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Bad Wolf
13-05-2005, 15:54
Shannon is lapping up her life as a celebrity; it’s just one good cause after another. But her over enthusiastic goodwill gesture of taking home a granny for her ‘Adopt a Granny Week’ has backfired. Mrs Birkeham looks like she has her slippers well under the carpet. After being woken yet again with another song from Mrs Birkeham’s hero, Lionel Blair, Harley pleads with Shannon to show the pesky pensioner the door – she’s really outstayed her welcome now! Shannon refuses; she doesn’t want Mrs Birkeham gone until they’ve finished the documentary.

Over at the Milligans’, Lucy is getting deeper and deeper into her online relationship. Meanwhile, Bruno is stressing out at the prospect of the upcoming European match and is annoyed with Lucy when she interrupts his pre-match routine – this could be his last shot at a European medal.

Roger’s adamant that he won’t play Seb even though he could do with every player he can get for the biggest game of the season so far. Once alone, Seb asks Jackie why she kissed him! Furious and more than a little uncomfortable, Jackie accuses him of using the fact that he was drunk to take advantage of her. Having ruffled Jackie’s feathers, Seb continues with his plan to destroy the Webb family unit and gives baby Paddy some felt-tipped pens and Roger’s most prized scrap-book. The inevitable of course happens and Jackie is distraught when she finds Roger smacking poor Paddy. When Roger storms out, Seb is on hand to console his step-mum, all the while hiding his glee at driving a wedge between the newly-weds.

Lucy thinks that she has at last found a soul mate. She knows the likelihood of meeting a genuine man over the Internet is full of risk, but when it comes down to the crunch, can she really go through with it? She watches Giles from afar, but time and her nerves are against her and she stands the poor man up. Lucy is alarmed to hear that Bruno has given away a penalty and realises that she has to get to the ground as soon as possible – Bruno thinks that she is his lucky charm.

The lads lose the game and are out of Europe. Roger blames Bruno, but Conrad is blaming management, specifically Roger. Frustrated and angry, Roger completely loses it and throws a shampoo bottle at Conrad. The other players are horrified, but all Bruno can see is his dream fading. As the wives rush to console their men, Jackie does her best to console Roger but she hasn’t really forgiven him for hitting Paddy. Seb feels vindicated by the Sparks’ loss – Roger should have played him. But his smug smile is like a red rag to Roger’s bull. To everyone else, it looks like the manager is losing it, just as Seb had hoped. Bruno meanwhile is worried about the financial implications of an early exit from Europe and Lucy can only console him as he cries like a baby.

Seb continues to stir things up at home by telling Jackie the truth about his steroid use, spinning the story so that he comes out looking hard done by. Annoyed that Roger has been lying to her, Jackie tells him that he must stop punishing Seb for his mistake – he has to move on or risk drawing attention to the situation. Roger can’t argue with Jackie’s logic, but he’s sick of people telling him what to do and blows up at her. Seb is well pleased when Jackie goes to spend the night in the spare room. The following day, Jackie receives a heart-shaped necklace and a ‘sorry’ note, but her heart sinks when she realises that it isn’t from Roger, but Seb. When she goes to tell Seb to take the necklace back, she’s disconcerted to find him naked.

Amber is shocked when Lucy tells her that she nearly met up with Giles – how does she know that he’s really a doctor and not some lying psychopath? But when Giles’s background checks out, she finally agrees to meet with him. Lucy finds Giles’s sensitivity a breath of fresh air and there’s a definite spark between them. When they meet again for a pleasure cruise down the Thames, Giles tells an increasingly smitten Lucy about his wife’s death in a car accident.

With Conrad and the lads plotting behind his back, Roger finds that he is dreading the imminent board meeting. The meeting is tough – will Roger still have a job? It may also be touch and go whether he’ll still have a wife when Jackie receives a package from Seb. It appears that Roger is having an affair as the contents are a pair of his pants, returned by a spurned lover.

There are sighs of relief all round when Shannon and Harley at last manage to get rid of Mrs Birkeham. As a final token of goodwill they arrange a party and invite a very special guest – Lionel Blair. But the excitement proves too much for the pensioner’s dicky heart and she collapses and tragically dies.

Says Lionel: “I had the most wonderful time filming on Footballers’ Wives, it was such fun and I am dying to go back and record some more. The director SJ, was great and I felt very welcomed by all the cast and the crew. They were all so nice. One of the funniest things was when I met the three wives... I asked them which one was the bitch of this series. They all immediately pointed to each other! It was a fun day out and I would love to come back again and spend another day with those fabulous wives!”

Lucy goes to meet Bruno at the club only to find a surprise guest there too – it’s Giles! Is she on the verge of being found out?