Rab C. Nesbitt - Season 8 (1999)

Rab leaves jail having served his time for burning down the house following Mary's fling with Jamesie and gets a job washing dishes in the filthy kitchens of Chez Alex. Mary is staying in a hostel. Rab is initially out for revenge but, after sitting round the table with the Cotters, he and Mary reunite and the neighbours rally round to make their burnt-out house habitable again.

MP Tony Welthorpe, who thinks the unemployed are 'feather-bedded',accepts the challenge to change life-styles with Rab for a month and live on benefits. After a shaky start Rab endears himself to Tony's wife Jenny with his knowledge of the Social Security Acts and they end up kissing.Tony is patronising and offensive, making a play for Mary, but Gash sees a way to fix him.

Due to his bad back Rab just cannot nod off and Mary's talking in her sleep does not help. Nor does the arrival of Jamesie,fleeing an irate deaf-mute husband with a shotgun and who tries to get his leg over with Gash's girlfriend Bridie. Ella meanwhile gets cosy with the gunman but next morning Rab's fitful snooze is disturbed by a shot.