- Jack Taylor finds an itinerant, eleven year old girl running for her life, covered in blood she collapses in his arms. It transpires that the girl has witnessed a murder. The Irish Guards - prejudiced against the Travellers and their rivaling clans - only investigate half-heartedly. Jack who is as erratic as a Travelle…
- Nicholas Lyndhurst was cast as Gary Sparrow, a TV repairman whose marriage to Yvonne is in the doldrums. Out in London looking for a business address one day, he wanders down an alley, Duckett's Passage, and finds himself - though of course he does not immediately realise it - in the London of 1940. In a street-corner …
- Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she never met, comes to visit. Did Rosie love him? Does she love him now?