'All Creatures Great & Small' Season 5 Stops to Consider Characters' "Pair Bond"

It’s the little things in life that often give the greatest satisfaction. All Creatures Great & Small opens with Richard Carmody, who is thrilled to receive a box of goat droppings in the mail, which he shows to everyone at breakfast. He and Siegfried offered their clientele the chance to diagnose ailments early, but only one has taken them up on their offer. Helen, who has a cold, isn’t too thrilled at the idea of a box of poo at the breakfast table, and neither is James, in a fragile state after a night of carousing with Tristan. But Siegfried and Richard are excited to find a local estate owner whose pygmy goats have an advanced infestation of roundworm, which means they’ll have the chance to use their new worming gun!

Siegfried: "I’ve lived through a war, and seen the other side. War can damage lives long after the last bullet has been fired. Some chances, you miss them, they may never come again."

Tristan threatens James with another evening of overindulgence with the Ottley Eleven cricket team, which Tristan hopes to join, even though he’s supposed to be writing a lecture on mule hydration for his trainees in Doncaster. Richard recently took his final exams and received his results in today’s post. He has passed with outstanding distinction and leaves the room overwhelmed. Siegfried and James both agree they should offer him a position. As Siegfried modestly puts it, “Finally a scientific brain and veterinary intelligence to match my own.”