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A ventriloquist is murdered, leaving a show to be done. So, a midget goes undercover as the dummy. But, he always needs to find the criminal!

Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.

Van der Valk is called back from the start of his holiday to help his boss 'smooth over' a political embarrassment that may undermine a national project being pushed through by a senior minister. This national project, a new large-scale sea barrier, creates a lot of opposition by environmental groups, especially a new radical group called the 'Green Force'. Once Van der Valk starts to get more involved he starts to uncover blackmail, corruption, drugs and murder.

Sgt Stone is feeling that he has made very little difference in his career to preventing young criminals from offending again and is talking about finding other challenges outside of the police force. Inspector Lynch is giving Sgt Stone a shoulder to lean on and trying to help him work through it. In the meantime, a gang of kids are spending their unfilled days with small acts of vandalism and general anti social behaviour, 3 of this gang decide to break into a local electronics factory but are beaten by the alarm system and while they are trying to escape through some derelict buildings one of them falls through the floor and is badly injured so one of his friends seeks help from the police who are investigating the alarm. The injured lad goes to hospital and his friend is taken to the police station where Sgt Stone sees a chance to talk to the young lad and tries to explain to him just how his life will go if he continues on this path of minor crimes and where it will lead for him by spending his life in and out of trouble and or prison and that he has a chance to make something of his life to get out of the poverty and degradation in which he lives with his mum. This story centres around Sgt Stone's sense of failure and the young lad's choice to make something of his life while he still can.

A young lad accidentally sees a gang of criminals steal a priceless Egyptian mummy but can't tell the police because he would have to admit to trespassing on railway property, in search for his model plane, which resulted in one of the railway workers getting injured trying to stop rolling stock from hitting the young lad. The next day the young lad tells his mate and although he doesn't believe him he offers to help. While telling his mate what happened he sees the same criminals using a railway arch lock up to store the mummy and together with his friends they decide to watch and follow the criminals to get evidence so they can tip the police off without getting involved themselves.....

An outwardly reputable turf accountant (bookie) puts together a ringer scam by taking over an out of business bookies shop. He then pays for a ringer (a champion horse running under another lesser horse's colours) to be entered into a race at a race track and at the last moments rings around other turf accountants businesses to lay off imaginary bets whilst he has arranged for the phone lines to the race course to be 'out of order' thereby stopping those bookies taking the lay off bets from lowering the betting price on the ringer running at the race course. The Shadow Squad are suspicious of what has happened and set out to investigate the race betting but find that the gang have covered their tracks too well but they have a chance to expose the next race fixing attempt by the ringer gang and thereby bring down the big boss hiding behind the veil of respectability.

Carter starts to investigate the ringing gang, after the ringed horse Mr Kelly runs in a normal race and loses abysmally just a few weeks after romping home in the first ringed race run by the ringer gang. Ginger goes undercover at the ringer's stables posing as a well known bent jockey, the real jockey is living in Australia. Ginger identifies that the horse Mr Kelly has a similar lookalike horse at the stables which is a far better horse and let's Carter know. The ringing gang, led by the outwardly reputable book maker, Stevens, decide to carry out another ringing scam using the same horses to swap out for the race. Once again, the fake bookie's office starts laying off fake bets with other bookies whilst arranging for the phone lines to the race course to be 'out of order' thereby keeping the starting price at long odds for the ringer, Mr Kelly, before the race starts. In the meantime Carter is planning his own surprise for the ringing gang.