Then this character, played so well by Alan Ruck, up and dies, allowing his story to pay off, rather than living on to fuel another plot.
Prop Paul James foraged well at a ruck to tee up the young outside-half for a smashing strike from distance, and he punished Alan Quinlan with another well-struck effort on the half hour, setting up a 6-3 half-time lead.
However, deep into injury time England Under-20 winger Miles Benjamin caused panic in the Wasps defence and when the hosts went off their feet at the resulting ruck Crichton stepped up to leave Wasps struggling just one place off the foot of the table.
Earls had gathered his own chip-and-chase to put the Sale defence under pressure and O'Gara set up the ruck by bravely diving to win possession after Warwick's kick infield.
Holah held up replacement hooker Damien Varley as the Munster pack tried to sniff out a try, which arrived on 71 minutes when Deasy sniped through, setting up a ruck from which O'Gara attacked the blindside and got over.
Firstly David Strettle and Care combined to send Lowe away for a try which Clegg converted, before Lowe produced a strong run to set up a ruck in the home 22 from which Clegg put his side ahead with a neat drop-goal.
Scrum-half Gareth Jones remains seriously ill in hospital after he was caught up in a ruck.
Eventually it proved too much as Vainikolo picked up from a ruck and stepped around Chris Robshaw to score his second try.
Leinster fly-half Ian McKinley struck a drop goal, but from the restart Dan Lydiate and Gavin Thomas made serious inroads into the visitors' defence, Evans picking up the swift ruck ball to cross under the posts, with Arlidge finally landing a conversion.
In the last minute, Dimitri Yachvili came through a ruck to knock on a pass as Dan Biggar lined up a drop goal.
The scrum-half saw space in behind a ruck to chip, gathered the ball and fed Mefin Davies steaming up behind him.
Mr Ruck, author of the Ragged Cliffs Trilogy, said he set up the festival to provide young authors with a chance, and to promote literacy through a children's event running alongside Kidwell-e.
He was held up short but the Australian scrum-half snapped on to the ruck ball and dived over.
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Scarlets scrum-half Martin Roberts was robbed as he went to pass from the base of a ruck and Perpignan spread the ball left towards Candelon, the wing kicking ahead and following up to gather and score.
After attacking a ruck with vigour and turning over, a Dylan Hartley reverse pass close to the touchline was picked up brilliantly by Ansbro, who surged for the line.
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