The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)

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The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo was the second episode of Class. It was written by Patrick Ness, directed by Ed Bazalgette and released the same day as For Tonight We Might Die, on BBC Three. The story focused heavily on Ram, and how he dealt with the events that unfolded in the previous story, and also saw the death of Coal Hill Academy head teacher Mr Armitage, who began as a recurring character in Doctor Who's Into the Dalek two years prior.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ram Singh has seen too much. His girlfriend's dead, he lost his leg, and now he sees a gruesome corpse in the locker room. Meanwhile, he has trouble adapting to his new prosthetic leg, screwing up in football. Someone else dies. Is it all in his head, or is this the work of a skin-peeling dragon?

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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.


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  • April, Charlie and Tanya discuss what to call the tear in space-time, with suggestions including "Membrane of Time", "Chasm", "Fracture", and "Bunghole". April later carries on calling it the Bunghole of Time, to which Charlie objects.
  • Our Universe Live is an event that takes place between 23 May and 31 May.
  • Ram suggests that the male dragon turn Dawson's skin into leather and "make a chair or something" out of him.

Coal Hill School[[edit] | [edit source]]

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  • Mr. Armitage says that the education secretary thinks all teachers are monkeys.
  • Ram smokes a cigarette.
  • Ram's father, Varun, continues to come to his football practices. He first taught Ram to play, and encourages him to practice with his new prosthetic leg until he gets it right.
  • Miss Quill asks Ram whether he was watching porn while doing his homework. Ram sarcastically answers that he was masturbating and that he had to do homework one-handed.
  • Ram thinks he may be suffering from PTSD.
  • When trying to find the Inspector online, Quill at first found a different Paul Smith.
  • The Inspector poses as being from Ofsted.
  • Mr. Armitage asks Miss Quill not to misbehave in front of the Inspector, as the Coal Hill governors would not like it.
  • April plays the violin, though mostly folk music.
  • Tanya has two brothers: Jarvis and Damon, with whom she plays Xbox.
  • April's dad calls her, but she doesn't pick up.
  • While inspecting the robot parts that was the Inspector, Miss Quill discovers them to be property of the Governors, and wonders who they might be.

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Tanya's computer uses Windows Vista.
  • Tanya is trying to hack into UNIT's database.
  • Ram and Tanya use Chat to video call again, as do April and Charlie.
  • Miss Quill remarks, of the internet, "Have you seen what this species puts about themselves online? So much genitalia."
  • At home, Charlie has an iMac computer.
  • Tanya downloaded the UNIT hack attempt off Reddit.
  • April has an iPhone and a keyboard.

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An image of the Inspector's report on Miss Quill that was released on the official Class Facebook page.
  • A working title for this episode was Skinned. [4]
  • The title is a play on the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
  • During the scene when the Coal Hill defenders go to find Coach Dawson, "Y.A.L.A." by M.I.A. can be heard.
  • During the scene where April declines her dad's phone call, she is playing Amerikanische Wald Idyllen by Edward MacDowell on her violin.
  • The morris dancing clip that Charlie finds when searching it up is audio of a morris dancing sequence from the Third Doctor serial, The Dæmons.
  • The music under the scene where Mr. Armitage is killed by the Leaf Dragon is a deliberate pastiche of Bernard Herrman's score for Psycho.

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Filming locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Pinewood Studios Wales - filming for the gym hall, social/staircase area and Charlie's bedroom.
  • Haydn Ellis Building, Cardiff University - exterior and some interior filming for Coal Hill Academy
  • Roath Lock Studios

Broadcasts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Date Time Channel Notes
Monday 9 January 2017 23:40 BBC One except Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD
Monday 9 January 2017 23:50 BBC One Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only

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If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

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DVD releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo was featured in the series one DVD boxset, which was released in the UK (Region 2) on 16th January 2017, followed by a Region 1 release on 11th July. The Region 1 release contained an additional blooper reel and various deleted scenes that were not present on the Region 2 release.
  • Region 2 cover

    Region 2 cover

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Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑
    Thursday at 8:14 PM
    1. We see on Charlie's computer that the day of the confrontation with Coach Dawson is a Thursday. This story takes place over 4 distinct and consecutive days, so it must begin on Monday.
    2. We know from a poster in For Tonight We Might Die that the Autumn Prom took place on Friday, 14 October, during which Rachel Chapman died.
    3. Varun Singh says in this episode that it's been a week since she disappeared. Exactly a week after Prom would be 21 October, but that's a Friday, because the 14th was a Friday. Three days later is 24 October, the only Monday on which Varun could possibly say it's been a week since Prom. Thus, this story takes place between Monday 24 and Thursday 27 October.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ https://twitter.com/BlairMowat/status/1246887191311200256?s=20
  4. ↑ https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-Class-Script-Season-One-Episode-Two-By-Patrick-Ness-Doctor-Who-Spin-Off-/143614856674
  5. ↑ https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/class-season-one-ratings/
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