Episode 7 The Code

Hello and welcome to The Code.

Locked in this safe is £15,500, the highest prize we've ever had.

To open the safe and win the money,

contestants just need to crack a three-digit code.

Every time someone fails,

more money goes into the safe and the jackpot gets higher and higher.

Last time, our solo player, Julian, from Westhoughton,

had picked two numbers that weren't in the code

before we ran out of time, so let's welcome him back.

Julian, good to see you again.

-Yes, you too.

-How are you feeling?

-Rested?

-Yeah, yeah, fantastic, ready and raring to go.

Good, glad to hear it. Now, you're playing as a single player.

Mm-hm. Are you a single man as well?

No, I'm not, I'm a family man.

I'm married, I've been married for five years

to my lovely wife Lindsay, and I've got a daughter, three years old,

and another one on the way as well.

Fantastic. Before we start, of course,

let's reintroduce ourselves to our good friend and smart cookie,

-Lesley Brewis.

-Welcome back, Julian.

Your play last time was efficient, it was effective,

and if you carry on like that, you could be our second solo winner.

-Fingers crossed.

-Yes, let's hope so.

Thank you, Lesley. Now, let's remind ourselves of where we are.

Julian, up there in the code, still nothing, three blanks.

Not so good. However, down on the keypad,

we can see you've answered two questions correctly

and chosen 1 and 2, which we can now dismiss.

We know they're not up there in the code.

Two down, eight to go. Here are your next three answers.

Remember, only one of those is the correct answer.

That's the one you try to identify.

But at this stage we can open all three questions

and look at them, so we'll start at the top.

The question behind Yvette Cooper, please?

I think, yeah, that sort of rings a bell.

-OK.

-As to whether it's actually her, I'm not sure.

OK, well, it can keep ringing a bell,

while we look at the question behind chocolate bar.

I believe it's a type of Frisbee,

well, I say I believe, I know it's a type of Frisbee.

I've lost plenty of them in trees over the years, so yes,

it's not a chocolate bar.

OK, let's have a look at the question behind Bomber.

I think, I think that's correct.

Yeah, Tony Bellew was in the most recent film of the Rocky franchise,

the film Apollo.

RAF officer Arthur Harris I believe is Bomber Harris.

I like that answer.

-I like that answer.

-OK, three answers.

-Which one do you want to lock in?

-Third one, Bomber.

OK, we're going to lock in Bomber as correct.

If it's wrong, I'm afraid, Julian,

you'll be on your way back to West Houghton.

So let's find out.

Is Bomber the correct answer?

-Yeah, good stuff.

-Happy days.

-Straight in there,

-well done, Julian. Lesley.

-Yes, well done, Julian.

Tony Bellew, you remembered, had a cameo in the recent Rocky film.

It wasn't called Apollo, but Creed.

-Oh, that was it, yeah.

-Bomber Harris, Arthur "Bomber" Harris,

the head of the RAF Bomber Command in World War II.

Let's look at the wrong answers.

Yvette Cooper rang a bell for you when that first came up.

Not married to Greg Davies.

Yvette Cooper is married to Ed Balls.

-That's it.

-The correct answer is Liz Kendall.

-OK.

-And the middle one, you were happy with this one straightaway,

having lost many Aerobies.

It's a flying ring.

Fantastic stuff.

Off to a flyer, there. Buys you the chance to choose another number.

1 and 2 have gone.

-Where are you going to go next?

-I think 8.

The number 8.

Is the number 8 in your code?

Let's have a look. Is it there in the first box?

No number 8. How about the second box?

No number 8. How about the third and final box?

There is still no number 8.

No number from your code there.

-Mm-hm.

-1, 2 and 8, all gone.

Nothing there in the code. Are you happy with that?

Mixed emotions, mixed emotions.

I mean, I would like to have got one,

but to be honest with you, to have got three out of the way,

three wrong answers at this stage in the first round,

rather than be labouring to do it in the third round, I think,

I'm quite happy with that.

It's still progress, and that's what counts.

Let's have a look at your next three answers.

