Boring old Stu arranges to meet up with his granddaughter Eliza in Speed Daal. It's all going well with her and Bridget until Lucy (Stu's ex-wife and everyone's number one suspect for the murder) turns up and kicks off.
Alya meets with Deedee, who says there was none of Stu's DNA on Charlie's bag and they need to get the evidence re-tested, which will be pricey. Stu finds Yasmeen asking Stephen for money and then decides he doesn't want to carry on with the investigation. Pretty sure Alya and Zee should've been doing a true crime podcast all this time, they'd have cracked it by now.
Meanwhile, Ronnie who has his finger in many pies, but doesn't seem to have a job or a business, apart from sitting around the Bistro flirting with Debbie, organises a coaching job for James in Lewisham in that London. He could go visit Spider's juice bar in Streatham - I presume he sold it on to someone else. It's also near where Danny lives, according to James. Danny?! Is he sitting around pining for James? Seems unlikely that a handsome lad wouldn't be taking full advantage of whatever Grindr has to offer in south London. James says he is off to London tonight. Good luck getting on an Avanti train, mate! Are we going to miss James? I've never been very convinced by him, and I'm preferring Deedee so far.
Jenny is wallowing in wine and nineties rom-coms (hold the com) until Rita fetches up to giver her a "now look here, lady" talking-to. Downstairs, Glenda turns up for the quiz in a fabulous jacket and two cans of Elnett in her bouffant. Unforch for her, Jenny has rallied and wants to host(ess) the quiz. But then a twist - literally, as Jenny slips on the floor that our Glen has just mopped. Glenda takes over and revitalises the pub quiz format by introducing a flip 'n' sip round and a jig-tig round. I'd prefer capital cities, to be honest. Jenny is fumin'.
Ken is working on the script for Roxanna, much to Mary and Brian's chagrin as Wendy now has more lines. I can't help but feel this story is the writers having a little bit of a sarcastic go at the actors who want to meddle with the scripts. More shockingly, Nigel doesn't turn up to the rehearsal. You can't have a rehearsal sans director! Probably the first rule of am-dram.
And finally, Dev turns up at no. 5 - as Bernie is bleaching her upper lip and toes - to declare his undying, erm, love with a bunch of the cheapest carnations from outside his shop. She resigns as his cleaner and this leads to her taking more "work" from Fern. This will end well!
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