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Out in the fields David waxes lyrical about Magic Day grass, but notices how distracted Pip is. It鈥檚 obvious when Pip makes mistakes that something鈥檚 wrong, and she finally admits that she鈥檚 found a lump in her breast. She reassures emotional David that she鈥檚 having it looked into. Pip doesn鈥檛 want to worry Ruth, but David feels she鈥檇 want to know. Later Pip gently berates David for tiptoeing around her, trying to encourage normality. Pip doesn鈥檛 want to stir up old memories for Ruth, but admits to feeling in limbo herself.

Khalil goes round to see Fletcher the budgie, with a bell as a gift for him. Awkward Lynda starts to explain that Fletcher can鈥檛 stay. However, she can鈥檛 bring herself to disappoint Khalil.

Azra鈥檚 grateful to Lynda for talking to her again about her mental health initiative, following Lynda鈥檚 help with the radio interview. They brainstorm ideas for going out into the community with a stall and recruiting key people like Ben Archer. Lynda encourages Azra to communicate directly with people, before admitting her dismal failure in communicating with Khalil earlier about the budgie. This is news to Azra who takes Khalil round to Ambridge Hall later, insisting he apologise to Lynda and, separately, to absent Robert. Azra then says they鈥檒l take the bird off Lynda鈥檚 hands. Fletcher can stay with Azra until Khalil finds a friend who will take him on. As Azra and Khalil depart, Khalil bets that Azra will secretly love Fletcher, while Lynda mutters a sad farewell to the bird.