Right, let's start at the top again. The question behind Large Wallop.

Yeah, when I saw the answer come up,

I thought it was going to be something to do with the name

of a town in Britain, because I knew there was a Wallop,

or at least one Wallop.

But I don't know anything more specifically than that.

I mean, it could be Little Wallop,

Upper Wallop, anything.

-Any of the Wallops.

-Any of the Wallops.

-No, so I think...

-OK.

-I'll put that as a maybe.

-Let's see if we can find a bit of illumination

with the question behind Leaves.

No, it's...

-It's tree rings, not leaves.

-Confident about that one.

-Yeah.

-Let's have a look at the question behind Soor Plooms.

I don't know. I don't know that and I don't know the Wallop question.

I have heard the term "sour plums", so,

based on nothing more than that, I'm going to go with that.

You're convinced, then, that...

Leaves is an incorrect answer, leaving you with Large Wallop,

-or Soor Plooms.

-Yeah.

And out of those two, you want to lock in Soor Plooms.

-Yeah. Yeah.

-OK, let's do that.

We want that to go as green as what we hope is a Soor Ploom.

So, is Soor Plooms our correct answer?

-Wow.

-Whoa.

-Good guesswork from Julian.

-Wowee.

-Lesley...

Yes, very clever, very intelligent play.

Using the information you have to settle on the correct answer.

There is a story about an English raiding party being killed

when they were found eating unripe plums, which were green,

in Scotland, and that is possible derivation of the sweets.

Let's have a look at the wrong answers on the board.

Nether Wallop and Over Wallop don't refer to the size of these Wallops,

but their location.

The correct answer is Middle Wallop.

They run roughly north to south along a Brooke called Wallop Brook.

And Leaves, you dismissed that very quickly as the wrong answer

because of your knowledge of dendrochronology.

The rings on trees usually represent a four-season cycle of growth.

Wow. So,

Wallop, Julian, is the headline there,

because you are on to your fourth correct question.

That means you get to choose another number from the keypad.

See if it's there in your code.

-1, 2 and 8 have all gone. Where are we going next?

-You know what?

I think I'll go with number 5.

-Number 5, slap bang in the middle.

-Yeah.

-Middle Wallop.

Let's have a look. Is number 5 there in the first box?

It's not. Is it there in the second box?

No number 5. How about the third and final box?

-Wow.

-Wowee.

-Julian,

you're doing brilliantly with the questions, but really no luck

-with the numbers so far.

-Not just yet, no.

-No.

-You've only got six numbers left, though.

Absolutely. I've managed to miss the code magnificently so far.

You have. But it does mean we can carry on playing

at the easiest level of the game.

Your next three answers, here they are.

Let's take them from the top down.

The question behind Ted Hughes.

Ted Hughes...

It might be, it might be.

I know that Dylan Thomas ended his life in New York.

But not English, so I don't know.

-I don't know this. Let's see.

-Let's shelve that and move on.

The question behind 130.

It's either 110 or 130.

Now, I think 110 is just slower than 70,

and 130's just a bit faster.

And I remember when I was little,

going abroad with my parents and being quite excited

about the fact that my dad could drive faster than 70mph,

or was legally allowed to,

so I would like to, I think, put that sort of forward

as my favourite at the moment.

OK. Nice logic. Let's have a look at the question behind Ali Bongo.

I've no idea. I have no idea who Victoria Wood was married to

or has been married to at any point in her life.

And the Englishman In New York by Sting,

I am aware it was written about someone,

but it's one of those ones that I've read about

and then gone on and forgotten.

I mean, I have a feeling about the middle one,

about the top speed on a French motorway.

I'll just have a think.

It wouldn't be 120.

So, 110...? Yeah, I'll go with that.

You want to lock that in as your correct answer.

If it's wrong, Julian,

I'm afraid you are heading away at 130kmph from the studio.

We don't want that to happen just yet.

Is 130 our correct answer?

-Every single one.

-Wowee.

-You're doing it, Julian.

Lesley...

