Whilst tax inspectors and safety officers pay a surprise visit, Hotel Babylon hosts a knock-out poker tournament, one contestant being hotel magnate Damien Rushby, actually Emily's estranged and widowed father.He wants to buy Babylon and when Sam refuses, having guessed that he called in the unwanted visitors to weaken him,Damien plays cards with him with the hotel as the stake. Sam loses... Tony meets his exact double, American writer Bobby Mack, who craves a return to his humble origins and persuades Tony to swap places with him for the day. Both do well, Tony enabling Bobby to date his adoring secretary and Bobby dissuading a disgruntled shipping heiress from leaving the hotel. Damien collapses and Emily saves him. He had come to see her because he has a terminal illness and wants reconciliation with her. She accepts, as he returns Hotel Babylon to Sam.
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