A Once Fluid Man

Ken meets Margaret Daly again – at an aerobics class!

Harry is feeling very depressed with life and is planning to sell the Coaching Inn. He arranges a blind date, via the lonely hearts column in the local paper, and is shocked to discover that his date is Margaret, doing research into the male menopause for her psychology degree!

Ken accuses Harry of being a callous bastard for planning to sell the Coaching Inn without considering that it will mean that Texas Rangers (and Ken himself) will become homeless. However Harry goes ahead with the deal and makes a substantial profit.

An old friend from the Fire Brigade, Terry Brent, comes to stay at the Coaching Inn, claiming to be a successful pop-group manager. When Rocky happens to deliver a package to Glob, the lead singer of the group, he discovers that they have never heard of Terry Brent. Eventually Terry admits that he has really spent the last few years in a mental hospital, suffering from schizophrenia. He resents Ken and Harry because they have both made a success of their lives since leaving the brigade, so he holds them hostage at gunpoint in a hotel bedroom. The police, with marksmen, surround the hotel. A shot rings out. Against the orders of a senior police officer, Margaret rushes up the fire escape into the bedroom, to hear Harry yell dramatically (but also inaccurately!) “Ken’s been shot. I think he’s dead.”

Notes and episode list © Martin Underwood, 1999

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