The essential episodes of The Cleaner
Watch these 15 in order and you've got The Cleaner — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Professional crime-scene cleaner Wicky has to mop up after a particularly grisly murder, but keeps being interrupted by people unexpectedly dropping in on the crime scene.
- 02
Novelist Terence has two problems: his gran recently passed away, and he has writer’s block. Wicky thinks these issues might be related.
- 03
When he brings the wrong keys to a crime scene, Wicky meets the neighbour - and might have met his match.
- 04
Wicky arrives at a stately home to clean up a burglary gone wrong. But things aren’t what they seem, and Wicky’s morals are tested.
- 05
Crime scene cleaner Wicky heads to the country to clean up a nasty mess in a holiday home, and bumps into his first ‘proper’ girlfriend.
- 06
Wicky faces the ultimate test of self-control: a job in a pub, after he’s promised his new girlfriend he’ll stay off the booze.
- 07
Wicky is hired by a theatre where a male strip show has got out of hand. A self-important clown, a whimsical theatre manager and a broken fire alarm turn his day into a nightmare.
- 08
Wicky is called to a shooting in a technology shop, where he finds himself sharing the night shift with Kai, a shelf-stacking conspiracy theorist.
- 09
Wicky is on his way to clean up after a tragic death at a stately home, but there’s a shaman on the scene as well, and he has his own mystical agenda.
- 10
Wicky is called to a quiet town where a row has broken out over a statue. Tempers in the town are running high, and it looks like things might turn nasty.
- 11
Wicky finds himself on a job for an old childhood school friend, Justin, who it turns out has done rather well for himself.
- 12
Wicky attempts to clean a hut for a furious pregnant lady.
- 13
Wicky repeatedly offends a building full of elderly people. The committee will hear of this...
- 14
Wicky heads to a crumbling, stately home ruled by Mrs Barton, its despotic housekeeper.
- 15
Wicky is called to a wedding and meets Brummie kingpin Bob Mammot, the King of Storage.
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