First broadcast on 26 October 1989. Featuring Miranda Richardson as Nurse Mary and Bill Wallis as Smith.
While George is in hospital, he befriends a pretty nurse called Mary and a highly suspicious soldier called Smith, who speaks with a strong German accent.
If there's one thing I've learnt in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh!
Melchett
Melchett has information that a German spy is at work at the hospital, and he asks Blackadder to "smoke the bugger out".
Blackadder enjoys his time at the hospital immensely, seeing a lot of Nurse Mary, "almost all of her, in fact." He exposes her as the spy and she is sent out to face the firing squad.
Oddly, Mary wasn't the spy, and nor was Smith - it was George, who spent his stay in hospital writing jolly informative letters to his Uncle Hermann in Munich.
War's A Horrid Thing. Ding A Ling A Ling.
Blackadder summarises British battle plans as "to continue with total slaughter until everybody's dead except Field Marshall Haig and Lady Haig and their tortoise, Alan."
Insult Of The Episode
Blackadder: I lost closer friends than "darling Georgie" the last time I was deloused.
