Hollyoaks
01/05
Channel 4
Dennis to the Rescue!So it is the day that Blessing is supposed to be evicted from the flat.
Dennis - "I obviously didn't make myself clear yesterday!"
Channel 4Blessing - "Please let me explain properly!"
Denis - (ANGRILY) "You really see me as an easy target don't yah!"
Blessing - "Look a while ago I found a wallet in the street and I used the bank cards!"
Dennis - "Oh, fraud as well now?! BRILLIANT!"
Channel 4Blessing - (HOLDING HIS HAND - he looks down surprised) Look (SEDUCTIVE VOICE), I am not proud of
what I did but I was SO desperate.
(DENNIS LICKS HIS LIPS NERVOUSLY - He has feelings for her)
Channel 4Blessing continues... "But there is this private investigator, and he is blackmailing me but if I don't pay him, he said he's go to the police!"
Denis regains his composure - "I can't trust a word you say anymore." "You gotta go!"
Later...
Blessed is looking for a flat in the window of the newsagents...
The Private eye approaches Blessed...
PI - "I don't think your will find Con artists wanted on there!"
Blessed - "What do you want?"
PI - "Is there something wrong with your memory?!"
Blessed - "I need more time!" (AND ATTEMPTS TO LEAVE).
Channel 4(THE PI GRABS HER ARM ROUGHLY IN THE DISTANCE DENNIS WITNESSES HER STRUGGLING TO PULL AWAY AND RUNS UP TO THEM).
PI - "I am not renowned for my patience!"
Dennis (with a squeegee in his hand) - "OI! What is going on here!!!"
PI - "We are 'aving a chat!" "What's it gotta do wiv you?!"
Channel 4Dennis - "I think you should go mate!"
Channel 4PI - "Or whot?!" (LOOKING DOWN LAUGHING AT HIM HOLDING THE WINDOW SQUEEGEE) "You'll 'wash me'?"
Dennis - "Never under estimate a man with a squeegee!"
PI - (LAUGHING) "I will see you soon Blessed!"
Dennis - "Yeah eh!"
Blessed - "I didn't know you were so brave!"
Dennis - "Is that the man blackmailing you?!"
Blessed - "Forget it! It is my problem."
Dennis - "I am going to give you the money to pay him!"
Blessed - "Oh you are amazing!"
Channel 4Dennis (SMILING ALL BASHFUL) "I'd better go to the cashpoint then!"
Blessed - "Thank you Dennis."
Dennis (the hero walks off with a swagger), "S'all right!"
He then walks the wrong way and walks back - "It's there isn't it..."
Blessing smiles and shakes her head...(HER HERO).
Channel 4Later...
She arranges to meet the PI to pay him the remainder of his demand.
Blessing - "Here!"
Channel 4PI - "Oh that was quick? Don't tell me Captain squeegee to the rescue?!" "I wonder what you knight in shining armour would think if he knew what you did?!"
Blessing - "No please you can't tell him!"
Channel 4PI - "Don't worry! You secret is safe with me." "For the moment!"
Channel 4HE WALKS TO LEAVE - "Take care Blessed!"
CommentSo far a bit predictable, as we all know he will be back for more etc...
Love the Joey Tribbiani (Matt Leblanc) from the Sitcom Friends '
Smell the Fart Acting'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qxkj9JWOWQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0FoAilP1K0 He has ruined soaps for me now as there is a bit too much smell the fart with Blessing - I think she needs to rein that in a bit

Dennis is a dork but a more natural and likeable dork. Blessing is a tad too intense in places and over dramatic in her body language. The truth is she would likely freeze up and try to make herself smaller and feel vulnerable in this situation. Even furtive as to not be spotted by her aggressor. But hey these plots have to be orchestrated to work in a certain way. This is probably a weakness in this instance as I think the 'surprised look' for everything is a tad one-dimensional - even tiring. Probably great on stage though, just too intense for a close-up wide angle in HD.