 | The final Silver Street episode was broadcast on Fri 26 Mar 2010 and the final omnibus on Sun 28 Mar 2010 |
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It’s the evening of the pantomime and Rita and Pradeep are sat in the audience nice and early enjoying their time together away from their crowded house. Ba is busy backstage helping Suresh with his ‘gangsta’ lines. They discuss the fact that that Ba was right, Krishan is no longer a child, no wonder he didn’t want to be part of the play he’s happy at home with the remote to himself! However Rita still feels guilty that they hadn’t realised he was growing up so fast.
At the back of the hall Aidan is muttering to himself. Pradeep, noticing him, remarks to Rita that he looks a bit weird, not nervous but angry. However their conversation soon turns to Sean being in Manchester for Christmas, it’s been a year since the incident with Jai but seems longer. Pradeep muses whether Ba was really talking about Jai, not Krishan when she talked about him growing up. Perhaps Ba believes that if she had treated Jai like an adult rather than babying him he would have turned out differently. Rita and Pradeep’s conversation is interrupted by Vinnie announcing the start of the panto.
Backstage Arun’s faced with Chunky in his tight genie costume; he’s even got special music and a dance for when he comes out of the lamp, although Vinnie isn’t expecting much! As Roopa gets her first lot of dancers ready Vinnie asks her where Aidan is, he hasn’t turned up.
Once he’s on stage Arun is soon into character and, as he rubs the lamp, Chunky appears to the sound of the song Mr Boombastic and proceeds to sing his own kebab themed lyrics which leaves the audience in hysterics. However just as Chunky and Arun start their lines the sound system screeches and starts playing Aidan and Roopa’s song ‘Wicked Game’. Backstage Vinnie is frantically trying to stop the music as Aidan is nowhere to be found. Vinnie hurriedly asks Roopa to get her dancers on stage, but Roopa decides that she needs to find Aidan and sort out what’s wrong. Arun also walks off stage, he’s determined to find out why the music ruined his scene and embarrassed him. Despite Vinnie’s pleading for his to go back on stage Arun goes off to search for Aidan and sort things out once and for all.
Meanwhile Roopa finds Aidan in the toilets clutching his guitar and acting erratically. He thinks that if he gives Roopa his guitar she’ll ‘get him’. When she offers to find him help he runs off down the corridor and up the stairs to the store room in the attic. As Roopa runs up after him Aidan enters the exposed attic room. The tarpaulin covering the roof is flapping in the wind and rain and Aidan is left panicking and breathless, begging for ‘it’ to stop.
Episode written by Kim Revill
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