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25th February 2002: To celebrate Rita Sullivan's birthday, she went on a girls' day out with Emily Bishop, Blanche Hunt and Betty Williams. Rita drove and Blanche insisted on navigating though she took them totally the wrong way. They were stopped by a young man, Johnny James, who had run out of petrol and needed to get to the hospital to see his mother who had just been rushed in. The women dragooned Rita into giving him a lift but she panicked when she saw his holdall was full of money and, realising the game was up, Johnny pulled the gun on them that he had just used in his post office robbery. He insisted they get out of the car but Emily, her memory going back to Ernest Bishop's death, froze in the back seat and Johnny was about to drive off with her when Rita snatched the ignition key out of the lock. Johnny called her a "stupid cow" which caused Rita to see red. She hit Johnny repeatedly with the car door and then her bag, during which time the pursuing police caught up with him and he was arrested. The police told the women they had been both brave but stupid, tackling an armed robber, but Blanche retorted that by the time they'd arrived they might have needed to use four body-bags. Upon hearing this, Emily passed out...
 * For more information see Episode 5220 (25th February 2002).