Well done, Julian - yes, flying solo,

using your knowledge to work out the correct answer, there.

130 is just under 81 miles per hour,

so you were right to be excited

going a little over the 70 speed limit we have in the UK.

Let's look at the wrong answers on the board.

Ted Hughes not correct. You remember that Dylan Thomas died in New York,

but he is not English, he was Welsh. The correct answer is Quentin Crisp.

-Oh, yes.

-Born as Dennis Pratt.

-Yeah.

-And the last answer, there on the board,

Ali Bongo is not the correct answer.

Matt, do you know the right answer to this one?

-The Great Soprendo.

-It was indeed, Geoffrey Durham.

-Right.

-A larger-than-life Spanish character.

Right, OK. I had no idea. I had never heard of any of them.

-Well, I had heard of Victoria.

-Go home and look at some clips.

Very, very funny.

Well, you didn't need to know.

That's the beauty of having four incorrect numbers on the keypad.

You can still play at this level,

where actually you get to see all three questions,

you can compare them, and it's serving you very, very well.

You're playing for the biggest jackpot we've ever had.

-Yeah.

-And you're doing brilliantly, Julian.

-You really are.

-Sure, sure.

You've bought yourself your fifth chance, now,

to enter a digit into the code and see if it's there.

If it is, you're a step closer to that massive jackpot.

-Where are you going to go next?

-Fine, number 3, I think.

The number 3.

Is it there in our code?

Let's have a look. Is it in the first box?

It's not there. How about the second box?

No number 3. Is it there in the third box?

-Wahey!

-We have a number in our code.

-Fantastic.

-Blank, blank, three.

That's your code as it is at the moment.

So we are now making progress.

It's a big step towards the jackpot.

-Sure.

-However, things become trickier,

because we only get to see two questions

before we have to make a decision.

-Are you ready?

-Yes. Ready as I'll ever be.

Let's see your next three answers.

Now, it does become crucial which order you open these in.

Which ones you choose to see.

OK. Well...

Withe, spelt with an E at the end as a word,

I've never seen before in my life.

So I'm likely to be, I feel, baffled by the question,

so I think I'll take Tea For Two and Fu Manchu.

OK, let's take the question behind Tea For Two first.

Well, I know that the song Tea For Two

is actually in the musical No, No, Nanette.

So that to me seems that it would be a plausible answer.

I was hoping that the question was going to feature No, No, Nanette.

And it has. And I'm... To be honest with you,

unless Fu Manchu is a particularly compelling

question and answer set, I think I'm probably going to go for that.

We'll see. We're going to open Fu Manchu anyway.

Let's have a look at the question behind it.

That's Ming the Merciless.

So, that's definitely incorrect.

So I will go with Tea For Two as being correct

-and just hope that Withe is incorrect.

-OK.

Let's lock in Tea For Two as our correct answer.

There it is. Can't change that now.

But we do get the chance to look at the question behind Withe

just to see the expression on your face, really,

-more than anything.

-Yeah!

Any idea on that at all?

No. None at all.

OK. No idea.

We've got one that we are sure is wrong

and the one that we've selected

which we're fairly confident is right.

We want Tea For Two to be our correct answer.

To give you another crack at the code,

is Tea For Two our correct answer?

-Absolutely brilliant.

-Fantastic.

-Fantastic.

-Great stuff.

I was pretty sure of it, but, you know, you're never 100%.

That's all the 100% you need right there.

-Yeah.

-Lesley?

-I thought you didn't really need

to see the second pair, there.

You were so confident.

-You were confident enough...

-Yeah.

..on the first one to go with that having remembered that Tea For Two

is a song from the musical No, No, Nanette.

And, the film, Doris Day and Gordon MacRae,

with whom she also starred in By The Light Of The Silvery Moon

and On Moonlight Bay.

Looking at the next one you didn't really have a clue on this,

and if you'd opened that one first

you may have got into a sticky situation.

Peter Withe scored the winning goal for Villa in 1982.

The correct answer is Robertson,

and Robertson's goal for Forest made them the only team

that had won the European cup

more times than their domestic top tier league.

