Needle in a Gaystack

**Needle in a Gaystack** is the fifth episode of the first series.

## Plot

### Flashback

One night, Pippa and Sam are having a dinner date in a vacant first class cabin. Sam declares his love for Pippa as they hear a woman scream. Sam goes to investigate whilst Pippa stays behind, and spots a cleaning woman running frantically down the corridor through the peephole. Pippa follows the woman round the corner but comes to a dead end with the woman gone. She goes to leave but hears a loud clatter come from behind a mirror.

### Present Day

Jamie comes to and finds himself in a cage alongside Jerome's body. Karen orders Beaker and the other officers to find Vivian, then orders Sam to kill Jamie and leaves. Jamie makes another attempt to escape; this time succeeding via a rubbish chute. Rosie and Cormac discover Jerome is gone as someone else has moved into his cabin. They turn a corner and see Beaker holding a photo of Vivian asking a crew member of her whereabouts. They find her and Lily in a post-sex haze and reveal she's being hunted.

Jamie reaches the cinema's projection room and reveals his true identity to Olly. Olly then goes off to find Vivian with the rest of the gang. Whilst Vivian tends to his wounds, Jamie reveals that Sam was responsible for the deaths on the ship and that all the officers are covering for him. Vivian decides that they must find Jerome's body, as it's the only proof they have.

After learning of Sam's blunder, Karen tells all staff and crew to find Jamie and Vivian and bring them to her. Olly's goes to the engine room and gets a map of the ship from the Baby, whilst Lily helps Vivian sneak her into her cabin. Olly returns to the projection room and warns Jamie that he is being hunted as well. Remembering where he recognises the hand symbol from Pippa's map, Jamie and the rest of the gang go to the prayer room where they find a secret panel in the wall. Lily and Vivian are successful make it to the former's cabin and Lily heads back out to find her parents so they can help.

Inside the secret corridors Jamie decides they should split in to pairs. He and Olly go one way, and Rosie and Cormac go the other. In one corridor Rosie and Cormac find Jerome's name badge, and in another Jamie and Olly find peepholes as well as a ladder and a room in which they find Jerome's body. Jamie takes a few photos on Olly's phone, but they are caught by Karen who escorts them to the security room.

Henry, accompanied by Sam, Beaker, and a few more officers, greets the pair, then has them sit down whilst tied up and forces the pair to watch Pat and Phil chase and kill Leila, a staff member who works in housekeeping. As Henry crosses out Leila's picture Jamie is horrified by what else he sees. After having enough of Nile's comments all evening, Vivian calls him a snake to which Nile responds saying he tried to warn her of 'the scorpion'. At this point Lily shows up, followed by Karen and two other officers, as she reveals she is 'opening up her birthday gift early'. Jamie is horrified to see Vivian's picture up on the board.

## Cast

*in order of appearance*

* **Pippa Walsh** - Jodie Tyack
* **Sam Rhodes** - Louis Boyer
* **Jamie Walsh** - Oscar Kennedy
* **Officer Beaker** - Warren James Dunning
* **Karen Macintyre** - Harriet Webb
* **Jerome Dupont** - Diego Andres
* **Cormac Kelly** - Peter Claffey
* **Rosie Preston** - Miya Ocego
* **Vivian Lim** - Thaddea Graham
* **Lily Tee** - Ramanique Ahluwalia
* **Henry Allan** - Donald Sage Mackay
* **Olly Reyes** - Anthony Rickman
* **Lauren Thompson** - Amber Grappy
* **Sophia Leigh** - Alice Nokes
* **Amy 1** - Melissa Dilber
* **Amy 2** - Merih Dilber
* **Hamish Campbell** - James Phoon
* **Bethany-May Denbrough** - Ali Hardiman
* **The Baby** - Francis Flores
* **Pat Cooper** - Lesa Thurman
* **Phil Cooper** - James Carroll Jordan
* **Nile** - Ned Costello
* **Leila Ramirez** - Rhea Rosie Rodillas