We get some of Danny’s secrets, an outing that turns steamy, and much more in The Couple Next Door. Take a look at the events of the episode.
Caution: This post contains SPOILERS for The Couple Next Door season 1, episode 2
Picking up off the back of the previous episode, we start off outside in the rain. Danny and Evie walk to each other and kiss passionately in the rain. It’s all a dream, though. Evie wakes up in her bed, with none of that happening.
However, it’s clear that the attraction between the two of them grow. Danny invites Evie and Pete on a trip to the coast, which leads to some of Danny and Becka’s lifestyle being revealed.
Who was Danny getting money for in The Couple Next Door?
Danny and his cop friend got in some trouble at the station. They were spotted on their bikes, and their boss wanted answers. While they lied about what they were doing, it was enough to scare Danny off a little. He can’t lose his job!
However, things change. We find out who he needed money for. There’s a woman who wants the money, and she won’t let Danny into the house. There is something much bigger going on here. Does he have a kid with someone else, and this is supposed to be child support?
Whatever it is, Danny knows that he needs more money. He decides he wants back in on the job for cash. His mate, Spencer, gets bikes with fake license plates that they can use for the jobs.
The job goes wrong, with a group of masked people shooting at the vehicle Danny and Spencer are convoying. They take a case from the back of the van and drive off, leaving Danny realizing that this is going to be far more dangerous than he initially believed.
Danny and Becka explain their lifestyle
Evie, who finds out that her sister is pregnant and is still grieving the loss of her baby, agrees to go to the coast with Danny and Becka at the weekend. Pete is worried about his wife, and he’s not going to say no to some day drinking at the coast.
This is when Danny and Becka explain their lifestyle. Becka was seeing someone else when she and Danny met. They were in an open relationship, though, and that continued when Becka and Danny got together. However, they have some rules. They don’t just date other people, and when they hook up with others, the other spouse needs to be there at the same time.
Of course, it’s clear that Danny isn’t sticking to those rules. We still have to find out what’s going on there, though.
There’s another rule that they don’t tell Pete and Evie about. They don’t get involved with their friends. And yet, Evie is clearly interested in that type of lifestyle, and Pete seems to be on the fence about it. As Danny and Evie’s attraction to each other grows, it’s clear that something is sure to happen physically between them.
Pete wants to know a little more about the open relationship lifestyle, and he talks to his colleague about it while they’re on a stakeout. Before he can talk to Evie about it, he finds the pond with the dead fish and the pills that Evie through into it earlier in the episode. What is going on with his wife? This is far more than grief.
Alan takes another step forward in his obsession with Becka
We know that Alan is obsessed with Becka. He religiously follows her social media, and he has a telescope to keep an eye on her. However, he goes a step further in the obsession in the latest episode.
He has keys for the house, although the locks have been changed on the front door. Alan gets into the house via the backdoor, and he decides to go snooping around the place. This leads to a camera with a video of the passionate night with the couple of Marbella from the first episode.
Yes, Alan takes a video of the video on his cellphone. How long before his wife catches on to what he’s doing? She orders the stairlift to be fitted during the episode, which means she’ll be able to get upstairs very soon.
Danny knows that Alan is up to something. He makes it clear that Alan needs to stop perving on his wife. Others are also somewhat onto him, sharing on social media that him being at the class was awkward and uncomfortable.
As he ends up with people against him, Alan decides to go on the offense. He sets up a website pretending to be Becka to get people to come over to her house.
The Couple Next Door airs on Fridays on STARZ.
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