This episode focuses on 1992. The year starts badly when an IRA bomb kills seven protestant builders at Teebane crossroads. In the following month an off-duty RUC officer shoots three people dead at a Sinn Fein office before killing himself. Two days later the UDA kill five people at a betting office on the Ormeau Road. In the general election, the Conservatives are re-elected to government, while in the same election Gerry Adams loses his west Belfast seat to the SDLP. An IRA bomb at the Baltic Exchange kills three people and causes massive financial damage to the City of London. In August, the UDA is banned by the government, while the all-party (Brooke-Mayhew) talks end without any breakthrough. December sees the new secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Sir Patrick Mayhew, state that Sinn Fein could join talks if there was a permanent IRA ceasefire.