The 'Cabin Pressure' Alphabet Part Three Quiz

Answer: Stuffed sheep

Knowing that Herc has a phobia of sheep, Carolyn has decided to go out of her way to buy him the one gift he will despise most. Carolyn drags Martin with her to pick up the stuffed sheep which she has bought from a woman in Uskerty. When Carolyn gets into an argument with the taxi driver she, Martin and the sheep find themselves stranded on a country road.

Their journey back to the airfield involves Martin channeling his inner Winnie the Pooh when faced with some bees and being harassed by a goose.

While Carolyn and Martin are on their road trip, Douglas and Arthur have fun in the deserted airport and bond over pineapple juice. Elsewhere, the airport manager, Gerry, is finally able to put his new x-ray equipment to some use by scanning a flock of geese, one of which has swallowed Martin's cygnet ring.

Answer: Liechtenstein

In this episode Carolyn reluctantly agrees to go on holiday with Herc, leaving MJN in the 'capable' hands of Martin and Douglas. No sooner have the couple departed than MJN receives a booking to fly the king of Liechtenstein back from Vaduz to his school in England.

The young king is accompanied by his older sister, Theresa, who seems immediately taken with Martin, much to the captain's surprise. Meanwhile Arthur teaches the king of Liechtenstein how to play 'yellow car' and Herc makes professions of love to Carolyn which go unanswered.

Answer: Prunella Scales

At the beginning of this episode Martin is told that his mother has been taken to hospital and he rushes to be with her. Martin does his best to care for his mother when she returns home but finds juggling his caring duties with his job as a pilot and his work as a man with a van exhausting. Luckily, Arthur is on hand to cheer Wendy up and take on Martin's duties. We also meet the other Crieffs, Martins siblings Caitlin and Simon, and learn a little about why Martin is the way he is. Elsewhere, Douglas gives Martin some useful advice on dealing with his domineering older brother and Carolyn and Douglas discover that they are both very good at avoiding words with more than one syllable.

Answer: Snowmen

The crew are about to leave Xinzhou when they are denied permission to take off because Arthur has left a large snowman on the runway. Unfortunately, it is a couple of minutes before dusk, meaning that the crew cannot dismantle the snowman in time and that they will need to leave the next day.

Unfortunately, due to a broken APU, the plane's engines cannot be turned off necessitating a sleepover party on Gerti. This gives the crew the chance to bond over silly word games and shared confidences. Elsewhere, it looks like one of Arthur's snowmen might prove useful and Martin is perplexed by the aroma of mystery bacon which seems to be emanating from his shirt.

Answer: Strawberries

Martin has an interview for a major international airline and, while he is absent, Douglas is horrified to discover that Carolyn has invited Herc to take the captain's place. Unaware of Arthur's strawberry allergy, Herc offers him a piece of dragon fruit which causes Arthur to suffer an immediate reaction. Carolyn quickly administers the medication and the attack is under control. Elsewhere, Martin is having the interview from hell until he manages, unexpectedly, to turn the tide in his favour.

Answer: Swiss Air

Following the broadcast of the fourth series of 'Cabin Pressure', the show's creator and star, John Finnemore, announced that the show would be coming to an end but that he intended to write a grand finale episode. This turned out to be the two-part episode 'Zurich', which neatly tied up the alphabetical theme which had run through the previous twenty-five episodes, beginning with the very first episode, 'Abu Dhabi'.

In the first part of 'Zurich' we join the crew as they celebrate the news that Martin has been offered his dream job, as a first officer at Swiss Air where he will finally be paid for flying planes and will be near his girlfriend, Theresa, who is the princess of Liechtenstein.

However, the celebrations are bittersweet as Martin's departure means that MJN will have to close. Carolyn will not be able to find another pilot willing to work for no pay and, given the airdot's precarious financial position, she realises that she will have to sell Gerti. Douglas is trying to appear nonchalant but is clearly becoming worried about his career prospects and Herc is frustrated by Carolyn's refusal to let him express his affection for her.

Answer: Goofy

Since he is moving to Switzerland Martin wants to find a good home for his dad's van and Arthur gratefully accepts the offer. However, Martin is shocked to discover that Arthur has turned the van into an ice cream truck, by painting Goofy on the side and buying several boxes of strawberry flavoured ice lollies. Arthur's artistic abilities seem to leave something to be desired as nobody seems to realise what the painting is meant to be, with it being described variously as a 'devil' and an 'evil hippo'.

Answer: Gordon Shappey

The auction takes a dramatic turn when Gerti seems to be attracting a lot of interest. Gordon Shappey is Carolyn's awful ex-husband and Arthur's absent father. Gordon has been desperate to get Gerti back from Carolyn after she was awarded the plane in the divorce settlement.

When Gordon bids an extraordinary amount for the plane at the auction Douglas becomes suspicious about just why Gordon is so desperate to acquire such a decrepit old aircraft. Following the auction, Carolyn persuades the auctioneer to cancel Gordon's bid and sell the plane to the next highest bidder, a scrap merchant called Bruce who had bid considerably less, because she and Arthur are determined that Gordon will not get his hands on Gerti. Just as Bruce has flown off in Gerti, Douglas bursts in and tells Carolyn not to sell the plane because he is sure that there is something valuable on board.

The episode ends on this cliffhanger.

Answer: Golden wiring

The pressure is on Douglas as the whole crew of MJN are seemingly relying on him to do something clever and save the day again. After seeing how desperate Gordon is to buy Gerti, at seemingly any cost, Douglas is convinced that she must be much more valuable than they had ever imagined. Douglas, Arthur and Martin join forces to go and get the plane back, which they finally achieve after a series of setbacks.

However, despite searching Gerti from nose to tail, they come up empty handed. It is when Arthur makes a silly remark about the Great Wall of China that Douglas has a flash of inspiration and discovers that all of the wiring on Gerti is made of solid gold. Douglas explains that Gordon, who must have feared that Carolyn was going to divorce him, had used most of his money to buy gold and had had it melted down, made into wires and hidden in the plane. Gordon's plan was to let Carolyn have the seemingly valuable things like the house and car in the divorce settlement while he got the beaten up old plane, thus preventing Carolyn from getting any of his money.

This is why he was so desperate to get his hands on Gerti.

Answer: OJS

MJN had stood for 'My Jet Now' while OJS is an acronym for 'Our Jet Still', representing the fact that the airdot had survived and was still going strong. In an echo of the alphabetically ordered journeys taken by Gerti in all previous episodes, this episode returns to the beginning of the alphabet, with the crew being en route to Addis Ababa. Everybody, except for Gordon, has a happy ending, the gold wiring was sold for a considerable sum of money and Gerti lived to fly another day. Carolyn gets to keep running her airdot.

Herc finally hears Carolyn tell him she loves him, they get married and he begins working for OJS. Douglas is promoted to captain while Herc becomes his first officer. Arthur is able to stand up to his bullying father, shows some surprising ingenuity and is able to continue doing the job he loves. Martin moves to Switzerland to start his dream job and to be near Theresa.