Skins Pure
| "Pure" | |
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| Skins episode | |
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Series 7 Episode 3-4 |
| Directed by | Paul Gay |
| Written by | Bryan Elsley |
| Original air date | 15 July 2013 (7.03) 22 July 2013 (7.04) |
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Skins Pure is a feature-length episode of the E4 television series Skins. Airing in two parts in 2013, Pure was the second of three feature-length episodes of a specially commissioned seventh season to bring the series to a close. While in its first six series Skins was a teen drama focusing on the life of Bristolian teenagers, Pure like previous episode Fire is a filmically and tonally distinct drama revisiting one of the show's characters as they adjust to adulthood.
Pure focuses on the character of Cassie Ainsworth (Hannah Murray), a main character in the show's first two series. Formerly a daydreaming party girl with a number of mental problems, Cassie has put many of her problems behind her, and waitresses at a café in London after having spent several years travelling around America with an ex-boyfriend Sid Jenkins (Cassie's on and off boyfriend from the first two seasons who traveled to America to find her at the end of the second season). In the story, Cassie forms an odd friendship with her stalker (Olly Alexander), and tries to support her younger brother Reuben as their father (Neil Morrissey) fails to cope with the death of their mother.
Cassie (Hannah Murray), now 23, lives in a shared house in London and works as a waitress at a café. While Cassie prefers to spend time alone in her apartment, and lives a relatively isolated existence, she receives occasional calls from her father (Neil Morrissey) and younger brother, Reuben, who are now living in Wales following the death of Cassie's mother. One day, shortly after having a one-night stand with her Israeli co-worker, Yaniv (Daniel Ben Zenou), Cassie is approached by an artist at her work. The artist shows her a popular website titled "Oblivion," which show some dramatic and intense photographs of her. Shocked, Cassie looks through the website and discovers an entire collage of photos of her, some showing her standing by her bedroom window, dressed only in her underwear. Visibly shaken, Cassie confides in Maddie (Charlene McKenna), an acquaintance who lives a floor below her, and, upon further examination, realises that the photos of her bedroom window were most likely taken from the abandoned office building opposite. Through some deception, she is able to gain access to the empty office building, and finds evidence that someone is regularly accessing it. She hides, and waits for her stalker to appear. To her shock, it turns out to be Jakob (Olly Alexander), the young chef at the café where she works, and she attacks him before taking his camera. Cassie installs makeshift window blinds and continues with her life. When Jakob pleads with Cassie to return his camera, she ignores him. Later notices she is attracting recognised from patrons of the café, and Maddie takes a look at the photos and tells Cassie that they are very beautiful. Cassie returns to the office building where Jakob hid and confronts him there. He admits that he has no sexual interest in her, and that his photos were purely for the benefit of others. He also chides Cassie for not being aware of her own beauty. Cassie then agrees to let him continue taking pictures of her.
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