Mike and Susan return from London. She starts to look for a job. Curly is depressed that Susan has fallen for Mike. Audrey has to flirt with Alf to get him to agree to looking at a house to buy. He is stunned when it turns out to be a large detached one. George and Pauline Walsh plan a holiday away together. Audrey falls in love with 11 Bolton Road but Alf refuses to pay £42,000 for a house. Phyllis discovers that Sam won a fortune on the pools in the 1950s. Mike doesn't like the idea of Susan looking for a job. She tells him that he has to accept her independence.