- When Marlene vanishes and Boycie is secretive about her disappearance, people assume he has killed her, but she only went to have a boob job. The Trotters need money to stave off being evicted but are saved when it transpires that Uncle Albert invested his savings wisely and leaves them almost a quarter of a million pounds. Del tells Rodney that his real father was not Reg Trotter but a flash local crook called Freddie 'the Frog' Robdal. Cassandra goes into labour, this time successfully and her baby girl is named Joan after Del and Rodney's mother and with whose spirit the brothers go to commune.—don @ minifie-1
- All seems calm and peaceful at Nelson Mandela House for the Trotter family, even though they still owe the Inland Revenue £50,000. Cassandra is heavily pregnant, which means Rodney will finally become a father. Del Boy takes Raquel's washing-up gloves and drives to the cemetery.
At the cemetery, it is revealed that after they became millionaires, the Trotter brothers used some of their money to give their late mother Joan's monument a makeover. Del talks to Joan's grave about how his friends are trying to help him and Rodney make money to pay the Inland Revenue.
At The Nag's Head, as Trigger invents a portable back-scratcher from chopsticks and plans to put in Del's name when the patent is taken out, Sid tells him, Rodney, and Mickey Pearce about holding a tribute act to David Bowie called "Ziggy Sawdust" as suggested by Mike. Sid also shows his friends an old photograph of the very first Jolly Boys' Outing in 1960, and they mention after the last one where their coach blew up, the coach company refused to do any more future business with the Jolly Boys. Everyone then starts to notice that Marlene has been mysteriously absent over the last several weeks, leading Sid and Mickey to believe that Boycie might have murdered her.
Back at the flat, Del helps Rodney with an idea for a film about Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts crashing an aero-plane on an uninhabited island of cave-people, including Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. The two argue about how the island would have a runway.
The next day, Rodney and Raquel both berate Del because they are nowhere near the £50,000 they owe the Inland Revenue. Del has been hiding Rodney's letters, since Rodney is in charge of Trotters Independent Traders since Del was banned from running the company. Del is deeply hurt when Raquel tells him "only women bleed", and he tells her that when Del was a teenager, his father Reg abandoned the family after his mother Joan's death, forcing Del to look after baby Rodney and their useless Grandad. Raquel backs off and goes for a lie down, and Del privately tells Rodney on the balcony that if they do get evicted, Del and Raquel will go their separate ways, and Del can stay at Trigger's place. But Raquel is feeling frisky, and Del and her quickly reconcile.
The following day, Del, Rodney, and Trigger find Denzil at a pizzeria and ask him if he ran off with Marlene. Denzil replies that he hasn't seen Marlene for weeks either, and was in hospital getting treatment for piles. This leads the Trotter brothers to believe that Boycie may have taken out an insurance policy on Marlene and murdered her.
So, Del and Rodney head over to Boycie's house to ask him if he really did murder Marlene and buried her in his back garden. An angry Boycie answers that he did not kill Marlene, because she's home and asleep upstairs. Boycie promises the Trotter brothers that he will bring Marlene with him to the Nag's Head tonight.
That night, at the Nag's Head, Boycie arrives with Marlene, who shows everybody that the reason why she was absent for several weeks was to get her chest surgically enhanced, in which everyone takes the mickey. Raquel wisecracks at the sight of it, and Sid forces Boycie and Marlene to pay for everyone's drinks, even though it's Boycie and Marlene's anniversary do.
With only a few days left until they are evicted from Nelson Mandela House, Rodney manages to get an enlarged copy of the 1960 Jolly Boys' Outing photo and smiles at the hairstyle and clothes the 15-year-old Del wore back then. But something else in the photo wipes the smile off a shocked Rodney's face.
