1. Hello. Hello, everybody,
thank you very much. Thank you.Copy !req
2. A big welcome! Nice.Copy !req
3. A big welcome.
Thank you and welcome.Copy !req
4. Welcome to what is
a very special show,Copy !req
5. because it is our Christmas special.Copy !req
6. Yeah, and this year
it's a little bit different.Copy !req
7. Yeah, because it's actually
the middle of March. It is.Copy !req
8. The main reason it's a little bit
different is because our producersCopy !req
9. have told us that
we should try our hands
at long-distance lorry driving.Copy !req
10. Literally, my idea of heaven. Yeah.Copy !req
11. They told us each to buy a truck
and report with itCopy !req
12. to what the BBC calls the Republic
of the Union of Myanmar.Copy !req
13. But everybody else calls it Burma.Copy !req
14. The meeting point was
a giant parade groundCopy !req
15. in the middle of
the old capital city, Rangoon.Copy !req
16. And I was the first to arrive.Copy !req
17. I've bought a stereo.Copy !req
18. I have a speaker system here
in the roof,Copy !req
19. the passenger seat has been replaced
with a subwoofer,Copy !req
20. and there are two amps with
a combined power of 2,300 watts.Copy !req
21. The best thing is,
included in the price was this combCopy !req
22. and... an entire lorry.Copy !req
23. It was built in 1959...Copy !req
24. or 1976.
People are a bit hazy on that.Copy !req
25. What we do know for sure
is that Isuzu made the mud flaps,Copy !req
26. which is odd, because it says
Mitsubishi on the axles.Copy !req
27. Ooh!Copy !req
28. Is that James? It is James.Copy !req
29. Don't really call that a lorry.Copy !req
30. Morning. Van, mate. What?Copy !req
31. We had to bring lorries.
That is a lorry.Copy !req
32. It's a van.
Technically it's a crane, actually.
I've bought a crane.Copy !req
33. Oh, is that what that is?
Look at that.Copy !req
34. A crane, two winches,
hydraulic rams, legs...Copy !req
35. 'And it had the latest
in high-tech dashboards.'Copy !req
36. That's a mess.Copy !req
37. Isn't this going to drive
your OCD madness...Copy !req
38. Well, I've put labels
on things corresponding to
what I think they do.Copy !req
39. Hazards... What's that?
I've got one of those.Copy !req
40. I've had to put a question mark
on it. Mine is a sports lorry.Copy !req
41. Straight six, rear-wheel drive,
twin exhausts.Copy !req
42. BMW 325i and this, almost identical.Copy !req
43. Banging stereo. Really?Copy !req
44. Seriously. You want to hear it?
Not really. I expect it's quite...Copy !req
45. Anyway, I'm sure that won't
become annoying at all.Copy !req
46. I need to ask you a question. What?
Why are you wearing a tie?Copy !req
47. Because I'm a modern lorry driver,Copy !req
48. and modern lorry drivers
are crisp and sharp.Copy !req
49. The days are over
when you simply turned upCopy !req
50. with a glove box full of strong
pornography and egg on your vest.Copy !req
51. At this point, Hammond arrivedCopy !req
52. with a glove box full of strong
pornography and egg on his vest.Copy !req
53. What do you think?Copy !req
54. What is it?
A lorry or a Hindu temple?Copy !req
55. This has been extensively modded.
Has it?Copy !req
56. Not just the visual improvements.Copy !req
57. They are significant, the lights and
the little studdy things, but note...Copy !req
58. Oh, God.Copy !req
59. All of that frame arrangement,
right, it's a farm truck. Yeah.Copy !req
60. And that's so it can accommodate
those low-density big loads.Copy !req
61. Big loads of what? Crops.
What crop? Here? In Burma?Copy !req
62. Home of the Golden Triangle?
Hay. No. Or turnips. No.Copy !req
63. Kale. No, heroin.Copy !req
64. That's all they really grow here.
You've bought a heroin lorry.Copy !req
65. Fit a lot of heroine in there,
wouldn't you?Copy !req
66. Hammond, this seat, well, let's be
honest, it's a church pew. Yeah.Copy !req
67. It looks like the sort of railway
carriage that Agatha Christie
went about in.Copy !req
68. James has bought a van.Copy !req
69. Has he parked it a long way away,
or is it that small?Copy !req
70. 'As we were admiring
the paintwork on Jeremy's lorry,
our challenge arrived.'Copy !req
71. I'm quite excited, actually, come to
think of it! We're here with these.Copy !req
72. "In 1943, British, Australian
and Dutch prisoners of warCopy !req
73. "were forced by their Japanese
captors to build the Burma RailwayCopy !req
74. "across South-East Asia.Copy !req
75. "Their efforts and their suffering
were immortalised in the filmCopy !req
76. "Bridge On The River Kwai.
That's what you're going to do.Copy !req
77. "You're going to build a river
bridge which is strong enoughCopy !req
78. "to support the weight
of your lorries."Copy !req
79. I don't know anything about
bridge-building. Build a bridge?Copy !req
80. How big a bridge are we going to
have to build... Yeah, how big?Copy !req
81. How much does yours weigh? About
1,000 tonnes. Afraid it gets worse.Copy !req
82. You know they said long-distance
lorry driving? Yes.Copy !req
83. "The only trouble is that you have
to drive to the river in question,Copy !req
84. "which is in Thailand."Copy !req
85. The River Kwai is not in Thailand.
Yes, it is.Copy !req
86. The River Kwai is in Thailand.
Is it? Where's Thailand?
