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A hairdresser who always wears a perfect cottage loaf comes to tell Frank that her ex-boyfriend has stolen a necklace from the jewellers where he works. Nobody can find the necklace, three staff have been sacked (tho not the boyf). The girl suggests Frank finds the necklace and they split the reward. Frank goes after the boyfriend, who is a cocksure young man with a taste for Nietzsche. Also apparently implicated, and getting cold feet, is another young staff member who decorates his bedsit with pictures of vintage cars. And there's a duplicate necklace. And, er, well - perhaps someone can explain the plot to me?

A new title sequence to show that Frank Marker is up and running in his new office at Windsor.

He is approached by a nervous young woman, Mary Freeman a hairdresser. She offers to split the reward money regarding the retrieval of a stolen necklace from a jewellery shop.

It sounds like a simple case. Mary's former boyfriend John Sheldon stole it. He works at a shop and he made a duplicate key to enter it but made it look like there was a break in. More importantly he has not yet fenced it.

Frank takes the case but finds that John is rather cocksure about himself. He reads Nietzsche and his work colleague lives in the opposite flat and looks like a likely fall guy. A copy of the necklace was made and Sheldon had a cunning plan.

It is a case that quickly turns convoluted. DI Firbank comes to see Frank, this is similar to the case that sent Frank down to prison.

Although Frank needs to be careful he takes risks in this one. He needs to get into the flats to search for the necklace.

The episode establishes a rapport between Frank and DI Firbank. It was probably a bit too complicated as it seems Mary and Sheldon get away with the necklace.