16 April 2026

Cassie comes out of the shop . . .

Cassie comes out of the shop and Garry calls to her;  

. . . and Garry gives her a key

he hands her a key, which she promises to bring back to Eleri later.   Garry appears not to know what this is all about, but then he is met by Howard, who is carrying a box.

Howard has a box for him

“Delivery!” he says, but Garry is anxious that he should come across to Cysgod y Glyn.  

"I won't ask what you're planning to do with it"

In the flat Garry tells him to put down the box, which Howard complains took him ages;  “I won’t ask what you’re planning to do with it.”

Howard looks pleased with his payment

Garry comments that is very wise and hands over payment, which Howard seems quite happy about.   

Eleri comes in

Eleri comes in 

"What's in the box?

and asks what is in the box;  

"You don't want to know"

“You don’t want to know,” Howard replies.   

"I'll be there shortly"

She is taking a phone call and confirming that she will be at Brynawelon shortly.

"I'm sure I saw that box move"

She imagines that she can hear a noise from inside the box;  “Did you see that?” she demands, “I’m sure I saw that box move,” but then leaves the flat.   

Garry is amused

Garry looks at the box and laughs.

Cassie looks at an album . . .

Cassie is looking at an old photo album, 

. . . featuring Glan, Mrs Mac and Teg . . . 

where we see her with Glan, Mrs Mac and Teg years ago.   

. . . also Steffan

Then there are photos of Steffan, 

This provokes some tears

which bring tears to her eyes.

Howard brings the post

Howard arrives at Penrhewl with a bottle of milk and the post.   Sioned assumes that there will be more bills, as that is the only thing they get these days.

"I shall have to ring the vet"

He is going out to take a look at the sheep in the shed;  he believes that there is something wrong with the one having twins.   “I shall have to ring Grisal,” he says, 

"The vet's bill is through the roof!"

but at that moment, Sioned is looking at the latest bill from the vet and forbids him from doing so.

“This vet’s bill is though the roof!   You phone her too early, Howard.”   

"You can't cut corners"

He maintains that you cannot cut corners with sick animals and that they have just had a bad lambing season.

"We have to sort them ourselves"

However, Sioned is adamant,  “From now on, we have to sort them ourselves!”, which he regards as a big risk.   “It’s a risk I have to take – I don’t have much choice, do I?   Unless you have a stash of cash to help me out of this financial hole.”

"Sorry, no can do!"

He is unable to help there, but assures Sioned that things will get better.   

"Just go, will you?"

She tells him to just go.

So that was inside the box

We see a mouse, climbing over a tin of tomatoes in The Pizza Place;  

Jinx takes one look . . .

when Jinx comes in, he cannot fail to also see it, roaming round the place, 

. . . at what has happened . . 

in addition to other signs of rodent infestation.

. . . and is disgusted . . .

He is disgusted by the sight 

. . . so immediately leaves again

and leaves the shop again, 

"What's wrong, Jinx?"

where Garry just happens to be passing;  “What’s wrong, Jinx?” he asks, 

"You look as if you.ve seen . . . a mouse!

“You look as if you’ve seen . . . a mouse . . . a big one!”

"You have a visitor"

Then he smilingly announces that Jinx has a visitor;  

Specially summoned by Garry

a man with an identity card, presumably from the council.

Ows is outside the chapel

Ows approaches the chapel, 

Cassie appear

with Cassie just appearing round the corner;  

"Come on"

“Come on,” she tells him 

he leads him towards Cysgod y Glyn 

and marches towards Cysgod y Glyn.   She opens the door with the key given to her by Garry.    

She hears voices from the past

In her mind, she can hear a voice, ‘What the hell do you think you’re doing?   I can’t trust you any more!”

Ows asks, “What is this place?” 

"Don't touch me"

and she warns him not to touch her.   They go inside.   

Cassie looks around the flat

Upstairs they enter the flat and Cassie looks around;  

"Are you going to tell me what we're doing here?"

“Are you going to tell me what we’re doing here?” demands Ows.

Cassie is reliving that time, 22 years ago

She imagines that she hears Steffan’s voice;  ‘Don’t touch that phone – don’t!’ followed by screaming.

Again Ows demands, “Just tell me, will you?   What is this place?   Who lives here?” 

"This is where he held us . . ."

“This is where it happened,” Cassie informs him, “This where he held us – 

". . . where he did what he did"

“where he did what he did – your father.”

