Kingdom - Season 3 (2009)

Grumpy but promiscuous judge Jeremy Harding is sent compromising photographs of himself with a young woman and blames Beatrice. She denies it before exposing him as the father of her daughter, Petra. Harding asks Peter to find the blackmailer, who turns out to be very close to home. Lyle is involved when Stan Geddick and his druids claim the local golf club is on the site of an ancient place of worship but he saves the day by proving that they are,geographically, way off course,so to speak. Stan rewards him by setting up an idyllic date with Emily,which is ruined when...

Lyle goes home to Stockport with his mother to prevent the council from selling off local allotments for a golf course. Lyle's younger twin brothers do not help the situation with their 'guerilla gardening' tactics but the discovery of a lady's slipper orchid growing in the allotments does. Peter acts for Andrew Risden who is refused permission by the headmistress to video his child prodigy cellist daughter Abigail's recital, on the basis it may attract paedophiles. Feeling under pressure, Abigail runs off but the head relents when she is eventually found. Beatrice ...

Peter is briefly admitted to hospital for tests and, on discharge, is engaged by David Morston, whose older brother Lord Robert, a mad ex-junkie, is selling off parts of the family estate and its titles when not cavorting nude in the fountain or shooting at people. Unusually, Beatrice, who was in rehab with Robert, helps resolve matters, showing that Robert's actions are, ultimately, for a good cause. Lyle suspects a local chemical firm of river pollution but he discovers that large corporations are not always in the wrong. Peter is diagnosed with diabetes, but blood ...