Reporters confront Laura about Reeve-Jones' underhand profiteering. An old woman farmer shoots herself in the foot. A woman under stress caring for a husband with Huntington's chorea falls on broken glass. Tim gets the sack because Rachel put in a complaint about him, but he still imagines his feelings are reciprocated. A Kurdish asylum seeker on hunger strike at a detention centre ends up in casualty when he bails out of a car. Laura says yes to Ash. Tim confronts Rachel in the car park at hometime, but Mike is on hand to offer Tim physical harm and he and Rachel are reunited for a night of sexual love.
—morgkslaney