Johnny fails to get Jazzer onside; Pat is thoroughly overwhelmed by her feelings of failure.

Radio Times: Pat is distracted, and there is an awkward moment at The Bull.

Characters: Adam, Jazzer, Johnny, Jolene, Pat, Tom, Tony

• At Bridge Farm, Tom is getting irritated by Johnny’s wish to keep the pigs. He explains that it’s not for ever. There may well be a time when they restock but for now, enough is enough. He plans to reopen the shop on Friday week and sell the pigs soon after, and no, he will not take Jazzer back on. Johnny tries once more to persuade Tom to enter his black pudding scotch eggs for the Food and Drink Awards. Tom is more than firm … absolutely not!
• Adam and Tony watch the yearlings frolicking on pasture. Tony explains that he’s having difficulty finding accommodation near the mother and baby unit. Pat jumps in saying that Peggy shouldn’t have to travel so far at her age. Attempting to change the subject, Tony mentions Adam’s forthcoming visit to a no-till farm in Lincolnshire. Pat drags the conversation back to the time when she and Tony delivered an oversized calf. She could do that, but she can’t help her own daughter. There’s no justice!
• Tom and Johnny are having lunch at The Bull. Johnny rather tactlessly asks Jolene how things work out having her “ex” working there as a chef. She good-naturedly offers an explanation before asking Tom how things are at Bridge Farm. “It’s not easy,” he says. However, he’s planning on opening the shop in time for the Whit weekend. Adam wanders in followed almost immediately by Jazzer. Tom pointedly announces that he’ll have lunch in the garden leaving Jazzer to attempt an explanation. A tricky moment passes by.
• At Bridge Farm, Tony calls Pat in for lunch. She’s yet again distracted and upset that they’ve had no news from the prison. Again, she churns over how everything is wrong with their situation, how she misses Helen and just how wrong it is that she’s so far away. Tony is powerless to lift her mood.
• In The Bull, Jazzer is shocked to hear that Tom’s getting rid of “his” girls. They’re the heart of the farm. Johnny tries his best to convince him to just walk outside, apologise to Tom and get his job back. It’s obvious that the milk round is insufficient to provide him with a living, but Jazzer has his pride. He won’t go cap in hand to Tom, no way. It’s no longer his problem; that’s that then. Johnny gloomily admits defeat.
• Pat and Tony recall Helen’s birth. Pat had yearned for a daughter, so that she could bring her up to be a strong woman, knowing that she could do anything if she put her mind to it. But, she was breech, her hips were dislocated and above all, Pat was tired. She needed her mother then, and throughout her life and Pat constantly failed her, all the way down the line. Pat only worried about herself when John died and she’s continued to fail her since then. All Tony can do is to sit, listen, and help her to work through her grief.