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Season 8 Episode 15
Episode 339 Sky One Transmission Date: Directed by Colm McCarthy
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Keeley, Don
Lilia, Barker
Ryan, Frank, Lee, Charlie Taylor
Don, Curtis |
GS: Lilia Saminyov (Sally Tatum) Keeley West (Ruth Higham) Don is irked to learn that Curtis is off to Charlton, after being told how the trust between a manager and his captain has been lost following the way Jodie learnt about Frank. Outside, a fax comes through from Charlton saying they need Curtis to take a second blood test after a discrepancy, and Don sees his chance to stop Curtis leaving. Don goes to Harchester's Club Rosé and meets with Keeley, where they plot the spiking of Curtis's drink to be caught on camera, so Don can come to the rescue after the transfer window has closed. She points out a waitress they can use, Lilia, whom she was going to let go anyway. The team arrive and when Curtis is finally persuaded into having a beer, Lilia knows her signal and at the bar slips cocaine into his drink. As she brings it over, Viv picks up the glass she has marked as being meant for Curtis and snatching it back it spills down Viv. In the back room Keeley asks whether it’s done and Lilia replies it is, before finding Viv the manliest t-shirt she can find, which leads to Ryan and Lee making Little Britain character jibes at him. The drugs begin to take affect on Curtis and he picks a fight with Frank over his secret. Frank flips and the team have to pull them apart. Outside Frank finds Curtis lying at the bottom of the steps and is about to leave him there, but knows he cannot do that and helps him up. Viv shares a taxi with Lilia but to his surprise she gets out at Studs, wanting to stay with him. Lilia wanders into Viv's wall room and he awkwardly explains its meaning to her. When Lilia moves in to kiss him, Viv hesitates but gets it right and she spends the night. The next morning Lee catches Lilia watching the incriminating tape on his camera and accuses her of thieving. Lee takes the camera to the club with the tape still inside, as the team will be making a video to show their support for Curtis. When Don overhears how Lilia is staying with Viv, he realises she must have the tape and goes to Studs. As Lee checks the tape that is already in the camera, they find the CCTV footage of Lilia spiking Curtis. Viv and Lee dash back to Studs and find Don lying on the floor, having been knocked unconscious by Lilia who has done a runner. Viv goes into overdrive about how Barker’s injury plus his own betrayal of trust by Lilia will affect the team and his own performance. Curtis visits Don in hospital and thinking he has supposedly saved his career, agrees to stay at Harchester and believes he can learn to trust Don again. Notes: The Best: When Curtis believes God must be punishing him, Ryan reminds him how he himself has been injured for nearly nine months, so what is God punishing him for? And the look Curtis gives Ryan to remind him of everything he's done. Frank’s true Christian act of not leaving Curtis passed out on the street and taking him to sleep on his sofa, in the face of Curtis’s homophobia (and vomit over Jodie’s carpet!) Quotes: Lee (whilst filming Curtis and Frank's brawl): "Ah brilliant! Fight Club the sequel!”. Don (after giving the heavily hung-over team an ear-bashing over the fight last night): "This dressing room smells worse… than a bloody brewery!” Continuity: Frank pulling out the wallet photo of Curtis with Grace is a nice touch. Just a shame they didn’t bring Grace back to sit at Curtis’s Christmas dinner table in 8.11 A Contract Killing instead of the three randomers from his church we never saw again. Additional Info: From this episode onwards, DT was sponsored by the new Nissan Murano. Curtis tells Ryan that he's 30 and to be banned for a couple of years nobody comes back at 32. Soundtrack: Copyright: "Bonus Track", Fatboy Slim: "Jin Go Lo Ba” and "Wonderful Night", Goldfrapp: "Slippage", Sigur Ros: "Track 3", Submental: "The Journey” |
