Question: What is the story sub plot or significance of the person planting and smuggling a small plant in the handle of a tennis racquet?
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
1 question in Racquet Espanol
Starring: Pam Ferris, Felicity Kendal, Daisy Dunlop, Ryan Philpott
Factual error: No gearbox problem would cause the noises in the episode, it was a clutch problem.
Trivia: Except for the first episode, where Laura drinks a glass of wine in 2 gulps, she never takes a sip of her drinks - wine, apple juice, nothing - except for tea. She pretends to drink, but doesn't succeed.
Answer: The woman hid the flower in her tennis racket to smuggle it out of the country, because it is a protected species and it would have been illegal to have it on your person. The reason for smuggling it was simply because she liked the flower.