Cesar travels to Florida to help NASCAR drivers with their dogs: Brian Sacks' possessive pekingese, Gizmo; Greg Biffle grant recipient, Halifax Humane Society; and Kevin Harvick's snappy chihuahua.

Sinbad and the team set off to try and find a mythic stone to find out what the future holds. A mysterious bounty hunter hired by Taryn is hot on their heels though.

The indefatigable Chief Inspector George Gently and Detective Sergeant John Bacchus experience the inflated authority of their "social betters" first hand, when a beautiful young girl called Ellen Mallam is found dead in the passenger seat of a an upturned car registered to local aristocrats.