It's rare for the Taskmaster to need help with something...
Professional crime scene cleaner Paul "Wicky" Wickstead heads to the suburbs to mop up after a particularly grisly murder, in which a housewife finally snapped and killed her husband. His efforts at cleaning up are impeded by the arrival of the officious neighbour, following which the murderer herself turns up and tries and convince him into helping her abscond.
Tropes:
- Ax-Crazy: The wife, Sheila, murdered her husband because of his implied OCD and being a Neat Freak. That apparently slowly drove her nuts. That and the fact she's heavily hinted at wanting to go to the Dolomites, but instead got a model of said mountain range for her birthday.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- The first few scenes come off as a parody of a detective drama, with Wicky's demeanour being close to that of a detective. It's then revealed he's the crime scene cleaner, not the detective solving the case.
- The neighbour mentions having a kid, and Wicky tries to call out his name so he can call the police. Turns out the kid is a grown adult (complete with resplendent beard) in kid-style clothing, and acts like a teenager, refers to his mother as "mum", is throwing the football in the air like a kid, and calls Wicky "pie kicker", and refuses to help him as a result. Even the credits names him "Man Boy".
- Brick Joke:
- On learning that the victim was stabbed 38 times, Wicky moans about how this makes his job much harder, adding that "five would be plenty". He later mentions this to Sheila (the murderer), and she admits that he's got a point.
- Wicky suggests going to the pub to have curry, which Sheila shoots down. Later on, Sheila suggests going to the Dolomites with her, and he agrees to it. However, shortly before they leave, Wicky calls the police, and Sheila is arrested.
- Wicky claims he isn't seeing the "Tattoed MILF". After Sheila proposes they go to the Dolomites together, he claims the opposite when telling her what he does that he looks forward to.
- Cutaway Gag: While singing to Frank Sinatra's "It Had to be You", Wicky and Sheila are singing as if they're in a musical number.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Sheila kills her husband because ... he made model trains and boats. Though in complete fairness to her, his hobby is used to symbolise his fundamental selfishness, as he focused more on his own interests and on satisfying his own wants over hers.
- Oh, Crap!: When the wife, Sheila, comes into his house, Wicky justifiably freaks out.
- Potty Emergency: Sheila makes Wicky be in the bathroom while she poops, something that horrifies him.
- Running Gag: Wicky having to make apology letters to the neighbour and the kid; the first time with a pen and notepad, but the second time with toilet paper and toothpaste.
- The Reveal:
- The trenchcoat Sheila is wearing is pretty heavy. The reason for this is because of the very bloodstained shirt that is hidden beneath it.
- The gun that Sheila is holding? It's a prop gun made by her late husband, and had it been a real one, she definitely wouldn't have left it in the bathroom. Wicky found it weird that she was using a gun, despite stabbing her husband.
- The wife's name is later revealed to be Sheila.
- Sunk Cost Fallacy: Discussed. Sheila names the trope when discussing why she didn't file for divorce, and later explains it.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Sheila killed her husband by stabbing him 38 times. Wicky remarks that just five stabs would have been enough.
- Villain Has a Point: Wicky seems to agree with Sheila's assertion that his life is rather boring; he tolerates being a cleaner (although he is actually pretty good at it), while the one thing he wanted to do that day was go to the pub and have a curry.
