Not Going Out

- Season 4

(2011)

With Lucy not pregnant and Barbara married to Pavel and out of the picture life should be simple but Tim ensures the opposite when he returns from a night-club wearing the wrong coat - with heroin in the pocket. He and Lee return the coat and its contents to the presumed rightful owner but they have just given free drugs to the wrong man and have to spend eight grand buying more to appease the real owner,a murderous butcher who is not pleased to find that the dealer has played a trick on him. Could Daisy be an unlikely saviour as the butcher gets serious with Tim and ...

Nineteen-year old Debbie turns up at the flat and arranges to meet Lee,whom she believes to be her father following a one night stand with her late mother at a party twenty years earlier. This was the party where Lee first met Tim,who then looked like 'a cross between Gloria Hunniford and a white Michael Jackson' and he too could be the putative father. When DNA results seem to exclude either it is fortunate that Lucy remembers a traumatic experience she had as an eight year old - which solves the mystery.

Lucy is approached by a film director to lease the flat out for a day for five hundred pounds. She refuses but Lee goes behind her back and,while she is at work,lets Mike and his actors in. However,it is a porn film and,whilst Tim promises not to tell Lucy so long as he has a walk-on part,Lee's taunts cause the male lead to quit. As a result he finds himself forced to take over the role. Will it all be in the can before Lucy gets back or will he be -literally - exposed to her anger?

When Lucy's parents, Wendy and Geoffrey, split, Geoffrey moves into the flat, banishing Lee to the couch. When Lucy suggests that Lee may have to move out if Geoffrey's stay is permanent and Daisy points out that Lee could win a place in Lucy's heart if he resolved the situation, Lee puts on his dancing shoes. The row was after all because Geoffrey refused to take Wendy ballroom dancing but, if he saw her trip the light fantastic with another man, he might get jealous enough to cut in.

On the morning of November the Fifth a cantankerous old lady called Betty wanders into the flat,insisting she lives there. She tells him that she is always wandering off and her very rich son rewards the people who bring her back. Lee could do with the cash to buy fireworks to impress Lucy so he and Tim walk her round the streets with the sign 'Do You Know This Woman?' until an acquaintance of Betty tells them that she lives in a very big house. Will Lee get the money or will virtue bring its own reward as he invites Betty to his roof-top firework display?

After being hit by a car Lee sinks into a coma where he dreams that he is being cared for by an extremely amorous Lucy and that Tim gives their relationship his blessing. Things turn sour when Lee's father enters the dream in a number of guises and,after her marriage to Lee,Lucy gives birth to a number of fully-dressed children,forcing Lee to be the bread-winner. When he eventually wakes up will he be able to tell Lucy about the dream and will she be as accommodating in real life?