dennis has a passionate fling with den's adopted daughter sharon watts (letitia dean) on the eve of den's return but finds himself rejected when den replaces him. they resume their affair in secret but den cannot accept a relationship between his children and plots to split them up. den taunts dennis with the insinuation that someone had sexually abused him while he was in a children's home, successfully provoking dennis into accidentally hitting sharon. a guilt-ridden den later apologises and explains his reasons for not wanting his son and daughter together, because he wants both of them in his life and he cannot have that if they are sleeping together. den then tries to explain to dennis that his feelings for sharon are simply misguided due to the abuse he suffered as a child, which leaves dennis confused and he decides to break up with sharon in order to have a proper father-son relationship.