But it's in...Copy !req
87. I promise you, the River Kwai,Copy !req
88. I know everyone thinks it's Burma,
it isn't, it's Thailand.Copy !req
89. So we're going to go and build
a bridge over the River Kwai.Copy !req
90. Like Alec Guinness.
I don't know how to build a bridge.Copy !req
91. 'In high spirits,
the journey began.'Copy !req
92. We are off.Copy !req
93. Oh, yeah.Copy !req
94. We worked out that the most sensible
way of getting to the riverCopy !req
95. was to head right across BurmaCopy !req
96. to its northernmost border crossing
with Thailand.Copy !req
97. On this epic 1,200 mile journey,Copy !req
98. we would find strange new cities
with no-one in them,Copy !req
99. cross mountain ranges
straight out of Jurassic Park,Copy !req
100. ford disease-filled rivers
and attend a party which madeCopy !req
101. the scene at the end of Apocalypse
Now look like a quiet night in.Copy !req
102. And we'd have to do it all
in lorries which,Copy !req
103. right at the start,
weren't really working properly.Copy !req
104. There are gauges. Nothing works.Copy !req
105. Nothing at all. Not one of them.Copy !req
106. Not fuel gauge, oil,
oil pressure, charge, vacuum,Copy !req
107. temperature, nothing works.Copy !req
108. Oh, God above!Copy !req
109. Ah! That's not it.Copy !req
110. There's no synchromesh
on this gearbox,Copy !req
111. so when you go from third to second
or whatever, you have to -Copy !req
112. oh, bloody Nora - double de-clutch.Copy !req
113. Like that. Only smoother.Copy !req
114. Oh!Copy !req
115. Oh, God.Copy !req
116. How fast am I going?
Speedo doesn't work.Copy !req
117. Oh, my giddy aunt!
The ride is shocking.Copy !req
118. OG!Copy !req
119. Possibly a bit of play
in the steering.Copy !req
120. Let me talk you through my brakes.
They don't really work.Copy !req
121. I've got three centimetres of
pedal travel where nothing happens,Copy !req
122. and then a millimetre where it all
happens and the wheels lock up.Copy !req
123. There's no handbrake,
and I'm not being stupid.
I've looked everywhere.Copy !req
124. There isn't a puh-chh! one,
there isn't hand one,
there isn't a switch.Copy !req
125. And on top of
the mechanical problems,Copy !req
126. we had to deal with
Rangoon's pedestrians.Copy !req
127. Stop wandering about in the road!Copy !req
128. Whoa! A granddad's just walked
by that child, right underneath
your lorry.Copy !req
129. Whoa! Somebody else just did it.Copy !req
130. Pedestrians have no concept
of traffic. None at all.Copy !req
131. And there was another issue.Copy !req
132. One of the reasons that driving
here is so difficultCopy !req
133. is because everybody, as you can
see, has right-hand-drive cars,Copy !req
134. but they drive on the right.Copy !req
135. And this is because, for 46 years,
Burma was run byCopy !req
136. a chap called General Ne Win,
who was a proper lunatic.Copy !req
137. He was guided mostly either by
his dreams or by his astrologers.Copy !req
138. One morning, he woke up
and he thought,Copy !req
139. "My country is slipping too far
to the left politically,Copy !req
140. "so I shall correct this
by forcing everybodyCopy !req
141. "to drive on the right-hand side
of the road."Copy !req
142. This makes life particularly
difficult for bus passengers.Copy !req
143. In a minute, we'll see a bus
pulled up at the side of the road,Copy !req
144. at a bus stop, but all the people
will be getting outCopy !req
145. into the road, because the bus used
to go on the left, so the doors...Copy !req
146. It's just complete madness!Copy !req
147. You may be wondering why todayCopy !req
148. people don't buy
left-hand-drive cars...Copy !req
149. .. and if I'm honest,
I'm wondering that as well.Copy !req
150. Our worst problem, however,
was that James was navigating.Copy !req
151. James, can I say,
this can't be right.Copy !req
152. Sorry! Sorry!Copy !req
153. How does James ever land his
aeroplane where he wants to be?Copy !req
154. Right, should be this way.Copy !req
155. 'It wasn't.'
