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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:04APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. Welcome to the last Countdown of the week.
00:34When we return on Monday, Arlo Hanlon will be back in Dictionary Corner,
00:37which we're very excited about.
00:39But this week has been really special to have former presenter
00:42Geoff Stelling back amongst his family and in Dictionary Corner.
00:46But come on, Rach, we went the whole week,
00:48we haven't had a single Stelling story from his Countdown days,
00:51whether it was on air or off air.
00:53Yeah. Spill the beans about the Geoff Stelling era.
00:56Well, I think anyone who's ever worked with Geoff,
00:58no-one has a bad word to say about him.
01:00And I think the thing that stands out is, back in those days,
01:03it was my first job here, so it was over 14 years ago,
01:06and it was a real team.
01:08We used to go out every Tuesday after a record and have dinner.
01:11And the thing about Geoff is, with football fans,
01:13you know, it's a very partisan field.
01:15But whatever team people supported,
01:17they always wanted to come up and speak to Geoff.
01:19And whatever he was doing, he had time to speak to everyone
01:22and had stats and figures off the top of his head
01:24on any team throughout the country.
01:26He's just a genuinely lovely guy
01:28and I was really lucky to start my career with him.
01:30I was hoping you were going to dig dirt.
01:32We'll save that for later.
01:34So, is this going out for dinner once a week with the anchor,
01:40is that common? Is that a thing?
01:43Because we just haven't been out for dinner once.
01:45It was when we all liked each other and we were all friends
01:48and wanted to spend time with each other.
01:50They were great. It was a party every week, wasn't it?
01:53Everybody went, not just Rachel, everybody.
01:55Susie, everybody went.
01:56We did a bit of karaoke sometimes.
01:58Yeah, a few drinks.
01:59Host always paid.
02:00Yeah.
02:01Oh, I don't want to do it then.
02:03Glad I avoided that.
02:05Oh, it's so good to have you.
02:07Listen, thank you, Rach, looking forward to today.
02:09Susie and Geoff, welcome back.
02:11Let's do it!
02:15And we've got a new champion.
02:1730 years working for the British Transport Police,
02:20Scott McKechnie from Western Supermare,
02:23of course exiled there from growing up in Glasgow,
02:27also a stint in the Royal Navy.
02:29Tell me about that.
02:30Yeah, I've done just over seven years in the Navy.
02:34I had a thing about uniforms.
02:37Seems you did. We're collecting them.
02:39If you get another one, we'll add another uniform tomorrow
02:41because I can see there's other ones we can.
02:43Listen, I thought you were brilliant yesterday,
02:45a great 90 against a really good challenger.
02:48You're up against Rachel Copley today,
02:50and Rachel's from Norwich, a really big Countdown fan,
02:53but not as big a Countdown fan as you are,
02:55of the late great Prince,
02:57who I adore but I'm nothing compared to you.
03:01So every record on vinyl.
03:03I think I bought every one from about his first chapter,
03:06was it Graffiti Bridge?
03:08I think that was one of his later ones.
03:10Mid-90s.
03:11So underrated as a guitar player when we talk about greats.
03:14Usually someone in the conversation will go,
03:16don't forget about Prince.
03:18Ah, yeah, you've got to have him in there.
03:20All right, well, listen, best of luck to you today.
03:22Thank you for being here.
03:23Scott and Rachel, let's end the week with a bang.
03:26Good luck.
03:30OK, Scott, let's get rolling.
03:31Hi, Rachel. Hi, Scott.
03:33I'll have a consonant, please. Thank you.
03:35Start today with P.
03:37And another?
03:39T.
03:40And another?
03:42J.
03:43And another?
03:45S.
03:46And a vowel?
03:48O.
03:49And another?
03:50A.
03:51And another?
03:54U.
03:57And another vowel, please?
04:01I.
04:02And a consonant, please.
04:03And lastly, T.
04:05That's the whole man in the studio for the last time this week.
04:07Let's play Countdown.
04:15CLOCK TICKS
04:38Scott?
04:39Six.
04:40And Rachel?
