 In the original pilot episode, he appears comparatively sane, but displays macho insecurities that make his redundancy especially hard to take.When the boys are swindled out of their savings in Middlesbrough, Yosser reacts particularly badly, showing the first signs of the nervous breakdown that would characterise his behaviour in the 1982 series.The first episode of the series sees Yosser collecting social security from a Liverpool DHSS and making an unexpected appearance at an illegal building site, organised by a corrupt Irish contractor called Molloy.