Season 10 Episode 16

Episode 403

 

Sky One Transmission Date:

Sunday 11th February 2007

 

Directed By

Riitta-Leena Lynn

 

Jimmy, Gemma, Rachel

 

 

Sean gets off to a good start with his team mates...

 

   

She only got out of hospital yesterday!

 

 

Liam has had just about enough of Sean's jokes!

GS: Barmaid (Isabella Jade Fane)  Doctor (Jonathan Hansler)

 

Jimmy is called to the hospital where he and Rachel learn Gemma has regained full consciousness. During training, Sean has already managed to wind up Gavin, Miguel and Liam - and he christens the latter "Haggis". The doctor explains to Jimmy and Rachel that Gemma is having some difficulty recalling aspects of her daily life, though shows she recognises Jimmy and Rachel as her parents. When Liam watches Sean flirting with Amy he warns him off, as Sully’s girlfriend. Sean isn’t bothered, and gives the lads a few Sean Campbell Home Truths: To Miguel; that he only cares about himself in the team. To Gavin; that he needs to stop worshipping Miguel and play his own game. And to Liam, that he needs to get laid! The team are grudgingly forced to attend his welcome dinner that evening, though Sean keeps them waiting as he beds the barmaid (not Jimmy's from last week).

 

Jimmy decides it would be best if they brought Gemma home for familiarity, but no sooner are they back than Jimmy and Rachel are arguing over Rachel’s affair. Sean ups and leaves his dinner, taking Jason with him and throws a party filled with the Grange’s staff. The party gets complaints from the other Grange guests, and Sean hastily makes his exit, leaving Jason to take the blame. After sweet-talking the receptionist into not throwing him out, Sean charges the party costs to the club. Jason feels the wrath following Sean dumping him in it, and Steve is ordered to fine Jason a week's wages by Jimmy. When Sean doesn't agree with the team’s non-tackling during a training exercise, he waits until the lads are in the shower before setting off the fire alarm. The boys are forced to exit wet, outside into the cold weather as a delighted Sean watches on. Liam goes to visit Gemma, but she has no idea who he is apart from he finding her when she collapsed.

 

Jimmy’s attempts to help Gemma remember only makes her worse, causing Rachel to blame Jimmy. Jimmy tells Rachel there is no marriage anymore, as upstairs Gemma gets dressed up and sneaks out of the house to recapture some fun. She arrives at the Blue Room where Sean is keeping his barmaid from working again, and immediately catches his eye. Gemma and Sean get to know each other, and Sean is surprised when Gemma admits she doesn't recognise his face, despite him being big news in Harchester right now. Soon Rachel and Jimmy notice Gemma has gone, and begin a search for their daughter. Liam tries the Grange, where he encounters Sean's barmaid who, miffed after being dropped like a hat, tells Liam exactly where Gemma is. Liam kicks down Sean's door and finds Gemma and he in bed together! Liam drags her out, and furiously informs Sean that Gemma is the Gaffer's daughter.

 

Liam takes Gemma back to her parents, where she and Jimmy come to some sort of an understanding that they are both scared, and Jimmy tells her how he doesn't want to lose her again. He and Rachel then talk, where she says she did love him but they have lost this one. Jimmy says they should go with the hospital's advice and get Gemma a health visitor, and that he should go back to work. Sean arrives for training as if the night before never happened, and Liam has just about had enough. He warns Sean to stay away from Gemma, and Sean teases that someone as hot as Gemma must have turned Liam down. Liam flips and punches Sean in the face, before a full-on brawl explodes between the two. The whole team is involved in keeping Liam and Sean apart, just as Jimmy happens to walk through the door. Jimmy has a one-to-one with Sean, apologising for not being around to help him settle in, and asks him to tone it down with the other lads.

 

Notes:

 

Best Known For: Isabella Jade Fane appeared in “Hollyoaks” (2010), “The Stranger” (2020), “The Midwich Cuckoos” and “Wedding Season” (both 2022) and “Beyond Paradise” (2023-)

 

Amongst 90+ credits in “Axed” (2012), “Hayfields” (2018) and “24 Little Hours” (2020), Jonathan Hansler has also provided voices for the video games of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", "Deathly Hallows: Part 1" (Lucius Malfoy in both), and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (Male Death Eater).

 

The Best: Sean telling Jason he didn't get into pro-football until he was nineteen, and having both worked ordinary jobs in the meantime, should still socialise with those doing the same, as he throws a party with the cleaners, porters and cooks of The Grange.

 

Quotes: Sean, as Liam grabs him by the coat: "This ain't some Kilt Haggis!". And later to Jimmy: Liam (whines): “Who does he think he is calling me Haggis?!”

 

Continuity: The lads think they've got one over on new boy Sean with a trick that would make Terry Glover proud - cutting the leg out of Sean's jeans. Sean sees the funny side however, and soon the boys are once again hacked off(!) when they find Sean has already done the same to all their clothes.

 

Soundtrack: Bloc Party: "Helicopter", "She’s Hearing Voices (Remix)" & "So Here We Are",  Daft Punk: "One More Time",  Doves: "Firesuite", "The Man Who Told Everything",  Spice Girls: “Wannabe”,  U2: "Original of the Species"

 

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