Sold (TV series)

As the new flagship store opens, Danny is given just a few weeks to prove himself at Colubrine’s – or find a new job. His heartless colleagues relish his initial failure as he enrages a househunting couple by exposing the husband’s infidelity, and upsets a struggling single mother already at her wits’ end.

The rest of the gang will stop at nothing to make a sale as they compete with each other for commission.

It’s opening day at the flagship branch of "the fastest growing estate agency in the South East" but the Colubrine’s gang arrive at their new office to find themselves locked out.

That’s because Danny (Bryan Dick), the only remaining member of staff from the agency that Colubrine’s has recently bought out, is busy showing a prospective buyer Kate around her dream house.

Matt is consumed with jealousy as the gang speculate on what happened between Danny and Mel after the Colubrine’s Big Night Out, much to Danny’s amusement.

Mr Colubrine surprises his employees by appearing via webcam in the office, a new innovation allowing him to check in on his staff at any moment. Singling out Matt, he demands to be shown the properties they have for sale and is unimpressed by the empty display window. The gang must find property to sell – and fast.

Left to hold the fort at the office while the team contrive to sign up more vendors, Danny is accosted by two sexy young sisters, first-time buyers pooling their resources and determined to secure his undivided attention.

Charged with the sale of Ellesmere Hall, Mel has her eyes set on the big prize, but risks more than anticipated when she falls for potential buyer, millionaire strip-club owner, Paul.

Matt gets in over his head with his latest marketing scam involving the local school, but it’s Danny who feels the repercussions as he struggles to find the perfect home for a single mother and her son.

Danny’s troubled childhood comes back to haunt him when he shows a couple around his old family home and then discovers that developers are digging up his father’s grave. Matt sees this as an opportunity to make a fast buck, but his scheming backfires when Mel sides with Danny. Selling off an old gothic house ripe for redevelopment, Phoebe and Jonty are haunted by a different kind of ghost.

At a brainstorming session presided over by Mr Colubrine (Anthony Head), the gang are each under pressure to impress the boss with a new idea to increase Colubrine’s market dominance. Only Matt’s (Kris Marshall) idea is greeted with enthusiasm when he proposes they concentrate their efforts on developing disused buildings and land for residential use.

The Colubrine’s team have secured a lucrative contract to handle sales for the Bay Tree Court Development. With just two more remaining flats on the site to be sold, Matt is in a triumphant mood, boasting to Mel that he’s destined for great things, but she’s distracted by Danny. Disturbed by their flirtatious banter, Matt charges them with the sale of the last two flats.

The next day, Mel’s promising viewing at Bay Tree Court is interrupted when she discovers Jonty squatting in the show flat. He reveals that his house has been repossessed and, ashamed at being a homeless estate agent, has been camping at Bay Tree Court. When Phoebe hears of his plight, she offers to let him stay with her, a proposition that Jonty misreads as a sign of growing affection.

Mr Colubrine drops a bombshell – the Bay Tree Court deal demanded a fifth of the flats be sold to keyworkers, something Matt had failed to realise. The gang find themselves up against the clock with just one week to find the necessary new buyers for Bay Tree Court or risk losing Colubrine’s valuable contract and wrecking their relationship with the influential developer, Lord Derek. Everyone is now focused on finding nurses and firefighters to buy these flats – against his will, Danny gets on board and leads the team in a fresh approach to selling the flats: an unusually honest and upfront approach which sees the team succeed at the eleventh hour.

The gang are in relaxed mood in the office, all except for Matt who is notably unhappy at the easy and flirtatious teasing between Mel and Danny. The atmosphere is broken, however, by Mr Colubrine’s webcam announcement that he is opening a new flagship branch in Almeria – and he’ll be selecting a manager to oversee the Spanish office. The heat is on to impress the boss and land the plum job.

In her efforts to impress Mr Colubrine, an enterprising Mel, who had promised to steal somebody’s business lease, succeeds in poaching the very office in Almeria that Mr Colubrine had earmarked for his flagship branch. Naturally, this earns Mr Colubrine’s full attention – prompting him to make a shock visit. A tax exile, he is making a flying visit to the UK, throwing the office into panic.

While Matt remains convinced he is the man for the job, Mr Colubrine has designs on another member of staff, Mel, who has quietly proved herself worthy of the top job. Mel and Danny argue when she announces that she is seriously considering the job offer in Spain.