| Del has just seen the film Wall Street for about the fourth time and decided the upwardly-mobile lifestyle is for him. The camel-hair coat is out, and in comes a smart new image. Green mackintosh, mobile phone, filofax, aluminium briefcase, but the yellow van remains. Del even wants to buy the flat off the council and sell it for a fast buck. Rodney, meanwhile, has decided to complete a computing diploma course at the Adult Education Centre. It’s there that he meets a beautiful posh sort called Cassandra, who returns his raincoat to him (Del wrote Rodney’s name in the raincoat for a giggle). Del and Trig ditch The Nags Head in favour of propping up a wine bar. As Del accidentally falls through the bar hatch, Rodney and the boys head to a club, where Rodders amazes the others by dancing with Cassandra. She gives him a lift home, where he pretends to live in a big house in the posh King’s Avenue. As they say goodbye, he is caught waving to the unknown occupants of the posh house. As he walks home, a rainstorm starts. |
| Del continues to pursue the Yuppy lifestyle, and insists that Rodney follows suit by wearing... a suit. He convinces his young bruv that it will help him shift 50 video recorders he got off of Ronnie Nelson at the Advanced Electronics Research and Development Centre. Ever the opportunist, Del helps Denzil out by taking 50 dolls off his hands. Unfortunately the Trotters discover too late that they are inflatable sex dolls, filled with explosive propane gas. Del tries in vain to get rid of the dolls, but Dirty Barry won’t take them, and they eventually resort to dressing two of them up in their mum’s old clothes and taking them for a drive! Denzel soon finds out about the doll’s explosive properties, and rushes to try to warn Del, who still doesn’t know. Eventually, after being ditched, the dressed up dolls explode, and Del and Rodney run a mile. |
| At the One Eleven Club Rodney introduces Cassandra to Del, who is meeting Arnie, a retried jeweller who likes to do the occasional deal now and again. Arnie says that Del may be interested in something. After disrupting a romantic moment between Cassandra and Rodney, Del drags his younger brother to Arnie’s car to talk about the deal. Arnie has 250 18 carat gold chains, which he was due to sell to a gangster named Mr. Maxi Stavros. However, Stavros hasn’t made contact for a long time and Arnie is being forced to sell the chains at half the price. Del Boy buys the chains from Arnie and forms a consortium consisting of himself, Rodney, Uncle Albert, Trigger, Boycie and Mike. Back at the flat, having paid Arnie £12,500, the lads are happy, as they know they should be able to double their money. But just moments later Arnie calls his wife Patricia, who reveals that Stavros has been in touch: he wants the chains and believes that they are rightfully his anyway, having done a deal. Del then comes up with a clever solution: the consortium will sell the chains to Stavros on Arnie’s behalf, Arnie will get £2000 and the consortium will receive £10,500. At an Italian restaurant Arnie, with his briefcase containing his chains attached to his hand via lock and chain, sits down and waits for Stavros. Del and Boycie are in the restaurant, Trigger and Mike are watching in Mike’s car and Rodney and Albert are also keeping a close eye on things in the Trotter van. Then something disastrous happens: Arnie collapses and suffers from a heart attack. The ambulance arrives and picks Arnie up. Rodney and Albert follow in the van. Back at Nelson Mandela House, after waiting a while, the lads finally meet Rodney and Albert, who explain that they lost the van when it went through red lights. Then Del Boy receives a phone call from an Indian doctor, who tells Del that Arnie sadly died due to his heart attack and that his wife took all of his possessions. It looks like there is no way to get the chains back. A few days later, whilst picking Cassandra up from the airport (after she had been on a training course to Guernsey), Rodney spots something nasty: Arnie collapsing in another restaurant. At the Nags Head Del Boy and the rest of the consortium realise that Arnie is a con-man, who fakes a heart attack and then waits for his two sons to drive an old ambulance around to his location to pick him up. The ambulance can go much faster than other vehicles with its siren and can legally go through red lights. The “Indian doctor” who phoned Del in the flat was just one of Arnie’s sons. The lads then learn that Denzil and his brother are about to become the latest victims of Arnie’s scheme… or so it seems. At the restaurant Arnie does indeed collapse and gets loaded into the ambulance. However, he is actually loaded into the ambulance belonging to Del, who is sitting with Rodney, Albert, Mike, Trigger and Boycie who want their revenge… |
| Del has entered every competition on the market, trying to win as many freebies as possible. Rodney has unknowingly been entered for an art competition, and won it. It’s only when he arrives at the 5 star hotel in Mallorca that he learns he was a schoolboy when he composed the winning painting, and has won the under-15 category. While Del and Cassie enjoy playing mum and dad, Rodders has to endure the Fun Bus, chaotic children, and becoming a lifelong member of The Groovy Gang. He has the last laugh, however, as Del’s tinkering with his passport makes them ineligible to claim Rodney’s winning ticket on the Spanish lottery. |
| Del is having stomach pains. It could be his new fast-paced Yuppy lifestyle, or it could the eviction notice demanding three months worth of unpaid rent up front. TITCO hasn’t been successful and the pressure’s on to raise the cash. The solution presents itself in the shape of Uncle Albert’s lady-friend Elsie Partridge, a medium who lives off payments for her amazing predictions. Del thinks it’s a load of mumbo-jumbo, but sets up a séance room in The Nags Head. Albert, worried for Del’s health tells Elsie to say his Mum has contacted her asking him to go the doctor. When Marlene falls pregnant, just as Elsie foresaw, Del takes heed and is prescribed with irritable bowel syndrome. When he gets home Rodney has another shock for him: He and Cassie are engaged. |
| Rodney’s down in the dumps. Despite getting engaged, he thinks he’s failed his Diploma in Computer Science, which could cost him a good job at Cassandra’s father’s company. On top of that, he can’t come up with his share of the dosh for the new flat he and Cassandra plan to buy. His only relief is that the diploma arrives in the post. Del comes to the rescue, promising to call in all his favours to raise the money Rodney needs. Trouble is, the Driscoll brothers are calling in their debts, and those who can’t pay get bruised. Managing to buy precious time, Del cons Boycie into paying for some dodgy video recorders and can cover the Trotter’s debts. Meanwhile, Uncle Albert has Del sussed, and asks him how much Rodney’s diploma cost. Not all goes to plan in the end, and Del fulfils the duties as a battered and bruised Best Man. After some words of Trotter wisdom, Rodders and Cassie journey to Rimini for their honeymoon. |
