Pat hears Helen’s news and takes it badly.

Radio Times: Elizabeth tackles Freddie, while Emma comforts Ed.

Characters: Alice, Fallon, Helen, Lynda, Pat, Tony

• On their way to a girls’ night out, Fallon and Alice are not long detained by Lynda, desperately trying to recruit them for Rumplestiltskin. Lynda doesn’t help her cause by being ignorant of the fact that Fallon and Harrison are not an item.
• Pat is pleased to spend an evening at Blossom Hill Cottage with Helen but is totally unprepared for Helen’s bombshell that she has decided to give up work. Not the cheese-making, she will still do that if Pat can look after Henry, but Tina is more than capable of dealing with the shop. It’s a family business. They will get used to it; everything is so different and Henry is her priority now.
• They have failed to persuade Emma or Helen to join them but Alice and Fallon hit the town, in particular Fallon’s favourite bar. Who should come in, with the girlfriend who dumped him on Valentine’s Day, but Harrison. He comes over to make polite conversation – with Alice, for he gets nothing out of Fallon – and then returns to Justine.
• Pat has made her excuses and left. She is so incensed about Helen’s decision that she couldn’t bear to stay longer. Helen is turning the clock back, throwing her life away; what has the fight for women’s freedom been for? Tony ventures the observation, as a mere male, that the fight was for the freedom to choose. But Pat is convinced that the choice is not Helen’s but Rob’s and he has deviously convinced Helen that it is her own idea.