Though he's officially on duty, Frost is looking for the nearest opportunity to sneak off to the departmental booze-up celebrating a colleague's retirement. But the normally sleepy town of Denton is not cooperating this cold autumn night, leaving Frost wading in his best suit through a flooded public rest room to investigate a junkie's death. And from there, things start to go seriously downhill, as Frost winds up stalking a runaway teenager; a one-man burglary wave; a local Member of Parliament's bad seed son turned hit-and-run driver; and the tabloids' new criminal darling, the Hooded Terror -- who is about to strike his next victim ...