Will I even fit down there?Copy !req
156. Mind that sign on your right,
Hammond. This is ridiculously tight!Copy !req
157. 'As I sorted out some compensation
for the damaged fruit...'Copy !req
158. Thank you. No, no!
Oh, I see, it was not enough.Copy !req
159. '.. Hammond was discovering
for the very first timeCopy !req
160. 'the problems of being tall.'Copy !req
161. Hold on a second, these wires...
these are too low.Copy !req
162. Oh, God.Copy !req
163. I'm thinking if I crane out...
It's only this one, isn't it?Copy !req
164. Yeah, lift that, you come
underneath, I'll drop it on you,Copy !req
165. then it will just slide
along your rails.Copy !req
166. Do it.
How about five crisp English pounds?Copy !req
167. Keep coming. Keep coming.Copy !req
168. Haven't been electrocuted yet.Copy !req
169. Haven't been electrocuted yet.
Still haven't been electrocuted.Copy !req
170. I don't like it!
Oh, everyone's going to die!Copy !req
171. BANG!Copy !req
172. You've ripped a hole
in the top of my truck!Copy !req
173. James... Why is your...
Your lorry's moving, James!Copy !req
174. You've winched yourself into...
Put your handbrake on.Copy !req
175. It hasn't got a handbrake.
What do you mean,
it hasn't got a handbrake?Copy !req
176. It hasn't got a handbrake!Copy !req
177. 'We were causing chaos.'Copy !req
178. It's broken.Copy !req
179. Whoa! What was that?
James, I've got a headache!Copy !req
180. I've never concentrated this hard!Copy !req
181. Sorry. I don't think it will
go through there, mate.Copy !req
182. Sorry. Sorry.Copy !req
183. Still, the good news is
we've done two miles.Copy !req
184. 'Mercifully, we eventually broke
free from the narrow streets.'Copy !req
185. I'm in agony. Left foot,
endless gear changing...Copy !req
186. God above.Copy !req
187. Reverse.Copy !req
188. Third... Oh, Christ!Copy !req
189. Hang on a minute.Copy !req
190. If I engage the low range
then I can put it in third gearCopy !req
191. and basically leave it there
all day.Copy !req
192. A-ha! How brilliant is this?Copy !req
193. Oh, yeah.Copy !req
194. No more gear changing.Copy !req
195. That doesn't feel
very low range to me.Copy !req
196. What is it
if it isn't a low-range gearbox?Copy !req
197. Oh, my God!Copy !req
198. My truck has split in half.Copy !req
199. 'After I had explained to Jeremy
that he'd bought a tipper lorry,Copy !req
200. 'I then had to deal with
CW McCall on the CB radio.'Copy !req
201. Hey, James. Hello.Copy !req
202. I've got it. You've got it?Copy !req
203. Yeah, my handle.Copy !req
204. I'm going to be called
Fighting Peacock.Copy !req
205. Can I just abbreviate that to Cock?
What are you going to be?Copy !req
206. I thought I'd be James,
because that's my name.Copy !req
207. Fighting Peacock!Copy !req
208. 'On the outskirts of Rangoon,
we came across a memorialCopy !req
209. 'to the 27,000 Commonwealth soldiersCopy !req
210. 'who died here
in the Second World War.Copy !req
211. 'It was a timely reminder that
the Bridge On The River KwaiCopy !req
212. 'was rather more than
a Sunday afternoon movie.'Copy !req
213. "The Japanese sergeant moved into
position, lifted his pick handleCopy !req
214. "and delivered a blow
across Smith's back
that would have laid out a bull.Copy !req
215. "All the thugs now set to
in earnest.Copy !req
216. "Soon, little could be seen
but the rise and fallCopy !req
217. "of pick helves
above the heads of the group,Copy !req
218. "and there were sickening thuds
as blows went home
on the squirming, kicking body,Copy !req
219. "periodically pulled back onto its
feet only to be knocked down again.Copy !req
220. "Bill Smith cried out repeatedly
that he was 50 years of age,Copy !req
221. "appealing for mercy,
but to no avail..."Copy !req
222. The tragedy is
that all of those 27,000 menCopy !req
223. died fighting for
the liberation of Burma,Copy !req
224. and straight after the war,
Britain got rid of itCopy !req
225. and then it fell into the hands
of a tin-pot dictator
and Mystic Meg.Copy !req
226. 'With James still map-reading,
we headed out into the countryside,Copy !req
227. 'where we hoped the driving
would be less stressful.'Copy !req
228. Nora!Copy !req
229. That's my first lock-up,
total lock-up.Copy !req
230. I've lost second gear.Copy !req
231. There it is.Copy !req
232. Jeremy, that bus overtaking you,
he's mad.Copy !req
233. Look, I can't,
I'm trying to change gear.Copy !req
234. 'The miles and the hours rolled by.'Copy !req
235. Ow! Ow!Copy !req
236. I'm sitting on a church pew,
for God's sake.Copy !req
237. My knee... Ah!Copy !req
238. Ow! Ow!Copy !req
239. My knee! Ow!Copy !req
240. That is the going down of the sun.Copy !req
241. It's fabulous. Look at that.Copy !req
242. However, when the sun
had finished going down,Copy !req
243. things weren't so fabulous.Copy !req
244. That girl on that bike,
she's just invisible.Copy !req
245. There's a moped there
with no lights onCopy !req
246. and a bicycle there
with no lights on,Copy !req
247. and I can't really see them,Copy !req
248. because my headlights are, well,
they're glow-worms in jam jars.Copy !req
249. Can you see anything, Hammond?Copy !req
250. Not a thing.Copy !req
251. Literally, just my own stupid
reflection in my windscreen.Copy !req
252. Jeez, I'm so frightened of
running over a pedestrian,Copy !req
253. I'm not even worried
about my knee any more.Copy !req
254. Whoa!Copy !req
255. Well, if I had to dip
the headlights,Copy !req
256. it would appear to be
full beam or off.Copy !req
257. A lorry with one central headlamp,
so you think it's a motorbikeCopy !req
258. until the last second, and then, no!
It's a massive truck!Copy !req
259. I'm bloody tired. I've been driving
today for exactly 12 hours.Copy !req
260. That would be illegal in Britain.Copy !req
261. But we are now very close
to the overnight hotel.Copy !req
262. 'Two agonising hours later,
we reached it.'Copy !req
263. Do you know what? This is like a
trucker's place. Are we staying here?Copy !req
264. 'The producers said yes,
and that our room was upstairs.'Copy !req
265. Oh, it's not so bad!
Is it not so bad? Yeah.Copy !req
266. Oh, God.Copy !req
267. Worst night's sleep in history.
It wasn't sleep.Copy !req
268. This lot. What were they doing?Copy !req
269. That.Copy !req
270. Look what I've done.Copy !req
271. What have you done?Copy !req
272. It's a leg brace so I can change
gear. So it supports my knee.Copy !req
273. Let's go. Let's just move on,
erase it...Copy !req
274. You know those Ice Road Truckers,
they're always going,Copy !req
275. "We got a real tough job..."
