In the town of Darkly Noon, Vicky Pollard is in trouble with her teacher. Sebastian Love is jealous of another MP, while Emily Howard visits a pub and finds an admirer. For Andy's birthday, Lou takes him to the opera and at Kelsey Grammar School, the teacher tells the pupils to read Dickens. Hypnotist Kenny Craig goes on a date and Jeremy Rent has a part in Macbeth for Dennis Waterman.