Season 5 Episode 10

Episode 238

 

Sky One Transmission Date:

Sunday 18th November 2001

 

Directed By

N.G Bristow

 

Tash, Victoria

 

 

Fletch, Jamie

 

 

Claudia, David

 

 

Victoria, Jamie

 

Fletch has gone ahead and gathered the £100K to see Victoria off, only Jamie refuses to take it to her. When Tash brings Fletch photos to autograph, she unwittingly is given the bag of money to take to Andrei's. Victoria uses Andrei's camcorder to record Tash passing over the bag, saying it's from Fletch and filming the contents filled with cash notes. After a disappointing away leg at Rangers, Monday addresses the team with how everyone's place for the home visit is up for grabs.

 

Lynda reappears from an extended stay in Scotland, and tells Claudia she and Sam explored the west coast’s castles and distilleries. Victoria gets Jamie round on the pretence of helping set up Andrei's camera, but instead he is shown the video of Tash handing over the £100K. Victoria demands a further half million to keep Tash out of prison! Jamie drags Fletch out of the sauna and decks him for getting Tash involved. Danny tells Tash getting over Lisa is proving as hard as it was with Rachel, and maybe he should take a transfer out of Harchester.

 

Claudia and David make good use of the sauna Fletch and Jamie fought in earlier. David reveals to Claudia that Dawn had an affair with Alan, and he saw to it that Alan left the club because of this. Fletch and Jamie conspire to get the tape off Victoria so as not to pay her a further £500K, and know the only time they could get into the house to search is matchday. Jamie talks of having once faked an injury while playing for Chelsea reserves in order to make up with Tash after an argument. When David gets in late Dawn remarks she could swear he was having an affair!

 

Jamie and Fletch persuade a still oblivious Tash to invite Victoria to the Rangers game, so Fletch can get into the house after taking off at half time. Victoria takes the bait. Lynda leaves Claudia to accommodate Jeff Stein and his fixers for a player they might be out to sign. Fletch takes his moment to go down with an ankle injury but at almost the same time, a tackle between Danny and Tore André Flo sees Rawsthorne suffer an injury for real. With Danny out for the second half, Fletch cannot go through with his fakery, which leaves Jamie to work his Chelsea reserves tactic.

 

Peggsy comes on for Danny while Tony Charles replaces Jamie in goal. After Claudia loudly shames Jeff for his wandering hands, Lynda is distracted by Victoria snooping through her office, and searching her bag finds she is carrying the tape around with her. Having been ejected from the club, Victoria arrives back at the house to find Jamie on a fruitless search. Victoria shows Jamie she is holding onto the tape, and when he comes at her she flees The Barrons and runs down the road. Jamie gets in his car and speeds after Victoria, almost running her down but swerves at the last minute. A breathless Victoria snarls through his window that after tonight she will see to it that he, his “cute little wife” and Fletcher all go to prison!

 

Notes:

 

The Best: Lynda’s gift of a stuffed Loch Ness Monster for Claudia.

 

Quotes: Monday talks to Danny on how he felt when Siobhan left, but Danny points out Lisa didn’t leave him because she'd fulfilled her contractual agreements: "You see, when Lisa left me it hurt me because she didn't want to be with me anymore. She didn't leave me because her contract was up and she decided to do a Bosman when she got a better signing on fee!"

 

Additional Info: Lynda refers to the club having had a substantial transfer fund of £20M at the start of the season which Alan spent. Claudia tells David of her two former stepmothers and just knows Lynda is being prepped to be the third.

 

What Was The Score?: The First Rangers Leg finished 0-0. In the Second Leg Second Round, Danny scores ten mins in with his fifth goal in Europe this season. Latapy takes it level on the cusp of half time. Fletch, recovered from his "injury", takes the score to 2-1, and Harchester are through to the next round of the UEFA Cup.

 

Soundtrack: Way Out West: "Intensify",  Chicane: "Red Skies",  Fatboy Slim: "Right Here Right Now"

 

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