Doyle has been murdered, and Brown sets out to take his friend's body home to Ireland while Weaver pursues the killers, helped by Hazel.

Weaver is back in his adopted city to find the killers of his young son, but he needs the name of a bent copper from his partner-in-crime Irwin, even at the risk of aborting their well-planned heist.

Weaver believes he can spend the rest of his life in sunny exile, but a letter from Liverpool eventually arrives telling him his young son has been murdered in a crime of futile viciousness.