Frank Butcher goes to Kings Cross to me et Diane Butcher. She does not turn up but Frank is unaware that Diane is stood a few metres away standing at the side of a ticket station. She is dishevelled, having been on the streets for the past 3 months. We flashback to January 1990, almost 3 months before, and see Diane living on the streets of London where she meets Northerner Disa O'Brien and her friend Jackson.