Detained (TV story)

Detained was the sixth episode of the first series of Class. It saw the Coal Hill gang trapped in their physics classroom, nowhere in time and space.

Detained

Main character(s):

Charlie, April, Ram, Tanya, Matteusz

Featuring:

Miss Quill

Main enemy:

The Prisoner

Main setting:

Class B3, November 2016; No Time and No Space

Key crew

Writer:

Patrick Ness

Director:

Wayne Yip

Producer:

Derek Ritchie

Release details

Story number:

5

Premiere network:

BBC Three

Release date:

19 November 2016

Format:

1x45 minute episode

Production code:

1.6

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This episode was notable for being "Quill-lite", minimally including the character of Miss Quill at all and focusing more on the students themselves, and their relationships. It is also the first story since the Doctor Who episode Midnight to feature an enemy that doesn't actually physically appear.

Synopsis

A mysterious asteroid throws Charlie, April, Ram, Matteusz and Tanya out of space and time and Miss Quill is nowhere to be found.

They now have to confess their deepest and darkest secrets to each other without losing their minds. Can they stick together to fight the Prisoner or will their confessions split them apart?

Plot

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References

Real world

Matteusz asks whether the explosion was an earthquake. Ram ridicules the question by asking "in London".

People

Charlie is claustrophobic.
Matteusz visited his grandmother in November 2015 for her birthday with his father.

Science

Tanya refers to a movie the gang watched in astrophysics.
The gang thinks the asteroid is sending out radiation.
Ram thinks the stone is alien. Matteusz thinks it uses some kind of energy. Charlie thinks it may be telepathic.

Locations

When Matteusz gets visions after picking up the rock, he says he's "back in Poland".
When Tanya picks up the rock, she remembers when she was little she stole sweets from an off-license shop.
Charlie thinks Narnia is in Canada.

Popular culture

Matteusz says that back when he first learned English, his mother heard of a book about a place called Narnia, with a group of kids. Matteusz specifically name Susan. He also mention goats and witches.
- Matteusz also says that he thinks C. S. Lewis, the author, must hate Susan.

Story notes

"Invaders Must Die" by The Prodigy plays extra-diegetically over Miss Quill revealing she's had her arn removed, in the final moments of the episode.

Ratings

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Filming locations

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Production errors

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Continuity

Miss Quill refers to Charlie enslaving her. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
Miss Quill and Charlie Smith refer to the Twelfth Doctor, who rescued them from Rhodia and brought them to Coal Hill Academy. Charlie refers to the Doctor's impassioned stance against genocide.(TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
The boards with all the notes and posters are seen again. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die, The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)
The Shadow Kin are mentioned a few times. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die, Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart/Brave-ish Heart)
When Ram is certain Quill tried to kill them, Charlie dismisses it, telling them she can't as she herself would die. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die) She previously slapped him, causing herself great pain. (TV: Brave-ish Heart)
Matteusz mentioned his father. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die, Nightvisiting)
April mentioned her mother used to be in a wheelchair, for eight year. Ram replied that she's not anymore. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die, Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart/Brave-ish Heart)
April asks Ram why he's being a dick. April previously said Ram was not the usual dickhead football player. (TV: Brave-ish Heart)
Tanya mentioned her mother. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die, Nightvisiting)

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