The episode opens with a pre-credits scene in a monastery in Bordeaux, 1900, in which one of the monks (Ben Homewood) rushes to his abbott (Paul Beech), informing him that a bunch of grapes have grown from a rose thorn. They decide to make a wine from the grapes, which they say “will be fit for the Holy Father himself”. After the opening credits, the show returns to its original format, in which Manny (Bill Bailey), after seeing the state [...]
Bernard wakes up from a boozy night to discover he’s accidentally given Manny a job at the bookshop, then spends the day trying to get rid of him. Manny proving to be a charming, sociable and extremely competent employee, apparently unaware that it’s ‘not that kind of operation’. An offering of wine from Manny and the threat of physical violence from Fran persuade Bernard to keep Manny on board.
After his accountant flees from the police, Bernard is faced with the daunting prospect of doing his own taxes, and resorts to pairing his socks, getting drunk with door-to-door evangelists, and trying to seriously injure himself since it will allow him to defer his tax return. Manny, an accountant, enters Black Books for the first time to buy the The Little Book of Calm on his way to work and somehow manages to swallow it. Fran is distracted from being [...]
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