First broadcast 9th/16th/23rd September 1987.
While a hapless dentist keeps trying to kill his invalid wife, Taggart and his new partner, Mike Jardine, investigate the murder of a satanist private eye found burned in a tunnel on the day of the equinox.
Mark McManus - DCI Jim Taggart
James MacPherson - DS Mike Jardine
Annette Crosbie - Maggie Davidson
Paul Young - Colin Davidson
Vincent Friell - Tommy Campbell
Jimmy Chisholm - Malcolm McWhinnie
Ron Donachie - Pat Connolly
Colin Gourley - Father Martin
Isabella Jarrett - Linda Abernathy (as Isabella Jarret)
Gavin Brown - Derek Abernathy
Iain Anders - Supt. Jack McVitie
Stuart Hepburn - Kenny Forfar
Harriet Buchan - Jean Taggart
Nic D'Avirro - Roger Freedman
Sandra Clark - Mary Freedman
Mona Bruce - Queenie
Anthony Cochrane - Dr. Crawford
Eliza Langland - Sheila Foy
Deborah Poplett - Grace McVitie
Ann Scott-Jones - Marjory Bennett (as Ann Scott Jones)
Michael McCallum - Minister
Mel Donald - Douglas Abernathy
Maly Hunwick - Nurse
Matthew Hodgman - Glue Sniffer
Marie Louise O'Hara - Samantha Foy
Robert Robertson - Dr. Stephen Andrews
Brian Pettifer - Ian Sommerville
Eliza Langland - Sheila Foy
Gilly Gilchrist - Gordon Ferry
Billy Johnstone - Billy Sweeney
Donalda Samuel - Annie Johnstone
Anne Myatt - Mrs. Campbell
Robert McBain - Dr. Carson
Frances Lonergan - Moira Chrichton
Jamie Barnes - Archie
Gilly Gilchrist - Gordon Ferry
Katy Hale - Shona Freedman
William Blair - Scott
Gordon Fulton - DI Brodie
Alan Tall - Ken (as Allan Tall)
Rhonda MacLeod - Television Presenter