- A clear up is done after the disco, Chris invents a fight to cover up his strict parents' limitation on his social life, and Julie is convinced to give a talk on bullying.
- It's Sunday, and time to clear up after the disco, and to say goodbye to the French exchange students. For Chris though, his devout parents won't hear of any excuse for him not to attend church. His home life is quite different from most of his school-friends, with no television nor other modern trappings. Life at home with Wayne isn't a bed of roses with his sister and her new baby, and a cramped bedroom shared with a short tempered weight-lifting brother, who drops a weight on his foot. At church, Chris watches as someone is baptized - a full body immersion. At school, Paula turns up unsuitably dressed for a clear up, and doesn't contribute much. Christoph hands around sweets for the helpers: Paula dips in, but her hand's smacked away by Robyn who tells her she's doesn't deserve anything. Annoyed at being seen to be idle in front of hunky Christoph, Paula starts up the floor polisher, but to her horror it has a life of its own, wheeling her around the floor, and dumping her unceremoniously onto it. Monday comes round, and Mr. Parrott is sporting a rather expensive gold watch - he explains he won it. In Mr. Hankin's Year 9 class, they discuss time. Poppy shows her ruler she bought from the Greenwich observatory. When she sees Wayne looking at her disapprovingly, she pretends not to know anything about the subject. Chris's classmates want to know why his parents were so hard on him about going to the disco - he makes up a story about getting into a fight, and Anna hangs on his every word. Mr. Parrott has to take Miss Carver's English class. To keep them quiet, he offers various monetary prizes for a word finding challenge. In Mr. Hankin's class there's a distraction outside. Wayne takes the opportunity to break Poppy's special ruler. Then, Wayne tells Mr. Hankin that the gold watch is a fake. When Mr. Parrott's competitive English class comes to an end, Chris is the clear victor - his home-life scrabble practice paying dividends. Anna has come bottom - and one of her words is "zat" - as she explains, it is French for "that!" Robyn asks Mr. Parrott for more Maths tuition, but he refuses. There are school-wide discussions on bullying: Julie mentions how she used to be bullied, and Robyn looks down, ashamed of her involvement all those years ago. As the discussions continue, Poppy tries to work out where Wayne is, so she can avoid him, but he creeps up on her - she runs, and steps on his bad foot. He recoils in pain, but tells her receding figure that he'll be waiting for her tomorrow...—Geffers
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