The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)

was the second episode of Class. It was written by Patrick Ness, directed by Ed Bazalgette and released the same day as For Tonight We Might Die, on BBC Three. The story focused heavily on Ram, and how he dealt with the events that unfolded in the previous story, and also saw the death of Coal Hill Academy head teacher Mr Armitage, who began as a recurring character in Doctor Who's Into the Dalek two years prior.
== Synopsis ==
Ram Singh has seen too much. His girlfriend's dead, he lost his leg, and now he sees a gruesome corpse in the locker room. Meanwhile, he has trouble adapting to his new prosthetic leg, screwing up in football. Someone else dies. Is it all in his head, or is this the work of a skin-peeling dragon?
== Plot ==
to be added
== Cast ==
* Miss Quill - Katherine Kelly 
* Charlie - Greg Austin
* Ram - Fady Elsayed 
* April - Sophie Hopkins 
* Tanya - Vivian Oparah 
* Coach Dawson - Ben Peel
* Assistant Coach Carroll - David McGranaghan
* Varun - Aaron Neil
* Mr Armitage - Nigel Betts
* The Inspector - Jami Reid-Quarrell
* Cleaner - Cally Lawrence
=== Uncredited cast ===
* Voice of the Leaf Dragon - Derek Ritchiehttps://twitter.com/BlairMowat/status/1246887191311200256?s=20
== Crew ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* April, Charlie and Tanya discuss what to call the tear in space-time, with suggestions including "Membrane of Time", "Chasm", "Fracture", and "Bunghole". April later carries on calling it the Bunghole of Time, to which Charlie objects.
* Our Universe Live is an event that takes place between 23 May and 31 May.
* Ram suggests that the male dragon turn Dawson's skin into leather and "make a chair or something" out of him.
=== Coal Hill School ===
* Miss Quill and Mr. Armitage walk by a sign that says "the Barbara Wright Building", named after Barbara Wright, companion of the First Doctor and teacher at Coal Hill in the 1960s.
* Dawson's office is Room G15, Sport Science Office.
* Coal Hill has a 1st Team and a 2nd Team in football.
* Coal Hill Academy offers physics booster classes.
* Tanya says maths is ridiculously easy in 2016.
=== People ===
* Mr. Armitage says that the education secretary thinks all teachers are monkeys.
* Ram smokes a cigarette.
* Ram's father, Varun, continues to come to his football practices. He first taught Ram to play, and encourages him to practice with his new prosthetic leg until he gets it right.
* Miss Quill asks Ram whether he was watching porn while doing his homework. Ram sarcastically answers that he was masturbating and that he had to do homework one-handed.
* Ram thinks he may be suffering from PTSD.
* When trying to find the Inspector online, Quill at first found a different Paul Smith.
* The Inspector poses as being from Ofsted.
* Mr. Armitage asks Miss Quill not to misbehave in front of the Inspector, as the Coal Hill governors would not like it.
* April plays the violin, though mostly folk music.
* Tanya has two brothers: Jarvis and Damon, with whom she plays Xbox.
* April's dad calls her, but she doesn't pick up.
* While inspecting the robot parts that was the Inspector, Miss Quill discovers them to be property of the Governors, and wonders who they might be.
=== Technology ===
* Tanya's computer uses Windows Vista.
* Tanya is trying to hack into UNIT's database.
* Ram and Tanya use Chat to video call again, as do April and Charlie.
* Miss Quill remarks, of the internet, "Have you seen what this species puts about themselves online? So much genitalia."
* At home, Charlie has an iMac computer.
* Tanya downloaded the UNIT hack attempt off Reddit.
* April has an iPhone and a keyboard.
=== Foods and beverages ===
* Tanya eats an apple.
* Ram tries to hit a water bottle with a football. With his father's support, he succeeds in knocking it over.
== Story notes ==
* A working title for this episode was Skinned. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-Class-Script-Season-One-Episode-Two-By-Patrick-Ness-Doctor-Who-Spin-Off-/143614856674
* The title is a play on the novel .
* During the scene when the Coal Hill defenders go to find Coach Dawson, "Y.A.L.A." by M.I.A. can be heard.
* During the scene where April declines her dad's phone call, she is playing Amerikanische Wald Idyllen by Edward MacDowell on her violin.
* The morris dancing clip that Charlie finds when searching it up is audio of a morris dancing sequence from the Third Doctor serial, The Dæmons.
* The music under the scene where Mr. Armitage is killed by the Leaf Dragon is a deliberate pastiche of Bernard Herrman's score for Psycho.
=== Ratings ===
* BBC Three ratings: 0.39 million
* BBC One overnight: to be announced
* BBC America overnight: 0.305 million https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/class-season-one-ratings/
=== Filming locations ===
* Pinewood Studios Wales - filming for the gym hall, social/staircase area and Charlie's bedroom.
* Haydn Ellis Building, Cardiff University - exterior and some interior filming for Coal Hill Academy
* Roath Lock Studios
=== Broadcasts ===
Date 	Time 	Channel 	Notes
Monday 9 January 2017	23:40	BBC One except Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD	
Monday 9 January 2017	23:50	BBC One Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only 	
=== Production errors ===
to be added
== Continuity ==
* Ram is still adjusting to his prosthetic leg. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
* Rachel is believed to be missing after the Autumn Prom. Ram is repeatedly reminded that he watched her die while drenched in her blood. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
* Charlie makes note of the "fascinating power" of humanity to forget when the Shadow Kin's attack on the prom goes unmentioned. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die) The Seventh Doctor previously noted humanity's "capacity for self-deception", (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) and the Twelfth Doctor also described forgetting as a "human superpower". (TV: In the Forest of the Night)
* Charlie mentions how everyone that he ever knew died, and April mentions sharing her heart with their killer. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
* Ram doesn't want to be part of the Coal Hill defenders. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
* Tanya mentions that the Doctor said Miss Quill was supposed to help them with the aliens. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
* Tanya mentions Ram saving April from the Shadow Kin. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
* The Doctor making Miss Quill the children's protector is mentioned by Charlie. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
== Home video releases ==
=== DVD releases ===
* The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo was featured in the series one DVD boxset, which was released in the UK (Region 2) on 16th January 2017, followed by a Region 1 release on 11th July. The Region 1 release contained an additional blooper reel and various deleted scenes that were not present on the Region 2 release.
ClassDVD.jpg|Region 2 cover
=== Blu-ray releases ===
to be added
== External links ==
== Footnotes ==
Category:Class television stories
Category:Series 1 (Class) stories
Category:Quill television stories
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