S1, F4: A chance meeting with his old schoolfriend, James Steerforth (Oliver Milburn), leads to David being invited todinner with Steerforth’s mother (Cherie Lunghi). David also discovers from Agnes that her father’s clerk, thelurking and evil Uriah Heep (Nicholas Lyndhurst), is to become a partner in her father’s business - and the stage isset for a bitter battle.