The village hall has one wall collapse and Joe is convinced it is a warning. Rob quits his job in a pique of anger over Charlie’s supervision.

Radio Times: Joe might have seen a ghost, while Rob sees red.

Characters: Charlie, Elizabeth, Jim, Joe, Lynda, Rob

• Elizabeth and Lynda discuss the opera performance at Lower Loxley. Lynda is reviewing it for The Echo and she is determined that her piece will be thorough and professional. Even David has bought tickets and has purchased one of Fallon’s hampers in an attempt to give Ruth a lovely evening out.
• Bert and Jim meet up with at The Bull and discuss Frieda’s memorial rose. Jim mourns the end of high summer. They both agree that they are grateful to others for providing them with temporary homes but they are feeling alone and out of place. Jim is concerned that even his relationship with Christine is deteriorating because of his correction of her spoken Italian.
• Lynda announces Mungo’s first birthday party. Under Elizabeth’s teasing, Lynda denies vigorously the danger of bias when reviewing the opera. That is a thought, Lynda muses. Others may have expectations that need to be routed.
• Joe is alarmed about the deterioration of the wall of the village hall. The flood might have been the root of the problem but Joe is convinced that the ghost of Old Bob Pullen is the immediate cause. It was a warning.
• Charlie shows Rob the problems of incorrect data that has been entered into the dairy sheets. There are also other issues. Rob is angry and uses the flood to explain everything. Charlie says that it could be construed as the covering up of mistakes. Rob attacks Charlie and accuses him of bias. Rob is not Charlie’s ‘type’. Family values are not Charlie’s thing. Charlie has no appreciation of a man such as Rob. There is a barbed undertone of homophobia that Charlie refuses to address. Charlie announces that a consultant is coming in to go over the books in a professional manner. Rob’s temper flares out of control; he resigns his position and leaves abruptly.