They can shut up.Copy !req
276. Cos I don't suspect that
the Ice Road TruckersCopy !req
277. have to sleep like this chap here.Copy !req
278. Look at him.Copy !req
279. 'Before leaving, I checked the map
to see how far we'd come.'Copy !req
280. No? Here? Are you sure?Copy !req
281. Here.Copy !req
282. Show me. Hammond.Copy !req
283. This is where we began.Copy !req
284. We're heading for here,
up here, around here.Copy !req
285. So where do you think we are, then,
on this road?Copy !req
286. No. We're here.Copy !req
287. You know that fork when we left
Rangoon and James went left?Copy !req
288. All of yesterday we drove up here.
What was it, 14, 15 hours?Copy !req
289. Yeah, but... You're on
the way to Bangladesh.Copy !req
290. 'James suggested we go
all the way back to RangoonCopy !req
291. 'and start again, but I fired him
as navigator and saidCopy !req
292. 'we should take a small road over
the hills to get back on course.Copy !req
293. 'This would mean driving
deep into the sticks.'Copy !req
294. There seems to be a tradition here
for riding on a lorry rather thanCopy !req
295. necessarily in it. I've just seen
three or four blokesCopy !req
296. on the top of the cab of a lorry.Copy !req
297. So if he brakes suddenly,Copy !req
298. they all get run over, I suppose.Copy !req
299. 'Still, could be worse.'Copy !req
300. Uh!Copy !req
301. I'm not a young man and I'm
not a fit man, I'll be honest.Copy !req
302. And I am suffering in here.
This ride is really brutal.Copy !req
303. The problem is that the sports
lorry was designedCopy !req
304. to work for a living,Copy !req
305. was designed to have five or six
tonnes of stuff in the back.Copy !req
306. Without that weight, it's just
bouncing all over the place.Copy !req
307. 'Obviously, I didn't want
to admit this to my colleagues,Copy !req
308. 'so when we stopped for tea I tried
discreetly to rectify the problem.'Copy !req
309. He's putting bricks in his truck to
weigh it down to improve the ride.Copy !req
310. I can see. He's going to need
a lot of bricks.Copy !req
311. 'Having come to the same conclusion,Copy !req
312. 'I decided to borrow
James's complicated crane.'Copy !req
313. I can't stand watching this.Copy !req
314. Right.Copy !req
315. What the hell's happening?
What have you done, you moron?Copy !req
316. I think you've actually
caught your own lorry.Copy !req
317. Stop! Help! My knee!Copy !req
318. Save the day!Copy !req
319. Oh, dear. Stop! Put it down!Copy !req
320. You'll break the jib off the crane.
And you've knackered my lorry.Copy !req
321. I've just saved the day
by tipping my lorry up.Copy !req
322. The bricks have fallen out,
the handbrake's not on.Copy !req
323. What have you done? It is on.Copy !req
324. 'At this point, I opted for
a less high-tech solution.Copy !req
325. 'And after they'd loaded a tonne
of bricks in the back,Copy !req
326. 'there was a noticeable difference.'Copy !req
327. It's not perfect,
but it's a hell of a lot better.Copy !req
328. If I put more weight in,
it will be even more comfortable.Copy !req
329. 'So at the next village, I bought
some of the region's special seeds.'Copy !req
330. What's he doing?Copy !req
331. He thinks he's bought some heroin.Copy !req
332. I have. Has he?Copy !req
333. I have bought heroin. It's rice.
It isn't rice. It is rice.Copy !req
334. Richard Hammond, trust me on this,
on the streets of London,Copy !req
335. this has a value of £12 million.Copy !req
336. No, mate, on the shelves of Tesco,
that has a value of about a fiver.Copy !req
337. It's not rice!
Are you going to cut it with peas?Copy !req
338. 'With the heroin loaded,Copy !req
339. 'I found a heavy old tree stumpCopy !req
340. 'and asked James
to crane it on board as well.'Copy !req
341. He is so unbelievably happy.Copy !req
342. 'With the sports lorry fully loaded,
it was transformed.'Copy !req
343. Oh, yeah!Copy !req
344. First bump, I shan't even feel it,
because the ride is sublime.Copy !req
345. The ride of a Rolls-Royce Phantom.Copy !req
346. 'However, on the hills,
there was a bit of a downside.'Copy !req
347. Hello, James and Richard?Copy !req
348. What?Copy !req
349. This is my new top speed.Copy !req
350. Oh, God, I thought we were
stuck behind a moped.Copy !req
351. I couldn't see. Is this it?Copy !req
352. Yes.Copy !req
353. You're a right dipstick.Copy !req
354. Yes.Copy !req
355. 'And because the road was so narrow,
we couldn't get past him.'Copy !req
356. Uh-oh!Copy !req
357. Steep gradient.Copy !req
358. Foot hard down.Copy !req
359. Dearie me, we're in trouble here.Copy !req
360. This is ridiculous!
We're hardly moving.Copy !req
361. No, we've had it.
You're going to have to back up.Copy !req
362. I need a run-up for this bit. What?
It won't go up this hill.Copy !req
363. You're going to have to back up.Copy !req
364. No, this hill has gone on
for about a mile through hairpins.Copy !req
365. I'm not reversing back down.Copy !req
366. James, could you explain
the situation to him?
