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Close your eyes for a moment and think about your wardrobe.

I bet there's something in there that just feels right.

It feels like it sums up who you are.

It may not be the most expensive or current thing you own, but wearing it,

just makes you feel a bit taller, a bit cooler.

And it's not perfect, but it's perfect for you. And now you can face the world.

That feeling.

That is what I'm going for.

It's a lot to ask a pair of jeans.

Can you make someone feel good about themselves and the world?

See, they won't even answer me.

But they will.

And they'll get me a place in the mid -year show.

Nyla, hey.

Hey.

You working late?

Yeah, I was...

Our timing is way off.

We are so out of practice.

Can I come for a nap?

Um, okay.

But how would we even start?

Well, talking's basically an exchange of information, so... Okay.

So, tell me something.

I've gone off crisps.

How can a person go off crisps? I don't know. It just happened. I woke up one

morning and I thought, I no longer like crisps. But...

You can't just go off crisps. There are so many different kinds of crisps. Sure,

go off plain, okay, but there's salt and vinegar, there's cheese balls.

How can you go off cheese balls?

No, you're right. I didn't fully consider all the different varieties of

See? What would you do without me?

I'd give almost anything to get a piece in the media show.

Yeah, that whole...

Best and brightest Athena has to offer thing makes it seriously tempting.

I'm going to have them at school.

Yeah.

Because even if you can't act, you still get to be an angel in the Christmas

show.

We'll write it to the end to stay connected.

Don't wish it all away.

I hope we'll always stay electric

friends. Lexi, no.

That was the best idea I've had all morning.

You only just woke up. No, I've been up a whole ten minutes. And my first idea

was to adopt a koala, but...

This is better. Better than adopting a koala?

That doesn't seem possible.

It does seem... Look what I found at the agency last night.

I was waiting for Denise and I was bored, so I... Dole it.

Borrowed it.

It's got all the agency's private notes on us.

Note the word private.

Don't you want to know what they say about us? I don't really know.

I think I'll be back.

You're still models. How bad can it be?

Considering how things are going for me right now, pretty bad.

Ooh. More cutting than I expected.

I mean, this girl looks great.

OMG.

They call me a manic pixie dream girl.

It is perfect. I am a lot like a pixie because I have really good hearing.

Wait, but you said this is from last year.

Am I in it?

Why do you care?

I'm not a model anymore.

I don't care.

I'm just... I'm just curious.

I'm an every girl.

That's really good. It means you look like the girl next door, but kind of not

because you're much prettier.

Like the girl next door in a Hollywood movie.

Doesn't that just mean I'm ordinary?

No. I'm a question mark.

Not an every girl or a pixie, just a question mark.

They don't even know what to say about me.

Oh.

I hate getting the bus.

It always smells bad.

And that girl over there had an I don't wear deodorant look about her.

Nyla!

Pay attention to me! I'm mocking the proletariat!

Sorry.

Wait, when did you learn that word?

The mid -year show is your chance to prove you deserve to be here.

I'll be speaking to each discipline.

Some of you will get a piece chosen, some won't.

The work you've been developing should showcase your specialism, your voice.

And as fashion students, you'll be wearing it too.

Now, art should reflect its maker, and this piece should, in a way that nothing

else has so far.

OK, that's my spiel done. Now show me where you're at.

Nisha, you start.

I've made a dress out of money. It's reflective of how my parents have

giving me any because they suck.

Also... Consumerism. Oh, whatever.

But it'll certainly say something about you.

OK, Jamie.

I'm making a suit out of old computer components.

Both my parents were in tech, so, like, the little bits of metal, they made me.

Impressive.

Um, Naomi. I went to this perfect beach one summer holiday and I just fell in

love. Now, I can't live on it, but I can wear it as a hat.

Yes, you can.

Nyla.

Yeah, I've been working on a pair of jeans.

Jeans?

Okay. Why?

Because jeans are...

Because it seemed

like a good idea at the time.

Please stop doing that.

The hammer was next to the yogurt, and it's just so confusing.

They have nothing in common. Okay, but a question mark.

It's not as bad as you think.

Know what Denise said when she signed me? That a model has to convey something

in a single image.

There's just no room for confusion. No question marks.

It's going to get better.

I work in a college cafe, and I'm sleeping on a sofa.

You can share my room.

Really? I thought you were still mad at me.

I was, but... But now you just feel sorry for me.

No.

