Heartbeat

While hunting an escaped prisoner, Nick discovers that there's more in the man's background than the crime he was convicted of.

Nick must question the new teacher when her students are charged with trespassing, and he takes the opportunity to ask her out.

A villager starts getting crank calls when a recluse moves next door. Meanwhile, Gina regrets hiring her boyfriend as chef.

A father vows to straighten out his son after he's caught playing hooky and stealing, after which the boy returns to school---with bruises on his arms.

Nick searches for a rare-wine thief, discovers the cause of Ventress's strange behavior and draws closer to Jo.

Maggie is a suspect in a hit-and-run accident that leaves a young woman injured; Nick studies for the sergeant's exam; Greengrass dabbles in taxidermy with disastrous results.

A fashion photographer has the town abuzz when he arrives, and a hostage crisis threatens Nick's romantic weekend with Jo.

Greengrass goes into the jukebox business, but a rival threatens to rock his world if he doesn't bow out. Meanwhile, Ventress is bilked over his daughter's wedding.

A friend of Nick's, a black Londoner, visits Aidensfield and soon becomes a suspect in a robbery. Meanwhile, Nick's outspoken mom ruffles feathers after arriving in town.

Nick rushes to the scene when a bus carrying his daughter crashes; Greengrass vies with an enemy in a quoits match; Nick meets Jo's parents for the first time.

The threat of a demotion sends Blakeland into a depression. Meanwhile, Greengrass is sent to the hospital.

Nick is suspicious when there are inconsistencies in the story of a man who claims to have murdered his wife.

An obsessive woman focuses on Nick after he rescues her from a burning house.

After serving her sentence for manslaughter, Susannah Temple-Richards returns to Aidensfield.

Maggie becomes uncharacteristically emotional at the funeral of a former patient; Nick investigates some poison-pen letters.

Nick participates in an undercover operation to snag an escaped bank robber.

Jo and Nick are stranded in a cottage by a snowstorm, and when a plane crashes nearby, they attempt to rescue the sole occupant.