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 her
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. Louisa finds him at a building site and
they argue over the incident from the night before. Louisa
exasperatedly turns to leave and runs face first into a glass door.
Dennis laughs at her and it causes him to lose his balance and
fall off the balcony. When Martin arrives at the site to attend to
Dennis, he sees the cut on Louisa's forehead, but she insists that
he first examine Dennis. After diagnosing Dennis' problem, the two
couples start to walk back to the surgery and Martin tells Louisa
that he will need to dress her wound. When they get to the
surgery, he takes her into the consulting room first to assess her
injury. He starts looking at her hairline and asks how often she
shampoos her hair. He diagnoses her with dandruff. As he turns
to get the a dressing, Louisa looks befuddled.
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