Brendan prepares to resign if the hospital board votes to appoint Judy Loveday the new deputy matron. Fortunately for Brendan, despite a panel stacked in Judy's favour, Brendan wins on account of Judy's sexist uncle voting against her. Shirley arrives to pick up Frank's eccentric aunt at the bus terminal but watches her arrive on the back of a motorcycle after having been left behind at the last stop. Former cricket player Des Ward, whose career was ended when he was shot in the knee, refuses Frank's invitation to work with the local youth team. Molly successfully talks her way through a visit from an inspector of the Egg Marketing Board. Terence is beset by visitors while recovering in hospital and is taken to recuperate at Marta's after he is released.