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Freddie Mclair
Full general Data
Nickname(due south):	Freddie, Freds, Fredster, Fred
Gender:	Male person
Built-in:	1992
Age:	16-17 (series 3 & 4)
Status:	Deceased
Died:	2010
Crusade of death:	Beaten to death by Effy's psychopathic counsellor, John T. Foster
Education:	Roundview Higher
Occupation(south):	Student
Relationships
Family:	Karen McClair (older sister) Mary McClair (mother) † Leo McClair (father) Norman McClair (maternal gramps)
Romances:	Effy Stonem (girlfriend) Katie Fitch (ex-girlfriend) Ruth Byatt (sexual encounter)
Friends:	James Cook (best friend) JJ Jones (best friend) Emily Fitch Naomi Campbell Pandora Moon Thomas Tomone Katie Fitch
Enemies:	John T. Foster (killer)
Serial Information
Offset Advent:	"Everyone" (episode 3.01)
Centric Episode(s):	"Freddie" (episode 3.05) "Finale" (episode iii.ten) "Freddie" (episode 4.05)
Last Appearance:	"Effy" (episode 4.07)
Potrayed by:	Luke Pasqualino

Frederick "Freddie" McClair is a fictional grapheme on the tv serial Skins, and is portrayed by Luke Pasqualino.

Contents

• 1 Label
• 2 Character History
  • 2.one Series 3
  • 2.2 Serial 4
    • 2.two.i Decease
    • 2.2.2 Backwash
• 3 Relationships
• four External Links

Characterization

Freddie happily skates around, smoking weed with his mates, and staying cool. He has issues taming his crazy friend Cook, who is not agape to do annihilation. His other best friend JJ is an integral function of their friendship, as he acts equally a mediator whenever at that place is a fight between Melt and Freddie. At other times, however, Freddie is forced to act equally the leader of the group whenever JJ has a panic attack or when Cook takes things likewise far; he is by far the most reliable in a crisis. In any other situation, Freddie is frequently the first to requite up, but normally bounces back with a nudge from either of his best friends.

In the 3rd series, Freddie's human relationship with his family is strained due to his sister Karen attempting to use their mother's death in order to become famous. However, in the 4th series, he and Karen are much closer, having resolved all their differences.

Much of the third serial deals with Freddie'south romantic feelings for Effy and how that affects Cook, who also has fallen in love with her. Effy's decision to offset a human relationship with Cook although she has feelings for Freddie begins to deteriorate the friendship between Cook and Freddie. By the end of the series, Effy'due south choice in which she picks Freddie leaves information technology cryptic equally to whether or not Cook and Freddie's friendship tin truly exist

In the fourth series, Freddie and Effy both deal with the fallout of her conclusion, and thus are unsure how to talk to Melt. Throughout the series, Freddie and Cook'south relationship is withal strained, due to Cook's lingering feelings for Effy. Similarly, his relationship with Effy is put to the test when she starts having a mental breakdown; he's non sure whether he is potent enough to take care of her by himself, and thus his relationship with her is put on hold while she spends time in a clinic. By the time their problems are resolved, nevertheless, his reunion with Effy is cut short tragically; he is murdered at the easily of her psychiatrist, Dr. John Foster, whose obsession with Effy indicates mental issues of his own. Following Effy'southward breakup and subsequent suicide attempt, Freddie's friendship with Cook is repaired.

Graphic symbol History

Series iii

In "Everyone", Cook, Freddie and JJ vie for Effy's attention afterwards coming together her the morning before higher starts. Freddie attempts to draw Effy'south involvement only past chatting with her, only he has nada thus far to distinguish himself to the mysterious, worldly Effy and is rebuffed gently. Effy sets Melt and Freddie a claiming, whoever breaks the college rules gets to "know her ameliorate". Cook breaks the rules, in the procedure starting a fire. His reward is sex with Effy in the nurse's office.

JJ, Cook and Freddie get a glimpse of Effy ("Anybody")

In "Cook", Freddie gets a call from Karen who is at her friend, Kayleigh's, date party. Melt rounds the gang up and they head over there uninvited. Freddie somewhen ditches his friends, disgusted with Melt'southward unwillingness to tame his wild behavior; while initially disdainful in response, by the end of the episode Melt promises to attempt and rein it in a little. Freddie also learns, to his dismay, that Effy and Cook are at present in a relationship.

