'Daddy Ghoul' by Lisa McGee

Learning that his father has died, George decides to attend the funeral in secret, his parents believing him dead for the last three years; sneaking into the cemetery, George is surprised to find someone else watching the proceedings from a hiding place: his father, George Senior, now returned as a ghost. As the two make up for lost time, George is shocked to learn that his parents have split up; his father now lives in a caravan park while his mother shares the family home with her lover, Marcus, who happens to be George’s former Games Teacher. Back at ‘Honolulu Heights’, Herrick begins experiencing withdrawal symptoms for blood; needing to keep the amnesiac vampire alive so that he can learn the means of his resurrection, Mitchell forces Herrick to drink his own blood, but it quickly becomes apparent that only fresh human blood will do. Mitchell then receives a visit from Detective Constable Nancy Reid, who is investigating the Box Tunnel Murders; Mitchell is unaware that it was Nina who tipped off the police… Meanwhile, George helps his father to resolve the issues that are stopping him from passing into the afterlife; however, he soon makes a startling discovery: his father isn’t actually dead…

Lenora Crichlow (Anna ‘Annie’ Clare Sawyer), Russell Tovey (George Sands), Aidan Turner (John Mitchell), Sinead Keenan (Nina Pickering), Jason Watkins (Herrick), James Fleet (George Sands Senior), Erin Richards (Detective Constable Nancy Reid), Justin Salinger (Cooper), Danny Webb (Marcus), Marion Bailey (Ruth Sands)

Directed by Philip John
Produced by Philip Trethowan
Executive Producer Rob Pursey
A Touchpaper Television production for BBC Television

TX (BBC 3):
27th February 2011 @ 9:00 pm

Notes:
*Featuring John Mitchell, George Sands, Annie Sawyer and Nina Pickering

*After this episode transmitted, the BBC’s online and Red Button services showed episode five of ‘Becoming Human’, which chronicled Adam’s time back at school