Percy Sugden takes over as caretaker at the Community Centre. Vera talks Jack into buying No.9 for £10,000, getting a £9,000 mortgage. Jack plans to race the pigeons that Chalkie has left. Bet kids Percy that Emily is Elsie Tanner. He upsets Emily by telling her that he won't be climbing into her bed at night. Ken calls a meeting with his fellow Development officers, telling them that he leaked the document. He expects them to stand behind him. Percy rows with Alf for parking his car outside the Community Centre before discovering that he's a Councillor and his boss. Bert is moved to a psychiatric hospital in Southport. Ken's colleagues tell him they'll back him but if he's sacked, they won't threaten to resign.