Season 6 Episode 8 Episode 268 Sky One Transmission Date: Sunday 24th November 2002 Directed By David Penn

Butler, Anderson Jade Curtis Jade, Curtis, Phil, Nikki

GS: Receptionist (Peter Laird) D.I. Butler (William Tapley) D.I. Anderson (Sara Markland) Becky Piper (Kalli Clark-Sternberg) Jade Riley (Nicky Ladanowski) Hope Parker (Olivia Sofie Newman) The team are staying at The Grange the night before they face Tottenham. Curtis has already encountered Jade, whilst her mate Becky is into Phil, though he still has the absent Jacqui on his mind. Later, Nikki witnesses Jade coming out of the lift, upset and her clothing torn. Before kick off, Curtis shows Fletch and Marcel scratches on his chest, which wins him a bet that he slept with Jade. As Patrick gives his team talk, two detectives enter and arrest Curtis on suspicion of rape. Phil confides in Jeff he will have to admit to the police he got off with Becky, especially after Jeff points out the lift where it happened has a camera! Phil encounters his old friend on the Grange reception, and when the receptionist suggests he could get him the lift tape if paid, Phil offers five hundred. The receptionist tells him it doesn't sound as good as two-thousand! Curtis and Jade give their sides to Butler and Anderson, how she and Curtis got talking when he spilled his drink on her. Jade says she scratched Curtis when he was being rough with her, but Curtis says she did it while enticing him. Curtis says he got cold feet when Nikki did her room check, and told Jade she should go, which she wasn't happy about. Butler interviews the team, where Marcel defends Curtis that the girls were out to pull rich footballers, while Fletch lets slip of his bet to pull Jade, and Ryan reveals Curtis asked him not to return to their room that night. When Curtis is bailed by Phil, he goes round to Nikki's just as Tara is moving in. Curtis thinks Nikki hasn't spoken up for him because she sees Linton in him, but Nikki saw Jade's clothing was ripped. When the detectives come to speak with Nikki, she is forced to admit she saw Jade, who was upset with torn clothes. In an attempt to shore up support for Curtis, Patrick asks Tara to put together a show for HUTV of Curtis's greatest moments. She gets to work on the tapes, but one she plays shows an old lady in a lift, with Phil’s tape mixed up with the others. Nikki goes to see Curtis at The Grange and stands in the lift, before realising what the tape Tara had was. They go through it, capturing Phil walking away from Becky before anything more serious happened, which Jacqui just misses seeing! Following which, Jade appears, and her act of tearing her clothes is revealed. At the station, Curtis is charged with Jade's rape. Nikki and Tara show Phil the tape, and while they promise not to tell Jacqui about Becky, they know this will clear Curtis. The charges are dropped, and in the station reception Curtis comes face to face with Jade who has been brought in. He asks her why and she says she was angry at how he threw her out, because she did like him. Curtis is in no mood to forgive, and all he wants to do now is play football. Notes: Best Known For: Nicky Ladanowski's credits include "Paradise Heights" (5 episodes, 2002), Mand in "Grease Monkeys" (7 eps, 2003), Candy in "Brookside" (3 eps, 2003), Merle Jackson in "Coronation Street" (9 eps, 2003), "Little Miss Jocelyn" (2 eps, 2008) and Irene Walker in "Motel Evil" (3 eps, 2021). After roles in "(Take the) High Road" as Phineas "Fin" North (1994-96) and "The Archers" (1996-97), William Tapley was regular PC Lionel 'Oz' Adams in "Backup" for all 14 episodes (1995-97). His other credits include "The Bill (2 eps, 2000), "Heartbeat" (see below) (2 eps, 2001), "Holby City" (6 eps, 2008-09), "EastEnders" (3 eps, 2014) and the award-winning short "Receding" (2023). Sara Markland appeared in "The Ambassador" (6 episodes, 1998) and in the "Inazuma Eleven Go" series providing English voiceovers (2011-12). A year before this DT appearance, she and William Tapley acted alongside each other in the "Heartbeat" episode "Truth Games". Kalli Clark-Sternberg was a member of girl group "Precious", UK Eurovision entry in 1999 and whose band mates Louise Rose and Anya Lahiri also later had roles in DT, Rose as Grace Ikema in S7 and Lahiri Emma Collison in S10. Quotes: Curtis, on the training pitch: “Did you see that? He practically took my shirt off" Ryan: "Yeah you'd know all about that wouldn't you Curtis?!" Continuity: Patrick’s words of "Just because things look bad for him at the moment, doesn't necessarily mean he's guilty...a scenario which I'm sure one or two of you are familiar with" regarding Curtis resonates with Fletch, remembering his trial the previous year. What Was The Score?: A Matthew Etherington goal takes Spurs 1-up. Fletch fires back and the match ends 1-1. Soundtrack: Massive Attack: "Ange”, Red Hot Chilli Peppers: “Venice Queen”, Zero 7: “I Have Seen” <<SE06 EP07 |  Season 6 Main Page | SE06 EP09>>