Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart (TV story)

Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart was the fourth episode of the first series of Class. It featured the first appearance of April's father, Huw MacLean. Corakinus returned in this episode, and more of the Shadow Kin are introduced, namely Rannus and Kharrus.

Synopsis
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Plot
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Cast

 * Miss Quill - Katherine Kelly
 * Charlie - Greg Austin
 * Ram - Fady Elsayed
 * April - Sophie Hopkins
 * Tanya - Vivian Oparah
 * Matteusz - Jordan Renzo
 * Dorothea - Pooky Quesnel
 * Corakinus - Paul Marc Davis
 * Rannus/Kharrus - Kelly Gough
 * Varun - Aaron Neil
 * Jackie - Shannon Murray
 * Huw - Con O'Neill
 * Miss Shah - Pooja Shah
 * Student 1 - Moses Adejimi
 * Student 2 - Ellie James
 * Voice of Rannus - Neil McCaul

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Coal Hill School

 * Coal Hill Academy has a Book Club, an Art Club and a Chess Club.
 * The Level Two Careers Fair poster is seen again.
 * The menu for the canteen is also visible.

Events

 * World Book Day Award, or WoBoD, has a deadline of 15 January 2016.

History

 * Miss Shah teaches her class about the evacuations at Dunkirk.
 * Corakinus mentions that he leads the War of the Underneath.

People

 * Dorothea Ames is the new head teacher.
 * Charlie's full alias is given as Charlie Smith.
 * On a fact-file belonging to the Governors, Charlie's address is given as 1 Wellington Road, London. His postcode is N1 0HR.
 * The same fact-file gives Matteusz's full name as Matteusz Andrzejewski.
 * Matteusz is 17 years old.
 * Miss Shah teaches history.
 * April and Ram have sex.

Species

 * A fact-file belonging to The Governors names the skin-peeling dragon as a Leaf Dragon.
 * Dorothea Ames points out lack of squirrels and birds near Coal Hill Academy as unusual.

Locations

 * It would take 9,000 years of space travel to get to Earth from the Shadow Realm.

Technology

 * Miss Quill uses a projector to show a video to her class.
 * Cabinet of Souls can be used as a weapon, being able to send a soul to kill someone. Charlie hopes similar methods can be used to put soul into a new body, however according to him such possibility is just a children's story.
 * The robot the Governors sent to spy on Miss Quill was expensive and would be difficult to replace, according to Dorothea Ames.
 * Ram assures Jackie that he used a condom when he had sex with April.

Music

 * April plays the violin, and breaks one of the strings.

Popular culture

 * Although not shown, the distinctive voice of Brian Cox can be heard coming from the projected video in Miss Quill's physics lesson.

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Production errors

 * Ram gets out of the car to confront Huw, and should be behind him when he turns to April, but in the next shot, he's gone.

Continuity

 * Varun Singh promised not to tell Ram's mum about his prosthetic leg. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die, The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)
 * April is still learning "Night Visiting" on her violin. (TV: Nightvisiting)
 * April's dad is not allowed to approach her after he tried to kill her and her mother. (TV: Nightvisiting)
 * Charlie commands Miss Quill to attend parents' evening in the role of his parent. A previous parents' evening at Coal Hill took place in TV: The Caretaker.
 * Headteacher Frank Armitage is considered missing after being killed by the Leaf Dragon. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo) He's been replaced by Dorothea Ames
 * Dorothea says that you don't see so many Smiths any more, and no one under the age of 35 is called John. John Smith is a common alias of the Doctor. (PROSE: The Witch Hunters, TV: The Wheel in Space, The War Games, Spearhead from Space, The Time Warrior, PROSE: Blood and Hope, TV: The Empty Child, School Reunion, Smith and Jones, Partners in Crime, The Unicorn and the Wasp, Midnight, The Next Doctor) He even used it as an employee at Coal Hill Academy in his twelfth incarnation. (TV: The Caretaker)
 * Miss Quill encountered the Inspector sent by the Governors earlier. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo) The new headmaster makes note of this.
 * Miss Shah teaches her class about the evacuations at Dunkirk. The Doctor was present at Dunkirk in his first, (PROSE: Just War, Byzantium!) eighth, (AUDIO: Fugitives) and tenth incarnations. (AUDIO: The Nemonite Invasion)
 * April opens another rift, temporary this time, in her backyard with her Shadow Kin saber. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)

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