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But I'm getting ahead of myself! Let's go back to the first evening when Jess Wilson, the newly-appointed Head of Housekeeping, was preparing for the dinner to which just a few guests had been invited. The last housekeeper had left suddenly and there had not been any sort of handover: Jess is understandably nervous. She hasn't met Ned Groom and the interview she had with his brother Adam had been strange, to say the least. Adam's 'Head of Special Projects' but the projects which come his way don't seem ''that'' special.
You might have expected Adam to be Ned's right-hand man but that job falls to Annie Spark. She's the one who has the instinct for who's on the up-and-up and should be welcomed to all the perks of membership and who's sliding down the ladder. It's a delicate balancing act, though - careers have been known to be revived and ''you don't want anyone holding a grudge and an Oscar.''
Nikki Hayes is Ned Groom's PA. She started as a hat-check girl at one of the group's Clubs: her modelling career wasn't taking off so well so the job provided some much-needed funds. Just occasionally she gets snide comments from members who remember those days. She's not at the first-night dinner: Ned Groom has something he wants to say to his most prominent members, actors Jackson and Georgia Crane, chat-show host, Freddie Hunter, photographer Keith Little and producer Kurt Cox. They're not going to like it and not all of them will leave the island alive.