 Ted gives up his tedious washing-up job, intent on pursuing his career in Southampton. But Chrissy is adamant that she s not moving away from home, and Ted storms off. Justine goes round to see her, and Chrissy asks if she can intercept Ted, and stop him doing anything rash. Justine finds Ted s not at home, but on the way out the postman gives her a postcard before she can explain that she doesn t live there. It s from Emma, the girl Ted met in Southampton. As Ted approaches, she steadfastly ignores him, and walks away, realizing why Ted s keen to return to Southampton. She tries to get her friends interested at school, but Ray shows her a national newspaper to which her article about gang warfare has spread, and Maria tries to convince Justine that the postcard might be innocent. Justine takes no notice, and uses the computer ask for Liam s help in sorting out Ted. In the school garden, Diane and her Year Seven friends go exploring and find a large animal footprint. They get a book from Mr. Hankin, borrow some plaster of Paris, a spatula from the cookery classroom, and make an impression of the print. Richard plucks up his courage and asks Natasha out - but she tells him to drop dead. Unable to get out of school at lunchtime because of the ban, Maria engineers a distraction, so Fran can leave while Mr. Robson s back is turned. Fran gets to Chrissy s house, but not before an ugly encounter with some of the Eagles gang. Later, when Justine arrives, Chrissy is angry with her for her intention of getting Ted beaten up by Liam s gang, but then Justine shows her the postcard - and leaves as Ted arrives. Chrissy tells Ted that it s obvious they don t love each other, and there would be no point them going to live together in Southampton. Ted asks to see his son, and asks Chrissy if she will let him see Jay, but she doesn t reply. Natalie is upset at finding that her former friends seem to be moving across to become Natasha s. Out in the garden, Diane and her friends are about to take a look at the footprint imprint but are interrupted by Julie who noses her way in, and bossily demands to be part of the secret. When they hear the sound of Mr. Griffiths, they escape through their secret entrance back to school. In the cookery lesson that follows, Diane replaces the spatula they stole, but neglect to clean it first, and the resulting cakes they cook have a certain gritty taste to them... Julie looks up the footprint and finds the animal is a fox. Smartly dressed, Ted waits for his coach to Southampton with Chrissy watching, promising to send her money each week. Out with Chrissy, Liam finds he s left his bike at Chrissy s - but he is oddly reluctant to return to it. As he returns, he is accosted by one of the rival Eagle gang and it becomes apparent that Liam is one of the Hawk gang, and that each gang has marked out certain territories that they defend. As he pushes his way through the two boys, and gains enough distance, he taunts them with a call "Hawks! Hawks! Hawks!"