Series 13 - Episode 2

 

Written by: Jonathan Rich
Produced by: Angus Towler
Directed by: Claire Winyard


Summary

Previously and credits
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The Blue Watch are still on the shout at the block of flats from the previous episode. The building blows again.

Sally tries to contact Geoff over the radio but he isn't responding.
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We view the inside of the building. A huge hole has gone through the middle of the building. The only floor left is that of the sides of the building. We see everyone inside, lying still and hear Sally radioing Geoff, she keeps trying and trying but she has no response.
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We then see the outside, Terry is holding his baby asking for information on his wife Lynne. He is comforted, but not given a definate answer because they don't know where she is and what state she's in.
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Inside the building again...

Geoff awakens with Mr. Schuster at his side. He trys to contact Sally at BA control, but he's unable to get through.
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Recall awakens and sits up slightly. His hat drops off the edge and down through the large hole. He looks for Mrs. Schuster, who he was accompanying, but he cannot see her. He spots Lynne nearby.
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Outside the building...

Grigg's arrives and talks to Coleman. Coleman wants to send a back - up crew inside to look for the others but Grigg's won't agree. He's now being careful after what happened at the Chinese Warehouse fire at the end of series 12, where Joe and Sicknote lost their lives.
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We see the inside of the building again, Geoff is still trying to contact Sally with no such luck. We keep seeing Sally then Geoff, each trying to contact each other. Geoff finally notices that a wire has came loose in his set and connects it again and can hear Sally. He contacts her and Sally puts Coleman on the line. Geoff speaks to Coleman wo asks if Recall is with them, Geoff answers no.
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Recall slowly walks around the edge of the building.

Geoff shouts out to him. Recall replies.

Geoff goes on the radio to Sally, telling her that Recall is ok.

Recall carries on walking around the edge of the building towards Lynne.
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The gas mains become alight in the building.
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Commercial Break...
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DO Griggs finally lets people go inside the building.
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Mr. Schuster finally wakes up and Geoff explains to him what has happened. Mr. Schuster asks where Judith (his wife - Mrs. Schuster) is.
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The Blue Watch all enter the building...

Sally finds Mrs. Schuster, she's not in a very good way. The paramedics are sent in and she's brought out on a stretcher.
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The Blue Watch begin clearing up the inside, so that they can try to free Geoff and Mr. Schuster.
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Lynne confides in Recall. Telling him that Terry was the person who started the fire.
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Mr. Schuster talks to Geoff. Telling him that he's so much as killed his wife. Geoff doesn't follow, then Mr. Schuster tells Geoff that he was the person who started the fire with a smoke flare. He didn't mean no harm, he only meant to scare the youths, but it went a bit too far.
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The Arial Ladder Platform cage goes up then is lowered into the building through the hole in the roof. A Belt connected to a rope is thrown down to Recall and Lynne. Lynne doesn't want to go up at first because she's scared of heights. But Recall talks her into it a and they both connect themselves to the belt and rope and get hoisted up.
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Mrs. Schuster moves slightly in the ambulance.
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The Blue Watch finally free Geoff and Mr. Schuster from the debris that was blocking their way out.
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After everyone is out of the building, Geoff tells everyone that Mr. Schuster confessed to him that he started to fire.

Recall goes over to Lynne and her baby, near the ambulance and tells her that Terry didn't start the fire. Terry thanks Recall for telling her and Lynne and Terry make up.
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Geoff gets another message through on his pager. He moans about it and demands to know who has been sending him messages. Hyper says that he send two, then Geoff reads the message he received. Hyper tells him he didn't send that message. Geoff realises that this message wasn't a prank. Coleman told him to go and that they'd get everything cleared up and Geoff quickly ran to the hospital.
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Commercial break...
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Geoff is still running to the hospital...

He finally arrives at the hospital and runs up to the reception desk and asks about his wife. The receptionist says she'll be on Redbridge Ward.

Geoff finally finds the ward and finds Fiona sitting on a bed, she has had the baby. Maggie is sitting in a chair beside the bed. A nurse then appears with Zoe and congratulates Gepff, saying he has a beautiful baby girl.
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At the fire scene...

Coleman talks to Councillor Hemmings. She tells him that her first name isn't Councillor and that he can call her Alison and he says his first name isn't Station Commander and that she can call him John.

The members of the watch are nearby and snigger slightly.

Members of Shadbrook start giving George stick about the attempted jewellery theft that George supposedly did.
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At the hospital...

