The high emotions of the week become too much for Scott who finds himself involved in a fight with Paddy. Dawn tries to break it up but ends up being punched in the face. For once Scott’s usually overprotective mother sees that her son is in the wrong. Viv tells him that from now on he is on his own. There is a knock on the door and Viv answers to two police officers. They tell Scott that he is under arrest for assault and as he is lead off he pleads with his mother to help him. Viv is unable to look him in the eye as he is dragged away. Meanwhile, Val decides chatting up a wealthy business man could be the answer to her money worries and she sashays over to a gentleman in the Woolpack. She is delighted when he takes her business card but she is completely unaware that he is a bailiff.