 
Daisy, pining for London, arrives home from the mystic east, but
a lot has changed since she was last around. Tim has moved Mike
into Daisy's room in her absence to help the TA's finest escape
his mother's apron strings. Things move from bad to worse as Daisy
discovers that Brian and Twist are now 'getting it on' with worrying
results and, whilst Marsha seems pleased to see her female tenant
return, Colin looks doggedly unconcerned. Daisy's trouble soon escalates
however when a chance meeting at an airport generates a lot of militant
government interest in the contents of her luggage…

Part One
London.
As we look over a fine shot of the capital's skyline, Daisy begins
her narration. Her travels have been long and amazing, but she still
pines for the thick diesely warmth of London air. Here we are reintroduced
to the characters we love and trust. With a nod to Human Traffic
(and seemingly the 'On Your Own' Blur vid), Tim narrates us into
Spaced world:
He's
a skateboarder with a dream of becoming a successful comic artist
and now, just about, he's over the pain of his girlfriend, Sarah,
leaving him for the slimy city boy Duane
Daisy still has her aspirations of becoming a writer. Those dreams
came closer when she had three articles published ('winter skincare',
'sex and food' and 'bogling'). The money she made from that (coupled
with the dough left to her by her 89 year old Auntie Samantha) allowed
her to live her dream and visit Asia to, hopefully, find herself.
We're
also reunited (and it feels so good) to the rest of the gang:
Brian is still the tortured artist
kind of. And now he and
Twist are a full-blown item. Mike has remained in the TA since his
reinstatement after that whole Paris/Sherman incident and is much,
MUCH better now. Twist herself is sameold sameold and is now enjoying
Brian's flamboyant company. Marsha and the lovely Amber are as close
as ever and Colin
well, Colin'll never change
Daisy's
dropped off outside 23 Meteor St in a cab, heavily laden down with
items from her mystical journey. Struggling up to her flat, Daisy
pushes open the door and immediately starts calling to see if her
long since left friend is there to greet her. When Tim doesn't answer
she begins to investigate, checking in his room and, once again,
jumping out of her own skin when she sees Tim's monstrous one hanging
on a wall.
Slightly
disgruntled, she returns to the kitchenette and dumps some pop tarts
in the toaster. As she sinks back into 'reality', she notices something
odd on the work surface
. a sub machine gun. She tentatively
reaches down and picks it up, feeling it's coldness. Suddenly, behind
her, there's a noise. As the toilet finishes flushing, the door
opens and out steps Mike, clutching a copy of Jeannette Winters
'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'. There's a brief Butch/Vincent
moment before
.. BANG!
The toaster pops up and, simultaneously, Tim comes into the flat
After
much group hugging and awkwardly placed matesy kisses, Daisy begins
to explain, from near to the end, her adventures in the Asian continent
and how all that mysticism has rubbed off on her, making her a completely
'Zen' entity. Suddenly noticing a lack of presence, Daisy asks where
ickle Colin is. Mike and Tim pretend that there's been a terrible
accident for a moment but in reality he's living the high life with
Marsha upstairs, drinking vino and smoking fags
So, after Tim's complimented Daisy on her Pocahontas look, the wanderer
asks him what he's been up to all this while. Tim says he's had
'issues', mainly with George Lucas (and TPM, despite the 18-month
rift) and we flash back to see him destroying all his memories of
his love affair with the fat artless Hutt.
Daisy
then turns her attentions to Mike. He explains that he's got into
the quarterfinals of Robot Wars and that, finally, he's moved out
of his mum's house. He felt she was suffocating and stifling his
development and he had to spread his wings and fly
. Plus she
wasn't to impressed that he shot her cat up the bum
Daisy says that he'll have to invite her and Tim around his new
flat, little realising the truth
Mike's moved in with them.
Tim goes onto explain that Marsha encouraged it and Daisy isn't
too concerned, until she see her room has been transformed into
something from a Nam training school.
Tim
asks to see Daisy's holiday snaps. But she hasn't got any, instead,
she's gone all twenty-first century and videoed it all. On three
2-hour cassettes on a cam she bought in Singapore. As she puts it
on, she asks Tim and Mike to let her know if it gets too boring
and they do in the most subtle way possible. Sleeping.
