Marker's work of necessity often involved him with the police and the criminal underworld—both factions dislike him but, although they have some need for him, make his life difficult. The other surviving series 1 episode, "The Morning Wasn't So Hot", sees Marker cross paths with an organised criminal gang; he is thrown into the River Thames by underworld figures as "persuasion" to drop his enquiries into the whereabouts of a missing girl he has been hired to trace—she has been forced into a life of professional vice at the behest of the gang. Partly as a result of this, the beginning of the second series he decides to leave London and moves to England's second city of Birmingham. Things do not improve, and he continues to be mixed up in a world of shadowy figures.