The Pizza Place has been closed down

Now The Pizza Place bears an official notice, ‘Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Notice’.   

"That damp will cost £3,000"

As they come out, Howard advises Jinx, “It will cost at least £3,000 to get rid of that damp – but I’ll catch that rat for you, if you want – 

"I've got the stuff at Penrhewl"

“It won’t cost anything – I’ve got the stuff.”

Soft-hearted Jinx does not want to kill it, but Howard reckons that it is better dead than alive.   

"Happy now?"

Garry comes sauntering up to them;  “Happy now?” growls Jinx and Garry simply laughs, 

"That was cruel!"

but Howard describes it as cruel.

"Did you tell him there's damp in the walls?"

“You’ve done all right out of it!” points out Garry, “Did you tell him there’s damp in the walls?”   When Howard confirms that he has, he is handed some more money. 

"There is damp in one of the walls"

Howard takes delight in saying, “I didn’t have to lie about that – there is damp in one of the walls!   The food standards bloke said that.”

"Rats – it's a shame, isn't it?"

When Eleri passes, Garry casually comments, “Rats – it’s a shame, isn’t it?”

"Don't say you . . ?"

She gasps, “Don’t say you . . . why am I asking?   Of course you did!   

"You'll sink to any depths, won't you?"

“You’ll sink to any depths, won’t you?”   

Garry laughs

Garry laughs at her.

Cassie rearranges furniture

In Cysgod y Glyn, Cassie is rearranging the furniture;  Ows says that she is being weird and he does not want to be there.   

"I'm going to show you what happened"

“Stay where you are – I’m going to show you what happened,” she snarls, hauling the sofa across the room.

"I already know the truth"

He protests that he just wants to talk, maintaining that he already knows the truth, as he has read all about it.

"If you want to know what really happened . . ."

“Well, if you want to know what really happened, you’ll have to forget what you’ve read and listen,” Cassie tells him, 

"Mam was over there"

“Mam was over there – he’d tied her hands with ropes – until her wrists were bleeding.

"That's what we saw when Teg and I came in"

   

“That’s what we saw when we came in, Teg and I.”

Cassie, 22 years ago

We see a much younger Cassie (well, it did happen 22 years ago) 

Cassie's mother . . .

finding her mother;   

. . . discovered by Teg and Cassie

she and Teg rush to her 

"Where have you been?"

as her mother demands, “Where have you been?”

"This is only your side of the story"

Ows complains that this is only Cassie’s side of the story, 

"There's no-one else left"

but she reminds him, “There’s no-one else left.’

"The newspaper said you were armed and ready to kill!"

‘The newspaper said you were armed and ready to kill!” he goes on, but Cassie points out that the newspaper was full of lies.

"Mam was shaking with fear"

“Mam was sitting there, literally shaking with fear – an elderly woman.   To think she had to face such a nightmare – for days!   She didn’t deserve that – no-one deserves such a nightmare!”

"I don't believe you"

Ows does not believe that the situation was so dramatic;  

"You believe what you want"

“You believe what you want – I was there!”   

"You were ready to kill him"

He accuses her of being ready to kill his father and she agrees, “Because I had to!   He came in, with a knife in his hand.”

Cassie was held at knifepoint . . .

We see the scene she described, with Steffan holding a knife to his mother’s throat;  

. . . Teg lunges in . . .

when Teg lunges forward to try and disarm him, 

. . . and is fatally stabbed

he is stabbed in the stomach.

Cassie feels unable to go on

Cassie finds this so horrifying that she cannot go on, but Ows urges her to continue, anxious to find out.   “If you’re so determined to go through all this – he had a knife, did he?”   

He finds a large knife . . .

He goes over to take a large and threatening knife, 

. . . and faces Cassie

then continues, “Like this?”

Cassie tells him to put it down.

"You'e made your point"

Ows, still brandishing the knife in a menacing manner, tells Cassie, “You’ve made your point – now can we leave?”

"This is where he killed Teg"

Cassie continues, “This is where he killed Teg.”   

"It was in self-defence"

Ows maintains that it was only in self defence, but she is incredulous;  

“Self-defence?   Against Teg?   He wouldn’t harm a fly.”

"Teg wouldn't harm a fly"

Ows insists that his father did not try to kill Teg, but Cassie reminds him that he was not there;  

"If you carry a knife . . ."

“If you carry a knife, you’re responsible for what happens!”

