- Date First Aired: 07/01/1993
We open on a dramatic scene - Brittas is on trial for the possession of drugs, the murder of seven gangsters, and the grievous bodily harm of three old women. He insists however that it was a complete accident, and we see exactly what conspired to generate such carnage...
Cut to several months previous. A perpetrator is supergluing everything - phones, the whole lot. Meanwhile, Carole is getting strange visions of men who come from a foreign land and death. Brittas dismisses these, however, just as Laura comes in to tell him that the Bolivians are back again. At the trial, Laura notes their strangeness - they would book courts but never play, never change, and they seemed to have chosen the centre because no one ever comes here. Afterward, Brittas conducts a toilet inspection but finds a locker key there. Opening the locker, he finds a briefcase there and gets Gavin to take it up to the office.
The owner of the briefcase, which contains a lot of money, gets caught by Brittas as he searches for his key. However, he's told by Brittas that he has made it into the final of the squash tournament that Brittas' is holding. Brittas promptly makes him participate. Coming across Tim, he comes across another locker key and yet another briefcase, this time containing drugs, which he takes to his office. Suffering from another superglue-related mishap, he comes across a chainsaw in reception. He also tells Helen where her drugs are. Unfortunately, the wording of it leads to Helen using the drugs contained in the strange briefcase.
Afterward, Eddie, who had been the owner of the first briefcase and is worried about the missing cash and drugs, is brought up to Brittas, who presents him with a trophy for winning the tournament. However, he also asks Eddie to put this to good use by helping the less privileged. However, Carole comes to him with troubling news - a group of gangsters has appeared and they want to use the squash court. Carole warns Brittas that these are the men from his visions but Brittas brushes her off. Unfortunately, the missing merchandise leads to a shoot-out in the leisure centre. The resultant carnage leads to a gun falling into a lost and found box. Brittas finds it, plays with it, and accidentally shoots one of the pictures in the wall of his office.
Going to his lost property forms, he gets stuck to Colin's chainsaw, accidentally turns it on, and proceeds to injure several elderly women and decapitate a man trying to rescue him. Cut back to the trial. Brittas is about to be found guilty and he's depressed about it, especially upon hearing that he shouldn't have been given a position of trust in the community. However, an unlikely ally appears. It's Eddie, who had been convinced to turn his life around after the events of the episode. Thus, Brittas is free, although the superglue perpetrator is left unknown. It's the judge, who tells the persecutor to utilize the toilet next time.
Tropes featured in this episode:
- 13 Is Unlucky: The flashbacks, which involved the deaths of seven gangsters as well as grievous bodily harm inflicted on several elderly people, is noted to have taken place on Friday the 13th.
- Accidental Murder: Brittas' attempts to rescue a man from behind a door with a chainsaw result in the man getting decapitated.
- All There in the Script: Inverted - The prosecutor's name is David, but he's only referred to as the "Prosecutor" in the end credits.
- Big Damn Heroes: Eddie shows up just as a verdict is reached on Brittas, explaining his own version of events and allowing Brittas to be acquitted of his crimes.
- Briefcase Full of Money: Brittas encounters a suitcase full of cash in a locker and has it put in lost property, ruining a drug deal in the process.
- The Cartel: A gang of Southern American gangsters who deal with drugs come into the centre to perform a trade with another gang of gangsters. They end up inducing a Mob War when the drugs and cash are nowhere to be found.
- Cassandra Truth: Carole randomly gets visions of men from a distant land coming to the centre and lots of dead bodies, which turn out to eventually come true, but Brittas doesn't believe her until the massacre is already underway.
- Chainsaw Good: Brittas gets his hand glued to a chainsaw and winds up accidentally causing grievous bodily harm to several elderly women by slipping and sawing through their walkers and decapitating a gangster.
- Continuity Nod:
- Helen's coat and Mercedes came from her "Uncle" Simon, who had been her affair back in "Bye Bye Baby" and "Stop Thief!".
- When Brittas and Laura first begin to hear the gunshots of the Mob War in the centre, Brittas speculates that it's the sound of Helen going home on her moped.
- Courtroom Antics: Whilst the trial is largely played straight, humour is mined from the staff being their crazy selves, such as Helen asking back the drugs taken to be used as evidence in the trial, and Tim snarkily suggesting that Brittas and Eddie could be in love.
