John Willment, a Ford distributor in Middlesex, imported a Holman & Moody-prepared Galaxie and – you may recall – let it loose among the 3.8 Jaguar racing contingent. WHAM! It mopped up everything in sight.

If he finds out we are annexin' the whole of it, he'll fight agin us till all is blue.

Recollections from a hundred heist films interrupted, racing across his cinemaphile's brain.

He reminded himself of one thing on reaching home, and that was to take the ground lizard and snail syrup his 'nennen' had brought for his asthma all the way from Grenada.