- Cottam puts a band together for an investigation into gangland murder, Briggs gets a shock when a masked intruder confronts him with a kiss, and trying to listen into a secret meeting proves to be hard on the ears.
- Louis and Briggs stopped off for a takeaway, but Briggs forgot to engage the handbrake leading the car to roll into the Thames. Cottam is getting tired of the duo's repeated bumbling and asks if they are good at anything. They claim to play musical instruments, Cottam assigns them to a sting operation along with Detective Simpson. An East end gang boss, Tony Mazola was shot dead in public and his death may lead to a city wide gang war, the three detectives are sent to The Paradise Club, a business of crime boss Danny Kane, a suspect in the killing.
They're chosen because they play musical instruments and Kane has a live band in the club, Louis on guitar, Briggs on mouth organ and Simpson on French horn. The bouncer, Polish Joe asks to hear them play, naturally they're terrible, but they still play that night. They stop for a drink break and hear from Polish Joe that Kane was friends with the late Tony Mazola, whoever killed the latter will be targeting Kane also. The three go back on stage to play more when the club is raided by masked thugs, one of which removes their balaclava and kisses Briggs, he sees the culprit is a woman.
The next day Kane calls an emergency meeting with the other gang bosses and Polish Joe tells Louis and Briggs to leave while they can, Louis wants out but Briggs believes this a chance to get more information on the gangs, they hide inside the stage speakers. During the meeting one of the gang bosses presents an audio tape taken from his answering machine, these anonymous attackers are targeting the gangs, blackmailing and assaulting them, the message threatens the boss to pay £200,000 or they'll tell the authorities of his forgery scam. The tape is played on speakers, the same ones Louis and Briggs are hiding in, ravaging their hearing.
The meet with Cottam in a cafe, shouting due to temporary deafness. They play another gig at the club and Briggs spots Kane meeting with a woman, the same one from the night before. Briggs provides a composite sketch, the woman is identified as Irene Mazola, Tony's widow, she killed Tony and seized his documents to blackmail his confederates. The other members of her gang are wives and girlfriends of other criminals, believing themselves better than the males. Louis and Briggs are sent to their hideout, a sauna bath where Irene is discussing their latest targets and how to spend the money, plumbers come in to flush the pipes due to a blockage which is caused by Louis and Briggs infiltrating the baths in scuba gear.
Irene recognizes them as police and orders the building cleared, the police are waiting outside and the gang are arrested, Irene gets one last kiss on Briggs, Louis gets kissed also, albeit by a man.
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