Steve and Tessa investigate when the body of a young women is found, having been killed by a blow to the head before being set alight.
In the back streets of the city the first rays of sunlight are fighting their way into the gloom, where a charred and twisted body is testimony to a fatal Friday night. It's Melissa Hindwood. Tessa and Steve break the news to her parents. As far as they are concerned their daughter should have been at their exclusive tennis club. The detectives soon discover Melissa led another life.