First broadcast 17th March 2003.
After the love child of a Liberal black MP and a white conservative newspaper editor is kidnapped, they're blackmailed into publishing details of their affair.
James Hazeldine - Dennis Luxford
Ken Bones - Rodney Aronson
Sophie Okonedo - Eve Bowen
Simon Chandler - Alistair Harvie
Bennet Thorpe - Personal Secretary
Natalie Freegard - Charlotte Bowen
Lesley Vickerage - Helen Clyde
Nathaniel Parker - DI Thomas Lynley
Simone Bendix - Fiona Luxford
Joseph Friend - Leo Luxford
Jayne McKenna - Newsreader (as Jane McKenna)
Sharon Small - DS Barbara Havers
Anjalee Patel - Hadiyyah
Clint Dyer - Alex Stone
Stuart Bunce - Damien Chambers
Robert Whitelock - Robin Payne
Kika Markham - Corrine Payne
Gerard Monaco - Officer
Simon Pearsall - DS Stanley
Lynne Verrall - Pathologist
Ken Anderson - Howard Short
Marcia Warren - Miss Portly
Caroline Martin - Celia Matheson
Oliver Chopping - Local Officer