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Dawn returns from holiday and informs her mum that although she can never be happy for her and Terry, she will accept it for now. Later, she confides in Jamie that her future plans mean that she won’t have to tolerate the situation much longer. Over at the Dingles’, Debbie storms out with a final threat to Cain that she hasn’t forgotten his betrayal. She reminds Cain that the rest of the village will be disgusted to learn of his affair with Jasmine. Debbie is offered a bed at Home Farm with Chas. Meanwhile, Shadrach, Beryl and Barney have a lucky escape as they flee from a truffle hunt. Later, Shadrach secretly plots his revenge when he overhears the Chugspokes making fun of him.

After Shadrach fakes a sore leg, the Chugspokes go on the truffle hunt alone. He finds their secret stash before Beryl and Barney are caught by the ground keepers and banished by the Dingles. Beryl is suspicious of Shadrach's scheming but he is thanked by Zak and Lisa. Meanwhile, Bob overhears Jamie telling Scott that Dawn is moving away. He is devastated and heads off to try and change her mind. Scott deviously tells Terry who confronts Dawn in The Woolpack. They argue and later, Terry drops a bombshell that could change everything. Also, Del and Val are concerned that Pearl has lost their money in an internet company. Pearl agrees to show them the website.

Terry and Jean argue over Terry's custody battle with Dawn. Later, Jean tells Dawn who threatens to bring up her mother's relationship in court. When Terry finds out about their conversation he is livid and demands to know who Jean will support in court. Meanwhile, Pearl sabotages the factory computer so Del and Val are unable to check their investments. Pearl hatches a plan and borrows some money from Danny. He is under the impression that the money is for an anniversary present for Len. Elsewhere Belle uncovers Shadrach’s involvement in the truffle scam. After questioning the scoundrel she teases a confession that he planned to steal Petal. After she informs the rest of the Dingles, Shadrach is left with a very fitting punishment.

Pearl is delighted when her gamble pays off, but after the bookmaker convinces her to make further bets she ends up in a lot of debt. Meanwhile, Terry resigns himself to the fact that Dawn and TJ are moving away. Shadrach is forced to wait on Belle hand and foot. Matthew and Tom have a civil conversation; Matthew being pleased at their progress makes Sadie feel uneasy.

Pearl avoids confessing to Len about the trouble she is in, and at the factory things get worse when Val tells Del about the scam. Later, the two of them tell Len everything and he takes Danny with him to find her. Meanwhile, Jack and Zak have to conjure up another plan to sabotage the development after the estate agent returns. She is initially impressed with the tour of the site until she finds a drunken Shadrach relieving himself against one of the houses. Also, Bob is worried about Viv as she considers IVF treatment. However, Viv is adamant and demands that the tests continue.

Jimmy confronts Jack over his involvement in Shadrach’s antics. Jack is pleased to have wound Jimmy up, but denies any part when a digger attacks the show house. The pair exchange words outside The Woolpack and things are about to get violent before Diane separates them. Jimmy tells Carl that the show house will be ready in time. Meanwhile, Viv is told that she could never carry a baby even if she became pregnant. She gets upset, feeling that she has failed Bob. In an attempt to cheer her up Bob resorts to the only option they have left. Elsewhere, Len is angry and upset that nobody told him about Pearl’s problems. Later, he and Danny ring around, desperate to find her.

Viv welcomes Kelly back from Italy but immediately requests for her to be a surrogate for her and Bob. Kelly is horrified and tells Bob about the incident. Bob confronts Viv and they agree to find a more appropriate surrogate. Over at the Kings’, Jimmy lies to Tom and Carl that an engineer has inspected the damaged show home. Jimmy becomes stressed as he tries to sell his prize draw tickets and when Jack winds him up he becomes short of breath and collapses. The worried Kings rally around. Meanwhile, Sadie is stunned when Cain threatens that if she doesn’t sleep with him, he’ll tell Tom that she asked him to damage the show home.

