| Episode
Three:
Scene 1: The staff are all
present in the living room, but are feeling dejected. Their first guest
has fled in panic, which doesn't bode well. Reggie tries to cheer them
all up by reading out some of their newspaper
advertisements that have recently appeared in the press. Many of them
were clever play-on-words, and one was by C.J. Reggie decides to personally
interview all applicants that will arrive as a result of the media saturation,
and asks the secretary - Elizabeth - if the guestlist of one has increased.
It has doubled: two. |
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2: Reggie is in his office, and calls for Elizabeth to send in the first
of the new
guests. Reggie's old boss Mr. Pelham enters, and they are both very
pleased to see each other. Mr. Pelham, the pig farmer, has expanded his
livestock business, but has gone off meat. Reggie tries to look professional
by writing on a piece of paper at his desk, but conceals it from Mr. Pelham.
When Mr. Pelham is not looking, Reggie screws up the piece of paper and
throws it on the floor. Reggie tells him that Mr. Pelham's problems will
no longer exist after a brief stay at Perrins, and Mr. Pelham thanks him.
Reggie then asks for the second guest. A large-built, forthright man enters
and sits down before he is asked. Thruxton Appleby is a textile tycoon
- his problem is that he is not liked. He expects money to carry all before
him, and has been ruthless with his employees. Reggie decides to be as
rude as he is, insulting him about being a smoker, a drinker and being
thick. He writes 'nosy swine' on a piece of paper and gets up to leave.
Thruxton Appleby picks it up and reads it, thus confirming what is written
there. Reggie meets C.J. who is out in the corridor, and asks him to help
him deflate the windbag in his office. C.J. enters Reggie's office and
asks him if he has heard the weather forecast. Reggie rings for it, then
introduces C.J. to Mr. Appleby by the wrong name. Thruxton tries to correct
him, but fails. Reggie convinces Thruxton that he can be cured, and the
tycoon leaves the office. |
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| Link: Reggie visits his
staff to see how they are getting on. McBlane is in a bad mood. Tom has
reverted to brewing his home-made wine, and Tony has decorated his hut
with pictures of Page Three topless ladies. Reggie is angry at them both
and tells them to buck their ideas up - or else. |
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| Scene 3: The staff are again
in the living room, and are still discouraged. Linda and Tom argue, as
do Joan and Tony. Even the Harris-Joneses have a disagreement. C.J. complains
about having to listen to married people arguing, and Reggie calls everyone
to order. He blames himself for the depression, by taking a dominant role,
and tells the staff that he will only hold a watching brief from now on. |
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| Scene 4: Reggie is visiting
the various areas of the community. Linda is sitting for Mr. Pelham to
paint her portrait, but the farmer has painted a floppy-eared, curly-tailed
pig instead. In the crafts shed, Thruxton Appleby is shouting at Prue for
being instructed wrongly on how to make a barrel. Prue fills it with water
and it seeps out through holes. He goes to visit McBlane the chef, and
casually broaches the subject of last night's curry being too hot. McBlane
starts to sharpen his carving knives, and Reggie leaves the kitchen. Next,
Reggie catches up with Jimmy who is leading his troops regimentally around
the estate. He visits Joan in the music room, where there is a cacophony
of noise, disguised as the singing voices of Thruxton Appleby, Mr. Pelham
and housewife Hilary Meadows. Reggie tells them, through clenched teeth,
to keep up the good work, and leaves quickly. He sits in on one of Doc
Morrissey's word association sessions. On the couch is Bernard Trilling,
head of Anaemia Television. He has lost his sense of humour. Bernard replies
to every word by saying 'comedy', as all he ever thinks about is making
a successful sitcom. He then walks in on Hilary Meadows being briefed,
very slowly and falteringly, by David Harris-Jones. Reggie tries to take
up the reigns in talking frankly about sex, but becomes tongue-tied himself,
and leaves. He then returns to his office, where C.J. is holding a role-playing
session in industrial negotiations. Arthur Noblet, an arc welder, is being
the boss instead of the worker, and Thruxton Appleby, the textiles tycoon,
is being the worker. C.J. is playing the secretary Cynthia Jones. After
many failed attempts to make the worker become more domineering and the
tycoon subserviant, Reggie and C.J. decide to demonstrate the negotiation
exercise themselves, resulting in a slanging match across the desk. Watch
video |
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| Scene
5: Later that day, Reggie is back in his office, when Thruxton Appleby
knocks and enters. He is leaving, cured, and writes Reggie a cheque. After
Thruxton leaves, Reggie looks at the cheque in amazement. |
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| Scene 6: The staff are being
briefed by Reggie in the living room. He tells them that Thruxton Appleby
has left them £1,000, and Mr. Pelham has left them a year's supply
of pork chops. The number of guests is increasing daily, and Reggie decides
to take a more dominating role once more. |
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