07 November 1997

Characters: Clive, David, DI Coverdale, Eddie, Kate, Mike, Roy

• Eddie’s decided to put his hands up to knowing more about the venison than he originally claimed to, admitting that the chap he got it from might be someone who he knows vaguely, whose name might be something like Snatch Foster. A snag arises though, because the Detective Inspector in charge, DI Coverdale, used to be Ambridge’s village policeman and knows the Eddie of old.
• Roy and Kate finally meet up as they start to divvy up shared possesions. They also share idle village gossip as Roy confirms the rumours that Kate has heard about John’s dalliance’s with Sharon. She’s shocked he hasn’t told Hayley, although she’s not keen on telling her, but wants him to talk to John again.
• David asks Mike to, temporarily, take over Brookfield’s afternoon milking and while he sees it as a backward step, doing a job he did twenty years ago, he agrees to try it out for a few weeks.
• DI Coverdale goes to visit Clive in London who denies having been to Ambridge for almost a month and claims to have been in a pub on Tuesday evening with lots of witnesses. Things don’t look good for Eddie ….

Summarised by: Chris Harrison