on christmas day 2005, sharon is admitted to hospital with suspected food poisoning, but finds out she is pregnant, despite the previous belief that she was infertile. after dennis interferes with johnny allen and his treatment of his daughter ruby, johnny attacks sharon but upon finding out she's pregnant, he relents and tells sharon that if her and dennis are gone by midnight on new year's eve, he would not kill dennis. after much insistence from sharon, they prepare to leave on new year's eve to start a new life in the united states. sharon does not tell dennis that johnny has threatened to kill him, but she confides in phil, who then uses dennis as a weapon against johnny, who is also an enemy of his. phil tells dennis about johnny threatening sharon and also that johnny had murdered andy. although dennis knows what phil's doing, he takes the bait anyway and beats johnny to the brink of death. johnny begs for help as he thinks he will die, so dennis tosses him a mobile phone and says if he can reach it, he will live. johnny is able to reach the phone and instead of calling for medical assistance, he contacts a henchman to murder dennis as revenge for his beating.