What’s it all about? Alfie!

Episode 4.04
Writer: Tom Grieves
Director: Daniel O'Hara

THE ONE WHERE Murderous ghost Alfie Kirby insiღnuates himself into Honolulu Heightsꦇ and turns the housemates against each other.

(coꦿ-written by Giorgio Moroder, dontchaknow), the song that inspired a thousand football chants. , meanwhile (sampled recently for house track "Barbra Streisand") wasn't a hit until 1979. Oh, and Tom’s “out on the town” music is the appropriately tiꦗtled .

READING MATERIAL Hal and Tom’s contrasting literary choices sum up the gulfꦚ between them rather well: and (copies of which are seen piled up on Tom’s bedside table). Good work, props department!

REFERENCES Kirby namechecks Star Trek and Starsky And Hutch , while Hal is a fan of Radio Four consumer show You And Yours .

NITPICKS Do they have TV in the afterlife? Kirby must have seen Starsky And Hutch post-mortem somehow, since although it began airing in 1975 it didn’t hit the UK until April 1976 – unless he went on holiday to the States in &rsqꦜuo;75, of course. Whaddaya mean, "overly pedantic"?

LOOKING FORWARD Tom’s fantasy alternate life (where he’s half of a “power couple”, m🔯𒁃arried to a barrister) will crop up again in a future episode...

SPECULATION So, is Hal “the man with the burnt arm”? Doubt it – that’s just Toby Whithouse screwing with us, surely? I’m guessing that when the leader of The Old Ones finally turns up his entire limb will be burnt. Also, if ghost-girl-from-the-future wants to kill Eve, can’t she just pass through and do it herself? Maybe it's because she actually is Eve and it would cause some kind of world-dest꧑ꦜroying temporal paradox if she did the deed herself?

BEST LINE Kirby: “Evil♒ is like travelling first class. Try it once and you can never go back.”

Ian Berriman

Read more of our .

Read our web-exclusive interviews with (Hal), showrunner and (Tom).