Episode 8 Letterbox

This is the Letterbox,

a state of the art safe locked by an elusive eight-letter password.

We've actually got one at home, we use ours as a bread bin.

Welcome to Letterbox.

APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to Letterbox,

the show that's all about cracking passwords.

Let's meet our first two pairs

hoping to get their hands on the cash.

Carey and Louisa. Welcome to the show.

-Lovely to see you.

-Thank you.

Now, what's the connection between...between you two?

This is my wonderful daughter.

-Aww.

-She is absolutely beautiful, love her to bits.

She's also my best friend.

Aww, Carey.

I'm welling already...

Stop it, we've only just started the show.

We can't be brimming at the top of the show.

How lovely. And, Louisa, what have you got to say about Carey?

Well, this is my dad. And I love him very much, too.

-Aww. ALL:

-Aww!

Now, they're up against Cormac and Greg. Lovely to see you, lads.

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-Now, Greg, what do you do?

-I work for a speedboat tour company.

Do you do the old one hand?

-I love that.

-Generally, I just stand at the back and wave a little bit.

Oh, so you don't... You do none of that.

-Just a bit of this.

-How...

Did you get to know each other through boats, or...?

No, we've known each other for a decade or so now,

we met when I was at university and...

Did you have some right royal good times at uni?

-I bet you did.

-Yes, yes.

Yes. A lot of that.

-Not yet.

-In my day, that.

And blowing of whistles.

Yes. Yes, lots of whistles.

Anyway, listen, come on.

We need to play this game, don't we?

-We do.

-We do. We want to.

Now, Cormac and Greg, who's going to be playing first?

-I'm going to be playing first.

-OK. Greg, you're up first.

-And, Carey and Louisa, who's going first?

-My dad.

Aww, Dad's going first.

OK, lovely. Please take your positions.

Let's play!

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I don't...I don't know why, but that shirt just makes me

want to dance around you, Carey.

-Around you.

-Most of my friends go yuck at it, I'm afraid, but...

Stop, it's a great shirt.

-Thank you.

-Now, here's your first password, have a look at this.

Right... Eight-letter password.

We're going to give you a hint.

What's the hint? Song title.

Tossed a coin backstage, Carey, you're going to go first.

-Yes.

-Can I have your first letter, please?

-OK...

-Good luck.

-I think I'll go for a vowel to start with.

OK. And I'll try an A.

An A. Have we got an A?

Oh. Right, Greg, straight to you.

Can I go for an E?

Of course you can. Course you can, Greg.

Have we got...? Oh, well done, well done.

-So, we're still with you, Greg.

-Could I go for a T?

T. Absolutely.

Are you in there? Yes!

-Got any thoughts, Greg?

-Um, could I go for an R?

An R? You certainly can.

An R.

Wow!

-Could I go for an H?

-Yes, you can.

Sorry, I was so busy playing the game I forgot about you entirely.

I do apologise for that. H.

Right. OK.

Yes, Greg, come on, come on!

Could I go for an I?

Absolutely. Let's see if there's an I.

Yeah, lovely. And...

-..any other letters?

-Can I have an L, please?

L, absolutely.

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The signature Thriller dance manoeuvre, yeah?

Go with me, please, somebody, on this.

Thanks, Louisa, thank you very much for backing me up.

Listen, Greg, well done.

-Thank you.

-First password cracked.

Instantly. Thriller.

Now, as you know, there are 26 letters in the alphabet.

They're all hidden here in our Letterbox.

The eight red ones spell out the final password

that will unlock the box.

That leaves 18 mystery letters for you two to choose from.

So, as a reward, you can take two, because you've cracked a password.

So...

Take two.

Good. Decisive hand manoeuvre there.

Lovely.

Nice. Nicely done.

So, Greg, you know that those two letters are not going to feature

in the final password, OK.

It's now time to play password two.

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Now, Cormac, you are 1-0 up, OK,

so if you crack this next password

you and Greggers are straight through.

Greggers is definitely a new nickname.

Greggers, I don't think, yeah...

He is a Greggers, isn't he?

Yeah, I feel like we've missed that all these years.

Now, Louisa...

-..you need to crack this password.

-I know I do, yeah.

Otherwise you know what.

-I'll be in trouble.

-You'll be in troubs.

Now, here is our second password.

Have a look at this.

Five letters.

And what is your hint going to be?

It's a country. Right.

Good luck to all concerned.

Right, now, Louisa, your team went first last time,

so, Cormac, over to you.

First letter, please.

I will go for an E, please.

An E. Let's see if there's an E in this country.

No, no E. Louisa, over to you.