04:41Six.
04:42Very good. What have we got?
04:43Patios.
04:44Same word, patios.
04:45Nice.
04:46Yep, over to Dictionary Corner.
04:48Well, I'd got Utopia for six, but can you pluralise it, Susie?
04:52Yeah, you can.
04:53So the original Utopia was in the story by Sir Thomas More,
04:56so somewhere idyllic, perfect.
04:58It's from the Greek for no place, because it didn't really exist.
05:02But in a, you know, figurative sense,
05:04it's just somewhere which is beautiful, peaceful,
05:07just idyllic in every way.
05:09So you can put the S on it.
05:10Nice. Great work. Six points each.
05:12Rachel, your first time, choosing the letters.
05:14Make it a consonant, please, Rachel.
05:16Thank you, Rachel.
05:17D.
05:18And another.
05:20S.
05:21A third.
05:23M.
05:24And a fourth, please.
05:26P.
05:27Make a vowel, please.
05:28A.
05:29And another.
05:30E.
05:32And another.
05:33O.
05:35A consonant, please.
05:37S.
05:38And we'll finish with another consonant.
05:41Finish with G.
05:42OK, 30 seconds.
06:12Time's up, pens down. Rachel?
06:15A six.
06:16A six. And Scott?
06:17Only five.
06:18Just the five. What have you got, Scott?
06:20Dopes.
06:21And the six, Rachel?
06:22Past.
06:23And that gets you an early lead.
06:25Well done, Rich. Dexter in the corner?
06:27Well, pomades are the seven.
06:29Yes.
06:30But there's an eight, I think, isn't there?
06:32Scented ointment to your hair. There is an eight.
06:34Yes, Megapods.
06:36More often known as Megapodies, I think.
06:40But these are large, ground-dwelling birds.
06:42They build a large amount of debris to incubate its eggs
06:46because the debris just heats up as it decomposes.
06:49Thought they were big headphones, but there you go.
06:51Megapods gets you a fantastic eight.
06:54But Rachel takes the points as we get our first numbers
06:57of this Friday afternoon.
06:58Scott, how are you going to go?
07:00One large one, please, Rachel.
07:02Thank you, Scott. One from the top.
07:04And five little.
07:06And the first numbers of the day are four, six, ten, three, nine,
07:12and a large one, 75.
07:14And your target, 594.
07:16594, numbers up.
07:36MUSIC PLAYS
07:50Scott?
07:52585.
07:545859 away. Chance, Rachel?
07:56591.
07:57591 will get you seven points if you're right.
07:59Eight times 75 is 600.
08:01How did you make your eight, Rachel?
08:03Oh, sorry. Six over three is two.
08:05Times four is eight.
08:07Yep.
08:08Times 75 is 600.
08:09It is.
08:10Minus nine.
08:11Yep, three below.
08:12Very good.
08:13594 tickets there, Rich?
08:15Yep. Well, I chose to ignore the 75 and say four minus three is one.
08:20Add that to ten for 11.
08:22And then ten... Sorry, 11 times 9, 99, times six is 594.
08:26Nice.
08:30A few ways in, but it's Rachel number two
08:33who's off to a great start.
08:3519 plays is six after her first part,
08:37so an early lead for the challenger.
08:39And the first teatime teaser is A Toy Worm.
08:42A Toy Worm.
08:43There's a high price to pay for its services.
08:45There's a high price to pay for its services.
08:57APPLAUSE
09:04Welcome back.
09:05There's a high price to pay for its services,
09:07usually as A Toy Worm becomes a motorway.
09:10Right, let's get back on the road again.
09:12More letters from you, Rachel.
09:14Consonant, please, Rachel.
09:15Thank you, Rachel.
09:16R
09:17And another.
09:18D
09:19A third, please.
09:21L
09:22And one more.
09:24V
09:25And a vowel, please.
09:27I
09:28Another one, please.
09:29E
09:30Another.
09:31U
09:32A consonant.
09:34R
09:36And a consonant, please.
09:38Lastly, S.
09:39Thanks, Rachel.