-Fantastic, good for them.

-Fu Manchu, a Chinese super-villain.

Not the right answer here. You said this one straightaway.

Ming the Merciless.

-Good, good.

-Thank you, Lesley.

Yes, really inspiring and inspired gameplay.

What it's bought you is five digits down,

one number in your code and the chance to try for another one.

-Where are you going to go next?

-I mean, I'm very aware

that this game can turn on a sixpence,

and one wrong answer and I'm out.

I think I will go with zero.

OK, zero.

Is zero there in our code?

-Fantastic.

-Yeah, I'd say.

-Right.

-Zero is in your code.

0-blank-3 makes up your code.

Just one more to find.

But now we're at the stage where things do become very tricky indeed,

because, as before, you'll get three answers,

but you only get to see the questions

that relate to those answers one at a time

before you have to make a decision about them.

-Is that all clear?

-Oh, yeah, that's crystal clear.

It's really tricky.

Let's have a look at your next three answers, Julian.

Now, of course, it becomes absolutely critical which

answer you select

-to see the question for first.

-Well, I mean,

an eagle, I think, is a bird,

so it's probably relating to something about the eagle bird.

Mali, a country in Africa.

Is that somewhere you've spent any time?

No, no. I've been close to the border with it,

but I've not actually been there.

And Cath Kidston,

thanks to my wife, I know who she is.

She makes, sort of, floral handbags and outfits,

and my wife and my sister-in-law are both big fans.

-I think I'll go with Mali, though.

-OK.

That, you feel, is your safest bet?

-Yeah. Yeah.

-Let's have a look at the question behind Mali.

It's Senegal.

-So...

-Does this feel like safe territory for you?

Oh, yeah, Mali's inland, Mali's inland.

It's where Timbuktu is.

It's to the east of Senegal.

So, you believe that's an incorrect answer?

-Yeah.

-We are happy to discard that?

-Yeah.

-Let's do that.

-That's now out of the game.

-Mm-hm.

We now have to decide which question you want to see next.

I mean, this is a tough call.

Eagle could be anything.

Cath Kidston I only know

that she exists as a designer.

I'll go with An Eagle.

OK. Let's find out the question behind An Eagle.

Well, he's a painter that I like very much and this painting,

it's a stag, The Monarch Of The Glen is a stag,

full antlers, it's a lovely painting.

I mean, some people think he's a bit twee, but I think he's fantastic.

Yeah, so it's a stag, so that's incorrect.

So, Cath Kidston, it must be correct.

Which one of these do you want to lock in as the correct answer?

I would like to lock in Cath Kidston as the correct answer.

Let's do that.

And let's have a look at the question behind it,

see how it makes us feel.

Yeah, I'm happy that that's correct.

OK.

Is Cath Kidston our correct answer?

-Fantastic.

-Great work. Fantastic. Really well done, Julian.

-Great stuff.

-Well done, Julian.

I don't think that was too much of a surprise to you.

You seemed on fairly solid ground with the other wrong answers.

And then Cath Kidston had to be correct,

no matter that you couldn't see the question.

Cath Kidston once said

that her products provoked a Marmite reaction in people.

People either love them or hate them.

And the Eagle, you knew straightaway

that this monarch of the glen is a stag.

Mountains behind, a Highland scene.

-Yeah.

-So good knowledge there. And Mali, not correct.

Your knowledge of African geography really helping you there.

Senegal was the correct answer.

-Yeah.

-Very good play and well done.

And not only that, Julian, you are doing it by yourself.

-Yeah.

-You're getting no-one else to help you.

The knowledge that's coming out is all yours and it's your judgment

and skill that's getting you there.

And it's getting you now to the point where you get to enter in

another digit to the keypad.

Which number are you going to go for?

It's not every often in life

I've found that I get a one-in-four shot at 15 and a half grand.

-Number 4.

-OK.

Julian, let's make our way to the safe.

-How are you feeling?

-Good.

Good. Very nervous.

This is more nerve-racking than the questions.

