S6E2
Guess Who's
Coming to Dinner?
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It's Louisa's first day back to work after the wedding and there is
chaos in the house. Morwenna has just come in late, there are
patients in the waiting room and the new childminder has not yet
arrived. Louisa brings James to Martin and asks him to hold the fort
until the childminder arrives so she won't be late to work on her first
day back. Martin seems to be trying to not fly off the handle now
that they are married, so rather than row in the waiting room, he
asks if they could have a word. They go into the kitchen (which, by
the way, is a tip) and he tells her that surgery is about to start.
They start a mini-row about the childminder just as she walks in the
back door. Louisa gives Martin a peck on his neck and he says,
"What?" Louisa says, "I said, I'll miss you." Martin starts to turn
away embarrassed and says, "Yes".
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Louisa has just put James to sleep and walks to the door of the
consulting room where Martin is at his desk working on a clock. She
asks what he is doing and he invites her to come sit next to him and
starts to describe the repair that he is making. It looks like they are
about to have a really nice moment when Louisa mentions that
tomorrow is their two week anniversary. Martin dismisses the notion
because two weeks doesn't mean an anniversary. He turns back to
continue the lesson on clock repair and a disappointed Louisa gets
up and leaves the room. He looks up to see her leave, and then
just matter-of-factly returns to his clock.
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Louisa has come home from work to find that Mel, the childminder,
left Martin to look after the James on his own. She asks what he
said to her and he insists that he just prescribed a simple medical
treatment and she few off the handle. He hands James to her so he
can go back downstairs to finish with his last patient and she follows
him down the stairway. Now they have no one to watch James so
that Martin can attend the school concert with her that evening.
Martin offers to stay home with him, but Louisa insists that he should
be there. Just then, Mike walks in. Martin & Louisa don't know him,
but he was the one who fixed the electricity on their wedding night
and helped Aunt Ruth calm James down. He tells them that Aunt
Ruth sent him to babysit for them so they can attend the concert.
They are both hesitant, but Morwenna knows all about how Mike
saved the day for Aunt Ruth and so they reluctantly decide that they
can go.
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Martin attends the concert and stands with Louisa at the reception
and has a short conversation with another mother. Louisa asks him
to try to be more sociable, although he doesn't understand the point
of talking if there is nothing to talk about. When a school governor,
Dennis Dodds, comes up to them, Louisa introduces them. Martin
realizes from the conversation that he is important to Louisa
because he has the power to approve many of the improvements
she is trying to make. But what he doesn't pick up on is that Louisa
doesn't much like Dennis, but is only being polite because of all the
power he wields. Out of the blue, Martin invites Dennis (and his wife
or partner) to dinner. He turns to Louisa and says, "What do you
think, darling?" Louisa is taken aback by this public endearment,
and says that it would be fine. When Dennis asks, "When?", Martin
says, "Tonight?" They quickly decide that tomorrow would be
better. When Dennis leaves, Louisa glares at Martin and her
cluelessly asks, "What?"
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On the walk home, Martin tries to explain that he was just being
sociable, but Louisa says that Dennis is a bore. Martin insists that
he will be able to buy the food for tomorrow, so she doesn't have to
worry about it. When they walk into the kitchen, they find Mike
rearranging all of their cupboards. He says that he is maximizing
storage for them and rattles off James feeding, nappy changes and
sleep time with military precision (Mike is ex-army). Louisa goes
upstairs to check on James. Martin follows her up there and
expressed his pleasure at what Mike has accomplished around the
house. As he goes to the door to go back downstairs he says, "Tidy
house, tidy mind." Louisa counters that it WAS tidy. Martin
dismissively says, "Yeah", and promptly bangs his head into the
door frame. Back down in the kitchen, Martin starts to ask Mike
about babysitting during the day when Louisa interrupts and says
that it is all sorted and they don't need Mike. After he leaves, Martin
asks what they are doing about a childminder and Louisa
sarcastically says that she's sure he will think of something. She
purposely messes up the pens that Mike and Martin had carefully
arranged on the kitchen table and walks out with Martin watching
her dumbfoundedly.
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It's morning and Louisa is looking all over for some of her school
paperwork. Martin suggests that maybe she should get her
paperwork done at school. He has prepared James' bottle and
leaves it on the table when he leaves the room. Louisa picks it up
and starts to shake it, but Martin hadn't secured the top and milk
splashes all over poor little James' face.
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Martin and Louisa are preparing the meal and still are not in
agreement over whether Mike is the right person to watch James.
The Dodds arrive and as Martin lets them in the door he can
already smell alcohol on their breaths - and they have arrived with
two bottles of wine. Martin attempts to offer them something
non-alcoholic, but they insist they would like wine. He pours a very
small glass, but Louisa intervenes and fills up wine glasses for
Dennis, Karen and herself, much to Martin's disgust. As they sit
down to eat, Martin attempts to make small talk by asking if they
have seen a major sporting event recently, but the conversation
goes nowhere. Karen asks for salt and Martin tries to deny her
request, but Louisa jumps up and gets the salt grinder. When
Karen holds up her glass for more wine, Martin pours water for her,
but Louisa takes the wine bottle and pours it for Karen. Later,
Karen attempts to reach for the wine bottle but Martin moves it away
from her and this time Dennis takes the bottle and pours more.
When Martin and Louisa go upstairs to attend to James they have a
conversation about how horrid their guests are. Louisa refers to
Dennis as a moron and says that they are both drunks. They don't
realize, until they come downstairs with James, that their entire
conversation had been picked up by the baby monitor and they
return to their furious guests, who immediately get their coats and
leave. Louisa blames Martin for inviting them in the first place, but
he insists that he did it for her. Louisa leaves to take James back
upstairs, leaving Martin again befuddled.
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Martin and Louisa are having breakfast the next morning and
discussing the previous evening's disaster. Martin reminds here
that she was the one who called Dennis a moron, and both of them
drunks. She decides to go see Dennis before school to try to
smooth things over. Shortly thereafter, Martin runs to the building
site where Dennis fell from a balcony while arguing with Louisa.
After diagnosing Dennis' problem, the two couples start to walk back
to the surgery and Martin notices the cut on Louisa's forehead from
running into a glass door. When they get to the surgery, he takes
her into the consulting room first to check her wound. He starts
looking at her hairline and asks about how often she shampoos her
hair. He diagnoses her with dandruff. This time he leaves Louisa
befuddled.
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