Wilde Alliance

Rupert, Amy and Rupert's agent Christopher attend the funeral of one of Christopher's other authors, Will Carpenter, before going back to the author's house where his brother and sister are hosting the wake. Rupert sees one of Will's books on the shelf, looks at it then can't fit it back on the shelf so puts it on the shelf below. Later, he asks Will's brother if he can have one of Will's books as a keepsake, naming the one he'd been looking at earlier. Despite having claimed he didn't know his brother's house very well, Will's brother goes straight to the shelf where the book had been and is surprised to find it not there. After Rupert and Amy drive away, she discovers she's forgotten her gloves so Rupert goes back only to find Will's brother and sister enjoying a sing-song. Rupert is sure something isn't right so he and Amy decide to investigate.

The episode opens with Rupert standing in for his agent, Christopher, as a prison visitor, talking to a prison literary society. When he gets home, he discovers that one of the prisoners has hidden a handwritten novel in his briefcase. Amy starts to read it out loud to Rupert and thinks it's rather good. The next day she goes to London to submit one of her paintings to the Royal Academy and, on the way, she calls in to Christopher's office to give him the manuscript. While Amy is away and Rupert is out, their flat is ransacked. The next morning, Christopher finds that his office has also been ransacked and the manuscript stolen. Rupert decides to investigate.

The episode opens in Rome with a man entering a hotel room and telling the woman who's been waiting for him there that he's 'got them'. She says they need to hurry to catch the train. He tells her she'll have to go alone [he's been hurt]. When the woman arrives at the train, she bribes the conductor to give her another sleeper compartment. The compartment he gives her happens to have been booked by Rupert and Amy so the conductor gives them the woman's old compartment, telling them that the number they are reading on their reservation card as a 6 is actually an 8 so they have no idea they've been swapped. The compartment-swap leads to a case of mistaken identity and to Rupert and Amy's involvement in yet another adventure.

Rupert and Amy are in Manchester awaiting the arrival of a Hollywood producer who wants to make a film of one of Rupert's books. At dinner the night before the producer's arrival, Rupert speculates about a fellow diner who is demanding that the violinist play Danny Boy. The diner is American and Rupert thinks he looks like a Godfather type. The next morning, when they are meeting the producer at the airport, Rupert and Amy witness the arrival of an American singer, Carole Fortune, and notice that she is being watched by the 'Godfather' from the previous evening. Rupert is worried that the Godfather is going to kidnap the singer so he leaves Amy to deal with the Hollywood producer while he investigates.

Christopher, Rupert's literary agent and friend, buys a long-empty, old house with a view to renovating it and selling it. On his first night he sees, and talks to, a woman who has appeared in the house despite all the doors being locked. She asks for a glass of water but when he comes back with one she has gone. He is sure she is a ghost and, later, he hears strange sounds like a heart beat. The next day, he tells Rupert and Amy about his experience [Amy believes in ghosts, Rupert doesn't] and they agree to stay at the old house with him that night. Nothing happens ...

The episode opens with Rupert giving Amy her wedding ring back, it having slipped from her finger yet again - and it prompts the couple to ponder the things they've given up since marrying each other [Amy doesn't go dancing anymore as Rupert has two left feet; Rupert doesn't go to concerts anymore as Amy has cloth ears]. Amy receives 'practically a royal command' drinks invitation from a local society matron who has also invited a local radio host [a former beau of Amy's who used to take her dancing] and the local librarian who is also a nature lover. The society matron asks them to form a committee to build a pleasure lake for local people. Later, Amy discovers it's all a ploy to enable the society matron's industrialist brother to build a factory and reservoir in a beautiful Yorkshire dale that has romantic & artistic associations for Amy.