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Love Soup Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - There Must Be Some Way Out Of Here

First aired: Sep/27/2005
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Christine Gernon
Guest star: Neil Roberts (Clive), Trudie Styler (Irene), Darren Boyd (Adam Coates), Brian Protheroe (Bob), Jo-Anne Stockham (Gina Massey)

Alice finds that putting her flat on the market is fraught with more problems than she imagined ... and when she recruits the help of a tall, handsome stranger events take a very unexpected turn.
Gil, meanwhile, cannot believe the chaos he has caused with a stray remark to his neighbours ... will his promising relationship with an attractive TV producer go any smoother?



2 :01x02 - Death and Nurses

First aired: Oct/04/2005
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Christine Gernon
Guest star: Owen Brenman (Lloyd Drewitt), Trudie Styler (Irene), Neil Roberts (Clive), Suzanne Bertish (Sally), Jaime Murray (Natalie Brown)

It's Alice's birthday and her star chart, she is reliably informed, means the time is right to meet her perfect partner. So when her colleagues arrange a sure-fire date for her, what can possibly go wrong?
Elsewhere, Gil is struggling to write the script for Love Soup and his efforts are hampered by several distractions, including his naked neighbour Irene (Trudie Styler) at her bathroom window, a nightmare dinner party, and the amorous intentions of a beautiful narcoleptic. If that wasn't bad enough, he also has the wrath of God to contend with.
Meanwhile, Alice receives an obscene text from a 13-year-old boy. However, all is revealed when he turns up one day at her flat with a very interesting drawing...



3 :01x03 - The Reflecting Pool

First aired: Oct/11/2005
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Christine Gernon
Guest star: George Pensotti (Geoffrey), Doreen Mantle (Mavis Bledsoe), Robin Meredith (Eric Bledsoe), Rosalind Halstead (Rochelle Tandy), Trudie Styler (Irene)

Alice is "quaking in her boots" at the prospect of addressing a hall full of delegates at her company's sales conference, while Gil finds himself with the dubious honour of officiating at the opening of his neighbour, Irene's (Trudie Styler), new heated swimming pool.
It's bad enough that Alice has to share a hotel room with the gorgeous Rochelle – a junior account manager and part-time model with "the personality of a pencil and a body you would kill for". But then there’s the added horror of a sexual encounter from 10 years earlier coming back to haunt her in a very unusual way.
Back at home, Gil is dragged off by Irene to investigate the activities of a suburban prostitute. There’s an even bigger surprise in store when he discovers the hard way the repercussions of inviting a former Hell's Angel out to dinner.
As events continue to spiral off in unexpected directions, both Gil and Alice find themselves facing serious ethical dilemmas.



4 :01x04 - They Do Not Move

First aired: Oct/18/2005
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Sandy Johnson
Guest star: Claire Vousden (Dr Lara Brandywine), Owen Brenman (Lloyd Drewitt), Bernie Clifton (Himself), Matthew Gravelle (Paul Gilpin), Indira Varma (Suzanne Daley)

Alice's search for a new flat prompts her to reflect that properties are like people: just when you seem to have found the ideal candidate, there's always one fatal flaw you know you could never live without.
And so it proves when a chance meeting with an old colleague leads to an unfortunate evening with an avant garde artist, and her forced complicity in some 'extra-marital semi-incestuous hanky panky'.
Meanwhile, she's unsure what to make of the strangely unnerving 'aura' surrounding Milly's new boyfriend.
Gil, meanwhile, has also been set up with a dream date – the dangerously erotic actress Pascal Peters, who he naturally fears is 'probably into cocaine and rough sex and game-show hosts'.
The two have arranged to meet at a local production of Waiting For Godot. But, as Gil's evening suddenly takes a nihilistic turn, will life end up imitating art?
To compound matters, he has barely recovered from a highly embarrassing encounter in the pub, when he's forced to confront a major sexual fantasy from his youth.



5 :01x05 - Take Five

First aired: Oct/25/2005
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Sandy Johnson
Guest star: Tom Ellis (Mike), Trudie Styler (Irene), Stacey Cadman (Tiffany Turner), John Fortune (Geoffrey Strayhorn Q.C.), Kerry Shale (Clark Kramer)

A young medical student has developed an infatuation with Alice. His partner is determined to nip his 'schoolboy crush' in the bud. She believes it's up to Alice to sort the matter out by demonstrating that she's not the 'mythic sex goddess' of his dreams.
Unfortunately for Alice, this is just one of many problems vying for her attention. Also on her mind are some serious ethical issues raised by Cleo’s (Monteserrat Lombard) love life, a highly damaging article in the store's in-house magazine and a truly bizarre revelation in her local cemetery.
Meanwhile, for Gil, the road to a disastrously ill-judged sexual encounter begins when he attends a court case involving a man who died laughing while watching 'Lollipop Men' – the sitcom he very wisely quit two years previously. He quickly falls under the spell of the beautiful Vanessa (Christine Adams). But their plans to spend a romantic evening together come unstuck in a rather cruel and unexpected way...



