Season 6 Episode 12

Episode 272

 

Sky One Transmission Date:

Sunday 22nd December 2002

 

Directed By

Marcus DF White

Tara, Ryan

 

Fletch, Curtis, Jeff, Marcel

 

Fletch, Sully

 

Shannon, Jamie

GS: Shannon Eden Childs (Tasneem Roc)  D.I. Hughes (David Schaal)  Hope Parker (Olivia Sofie Newman)

 

Ryan waits for a garage to open, and tells the mechanic he is prepared to pay whatever he wants for him to repair the front light. Tara meanwhile, has a nightmare about the pedestrian they hit. Stuart takes Ryan's keys, saying after drink driving it is going back before it gets him into anymore trouble! Jamie returns home, but only to collect some things. Tash tries to explain that she loved Robbie, but can't answer as to whether she still does. Abi invites the team for Christmas dinner with she and Karl. Tara is spooked to see a detective asking Sandra about the players' cars after the hit-and-run nearby the Grange.

 

Jeff confronts Robbie over Tash, and warns him come January he will be out of here. Robbie responds with how Jeff isn't his agent anymore, and Jeff has to be held back from lynching Robbie. After questioning Fletch over owning a silver Porsche, Hughes gets a call that a car registered to Stuart was out of a showroom last night. Stuart has to say no when Hughes asks could anyone else have been driving the car last night. Tash finally gets the chance to show Jamie her feelings on the situation, with he injured she was left to cope with Hope alone when she needed him, and how Robbie gave her what she needed from him. Jamie reminds her he nearly died in the crash, and stamps on their wedding picture while Tash cries not to break them up with Hope.

 

Stuart takes Ryan to the police station to admit he used his dad’s documents to buy the car, but Ryan claims he slept in a lay by before Stuart returned the car to the showroom. Christmas morning, and Stuart, now reluctantly, presents Ryan with a car of his own. Which at that moment Hughes arrives to question Ryan about why the TVR had new work done to its front. Ryan claims he hit a post which convinced him not to drive and sleep in the lay by. When Hughes visits Nikki to ask she and Curtis about Ryan leaving the party, he learns for the first time Tara was with him.

 

Stuart and Ryan are in the middle of Christmas dinner when Hughes comes to take Ryan to the station. Hughes puts it to Ryan that they have CCTV not far from the accident at the right time showing the TVR with a man in the driver’s seat. Tara visits the man hit in hospital with his family sat around his bed. At the Fletchers', an American woman arrives looking for Jamie, and to Tash's shock, she calls him babe and hugs him as he looks uncomfortable.

 

Notes:

 

Best Known For: An Australian actress, Tasneem Roc came to prominence as Thania Saya in 90's teen drama "Heartbreak High" (37 episodes, 1997-99). Her other credits include Amina Malik in "East West 101" (20 eps, 2007-11), "Home and Away" (7 eps, 2009-10), "Reef Doctors" (13 eps, 2013), "Harrow" (6 eps, 2018-19) and "The Bureau of Magical Things" (10 eps, 2021)

 

Now with 130 credits as an actor, David Schaal's roles have included "The Murder of Stephen Lawrence" (1999), Tom Hargreaves in "Grange Hill" (11 episodes, 2000-01), Glyn in "The Office" (3 eps, 2001-03), Terry Cartwright (Jay's dad) in "The Inbetweeners" (5 eps, 2008-10) and its 2011 and 2014 movies, Bromsden in "Hetty Feather" (8 eps, 2017) and Captain Grey in "Frontier" (4 eps, 2017)

 

The Best: Danny Husbands getting his first proper action as Sully, as he gives presenting HUTV a shot “asking Ryan and Stuart Naysmith what it's like falling for the same woman - me!” in Tara’s voice.

 

Foreshadowing: It is brought up again, this time by Jamie, would Fletch forgive Abi if she cheated on him.

 

Continuity: Fletch reminds Jamie Tash is still unaware of his own sleeping with Victoria (5.28 Mind Games)

 

Soundtrack: Groove Armada: "Suntoucher",  Arthur Agent: "Hold Your Head Up",  X-Press 2 feat. David Byrne (Norman Cook Remix): "Lazy",  Paul McCartney: "Wonderful Christmastime",  Moby: "We Are All Made Of Stars",  Ella Fitzgerald: “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”,  Wizzard: "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday",  Elvis Presley: "Blue Christmas",  Doris Day: "Winter Wonderland",  David Bowie and Bing Crosby: “Little Drummer Boy”,  Eartha Kitt: "Santa Baby",  Vanessa Carlton: "Rinse",  Richard Ashcroft: "Running Away",  Traxx: "Mystery Land”

 

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