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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 394542" data-attributes="member: 673">Series 2 Episode 9This episode had something of an “inbetween” feel to it. Nothing drastic happened in it, it felt more like a lot of setup for what’s to come. Tom is back ashore after his sea trial of the new catamaran ended in a broken beam and a bruised ego. Bill and Jack adopt a “told him so” attitude, while Tom is convinced his calculations were correct and something else caused the damage. There’s a side plot involving Jack avoiding the wife of an old customer with a double barrel surname because he considers her a pain (and also fat, something he mentions at least twice). The joke’s on Jack though, when he discovers that the old customer remarried and the wife that he’s avoiding is beautiful and slim and not the “fat biddy” he was trying to avoid. Oh the 80’s!Jan has left Kate in charge of the boutique for the day. The writers never seem to know what to with poor Dulcie Gray, despite her being great, so if she’s not acting as Jack’s sounding board, she’s ending up in random scenes like this. Not that she doesn’t give it her all. Straight out of the gate, she’s telling Jan that some of her stock is awful and then helpfully talks a customer (future Sarah Sugden #1 from Emmerdale) out of buying two dresses that Kate tells her will look dreadful on her and talks her into buying one of Claude’s designs for a hefty £800. Kate rounds out her day on the job by throwing a bit of shade towards Ken, who has spent the day meeting a powerboat manufacturer, an old flame of Dawn’s, who helped Ken orchestrate the meeting. Back to Jan, she’s taken the day off to meet a financial consultant from the bank, as she plans to put the house up as collateral (this will surely end in disaster). She then heads off with Lynne to look at wedding dress designs, courtesy of her Ab Fab London fashion friend Sonia, whose giant ponytail appears to have gotten even bigger since we last saw her. She’s also upped the chic stakes, puffing away on an extra long Alexis Colby style brown cigarillo while sporting a beret.Abby is longing for her baby and longing to find out who her real father is, so Leo (who seems to be a permanent resident of the friend zone now) brings her out to a disco to get her mind off it. Poor Davy is wheeled out again to do a bit of breakdancing (to Roxy Music no less) alongside a dancing extra who breaks the fourth wall by smiling directly down the camera. Abby has invited some guy connected to the protesting. I don’t know whether it’s just jealousy or Abby is about to get tangled up in some sort of Baader Meinhof type conservationist terror group, but Leo’s reaction to this guy showing up is quite disproportionate. The episode ends with Mrs Double Barrel Surname ordering a boat and Jack telling Bill that the old yard (ie the one not making plastic boats) is back in business.As I said, there was no great drama in this episode but it was enjoyable all the same. There was a couple of other nice bits of setup that I’m looking forward to watching come to fruition. Tom has invited Avril to Lynne’s wedding, which will hopefully lead to some more Javril barbs while Charles has asked a PI to check out Abby, suggesting that he’s edging closer to making himself known to her soon.</blockquote>

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