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... only to be found round the corner a few minutes later. But Sholto has gone and he's been replaced by a slightly younger baby with Down's Syndrome. It could have been coincidence that the next day DI Costello is faced with the problem of a woman who ''had'' a baby, but there doesn't seem to be a baby around when the social worker visits her and when push comes to shove the mother escapes out of the bathroom window with her suitcase. CCTV tracks her and a heavily-pregnant woman to a street in Glasgow - but then they both disappear.

It's a complex plot with threads involving child abuse and domestic violence, both of which are dealt with sensitively, but Ramsay makes it obvious that both exist where you least expect it. Most worrying to me was the trade in babies: numerous factors have meant that few healthy, white babies are put up for adoption and even then the tests to become a parent of one of these children are stringent and long lasting. They can of course be circumvented if only you have the five-to-six figure sum of money available. Is it illegal or is it just a 'private adoption'? Are the brokers simply putting a woman, who can't for one reason or another keep a baby, in touch with someone who is desperate to have one? And does the fact that a large sum of money has changed hands mean that the child will be loved?