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| "Day off today!" |
Kath comes downstairs and is surprised to see Dol, who explains that she has a day off; while she goes to make a cup of tea,
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| Something appears to be missing |
Kath discovers that her white plastic bag is no longer in her handbag, and searches for it. As she looks behind cushions,
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| "What's this, I wonder?" |
Dol asks, “What’s this, I wonder?” holding up the offending bag.
Kath tries to grab it, but is rebuffed with,
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| "A bag full of other people's drugs!" |
“No way, José! You’re a drug dealer and a thief! Why else would you have a bag full of drugs prescribed for other people? What about Nicky?
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| "You're a disgrace, Kath Jones!" |
“How dare you bring drugs in here? You’re a disgrace, Kath Jones!”
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| "I need that!" |
Kath demands that she be given the bag as she is in urgent need of its contents.
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| DJ's Christmas cheer seems to have deserted him |
At Awyr Iach, DJ does not look in the mood for a Christmas party,
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| "We have a problem, Sara!" |
as Jason calls Sara’s attention to a problem; “I don’t know how, but we have messed up the Afallon order!”
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| "I delivered them earlier" |
DJ replies that he delivered 200 cotton T-shirts to them earlier, but Jason points out that it should have been 500.
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| "Look, it says 500 here!" |
“They want another 300 by the end of the week – what are we going to do? We shall have to cancel the party, as we shall be up all night, catching up with the work – we can’t afford to lose the contract!”
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| "Just leave it with me, Jason" |
Sara assures him that the party will go ahead, and that she will sort the matter out.
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| "So you're an addict!" |
“So you’re an addict – if you can’t do without them!” deduces Dol,
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| "And you can't wait to tell everyone!" |
and Kath expects that she cannot wait to tell everyone about it.
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| "I had a brief dalliance myself!" |
Dol answers, “Not at all – I had a brief dalliance myself once – shopping channels! So I’ll keep shtum on one condition – that you let me stay at Maes-y-Deri! I want to stay here to help you – but you’ll have to explain why you’re an addict.”
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| "Give me a tablet, and I'll tell you!" |
“Give me a tablet, and I’ll tell you!” pleads Kath, but Dol drives a hard bargain;
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| "No, it's tea first, talk and then tablet!" |
she insists that the order of proceedings is tea first, talk and then tablet.
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| "Chester, no phones in school!" |
As he enters school, Chester is is reprimanded by Gaynor for using his phone; he leaves a message for Garry, “I’m sorry – I didn’t know you’d break your leg! Phone back, please.”
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| "Garry was determined to be here!" |
Then Ffion appears, ready for her interview, and tells Gaynor, “It would be better if Garry was not on the panel. I know he’s broken his leg, but Gethin said he was determined to be here! He takes his duties very seriously –
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| "Don't worry too much about the unfortunate e-mail!" |
“but don’t worry too much about that unfortunate e-mail – containing a personal attack on the Monks!”
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| Kath details her slide into addiction |
Kath explains her predicament; “I haven’t been right since I left Spain, then I got a job at the chemist’s in Birmingham. I started stealing tablets from patients’ containers here and there. It made me feel better and made life easier, but then Stacey lost all that money and Mark went to prison.
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| "I was too ashamed to face them" |
“I should have come back to support him , but I was too ashamed to face them, so I took more and more tablets. They caught me and I got the sack, but I didn’t really care, as I had enough stored up – that’s all that mattered to me.”
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| "Blimey – I thought I had problems!" |
“Blimey,” exclaims Dol, “I thought I had problems! You need to see a doctor!”
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| "No – I would be arrested!" |
Kath cannot do that as she would be arrested, and does not want to put Mark and Ricky through that.
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| "Come on – give me a tablet!" |
Then she demands that she have a tablet, as she has not had one since last night, and is now desperate.
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| "I'm getting ready for the party" |
At this point, Vicky comes in, as she is getting ready for the Awyr Iach party. While Dol is distracted, Kath makes a grab for her bag of drugs,
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| They both lunge for the bag of drugs |
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| "She was trying to get this!" |
and makes out that Kath was trying to seize the television remote control. Vicky goes upstairs for a long, hot bath.
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| "The last one was much too young!" |
Gaynor tells Ffion that the last candidate has just come out of the interview room and that he was much too young.
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| Then it is Gaynor's turn |
Then Gaynor’s name is called, and she goes in.
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| The Dolores Collins régime |
Dol explains the rehabilitation programme she has devised; “We can wean you off them – you’re refusing professional help, so you have to give it a try!
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| "And that's the only one today, right?" |
“I’m going to give you one tablet – and that’s the only one today, right? If you take it too soon and then need another one – tough!”
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| Vicky, dressed to kill |
A single tablet is handed over, then Vicky, all dressed up, is ready for the party; as they leave,
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| "Not such an ugly dragon, am I?" |
Dol whispers to Kath, “I’m not such an ugly dragon after all, am I?”
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| "Garry is like a dog with a bone!" |
Gaynor emerges from the interview, looking fraught; “It was awful – Garry is just like a dog with a bone!
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| "Good luck – I think you'll need it!" |
“Good luck – I think you’ll need it!”
