Caption: "Reggie’s rubbish shops Grot are an amazing success. Sunshine Desserts bankrupt."
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Reggie Online: The Official Reginald Perrin web site
Scene-by-Scene Guide, including DVD Captures Gallery
Series Two, Episode Five
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5: Caption: "Reggie’s rubbish shops Grot are an amazing success. Sunshine Desserts bankrupt." |
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| Scene 1: Reggie is in Climthorpe town centre, performing the opening ceremony of his fiftieth Grot shop. He gives a speech, introducing new products in the ever-expanding range of rubbish lines, then calls on Elizabeth to declare the shop open, and to cut the ribbon. |
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| Scene 2: Back home, Elizabeth is annoyed that Reggie has said he will give C.J. a job, but has not found a position for his own wife. She refuses to cook any supper until he gives her a starting date. He tells her he might be late tomorrow night, as he is going for a drink with Joan to offer a job. He tells his wife he can start on June 1st, if only to get his supper. |
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| Link: Reggie arrives at Perrin Products, and greets the doorman as he opens the door for him. | |
| Scene 3: In his office, Reggie rings C.J. to arrange a job interview. He asks him a time that would be suitable to him, then makes it a week later, like C.J. used to do to him at Sunshine Desserts. Miss Erith's face is making Reggie miserable and he tells her that he will be sharing her amongst the new employees that will soon be joining the company. Miss Erith makes no visible reaction. |
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| Scene 4: Reggie and Joan are in a pub in Godalming, where he is asking her to come and work for him, in place of the dreaded Miss Erith. She accepts, but on the condition of a number of social contracts, such as reverting to Miss Greengross instead of Mrs. Webster, no furtive looks from Reggie. Reggie agrees, provided she doesn't cross her sexy legs. |
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| Scene 5: Back in the office, Tony calls to arrange an interview, and C.J. has arrived for his. Reggie enjoys making him wait outside the door, and embarrassing him with his own farting chair as he makes him reach for a cigar, lighter and ashtray. C.J. accepts Reggie's offer of a job, not knowing he'll be working with "that upstart" Tony Webster and leaves quickly before the chair farts. Reggie arranges to get the chair returned. Watch video |
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| Scene 6: The following Thursday, Tony Webster arrives, and Reggie offers him a job, not knowing that he'll be working with C.J. Reggie does inform him that he'll be working under David Harris-Jones. |
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| Scene 7: June 1st, the day all the new recruits start work. Reggie and Elizabeth set off from 12, Coleridge Close, handing each other their umbrellas, Reggie his wife's handbag and Elizabeth her husband's briefcase. |
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| Link: For the first time, both Mr. and Mrs. Perrin walk down Coleridge Close, turn right into Tennyson Avenue, left into Wordsworth Drive and through the snicket to the railway station. | |
| Scene 8: In Reggie's office, Joan is already there when Reggie enters. In his excitement to see her, he throws his umbrella too forcefully towards the hatstand and it goes straight out of an open window. It lands on a parking meter in Cobblers Lane. There is a knock at the door, and Elizabeth enters. She is surprised to see Joan as Reggie's secretary. C.J. enters and is even more surprised to learn that Elizabeth is his assistant. Tony Webster enters, and he is even more surprised to see both C.J. and Joan. |
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| Scene 9: Later in the week, Reggie tells Joan of his disappointment that there has been no reconciliation between her and her husband Tony, now that they are both working under the same roof. With Elizabeth away on business in Amsterdam with C.J., Joan seizes the moment and coaxes Reggie into a plan to make Tony jealous in the hope it will bring them back together. |
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| Scene 10: Reggie and Joan deliberately walk past Tony's flat, laughing noisily, and walk off along the golf course. Joan takes the opportunity to kiss Reggie and they fall to the ground in an embrace. Reggie reaches out in desperation and switches on the course sprinklers. Both parties are drenched. |
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| Scene 11: Next morning, Reggie reports to Joan on his visit to Tony's office where he accidentally on purpose mentioned his walk with Joan the previous night. Tony says he was out. Joan reckons a visit to Reggie's house should be sufficient to make him jealous. Reggie refuses. |
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| Scene 12: Joan has gone home with Reggie. Once again, she makes advances towards Reggie, and leads him upstairs. She starts to get undressed, but Linda and Tom arrive, much to Reggie's relief. Joan has to reacquaint herself with the drainpipe. |
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| Link: Reggie arrives for work next morning by bike, fed up with rail delays. A puncture has made him just as late as ever. |
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| Scene 13: Reggie still has to admit to Joan that the jealousy plan hasn't work, so Joan suggests Reggie go to her flat. Reggie is at first disgusted at the idea, but then readily concedes. |
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| Scene 14: Reggie is in Joan's flat, and he makes the first move. Before anything happens, Tony is knocking at the door, and Reggie has to descend the two floors to the ground - by drainpipe. |
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| Scene 15: Elizabeth has returned from Amsterdam, and Reggie briefs her on recent events, well some of them. He tells her Joan and Tony have been reconciled, but inadvertently uses one of C.J.'s phrases. This depresses him and he starts to wonder what his success amounts to, spelling out to Elizabeth his daily routine, but puts his depression down to being tired. Elizabeth mentions visiting her mother on Sunday, and for the first time in a long while, Reggie imagines the trotting hippopotamus. |
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