Roy’s fury is abating but slowly. Harrison makes slow but steady progress with Fallon.

Radio Times: PC Burns is handing out advice, and Mike is tired.

Characters: Elizabeth, Fallon, Harrison, Mike, Roy

• Back at work on the milk round, Mike is still troubled by his back; Jazzer had made so much fuss last week about covering both rounds that he felt obliged to get back in harness.
• At Lower Loxley, Roy (who didn’t actually resign) is distinctly tetchy. He accuses Elizabeth of treating him as the hired hand, discouraging him to get ideas above his station by giving him a menial task when he has so much to do already. She protests that she implied nothing of the sort and that she didn’t mean to offend him. When he suggests that they forget the funeral incident, she readily concurs. Then she announces that she has an appointment with PC Burns to discuss security and the over-burdened Roy asks why he wasn’t in on this. She clearly can’t win!
• PC Burns’ advice is fairly obvious and is interrupted twice: once by the arrival of Fallon, checking on her pitch for the tea tent, and then by Roy with an allegedly urgent query about whether to put a link on their website to the SAVE video; he should know the answer anyway: it is her policy not to get involved.
• Released from his meeting, Harrison is quick to invite Fallon to the Orangery for coffee. He suggests replacing her old camper van with a 50s Morris 1000 van; he will look for one online.
• Dad! Roy encounters Mike sleeping in a lay-by; it’s quieter than at home where Beth is letting rip through the night. Roy knows; he can hear her too, though he hadn’t mentioned it because it’s the least of his worries – and he is not about to share with his dad the greatest of them!