"If you had kept your nose out '

She is told that if she had kept her nose out, but Cassie makes it very clear to him, 

"Teg tried to stop him – and was killed"

“He stabbed Teg because he tried to rescue me and Mam!   Do you understand that?   Teg stood in front of him to stop him from . . . and he was killed.   Teg was one of the best men I’ve ever known.”

"Yeah – and you've had your share!"

“Yeah – and you’ve had your share,” growls her grandson.

"You're nothing but a silly little bot"

Cassie smiles, “I don’t know why I was frightened of you – you’re nothing but a silly little boy who’s too stupid to understand.”

"You killed Dad!"

He insists that he understands perfectly;  “You killed Dad!   I didn’t come here to hear about Teg.”

"You said you wanted to know everything"

“You said you wanted to know everything – you wanted the truth.   

"Your father killed an innocent man"

“Your father killed an innocent man who was standing right where you are now.   

"Father of two of Britt's children"

“Teg, Britt’s partner, the father of two of her children – that’s two children who have had to grow up without their father – because of your father!”

"Remorseless mother kills son!"

He reminds Cassie, “Like I had to do after what you did!   He repeats the newspaper headline, “Remorseless mother kills son!”

"This is about revenge, is it?"

“Right – this is about revenge, is it?   Well, do it then – stab me!   Finish the job your father wanted to do.   Do you think you’re hard like him?   Your father’s son?   

"Show me that you're a man and stab me!"

“Well, show me that you’re a man and stab me!” she challenges him.

"Ro you think I'm the same as him?"

“Do you think I’m the same as him?” Ows shouts, “Do you think I’m ill, like him?   Is that what you think?”   Cassie is keeping a careful eye on that knife;  

He drops the knife in the floor

then he drops it to the floor and appears to be lost for words.

"That sheep needs help, Sioned!"

In the farmyard, Howard is still insistent that the sheep needs help and that he is going to phone the vet;  “You’re doing no such thing – you’re not phoning her!” is Sioned’s reply.

"We could lose it – and the two lambs!"

He warns that they could lose the sheep and the two lambs if he does not do it now.   

Sioned confiscates his phone 

Sioned snatches the phone from him and is adamant that they will do it themselves;  “We birth lambs all the time!” but he is quite sure that this one needs help.

"She might need a Caesarian"

“I’m sure she has ringworm and the first one’s in breach – she might need a Caesarian!”

"I'll do it myself!"

Sioned gives him back his phone and storms off, declaring that she will do it herself;  Howard shouts after her that he wants nothing to do with this.

"He was ill – he couldn't help it"

At Cysgod y Glyn, Ows has now calmed down somewhat, claiming, “He was ill – he couldn’t help it.”

"The younger generation think they know it all"

“The younger generation think they know it all,” sighs Cassie, but he says that he knows about mental health.   “You don’t wait to put a label on someone who has a knife in their hand,” she argues.

"He didn't know what he was doing"

Ows continues that it was not his father’s fault as he did not know what he was doing, 

"He had a cushion over Mam's face"

but he is informed that he had a cushion over Cassie’s mother’s face and was going to suffocate her.”

Ows maintains that she does not know that.   

"I was there, wasn't I?"

“Of course I know that – I was there, wasn’t I?   He was going to suffocate her.

The confirmation – from 2004

We flash back to 2004 where Steffan indeed has a cushion over Cassie’s mother’s face;  Cassie picks herself up from the floor.

"I grabbed hold of something"

Back in the present, Cassie goes on, “Then I grabbed hold of something and . . .”

Steffan is hit with the vase . . .

The flashback continues, with her hitting Stefan over the head with a vase, 

. . . and falls to the floor

causing him to fall to the floor.

"Later I heard he'd died"

“A few hours later, I heard that he’d died,” she says, sitting down on the sofa;  “Losing a child . . .”

"Is that worse than losing a Dad?"

“Is worse than losing a Dad?” asks Ows, 

"It's not a competition"

but she groans that this is not a competition.   

"I lost any chance of  life with him"

“I lost any chance of a life with him,” Ows points out, but Cassie suggests that may be a good thing.

“When they told me, at first it didn’t sink in – but afterwards it did.   I didn’t go to his funeral – 

“I ran away.   I hid – I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror.”

"Of course I know how you feel"

Ows, in a much more conciliatory mood, comes to sit with her on the sofa;  he asks if she can understand how he feels.   “Of course I know how you feel – the loss.”