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| Do I detect a devious grin? |
Gaynor is wearing a definite smirk as she walks away
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| "You have to face him sooner or later" |
In actual fact, Garry is asleep on the Deri flat sofa, with Chester looking very anxious; “You’ll have to face him sooner or later,” Colin advises, but Chester predicts he will be even more angry if they wake him.
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| "Fetch me a blanket – I'm freezing!" |
Then he does wake up, and shouts irritably for more painkillers; “And fetch me a blanket – I’m freezing!” When Chester scuttles off to find a blanket, Garry tells Colin, “It’s about time he came to apologise!”
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| "Don't you think you owe him an apology?" |
Colin replies, “Don’t you think you owe him an apology? For not being there when he came out of prison – or since, actually.
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| Garry is unaccustomed to being addressed like this |
“You’ve hardly seen him since you came back from Greece, and he’s heartbroken as a result.
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| "I don't want to interfere, but . . ." |
“I don’t want to interfere, but I’m just telling you what I see.”
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| "You're making a habit of that lately!" |
“You’re making a habit of that lately!” grumbles Garry, then Colin has to leave, as he is working behind the bar at the Deri. He stresses to Garry that it is difficult for everyone, but they all help and support each other.
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| The belated Awyr Iach Christmas party |
As the Awyr Iach party begins in the Deri, Jason is still fretting about that order,
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| "Don't worry – I've dealt with it" |
but Sara reassures him that she has sorted it out. Vicky fills up Jason’s glass, advising him to enjoy it while he can;
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| "Up to your ears in dirty nappies!" |
“Next year you’ll be up to your ears in dirty nappies!” she prophesies.
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| Kath has resisted the temptation thus far |
Kath sits on the sofa, alone and shaking, looking at the single tablet on the table in front of her and trying to resist the temptation.
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| "I'm going home to bed" |
At the Deri, Sara announces that she is tired and leaves for home, telling Jason to enjoy himself;
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| "You wait until the little one comes!" |
Gwyneth says he will not be able to when the little one arrives. Vicky qualifies her earlier statement; “Life doesn’t stop when you have a baby – I still go out and enjoy myself,” but Jason mentions that she has a house full of babysitters.
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| 'Sara won't let that baby out of her sight" |
“To be honest, I doubt if Sara will let that baby out of her sight when it comes!” Jason adds. Vicky muses that Sara is nothing like her – and that is why she is the boss.
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| Kath reaches for the tablet . . . |
Kath finally gives in to her desperation and takes the tablet,
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| . . . and swallows it |
washing it down with a glass of water.
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| "May the best woman win!" |
At the Deri, Colin serves Gaynor and Ffion, saying, “Good luck to you both – may the best woman win!”
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| "Thanks for misleading me!" |
Ffion complains about Gaynor pretending that Garry was there, and reports that the panel nodded and smiled a lot, which are optimistic signs.
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| Some relevant news is imparted to Ffion |
Then she has a phone call, in which the chair of governors informs her that the appointment has been made.
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| "No need to ask who won" |
“No need to ask who,” she comments to Gaynor, who reveals that she already knew she has the job, as she was contacted on her way there.
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| "So you let me make a fool of myself?" |
“So you let me make a fool of myself? Thanks a bunch Gaynor!” snarls Ffion and goes home.
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| Dol cannot resist alcohol – especially the free variety |
Dol, who always tends to go overboard when free drink is on offer, needs assistance to stand up, let alone go back to Maes-y-Deri,
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| She needs some assistance |
so Jason offers to help Vicky with the task. “OK, I can do this!” mumbles Dol.
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| "Why milk?" |
Garry is not impressed when Chester brings him a glass of milk, his reasoning being,
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| "I might get some peace" |
“Milk is good for bones – you might recover quicker and then I’d get some peace.”
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| "I've not been a very good uncle lately – if ever!" |
“It was an accident, and not your fault – and I’m sorry for saying so,” admits Garry, “And I’m sorry for not being there for you when you came out of prison – I’ve not been a very good uncle lately – if ever!”
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| "Get a grip – you're so embarrassing!" |
Chester replies, “Get a grip – you’re so embarrassing! There’s a film on at nine, if you want to watch it.”
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| "How about some mustard?" |
Garry thinks this a good idea and asks for some mustard on his sandwich.
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| Dol, in a drunken stupor |
Dol is unceremoniously dumped on the sofa at Maes-y-Deri, and Jason wonders how they are going to get her upstairs; “No, this is where she sleeps,” Vicky tells him,
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| A little apres-party drink |
“You’re right, we have a full house! You can still enjoy yourself and be a father, you know. I can see you and the little one being told off by Sara –
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| Jason could be forgiven for thinking she is flirting |
“she’s a bit like a mother to you already! How old are you – fifty?” Jason maintains that he still feels like twenty-one, and Vicky wishes she could be 21 for ever.
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| Dol is keeping an eye on proceedings . . . |
Dol, perhaps not as inebriated as people thought, has a crafty peek
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| . . . as Jason kisses Vicky |
as Jason leans forward and kisses Vicky.
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| "I didn't intend that to happen!" |
“What are you doing?” Vicky demands, and Jason says he does not know what came over him, assuring her that he did not intend this to happen. “I think you’d better go!” orders Vicky,
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| Dol is still keeping tabs on them |
as Dol has another look.
