Series 13 - Episode 6

Written by: Doug Briggs
Produced by: Angus Towler
Directed by: Ged Maguire

Summary

Previously and credits.

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The watch are training out in the station's yard.

After the training drill has finished, Geoff starts moaning at Hyper about the placement of the ladder against the wall.

When the watch enter the station again, Adam notices Elaine. She asks him about doing a favour for her as it is Mrs. Redman's 50TH Birthday the next day and she wanted to do something special for her. Adam is aprehensive at first, then agrees.


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George wants to check to see how the money from his wedding ring in doing. Recall still hasn't told him that they went bust and both Recall and Adam don't fancy telling George. So George goes and attempts to check the shares himself.

Maggie asks Geoff how Eve and Fiona are and asks if he thinks Fiona would mind company as she'd like to go and see them.

Geoff then goes and moans at Hyper again as he doesn't think he's treating Melissa well.

The bells go down... A person is trapped, the Pump Ladder only are needed.


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The Pump Ladder crew arrive outside a house. A woman is standing at the door of her house. She explains that Mr. Thompkins is trapped under the floor boards. Mr. Thompkins in then revealed to be a cat.

The PL crew enter the house and go through to the kitchen and begin to take up the floor boards.


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At the station... Maggie and Coleman sit in the mess. Coleman asks Maggie if she approves of Alison and she says she does.


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At the woman's house... Adam flirts with her and offers to come back later on and sort out her kitchen for her.


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Coleman is talking to a group of pensioners about fire safety. After the talk has finished, he talked to Alison briefly before a man approaches him. He reveals he used to work at Blackwall in the summer time of 1954.


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At the woman's house... The watch are still having no luck with the cat, so Adam decides to try something. He attaches the alarm from a BA kit to a coat hanger and put it down under the floor boards and sets it off. The cat finally runs out, then when Adam goes to get the alarm out, it has fallen off of the coat hanger.


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Adam finally retrieves the alarm from under the floor boards.


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At a hall somewhere... Coleman carries on talking to the pensioner who used to be in the brigade. He tells Coleman he was pensioned off in November 1960.

Alison interrupts the two of them.


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At the station... After arriving back from the shout, Hyper tells Melissa that he's going to tell Coleman about her 'file'.

In the locker area... Adam asks the lads about helping him with the birthday bash and tells them to trust him... they're oblivious of what's to come.


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At Geoff and Fiona's house... Maggie is in the living room with Fiona. Eve continuously cries, Fiona hands her over to Maggie but she doesn't stop crying. Geoff then arrives home and takes hold of Eve, then takes her out of the living room so that her could go and change her.

Maggie questions how Fiona is with Geoff as she notices something is wrong. Geoff makes a slight excuse and leaves it at that.


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At the woman's house... George and Adam are in the kitchen with her. George begins work on the floor as the woman takes Adam upstairs...


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At a bowling alley... Coleman and Alison arrive. She compares it with the ballroom dancing, then goes and pays for an alley.


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At the Oliver Twist...

Kate and Hi - Ho are enjoying each others company, then Andie arrives. She asks if George was around, but he wasn't. Andie reveals that George was supposed to be doing a training session in the gym. She asks what art Hi - Ho does and he says Kung Fu, so she asks him if he can go with her and do a session over at the gym.


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At the bowling alley... Alison does two shots and scores a strike. She then takes a ball and passes it to Coleman, who goes strange and puts the ball down and leaves...


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The watch arrive in at the station in the morning... Hyper attempts to talk to Coleman about Melissa, but Coleman won't take any notice.


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In the mess... Geoff enters the mess where Recall and Adam are sitting at the DreamCast. He's looking for Melissa.

Maggie then offers to give Fiona a hand sometimes, but Geoff is positive that Fiona's capable on her own.


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Melissa is sitting in an office cleaning BA kits when Griggs enters. She tells him that Hyper had found her 'file' and Griggs doesn't know what she's going on about.

Melissa thinks that Griggs asked her to prepare a file about the watch, he just wanted her 'thoughts' on the watch and nothing formal.


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A group of children are on a school trip at a Freshwater Pumping Station. A man begins to give them a tour and one of the boys wanders off alone. He goes down a staircase, which is stripped off so that no one is supposed to go down.


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Alison calls Coleman's office, he answers the phone then hastily hangs up. Geoff informs Coleman that they're just about to leave for the inspection.


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At the Freshwater Pumping Station... The watch begin to inspect the outside of the building.

Melissa tells Sally about her misinterpretation of Griggs. Sally tells her she can't believe how stupid she was and informs her that Griggs had, had it in for the Blue Watch since day one. Melissa asks Sally's opinion on how she could make it up to Hyper. Sally advises Melissa to do it face - to - face so then he would have a bit of respect for her.


