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While You Weren't Sleeping

Ben and Susan in bed

Episode: 9

First Aired 21st May 2004

Susan is in a villa in Spain, and Ben is dressed as a matador, when she hears the fog horn again. She awakes from her dream to realize it is Ben's snoring.

Janey has started a personal shopping business. She and Kenzo have come to stay with her parents because her boiler has packed up, and Susan is in a terrible mood because of Ben's snoring. Abi is convinced they are on the road to divorce.

To prove to Ben that he really does snore, Susan has recorded him in action and forces him to watch it. Susan comes home with some home remedies for the snoring problem. It is either that or he has to give up drink.

That night, Susan can't sleep because of the noise of the oxygen mask on Ben's 'snoring prevention kit', so he suggests she move and sleep on the sofa.

Michael arrives home with a girlfriend, Molly, and she trots off to the loo while he opens a bottle of wine and moves towards the sofa. It is dark and he starts kissing what he assumes is her arm. It turns out to be his mum's. Michael is mortified, and Molly leaves.

The next morning Ben awakes full of the joys of spring having had a wonderful night's sleep. He has made breakfast for everyone! Because of her new shopping business, Janey has decided to give all of Abi's clothes away, and Michael has nothing to wear except an ill-fitting old school uniform, because Janey has thrown all his clothes out too.

Ben and Susan are both behaving very oddly. Much too happy. Abi decides it is because they are getting divorced. In the surgery, Roger is unnerved because Ben is being so nice to him. Ben asks Rogers' advice on how to have another night apart, as he had so enjoyed the last one. Roger tells him to pick a fight. Ben picks a fight with Susan and they both agree that they don't want to sleep with each other anyway.

Abi has now had to resort to wearing a cheese costume. She also manages to convince Michael and Janey that Ben and Susan are definitely heading for divorce and thinks it is her own fault. Michael is now wearing new clothes from Janey, and he decides to have a man-to-man talk with Ben. Ben starts to explain their problems and Michael thinks he is talking about their sex life.

Abi, who is now dressed by Janey, offers to move out because as she explains to Ben, the troubles are obviously all her fault. He accepts her offer to leave immediately. He also wants to know when Janey is leaving to go back to her flat now that her shopping business has gone into liquidation.

Ben and Susan finally decide they need to sleep together again and as Abi enters and sees them kissing she decides she doesn't need to go after all. Ben attempts to re-enact Susan's Spanish dream, but fails to achieve the desired effect.

Other Cast Members:

Roger Bailey - Keiron Self
Molly - Verity-Jane Dearsley

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Episode Three

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Episode Four

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