Episode 3.8 - Uninvited Guests
Written by Phil Ford
Produced by Brian Park
Directed by Mike Adams
Stubberfield panics about how the press will react to news of the escape. He is very quick to lay the blame at the door of the film crew and isn’t beyond suggesting that his golf buddy, Fenner, might have failed in his duties. Karen is equally as concerned. Worried about how their relationship might look to the Area investigation team, she suggests that they cool things off for a while. The fall-out from the escape has definitely left Fenner a very worried man, especially when Shaz is brought back to Larkhall with her leg in plaster.
Shell and Denny arrives at Kings Cross in a taxi. After doing a runner without paying their fare, they slip into the shadows and locate Gary, a drug dealer friend of Denny’s. After Shell gives him the big come on, he lets them have the keys to his flat. They repay him by snorting all his cocaine and stealing his money before donning a pair of frightful wigs and heading off to settle some old scores. Sylvia and Bobby Hollamby receive a nightmarish visit from the fugitives, both high on coke, and hell-bent on revenge.
After reading Shell’s diary, Karen is convinced that the permissiveness of Helen’s lifers’ regime is solely to blame for the escape. However, when the Area team question Helen about the diary, she quite logically points out that the bar of soap, complete with convenient key impressions, that was found in Shell’s cell proves that she had outside help to plan the escape. Now convinced that the diary was a prop to set Helen up as a scapegoat, the Area team send it away for forensic tests, hoping to prove that all of the entries where written by the same pen and on the same day.
Shell and Denny tie Bobby to a chair and then strip-search Sylvia, forcing her to dress in a French main’s outfit they found in her laundry basket. After serving her captors lines of cocaine on a silver platter, Sylvia is locked up in a cupboard. When the gruesome twosome finally tire, they gag Bobby and tie him to the toilet before heading off to bed. After discovering signs that Bobby tried to escape during the night, Shell decides to teach him a lesson. She takes him down to the garage and forces him to climb into one of his own coffins. Sylvia is forced to look on in terror as Shell drenches the coffin in petrol and then sets light to it.
Helen goes to question Shaz and, although she refuses to tell her anything, Shaz does let slip that Denny and Shell are planning a surprise visit to “an old friend”. When she hears from Karen that Hollamby hasn’t turned up for her shift, Helen calls the police. They arrive at the Hollambys’ in the nick of time. However, while they rescue Bobby, Shell and Denny make their escape in Bobby’s hearse. Later, Crystal receives the shock of her life when she opens her front door to find the fugitives standing there. Reluctantly, she allows them to stay the night, but Shell is as vindictive as ever and repays the favour by planting drugs and then tipping off the police before she and Denny leave the next morning.
As ‘Barbara Hunt’ and ‘Nicola Wade’ catch a plane to the Costa del Sol, Stubberfield is informed that Chris, the documentary soundman, has been charged with aiding and abetting the escape. The Area team have also come to the conclusion that Stubberfield was the one ultimately at fault and he is asked to tender his resignation immediately.