It is the morning of the christening, and Maggie arrives at the Pearce house, followed by Kelly. The guys are rewarded for their dangerous situation underneath the rubble, when they find the missing baby and get her out. There's a heavy fight with him and his bodyguards. Frank goes to see Jimmy. At the DIY shop, Recall is struggling to fit in. Recall is not happy about him rearranging the furniture. They break a hole through the plasterboard, but one goes back for the drugs. He tells Sally he's going to propose to Andie. At the home office, a fire starts in a waste paper bin, and the engines go off to deal with it. Chris is called to HQ, regarding a vague message Nick left about wanting to sort out problems with Chris. Two boys play a prank on the manageress of a laundrette by locking her in the office and setting the machines to produce huge masses of foam. Engineer Fiona is back at the station to check the new sirens, and Pearce takes her for a drink at Jaffa's pub. Pearce, Sicknote, Dan, Recall and Sally arrive and the traffic accident is worse than reported.

Pearce overhears Dan having a go at Joe and tells him to stop acting like a spoiled child. At Blackwall, Pearce is pestering Maggie about the food.

Sally tries to talk to Joe again, and they agree that since neither of them want to leave Blue Watch, they have to stop seeing each other. Paramedic says it is lack of oxygen. Back at Blackwall, The Torch is the subject of discussion. Sicknote goes to the library to collect some books on Blackwall's history, when he gets there they have all been taken, later on it is revealed that Geoff is the one who has them, Sicknote is livid. Customers are angry, so the manager shuts off the alarm. Billy introduces Bayleaf to his Nan, who has raised him. John Hallam is finally receiving the counselling he needs.

Nick attends to Ariadne's funeral. Jack climbs up a drain pipe to rescue the woman and her son while everyone else gets set up with ladders. Everyone goes to the pub for a game of darts. Dan convinces Sally to make a go of it, and they kiss, sending the cookery equipment everywhere. He tells them Hi-Ho and Carmen from Shadbrook will be based at Blackwall while their appliance bay is being renovated. Injured in a fire at her flat and died in hospital. With Chris gone, Nick asks Pearce what he thinks of Chris. Sicknote starts worrying about his balding, but Jean only laughs at him.

She goes home to prepare. The lads go to the pub, and are surprised to see Fiona, who's come to visit Pearce. He tells George just to keep it quiet. Jack brings Stephen back to Linda and they argue about boarding school. Pearce lets Pitbull adopt Bruno. Finally, he is freed and the watch have to go to hospital for hepatitis injections due to being in the drain. Recall asks Frank what the problem is, and Frank says everyone has secrets, including Recall. As he's on the phone, his father in law brings Stephen in to the house, but Jack does not know.

Shauna goes to hospital and tells Mick that Frank saved her. Suddenly, Jason turns nasty and takes Joe and Dan hostage. Hyper offers to set Pearce's pager to vibrate instead of ring so that if Fiona calls, nobody will know. Pearce crushes the remains of the model engine. Back at the pub, Yvonne goes to the bar and talks to Chris. Suddenly, a blast of water knocks Joe down, and further down the tunnel, knocks over Tony and Pearce. Dan tells Nick, who has charged in, that he must withdraw for his own sake, but Nick refuses and wades in for Marianne and Costas.

Jack turns up at Hilary's office and meets her husband. She tells him about Joe, and how it makes her wary of relationships with firefighters. She swaps Billy and Recall. It turned out the basement of the funeral parlour was completely flooded, meaning our boys had to wade in up to their waists amid floating wreaths and bobbing coffins.

Pearce confronts Sally and tells her the brigade "Frowns on firefighters fraternising". As Eddie and Maria have breakfast, her angry ex sets fire to the pub downstairs. The whole watch tries to cope with the accident but after returning from a shout, they learn that Hallam has died. Sicknote gets a letter from the council stating he is banned from the allotments as they seen the explosion of his neighbours allotment 'vandalism' he is furious and claims he will fight against it. Nick tells Kevin that he has been accepted for a course in survival training. At work, Dan tries to get Sally to talk to him, but she refuses. At the Pearce house, Fiona is angry about Pearce's indecision, not helped by Kelly ringing and congratulating them. At the pub, George tells Craig that everyone freaks out when they first see a dead body and he should not be put off. He tells Adam he'd better not have set him up. Brett tells the police that he was walking by a heard a scream, then he was tricked into coming inside by two men who beat him up. Sandra catches Hallam on the phone to Jenny and brings him to confess his affair with the girl. Pitbull goes to a DIY store for compost and finds Recall working there.

