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The Street: Series 2

David Thewlis

Bronagh Gallagher

Jack McMullen

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The Street: Series 2: Episode 1

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BBC One - The Street, Series 2, Episode 1

A jealous twin, down on his luck, steals his dead brother's identity.

A jealous twin steals his dead brother's identity, with his bachelor lifestyle and generous army pension, even comforting his wife under the pretence he is her brother-in-law.

Joe Jennerson envies his identical twin brother, Harry. His sibling has the freedom of a comfortable bachelor lifestyle, funded by a generous army pension, while Joe is in a dead-end job, with no money, squabbling children, a live-in mother and a wife who he thinks has fallen out of love with him.

As the brothers watch a football match on television one evening, Harry chokes on a sweet and loses consciousness. As Joe waits for the ambulance to arrive, he realises that the chance of a lifetime is staring him in the face, and swaps clothes, taking on the identity of Harry. The assumed body of Joe is presumed dead at the hospital, while the real Joe is left comforting his wife, Mary, under the pretence that he is her brother-in-law.

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