I'm going to go with, erm...

-..a C, please.

-A C?

Interesting. Let's have a look.

No C either.

Right. Cormac, back to you.

Erm... I'm going to go for an A, please.

An A. A good, sound choice. Let's see if there's an A.

Ohh! Two out of the five.

That's got to be a big help.

-What are you thinking, Cormac?

-I'll go for an M.

-Was that an M?

-For mother.

M for mother.

No. Louisa.

OK, can I go with an H, please?

-H.

-Please.

-Yeah, let's have a look.

LOUISA GROANS

Can I go for a...

-..J, please?

-Yeah.

Let's see if there's a J.

That is tricky! Louisa.

-S.

-S.

Let's see if there is an S in this country.

No. Cormac.

I'm going to go for T, please.

T.

Got a T?

Yes!

I feel like I should know it, but I don't.

Oh, no!

I'll go for an O, please.

Let's see if we've got an O.

No O. OK, Louisa, what do you think?

I... I really have not got a clue, I'm really, really stumped.

I'm going to go with a D.

A D.

Let's have a look and see if there is a D.

No, there's no D.

Can I go for an N for November?

Let's have a look.

-No.

-Kicking K.

Kicking K.

-Yeah.

-Have we got a kicking K?

-Cormac?

-Could I go for an R, please, for rabbit?

An R?

-Good.

-And I'll follow with a Q.

A Q.

Let's see...

Wow. Listen, you steamed through that second password, which was,

of course, Qatar.

Qatar. Obviously. Not catarrh.

Catarrh is what you cough up, isn't it?

LAUGHTER It's Qatar, yes.

I think it's Qatar. Anyway.

By cracking two of those passwords

that also means that you're through to the semifinals.

Congratulations to you and Greg.

Come on in.

In you come.

And, once again, as a little reward for getting the password,

you get to choose two more letters. Not the red ones, please.

I will take these two.

Nicely done.

Oh, Carey and Louisa, too short a time.

-Too short...

-Wrong questions.

-Yeah, if it had been the other way around.

-We'd have got them.

-That's the way it goes.

Thank you so much for playing, it's been lovely.

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Well done, guys.

Now, little tower of letters there.

Four letters that you know are not going to be in the final password,

so keep them safe and we'll see you in the semifinal.

But now it's time to meet our next contestants in heat two.

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Hello and welcome, Emma and Jo.

-Hiya.

-Hello.

-Welcome, lovely to see you, ladies.

Lovely hairdos, the both of you.

-Thank you.

-How did you two meet?

This is my mum. No, no, it's not.

We met at a swimming pool.

We both have two children and they swim together in lessons.

When you're a parent sitting by the pool, very hot, isn't it?

Oh, very, very hot.

-Definitely.

-I always got very stressed and hot,

and I had to take off layers, it was a bit unfortunate.

-Yeah, it does get...

-I never made any friends.

-We're very lucky we have each other.

-I know, that's a very unusual place

-to make a really good friend.

-Yeah.

-But it's lovely to have you on the show.

-Thank you.

Thank you so much, Emma and Jo.

Now, you'll want to know who you're up against as well.

Here they are, they're up against Georgia and Janet.

Hello.

Georgia and Jan, I should say.

Oh, pesky Jan.

Now, did you also meet at a swimming pool?

-No.

-Surprisingly not.

How did you two meet?

Well, Georgia's my great-niece.

Do you see...do you see a lot of each other?

Erm... I mean, I don't see... Well, I'm at uni anyway,

so, when I'm home, we do.

We love their parties.

Oh, Jan, do you crash the old student partays?

Is Jan always the last to leave the old party?

I'm... No, I'm normally asleep.

It's really nice to have you on the show, welcome to Letterbox.

Now, remember, whoever cracks the most passwords

will be going through to play Cormac and Greg in the semifinal.

Now, Emma and Jo, who's going to be playing first?

-I'm playing first.

-Emma is going first, lovely.

Georgia and Jan, who's up first?

-Georgia, lovely.

-Me.

So, take your positions, please. Let's play!

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Righty ho, here is that first password.

Here we go, what have we got?

It's a six-letter word.

We're going to give you a little hint.

Human body.

Okey-dokes.

Right. We tossed a coin backstage.

-Emma, you're going to go first, aren't you?

-Yes.

So, can I have your first letter, please?

Yeah, OK. I think, I think it's always best to start

with the most common,

so I'm going to start with an E, please.

-E.

-Yes, please.

-Let's have a little look.

Well done, paid off.

-Paid off.

-OK.

-Still with you, Emma.

