Post by Saffron on Sept 30, 2009 20:49:41 GMT
The episode opens at a river, where a single student, Ross, succeeds in beating the whole rowing crew in a race, much to the joy of his boyfriend Jonty, one of the leading members of the Dandelion club. Maltravers and Cooper are discussing Ross’ performance in the race and we quickly learn that Ross is the mysterious ‘Galahad’ who is the subject of their experiments. Cooper is worried about Ross’ psychological well being, but aside from that, he is performing well physically. To rectify the problem, they need to get a new ‘hour-glass’ and Maltravers reveals that he is having it smuggled to the college, hidden in a statue which is being returned after being repaired.
At the meeting of the College Council the Warden is informed that the refurbishment of the statue will cost £60,000, and even worse, that the damage was caused by nothing more than a Dandelion Club tradition. Despite her attempts to force the club to pay for the damage, she is outvoted by Maltravers and the other dons. However, as he leaves the meeting, Maltravers himself warns Dorian that this year, the club cannot mess with the statue under any circumstances, but from the look on Dorian’s face, we can tell that he has plans to uphold the tradition.
In the student common room Theo and another student, David, are challenged to a game of pool by Jonty and Ross. With £500 riding on the result, the pressure is on for them but, despite taunting from Jonty, Theo sinks the black and wins the game. David taunts the losers mildly leading to Ross utterly losing his composure; he picks up David and throws him with almost superhuman strength across the room and then begins to pummel him senseless.
Meanwhile Dorian is busy using his Fools, Raj and Angus, to carry out his plans for the statue. Without their knowledge he drugs them through the tea he offers them, enabling him to paint them gold and put them in place of the real statue. Conscious, but unable to move, Raj and Angus are less than happy about being positioned as gay lovers entwined.
As other members of the Dandelion club move the genuine statue to a hidden location they mistakenly barge into Maddy’s room. They leave the room but fail to notice a small hour-glass shaped pendant fall to the floor.
In light of Ross’ assault on David, the Warden convenes a tribunal with the aim of expelling Ross from Trinity. Theo offers to testify that he was a witness to the unprovoked assault. At the tribunal it appears that everything is going to plan; Dr Lloyd and the Warden vote for Ross’ expulsion; only Maltravers supports the Dandelion. However, just as the Warden is announcing the decision, David stands up and changes his story, he now claims that he provoked Ross but the Warden made him lie because she hates the Dandelion club. Maltravers ends up fining Theo for lying to the tribunal; coincidentally the fine is equal to the amount of the original bet he won, £500. Both Theo and the Warden are outraged by the power of the Dandelion club.
Maltravers and Cooper approach the statue to search for the hourglass and discover Raj and Angus, who have now recovered sufficiently to flee. A furious Maltravers threatens Dorian to reveal the location of the genuine statue but is left frustrated when he finds the hourglass missing from its hiding place. When they inform the mysterious American voice of the hourglass’ loss and ask for time to find it they are informed that ‘termination’ is the recommended course, which shocks them both.
The following day, tragedy strikes the quads of Trinity when the body of Ross is discovered. It appears he has thrown himself from the clocktower.