Percy Boon is charged with Edith Watson's murder. With the residents reeling, Mrs Josser decides to break the news to Mrs Vizzard herself rather than find out in the newspaper, but faces a bigger shock when she discovers that Mrs Vizzard is engaged to Henry Squales. But Squales is keeping all options open and when he receives a letter from Mrs Jan Byl for a new seance he sees a money making opportunity, not realizing that his intended is not so blind in love as he thinks she is. Doris and Doreen quarrel over Bill, but her decision to walk out of the flat has an unexpected outcome. Meanwhile Mrs Boon collapses and is hospitalized. When Fred Josser visits her in hospital, she asks him to use her dead husband's life insurance to pay for Percy's defence, only to leave Fred conflicted when he learns that the money will not be enough for a barrister.