Michael has decided to relaunch the school's newspaper and has put Grantly in charge of overseeing the production. However, Grantly's wife Fleur, who's suffering from Alzheimer's disease in a care home, has begun to deteriorate. He's struggling to cope at school, but he refuses to tell Michael or Tom what's going on. Maggie, however, knows that something's wrong. Seeing that he's clearly unhappy being at school while his wife gets increasingly ill, she encourages him to go and see her. Grantly writes a letter of resignation to Michael and promptly leaves the school. Michael, still needing to put a paper together, asks Nicki to help out. Meanwhile, Finn notices that Trudi's been acting strangely for the past few weeks. He tries to ask her what's wrong, but she simply brushes him off and tells him that she's fine. But when her sister Naz tries to talk to her, she snaps. What's going on? Tariq decides to get to the bottom of what's troubling his sister, and the news is shocking - she's pregnant. As Grantly visits his wife, he suddenly comes up with a plan that he thinks might be able to help get her memory back. Without telling anyone, he takes her from the home and drives her to the place where they had their honeymoon. However, instead of having the positive effect he had hoped, his impromptu excursion just makes matters worse. He concedes and takes her back to the care home, but shortly afterwards she passes away. Grantly's racked with guilt, and his future at Waterloo Road hangs in the balance.