So,
Daisy goes down to see Brian who's very pleased to see her. He thanks
her immensely for how good he's feeling now that he and Twist have
got it on. And while he makes her a cup of Lapsang char, we see
quite what, via an Ep1.1 style Polaroid montage, Twist and Brian
have been sharing during Daisy's absence. Suitably disturbed, she
comes back to the flat to find Mike and Tim sharing what used to
be 'Tim and Daisy's skateboarding vid'. But Daisy isn't down for
too long as her lovely landlady, Marsha knocks on the door, Colin
in her arms.
Marsha
and Daisy then sit down and discuss her travels. Daisy explains
that 'The East' has made her feel absolutely good. Marsha however,
wants to get down to the nitty gritty.. did she 'behave' or did
the ouzo destructo get the better of her? Daisy quietly reveals
that she did meet someone special, though nothing happened
His
name was Steven Edwards and she met him at the airport. They got
on really great and he was the perfect gent, even helping her up
when she fell over filming him. Marsha asks what happened but Daisy
isn't too sure, he just vanished
however, we see that three
dark characters come weaving through the crowd and accost Steven
while Daisy's back is turned.
The story there ends for Marsha hears Amber arrive and as the queen
of the d-grades rushes passed, she bids her caustic farewell to
Daisy.
Disheartened by how only last night she was in magical Delhi and
now she's in boring old London, where nothing ever happens
Meanwhile, the agents are checking through Steven's bag and come
across Daisy's name. So, armed with this new evidence, they roll
out
Part
Two
We
reopen with Daisy sleepily watching Mike and Tim wrestle about a
bit. Tim invites her to have a go and she offers hands in an elderly
aunt kind of way. However, all bets are off as she begins to kick
their asses with hyper kung fu
until her daydream ends
.
And she asks if they can all go down the pub as it will help to
keep her awake and before she's too heavily snoozing, Tim and Mike
are joining her on the street, heading towards the pub.
They
go to the pub just in time as we see the agents locate the house
where their chief suspect lives. Ringing the doorbell gets no answer
until Brian, still love struck from the phone sex that prevented
him going with the rest of the gang, opens the door. The two agents
probe Mike for answers on Daisy's location and eventually ascertain
she's down the boozer.
Back
in publand, Mike is whipping Tim's arse with rifle precision pool.
When he's cleared the table, he heads off to the loos to point the
pink pistol at the porcelain firing range and Tim decides the time
is right to tell Daisy that he's really missed her, especially her
aroma. But she's still a little down when the agents turn up. Daisy
is obviously reluctant to go (especially when she realises that
'little shit' Steven switched bags) and as Tim tries to step in,
he gets a bent arm for his trouble.
But
Mike comes to the rescue, complete with gorgeous cerise handgun
or, as he likes to it, his special friend. However his humour is
short-lived as one of the agents high kicks him into touch. And
so, it is Daisy to the rescue and, after giving the government stooges
a run for their money she grabs the others and hot foots it back
to the house. Meanwhile, back at number 23, Marsha is trying to
watch Daisy's home video through Amber's moving strobe legs when
she notices something unusual
DIDCHUKNOW?
When filming the bit where he falls back and drops the video
in the machine, Mark Heap (Brian) almost... Brianed,
sorry Brained himself on the TV. OOch. |
As
they walk back up to the house, Tim, Mike and Dais discuss the events
and Mike rues the day he decided to quip first and shoot later.
Daisy explains she learnt a lot (like Danielsan) in the Far East,
especially balance. As they push open the flat door, they see Brian
sitting there, accompanied by the two agents. They've already got
the bag and the 'evidence' and are all fit to cart Daisy off until
Marsha comes down with one of Dais's tapes
Although
reluctant to see it, the agents have to watch as the video is played
via the hands of all the gang. It becomes apparent from this that
Steven had switched the bags when Daisy had fallen over. The agents
realise their mistake but give our heroine a verbal warning.
After
all the hullabaloo has died down, daisy starts throwing all her
possessions around her room where Mike's once laid. Tim checks up
on her to see what's going on and finds one of Mike's assault rifles
on the floor which he takes to the big guy who is now sleeping on
the couch like a giant baby with a tash.
Finally, our duo share a warm hug of final reconciliation
but spare a thought for those poor agents
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