Donna and Marlon discover that they have won a house in the prize draw. However, their joy soon turns to shock when they discover they still have to pay £6,000 as a deposit. After struggling to borrow the money the couple are left wondering where to turn for help. Meanwhile, Viv and Bob are shocked to discover the mammoth cost of a surrogate as well as the slender legal position they would be in as parents. That evening Donna finds Viv drunk and crying. After Edna criticises the surrogacy idea,

Sadie offers Cain some money if he agrees to leave her alone. This angers Cain and he later convinces Jimmy that they are having an affair. Jimmy asks him to prove it. Meanwhile, Marlon is astonished when Donna tells him that she agreed to be Viv and Bob’s surrogate. After he calms down she convinces him that this will help her mother and get them a dream house as well. The couple hand over the deposit cheque to Carl. Also, Debbie is upset when Scott hires an apprentice, Wayne. After Wayne tries to chat her up she uses it to her advantage and shares all of Scott's horror stories with him. Later, she watches in glee when, after Wayne mentions Zoe, Scott fires him. Debbie is thrilled when she is offered the job as Scott's new apprentice.

Sadie receives a text from Cain asking to meet her in a country lane. He blackmails her into kissing him and, as she does, they hear a click and see a flash. A smug Jimmy has managed to capture the moment on camera. That evening, Sadie and Matthew have dinner at Home Farm and Jimmy enjoys watching Sadie sweat as he gets out his camera. Meanwhile, Viv lectures Donna on treating her body with special care in order to prepare for the baby. As she tells Donna what she can and can’t eat and drink, Donna begins to wonder if she's doing the right thing. Ashley is worried about Jasmine. When he witnesses a row between her and Debbie he tries to get to the bottom of the problem. A worried Rodney continues to press Eric about planning permission.

Sadie asks Cain to tell Jimmy that he's got it wrong about them being a couple. Cain refuses and says that if Matthew asks, he’ll say they’ve been at it for weeks. Later on, Sadie gets revenge on Cain by letting slip to Ashley that she has heard that Jasmine has been seeing Cain. Furious, Ashley storms round to the pub and he grabs Cain, slamming him against the bar. Cain snidely insists that Jasmine was gagging for it, so Ashley sends him backwards into the counter with a punch. Meanwhile, Zak and Lisa are appalled by Cain's behaviour and kick him out of the house. Zak tells him that he brings shame to the Dingle name and he disowns him. Cain drives away from the village, but not before telling Sadie that he can’t wait until she loses everything.

Jasmine apologises to Debbie and tells her that Cain only did it to get at her. She tells Debbie that she feels used and breaks down as she explains that she knows how it feels to lose your family as now Laurel and Ashley are fighting and may split up. Meanwhile, the atmosphere is tense between Laurel and Ashley and, despite Laurel making it clear that she is sorry, Ashley refuses to accept her apology. Laurel protests that she didn’t tell him because she knew he would over react. Questioning Adam’s nurse, Alan is shocked when she tells him that Terence had gone to the surgery on 9th April, remembering the date as it was her mother's birthday. Alan demands to see Adam.

Alan is desperate for Steph to get out of the clinic and he says he will help her to pass her assessment. However, Steph has become institutionalized and isn’t sure she wants to leave. Alan eventually convinces her that she must fight and she gets out by saying she made the whole thing up and only said Adam killed Terence to get his attention. Meanwhile, Jamie asks Katie to do a few night shifts at the café. She agrees, but Andy looks decidedly uncomfortable with his wife's decision.

At the B&B, Steph searches through Adam's belongings, sure that Terence had unveiled a dark secret and looking for evidence. Steph eventually finds two passports, one is in the name of Adam Forsythe, the other Peter Jones. Adam comes home and Steph demands an explanation. Steph forces a full confession out of Adam who’ is unaware that she has concealed a tape recorder. Steph calmly kisses Adam, but he grabs her wrists.

Steph tries to persuade Adam to let her go, offering to run away with him so they can escape the murder charge. Feeling he can trust her, Adam unties Steph. She checks the dictaphone is still on and then bashes Adam over the head with the nearest heavy object she finds. Steph takes the tape of Adam's confession to the police, but things don't work out as planned. Jo plays on Andy's insecurity by suggesting Katie finds him boring. Dawn tells Donna about the new man in her life and her plans to start over in Newquay. Terry is furious when Dawn's new boyfriend arrives in the village, and soon learns they're leaving for Cornwall tomorrow. Sadie fears rejection by the Kings as Matthew is welcomed back into the fold.

