Tracey: He ain't tried to top 'imself is 'e? Cause 'e was feelin' very depressed at my last visit. I blame it on the food in 'ere. All them additives an' colourin's an' E numbers. Well, 'e's got a very sensitive digestion. 'e likes fillet steak, corn-fed chicken, scotch-smoked salmon, can't stomach that Canadian stuff. I bet you've been feedin' 'im Canadian stuff!
Mrs. Simmons: Mrs. Stubbs, I think I can with confidence say that your husband has not been force-fed inferior smoked salmon.
— Tracey Stubbs trying to explain to Mrs. Simmons that her husband Darryl needs high-quality foods.
- Date First Aired: 15/11/1990
Something has come up with Darryl - he has been sent to hospital with appendicitis. Whilst Tracey visits him, Darryl reveals his plans to escape prison for a night out with Tracey. Meanwhile, an artist named Martin shows up at the house and hits it off with Sharon after she sees his paintings.
That night, Tracey and Darryl decide to have their night, Tracey having claimed that her son had appendicitis to Sharon to cover up her night out. However, the situation is complicated when Darryl decides that he's going to use the opportunity to Run for the Border. However, Tracey doesn't want him to live as a fugitive and they fight, although Darryl eventually gets around to her line of thinking.
The next morning, the duo returns back to prison. However, their taxi driver is a Drunk Driver who is taken away by the police. Tracey and Darryl's return seem jeopardized but Tracey is able to get Sharon (who had a terrible night of sex with Martin) and Dorien (who had spent the episode on a tryst with her toyboy) to come to help. Unfortunately, Darryl's stitches burst and the police come again. Thankfully, they don't recognize him and he is successfully returned to the hospital.
Tropes in this episode:
- Ass Shove: Darryl brings it up when talking about drugging the policeman with cake.Joy: That drug shoulda gone straight to 'is brain!Darryl: Well if you wanted it go straight to 'is brain, y'shoulda stuffed the cake up 'is bum!
- Batman Gambit: Joy manages to drug the policeman by slipping it in Darryl's food, knowing he always ate most of it just to be an asshole.
- Big Eater: The policeman in Darryl's room eats most of his food.
- Bigot with a Badge: After seeing Darryl bleeding, the patrolman asks him if he was mugged, and if so, were the men black.
- Blackmail: Sharon threatens Dorien that if she doesn't help Tracey and Darryl, she'll tell Marcus about her trysts with Luke.
- Country Matters: One of the words Darryl uses to describe himself after he storms out of the hotel room is "berk".
- Deadpan Snarker:
- Darryl to the policeman after he eats most of his food.Darryl: Well, y'find anythin'? Any drugs, skeleton keys, sawn-off shotgun?Policeman: Not yet.
- When Darryl briefly accuses Tracey of having a bloke stuck somewhere. Tracey responds with this.Tracey: Yeah, yeah! That's it Darryl, you've rumbled me. I'm sexually satiated due to the attentions of the entire night shift of Fords of Dagenhams!
- Darryl to the policeman after he eats most of his food.
- Death Faked for You: Sharon lies and states that Chris is dead when Martin comes in.
- Description Cut: Tracey comments that Darryl must be so lonely in hospital. Cut to Darryl in bed, who is rather enjoying himself.
- Driven to Suicide: When hearing about Darryl's move, Tracey's first thought is that he tried to top himself.
- Drunk Driver: The minicab driver drinks whenever Tracey and Darryl aren't looking. He is later taken away by a patrolman for this which jeopardises Darryl's escape.
- Great Escape: Darryl plans to escape jail so that he can have a night out with Tracey. He later plans to do this long-term.
- Faking Another Person's Illness: Tracey fakes Garth having appendicitis so that she can get away from Sharon.
- Florence Nightingale Effect: One of the nurses gains a crush on Darryl, with Darryl being stated to have encouraged it.
- For the Evulz: The policeman had no reason to eat so much of Darryl's food, other than to bring him misery.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The policeman's habit of eating Darryl's food comes back to bite him when Joy slips chloral hydrate into Darryl's cake.
- Hospital Hottie: Joy, who gives Darryl a face full of cleavage when plumping up his pillows.
- Instant Sedation: Joy puts chloral hydrate into Darryl's cake, knowing the policeman would eat it and fall asleep, which he does instantly.
- Lingerie Scene:
- Tracey wears some for Darryl, who unluckily falls asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow.
- Dorien meets Sharon in the door only in her lingerie.
- Look Behind You: Sharon attempts to distract Tracey by asking her to look at the window so that she could have a bit of fisherman's bake.
- Marshmallow Hell: Darryl gets a face full of cleavage when Joy plumps up his pillows.
- Noodle Incident: Tracey asks Mrs. Simmons if Darryl's gone on the prison roof again.
- One-Shot Character: Mrs. Simmons, Joy and Martin.
- Out of Focus: Dorien doesn't appear until the last few minutes of the episode.
- Run for the Border: Darryl plans to escape the law through either crossing the Channel or otherwise escaping into another country.Tracey: Alright, alright, supposing we do do a bunk, then what?Darryl: Next stop, South America!Tracey: Oh, there's a night bus from Calais to Rio, is there?
- Ruptured Appendix:
- Darryl is suffering from appendicitis this episode and has to go to the Royal Infirmary.
- Tracey lies that Garth is suffering from it as well so she can visit Darryl without Sharon knowing.
- Shirtless Scene:
- Darryl takes his shirt off when getting out of his pyjamas.
- There's also Martin coming in topless at the end of the episode.
- Shout-Out:
- The episode title comes from the movie Love on the Run.
- Tracey calls the policeman "Mr. Plod".
- Sharon mentions liking anything with Mel Gibson in it.
- Maureen Lipman is name-dropped by Tracey when she is trying to make an alarm call.
- Sharon calls Don McLean one of her heroes, while Vincent van Gogh is for Martin.
- Speed Sex: Darryl finishes quickly with Tracey and gets embarrassed about it.
- Starving Artist: Martin claims himself as one, arguing that he's merely a struggling artist with not much talent.
- Status Quo Is God: Darryl considers escaping prison permanently but decides to return in the end.
- Take That!:
- When Tracey is fearing for her husband, she accuses the prison staff of feeding him Canadian food.
- When Darryl tries to encourage a romantic relation with Joy the nurse, Tracey asks if he is planning to do a Kenneth Clarke and screw the NHS.
- Darryl states that he knew the taxi driver was fishy as he was a Millwall supporter.
- Token Good Teammate: Mrs. Simmons seems to be the one worker at the prison in the entire series who isn't horrible to the prisoners.
