Necessary Rhino

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0:00:24 > 0:00:26How was that, Miss Polk?

0:00:26 > 0:00:29I'm not taking a photograph, Lord Emsworth.

0:00:29 > 0:00:32I'm afraid y'all have to hold the pose a little longer.

0:00:32 > 0:00:36Yes, yes, of course, totally understood.

0:00:36 > 0:00:38- Guv'nor. Guv'nor.- Frederick!

0:00:38 > 0:00:42This is Miss Vanessa Polk. You'll never guess, but she's an artist.

0:00:42 > 0:00:44She's come all the way from, erm...

0:00:44 > 0:00:46San Antone.

0:00:46 > 0:00:49Ah, very good, I know this one! That's in America.

0:00:49 > 0:00:52It was when I left it, honey.

0:00:52 > 0:00:54My daddy wrote your Aunt Constance.

0:00:54 > 0:00:58Before I was born they used to have a thang?

0:00:58 > 0:01:00She invited me to visit with y'all.

0:01:00 > 0:01:02Miss Polk?

0:01:02 > 0:01:05God bless America.

0:01:05 > 0:01:07Specifically Texas.

0:01:07 > 0:01:10I'm sure we have some in the medicine cupboard.

0:01:10 > 0:01:12Lord Emsworth?

0:01:12 > 0:01:14Oh... Guv'nor. Guv'nor... I came to tell you about Hannibal.

0:01:14 > 0:01:16The elephant guy?

0:01:16 > 0:01:18Sort of.

0:01:18 > 0:01:21He was playing elephant polo when his father died, so the dukedom

0:01:21 > 0:01:24went to his brother Alaric instead, which put H in a strop.

0:01:24 > 0:01:26He wanted to be Hannibal Dunstable, y'see.

0:01:26 > 0:01:30But now he has to be Lord Didcot, which sounds like something

0:01:30 > 0:01:33you shout if you drop a hammer on your foot.

0:01:33 > 0:01:37Batey Didcot is an absolutely ghastly man.

0:01:37 > 0:01:43Worse than his brother. Pokering the furniture, roaring at the servants.

0:01:43 > 0:01:47He was here last week, bullied me into selling him something or other.

0:01:47 > 0:01:49Thank God he's gone.

0:01:49 > 0:01:51- Well, no, he hasn't.- Yes.

0:01:51 > 0:01:52- He's back.- No.

0:01:52 > 0:01:56Where's the ruddy butler?!

0:01:56 > 0:01:57And another thing!

0:01:59 > 0:02:02Calypso Surprised. See it?

0:02:02 > 0:02:07It's a fake. Bronzino, my Aunt Fanny. Look, it's signed by...

0:02:07 > 0:02:10Cozzy somebody.

0:02:10 > 0:02:12Bless my soul.

0:02:12 > 0:02:14Never mind your soul, Emsworth.

0:02:14 > 0:02:17I bought this off you for 50 quid and I want my money back.

0:02:17 > 0:02:21Hannibal, whatever is all this noise?

0:02:21 > 0:02:25Connie, I've been conned.

0:02:25 > 0:02:29I'm not leaving this ruddy house till I have justice.

0:02:33 > 0:02:36Morning all. Lovely morning.

0:02:36 > 0:02:37It's a peach.

0:02:37 > 0:02:39Um, where is Peach? I mean Beach?

0:02:39 > 0:02:41He's on holiday, Guv'nor.

0:02:41 > 0:02:46Oh... Did I really sell Batey Didcot a painting of Pinocchio Despised?

0:02:46 > 0:02:48Beach would know.

0:02:48 > 0:02:50I think you'll find he's on holiday.

0:02:50 > 0:02:53If you ask me, Hannibal's losing what remains of his marbles.

0:02:53 > 0:02:56Galahad, we did not ask you. What are you doing here?

0:02:56 > 0:02:57I'm useful in a crisis.

0:02:57 > 0:02:59- What crisis? - Hannibal's off his nut.

0:02:59 > 0:03:03For heaven's sakes! Lord Didcot is merely eccentric.

0:03:03 > 0:03:05It's the living alone in that enormous house.

0:03:05 > 0:03:08And his ridiculous feud with Alaric.

0:03:08 > 0:03:13All he needs is a capable woman to marry him and sort him out.

0:03:13 > 0:03:15Which is the reason I have invited Miss Polk.

