An arrogant Dryden is questioned regarding the traffic offence and is dismissive though Steve lets him know Lindsay has revealed that he knew about the convoy route and aims to pursue it further. Rich Akers is also pulled in after £20,000 of which he claims ignorance is found under the floor boards at his house. Hargreaves is convinced this was the bribe given Jayne to betray the escort and when Steve and Kate examine Jayne's car they discover a tracking device though Hargreaves is not keen for its revelation. Furthermore Cottan and Hargreaves see video evidence suggesting that Tommy had a grievance against Dryden, whose affair with Lindsay is now proved. Lindsay gets a day release from prison to visit her mother, in hospital after a stroke, but on the way back the prison van is hi-jacked and she is abducted by two policemen, Prasad, identified by Carly's parents as her apparent boyfriend, and Cole.

Lindsay wakes up in a lock-up and is questioned by her abductors. Prasad soon kills his accomplice, Cole, but Lindsay outwits him and makes him admit on the phone that he and Cole were working for Dryden, who set up the ambush. Steve locates her at her dead mother's bedside and she is granted bail, unaware that Prasad, whom she believed that she killed in self-defense, is still alive and demanding immunity. Cottan brings in his old mate Morton for some dirt on Dryden and it is revealed that Dryden had sex with Carly Kirk. He is arrested and questioned, admitting that he had a brief affair with Lindsay, who became vindictive when he ended it. Steve also finds out that Lindsay has had an abortion.

Prasad claims that Dryden wanted Tommy silenced as he was blackmailing him about Carly, hence the ambush. However the order was to spare Lindsay. Hastings charges Dryden for the driving scam but has insufficient evidence for the weightier charges as Dryden apparently proves that the last he saw of Carly was when he put her on a train. Kate is surprised that Steve seems to believe in Lindsay's innocence until he admits that he is purposely trying to gain her confidence to trap her. When she is shown to have accepted a proposal by a colleague to snare a child abuser she seems less innocent than she claims but is she really guilty of conspiracy to murder?