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CHEAP THRILLS
SERIES 1 - EPISODE 8

Anna: Sod it. Arseholes.
Warren: I'm going to ban you from reading Tolstoy if this is what it does to you.

Written by:  Matthew Graham
Directed by: Nigel Douglas

 


It's time for a change in Egg's day-to-day life, so he takes a telesales job. It's a disaster - he doesn't even make it through one shift. Meanwhile, Milly's career is soaring. Her boss, O'Donnell, has asked her to help him with a very important case, warning her that it will mean lots of late nights in the office. She accepts - partly because she wants to work on the case and partly because the idea of time alone with O'Donnell appeals to her. Milly certainly doesn't have much to go home to - Egg still isn't interested in sex and the advice he gets from his confidante Miles is as helpful as ever.

Jo is still hurt and upset over Anna's dismissal of him as a potential lover. He gets his own back by refusing to give her any work and now she's getting desperate. Fighting back in the best way she knows, she sprays on her littlest black dress and goes to Hooperman's birthday party where she flirts wildly. Her behaviour embarrasses everyone but Anna.

The only other person who seems to admire Anna's attitude (or is it her legs?) that evening is Egg's father Jerry who turns up unexpectedly. Egg sees his arrival as a chance for a bit of family support - but that's not how things turn out. Egg's mother has left Jerry for another man and it's the father who needs the son's support now.

 




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