“Episode #1.5” is episode five of season one of Misfits.
Simon is filming Curtis, Alisha and Kelly when Nathan grabs the phone from his hand and starts winding him up. Inside the community centre, Sally is going through Simon’s locker with a man. In the previous episode she’d found Tony’s credit card in Simon’s bag. The man, Pete, asks why she put it back. Because they need to catch Simon using it. Pete replies that, even if they do, that doesn’t mean he killed Tony. He could have found it. All they can do is do Simon for fraud. Pete tells her to stop; she could lose her job. He knows it’s difficult.
When the five come back in, Sally speaks to each in her office. Curtis, Alisha, Kelly and Nathan are not terribly cooperative. Sally spends longer with Simon, saying it’s not easy being him and that he’s more mature than the others. Kelly and Nathan are cleaning up outside the office and Kelly wonders why Simon is in there longer. So, Nathan goes over to the window and is himself. Sally calls him a twat then says that’s unprofessional. Simon agrees with her assessment though. Sally wants to know what Simon likes doing. Making videos and editing them together, which explains why he’s continually videoing things. She has a friend who runs an editing suite. Perhaps she could get him some work experience there.
After the five have finished, Curtis says he can’t see Alisha that night; he’s going to his uncle’s. Sally stops by Simon on his way home and offers him a lift. The real reason why Curtis isn’t seeing Alisha is because he’s seeing Sam. His attempt to rewind history so that she didn’t go to jail worked – after first getting her killed then Alisha, Kelly and Simon, but not Nathan, being killed by Tony. This did mean that Sam is still his girlfriend. Curtis tries breaking up with Sam, but rewinds when she starts crying.
Sally is asking Simon what he’s going to do. Probably go online. When Simon does, he tells shygirl18 that he’s met a girl and he thinks she’s lonely. Shygirl18, who is, of course, Sally, suggests Simon ask the girl out.
Whilst Nathan, Kelly and Simon are cleaning the community centre’s windows, Nathan is speculating that maybe his power is talking to animals. Simon is watching Sally and Curtis and Alisha are together. Sam gets a call and sees Sam coming in. She asks the other three where Curtis is and the chronically unable to tell the truth Nathan spins some lies. Afterwards, Nathan tells Curtis his other girlfriend was here. Curtis says he’s tried to end it, but each time she ends up crying and he rewinds. He’s finished with Sam six times now. Nathan suggests Curtis make Sam hate him, then he won’t feel guilty.
Back at work, Nathan hears a baby crying and heads inside. He picks up the child and speaks to the baby’s mother about her. Nathan seems infatuated. When Sally asks what Nathan’s doing, he replies that he found a baby and he’s beautiful. Sally thinks he’s not being serious, because that’s not at all in character. And rather opposite to Nathan’s earlier comments about babies.
After they finish, Simon deliberately waits for Sally, then walks out. She calls him over and he asks her out for a drink. She says she can’t; she’s his probation worker. Then calls him back. Curtis is trying to break up with Sam again. Many, many times. Finally, he repeats a line Nathan told him. Which she recognises as being from Spider-man and storms off angrily, not appreciating being dumped that way. That worked.
Sally has gone for a drink with Curtis. Not a surprise. There’s another person, matt, there, one Simon spoke to in the past events of the previous episode. He lives next door to Simon and they went to school together. After they started going to secondary school, Matt stopped speaking to him. Yes, it was his house Simon tried to burn down. Matt sent a message inviting Simon to the club and Simon thought he wanted to apologise. He explains how it actually happened. Simon got drunk and lost it. He made sure Matt’s family was out then pushed burning tissues through the letterbox. There was a cat inside the house and the cat had never done anything to Simon. So, he put the fire out. In a rather obvious way, given that there was a letterbox. Sally thinks that’s funny.
This episode is focusing on Simon, and Sally’s attempts to seduce him. There may be times when she feels a bit guilty about what she’s doing to Simon, but she presses on anyway.