When Helen Tudor-Fisk's life falls apart, she takes a job in a small suburban firm specialising in wills and probate, assuming that because the clients are dead she won't have to deal with people.

Helen mediates a case about division of cremains, between a bereaved daughter and the new, much younger partner of her dead father; Helen has an awkward family lunch at her dad and Viktor's house.

Helen meets with a woman who is demanding power of attorney over her mother, and attends her ex-husband William's writer's festival run by literary interlocutor Lindy Baxter-Smythe.

The office is abuzz because their favourite temp Peggy is coming in to help out with a deceased estate. Helen doesn't understand what's so fun about Fun Peggy, but everyone else, including George, thinks she's a hoot.

Helen meets formidable opposing counsel Alice Pike, and stumbles upon Roz's passion project: an all-woman harmony group for funerals called The Sadrigals.

Gruber & Gruber is nominated for a Small Business Award; Helen consults with a man who believes he is the son of a famous newsreader; at Dad's house, Helen meets personal trainer Blayden Tork.