Revisiting: The Office UK Season 1 Episode 5 New Girl
Donna arrives at the office rather late, and David, who stands as her guardian, scolds him in front of the staff. While David’s reasons and concern are valid, Donna, being old enough to decide for her life, resents that she is berated like a child in public. So, she answers David back and tells him that she did stay over a boy’s pad and it was a boy from the office.
Despite orders from Corporate to cut back on costs, David is hiring himself a secretary and interviews two new prospects, one guy (Stuart) and one pretty girl (Karen). David is not at all interested on Stuart, but pours all attention on Karen. He conducts an interview with her and it was a moment filled with inappropriateness. David is slightly smitten and acts like a pubescent teenager trying to impress the new girl. His antics failed to impress her, and worse David accidentally pokes her eyes with his elbows.
Tim has openly expressed he’s planning to leave the office to pursue a course in psychology. Everyone still remembers how Dawn rejected him when he asked her on a date, and Tim tries to convince them that he was asking her as a friend. Meanwhile, there is a wave of awkwardness between Tim and Dawn, so right now, they aren’t enjoying each other’s company like before.
Gareth, who harbors a secret crush on Donna, conducts a safety training with her as the lone participant. The training is utterly ridiculous and pointless. His real motive though was to press Donna on the details about her rendezvous with the male officemate, to which Donna cleverly avoided.
Down on their luck with women, the boys decide to unwind after work by prowling for some woman companionship and hitting the club scene. But, as things were, they all ended up not having fun that night.
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