You've chosen the number 4.

If 5 is the final number in your code,

the safe will open and you will go home with £15,500.

Are you ready?

-I'm very ready.

-OK, Julian, punch in the number.

The code must be 043

if Julian's going to take home the jackpot right now.

£15,500 for him

and his growing family

in Westhoughton.

Oh.

It's not a 4. It's not a 4. Let's go back.

-Yeah.

-Come on, Julian.

Well, you know,

your success so far has been all about counting out those numbers,

by getting the questions right, being intelligent.

There's no reason why that has to stop now.

OK? Three numbers left.

Your odds are shortening all the time.

-Mm-hm.

-Are you ready for your next three answers?

-Oh, yeah.

Let's see them.

Right.

I mean, I know who or what all of these are,

but as to which question...

I mean, this is a... This is a... heck of a subject.

Which one of these do you want to open first?

I would like to go with...

-Fandango.

-OK.

We are going to open the question behind Fandango.

Right.

Fandango is a dance.

And I think that the word in Bohemian Rhapsody

that refers to the clown character is...

Scaramouche.

Because he's a clown character in Commedia dell'arte.

The...

sort of the European theatre of the absurd.

So I'm quite happy that that's incorrect.

OK, so from what you can see there, you're happy to discard that?

-I am, yes.

-As an incorrect answer.

Do you know what, I'm... I'm...

Yeah. Yeah.

I'm happy to discard that, yeah.

Let's get rid of it. OK, that's out of play.

Now we have to choose which of the other two we're going to take next.

Robert Peston or Aachen.

I like to take Robert Peston, I think.

OK. Let's see the question behind Robert Peston.

2010?

That's a while ago, isn't it?

I mean... I've never heard of him doing this.

I don't what he does in his spare time.

I know he's...

was the BBC economics editor and then he went to ITV.

He has sort of long hair, doesn't he?

That's pretty much

all I know about him.

I really... I have no inkling on this.

Based on the fact that it doesn't ring a bell,

I'm going to say it's false.

-OK.

-That it's not true.

We have to lock in one of these as a correct answer.

Which one's it going to be?

It's going to be Aachen.

We are going to lock in Aachen as our correct answer,

despite the fact we have no idea what the question is.

OK. Flying blind.

But let's find out what the question is.

That could be right. You know...

Yeah. That could be right.

I'm not certain. I know that Aachen's that neck of the woods

and I'm aware that there's several cities on the French-German border

that have two different names,

as well as sort of the lakes and mountains there.

So, I tell you what, I'm relatively happy with that.

That's putting a smile on your face, seeing that.

Yeah. Well, you know what, it's...

We'll see. See what happens.

-It's kind of crucial at this stage.

-Yes.

-Three numbers left.

-Mm-hm.

-We think that could be the right answer based on the other two

and just your gut instinct.

-Yep.

-OK.

-Yeah.

Is Aachen our correct answer?

-Wow. I don't believe it.

-Good work, good work.

That was terrific work. Great deduction. Lesley.

-Wowee.

-Julian, that was masterful.

You had lots of good information about the questions

that you could see and you filled in the gaps with really good judgment.

Very well done. Aachen was where the royal residence of Charlemagne

-could be found.

-Right, OK. Yeah.

Now, Robert Preston, nothing to do with Bass Lion,

the correct answer is Martin Bashir.

The online reviews are quite positive.

And the middle one, you knew a lot about this one.

You remembered that fandango is a dance

and you even knew the correct answer to boot, which is Scaramouche.

Scaramouche from Commedia dell'arte, exactly as you said.

So you knew lots of information about this one,

could dismiss that fairly quickly as the wrong answer,

leading you to have an opportunity to get a number in the code.

I really hope you get the right one here, cos you deserve it.

You absolutely do.

And you've managed to shorten the odds fantastically now.

You've only got three numbers left.

One of them must be up there.

Either 6, 7 or 9 is in your code, Julian.

-Which one's it's going to be?

-I would like to go with...

-I think

-6. The number 6.

-Yeah.

