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Episode Guide Date: September 2003
The local community of Rochester launch a search for missing
teenager, Amy. The town is still in shock after another girl
was raped and murdered the previous year. Arty (Jonny Lee
Miller), Colin and Baz are three unemployed drunken wasters
who try to cash in on the search, falsely starting a collection
for all the volunteers.
But their greed and treatment of a girl called Kitty, who's
desperate to find the missing Amy, proves to be their downfall...
Themes
Greed, money, exploitation and desire for power
Writer's Comment
"Chaucer's story is really about three drunken revellers
who get their come-uppance because of greed. I've had to make
my version a lot nastier," reveals Tony Grounds. "You
can't just kill off people on TV these days for being greedy;
our threshold is a lot higher. I needed to make the central
characters very nasty pieces of work."
Original Tale
Set in Flanders, at the height of a black plague, Chaucer's
original was a relatively innocent tale of three greedy fools
and a pot of gold, with the moral that the love of money is
the root of all evil.
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