10:02That'll do us.
10:03Rachel?
10:04An eight.
10:05An eight.
10:06And Scott?
10:07Eight.
10:08Good.
10:09Rach?
10:10Builders.
10:11Yes, builders.
10:12Same word.
10:13There you go.
10:14Well done.
10:15APPLAUSE
10:16I'll go with the cheapest pull.
10:18Right, was there a nine?
10:19Not that we could find, no.
10:21We just turned it round a bit and had a look.
10:23Yeah, well done.
10:24APPLAUSE
10:25I'll go with the cheapest pull.
10:27Right, was there a nine?
10:29Not that we could find, no.
10:31We just turned it round a bit and had a look.
10:33Variation, that's all. Rebuilds.
10:35That's not impressing me at all.
10:37You just moved the E-R.
10:39Scott, let's go again.
10:41Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:42Thank you, Scott.
10:43R
10:44And another.
10:46M
10:47And another.
10:49V
10:50And another.
10:52G
10:53And a vowel.
10:55E
10:57And a vowel.
10:58A
11:00And another vowel.
11:01O
11:03And a consonant.
11:05S
11:07And another vowel, please.
11:10And a final I.
11:12Half a minute.
11:29MUSIC
11:44Scott?
11:45Five.
11:46Rachel?
11:47Seven.
11:48What's the five?
11:49Overs.
11:50And for you, Rachel?
11:51Mirages.
11:52Mirages. It's a reality.
11:54Seven points. Well done to you.
11:56She's doing a great thing so far.
11:58Good sprint, though. Stay focused, both of you.
12:00Anything else?
12:02Seven is ovaries.
12:04Yes?
12:05Yeah, verismo, which is realism in the arts.
12:08I was hoping for over aims, but you can't do that.
12:11It's not in there, no?
12:12No, it's not in there.
12:13Because if I'm at home, I'm sneaking that in.
12:15If you don't say that, I'll just have the eight points.
12:17I do all the time.
12:18It's absolute anarchy in the sofas around the UK
12:20when it comes to the scoring.
12:22Here it's 34-14.
12:24Rachel, you're picking the numbers.
12:26Top and five minerals, please.
12:28Thank you, Rachel. One large, five little coming up for you.
12:31And the second numbers game of this contest is...
12:34One. Uh-oh, one.
12:36Six.
12:37Eight.
12:38Six.
12:39And 75.
12:41And the target...
12:42999.
12:44As high as it gets. Numbers up.
12:56MUSIC PLAYS
13:17999.
13:19And only 30 seconds to respond.
13:21How did you get on, Rachel?
13:23983.
13:24Scott?
13:25No, not at all.
13:27Rachel, you revel in moments like this, by the way.
13:30I've never seen someone as happy in my life.
13:32Right, 999?
13:33I mean, it looks horrible,
13:35but if you say six times six is 36,
13:39add that to 75, you get 111.
13:43And then you can say eight plus one is nine.
13:46And no need to call anybody.
13:48APPLAUSE
13:51I can always rely on you in a numerical emergency.
13:54999 it is.
13:56The scores stay the same as we talk.
13:58For the final time this week to the returning, Jeff Stelling.
14:02Now, listen, there's a lot of things you've done,
14:04and we've talked a lot this week about stuff you've done on air,
14:07but your love of sport runs deep,
14:09because you've actually done something I would never do in my life,
14:12which is referee.
14:13Yeah, well, my kids both played youth football
14:16up to the age of 17 or 18,
14:18and the most frustrating thing was when you've got the teams there
14:22and the referee doesn't turn up.
14:24So I would quite frequently step in in those situations
14:27with varying degrees of success.
14:29But at Soccer Saturday, we used to do, every Christmas,
14:34we would do a Christmas special.
14:36We tried to make them different.
14:38So one year we did what we called the Y Factor,
14:41which was some of our pundits and things performing rock songs.
14:46And we did our own version of Superstars one year.
14:49I almost drowned in the swimming.
14:51But eventually we moved on to holding kids' football tournaments.
