Lexi offers comfort and Emma offers a perspective on housing.

Radio Times: Lexi takes control and a mutiny is on the cards

Characters: Clarrie, Emma, Lexi, Phoebe, Susan, Tom

• The morning-after pill has made Phoebe very sick, but she turns up for work. When Lexi sees her, she is concerned. Phoebe claims she had a bad night, but Lexi is too worldly-wise for that, and soon Phoebe confesses all. Lexi comments that Constantin has been a busy boy this summer, which does little to raise Phoebe’s spirits. When Lexi hears that she has been vomiting, she insists on taking her back to the clinic; if she has vomited the pill can’t take effect.
• Susan and Clarrie laugh about Joe’s offer to have Oliver stay at Grange Farm. They would love to have seen Oliver’s face. When Tom comes in with samples of Kefir, neither of them is at all keen to taste it. Tom persists, and they try a little but are revolted by the taste. Then they learn that Tom intends to begin production on his return from the States.
• Phoebe is very grateful to Lexi, and opens up a bit to her. She can’t confide in Kate or Roy, and probably not in Jennifer. Only Hayley would understand and she is in Birmingham. Lexi points out that her daughters are 2000 miles away. She also muses on the fact that at Phoebe’s age she already had one child and was expecting another.
• Tom is on quite a high about his Nuffield visit and the people he has met. His phone keeps ringing, and pat wants to drink a toast to his new venture. Then Emma appears, to say that she is grateful to Tom for selling land to Damara. Tom only hopes the application will go through despite the growing opposition.
• Lexi drives Phoebe home and reminds her to take the second pill once the vomiting stops. Phoebe is very grateful. She could not have got through it all without Lexi.
• Emma asks Susan if she really is in agreement with Jennifer about not letting ‘riff-raff’ into the village by providing affordable housing. Susan feels herself cornered; well, she says, I agree a little bit. Both she and Jennifer fear graffiti and fights. Emma stands her ground; she supposes Susan means people like Emma and Ed. Haven’t they got a right to a house? Why is everyone slagging off affordable housing? It makes Emma and Ed outsiders in their own village.