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Jacqui confides in Max, who agrees to confront Susannah. Kevin and Andrew's mother visits, hoping to persuade Kevin to withdraw his allegations against his stepfather. Diane feels like a failure because she still isn't pregnant, and Tim and Emily move on again when a pub landlord tries to take advantage of Emily.

While Sinbad reflects with Carmel that everything he has tried to do has gone disastrously wrong, Emily and Tim call on their old "mate" Brian. When he refuses to give them money, Emily cause his wife and children to leave him by revealing that he is secretly gay.

Darren tells Susannah he is now back with Victoria, but she offers to call off her wedding to Mick for him. Diane and Marty are referred to a fertility clinic, but are told they may not qualify for NHS treatment. Max's confrontation with Susannah leads to Jacqui being told she is never seeing Harry again.

When Barbara tells Sinbad she has fallen in love with him, and Kevin's stepfather turns up, threatening to harm Andrew unless he changes his story, Sinbad is convinced that he should move in with them, and leaves the Close forever. Tim and Emily return to Liverpool, and go to the police station to confess to their crimes.

Mick regrets doubting Sinbad. When Ron finds out that Rachel has been calling her mother a lot, she resolves to raise the money to repay him. Discovering that Susannah hasn't gone to the police after all, Emily tries to prevent Tim revealing all their crimes - but she is too late. Jimmy writes his autobiography.

Jessie tells Emily she must stay away from Tim, but Susannah tries to convince Mick to give him a chance. Rachel asks Bev for her old job back, but Leanne persuades Bev to turn down her request. Karen is not impressed with the history assignment Jimmy helped Adele with. Jerome discovers that Mick plans to sell up - so where will he and Nikki go?

Ron tells Rachel that her good, honest, unexciting face would make her an ideal "Great Granny". About to go and have a vasectomy, Mick confronts Susannah with his suspicions, but she reassures him. When Jimmy re-enacts the storming of the Walker Art Gallery with Karen's class in her absence, she sacks him.

In a special double-length episode, Jimmy puts on a suit, goes to the school, and barricades himself in with a class of pupils. Then he climbs up onto the roof and prepares to end it all....... When Adele confesses that Emily threatened her while burgling Cheryl's house, Diane confronts Jessie - just as the Shadwicks are consulting a retired solicitor in the hope of putting all the blame on Tim.

Jimmy is prevented from stepping off the roof, and Jackie gives Darren her permission that he should be sectioned. While Susannah and Mick are at a dinner party with Victoria, Diane provides a shoulder for Jacqui to cry on. Kylie sees Shelley and Lindsey kissing, and Emily changes the statement she has made to the police.

After arguing with Mick about whether Harry and Emma should be educated privately, Susannah starts drinking. But when she summons Darren on the pretext that Harry is not well, Victoria comes with him. Jackie can't bear to be around Jimmy.

Rachel takes Beth with her to work, and breaks a valuable vase. Diane tells Jacqui how Susannah treated Harry when she visited her after drinking. Jimmy, diagnosed with bi-polar disorder / manic depression, blames Jackie for the way he has ended up. Anthony, Josh and Kylie all attempt to collect money using very different Guys.

Lindsey has to go on a course, but Shelley is only too willing to stay over with Jackie. Katrina resolves her past differences with Susannah, even though Jacqui collects Harry from the nursery, without her or Max's knowledge, to take photographs of him with his "real" mother.

Ron threatens to take legal action when half of his tree is pruned. Diane optimistically assures Adele that no-one is going to laugh at her Hallowe'en costume. When the kids knock on Kitty's door to "trick or treat", she gives them laxative chocolates. Shelley tries to convince Jackie that they have feelings for each other, and Susannah confesses to Victoria that she has been sleeping with Darren.

Victoria pressures Darren to reveal more about his fling. Susannah reveals to Diane that Jacqui sold her baby for &pound

Jacqui resolves to buy baby Harry back from Susannah. Emily can't believe that her father meant nothing to Susannah. Darren fears that Susannah may be about to wreck his career as well as his relationship with Victoria. Max can't believe that Susannah's third marriage is going to be to someone else. And Mick looks forward to his wedding to Susannah, blissfully unaware that she has been two-timing him.

Susannah's first visitor makes her an offer - she wants to buy back her baby, who was never officially adopted, and for whom Susannah has proved herself to be an unfit mother. But Susannah tells her she knows nothing at all about the boy, he is no longer her son, and she is a selfish, greedy cow who will only get him back over her dead body.

Susannah's second visitor tries to convince her that she cannot really love him, and is seriously deluded, if she intends to destroy his career in the medical profession. She is only using him as an excuse not to get married, and there is no way that he is going to allow someone so cheap and nasty to threaten him.

Susannah's third visitor has had second thoughts about marrying her, as her current carrying-on with someone else can only be an indication of what lies ahead. He has put his home on the market, and he has had a vasectomy for her - but others already know what a fool he has been to be taken in by a tired old slapper, who he now hates more than he has ever hated anyone.

Susannah's fourth visitor learns that there isn't going to be a wedding after all. She reminds Susannah that everyone knows she was cheated on by her husband, yet she still went ahead and put another woman through the same humiliation, causing a whole family who loved their father to have him taken away from them. For that, she deserves to die!

Susannah's fifth visitor regrets everything he has ever done to hurt her. He knows that although she is no longer going to marry another man, he has let her down so many times in the past, and there is now no way that she is ever going to marry him for a third time either. But is accepting that their relationship is over, and putting on a brave face, his only option?

Jimmy resigns himself to a life without Jackie. Lindsey makes a distressing discovery on the sheets of her mother's bed. Susannah's sister, Lisa, and her mother, Daphne, arrive for her wedding - but discover that Mick is brawling with Darren, the marriage has been called off at the last minute, and the bride-not-to-be has mysteriously disappeared.

Diane wants to obtain official confirmation that she is pregnant, so Marty waylays Darren. Jackie explains away what Lindsey has found, and discourages her from chasing after Shelley. Bev tries to discover the identity of Shelley's other woman, and Leanne sends Lance to collect some of Harry and Emma's clothes from Susannah's.......

Brigid is disappointed that she seems to have been the last to be told about Diane's pregnancy. Ron has an embarrassing ethical question to ask Darren, and wants Jacqui to suggest to Katie and Clint that they have sex more quietly. Lance returns from Susannah's with bad news - he has forgotten something!

Just as romance seems to be in the air for Jacqui, she finds herself in a room full of "Doctor Who" fans. Lindsey gets closer to finding out the truth about Shelley, and Max finally manages to locate what he went back to find at number 7, although he is mystified as to why it isn't where he thought it would be.