Empty Orchestra Empty Orchestra "Empty Orchestra" is the fourth episode of the third series of the British dark comedy anthology television programme "Inside No. 9". Written by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith and directed by Guillem Morales, the episode was first shown on 7 March 2017, on BBC Two. "Empty Orchestra" is set in a karaoke booth, and follows a group of work colleagues—Greg (Shearsmith), Fran (Sarah Hadland), Connie (Tamzin Outhwaite), Janet (Emily Howlett) and Duane (Javone Prince)—celebrating the promotion of Roger (Pemberton). Rebekah Hinds also stars. "Empty Orchestra" is close to a musical. The characters sing throughout much of the episode,
Empty category indicate an empty category.) Spoken form of the sentence "Who did Lucy see?" The tree to the right illustrates this example of WH-trace. Initially, the sentence is "[CP] did Lucy see who,” which has an empty specifier position of CP, as indicated by square brackets. After the Wh-item [who] is relocated to the specifier position of CP, the empty position is left at the end, in the original position of [who]. What is left in its place is the WH-trace. A special relationship holds between the WH-item and the complementizer of a sentence: In this example, the complementizer or the