-Julian, let's make our way to the safe.

Julian, you have chosen the number 6.

If the number 6 is the final number in your code,

then the safe will open and you will go home with £15,500.

Are you ready?

Yes. Yes, I am.

-OK.

-I'm extremely nervous but I'm ready.

Stay positive. Here we go.

Julian, punch in the number 6.

We want the number 6 to be in that central box.

063 to open the safe for Julian and his family to take home

£15,500,

by far the biggest jackpot we've ever had on The Code.

Wow. Wow.

It's not the number 6.

It's another blank.

-Yeah.

-So we're going to go back and we're going to start again.

-So I'll, er...I'll work my way up to another one, if possible.

-Yes!

No, you're fine. We're fine. Deep breaths.

-Yeah.

-Deep breaths are required here.

And focus and concentrate because only 7 and 9 are left.

Answer this next question right, you've got a straight 50-50 shot.

-Sure. Sure.

-Going to stay positive.

-Yup. Yup. Absolutely.

Excellent. You are positive. We don't have to worry about that.

We're going to nail this. We are going to take the money away.

Your next three answers, please.

I mean, to be honest with you, the three answers there, out of context,

are just confusing.

I'm finding it difficult to choose between them.

I think I'll go with Porkpie.

-The reason being?

-In the hope that it's a type of hat.

-OK.

-And that the question is, what is a type of hat?

That's as good a logic as I can imagine,

I'll be honest with you. Let's open the question behind Porkpie.

It's... It seems like something that, you know, an old traditional

sort of British competition...

It seems like one of the sort of things that would be awarded.

But on the basis that pork pies are from Melton Mowbray traditionally,

which isn't in the sort of the vicinity of that area of Essex,

I will say that that's false

and hope that one of the others is correct.

OK. We are going to discard that as an incorrect answer.

That's now out of the game.

We need to open one of the other two...

..to see if we can find what we think is the correct answer here.

Which one's it going to be?

Everlasting.

No idea as to what that could be?

-No.

-Let's find out the question behind it.

I know that the verses tend to end

with either

"Elsinore"

or "nevermore", or words that rhyme with that.

So I will say that that is false.

Based on the fact that I think it's "nevermore".

So we have our three answers there.

Two of them revealed.

Which one you want to lock in as your correct answer?

It's going to have to be Immortal Beloved.

Let's lock it in.

Let's find out what the question is behind Immortal Beloved.

It's locked in, we can't change it, but what do you think of that?

I...

I mean, if I'd seen all three of these come up,

that would be

the one that I would have gone with.

Because it really rings a bell. I'm not...I'm not certain.

But...

I'm... Yeah, I'm as happy as I'll ever be.

Listen, your intuition and your knowledge has taken you this far

and let's remind ourselves where we are.

Eight numbers down on the keypad, you've got two in your code,

you're just looking for the last one.

I don't know how much more of this I can take, but...

You and me both, mate. If it goes red...

tragic and unjust though it may be,

you'll have to go home, Julian,

with nothing except our good wishes and a bus ticket.

Yup.

Is Immortal Beloved the correct answer?

Come on.

Oh.

Absolutely brilliant.

-I don't...

-Absolutely brilliant.

I don't believe it...

One hunch after another.

Hunch, knowledge and then nailed it.

Absolutely brilliant.

-Yeah, I...

-Lesley.

I was so pleased you picked Everlasting

as your second option there

because I thought Immortal Beloved might trip you up.

Very, very well done.

Let's look at the wrong answers,

the ones you dismissed for various reasons.

Everlasting, you were quite right to say

that is not at the end of any of the verses.

You might have been thinking of Lenore...

-Yeah, Elsinore is...

-..but it rhymes with nevermore

and that was enough to confirm that that was

not the right answer because you remembered

that nevermore was the right answer.

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

And the Porkpie one, knowing that pork pies

are from places like Melton Mowbray really, really helped

because you knew that had nothing to do with Essex.

The correct answer is bacon.

Fantastic. Well, listen,

you are constructing your own symphony here, Julian.

