A contrite Caz unburdens to Clarrie. An arrogant Will heads for a fall.

Radio Times: Will’s temper explodes at the shoot.

Characters: Brian, Clarrie, Coriander, Hayley, Helen, Nigel, William

• The preparations are well in hand at Lower Loxley for the Deck the Hall event, though Lizzie will not stop worrying until it is up and running – maybe not even then. Brenda is rather pleased that the local TV people will be coming later.
• Brian cannot attend today’s shoot but he makes sure that Will understands the need to give some new corporate clients a good day, so that they come again.
• In the dairy, Helen tells Clarrie about last night’s supper with Leon but is vague about arrangements over Christmas.
• There’s trouble at the shoot. Will has explained that, if a grey partridge is put up by the beaters, the guns must not shoot it. One is; one does; Will is quick to tell him that he is an idiot!
• It’s Hayley’s turn to ogle at Oscar; she suggests that Caz should persuade Robert and Lynda to take her to Deck the Hall. To her new friend Clarrie, Caz confides that she is very tired and so lonely without Justin. She is over the worst: he will be back next week. She realises she has been tetchy and has upset Lynda and is really pleased to accept Clarrie’s invitation to tea at Keeper’s Cottage on Wednesday.
• Brian wants a word about Will’s rude and offensive behaviour. Will is unrepentant: if that total idiot does not come back, then good riddance; he won’t have such conduct on his shoot. Brian leaves him in no doubt about whose shoot it is, about the need to give clients the benefit of the doubt and about the need to keep a civil tongue in his head with the clients – and with the boss!