11/11/2020

Jennifer’s planning a grand dinner for Ruairi’s eighteenth tomorrow. She mentions to Alice how frail Lynda sounded in her appeal about help for the Christmas show on Radio Borsetshire. Alice notices her mum is rather jumpy, and wonders what’s wrong. Jennifer comes clean about Siobhan’s CD, and admits to being worried about what’s on it. She doesn’t want Ruairi distressed any more, but she can see she needs to let him listen to it when he wants to. Alice thinks her mum’s being amazing; it’s such a difficult balance to strike. They share memories of the awful time of the affair. Alice assures her mum she doesn’t mind if she wants to slag Siobhan off – she’s every right to feel that way still. Mother and daughter have a bonding moment.
As Ben and Ruairi search for the best glass and china for Ruairi’s birthday dinner, Ben ribs Ruairi about a long call to Troy. Ruairi admits that Troy is an ex. He worries whether Ben’s ok with it, but Ben’s more than ok – it means no competition for girls! Ruairi declares he’s bisexual, so that won’t necessarily work… They banter for a bit. Ruairi hasn’t told anyone else. He thinks Brian and Jennifer will be cool with it. But he’s worried about how his birth mum would have felt. Ben assures him Siobhan would be proud whatever. But Ruairi points out that he’ll never know now, will he?