Joe's loyal boyfriend Chas has supported him through a devastating illness for 9 years. But now, faced with saying goodbye, they head to their lakeside holiday home for what proves to be their final weekend together.
Tropes:
- Accidental Child-Killer Backstory: Chas, when it is revealed that he (18 years prior) had made a comment on MySpace that caused the suicide of a 13-year-old girl.
- Arc Number: 9. Joe and Chas's holiday cabin is number 9, Joe's daughter remained in a coma for 9 years before she finally died, and Joe spends 9 years setting up his revenge on Chas.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: When Chas jokes about whether Mollie has ever done anything sexual with her dogs, Joe reprimands him because of this trope.
- Best Served Cold: Joe lampshades this trope at the end of the episode, after having spent 9 years plotting his revenge on Chas.
- Bury Your Gays: The straight Joe survives, while the gay Chas presumably dies.
- But Not Too Gay: The intimacy between Joe and Chas is toned down. Justified by The Reveal that Joe was only pretending to be gay to get back at Chas.
- Camp Gay: Chas is this, ostensibly to Joe's Straight Gay.
- Compartment Shot: The scene where Joe talks to Chas while unpacking his medicine into the bathroom cabinet is shot from inside the cabinet.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Joe leaves Chas to die in a bath of hardened cement covered in honey and oats, so that the insects in the house would eventually devour him.
- Cyberbullying: Chas admits that he did this to other musicians online when his band broke up. It turns out that Joe's daughter Olivia was one of them, and she died by suicide as a result.
- Deadly Bath: Chas takes what he believes to be a relaxing mud bath, it is actually full of cement that serves as his tomb.
- Depraved Homosexual: Chas bullied Olivia until she died by suicide, and is gay. Subverted with Joe, though, who is not gay but is a cold-blooded murderer.
- Double-Meaning Title: It is Joe and Chas's last weekend together, seemingly because Joe is terminally ill, but actually because he's planning to murder Chas in revenge for the death of his daughter.
- Eaten Alive: Joe covers Chas in honey and oats, and leaves him to be eaten alive by the insects and rats.
- Ethnic Menial Labour: Chas wants to fire Mollie and hire a Polish caretaker instead because it would be cheaper. When he's trapped in the cement and screams Mollie's name, Joe reveals that he did what Chas wanted and fired her.
- Everyone Has Standards: Joe has no problem with lying to someone for 9 years, deliberately wasting his life, and ultimately killing him; but is opposed to saying he's in love with Chas when he doesn't mean it.
- False Reassurance: While enjoying the mud bath, Chas mentions that he should be doing this for Joe who responds with "No, you deserve it." The real meaning of that sentence becomes clear minutes later.
- Fictional Board Game: The "Bargaining" board game doesn't seem to be a real game.
- Five Stages of Grief: Used as a motif throughout the episode, with each stage shown on various household objects: "Denial" on a shopping bag, "Anger" on a wine label, "Bargaining" on a board game box, "Depression" on a bottle of honey, and "Acceptance" on a tube of pills. Refers to both Chas's grief over Joe's impending death (or so he thinks) and Joe's grief over losing Olivia.
- Foreshadowing:
- It is shown throughout the episode that the cabin is surrounded by rats and mosquitoes, and is very remote.
- When Joe and Chas first met, Joe promised they would be together for at least 9 years. This is because he planned to spend that time taking revenge on Chas, in revenge for the death of his daughter who finally died 9 years after her suicide attempt.
- Chas wants to send Mollie "one of my snotty emails" for not taking care of the cabin. It's not the first time he's used the internet to insult someone.
- Chas joking about Mollie's dogs licking food off her, and Joe's line about "creating a banquet with your body", both set up Chas being eaten alive at the end.
- Mollie says that while Joe and Chas are at the cabin, "Joe's cancer doesn't exist." It never existed at all; Joe has been lying about it the whole time.
- Chas tells Mollie that he used to troll young musicians on social media because he was jealous. He turns out to have done this to Joe's daughter, who subsequently killed herself. He also says that he probably should have been in jail for cyberbullying, and that he isn't particularly observant - foreshadowing Joe's plan.
- Joe tells Chas he doesn't know what it's like to feel real anger that drives him "absolutely insane." Joe really has been driven insane with anger (over the death of his daughter), and the whole trip is the culmination of a 9-year revenge plot.
- Joe is seen looking into the toilet bowl which is full of what's ostensibly blood. It actually looks more purple in colour - because he's faking it with Vimto (a fruity drink.)
- The bottle of honey Joe covers Chas in appears earlier in the episode, placed on a kitchen counter in full view of the camera.
- The official poster for the episode features champagne glasses (Joe drugs Chas's champagne); ants (which Joe uses to kill Chas); and rose petals positioned to look like blood splatters.
- Gender-Blender Name: Joe's fiancée Michaela is known as Mick.
- Hypocritical Humour: During a game of Monopoly, Joe goes to the toilet and Mollie promises to watch the bank so Chas won't cheat. But when Joe and Chas get up to dance, she steals from the bank as soon as their backs are turned.
- The "I Love You" Stigma: Subverted. Chas thinks this is the reason why Joe has never said he loves him after 9 years together. It's actually because their whole relationship is an elaborate revenge plot.
- Just Between You and Me: After Chas is trapped inside the cement bath, Joe reveals his Long Game and the motive behind it which Chas is gonna take to his grave.
- Long Game: Joe spent 9 years of his life pretending to be Chas's loving boyfriend to get revenge on Chas for provoking his daughter's suicide.
- Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Joe (masculine) and Chas (feminine) seemingly fill this dynamic, although it's subverted in that Joe isn't really gay.
- Minimalist Cast: The episode has three characters, one of whom only appears in a single scene.
- Mistaken for Cheating: Subverted. When Chas discovers texts from Mick, Joe tells him Mick is his cancer nurse. It then turns out he is cheating and she's actually his fiancée.
- Neat Freak: Chas is very clean and organized, and isn't happy that Mollie hasn't maintained the cabin in his absence.
- Papa Wolf: Joe was so protective towards his teenage daughter that he came up with a plan to avenge her by ruining Chas's life for 9 years and then killing him.
- Sealed Bathtub in the Middle of Nowhere: Joe leaves Chas behind in a cement bath in the middle of nowhere which ensures no one will hear Chas scream. Death will come either from insects or dehydration.
- Sexless Marriage: Joe and Chas haven't had sex in years, ostensibly because of Joe's illness. In reality, it's because Joe is not gay.
- Shout-Out:
- Chas confuses Mrs Peacock (from Clue) and Captain Peacock (from Are You Being Served?.)
- Chas references Candy Crush and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when talking about bereavement with Mollie.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: "Blue Jeans Baby", a corny pop song, plays at the end after Joe leaves Chas to die in the bath and Chas screams for help.
- Suicide Dare: According to Joe, Chas went on Olivia's MySpace page, dissed her beginner songs and asked "Why don't you go and kill yourself?"...which was what drove her to commit suicide.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Joe puts Xanax in Chas's champagne in order to make him pass out.
- The Topic of Cancer: Joe appears to have either bladder or prostate cancer, causing blood in his pee. While he turns out to have been faking it, the episode still treats cancer as a serious and frightening illness.
- Undercover When Alone: Joe colouring his urine red while alone in the bathroom was inserted to bait the audience.
- Wham Shot: as Joe leaves Chas in his 'mud bath', the camera pans over to a store room to reveal a bag of quick-drying cement.
- Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Joe and Chas met in a stereotypical gay bar called The Purple Sock.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Joe mocks the fact that Chas used to spell his name as "Chazz" when he was in a boy band.