- Courtroom Episode: Brittas is put on trial for the procession of drugs, the murder of seven gangsters, and the grievous bodily harm of three old women, with flashbacks being used to show How We Got Here.
- The Dog Bites Back: After her vision is brushed off by Brittas, Carole makes no attempt to support Brittas during the trial.
- Ear Ache: Colin is suffering from some irritation in his ear, which is revealed to have come from several woodlice in his ears.
- Evolving Credits: The end credits have undergone some Art Evolution, with the green background now being a gradient rather than a single colour, the images used for the Credits Montage lose their grey borders, and said images flipping diagonally rather than horizontally as previously done.
- The Extremist Was Right: Brittas constantly dismisses Carole's visions of murder in the centre. One drug deal gone wrong later...
- Fictional Document: Carole reads Just How Sane Are You? by Dr. M.J. Stephens to try and work out her visions of the future.
- Foreshadowing: When Laura brings up that there was a perpetrator in the centre who had been putting glue all over items that Brittas is susceptible to pick up, the judge and prosecutor can be seen making an odd face in response. The end of the episode reveals the prosecutor was behind the incidents.
- Framing Device: The staff's testimonies at Brittas' trial.
- Gory Discretion Shot: It mercifully cuts to the trial in progress before we actually see Brittas lop off a gangster's head.
- Heel–Face Turn: Eddie starts out as a gangster, but a talk with Brittas allows him to realise his self-worth and turn his life around, now helping small children at another leisure centre. It's even key to getting Brittas acquitted.
- How We Got Here: A majority of the episode is flashbacks of what caused Brittas' trial.
- Idiosyncratic Wipes: The screen wipes which take the action from the courtroom to the leisure centre are done in the same style as the end credits (mainly pulling back to show a green background, then flipping diagonally).
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Brittas manages to accidentally shoot a poster of a person perfectly in the middle of their head without even looking.
- Insane Troll Logic: Why can't a chainsaw be left lying around the centre? Because what if some small child mistook it for a toy and went to show it's friends and caused a massacre?
- Low Count Gag: When Helen is called up in Brittas' trial as seen in the page quote.
- Manchild: Upon encountering a gun in the lost property box, Brittas begins playing with it as if he was a child in a playground game.
- Mob War: Brittas finds suitcases of drugs and cash in the centre, so he has them put in lost property. The only problem is this messes up a drug deal, and causes two gangs to have a shoot-out in the squash court corridor.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: Carole's psychic visions only happen in this episode.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
- If Brittas hadn't taken the suitcases containing the drugs and cash up to his office, chances are that the two mobster gangs wouldn't have induced a Mob War in the centre in the first place.
- Brittas also unknowingly decapitates a gang member with a chainsaw whilst attempting to rescue him.
- Off with His Head!: Brittas accidentally cuts off the head of a gangster in an attempt to clear a way in the door to administer first aid.
- One-Shot Character: David, Eddie Barett, Ramirez and Watts.
- Psychic Powers: Carole has several visions of death and men from a foreign land which all come true.
- Reckless Gun Usage: Brittas finds a gun in the lost property box and his first course of action is to play with it in his office. When Linda walks in, he perfectly shoots a photo in the head without looking.
- Seers: For this episode only, Carole gets a vision of men from a distant land and murder, which ends up coming true over the course of the episode.
- Sticky Situation: Things in the centre keep getting coated with glue. This leads to Brittas getting his hands glued to a chainsaw he can't turn off.Mr. Brittas: Can I have the solvent, Carole?
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Brittas finally makes a difference in someone's life after he helps a gang member turn his life around.
- Tuckerization: Carole reads a book by M. J. Stephens, who shares the same first initial and surname as the producer and director of the series, Mike Stephens.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Helen's testimony reveals that she has now gotten back together with "Uncle" Simon after their breakup back in "Stop Thief!". In spite of this, however, he's never mentioned again after this episode.
- Whole Episode Flashback: Aside from the court scenes, the majority of the episode’s plot takes place at least 6 months prior.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: When Brittas is on trial for several offences in, Linda is asked up as a witness. When asked if Brittas has any reason he could be innocent, she simply smiles, and states he always has a way.
- Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Eddie somehow makes it into the final of the Whitbury Squash Tournament, even though he didn't even know that he was in it.
