The Coroner

Jane is woken by a call from Clint telling her that a boy has been found dead at the base of a lighthouse. Jane then finds that her daughter Beth has snuck out of the house and is at a sunrise beach party.

Somewhere off the south Devon coast, funeral director Joseph performs a sea burial, watching as the coffin is lowered into the water. Nearer to shore, Coroner's Officer Clint is surfing when he spots an unrecognizable bloated body on the beach - the third body to wash up in a month.

Local Mayor, Una Drake, has launched an initiative to clean up Lighthaven and Mick and Davey call her a killjoy, especially when she forcibly closes the Punch and Judy stall. That night the Punch and Judy man is found dead on the beach.

A small group of treasure hunters scour the fields by the clifftops. As the weather worsens, Ray suggests they stop, but Errol refuses. The rest are about to leave when Errol's detector beeps - he reaches into the soil and pulls out a gold coin.

Jane, Judith and Beth wake to the news that a cargo ship has washed up ashore and that locals are pilfering the goods. Jane views this as theft, but Judith, Mick and Beth believe that this bounty belongs to the community by ancient law and tradition.

On a misty morning at the beach, a teenage girl emerges from the sea. Peter and Molly return home from visiting the grave of their daughter Leah and are stunned to find her standing alive and well in their driveway. At the cemetery, Jane and Clint discuss Leah's remarkable return; though they now have unanswered questions about the identity of the person buried in her grave.

Donald Sidwell, an aristocratic, elderly gentleman, races home in his vintage car to Sidwell Hall and attempts to drag his agoraphobic daughter Olivia outside as shock treatment. Meek employee Terence Brooks summons the courage to tell him to stop.

When ice cream factory manager Rose finds owner Robert frozen to death in one of his walk-in freezers, Jane and Davey are called in to investigate. Rose is adamant that Robert wouldn't have killed himself as he was in the process of selling up and retiring.

Judith and Mick get into the spirit of a Latin American dance festival run by Paula Barranco and her much younger Hispanic husband Yordan.

Judith and Mick are among the crowds to see local businessman PB Bradsaw and his glamorous wife, Joy, reopen their flagship restaurant. There is great shock when PB is shot dead by a sniper in the middle of the event.