The episode opens with Bert and Cec with a friend at a bar - it is clear the three have placed a bet on a race and the bookie will not pay up. They depart the bar and are arguing in the street. A car revs its engine and drives directly toward Bert and Cec's friend, running him over before driving away. Detective Robinson investigates the case. The friend subsequently dies and Bert and Cec seeks Miss Fisher's assistance. In a parallel storyline, an old friend of Miss Fisher's arrives from Paris. The friend's late husband was an artist who died a mysterious death. The French police have reopened the case and Miss Fisher wants to help solve it. Finally, Dot is struggling with the advice of her priest to stop seeing Hugh because he is a Protestant.