In "Pandora", Freddie arrives at Pandora's pajama party (which has been crashed past Katie's boyfriend and an ground forces of his beer- swigging friends) to collect JJ, who has been abased by Cook and gone into another panic attack. Equally Freddie prepares to take his friend dwelling, Effy comes after him, request him to stay. Freddie angrily berates her for leaving JJ unattended; when she replies that she thought Cook was his friend, he sarcastically replies "I think Melt's your friend, isn't he?" Effy apologizes for her behavior, explaining her parents' sepparation and her subsequent trashing; while Freddie offers his sympathy, he refuses to stick effectually, which visibly upsets Effy.

In "Freddie", Freddie, watches equally Karen reaches the final of a TV talent show to find a new member of fictional daughter group Da Sexxbombz. He is forced to go along with the dramatic story she and their father are spinning about their supposed dedication to his deceased mother, all to look good in front of the cameras. If this was neat enough, living in the shadow of the increasingly reckless Melt, is becoming likewise much to comport.

Effy arrives in Freddie'southward garden and asks to exist allowed into his shed. Inside, the two share a spliff, but are apace interrupted by the arrival of Cook and JJ. When Cook invites Effy to leave to have sex with him, she sarcastically rebuffs him, causing him to angrily insist that she leave. Subsequently, as Freddie returns a bracelet to her, he suggests that they would be "good together". Effy denies this past claiming she would intermission his heart.

Freddie after becomes furious when his father clears out his shed for Karen to utilize every bit a practice room; he deliberately makes the interview await as poorly as possible. He reluctantly joins Cook and JJ at Keith'due south bar, and Melt discusses how they should get revenge on Karen for stealing the shed. JJ accidentally reveals that Cook once had sex with her, enraging Freddie. When he confronts Karen and his father over it and drives her out of the shed in tears, his father strikes him, telling him that at least she is committing to something and that he needs to do more than just 'skate around'.

The next 24-hour interval, after going through his usual rounds of skateboarding and spliff, Freddie realizes that his father has a point. He seeks out Effy at the water-park, where she is escaping from her turbulent home situation. The two share a passionate buss mid-water, where Freddie tells her how he feels about her.

By the evening he attends his sis's final functioning with his dad, merely she loses by fifteen votes; dorsum at habitation, he makes honest attempts to comfort her until Melt and JJ evidence up. Cook reveals that he got fifteen people from Keith'due south pub to vote confronting her as revenge for the shed. Unexpectedly, Freddie lashes out in rage at the set on on his family unit, headbutting Cook and making it articulate their friendship is over. Cook, who had previously characterized Freddie as the most reserved of the grouping, is shocked by this; he tells Freddie he loves him and leaves, groovy the Mclair family unit photo on his way out.

Freddie finally goes to see Effy again; however, Effy has returned to Cook. Freddie watches from below her window equally Cook steps up backside her and smirks at him; he then leaves angrily. His bitterness is evident in 'Naomi' when Naomi questions him virtually whether he told Effy near his feelings, as she had suggested; on at least 2 occasions, Effy notices him staring at her resentfully.

In "JJ", JJ tries to convince Freddie and Melt to talk to each other, but to no avail. Convinced that Effy does not truly recipherocate his feelings, Freddie has started a romantic relationship with Katie Fitch. Freddie blames JJ for Cook starting a brawl at the nightclub they went to, as JJ gave him drugs; notwithstanding, the drugs cause Cook to tell the truth, and he admits that, while she is even so in a sexual human relationship with Cook, Effy loves Freddie. Freddie is visibly shocked by this revelation.

In "Effy", he continues his sexual relationship with Katie, to Effy'southward jealousy. Later, at the gang'due south camping trip, he seems to grow distant from Katie, with both Effy and Katie noticing; past contrast, null happens betwixt him and Effy, but nether the issue of the shrooms she found they seem to grow closer. Unknown to him, Katie confronts Effy (who is experiencing a bad trip) and after a fight, Katie gets knocked unconscious. Afterwards, Effy wanders dorsum to the army camp when she runs into Freddie. After a few tense moments, they have sex for the commencement fourth dimension.

Eventually, Katie is found and taken to hospital, where Freddie — amidst others — learns that Effy hitting Katie (but not the reasons why), thus turning him against Effy for thinking she attacked Katie without merit.

