1990 - Season 1

Britain is under the heel of the PCD, the Department of Public Control, a tyrannical bureaucracy. Journalist Jim Kyle helps a doctor and his family to leave the country.

Kyle helps Dr Vickers, but without his family. Kyle attempts to use the law but comes up against the state and the PCD legal department.

A dissident Union leader is sent to an Adult Rehabilitation Centre, where enemies of the state are sent, after criticising the regime. Kyle investigates.

A state visit by an important American political advisor is not quite what it seems. Kyle gets a lead on the real motives for his trip to Britain.

Kyle comes to the aid of an unauthorised dissident newsletter, which is being threatened by the PCD after making claims about a political broadcast.

Kyle investigates the corrupt legal system and aids a judge who fights back. Meanwhile. the PCD turns the screws on the judge's wife to silence him.

Kyle's past comes back to haunt him as the PCD finally put him on trial - with Dr Vickers as the main prosecution witness.

The PCD get revenge after the trial and turn Kyle into a non-citizen. Forced to wander the streets, scrounging for food and shelter, can Kyle fight back against the state?