The Red Door is the fourth episode of the first series of The IT Crowd and first aired on Friday the 17th 2006 on the UK TV channel, Channel 4. Roy and Moss immediately block her view of the door and convince her that it is only a storeroom and there is nothing interesting behind it. Not wanting to confirm Samantha's suspicion of him as a pervert, Roy tries to remain undetected. The women rush to the window to see a disgusting hairy builder staring back at them. Jen reassures him that he should get upstairs and help Roy as soon as possible.
She opens it and screams when she discovers a vampiric man standing behind it. As soon as he is gone, Jen rushes to the red door. Meanwhile, upstairs, Moss spots Roy under the desk and rushes over to the window. As he tries to get out from under the desk, Samantha enters the office and sits at her computer, blacking Roy's exit. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Roy rushes down and tries to shoo Richmond back into the room with a broomstick. He crawls under the desk, then plugs it in. Despite this, Jen organises Richmond and Denholm to meet the next day, and Denholm agrees to have Richmond back as Second-in-Command. Down in the basement, Moss gets a text message from Roy, asking for his help. The episode finishes with Moss in the canteen, looking through the hundreds of cups, which are all identical, trying to find his missing cups, which is still in the possession of Richmond and Denholm. He goes to her floor and finds a note on her computer monitor, telling him to fix it as soon as possible and that she does not want to speak to him. As soon as the light touches Richmond, he scampers off to his room again, screaming.
It gives Roy just enough time to crawl out from beneath the desk and run out of the room. Then, a female worker from an upper floor calls about a problem with her computer. However, Denholm changes his mind seconds later and only agrees that Richmond should not be forced to be trapped in his room. Jen then reveals to Roy that she discovered Richmond and that he is now outside. Roy gets to work on the computer and soon realises that her computer is unplugged. He tries to escape from the other side, but another woman (Cordelia Bugeja) sits down, trapping him. Jen and Richmond return to the department, where Moss has finally gotten round to cleaning the window. The IT Crowd - Series 1 - Episode 4: The red door - YouTube Roy realises that the woman is Samantha (Susannah Wise), a former love interest of his who now thinks that he is sexually frustrated.
She tries to convince them to tidy it up and to clean the window, which Roy claims is not actually a window.
Only then does Jen notice a strange red door at the back of the department. Moss abandons him and heads back down to the basement. In the room behind the red door, Jen discovers that the man is in fact Upstairs, Jen attracts the women's attention by saying there is a sexy builder outside, taking his shirt off. He tries to convince the women that there is something amazing at the window and that they must come and see it, but they aren't convinced, and Roy remains under the desk.