0:03:15 > 0:03:17What?

0:03:17 > 0:03:19Dear Vanessa.

0:03:19 > 0:03:21- I heard voices. - Happens to me all the time.

0:03:21 > 0:03:23Let us go somewhere less congested.

0:03:30 > 0:03:32Yes...

0:03:32 > 0:03:33Leave it now... Leave it.

0:03:35 > 0:03:40So very, very kind of you to indulge Clarence by painting his pig.

0:03:40 > 0:03:43You really mustn't take much trouble.

0:03:43 > 0:03:45Oh, it's no trouble. I like to paint.

0:03:45 > 0:03:51Now...we have staying with us a very old family friend.

0:03:51 > 0:03:53Lord Didcot.

0:03:53 > 0:03:56I mean one knows so many peers, but he is really rather special.

0:03:56 > 0:03:58You smile?

0:03:58 > 0:04:00Your nephew...

0:04:00 > 0:04:02What has Freddie said, exactly?

0:04:02 > 0:04:04That Mr Didcot was an old walrus

0:04:04 > 0:04:06in trousers five sizes too small for his...

0:04:06 > 0:04:08upper thighs.

0:04:08 > 0:04:10Yes. Well, unfortunately Freddie was dropped on his head.

0:04:10 > 0:04:12Oh! How terrible.

0:04:12 > 0:04:13Yes, it will be.

0:04:13 > 0:04:16I mean, it is true Lord Didcot is of a certain age

0:04:16 > 0:04:20and also has a conservative manner.

0:04:20 > 0:04:26The latter of which could be changed by a woman -

0:04:26 > 0:04:29say, the daughter of a very old and dear friend...

0:04:29 > 0:04:31To do what?

0:04:31 > 0:04:35Hannibal's estate...

0:04:35 > 0:04:39on which he lives alone, is considerably bigger than Blandings.

0:04:39 > 0:04:40Do you follow?

0:04:40 > 0:04:43- I guess...- Good.

0:04:43 > 0:04:45< ROARING AND CRASHING

0:04:45 > 0:04:49It would be wise not to address him as Mr Didcot.

0:04:49 > 0:04:51OK.

0:04:51 > 0:04:53Furthermore,

0:04:53 > 0:04:58my room has no poker! Where's the ruddy butler?

0:04:58 > 0:05:02What? Yes, good point, where IS Beach?

0:05:02 > 0:05:04He's on holiday.

0:05:04 > 0:05:07Is he? Nobody tells me anything.

0:05:07 > 0:05:10Hannibal, I should like you to meet Miss Polk.

0:05:10 > 0:05:14Pleased to meet you, Lord Didcot.

0:05:14 > 0:05:16Gad, a damned colonial.

0:05:16 > 0:05:21Miss Polk is the daughter of JB Polk of Polk Furnishings.

0:05:21 > 0:05:25Can't abide a woman in yellow. Also much too tall.

0:05:25 > 0:05:28Carry on, see the geography of the house.

0:05:28 > 0:05:32Polk. A single woman and many times a millionairess.

0:05:32 > 0:05:35Mmm!

0:05:35 > 0:05:36Let me show you the west wing.

0:05:36 > 0:05:38We'll go through the dining room, into the conservatory.

0:05:38 > 0:05:40Clarence, I've been here five minutes

0:05:40 > 0:05:42and you haven't taken me to see the Empress.

0:05:42 > 0:05:49Oh, my dear fellow, I do apologise. Come. Come. Most exciting news.

0:05:49 > 0:05:51She's having her portrait painted.

0:05:51 > 0:05:53Guv'nor, touching on the subject.

0:05:53 > 0:05:56Mirabile dictu, I've got myself in a spot of bother.

0:05:56 > 0:05:58I was a little flown with wine

0:05:58 > 0:06:01and was moved to wager Catsmeat that I couldn't fit three billiards balls

0:06:01 > 0:06:04in my mouth and give a tolerable rendition of La Marseillaise.

0:06:04 > 0:06:06Hah. Haven't done that for years.

0:06:06 > 0:06:08Now I owe him 100 smackers.

0:06:08 > 0:06:11Hang on, Guv'nor, don't ooze off - I'm not on the sponge,

0:06:11 > 0:06:14I have here a crash-hot commodity.

0:06:14 > 0:06:17Pointless asking me about money, Frederick.

0:06:17 > 0:06:19Your mother was the man for all that.

