EPISODE FOUR: THE GERMS

by Edward Teach

This week finds Basil preparing for the biggest night at Fawlty Rovers for some time. It involves a delivery of Shrimps from Essex and a great chance to impress on Sybil that he really does have the ability to take the staff for a grand showpiece at the Hilton in Cardiff.

He is having some trouble with an errant moose head that has come into his possession once again where he had thought it lost in a Gloucestershire Aunt's attic. Now he has it back he is trying to find a good spot to put it in. Unfortunately Sybil is telling him that kind of thing requires money and all the petty cash is still being demanded by O'Reilly so he can build the extension.

Germs are the order of the weeks gone by for poor Basil though with several members of staff being struck down by all manner of bugs and sniffles. Even Polly had to be sent home after throwing up twice all over the green room as he tried to deal with the kippers. It gave Basil no option but to engross himself with erecting the moose head while the kippers slithered and flopped all over the dining room before the Major whistled for the end of the meal and scoffed the sorry lot. Sadly the moose fell on Basil's head as it was showing just what a useful item it could be on the left wall of the green room.

Poor Basil is now laid up in hospital with a bandage on his head trying to come up with an answer to his headache and get back to Fawlty Rovers in time to deal with the shrimps and appease Sybil's latest tantrum.