When Cavatex, a giant dental company whose mascot is Bristles the Bear - and which Ben despises - offers to buy out his practice he agrees, hoping that it will give him more free time. He takes up a hobby painting miniatures of famous battles, using Alfie's room so that Alfie has to move in with Michael, but he soon gets bored and helps Susan when she has to design an exhibition for the art gallery. When the money he receives from Cavatex turns out to be much less than expected he goes cap in hand to them to get his job back.
—don @ minifie-1