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Season 7 Episode 18
Episode 310 Sky One Transmission Date: Directed by Joy Perino
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Marcel
Sandra, Marcel
Jeff, Nikki
Stuart, Viv |
GS: Dr. Shennon (Miles Harvey) Burglar 1 (Ricky Nixon) Burglar 2 (Joe Boronski) Faith Healer (Kim Appleby) Policeman (Ryan McCluskey) Stuart refuses to believe he will never play again. He turns to faith healing for hope, blocking out attempts by Abi to get through to him. Watching the team train gets to Stuart, so much so when further challenged by Marcel he loses it and punches him. Abi takes Stuart back to her house where he breaks down crying over his troubles. When she tells him he needs to admit it’s over, he informs her of Ryan being in the rehabilitation clinic because he neglected him for football, and can’t just admit it’s over like it meant nothing. After Jeff lets it slip that he and Nikki are engaged, Viv announces it to the entire crowd in Studs much to everyone’s surprise. That night Viv and Clyde are having a lock-in when two young men break in intending to steal from the safe. The next day at training, Clyde tells of how Viv bluffed the men with his five-iron golf club before they fled in fear. Lee is not impressed and winds Viv up over what he sees as doing nothing. To annoy him in return, Viv offers Jeff and Nikki the use of Studs as a venue for their wedding reception, which they find themselves unable to turn down despite neither wanting a big fuss. At their respective Hen Party and Stag Night’s, the men bottle out on Viv whilst the girls encourage Sandra to finally pluck up the courage to try her luck with Marcel. Having been thrown out by Abi whilst she consoles a broken Stuart, Marcel takes an eager Sandra up to his room at the Grange whilst only Nikki realises he is using her. On the morning of the wedding, Nikki arrives without a dress so the girls arrange for Chelsea to collect a rack of dresses for Nikki to try out. As the ceremony gets underway in the grounds of the club, Sandra is shocked when Marcel won’t speak to her. When he learns that best man Lee hasn’t collected any rings, Viv ‘borrows’ Stuart’s car and takes Clyde and Lee to the back entrance of a jewellers where he whips out a semi-automatic and heads inside, to Clyde and Lee’s horror. They make it back to the club where Jeff and Nikki are married, however the police have already reached Stuart and having witnessed Viv take his car, manages to send the police away so he can deal with Viv himself. Stuart furiously forces Clyde, Lee and Viv up onto the gantry where he holds Viv over the edge and yells at the lads for abusing the talent they have whilst he himself no longer can play, finally accepting that his career is over. Notes: Best Known For: Kim Appleby was once one half of late 80’s pop duo Mel and Kim, following which she had a solo career scoring a No.2 hit in 1990 with ‘Don’t Worry’. The Best: Viv taking his time to show off the rings he’d just stolen to Quotes: Foreshadowing: How Stuart's trip up to the gantry with Connelly, Presley and Wright could well have put the location in Clyde's mind for what he does in 8.7 (#331) The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Continuity: Nikki seeing through Marcel’s sudden interest in Sandra from the time she fell for the same with Luke (7.10 (#302) Achilles Heel). Stuart tells Abi it’s Pilar’s team; “She brought Bruce in over my head, (7.4 (#296) Chinese Takeaway) she definitely brought Additional Info: The website Stuart looks at for faith healing is called ‘Mystic Misstif’. Nikki’s Hen Party consists of the quartet of she, Sandra, Grace and Chelsea. Jeff’s full name is Jeffery Francis Stein. What Was The Score?: The score for the match at the end of the episode is left unknown, although Stuart mentions in the following episode that they did in fact win this game. Soundtrack: Aphex Twin: “Jynweythek”, Black Eyed Peas: “Shut Up”, Gorillaz: “5/4 |