0:06:19 > 0:06:22But I am totally strapped for the necessary rhino!

0:06:24 > 0:06:25Oh...

0:06:27 > 0:06:30Ah! Lord Didcot?

0:06:30 > 0:06:31Yes?

0:06:31 > 0:06:35I have come into possession of this rather splendid picture of a horsey.

0:06:35 > 0:06:37You may wish to purchase it.

0:06:37 > 0:06:41Get out of my way. I want to purchase Vanessa whatserface.

0:06:41 > 0:06:43And I've not finished with Emsworth.

0:06:46 > 0:06:48Oh...

0:06:54 > 0:06:58Lord Emsworth? Can you look at her like you know she's boss?

0:06:58 > 0:07:00She IS boss.

0:07:02 > 0:07:03Thus?

0:07:03 > 0:07:06All right! We're off to the races!

0:07:06 > 0:07:08Races? Emsworth?

0:07:08 > 0:07:13You're not thinking of entering that ruddy pig in the Derby again?

0:07:13 > 0:07:17Heard about that from m'brother, God rot and damn his ruddy soul.

0:07:17 > 0:07:20- They're just having their picture done, you goon.- What?

0:07:20 > 0:07:25It's kind of a... marriage portrait.

0:07:25 > 0:07:26Oh, my God!

0:07:26 > 0:07:29Didcot, if there's a fatuous conclusion to be leapt to,

0:07:29 > 0:07:31you'll leap it.

0:07:31 > 0:07:32Gah!

0:07:32 > 0:07:36This is yet another instance of Emsworth's egregious pottiness

0:07:36 > 0:07:37and mendacity.

0:07:37 > 0:07:41Don't think you can get away from me by slithering orf to be

0:07:41 > 0:07:43with your porcine floozy.

0:07:43 > 0:07:47Miss Polk, look at this ruddy piece of junk he made me buy.

0:07:47 > 0:07:51Did you ever see such an outrageous fake?

0:07:51 > 0:07:53Rooked me rotten.

0:07:53 > 0:07:57I'm hanging the damn thing where it belongs.

0:07:58 > 0:08:02Now... Miss Polk.

0:08:02 > 0:08:04HE CHUCKLES

0:08:04 > 0:08:07You're a bit of a dolly, aren't you?

0:08:07 > 0:08:11Will you excuse me? I just have to...

0:08:11 > 0:08:14not talk to you.

0:08:18 > 0:08:21Today's cock, Hannibal. Tomorrow's feather duster.

0:08:38 > 0:08:40That'll learn him.

0:08:40 > 0:08:44He is the most unpleasant specimen.

0:08:44 > 0:08:48Dreadful. Apart from Batey Didcot, Miss Polk, how do you like Blandings?

0:08:48 > 0:08:50I like it just fine.

0:08:50 > 0:08:53I expect you're accustomed to far superior plumbing, food,

0:08:53 > 0:08:54transportation and teeth.

0:08:54 > 0:08:56Oh, I'm not unacquainted with hardship.

0:08:56 > 0:08:58Really, I wonder why.

0:08:58 > 0:09:01I knew your father - he's a very good egg, old JB.

0:09:01 > 0:09:05But he's never had a moment's hardship in his life.

0:09:05 > 0:09:07Never had a daughter, either.

0:09:09 > 0:09:13So. OK. Do I pack my bag?

0:09:13 > 0:09:16Don't be preposterous. No. Tell me your secret, Vanessa?

0:09:16 > 0:09:17Is your name really Vanessa?

0:09:17 > 0:09:20- Vanessa...Gruber. - Enchanted.

0:09:20 > 0:09:24JB hired me to paint his portrait. We got on pretty well.

0:09:24 > 0:09:26I was a little down in the dumps at the time so he fixed me

0:09:26 > 0:09:28this trip to England, to have some fun.

0:09:28 > 0:09:32"Let's tell my old pal Connie I'm your daddy," he said.

0:09:32 > 0:09:33"She'll lap you up."

0:09:33 > 0:09:37Would I be close to the mark in assuming you haven't two beans to your name?

0:09:37 > 0:09:39I play a little blackjack, to keep the coyote from the door.

0:09:39 > 0:09:41But I dropped a packet in Pasadena.

0:09:41 > 0:09:43I'm broke, Gally.

0:09:43 > 0:09:45Sad to hear it, but join the club.

