 The Whitbury New Town Leisure center is just rebuild and may host an episode of the national TV religious musical program "Hymns of Praise", but Gordon feels allowing use of the sanitary facilities by the mainly elderly public constitutes a safety risk as long as the staff pigeon holes are not draft-proof, so now for once droves of people are flocking in, the staff is ordered to keep them out! Councillor Jack Drugett feels, after Gordon refused 600 paratroopers to train there till the new barracks are finished  not to scare of families , Brittas must go, but this time by offering him an irresistible challenge: European Commissioner for Leisure, only Laura is unwilling to pretend she got the idea from the press. A TV interview must wait, probably forever, when people get attacked and fecal heaps are found, but Helen Brittas saw it was an emu, which indeed escaped from the safari park, which is next to- the regiment Gordon refused to let in. Gordon won t evacuate, but nobody else dares to face the bird, and they were right...