.