The newspaper on the table in Ray's room when Tony visits has the headline Five Of A Kind. This refers to the story of the man who received 5 identical birthday cards in the first episode. Tony obviously did write a story about it.
The shortest episode of the series.
In this episode and Episode #1.6 (2019), Ethan Lawrence's character is credited as "Recorder Kid". It's only from series two onwards that the character gets credited as "James".