0:09:45 > 0:09:50Huh. Listen. There's something bothering me.

0:09:50 > 0:09:52My animal magnetism. Don't be alarmed. I'll switch it off.

0:09:52 > 0:09:57Now, sit here and tell me your troubles.

0:09:59 > 0:10:04< That picture the one that foolish man threw away...

0:10:04 > 0:10:07< It's the real thing.

0:10:07 > 0:10:09< Good God, it must be worth a fortune!

0:10:09 > 0:10:12< You bet. Hundreds of thousands.

0:10:12 > 0:10:14CLANKING

0:10:16 > 0:10:19Let us continue this fascinating conversation outside.

0:10:20 > 0:10:23There are too many hairy old ears in these walls.

0:10:27 > 0:10:28Hundreds of thousands...

0:10:28 > 0:10:31WHISTLING

0:10:35 > 0:10:36Right.

0:10:38 > 0:10:40HE GROWLS

0:10:47 > 0:10:50She's only just arrived and already your uncle has her cornered.

0:10:50 > 0:10:52I suppose you admire that.

0:10:54 > 0:10:56Frederick, what do you want?

0:10:56 > 0:10:58I wanted to propose to you.

0:10:58 > 0:11:00Er, make you a proposition!

0:11:00 > 0:11:02As long as it's nothing to do with painting, art or artists.

0:11:02 > 0:11:04I've had a basinful.

0:11:04 > 0:11:07How interesting that fine art should be the sujet du jour,

0:11:07 > 0:11:11because I happen to have this rather glorious picture of a horsey.

0:11:11 > 0:11:12< LAUGHTER

0:11:12 > 0:11:16Will you please go out there

0:11:16 > 0:11:18and tell your uncle I wish to speak to him at once?

0:11:18 > 0:11:20Damn right.

0:11:33 > 0:11:35We need to talk.

0:11:37 > 0:11:38Oh, phooey.

0:11:38 > 0:11:42I refuse to discuss...miss you with the likes of...Polk.

0:11:42 > 0:11:45No intention of discussing the female

0:11:45 > 0:11:48I plan to cart orf from this dump.

0:11:48 > 0:11:51I'm talking about art.

0:11:52 > 0:11:54Ha! Art.

0:11:54 > 0:11:58Scarcely a subject for this turpentine community.

0:12:02 > 0:12:04No. Philistine community.

0:12:11 > 0:12:12My boy.

0:12:12 > 0:12:14Aunt Constance would like...

0:12:14 > 0:12:17Aunts can wait. What about this dismal crasher Didcot?

0:12:17 > 0:12:20We can't have him bellowing about the place, terrorising your father.

0:12:20 > 0:12:24I ask this rhetorically, for I already have the answer.

0:12:24 > 0:12:26What do we do?

0:12:26 > 0:12:28Leave Miss Polk alone.

0:12:28 > 0:12:32My dear boy, I believe you hold a torch for her.

0:12:32 > 0:12:35Excellent! I salute your taste and judgment.

0:12:35 > 0:12:39It makes it even simpler for us to have our cake and lie in it.

0:12:39 > 0:12:41Freddie, do you trust me

0:12:41 > 0:12:43- to take charge of your sentimental education?- Hmm...

0:12:43 > 0:12:45This is the bit where you say, "Yes, uncle."

0:12:45 > 0:12:47Yes, uncle.

0:12:47 > 0:12:50- Good, here's the plan. Hannibal must propose to Vanessa, tonight.- Mmm...

0:12:50 > 0:12:54Don't moo at me - I didn't say marry. I said propose.

0:12:54 > 0:12:56The formal offer is all.

0:12:56 > 0:13:00To this end you must make love to Vanessa yourself, assiduously

0:13:00 > 0:13:05and publicly. Right under the twitching nostrils of your aunt.

0:13:05 > 0:13:07Go to it.

0:13:07 > 0:13:09Right!

0:13:10 > 0:13:11Ah... Connie,

0:13:11 > 0:13:14have you seen Miss erm...

0:13:14 > 0:13:16Ah, there she is.

0:13:16 > 0:13:20With Frederick. They're getting on like a horse on fire.

0:13:20 > 0:13:24House. And it is a conflagration you must stamp out.

0:13:24 > 0:13:28The whole point of the match was that it should be with Lord Didcot.

