At a rotary club dinner for several prominent people of the town representing professions and crafts, Mainwaring tries to ingratiate himself further with the upper classes with little success. As he talks to Jones (who is representing the butchers), He is annoyed when he discovers that Walker is in attendance as well, mostly because he was the one who supplied all the food and drink for the event. Whilst talking with Colonel Pritchard, Jones and Walker are hurt to discover that their platoon is being left out of exercises training a new unit of commandos made of various Home Guard personnel, in a scheme dreamt up by the Training Major. Mainwaring calls the idea a 'farce', citing that the commandos use brute force rather than cunning and intellect, a notion that the others agree with. Pritchard offers to get them involved in the exercises to let them prove their point which they eagerly accept.