'Around the World in 80 Days' Recap: Episode 5
This week on Around the World in 80 Days, our intrepid explorers have entered the second half of their eighty-day trek! You probably recall that last time the trio were honored guests at an Indian wedding. Nothing goes smoothly on this trip, so the groom was arrested by the army for desertion and Passepartout almost killed Fogg with a sleeping herb. All the details about this (and Phileas’s secret love) can be perused here.
It’s Day 41 as our adventurers arrive in Hong Kong, looking forward to a bit of home comfort in this British colony. Immediately there’s a complication when Fogg is told by a clerk that the transfer paperwork from his London bank has not arrived yet.
Turns out Bellamy’s accomplice, Thomas Kneedling (Anthony Flanagan) got to the bank just ahead of Phileas and his friends. Posing as a British police inspector, he’s convinced the manager to withhold Fogg’s funds to keep him from fleeing arrest for fraud.
