Clarkson aims to complete the other projects he had started earlier in the farming year, with the harvest nearly upon him and the Diddly Squat farm. Clarkson decides to set up his water bottling plant and brings 700 water bottles to aid in these efforts; it is here where he realizes that housing the plant in a metal shipping container was a bad idea, leading to it being hot and stuffy, measuring at 48.6°C at head height.
Lisa demonstrates the bottling process, whereupon Clarkson takes a finished bottle and begins drinking from it to beat the heat while Lisa frantically looks for more bottles. Clarkson gives Lisa the finished bottle, to which Lisa gives him the finger. The temperature at this point reaches 49.7°C, with both complaining about the heat. Thankfully for Clarkson however, rain begins to fall again. The end of the drought is the talk of the town; Clarkson is then seen talking to Gerald, who is repairing another dry stone wall.
Clarkson returns to the farm shop, which now looks like an actual shop, being stocked up with new types of produce, livestock and a cow's milk dispenser; Clarkson is astounded at the progress made. Clarkson asks Lisa about how much of the stuff comes from within 30 miles from the farm to comply with local authorities, with Lisa dodging the questions at some points. After surveying the shop, Clarkson deduces that virtually nothing in the shop came from the farm; Lisa requests that Clarkson "meet her halfway" and requests him to do things that would allow her to stock produce from the farm within the shop.
At this moment, Charlie arrives to view the shop and is astounded at the shop and begins asking about where the produce originates; Clarkson claims they originate from the Cotswolds, to which Charlie is skeptical. Lisa mentions she is working on a 40% markup on items for budgetary reasons; Charlie calls Clarkson to have a discussion about the pricing model in the shop and they work on appropriately pricing the various items.
Looking for more produce to stock the farm shop with, Clarkson visits his beehives to obtain honey. Once he obtains some honeycombs from his apiary, he loads it into his Range Rover and gets stung in the butt by a bee; enduring the pain, he loads the remaining trays with honeycombs into his Range Rover and drives off, with loose bees in tow. Returning to the shop, Clarkson immediately applies Wasp-Eze to his butt in front of the film crew while claiming that "they won't do it"; the film crew give Clarkson various looks of concern.
Clarkson gets about to extracting honey from his hives, and begins by scraping off the beeswax from the hives into a bucket for potential future use. Loading three hives into a spinner, he begins extracting the honey; due to his rough spinning he damages the hives in the process, but is rewarded with a decent supply of honey for his efforts, which he collects in a jar for selling. The next day, Clarkson, loaded with jars of honey, sets out to the farm to pick some chard and heads to the farm shop to stock it up. Clarkson and Lisa immediately begin bickering about the potential price of the new honey when a customer walks in; Clarkson is annoyed that Lisa ended up selling the honey for £6.50 as opposed to his suggested price of £10.
While Clarkson sits outside the shop sulking, Kaleb drops by the shop, driving his new car: a Nissan 350Z. Clarkson is impressed with the car and strikes a conversation with him about it. After Kaleb drives off, Clarkson goes to the woods to check on his wasabi plants, feeling they were ready to be sold; he finds out that the vast majority of them had died during the drought and decides to harvest the remaining plants. Clarkson hatches a plan to sell the wasabi to a Japanese restaurant in London, thinking they would be amazed.
Claiming he is incredibly busy, Clarkson delegates Kaleb to go to London to sell the wasabi in his stead, thinking that this would be an opportunity for him to drive his new car; Kaleb on the other hand decides to drive his Mitsubishi Triton to London, spurning his 350Z for these purposes. Clarkson prepares Kaleb for what to expect in London in the meantime, to which Kaleb tells Clarkson he may have gotten the wrong person for the job. Before sending Kaleb off, Clarkson gives him a brief: go to London to sell wasabi and not accept less than £300 per kilogram for it. As he sets off, Clarkson notes Kaleb as being very nervous; the feed from a GoPro camera installed in his truck affirms this.
Clarkson claims that his current situation was worse off than Kaleb's, as this time of year is when farmers apply for their grants; he sits down with Charlie and begins to fill out paperwork for this, complaining that he has better things to do with his time. Clarkson notes to Charlie that he rather pay the government directly for these grants, but quickly eats his words when he hears the amount he'd have to pay and agrees to fill in the form. As he fills in the form, Clarkson complains about the unneeded complexity of the forms, using numerous unnecessary acronyms and contractions.
Kaleb finally arrives in London and is overwhelmed by the bustling city. He chooses to ignore directions given by his GPS and attempts to find his way around but this leads to him getting lost even more. Ultimately, he finds his way to a Japanese restaurant named Nobu and attempts to pay parking charges via phone; he finds out that he cannot park his truck in his initial parking spot due to restrictions and is forced to find alternatives. He finds a parking spot, complains about the £10 hourly parking charge and enters Nobu to sell the wasabi; his first attempt is met with failure, as the chefs reject the wasabi due to potential wastage. Kaleb returns to his truck to find he had received a parking violation and is flabbergasted at the penalty he has to pay.
