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Later, Helen meets with another client, Carole, who is receiving texts from Leonard, her husband who died six months ago. Carole has come to see Helen as she thought there might be a reason in the will as to why she’s receiving these messages. Helen tells her that the only thing that stands out in the will is a trust account making payments to a business by the name of BTG Holdings and asks Carole if that means anything to her. Carole says no, but Helen says she’ll look into it for her, asking George to look into the business online. Meanwhile throughout the day, Fun Peggy is hitting Helen with ping-pong balls, telling her that she has to “always be ready.” At the end of the day, Helen leaves and goes to see Viktor and Tony.

While Helen, Viktor and Tony are having drinks, they are discussing the fact that Helen has never argued a case in court before. Tony suggests that he, Viktor and Helen hold a mock trial to get her to practice her court skills. They end up practising for hours, which ends with Helen getting upset in frustration. She leaves telling them that she’ll come back tomorrow for dinner.

The next morning, May and Graham are continuing to learn how to use Veloxa, sending Helen a text and dancing to music in their kitchen. Helen goes to the address that George gave to her the day before, where BTG Holdings are. BTG Holdings is revealed to be Beyond the Grave Messaging, where automated texts are sent to people on the request of BTG’s clients. The owner tells her that Leonard purchased their gold package, which sends certain messages to Carole based on her location. Helen asks the owner to close the account but is unable to as Leonard would have to close the account.

When Helen arrives at the office, she sees Fun Peggy, Roz and George working in the conference room and hits them with ping pong balls, only for Fun Peggy to inform her, with her personalised clock, that it’s “time to work” and they are in work mode. At the end of the day, Helen goes back to Viktor and Tony’s house for dinner, and they tell her that they’re going to help her organise her court documents. We see Viktor sort Helen’s documents by colour and with post-it notes, and times how long it takes her to find documents once he’s done. She then practices this again in another mock court with them.

The next day, Helen is working away when Fun Peggy hits her with a ping-pong ball, but this time Helen is prepared with her own racquet, hitting the ball away, and pointing at one of Fun Peggy’s clocks silently, telling her she’s in work mode. Fun Peggy respectfully nods in response. While Helen tries to leave the office, telling Roz and Ray how pumped she is for court, they tell her that the client has called and agreed to settle. Helen tells them how hard she has worked and thinks she can get more money for the client, admitting to them that she has never argued a case in court in the process.

Despite not being able to use her new found organisation skills in court, Helen is able to put these skills to work to get BTG Holdings to close Leonard’s account so Carole no longer receives texts from him. However the owner tells Helen they could have just blocked the number, however Helen counters that even if Carole did this, he would still be taking money from Carole.

Later back at the office, George informs Helen that Fun Peggy is leaving and that she has to say goodbye. Fun Peggy charges her for the merchandise (her personalised clock and ping-pong racquet).

The episode ends with a credits scene, showing Helen asking Veloxa how to block a phone number, so she can stop getting messages from Graham via Veloxa. She also asks Veloxa how to search the dark web, only for Veloxa to activate an alert for illegal activity and notifying authorities of her request. Helen throws Veloxa in the fridge and police sirens can be heard in the background.

Overall I felt this was a slightly weaker episode then the previous ones, mainly due to the appearance of Fun Peggy. I personally found Fun Peggy annoying, but I also felt that she was given too much focus for a guest character and didn’t really add anything to the episode. While she did have a valid point in that Helen should always be prepared, it was actually Viktor and Tony who brought this point home and helped Helen prepare herself for court.

Speaking of Viktor and Tony, I felt that their interactions with Helen, specifically helping her prepare for her court case were the highlight and strongest parts of the episode. Their scenes together provided insight into Viktor and Tony’s personal and professional relationships, as well as insight into their relationship with Helen. I also appreciated that while Helen wasn’t able to put her new skills to use in court, she was able to transfer these skills in getting a good outcome for another client, not to mention it helped her build her confidence, to the point that she was disappointed in not being able to go to court.

I also felt that the running gag of May and Graham learning how to use Veloxa broke up the episode when needed, however a part of me felt it got a little old towards the end of the episode (with the exception of the credits scene).

Stray Observations:

Running gag: Helen’s customised motivational wall art continuing to be mistaken for a menu.

-Fun Peggy refers to Helen as ‘Hell-Bear’.

-The office has new signage reflecting their name change to ‘Gruber & Associates’.

-Fun Peggy has a Diploma in Communication Therapy.

-Why would Helen need to take a taxi to the BTG Holdings office when she has her own car?

Best one liners and interactions:

• “Pinkerton, was he the hoarder?” “Don’t say that Raymond, it’s pejorative.” “Sorry, was he the guy that was rubbish bin challenged?” (Ray-Roz-Ray)
• “I’m sorry since when did we apportion work in the office by bagsing?” “We don’t, that said, bags not.” (Roz-Ray on work being assigned in the office)
• “I hope you’ve got some of those old lady nappy things Helen, because you are going to wet your pants. She’s the funniest woman ever.” (George to Helen on Fun Peggy)
• “Question for you Helen. Are you ready to board the fun train?” “A bit busy this morning, but if there’s a fun bus later, maybe I can get on that.” (Fun Peggy-Helen)
• “I do regret not putting it about more when I was younger.” (Carole to Helen on her sex life)
• “Normally I just type ‘search the dark web’.” “Does that work?” “Not so far, but one day, who knows. I might catch them with their guard down, suddenly I’m in and I’m dark webbing.” (George-Helen-George on the dark web)
• “Ray doesn’t want this, he says he can’t be arsed going to court. And this is the address you wanted.” “Ooh, where did you find that, the dark web?” “The light one.” (George-Helen-George)
• “See how much easier life is when you make an appointment?” “Yes, appointments are the heart of every family.” (Viktor-Helen)
• “Let’s assume my client needs to eat occasionally, how does she get her groceries without being haunted by her dead husband?” (Helen to BTG owner about Carole receiving texts from Leonard)
• “You’re like a pair of geriatric car jackers who don’t know what they’re doing.” (Helen to Viktor and Tony when they’re trying to open her car doors)
• “Don’t tease her Helen, it’s not a toy.” “It’s not a Tamagotchi either, you don’t have to walk it.” (Graham-Helen on Veloxa)
• “He’s my lover.” “Carole, I thought we agreed you weren’t going to use that word anymore? We said ‘paramour’, remember? Richard is Carole’s paramour.” (Carole, Helen to Carole, then Helen to the BTG owner)