I can't go forwards.Copy !req
367. I can't back up either.Copy !req
368. A, Hammond's in the way,
and B, I can't be bothered.Copy !req
369. .. There's round bends,
this people on bikes. No.Copy !req
370. Well, there's only one thing for it,
then. I have to lose weight.Copy !req
371. Oh, no.Copy !req
372. No! Jeremy, that's not...Copy !req
373. You are a complete child,
a petulant child.Copy !req
374. You wanted me
to move out of your way.Copy !req
375. I am now able
to move out of your way.Copy !req
376. Look at this. Yes!Copy !req
377. This lorry
is now scampering up these hills.Copy !req
378. Right. Well...Copy !req
379. One, two...Copy !req
380. 'Stopping to mend my tailgate
allowed the others to catch up,Copy !req
381. 'and when they did,
they weren't in the best of moods.'Copy !req
382. I've got a new handle for you on
the CB. It's called Selfish BLEEP.Copy !req
383. 'And things didn't improve
a few miles laterCopy !req
384. 'when the hill route I'd selected
went a bit wrong.'Copy !req
385. Your road is sort of not a road,
is it? Let's be honest.Copy !req
386. Clarkson, you are a...Copy !req
387. It's not really a road here at all.
We've got a ford.Copy !req
388. Here we go, into the water.Copy !req
389. Lots of wheel spin, sliding badly.Copy !req
390. Oh, yes.Copy !req
391. The sports lorry is clear,
it's through.Copy !req
392. It's time for the smug face.Copy !req
393. 'Mr Slowly went next... in his van.'Copy !req
394. That's quite clunky.Copy !req
395. It's... There's something stuck
there, I can feel it.Copy !req
396. We'll break the front axle off.Copy !req
397. 'Hammond immediately rushed
to May's aid.'Copy !req
398. Ramming.Copy !req
399. Stop!Copy !req
400. 'James then tried
to winch himself offCopy !req
401. 'using Hammond's truck
as a ground anchor.'Copy !req
402. Ted Nugent and George Michael
are helping one another out.Copy !req
403. 'After this failed,
I tried to tow him clear.'Copy !req
404. Three, two, one, now.Copy !req
405. 'But that didn't work either.'Copy !req
406. Stop!Copy !req
407. 'He then decided to use his crane,
which immediately broke.Copy !req
408. 'He really was stuck, so we were
forced to take drastic action.'Copy !req
409. Hammond and I have had
a bit of a chat and we are...Copy !req
410. Well, we're leaving him.Copy !req
411. He has bought a van
that has no traction at all,Copy !req
412. no ability to work off roadCopy !req
413. and now no hydraulics
so none of his tools work.Copy !req
414. You've got to be ruthless
in these circumstances.Copy !req
415. With his crane, he was useful.Copy !req
416. Without it,
he's just another mouth to feed.Copy !req
417. 'I settled in for another stint
with the world's most
cooperative gearbox.'Copy !req
418. Oh, bollocks, missed again.Copy !req
419. Nothing there.Copy !req
420. Nothing there, there it is.Copy !req
421. 'I knew, on these twisting roads,
life was even worse for Hammond.'Copy !req
422. This is really annoying.Copy !req
423. 'Still, at least I was moving.'Copy !req
424. The situation report.Copy !req
425. I've been rescued by a very helpful
local man with his truck.Copy !req
426. I still don't know his name.Copy !req
427. He's lent me this arc welderCopy !req
428. to repair the shaft that drives
the pump that makes the crane work.Copy !req
429. 'With that done, my fellow
knight of the road towed meCopy !req
430. 'back to firmer ground.'Copy !req
431. And then we're free.Copy !req
432. I must remember to say a thousand
chei-zu-boos to this man.Copy !req
433. 'Miles ahead. In the advance party,
we were really starting to climb.'Copy !req
434. Oh-ho-ho!Copy !req
435. Wow!Copy !req
436. 'The views were stunning.Copy !req
437. 'And at the top of the hill,
we pulled over for a bit of a look.'Copy !req
438. You know we always say
that Italy is God's race track,Copy !req
439. Canada is his pantry,
Germany is his workshop?Copy !req
440. That's his garden.Copy !req
441. Absolutely staggering.Copy !req
442. 'Captain Traction would have enjoyed
this view very much, however...'Copy !req
443. Bollocks.Copy !req
444. The local bloke with a digger is
giving me a little leg up there.Copy !req
445. It's great, isn't it? This must be
Buddhism in action.Copy !req
446. I might convert.Copy !req
447. From whatever I already am.Copy !req
448. 'Very, very far ahead,
Hammond and I finally found the roadCopy !req
449. 'we should have been on
in the first place.'Copy !req
450. Put it in top gear.Copy !req
451. There it is. Oh, yeah.Copy !req
452. That sounds terrible.Copy !req
453. It's like being back in Spain.
Nothing on it.Copy !req
454. 'Regrouped, we continued onwards.Copy !req
455. 'Our destination, Burma's brand-new
capital city, Naypyidaw.'Copy !req
456. 'Here, the producers had once again
lined up a hovel for us to stay in.Copy !req
457. 'But we were hot, filthy
and worn out.Copy !req
458. 'So we ignored them and headed
for the best hotel in town.'Copy !req
459. A flushing lavatory.Copy !req
460. Oh, rest my weary head.Copy !req
461. Having first filled it with gin.Copy !req
462. Oh, listen to that rain.Copy !req
463. It'll be like the shower
or something. 30 seconds.Copy !req
464. 'Our only problem was that two of usCopy !req
465. 'weren't exactly dressed
for a place like this.'Copy !req
466. Let me do the talking.Copy !req
467. Good evening, sir. Evening, sir.Copy !req
468. Three rooms, please.Copy !req
469. Sorry, no more rooms, sir.Copy !req
470. Fully booked.Copy !req
471. Sorry, sir.Copy !req
472. 'The next morning
after another dreadful night,Copy !req
473. 'we decided enough was enough and
agreed we should modify our lorriesCopy !req
474. 'to make them more suitable
for our travels through Burma.Copy !req
475. 'So we found a workshop,
hired some local help,Copy !req
476. 'toiled through the night,Copy !req
477. 'and the next morning
the job was done.'Copy !req
478. Every modification I have madeCopy !req
479. is inspired by my desire
not to run over any of the locals.Copy !req
480. So it has, for example,
Buddha looking down,Copy !req
481. a lucky elephant, the lucky owl
which is very important,Copy !req
482. it has better mirrors,Copy !req
483. better lights and it is wearing
a high visibility jacket.Copy !req
484. Yes, as are you. What is
the boiler in the back? That...Copy !req
485. Are you brewing beer?
What? No, sadly.Copy !req
486. It's the water tank
for the brake cooling system.Copy !req
487. What, like racing lorries have?
Exactly like that.Copy !req
488. It sprays. I've got a little switch.Copy !req
489. It sprays water on the drums,
makes them more efficient downhill.Copy !req
490. I didn't think of that.
No. What's the box?Copy !req
491. Air conditioning. What's that got to
do with safety? Keeps me alert.Copy !req
492. Does it? Yes.
And keeps him alert as well.Copy !req
493. Because he'll want to break it. Yes.Copy !req
494. 'Jeremy then showed us his work.'Copy !req
495. Why would you not have a convertible
lorry. Cos it's raining. Look at it!Copy !req
496. It's... It's quite good actually.
Smashing. It's very good.Copy !req
497. Shelby striping.
Sports badging on the side.Copy !req
498. Living accommodation on the back.Copy !req
499. This is fashioned from lead
and rhodium. Is it?Copy !req
500. Yes, for extra weight
to improve my ride. Come back.Copy !req
501. Simple, crisp accommodation inside,
Shelby bedding and ebony wood floor.Copy !req
502. More weight. Come on!
It looks brilliant.Copy !req
503. 'As, it must be said,
did Hammond's.'Copy !req
504. Hammond, you've got white walls!
Oh, yeah, yeah!Copy !req
505. The ugly duckling has become a swan.
Wow! Yeah!Copy !req
506. Check out my stacks. Please don't
tell me they're exhausts.Copy !req
507. Yeah. Both sides.Copy !req
508. What, actually func...? They are.
Yeah, there's a T-junction.Copy !req
509. Hang on, you've made it even taller.
I have. It's bigger, isn't it?Copy !req
510. It's better. But, come round
the back, this... Honestly.Copy !req
511. He did a little skip then.
He's very excited. He did a skip.Copy !req
512. I am very, very... What I have here,
this is the bathroom area. Shower.Copy !req
513. It's got a shower. Where's the water
come from? Ha-ha! Ha-ha yourself.Copy !req
514. There is, up the top, a reservoir.
About so big.Copy !req
515. On my viewing gallery. Hammond, it's
a bucket. It's... It's a bucket.Copy !req
516. It's a remote reservoir.Copy !req
517. And that is, right now,Copy !req
518. collecting beautiful crisp, clean,
fresh, invigorating rainwater.Copy !req
519. This is the kitchen area with lino
to reflect that. What's that?Copy !req
520. Over there is a wardrobe.Copy !req
521. There is a hammock with mosquito net
built-in. Drinks globe on the right.Copy !req
522. 'And Hammond wasn't finished.'Copy !req
523. From up here, on a sunny evening,
I can sit here as the sun goes down,Copy !req
524. gaze at the stars and enjoy
a drink from my drinks globe.Copy !req
525. Do you take visitors? Yeah.Copy !req
526. I think he's going to have to
because something
has just occurred to me.Copy !req
527. What? You haven't got
any living accommodation.Copy !req
528. That's a very good point.
You've forgotten it, you idiot!Copy !req
529. No, I haven't.Copy !req
530. Well, you have.
Are you sleeping in the cab?Copy !req
531. Because it's not going to be
comparable. Let's... Let's see.Copy !req
532. 'Before we set off,
I gave the chaps some presents.'Copy !req
533. You bought us a teddy bear?
No, that's for me. Is it?Copy !req
534. Yeah, that's my bonnet ornament. Are
you feeling lonely? It's your what?Copy !req
535. Bonnet ornament for weight. It's
the heaviest teddy bear in Burma.Copy !req
536. 'I'd got Hammond
a bonnet ornament too.'Copy !req
537. Wow, that's beautiful.Copy !req
538. I know you don't have a clock
so you'll have it on the bonnet,Copy !req
539. you'll be able to tell the time.
