S2E9 · Beard After Hours

After Richmond's loss against Manchester City in the FA Cup, Beard (Brendan Hunt) tells Ted (Jason Sudeikis) he will make his own way home instead of riding together with the team. Ted reminds him to bring coffee in the morning. Arriving at the Wembley Park tube station, he boards a train and arrives at his apartment. He turns on the TV, pops a beer and gets criticized by the soccer commentators Thierry Henry and Gary Lineker.

Distracted by the loss, he decides to go to the pub, where Mae (Annette Badland) criticizes the game planning. He is joined by avid Richmond supporters Baz (Adam Colborne), Jeremy (Bronson Webb) and Paul (Kevin Garry), who take an interest in his conversation. When the pub closes, Beard refuses to go back to his apartment and the four trick their way into (without the much needed membership card) the exclusive, private basement club Bones & Honey. As Baz, Jeremy and Paul have fun in the club, Beard is tormented by imagining Thierry Henry and Gary Lineker mocking him on a pundit show. He stands up abruptly and rips his pants on a nail sticking out from a table. Beard is thrown out from the club when it is discovered that he has no membership card. Outside, he meets Mary, a woman from the club who offers to fix his pants.

Mary takes him to her apartment and gives him a garish, sequin-studded pair of pants to wear while she repairs his. Her boyfriend Darren arrives, furious that she allowed Beard to enter. Beard is forced to escape to the roof without his original pants and jumps from the building into a dumpster. He then jumps onto a double-decker bus, from which he is thrown off when he has no money. After being denied access to a phone in a hotel, he keeps walking into the night. He approaches some strangers for help, only to find that it is James Tartt (Kieran O'Brien) and his friends, who beat him.

Their beating is cut short when Darren arrives, scaring them off. Darren tells Beard that he was looking for him to return his phone and wallet. Checking his phone, Beard finds that his girlfriend Jane (Phoebe Walsh) left many angry messages. Just as he is about to contact her his phone's battery dies.

Walking the streets, he is found by Baz, Jeremy and Paul, who rented a limo with money they earned playing pool at the club. They take him home, and Beard gives them information about a secret entrance to the club's stadium. After they drive off, Beard's apartment key (which he had repeatedly dropped throughout the episode) breaks in the lock, just as it starts raining. He runs the streets and passes a pink neon cross, (the same that he noticed in one of Jane’s messages just before his phone died). Beard enters the church and prays to God for Jane's forgiveness. Meanwhile, using the secret entrance, Baz, Jeremy and Paul are allowed into the Richmond stadium, where they happily play in the field.

Back at the church, Beard hears noises from a door. Descending into the basement, he finds a very original nightclub party taking place. He joins the crowd on the dance floor and then spots Jane, who hands him a Hula hoop, which he effortlessly spins as he dances. Reconciling, Beard and Jane spend the night dancing in the nightclub.

The next day, Beard arrives late at the Richmond office, bringing coffee for Ted, Roy (Brett Goldstein) and Nate (Nick Mohammed), and does not mention anything that happened during the night. While they review the game footage, a sleep-deprived Beard takes a nap, still wearing the spangled pants.