The Pink Posy is flooded by a leak and Dave is forced to ask Len for help as Ray is busy with other work. Dickie is annoyed when he finds out that Audrey is working for Ray and has delayed telling him. Betty matchmakes between Maggie and Len by inviting him for tea. Ena can't get hold of Alice to get a look at the photograph of the soldier. Lucille is devastated to find out that Ray chose Audrey for the job over her. Dickie admits to being jealous of Ray and asks her not to go back to work at Ray's yard but she refuses. Val pinches the photograph to show to Ena and they realise that the man himself is drinking in the public of the Rovers. It is Alice's son, Douglas, who turns up to check up on Albert as he’s the latest in a line of men who Alice has planned to marry. Alice confesses that Albert doesn’t know she has a son. Lucille and Audrey nearly come to blows in the corner shop when Lucille suggests that Audrey has been after Ray for a long time. Maggie intervenes to stop them. Dougl