14:54And the idea is you'd go to a different city,
14:57you'd pick four teams from the youth football leagues in that area.
15:03I remember one particular year, and I would referee all the games.
15:06And all the pundits on Soccer Saturday,
15:08the Phil Thompsons and the Charlie Nicklases and Paul Mersons
15:11and Matt Letizia, they would coach their individual teams.
15:14So it was a lot at stake.
15:16I remember after one particular final, I thought I'd done OK.
15:20And there were, like, two teams of 13 or 14-year-olds, something like that.
15:23I thought I'd done OK.
15:25And I'm giving out the medals,
15:27and I've given the medals to the winners' team and the runners-up team.
15:30All the while, shake hands, shake hands.
15:32Then comes the captain, gave him his medal as a runner-up,
15:35and he said, do me a favour, Jeff.
15:37He said, in future, stick the count down.
15:39LAUGHTER
15:41That's brilliant. Thank you very much, Jeff.
15:43APPLAUSE
15:45Champion, bit of ground to make up.
15:47Let's see if it starts now with more letters.
15:49I have a consonant, please, Rachel.
15:51Thank you, Scott. N.
15:53And another, please.
15:55S. And another.
15:57K.
15:59And another.
16:01L. And a vowel.
16:03E.
16:05And another vowel. O.
16:07And another vowel.
16:09I.
16:11And a consonant.
16:13H.
16:15And another vowel, please.
16:18And a final O.
16:20Start the clock.
16:46MUSIC STOPS
16:52Scott? Six.
16:54And Rachel? Risky six.
16:56What's the word? Loosen.
16:58Loosen. And what's the risky six?
17:00Honeys. Honeys.
17:02Hmm. I think it's going to be the E-Y-S,
17:04which is probably what you were wondering about.
17:06It is, unfortunately, in every sense,
17:08whether it's the term of endearment or the lovely nectar that we eat.
17:11OK. Six points for Scott. Can we go higher?
17:14Yeah, we can go higher. We have an eight, Susie.
17:17We do. Yes, beware the sinkhole.
17:19Oh, yes, of course. Yes.
17:21OK, 34 plays at 20.
17:24That's six points back for Scott.
17:26But, Rachel, you're in charge of the letters again.
17:28And a consonant, please.
17:30Thank you, Rachel. C.
17:32And another.
17:34L.
17:36A third. Q.
17:38And another consonant, please.
17:40N.
17:42A vowel, please.
17:44E.
17:46And another. I.
17:48One more, please. A.
17:50And a consonant. R.
17:53And another consonant, please.
17:55And a final T.
17:57Here we go.
18:12MUSIC PLAYS
18:28Rachel Copley. Seven.
18:30Scott McKechnie. Seven.
18:32All right, Rachel, what's the word? Reliant.
18:34And Scott? Article.
18:36Article and Reliant for seven each.
18:38Really good standard.
18:40Both Rachel and Scott are motoring.
18:42What about Dictionary Corner?
18:44Well, we've got an ace, haven't we?
18:46I don't want to blow our own trumpet. I won't.
18:48But we do have clarinets.
18:50Hey! Nice clarinet.
18:52Wonderful, right? 41 plays at 27.
18:55Hey, tell you what, Rachel,
18:57you were so nervous before we started.
18:59Here you are with the lead.
19:01And you did apply after a long time, didn't you?
19:03Because I made a plea. Yes, you did, yes.
19:05And you answered the call. I did, yes, you said.
19:07I wanted to be part of the team and apply, so I did.
19:09Any regrets?
19:11Not yet, no.
19:13Because the regret is, if you're a big Countdown fan
19:15and you don't apply, win or lose,
19:17it's a lovely experience to have,
19:19as long as Rachel's in a good mood.
19:21But do apply. It's Countdown at Channel4.com.
19:23Countdown at Channel4.com.
19:25Send the email. We'll take it from there.
19:28And we would love to see you.
19:3041 plays 27.
19:32And, Scott, it's numbers time.
19:34One from the top, please, Rachel.
19:36You're rambling. Steady, Eddie.
19:38Let's see if this game makes any difference to the scores.
