 Bloodnok has been continually drinking the sake all that time, which worries Seagoon as it means they won't get their back pay.In an aside to the audience, General Yakamoto reveals that he switched the sake with the nitroglycerin.Meanwhile, Grytpype (aware that his plot to blow up Seagoon and the others has failed) has called a governmental meeting and informs the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the regiment's combined back pay amounts to millions of pounds, which will ruin the country's annual budget.