In "Katie and Emily", The twins run into Freddie and JJ Jones while trying on dresses. JJ reveals to Emily that he told Freddie that he had sexual practice with her, and Freddie inadvertently tells Katie, who was unaware of this. She guilts Freddie into accompanying her to the ball and volunteers Emily to become with JJ. Freddie spends much of the episode trying to calm a panicked JJ downwards.

In "Finale", Freddie and JJ are working at a pawnshop, merely JJ becomes sick of Freddie's constant weed-smoking and gloom. Meanwhile, Effy grows worried for Cook when she sees how his begetter manipulates him, prompting her to call Freddie for help — and telling him that she loves him shortly before hanging upwardly. Freddie repeatedly seems uncertain and on the verge of giving upwards his attempts to find her until JJ goads him on. When Freddie and JJ arrive, Cook impulsively make up one's mind sthat the fate of the boys' relationships with Effy should be decided by the small town's race. JJ, who (unexectedly) wins the race, takes charge and demands that they solve their problems one time and for all, forcing both boys to admit that they each love Effy and telling her that she must choose between them. Although Effy doesn't say anything, her "wait says it all" when her gaze lingers over Freddie, prompting Cook to get out in a fury. When Freddie and Effy are lonely, they makeup and take sex. The following morn Effy, Freddie, Cook, and JJ begin their journey home. Freddie tries to keep his friendship with Cook intact by begging him to say it'due south ok, but Melt reluctantly refuses. Yet, Freddie defends Cook against his abusive male parent to the bespeak of knocking him out, and comforts him afterwards.

Serial iv

In "Thomas", The gang, excluding Effy (who has disappeared over the summer) witness the suicide of a teenage girl, Sophia, afterwards she had taken drugs. The police launch an investigation into the decease. Freddie believes Effy has dumped him out of guilt for hurting Cook; while this at least allows him to heal his friendship, he is somewhat resentful of her. At 1 point, Freddie once again demonstrates his role as the peacekeeper when he breaks upwards a fight betwixt Thomas and Cook, the erstwhile suspecting that Cook sold Sophia MDMA.

In "Emily", Effy returns to higher, sits next to Freddie and steals ane of his chips. They talk for a while and Effy reveals that it's him she was thinking about all summer. She then hugs Melt while Freddie watches. Emily so asks Freddie "can you trust her?" but he does not answer. Later at a party Effy is dancing with Freddie and kisses him. Cook sees this and lashes out at a young man political party-goer and headbutts JJ. Effy and Freddie sees him fighting and go out.

Freddie and Effy reunite. ("Cook")

In "Cook", Effy and Freddie kiss at school; this is overseen by Melt, who is abruptly expelled past the new headmaster. As he is forcefully removed, Freddie asks if he is alright, but Cook tells him to fuck off. Cook visits his mother's fine art showroom and is shocked to larn that she had slept with Freddie. Freddie admits Ruth gave him a blow job at Melt's 15th birthday party and pleads for Cook to stop interim out- as well as reminding him that he bashed JJ. Although Cook refuses to rein in, he recognizes Freddie'south 18-carat remorse and business and forgives him, provided he does not bring up their conflict over Effy again. Effy comes to see Melt in prison house and tells him she loves Freddie. He asks her "how is the honey?". Effy replies saying that it messes with your head but she's giving it a go. As a gesture of loyalty, she, Freddie and JJ attend Cook'due south trial.

In "Katie" she and Freddie are seen sharing affection and drugs at various gatherings; despite Effy's remark to Katie that 'nothing'due south ever perfect' they are both plainly enjoying their relationship.

In "Freddie", Freddie and Effy alive a hedonistic lifestyle in the Stonem house with Anthea gone. While Freddie is enjoying himself immensly and totally wrapped around Effy, he is convinced they will eventually render to normality, while Effy but seems to sink deeper and deeper. Freddie's education suffers and when he tells Effy this, they argue. Freddie meets a counsellor about his unfinished coursework; he gives information technology a become, but the merely affair he prioritizes is taking care of Effy. Freddie returns to encounter Effy sticking newspaper cuttings about decease onto the wall. Freddie becomes concerned about Effy's psychotic behaviour and does some reaserch on the subject field. He talks to his grandfather, Norman, and becomes adamant not to make mistakes with Effy like he perceived his father made with his deceased mother. He uses this as a trump carte du jour throughout the episode when arguing with his father.

