A christening is interrupted when a dad rushes in claiming the baby is his.
The baby was adopted and the dad claims it was coerced as they are from a poor family.
The family that wants to adopt the baby are wealthy and claim the adoption was done properly.
It becomes a murder investigation when Joan Beaumont who runs the adoption agency is found murdered.
Geordie believes that the murderer has to be from either set of parents.
Meanwhile Leonard receives a blackmail demand.
I think the story was channelling Call the Midwife as it raised social issues of poor families having to give up babies.
Interestingly it was the men who had the stronger paternalistic instincts. Neither mother wanted the baby.
Although I did not think the murder element was that strong.
The story arc is going to be about Leonard and the repercussions of the blackmail story. Maybe Will should had got Geordie involved.
A well known television dramatist once wrote. Even though there was a time when homosexuality was illegal in Britain. People in a town or village sort of sensed that a certain middle aged spinster or confirmed bachelor were in fact gay. Everyone just got on with life, people's sexuality was just background noise.