Second Thoughts

- Season 4

(1993)

Having wrongly assumed that Bill was getting back with Liza after finding them late at night in the office Faith is far from happy - and a mugger does not help. Despite Hannah's efforts to calm her down she decides that the only way to get Liza out of her life is to finish with Bill for good.

Bill decides to move in with Richard so that he can relive his days as a carefree bachelor. However the old magic has gone, Richard's obsession with Liza makes him a less than compatible flatmate and - most of all - he is missing Faith - who is missing him as well.

Unable to stay apart for any longer Bill and faith decide that they must get back together, to the relief of Hannah and Joe. Bill wants to start exactly where they left off but Faith insists that he romances her - as if they were meeting for the first time.

Bill takes Faith up to Scotland to stay with his mother. He is anxious to show her all the old haunts that he knew before coming down to live in England but is dismayed that so many of them have either been demolished or are completely unrecognizable. Ultimately both he and Faith are relieved to return home.

Faith decides that it would be nice to have a conservatory in which she can work and Bill agrees. However neither he nor Callum are exactly tip-top when it comes to DIY and so Faith engages workmen Barry and Jay. Bill is less than pleased with their progress, leading to arguments and a question mark hanging over whether or not Faith will get her conservatory.

Joe 's eighteenth birthday is coming up and Faith is anxious to provide a celebratory family lunch though he is not enthusiastic and Bill and Hannah agree with him. However the day dawns and the lunch is about to go ahead but Faith and Bill are both called away on apparent emergencies. On return they discover who was behind them and discover Joe wants to celebrate in his own way.

Richard engages Max, an attractive young man, as his new pianist at the wine bar and the girls all fall for him, particularly Hannah. She starts going out with him but unfortunately learns that he is already married and that his wife is well aware of the effect that he has on the ladies. Cue Faith to offer her daughter a little consolation.

When Joe refuses to go work Faith is concerned, especially as he claims that he is starting to feel depressed about work and about life in general. Faith suspects that it may be down to a change in his hormones and persuades a reluctant Bill to have a pep talk with him - which gets to the real reason for his reluctance to turn up at work.