Deedee plays Joel's message to Swain, who thinks it means he wanted to off himself, although Deedee thinks it's all a hoax by her ex. Maybe he read about Phelan and his faked death and was inspired. Swain says good riddance to bad rubbish leavingo D.S. Deedee to do the detecting - she goes to the place of Joel's last location and finds another vehicke near the decoy car, which is later revealed to have been sold to someone meeting Joel's description. Meanwhile, Swain and Kit find a notebook in Joel's flat that proves he wrote his suicide note at home and his death was either planned or faked.
Fortunately Mason chooses to sleep in Speed Daal rather than going to Stu's ex-place, Tent City. Yasmeen is very unkeen on having Mason stay at no. 6, but she capitulates and they smuggle him in under the cover of everyone being busy with other things.
Sarah hands over her voicemail number and PIN to her ex so he can access her messages that she can't get in Turkey. What could go wrong? Adam finds a voicemail from Damon, who somehow has heard about Bethany and who also says there's some money in a lock-up, with deets on how to access it. We don't see if Adam actions this but he does donate £500 to the Bethany stoma fund.
God, I'll be glad when this funeral is over. Now Billy and Bernie are arguing about flowers, FFS. Paul's final weeks and death were moving and now it's just becoming a farce. As an aside, it's funny that Bernie, who is pretty self-centred, has been the one to tame Dev; he is always the supportive one re: the Winter shenanigans, whereas every other girlfriend has been at the whim of Dev's ego. He agrees to fund sending (half of) Paul's ashes into space, at Bernie's request. Weird flex but ok.
Fiz is supposed to have a romantic meal with Ty to make up for the spoiled birthday but she has a funny turn at work and Dr Gaddas is immediately available to diagnose....low blood pressure? Early menopause? No, it's pregnancy, which is kind of funny given that Fiz's real life pregnancies have been covered by i) going to look after Cilla ii) taking Hope to some kind of special school for devil children and iii) Norwich. I can see why Fiz might not want to have another kid, given the way her firstborn turned out. Maybe it'll be a boy this time.
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