 Kim finds the truck, abandoned by the thieves- without the $2,000. Janelle is confident publisher Melody will pay well for the book after Bree helped her revising it all night; Kim goes along insisting to make it even spicier again, but the ladies pull the line, while the advance they hoped for is out of the question for a new author. Despite Max  insisting the baby needs a healthy mother, Steph won t hear of any cancer therapy before the birth; Toadie tells Max the threat isn t immediate enough to overrule her choice, and having her declared incompetent may cost him his marriage, but Max goes ahead. Harold is a mess, even throws everyone out of the coffee-shop; when Paul tells him he s the impossible to follow example everybody looks up to, he walks out whining he can t take his inexcusable error back. Todie and Connor have a row over billing fictitious hours. Karl finds a note from Harold to Connor: he s off to Tasmania.