Contains spoilers for this episode.
News of the Russian Revolution gives Baldrick revolutionary hopes and gives Blackadder another reason to escape the front. General Melchett interrupts his attempted departure with a scheme to improve morale through a cabaret. A possible tour makes organising the entertainment attractive to Edmund, who accepts help from the general's driver, Corporal Bob Parkhurst. He immediately recognises that Bob is a woman, but agrees to keep the secret that Melchett has failed to notice.
Baldrick supplies a Charlie Chaplin impression with a dead slug as his moustache, while George performs as Gorgeous Georgina. The show succeeds, and Melchett falls in love with its leading lady. George even accepts his proposal, fearing the consequences of disobeying a superior. Edmund solves the engagement by reporting that Georgina has stepped on mines and died. Melchett quickly recovers from his grief, but threatens the tour because the show has lost the only performer he considers worth watching.
Blackadder replaces George with Bob and expects the production to travel to London. Melchett instead condemns the replacement as a dreadful drag act, still unable to recognise Bob as a woman, and cancels the whole enterprise. New American involvement supplies an alternative morale programme in the form of Chaplin films. A telegram makes Blackadder responsible for screening them in the trenches, leaving the officer who despises Chaplin with a fresh duty and no theatrical route away from the war.