“Episode #1.4” is episode four of season one of Misfits.
Curtis is running, but in black and white, because he’s dreaming. He’s woken up by his phone’s alarm and looks at his community service jumpsuit and a newspaper that had a front-page headline about his ban. He obviously doesn’t want to get up. However, he does and heads into the community centre. Alisha is there, and not wearing a lot under her own jumpsuit. They go into one of the rooms; in the previous episode, they’d decided to have a ‘phone’ relationship but face to face. Nathan hears them and pulls up the shutter.
Alisha, as they head to the locker room, asks if Curtis thinks Nathan told the others. Nathan clearly did. Another girl briefly enters, sees Curtis and Alisha together, and leaves. As the five of them leave to do their service, Kelly asks if Alisha and Curtis are together. Alisha says she guesses, and it’s really special. It doesn’t sound it. Sally is watching them leave. Outside, the girl from earlier speaks to Curtis. They know each other, and you can guess who she is. Sam; Curtis’s former girlfriend who went to prison because she had most of the drugs. She got out a few days ago.
Sally is on the phone with someone; she doesn’t believe Simon’s ruse with Tony’s credit card. If they don’t do something, she will, and she goes to the locker room and starts searching the lockers.
Curtis is speaking to Sam. She isn’t having a lot of fun, having a conviction for dealing. Why didn’t Curtis visit her in prison? Because he felt guilty as he asked her to buy. He told the police that it was his stuff but they didn’t listen. Curtis would change it if he could. Sam says he should have visited. She really isn’t happy, and leaves.
Curtis then rewinds a long way, and he’s in a club. Just before the drug purchase. He takes the drugs and runs into the toilet, chased by the police. He manages to flush the drugs away, after first having to clean it, and escapes through the window. Curtis is still being pursued and is hiding in the garage when he sees Nathan. Nathan, not knowing Curtis, behaves like Nathan. Curtis leaves a message for Sam. Nathan has gone bowling. He’s not very good.
The police are still after Curtis and Nathan is drinking from the bowling alley’s refreshment stand. And eating pick and mix. In the first episode, he said he got done for eating pick and mix. Daft as it sounds, maybe he was telling the truth. The place’s manager tells Nathan to pay. Nathan makes fun of the fact he’s called Beverly. Beverly calls for security and tries grabbing Nathan.
Sam calls Curtis back. The police let them go and Danny, whose drugs they were, wants his drugs. Curtis says he will give him the money and he’s on his way. Nathan is pretending to have a fit to stop Beverly and the bowling alley’s security from grabbing him. Kelly is also in the club with her boyfriend. She’s rather the worse for wear.
Nathan is now in the manager’s office. Beverley says Nathan thinks he’s better; Nathan knows he is, because if this was the future, he’d have to kill himself. Beverly tells him to pay up or he will call the police. Nathan says to call them, then he’ll pay, then to call then, then he’ll pay and is childish with a card.
Curtis finds Kelly on the stairs and gives her his hoodie. Unfortunately, his money was in the jacket. Nathan has tried paying with an expired card. Curtis tells Danny he had to flush the drugs. Danny wants paying. Curtis doesn’t have a problem with that, until he realises he’s left his cash in his hoodie. Danny starts going off on one, there’s a struggle and Sam is stabbed with Danny’s knife by accident during it. Curtis rewinds again.
Not only was Kelly in the club on Curtis’s fateful day, Alisha and Simon were as well. In addition, Sally and Tony – who displays that he really did have some anger management issues before being affected by the storm – were at the bowling alley. Rather a lot of coincidental encounters. Curtis looks like he’s going to keep rewinding until he gets it right. Obviously, something is going to happen so that there isn’t a major change. Messing with time is an uncertain thing, and there can be, and are, odd side effects. There might be a hint as to what Nathan’s, so far unknown, power is.