Rodney - Bit of a coincidence you met him in a fish restaurant and suddenly we’re going fishing!
The beauty of the sitcom is that it allows the writer to combine it with different genres but add comedic elements. We don’t get horror too often in Only Fools but when it comes in an episode like this, it delivers in spades.
We get the early part of the episode which sets up the situation and disruption in a normal situation. Del announces the fishing plan and both Rodney see it for what it isn’t (a holiday) but another of Del’s money-making schemes.
Rodney - It’s called stealing!
Grandad - No it’s not -
Del - Listen to your grandfather...
Grandad - It’s called poaching!
There’s a wonderful moment when the stars have aligned in the worst way possible when the trio drive in Cornwall for their weekend fishing trip and discover there is an escaped axe murderer from an institute for the criminally insane.
Police Officer - 10 years ago this very night, he killed a party of weekend fishermen
It’s amazing how one line can be hilarious and make you fearful for the main characters at the same time! As the evening draws on, Rodney convinces them that he’s seen the axe murderer in the trees, as well as scaring the others saying that he could’ve taken refuge in an empty place, like the cottage that they are staying in. Their attempts to rationalise the situation with a criminally insane person in torrential rain is entertaining.
Del - Probably out there on them moors.
Rodney - In this weather?!
Del - He’s mad, isn’t he!
Grandad - He might be mad, he’d have to be bloody stupid to be out in them moors!
We end the episode with Del, as always, managing to get out of a tight spot and still managing to make money out of the axe murderer - another example of how versatile he can be to changing situations.
Tomorrow’s episode: Yesterday Never Comes
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