You are writing beautiful music which, hopefully, is going to end

with a very happy major chord in the form of one of these numbers

finally making it into your code.

Yes, let's hope it's the final act.

7 and 9.

One of them has to be in there.

Please, don't put us through another round of questioning,

because we want you to take it away now.

Please choose the right one.

If you do, the safe will open and you will take away £15,500.

So, will it be 7 or will it be 9?

Well, I'm a big fan of Beethoven's ninth Symphony

so I think it is fitting for me to go for 9.

You are taking the cue from Ludwig van Beethoven himself.

Julian, let's make our way to the safe again.

Here we are, Julian. This is the hard way of doing this.

If the number 9 is the last number in your code,

the safe will open and finally you will get your hands on 15,500

very hard-earned pounds.

Again, I mean, I'm just happy to be getting the opportunity

to press number 9.

I mean, I really hope this is it.

OK, this is for you, this is for your family.

Julian, step forward.

If you are ready, hit the number 9.

Round and round it goes.

I think as much as anyone has ever been on the show, Julian,

you deserve this. Flying solo,

attempting the biggest jackpot we've ever had

and doing it the long way round.

£15,500.

Is the number 9 in the final number in your code?

Oh! Oh, my God!

Wow!

Well!

-I don't believe it...

-Listen, you don't have to believe it,

not believe it, try it.

Try the handle of the safe and have a look in there, Julian.

Wowee.

That's all yours.

Fantastic. Fantastic.

That's amazing. That's amazing.

-That is £15,500.

-Wowee!

Come and join me back here.

We were beginning to think that that would never happen.

Absolutely fantastic work.

In my life I have spent countless hours learning pointless trivia

for the benefit of quizzing and I never thought it would pay off.

We are so delighted. Have you ever held that much money in your hands?

No, no, I can't say I have, at all.

No. No, I mean this is...

-Whoops.

-Oh, my goodness.

We can pick this up in a bit.

What is Lindsay going to say? What's your missus going to say

when you call her and let her know about this?

She's going to be absolutely over the moon.

-And all this with another little one on the way.

-This is fantastic.

Just to show you, Julian, here it is. Your code, 093.

It's the one that you got to the long and the hard way.

That is yours to keep. Lesley, what do you think of that?

That was fantastic, you really had to work hard for that.

-Yeah.

-And no-one has ever worked harder.

There was a winner in series one that got to nine questions.

You are the joint hardest-working winner we've had.

I am so pleased you are going to take home that money.

Very, very well done.

It's literally more money than you can carry.

-Shall I help you pick it up?

-Yes.

-Well, if you trust me.

Thanks, absolutely, absolutely. Wow.

Right, there you go. That's all yours.

-Thank you very much.

-No need to count it.

-Look, nothing up my sleeves.

-Sure, sure.

Julian, we want to thank you for playing,

and wish you so much luck in the future,

for you and for your family.

-Thank you, thank you very much.

-You have broken the code.

-Amazing!

-Julian, we have to say goodbye now.

-Cheers, thank you.

-Well done.

Thank you.

Whoo!

That was...that was something. Big congratulations to Julian.

He walks away with £15,500 - and very well deserved, too.

The jackpot has been won,

which means a fresh £3,000 goes into the safe.

Let's see if our next team can do

what Julian has done and crack the code.

-So lovely to see you. Maurizio.

-Nice to meet you, Matt.

-How are you? And Andy.

-Hiya.

-Good to see you.

Got to say, Andy, that's a shirt.

-Good one, isn't it?

-That's a great shirt.

You are going to get noticed in that shirt, definitely.

-Whether it will help you, I don't know.

-Probably not!

Tell me about yourselves, where do you both come from?

So, I'm from Italy but I live in Berkshire now, yes.

OK, and how about you, Andy?

I'm from Maidenhead in Berkshire.

So, not too far away.

-Correct.

-And how did you find each other?

We met on a quiz, yes, so we are good friends.

We don't do as much quizzing as we used to,

-but we see each other socially.

-I hope you haven't gone rusty.

