It Happened One Night is the third episode in the first series of the Channel 4 drama series Queer as Folk.
Synopsis[]
Vince and Stuart's camp friend Alexander returns from a holiday with his non-English-speaking Japanese lover. Nathan takes his best friend Donna out to the gay clubs. Everyone wants to pick up someone new, but Nathan only wants Stuart.
Plot[]
After Nathan tells Donna how Stuart dumped him, she expresses her low opinion of the older man and takes her friend off to the Canal Street clubs to get a new boyfriend. Here they meet Vince's liberal-minded mother Hazel and her lodger, Bernard, an elderly gay. Vince sees Rosalie in a gay pub and has to pretend that he is a straight man on his first venture into such a place. He meets up with his camp friend Alexander, who has returned from a holiday abroad with a non-English-speaking male prostitute, who wanders off. Vince, Alexander and another friend Dane have a bizarre encounter with a very strange gay, which ends in a drastic escape through a window. Phil, meanwhile, picks up the suave Harvey, with whom he does drugs but Phil collapses and Harvey steals his wallet, leaving him to die.