Episode 4858 (17th July 2000)

Plot
Dennis spends the night in his campervan, parked outside Audrey's Salon, to her annoyance. Audrey springs an idea for the newspaper column into Ken's head after a conversation about the new Health Centre. The pressure of lying to his father gets to Mark when Mike lays in to him about the business, and he walks out of the office. Mike attempts to give Mark a chance to say what's on his mind and reassure him that he's getting better and not about to die at any moment. Toyah forces herself to be enthusiastic that Spider has been recommended for a promotion. On the spur of the moment Gary goes to see Paula in Blackpool. He finds her with her boyfriend, Lewis Martin, who aggressively tells Gary that only he'll be taking Paula out from now on. Dejected Gary starts to fight Lewis when he pushes Paula around. They police are called and Gary is arrested and cautioned. Eric Sutherland jokingly tells Tyrone that if he is to give his blessing for Tyrone and Maria's engagement, he wants to do a fair swap, Maria for Monica. Tyrone agrees to the swap, impressing Mr Sutherland who tells him he was only kidding. Paula tells Gary that Lewis doesn't mean anything to her but he isn't interested any more. Spider suggests to Toyah that they should think about getting a mortgage and a place of their own now that he would have extra money from his promotion. She's surprised by his attitude. A dismayed Gary tells Emily that he doesn't think he will ever be lucky in love again as he had his one chance with Judy and there will never be anyone like her for him again.