Mick is released from prison and Janice grudgingly accepts a lift from Clive to go and meet him though, thanks to Donald's navigation, they end up getting lost. Michael covers his tattoo in a bandage and begs Janice not to tell his father but he and Tiger still run riot, stealing cigarettes and raiding the office whilst the Dykes' daughter Bianca arrives and is mistaken for a prostitute. Mateo is angry when Joyce employs hunky young Jason as a barman on a week's trial as he is a hit with the ladies and better at making cocktails. Les introduces Mateo to a friend who will school him to beat the younger man at a cocktails shaking contest but in the meantime Kenneth discovers that Jason is a wanted man and provides information that will remove him from the Solanas.

Joyce takes a three day break leaving Les in charge. He is not very good, accidentally attacking Clive and being coerced by Bianca into sacking Mateo for flirting with her, though a full-scale protest with television coverage leads to his reinstatement. The Stewarts prepare to scatter the ashes of a deceased friend but the wind blows away the box, opening it to reveal what appears to be a severed head - actually Les's new wig, as the boxes got mixed up, All this determines Joyce to return to work early, with old flame Cyril, who has escaped from a Thai prison. Madge, meanwhile, is untypically nice to everybody, believing she is terminally ill, but, as she breaks the news to the Garveys a fight breaks out, due to Les's incompetence.