"Say it, then – that you killed Dad!"

He complains that he has not even heard her say it – that she killed him;  “Say it, then – that you killed Dad!”

"Yes, I killed my own son!"

In tears, she confirms, “Yes, I killed my own son!”

Jinx is despondent

In the Deri, Jinx is sitting despondently at the bar when Eleri comes in;  “I saw the sign.”

"Stand your ground, you said"

He growls, “Stand your ground, you said – that’s what I did and now I don’t have a business left!”   

"I never dreamed he would go this far"

Eleri never dreamed that he would go this far, but Jinx does not blame her.   

"It's,possible to get the upper hand on Garry Monk"

“I forgot that it’s impossible to get the upper hand on Garry Monk.”

He is advised to report Garry;  “Tell the Food Standards Agency what happened.”   

"Them he'd do something worse next time"

Jinx predicts that then Garry would do something worse next time and does not want to fight – he does not have the heart or the patience.   He is simply going to sell for £110,000, which Eleri stresses is too low.

"I was only trying to help"

“I listened to you last time and look what happened – but it’s not your fault.”   She explains that she was only trying to help.

They seem to be on better terms now

Ows and Cassie emerge from Cysgod y Glyn and he asks whether his grandmother is all right.   

"I'm sorry, for everything"

“I’m sorry, for everything,” he says 

They head towards the Deri

and they walk back towards the Deri together.

Howard returns to the farm

As Howard drives back into the farmyard, Sioned is looking very pleased with herself, although rather bedraggled.   

"I did it!"

She proudly announces, “I did it!   Without you and without the vet!   I got the first one out, no problem – I had to give the second one the kiss of life, but he’s fine – and the mother.

"Well done, Sioned!"

She prompts him, “Well done, you were right, Sioned.   We didn’t need the vet, Sioned.”   

"You were lucky"

He prefers to say that she was lucky, but she wants more than that from him.

"We can't save them all'

He maintains that they cannot save them all, 

"We have to try and save them all!"

but she is very insistent, “We have to try and save them all – especially before we phone the blinkin’ vet!   I’m going for a shower!”

Ows has even made a cup of tea

In the Deri flat, Ows has made a cup of tea for his grandmother and concedes that she should not have had to go through that.   

"It was my decision, wasn't it?"

“Well, it was my decision, wasn’t it?”

"I forced you into it"

He confesses that he forced her into it and did not realise that everything was so complicated;  “Nothing makes sense.”

"I've blocked the whole thing out"

Cassie hopes that now he understands why she shut him out;  she could not face going back there again.   “I’ve blocked the whole thing out all my life – but when I got your letters and when you turned up, it was as if everything was dragging me back there.”

"You've done it now"

He points out that she has done it now – she has faced it and that is all that is important.   

"And I can close the door once again"

“Yes – and I can close the door once again.”

"You've had a lifetime to regret it"

He maintains that there is a lot to be said for for facing things and learning to live with what you have done;  “You’ve had a lifetime to regret it.”

"I don't regret it"

She surprises him by saying, “I don’t regret it – no, I had no choice – and when you have no choice . . .”

He wonders what she would do if it happened today and she is quite definite;  “I’d do exactly the same thing again.   Look, I'm glad you never got to know your father.   

"The world is a much better place without him"

“He was my son – and this world is a much better place without him, believe me.”   

She puts her hand on his

She places her hand on her grandson’s.

"How could you?"

Garry comes into the office at Brynawelon, asking if Eleri has seen the audit files.   She ignores him and demands, “How could you?   I know you can be a real pig, but I never thought you’d stoop so low!”

"Oh, you've suddenly found some principles"

“Oh, you’ve suddenly found some principles,” he sneers.

"You're like a school bully!"

“You won’t stop until you get what you want,” she continues, “You’re like a school bully.”   

"A secondary school bully, I hope"

He assumes that she means a secondary school bully, at least.

"You don't care, do you?"

“And you don’t care, do you?”   Garry cannot understand why she is so worried, 

"You don't still fancy that clown?"

suspecting that she still fancies that clown.   She furiously walks out of the office.

Ows looks at his newspaper cuttings

Ows is back at number 10 and has spread out the various newspaper cuttings on the floor, 

A photo of his father . . .

in particular picking up a photo of his father, staring at it for some time, 

. . . the one of Cassie

then a photo of Cassie which he places on his pin-board.