it is not long before vikram resumes his secret affair with hazel as she gives him a gold bracelet for his birthday and he dumps girlfriend bobbi lewis for hazel. when les battersby (bruce jones) comes to collect hazel one day, he is very suggestive and she slaps him. she demands to know what vikram has told his staff at the office about her. vikram is livid with les and confides in his cousin dev alahan (jimmi harkishin) that he has fallen in love with hazel. when hazel's husband john discovers the affair, he threatens vikram to stay away from his wife. hazel later makes it clear to vikram that she will not leave john for him, and after several threats from john, hazel tells vikram that she was in on his plan all along.