Season 3 Episode 20Episode 160 Sky One Transmission Date: Thursday 25th November 1999 Written By Jane Hewland Directed By Henry Foster |
Scott
Jeff, Scott
Marilyn, Carole
Gordon, Scott
Scott, Luis |
GS: Jeff Stein (Ray MacAllan) Darren Lucas (Chris Newell) Carole Lucas (Kim Taylforth) Paul Hankin (Leigh Cranston) Reporter (Nicolas Sagalle) David Clark (as himself) Kirsty Gallagher (as herself) It's ten days since Scott walked out on the team. He lies in a Millwall FC decorated bedroom at his mother’s house in London, with his teenaged brother Darren peering through the net curtains at the gaggle of press camped outside. Carole Lucas tries to convince her son it might be best to put in an appearance, for if he bunks off a European game the team might not want him back. Luis tells Ray Jerry has sent Marilyn to Scott's mother's, and Ray is not optimistic seeing as Marilyn is corporate and has only been in the football business five minutes. Marilyn fights through the press and into the house, and Scott is stunned when Carole tells him she's downstairs, asking his mom to get Jeff here before he speaks with Marilyn. Jeff arrives and goes into Scott, drilling it into him that he must not tell Marilyn he wants a transfer, for if the club want to sell him they'll have to pay six months wages plus the rest of his transfer fee. They will lose £400,000 if Scott requests a move. Billy and Wes are not missing Scott, saying the team is much more united without him, while Eddie along with Dion Osbourne and Simon Coggan disagree, knowing Scott's talent strengthens the squad. Michael also doesn't want Scott back and suggests the best thing for the club would be to sell him. Jeff accuses Marilyn of bullying Scott into a transfer so they can deny him the rest of his signing on fee. Marilyn sneaks into Carole who is trying to keep out for a word, and tries to get her on side over how the board will start imposing their own terms because of Jeff's demands - like reusing to pay Scott for the ten days he hasn't worked. Scott overhears and storms in, accusing Marilyn of getting his mother to do her dirty work, and yells to tell Jerry he won't be playing for him again and to get out. Jeff is aghast at the further mess Scott has put them in. At the club, Jerry and Marilyn are about to watch the team kick off, and Jerry has now sent Gordon to London for if anyone can sort out Scott, it will be him. Marilyn questions Jerry on whether he is lining Gordon up to take her job, and Jerry responds he needs Gordon's knowledge and contacts as he's forty years in the business. Scott chases some kids away from the house, and Carole informs him Darren's mates have been giving him a hard time over his brother, which makes Scott feel guilty. Gordon arrives at the house and sets up a plan with Jeff to get Scott out past all the journos, using Darren as a decoy under a sheet. Once the reporters chase after Jeff with the decoy, Gordon gets Scott into his car. Meeting up with Jeff by a lay bay burger van off the motorway, Scott realises they are taking him back to Harchester and initially refuses to go back, until Gordon’s tough-talking sets him straight. Outside the Lair, Gordon asks Scott something must have made him choose Harchester over the other clubs that came in for him that summer, and thinking of Luis, Scott replies yes. The sound of the crowd cheering indicates to the three that Harchester won, and Scott goes in to congratulate the boys. Marilyn witnesses Scott's return, and awkwardly has to thank a gloating Jeff for successfully bringing him back. Scott enters the dressing room, but only a few of the lads support him while the rest, including Billy, walk out. Scott gets his moment alone with Luis, and asks does he rate him? Luis remarks he could ask him the same thing. Scott tells Luis he is the reason he came to the club after Liverpool. It was his dream to bang in goals with him. Luis is speechless, but adds if Scott doesn’t stay and make it work at Harchester he will doubt himself his whole life. It was the same for him when he walked away from Monaco. Luis gives Scott his terms for coming back: he will apologise to the team, Ray and the fans, play for two weeks with the Notes: Best Known For: Acting since the 70’s (including a 12 year break for a career in the police force) Kim Taylforth starred in “The Setbacks” as Sylvia Setback (1980-84) Nancy in “London’s Burning” (1995-98), “Operation Good Guys” (1997-98), the ill-treated Mrs Marilyn Fenner in “Bad Girls” (2000-01) and for one of the show’s infamous storylines, Sharon Foster Ingram in “Family Affairs” (2005). Chrissie Cotterill takes over the role for Carole’s Season 4 appearances. · The Best: Gordon’s stern talking to Scott (or should that be physical tirade) until it is drilled into him that he is finished if he doesn’t reconcile his situation. See Quotes. Scott’s story to Luis, revealed to be his football hero, on having every video of every game he played at Betis and before that Quotes: Marilyn, on Jeff’s remark of Scott warming the bench during the Rangers game: "If your client is so desperate to play Mr Stein, then what is he doing here warming his mother's sofa?!". Gordon’s full pissed-off rant at Scott: "Now I talk to people like Alex Ferguson and George Graham every week. And they will not touch you with a barge pole and do you know why? Because they think you can't be trusted. They think you can't be disciplined. They don't want a player who will put himself first before the club. You keep this up and no English manager will touch you with a barge pole. So I suggest that you do grovel. I suggest that you do crawl. And [grabs Scott] I suggest that you do what I tell you, because otherwise sonny-boy you're finished!” And then at the end of his tirade simply offers Scott "Coffee?". · Additional Info: Ray MacAllan returns as Jeff Stein on a more permanent basis from 3.44. Amongst the crowd of press seen outside Carole Lucas’s house is Paul Hankin, set to become the Harchester Chronicle’s main hack covering (and sometimes causing) the scandal and drama at the club. Luis tells Ray when he was buying Scott he went to Anfield six times just to see him play. Dave Clark talks of how van Hooijdonk and Carboni walked out of their clubs, but Lucas is the first English player to do so. Luis left What Was The Score?: Harchester play the 3rd Round 1st Leg UEFA tie with West Ham United. They get off to a good start with a pass from Wes leading to Billy taking Harchester 1-up. Harchester win the game with Billy’s goal. |
