'Chicken Boy'

When Jimmi comments that Daniel is particularly smartly dressed, Daniel admits he intends to go to Cybil’s funeral even though he didn’t know her that well. Daniel arrives at the funeral, much to the annoyance of Cybil’s son Malcolm (50’s) but is welcomed Cybil’s lawyer Jeremy Travelian (52).

After the service, Malcolm tells Daniel that the lawyer has requested he stay for the will reading. Only Malcolm, Daniel and the lawyer attend the reading, as Malcolm is Cybil’s only relative. Malcolm is relieved to hear that the family home has been left to him, just as it should be, but he is gobsmacked to learn that all of Cybil’s cash, more than £50,000, has been left to a speechless Daniel.

Malcolm angrily asserts that Cybil wasn’t sound of mind when she made this final will, but Jeremy assures him he presided over the change of will himself and Cybil was fine. Malcolm says he’ll fight the will, but the lawyer tells him he has few options; Cybil was fully entitled to dispose of her estate as she wished.

Malcolm then makes some dark comments about how Cybil died suddenly after coming under Daniel’s care. Outraged Daniel rightly defends himself. Daniel is still in shock as he leaves, but the enormity of his good fortune starts to sink in, shouting out in glee ‘FIFTY GRAND’.

Staff at the Campus surgery are preparing themselves for the post exam rush of ‘poorly’ students, and discussing the imminent arrival of Zara. Zara’a entrance coincides with a vomiting student, who promptly gets balled out by the new doctor. Zara then flirts with Daniel, and antagonises Michelle telling her to clean up the student’s mess.

Karen reluctantly tries to mediate an escalating row over hangover cures between Michelle and Zara, until Zara challenges Michelle to put their remedies to the test after a night on the tiles. They end the day with flaming sambucas in the Icon bar, where Zara asks more about Daniel.

Michelle warns her off saying that he is a love em and leave em type, but Zara says that’s perfect because she’s a love 'em and leave 'em type herself!

Meanwhile, Sam (13) is distraught after his mother Carol threw his father out of the family home because of his gambling addiction.

The once-happy family is in turmoil; Emma (8) is acting out, and refusing to talk, and Carol struggles to stay on top of things. Grandmother Maureen coming to stay further complicates home life, not least because she brings Sam chickens in the hope of cheering him up.

Out in the chicken’s Wendy house, Sam has created a make-believe world naming the three chickens after his Gran, mother and sister. In this fantasy world the chickens chat merrily back to him, reminding him of happier family times.

However, one of the chickens - Caroline - has stopped laying eggs and Sam becomes convinced the mother hen needs a man/rooster in her life to help her produce.

Jimmi, who lives next door, is summoned by Gran to “sort things out”, and despite having been up all night with police work, his sympathetic ear reveals the strain the family is under. When Sam overhears his mother in a pressured moment suggest getting rid of the chickens, Sam disappears off to the city farm to liberate a rooster in the hope of saving the day.

Jimmi tracks Sam and his new feathered friend down, and helps the youngster to open up about how he blames himself for his parent’s break up.

Back at the family house, Jimmi helps the family to start communicating, and admit what they’re going through. Seeing the damage his absence is doing to the children, Carol allows her husband back to the house to visit them.

It’s not a reconciliation, but the kids are thrilled none the less. Carol also kindly, but firmly tells her mother it’s time for her to go home – they’ll cope without her. And to everyone’s delight Caroline starts laying again!