Season 4 Episode 8 Episode 210 Sky One Transmission Date: Sunday 19th November 2000 Written By Currently Unknown* Directed By Currently Unknown*

Jamie, Andy Ansah, Ray Jamie, Lapdancer Kelly, Tash – not the mural! Kelly, Lynda Jamie, Tash Lynda

GS: Luis Amor Rodriguez (V/O) (Martin Crewes) Jamie comes to training with a hangover, and Ray tells the squad until they fix what went wrong with their 7-0 defeat they can forget their days off. Jamie struggles in goal, and Ray threatens to put him in the reserve team game today if he doesn't change his attitude. Kelly is narked that the PR of three players in Jamie, Eddie and Dion has been placed solely on her while Victoria is more interested in being Prash’s right-hand woman. Prash uses the defeat and Lynda's attack to try and convince her to promote him to chief exec, but she tells him they are fine as they are. Jamie gets a unwelcome surprise when the reserve game team sheet is posted and he is listed, yelling Ray is not right in the head and he wishes he'd stayed at Chelsea. Ray goes to Lynda and says the FA business with Didier plus problems within the team have him thinking of leaving. Lynda reminds him she herself has major difficulties she wants to run away from, and wishes she had just gone with Luis when she could have. Tash, Kelly and the photographers are left waiting around for Jamie, who has a blazing row when he gets in over Ray and is NOT DOING ANY PHOTOSHOOT! Lynda finds a photograph with Luis's number in Argentina and phones him, leaving a voice message that she is ready to come out. Tash blames Kelly for Jamie's strop, saying she should have sorted the situation being his PR. Jamie goes to the cash machine and takes out a thousand pounds. Victoria catches up with Lynda where she learns she is joining Luis. Lynda adds she's sure Victoria knows someone who wants to buy the club. Jamie is sitting in a strip club and ignores Ray's calls by putting his phone in the ice bucket. Jeff confronts Kelly over Tash's upset, while Ray informs him Jamie hasn't turned up for the reserve game. Jeff blames Kelly, taunting she’s a bad influence on players until Kelly has to walk away. Victoria tells Prash Lynda is going for real this time, but he doesn't believe her until she adds she's booked her plane ticket. Kelly shares her disillusionment with Rachel over going from a fan who'd watched hundreds of Harchester games to working up close with the players and experiencing their girlfriends and agents, and how you get treated like dirt. Tash now confronts Ray about how he's ruined her day over putting Jamie in the reserves. He dryly adds he's going to ruin tomorrow as well, as not only is Jamie fined a week's money for missing the game, but he wants him in his office tomorrow first thing. The lapdancer performing for Jamie recognises him, and he leaves the strip club with her, soon making out in his car until a police car pulls up in the lay-by beside them. Jamie and the lapdancer are arrested for lewd public behaviour and he being over the limit. Kitty and Ray receive mail from Luis, and Ray has to make an uncomfortable visit to Lynda with news. There, he presents her with a wedding invitation he'd received - for Luis's wedding to his childhood sweetheart in Argentina. Lynda is in shock, especially as it had only been a few weeks since she last spoke to Luis. She then has to tell Ray Prash is taking over the club as she thought they would both be leaving. Tash thinks Jamie is getting in after the night away, but it is the press outside yelling, and opening the paper Tash sees the story of Jamie and the lapdancer splashed across the pages. With her next task, Kelly learns from Victoria how Prash is taking over the club and they need perspective sponsors and partners for rebuilding schemes to attend the press conference. Victoria thinks Prash selling Fletch will bring a smile to Kelly’s face. Jamie finally sits before Ray, who fines him two weeks wages and puts him down for another upcoming reserve team game. Lynda gives a goodbye hug to Sandra and prepares to sign the papers. Ray stops her and pleads with her to stay, as he can't work with Dattani who is not a football man. All Lynda can