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Stacey ignores Martin when he tries to approach her. Lola clocks Stacey frantically buying dress materials for Lily’s dance show and smugly shows off Lexi’s outfit as Phil passes on the way back from the dressmakers. When Stacey blanks Martin again, Kush advises that he go after her. Back in the flat, Stacey frantically tries to finish off Lily’s dress and isn’t pleased by Martin’s arrival. Martin attempts to justify to Stacey why he suggested that she see a doctor - she’s not been herself. When Martin reminds her that she thought she was okay when things were bad before, Stacey orders him to get out. In her state, Stacey rips up Lily’s dress.

Stacey and Lily arrive at the dance show – Billy remarks on Lily’s mismatched dress. Stacey snaps at a timid Lily to go and join in; Martin and Shabnam share a concerned look. As the dance show commences, Stacey shouts at Lily to lift her head up, leading to a smug comment from Lola. Stacey snaps and storms out. As Stacey catches her troubled reflection, she makes a phone call and books herself a doctor’s appointment. Martin returns to the flat to find a crushed Stacey, disappointed in herself for making Lily feel the same way that she had felt about Jean as a child. Martin assures her that whatever happens, she’s not on her own.

Stacey finds Max in the Square Gardens and admits she’s been a state. Max reassures Stacey that she’s not off the deep-end; he’s seen her at her worst. As Stacey apologises to Lily for her behaviour at the dance show, she stumbles across Shabnam losing her temper at Kush. When Kush references Shabnam’s pregnancy hormones, Stacey is given food for thought and asks Martin to watch Lily. Stacey is fear-stricken when her pregnancy test reads positive…

A despondent Lee sits in front of an uneaten breakfast – Nancy reminds him that he can’t keep avoiding her. Nancy admits to Tamwar that it’s not a good time for her to move out and Tamwar fails to hide his disappointment.

Dressed in his army uniform, Lee sits alone in the allotments drinking beer, having not gone to work. Outside the Vic, a man approaches Linda and Nancy and introduces himself as Sergeant Major Wallace; he’s looking for Lee. Linda tries to convince Wallace to stay for a drink, but he politely declines. Nancy catches Wallace up and questions why he’s really looking for Lee, but Wallace brushes it off as nothing important.

Lee catches Wallace in the tube station and questions what he’s doing in Walford. Wallace assures Lee that he covered for his work absence to his family but that it can’t go on – he suggests that Lee speaks to a medical officer. Lee arrives back to the Vic to an enthusiastic Mick and Linda, checking that Wallace caught up with him. Lee makes his excuses and heads upstairs. Nancy finds Lee upstairs crying and begs to know what’s wrong. Lee admits that he’s been missing shifts at work.

Jane and Ian arrive in the café and Carol berates Ian for storming into her house and screaming at Cindy. Jane nervously checks whether Cindy knows about her giving Carol money; Carol assures her she doesn’t. Jane and Ian try to downplay the situation and claim that the fight with Cindy was all a misunderstanding. Ian suggests that he will apologise to Cindy but Jane declares that she’ll sort it.

Jane finds Cindy in the Butchers’ and apologises on Ian’s behalf. Cindy refuses to listen and claims that she’s been left on the outside, again. Jane invites Cindy over for dinner that evening, wanting to prove to Cindy that she belongs at home. Jane arrives back at the house and informs Ian that they have a guest for dinner – just as Cindy shows up. Ian and Jane are pleasantly surprised when Cindy informs them that she got into sixth form. When Cindy brings up Ian shouting at her and Ian suggests that he thought Jane sorted it – Cindy storms out, believing she’s nothing more than a problem to them. Cindy arrives back at the Butchers’ and immediately feels more at home.

An exhausted Kim asks Denise whether she will pop out and get nappies for her, but Denise declines – she’s got to go to a ‘back to work’ course at the job centre. Vincent arrives and Kim tries to rope him into sticking around, but Vincent claims he has a rep to meet back at the Albert. Denise is unsympathetic to Kim’s exhausted complaints on her return. Kim has a brainwave and suggests that Denise be Pearl’s Nanny, but Denise finds the idea laughable.