- When Daisy and Onslow inform Hyacinth that Daddy has disappeared, Hyacinth is most upset. She heads out in a search to find her father, who has decided to get married.
- Elizabeth is working a crossword puzzle and Emmet comes in a good mood. Rose is having trouble putting on a false eyelash. Daisy goes to check on Daddy. He is making noises from the bedroom above, knocking on the floor. Shoes are outside Hyacinths door. She runs a visitor off. He is a minister. He is wearing red and yellow polka dotted socks. As she lets him go, he tells her he has only had to remove his shoes once before, and that was in a mosque and the sermon was shorter. Onslow and Daisy are taking Daddy for a ride in his wheelchair. Elizabeth comes over for coffee. Hyacinth is telling Elizabeth how she is planning on being social secretary for her son Sheridan when he gets into his expected high position in society. The phone rings and Elizabeth spills her coffee. Violet is on the phone. Her husband Bruce is up a tree. Hyacinth says she once found Richard playing with a Frisbee, and she stays up at night wondering if he found or bought the Frisbee. Onslow is at the pony betting store. Daisy comes in to get Onslow and tells him Daddy is getting restless. They go outside and Daddy is gone. Richard gets a call from Hyacinth. She wants him to come home and help find Bruce. Bruce is wearing an evening dress, and wants to go to a dance. Richard is in a board meeting, and Hyacinth reproaches him for not speaking in a cooperative tone. Hyacinth goes back to the kitchen and takes Elizabeths coffee cup away from her. Elizabeth wants to leave, and Hyacinth insists she use the front door. Then she sees Onslow and Daisy approaching with Daddys empty wheelchair. She rushes Elizabeth out the back door. Daisy blames Onslow for Daddy being missing. Hyacinth comes out the front door with a coat to cover up Onslow's chest. Meanwhile, in the board meeting, the phone rings again. It is for Richard, Hyacinth calling. He is very busy, but he learns that Daddy is missing. He apologizes for not saying goodbye properly in the last telephone conversation. Daisy is admiring the cleanliness of Hyacinth's sink, saying "You can see your face in this sink". Daisy and Onslow discover they have each given Daddy his pills for the day, thus overdosing him. Hyacinth calls Richard again. The board members are upset waiting for Richard to finish his personal phone calls to Hyacinth. Hyacinth begs a ride with Elizabeth and Emmet. Emmet is upset because Elizabeth agreed to take Hyacinth into town in their car. Hyacinth doesnt want to tell Elizabeth and Emmet why she is going to town. They see Richard pacing outside the Registry Office. Hyacinth gets out of the car and goes to Richard. Elizabeth and Emmet drive away. Hyacinth and Richard go inside the Registry Office. Hyacinth finds an old woman trying to wake Daddy. Hyacinth accuses the woman of kidnapping her Daddy for purposes of marrying him. The woman tells Hyacinth that she is the Registrar. Daisy and Onslow are walking down the street with the empty wheelchair. Daddy and Hyacinth and Richard come out of the Registry office. They get Daddy into the wheelchair and push him away. Elizabeth and Emmet arrive and offer them a lift in their car. Onslow drapes Daddy over a wall and collapses the wheelchair so they can put it into Emmet's car. Onslow wants to return Richard's sport coat to Hyacinth, but Hyacinth does not want Elizabeth and Emmet to see him in his tee-shirt. Daddy tilts upside down and falls toward the back of the wall. They put Daddy in the car. Daisy and Onslow volunteer to walk home because there is not enough room in the car. The car drives away. Daddy is sound asleep in the car. Hyacinth tells them Daddy was well respected in musical circles. Elizabeth wants to know where to drop off Daddy. They are going to Violet's home. They arrive at the estate of Violet and Bruce and Emmet sets up the wheelchair for Daddy. Richard warns Hyacinth that Bruce may be up a tree. She prays, looking toward the sky, "Please don't let Bruce be up a tree". Hyacinth runs to Violet's front door, stoops and listens through the letter slot, and she hears Violet and Bruce arguing. Bruce wants to wear Violet's best dress. Hyacinth runs to the back yard and finds Violet up a ladder at the base of a tree trying to get Bruce down. Hyacinth races back to the car and she says, "I thought I heard a willow warbler". Hyacinth wants to put Daddy back in the car. They hear the sound of a body falling. Hyacinth is panicked. She wants to get Daddy back in the car ASAP. They drive away and the episode ends.
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