Series 5 - Episode 8

Written by: Roger Marshall
Produced by: Paul Knight
Executive Producer: Nick Elliot
Directed by: Keith Washington

Summary

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PART 1


The watch practice basketball in the yard, when Nick brings out their vets for the match - Blackwall Blaze.


Kate sits at home smoking and staring at the phone. Mary asks if she's 'done it' yet, but it's obvious she hasn't. Mary then asks for the number and dials the phone for Kate and then hands it to her. Kate books an appointment at the clinic for the next day at 12.


In the mess, Hallam instructs everyone on their moves when they play the basketball match. No - one really pays him any attention and just carried on chatting amongst themselves and eating. Later, Hallam sits alone in the mess, watching basketball in the TV in the dark. Nick enters and makes them both a cup of tea. Hallam talks about Blackwall's old basketball team and doubts this team as everyone is screwed by with their personal lives.


An illegal gave or cards is going ahead in a bar. The windows are smashed from the outside, then petrol bombs are thrown through... The men stumbled out of the pub, which is now well ablaze. The appliances arrive on the scene, where one person is reported trapped inside. Sicknote then notices a woman up at the window. A crew climb up the scaffolding to get her as the flames are tackled from the outside and inside.


Bayleaf and Colin crawl low to get to the woman who was at the window, before taking her outside. Although a woman is still inside the building upstairs. Sicknote wakes the woman who's asleep in her bed, then Sicknote and Hallam lead her to a sky window, where she's lifted out first. Sicknote then gets out and Hallam has trouble getting out, so he takes off his set, then breaks through just as the building blows...


PART 2.


The watch go out onto the basketball court. All of the coppers are much taller than them. The game begins and Kevin scores, but the watch end up getting beaten, as Jaffa, Bayleaf and Hallam, who screams at them all constantly, sit on the side line. Colin gets knocked down and his nose bleeds, so he goes off, then Sicknote complains about an ankle injury. Hallam and Bayleaf then go on... Blackwall end up getting well and truly beaten, loosing to the police who win 76 - 14.


The watch get in the mini - bus to go home. Hallam suggests that they go to the coast, but they're all being miserable and none of them want to go. In the end, Hallam talks them round and they walk along the deserted sea - front. They arrive outside a closed bar, that Hallam had suggested earlier on and he tells them that it always used to be open. They all begin to moan more and want to go home.


Kate talks to a doctor, telling her that she's not ready to have a baby. The doctor tells her that she has to satisfy two doctors before she can go through with a termination. Later, Kate and Mary go to a pub, where Kate bursts into tears, saying that getting pregnant was nothing like she had imagined.


The watch go to a pier, to find that it's all shut up as well. Sicknote begins to moan about his foot and Hallam moans at the lot of them for being so miserable. They then spot a woman jumping off the pier into the sea. They all go down to her where Recall and Hallam jump into the water and the others throw a rope down to them. Bayleaf and Sicknote grab the girl from the steps. The paramedics and police arrive, who confirm that this is the third time that the girl had tried to jump.


PART 3.


The watch enter a bar that they've finally found, which is actually open. They all drink and dance, although Bayleaf sits practically all of the time, looking miserable. Jaffa approaches Hallam, telling him that they should be getting back to London to take the mini - bus back. Hallam tells Jaffa to ring the girls to tell them that they're stuck at a presentation.


Sicknote and Bayleaf end up talking about what Bayleaf is trying to do to get Melanie back. Colin sits alone at the bar and argues with Jaffa, then ends up blurting out that he is going to propose to Zoe.


Kelly paints Zoe'a nails and gives her a make - over. The phone then rings... It's Colin, the watch had talken him into proposing over the phone. Colin tells Zoe that they're still at the basketball match and that they didn't win. He then tells her he has to go after his money began to run out, but he's handed more money. The watch stand watching him and he finally proposes. Zoe stands still, holding onto the phone, the puts it down and bursts into tears, telling Kelly that Colin proposed.


The press arrive at the bar, recognising the watch after the did the rescue as Jaffa and a woman go out to the mini - bus.... The watch have their pictures taken, before they leave for London.


Colin stumbled drunkly out of the mini - bus outside his and Zoe's house, as Zoe runs to the door. Colin then falls up the steps and collapses in the doorway... Zoe then carries Colin to bed, telling him that she had told her mum that they're getting married/


Kevin arrives home and Marion immediately appears behind him, demanding to know where he has been.


Hallam wakes up as Sandra draws the curtains in the morning. She gives him breakfast in bed, before getting back into bed herself. Hallam spots them all in the paper and tries to hide it, before Sandra sees it, demanding to know what happened!



Starring

Kevin - Ross Boatman
Hallam - Sean Blowers
Nick - Andrew Kazamia
Recall - Ben Onwukwe
George - Glen Murphy
Sicknote - Richard Walsh
Bayleaf - James Hazeldine
Colin - Stephen North
Kate - Samantha Beckinsale

Marion - Helen Blizard
Mary - Kiran Hocking
Jaffa - Alan Talbot
Kelly - Vanessa Pett
Zoe - Dorothy Atkinson
Sandra - Kim Clifford
Kane - Clem Davis
Doherty - Patrick Waldron
Counsellor - Caroline John
Policeman - David Barker
Sheena - Lisa Wood
Jacqui - Joanne Ridley
Journalist - Richard Long
Damien - Luis Carless




Quotes of the episode


Quote 1: Hallam takes the watch to a bar where he'd been before, to find that it had closed...
GEORGE: "When was it you were last here? 1962?!"

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