The Mimic

- Season 2

(2014)

Having quit work for the failed television voice over session Martin is now jobless and minus an agent as Steven, depressed by his mother's death, wants time to himself. Neil, newly dumped by Jean, agrees to be Martin's agent and gets him a spot busking at the shopping mall. However he does very badly compared to the violinist and the human statue and is almost arrested for not having a licence whilst back home he is visited by the revenue man regarding a bill for unpaid tax.

After suffering an ant infestation Martin attempts to console the heart-broken Neil, who believes he is becoming a woman. Martin visits old work colleague Chelsea and sees off Steven, who is travelling with friends abroad, before going on a blind date Jean has arranged for him with her friend Harriet. Despite the presence of a depressed Neil the date goes well and Harriet loves Martin's mimicry, even encouraging it whilst they are having sex.

Martin gets a job in site management at a deserted building but quits after a day on discovering homeless people sleeping there. He does however find a diamond ring which Neil's father assesses as being antique and valuable. Whilst Neil sees a psychoanalyst to get over Jean Harriet gets Martin onto the books of ventriloquist and theatrical agent Kingsley, though there is initial resentment from Nigel Lord, another impressionist. Harriet and Jean organize Martin's fortieth birthday party where Steven Skypes him though he has to admit to his son that he cannot drink as ...

Whilst Neil finds working out at the gym the perfect therapy Martin opts to swap mimicry for stand-up comedy but this is a disaster, finally redeemed when he switches back to doing impressions. To the dismay of the adoring Jean he proposes to Harriet, largely to give Steven a family, telling her that the ring he found is a family heirloom. She accepts but points out that he must convert to Judaism, which will also involve him being circumcised.

Though his career is flourishing Martin is perturbed by Harriet's enthusiastic wedding planning and, particularly, the prospect of circumcision. Harriet has Sunday dinner with the Hurdles, where his grandma lets slip that the ring is not the heirloom he claims but was found in a drain. On his stag weekend at a spa Martin meets Harriet's laddish, non-kosher brother Glen, who reveals that Harriet was recently dumped by Nigel Lord and that her possessive father is requiring the circumcision to put Martin off the wedding. Martin determines to call the man's bluff and have...

Against the advice of Jean, who declares her love for him, Neil and Steven, Martin goes ahead with the wedding, financing it himself since Harriet's father has pulled out, following Martin's refusal to be circumcised, and also refused to attend. The ceremony is rather hollow with Harriet criticizing Martin for not doing more impressions in his speech. On its way to the honeymoon the wedding car pulls up at a garage where Martin spots Jean - and drives off with her instead.