Summary[]
Sam's plans for revenge on David go badly wrong, while Grant's behaviour is misinterpreted by Ruth with devastating consequences. Cindy and David embark on yet another dangerous liaison.
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Sam is eating breakfast reluctantly, and Grant comes in asking for some so she gives him hers, saying she's not hungry. Peggy asks her what the matter is and she acts all coy before admitting that she's pregnant. Grant goes mad and rushes off to find David. Meanwhile Peggy probes suspiciously about the "pregnancy". Sam is vague, so Peggy makes a doctor's appointment. Sam refuses to go, so Peggy says "you're not really pregnant are you?". Sam admits it, and Peggy says she will have to tell Grant. Grant goes out into the Square, sees Michelle and asks her if she's seen David. They bicker for a few minutes. He goes off to find David, but the portacabin is locked up and Pat later says David is at an auction. However, she notes Grant's appalling mood and when David gets back she rushes over and tells him to keep his head down. Grant passes Mark on his stall and thanks him for looking out for him last night and asks how he is. Mark says he is fine. Ruth has seen this and rushes over to ask Mark what Grant said. Mark says he was just asking after my health. Ruth goes home and worries about this conversation, reading all sorts into it. Michelle is still skiving off work. Sam admits to Grant that she lied about the pregnancy and Grant is totally annoyed, saying he was going to completely destroy David and would have gone to prison for her. Sam looks sheepish and Grant goes downstairs. Sam whimpers a bit and Peggy asks her why she would say such a thing. Sam says it was Grant's fault for not hitting David straight away. Peggy asks why she's so upset, Sam says that everything always goes wrong for her, like Spain and how horrible it was. Peggy asks about it and Sam says that she knew people taking drugs. Grant goes downstairs in a foul mood. Michelle comes in. Grant gets Peggy to serve her. Later, Ruth visits Michelle and tells her that she's afraid Grant knows about Mark's HIV. She says that is why Grant was so nasty to them in the Vic and wouldn't serve them. Michelle says that it was aimed at her. However, later in the video shop Grant is still in a horrendous mood, and says to Michelle: I can't go anywhere without you being around, you're everywhere I go, spreading like bacteria. Michelle walks out annoyed. Grant says he's had a bad day, Nigel says he has too - Liam was having a go that he'd let Clare drink in the Vic and Peggy had served her. Grant shrugs and Nigel is annoyed saying he might say something in court. Grant says it's your word against his, and Nigel says but if he brings it up in court I can't lie. Grant says that's just where everyone does lie. Nigel gets cross saying he's not taking it seriously, and Grant leaves. Mark comments to Ruth and Michelle how Grant was in a terrible mood at lunchtime, and Ruth and Michelle go into the kitchen and have a little whisper about it; Michelle remembers the earlier encounter, that Grant said you Fowlers have "poison in your veins", and that Grant was especially rude to her in the video shop, and that it wasn't just the normal hatred that he usually has for her. She says that Grant must know, but he's toying with them, to torture them. Ruth says something about Mark getting hurt, and Michelle says it's only her he's getting at, not Mark. She decides to go and see him after closing that night. Ricky is supposed to be decorating Pat's - he falls asleep dreaming about the hypnosis tape that Bianca is using, and Pat catches him asleep on the sofa. He says that he got no sleep with the tape, and as Pat goes he says don't forget, mirror, signal, manoeuvre, then looks embarrassed. Pat laughs at him and says well there's no danger of you speeding with the decorating. Ted says he had decided to move on. Kathy tells Ted that she's pregnant, and asks him to stay around because she needs the moral support - after all it'll be Peggy's first grandchild. Phil is back, Kathy is totally offhand to him and practically ignores him. He goes to the Vic and complains about it to Grant. Peggy and Sam leave the Vic, Grant asks where they're going and Peggy says Sam is off to her aunt's. Peggy tells Sam that the break will do her good. Grant asks how he'll manage serving by himself, and Peggy says Tiffany is working. Tiffany turns up chirpily and says how cosy that it's just her and Grant. David and Cindy have another meeting, this time they go to a pub somewhere else, and as they walk in they laugh at the irony - it's a pub quiz. In the background one of the member's of the rival quiz team in the Vic is busy scribbling busily. David and Cindy chat and Cindy says how nice it is to talk for a change. David says they don't have much time for it and they carry on for ages, until Cindy notices the time - it's late. She then also gets a shock as the rival quiz person walks past. She whispers to David that they have to go now. He says he'll finish his drink and the bloke won't remember her anyway. After a quiet evening, Tiffany has a go at Grant about his rudeness and says how sorry she feels for Sharon, no wonder she dumped him. Grant says that she must never mention her again. Tiffany says she was just making a point. Grant says that she shouldn't push him, she says sorry. Later, she's tidying up, Grant tells her to go home. She says she was just being helpful. The door bangs, and she leaves. Grant goes through and the door bangs again, he says from there "I told you to go home", but he comes out and it's Michelle looking rather menacing. |
Credits[]
Main cast[]
- Michelle Fowler - Susan Tully
- Grant Mitchell - Ross Kemp
- Peggy Mitchell - Barbara Windsor
- Sam Butcher - Danniella Westbrook
- Mark Fowler - Todd Carty
- Ruth Fowler - Caroline Paterson
- Pat Butcher - Pam St. Clement
- David Wicks - Michael French
- Cindy Beale - Michelle Collins
- Ricky Butcher - Sid Owen
- Tiffany Raymond - Martine McCutcheon
- Vicki Fowler - Samantha Leigh Martin
- Kathy Mitchell - Gillian Taylforth
- Phil Mitchell - Steve McFadden
- Ted Hills - Brian Croucher
- Nigel Bates - Paul Bradley
- Tony Hills - Mark Homer
Guest cast[]
- Quiz Master - David Bluestone
- Alex - Andrew Dumbleton