he makes it up to her by offering to check the fire alarms in the pub, but annoys her further by going through a drawer full of her personal documents and asking her about her daughter sam's (kim medcalf) love life. he goes on to question sam about her relationships with trevor morgan (alex ferns) and ricky butcher (sid owen). he later berates sam for cancelling the pub's bonfire party in the aftermath of the deaths of tom banks (colm ó maonlaí) and trevor morgan, but praises peggy for the cancellation. sam becomes suspicious of dave when he allows one of his friends to smoke cannabis in the pub.