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The Concert is the third episode of the second series and the 9th overall episode of Derry Girls.

Short Summary[]

When Ma Mary forbids the girls from seeing Take That in Belfast, they will stop at nothing to get there.

Full Summary[]

The teens want to go to Take That's concert in Belfast at the weekend. It will be the boy band's first performance in NI. The family see a TV report informing them that a polar bear has escaped from Belfast Zoo, so Mary forbids them from attending.

The teens board a bus that is going to Belfast, sitting on the back seat together, Michelle carrying a suitcase of vodka. Sister Michael is on board, reading The Exorcist. She moves towards the back of the bus to get away from the smell of another passenger's sandwich. She asks them why they are going to Belfast. They say that they are going to the Ulster Museum to do research for a history project at school. Sister Michael asks the teens about the case; they and the other passengers say that it is not theirs, so everyone disembarks. After that, the army use a remote control vehicle to explode the case. The smell of vodka alerts people to the nature of the contents.

The teens walk along a minor road where they are approached by a small group of Irish Travellers who are selling vegetables from a roadside stall who return Clare's purse to her, which she had not realised she had dropped on the road. The girls are offered a lift from a middle-aged woman in a passing van, but the girls take a disliking to the driver, Rita, because of her abruptness, instability and dislike of Take That. The van collides with a sheep, which the girls pick up and move off the road.

The girls realise that James — who has the concert tickets — is not with them, so they retrieve him from where they accidentally left him and go to the concert together in the van. Back home, the adults hear on television that the polar bear has been recaptured by firefighters near the A6 whilst eating a sheep carcass (implied to be the same sheep Rita hit). Michelle and Clare's mothers arrive at the house, expecting to find Michelle, James and Clare there. The adults realise that the teens have lied to them to enable them to go to the concert. Gerry watches footage of the concert on TV, and smiles when he sees the teens in the audience.

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Notes and Trivia[]

  • This episode scored 3.05 million viewers.

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A complete overview of this episode's crew can be found here.

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