Pike seeks comfort from the vicar over the fact that Wilson will be moving to Eastgate. Mainwaring then enters and Mrs Pike tries to convince him to reason with Wilson. Meanwhile, Jones arrives in the main hall and begins practising his own sergeant routine. After he is called to the office, the rest of the platoon begin to arrive for parade, each believing that they have been promoted to sergeant. Frazer enters first and then Walker a minute later (also with their own routines). The Verger asks them both separately to help him in the clock tower, so they take their jackets off because of the heat in the tower. Because they are asked separately they do not see each other's stripes. As the last of the platoon arrives there is confusion. Exiting the office, Jones sees all the men with their three stripes, and returns to Mainwaring to utter the immortal question "I've fallen the Private in, what shall I do with the Sergeants?" Later, just before Wilson leaves, he asks Mainwaring if he wants to see him off. Mainwaring refuses, and another war of words ensues. Composed, Wilson gives Mainwaring a goodbye salute and departs, with his former captain shouting after him, "At least I did my salutes properly! That salute was rotten!" Just as Wilson is opening the bank on Monday morning, the Air Raid Siren sounds. All the staff move down to the shelter, and whilst they are down there, a bomb is dropped on the Eastgate bank. A few days later West and Mainwaring discuss over the phone that Head Office decide to close the Eastgate bank, with Mainwaring musing that it will go down in history as the shortest managerial appointment: Wilson was Manager of a bank at 9am and at 5 past he had no bank to manage. Mainwaring then calls Wilson in and offers his condolences on losing his bank. Mainwaring reveals that he has arranged for Wilson to be transferred back to Walmington-on-Sea, and hands him a pair of Sergeants stripes for his uniform. As Wilson leaves, he glances at the "G. Mainwaring Manager" plate on Mainwaring's door, a look of disappointment on his face. Cast Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring John Le Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson Clive Dunn as Lance Corporal Jones John Laurie as Private Frazer James Beck as Private Walker Arnold Ridley as Private Godfrey Ian Lavender as