Geoff and Fiona notice that Maggie has fallen asleep in a chair, then she awakens again. Geoff says that she should go home and that he'll call her a taxi. Maggie declines, saying she'll get the bus but Geoff insists and goes off to order her a taxi.
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The Appliances back into the station...
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George and some of the watch are in the lockers and shower rooms.

Pitbull and Ducky Drake start winding George up about the theft, then Sean comes in and tells Pitbull and Ducky Drake to go and clean the appliances.

George is asked about the handbag by the watch, but he doesn't want to talk about it.

Sean goes and talks to Coleman about George, then Sean goes back to George to tell him that Coleman wants to speak to him. George then goes to see Coleman.
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The Watch go to the hospital to try to see the baby.

Adam tries to work on the receptionist so that they can go and see the baby. He has no luck so they try to get Hi - Ho to work on her. Hi - Ho is wearing the after shave that is supposed to be irrisistible to women. The receptionist starts discussing the fire brigade any Hi - Ho is very shy. In the end Hi - Ho turns round and that lads are gone. He quickly follows them.
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The lads arrive into Fiona's room...

Adam and Hi - Ho take a liking straight away to Zoe.

Coleman gives the baby a teady bear from the watch.

They all look at the baby, Sally asks to hold her but Geoff declines.

After a while a nurse goes into the room and tells them all that they have to leave because it is after visiting hours.
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As they leave Hyper runs along to them telling them that he's just pulled the male nurse.
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In Fiona's room...

Geoff and Fiona are talking as Zoe enters with tea's for them all. They discuss Adam and Hi - Ho taking a liking to Zoe and Geoff warns her about them, she says she can take care of herself, Geoff gets all serious.
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The watch all go into the Oliver Twist pub, which is across the road from the new Blackwall Fire Station.

Elaine asks them what they all want, Adam says that he'll get them in and he goes behind the bar. They are slightly shocked that Adam goes behind the bar, then he explains that he lives upstairs and that he helps Elaine out sometimes when it gets busy.
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Recall's palm top thing makes a noise. He then tells them that he's brought some shares and looks and sees how they're going. He tells them how much he's made. They all agree to join a syndicate and to put in £5 each a week.

George gets up and leaves, saying that he has to go home.
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In Fiona's hospital room...

Geoff and Fiona are discussing baby names. Geoff suggests Eve. Fiona thinks that it's a bit old - fashioned so they ask Zoe what she thinks. Zoe says she thinks the baby looks like an Eve and that it suits her. So they agree on Eve.
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George arrives home at Andie's house.

Andie gives George an envelope that came through earlier on. He opens it. It is his divorce from Kelly, it had finally come through.

Andie also tells George that a DC Jerry Thomas had came around earlier to speak to him. George tells Andie that they were old mates, cause he didn't want her to find out about the suspected jewellery theft.

Andie then goes out into the kitchen to make tea.
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Commercial Break...
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The next day in the hospital...

Geoff wakes up and looks at the baby, then Fiona. The baby is awake and Fiona is still asleep. Geoff walks over to the baby and picks her up. He takes baby Eve for a walk, into the hospital corridor and looks out of a window, he introduces her to London and talks to her.
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Coleman is sitting in his office (the Station Commander's office) and is reading the newspaper.
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In the locker and shower room...

Sally, Adam and Hi - Ho are discussing the theft.
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Coleman enters the Watch Commander's office where Hyper is filling in for Geoff and discusses the newspaper article with him.
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Everyone is down in the appliance bay for roll call.

After the roll call is finished Councillor Alison Hemmings arrives to see Coleman, Hyper says he'll show her up to his office.
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Sally and the rest of the watch go into the mess and discuss baby Eve with Maggie.

Some of them attempt to fix the cooker.
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Alison goes into Coleman's office and they talk. She admits that she was responsible for the newspaper article and apologises. He's happy slightly because she was honest with him.
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In the hospital...

The doctor enters Fiona's room to check on the baby. He listens to the baby's hear with his stethoscope. He tells Geoff and Fiona that the baby needs to be moved to the Special Care Baby Unit as a safety precaution.
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Adam rings Elaine on a mobile from the downstairs of the station and looks out of the window for her. Elaine comes across the road carrying food.
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Baby Eve is transported to the Special Care Baby Unit.
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Hyper calls George over the intercom to the Watch Commander's Office.

Coleman walks into the mess, where Maggie is, and wonders where everyone ha gone.

The watch are all eating food from Elaine in the Watch Commander's Office when Maggie walks in.
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In the hospital...

