Ep. 48 - The Gathering
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The Gathering is a Channel 4 original series that takes place leading up to an attack of Kelly Deacon (Eva Morgan) at an illegal beach rave in Merseyside. Kelly is a high schooler who is a talented gymnast in special training program. Her and Jessica (Sadie Soverall) were very good friends, but their desire for a spot in the world tournament drives them apart, made worse by Jessica’s mother—an overly obsessed and manipulative woman. Kelly’s friend Adam introduces her to a new guy in the group, Bazi, and Kelly introduces Adam to Jessica. Kelly, Adam, Bazi and their freerunner group in the city. Kelly and Bazi run away from the police together after they meet and decide to spend time together again later. Kelly’s father Paul deals with some legal trouble regarding a fight that broke out at a soccer game with Charlie’s father Julian. Julian is hell-bent on putting Paul in prison while Paul states that he wasn’t the aggressor in their scuffle. Adam and Jessica start exchanging texts including intimate photos and videos. Adam and his friends spend a lot of time partying in clubs where they do party drugs to enhance their experience. Adam also DJs at some of these clubs, and is asked by his father Louis to DJ a party at their home. During the party, Adam’s father and his friend are upstairs doing cocaine when <name?> (Adam’s step mother’s friend’s daughter) crashes their party and insists she won’t leave without getting a bump. Kelly sees her leaving the room upstairs and sees Louis and his friend with the cocaine. Jessica comes to the party and where she is drugged and ends up in the hospital. The doctor at the hospital tells Jessica and her mother that they found a large amount of ketamine in her system. Kelly tells Adam that she’d seen Louis giving drugs to another girl, but doesn’t tell the hospital. Bazi ghosts Kelly and when she goes to where he lives, she’s told he moved South. . He’s hiding a dark secret—he’s on a gay dating app where he has sex with men for money. Bazi is raising money to bring his sister to the UK with him, paying some thugs who have connections to get her into town. Bazi meets Charlie on this app, who promises to give him money to bring her to the UK. Kelly finds out that Bazi was captured in a football photo recently, contradicting the story that he moved away. Kelly ends up seeing Bazi and Charlie together being intimate, which she uses to extort Charlie into getting his dad to drop the case again her father. At the illegal rave, Jessica confronts Adam about leaking her nude photos and videos, angrily walking away because he’s too inebriated to have the conversation. Kelly takes a pill and ends up having a bad high. Jessica is catcalled by Adam’s brother Josh and his friends, retorting in such a way that Josh follows her. Josh makes some intimate comments about Jessica, who has some flashbacks of being assaulted by Josh the night she was drugged. Kelly, in her bad trip, is walking away from the party to cool down and stumbles across Jessica and Josh struggling and tries to help Jessica but falls into the water. Panicking about getting in trouble for what he’s done, Josh pushes Kelly underwater to try silencing her, and after she stops struggling he runs away. A while later, Kelly is seen in the hospital in fine condition. Adam comes to visit her, where she wants to confess to him first before the authorities that Josh attacked her. Adam confronts Josh, telling him to do the right thing and turn himself in. Adam and Josh go to the police station and Josh turns himself in. Paul is thrown in prison as it turns out he was the aggressor in the soccer match fight, and Adam is kicked out of his home. Adam moves in with Kelly and Tate (Kelly’s brother) so that he has somewhere to live and they can all take care of each other.