Continuing from yesterdays scene 4, we now pick up Scene 5
Simon Nash presents an Only Fools and Horses Script …
Red Red Wine Part 5 – Set just days after 1991 Miami Twice
Scene 5
Rodney and Cassandras flat
Cassandra is at home in the dining room setting the table for dinner. Soft music is playing in the background.
Rodney: Alright Cass?
Cass: Hi Roddie! Did you have a good day?
Rodney: Yeah not too bad considering I had to spend all day with Captain Pugwash and his tales of the sea.
Cass: Did you get the wine?
Rodney: (looks sheepishly at Cassandra) No, I er…I forgot to get some, sorry.
Cass: That’s ok, there’s a beer in the fridge if you want one.
Rodney: Yeah I’ll grab one in a minute. So come on then? How did it go then?
Cass: I got the job!!!
Rodney: That’s great news, well done. (hugs her)
Cass: Thanks, I tried to phone you at Dels but it’s been engaged all afternoon.
Rodney: Yes, that’s because Dels unplugged the phone.
Cass: Why?
Rodney: It’s all to do with that stupid wine deal he put together with the church. You see when it all went belly up he started to get threatening phone calls from someone high up in Church of England.
Cass: Yeah who was it God? (chuckles)
Rodney: Well in some ways I wished it was. He could do with getting in touch with someone who can perform miracles right now.
Cass: Why? Has he got to pay them their money back for the wine?
Rodney: Oh no, he’s devised another hair brained scheme on top of the last one. He’s now had me and Albert changing the colour of the wine using food colouring so the church think they’ve got bottles of red.
Cass: you’re kidding?! But won’t they taste horrible now?
Rodney: Oh yeah! It’s a recipe for sickness, diarrhoea and disaster.
Cass: Why does he do these things Roddie? Why doesn’t he just cut his losses and give them the money back?
Rodney: For 2 reasons Cass, firstly, he knows that if he takes the wine back he’s lumbered with it. It’s about as saleable as a 2 week holiday in Kuwait. And secondly he’s already spent the money on 250 boxes of facial cleansing wipes that were bankrupt stock.
Cass: Well that doesn’t sound too bad. I can think of worse things Dels bought in the past. What could be wrong with boxes of face wipes?
Rodney: hmmm….(looks worried)
The final part of this only fools and horses script continues tomorrow