A nurse goes to get Geoff and Fiona so they can go and see Eve.
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Coleman enters the Watch Commander's Office to see what's going on.

Adam explains that he asked Elaine to bring food over to them because the cooker's broken. Magie then tells Adam that it is fixed and she ad food ready and waiting for them, she then tells Adam that she's very disapointed in him, then she leaves the room.
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In the hospital...

Geoff and Fiona enter the room where Eve was put. She ws in an incubator and the doctor tells them that she has a Hyperventricular breathing problem.
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The bells go off at Blackwall...

Hi - Ho announces that there is a floor at a video shop down Star Street.
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The appliances arrive at the shout...

The video shop owner is trying to pick up off the floor, all the money that he can. He tells the watch that he has turned all of the electricity off and that the flooding is coming from the flat above.
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At the hospital...

Geoff and Fiona are told that baby Eve has been put on Antibiotics.
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In the appliance bay...

Coleman tells Sally that the inquiery into the Chinese Warehouse fire cleared DO Griggs. Sally is devastated.
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The rest of the watch arrive back from the shout...

DC Jerry Thomas arrives and asks for George. Hyper says to George that they can use the Watch Commander's Office to talk.
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Adam enters the mess and then goes into the kitchen. He hands Maggie some flowers and apologises for earlier on. She tells him that she lives his aftershave - he had put on some of the spray that he'd given Hi - Ho. Adam makes an excuse that he has to be somewhere and makes a quick exit.
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Sean is in the outside roof garden smoking and Sally is standing around drinking something in a mug. Sean apologises about DO Griggs getting the all clear in the inquiry.

Sean's pager bleeps so he has to leave.

Pitbull walks into the garden and notices someone has nicked his fresia's. This would have been Adam, he gave some to Maggie as an apology!
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DC Jerry Thomas questions George in the Watch Commander's Office. George's story isn't very specific when compared with those of Flatty's and Steve Prentiss' so he doesn't look very convincing.
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In the Special Care Baby Unit...

Machine's connected up to Eve start buzzing loudly as Eve cries. Geoff and Fiona watch in horror.
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Starring

Coleman - Edward Peel
Pearce - Michael Garner
Recall - Ben Onwukwe
Hyper - Connor Byrne
George - Glen Murphy
Sally - Heather Peace
Hi - Ho - Fuman Dar
Adam - Sam Callis

Maggie - Shirley Greenwood
Fiona - Helen Anderson
Alison Hemmings - Liz Crowther
Elaine Reeve - Sharon Duce
Pitbull - Al Hunter Ashton
Griggs - Simon Merrells
Andie - Joanne Adams
Zoe - Heather Jay Jones
Sean Bateman - Dominic Taylor
Flatty - Mark Leadbetter
Steve Prentiss - Scott Lane
Ron Schuster - John Ringham
Judith Schuster - Eileen Essell
Terry - Lee Whitlock
Lynne - Louisa Bradshaw White
Doctor - Kourosh Asad
Receptionist - Shaaron Jackson
Nurse - Roy Feeney
Ducky Drake - Adam Ward
DC Jerry Thomas - Peter McMichael
Len - Lyndam Gregory

Stunts

Tom Lucy and Lyndal Smith.
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Review

I thought this episode was a good one. We had the shout from the episode before following through, so we knew the outcome.

We had some good gags. Baby Eve is so sweet :-)

I feel sorry for George, being blamed for something he clearly didn't do and getting stick and constant questions about it.
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Quotes of the episode

Quote 1: Recall when he was up after the blast and drops his hat down the edge of the hole: "Bloody hell! Mrs. Schuster?... Who the bloody hell are you?!" (To Lynne).

Quote 2: Geoff to Recall after he blast: "Recall, are you ok?"
Recall who is walking on a ledge: "Yeah... never better."

Quote 3: Geoff to the watch as he gets another page through: "Baby coming come quickly HA HA."
Hyper: "I didn't send that."

Quote 4: Coleman to the watch as they watch him flirting with Alison: "What are you lot gorping at?"
George: "Nothing... John."

Quote 5: Sean Bateman to Pitbull and Ducky Drake when he tells them to clean the appliances: "Who d'ya think I mean? Romeo and Juliet?"

Quote 6: Adam to Hi - Ho when they fight over Zoe: "I'm pulling rank."
Hi - Ho: "And I'm pulling Zoe."

Quote 7: Sally, when the watch enter the Oliver Twist: "Blimey, I've seenmore life on a geriatric ward."
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