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Weekly Reviews > Episodes 5167-5171 by Callum

UK Broadcast: Monday, 21st May – Friday, 25th May, 2007
“Miss Of The Spider Woman” by Ben Marshall, directed by Chris Adshead
“Cruelly, Badly, Weeply” by Sarah Mayberry, directed by Chris Adshead
“Sky-ray To Heaven” by Stuart Gaunt, directed by Chris Adshead
“The Marrow Escape” by Michael O’Rourke, directed by Chris Adshead
“What’s A Spice Girl Like You...?” by Jeff Truman & Megan Herbert, directed by Jet Wilkinson & Riccardo Pellizzeri

An emotional week for the Timmins family as bonds were both made and broken...

Paul dragged Elle away from the site of the explosion, assuming Carmella & Oliver to be dead. Despite a few cuts and bruises, Carmella & Oliver escaped relatively unscathed as they had gone back to pick up some herbs that Oliver had dropped, which Elle & Paul were relieved to find out. None of it stopped Elle & Paul from continuing to carry out their plans with Elle convincing Oliver that Carmella was baying for Ray’s blood and that she had a gun. Ray continued to protest his innocence. Ray had a heart attack as Carmella confronted him. Ray swore to Carmella that he didn’t blow up the van, and convinced her that someone else was out to get her. Elle offered Oliver the chance to use their cabin, a chance he took to escape Carmella and her family feuds and managed to convince him to ask her to come along too. Carmella saw them leaving. Oliver & Elle enjoyed some horse-riding in the country, but as they were interrupted by a call from Carmella on his mobile, Elle accidentally (on purpose) dropped his phone into the river whilst trying to reach it for him. As Elle turned on the waterworks over her break-up with Dylan and decided to fake a riding accident, Oliver came to her rescue, and as he played her hero, they kissed. Meanwhile, asking one of Oliver’s friends at the bar where he’d gone, Rosie found out the address and borrowed Toadie’s car to get her, Pepper & Carmella there.

Lou pushed Lolly to join the basketball team and convinced Rachel, Zeke & Ringo to help build Lolly’s confidence. Susan meanwhile struggled to act as coach and due to a faulty whistle, reluctantly had to enlist Karl. However, Lolly proved to be hopeless when having finally got the ball threw it at the net only for it to rebound and hit her in the nose.

Paul was less than happy to find Elle’s headscarf in Ned’s apartment, however Ned soon convinced him otherwise and waited for him to leave before calling her for some more no-strings fun. Meanwhile, Steiger called around to Ned’s apartment and explained that Paul’s attacker had exactly the same build as him, leaving Ned being defensive and slightly worried.

As Boyd lied to Janae about seeing Glenn, Steph berated him for leading Janae on and compared him to Bobby. Meanwhile, Janae let her expectations get the better of her as she bought a car for her and Boyd to work on. As Steph turned to Toadie for advice on Boyd, he told her to be honest, but as she scolded him about throwing his marriage away over a change in feelings, Boyd tried to point out Steph’s hypocrisy, but she soon made it clear that the situations were different and he was way out of line. As Janae turned up at Scarlet Bar to tell Boyd about the car, Boyd told her that he didn’t think they should see out the two weeks, their marriage was over, leaving her falling to the floor behind the bar, crying her broken heart out. When a devastated Janae told her family that her marriage was over, Dylan & Stingray stormed over to Boyd & Glenn’s room at Lassiter’s and confronted Boyd, issuing some instant karma. Meanwhile, as Steiger was called to the scene and Glenn explained that two men claiming to be the owners of the hotel had come in and beat Boyd up, the Senior Sergeant soon knew who was to blame, and as Boyd explained that he didn’t want to press charges, Steiger decided to file the report at the bottom of a very long list. Back at the hospital, Steiger explained that he had decided to look the other way, but under the condition that Dylan & Stingray stopped calling him ‘Sarge’ and call him Al or Allan.

Meanwhile, as Sky saw Stingray disappear from a picture of him, her and Kerry, she became convinced that he was going to die, but as Harold suggested that Sky’s ‘premonitions’ were probably down to her feeling bad that she hadn’t expressed her feelings for Stingray as he had done for her and Kerry, Sky asked Dylan & Bree for their help to do so. As High Priestess Breanna Timmins of the planet, Vorteus arrived, Sky explained to Stingray that she wanted them to have a commitment ceremony and the pair declared their love for each other infront of their loved ones and exchanged beautiful vows. As Stingray & Kerry underwent the bone marrow transplant surgery, Sky & Bree created a follow up to the adventures of Freak Girl, this time all about ‘Freak Baby’. As Stingray crashed on the table, Sky willed Stingray to survive, he clearly heard her thoughts and began to stabilise, leaving his family relieved.

Pepper pushed Rosetta into admitting she loved Frazer, but Frazer refused to try any longer, although once Pepper had tricked him into meeting her at Scarlet Bar, he soon changed his mind. As Rosie laddered her tights and hit her head whilst trying to take them off, knocking herself out, Frazer became convinced that Rosie had changed her mind. As Boyd & Glenn walked in, Janae got upset and ran off to the office, with Frazer following to offer comfort, however Janae ended up kissing him, just as Rosie arrived, getting the complete wrong end of the stick. Furious at being accused of something he hadn’t done again, Frazer ended things with Rosie for good. Pepper dragged Rosie along to the dance class that Steph had arranged at Scarlet Bar, but Rosie refused to let go, despite Steph telling her that sometimes you just had to take a risk in life. Steph took her own advice however, declaring her love for Toadie and inviting him along on the winery tour, however as she ran out to escape Toadie’s shocked reaction and he tried to follow, Abby intercepted him, leaving him wondering how things could have been. Later, seeing Abby in the bar with a client, he asked her to give up her job and come and work for him as a legal secretary.

Karl & Susan finally set off on their trip to London. Karl & Susan arrived in London and Karl was shocked to realise that he had mistakenly booked them in to the Ritz Hostel, leaving Susan furious, but she eventually came around to the idea. As they enjoyed an open top bus trip, Karl prepared to propose, but as the bus jolted, he accidentally dropped the ring over the side of the bus. Running off and leaving a shocked Susan left on the top deck, Karl went to retrieve the ring, and was delighted when a lovely young woman approached and presented it to him. As a furious Susan ran up to them, her fury soon turned to elation as she recognised the girl as former Spice Girl, Emma Bunton who then covered for Karl, explaining that he’d spotted her from the bus and had raced to get her autograph for Susan.

Finally this week, Toadie was stunned to receive a parcel from Connor for St. Patrick’s day with gifts for everyone, finally seeming to solve the mystery over his disappearance, whilst Susan asked Pepper to consider taking her job back, but as she remained determined not to return to the school, Rosie promised to keep working on her, and was informed that she only had another week to change her mind.

Notes: A full, illustrated summary of Friday’s episode, number 5171 (Karl and Susan In London: Part One) can be read here.