It is crunch time for Alice as she is forced to take stock of her finances and realises that the only route to survival is to rent out her Brighton flat and find cheaper accommodation in London. And accommodation does not come much cheaper than Milly's sofa.

Alice seems to be comfortably bedding in with out-of-work writer Douglas McVitie, in every sense. But is she ready for the pair to share an answering machine message?

Alice can barely contain her excitement at the prospect of meeting one of her lifelong TV heroes - veteran comedy actor Gordon Bexter, who is about to direct a challenging new avant garde play at the Royal Court called Kiss of Death.