The Cycle

Called "The Cycle", this episode is about the lifecycle our characters. Evans voiceover talks about the cycle in the city compared to the country, where in the city it's basically all about "night, when you sleep or try to, and day". We then see each character progressing through their day - Rex & Alex retreating to bed as they don't have to be in at the hospital until 3 that afternoon, Evan in his new job making bets on which hat the cute girl at work will wear that day, Kelly at Uni, Gab at her work seeing a man who's recently been sacked because he discovered he wasn't being paid the award rate, Christian & Miranda squabbling over the milk and then Miranda at her new job, proceeding to ask Chloe if she'd like to come over to her and Christian's place for dinner tomorrow night. Evan heads for drinks with his workmates & then continues to tell us about the week, saying "Monday you go home and watch TV, Tuesday is pretty much the same as Monday, Wednesday you start worrying about your weight or exercise and Thursday the stress begins to show and the pressure must be alleviated". Christian, Kelly and Gab are sitting in Christian & Miranda's place talking about the parallels of Star Wars and everyday life. Christian's asking whether you would be friends with Luke Skywalker considering that he controls the universe. The discussion develops to talking about September 11 and how bizarre it was the 911 is the US emergency number, and why no plane wreckage was found at the pentagon. They decide that Luke Skywalker can't exactly be compared to Osama Bin Laden. And so we hear Evan again tell us that a day in our lives is simply "a passage of time that is now over and we'll never remember it again in our lives but it will repeated again & again. The next day, obviously Friday, we see the characters fast forwarding through the morning, Evan waking up and heading for the bathroom, Miranda throwing up her hands at the empty fridge, Gab heading into her office, Alex & Rex saying goodbye as they head to their respective areas of the hospital, Kelly at Uni asking "Why is it when there are 5,000 people starting uni the same time as you that you're the only one that gets lost?" She finds a room, knocks and asks the guy inside where her tutorial room is. He asks who her tutor is and says don't bother going because all she'll hear about in the first tute is stuff about the tutor himself. He asks her to sit down and be a victim of his psychology masters questionnaire. She accepts and starts answering the "mainly closed questions". Gab decides she wants to take the case of the sacked worker to the Equal Opportunities Commission for a chance at reconiliation prior to taking it to the Tribunal, which her co-worker wants to do. Evan tells us that "Friday afternoon you start thinking about who you're going to share bodily fluids with in the next 48 hours and binge drinking". He then walks off with his co-workers, along with the cute girl with the hats. Kelly has fun answering Jack's questions but their question time is cut short when Jack's friends, one of whom is Kelly tutor, come and whisk him away for another engagement. Jack asks Kelly to come along and they head to a pub and play pool with some beers. Miranda asks Chloe if she's still coming for dinner and Chloe says she's as good as there. Gab goes home by herself with a bottle of vino. We see Simon sitting by himself with an open bottle of red ready to pour, but he stops and recorks. Alex & Rex are at the hospital, Rex asks "So have you thought about it yet?" Evan's at a bar with his workmates and they're talking about the weirdest places they've had sex. Evan says that the best place is in the disabled toilet because nobody knocks, it's clean and like your own party room. They all think that's a great idea. Chloe comes to Christian and Miranda's for dinner and they discuss their eating habits. Chloe doesn't eat chicken because she found out about battery chickens when she was young, but would have eaten it if she'd been served it. Christian says he's a vegetarian who eats meat(!). Evan's in the disabled toilet with his workmates, who are snorting coke & decide that they don't want to go anywhere to eat, they just want to take drugs. Gab is watching TV and drinking wine alone. Kelly and Jack leave the pub to go to a party. Alex and Rex are at the hospital still, Rex asks, "Do you want to or not?" and gets frustrated when she doesn't say yes. Kelly leaves the party with Jack and his friends to go for some food. Evan leaves the bar with his friends and they all hop in a nice new Audi, with one of them driving. They pass the car that Kelly's in, and then pass Christian, Miranda & Chloe walking along the street, all parties oblivious to crossing paths. Gabrielle goes down to the Foo Bar where Simon is sitting contemplating the soon-to-be renovated Foo Bar. He reopens the wine for himself and Gabrielle and says that it's the first time he's had a drink in the bar with a friend. Christian, Miranda and Chloe go down to the beach and decide to go skinny dipping. Alex says "Yes, I want to" to Rex. It's now daylight & Kelly and Jack are walking along the beach. Evan wakes up and recalls snippets of the night before. Kelly and Jack say goodbye with a kiss. Evan waits at the apartment entrance and catches Kelly on her way home who lets him in. He doesn't know what happened to his jacket and keys and says he doesn't remember what he got up to. Gabrielle didn't hear his phonecalls and is still asleep. Christian, Miranda and Chloe are walking home bedraggled from their night out & about. Evan and Kelly go into Alex and Rex's room where they're sitting on the bed. Alex tells them she's moving out into Rex's place which'll be ready in a few weeks. Kelly says it's the end of their apartment and Alex says it's not. Evan's voiceover describes how being apart of someone's life who you've known for so long can stop suddenly.