Del - Rodney, remember if you get into difficulties... save the butterfly!
This episode fuses 2 main subplots around the main driving force of the episode of them trying to make money on hooky Louvre Doors. The spin off sub plots focus on Del’s raising capital (first by ‘borrowing’ Denzil’s redundancy money, then later to repay Denzil through Rodney’s butterfly). There’s plenty of slapstick and jokey dialogue in this packed season finale.
Del is set for a big payout if he can find the £2000 needed to buy 166 Louvre Doors. After a chance meeting with Denzil and their greeting of high fives as seen last series, Del discovers Denzil recently received redundancy money which leads to a fun chase through the market scene. Later, Rodney recounts the story of how Del acquired the money it shows Del’s more tenacious and bullying side come out in full.
Rodney - Seb Coe ain’t in the picture when he’s got a smell money in his nostrils!
This is another get rich quick scheme and “everything was going too smoothly” as the deal falls through due to the design of the doors being changed by the architect. Albert and Rodney ask the obvious question and Del points out the flaw in the plan.
Rodney - Yeah why don’t we just take them back and swap them?
Del - We can’t take them back can we, eh? We were well lucky to get them out without being caught!
Rodney - They were hooky?! Oh great Derek - cosmic! They were hooky Louvre Doors were they, well you didn’t mention that small fact to me did ya?!
Del - Well weren’t you just a teeny weeny bit suspicious the way we collected them doors?! Instead of driving into the warehouse and sort of loading up, Tommy Cummings was chucking them out the first floor window weren’t he eh?!
Del is all in on the deal and has used Denzil’s money to pay for it - Denzil’s five brothers to arrive at Nelson Mandela House causing the trio to flee to their Mum’s grave. Del’s sure that going to the graveyard will provide a solution to their problems. Whilst there the topic of death comes up and Del teases Rodney that his grave plot is sat underneath a load of stinging nettles. Rodney delivers some of the best lines of the episode as he is swept along with Albert into Del’s mayhem.
Rodney - In the last 30 seconds you two have married me, buried me and given my widow skin trouble!
As Rodney discovers the rare butterfly he’d seen in a supplement earlier that could fetch them £3000 in reward and save the day we return to more slapstick comedy as Del climbs on to the roof of a building and Rodney gets pushed into the pond to capture it. Albert sets the tone for what’s about to come in a great question.
Del - We’ve got to do this the way the professionals would do it.
Albert - What do you mean we have to jump over things and skid around the van?!
Del - I don’t been Bodie and bleedin’ Doyle!
Ultimately as some of the best episodes do, it climaxes in the two subplots coming together in a blissful moment of heartbreak. Denzil and Del’s obsession of high five as a greeting backfires as he inadvertently squashed the butterfly.
Tomorrow’s episode: To Hull and Back
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