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She's taken my sperm. And sperm is like lending someone less than a fiver, you can't really ask for it back.

—Mark, ""Mark's Women""

Mark's Women
Series 05, episode 06
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Episode details
Date aired 6 June 2008
Previous episode Jeremy's Manager
Next episode Jeremy at JLB


Mark's Women is the sixth episode of series 5 and thirtieth overall episode of Peep Show.

Summary[]

Mark is newly promoted and very happy with himself as he keys into his flat. He comes home surprised to find Sophie there, high on marijuana, handing him the annulment forms. She is surprisingly demure compared to her usual, volatile self. He also sees Jeremy at the house, apparently looking depressed over his lack of a future in music.

Alex Lowe as Edwin Pascoe

Jez weeps before this man, Edwin Pascoe, at The New Wellness Centre.

Jeremy and Super Hans begin performing on the street with the hope of getting promoted. Because they are getting cold, they decide to go to The New Wellness Centre, a new-age clinic rumored to be a front for a cult. They do it partially to "mess with them" and give weird answers to their personality tests, but mostly because Jez wants to be in a warm room.

New wellness ext

The exterior of The New Wellness Centre, which Hans and Jeremy attempt to infiltrate.

When Jeremy attempts to mess with the intake specialist giving him the personality test, he ends up becoming emotional when talking about his father leaving when he was a little boy. When he returns home that day, he and Super Hans have joined the cult and have changed their names--Jeremy has changed his name to "Jared."

Mark finds out that Dobby likes online games, specifically the same one that he likes, Fantasy War Quest. He goes to a live, role-playing game with her and Gerrard, who he knows also has feelings for Dobby. While they are finished, he realizes he now has the power to fire Gerard, so he attempts to jettison Gerrard while getting undressed from their medieval costumes. But when Gerrard says he will get legal forces involved since Mark has no real reason to fire him, Mark completely backpedals, apologizes and tells him he is no longer fired. Mark realizes that he is just as inept at firings as British Leyland in 1976.

New wellness book cover

Jeremy introduces Mark to the orgones.

James Bachman, Jim Howick, and Isy Suttie in Mark's Women

Gerrard, Dobby, and the other participants at their outdoor, fantasy role-playing event.

At a JLB office goodbye-party for the newly-redundant departing Sue, Sophie, acting strangely chipper (and drunk), greets Mark and asks him if he wants to go into his office to sign the annulment papers. Mark agrees, and in his office she ends up telling him about the men she is dating, including Tolly, and the fact that she is worried she won't have enough time left to have a baby. He ends up admitting that he misses her, and kissing her in his office. They go home immediately to Mark's place and have sex. When Mark discovers that his condom, "old Meg" has broken, he tells Sophie she should take the morning-after pill. Sophie tells him not to worry about a "one-off", and proceeds to lift her pelvis into the air, presumably to get the sperm to travel to her eggs faster. Mark is furious that Sophie has effectively "stolen his sperm."

Some time later in the offices of JLB, Alan Johnson tells Mark he needs to fire Sophie. However, Sophie has news for Mark--she's pregnant. Mark realizes he can't fire her, and he offers to perhaps fire Paul instead (as he is a pain in the ass anyway) take care of Soph, and do anything she needs in order to have a happy pregnancy, since she plans on keeping the baby. He also realizes this means he can't be with Dobby.

Role playing guy

One of Gerrard's role-playing friends.

When he gets home, he sees Jeremy about to leave to go to the cult commune, influenced by Super Hans, who is trying to get rid of all of their material possessions, including their new HD television, which he smashes (luckily, Mark has it insured). Jeremy finally breaks his "spell" and realizes that the reason he joined the cult was because he felt guilty--he slept with Sophie the night that she was high on marijuana, and the baby could possibly be his, too.

Trivia[]

  • The events of this episode take place over the course of a month.
  • The bar that Jeremy and Hans meet at after they've joined the cult, is The Oval Tavern, their frequent hang in much of the earlier series.

Supporting cast[]

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