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Lynda, Fletch
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GS: Johnny (Geoff Kenion) Studs Bar Manager (Fenton Gee) Lynda awakes to a smash at Jeff's villa, and strikes at a figure’s head from behind the curtain. She discovers the intruder is Fletch when he collapses to the floor. The team coach arrives back at The Lair where a sizable number of journalists await, and David warns the squad to go with Fletch still being with Alan in Mallorca otherwise he will never play football again. On his way to Fletch, Alan meets Johhny a fixer in Spain, who gives him a note which could “make him a very rich man”. Nikki fears she will be sacked for Fletch's passport not being collected. Fletch is shocked when Alan and Sam appear, and Alan lays it straight to Fletch that if he doesn't answer bail he won't be able to play or sell him. Fletch locks himself in the bathroom refusing to leave with Alan. Jamie gets back to find Monday all domesticated in his house, but happily receives the breakfast Monday cooked for his return. As they try and prize Fletch out, Sam asks Lynda to go back to England with he and Alan, so she can take up the job. David discovers two glasses in he and Dawn's bedroom that have recently been drunk from. Lynda tells Fletch she will accompany him back to Harchester, and Fletch makes her promise it will be just them without Rothman. Alan organises a meet with Johnny who gives him the terms of Milan's offer; two-and-a-half million a year, £100K salary and the rest to be paid into a bank account in Switzerland. Alan isn't sure, believing his name would be mud in English football if he left Harchester now. Johnny responds with you have to take your chances in football. Claudia is not impressed about having to leave Mallorca for Harchester, until Sam lets her in on how she is finally going to be part of the family business. Fletch goes straight to Mill Lane to join the team for light training, and Lynda meets David who thinks she will be going back to Mallorca. The team return to the dressing room before Lynda can get away, and Monday hopes she will be able to take Sam's offer to return. Lynda next runs into Sam and Claudia, and Sam invites her to dinner with them at The Grange. Jamie is further put out when a romantic evening with Tash is scuppered by her handling Danny’s business in place of Jeff. Claudia is distraught when Sam reveals Lynda will be taking the job of Harchester's chief executive which she wanted. Alan lets Dawn in on the offer and how she and David would go with him as always. Sam informs Claudia her job will be as Lynda's PA, as she is not experienced enough to be a chief exec and will learn from the best teacher in Lynda. Having been rejected by just about every girl he knows, Fletch has a nightmare where Alan is his jailer. In a state of panic, Fletch goes round to Jamie and Tash where he drunkenly tries to come on to Tash. Jamie hears the commotion and punches Fletch, warning him to never touch his wife again. Claudia Alan is not happy at Lynda's appointment, believing she will get in the way of his buying and selling players, and uses this to persuade David they should leave for a new club. Stevie informs Alan the players won't train with Fletch over what happened with Tash, but all Alan cares about is that Fletch's name is first on the team sheet for Saturday. Lynda has an uncomfortable experience when she goes into her old office where Prash was killed, and Sam adds they had it decorated after the police were finished. Lynda gets another shock when she learns Claudia is replacing Sandra, and accuses Sam of putting his daughter in as a spy. Sam tells Lynda this is to put Claudia in good form to one day replace him as chairman, and if it doesn't work out she can fire her in six weeks. Fletch's downward spiral continues, and he misses a meeting with Carson-Brandt before drinking in Studs and getting into a fight. Jamie doesn't want to know when the barman calls, but Tash is at pains to make Jamie see Fletch didn't try to rape her and they need to get to him before the press do. They bring him home and Fletch pleads with Jamie to believe he would never attack Tash. Stevie can't believe his eyes when Jamie walks into the dressing room with Fletch, and Jamie puts the record straight on Fletch with the lads so they play with him again. Notes: Best Known For: Geoff Kenion's credits stretched back to the 60's with a regular role on "Dixon of Dock Green" as PC Roberts (1964-65), followed by "Fraud Squad" as Det. Constable Fox (1969). He moved permanently to Fenton Gee is an artist and international DJ. He had a long career with DT in a number of roles, ranging from journalist at Monday's failed first signing (4.9) to the Studs manager during Season 5, and throughout Season 10 as Jack Bircham, a member of Harchester's first team. The Best: Rothman and Johnny’s meet inside the empty San Moix. Same as the long distance shots of David sitting in the empty stadium in the previous ep. Lynda’s wander around the training ground, and realising her connection to Harchester United is still very much alive inside of her. Despite us being treated to the whole of “Whole Again”! Quotes: Alan has Lynda’s number without knowing the full truth: (on Fletch): "You must have whacked him pretty good... looks like you killed the last remaining brain cell!" Foreshadowing: You’d have thought Lynda’s recent actions would have made her think twice about causing injury to someone’s head, as she does to Fletch with a candelabra here! Continuity: Lynda reminisces back to last season in charge and further to the thrill of the FA Cup final win at Wembley (2.76) (before getting shot in the head of course!) Additional Info: Lynda tends to Fletch, and he asks if she could get Luis to help him get to Argentina to escape the charges. Her own situation could have been identical as we later learned a plan was hatched for Alison King’s exit at the end of this season was set to involve her escaping prison by running away with Luis, only Martin Crewes was unavailable to return for the story. What Was The Score?: Harchester face Sunderland at home on the first day of the new Premiership season. See next episode for result. Soundtrack: Schiller: "Das Glockenspiel", Atomic Kitten: "Whole Again", LTJ Bukem: "Music", Estelle: "A Man Called Adam", |
