A Losing Streak attributes to a "losing streak". Grandad shows Del a double-headed coin that he got off a Scottish man during the war, and advises Del to use it against Boycie. Grandad clearly remembers the story behind the coin as if it were only yesterday. According to him, the man said: "I want you to have something to remember me by, Trotter. Take me lucky coin." Then, he went (as in the Scottish man deserted, not died as Del thought). Later, at "The Nag's Head", the Trotter Brothers and Trigger talk about Del's bad luck until Boycie walks in. Del challenges him
Boycie 'bit on the side', wfor hom he buys an E-type Jaguar, but it is later crashed into while Del Boy is driving it. In "Dates", Del blackmails Boycie into doing a favour for him by threatening to inform Marlene of an encounter Boycie had with a woman in Sheffield. It is revealed in the episode 'From Prussia With Love' that Boycie spent some time in prison while younger – for unspecified reasons he was convicted of perjury, embezzlement, conspiring to pervert the course of justice, the fraudulent conversion of traveller's cheques and attempting to bribe the Mayor of Lambeth. In