6 :01x06 - War Is Heck

First aired: Nov/01/2005
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Sandy Johnson
Guest star: Nicola Goodchild (Janice), Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh (Roberta Samms), Richard Lumsden (Stephen), Owen Brenman (Lloyd Drewitt), Trudie Styler (Irene)

For Alice (Tamsin Greig) the promise of love and a whole new direction to her life takes root after she learns that a member of her family is nursing a dark secret and desperately needs her help. Meanwhile, for Gil (Michael Landes) the road to romantic fulfilment begins, of all places, in a dentist's chair and ends up on the set of his latest screenplay..



7 :02x01 - Smoke and Shadows

First aired: Mar/01/2008
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Sandy Johnson
Guest star: Phil Nice (Ted), Rebecca Front (Catherine Sumpter)



8 :02x02 - Integrated Logistics

First aired: Mar/08/2008
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Sandy Johnson
Guest star: Sara Markland (Marian), Scott Major (Keith), Olivia Colman (Penny)



9 :02x03 - Dream Twister

First aired: Mar/15/2008
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Sandy Johnson
Guest star: Sanjeev Bhaskar (Mitch), Owen Brenman (Lloyd Drewitt), Natasha Joseph (Abi), Justin Edwards (Burgess), Abigail Thaw (Phillipa)



10 :02x04 - The Menaced Assassin

First aired: Mar/22/2008
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Sandy Johnson
Guest star: Ron Donachie (Inspector Harbin), Jeremy Clyde (Larry), James Weber Brown (Neil), Rufus Jones (Andy), Sarah Hadland (Sarah)



11 :02x05 - Ragged Claws

First aired: Mar/29/2008
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Sandy Johnson
Guest star: Charlotte Avery (Davina), Tony Gardner (Matthew), Helen Grace (Susan), Sandra Huggett (Rachel Hammond)



12 :02x06 - Sophisticated Lady

First aired: Apr/05/2008
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Sandy Johnson
Guest star: Philip Martin Brown (Craig (As Phillip Browne)), Simon Kassianides (Ileus), Sharon Gavin (Girl on Mobile), Nicholas Sidi (Tom (As Nick Sidi)), Mina Anwar (Antonia)



13 :02x07 - Green Widow

First aired: Apr/12/2008
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Christine Gernon
Guest star: Paul Albertson (Tony), Mary Farragher (Focus Group Member), Mark Heap (Douglas McVitie), Devon Black (Polly), Owen Brenman (Lloyd Drewitt)



14 :02x08 - Lobotomy Bay

First aired: Apr/19/2008
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Christine Gernon
Guest star: Mark Heap (Douglas McVitie), Lucy Speed (Trisha), Simon Day (Wolf), Thaila Zucchi (Elaine), Bill Bailey (Elliot Anderson)



15 :02x09 - Kiss of Death

First aired: Apr/26/2008
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Christine Gernon
Guest star: Mark Heap (Douglas McVitie), Emma Fryer (Sue), David Renwick (TV Critic), Jan Ravens (Janey), Ronnie Corbett (Gordon Bexter)



16 :02x10 - Whose God is it Anyway?

First aired: May/03/2008
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Christine Gernon
Guest star: Simona Armstrong (Marenka), Mark Heap (Douglas McVitie), Lynda Bellingham (Matilda), Lee Montague (Larry), Joanna Page (Heather)



17 :02x11 - Human Error

First aired: May/10/2008
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Christine Gernon
Guest star: Helen Lederer (Maxine Newman), Tim Hewitt (Vernon), Alex Lovell (Reporter), Christine Stephen-Daly (Kirsty), Owen Brenman (Lloyd Drewitt), Charlie Brooks (Denise Cady), Mackenzie Crook (Marty Cady), Jan Ravens (Janey), Mark Heap (Douglas McVitie)



18 :02x12 - Home

First aired: May/17/2008
Writer: David Renwick
Director: Christine Gernon
Guest star: Owen Brenman (Lloyd Drewitt), Amelia Curtis (Fae Maddison), Edward MacLiam (James), David Ross (Anthony), Rhys Swinburn (Neville)