The Gentle Touch

- Season 5

(1984)

Having moved house, Maggie returns to Seven Dials for the first since the explosion wrecked her office, and almost cost her life. She arrives at the time when her colleagues are investigating a gang of small-time crooks.

Maggie and her colleagues are on the trail of forged bank notes that have fallen into the wrong hands.

When Maggie becomes involved in the antics of a group of vigilantes administering rough justice on an housing estate, she finds life further complicated by the arrival of a new DI to the team.

When the Seven Dials team attend a crime seminar about a series of thefts from London hotels, and new boy DI Slater 'sets up' DS Philips, things go with a bang - but not as as Slater intended.

Maggie tries to help when Steve learns of criminal activity at his college.

When animal rights campaigners free some dogs from a laboratory, but fail to realise that one of the animals is dangerously ill, a children's birthday party becomes a terrible nightmare for Maggie Forbes.

When a well-dressed con man begins harassing a rich middle-aged widow, Maggie doubts he's up to much good. But DI Jack Slater thinks otherwise - until Maggie Forbes plants doubt in his mind.

Maggie thinks that a woman who has killed her abusive husband obviously acted in self-defence until disturbing new facts emerge.

Her name is Cecily. She's sophisticated well-liked - and dangerous, as DI Maggie Forbes will soon find out when she makes enquiries at Cecily's elegant flat, a place which conceals a grim secret.

Maggie is on the case when an old man is mugged and dies from his injuries.

Does Mr Armour really have the gift of healing he claims? DI Maggie Forbes and DS Jake Barrett, searching for the truth, decide to test his powers - with frightening results.

Maggie struggles with keeping her word to an informer.

When a minor civil servant is found dead in rather exotic surroundings, Maggie and her team believe they have an open and shut case of a lover's quarrel that ended in death. Nothing could be further from the truth.