Stories Television Class Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Detained 1 image Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 1 Statistics Quotes Transcript + Script Overview First aired Saturday, November 19, 2016 Written by Patrick Ness Directed by Wayne Che Yip Runtime 44 minutes Story Type Bottle Episode Time Travel Present Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) LGBTQIA+ Location (Potential Spoilers!) Coal Hill School, Earth, England, London, Space Synopsis A mysterious asteroid throws Charlie, April, Ram, Matteusz and Tanya outside of space and time and Miss Quill is nowhere to be found. Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Charlie Smith April MacLean Ram Singh Tanya Adeola Matteusz Andrzejewski Andrea Quill Show All Characters (6) How to watch Detained: Watch on iPlayer DVD Class: Season 1 Blu-Ray Class: Season 1 Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Default Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 1 review 20 June 2025 · 150 words Review by Goibniu 1 Put some talented young actors together in a room, give them a simple but powerful story that lets character dynamics and psychological tension take center stage, and sprinkle in some compelling nuances—and you get what we got with Episode 6, "Detained." The whole main cast was just cooking, without exception. Even though everyone was equally strong, I do want to highlight Jordan Renzo as Matteusz Andrzejewski. In previous episodes, it often felt like the story just didn’t give him enough room to really showcase his acting skills. In "Detained," he finally gets more space—maybe it’s just that there aren’t other things distracting from his performance. He delivers some genuinely good work here. And the ending of the episode—superb. I suppose the more standard approach would have been to simply reset things to the status quo from the beginning of the episode. But here we get real development. A masterfully done episode. Goibniu View profile Like Liked 1 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating209 members 3.56 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 564 Favourited 30 Reviewed 1 Saved 3 Skipped 5 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote Transcript + Script Needs checking (Four fiery asteroids head through space towards a rift.) [School corridor] CHARLIE: It's the smallest of infractions.QUILL: You know, sometimes I think you can't even hear the words you use.CHARLIE: It was three minutes, at most.QUILL: Late is late, Prince.CHARLIE: Everything we've been through, IQUILL: Everything we've been through? Oh, do you mean enslaving me?CHARLIE: Punishment. It was. You know what, I'm not going to do this any more.QUILL: At any moment, you could destroy the entire species who killed our people, and yet, well, here we stand, in a school.CHARLIE: You shouldn't avenge genocide with genocide. That's what the Doctor said.QUILL: Oh, the Doctor. And, of course, no one else in all of time and space can think for themselves.CHARLIE: It isn't your decision, Quill.QUILL: No. But detention is. (She opens the door to -) [Physics 1] Show Full Transcript Open in new window View Script (PDF)