The work of a Scenes of Crime Officer is usually pretty routine: photographing crime scenes, picking up strands of clothing, dusting for fingerprints. But when Sukey Reynolds is called in to the gory scene of the murder of 'Evita' Stanton, she knows it'll take weeks before her nightmares subside. Sukey's habit of parting from her job description by investigating the crimes themselves, and - even more exasperatingly - solving them, has been putting a strain on her affair with DI Jim Castle. But this time he can't afford to be indifferent to her conclusions.