0:13:28 > 0:13:32That is all very modern and I dare say commendably open-minded,

0:13:32 > 0:13:34but on Frederick's behalf...

0:13:34 > 0:13:35Give me strength.

0:13:35 > 0:13:38I am not suggesting that Freddie should marry Hannibal.

0:13:38 > 0:13:39I'm glad you've reconsidered.

0:13:39 > 0:13:41What if there'd been a daughter? She might have had a moustache

0:13:41 > 0:13:44and a big roary voice going ugh-ugh-ugh...

0:13:44 > 0:13:46You just break it up.

0:13:49 > 0:13:52Hannibal, I did not make myself clear.

0:13:52 > 0:13:55It is imperative that you marry Miss Polk.

0:13:55 > 0:13:57You will find the arrangement agreeable and convenient,

0:13:57 > 0:13:59and it will make you less choleric.

0:13:59 > 0:14:01I'm not choleric.

0:14:01 > 0:14:03I'm famous for my ruddy sunny disposition.

0:14:03 > 0:14:05Damn and blast you, woman!

0:14:05 > 0:14:06< LAUGHTER

0:14:06 > 0:14:08Oh, Lord, he's useless!

0:14:08 > 0:14:09Listen to me, Hannibal.

0:14:09 > 0:14:12I want you to go out there and stop this conversation.

0:14:12 > 0:14:13What conversation?

0:14:16 > 0:14:17What?

0:14:18 > 0:14:22Potty as a hatful of pixies.

0:14:28 > 0:14:31You want to know something on the QT about Calypso?

0:14:31 > 0:14:34Do I know a cutie called Calypso?

0:14:34 > 0:14:36Er...

0:14:37 > 0:14:40Aha, Miss Polk.

0:14:40 > 0:14:43There you are.

0:14:43 > 0:14:47Thought you might care to take a stroll.

0:14:48 > 0:14:53The park here is pretty tawdry compared to mine.

0:14:53 > 0:14:56Didcot, Miss Polk is working.

0:14:56 > 0:14:58And I call that a damned indignity.

0:14:59 > 0:15:02Totty like her didn't ought to have to work.

0:15:02 > 0:15:08God's ruddy trousers, Emsworth, Blandings is a temple to barbarity.

0:15:08 > 0:15:11And when are you going to cough up my 50 quid?

0:15:11 > 0:15:14Just pay him, Clarence. Just pay him. This whole ghastly rigmarole

0:15:14 > 0:15:16is making me bilious. Get your cheque book.

0:15:16 > 0:15:17Connie.

0:15:25 > 0:15:28Where is Beach?

0:15:28 > 0:15:30Climping.

0:15:30 > 0:15:33Well, well. Does he climp, or is he...

0:15:33 > 0:15:35being climped?

0:15:35 > 0:15:37- He's on holiday.- Oh.

0:15:37 > 0:15:40Lord Emsworth, we were speaking earlier about the painting in the...

0:15:40 > 0:15:42So, my dear, eh?

0:15:42 > 0:15:44HE CHUCKLES

0:15:44 > 0:15:45Argh!

0:15:45 > 0:15:49Oh. I'm so sorry.

0:15:49 > 0:15:53I seem to have stuck my fork into your hand.

0:15:53 > 0:15:57Idiot. Can't even squeeze a girl's knee under the table...

0:15:57 > 0:15:59Oh!

0:16:01 > 0:16:03Ooh!

0:16:03 > 0:16:06A gift from me to you.

0:16:06 > 0:16:08How do you do that?

0:16:08 > 0:16:10A trick I picked up in the Kalahari.

0:16:10 > 0:16:13- An establishment on Dover Street. - Ah.

0:16:13 > 0:16:17You and I, young man. We share an interest.

0:16:17 > 0:16:20Not her, you imbecile. The horse.

0:16:20 > 0:16:22How much do you want for it?

0:16:22 > 0:16:24I'll give you half that.

0:16:24 > 0:16:27Connie? Connie, can we speak?

0:16:27 > 0:16:30Yes, of course. As long as it's not about art.

0:16:30 > 0:16:32The whole subject brings me out in hives.

0:16:32 > 0:16:37Talk to me, then. Talk to me about anything. Hives. Bees.

0:16:37 > 0:16:39I once had a bumblebee in a matchbox.

0:16:39 > 0:16:42I called him Hammy. I'd always wanted a hamster, you see.

0:16:42 > 0:16:43You have such beautiful eyes.

