Sally decides to try running a bed and breakfast at Tale Farm. When there is a flea plague at Merinda, Julia, Doug and Allie are saved from a night at the pub when Helen invites them to be Sally's first customers. Annie comes to an understanding of how important hope and positive thinking are to Roger and Carol, even in the face of the incurable MND diagnosis. Guy, looking for somewhere to live, persuades Mon to take him on for a trial period. Julia and Doug's stay at Tale Farm is shaping up as hard work. Realising that Mon's feelings about William are unresolved, Wayne persuades him to come back and talk to her. Mon listens to William, under duress, but is not yet ready to forgive him.