중국과 미국의 대립으로 냉전의 분위기가 다시 감돌기 시작한 세계를 배경으로 영국 국방부에서 과학자 맥카시를 주축으로 동료 에이바와 함께 로봇 기술을 개발한다. 빈센트는 로봇을 개발하기 위한 뇌스캔 기술을 아픈 딸을 구하기 위한 방도로 협조하고 있었고, 그 사실을 알게 된 에이바는 빈센트에게 협조해줄 것을 약속한다. 그러나 국방부의 기밀에 접근하게 된 에이바는 기술만 빼앗긴채 살해당하고, 빈센트는 그녀의 뇌스캔 기술로 만들어진 에이바의 얼굴과 이름을 붙여준다. 살인로봇으로 탄생한 머신 에이바는 점차 인간의 감정을 느껴가고, 그녀를 주축으로 머신들은 인간과의 최후의 전쟁을 선포하는데…
The National Gallery in London has flooded, and senior curator Quentin Lester has a dramatic solution. He proposes that the entire collection of priceless paintings should be removed from London and stored in an abandoned slate mine inside a Welsh mountain, as they were during the Second World War. Soon after Quentin is settled in North Wales admittedly more at home in a cave among his paintings than he is with other people he unwittingly sets in motion a series of events that wake up this sleepy, charming town. After mistaking local boy Dylan Hughes for an art history genius, Quentin finds himself in the middle of mayhem.
Tracy Beaker's 13th birthday and as a suprise Cam wants to foster Tracy again. Tracy is delighted. An unexpected visitor turns up at the Dumping Ground, Tracy's real mum.
Chris Maurer is killed the day after his 21st birthday and his grieving mother, Angela Maurer, is unable to come to grips with that fact. She is taken advantage of by a self-interested journalist who only cares about getting a front-page story and she is completely dissatisfied with the way the police are handling the case. A local shopkeeper tries to help her through these trying times, but to no avail. The police arrest Chris' friend Ryan McGuinness, after they learn Chris may have spent the night with Ryan's girlfriend but Chris also had a testy relationship with his brother-in-law. The Good Samaritan who found Chris bloodied and beaten on the sidewalk agrees to participate in a reconstruction of the crime. In the end, a simple slip of the tongue reveals the identity of the killer and then the motive for the murder.
