Another quirky, unpredictable journey with Frank Marker, I'm not sure if he's an anti-hero or just anti being a hero. I once invited my bank manager for dinner (he tasted a little stringy) - at the end of the meal he asked 'what's your endgame?'. What indeed.
Here, Hooper, a child care officer - or rather a Lollypop Man - with a serious problem with depression frequently asks 'What's to become of us?' Marker, as usual, is not too bothered, a pint in the pub and a pork pie attracts him more. Hooper has apparently been left by a 24 year old young woman who he claims is suffering from the depression he is, in fact, suffering from.
He has a nice trick with a cigarette packet, offering anyone in sight an empty packet, gratefully receiving one from the person he's made the offer to.
Julia Sissons, working in a pub, fills Frank in with the reality of the case - she was not married to Hooper, but did live with him, he filled a role as a father figure.
During this episode, it's clear the joint office with Gash, who is far more materialistic, has just bought a smart new Rover car and wears a snazzy suit, isn't working out - the enigmatic title not only relates to Hooper, but also Marker, who is better suited working on his own, putting his own kettle on his own gas ring, master of his own destiny.
At the end, a somewhat vampish female client Hooper met at Gash's office is found to have taken him under her wing - and to the ongoing question 'What's to Become of Us' tells him to come and have his pudding. Maybe all philosophical questions can be answered the same way: 'I think, therefore I....like Apple crumble'. It's as good an answer as any. And maybe with apples, gets to the core of the problem.