Fatal Extraction
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| Only Fools and Horses episode | |
| "Fatal Extraction" | |
| Series | Christmas Special |
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| Writer | John Sullivan |
| Director | Ray Butt |
| Producer | Gareth Gwenlan |
| Duration | 65 minutes |
| Airdate | 25 December 1993 |
| Audience | 19.6 million |
Fatal Extraction is the twelfth Christmas special episode of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses, first screened on 25 December 1993.
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[edit] Synopsis
Peckham is in the midst of rioting, and Del Boy, after dumping his yuppy image, has been drinking and spending late nights at the One-Eleven Club gambling. Raquel is not pleased about it, since she hardly sees him now. Del has also picked up a sore tooth.
Meanwhile, Rodney and Cassandra's marriage has been going so well that they have decided to try to have a baby.
At Sid's cafe, Del talks about the time he first met Marlene at a betting shop in Lewisham Grove.
Rodney catches Del gambling at the One-Eleven Club one night, and Del explains that he is striking a deal with Ronnie Nelson to get hold of some Russian Army camcorders to make ends meet over Christmas. Boycie also shows up to say that he too first met Marlene in the betting shop. The Trotter brothers gamble all the way through the night until 8:00am in the morning.
Later that afternoon at the market, Del and Rodney are flogging very awful-looking skiing gear, until Cassandra calls Rodney back to their flat.
Rodney gets the surprise of his life when he finds Raquel and Damien at his flat. Raquel explains that she's finally had enough of Del treating her like garbage, so Raquel and Damien are staying at Rodney's place until Del apologizes.
The next day, Rodney forces Del to go to the dentist. Del tries to talk his way out of it, but Rodney orders him to go right in there and sort that bad tooth out! The dentist is able to remove the bad tooth from Del's mouth, and Del, thinking that he can back to his single ways after Raquel left him, foolishly arranges a date with an attractive receptionist named Beverly.
That night at Nelson Mandela House, the Russian camcorders have arrived, but they're very heavy to carry, and their tapes don't fit in British VCRs. Del, dressed in his Gordon Gekko outfit, tells Rodney about his date with Beverly. Rodney and Albert believe that Del is making a big mistake, and successfully talk him out of his date. Del leaves a message on Beverly's answering machine telling her that their date's cancelled.
Later, back at his flat, Rodney tells Cassandra about the time Del beat up his father, Reg, in order to protect himself and Rodney. Rodney and Cassandra try cuddling up, but they find that Damien has wandered in, all because Rodney did not lock the door.
The next night at the Nag's Head, Rodney tries to get some of the regulars to help Save the Whales, but Albert tells them about the time a whale fell in love with a submarine. Del enters, and Rodney berates him for not phoning Raquel and apologizing to her. With the message finally gotten through to his brain, Del finally phones Raquel and promises her that he'll stop drinking and gambling from now on. Raquel, not wanting to spoil her fiancée's fun, tells him that he can still go down to the Nag's Head, as long as it's not every night. Del agrees to just go down there at weekends, and he'll bring Raquel with him just to socialize. And when Del promises to pick up both Raquel and Damien tomorrow night, Raquel says "I love you Trotter." and everything is set. Now a completely changed man, Del celebrates with champagne, and also spies Beverly in the background.
Del walks home drunk, and decides to sing One Voice Singing In The Darkness, which wakes up the whole neighborhood! Rodney comes on over to Trotter Towers, and Del goes down to the restarted riot to sell some of the ski gear.
The next morning at the market, while getting the Russian VCRs, Del spots Beverly again, and becomes very frightened.
That night, Del picks up Raquel and Damien in the Capri Ghia, and they return home to see the riot. Del honks his horn, and the rioters and the police clear the way for him. He passes through, stopping to imform the occasional person about something they are buying off him, and when out of the way promptly sounds his horn, to which the riot resumes.
The following day, Del comes home from work just see Beverly in his flat, because she wants Damien's high chair for her grandson, who is also named Damien.
Really losing it, Del rushes over to the Nag's Head to tell Rodney that Beverly is stalking him, because she's an ex-psychiatric hospital patient. Rodney does not believe him, but Del tells Rodney to deliver the high chair to Beverly.
Later, after thinking that Beverly killed Raquel and Damien only to find them both OK, Del finally decides to confront Beverly at her workplace and tell her to leave him and his family alone! Beverly comes clean when she thought Del was stalking her. She also says that she works at the psychiatric hospital as a receptionist. No longer worried, Del promises to leave Beverly alone.
Christmas Day at Nelson Mandela House, and the entire Trotter family is having a blast...at least until Raquel plugs in Del's new answering machine (which Raquel accquired from Beverly in return for the high chair) only to hear Del's message about his cancelled date to Beverly. Del returns to the lounge, only to get hit by ornaments thrown by Raquel. Meanwhile outside by the new Christmas tree, a group of carol singers sing Silent Night, and Beverly looks up at the Trotters' flat with a smile.
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[edit] Trivia
- After this episode, the cast of Only Fools and Horses took a three-year break before returning in the 1996 Christmas trilogy.
[edit] Errors
- Denzil told Del, Mike, Boycie, and Trigger about how he had been split up from his wife Corrine for seven years (which would've placed the divorce in 1986 since this episode took place in 1993), yet in Danger UXD (which took place in 1989), Denzil was still together with his wife. Between those two episodes, the gap is less than seven years.
- After Del sings to restart the riot and Rodney arrives at Nelson Mandela House, when Albert says he's not going to the window because a brick might come through, Rodney tells him that they're on the 12th floor. But at the end of A Royal Flush when Rodney was yelling at Del, the floor number on top of the lift said 13th floor.
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| Preceded by Mother Nature's Son |
Only Fools and Horses 25 December 1993 |
Succeeded by Heroes and Villains |