There's got to be another vowel, I think, but I'm going to,

I'm going to go with a common letter again, I'm going to say, erm, T,

-please.

-A T.

-Yes, please.

OK. Have we got a T?

No. OK. Over to you, Georgia.

Can I go for R?

-R, OK.

-R.

-OK, you want to go for R.

No. Oh, dear.

Don't worry, Emma, up to you now.

I'm going to go S, please.

-S?

-Yes, please.

Yes, we do.

OK.

I'm going to go for...

an N, please.

N? N, N, N.

-N for November.

-OK. Let's have a little look.

No. No N.

Right, back to you, Georgia.

OK. I'm going to go for...

-..H.

-Let's see if there's an H...

No. OK.

-Emma, back to you.

-Right.

Erm... L, please.

L? Have we got an L there?

-Got to be.

-Got to be.

-Oh - there is.

-Ooh...

-OK.

Erm... Please may I put up a P?

-A P?

-Yes, please.

Yup. Let's see if there's a P...

Right. Next letter, please, Emma.

I will go for a V, please.

A V?

And the last letter...

If I may put up there an I.

-You may put up there whatever you want.

-Thank you.

It's the old pelvis.

Yep.

Celebratory pelvis manoeuvre for that.

-A little bit of wiggle.

-Little bit of wiggle

for that first password, cracked. Well done!

-Thank you.

-Now, as you know,

every time you do crack a password you get two letters to choose from.

-Yes, please.

-OK. Go for it, Emma.

-I'm going to go for the middle one...

-OK.

And I'm going to go for the middle one, please.

Lovely. Thank you. Have a little look at those...

Now - Emma and Jo have got the advantage,

but, listen, Georgia, come on...

-don't worry.

-I think I got that at the exact same time.

I heard an intake of breath through the nostrils.

I think you did. Listen - good luck.

It's time to play password two.

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Now, listen, Jo. You are 1-0 up, OK?

So if you crack this next password

you are straight through to the semifinal. Good.

-Jan...

-Mm-hm.

Listen. Look into my eyes.

You have to crack this next password, OK?

-I know.

-Yeah? Good luck, everybody.

Here's the second password.

Here we go. So, we are looking for...

Ooh. Two little words, four each,

and the hint for this password is...

A book. OK?

Now... Jan, your turn to go first.

Can I have your first letter, please?

Book. A book.

-An H?

-Have we got an H in this book?

No H. Right, Jo, what are you going to go for?

Can I have an A, please, Mel?

A? You certainly may.

No As. Right, Jan, back to you.

-E?

-E?

-For egg.

-E for egg.

Yes. Well done, Jan.

So it stays with you, what are you going to go for?

And M for mother.

M for mother, let's have a little look...

No M. Jo - back to you.

Can I have a T, please, Mel?

A T? Let's have a little shufti.

No T. Jan.

Can I have an L for Lima, please?

L for Lima?

Very correct. L for Lima.

Lovely.

Let's have a look...

Yes. Ooh.

Well done, then, Jan.

-A W?

-W?

Let's see.

-W. Jo...?

-An S, please, Mel.

S...

No S.

-Jan.

-A C, for Charlie?

A C for Charlie.

Nope. Jo?

O, please, Mel.

Have we got an O?

Ooh, well done.

Can I have a...

-P, please, Mel?

-A P?

Let's have a look.

No. No P. Jan. What are you thinking?

V, for victory?

V for victory...

No V. Mm. Jo...?

R, please, Mel.

R?

Ah... Jo, still with you.

-Er...

-A B, please, Mel.

A B?

A B in our bonnets.

Emma will have.

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-Jan?

-Erm, can I have an I, please?

-An I?

-For Indigo.

Yes, we do.

Jan, still with you.

Can I have a G for gorilla?

A G for gorilla?

-Yes.

-Yup.

-And...

And can I have an N for Norman, please?

-You most certainly can...

-Norman Bates!

Norman Bates.

Lovely. She's still laughing.

N, for Norman Bates.

One of the creepiest characters ever seen in a film.

Love it.

Yes!

Now. Jan, you are not gone, girl,

you are staying very much in the game

because you just cracked that second password.

So, listen, choose two letters from the Letterbox, please.

Oh, she's getting close and personal.

-Not these red ones, my love, just the grey ones.

-Yup.

-Just the grey ones...

-Any I like?

-Yeah.

Some time soon would be good.

-Down you go...

-Sorry.

-No, that's fine.

That's good. There we... LAUGHTER

Marshalling. Marshalling Jan.

Good. Now, both pairs have cracked one password each.

So, now, excitingly, we're going to go to a decider,

to see who goes through to the semifinal.

