S04E07: Amber is shocked by Lucy

Shannon is lapping up her life as a celebrity – it’s just one good cause after another. But her over enthusiastic goodwill gesture of ‘Adopting a Granny’ has backfired. Mrs Birkeham looks like she has her slippers well under the table. After being woken up yet again by another song from Mrs Birkeham’s hero, Lionel Blair, Harley pleads with Shannon to show the pesky pensioner the door – she’s really outstayed her welcome now! Shannon refuses; she doesn’t want Mrs Birkeham gone until the documentary is finished.

Roger’s adamant that he won’t play Seb for the upcoming European match even though he could do with every player he can get for the biggest game of the season so far. Once alone, Seb asks Jackie why she kissed him! Furiously, Jackie accuses him of using the fact that he was drunk to take advantage of her. Having ruffled Jackie’s feathers, Seb continues with his plan to destroy the Webb family unit and gives baby Paddy some felt-tip pens and Roger’s most prized scrap-book. The inevitable of course happens and Jackie is distraught when she finds Roger smacking poor Paddy. When Roger storms out, Seb is on hand to console his step-mum, all the while hiding his glee at driving a wedge between the newly-weds.

Lucy thinks that she has at last found a soul mate. She knows that the likelihood of meeting a genuine man over the Internet is full of risk, but when it comes down to the crunch, can she really go through with it? She watches Giles from afar, but time and her nerves are against her and she stands the poor man up. Lucy is alarmed when she hears on the radio that Bruno has given away a penalty and realises that she has to get to the ground as soon as possible – Bruno is convinced that she is his lucky charm.

The lads lose the game and are out of Europe. Roger blames Bruno, but Conrad is blaming management. Frustrated and angry, Roger completely loses it and throws a shampoo bottle at Conrad. Afterwards, Jackie does her best to console her husband but she hasn’t really forgiven him for hitting Paddy. Seb feels vindicated by the Sparks’ loss – Roger should have played him. But his smug smile is like a red rag to Roger’s bull. To everyone else, it looks like the manager is losing it. Bruno meanwhile is worried about the financial implications of an early exit from Europe and Lucy can only console him as he cries like a baby.

Seb continues to stir things up at home by telling Jackie the truth about his steroid use, spinning the story so that he comes out looking hard done by. Annoyed that Roger has been lying to her, Jackie tells him that he must stop punishing Seb for his mistake – he has to move on or risk drawing attention to the situation. Roger can’t argue with Jackie’s logic, but he’s sick of people telling him what to do and blows up at her. Seb is well pleased when Jackie goes to spend the night in the spare room. The following day, Jackie receives a heart-shaped necklace and a ‘sorry’ note, but her heart sinks when she realises that it isn’t from Roger, but Seb. When she goes to tell Seb to take the necklace back, she’s disconcerted to find him naked.

Amber is shocked when Lucy tells her that she nearly met up with Giles – how does she know that he’s really a doctor and not some lying psychopath? But when Giles’s background checks out, she finally agrees to meet with him. Lucy finds Giles’s sensitivity a breath of fresh air and there’s a definite spark between them. When they meet again for a pleasure cruise down the Thames, Giles tells an increasingly smitten Lucy about his wife’s death in a car accident.

With Conrad and the lads plotting behind his back, Roger finds that he is dreading the imminent board meeting. The meeting is tough – will Roger still have a job? It may also be touch and go whether he’ll still have a wife when Jackie receives a package from Seb. It appears that Roger is having an affair as the contents are a pair of his pants, returned by a spurned lover.

There are sighs of relief all round when Shannon and Harley at last manage to get rid of Mrs Birkeham. As a final token of goodwill they arrange a party and invite a very special guest – Lionel Blair. But the excitement proves too much for the pensioner’s dicky heart and she collapses and tragically dies.

Lucy goes to meet Bruno at the club only to find a surprise guest there too – it’s Giles. Is she on the verge of being found out?