Episode 99

Extended Summary

Pippa tells Tom, who is working on the road gang, he’s needed at home to help with the situation Nico has created. In the caravan, Floss and Neville run their eyes over the damage that Nico has created. Nico calls himself a “ning-nong”, but Lynn, who is wearing a jacket like the cover of a Jacqueline Wilson novel, tells him to stop it.

At the Stewart House, Celia is cleaning the cutlery as Ailsa has never met Barbara and Morag. Alf says he isn’t looking forward to both of them arriving at the same time and the fighting it usually brings. Celia then gets upset that no one turned up to the extra rehearsals.

The Fletcher’s and the McPhee’s redecorate Frank’s caravan. They then say it was all Nico’s idea and Frank is really pleased. He says it’s the best wedding present he could ever get. However, Frank appears to think he won’t get the job he was away interviewing for and Frank begins to wish he had tried harder at school and got some qualifications. Tom then changes the subject and decides that they are going to need to decide how they are going to break the news to Nico that he can’t stay at the caravan park any longer. Carly says she doesn’t care as she’s going on her date. Neville walks in and show Frank a job vacancy he has seen in the newspaper as a dispatch clerk. Frank doesn’t seem sure he’d get, but Neville leaves the paper and tells everyone that Nico is pleased he’s back in everyone’s good books again.

Celia has made Alf a casserole since Ailsa is stock-taking. Alf offers her a drink and Alf mentions that Fisher told him that kids stood her up at the rehearsal that afternoon and that’s what she was really upset at. Alf tells her that she is a perfectionist, but that the kids aren’t going to take it so seriously. Celia decides that she’ll resign the other day, but Alf says that what she actually needs is a collaborator and that he’ll find her one.

Lynn, Tom and Pippa say talk about Nico going back to the farm. Carly arrives down for her date, and they all comment on her outfit. Matt arrives and takes Carly on her date. That night, Tom says he’s been letting life “lead him by the nose”, which gives Pippa a brainwave has to how they can get rid of Nico. Matt and Carly in the kitchen talking about their date, when Tom and Frank come down and ask Matt to come with them. Nico lies in bed and Jessie can be heard moo-ing. The next morning he wakes up and finds that she’s gone. Nico is all worried about Nico disappearing and the Fletcher’s organise a search. They go to the Pappas farm and find Jessie there. Tom says it looks like Jessie likes the farm, and Nico moves back. Lynn is upset and storms off. Later, she is tidying Nico’s caravan and says how she’s upset everyone tricked him into going to back and how they’ve made her lie to her friend. Pippa says they needed to lie to him so that Nico kept his self-esteem and that lying to him was powered by love. Tom says he’s got a job interview as Alf turns up at the caravan park and Alf finds the women he was looking for. Frank comes downstairs; he’s decided to go for the job after all.

Alf arrives at The Stewart House and tells Celia he’s found her collaborator. Floss walks in singing and dancing and Celia’s face drops. She is less than pleased.