0:16:44 > 0:16:47I am going to bathe my temples with eau de Cologne.

0:17:02 > 0:17:06Miss Polk must marry Batey Didcot. I entirely agree.

0:17:06 > 0:17:08You're scheming. Why?

0:17:08 > 0:17:11Hannibal has become intolerable. Have you established

0:17:11 > 0:17:13whether or not the old warthog actually wants to marry her?

0:17:13 > 0:17:15I'm certain of it.

0:17:15 > 0:17:18So am I. But he's too self-obsessed, crass and idle to ask.

0:17:18 > 0:17:20He should trust to the pen.

0:17:20 > 0:17:22Your pen.

0:17:25 > 0:17:27KNOCK ON DOOR

0:17:31 > 0:17:33Darling.

0:17:34 > 0:17:36Oh, my God!

0:17:36 > 0:17:40If you think you can beat me down with that kind of pansy flimflam,

0:17:40 > 0:17:42then you're savagely mistaken.

0:17:42 > 0:17:46I'll give you 300 for the piece, take it or leave it.

0:17:46 > 0:17:51Didcot, I cannot permit you to describe my beloved as a piece.

0:17:51 > 0:17:55I'm talking about the ruddy horse, you snivelling amoeba.

0:17:55 > 0:17:57I see we are at cross porpoises... purposes...

0:17:57 > 0:18:02Just shut up and listen. 300. Cash.

0:18:02 > 0:18:06Damn and blast you, man - concentrate! Stop thinking about

0:18:06 > 0:18:11the wretched American girl, she's out of your puny league.

0:18:11 > 0:18:15We shall discover, Didcot, whose leg is puny.

0:18:20 > 0:18:22KNOCK ON DOOR

0:18:22 > 0:18:24Now look here, you ruddy beef-faced walrus...

0:18:33 > 0:18:35Ah, Beach! Oh...

0:18:35 > 0:18:36Now, listen to me.

0:18:36 > 0:18:39I want you to get Hannibal and bring him to my room, now.

0:18:39 > 0:18:42Constance. There are limits.

0:18:42 > 0:18:46- Oh, for heaven's sakes, you're such a booby!- I can't allow...

0:18:46 > 0:18:50Stop speaking. I cannot, with propriety, possibly go to his room.

0:18:50 > 0:18:54You must bring him to mine. I need to dictate to him.

0:19:00 > 0:19:02SNORING

0:19:06 > 0:19:08Didcot? Erm...

0:19:08 > 0:19:11Just a minute...

0:19:13 > 0:19:15Didcot...

0:19:15 > 0:19:17I...er...

0:19:17 > 0:19:19Sorry...

0:19:19 > 0:19:20Oh, dear...

0:19:22 > 0:19:26- Sorry, so clumsy... - CLANKING

0:19:26 > 0:19:28Ah, this looks promising...

0:19:28 > 0:19:30Didcot, are you in here?

0:19:30 > 0:19:32ARRGGH!

0:19:36 > 0:19:38Where are you, you filthy sewer?

0:19:38 > 0:19:41Ah, Didcot, there you are.

0:19:41 > 0:19:43Anything you need?

0:19:43 > 0:19:45What I need, Emsworth,

0:19:45 > 0:19:48is for you to stop acting the goat in my bathroom. How Connie manages...

0:19:48 > 0:19:50Connie! Yes, yes.

0:19:50 > 0:19:54- She wishes to lord it over you, in her bedroom.- What?!

0:19:54 > 0:19:58Not the precise phrase, but she wishes to talk to you. Hmm?

0:19:58 > 0:20:01When you've finished with that poker

0:20:01 > 0:20:06would you return it to the drawing room? There's a good fellow.

0:20:06 > 0:20:08Nighty-night. Yes.

0:20:08 > 0:20:10Gute nacht. Bonne nuit.

0:20:15 > 0:20:18Now, Hannibal, I am concerned.

0:20:18 > 0:20:21You lay siege to Vanessa in entirely the wrong way.

0:20:21 > 0:20:24You make no progress whatsoever.

0:20:24 > 0:20:27I want you to write a letter, proposing marriage.

0:20:27 > 0:20:30What foaming lunacy is this? I've never written a letter in m'life.

0:20:30 > 0:20:33For once, you will do as you are told. Now sit.

0:20:35 > 0:20:37Paper. Pen.