Recall finds out that the report on the closure of Blackwall was simply confirmation that it is not being considered for closure after all.

Jane tells Sally that her friend stole her boyfriend, and now they're engaged. He knocks a motorcyclist down. Chris tells Recall that the hotel manager, Mr Graves, has made a complaint about Recall. Billy manages to chat up one of the strippers, Lauren. Zoe turns up at Pearce's house and asks for Fiona. Back at the flats, some young men are still partying and drinking. At the Quigley house, Owen hears on the news that Blackwall firefighters are being held hostage and calls for Jean. Steven shows Sally the dirty magazine he got from Charlie, and the whole gang deteriorate into name calling. Bruno is meanwhile found at Borough St. Fire Station, but they refuse to return the dog to Blackwall, so Jack engineers a trade against a jet. Jack is on BA control, but abandons his duties to save Recall who got injured and Nick gives him a furious reprimand.

Sally bumps into a naked Frank emerging from the showers. Ruby has spotted a dog and hides with it under the engine.

A shout comes in to a house with smoke reported and both engines go out. Joe and Sally go out to dinner at a nice restaurant. Back at the children's home, Kevin, his rat and his friend Jason buzz themselves in, and forget to shut the door. Dan points out that noboy should go in until they have it confirmed the electricity is off. Frank and Adam find two, but one is missing.

Marianne goes to the station to collect Nick's belongings, where she is comforted by Maggie. Pearce tells Dan that he's going to fight his own battles, and does not need Dan speaking up for him. Blue Watch put on BA and go back in to put the fire out. Nick knows that he's only looking for trouble, but reprimands Billy and Sicknote nonetheless, reminding them how important it is to follow procedures. Sicknote discovers a homemade device hidden in a shoebox and Nick tells him to hand it over to the Fire Investigation Team. Pearce adopts a boxer dog named Bruno for company. Zoe turns up at Pearce's house and asks Fiona why she's not told Pearce she has a daughter. Everyone goes out. Sicknote gets home and sees Owen has drawn graffiti all over the living room wall, with Jean's consent. Nick drives the pump towards a roof to help people escape from the first floor onto the roof of the pump. Jack continues to behave oddly, making accusations at Chris. The ladder crew arrive. Billy goes to his Mum's and meets her family, he discovers he has two step brothers Darren and Simon and one step sister Jo and meets his step dad Tony. The police try to get Lisa to tell them what happened, but Lisa says nothing happened.

At another table, Jean shows everyone her baby scan pictures. Joe goes to the pub with Sally and tries to hold her hand, but she pulls back and says they cannot do this because she likes him and she is not willing to share him with Jackie, then she leaves. Afterwards, Dan thanks Pearce for sticking by him. Pitbull and his friend see Melissa and have a go at her.

At Blackwall, George and Sally are worrying over lost equipment. Fell to his death from a crane after being spooked by a passing helicopter. Jean is treating Sicknote extra-nice, happy to be home. DI Roebuck appears and watches Frank and tells him he knows Adam and Frank torched his car. Chris finds George and the kids and talks him round. Griggs says he's transferring Bateman away while the investigation happens. Billy watches how he knocks the panicking man out to save him.

A worker is stuck high up on a tree, badly hurt from his chainsaw. Nick offers to bring Recall's family down to visit him. After a disastrous drill with the new BA, Chris asks Pearce how well he knows Recall. Pearce says it is a security measure, and Nick rolls his eyes. Pearce is truly humbled when Donald's mother tells him how fond he was of the brigade and gives him a drawing he had made of Blackwall.

They end up having fish and chips outside in the rain.

Joe says they have to talk, and tells her that despite being together five years, since starting at Blackwall he feels like he's changed. Dan arrives, unaware. Suddenly, the gas main catches light right beside Recall and the young mother. Frank tells her it is better not to get involved and stay alone. George, Billy, Recall, Jack and Gregg play a prank on Sicknote, making him think there is a ghost in the station.

Blue Watch's pump ladder are called. Nick gets home to Marianne and she tells him he's been in a bad mood since he went back to Blackwall, and that he'd had an argument with Chris today. Frank asks Mick if Shauna is unwell, but Mick tells him to mind his own business. Sally is in the car with Dan, and they discuss how to explain away their arriving together. Joe admonishes Dan in front of Pearce and Nick. Killed in an explosion at a fireworks warehouse. Jackie tells Joe to come home. He and George have a chat about wives working. A guy has a fatal fall from a flagpole.