13/10/2024

Despite Neil’s best intentions Emma’s irritated by his concern for her. She tells him there was a fight when George phoned on Friday and the prison went into lockdown. Neil suggests George might be safer locked in his cell, but this doesn’t allay Emma’s fears. Emma angrily tells Neil she wishes they’d never persuaded her to call the police on George, then asks Neil to go.

Crossing the yard Neil bumps into Clarrie, helps carry her shopping inside, then has a funny turn and has to sit down. Over tea and cake Clarrie suggests Neil goes to the doctor. He thinks it’s just down to worrying over what’s happened since making Emma report George, but Clarrie assures Neil, doing the right thing can never be wrong, even if Emma blames them right now. To Clarrie, later, Emma admits how hard she’s finding everything. Clarrie hugs her, it’s going to be okay.

Will and Ed visit Elizabeth at Lower Loxley to ask for advice on getting the prison to help George. Elizabeth sympathises, but based on her own experience with Freddie suggests there is very little they can do to change things. What they can do is be there for George and support him to get through his sentence. It also means living their lives as normally as possible, so that George will know what he’s coming back to when he’s released. Later, Will and Ed discuss Poppy’s ideas for celebrating Apple Day. With George in prison Will’s against it, but Ed says it’s all part of keeping things normal and persuades Will to go along with it.