Andy, tell me what you do for a job.

-I'm a financial controller.

-What kind of company is that?

For a tea and coffee wholesale company.

-But I don't drink it.

-Oh, really?!

-No.

Have you considered maybe working somewhere else? With other stuff?

Because I drink the orange juice and eat the flapjacks, I'm fine.

OK, that's fine. How about you, Maurizio?

I'm a magazine editor, so, local community magazines,

distributed door-to-door in South Berkshire.

OK, fantastic.

Now, you may, as you were coming in,

have brushed past a man

carrying a very large sum of money on the way out.

-A very happy man, he was.

-Yes, he was a very happy man.

Maybe your faces weren't quite as happy to see that happening

because it does change things for you.

We have restocked the safe with £3,000.

However, that's still a very tidy sum of money

-between the two of you.

-Mm-hm. Yeah.

If you are ready, gentlemen, we will reset the code.

Three blanks - and we want to turn those into three numbers.

If you are ready, we will have a look at your first the answers.

-Here they are.

-OK.

Now, three answers, only one of those can be correct.

That is the one you are trying to find.

We will start at the very top.

The question behind Comets.

Not comets. It's something else, galaxies.

Yeah, galaxies.

-They're not comets.

-Let's have a look at the question behind End.

-It's not end.

-Earn.

-It's earn.

-Pay as you earn.

-OK, all very, very confident about these.

Let's have a look at the question behind Dinosaur.

A dinosaur, One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing.

-That's the film.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Three answers there, one of them

we need to lock in as our correct answer,

-which one is it going to be?

-Dinosaur.

-That's right, isn't it?

-It's not comets, it's in space and Andromeda,

they are galaxies.

Pay as you earn.

-Earn, so it's not End.

-Are we happy, yes?

-Yeah, we're happy.

-Let's lock it in.

If it's incorrect, it will be red and it's back to Berkshire.

We don't want that.

So, is Dinosaur our correct answer?

Great start, well done, guys.

You were all over that one.

-Lesley.

-It was a very brisk run through those questions

before settling on the correct answer.

Dinosaur, exactly as you said, Andy,

One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing,

the film where a microfilm is hidden in the skeleton of the dinosaur

and lots of people are trying to find it.

Let's look at the wrong answers.

With these, you not only said they were wrong,

you also gave the right answers, too.

Comets, not correct here, it is, as you said, galaxies.

And, Maurizio, you got the correct answer here, "earn",

as in Pay As You Earn.

Very well done, very efficient.

There we go, we went through those like a dose of salts,

that's the way to do it, definitely.

As a result we have earned the right to choose a number from the code.

They are all there, so which one is it going to be?

Shall we do it? Shall we say 9?

-Yes.

-That's what we said, yes?

-There's a plan.

-We're going for 9. There's a plan, oh, yes.

-It's the plan.

-What's the plan?

Don't ask.

Shall I just find out? I'll just find out.

But the first number in the plan is number 9.

-It's 9, yes.

-Plan number 9 from outer space, here it comes.

Is it in our code?

Wow! Good plan.

Good plan, good plan!

You're not messing around, you guys, are you?

9-blank-blank.

We just have to fill the other two and we can be out of here.

KLAXON

Funny I said that, because, unfortunately,

however fast the guys are working,

that means we are out of time just when we are getting into our stride.

A fantastic start by Maurizio and Andy.

Do you think you can carry this on in the next programme?

-Let's hope so.

-Absolutely, yes.

I want to see what the plan is, anyway.

Thank you very much, gentlemen, and thank you very much, Lesley.

That was excellent, very efficient, very quick,

let's see if you can continue that success in the next programme.

Julian has shown you how it's done,

and pairs of friends were the most successful teams

in our previous series, so you're in good stead.

And please join us tomorrow.

Find out if Maurizio and Andy's plan is going to work,

helping them to unlock that safe, taking home £3,000.

But, hey, what about Julian?

Walking out of here with £15,500.

Our biggest jackpot by far to date.

Thank you so much for watching, and goodbye.