This episode opens with Douglas doing exercises, he is obviously thinking about going back on rescues, though Helen is not so keen. The first rescue involves a hand gliding accident. The hand glider is caught on cables. The second rescue involves a couple who have been rambling, the man has fallen into the waterfall.
Mike goes to the rescue of a construction team whose Land Rover has left the road and plummeted down a cliff. Douglas receives the all clear to return to work. Ben and Annie attempt to rescue a climber who has fallen down a mountain whilst stealing falcon eggs. Annie goes to see Ben to see why he is avoiding her.
Douglas continues to have nightmares. Whilst out on a run, Peter and Ben find a man walking in a daze with cuts to his face. Caroline is upset to witness Adam's fiance rejecting him.
The team come to the rescue of two climbers who have fallen from a rockface. Mike decides to make a video for a dating agency and Caroline films him. Caroline is called for her annual assessment by Peter, but Jamie informs her that he has been asked to do it instead. Helen wonders why Douglas is so moody and cold towards her, and Jane suggests that he is still affected by his fall.
Jamie takes part in a cross country cycle race with his friend Ian, but when they get into an argument, Ian falls down the rocks into the river below. When Jamie climbs down to help him, he ends up falling himself.
Four teenagers wander into a drain that belongs to an old dam to have a party, but during a thunderstorm, water seeps into the drain, trapping the four boys inside. One of them manages to swim out and alerts the rescue team. One of the boys is identified as Betty's son Jason, and Annie discovers that the others are in the sixth form at the school where she teaches.
Danny helps a tour guide who is trying to organize a ramble with two patrons with impaired vision, but whilst en route, the tour guide has a heart attack and the two patrons are left alone. Foolishly, one of the partially sighted women wanders off, believing that they have more chance of being rescued that way.
Douglas and Gordon are involved in a serious accident together. Meanwhile, the team receive news that following heavy snowfall, an avalanche has occurred up on the hills, and two young people who have been skiing have been reported missing.