After Effy impulsively throws a party with an ominous 'Goodbye' theme, Freddie enters her parents' room- decorated with more decease images than ever- and finds her hiding nether the bed. She says that he is the just one she trusts, and that she doesn't desire the people in that location. After Freddie kicks them out, he brings her out onto the landing, promising to make a fresh start the side by side day. They breifly find Cook- who has escaped from prison- in the kitchen, but Freddie is forced to kick him out when Effy boils over at his presence.

Freddie and Effy discuss her irratic beliefs. ("Freddie")

The next twenty-four hours, afterward giving her a bathroom and getting rid of her containers of vodka, Freddie takes Effy out into the park in an effort to cheer her up, and initially information technology seems to work. Even so, she eventually becomes frightened once more, explaining that 'they' are coming to get her, and that she is no longer potent enough to fight them off due to her human relationship with him. When she starts hallucinating about 'them' coming for her beyond the green, Freddie tells her he volition fight them for her and pretends to scare them off; Effy laughs wildly, but Freddie is increasingly concerned for her.

On their way home, Freddie notices Anthea has returned and is talking to a policewoman. Non wanting Effy to be arrested, he mistakenly rides their rented rickshaw into a street festival full of people in apocalyptic costumes, causing Effy to panic and run for information technology. Freddie chases subsequently her, running into Cook (disguised by devil makeup) who helps him look for her. Katie finds her and takes her to Freddie; they then go to Norman's nursing home. He convinces Freddie that Effy needs clinical help, that Freddie has given it his all-time shot at resolving the issues without exterior help, but that he now needs to accept some for her sake. Freddie then finds Effy lying in the toilets with her wrists slashed from attempted suicide; he cradles her while aimlessly screaming for help. In the hospital, Freddie is comforted past his family unit; Karen folds an origami swan for him to give to Effy. Anthea tells Freddie that Effy will need both their help, simply Freddie states that Effy needs her mother, not him, since she told him to go abroad when he came to see her. He destroys the cuttings in the Stonem house only for Cook to appear. He convinces Freddie not to give up on Effy, having finally put bated his feelings for her to aid his all-time friend. As Freddie breaks down, Cook hugs him.

In "JJ" information technology'south revealed that, later on Cook escaped from prison, Freddie had been hiding him at his house for some time; as his father was becoming suspicious, Freddie moved him to JJ's place, much to the dismay of JJ himself.

In "Effy", Effy returns dwelling after her near suicide attempt, with her room completed make clean and she and her mother have an awkward chat. She unpacks and then goes to visit Freddie, who is amazed and overjoyed to see her. They go to have sex, every bit indicated on her new whiteboard planner.

Inside Freddie's room, she and Freddie talk. He asks her why he wasn't allowed to see her, to which she replied that Foster had forbidden anyone from seeing her, equally it was role of her treatment. When Freddie asks what did Foster practice that was then special, Effy replies that he took away all her bad memories and made them adept. Freddie is aroused, finding out that Effy had bad memories of him. Effy consoles him, stating that now that all the bad memories were taken away, all she feels for Freddie is love. After, the gang has thrown a party to celebrate getting their A-Level results; Freddie gets an A and ii C'southward. As role of the party, everyone reads out their scores, with the exception of Effy. Effy stands up and tells the gang that is doesn't affair. She tells that gang that although she thinks that they are all peachy, she'due south had enough.

She then goes domicile and takes her pills, and sees Freddie's proper noun disappear from her white board. Effy is and then seen in another session with Foster, and he is doing some hypnosis techniques on her. Withal, these techniques are being used to erase her friends from her retentiveness, as Foster is "taking" those memories abroad. The next morning time, Freddie confronts Effy and they get into an argument. Effy tells him that she went mad when she was with him, but Freddie says that that'southward what loves supposed to do.

She tells Freddie that everyone needs to make sacrifices, and that anybody is in a different place now. She tells anybody that she is saying goodbye, and leaves. When she looks at her whiteboard later on taking her medication, Freddie's name vanishes.

The next morning, she is at a park, and Cook sits on the bench next to her. Every bit they are talking, Cook mentions that Freddie calls him near her (and calls her "Ef"). Effy looks confused, asking who "Ef" is. It turns out that Foster has been making Effy forget anybody she ever loved; however, after spending some fourth dimension with Cook, Effy comes upon a identify that sets off an emotional trigger. After some other near- suicide attempt, Effy remembers everything and tells Cook to become her to Freddie- who was so hurt by her rejection that he was considering running abroad.

