Family Money

Series 1 Episode 1
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Fran is making her way home after a pleasant evening at the cinema and her favourite restaurant. To her horror, she walks into a fight between a group of youths and a yuppie couple she recognises from the restaurant. She cannot help intervening, and, as a result, is knocked unconscious and ends up in hospital.

Fran's son Harry, a harassed BBC producer, and his wife Poppy hear the news as they are leaving a party and rush to the hospital where they meet up with Harry's sister Isabel. Fran gradually comes round, but with no memory of what has happened to her. Harry and Isabel both lobby for Fran to sell her house, thereby releasing some coveted family money.

Then Fran learns that the man she had tried to save has died and the incident is now a murder enquiry with Fran as the only witness. As she looks through the window towards the canal behind her house, she sees a figure standing on one of the houseboats, looking directly up at her...

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