Wycliffe and his team are called in when a dangerous criminal, John Bonetti, manages to escape while being transported to London. He had a gun in his possession and the police look to a prison visitor, Jane Hardy, who had been visiting Bonetti weekly for quite some time. Harding eventually admits to the police that she is in love with man and that it was she who gave the gun, a ceramic replica, to aid his escape. No one connected with Bonetti claims to have heard from him or seen him. When some of Bonetti's fellow criminals show up dead, Wycliffe is certain he's arranging to keep their loot for himself. The police are thrown for a loop however when an unexpected body turns up.
—garykmcd