Now, before we see that password, who is going to play?

-Jo...

-Emma.

Emma's going to play? Lovely.

Jan, who is going to play?

Georgia. Oh, is it me?

Georgia's saying YOU are, Jan.

-Oh, me.

-Yeah? Jan? Georgia, are you sure?

-Yeah.

-Lovely. Let's play the third and deciding password.

Right. Here is the deciding password.

Have a look at this.

Five-letter word, we're going to give you a hint...

Herbs and spices.

Interesting. Emma, it's your turn to go first this time,

so can I have your first letter, please? Thank you.

OK. I'm going to go, please, for...

A, please. A.

-An A.

-Yes.

-OK.

Let's go for an A...

No A.

-OK. Jan?

-Can I have a T, please...

-A T?

-For tango?

T for... Oh, there she is again with her tango.

Yes.

Still with you, Jan.

Can I have an H for Harry?

H for Harry...

Yes, we do. Still with you, Jan.

I think I might go for a... Y?

A Y...

-Yes, there is.

-And then I would think I would go for an M.

M?

And your final choice, Jan?

I think it might have to be an E for echo.

E for echo?

Thyme.

Oh...!

And the THYME did go incredibly fast then, didn't it, Jan?

You were just straight through with that.

Congratulations...

-Thank you.

-..you've cracked two passwords on the trot,

which means you've won the all-important

third and deciding password, Jan,

which means that you and Georgia are through to the semifinal.

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Come on back.

Oh, Emma and Jo...

Yeah, I know. The second that I'd given an A,

-I knew that it was THYME.

-Oh... Now, listen, Emma and Jo,

can you please hand those letters over to Jan and Georgia?

Thank you. Thank you very much, Emma.

Oh... Thank you so much for playing.

-It's been lovely.

-Thank you.

Thank you.

Now...

No flies on your great-aunt, Georgia.

-I know.

-That was pretty good!

-Wasn't it?

-Thank you.

-Listen - stay there,

it's time to bring back Cormac and Greg to play the semifinal.

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So, Georgia and Jan, Cormac and Greg - welcome, my friends,

to the semifinal.

Now. Cormac and Greg...

it's a battle of the titans.

Looking forward to this.

In this semifinal, there's just one password to crack,

and it's the name of a famous person,

who could be alive or dead, OK? Right, let's play.

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OK. Shoulders back.

Here is...the semifinal password.

Have a look.

Oh...

Seven and five.

Remember, it's a famous person.

We did a coin toss.

Cormac and Greg, you won that so you're going to go first.

Can I have your first letter, please?

Can we go for an E first, please, Mel?

E. Yeah, sure thing. Very formal, Greg.

Lovely. Yes, you may.

E... Well done.

Still with you, guys.

-Yeah.

-Could we have an O, please...

Yes, you certainly may have an O.

-Sir?

-Let's see if there's an O in this famous person's name.

Agh! No O. Right - over to the ladies...

Can we go for A, please?

A? Absolutely.

-Like to start at the beginning.

-Okey-dokes.

A... Yes, two As, well done.

Right, still with you, ladies.

Shall we have an R?

Yep. Yeah.

Can we have an R, please?

-An R...

-For Romeo.

-R! Oh, she's still with the official...

-"Wherefore art though?"

Yeah. Well, wherefore art thou Romeo?

Let's have a look.

Yes. Romeo is twice on the board.

Girls, what are you thinking?

-An M...

-M.

-For mother?

-M for mother.

Absolutely. Let's have a look.

M for mother...

No. Right, over to the boys.

Could we have a T, please?

Is there a T in this name?

No T.

-OK...

-I for indigo?

I for indigo?

Let's have a little look...

Yes.

Doesn't help. Does not help.

-Does it not?

-No.

-No.

It's going to have to be something that goes in front of an R...

-C for Charlie?

-C for Charlie, let's have a look.

-Yeah. Ooh...

-Any idea what it is?

Can I have an S for sierra, please?

S for sierra? Course you may.

Sierra...

(I have no idea.)

-S...

-Ooh... Oh - I know!

-Go on.

-Can I have an F for Freddie, please?

F for Freddie, Jan...

Can I have an N for Norman Bates again, please?

There's old Norman!

Just keeps cropping up.

-Very good.

-Er...

Think I might go for a kicking Katie.

Kicking Katie...

Lovely. And your final letter choice, please.

-D for dog!

-D, for dog.

Francis Drake!

Listen. Congratulations.

You've cracked the semifinal password.

And that means you're through to the final.

-Yay!

-Oh...

Cormac, Greggers...

