Tripping Over/Episode 4

Episode 4
Season 1, Episode 4
Airdate	November 15, 2006
Written by	Andrea Denholm, Andrew Knight
Directed by	Ian Watson
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Tripping Over — Season One

This is the fourth episode of Tripping Over.

Cast: Daniel MacPherson (Ned), Abe Forsythe (Nic), Kathryn Drysdale (Lizzie), Brooke Satchwell (Flick), Paul McGann (Jeremy), Alexandra Moen (Tamsin), Gareth Yuen (Charlie), Leon Ockenden (Callum), Jacek Koman (Magnus), Rebecca Gibney (Lydia), Nicholas Bell (James), Nyathon Hoth Mai (Fatimah), Kate Box (Melinda), Ian Bliss (Ken), Ian Meadows (Elliot), Sandy Winton (Daniel), John Hopkins (Nathaniel), Kevin Trainor (Young Actor), David Curtiz (Actor 2), Bob Franklin (Mr Allenby), Ramon Tikaram (Robbie), Melissa Anderson (Kirsten), Daniel Amalm (Brad), Chris Barry (Trent's Father), David Bottomley (Trent's Doctor), Melanie-Jade Nethercliff (Gemma), Nick Farnell (Paul), Ian Scott (Judge), Helet Kassa (Aishan), Sir Richard Branson (Himself), Anastasia Hille (Clare)

Plot Overview

Ned gets a role in a stage play, but after initial elation he is cut down to size by the other actors and eventually quits.

Nic picks up a biography of billionaire Richard Branson and after studying his business and using his math skills, he devises a way for Branson to save lots of money. He manages to get Branson interested and agree to a meeting.

Tamsin's law firm works on a case for deporting Fatimah, a refugee from Sudan. The opposing party is represented by Jeremy. Tamsin becomes more and more concerned about the woman and her daughter's fate. They lose the case, Fatimah can stay, but Tamsin learns confidentially that the daughter will be deported. Tamsin's conscience catches up with her and she devulges the confidential information to Jeremy, risking her career as a lawyer.

Robbie, Dave's brother, has taken a romantic interest in Lizzie. They sleep together, but Lizzie can't live with her lie and kicks him out. Undeterred he keeps pursuing her. She finally reveals that Davie/Jim is dead and admits to lying to the family all along.

Callum is released when Tamsin pays his bail and sets him up with Charlie, an immigration lawyer. Due to his visa mixup, Callum only can stay for 28 days unless he can prove special circumstances such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Later Callum strikes up a relationship with Charlie.

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Tamsin realizes that she feels too competitive about everything.

• Ned: Back in Australia, Trent, Ned's soap character, dies.

• James confronts Jeremy in Syndey leading to the cathartic admission that he doesn't like his brother. At home his wife has learned from the newspaper about Ned's paternity.

• Magnus is jealous of James and wants to quit at Lydia's to work as head chef elsewhere. Eventually he decides to stay and in his understated way tells Lydia that she matters to him.

• Flick wants to get back together with Nic. At least they end up in bed together.

Quotes

• Nic (to Flick): In my head the next time I saw you, I was boarding my private jet to meet Angelina Jolie on her island of Barbados and I couldn't even remember your name.

• Callum (facing deportation): I'm not bloody leaving in 28 days. I'm English, it's our bloody Queen on the back of their coins.

• Tamsin: You know, you have been one giant pain in the arse since the first day we arrived.
  Callum: And you, you're—a lawyer.
  Lydia: Oh, Callum, that's a dreadful thing to say.

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