The people inside the building are calling the boy's name, the boy can hear, but he carries on going further down certain staircases and tunnels. He slips on a step and falls under water.

The instructor of the group of children tells the others to stay where they are and to not move. He then runs outside to the brigade who all go and get kitted up in BA.


Inside the building... The watch get paired off and are told to go off in separate directions.


Rob and Geoff finally spot the boy after going down different staircases. Geoff goes down towards the boy as Hyper informs Coleman over the radio that they've found the boy and asks for an ambulance to be called to the scene.


Coleman tells Hi - Ho to go and find someone to turn off the water and radios the fire figher's to all get out from down below.


A huge gush of water appears where Hyper and Geoff are, Geoff is further down and ends up getting swept away by the current.

Hyper goes down slightly, trying to see if he could spot Geoff, then orders Melissa to try to get the water turned off. Hyper later ends up getting roped up and goes into the water in search for Geoff.


Meanwhile, Geoff slips slightly unconscious under the water.


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The boy is taken out of the building on a stretcher by paramedics.


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Hyper finds Geoff and tries to keep him as focussed as possible. He tries to get him up onto a ledge but fails, then tells Geoff that he was going to have to go underneath him and push him up. He does so and finally gets Geoff onto the ledge.


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Melissa radios Coleman and tells him that she had lost radio contact with Hyper.


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Hyper tries to keep Geoff warm by rubbing him then laying practically on top of him. He tells Geoff to get into the recovery position. Geoff is so cold, it's revealed by Hyper that he is Borderline Hypothermic.


Meanwhile... Adam and Melissa begin to search for Hyper and Geoff without any luck. But they eventually find them.


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Outside the Freshwater Pumping Station... Various watch members make sure Geoff is ok as he sits on the step of the ambulance. Geoff approaches Hyper and thanks him for saving his life.


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Later on in the evening... The watch leave the station.

Melissa hands Hyper the 'file' and tells him he can do whatever he wants with it.


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Sean appears up in the locker area where Melissa and Sally are talking and are planning on a night out. Sean tells them he knows a good wine bar and tags along with them.


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At the Oliver Twist... Certain male members of the watch are dressed up as school boy's for Mrs. Redman's birthday do. They all moan at Adam for not telling them directly what they were doing.

Elaine is dressed as a Headmistress and is running the evening do.


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At a wine bar... Sally, Sean and Melissa are sitting at a table and Melissa notices the slight flirting.


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Coleman is sitting in his office and the phone rings. It's Alison again. They agree they need to talk and Coleman tells her that he'll pick her up.


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At the wine bar... Melissa gets a call on her mobile, then makes an excuse before leaving. Sean suggests that him and Sally should go onto a club, but she says she should be getting home.


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Coleman and Alison walk beside the River Thames.


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Melissa enters Griggs' office... He asks her about her 'thoughts' on the the Blue Watch. She tells him completely what he doesn't want to hear, telling him they're a "Damn fine watch."


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At Hyper and Sally's flat... Sally is sitting on the sofa watching Ian Wright on the TV, then the doorbell rings. She walked towards the door, opening it when the chain is on. It's Sean. He tells her she left this (a £20 note) on her chair at the wine bar. Sally invites him in.


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Coleman reveals to Alison that Tuesday and Thursday nights were always his and his wife's bowling nights. He reveals, in Autumn 1978 they seemed to argue a lot. On a certain day she asked him to take her out. He agreed, he was tired and ended up falling asleep at the wheel of his car. His wife died and she was three months pregnant.


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At Hyper and Sally's flat... Sally checks her money and tells Sean that the £20 isn't hers. He asks her for a cuppa, she agrees and goes out into the kitchen, turning on the kettle and getting a carton of milk out of the fridge. She turns and he is close to her and forces himself upon her.


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At the Oliver Twist...

Elaine closes the pub and thanks the members of the watch who helped out. Adam pays them all then after others had left, he pays Recall extra giving him his share as well as the entrance fees, so that it would all make up from the money from the shares that were lost.


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At Hyper and Sally's flat... Everything is a mess, clothes are scattered on the floor and Sally is crying in the shower...


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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
Elaine Reeve - Sharon Duce
Andie - Joanne Adams
D.O. Griggs - Simon Merrells
Alison Hemmings - Liz Crowther
Melissa - Kate Odey
Kate - Natalie Robb
Sean Bateman - Dominic Taylor
Mrs. Thompkins - Karen Ascoe
Ralph - Peter Geddis
Mr. Warren - Mark McKenna
Danny - Elliot Jordan


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Quotes of the episode


Geoff (entering the mess): "Is Melissa about?"
Recall: "Isn't she where she usually is... your office?"
Adam: "She's in the BA room."


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