“Episode #1.6” is episode six of season one of Misfits and the season finale.
A conservatively dressed girl is telling a group about how bad she used to be and that she’s not like that anymore. In the distance, the others are watching. Nathan thinks the group isn’t normal. Alisha knows the girl who was speaking; she went to her school. Alisha explains how the girl used to behave, perhaps going into it too much. Kelly says it’s the same with the girls on her estate. They’re not even getting pregnant any more. Kelly asks Simon his opinion and Nathan has a go at him again. More of the conservatively dressed approach and, when Nathan asks why they are dressed like retards, invite them to a meeting in the community centre that night. Curtis knows the boy who spo0ke and said he used to be a right headcase. The girl running the group is saying that people need their help and things have to change.
The others are surprised Sally isn’t there. Simon says he thinks she’s gone on holiday to Greece. Not true; she was accidentally killed during a struggle in the previous episode. With no-one around, Alexis and Curtis leave. The girl from the park is washing in the toilets when she hears Alexis and Curtis. After Curtis has gone, she tells Alisha that if she looks like a slut she’ll be treated like a slut. She tells Alisha that she doesn’t need to behave like this, she can be so much better. It looks like the girl, Rachel, has a power.
In the locker room, Kelly is telling Simon to ignore Nathan. He doesn’t care what anyone says to him and thinks everyone else is the same. Kelly hears Simon thinking that he did it for all of them, to protect them. Simon unlocks a door to a storage room and opens a freezer. Inside it is Sally’s body.
Pete enters the office where Nathan is misusing the phone line and asks if he’s seen Sally. Nathan hasn’t. When Pete leaves, Curtis recognises him as being the police. Then a very prim and proper Alisha walks in. The others are stunned. Curtis goes to see Alisha, who says she’s sorting her life out. She’s done so many things she’s ashamed of. It’s not too late for Curtis either. He should come to a meeting of the group, Virtue. Outside, Rachel sees Nathan rolling a joint. She tells him off and he ignores her. She tries telling him he could do so much better. Nothing happens. Turns out he had his headphones in.
Curtis tells the other three that the lot they saw yesterday have done something to Alisha. Simon says it’s the storm. Nathan says he doesn’t know that. Simon replies that every time weird stuff happens, it’s always the storm. Hasn’t he worked that out yet? Curtis says he has a point.
That night, Curtis bumps into Alisha on the way home. She was waiting for him. As were other members of Virtue, who grab him and put a bag over his head. At home, Simon is watching a video of Sally, then deletes them all.
Nathan is making his bed in the community centre when Kelly arrives with pizza. She talks to him about Simon, and whether Nathan knows what his power is. He’s given up on it. Anyway, you can’t improve on perfection. They are going to steal some booze when Virtue arrive, pulling Curtis in with a hood over his head. Nathan thinks that looks suspicious. Really? When the hood is removed and they see it’s Curtis, Kelly wants to help but Nathan says there are too many.
The next day, Simon is watching Curtis and other members of Virtue burning things when Nathan and Kelly speak to him. They explain what happened to Curtis. Rachel is being interviewed for television and, during the interview, she looks straight at the camera and tells the viewers they can be so much better, they don’t have to be like that. Does her power work through the television?
Nathan, Simon and Kelly decide they need to do something. It’s not like parents or the authorities are going to be upset that all the teenagers in town are well-behaved. First, they plan to get Alisha. To stop her power, the wear rubber gloves. To stop Rachel’s, earphones.
Rachel’s power does work through television it seems and the town is now overrun in something similar to a zombie apocalypse. A very well-behaved conservatively dressed zombie apocalypse. Zombie Apocalypse of the Stepford Wives perhaps. Someone new makes a partial appearance and Nathan’s power is finally revealed. There was a hint of what it might be in a previous episode.