-Greggers!

-We're sorry to...

I'm going to miss your sort of drawing room stance.

So polite. It's lovely to have you on the show,

I'm so sorry that you didn't make it through to the final but well done

for getting this far. Please hand your letters over

to Georgia and Jan...

-Good luck, ladies.

-Aww.

-Thank you.

-Thank you very much.

-OK.

Thank you so much for playing!

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Right.

G and J - it's time to unlock the Letterbox.

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Georgia and Jan. I can see you as a sort of crime-fighting duo.

Working together.

I can, seriously.

Now, listen, just one final password stands between you two

and the £2,500, OK?

So, here we go. Here it is...

Right. We're looking for an eight-letter word, OK?

No repeat letters.

Shall we have a little look, and see what we can...

eliminate?

Thank you very much.

Here we go. There will be no J.

No U.

No H.

No P.

No B.

No N.

AUDIENCE START LAUGHING GENTLY

Oh, me Norman's gone!

No W.

And no V.

Right... So, the good news is you've eliminated those letters from

the final password, which should be hopefully a really big help for you.

The bad news is, though - oh...!

Every time you make a mistake, 500 quid gets knocked off the 2,500, OK?

Now... Good luck, Georgia and Jan.

Let's unlock the Letterbox.

Here we go.

OK. I think we should start with vowels.

-Go for it.

-A?

-Yeah.

-You want to go for an A?

-Happy? We're going to lose 500 otherwise.

OK. Let's see if there's an A in this final password.

Oh... OK, you're down to £2,000.

Next choice.

Can I have E for echo, please?

E for echo, Jan...

Ooh, well done. Second letter is an E.

-There's all sorts of them, isn't there?

-Yeah.

There are all sorts of words.

-S or T.

-Mm...

-T.

-T?

-T.

-Definite?

-Yeah.

-Yep.

T for trouser press, let's have a look...

-Well done!

-Right.

Great choice, great choice.

Right. What's it going to be next?

An H for Harry, again.

H?

-Oh...

-The H isn't on there.

-The H had already gone.

-Oh, the H is already gone.

-Yeah.

I'm so sorry, that means, I'm afraid, another £500 gets docked.

-Oh, no...! It's my fault for not looking.

-Don't worry, Jan.

-It's still £1,500. Come on!

-Sorry, Georgia.

-It's all right.

Keep going, girls. What's next?

Erm... I think we should go for O.

I think we need another vowel in there.

-O?

-I think so, yeah.

Yes...

Yes, we do. Well done, that was a good choice.

Right. What's going to be next?

And it can be plural, so it could be an S.

-Couldn't it?

-Oh, yeah. S.

Can we go for an S for sugar, please?

S for sugar? Absolutely, let's see if there's an S...

No S.

Still - you've got £1,000, ladies, come on.

Can we have Y, please?

You certainly may, Georgia, let's go for a Y...

Have we got a Y in the...

-Yes.

-Hooray!

Yay. Well done. Come on.

-OK...

-Things are looking up.

(R.)

-Yeah, I think so.

-Yeah?

-R.

-R?

You want to go for an R?

Let's see if there's an R in the final password.

-Yes!

-Yeah.

I think I, cos there's a lot of letters in between.

-An I, then.

-I?

-Yeah.

OK, let's go for an I...

-An I.

-An I.

-Yeah. That's what I think. Yeah.

-Well done.

-Can we have an M?

-Yeah.

Can we have an M?

M... M for mother, please.

M?

-No M.

-I think it's C, then.

Down to 500.

Listen - still 500 quid.

-Oh...

-I just can't see it.

It's elusive. It's elusive.

Yeah. L?

-You're going to go for L?

-L, please.

Let's see if L is featured...

..in this final password.

-I know what it is.

-Oh, Jan!

-Do you know what it is?

-Yes. It's, er...

What do you think it might be?

-Give us the letters.

-F, for Freddie...

F for Freddie. Yeah.

-And then...

-C.

And then a C - spelling FEROCITY.

Oh! And just to prove that that was indeed the word, here we go,

watch this... F-E-R-O-C-I-T-Y.

-Ooh...

-Ferocity.

Which is in itself a ferocity, isn't it...

-It is.

-..that you didn't win any cash?

-Mm-hm.

But I hope you've had a good time with us today.

-Yeah. We've enjoyed it.

-We totally loved having you.

-So, thank you so, so much for coming on Letterbox.

-Thank you.

-Oh!

Jan and Georgia.

What a duo.

So, will anyone have what it takes

to unlock the Letterbox and win the money?

Join me next time for more Letterboxing. Goodbye!

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