| Award-winning war correspondent Guy Foster, distraught after the loss of his first wife, joins a cruise to Cape Town, where he meets beautiful and mysterious Melissa. A sophisticated blonde PR girl, Melissa is travelling with an exuberant group of media friends. Guy falls desperately in love with the exotic Melissa and she suggests they marry. But while they celebrate, dark events begin to take place. An elderly widower is ‘accidentally’ lost overboard. The bodies of a middle-aged couple are discovered in Cape Town. Then one of Melissa’s friends is brutally killed. The finger of suspicion falls on Guy – and when Melissa herself is killed, he is found bending over her bloodied corpse. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Julie Walters | Paula Hepburn | 5 |
| Jennifer Ehle | Melissa McKensie | 5 |
| Gary Cady | Don Page | 5 |
| Ben Miles | Editor | 5 |
| Adrian Dunbar | Graeme Hepburn | 5 |
| David Ross | Selwyn-Swanton | 5 |
| David Ross | Dr Selwyn Swanton | 5 |
| Jamie Foreman | 2nd Hood | 5 |
| Terence Harvey | Awards Presenter | 5 |
| Hugh Quarshie | George Bond | 5 |
| Bill Paterson | DCI Cameron | 5 |
| John Ringham | Norman | 5 |
| Tim Dutton | Guy Foster | 5 |
| Faith Edwards | Bonnie Foster | 5 |
| Christopher Adamson | 1st Hood | 5 |
| Christopher Ryan | Les Maurice | 5 |
| Michael Angelis | D.I. Kilshaw | 5 |
| Diana Weston | Hope Magenta | 5 |
| Lionel Blair | Himself, Party Guest | 5 |
| Laura Davenport | Francesca Morris | 5 |
| Nigel Pegram | South African Doctor | 5 |
| Andrew Schofield | Charlton Ffoulkes | 5 |
| Neville Phillips | South African Priest | 5 |