Mae (Katherine Kelly) finds out about Wynnstay (Robert Pugh) and his reporter Joe's (Mitchell Hunt) investigation into Jimmy (Sacha Dhawan) and orders him to stop looking into the matter since he's hurting Harry (Jeremy Piven) and everyone connected with him. Adding that Jimmy was at his mother's. She threatens him with an action for slander if he doesn't stop snooping. Jimmy finds out stock is running low at Whiteleys and they can only stock the store for another three days. He doesn't know what to do but asks Mr Crabb (Ron Cook) after hearing the suggestions for the Selfridge twentieth anniversary parade. The council has approved it and there'll be a sale too and promotions. With Mae's girls making twentieth anniversary rosettes as well. In the stockroom Jimmy sees the stock being put away as George (Calum Callaghan) shows Jimmy how they do things. Like putting the stock for the anniversary at the back cos they don't need it yet. This gives him the idea to use that stock for Whiteleys.
Harry meets with the man from the wholesalers, Hardcastle (Ian Ashpitel) who has influence with the other creditors. He's the largest supplier of linen to the store and he can help them. He says he'll need to speak with the others and then he'll get back to them within a week. Jimmy impetulantly asks for a couple of days. Gordon (Greg Austin) tells him they need to give them time to do things and that' how it works. Crabb is reluctant to help as Jimmy tells him the store will close without stock and Harry's name will be tarnished. He can't tell Harry since he doesn't need to know with the Civic and Keen (Oliver Dimsdale) on his back. The chairman of the Civic telling him to keep an eye on the Selfridge's.
Crabb agrees and he tells George to move the stock. He does this at night in unmarked vans and he sees what's happening. George says it's for the Shoreditch warehouse as there's shortage of space at the store and the stock isn't needed yet. Next day Keen asks Crabb about the Shoreditch warehouse, after finding out the warehouse had been sold and it's where the stock from the provincial stores was held. Crabb confirms he sale. Only George neglected to tell Crabb what he'd said. They rush to tell Harry but Keen's already told him. They didn't know about it but they're disappointed in Crabb and George. Keen tells Gordon he stood up for them and wasn't their enemy and but he has to tell the Civic.
Miss Mardle (Amanda Abbington) copes with being a mother to the children and sends them off to school with lunch. She got up at 5am to prepare it and Earnest (Joey Price) wanted cheese and pickle instead of a pie and an apple. She tries to cope and Meryl (Lottie Tolhurst) can see she's doing the best she can. Crabb packs away Grove's things and he's still missing him. He can't believe he won't be here for the twentieth anniversary as he was here for those twenty years and he'd be angry at missing it. Harry says they've lost a lot of people. He takes the box home and then tells her the new Head of Fashion didn't turn up for her job and Connie (Sacha Parkinson) has to go on leave. She left it really late working so long. He then asks Miss Mardle if she'll come back to work, which she gets angry over. Meryl thinks it's a good idea and she says she has to be here for the children. The children aren't coping and neither is she, as Earnest asks if eh can keep his father's pen. They cry at night and she says they need to cry together, after Meryl tells her they all need to grieve.
Freddy (Sam Swann) meets a woman at the tea room and Meryl thinks he's seeing her. She's disappointed when he asks her out later but she can't do that. She's just an old friend, in which case Meryl asks for five tickets to the circus for tomorrow night. They arrive to go to the circus but Freddy tells her that the circus is finished. However he has an idea. Meryl tells Miss Mardle that she should return to work it'll be good for her, but she can't leave the children. She tells her to ask the children. At home, they find the circus has come to their garden and the children say she should work since their father worked and that didn't make the unhappy. As long as Earnest still gets his bedtime story and gets tucked in too.
Harry is quizzed by Rosalie (Kara Tointon) by Mae staying over and his intentions. She's been hurt by men and he tells her she's the one keeping her distance from him. She tells hims Mae needs time to get over things and he should give her some space. Connie goes into labour and has a son.
Wynnstay's reporter is told to drop the story as he's got nothing solid but he doesn't want to. Wynnstay adding that Jimmy was with his mother. Joe tells him the police didn't pursue that angle and his mother was at church. The Vicar swears to it. Well he could've been just at her house, she didn't have to be with him. He also found out from the staff that Victor was having dinner alone with Mae. Wynnstay takes the story to Harry next day and tells him they're going to publish it. Harry thinks it's all lies and he can't publish it in his rag. Wynnstay says it's not and he's going ahead.
Harry tells Mae he's going to wait for her and also later tells her about Jimmy. She tells him she knew something was up since the reporter questioned Jimmy and he got upset. Harry wants to know why she didn't come to him and before he went into business with him. Now this'll hurt his family. Mae in green attire again. She always wears green. Harry's despondent with her now too as she also betrayed him in a way. She could've told him but she didn't think there was anything to tell.
Harry is disappointed in Jimmy and tells him they're going to have a press release denying it all. telling him Mae said he was at his mother's. He breaks down and admits he killed him. That it was an accident. They argued when he was jealous over Mae and he fought, but he didn't mean for Victor to fall. Harry's angry and hurt and disappointed as he's betrayed again by someone he trusted. He doesn't want anything to do with him, thinking he could hide behind him, and going in to business with him was wrong. He should've come to Harry and not hidden it. Jimmy didn't cos of that look in Harry's eyes now which he would've given him. He walks out. Jimmy goes to the bridge and jumps.
Taking the easy way out cos there's no way he'd be found not guilty, even if it was an accident, as his mother said to him. Jimmy thinking it better than the hangman's noose and sparing his mother the anguish of a public trial. Well that was the final nail in the coffin, no pun, for Harry as everyone he knew have all hurt and betrayed him in one form or another. And this is the end for him and his days at the store. Final episode next week.
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