A Day Out
Fletch and Godber are members of an outside works party digging a sewerage trench in the churchyard. When Ives is stung by a bee, Fletch persuades Barraclough to let him go to the village for ointment, where of course he has a swift pint in the local pub, as well as meeting the local vicar. The prisoners end up in the church, to shelter from a threatened thunderstorm, causing Mackay to believe they have all run off as they are nowhere to be seen when he returns from his lunchtime drink. He alerts the chief officer who duly turns up to find the prisoners all present …