Sadie goes to see Jimmy to ask him to stop blackmailing her. He tells her that he’ll delete the photo of her and Cain if she sleeps with him, insisting it must happen today. Sadie has no choice but to agree to meet him in an hour. She pops home only to find that Matthew has prepared them a romantic meal. He gets out a diamond ring and asks her to marry him.

The villagers gather at the King's show house opening and as Tom welcomes everyone, he takes the opportunity to announce that Matthew and Sadie have got engaged. A frustrated Jimmy is still determined to get what he wants from Sadie and he follows her upstairs and pushes her into the showroom bathroom. As Noreen is waiting for the toilet to become vacant she busies herself by opening the airing cupboard door.

Jack and Andy arrive at the devastating scene and begin frantically searching through the debris for Diane. Meanwhile, Dawn is pulled from the wreckage and a relieved Bob rushes over as his daughter tells him that she is alive. As Dawn is rushed to hospital with Bob by her side, the Kings are still looking for Jimmy. John, a rescue worker, shouts that he has found a hand. Val recognises it as Diane's and when John tells her that Diane is breathing through an air hole,

The entire village is rocked with grief and devastation as they desperately try to come to terms with the loss of lives following the house collapse. Jack, after spotting the Health and Safety Executive in the pub, makes sure they know about the JCB banging into the show house. Meanwhile, Carl and Matthew realise they're going to need to get a solicitor. When the Health and Safety Executive arrive at Home Farm they question Tom and his sons about the JCB incident. Carl tells them that Jimmy got a structural engineer in after the incident. Elsewhere, Sam becomes annoyed with Alice when he finds her planning her own funeral. He tells her that he supported her through the wing walk and has always been there to hold her hand but he just can't cope with this.

Carl and Matthew come to terms with the fact that if Jimmy didn't repair the house properly after the JCB incident, King & Sons are in serious trouble. Later that day, Matthew becomes suspicious of whether his fiancé, Sadie, was having an affair with Cain and he questions him. Cain, however, just cryptically tells Matthew that he should find Jimmy's camera.

Sam is angry that Alice is dying and he is convinced that he will be useless without her. Shadrach, showing he does has a sensitive side, gives an upset Alice a notebook to record all her motherly advice she would give Samson as he's growing up so he won’t be without a mother.

The police tell Alan that they have found Terence's body in the foundations of the show home. Alan is scared that Steph will now get blamed for his death. Meanwhile, at the B&B, the police arrive to take Steph away for questioning about Terence's death. Over at the Dingles’, Sam catches Cain taking money from the Dingles’ pot. Eli also witnesses this and wades in, overpowering Cain and getting the money back. Zak, however, is not impressed and tries to reassert his place as head of the family deciding that it is time that Eli moves out. Sam is gutted, but after seeing Sam and Eli say their goodbyes, Zak reneges and allows Eli to stay.

The villagers organise a meeting. They want to take the Kings to court over the deaths at the development. Jack begins by filling the villagers in on what his solicitor had said yesterday. Grayson, however, intervenes and informs the villagers that they will need excellent legal advice to bring the Kings to justice and even then it will be a long drawn out process. Meanwhile, at the meeting, Eli lashes out at Tom before squaring up to Matthew when the latter arrives. Marlon tries to convince Eli that violence isn't the answer but, when things at the meeting look doomed before they have begun, Eli tells Marlon that he should take matters into his own hands. Even though her father is adamant that she is innocent, when Steph is released on bail and heads to The Woolpack, the villagers are disgusted to see her.

The police discover that Adam had been practicing medicine under his late father's name and question Steph but it is clear that she didn't know about Adam's past. Later that day, the police tell Alan that they believe Terence was blackmailing Adam and that this still leaves Steph and Adam with a motive for his murder. Meanwhile, Danny tries to convince Len to find Pearl but Len just utters that it is better if she stays away as there will just be a lynch mob waiting for her. Danny suggests they could pay off Pearl's debts to her friends.