She passes out, and when she wakes up in the infirmary, apologizes to Freddie and they reconcile. She tells him the voices have started upwards again, merely Freddie says they'll handle it together. When Foster enters the Effy's room, she freaks out and tells Freddie she doesn't desire Foster to be her compress anymore. Freddie runs him off and he holds Effy's manus until she falls asleep. As he leaves the hospital, he hugs Anthea, who agrees with him in that Foster'due south treatments seem unnatural.

Death

Unknown to everyone, John Foster is obsessed with Effy and was using his "alternative" methods in lodge to keep her (making her forget anybody else she ever loved). Because of this, Freddie, after getting a telephone phone call from Foster, goes and confronts Foster without telling anyone. When he reaches Foster's house, he yells at Foster to get out Effy lonely and that no 1 wants him around her. Foster pretends to be okay with this, and promises to back off.

However, when Freddie leaves to open the door leading to the entrance hall, he finds information technology locked. He's confused on why and irritably orders Foster to open it. Foster, meanwhile, comes upwards the stairs backside him with a baseball bat. He says that Effy really does love Freddie, and for that reason he cannot let him go. The scene cuts to outside the door; there is the shadow of Foster raising the bat, then several sickening cracks mingled with Freddie'due south screams. Blood splatters across the windowpanes.

Aftermath

To cover his crime, Foster planted show that go far seem that Freddie had run away, non being able to deal with Effy's bug. Most of the gang believes this caption, yet Karen is the first person to realise something isn't right, as most of his things (including his favorite shirt) are nonetheless in his room. Cook, besides, searched for Freddie for a short while before giving up.

When Katie talks to Effy, she said she can hear Freddie talking to her in her caput. Later, Karen finds evidence that makes her think that something more sinister happened to Freddie and talks to Cook. When Cook tries to tell her to accept that Freddie ran away, she attacks him. She tells him that if Cook was actually Freddie's friend, he would look for him, as Freddie did for Cook in "Finale" (episode 3.ten). She gives the evidence she institute to Cook, and tells him that he should read it and see if information technology changes his mind.

The show turns out to be Freddie's notebook, with all its' pages filled up stating "I Dearest her" (talking nearly Effy), nevertheless on one of the pages, Freddie wrote in black sharpie "John Foster wants to hurt her". This causes Melt to realize that Freddie'southward disappearance might have to do with Foster, and he cries, realizing how desperately he left his friendship with Freddie. Subsequently, he also seems to hear echoes of Freddie'south voice. Cook brings his suspicions to Effy, but he does not share information technology with the rest of the gang. Effy is moved by the depth of Freddie's love for her, having dreaded that she drove him away.

The scene in which Karen and Melt talk seems to be a very moving experience for Melt, as afterward Karen walks abroad, he opens the notebook, finding it full of "I love her", the writing getting bigger each folio, and breaks downwardly, falling to his knees and maxim, "So do I, Freds, so do I."

The gang decides to throw a political party in Freddie's shed to gloat his birthday and to honor him. Cook, viewing a film of him, Freddie, and JJ dressed every bit musketeers, decides to look for clues well-nigh Freddie's disappearance. When he goes outside the shed to pee, he sees Foster, watching the party going on in the shed. Without beingness seen, Cook follows Foster dorsum to his home and breaks into the basement. When he starts looking through the boxes, he sees a bag total of bloody clothes, and realizes they are Freddie's. Afterwards a confrontation with Foster, in which Foster hits him with a baseball bat, he has a minor speech and lashes out in anger on Foster roaring "I'1000 Cooooooooooooooook!" and so the Finale Credits kick in.

Relationships

Romantic Relationships

• Freddie Mclair and Effy Stonem - refers to the romantic pairing betwixt Freddie Mclair and Effy Stonem, which spanned throughout Serial iii and Series 4.

• Freddie Mclair and Katie Fitch - refers to the romantic pairing between Freddie Mclair and Katie Fitch, which spanned throughout Series 3, although the pair remained friends in Serial 4.

Friendships

• James Cook and JJ Jones - refers to the friendship between Freddie Mclair, James Melt, and JJ Jones (aka the "Three Musketeers"), which spanned throughout Series 3 and Series 4.

External Links

• Freddie Mclair Series iii Profile on the official E4 Skins site
• Freddie Mclair Series 4 Character Blog on the official E4 Skins site
• Freddie Mclair's Condolence Book
• Freddie Mclair on Myspace

Nothing Ever Perfect You Know Effy

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