0:20:37 > 0:20:39Write thus.

0:20:39 > 0:20:42"My darling angel..."

0:20:42 > 0:20:44Oh, this is bilge.

0:20:44 > 0:20:45WRITE IT.

0:20:45 > 0:20:48Priceless. Priceless.

0:20:48 > 0:20:51Claude. Claude. Come here.

0:20:51 > 0:20:52Her ladyship has roused you from her bed.

0:20:52 > 0:20:55You will find that she wishes you to give a letter to Miss Polk.

0:20:55 > 0:20:58I will relieve you of the burden of this mission.

0:20:58 > 0:21:00Just give the letter to me.

0:21:00 > 0:21:02I think you may have dropped ten shillings.

0:21:02 > 0:21:04Good man.

0:21:22 > 0:21:24Any other business...

0:21:28 > 0:21:30Angel, I can barely stand...

0:21:30 > 0:21:32500. My last, final offer.

0:21:32 > 0:21:35You drive a hard bargain, Threepwood, and I admire you for it.

0:21:35 > 0:21:39But if you don't give me the horse, I'm going to smash your face in.

0:21:39 > 0:21:41Oh...I shall get it directly. It's in the bin.

0:21:41 > 0:21:43What's in the bin?

0:21:43 > 0:21:45Nothing. You confuse me, Didcot, with this talk of bins.

0:21:45 > 0:21:48Return to your room and I shall retrieve the horsey

0:21:48 > 0:21:50from the very special place I wedged it. Left it.

0:21:52 > 0:21:55- Claude, well done. Splendid fellow. - What?

0:21:55 > 0:22:00Nephew. Is your tender soul ready for part two of your education?

0:22:02 > 0:22:04Er... Which was the first?

0:22:15 > 0:22:17Freddie!

0:22:20 > 0:22:25It is a far, far... thing...that I do.

0:22:25 > 0:22:27I shall do it better.

0:22:27 > 0:22:29You do it pretty well already, honey.

0:22:33 > 0:22:35Right.

0:22:35 > 0:22:37Oh!

0:22:54 > 0:22:57One horsey.

0:22:58 > 0:23:00And er...

0:23:00 > 0:23:03We agreed 500 big ones, I believe?

0:23:03 > 0:23:06HE CHUCKLES

0:23:08 > 0:23:11Ha!

0:23:11 > 0:23:14Now, Didcot, attend me well.

0:23:14 > 0:23:17I am in possession of your letter to Miss Polk.

0:23:17 > 0:23:20And I happen to know she is not a millionaire's daughter.

0:23:20 > 0:23:23She is an impostress. Impostrix.

0:23:23 > 0:23:24She is penniless.

0:23:24 > 0:23:30But, naturally, you will honour your written offer of marriage?

0:23:30 > 0:23:33Bring me a poker.

0:23:33 > 0:23:36I shall not.

0:23:36 > 0:23:41I want to drag out your intestines like spaghetti.

0:23:43 > 0:23:44What you want, Didcot,

0:23:44 > 0:23:49and what you get, are two mutually extruding elephants.

0:23:49 > 0:23:53Now, if you don't marry Miss Polk, you'll be in breach of promise

0:23:53 > 0:23:56and vilified as an utter stoat.

0:23:56 > 0:23:59My advice to you, therefore, is to pay the lady off.

0:23:59 > 0:24:05I am content to broker the transaction. And I recommend cash.

0:24:06 > 0:24:11The sum of 500 has a familiar weight.

0:24:11 > 0:24:13HE GROWLS

0:24:17 > 0:24:19ROARING

0:24:36 > 0:24:38Sotheby's. NOW!

0:24:54 > 0:24:55What's the haul?

0:24:55 > 0:24:56£1,000.

0:24:56 > 0:24:59Tippety-top! I tick your paper and mark it alpha plus.

0:24:59 > 0:25:02- Now shall I help you with the arithmetic?- Oh, please.

0:25:02 > 0:25:04100 quid to Catsmeat. Ten bob for me.

0:25:04 > 0:25:06That leaves £899.10.

0:25:06 > 0:25:10- How much has your father been subbing you over the years?- Oh...

0:25:10 > 0:25:11Call it 500.

0:25:11 > 0:25:13I want you to go and give it to him.

0:25:13 > 0:25:15Now, the rest you must blow on Vanessa.

