Wicky’s latest job involves cleaning a pub, where the relations between the staff are rather complicated.
Tropes:
- Age-Gap Romance: Between Lisa and Jacko, who was at least twenty years younger than her. She insists that their relationship was purely transactional — she got some arm candy, he had the prospect of eventually inheriting the pub from her.
- Bar Brawl: Wicky has to clean up the aftermath of one of these, in which the bar manager was killed.
- Ear Ache: Poor Jacko lost both of his ears in the fight that claimed his life.
- Even the Guys Want Him: Upon seeing a photo of Jacko, the resolutely heterosexual Wicky has to admit that he finds him attractive.
- Every Man Has His Price: Lisa offers Wicky £200 if he’ll clean naked. He gets as far as taking his shirt off before she tells him to stop.
- Fan Disservice: Wicky gets topless.
- Fluffy the Terrible: The gruff, well-built and surly barman is nicknamed “Cuddle”.
- Grand Romantic Gesture: Discussed, as Lisa advises Wicky on how to impress Jules, his new girlfriend.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Lisa the landlady starts the day with bourbon. Initially, Wicky declines her offer of a pint while he works. But on hearing that the deceased was her (much younger) lover, and on finding both of his ears on the floor, Wicky accepts the offer of a pint.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Cuddle reveals to Wicky that he and Lisa used to be married, but he stood aside when Jacko came along as he realised how happy he made her.
- The Reveal: Two.
- Cuddle and Lisa were married before Jacko came along.
- Wicky’s “(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight” video ends with a picture of him and Ruth, which might explain why Jules’s attitude towards him has cooled.
- Shout-Out: A couple.
- Lisa accuses Wicky of “living in a Richard Curtis movie” after he claims not to know any corrupt police officers.
- Wicky says he recorded a video of himself lip-syncing to “(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight” by Cutting Crew for his new girlfriend. At the end of the episode, we see it.
- The Show Must Go On: Even though the place is a blood-strewn crime scene, Lisa and Cuddle insist on opening the pub, as it’s a match day.
- Stealing from the Till: Wicky surmises that Jacko was on the take. He subsequently claims to have made it up, but Lisa reckons that this explains why the pub wasn’t making as much money as it should have been.
