Extremely Dangerous - Plot Synopsis (Episode 1)  Last Update: 03
December 1999  Episode One  On a dark night on the wild Scottish
borders, a man convicted of the brutal murder of his wife and
daughter escapes from a speeding train, leaving behind only a
paperback novel - Patagonia. He is Neil Byrne.  Instantly
showing himself to be a tenacious survivor, evading capture by
instinct, Byrne disguises himself and makes his way to
Manchester, where he goes to ground, finding himself a job as a
driver for Deuce Cars, a run-down cab firm, run by the sardonic
Ali Khan, and some quiet digs. But trouble starts when Joe
Connor, head of the local crime syndicate, hears of Byrne's
escape and puts out the word that he wants Byrne killed.  Byrne
begins his search for the truth and visits Frank Fleming in an
expensive nursing home owned by the mafia. Fleming was the
previous local Godfather, and had trusted Byrne when he was
undercover, treating him as a son. The revelation at Byrne's
murder trial that he was an MI5 spy gave