Season 8 Episode 6 Episode 330 Sky One Transmission Date: Sunday 21st November 2004 Directed by David Penn

Ryan, Chelsea Barker, Frank Keeley Clyde, Barker

GS: Dr. Stewart (Jo-Anne Nighy) Keeley West (Ruth Higham) Policeman (Mark Beardsmore) Knox HQ Secretary (Cassie Sumner) Ryan and Chelsea discover Clyde lying bleeding on the floor. Ryan phones Don and as he is making his way down there, a fleeing Frank nearly collides with him. Don goes with Clyde in the ambulance as the press surround them yelling questions. At the hospital Don learns there is no long term damage and Clyde will be out for at least a week. Dean arrives and demands to know who did it and Clyde tells him it was Frank. Don gets Andy to round up the lads and bring them to the club. Clyde learns about the meeting from Ryan, and convinced Barker is trying to hush the incident up, sneaks out of hospital and heads for the club. As Don tells the team that he’s seen Clyde and he’s fine, Clyde bursts in and tells the lads how Don let Frank beat him up. He then vomits and is taken back to hospital. The team visit Clyde in hospital the next day and he tells them that it's Barker they need to get rid of, only the team aren't with him on this. Don and Frank arrive and on Don’s instructions Frank tells Clyde whilst he is not proud of what he did, Clyde did say some pretty hurtful things to him, but holds out his hand to shake. Clyde refuses, and when the team are united in believing Clyde should accept Frank's apology he yells at them to get out. When Ryan tries to cool their relationship in fear of Viv finding out, Chelsea calls Ryan disappointing and remarks she thought she was falling in love with him. Dissatisfied at how the team want him to forget what Frank did, Clyde goes to Eli's headquarters in the hope of speaking with him. After waiting a while Dean arrives and takes him home. Clyde confides in Dean that he feels there is no one there for him anymore, and when Dean goes to use the bathroom his phone starts ringing. Clyde answers and hears Don ask whether Dean’s shut him up yet. When his phone rings again it's the Harchester Chronicle, but Clyde assumes its Don ringing back and explodes at Dean before storming to the police station. Following this, Clyde gives a scathing interview to Sky Sports News. That night, a lonely Clyde heads to Harchester's Club Rosé and meets Keeley, a lapdancer who he asks to sit down and talk with him. Don happens to be at the same club and sees Clyde from across the room, and grins in delight. Don tells Dean they will play Clyde in tomorrow’s game against Gillingham. Clyde tells Sofia he has to play and begs her to get him out of the club when the transfer window opens. Don has left a match-day pass for Keeley, and she is interviewed by Tony Campbell where she tells of being with Clyde until four in the morning and he was very generous. Ryan asks Chelsea if she meant it when she said she loved him, as he loves her too. Harchester lose to Gillingham, and Don talks Clyde into joining him at the press conference. Tony asks Clyde if his poor performance has anything to do with he spending time with lapdancers, and Clyde runs from the room. Clyde yells that Don set him up and Don remarks that's what he gets for washing his dirty linen in public, and to never take him on again. Clyde sits in the dressing room showers where he breaks down sobbing in despair. Notes: The Best: The look on Frank's face when Don announces he will be dropping him from the game on Saturday. Quotes: Chelsea, to Ryan upon them finding Clyde: "He's really badly beaten!". No shit Sherlock. Continuity: Jo-Anne Nighy previously appeared as Dr. Stewart in 6.18 Spiked as Jacqui Wallis’s doctor. Viv tells Chelsea that he's booked some meetings with Dr. Newton. What Was The Score?: Harchester lose 2-0 to Gillingham. Soundtrack: Apollo Four Forty: "Altamont Super-Highway Revisited" and "Stealth Mass In F#m", Beyonce Feat. Jay-Z: "Crazy In Love", Fatboy Slim: "Right Here, Right Now", Franz Ferdinand: "Take Me Out", Gary Jules: "Mad World", Goldfrapp: "Strict Machine", Goldtrix & Andrea Brown: "It's Love (Trippin'); Flatline's Wacarla Vocal Mix", Radiohead: "No Surprises", Rasmus: "In The Shadows", Republica: "Ready to Go", Rob Dougan: "Clubbed to Death” <<SE08 EP05 | Season 8 Main Page | SE08 EP07>>