While Claire and the girls are busy preparing for Poppy’s birthday, Flynn makes a flimsy excuse to leave under the guise of getting some last minute presents and promises to be back in time for his daughter’s party.
Instead he meets with Captain Amber Mitchell at a bar, and it quickly becomes clear that the pair are more than colleagues.
Although Flynn is initially hostile towards Amber (Sophie Melville, The Pact), attraction sizzles and she persuades him to have one drink with her…
Amber sitting in a dark dive bar with orange brickwork in the background, dressed in a bright red blouse looking longingly at Flynn, who is off screen.
Red alert. Amber is the other woman! (Image credit: BBC Studios.)