Better Get A Room
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The coldest morning, September 1959. Ray's mother worries about him.
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- Part 1 of Better Get A Room
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Young William jumps ship in Dakar and wins a job as a bouncer. One thief, one screw, two fights, two bodies, two bouncers, and a bored mercenary. William wants many things, the thrill most of all.
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- Part 2 of Better Get A Room
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Pre-CI5. The Minister reprimands MI5 director Cowley on his careless conduct. Or he tries to.
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- Part 3 of Better Get A Room
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Returning to England after six years away, Bodie can't work out why he's so unsettled, what with trauma being a dirty word. Much easier than confrontation, Bodie decides to vanish his ghosts instead, along with his past.
1971, set in this series' timeline directly after Krivas murders Bodie's girlfriend, precipitating Bodie's return to England.
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- Part 4 of Better Get A Room
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Violence is a drug. Bodie's young, hurt, bored, and a whole warzone away from safe places to angst.
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- Part 5 of Better Get A Room
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Cowley asks Macklin to join CI5 as a trainer; Macklin ponders his loss of nerve.
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- Part 6 of Better Get A Room
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A segment from Bodie and Doyle's respective psychlogical interviews with CI5. Involves chicken dance. Not to be taken seriously.
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- Part 7 of Better Get A Room
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Pre-series, first day at work. Doyle meets Bodie.
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- Part 8 of Better Get A Room
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The day of acceptance into CI5. Doyle phones home. Bodie demonstrates no concept of personal space. Generally speaking, life is looking up.
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- Part 9 of Better Get A Room
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Back in England after too long roaming, Bodie remembers some old tangled-up longings. He's in a position to indulge materially -- and only a few hours easy drive from the origin.
Early 1975, a few months after Bodie takes a job with CI5.
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- Part 10 of Better Get A Room
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Bob Dylan, cabaret, closet poetry; Bodie and Doyle banter in the car.
Early partnership days.
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- Part 11 of Better Get A Room
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Drunk or dared, Bodie talks a girl into a threesome. Not his first, but very likely someone else's: somewhat concerningly for Bodie, Doyle is a little off his stride.
Circa 1975, fairly early in the partnership, still being vaguely competitive.
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- Part 12 of Better Get A Room
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At a party, Bodie finds himself in an inappropriately retrospective mood, and accordingly retreats. Fascinated Doyle pursues and keeps on poking. Uncomfortable, but always the same garrulous self, Bodie has very well-honed defence mechanisms for when retreat's just not possible.
Circa 1976, partnership and attraction still somewhat tenuous. Moral differences repel and compel.
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- Part 13 of Better Get A Room
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Early in the partnership, Doyle surprises his partner with an early morning wake-up call. A low-key "outing"; there are more important things than who you shag.
1976.
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- Part 14 of Better Get A Room
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Sex, nice and simple...except Ray's feeling morose, looking at all the wrong signals. Until he suddenly gets it right, nice and loud and clear.
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- Part 15 of Better Get A Room
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Ray tries (again) to pin down Bodie's slippery morality, but Bodie's not having a bar of it. Bathing habits, being crass, standing around with an unexplained and completely plot-irrelevant erection, George's tattooed back portion, Bodie's endless distractionary tactics (see: unexplained and plot-irrelevant erection), and the consequence of body hair.
Set post 'Private Madness, Public Danger'.
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- Part 16 of Better Get A Room
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Sleep-deprived Raymond has a zit, and another bad day. Bodie takes care of everything.
1978.
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- Part 17 of Better Get A Room
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A bullet through the hand might mean amputation. Bodie is shot through his right and left reeling. Set pre 'Close Quarters', looking at possible emotional motivation for Bodie's actions during the episode.
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- Part 18 of Better Get A Room
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After the events in Close-Quarters, Bodie broods himself into a cave.
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- Part 19 of Better Get A Room
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Set just before Take-Away. Bodie's having a hard time staying objective in this undercover, with all the wrong instincts driving him.
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- Part 20 of Better Get A Room
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Bodie's undercover with streetkids. Ray gets to play house with Esther. While all three work on a large undercover case, Bodie arrives at Ray and Esther's flat, in search of adult company.
Set during 'Takeaway'. Read If She Were My Girl, for background on the emotional situation Bodie finds himself in.
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- Part 21 of Better Get A Room
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Without warning, Doyle's decided to end the sex. Bodie forgot to mention he noticed.
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- Part 22 of Better Get A Room
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Without question, Ray stands guard against Bodie's ghosts.
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- Part 23 of Better Get A Room
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On international assignment, Bodie has certain rituals to assure his peace of mind. Doyle is puzzled. An exchange of vows, so to speak.
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- Part 24 of Better Get A Room
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Bodie and Doyle face death (again) without getting soppy.
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- Part 25 of Better Get A Room
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Economic tension in England is affecting even CI5. Set against the background of a mediocre operation, Doyle is ready to snap while Bodie's ready for anything. Oh, and Bodie's undercover as an air steward.
Some ten years after Bodie and Doyle were first partnered, where one's ripe for retirement, the other for promotion.
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- Part 26 of Better Get A Room
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Bodie loses his nerve. Or something.
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- Part 27 of Better Get A Room
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Doyle's having a bad decade. After years drifting apart, various misunderstandings, flawed assumptions, Bodie just walks back on in.
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- Part 28 of Better Get A Room
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Wandering a weekend market, Bodie plays with model battleships while Doyle reads fairy stories. Post-CI5, post an assortment of life experiences, Bodie and Doyle reconcile their pasts and the whole on-and-off again relationship.
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- Part 29 of Better Get A Room
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Instead of a relationship, they've got each other. Getting old and settling in for comfort.
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- Part 30 of Better Get A Room
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Jan 31 2011. Ray wakes up to a changed world. Bodie, bubble wrap, older lads, contemporary day, they've both got kids, and did I mention the bubble wrap?
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- Part 31 of Better Get A Room