Series 9 - Episode 9

Written by: David Humpfries
Produced by: Paul Knight
Directed by: Alan Wareing

Summary

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PART 1


Carole wakes up at 7:30 and gets up and pulls the curtains, waking up Martin. Stephen and his fellow classmates are woken up in their dorms. Stephen is assured by his teacher that he'll soon fit in. Bruno jumps up at Geoff as he picks up a letter, he has received an interview for the sub's position in Hampshire. Stephen walks through the school canteen, then sits alone at a table amongst other children as the watch arrive at work. The bell for next lesson at the school later goes and Stephen goes back down to the dorm, telling a teacher that he's left his science book in there, when he arrives, he sits and reads a letter from Jack, which as £20 enclosed.


At role - call, Nick decides that he wants Carole to do her first drill. Carole decides to do a drill using ladders where the watch have to transport things from one appliance to another, without touching the floor.


Two men work on some cars in a garage. One man moves a car, which has petrol leaking from it. The other man puts a light down, which rolls down into the pit and smashes, exploding with the petrol.


The bells go down at Blackwall, stopping the drill. They get called to a fire at a garage and both appliances are needed in attendance. When they arrive, one man has already gotten out, but the other is still inside. Nick asks George to call for an ambulance and Carole to set up a BA crew. The BA crew later pull out the other man who is unconscious. Carole and Nick perform CPR and he wakes up.


PART 2.


Recall talks to Laura on the phone, as Stephen arrives at the station and asks for Jack. Recall says he'll go and get him, just as the DO arrives, so Recall quickly hides Stephen in the watch room, before talking to Chapman, he tells Chapman that there is nothing to report and tells him about their previous shout.


In the mess, Geoff comments on wondering why Chapman is there as Recall brings Stephen through to the mess. Jack leaves the mess to go and ring Linda to tell her where Stephen is, as Maggie gives Stephen some food. As Linda answers the phone, Jack tells her that Stephen is fine and that he's at the station and he'll bring him home later.


Nick gets informed by Chapman that he is being sent to a Conference Centre, although Nick really doesn't want to go. Chapman tells Nick that A.C.O. Baxter needs a report on the new fire gear.


Carole and Jack later take Stephen into a room, before Carole leaves them. Stephen tells Jack that he doesn't want to go back to that school.


Chapman and Nick walk down to the appliance bay, where Nick notices Stephen through the window in the door. After Chapman leaves and Nick goes to the room, Carole follows and tells him she'll explain everything in his office. In Nick's office, Carole apologises before Nick tells her that she'll be acting up the next week as he's going away on the Conference and he also tells her that there was be a new bod on the watch who is transfering from Thames Reach.


Jack takes Stephen home to Linda, where Stephen tells him he enjoyed it at the station and Jack. Jack talks to Linda about Ian wanting Stephen to go to that school so he's out of the way. They argue and Linda goes to hit him, but they end up kissing as Stephen walks in.


Carole arrives home to find Martin sitting in the chair holding a beer, he lies, telling her that he'd been all the way to the job centre. Carole unpacks her shopping as she tells Martin that she'll be acting up in the next week. She brings up the subject of having the watch talking to her about him being injured out of the brigade when he wasn't, before storming out of the house.


PART 3.


Laura leaves to catch her train to Scotland. Recall sees her off and promises that he'll arrange some time off to go up there and see them.


An old man trims a hedge in his front garden. His dog appears with a lead, so he leaves the hedge trimmer on a ladder and takes his dog out. The man stops to talk to someone as his dog wanders off to a lockup. He eats something on the floor, then lies down.


The Watch get called to a so - called Spillage. As the watch arrive on the scene, Nick asks the police to try to get hold of the owner of the lockup and the area is cordened off.


The owner of the lockup approaches Nick and tells him that it is practically empty, he then passes through the barriers and goes round to it, wher he unlocks the door. There is no spillage, just something around the edge of the door, which was put there on purpose, it's a dog repellant.


At the first screening of Macbeth, Maggie has stage fright and refuses to go on stage. Derek and Sicknote try to talk Maggie round and she eventually gives in and goes on stage. The production goes really well and the croud love it.


Cyril and George arive at the building where the gym will be made. Mrs. Elkins enters, followed by Mr. Elkins. George finally gives in and agrees to become part of the business and is welcomed by Elkins, who gives him a load of money to do everything.


Starring

George - Glen Murphy
Recall - Ben Onwukwe
Pearce - Michael Garner
Nick - Andrew Kazamia
Sicknote - Richard Walsh
Billy - John Alford
Jack - Clive Wood
Carole - Zöe Heyes

Maggie - Shirley Greenwood
Jean - Amanda Dickinson
Laura - Ona McCracken
Linda - Sian Radinger
Stephen - Daniel Maiden - Wood
Derek - Arthur White
Cyril - Frederick Warder
D.O. Chapman - Graham Sinclair
Martin - Ian Burfield
House Master - Ian Keith
Suffolk - Cameron Stewart
Elkins - John Foregham
Pete - Fred Wakefield
Charly - Harry Miller
Don - Frank Dunne
Metson - Christopher Adamson
Mandy - Carolyn Lyster
Macbeth - Mark Jenkinson
Malcolm - Graham Cherrett
Lennox - Richard Trahair
Witch - Helen Lambeth



Quotes of the episode


QUOTE 1: Geoff wonders why Chapman is at the station...
GEOFF: "He's got DO Chapman going up with his now, I wonder what that's about..."
GEORGE: "You don't know? That'd make a change wouldn't it?!"

 

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