When Sergeant Wilson lets it be known that his family has "moved up one place" and that he is now entitled to style himself "The Honourable," he finds himself being courted by the Golf Club and is being proposed as the man to welcome a visiting Russian VIP.
It is to decide on Walmington-on-Sea's welcome to a visiting Russian worker, who has been made Hero of the Soviet Union for building 5,723 tanks.
Frazer suggests that, after a great deal of thought, he would like to offer the Russian a voucher worth £10 towards the cost of a funeral.
During this discussion Pike has telephoned his mother, who bursts into the office and flings herself all over Wilson, although she does ask "It won't make any difference, will it?
At the next parade, Jones recounts how the British officers in the Sudan who had the "Honourable" title always had a stiff upper lip, "even after their heads had been blown off".
Back on parade, they are interrupted by the verger and the vicar, who invite Wilson to join the PCC, and also ask if he would like a crest for his own private pew.
He rushes to his car and produces Wilson from inside, whom he insists is a genuine worker, with oily hands, toiling alone in the countryside.