Series 2 Episode 13 - An old man is twice a child
Grandpa’s safe cracking attempts nearly bring down the house, and also raise a ghost; and Loretta gets the awful truth about a very important question.
Grandpa creeps in the dark towards a complex looking safe and begins work. The door swings easily open. This is because he has just cracked the West family oven, and due to his efforts a kitchen towel on the stove begins to emit smoke.
It is just fortunate that Loretta returns from late night nookie (with Hayden) before the whole place goes up in flames. But this is just the latest in a catalogue of Grandpa-related disasters.
Day of days, man. The day I never thought would come. The day of the reckoning. The day unlike any other.Munter
The next morning at breakfast, Cheryl ventures to ask how Grandpa might fit in at an old folks’ home…
The rest of the family is shocked. If Grandpa is at home, someone has to keep an eye on him. Aurora shoulders the burden, and Pascalle points out to Cheryl that there are no vacancies at the Janet Frame Rest Home…
where we see Pascalle leading karaoke chair aerobics. All of a sudden one of the residents, Mr Johnson, keels over. A push to the call button and a young Indian man comes dashing in – Dr Khan, one of the home’s regular GP’s. Unfortunately, it’s the end for Mr Johnson. Pascalle, pained by his loss, can still appreciate Dr Khan’s caring manner, efficient CPR and manly chest.
Cheryl, arrives back outside the house, to find Wests converging – Van and Pascalle have been called by Aurora, for another Grandpa-related incident. He has barricaded the door to keep the “bloody pigs�? out.
Jethro arrives, finds another way in and opens the door. Grandpa regards them all balefully, but this incident has been the last straw for Cheryl.
A family conference, where everyone (including Loretta and Jethro) have been listening to Cheryl. If they don’t like the idea of sending Grandpa to a home, they can babysit him in shifts. And Aurora will help too.
As Jethro goes to his car, Cheryl follows. Has he heard from Wolf? He should know what’s going on with his Dad. The warring Wests are agreed for a moment…when Cheryl slaps him. It’s payback: she is his mother, she hits him and not the other way around.
But now the West children are taken at their word as they do Grandpa’s care roster. But when he breaks down and becomes hysterical about his late wife Rita, the Wests come to see that Cheryl may be right.
Jethro offers to have a word with Hayden to see if he can pull some strings. This confuses Pascalle until Jethro points out that Hayden owns the Janet Frame. How else does she think she got to do community service there in the first place? Pascalle feels torn – she should resign immediately, but this would mean deserting the job that she loves. She’s in a bind…
Grandpa refuses to move from his chair. He will NOT go to a home. Then Jethro has a quiet word and, eventually, Grandpa agrees to be transported to the ‘safe house’ that Jethro has mentioned.
It’s of course, none other than the Janet Frame Rest Home where Grandpa is safe from the pigs and where Pascalle chats up Dr Khan despite Grandpa’s queries…are you a curry muncher?
Back at the house Cheryl confides in Judd. Wolf should be here, and she can’t go forwards until she knows what’s happened to him. Judd, annoyed, suggests that when she sorts it, she call him. And he’s gone.
As the family empties Grandpa’s caravan, Loretta and Cheryl find a pile of paper from Corky’s supposedly empty safe that Grandpa and Loretta cracked weeks ago. Included in the stack is the last will and testament of Wolfgang West.
Cheryl pulls up outside a strange house. It belongs to Anne-Marie, a trim woman in her mid-30s, an old acquaintance. Cheryl wants to know, why would Anne-Marie and her son feature in Wolf’s will? Anne-Marie admits she did have a baby with Wolf – her son Brandon is now 18.
At the Janet Frame Rest Home, Grandpa answers the phone. On the other end of the line, we find Wolfgang West calling on a cellphone.
Loretta, meanwhile, has been expanding her sexual repertoire and has something she would like to try. Hayden’s game for it…if she’ll answer a question: has she ever loved anyone?
Love doesn’t really feature in Loretta’s vocabulary, though there are people who don’t annoy her as much as others. But now Loretta has a question for him: is Pascalle as good in bed as everyone says (especially Pascalle)?
Yes. Loretta feels as if she’s been slapped. Hayden tells her – the difference is this: he never cared about Pascalle at all. This is coming far too close to a declaration of feeling for Loretta’s liking. So she deflects. You just used her for sex? Well, that’s okay then.
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