Barriers

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1x1
The Start
Episode overview
Six months before his eighteenth birthday, Billy Stanyon's mother and father die in a sailing accident. They leave him with a flute, some letters, and the knowledge that they were not his natural parents.
1x2
The Demo
Episode overview
Billy visits his birth mother's old house in London, and encounters fugitives from an anti-apartheid demonstration.
1x3
Munich
Episode overview
Billy and Mr Whitaker fly to Munich where an ex-client of Whitaker's takes them to Lake Chiemsee. Frau Gruber tells Billy his mother was killed whilst crossing the Hungarian border, along with her own son. But is she telling the truth?
1x4
The Bike Gang
Episode overview
In his final term at school, Billy learns his birth father, Jerry Toth, defected to Britain in 1955 and married, then later divorced, a glass heiress. Along with his friend Spike and other classmates, he has a run-in with a local bike gang.
1x5
MacIntyre Glass
Episode overview
An unannounced visit to his father's ex-wife in Scotland reveals that Billy has a older half-sister, Pamela. He learns little, other than his father and Charlotte met when he worked as a stable lad on her father's estate.
1x6
The Homeless Family
Episode overview
Billy seeks help to pursue his goal of becoming a professional flautist. Meanwhile, a runaway family take refuge in his seaside cottage.
1x7
France
Episode overview
Billy visits France where he learns more about his parents and helps his host's son fulfill a family tradition.
1x8
Spike
Episode overview
Spike, Billy's best friend from school, arrives unexpectantly. Billy offers to put him up for the night, causing friction between him and Mr Whitaker.
1x9
Return to Munich
Episode overview
Frau Gruber sends Billy his father's ring, prompting him to return to Lake Chemsee to find out why. She will only tell him that it's dangerous for him to continue the search for his natural father.
1x10
The Runaway
Episode overview
Billy befriends a teenage runaway who stays the night with him at his seaside cottage. Meanwhile, Mr Whitaker receives an unexpected home visit from Pricey.
1x11
Mrs Dalgleish
Episode overview
An unannounced visit by Mrs Dalgleish, originally from Hungary, but now the colourful and wealthy widow of a financial tycoon, affords a few more details about Billy's birth mother and father.
1x12
The Warning
Episode overview
Mr Whitaker is taken ill during a chess match with Billy. Pricey fears it may be a stroke.
1x13
Saltzburg
Episode overview
In Saltzburg to audition for a music scholarship, Billy finds himself followed by Hilda Gruber. Instructed to kill him, she chooses instead to tell him that it was his father who died fleeing Hungary, not Karl Gruber.

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