25 November 1996

Characters: Clarrie, Eddie, Richard, Sean, Simon, Susan, Usha

• Sean offers to take over the cricket club dinner organisation, which makes Richard happier, he also decides to come clean over the diamorphine incident, the cover-up may have been part of the problem with the original review.
• Clarrie’s feeling better, even to cleaning the kitchen, and Richard says that she should be able to go back to work on Thursday. Susan and Usha are both visting Clarrie, and Susan asks Usha if any of her partners know anything about agricultural tenancies, just out of interest.
• Simon Pemberton see Eddie cutting the estate’s hedges, he says nothing to him (which Eddie takes as a sign of happiness with his work) but he explodes at Susan and demands she set up an appointment with David as soon as possible.
• Usha shows Richard an article from a paper which, in a wider item about the new complaints procedure for GPs, mentions the current problems with a “South Borcetshire GP” over a handsome bequest and note-taking. Richard is furious, but the wording is very clever and any complaint would make matters worse.

Summarised by: Chris Harrison