0:25:15 > 0:25:17Whisk her back to London and buy her a slap-up dinner

0:25:17 > 0:25:19and dance at the Pink Pussy, every night this week.

0:25:19 > 0:25:21- Uncle Gally...- Yes?

0:25:21 > 0:25:24When I grow up, can I be like you?

0:25:24 > 0:25:26Who knows, my boy? We can but guide you thither.

0:25:26 > 0:25:28If the sun shines on you in youth,

0:25:28 > 0:25:32you grow up knowing it's been put there for that express purpose.

0:25:32 > 0:25:34Ah...

0:25:37 > 0:25:38Ah! Guv'nor!

0:25:38 > 0:25:39Right...

0:25:40 > 0:25:42Brace yourself.

0:25:42 > 0:25:45Something very extraordinary is about to happen.

0:25:47 > 0:25:48Guv?

0:25:59 > 0:26:01Am I hallucinating, or did you just come to my bedroom

0:26:01 > 0:26:04and give me a vast amount of money?

0:26:04 > 0:26:05Guv'nor, I did.

0:26:05 > 0:26:09- Are you sure it wasn't the other way around?- No, no.

0:26:09 > 0:26:12How extraordinary.

0:26:12 > 0:26:14Oh! Vanessa, good morning.

0:26:14 > 0:26:17I trust you slept after the disturbances of the evening.

0:26:17 > 0:26:20Oh, I slept like a hairy bear.

0:26:24 > 0:26:28You weren't...disturbed again?

0:26:28 > 0:26:29By someone delivering a letter?

0:26:29 > 0:26:31Morning.

0:26:31 > 0:26:34Whatever has gone wrong, Galahad, I blame you.

0:26:34 > 0:26:37Perfectly reasonable and entirely expected. Now hear this.

0:26:37 > 0:26:40Vanessa, if you have beans, spill 'em now.

0:26:40 > 0:26:47Very well. Freddie. That small picture in oils of a horse.

0:26:47 > 0:26:49Oh, Lord, don't say you want it.

0:26:49 > 0:26:50I just flogged it to Hannibal for 500 quid.

0:26:50 > 0:26:53- What?! - I never wanted it.

0:26:53 > 0:26:55I knew when I painted it the other day that it was garbage.

0:26:55 > 0:26:58That's why I threw it in a trash can in Green Park.

0:26:58 > 0:27:01That IS where you found it?

0:27:01 > 0:27:04- Outstanding! But this is the good bit. Clarence.- What?

0:27:04 > 0:27:09The picture of Calypso, sir. It's by Agnolo di Cosimo.

0:27:09 > 0:27:10Cozzy who?

0:27:10 > 0:27:13The painter generally known as Bronzino.

0:27:13 > 0:27:15Oh, I've got a Bronzino!

0:27:15 > 0:27:18Chubby girl, lolling about on a lilo. Do you know it, Connie?

0:27:18 > 0:27:20Oh, God.

0:27:20 > 0:27:24Yes, Lord Emsworth. It's worth a very great deal of money indeed.

0:27:24 > 0:27:26Well, I never.

0:27:26 > 0:27:30On the subject of money. I have to come clean.

0:27:30 > 0:27:36I am not JB Polk's daughter. I am not a millionairess.

0:27:36 > 0:27:39Fact is... I'm pretty much a bum.

0:27:39 > 0:27:44Not entirely sure that word translates. Bum.

0:27:44 > 0:27:46Clarence. Here is the situation.

0:27:46 > 0:27:49Hannibal paid a fortune for a pile of codswallop -

0:27:49 > 0:27:52no offence, Vanessa - and Sotheby's is about to bray in his face.

0:27:52 > 0:27:55You, on the other hand, have a nice picture of a roly-poly popsy

0:27:55 > 0:27:56worth untold gold.

0:27:56 > 0:28:01I'd say it's time to burst joy's grape against our palate fine!

0:28:01 > 0:28:03Absolutely! Hurrah! Whose grape?

0:28:03 > 0:28:08- Joy's.- Joy, you are most welcome at Blandings, my dear.

0:28:08 > 0:28:10Why, thank you, Lord Emsworth.

0:28:10 > 0:28:12I am going to my room.

0:28:12 > 0:28:15Are you, Connie? As you wish.

0:28:15 > 0:28:16We shall miss you.

0:28:18 > 0:28:20Oh, God...

0:28:23 > 0:28:25Has anyone seen Beach?