D. I. Jack Frost has been awarded an George Cross for an act of outstanding bravery in the line of duty and receives an official invitation to a commemoration, but he has cold feet about attending and even travelling to London for the event, "have you lost it?"
Jack Frost has been under mounting pressure to attend the event, with Superintendent Mullet feeling obliged to publicly praise him, and he even asks Shirley Fisher to join him at the do.
A number of attractive young women in the Denton catchment area have been accosted, Tara Holdsworth a local woman well known to D. I. Frost has been directly effected and he has sworn to catch him.
W. P. C. Hazel Wallace has been "rape alerted, in the absence of any available alternative", and lumbered by Superintendent Mullett to work with D. I. Frost on the Rape investigations.
Superintendent Mullett has to inform D. I. Frost that it has come down from on high that given the lack of progress over the rapes, the case has been taken out of the hands of Denton C. I. D. And he is off the case.