19:42Your five little ones are 10, 1, 9, 5 and 10.
19:47And the big one, 25 this time.
19:49And your target, 168.
19:51168. Numbers up.
20:06MUSIC PLAYS
20:23168, Scott?
20:25Yeah, 168.
20:27And Rachel? 169.
20:29One away. A big ten points, Scott.
20:315 plus 1 is 6.
20:335 plus 1, 6.
20:35Times 25.
20:37Times 25, 150.
20:3910 plus 9.
20:41No, I've used the 1 twice.
20:43Oh, I was wondering where you were going with that.
20:45Yeah, yeah. Sorry.
20:47One away, Rachel. Off you go.
20:495 plus 1 is 6. Times 25 is 150.
20:51Plus 10, plus 9.
20:53Yes. Yeah, one away. Perfect.
20:55And there it is. Look, those tiny, tiny moments
20:58changes the score completely.
21:00Rachel, 168, please.
21:02Yes, one way. You could have said 25 minus 5 is 20.
21:0610 over 10 is 1.
21:08Add them for 21.
21:10And then 9 minus 1 is 8.
21:12And times them together, 168.
21:14APPLAUSE
21:18Look at that. What a huge round.
21:20Six rounds still to go.
21:22Last part of the week.
21:24And, hey, Geoff, just had a thought.
21:26You want to swap seats for old times' sake?
21:28You did the last part. Ooh, I'll be rusty.
21:30You weren't. Might as well be fun.
21:32Absolutely. I'll give it a go.
21:34Good stuff. You'll get the answer to this tea time teaser
21:36from Mr Geoff Stelling.
21:38It's gain lace. Gain lace.
21:40Possibly used for cake decoration in Texas.
21:43Possibly used for cake decoration in Texas.
21:54APPLAUSE
22:01So our teaser was gain lace.
22:03The clue, possibly used for cake decoration in Texas.
22:06And the answer is Angelica in Angelica Houston.
22:10Oh, of course.
22:12I've locked him in the loo so I can do the rest of it, OK?
22:15So, at the moment, our challenger Rachel has 48
22:18and Scott, our champion, is on 27.
22:21Rachel was nervous as a kitten before the show
22:24but those nerves have settled very nicely indeed.
22:27And, Rachel, it's your pick of letters.
22:29A consonant, please, Rachel.
22:31Thank you, Rachel. D.
22:33And another.
22:35Y.
22:36A third.
22:38N.
22:39And one more, please.
22:41F.
22:42And a vowel, please.
22:44O.
22:45Another.
22:46A.
22:47A third.
22:48E.
22:49A consonant.
22:51R.
22:52And finish with a consonant, please.
22:54Finish with G.
22:56And here's the clock.
23:27Rachel?
23:29Seven.
23:30Seven, Scott?
23:31Seven.
23:32Rachel?
23:33Groaned.
23:34Scott, what is seven?
23:35Foraged.
23:36Foraged and groaned.
23:37Both rock-solid, those, aren't they?
23:39Now, as I've moved up a dictionary corner,
23:41it's pretty unlikely they'll have anything better than that.
23:44HE LAUGHS
23:45Don't you, guys?
23:46We do, actually.
23:47Yeah, the Royal Way, I had groaned as well.
23:50But I suppose if you're foraging, you might reach some frondage.
23:53You might reach some frondage.
23:55You might say your houseplant has some nice frondage,
23:57so it's a nice leafiness.
23:59Bit like your top.
24:00Yes, exactly.
24:01It's my weekend top.
24:02HE LAUGHS
24:04Rachel's on to 55 now.
24:06Scott's defending champion.
24:07He's in just a spot of difficulty at the moment.
24:09He has 34.
24:11Scott, your pick of letters.
24:13Consonant, please, Rachel.
24:15Thank you, Scott.
24:16S.
24:17And another, please.
24:18D.
24:19And another.
24:21R.
24:22And another.
24:24D.
24:26And another.
24:28L.
24:29And a vowel.
24:31U.
24:32And a vowel.
24:33E.
