Kaz help Helen begin to see the sort of man Rob was. Rob tells Henry that Helen is locked up for doing something bad.

Radio Times: Helen and Kaz find common ground, and Rob lays it on the line.

Characters: Clarrie, Helen, Kaz, Pat, Tony

• Clarrie chatters to Pat about the elf migration. They should have made a fair bit of money. She feels guilty for talking nonsense when Pat is worried about Helen. Pat thinks it’s light relief. Helen hasn’t rung yet but the Chaplain said it might take some time. Helen is working now. They try to find something appropriate so she is working in the vegetable garden. Clarrie thinks she’ll feel more at home there.
• Helen seems more relaxed. Jack and Jayden both are enjoying the baby gym. She admits she is enjoying working outside, she loses herself in it. Helen admits she thought it would be difficult to bond with Jack because of Rob but she doesn’t see so much of Rob in Jack now. She tells Kaz about the sperm donation with Henry. She was so grateful to Rob for providing a Dad but now she isn’t so sure. Helen says she thinks Rob does love Henry but that does make it worse. Kaz tells her there is no point beating herself up. At least her hair cut looks good. Helen admits it is nice to choose for herself again. Kaz suggests Rob might have chosen something up market but Helen says no. It was frumpy and not something she liked at all. Kaz asks if she went along with it for a quiet life. She was made to change her clothes too. Rob didn’t like it. Kaz says that is what “they” are like. They can’t bear the thought of other men looking. Helen is puzzled. She’d never have looked at another man. Kaz explains. It’s nothing to do with what she was actually doing. It’s an idea they get in their heads. Helen suddenly seems to understand. Maybe that’s why in the end she didn’t recognise herself. She’d become the person Rob told her she was.
• Clarrie tells Pat and Tony that Ed is still thinking about getting the Texel sheep but he is wondering if he should be saving for a deposit on a house rather than spending money. Clarrie explains that the surveyor has been to visit. They’ve had the sycamore taken down. And now there is a great puddle of water on the carpet. Pat doesn’t think Joe would really have done that but Clarrie isn’t so sure. They talk about the awards. Emma is really excited. And there are nominations for Bridge Farm too so Helen’s work isn’t forgotten. Then Rob calls. He wants to visit later.
• Kaz gets more out of Helen. At the beginning she thought all her troubles were over. She had a loving partner who loved her son. She thought her mother had some concerns but Helen was happy. Kaz says things seem to have changed slowly. She asks if Rob wanted to know where Helen was all the time. Helen admits he liked her to text all the time. Kaz questions if she did the same for Rob and Helen suddenly remembers the police telling her about the tracking software on her phone. That must have been how he knew she was taking Henry out of school. She’d completely forgotten. She must have blocked it out. Rob was so angry. He didn’t approve and Helen admits that’s why she didn’t tell him. Kaz presses a bit. Helen was behaving how she did because she didn’t want to make Rob angry. Helen asks Kaz if she thinks she was right. Kaz says Rob sounds pretty scary to her.
• Rob comes round and says Henry came home from school in tears. One of the children had told Henry his mother was a murderer and the police had locked her up in prison. Tony asks what Rob said. Rob says that she wasn’t a murderer but that she was accused of doing something bad and had to stay locked up until a jury decided what was right. If they want to feed him a more sugar coated version that is up to them.
• Tony says Rob has a point. They had to tell Henry something at some point. Pat sees it as Rob still dictating what happens to Henry. They can’t protect him, however hard they try.