Diane throws away her PEP treatment pills, now realising she doesn't need them. She frets to Eric about Val's situation and struggles with the guilt of them sleeping together. Val awakes on her birthday to find Eric had disappeared. A courier delivers flowers for her. Brenda worries in case it's her tumour re-appearing that is making her steal. She agrees to make an appointment with her consultant. Val lays into Eric when he arrives back home for having disappeared and for sending her morgue flowers. She points out the distance between them in bed last night and accuses him of being scared of her. He tries to reassure her but ends up losing his cool. Dom accidentally deletes Gemma's interviews for the video project from her laptop. Nicola and Bernice use getting a present for Val's birthda