The Gentle Touch - Season 2 (1980)

Ivor Stocker, JP and successful businessman, is being blackmailed. Maggie, assigned to investigate the blackmail threats, uncovers a can of worms in the offices of a 'respectable' law company.

When a series of robberies with violence - all bearing a similar pattern, and all carried out by woman - break out on Maggie's patch, the detective must decide whether the crimes were committed by a team, or one woman in several disguises.

Having spent several frustrating hours at the law courts, Maggie is anxious to get back to the paper work piling up on her desk. But even paperwork has its drawbacks - particularly when a clue to a major crime lies hidden among its sheets.

When Mrs Beresford, wife of a wealthy and respected businessman, is threatened with a knife by a menacing masked figure, who then runs away, leaving her unharmed, DI Maggie Forbes find herself assigned to the case.

Maggie is looking forward to a hard-earned weekend break and a with Alan Lawson. Her son Steve wants mum 'out of the way' But it looks as though both plans could be thwarted - until help arrives from an unexpected source.

When a badly beaten young boy refuses to name his attackers. DI Maggie Forbes and DS Fenton's enquiries lead them to suspect that they are dealing with something far more alarming than child cruelty.

Maggie's delight at being courted by the rich, unattached and amorous Dave Connally soon changes to suspicion when he gives her a Victorian ring - part of a jewel haul being investigated by her colleagues at Seven Dials.