Ep 5. Beauty and the Beast

Inside the Greedy Slits amusement arcade, Charlie and Stella Hull are having another one of their rows. Stella makes it clear that she is still seeing Tony. Judee Levinson has given up her lady-of-leisure lifestyle to run a beauty salon, Spit & Polish. It's a great success, mainly thanks to Charlie's unexpected skill as a masseur. Charlie discovers he can get huge tips if he gives clients a little extra, but insists that they wear masks. When Tony comes in for a massage, Charlie refuses at first, and then discovers that Tony has hidden assets. He suggests a threesome to Stella. Meanwhile, Professor Breastpinch is on the High Street conducting a survey with little success, and Neds is on a case with his new customized crime-solving car, Maxie-Power. Inside a warehouse, Mandy and Repton are loading boxes of cigarettes into skips. An attempt at a citizen's arrest backfires, leaving Neds and his friend Tris tied up while a fire takes hold. Tony thinks Judee is responsible for his wonderful massages and asks her out. Judee would rather go out with Charlie, whereas Charlie now fancies Tony. Charlie joins them at Luigi's restaurant, where he declares his love and is violently rejected. They are interrupted by Judee, closely followed by Stella, who has won at the Greedy Slits and is leaving Royston Vasey. Charlie leaves Luigi's, wearing his blonde wig from the massage parlor. As he walks off down the street he is approached by a stranger who holds out the necklace he has dropped. But as he takes a step forward to receive it, there is the sound of a horn and a screech of brakes. Charlie lies among the rubble of the wall.