Oh, it really is...Copy !req
540. It's a high-quality gift.
Oh, fantastic! Thank you.Copy !req
541. I've always wanted
a Shuanglin hammer.Copy !req
542. It's from my own personal
collection.Copy !req
543. 'Having christened my bear Rudyard,
and attached him to
the sports lorry, we set off.'Copy !req
544. Oh, this feels better already.Copy !req
545. Oh, hang on.Copy !req
546. Richard Hammond is doing
a remake of The Poseidon Adventure.Copy !req
547. 'We had many miles to coverCopy !req
548. 'but first we had to get through
Naypyidaw's morning rush hour.'Copy !req
549. This rush hour traffic is
not as bad as I thought.Copy !req
550. 'The roads were completely empty.
And massive.'Copy !req
551. One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight. Yep, 16 lanes now.Copy !req
552. Wait, it's gone bigger.Copy !req
553. Five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten. 20.Copy !req
554. It's 20 lanes now.Copy !req
555. 'This may look stupid and pointless,
but actually it really isn't.'Copy !req
556. The problem with most cities
is that the growth comesCopy !req
557. and the city simply
can't accommodate it.Copy !req
558. That happened in London, Rome,
Paris, Bangkok, everywhere.Copy !req
559. That is not going to happen here.Copy !req
560. I think this must be
the first city builtCopy !req
561. entirely in anticipation
of the future.Copy !req
562. 'But the future hasn't arrived yet.Copy !req
563. 'So, for now, the whole place is
almost completely deserted.Copy !req
564. 'Even here, in the shadow
of the parliament building,Copy !req
565. 'we were able to have a game of
football in the middle of the road.'Copy !req
566. Officer.Copy !req
567. It's the Burmese police versus Top
Gear. Oh, no. Rush hour, game over.Copy !req
568. Look at it, traffic.Copy !req
569. Really though,
it was too wet for football.Copy !req
570. So, much to Hammond's annoyance, we
organised a city centre drag race.Copy !req
571. This doesn't seem fair.Copy !req
572. I've got the same 6.4 litre Isuzu
straight-six diesel as Jeremy'sCopy !req
573. and probably James's,
but the lumber bus is bigger.Copy !req
574. We're not going to cover ourselves
in glory here, old girl.Copy !req
575. Disastrous start. There it is!Copy !req
576. This is going to hurt,
we're going to have to rev you hard.Copy !req
577. Sports truck is gaining. Gaining.Copy !req
578. Gaining. Gaining, gaining.Copy !req
579. No!Copy !req
580. 115km an hour.Copy !req
581. Come on! Yes!Copy !req
582. Oh, victory is sweet.Copy !req
583. Second place.
But I have got a crane.Copy !req
584. Must brake, must brake.Copy !req
585. Oh, got a football under
the brake pedal. That's bad.Copy !req
586. Hammond, have you finished yet?Copy !req
587. Still going.Copy !req
588. 'After Hammond had lumbered across
the line, we headed out of NaypyidawCopy !req
589. 'and soon we started to discover
some flaws with our modifications.'Copy !req
590. Oh, my... No... no, wait.Copy !req
591. I'm speaking to you now
from underneath
my businessman's umbrella.Copy !req
592. It has taken the water
about 15 minutes to fathom it outCopy !req
593. but it's in here now
and it's in in great quantities.Copy !req
594. Oh, I can hear my exhaust
hitting a tree.Copy !req
595. Hammond, you're doing the council
out of a job, mate.Copy !req
596. It's like I'm driving through
the aftermath of a hurricane.Copy !req
597. Let's rename him Pruning Peacock.Copy !req
598. 'Soon, though,
James was punished for mocking.'Copy !req
599. Captain Workmanship.Copy !req
600. It's a radiator hose.
It's not a bit I've touched.Copy !req
601. Well, we have a tradition.Copy !req
602. Oh, no, how am I going to
do it without them(!)Copy !req
603. 'Leaving James to deliver
an interesting lecture...'Copy !req
604. If you're watching this
from an engineering workshopCopy !req
605. or technical college, this is not
the correct tool for the job.Copy !req
606. '.. we continued on our way.'Copy !req
607. I think a lot of the fumes
are coming into the cab
from under my new stack.Copy !req
608. Not all of my improvements
have turned out to be improvements.Copy !req
609. The simple tradition of
the British dustman,Copy !req
610. putting a teddy bear
on the front of a lorry,Copy !req
611. is bringing joy
to the children of Burma.Copy !req
612. They love Rudyard!Copy !req
613. 'By mid-afternoon
we were all reunitedCopy !req
614. 'and James took advantage
of my mobile maintenance service.'Copy !req
615. This isn't perilous at all(!)Copy !req
616. Oh, it's about
three or four inches.Copy !req
617. Too far.Copy !req
618. 'Soon, the road started to climb,
and as night fell,Copy !req
619. 'I turned on the roof lights
that I'd fitted myself.'Copy !req
620. Oh, yes!Copy !req
621. "The Great Gig In The Sky"
