He is shot by Captain Edmund Blackadder with a revolver just after he says 'Come on George, with 50,000 men getting killed a week who's going to miss a pigeon?' What Blackadder does not know is that Speckled Jim is General Melchett's favourite pigeon. Captain Blackadder is then sent to court over the matter of Speckled Jim's death and sentenced to death. In the nick of time, a telegram that comes through and saves him from the firing squads.