Susan's old acquaintance Hilary Jessop arrives at the Harper residence. Hilary and her husband have recently moved back to the area, and she has joined the fundraising committee for Kenzo's nursery. Susan and Hilary have a history of domestic competition, and Hilary takes every opportunity to boast about her family's achievements while not-so-subtly putting the Harpers down.
Ben has had a run-in with a cyclist while driving - literally - and is furious. He doesn't stop ranting about it until Alfie suggests that he calls West London Talk Radio to air his views. Later he is invited to discuss his hatred for cyclists at length at the radio station itself.
His public and vitriolic condemnation of cyclists prompts a group of them to start a vigil outside the Harper's house, blocking the driveway, chanting and pelting anyone who tries to enter or exit the house with eggs and household waste. Kind-hearted Alfie provides them with tea and coffee.
Roger has been impressing Abi with his culinary prowess - she calls him her "little cordoned off". This comes in useful for Susan, who is a notoriously bad cook, when Hilary invites herself and her family to dinner at the weekend. Roger hides in the kitchen and happily cooks all the food, with Abi's 'assistance' of course.
The meal - or more specifically, the pavlova - comes to a messy end when Ben and Hilary's cyclist husband Richard have a fight. It turns out that Richard was the cyclist who clipped Ben's car...
Janey gets a shock when she meets Hilary's son, who she last saw when he was a young boy. Thanks to cosmetic surgery he is no longer a nerd she knew with sticky-out ears, glasses and a lisp, but an attractive and highly successful merchant banker. Unfortunately, he now has 'intimacy issues' due to the way Janey treated him all those years ago.
In a shocking apparent change of heart, Ben appears on television clad in cycling gear and completely reverses his argument, championing the cyclists and promising to give the proceeds from his cycle race to Kenzo's nursery. But did he really develop a love for cyclists, or was he just trying to rid them from his driveway...?
And it all works out well for Susan, when Hilary confesses that she is jealous of Susan's colourful family life.
Other Cast Members:
Roger - Keiron Self
Hilary - Jane Booker
Radio DJ - Roger Griffiths
Trevor - James Coombes
Richard - Eric Carte
Dominic - Simon Paris