by Pink FloydCopy !req
622. I'm driving a Pink Floyd gig
right now.Copy !req
623. I love this!
The noise, the chaos, the heat...Copy !req
624. I think I might have just lost
one of my...Copy !req
625. Yeah, I did. I lost a stack.Copy !req
626. I've got to carry on.Copy !req
627. I'm just going to pretend I didn't.Copy !req
628. 'Meanwhile, in the darkness,
James was coming over all Buddhist.'Copy !req
629. Hang on, I've got a personal
dog escort here.Copy !req
630. Shift your ass, dog.Copy !req
631. Oh, God, give me strength!Copy !req
632. I think that dog
was inhabited by a benign spirit.Copy !req
633. Seriously -
if that dog hadn't done that,Copy !req
634. I'd have gone onto the bridge
and I'd have hit the bus.Copy !req
635. 'Sadly, Buddhist dog wasn't around
when five miles later,Copy !req
636. 'I had another breakdown.'Copy !req
637. That's what came off. That's the
old one, which tore itself to shredsCopy !req
638. and in the process, pulled the wire
out of the senderCopy !req
639. for the temperature gauge,
so I don't have that any more.Copy !req
640. This lorry is crap.Copy !req
641. 'Up ahead, Richard and I
were looking forwardCopy !req
642. 'to a night in our new
on-board accommodation.Copy !req
643. 'But thanks to the British Empire,
we didn't need it.'Copy !req
644. 'After a night here,Copy !req
645. '4,000 feet up a mountain in a small
village in the middle of Burma,Copy !req
646. 'at this strangely odd
but comfortable Bournemouth hotel,Copy !req
647. 'we were feeling refreshed.Copy !req
648. 'And with Hammond leading,Copy !req
649. "we were out of the village
in a mere couple of hours.'Copy !req
650. Hang on - whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa.Copy !req
651. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!Copy !req
652. Oh, God...Copy !req
653. Go slowly. OK?Copy !req
654. Oh, thank you.Copy !req
655. Keep going, hang on...Copy !req
656. Are we going to spend the whole day
tiptoeing under telephone wires?Copy !req
657. No, because you'll break down
eventually.Copy !req
658. OK, there's going to be
a motorcyclist coming past you.Copy !req
659. Check out his helmet.Copy !req
660. That's quite a strong statement.Copy !req
661. 'After a quick map check,Copy !req
662. 'I decided we should take
a tempting-looking short cut.'Copy !req
663. Right, follow me.Copy !req
664. 'Which went well.'Copy !req
665. Oh, dear God...Copy !req
666. Any other adventures
lined up on your short cut, Jeremy?Copy !req
667. Landslides, or avalanche...?Copy !req
668. It's just a tropical mountain
shower. Gone in a jiffy.Copy !req
669. Or maybe not.Copy !req
670. No, this looks pretty terrible.Copy !req
671. 'Eventually, my scenic route
brought us to a remote settlement -Copy !req
672. 'that was very much... off the grid.'Copy !req
673. Good thing is in this little town
there'll be no low wires.Copy !req
674. 'Instead,
there was something worse.'Copy !req
675. Oh, no!Copy !req
676. Oh, no. Oh, this is bad.Copy !req
677. I'm stuck, I'm stuck.Copy !req
678. Hang on, I'll park up
and come back on foot. Stand by.Copy !req
679. 'Bored with Hammond's
chimney-related problems,Copy !req
680. 'I went on an explore.Copy !req
681. 'And found some locals playing
something that was nearly football.'Copy !req
682. This is a brilliant idea.
They're using a monk as a referee.Copy !req
683. And he's smoking.Copy !req
684. 'Back at the bridge, the villagers
had broken out their tool box.'Copy !req
685. Really? If you're sure.Copy !req
686. OK.Copy !req
687. Move the entire sign.Copy !req
688. I wouldn't be this helpful.
We know that.Copy !req
689. 'Meanwhile, I'd stumbled on a scene
from an Indiana Jones movie.'Copy !req
690. There's thousands of them!Copy !req
691. That's "Hurry up. It's heavy."
Oh, right. OK...Copy !req
692. How we doing? James, I can't see.Copy !req
693. Yeah...?Copy !req
694. OK! Yes. You through?Copy !req
695. Yay!Copy !req
696. 'With the town behind us,
progress was good.Copy !req
697. 'And then... it wasn't.'Copy !req
698. My fuel gauge is...
just on the top of the red.Copy !req
699. Um... I don't have one.Copy !req
700. What I do have is the same engine
as youCopy !req
701. but a much heavier truck,
so I must have used more.Copy !req
702. 'And out here on my short cut,Copy !req
703. 'there were no filling stations
at all.'Copy !req
704. The needle is nowCopy !req
705. nearly all in the red.Copy !req
706. Trying to use the tiniest
throttle movements,Copy !req
707. just to keep it ticking along.Copy !req
708. 'In the next village,
James and I decided to pull overCopy !req
709. 'and dip our tanks.'Copy !req
710. I've got no fuel. None?Copy !req
711. A smear on the end of the stick.Copy !req
712. What's the news?Copy !req
713. None. I mean, it's dry,
I don't know what I'm running on.Copy !req
714. If you actually run a diesel outCopy !req
715. - you've got to bleed the system,
haven't you? And it's hours.
- Yeah.Copy !req
716. Well, look, why don't you just go
and snout around the village
and see if you can find some?Copy !req
717. Why me?
You're the youngest and fittest.Copy !req
718. Well, it's your fault we're in
this situation. But I'm old and hot.Copy !req
719. It's your short cut. Seriously. If
anybody's got to go, it's you, mate.Copy !req
720. Right, right, I'll go.Copy !req
721. Fuel. Diesel.
And as much as you can. Yes.Copy !req
722. What is Burmese for "diesel"?Copy !req
723. How do you mime "diesel"?
Mime a lorry.Copy !req
724. Brrr... And then do that.Copy !req
725. Right, so I'm a butler with
Parkinson's, and I've got a gun.Copy !req
726. 'Jeremy headed off.Copy !req
727. 'And was gone for quite some time.'Copy !req
728. Still quite hot, that.Copy !req
729. Done the oil. Have you? Are you
reading Bridge On The River Kwai?Copy !req
730. Yeah, he's just gone into the hut...
Bad news. What? Bad news. What?Copy !req
731. I haven't been able to get
any diesel.Copy !req
732. 'However - I had come up
with a clever alternative.'Copy !req
733. No, you halfwit.Copy !req
734. There's no diesel in this village.Copy !req
735. But there is diesel
in the next village.Copy !req
736. So we use the horses
to ride to the next village,Copy !req
737. get the diesel, bring it back
to the trucks.Copy !req
738. We're not in a Western.
I can't ride a horse. What?Copy !req
739. Well, I might have been pony
trekking when I was eight, but...
