Mary is talking on the 'phone in Fiona's flat, saying, ""I didn't know anything about it - honest."" Barbara, on the other end in the lounge room at Dural, assures her, ""No one's saying you did."" Mary points out, ""James is."" Barbara, though, tells her, ""Yeah, well you leave James for the moment."" She then asks Mary if she has any idea who put the opals in with her books. Mary tells her, ""Yeah: Alison."" Barbara, looking surprised, asks, ""Are you sure?"" Mary explains, ""She told me herself: said James was going to buy some shares with them and she wants to stop him."" Barbara mutters, ""Oh my God, of all the stupid..."" Mary cries, ""James is furious. I know he's going to take it out on me somehow."" Barbara, though, assures her, ""No he won't - not when he knows the full story. You leave that to me."" Mary thanks her and the two of them hang up. Fiona then puts her arms around Mary and soothes, ""Now come on, it had nothing to do with you. We can thank Miss. Carr for this little mess."" Mary mutter