24:34And a vowel.
24:35O.
24:37And a final consonant, please.
24:41Final, another D.
24:43And time starts now.
24:45MUSIC PLAYS
25:16So, Scott, six.
25:18Rachel?
25:19Six.
25:20OK. Rachel, let's hear your six.
25:22Louder.
25:24Rachel, let's hear your six.
25:26Louder.
25:27Rachel, let's hear your... Oh, sorry.
25:29Scott, same word.
25:31OK.
25:32S.
25:33Brilliant.
25:34OK, Rachel moves on to 61.
25:36She still holds the sway.
25:38Scott is on 40 at the moment.
25:42Time to take a moment of two's pause
25:44while we hear some tales from the dictionary with Susie.
25:48I have to say, he's too good at this.
25:50I might swap back before the end.
25:53But this allows your competitiveness to kind of take hold again, doesn't it?
25:56Yeah. I do miss sitting here.
25:58It is a great place to sit with Susie, isn't it?
26:00She smells better at this side of the studio.
26:04Well, both of you are the apples of my eye.
26:08No, you can only have one pick.
26:10Well, I'm going to leave it to Jolene, brilliantly named Jolene,
26:13who has emailed to say,
26:15sorry if I've missed this before, but where does apple of my eye come from?
26:18It's strange, given that apples were once associated with poison.
26:22Could there be a connection?
26:25And there is no connection,
26:27because when we talk about the apple of someone's eye,
26:29you are talking about wanting to cherish them,
26:32certainly not wanting to poison them.
26:34But it goes back to a misunderstanding, if you like,
26:37that you will find this all over the shop in English,
26:40where inevitably thousands of years ago, or a thousand years ago,
26:43we weren't as clear about physiology and medicine and health, etc.,
26:48as we are today.
26:50And you will find the apple of one's eye in the Bible, in Shakespeare,
26:53you'll find it in Midsummer Night's Dream,
26:55but it predates that by a long way.
26:57In fact, it's so old that the first recorded examples
27:00can be found in the works of King Alfred.
27:03So that's the end of the 9th century.
27:05And in those days, the pupil of the eye was thought to be a solid object,
27:10because that's what they thought they could see
27:12when they looked into someone's eye.
27:14And an apple was probably the most familiar
27:17globe-shaped or globular item that they could compare it with.
27:22And so they then thought, well, this is the apple of one's eye,
27:25literally the spherical thing in somebody's eye,
27:28and then figuratively, one's focus.
27:31In fact, all that you can see.
27:33So if you're talking about someone being the apple of your eye,
27:35it's just you are my everything, which is rather lovely.
27:38And 12 centuries on, astonishingly, we are still using it.
27:42But I mentioned that these sort of areas are everywhere,
27:45and you'll find them in English expressions,
27:47so famously hysterical and hysterectomy,
27:51all of those look back to the belief that the womb
27:54was once a wandering object within a woman's body,
27:56and when it was out of place,
27:58it caused all sorts of emotional disturbances.
28:03So if you were hysterical,
28:05it was because your uterus was out of place.
28:07A hustera in Greek is the womb.
28:09And also, we talk about a murmuration of starlings these days.
28:13The collective noun was once a mutation,
28:15because it was believed that these birds
28:17could quite easily have their leg drop off and then grow a new one.
28:21So they called them a mutation of starlings,
28:23because they changed throughout their life.
28:26Lovely.
28:30Had my legs ever dropped off,
28:32I could have done with growing some longer ones next time.
28:36So, Rachel, our challenge is on 61 at the moment.
28:39She's four rounds away from toppling our champion Scott,
28:42but lots can still happen.
28:44It's your pick of the letters, Rachel.
28:46Constant, please, Rachel.
28:48Thank you, Rachel. P.
28:50Another one.
28:52M.
28:53A third.
28:54N.
28:55And one more, please.
28:57R.
28:58A vowel, please.
29:00A.
29:01Another.
29:02E.
29:03A third.
29:04I.
29:06A consonant.
29:08N.
29:09And another consonant, please.
29:11And a final S.