say is she has to move on. After a three-way of slaps and home-truths (see Quotes) Kelly goes to Lynda with how she is leaving, but Lynda mustn't because Prash is an asset-stripper (as opposed to the kind of stripper Jamie likes) who is not only going to build hotels but is going to sell Fletch. Even though Kelly hates Fletch the club needs him to survive. Lynda sits down with Prash at the press conference, and announces she will be sticking around to weather the storm, and throwing her backing behind Ray, to his delight. Kelly says goodbye to Rachel, and says where ever it is she is going, she knows she doesn't want to be anywhere near a football club. Jamie is bragging to the lads about his experience with the lapdancer when Tash storms in, dragging him out by his ear and wearing only a towel. On the car park in front of a scurry of journos, Tash announces she has an exclusive: Top Model divorces Reserve Team Goalkeeper! Lynda speaks with Luis on the phone, where she wishes him well in his new marriage, but her heart is really broken. Notes: Last appearance of Kelly James (Emma Gilmour) With his voiceover phone call with Lynda, this also marks the final scene of Luis Amor Rodriguez. Though it was always hoped it would not be, with two further attempts made to reunite Luis with Lynda in Seasons 5 and 10, filming scheduling prevented Martin Crewes from returning. The Best: Eddie's name on the reserve team sheet and he is disappointed as he was planning on getting his hair cut. Victoria on the phone to her namesake once more: "OK darling. Love to David and Brooklyn!". Tash, with Angela Saunders great at comedy, experiencing one disaster after another throughout the episode. It is noticeable that it is this point where Kelly stands up to Tash, that Tash becomes a more sympathetic, nicer character. Quotes: Tash cries to Jeff how it hurt the most that the magazine didn't want to do the piece with just her: "I'm not getting fat am I dad?" Jeff: "Course you're not" Tash: "But I had a cake yesterday!". It gets worse for Tash, when she underestimates Kelly once more: (to Jeff) "Don't trust her with it, she's useless. She's just a slapper who's slept her way around the club!" Kelly: "And how did you get to where you are darling? A degree in nuclear physics?! If daddy wasn't around you'd probably have trouble breathing on your own!" Tash: "Oh you cow!" Kelly: "You are the most spoiled brat I've ever met. Next to your stupid selfish letchy husband!" [following three-way slaps between Kelly-Tash-Jeff] "You - you're a dreadful model. Your house is a shrine to bad taste. And [killer shot] that mural makes you look fat!" (to Victoria): "I don't know what you're laughing at. You're nothing but a money-grabbing tart!" Continuity: Amongst the smashed up debris of her living room, Lynda reflects on a framed picture of Luis and we see the following flashbacks: Lynda meets Luis at the airport following his return from San Diego (3.43), Lynda and Luis celebrate her gaining control of the club from Jerry (3.50), Luis wants to return home to Argentina (3.58), Lynda tells him she can't leave the club to go with him (3.59), and Luis proposes to Lynda but she cannot answer, so he accepts it is over (3.62). When Lynda immediately accepts Prash’s £10M offer to his surprise, she adds it's not bad for a girl who started out behind a make-up counter. Additional Info: *There is a production error on the closing credits for this episode. The credits for 4.9 are shown, and feature Monday Bandele and Wolfgang Meyer who do not make their first appearances until the next episode. Because of this the writer and director of this episode remains unknown. Prash's plans post-ownership for the club include knocking down the east stand for a hotel and two exclusive restaurants. Luis’s new wife, from the invitation, is called Maria Delores Cavellero. Soundtrack: Massive Attack: "Teardrops",  Robbie Williams: "She's The One",  Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue: "Kids",  Moby: "Ever-Loving" and "First Cool Hive",  Agnelli & Nelson: "Embrace",  Ocean Colour Scene: "Get Blown Away",  Richard Ashcroft: "New York" <<SE04 EP07 |  Season 4 Main Page | SE04 EP09>>