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Ben (Robert Lindsay) gets angry when Janey (Daniela Denby-Ashe) tells him she is seeing another dentist, the Australian Mel Fraser, as Ben never gets round to seeing them. Ben soon discovers that Susan (Zoë Wanamaker) has also seen Mel, causing them to argue. They then have to reassure Michael (Gabriel Thompson) that they are not going to divorce. Meanwhile Janey, who had taken an instant liking to Mel, says she will not see him again after he treated her like a child. Nick (Kris Marshall), meanwhile, meets Isabelle (Kathrine Andover), a French swimwear model, on the internet. Ben bets him £50 she is not who she says she is, and so Nick invites her round. Michael rebels by buying himself a rabbit called Hannibal.

Janey wants a tattoo, Nick wants to be a dot-com millionaire and it also soon transpires that Michael is being bullied by Jason Hodder, and his reason for not telling Ben and Susan is that Ben wouldn’t react and Susan would overreact. Later on the following day, Ben receives a phone call from Susan telling him that there’s a bit of a problem, albeit a bit more serious, on a scale of one to ten: fourteen point five; Michael is absolutely covered in custard, Susan decides to call Jason’s parents but then a fight soon kicks off as the parents are scared out of the house by an angry Ben who is hitting them with a rolled up magazine. The next day, Michael is late home from school and Susan starts to worry that he’s lying in a ditch somewhere but soon discovers that Janey and Michael had beaten Jason up.

At the surgery, Ben is attending to another one of his patients, who turns out to be Lord Whitten, and who Bridget also seems to be a big fan of. They begin talking about various subjects when his son pops into the conversation, who he’d like to meet up with a girl, at first he asks Bridget but then she suggests Janey, who, when she finds out, is furious that Ben has set her up on a "blind date" until she finds out there’s a picture of him and his family in Hello! Magazine and that he’s absolutely gorgeous.

Susan’s not looking forward to turning 40 (again). Ben’s unsure of what to get her, until Janey assures him that Susan wants to go on a romantic weekend away – just the two of them. At first, Ben is reluctant, as he doesn’t like travelling, but Janey forces him to talk to Susan. Initially his ideas of where to go don’t please her, but she suggests the B&B they stayed at just before they got married. Arriving at the B&B, they find virtually nothing has changed in the room they stayed at some twenty-two years ago, except for the romance, which seems to have disappeared out of their marriage.

Susan is worried about the growing crime rate in the area and after a series of events including Bridget’s van (allegedly) getting stolen and a stranger strolling around the house after Nick decided to become a landlord, she decides the time has come to get an alarm, and an expensive top-of-the-range alarm at that. After night-on-night of the alarm going off due to various problems, Ben’s had enough of the sleepless nights and decides to turn off the alarm. What should just be a simple task of turning off the alarm soon turns into Mission Impossible and Ben is forced to clamber over furniture and make all sorts of other ridiculous movements just to try to get back to his bedroom without setting off the alarm.

A Chinese businessman goes missing on a tour of Madame Tussauds and when he is later found dead, Susan begins to worry about the effect on the kids as it is their "first death", even though they’ve never even met Mr Chen or been to Madame Tussauds. Later that evening at dinner, Nick reveals that he’s offered his latest would-be job to Emily Foster, someone who he really likes and someone who also wants a chance to sell life insurance, so Nick suggests Ben, although to his shock, Susan has already apparently bought life insurance from him. At first, he’s hesitant to let her come round, but after Nick persuades him (telling him there might even be a chance of moving out) Ben’s all for it.

Nick’s trying to teach Michael how to act on his first time out on a girl: the rules etc. He’s also fixed Ben’s chair though Ben forbade him to ever touch anything of his ever again, and when he later tells Ben that he fixed his chair, Ben goes off into a rant about how he just wants him to leave everything alone. Susan just puts Nick latest behaviour of trying to fix things down to an awkward phase, but Ben disagrees: twenty years isn’t a phase, it’s him.

After taking Viagra which Susan found in Nick’s pocket, Ben ends up in hospital and soon after, Susan forces him to go on a diet for the good of his health, which he detests, but later on, after being given a book by Bridget about her guru (Dave, who is also a part-time builder) who had a near-death experience which completely changed his life, Ben returns home and scares his family even more than the events of the previous night, because he’s in a good mood. And to top it all off, he’s actually singing.