A newlywed couple move into the mansion of the bride's recently dead aunt. Soon strange things begin to happen when the various tenants and servants of the mansion don't want to leave and the bride and groom are in a deadly predicament.
Pollitt: "You know the nuts and bolts of our policy?" Les Cannon: "To penetrate the unions. To use all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres, illegal measures, evasions, subterfuges, to carry on Communist activities inside them at all cost."
"Suppose you heard I was someone you couldn't possibly approve of." For a successful man with public responsibilities Alan Berry is strangely reluctant to help the police when his wife is murdered.
Four-part drama serial about the British juicidal system, dealing with an investigation presented from the perspectives of the police force, the criminal, the solicitor and the prison system.