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BRIEF ENCOUNTER
SERIES 1 - EPISODE 7

Miles: It always gets done eventually.
Milly: Oh, that must be the Washing Up Fairy.

Written by:  Patrick Wilde
Directed by:  Audrey Cooke

 


There are several messy situations to be dealt with. The mess in the kitchen could easily be cleared but Egg's current state is probably a more serious challenge. Milly is growing increasingly annoyed with him. We know that he hasn't filled in the application form for the Sports Council job - and that she is going to be more than a little disappointed when she finds out. They can't even agree on a holiday together. She finds a willing confidate at work - O'Donnell, whose sympathy is almost certainly masking other motives. Egg needs to unburden himself too - Miles is his choice of confidante, and Egg confesses that he hasn't felt like having sex for weeks. Helpful Miles offers his collection of porn mags as a possible solution.

Montgomery, Miles's father, tries a spot of bridge-building but instead of finding his son at home, he finds Anna. She tries to help their relationship along but only succeeds in messing things up for Miles. And things are still pretty disastrous between Warren and his brother Dale - Warren just can't get round to telling him that he's gay.

However, the main reason that fans remember this episode is because this is the one where a drunken Anna goes back to chambers with Jo and gets down to some serious bonking - on Miles's desk (an interesting choice of location!). Jo is clearly impressed, Anna clearly just wants a one-night stand - someone's ego is bound to get hurt.

 




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