27 January 2014

Sioned watches from the door of the Deri as a taxi arrives;  she goes over and tells her mother it is a shame she did not stay away longer, then stalks off.   Colin welcomes Eileen back, and Jim appears;  Debbie asks, “What sort of bloke lets a women go on her own?”   Upstairs in the flat, Eileen tries to avoid Jim, and in answer to all his hopes for their future simply says, “I can’t marry you, Jim.   It’s not what I want any more;  I’ve made my decision.”   She takes off the ring and returns it to him, adding, “Every time I get close to someone, it all falls apart,” so she is doing this to avoid hurting him.

Gaynor is not keen to return to work, and visits the doctor, who gives her another week and tells her to relax.   As she and Hywel head for the Deri, Colin jokes that she is malingering.   In the Deri, Jinx tries to persuade Iolo to be interviewed in the studio, but he and Kevin refuse, so Jinx talks to Colin live on air about his rescue. 

Colin the superhero rather exaggerating his rescue mission

Colin exaggerates how he overcame tremendous odds and carried Kevin three, four or five miles, and how he would have stayed searching all night.   The radio in the Deri is on, and when Jinx invites callers, Debbie rings, pretending to be Deborah, saying what a hero Colin is, and how she would get lost just to have him rescue her, much to the amusement of the other pub customers.   Colin reveals that he is “middle-aged, free and single!”   When he arrives in the Deri afterwards, as the listeners cheer him, he says one woman was throwing herself at him;  Debbie stifles her laughter.   He also remarks that Gaynor and Hywel look very well, for people who are ill.

Sioned and Angela are getting on well and have watched a film;  Sioned is disappointed that Eileen is back, but Angela is not so hard-hearted towards her.   As Sioned hopes that Angela will not let Eileen spoil things between them, Jim arrives and pleads with them to talk to Eileen, accusing Angela of ruining his life before and trying to do it again.   

He tells Sioned that the way she has treated her mother is a disgrace, but Sioned replies, “She brought it on herself!”   When Jim says that Eileen has dumped him, and is talking nonsense about their being better off without her, Sioned comments, “That doesn’t sound like nonsense to me!   Perhaps she met someone over there.”  

Jim pleads for the sisters to talk to their mother

Jim is desperate and cannot just stand by and let her give up, but Sioned and Angela will do nothing to help him, Sioned describing her as “poison!”   Jim reminds her that she tried to kill her mother, and storms out.

Back at the flat, Eileen tells him she did not meet anyone, but that this is best for everyone;  Jim insists that he loves her, and that is not going to change, but Eileen tells him they both have to forget things.   He relates how Courtney is growing up and does not need him;  he thought Eileen did.   Her response is, “You’d better go,” and as he does, Eileen is in tears.