Back at the farm, Clarkson, still filling out paperwork, begins to reconsider the idea of planting the vast assortment of vegetables on the farm, consisting of fava beans, beets, chard, peas, rutabagas, kohlrabi, turnips, cabbage, leeks, bok choy, rhubarb, broccoli, cauliflower, kale and zucchini; this meant that Clarkson had to look up the codes for each of the vegetables he had farmed and report the quantity of each of those vegetables to four decimal places in square meters. Clarkson suggests guessing the code for each of the vegetables, but is discouraged by Charlie for fear of penalties being implemented.
Back in London, Kaleb is driving to his next restaurant while getting peeved by his GPS's constant talking. He finds the next restaurant, Roka, and engages in a conversation with the head chef there to sell the wasabi, who laughs off Kaleb's quote from Clarkson saying that wasabi costs £300 a kilogram, saying that he's "dreaming". The chef offers to buy a sprig of wasabi for £10; Kaleb insists on £15, followed by £12, but both attempts are shot down by the head chef. Noting that he paid £10 to park, the chef tells Kaleb he essentially parked for free.
After failing to sell the wasabi a second time, Kaleb drives off and heads to The Shard to find the last restaurant; clearly sick and tired and wanting to go back to Chadlington, Clarkson appears in voiceover to mention that Kaleb has a deathly fear of heights. As he approaches The Shard, Kaleb begins to stammer and shudder at the prospect of going up in there. After going up the elevator, he approaches the Shangri-La staff in the building and attempts to sell the wasabi for £25 for 100 grams, which they reject but mention that they might reconsider. Despondently, Kaleb gets a phone call from his mother, being worried sick that he is in London; while up The Shard, Kaleb admires the view of the Thames. Defeated, Kaleb engages in conversation with film crew director Gavin Whitehead, stating that he had earned zero profit.
Returning to the farm, Kaleb gives the wasabi to Clarkson to put in the farm shop; even in the farm shop the wasabi fails to sell and ultimately rots. Clarkson also receives word that an enforcement case was opened on the farm, regarding the sourcing of some of the stock in the shop not being from within West Oxfordshire, much to his exasperation. To alleviate this issue, Clarkson decided to use his unused beeswax to create scented candles with humorous but vulgar labels, having taken inspiration from "a Hollywood A-lister"; Lisa objects to the labeling, but Clarkson defends his decision.
Kaleb, having returned to the farm, goes to the trout pond to erect an electric fence. He explains his reasoning for erecting an electric fence, for he had seen a number of dead fish with puncture wounds. Clarkson would set up a number of trap cameras to figure out what caused the fish to die, and discover that the killings were caused by an otter and a heron. In addition to the electric fence, Kaleb erects a fake owl and a metal cutout in the shape of a hunter to deter the heron from approaching the pond.
Clarkson and Lisa go down to the trout pond to fish up some trout for a local pub who had agreed to take on trout to sell. Working together, Lisa and Clarkson catch some trout, where they load the fish into the back of Clarkson's Range Rover and set off to the pub. Calling some employees out, Clarkson sells the fish for £2 each. By this point, lockdown restrictions had been lifted, leading to more people visiting the farm shop and Clarkson continuing to sell trout. Knowing that harvesting was imminent, Clarkson recounts that his crops had been in the ground for eight months.
Charlie and Clarkson survey the barley fields, with Charlie noting that despite the less than desirable conditions for farming, they largely survived and are good to harvest. Moving over to the rapeseed fields, Charlie surveys them as well and notes that they too are good to harvest. Noting that both the rapeseed and barley are ready at the same time, Clarkson tells Charlie he would be renting a combine harvester. Charlie informs Clarkson about what to say if the contractors for the combine harvester say things not to his liking and casually informs Clarkson that he will not be present for the harvesting as he is going on vacation, stunning Clarkson. It is at this point Charlie finds out that Clarkson lacks some of the equipment required for harvesting, much to Clarkson's exasperation.
Tropes featured in the episode:
- Actor Allusion: Top Gear's Mozambique special is indirectly mentioned.
- Blatant Lies: Clarkson claims that the pineapples and avocados in the shop were from the Cotswolds. Charlie sees through this immediately. Clarkson also claims he loves form filling when he has to fill up forms for applying for his grants.
- Didn't Think This Through: Clarkson begins to regret planting numerous kinds of vegetables in a plot of land on his farm due to the immense paperwork involved.
- Oh, Crap!: When Clarkson hears he has to pay £82,000 to the government for owning the farm, he panics and agrees to filling out the form. Also used when Kaleb discovers the height of The Shard due to his fear of heights.
- Primal Fear: Kaleb is deathly afraid of heights.
