Debs answers the door and Neil politely ignores her black eye and pecks her on the cheek. He can smell the tang of Vodka over her perfume but doesn't mention that either. In the living room he spots Phil, the guy he was always a bit scared of at school. Phil was always a one with the ladies. There was even rumours of an affair with one of the dinner ladies at school. Questions were naturally asked and nothing came of it but Neil knew the truth. As the night progresses the atmosphere between the hosts becomes ever stormy and Neil follows Debs into the laundry room to offer his shoulder to cry on, a shoulder she's cried on a thousand times before.