Elmo opens his wine bar and everybody finds the pink colour scheme overpowering. Jacko and Eric start work on the Morella's business. Jacko is interested in Lucia Morella. Leslie tries to get Sandra sacked but Veronica sacks her instead.

acko asks Mr. Morella for permission to take out his daughter Lucia and he receives the okay to call on her. Jacko goes out on his first date with Lucia but finds out that the permission was only to visit her at home, six times. Elmo has trouble with the staff when they all quit over some 'friendly pats of encouragement'. Jacko decides to take Veronica out to cheer her up. Leslie has decided that she is going to marry Giles, as a marriage of convenience, and is going to make him ask her. However it doesn't work out as he decides that he is still in love Gloria and drops her.

Jacko and Lucia have their first real date and after a few dates she tricks him into proposing. Veronica goes out with Mr. Morella's brother. Elmo employs Leslie in the wine bar to take it upmarket. Giles proposes to Gloria.

After Lucia tricks him into proposing, Jacko comes up with a series of plans to get the wedding cancelled. Eventually, he decides to tell the Morellas the truth. Veronica and Marcello planning to go on holiday together.

Everybody goes to Giles and Gloria's country mansion. Veronica and Marcello return to Leslie's dismay. Mr. Morella tells Jacko that he cannot Lucia as she is to marry somebody else. Paulette convinces Elmo to buy her a country house.