Honourable Service

Margaret and Jo are on holiday.

Harry is hosting a Success Through Confidence course at the Plaza Suite run by Denise Appleby. He decides to take part himself. Judging by the way that he confidently wipes the floor with the interviewer in a role-playing session, he needs no training. With his new-found confidence, he asks Denise out for dinner, but the course of true love does not run smoothly!

The retirement party for Ron Blisset, a former colleague from the Fire Brigade, brings back painful memories for Ken of the fire in which his lungs were damaged, forcing him to leave the brigade. After the party, Ron’s wife Maureen asks Ken to investigate her son, Pete, also a fireman. Pete’s best friend Mack was badly injured in a fire and now Pete has left the brigade and disappeared. Ken talks to Mack and another friend, Paul, and begins to suspect that they are hiding something. Eventually he tracks down Pete, who confesses that he knew that Paul started the fire for the insurance. The thought of a fireman turned arsonist offends Ken and Harry, so Harry decides to trap Paul by employing him to set fire to the Plaza Suite. Mack shows Paul how to make a cheap but undetectable incendiary device. However as Paul is setting up the incendiary at the Plaza Suite, watched by a security camera that Ken has installed, he drops the device and sets fire to himself. It is left to Ken to rescue him...

Notes and episode list © Martin Underwood, 1999

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