Brian springs another deal with Debbie on Adam who storms out. David begins to feel the backlash from the village.

Radio Times: David is feeling hounded, and the chips are down at Home Farm.

Characters: Adam, Brian, David, Jennifer, Jim, Lynda

• Adam is getting ready for lambing and Brian is curious as to why he’s been invited to the Estate business bash and to the Justin Elliot shoot. Adam says he can ignore it but Jennifer has agreed to do the lunch and plans to go along. Adam isn’t convinced. Brian does agree they need a serious discussion about where Home Farm goes from here.
• Lynda is still talking about SAVE and trying to encourage Jennifer but she is more interested in cooking meals for Alice and Ruairi and planning for Christmas and Kate’s return home for Christmas. She admits she’d completely forgotten about it, as Lynda sniffily notes.
• Jim has a go at David. He’d had David down as a man of principle. Jim says it doesn’t matter where he chooses to live, it is him selling out to the man who is going to destroy Ambridge. David tries to say it isn’t that simple. And his siblings are in favour. Jim isn’t interested. Damara Capital are buying everything. David says they’d have bought it anyway one way or another. He gives up and leaves with his copy of Farmer’s Weekly.
• Brian has a short family meeting. They are paying out far more than they have coming in. But none of that compensates for the loss of the estate contract. Labour and machinery costs are far too high. So Brian proposes the armageddon solution – make Jeff and Andy redundant and contract out the arable. It turns out that Brian has already discussed this with Debbie and it is back to the old squabbles about Debbie and Brian ganging up on Adam. Adam is furious, storms out and says Justin can stuff his Christmas shoot.
• David does turn up at the SAVE meeting though not many others do. He still gets a hostile reception from Jim and Jennifer but David insists he isn’t giving up the fight. Jim says he’s been invited to a drinks party by the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) who are in favour of the road including Justin Elliot. He thinks he might be able to mingle unnoticed to hear what is going on. But he needs a plus one and Jennifer has just the person in mind.