The Cuffing Queen reached the end
Kate was going on holiday, so the leisurely trip through her 38 dating-app dates suddenly had to accelerate.
Scott treated the remaining entries like a chart countdown.
Date 26 was Kevin, who showed off his car and bought Kate two ice creams because he said she needed feeding up.
Other men were remembered through the kind of brutal single-line notes which had defined the feature: somebody was shorter than expected, somebody drove a Citroën C3, somebody ate too much fast food and somebody simply walked in a way Kate found strange.
The impressive thing was how confidently the details came back.
Kate had not simply swiped through 38 men.
She had documented the entire process.
Then they finally reached number 38.
Kate said she knew almost immediately that she liked him.
There was no need to persuade herself or search for a reason to arrange another date.
He was different from the 37 men before him.
Scott jokingly described him as the perfect Devon combination of everything Kate had learned from the earlier dates.
Kate did not agree with that description.
She simply knew he was right.
They were still together.
The Cuffing Queen had entered the project wanting a winter boyfriend and, on the final planned date, had actually found one.
The worst places to have an argument
Scott and Chris had recently DJed at a freshers event and watched a couple have a serious emotional argument directly in front of the stage.
The rest of the crowd were dancing.
The couple were crying.
Scott and Chris were trying to play happy records while accidentally making eye contact with them.
Once the pair realised the DJs had noticed, the situation became even more uncomfortable.
Listeners then supplied their own terrible locations for rows.
One woman had argued with her boyfriend in the gym for around half an hour while continuing to squat.
Another couple had a huge row at a festival in Barcelona while watching Haim but refused to move away from the front because neither wanted to miss the gig.
There were arguments on rollercoasters, in comedy audiences and in other places where the surrounding atmosphere made private conflict look even stranger.
Scott’s advice was simple.
If you absolutely had to have the argument, at least move somewhere the performer could not watch it happening.
Scott investigated whether artists stare directly at you
The programme also discussed the feeling that somebody famous on stage is making direct eye contact with you.
People had become convinced artists were singing specific lines directly at them.
Scott knew the sensation.
From the stage, he could see individual people in a crowd, particularly those at the front.
That did not mean every prolonged glance had the romantic meaning the person watching imagined.
The distinction between genuine eye contact and wishful thinking became another dating-adjacent problem for a month already dominated by the Cuffing Queen.
Bangers was still going wrong for Scott
Scott also admitted his Bangers record needed improvement.
A caller revealed she normally picked him largely because she thought he was better looking than Chris.
Scott enjoyed hearing that considerably more than the actual music competition.
The Cuffing Queen had spent weeks proving that attraction could depend on shoes, haircuts, coats and tiny pieces of behaviour.
Apparently Bangers could also be decided by the face attached to the song choice.
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