Well, it'll be in there, won't it?Copy !req
740. Well, I wouldn't use that one there.
Holy moly!Copy !req
741. Why do they have five legs in Burma?
Maybe so it can milk itself?Copy !req
742. Shall we spend all day looking
at a horse's willy, or shall we go?Copy !req
743. Oh, it's gone wrong...Copy !req
744. 'Being the most experienced horseman,Copy !req
745. 'I took the frisky
five-legged stallion.'Copy !req
746. We're on.Copy !req
747. Oh, Christ almighty!Copy !req
748. Hello, horse.Copy !req
749. I shall call you Tesco.Copy !req
750. Ready, steady, go.Copy !req
751. Well, I've bought a stalled horse.
It's going backwards.Copy !req
752. I've bought a reversing horse.Copy !req
753. I think if we get moving,
yours might follow more readily.Copy !req
754. James, can you turn right
and go up there? Turn around.Copy !req
755. How do you make it turn around?
Anybody know how to start
a Burmese horse?Copy !req
756. Go on, follow your mate.
Yes. Very good.Copy !req
757. The controls are reversed... I'm off!Copy !req
758. Oh, yeah.Copy !req
759. Yeah!Copy !req
760. Theme from "A Fistful
Of Dollars" by Ennio MorriconeCopy !req
761. 'Soon, James was getting a taste
'of what the ride was like
in my sports lorry.'Copy !req
762. My nadgers are getting a pummelling.Copy !req
763. Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow...Copy !req
764. Look at the anal action
going on here.Copy !req
765. My horse is going up
your one's bottom.Copy !req
766. Oh, Christ, we've had an accident.
You go ahead.Copy !req
767. I'm terrified!Copy !req
768. My nads are killing me!Copy !req
769. Oh, stop that, please don't fight!Copy !req
770. Walk on. I'll stop calling you Tesco
if you promise not to fight.Copy !req
771. Go!Copy !req
772. Walk. There you go.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow...Copy !req
773. Oh, God above!
Not much further now, James.Copy !req
774. Jesus! I mean - Buddha!Copy !req
775. 'A few hundred yards further on,Copy !req
776. 'Richard's stallion decided to get
amorous with James's mare.'Copy !req
777. Ooh! BLEEP...Copy !req
778. Oh! BLEEP...Copy !req
779. Has he gone?Copy !req
780. What happened? It reared
and mounted that. Don't get kicked.Copy !req
781. 'Things quickly went to pot.'Copy !req
782. This is the doctor,
going to attend to RichardCopy !req
783. but the van is stuck.Copy !req
784. I've just dismounted
my reversing horse,Copy !req
785. and actually genuinely
have hurt my testes.Copy !req
786. Oh! I can see why
they should be glue, these things.Copy !req
787. 'Richard was diagnosed
with a suspected broken wristCopy !req
788. 'and went on a four-hour journey
to the nearest hospital.Copy !req
789. 'So I walked my horse
to the next village to get fuel,Copy !req
790. 'and then, we found a spot
to camp for the night.'Copy !req
791. 'Here, while I enjoyed the view,Copy !req
792. 'James unveiled
his sleeping accommodation.Copy !req
793. 'A mountaineering tent
he could suspend from his crane.'Copy !req
794. So I'm going to rest it
against the front of the cab.Copy !req
795. Cos all these bitey ants, they don't
get in your tent and eat you.Copy !req
796. 'It may have been insect-proof...Copy !req
797. '.. but soundproof? No.'Copy !req
798. I want to go to bed.Copy !req
799. But I can't, with that racket
going on. Listen to it.Copy !req
800. 'The next morning
I discovered that Hammond was back.'Copy !req
801. So that's just a sprain?Copy !req
802. Yep. Not bust. Nothing exciting.Copy !req
803. So what is it you have to do,
basically steering...?Copy !req
804. Yeah, be all right.
You just have to...Copy !req
805. Yeah. Still do that. Right.Copy !req
806. And how was sleeping in your lorry?Copy !req
807. Um, not bad. What about yours?
Fine.Copy !req
808. Where did James sleep in the end,
what's he done?Copy !req
809. Oh, he's got some stupid high-tech
mountaineering tent on his crane.Copy !req
810. Why is it up there?Copy !req
811. Well... You know his snoring?Copy !req
812. Yeah...Copy !req
813. Quite loud. So I moved him
a bit further away.Copy !req
814. Jesus...Copy !req
815. Clarkson!Copy !req
816. What? Funny.Copy !req
817. Very funny. Yes.
I don't like heights,Copy !req
818. I don't like camping...
I don't like snoring.Copy !req
819. Anyway, shall we get on?Copy !req
820. 'After Pinky and Perky
had winched me down,Copy !req
821. 'we set off on our seventh day
of long-distance lorry driving.'Copy !req
822. I'm still staggered that
they put diesel in my truck.Copy !req
823. I mean, that's a generous gesture.
Assuming it IS diesel.Copy !req
824. Oh, no.Copy !req
825. Hammond... What's happened?
I've lost my other stack.Copy !req
826. Well, as you know, we're not the
US Marines, we leave a man behind.Copy !req
827. Yeah, too hot.Copy !req
828. Er, right...Copy !req
829. It's covered in ants...
Oh, it's an ants' nest!Copy !req
830. That's a mistake. Ow!Copy !req
831. Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!Copy !req
832. 'This, then, looked like
it was going to beCopy !req
833. 'another day of calamities
and mishaps.Copy !req
834. 'But actually, here,
in this part of Burma,Copy !req
835. 'we had to get properly serious.'Copy !req
836. Today is a big day for us,
because we are headed for the Shan.Copy !req
837. Top Gear's been to a lot of
remote places over the yearsCopy !req
838. but we've never been anywhere
quite like this.Copy !req
839. The Shan is to Burma
what Scotland is to Britain,Copy !req
840. it's a part of it,
and yet it's separate.Copy !req
841. We know there's been
a civil war in there,Copy !req
842. we understand there's
a cease-fire at the moment...Copy !req
843. Only a handful of Westerners
have ever been there,Copy !req
844. and certainly, no TV show
has ever been allowed in.Copy !req
845. We are the first... ever.Copy !req
846. All of the people who've been
fighting are coming together tonightCopy !req
847. to welcome us
here to the Shan State.Copy !req
848. Who's got any whisky? Got any Scotch?Copy !req
849. BLEEP second gear failed
and now the engine has BLEEP.Copy !req
850. Hammond, you idiot! You've reversed
into the sports lorry!Copy !req
851. "Work on the bridge starts at 0500"?
What?Copy !req
852. Get in! Get in.Copy !req