So far on KateModern...

Yes folks its me GF! Many months ago (when Bree was alive, Daniel was a hormonal grump and we had never seen Jonas topless) you will remember I would do a quick synopsis of the LG15 videos. Anyway I have been literally inundated with...an email..asking me to do a synopsis for KateModern so far. I would never dream of saying no and hurting mmbots feelings (do robots have feelings? Lets not risk finding out...) so for the uninitiated or for those who have fallen behind, here is the story so far from the point when Kate went AWOL.
(Can you imagine the horror at the writers meeting when they discovered this?
Writer one: Ok but here's the twist..he name isn't really Kate!
Producer: What? What do you mean her name isn't Kate? We've just spent thousands of pounds, which I would like to point out is alot more than the dollar, promoting the brand "KateModern"! We spent hours developing this and now you say her name isn't Kate?
Writer 2: Good isnt it? Oh and guess what? She is going to go missing...for weeks!!!
Producer: *says nothing* *starts looking furiously through his list of product placements on his blackberry to see if there is any way of clawing the cash back*)

So after a few weeks with Michelle "the" Clore, Kate meets up with Charlie, (best messy flatmate ever! May our peas always touch our chips! May those who dont get that quote check out the awesome LGpedia!)

Kate: Charlie, Michelle has helped me understand myself better than anyone ever has. I mean, I now understand who I am. I understand my past and who I misguided thought I could run away from.
Charlie: Kate, you can't just go with her. They're using you, can't you see it? They want your blood. And they're gonna kill you for it! I just spent a week in a van, in a stolen van, trying to find you!
Kate: Charlie, I didn't want to be found. I needed space to think. I mean, Charlie, I appreciate your concern, but you've got to stop running after me and concentrate on your own life.

Well Charlie who you may remember spent a week in the middle of nowhere (I suspect it was Shropshire) with creepy Steve and Tariq, and was then shot at by studley Dudley, was NOT impressed.

Charlie: (shoving Kate repeatedly) Selfish, inconsiderate, two faced bitch! This is all about you, isn't it? What's going on in that head of yours? (Gavin nods and smiles into the camera) You're psychologically unstable! They've completely brainwashed you and you can't see it!

After Kate left Gavin gave Charlie his own diplomatic and even tempered point of view..

Gavin: (following Charlie who is walking away) Charlie, wait! Charlie! Babe, that was absolutely brilliant! That was historic. It's about time someone told princess Kate what a self serving, self centered cow she actually is!

Back in the office Gavin, Tariq and work experience boy "free" Lee. Celebrated Tariq's birthday.
Gavin: Uh, also, we're just getting ready to film a top secret video demo, uh, for our new software because it's ready for further investment. But, the best thing is, Tariq's back from his week-long van sandwich, and today is his birthday. Hey!
Lee: Hey! (sets off a party popper; Gavin looks annoyed)

But Kate (who is starting to look more and more like she raids Lucy's wardrobe) turned up.
Kate: I came to tell you not to worry about me any more.
Tariq: I'm not.
Kate: Well, that's not what it looked like last week.
Tariq: We thought you were in danger.
Kate: It isn't like that.
Tariq: So what was all that trait positive madness that we went through?
Kate: It isn't like that with Michelle.
Tariq: Oh, Michelle. So now you have Michelle, your old friends and dramas don't matter any more. You know what you need to do? You need to apologize to Charlie 'cause she's been worried sick about you!
Kate: I know.
Tariq: So what are you gonna do about it? I can't believe you! We thought you were true. You can't just make a group of friends and then just abandon them when you feel like it. Okay? We accepted you for face value, okay; not once did we pressure you to tell us what your real name was.
Kate: Genevieve. Look, I came to live here for a new start.

Charlie is not the sort of girl to turn her back on her friends tho, no matter how odd they get and she found help from a well known product placement.
Charlie: We have a plan. Look, this guy in America saw this video that I posted about Kate, right, and he's come up with a way that he can probably help save her. It's a bit of a long shot but it could really work. He has access to this special serum, right, and once it's injected into trait positive girls it turns them back to normal. So if we can give it to Kate and inject her with the serum, then she can be normal again and Michell Clore and the Order won't have any need for her. Yesss! This could be the answer.
Hurrah for Spencer!

In the next vlog things got nasty. Steve witnessed the fall (ok not the fall more like the splat) of studley Dudley. He was going to try and reason with Charlie after seeing her vlog and arrived at the flat just after the scientist and his son. Next thing Dudley had fallen from the flat's window to the pavement below..it looked like Kate pushed him...and he wasn't moving.
Charlie: Kate! Kate! Kate! What did you do? You killed him! You killed him!
Kate: He was hurting you!
Charlie: Why did you do it?
Kate: He was hurting you. Charlie, he was hurting you!
Charlie: (mumbled)
Kate: It's not my fault, it's their fault, it's their fault.

While Kate ran after and confronted Dr Weirdo Charlie took the opportunity to stab her friend in the back, with a syringe full of serum.

Charlie: It's all over, they're not going to hurt you anymore, it's all over, it's all over.

Kate ran off, Charlie sobbed on Steves shoulder and "free" Lee turned up at the wrong time with some flowers from Gavin.

Following this dramatic turn of events Creepy Steve decided to return to the Hymn of One (probably a HoO seminar is rather sane compared to what he had witnessed!), Charlie (after getting bailed out by Gavin who moved in with her to help pay the rent)decided to step it up a gear at work and Gavin and Tariq continued their own style of training for "free" Lee.