Besides, you might get more modelling work. Have you checked your phone

recently?

No. So check it.

I have an email from Denise. I have a job today.

How do you know?

I have magic powers because I'm a pixie.

I'm OK.

Not everyone's going to go big.

Sam's work is always small and intimate.

Except when it's really not.

I've saved every tin of soup I've had since I got here, melting down my dish.

Honest question, is this too much?

Honestly, no.

It's amazing.

You built a cupboard?

I want to trap people and make them suffer.

Go inside.

What if I don't want to be trapped?

Or suffer?

You're my friend.

You have your choice.

They're people we usually ignore.

We see them and walk away.

Exactly.

I wanted to make something that forces people to look.

I'm working on a lock for the door.

How are your genes going?

Easy to ignore.

Oh, they would go perfectly inside your cupboard.

Hi, I'm Me Too Lee. I'm here for the obsessive shoot. You're the replacement

model?

I didn't know I was a replacement, but yeah.

I hate when the agency does this.

Casper Conway, head designer for the new obsessives range.

And you are not what I had in mind.

Still, time is tight. Let's try and make this work.

You look nervous, and the obsessive brain isn't nervous.

That's mild.

I'm looking for something bigger than a smile.

Like this?

Yeah, but no.

I'm thinking, where's the integrity in that smile?

Maybe if you can tell me what kind of girl you had in mind?

Someone who doesn't give a damn.

But she's happy about not giving a damn.

She is who she is.

She'd go in places while being completely still.

She exists somewhere between reality and a dream.

Can you explain what that looks like?

No.

If you can't exist in two realities at once, how can you ever expect to be a

mod? Wait, I can totally nail the between reality and a dream look.

But you can't be the girl I asked for.

What even is it?

It's supposed to be amazing. It's like this immersive theatre thing. What time

do we have to participate?

Oh, I knew you wouldn't want to go.

I don't understand why you do.

I heard they're set to science school, and I need last -minute inspiration.

No, you don't. I've seen your brain prototype. It's amazing.

Your actual brain, on the other hand, is... Hey!

Can I come?

With me?

Well... I need to find my inner weird, and from what I've heard about immersive

theatre, seems like a pretty good place to start.

You don't need to find anything. You're plenty weird.

You basically stalked me into liking you.

That was not weird. That was tenacious.

And the tenacious make really good theatre companions.

Then, we should get out of here.

Starts at four.

This is the worst part of my job.

Denise is dropping me from the agency, isn't she?

She doesn't even have the decency to do it herself.

I left my home for this.

I left my family.

Because Denise told me if I signed with her, I'd be on the cover of Vogue within

a year.

When she signed you, she said you're type within.

I didn't know I had a type.

Right. Am I not in now?

His industry is fickle.

It decides what beautiful is and then the next week changes its mind. And

me and other girls like me doubting themselves because of it.

I don't want to talk anymore. I just want to go home and be with my Lexi.

she shouldn't be too long the obsessive shit vaps at four.

She was the model they wanted.

She asked you to send me instead.

I guess redheads must be in right now.

Feeling ready to tell an underpaid actor your deepest thoughts?

Not in any way.

That's the spirit.

When I was seven I stole a kitten.

Everybody lies.

Tell me something I don't know.

Your secrets make you who you are.

Do you think that's true?

No.

At least I hope not.

I already shared the kitten thing.

One time I missed a shoot and I told them I was ill, but really I'd just

overslept.

Hey, just because you have a pen doesn't mean you get to judge.

I heard what happened.

How many times have you done it, Lexi, passing your jobs on to me?

Twice.

You needed the money so I... So you made me think that I was good enough to get

work on my own.

But you lied to me.

Not big lies. And they were for a good cause. It doesn't count.

It does count because I thought things were going okay.

And they're not.

I thought you were my best friend.

But you're not.

So, what do you reckon is the point of this room?

Probably to, like, reveal our true selves to us.

My true self is bored.

My true self needs some better secrets.

You don't need them.

Are you joking?

The last act that you warned in my face.

Secrets don't make a person interesting.

It makes them a good liar.

It's not something I like about myself.

So, tell me something true.

I've got people I hang out with, but I've never had any real friends.

Never?

Things start off as friendship, but then it gets messy.

I don't think it's because I'm bi.

I think it's because I'm me.

I'm just not great at platonic.

Whoa. That is a lot of new information to process.

It's not a big thing.

