Season 10 Episode 30

Episode 417

 

Sky One Transmission Date:

Sunday 20th May 2007

 

Directed By

Mark Walker

 

Gavin

 

 

Cindi

 

 

Sully, Amy

 

 

Jason takes the blame

GS: Phil (Dominic Doughty)  Deano (Aston Kelly)

 

The team watch Wigan hammer Man U's title hopes, while Jimmy is at home with Katy following their liaison. Leaving for the club, Jimmy is approached by Phil, who asks if he can try and get through to an unresponsive Jason. At training, Steve shows off the medal he received at Blackburn Rovers, when they won the Premier League in 1995. The team are surprised when Sully reveals he is one appearance short, so he won't be receiving one. Danny joins the lads in their training exercises, hoping he can still pull it off and play the one last game he needs. Jimmy says he cannot allow this, as Sully could permanently damage his knee. Katy returns to the house and all Jason can say is that he loves her, but Katy is furious that he humiliated her in front of everyone they knew. Danny watches a recording from Jimmy’s office where he and Katy discuss their kiss. He is in the process of typing a warning to Jimmy when Amy comes out, assuming Danny is writing his resignation. She takes it from him, and fears she has stumbled across Dragonslayer - her boyfriend! Amy tells Sully it all makes sense with his hatred for Jimmy from the injury he picked up after being forced to Southend. Sully says the letter she saw was sent to him by the real Dragonslayer, who is now after him.

 

Jimmy gets home to find Katy has left him a note, with how she hopes Jimmy can forgive her involvement in their sleeping together last night, and that he can forget about it, as she wants to. Sully goes alone to the training ground dressing room, leaving a series of letters for Jimmy and the team, including himself. The team enter and find the letters, with Jimmy's envelope containing the disc of he and Katy's conversation, which Liam sees. The team's letters read a short message of how "trusted coach Danny Sullivan" has been sleeping with Cindi Moody! Gavin flips, and goes for Sully, believing it is true. Cindi is with Amy when Amy comes across her own letter from Dragonslayer, which reads the same as those left for the team. Sully dashes in and tells Amy it's just Dragonslayer messing with them, but she slaps him. Cindi gets home to find Gavin tearing through rubbish bags looking for evidence of her affair. Gavin finds a pregnancy test which reads positive, and accuses Cindi of being pregnant with Sully’s child. Cindi weeps that she was going to surprise Gavin with the news today, but he won't listen.

 

Jimmy allows Liam to watch while he plays the disc, and Liam hears their discussion over the kiss. Jimmy says it was just a kiss and Liam tells him this has to come from him now, before Dragonslayer gets to Jason themselves. When Cindi wants Sully to help her convince Gavin that she is not pregnant with his child, Amy now believes this is why Danny tried to hide the letter she took from him last night, because Dragonslayer was threatening to expose his affair with Cindi. When Jimmy shows Katy the disc, she tells him Jason cannot know about this. Jimmy tells her he might need Jason to play in tomorrow’s game against Charlton, and they are about to play the club's biggest game in 21 years. Katy gives in, but states she will be there when he admits all to Jason. When Jason is told, he turns on Katy for saying nothing at the wedding when he admitted all. Jason wants to know if it went further than a kiss, and Katy tells him straight it didn't, to Jimmy’s discomfort. Danny goes with Liam to see Gavin, and pleads with him that he isn't the father of his wife’s baby. Gavin says it's too late however - as he's realised he still doesn't trust Cindi.

 

Liam decides to round up the players before they leave and will sort this once and for all. Jason meanwhile, has written a letter to Katy, as the only way to truly explain his feelings to her. He joins Sully and Gavin in Liam's car for the journey to the club, where his tracksuit is mistakenly switched with Danny's along the way. Katy and Cindi sit outside in the stands, where Katy learns Cindi is pregnant. They are joined by Amy, who is forced to see sense when Cindi makes it clear she has a husband she loves. Liam addresses the team how he knows Dragonslayer is in the room right now and wants to search everyone's property. Sully is worried as the search begins, with him holding an original draft of his latest Dragonslayer letter, but checking his pocket finds Jason's note to Katy. When it comes to Jason’s search, the Dragonslayer draft is found as he has Sully's tracksuit. The team, led by Liam, turn on Jason, and expel him from the squad, with even Jimmy believing they have found the real Dragonslayer. After scoring the winning goal at the Charlton game, Gavin lifts his shirt to reveal a t-shirt with "Are you watching Dragonslayer?" emblazoned across in black pen.

 

Notes:

 

Continuity: Jason met Katy at an away-game to Preston in the Carling Cup. Fletch missed the ball and Katy yelled "Oi Fletcher! You want me to come down there and show you your arse from your elbow?!”. As we see in the next episode, Jason and Katy were together to see Fletch’s testimonial just before the 2003-04 season began (7.2 Long Live The King). References to past affairs involving Ryan and Cindi (9.10 ‘Tis The Season To Be Jolly), Danny and Amy (9.13 Unleash Hell) and Danny and Kim (10.10 Sick of Christmas).

 

Additional Info: Sully was twelve years old when he was picked up by Orient, now eighteen years ago. Jason’s seat number at the Lair is Block 19 Row G Seat no. 24.

 

What Was The Score?: Harchester play Charlton at The Valley, where after many good strikes a goal is slotted in by Gavin, winning the match.

 

Soundtrack: Jet: "All You Have To Do",  Radiohead: "Dollars & Cents",  Sigur Ros: "Andvari" and "Hjartao Hamast"

 

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