Detained (TV story)

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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.

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 television story since the Doctor Who episode Midnight to feature an enemy that doesn't actually physically appear in any way.[disputed statement]

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

Miss Quill places Charlie, Ram, April, Tanya and Matteusz in detention for seemingly no reason, claiming that she has things to do and does not want to be bothered. After she leaves them, April attempts to unlock the door. As she gets the door open, a comet flies through the tear in the hallway, and lands in the classroom. Following this, the windows and door turn black and it appears that they are trapped in the classroom.

At first believing the Quill is responsible, Charlie realises that she can't do so without the arn killing her. They begin to notice that they are all noticeably more aggressive than usual, expect for Charlie who begins to exhibit extreme claustrophobia and paranoia. They eventually notice the meteor in the corner of the room, with a glowing orange substance attached to it. Matteusz picks it up and seemingly enters a trance state, recalling the day he told his grandmother he was gay. He reveals that he's afraid of Charlie, and April knocks the rock out of his hand. They hypothesize that it is a form of confession.

As time passes, they become more aggressive and Charlie begins panicking about the situation. They slowly begin to turn on one another, viewing the worst of everyone. Tanya suggests that as the meteor forces people to tell the truth, they could potentially ask it questions about where they are. Tanya decides to pick it up, and she reveals that she worries about the others treating her as a little sister, or someone they have to tolerate. She also reveals that the meteor is dangerous and can fry a person's brain if they hold it for too long, and it is housing a prisoner. She drops the meteor, and the group begin to fear that they are in a prison with a murderer.

Tensions rise between Charlie and Matteusz due to Matteusz's confession. To calm Charlie down, Matteusz tells him about The Chronicles of Narnia and how Susan judged her friend based on one bad thing she said. Charlie forgives Matteusz and they reconcile.

Tanya suggests that someone else needs to pick up the rock to find out more about where they are. Ram does so and reveals that he loves April more than she could ever love him. April struggles to deny this and only fuels Ram's feeling.

Cast

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Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.


References

  • Matteusz asks whether the explosion was an earthquake. Ram ridicules the question by asking, "in London?"
  • When Matteusz picks up the rock to throw it out the door, he says "two birds, one stone".
  • Ram says that athletes can have brains.
  • During a fit, caused by the situation, Tanya complains about white people always being "so optimistic, always so certain things are gonna work out for [them]", when April said maybe it was as simple as Miss Quill coming back.

Coal Hill Academy

  • Miss Quill gives the gang an hour of detention.
  • Ram says he didn't get into A levels by accident.

People

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.
  • When Ram picks up the rock he remembers being back in his back-garden.
  • When April picks up the rock she remembers being in court to testify against her dad.

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 names Susan. He also mentions goats and witches, although he considers them to be less important aspects of the book.
    • Matteusz also says that he thinks the author must hate Susan. This may be a reference to literary critics and audiences in the latter half of the 20th century becoming increasingly critical of Lewis's treatment of the character.

Story notes

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Continuity

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Foonotes

  1. ↑ In The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo, we see a plaque that tells us the Barbara Wright Building was completed in spring 2016. Additionally, Nightvisiting, set two years after Jasper Adeola's death, tells us he died in 2014. Finally, Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart confirms that Charlie and Miss Quill arrived on Earth in September 2016.
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