[STEED]

George: So we are, in fact, going over. This is, as they say, it.



Edmund: I'm afraid so, unless I think of something very quickly.



Voice: Company, one pace forward!



(everyone steps forward)



Baldrick: Ooh, there's a nasty splinter on that ladder, sir! A bloke could

hurt himself on that.



Voice: Stand ready!



(everyone puts a foot forward)



Baldrick: I have a plan, sir.



Edmund: Really, Baldrick? A cunning and subtle one?



Baldrick: Yes, sir.



Edmund: As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning

at Oxford University?



Baldrick: Yes, sir.



Voice: On the signal, company will advance!



Edmund: Well, I'm afraid it'll have to wait. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was

better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad.

I mean, who would have noticed another madman round here?



(whistle blows)



Edmund: Good luck, everyone. (blows his whistle)



(Everyone yells as they go over the top. German guns fire before

they're even off the ladders. The scene changes to slow motion,

and explosions happen all around them. [An echoed piano slowly plays

the Blackadder theme.] The smoke and flying earth begins to obscure

vision as the view changes to the battlefield moments later: empty

and silent with barbed wire, guns and bodies strewn across it. [A

bass drum beats slowly.] That view in turn changes to the same field

as it is today: overgrown with grasses and flowers, peaceful, with

chirping birds.)

From Blackadder Goes Forth, final episode.

A great show with a powerful ending.