Below is the ITV Episode Guide for Episode Seven - Listen with Mother. It contains some fairly significant spoilers. Here's a few screencaps from the last episode, just so you don't accidentally read anything if you don't wish to! The episode summary follows the screencaps.
Louisa tries to get Martin to open up
about the loss of his father, but Martin says it doesn’t affect him.
Louisa suggests a break, so they can all get away and spend some time
together. Martin doesn’t want to and Louisa is hurt by this. Things are
strained between Martin and his mother. She is trying to connect with
him, but he is cutting her off. She comments that he isn’t looking very
well. Martin weighs himself and discovers that he has lost a lot of
weight. This triggers something in Martin and he becomes convinced that
there is something wrong with him, which is the root of all of his
problems. He becomes obsessed with testing himself. Ruth comes round to
see Margaret, to find out why she is in Portwenn. She doesn’t believe
Margaret one bit.
Martin goes to the chemist to get some
supplies and notices that Mrs Tishell holds her jaw when she exerts
herself. She frostily tells the Doc that she has toothache. Later that
day when she is moving heavy boxes, she gets the pain again. She
realises the Doc was right and goes to the surgery. The Doc examines her
wrists and eyes, finding fatty deposits and diagnosing her with angina.
Mrs Tishell is smitten by the hand holding and the staring into her
eyes. She falls head over heels in love with the Doc again.
Al gets a visit at the police station
from two Military Policemen, looking for Mike Pruddy. Al pretends not to
know Mike and goes to find him and warn him the army are looking for
him. Mike panics and wants to flee, but Al calms him down and tells him
to take James back to the surgery whist he gets rid of the Military
Police from the village. Al misleads the Military Police, telling them
that Mike has done a runner and is hiding up at a barn a couple of
villages away. Penhale is determined to find Mike before the Military
Police and gets to the farm first. He gets tangled on a hook and when
the Military Police arrive they are annoyed that Penhale got there
first. They don’t help Penhale and leave him hanging on the hook.
Martin arrives at the school Sports
Day, he is not happy about being there and is concerned about the
patients he has left in his waiting room. Louisa asks him to say a few
words before handing out the medals, but when on stage Martin is silent,
saying nothing. Louisa tries to coax him to speak, but still nothing.
Miss Woodley steps in and reads out the list of winning pupils.
It takes ages and half way through the
presentation Martin tells all the children who won a medal to stand up
and starts handing them out willy nilly. He storms off back to the
surgery. As Louisa runs after him, shouting at him to stop she is hit by
a car.
Al tells his dad about a business idea
he has, to be the middle man between the tourists wanting fishing trips
and the fishermen. Bert laughs at the idea, there is no way the
fishermen will give him a 10% cut. The wind is taken out of Al’s sails.
Mike is stuck at the surgery, the Doc
asked him to look after James because Louisa is in hospital. Mike
decides to take James to his flat, he needs to pack up so he is ready to
go on the run. But when Al and Mike arrive back at the flat Penhale is
there, waiting for them. Penhale wants to hand in Mike to the army, (not
the Military Police), and is ready to take him away, when Martin turns
up. Martin is furious that James is not in bed. It all comes out; Mike
ran away from the army because they wanted to treat his OCD, but Mike
didn’t want to be changed, his OCD is a part of him. The Doc makes Mike
see sense, he does need help. The OCD is impeding his everyday life.
Mike agrees to go back to the military and face the music. After taking
Mike back to his barracks, Al goes to see Morwenna to tell her that Mike
won’t be taking her out that evening. She isn’t that bothered.
Louisa has broken her collar bone and
is annoyed with Martin. Martin spots that Louisa is coughing and
suspects she has a deep vein thrombosis. He blames the hospital for not
turning her during the night. Louisa is embarrassed and tells Martin to
leave. Later that day, when Martin collects Louisa from hospital, she
tells him that she needs a break and is going to Spain to stay with her
mother - just her and James. Martin is shocked.
