Una serie de peleas ilegales de puño se ha estado llevando a cabo en todo North Riding y el sargento Blaketon pide a sus agentes que estén atentos al irlandés Michael O'Leary, sospechoso de estar detrás de ellas. No sorprendentemente, O'Leary es visto en el lugar de Claude Greengrass. Martin Lessor es atacado en su casa, pero el atacante Victor Kellerman está mucho más ansioso por llevar el caso a juicio que Lessor. Para complicar las cosas, Lessor, quien es diabético, solo permite que Alex Ferrenby revise sus archivos médicos, pero Ferrenby está de viaje de pesca.

Steve and Amy are two of a group of squatters who move into Geoff Lawson's empty cottages on Oddy's Field. When Lawson hears about it he tries to get the squatters out, but that is easier said than done, and the squatters make Lawson look like a fool time and time again. When not even a court possession order helps three thugs break into the cottages to remove the squatters by force. Lawson is the prime suspect, but when the police catch the bullies they say they were hired by a woman. PPC Nicholson feels he is kept out of the investigation, follows up on a lead and questions Amy, who is very pregnant with Steve's baby. As expected Nicholson only screws things up - and triggers off the birth of Amy's baby.

The honeymoon is over for Rob and Helen Walker. A car with an unconscious man in it is found in a ditch at Long Lane. And somebody has stolen all the sheep from Len Hallett's farm. Since it happened only a few hundred yards apart PC Walker suspects that the two cases are connected and that the unconscious man, Frank Mirfield, may have seen something he should not. Terry Parsons' grandmother has become senile dementia, and Dr. Walker suggests that they lock her in to keep her from wandering off, but the next morning the old lady has disappeared. Norman and Kath Harrison have bought a farm and necessity forces them to live off the land and Aunt Peggy decides to become self-sufficient too, but that idea really stinks.