The prisons are seething, Aids is out of control, and the Government is nowhere in the opinion polls. Tonight's episode centres on Tory back-bencher, Peter Balliol , who has to make a crisis choice between ambition, conscience and a questionable private life.
When high-flying civil service mandarin Gillian Savage discovers a conspiracy at the Home Office, she must choose between loyalty to her leader and leaking to the press.
The Home Secretary, Charles Truman , faces a growing crisis in law and order.