29:13Here we go.
29:25MUSIC PLAYS
29:46So, Rachel, how many?
29:48Seven.
29:49Scott?
29:50Try an eight.
29:51Rachel, what's your seven?
29:52Spanner.
29:53OK, and Scott, the eight?
29:54Panniers.
29:55Panniers, Susie, yeah.
29:56Yeah, absolutely brilliant.
29:57So you have a pannier on the back of your bike, don't you,
29:59if you have one of those little baskets,
30:01in which to put your bread originally.
30:03APPLAUSE
30:05So, it's a big eight points for Scott as well.
30:07It keeps him very much in the game.
30:09Rachel's on 61, Scott is on 48.
30:12And, Scott, it's your pick of the letters.
30:15I'll have a consonant, please, Rachel.
30:17Thank you, Scott. T.
30:19And another, please.
30:20L.
30:21And another, please.
30:24M.
30:26And a vowel, please.
30:28E.
30:30And another vowel.
30:31I.
30:32And another vowel.
30:33E.
30:34And a consonant, please.
30:36C.
30:38And a consonant.
30:40W.
30:42And a consonant, please.
30:46And a final T.
30:48Time starts now.
30:50MUSIC PLAYS
30:54MUSIC CONTINUES
31:19That's a pretty awful selection, isn't it?
31:21Scott?
31:22Five.
31:23Rachel?
31:24Six.
31:25OK. Scott, let's hear five.
31:27Clete.
31:28And, Rachel, your six?
31:29Emetic.
31:30Emetic, Susie.
31:31Very good. Not very nice.
31:32It's something that makes you sick.
31:34In medicine, it induces vomiting, but it's excellent for six.
31:37And just to add salt to the wound,
31:39clete is C-L-E-A-T, rather than double E, sorry.
31:42So, Rachel is on 67, Scott is on 48.
31:4619 points the gap.
31:49Scott can still win this one,
31:51but, boy, he's going to have to have a couple of great rounds, isn't he?
31:54It's final numbers round of the week now.
31:57And, Rachel?
31:59I'm taking no risks. One from the top and five minerals, please.
32:02One from the top.
32:03That means we've gone the whole week
32:05without anybody asking for the Jeff Stelling.
32:07The four large and two small.
32:09How disappointing.
32:10Right, the final one of the week.
32:12Seven, four, two, seven, five and 100.
32:17And 100, this is for the teapot.
32:19The target, 703.
32:22And here's the countdown clock.
32:47CLOCK TICKS
32:55So, we are looking for 703.
32:57Rachel?
32:58703.
32:59Scott?
33:00703.
33:01OK, Scott, you can tell us.
33:03Seven times 100.
33:04700.
33:05Five minus two.
33:06Don't need to write that down.
33:07Same method, I assume, Rachel?
33:09Yeah.
33:10APPLAUSE
33:13Put Rachel in an unassailable lead.
33:16But can Scott walk away with the consolation
33:19of picking up the points in our countdown conundrum?
33:23Here we go, the final conundrum of the week.
33:26MUSIC PLAYS
33:45BUZZER
33:47Scott?
33:48Troopers?
33:49Let's take a look.
33:50No, it is not.
33:52So, the rest of the time, for you, Rachel.
33:55MUSIC PLAYS
34:01BUZZER
34:03Yes, Rachel?
34:04Supporter.
34:05Supporter.
34:06APPLAUSE
34:07And there it is.
34:08So, Rachel, well done.
34:10And you'll be back on Monday.
34:12Fantastic, to defend your title.
34:14Scott, you've already won your countdown teapot,
34:16so you'll go away with that.
34:17You should go away a happy man.
34:19Very well played indeed.
34:21And I'm a happy man, as well.
34:23You were lucky to be back in this seat,
34:25wasn't it, just for the odd occasion?
34:27So, look, I want you all to have an absolutely brilliant weekend.
34:30Rachel, Susie and Colin will all be back next week.
34:34You can count on them. Bye-bye, now.
34:36APPLAUSE
34:38You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:42You can also find our web page at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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