Captain Cook (Blackadder) Captain Cook (Blackadder) "Captain Cook", or "Plan A: Captain Cook", is the first episode of "Blackadder Goes Forth", the fourth series of the BBC sitcom "Blackadder". The episode starts with Blackadder and Baldrick discussing the latter's latest feeble cunning plan: namely, Baldrick carving his name on a bullet to get around the fact that "there's a bullet with [his] name on it". Lt. George enters and provides Blackadder with a copy of the propaganda magazine "King and Country", which Blackadder uses for toilet paper, and a new service revolver. Blackadder deduces from these ominous signs that an advance against the
Baldrick court and Edmund. He and Percy tried to stop them but they were too late, running in after the credits when everybody was already dead. The "clever" Baldrick character was abandoned after the first series, becoming steadily more imbecilic with each incarnation. The Elizabethan Baldrick is the servant and bondsman to Lord Blackadder. He has been in Blackadder's family since 1532, when he was two years old. He has a bedroom in Blackadder's house, but has also been forced to sleep in the gutter and on the roof. He has a tendency to eat dung. While his master treats him