Now released from prison, Alice Merren finds that, despite being cleared of all charges, her notoriety is proving to be a bar to finding employment. Millie invites her out for drinks and learns that she's supplying black market goods - perfumes, stockings and the like - to friends. When Millie returns home, someone is waiting for her. When Alice goes to Millie's flat the next day, she finds the place ransacked and no sign of her friend. The police don't seem very interested and so with Jean and Lucy tries to find her. They first look for Millie's business colleague Jasper who they learn may have been involved with Maltese mobsters. Millie meanwhile awakens in a locked room and learns that Jasper has been cheating his partners. She manages to get out by promising to do more business with them than Jasper ever could but what concerns her most is that the gang is obviously importing women and forcing them into the sex trade.
—garykmcd