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Oh, there's alway conditions, Mark, you can ignore conditions. When you sign up for a credit card or adopt a child there are conditions. They're meaningless.

—Jeremy, "Jeremy's Mummy"

Jeremy's Mummy
Series 05, episode 04
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Episode details
Date aired 23 May 2008
Previous episode Jeremy's Broke
Next episode Jeremy's Manager


Jeremy's Mummy is the fourth episode of series 5 and twenty-eighth overall episode of Peep Show.

Summary[]

Jeremy's great-aunt Gwen dies and Jeremy is thrilled at the proposition of attaining an inheritance of £20,000, since his mother promised him one half of her £40,000. Jeremy believes this establishes him as a "millionaire". While going through his aunt's belongings, he finds a gun and keeps it, nicknaming it "Gunny." Mark warns him against keeping a gun in the flat even though he is personally very fascinated by the gun.

Jeremy is extremely rude to his mother, something which his mother Jackie seems to be used to. Mark does not understand this rudeness and says that Jeremy's established level of tension with his mother is going to give him a "heart attack." Jackie reveals to Jeremy that she has a boyfriend named Martin, and when Martin shows up he says to Jeremy that he ought not to be still living on handouts from his mother, a statement that only increases the tension in the room.

While Martin is in the apartment, Mark and Martin share a short conversation about military history, as Mark knows he was a former Scots Guards.

Moments later Jackie calls the house and invites Mark to dinner with her and Martin at the exorbitantly fancy Bavo London. Jeremy is excited as this might mean that they wish to talk about the inheritance. Mark promises to put in a good word for him at dinner.

At the dinner, Mark is amazed that a good bond is forming between him and Martin. They share a laugh at Jeremy's expense, but two things are established — Martin asks Mark if he would like to consider writing his memoir, and Jackie promises to give Jeremy the money on one condition: that Mark be the caretaker of the funds.

Mark reveals this news to Jeremy who bristles but accepts begrudgingly as this is the only way he'd ever see any of the money.

At Gwen's wake, tensions continue to stew as Jackie seems to reneg on her promise and Martin tells Jeremy that it's because they intend to invest in a property in Corfu. This is the last straw for Jeremy and he openly begs his mom for money. Mark is also less than pleased when Martin reveals that he has also taken a bit of a step back, and is shopping around for writers. Apparently there is a navy expert, "Brandon" in the mix.

Perplexed as to his next move, Mark decides it may be prudent to get closer to Martin via his quasi-butch daughter Natalie, who he meets at the funeral reception held at at the Adam and Eve. He is convinced that Natalie is a lesbian, especially after she mentions "genuinely loving" a female teacher from her past. However, in a strange twist of events, he wakes up in the middle of the night to find Natalie having sex with him.

The next morning Mark relates what has happened to Jeremy only to realize that what he's described to Jeremy is actually sexual assault. Jeremy and Hans (who has entered into the apartment with his own set of Apollo House keys) harangue Mark about being raped. Mark insists that it isn't rape but isn't quite sure how he would describe it, as it was non-consensual.

The next day while Jackie and Martin are checking out of their hotel, Martin gives Mark diaries that might prove to be a treasure trove for the memoir. Mark is elated until he discovers that Jeremy attempts to frame Martin by putting the gun in his luggage. Martin walks in just in time, sees the commotion by his bags and is furious. In a bout of frustration, Jeremy blurts out that "Natalie raped Mark". Mark tries to calm the situation, but cannot reconcile his sense of being violated, the truth, and the need to diffuse Jeremy's anger. This creates an extremely awkward and horrific situation for all, and as a final coup-de-grace, Natalie takes the precious diaries out of Mark's hands as the elevator doors close, and ostensibly ending the "book deal" Mark so stringently tried to secure.

Trivia[]

  • Jeremy reacts indignantly when Martin guesses that Jeremy is 35 years old, but he doesn't deny it. When this episode was produced, actor Robert Webb was indeed 35 years old.
  • It is revealed in this episode that Super Hans has a set of Apollo House keys and a key to Mark's flat.
  • Jeremy's nickname for Natalie is "Peaches Stalin."
  • Jeremy's two nicknames by his mother are revealed: "Pumpkin," and "Little Henry Hassle."
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