The Smoking Room

Barry thinks his promotion is in the bag, but his chances may not be as strong as he'd hoped. The other smokers are hardly supportive, obsessed as they are with trying to remember the theme tune to The Little House of the Prairie instead.

The sudden death of a colleague sets the smokers musing on their own mortality - and speculating as to whether they'll get some time off for his funeral.

The posters are up! Sharon, the MD, wants everyone to go 'paintballing', and Janet has been despatched to collect the names of those attending. But with the events of the weekend to discuss, the workforce have other concerns.

Robin has lost his lighter, much to the annoyance of an important nicotine-deprived client. Anyway, someone is bound to come in with one soon. Aren't they?

It's Valentine's Day. Someone has left a box of chocolates for one of the smokers. But just who exactly is lucky in love? Meanwhile Heidi has returned from maternity leave, with 'interesting' photos of her new baby.

It's a rainy lunch hour and everyone is stuck in with nothing to do, apart from Janet, who has been instructed to fetch Sharon's lunch - a task she seems unusually reluctant to do.