“I’d do anything for you if you’d just forgive me,” Drew pleads of Belle, who’s still so grief-stricken that she’s not really in the mood for letting go of the fact of his earlier cover-up over the accident. But the thought of life without Belle soon becomes the least of Drew’s worries, as Jack pays a visit to investigate the story behind the once-again missing car. He may be innocent this time, but that doesn’t mean he can escape the long arm of the law – because when they do find “The Beast”, it’s just a smouldering wreck, all incriminating parts having been removed before it was torched. “There isn’t a chance this car’s gonna clear you now,” Jack tells a devastated Drew. It’s time for Jazz to spring into action again; even if Jack – now aware of the police blunder which saw the car going to Ray’s garage – doesn’t have the proof he needs of Drew’s innocence, she knows there’s always a way to get it and invites Dom over to settle on a price.Initially, it looks like he’s going to play hard to get, but she soon convinces him that naming the higher-ups involved in the stolen parts racket will keep the police off his back. “Give them something they want and they’ll leave you alone. What I’m offering is just a bonus for doing what you need to do to save yourself anyway,” Jazz teases. Of course, there’s really only one thing Dom wants and, well, she’s not for sale – not that Jazz isn’t prepared to ask. “If anyone has a chance of convincing him to do the right thing it’s you,” she later tells Belle, urging her to go and speak to Dom. It’s only when Drew unexpectedly shows her the depth of his own grief for Lisa that Belle realises there are worse deals to be done and goes ahead with Jazz’s plan, meeting Dom at their arranged rendezvous point. “I’ll go to the cops; I’ll tell them the truth – if you just do one thing for me,” he tells her. Faced with the choice of kissing her boyfriend goodbye or the alternative, kissing Dom himself, Belle reluctantly opts for the latter. “I’ve done my part. Do yours,” she says, disgusted at what she’s just happened, before rushing home to Drew for a reconciliation – and to wash the day away, no doubt.Middle of nowhereDon, meanwhile, has been elected to lead a Year 7 nature walk – a task which he doesn’t accept with the greatest enthusiasm. After a run-in with Belle over him losing the only copy of her speech for Lisa’s assembly (“I’m having a little trouble retrieving that,” he admits sheepishly), he’s not exactly feeling at the top of his game. This becomes only too clear when, having reluctantly boarded the coach, he manages to lead the driver to the wrong part of the trail, dismissing Dan’s attempts at navigating them to their start point.Even when he does swallow his pride and order the coach onwards, it soon transpires that Don’s lost more than his sense of direction; he’s also managed to forget that most fundamental part of any school trip – the worksheets. And you can’t go on a nature walk without those. So, having declared the whole exercise a failure, Don decides the group may as well return to school no more enlightened than they were when they came. It just so happens, though, that he fails to call the register, leaving Annie and Rory stranded in the middle of nowhere. As the very worried parents, guardians and teachers later begin to realise what’s happened, Annie has already settled on hitchhiking her way back home and is ready to thumb a lift with a stranger. Will Rory be able to talk her out of it?

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