According to the pathologist, she was killed with a blow to the head from a blunt instrument. However the fact that she has a book to promote and reports of unrest among local Eastern European immigrant workers suggest that the murders are not mystical at all. When a dismembered arm washes up on the shoreline in , Frost uncovers two businessmen desperate to conceal their involvement in a multi-national drug smuggling operation. Using information from the police archives, he manages to lay a trap for the thieves. To silence Lisowski, a drug addict, Berland gives him an extra strong fix, which kills him.
However, when two children are killed, both with indications of having injections, Frost may be in the soup. The fact that Anton Caldwell, a known , has been released from another area, and is living unsupervised in a local hostel fills him with rage, causing him to berate the psychiatrist who can only point out to him the failings of the system. The body is eventually identified as that of a well-known thief, but Frost has little to go on. He requests the help again of Sergeant Terry Reid, because of his contacts in the underworld, where Flynn comes from. He denies murder but confesses that he was shocked to realise what she did as she was a student friend of his daughter. Frost now needs to connect these events to identify the murderer. What's a summer day like with Family Fun Pack? They had moved away some 13 years ago after she witnessed a bank robbery and was required to give evidence in court.
At the quarry a second body is found, which causes them to call the police. She persuades Neil's honest and horrified parents to go along with the lie. He arrests the missing boy's father for robbery. When Callum's fitness instructress mistress, Rosemary, is found dead on her houseboat, and evidence also suggests that another of Callum's girlfriends died in suspicious circumstances some years earlier Frost cannot wait to pounce. Based on the novels by R.
One is arrested but the other, Roman Cassell, gets back to his office where, the next day, he is found beaten to death. . The partnership between Frost and George Toolan is not yet established and though the on again off again relationship between Mullett and Frost is already there, it does not yet have that old bickering couple feel to it. In fact, there is an investigation into an abnormally large number of post-operative deaths at Denton General but as Frost learns, everyone who dies seems to have done so while occupying bed 5. Meanwhile, he is tasked to investigate a suspicious death and a missing person. In a second alternate ending, Frost dies instead of George Toolan as in the original release of the episode.
Frost also becomes involved in a hostage situation. Also, the victim was very difficult and disliked by many, including neighbours and community volunteers. A chance comment from a police constable gives Frost the vital information needed to bring the case to a close. Then there is the wealthy Compton couple, who have been receiving threatening phone calls. Frost concludes that the second victim knew her attacker and proceeds to eliminate all possible suspects, one by one. His father, retired after a long career in the army, is a demanding patriarch and his oldest children hate him.
His first case is a floater in Denton River, with £6000 in his pockets. The case takes a nasty turn when another elderly victim is found dead, with the potential to create a panic among the public. Frost feels sorry for him however and concludes that he can't be the person they're after. Law was essentially a gigolo and a paid male escort who spent a great deal of time with a great many women. The police had initially thought the young boy was Bobby Kirby who had gone missing that evening, but they determine it's not the same child so they have both a murder victim and a missing child.
Sue's resentment can be traced back to an earlier incident when she found her then husband and Pauline in bed. At the end, Frost attacks Caldwell and is suspended. Tasked to work with former sergeant and good friend Maureen Lawson, Frost's investigations reveal not one, but two, separate lives that he led, and how he financed them. The main suspect is Mike Patterson, a handyman who had been doing work for the couple and who may have also been having an affair with Jean. The remains are those of a bank clerk who had vanished with a large sum of money. Meanwhile, Mullett calls Frost in when Ben Pecksmith has his Mercedes stolen at the local golf club. They also investigate the death of Paul and Jean Harris who are killed when an assailant ties them up and sets their house on fire.
From all accounts she was in on Saturday but didn't show up at a colleague's house for lunch on Sunday. A search of his studio yields revealing photos of a female colleague but it is the Harrises' teenage son who literally holds the key to events. Frost, solid writing, great acting, and a good dose of humor. In the course of the investigation, Frost learns that she was having an affair with Richard Sheridan, a graphic designer who worked for her husband and his brother but he has an alibi for the time of her death. Frost's investigation leads him into the competitive world of ballroom dancing and Miss Dolores Delmonte, whose search for perfection in her partners goes to alarming lengths. He connects a painting that appears to have been stolen from the hanged man with an art robbery and murder several years earlier.