Gavin and Lee are in the office. A very bored Lee sits down with a waste bin taped to the top of his head. Gavin crumples a piece of paper and tosses it into bin.

Kate meanwhile posted a weird and wonderful video (very CiW)

Things weren't getting much better for "free" Lee in the office.
Lee: Can't I get a shot of the screen?
Tariq: No! Only our clients are allowed to see this. Lee, you'll ruin everything!
Gavin: Are you deliberately trying to be stupid? This is our top secret weapon! You can't show it to everyone out there or every boff in his bedroom will be having a go.
Lee: Gee, I just thought...
Gavin: Well, don't think. You're not paid to think! Just keep it on me!

Tariq: Yeah, it's lunch time. Lee, I'm starving. Will you run down to the sandwich place?
Gavin: (takes a drink of his coffee) Mmm. No, I think today Tariq, my friend, we should have an executive lunch.
Lee: Of what?
Gavin: Well, I would like to start with a salad nicoise. Please. Write this down, will you?
Lee: I'll remember it.
Tariq: Get me a crayfish and rocket panini with mayonnaise.
Gavin: Yes, and chips.
Tariq: And uh, want proper knives and forks. No plastic.
Gavin: Well, go on then. We've got a lot of work to do today.
Lee: Alright, alright.
Gavin: Get going.
(Lee leaves the room and gives the two a "look.")
Gavin: What was all that about? His attitude stinks.

Gavin then went a little too far. On bebo he posted a blog asking folk for tasks for "subservient Lee" to carry out. OK so the request for Lee to say "nutmeat" to camera was ignored..but quite a few other suggestions weren't.

Gavin: (discouragingly) Mm, I don't think... (cuts to reading the screen again) Garry Munro said, "why not get lee"... (looks back at Lee briefly) "why not get lee to be a test dummy for tariq and gavin to try out some wrestling moves on him e.g. sharpshooter or may be a (stumbles a bit) 'supek kick'"?
(Gavin looks at the screen eagerly. Cuts to Lee standing uncomfortably as Gavin walks into the frame, in a "fighting stance.")
Gavin: What is it they do? They go... (fake punches Lee twice and stomps for sound effect)
Lee: (reacting appropriately) Ow...
Gavin: (giving thumbs-up to the camera) Right!
(Cuts to Gavin holding Lee over his shoulders, "smashing" Lee's head into the pile of blue boxes in the corner.)
Lee: (screaming and crying) Aahh!! I'm gonna be sick! I'm gonna be sick!!
(Cuts to later again, Gavin facing camera.)
Gavin: As per Darren's request, Lee has something that he'd like to announce to Tariq and the whole world.
(Cuts to Lee standing, wearing a pink skirt over his pants.)
Lee: (quietly) I love you, Tariq.
(Gavin laughs off-camera. Cuts to Gavin in front of the camera again.)
Gavin: (to Lee) Do you want to go and get us some sandwiches, then? (points to skirt) Keep that on, though.
(Lee looks at Gavin, incredulously. Cuts to Lee leaving, in the skirt, giving Gavin one last, hard look.)
Gavin: Go on. (Lee closes the door. Gavin laughs quietly) What a great day! (slams his hand down and continues to laugh)

Well it was then that the worm turned. Lee took the ultimate revenge. First he revealed just what G&T were up to. Software that could turn on webcams anywhere in the world!

Lee: They have created an extremely illegal piece of software and plan on making lots of money of exploiting our privacy. So, maybe they aren't as dumb as they look. (smiles) Oh no, I'm wrong, yes they are! Gavin isn't too good at backing things up. So he ask me to do it! Big mistake! (picks up a drive from the table) I have wiped every trace of it from everywhere, except my drive! So if you ever wanna see your software again, you better start getting ready with your apologies! Investors aren't gonna like that too much are they?(Lee kisses his drive.)

Tariq and Gavins solution was to get drunk..and a bit more drunk..and then just for the hell of it get drunk again.

Aunt Joan: And you've drunk all the sherry.

The boys clearly knew the dangers of the software not being in their hands any more.
Tariq: That's why we've been hiding out here, because we knew what we were doing was dodgy so... that's why we kept it a secret.
Gavin: Although, we were gonna sell it on to the right person. We weren't gonna do anything dodgy with it and get minted along the way.
Tariq: He could cause some real bad problems if he sold it.
Gavin: Yeah, you don't have to tell me how serious it is.
Tariq: I mean all that softwares not just for finding out industrial secrets.
Gavin: I know.
Tariq: It could be used to spy on little kids!
Gavin: I know!
Tariq: Or terrorists!... Or the Order.
Gavin: I know.

Lee revealed he hadn't turned the software over to any dodgy looking men in dark suits and glasses yet tho

Lee: I've hid it!

A cryptic clue was left to find out where to meet Lee and get the software back (Lee is clearly cleverer that G&T..why was he on work experience??)

Meanwhile Gavin's investor(who wasn't exactly a bank manager) became slightly irate.

Terrence: Turn it off. (Gavin reaches over to turn the camera off) Wait. Maybe you'd like to show your friends on the internet what happens when you lie to me.
Gavin: That wasn't a lie. We're going to get our software back. Honestly.
Terrence: Not that lie. You told me I was investing my money into a legitimate business. What your doing with these webcams couldn't be more illegal.
Gavin: Yeah well... let me explain about that-
Terrence: Oh it's too late. (Smashes Gavin's face into the camera.)

So now that Lee's clue is solved Gavin, Tariq and anybody who wants to help out will converge on Parliament square tonight....

Stay tuned...