Meanwhile, Daker sees Grete with another man, when she is supposed to be in Cracow. He then discovers that the man is
a well-known criminal, Tadeusz Melnik (Alfred Molina), Grete's former lover who had helped her to get out of Poland during
the Communist era. Grete had promised that she would marry Melnik if he ever came back for her, and he is not concerned
by the fact that she is married with a young child. Melnik has Daker abducted and tells him that he intends to leave Poland
with Grete, and warns that he could easily make Daker disappear if he does not agree to let Grete go. Melnik offers to use
his contacts to obtain much-needed supplies for the hospital in return for Grete. The climax of the movie sees Daker rush to
the airport where he sees Grete and Tomasz at the boarding gate with Melnik, but Grete has chosen to stay with Daker, and
Melnik catches his flight alone. The 90-minute telemovie was broadcast on 6 September 1992, as part of a BBC anthology
series called 'Screen One'.

The verdict:  'A Very Polish Practice' works well as a stand-alone telemovie for those who have not seen the original series,
but it fails to live up to the standards set by its predecessor. Setting it in the bleak post-Communist Poland meant there were
fewer opportunities for the black humour of the original (although the writers still managed to include one of Daker's surreal
dream sequences), and the whole Grete-Melnik storyline made the film much bleaker than the original. It is largely left to the
hapless Bob Buzzard to provide the humourous moments, through his series of increasingly bizarre misadventures in Warsaw.
These include being mistaken for a drug trafficker and arrested by the police, having his wallet stolen, and having his trousers
stolen by a prostitute who had come to his hotel room after his call to room service for a "mixed grill" was misinterpreted. And
it was good to see the sinister nuns return, as well as the running gag from the original series about Daker not drinking alcohol.