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Steve (Jack Davenport) claims to be ok with Susan's (Sarah Alexander)
pregnancy - but why is it he at night dreams about being executed by a foetus ? Susan,
to cope with Steve's odd behavious, calls Tamsin (Olivia Caffrey), a fellow
pregnant woman, for comfort, but instead she catches her ex-boyfriend, the odd
Oliver (Richard Mylan), whom Tamsin has erroneously left her phone with ...
& he doesn't know she's pregnant yet - so not much of a comfort there. Out
of frustration, Susan calls Sally (Kate Isitt), who just had a row with her
boyfriend Patrick (Ben Miles), because during sex he fantasized about a car
wash run by police women & nurses - which is totally against Sally's
conception of a sane sex fantasy. Still Sally tries to console Susan, but her
efforts are seriously undermined by Steve & Patirick, who both join into
the conversation on the alternate phones - & their views of sex, pregnancy
& sex with pregnant women differ vastly from those of the girls. But when
the four have almost sorted out their problems, Jane (Gina Bellman) joins into
the conversation on another alternate phone in Patrick's appartment ... as she
for some reason has Patrick's key - which leads Sally to the suspicion that
Patrick had slept with Jane, too, & chaos is perfect ... But then, like a
deus ex machina, Oliver calls Susan, pretending to be Tamsin to find out
more about Tamsin's situation ... & Susan figures he would be the perfect
boyfriend for equally odd Jane, & this way brings the whole
phone-conversation between the friends to a relatively peaceful end ... Fun
episode that gets most of its humour from people talking to each other in
different rooms over the phone, always forgetting that everyone else is
listening in, too (e.g. Sally "... & pregnancy makes you very sexy,
Susan !", Patrick "I agree, I had sex with a pregnant woman
once.", Sally "What ?!? You pervert !!!"). Only the ending - when
Oliver's phonecall is pulled out of the hat rather than integrated into the
situation - comes a little suddenly, just to bring the story to a close. Nicholas
Briggs by the way, who does the voice of a Dalek in Oliver's science fiction
shop, would later also do (among other things) Dalek voices ion the new Doctor
Who-series.
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