Alex Lowe

Nicola faces trouble when thousands of immigration records are wiped out, and the press start to speculate on how long she will last.

Eddy has plans this Christmas and wants to stay at home with Saffy and her granddaughter.

Mark gets into online gaming and live role play with Dobby and wonders whether she may be the one. Later, Mark and Sophie finally sort out their annulment, while Jeremy is brainwashed, loosely speaking, and joins a cult.

With their relationship in trouble, Terry is forced to reconnect with an old friend at the same time as Gemma investigates crimes solo; when Gemma teams up with Monica, they discover shocking activities in Terry's past.

Belle throws herself into a vampire role play, but the appointment comes to a sticky end. Meanwhile, relations between her and Ben are still frosty and with the handsome and predatory Harry back on the scene and the minx-like Poppy close by, will temptation get the better of them?