We should send that miserable thing back to France
and tell them to keep it.
It's funny you should say that 'cause France is, what,
25 miles away? You can virtually see it from here.
-It's not far, is it? -No.
If only we had something that could fling it that far.
Wait a minute!
Oh, yeah!
[intense music playing]
[Jeremy] At more than 60 feet tall and weighing 32 tons,
our trebuchet was certainly big enough for the job.
However, it's quite a faff to load and cock it,
which means bringing in some machinery.
KATO
[Richard] Oh, yes.
I love cranes, me.
Where's James?
[beeping]
[James] Hang on.
[Jeremy] Having moved faster than he had done at any point in the show,
James then set about attaching the trebuchet
to the hook on Hammond's crane.
Thank you.
[Richard] He is wearing a harness, isn't he?
[Jeremy] Oh, of course. He's more than six feet up.
-Are you hooked? -[Richard] Are we on?
[James] Yeah.
[Richard] What are you doing?
-[James] It goes at the other end. -[Richard] Jeremy, that's the wrong end!
-What? -It's in the wrong place.
It's gotta be at the other end.
No, France is that way.
It's pulled underneath and then goes over.
-It starts that side. -So then it goes...
-Like that. -It doesn't start here?
No. It starts over there.
[beeping]
[Jeremy] No!
[Richard] Oh, quality work.
[creaking]
That's it. No, it isn't.
Genius.
-[James] Stop. -[Jeremy] Stop. Stop. Stop.
[Richard] God, this is complicated!
Stop.
It turns out we three are pretty manly.
[Jeremy on radio] Oh, yeah!
[James laughing]
[Jeremy] With the, um, heavy bit
lifted into position and the car attached
to something important,
we were finally ready for launch.
So the car, when I pull this, goes round, loops round
-and goes to France? -Yep.
-[James] Exactly. -[Richard] And if it works,
it'll be the fastest Pluriel ever.
By a long way.
[Jeremy] Are we all ready?
Take up the slack.
Here he comes.
-That happens. -[Richard] Taking up some more slack.
[grunting] Manly, you know.
[Jeremy] Here he comes again.
[grunts]
-Keep, keep... -It's elastic.
Oh.
-[Jeremy] We've got the wrong rope. -I'll go,
"Three, two, one," do it, we give it a...
Ready? Three, two, one. [grunts]
-There it goes! -[exclaims]
-Whoa! -There it goes!
[wind whooshing]
-[James] Yes! -[Richard exclaims]
PluRiel
Oh, good, there it is. I've got it, I've got it. There it is. Geez.
[all laughing]
Hang on.
[Jeremy] Where's it gone? Anyone see it?
[Richard] There!
[Jeremy] Oh, shit.
[loud crash]