Plot

A 10-year-old boy is killed on a golf course. Some 20 years later, the team investigate but face obstruction from a snobbish golf club committee, who struggle to keep women out of the bar and to protect the memory of a Falklands war hero.

Sandra returns early from her Italian holiday to find the office in chaos and a new case waiting to be reopened: the murder of ten-year-old Jimmy Spencer at a golf club twenty years earlier. Teenaged suspect Ken Rodger, arrested for indecent exposure, killed himself in the cells after being charged with the murder, but policewoman Diane Loveless is convinced of Ken's innocence, and saliva found on Jimmy's clothes is not Ken's. For the sake of Ken's dying father and amid unwelcome press intrusion, the team take DNA samples from golf club members, revealing two skeletons in the cupboards of supposedly respectable citizens as well as the identity of Jimmy's real killer.—don @ minifie-1

At Jack Halford's request, Supt. Pullman agrees to reopen the case of 17 year-old Kenny Rodger who killed himself when he was about to be charged in the murder of 10 year-old Jimmy Spencer, whose body was found near the 16th green of a prestigious golf course. Kenny's father was head grounds-keeper at that golf course and although 20 years have passed, he very much wants his son's name cleared. New testing finds no DNA evidence that Kenny was anywhere near the victim. Reopening the case upsets the family of Falklands war hero Major Pimley, now dead, who ran the club when the murder occurred. DNA samples also reveal a completely unexpected line of inquiry.—garykmcd