What Remains

Len is angry that Melissa's inquest returned an open verdict with no suggestion that she was murdered. He questions Joe, who recalls to himself that he found Melissa's body and stole a necklace which he gave to Liz. Later he confesses to killing her but Len is not convinced, especially when he discovers that Liz has been on the run since her stepfather died in suspicious circumstances. Some months later, the case apparently resolved, Vidya has thrown Michael out for his affair with Liz and is raising her baby with help from Len, who has moved into the building. Kieran and Patricia are about to get married. Has Melissa's killer been captured - or are they still living in the house?

Vidya investigates when she sees a hooded man fleeing the empty flat after writing Skank on the wall. She contacts Len - whose terminally brother has just died - and they track down a friend of Melissa, who tells them she believes Melissa was having an affair with a married man. This turns out to be Kieran, and Adam was aware of the fact, blaming her for his father's alcoholism. After Michael has persuaded him to have a drink with him Kieran gets violent and tries to take Patricia by force and she leaves him. Elaine goes to great lengths to stop Peggy going whilst Len hits Adam after the boy has called Melissa a skank. Michael has sex with Liz whilst brooding on the harsh treatment he had from Joe at school. Vidya has a fall on the stairs, risking the baby, but Liz calls for help as well as telling Michael Joe does not keep her a prisoner and that he was kind to her when she was in trouble. He is shocked to learn she has been living with Joe for eight years.

Vidya dresses Len's head wound as he relates his suspicion that Melissa could have been murdered. Joe forbids Liz to go out because she is a kleptomaniac but Michael is surprised to learn that the other tenants assume Joe lives on his own and gets in to see Liz, who is nervous and tells him to leave. Patricia and Adam discover that Kieran has not told them of the other's existence but Patricia is perturbed at the boy's interest in her. Peggy prepares to leave Elaine though neither of them tell Len immediately that they asked a reluctant Melissa to model for their design company for a brochure that was never published. They describe the situation as a one-off, omitting to tell him that Elaine threatened Melissa when she wanted to get publication stopped and a guilty Peggy returned all the copies and the negative to Melissa. At the time Richard consoled Melissa, calling the two women unpleasant bitches - a term Patricia uses to describe them to Vidya at her and Michael's flat-warming party. Back at home Len gets a call saying 'She's Better Off Dead'.