Bad Education S2E5 - "Drugs" Recap

It's Drugs Awareness Day at Abbey Grove. Stephen is upset that his parents want him to change schools because they feel Abbey Grove is not academic enough. He asks Alfie to have Rosie convince his parents to let him stay because he thinks she is persuasive.

Rosie attempts to give her presentation to Alfie's class but then Fraser arrives with his guest speaker India and interrupts. Rosie doesn't approve of her methods and the two clash. Alfie asks Rosie if she is jealous of India. Alfie and India bond and she invites him to go out and party. Ironically, she is quite keen on consuming in recreational drugs. He pretends to have access to a drug called "Dirty Vienetta" (something he has fabricated).

Alfie buys tickets to a rave from Grayson and tries to buy drugs off of him too but ends up being blackmailed by him. Professor Green sees the interaction take place. Since Alfie can't find a way to buy drugs, he decides to make them instead. He is summoned to Green's office who tells him she saw him give money to Grayson. She tells him she understands addiction, citing her sexual addiction to Alfie's father as an example.

Rosie catches Alfie preparing to cook up drugs with some of his pupils and they get into an argument. Once he has cooked some "Dirty Vienetta" cooked up, he shows it to India, who mistrusts its appearance. He scoops some of it into his mouth and ends up throwing up on India's lap. He wanders the hallways high and spots Fraser in the loo dressed as a prawn. He then begins to believe he is a mermaid and wanders back into the classroom where Green is giving a presentation with two police officers and a drug-sniffing dog. He begins babbling believing he is Ariel, Green is Ursula, and Joe is Flounder.

Joe runs out of the classroom to get Rosie to come help Alfie. She is reluctant to help but Joe tells her this whole business with India is just his way of trying to prove he is over Rosie even though he isn't. When Rosie comes in, Alfie is wearing a red mop on his head and yellow paper seashells. He makes a fool of himself in front of Stephen's parents, who are visiting. Rosie plays along and claims Alfie is playing a character to teach about the consequences of drug abuse. Alfie's pupils play along and Rosie subtly gets Green to see that firing Alfie and having him arrested would ruin her chances with his father. Stephen's parents agree to let him stay at Abbey Grove despite the fact that Alfie pees his pants.

Following the mayhem, Alfie visits Green's office and finds his dad sitting at her desk. He is getting a blow job from Green, who is crouched beneath it.

Bad Education airs on Tuesdays on BBC Three.