Clunk Click

=Summary= Rigsby has bought a sports car and hopes it will help his campaign to woo Miss Jones. And when she accepts his invitation to a do at the country club, he starts thinking his luck may be in, especially as he intends running out of petrol en route.

When they return from their evening out, with branches entangled in the car, it’s obvious something has gone wrong. Rigsby’s reckless driving saw them ﬂy over a humpback bridge, while Miss Jones saw her life ﬂash before her. With a collision also thrown in, she declares he should be banned from the road.

The following day Philip tells Rigsby a man popped round to see him and will call again later. When he hears the man’s car had a bumper missing, Rigsby becomes worried that it’s the driver whose vehicle he bumped. He receives a further shock when he spots something furry under his own back wheels and believes he’s run over Vienna. He asks Philip to put the body into a sack for him, but doesn’t realize that it’s only Miss Jones’s fox fur.

While Rigsby cradles his sack of fur, Alan returns and is told about Vienna’s tragic demise. Just as Rigsby heads off to bury the cat, the old man with the missing bumper pulls up and asks for the owner of the sports car. Rigsby denies everything, but when he accidentally pulls off the sheet draping the car, the old man is anxious to meet the owner and says he’ll come back at 7pm.

Alan, who’d like to borrow the sports car, shows it off to his new girl-friend, the toffee-nosed Caroline, trying to impress her by suggesting it’s his. Although he’d previously refused Alan use of the car, Rigsby — who’s worried about the old man’s return — tells him he can have it. But when the old man turns up and confesses to being in the wrong over last night’s collision and offers £10 settlement, Alan is more than satisﬁed, jumps in the sports car and tears off.

All that’s left for Rigsby to do is cremate Vienna. It’s a sad moment as he places the furry thing in the burner, but when Vienna suddenly turns up, the hunt is on for Miss Jones’s fox fur.