Touching Evil - Season 2 (1998)

Jim Keller goes on the run but when the team speak to his wife Ann,it transpires that he was so haunted by his experiences in Bosnia that he wanted to forget them and in his own perverted way is doing the same for the colleagues he knew there whom he is now killing and ritually 'burying'. They eventually trace him to a deserted warehouse where he has brought his next victim and DS rivers is particularly heroic in attempting to safely apprehend him.

Annie Jordan is arrested when it appears that she has abducted a little boy from his whom but she convinces Creegan that it is her son from whom she was coerced into parting by a child-brokering scheme, a paedophile group who buy and sell children. Acting on Annie's evidence Susan and DC Rivers pose as a childless couple desperate for an offspring at any price. Meanwhile Michael Hawkins,whose daughter was killed by Emerson,holds Creegan responsible for not saving her and comes after him.

The investigation into the paedophile ring leads the undercover police to an orphanage in Albania,where Susan procures a child and flees with her back to England. However she is thwarted and her plan is sadly ended. Meanwhile Michael Hawkins holds Creegan's ex-wife and daughters at his mercy,setting fire to their house. This leads to a showdown in which an innocent victim is claimed.