Beau Geste

Part Four

30 min

The brothers are reunited after being sent to Oran with a draft of new recruits. Their Sergeant-Major, Lejaune, takes a disliking to the trio, and also to two American recruits, Hank and Buddy. Boldini overhears the brothers discussing the Blue Water, and – with his criminal contacts – offers to help them, only to be rebuffed.

Part Five

30 min

Boldini informs Lejaune that Michael has a stolen jewel on him. After Boldini fails to talk two recruits to steal it for him, Lejaune himself persuades former pickpocket Bolidar to do so. He is caught, and narrowly evades lynching. Lejaune, though, knows that they are to be sent to the isolated Fort Zinderneuf, where it will be easier to isolate Michael from his friends.

Part Six

30 min

The column marches across country to Fort Zinderneuf; once there, Lejaune has Hank, Buddy and Digby sent to a further post. Lejaune's harsh treatment, and promotion of Boldini to corporal, cause increasing resentment; when the fort's CO, Renouf, shoots himself, Lejaune has to take command.

Part Seven

30 min

Some of the men are on the edge of mutiny when the fort comes under repeated attack from the Tuareg. Before being killed, Michael reveals he has some letters and a parcel for his brothers and Lady Brandon. Eventually, the last two survivors of the garrison are John and Lejaune; John confronts Lejaune, who had found the hidden jewel after searching Michael's corpse.

Part Eight

30 min

John kills Lejaune in the struggle, and then flees the fort on the approach of the relief column. Digby finds Michael's body and, remembering a childhood promise, gives it a Viking funeral – on a pyre – before fleeing himself. He finds John and they set off on foot, but is killed; only John is able to reach England where he returns the Blue Water to Lady Brandon – as Michael had known, a copy made when she had been forced to sell the original.