Summary

Geoff, Dennis, and Jeekers try to convince Ruprecht to revive the quartet, but he refuses. Ruprecht has been disruptive in class and has resulted to compulsive eating to cope with Skippy's suicide. As the boys are talking to Ruprecht, a van arrives outside carrying Ruprecht's parents, who are at Seabrook for a disciplinary meeting, revealing that they are in fact alive, and work as plumbers. The boys rip into Ruprecht for lying about his family, and he is subjected to vicious toilet-themed bullying.

Howard receives a package from Skippy's mother, containing the uniform of Skippy's great-grandfather, who fought in World War I. Slattery tells Howard that the uniform belongs to a group of soldiers who were slaughtered in an ill-constructed plan, then during the Irish War of Independence, all the sacrifices of the World War I soldiers were forgotten because they had...