- Date First Aired: 04/10/1990
Sharon and Tracey are at a Roast Inn, with Tracey worrying about looking decent enough for Darryl when he eventually gets out. Suddenly, Dorien appears, worried because her toyboy Luke's kitchen sales have gone down and his bosses are threatening to take him up North. Dorien tries to sell a kitchen to Tracey but she doesn't want to. Just then, the sisters spot a man named Vinny Hutchins, who had recently got out of jail, in the place. When the sisters leave, they find him in the middle of a getaway from a crime.
The sisters realize that, as witnesses, they must turn him in. However, Sharon argues that maybe it is not good to put Vinny through the same thing that Darryl is going through and that you don't grass on your own kind. At the prison, Chris reveals that Vinny has a history of abusing his wife and children whilst Darryl reinforces the idea that grassing is wrong. The result is that Sharon wants to grass Vinny whilst Tracey doesn't. Soon, a program called Crime Busters comes on, confirming that Vinny is on the run definitely. There is an award and the girls don't have to put forward their names. After talking to Dorien, they decide to grass Vinny the next morning.
However, their plans are changed when Dorien telephones them and gets the award. Even worse, she plans to use the money to buy a kitchen system for Luke. Tracey manages to Blackmail Dorien into giving them the kitchen, which they give to Vinny's wife Jackie, so that she can escape from him and start a new life abroad after she sells it.
Tropes In This Episode:
- Accidental Misnaming: Dorien calls Vinny Hutchins "Lenny Huggins" and "Lenny Hutchins" when trying to remember his name.
- As Himself: Shaw Taylor.
- Blackmail: Tracey blackmails Dorien to give her the new kitchen so Jackie Hutchins can sell it to fund a new life abroad.
- Deadpan Snarker: Tracey at Dorien's expence.Dorien: No, the way I see it is, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.Tracey: Must be why Marcus has a peptic ulcer.
- Disproportionate Retribution: According to Darryl, a fellow prisoner was forcibly circumcised for grassing... three years prior.
- Domestic Abuse: Vinny Hutchins frequently beats his wife Jackie.
- The Ghost: Jackie Hutchins, the long suffering wife of Vinny Hutchins.
- Groin Attack: Darryl tells Tracey how last Monday a fellow prisoner was forcibly circumcised for grassing on someone three years ago.
- Hypocritical Humor: Dorien tells Tracey that honesty is the best policy, coming from the women who has been having an affair since the start of the series.
- Insane Troll Logic: Dorien claims Luke is what keeps her marriage with Marcus alive because he's the one that satisfies all her urges, despite the fact this goes against the sanctity of her marriage.
- Newscaster Cameo: Shaw Taylor was a real newscaster, although the show he appears on (Crime Busters) is fictional.
- Noodle Incident: Tracey once sellotaped a fish paste sandwich to the bottom of a teacher's desk in primary school and it wasn't found for weeks. Apparently Smelly Stephen Ridgeway was blamed for the smell until Lorraine Morris grassed up Tracey.
- One-Shot Character: Vinny Hutchins and Shaw Taylor.
- Pet the Dog: Tracey and Sharon manage to get Jackie Hutchins a new kitchen so she can sell it and start a life abroad.
- Rich Language, Poor Language: Dorien is confused by Tracey's use of "grass" to describe snitching on someone and believes she's referring to marijuana.
- Shout-Out:
- Michael Douglas is Sharon's ideal husband.
- Sharon mistakes Vinny Hutchins for Jason Donovan.
- After Dorien states Luke's the one that she wants, Tracey and Sharon harmonise "Ooh, ooh, ooh!" like in the song "You're The One That I Want" from Grease.
- Vinny Hutchins wears an Arsenal bobble hat and is also mentioned to support Tottenham Hotspur.
- Sharon calls Darryl the Roger Moore of the sawn-off shotgun.
- Sharon tells Tracey that Darryl is a violent criminal and shouldn't be compared to Desmond Tutu.
- To make Chris jealous, Sharon tells him that Richard Gere keeps ringing her and that Tom Cruise wants to take her to parties.
- Sharon jokes that Chris has made more comebacks than Gary Glitter.
- Dorien claims that she knows how criminals think because she's seen Minder.
- Show Within a Show: Tracey, Sharon and Dorien watch Crime Busters, where they see an appeal to catch the robber they know is Vinny Hutchins.
- The Stool Pigeon: Sharon jokes she's turned into one after deciding to grass on Vinny Hutchins.
- Take That!:
- Sharon uses Bruce Forsyth as proof you can't delay the ageing process.
- Sharon tells Tracey an easy way to fall asleep is to try and think of a funny Jim Davidson joke.
- Tracey asks Sharon if she's been watching Channel 4 after hearing her spout off feminist rhetoric.
- Dorien tells Sharon that if she wanted to listen to politics she'd listen to The Jimmy Young Show.
- Tracey mentions that Sharon claimed she rather wake up next to Norman Tebbit than grass on Vinny Hutchins.
- Sharon claims Tracey plays dirtier than Diego Maradona.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Tracey acts this way to Sharon after she cares more about a Gypsy Cream than a pensioner being injured by a violent criminal they could've turned in.
- Would Hit a Girl: Vinny Hutchins is mentioned to constantly beat his wife Jackie.