At a restaurant, Cassandra notices that Rodney has been in a mood all afternoon. Rodney shows Cassandra the 1960 Jolly Boys' Outing photo, and points out who was in it: Del, Boycie, Trigger, Denzil, Sid, Roy Slater, Grandad, Reg - and a man who looks just like Rodney, who was not born until 2nd November 1960, as the photo was taken in the summer that year when Rodney's mother Joan was pregnant with him. Meanwhile, back at the flat, Del returns from the market, sees the original photo on the table and laughs, but soon comes to the conclusion that Rodney has learnt the horrible truth.
Rodney explains to Cassandra that the man in the photo who looks just like him is his real father, his biological old man, and his name was Freddie "The Frog" Robdal. Rodney says that he had his suspicions for years, but everyone said it was his imagination. Whilst in bed, Del tells Raquel that Freddie the Frog is Rodney's real father, as their mother Joan was having a difficult time with Reg, Rodney's alleged father, so Joan saw comfort in Freddie, who was a gentleman thief and safe-cracker. Del also says that he only knew Freddie as "Uncle Fred" back in the 1960's, as well as mention that only Joan, Uncle Albert, and Trigger's aunt Reenie Turpin knew all along that Freddie was Rodney's real father. Del did have his suspicions for many years, but was never fully sure of it until Albert told him the truth after getting drunk at a wet corset contest a few years back. Del then tells Raquel that there are no photos of Joan in the flat, save for a couple of close-ups he gave to Rodney, because all the other photos had Freddie in them, and as Rodney got older, he would look at them and see the similarities. So, Reenie took the photos out and burnt them to keep the secret from Rodney. After all that, Del refused to tell Rodney about it out of fear of breaking his heart. Raquel and Cassandra both ask Del and Rodney why they don't tell each other, and the Trotter brothers both answer that it would indeed break the other's heart.
The next day, Del and Rodney are called in to see a solicitor named Mr. Cartwright, whom the Trotter brothers believe is going to charge them with fraud. But fortunately, Mr. Cartwright has something of interest to tell them, and it involves their late Uncle Albert. Mr. Cartwright reads Albert's will to Del and Rodney, revealing that Albert had invested his share of the Trotter fortune in a far more stable area prior to his death, while his nephews invested their shares in the Central American stock market. According to his will, Albert wanted to give his enlarged share of the fortune to his nephews, leaving them with £145,000 each. Del and Rodney are both stunned by this, until Del gets a telephone call from Raquel that Cassandra's gone into labour.
The Trotter brothers quickly drive to the hospital and almost end up in the wrong delivery room, but they eventually make their way to delivery room 16, where Raquel and Damien are waiting with good news and bad news. The bad news is that Cassandra has to be given a Caesarean section. The good news is that Rodney and Cassandra are now the parents of a baby girl. As Rodney looks at his newborn daughter, Raquel asks Del what the good news he had was, only for Del to say that he will tell her later, but mentions Albert as the reason.
A few days later, Rodney and his daughter are in the cemetery where he visits his mother Joan's grave. Rodney looks up to the heavens and voices his hope to his deceased mother that she and Freddie the Frog really loved each other. Rodney also notes his regret that he never really knew his mother, as well as his hope that his daughter will grow up to be just like her. As Del pulls up, Rodney then says if she ever sees Albert while in heaven, Joan should tell him that Rodney and Del said thanks. Del arrives and asks Rodney if he came up with a name for his daughter. Rodney hints at Del to look at their mother's gravestone, which now reads "Here lies Joan Mavis Trotter. Fell asleep 12th March 1964. Wife of Reg. Mother of Del Boy and Rodney. Grandmother of Damien and Joan.", meaning that Rodney has named his newborn daughter after his and Del's late mother.
As they prepare to leave the cemetery, Rodney asks Del the worrying question if he's anything like his father, Freddie the Frog. Del firmly answers that Freddie was a professional burglar, disloyal to his friends, a womaniser, a con-man, a thief, a liar, and a cheat, so Rodney is nothing like him. The Trotter brothers then leave the cemetery and drive off in their van back to Nelson Mandela House, with a new Joan Trotter for the world. Along the way, Rodney decides not to continue writing his movie, which Del agrees with after they can't figure out where the runway came from.
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