Due to his bad back Rab just cannot nod off and Mary's talking in her sleep does not help. Nor does the arrival of Jamesie,fleeing an irate deaf-mute husband with a shotgun and who tries to get his leg over with Gash's girlfriend Bridie. Ella meanwhile gets cosy with the gunman but next morning Rab's fitful snooze is disturbed by a shot.—don @ minifie-1