Loveday Writing

When Roz gets to work, she finds George hanging up the portrait that Dean had painted of Roz at the end of the previous episode. George informs Helen that he has found an office for her, an old storage room. Roz tells Helen to consult with George about decorating her new office, whilst she is labelling everything from the stuff in the kitchen, to the door, and a mysterious switch, in the office.

Later we see Roz chat with Bob Stanley, who asks her if the rumours regarding Helen’s father and his tipstaff are true. Helen walks in and informs him that the rumours regarding her father are true and that he entered a relationship with his male tipstaff and came out, after her mother died.

Bob enters the conference room with Helen, where her next client is Gina Munster. Gina’s father, Alan, died and his will states that his ashes or cremains, are to be divided between his family and his younger girlfriend, Kellie-Joy.  Throughout the meeting Bob is asking for snacks, and it’s revealed later when Ray and Roz are in the kitchen that Bob will agree to anything if he gets snacks. Roz then gives Bob hummus and crackers at Ray’s suggestion. Helen then gets Bob to agree that Kellie-Joy gets five grams of Alan’s cremains based on an equation that Helen created based on the amount of time Alan spent with his family and Kellie-Joy, and the weight of his cremains.

Later Helen goes to see her father, only to be greeted by his partner, Viktor. Helen wants to borrow a grill from him and her father as the cooktop at her Airbnb is broken, Viktor wants her to come to lunch on the weekend. After she has left, Viktor calls her and asks her to call May and Graham, her aunt and uncle, to invite them to the lunch.

When Helen returns to the office, she finds George has decorated her office with a beanbag, a custom motivational wall poster he had made for Helen, and other items from Kmart. Ray walks past and also tries to figure out what the mysterious switch is for. Later Helen asks Joanna not to have Minh come into the house and watch TV, only for Joanna to passive-aggressively take the TV out of the house.

The next morning, Helen is eating breakfast and scribbles all over a book by William G.H. Ford. She spots Minh burning rubbish in the backyard and asks her to throw the book in the fire. Later she arrives at her father’s house with May and Graham for lunch. Viktor announces at the table that he and Tony got married at a registry office last week. Helen asks Tony why he didn’t tell her or invite her to the service. He said that he didn’t want to bother her with it. Later, Tony spots a possum in the yard and ends up killing it with a slingshot. Viktor asks Helen to pick up the corpse and put it in the bin, then gives her the corpse in an esky for her to take away. When Helen gets home, she tries to put the possum in the bin, but the bins are full, so she leaves it in the esky by the bins.

Later, Juliana confronts Helen about the possum thinking it was a cat, and Minh has burned it. Joanna kicks her out of the house. Helen tries to drop her dog, Artie, off at Viktor and Tony’s house, but Viktor refuses to take care of him due to his allergies. She then drives to May and Graham’s and drops Artie off there, and thanks them for letting her stay with them.

Later Gina comes to see Helen and tells her she doesn’t want Kellie-Joy to have the five grams of Alan’s cremains. When Roz sees Helen trying to give Gina toilet paper for tissues, Roz reassures her that’s not going to happen. After Gina leaves, Helen leaves to collect her stuff from Joanna’s house and collects something else that is not shown onscreen. When Helen returns to the office, George has bought her a coffee from Artisan and has Alan’s cremains ready. We then see George measure out the five grams of cremains for Kellie-Joy, after she leaves, Helen informs an angry Gina and Roz, that the cremains Kellie-Joy were given weren’t Alan’s.

Later Ray asks Helen about the cremains, guessing what animal they were from. The episode ends with Helen’s office table collapsing, and the reveal that the mysterious switch is connected to a neon sign in Artisan.

Overall, I enjoyed this episode as Helen’s intellect was put on display even more in this episode, especially with her equation to determine how many cremains Kellie-Joy would get, and giving her possum cremains so Gina and her family could keep all of Alan’s cremains. I’m also happy that Helen’s not staying at the Airbnb house anymore as Joanna would be unbearable to watch for a whole season. I also enjoyed the interactions between Helen, her aunt and uncle, and her father and Viktor, providing insight into the Fisk family dynamic.

Best one liners and interactions:

• “I believe the expression is ‘why go out for a hamburger when you’re getting steak at home’” “Right, sorry but I still don’t understand what you’re saying.” “I’m saying I’m the steak.” “Yeah nah, I think in that scenario, you’re the hamburger.” “I’m not the hamburger! I’m fillet steak!” “You’re really not, you’re more like a kebab.” (Bob to Kellie-Joy, then Helen to Kellie-Joy, and then Kellie-Joy and Helen going back-and-forth)
• “You sound like my grandmother.” “Yeah I do like big pants.” (George-Helen)
• “I thought a tramp stamp would be more suitable.” “I’ve already got one Gina, so joke’s on you.” (Gina-Kellie-Joy about using Alan’s cremains as part of a tattoo)
• “Make sure I get a good five grams, like from his heart you know? I don’t want foot ashes or anything.” (Kellie-Joy to Bob)
• “All this for $80 at Kmart, can you believe it?” “Yes I can.” (George-Helen)
• “That’s a fun top, looks like you joined a mime school, I love it!” (Viktor to Helen on her black-and-white horizontally striped top)
• “Ooh Christ, you look like shit!” “That’s what I said!” (Ray-George on Helen’s appearance)
• “Thank you George.” “Taste the deception.” (Helen-George on George getting Helen a coffee from the Artisan café)
• “There’s your dad, every last gram of him, you’re welcome!” (Helen to Gina)
• “Animal? Oh no Fisk, you didn’t kill a cat?” “I don’t have a cat.” “Anymore.” (Ray-Helen-Ray on the cremains)