| Raquel has moved in with Del, as has the newly separated Rodney. When Rodders isn’t asleep on the couch he’s drinking too much, or nursing hangovers. While Cassandra and her mother travel to Spain for a holiday, Alan Parry – Cassie’s Dad and Rodney’s boss – visits Del Boy and confides he was hoping to leave his business to the couple. They hatch a plot to arrange a second honeymoon for them. Rodney pays £250 for their trip, and waits for Cassandra to arrive at Gatwick airport. However, when Cassandra’s flight lands in Manchester, he is furious. When he learns the real reason behind her flight being diverted, Del has some serious explaining to do. |
| Raquel wants to revive her theatrical passions and audition for Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Naturellement, Derek volunteers to help her rehearse. Rodney and Cassandra meet for a meal both thinking that the other made the first move, and without realising Del has set them up. Things seem to be going well, until Rodney clambers out of the Nag’s head with Del’s ex-fiancé Trudy to see her to a cab ... just as Cassie arrives on the scene leaping to the wrong conclusion. Raquel tells Derek she won’t be taking the part in the play as Shakespeare doesn’t mention anywhere that Rosalind is pregnant! |
| At the Nag’s Head, Del Boy tells Rodney how badly in life he’s doing but Rodney tells Del to be quiet as he has just received a letter saying that his court case has been brought forward to the following morning. Albert also points out to Rodney that, with Raquel 3 months pregnant, Rodney will have to find a place of bis own soon. Rodney then reveals that the council have a LDA for him to go and view that afternoon. At the bar, Trigger tells Del about a man from his depot, Tony Angelino, who will be singing at the Down by the Riverside Club later that evening. Del then heads off to the Starlight Rooms to meet his friend Eric, who needs a singer for a show that’s happening the following night. Del signs a contract that states Raquel will perform and get £600 in return. Back at Nelson Mandela House, Raquel isn’t happy that Del promised Eric that she would be able to sing. After talking things over, Raquel agrees to sing if she has someone else performing with her. Rodney then enters the flat and is not happy. It turns out that LDA stands for Low Demand Accommodation, places which no-one else wants to buy. Del then takes Rodney down to the Down by the Riverside Club, where Tony is performing for the local WI. Del tells Tony that he will become his manager and give him £100 if he agrees to sing with Raquel. The next day, Mike and Boycie tell Del and Rodney a lie and say that local villain, Eugene McCarthy, bought Eric out of the Starlight Rooms a little while ago. If Eugene doesn’t like the entertainment, he takes it out on the agents, which makes the Trotters very worried. That evening, Del still hasn’t returned from court and Raquel is worried because Tony has a problem. When Del does eventually arrive, he bumps into Eugene, who has organised a birthday party for his mum, who is now 82. Del reassures Eugene that Raquel and Tony will be brilliant. Del watches as Raquel comes onto the stage. Tony then joins in but it turns out that he is unable able to pronounce his "Rs" properly, which is a bit of a problem because the duo are singing "Crying", which Tony is pronouncing "Cwying". Horrified, Del rushes back to Nelson Mandela House. Back at the flat, Raquel is furious and explains how much she enjoyed singing "Please Welease Me", "Congwulations" and "The Gween, Gween, Gwass of Home". Tony then walks in and demands his money, along with Raquel and Rodney, who completed his "Road Manager" duties. After Tony has left, Del receives a phone call from Eugene. It turns out that his mother has never laughed so much in her life and wants to sign the pair onto a 5 week contract. Del Boy shouts down to Tony and says that if Tony sticks with him, he will become "wich". |
| Del receives an invitation to a school reunion, at the Nag’s Head for the pupils of Class 4C who left the Martin Luther King Comprehensive in 1962. At the pub, Del Boy, Rodney, Trigger, Boycie and Denzil are all waiting for the reunion’s host. To their shock, it turns out to be ex-policeman and old school enemy Roy Slater. Slater explains that he was released from Pankhurst Prison 6 months ago, following the diamond smuggling caper. After apolgising for all the things he’s done in the past, Del invites Slater and the others back to flat. Once Trigger, Boycie and Denzil have left, Raquel returns home is horrified to see Slater sleeping on the sofa. It turns out that Slater is Raquel’s husband. Slater’s solicitors had contacted him to say that divorce proceedings have started. Del and Rodney try to keep that fact Raquel is living with the Trotters a secret but Albert then opens his mouth. An argument follows and Del realises that he has to let Slater sleep at the flat as he now has a hold over him. During the night, the Trotters find Slater’s wallet and discover the real reason why he came back to Peckham: he wants Raquel to wave her rights to all his money. Although Slater is broke, he is due to receive an inheritance, which turns out to be ten diamonds which the police never found. At the Nags Head the following day, Del Boy and Rodney tell Slater that they used their fax machine (which also has a photocopier) to make several copies of the letter from the Bond Street diamond merchant, which talks about Slater’s inheritance. Del Boy tells Slater that if he never comes back to Peckham and gives Raquel her divorce, the police won’t hear about the diamonds. Slater leaves and the Trotters have more than one reason to celebrate: when Slater divorces Raquel, Raquel will be legally entitled to 50% of everything. Mike then tells Del that the photocopier on the fax machine, that Del flogged him, doesn’t work. Del says that’s funny as his doesn’t work either. |
| To improve his financial situation, Del employs Rodney as TITCO’s new Director of Commercial Development. Del meanwhile is arranging to buy their flat in Nelson Mandela House. Uncle Albert is going to the Over-Sixties Club on the estate and is chatting up a lady called Dora Lane. One night, he arrives at the flat, bruised and shaken. He tells Del and Rodney he’s been mugged. Despite being home, something is not right. Uncle Albert disappears. After much thought, the boys find him, but a visit from Knock Knock reveals the truth about the black eye. |
| Del is trying to flog wigs for men to a bunch of ’old tarts’ at The Nags Head. Cassandra gives Rodders the push for lacking ambition and not being part of the marriage. Rodney has also turned vegetarian, much to the mockery of the rest of the Trotter clan. When he receives a call from Cassie asking him to visit her, he plays it cool. She is unimpressed at the attachable ponytail he wears to impress her when he arrives. In no time they are back together, and very much in love. Their embrace is interrupted by a phone call. Raquel has gone into labour. |
