Season 3 Episode 44Episode 184 Sky One Transmission Date: Thursday 16th March 2000 Written ByJane Hewland & Ric Mellis Directed By Dominic Keavey |
Billy, Jeff Ray, Marilyn, Luis (L-R) Jerry, Maxine, Luis, Lynda Lynda, Maxine
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Lynda cries to Luis over uncovering Jerry's plot and what he's put her through, and how she even ran away to Ray but he sent for Jerry. Luis is ready to go and confront Jerry. Jerry realises that Luis is returning tonight and that Lynda has gone to meet him. Maxine advises Jerry to stay away because of what Lynda has accused him of, and to let them come to him. Marilyn and Ray have also turned up to meet Luis, but get a less than warm reception when Luis accuses Ray of letting him down over looking out for Lynda. Billy has a business dinner with Ray, who tells him in order to get him the raise he deserves, they will have to start looking at other clubs, though Billy wants to stay at Harchester. In the taxi Luis says he will make Jerry sell him and then they will leave Harchester and never return. Lynda asks about Jerry getting away with the shooting, but Luis wants to leave it in the past, as he didn't kill either of them. Ray stumbles upon Billy in The Grange restaurant when he should be resting for the weekend's game, and discovers he is eating with Jeff Stein. Billy defends Ray to Jeff, saying when Leon died Ray really looked out for him. Jeff dismisses Ray as being paid to do the club’s work, and wouldn't be his friend but his boss. Luis and Lynda turn up at the house and he and Jerry have a showdown on the doorstep, with Luis asking what could Jerry do to stop him now, kill him? While Jerry responds with how right after Luis left Lynda was in bed with Didier, and calls Lynda a slag, which is met with an almighty right-hook from Luis! Inside, Lynda reminds Jerry what he said to Maxine about not missing next time, but Maxine denies she heard Jerry say this, and Lynda has to be held back from going for her. Jerry threatens Luis that if he repeats Lynda's allegation to anyone he will sue him for every last peso he has. Maxine comes in on Lynda packing, and tries to blag a red dress Lynda wouldn't take. When Maxine asks Lynda if she'll divorce Jerry, Lynda sees Maxine wants him for herself, and hurls dresses Maxine couldn't fit into at her sister until she has fled the room. Jerry makes it clear that while Luis can have Lynda, he won't be leaving the club - as he signed a three-year-contract. Fearing Luis has already ditched them for Argentina, Marilyn is ready to offer Ray the permanent role as manager. Luis tells Lynda he had already decided to resign as manager while away, because his goal needs to be playing for Argentina in the World Cup before his career ends. When Luis realises they could find a way out of Harchester through the other club directors, Lynda reveals she happens to be one of them although has never used any of her power. Lynda now sees this as revenge for Jerry trying to have Luis killed, and with the club playing badly, the financial mess and now the loss of a manager, she will see to it that the club is taken off Jerry. Notes: Ray MacAllan’s regular stint as Jeff Stein begins from this episode, having last guest appeared in 3.20. · The Best: The return of Jeff, ready to fill the fatherly-advice giving role missing to the players since Des Baker and Frank Patcham departed, although in his own very different way. Luis sending Jerry sprawled onto the gravel clutching his face. Lynda’s dress-wars on Maxine, which sends her too running for cover. Quotes: Jeff (to Ray on Marilyn): "The lovely Miss Harwood. I do hope she's learned more about this business since the last time I had dealings with her!" · Continuity: Ray refers to the club having had five managers in three seasons. If he’s marking the point where Atkinson left, you could say five in eight years as he arrived in 1992, and presumably bypassing John Hollins’s (Oct-Dec 97) and Frank Patcham’s caretaker stints (Jan-Feb 99), he goes through Coates, Rodriguez, Gallagher and now him. Soundtrack: Sheryl Crow: “My Favourite Mistake” |