Sam knows.

When did you know?

Twelve?

Thirteen? Something like that.

I think when I was twelve I was still playing with dolls.

People develop at different ages.

Right. But what if I hadn't developed?

What if I'm still this ordinary girl destined for an ordinary life?

That's a depressing thought. And depressing thoughts suck.

So? Do you want to go full face back to who can't talk back?

Okay, sure.

But only briefly. Because after that, I need to work on being less ordinary.

Hey, so Tori said you're freaking.

Something about being ordinary, which you're not.

Not anymore.

I am making a huge skirt out of plastic.

Okay, but dude, this isn't you.

Maybe it is.

I don't know.

I wish I was more like you. You're so, I'm Lee, take it or leave it. I'm not a

robot, I get confused.

But your work is so clear.

Right, my work is. And you can't ignore it.

So I need to make something that can't be ignored.

Close your eyes and think of your wardrobe.

I bet there's something in there that makes you feel like a completely

person.

That's what I'm going for today.

By the end of today, you'll know who has a piece in the mid -year show and who

doesn't. Can we talk later?

I thought you already know.

What if I promise to bring popcorn?

It's never easy deciding who makes the cut, so I'll be considering it after

you've shown your work and I'll be posting the results on the College

Board at 5pm.

Okay, there's good technical ability on show here.

Just not playing to your strengths.

Can you explain?

This isn't you.

You should have done something that reflected the... What is it?

You know, the every girl quality that you have.

I just didn't want to be ordinary.

Nyla, if you were ordinary, you wouldn't be here.

You have the ability to design clothes that make every girl feel good.

No matter who she is.

But this piece is not your voice.

Hey, don't...

What happened?

I tried to be someone else.

It didn't work out very well.

I really hated you at first.

Is this you trying to cheer me up?

Basically, yes.

See, I thought you were this girl who had everything.

But now I know better.

You've got all these insecurities, and you don't take it out on other people.

You still manage to be nice.

Nice is ordinary.

No, it's not.

Hardly anyone's nice.

People are just out there for themselves.

Nowadays, nice is unique.

I wish I was nice.

You are.

If that was true, I think I'd have been proper friends.

We pulled faces at that actor for over half an hour. Does that mean nothing to

you?

Yeah, you're right.

We experienced the worst immersive theatre ever. Now our bond can never be

broken.

What is it?

I'm still not nice, though.

Someone nice wouldn't get back with their boyfriend and then cheat on him

You won't tell, will you?

No, I... No, I would never.

You know, it feels good to have said it out loud.

It's like I've taken a weight off.

Yeah, and put it on me.

If we know that nothing's forbidden...

Oh, Lexi.

Oh, hi. Hey, hey. Sorry, I can't talk right now. I'm looking for Miju. Yes, so

am I.

Oh, um, well, I don't know where she is.

Did I say that already? I think she might have gone back to her family and

leave. Okay, um, I'll look up train time.

No, wait, she's broke. Look up buses.

Any sign of her?

No.

I'm there.

Excuse me.

Need you, Lee?

Me, Julie, I am so mad at you.

If you want to stop being friends, then not OK, but OK.

Do not quit your whole life because of it. My whole life has quit on me.

When I came here, I thought it was a dream come true.

I didn't realise that after you get your dream, you have to keep on getting it.

So it's hard becoming a successful model.

It is hard doing anything worth doing.

You know, the false start and the being broke.

There's the doubting yourself and having someone put you in a box.

There's losing your best friend.

Do it anyway, but not quitting is everything.

How can I? I don't have an agent anymore.

Yes, you do.

I want to find you. You're beautiful and talented and the industry needs to

catch up.

So, what do you say?

Yes, it's a yes.

But I already paid for my ticket. Don't waste the ticket.

Go visit your family and when you get back...

We'll get to work.

Can I come to Leeds with you?

Why? Because Alexis is for life and not just for Christmas.

I know I messed up, but I'm pretty awesome most of the time, so will you

hurry up and forgive me? I'm actually incapable of staying mad at you, so

I can.

I was pretty tempted by Lee, too, but... The results are in.

I don't know if you've done the measurements lately, but my shoulders...

exact right height for your head to lean on.

Figured you might need it.

You guys all made it.

But... Not me

You're

right your shoulder in my head it's a perfect fit

We've got this all together, no matter what they say.

We'll weather any storm and we'll ride it to the end to stay connected.