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Hello.
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Yeah? Ken Boone, Texas Rangers.
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Oh,
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you're the dispatch company.
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Your package.
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Where's it going to? Address is on the
front.
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Albion Fire Trucks. Send us a bill.
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They make fire engines.
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That's right.
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Yeah, I worked on one of them. A year.
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Used to be a fireman.
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Oh.
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I reckon that old engine saved a few
lives.
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Brilliant engineering.
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Yes.
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Yeah, well, I'll ferry off then, eh?
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Yes.
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Nice big place you've got here.
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He's on his way.
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Let's go.
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Cold night.
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to you.
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You've been in an accident. Are you
feeling all right?
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I've lost my package.
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One of them bloody hit -and -run
drivers, I bet.
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Yeah. Yeah, he did hit me and run.
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And he smashed your bike, look.
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Bloody liberty.
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Where were you going, eh?
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Um... I think I'd better take you home.
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Come on, you come with me. No, come on.
What about white light? You should be
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tucked up in bed with a nice cup of tea.
Go on.
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Stick it in the bushes so no one nicks
it.
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Ken Boone, I reckon we've got the right
bloke.
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Are you happy in what you do?
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Can you go left here?
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Left? I asked, are you really
fundamentally happy?
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I've left all that behind me.
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My past life, London, my manager.
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Oh. He's got repulsive little fingers,
my manager.
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Like cocktail sausages.
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And in between each of them, he sweats.
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Great trickles of sweat.
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Really? Can you go right here?
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Right.
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It's not because of him, though, I'm
leaving.
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I've sat down and I've had a think to
myself.
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Sandy girl, I've said, where are you
going?
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah. Shouldn't I be taking the clothes
off for a reason? I mean, I'm
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successful. Very successful.
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But there's more to life.
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Ethiopia, nuclear fallout, unemployment,
than undressing.
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Yeah. People think that I'm only
interested in page three.
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I have a glance at it, but I always read
on. Turn the page.
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All the heartaches, wars, disasters.
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Wait a minute. What exactly is it you
do?
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I'm Sandy Trembley.
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The page three.
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I'm incognito. No one must know I'm
here.
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More local news now, and tonight there
still seems no way into the troubles of
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Albion Fire Trucks, one of the black
country's main employers.
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Victims of repeated rumours of foreign
takeover bids, the ailing giant has
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pleaded unsuccessfully with the
government. for support.
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However, influential local MP and
director of Albion, Sir Freddie
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promises a press conference in four
days' time to announce the winning bid.
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Also, he says, the public will have the
first glimpse of Albion's world -beating
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prototype, the Victory Fire Engine.
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Who, however, are likely foreign
bidders? Well, at this stage...
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Very funny, but tell him I didn't
appreciate the joke.
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Two other contenders for Albie in
Pothman Automobiles of Germany and a
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management workforce buyout consultant.
Hurry, I've got to hit. Somebody knocked
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him off his bike.
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You're all right, mate. Here.
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I'd better call the doctor.
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Go on, you should sit down. All right, I
just had to leave the bike on the
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roadside. Yeah, well, what about the
police? We'd better inform them, hadn't
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Give us the phone, mate. Look, mate, if
it's the bike you're worried about,
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never mind. I can get a tow truck later.
Somebody hit my cargo.
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And what's the number? Albion Fire
Trucks.
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Albion? Albion. That's all right, I've
got it here. Look, she wants a room.
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What? A single or a double?
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Single, Harry, of course.
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Well, I was just asking, mate, that's
all.
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Yes, if you'd like to come with me. This
way.
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Yeah, can I speak to the computer
department, please?
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Right. All right.
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Er... Your name, please?
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Elsie.
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Elsie? Yes.
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Elsie Smith.
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Right.
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Thank you, Miss Smith.
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Well, perhaps I could recommend one of
our deluxe rooms, Miss Smith, with en
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suite bathroom and full English
breakfast. I want one with a chair.
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Well, all our rooms have chairs, Miss
Smith. Oh, a proper chair.
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One that I can sit in for long periods
of time with a nice view out of the
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window and some writing paper.
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Oh, and a pen.
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A pen?
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You do have money, Miss Smith.
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Money?
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What do you mean you don't want to call
the police, Dr Davis?
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I mean, this bloke nicked your property.
He knocked me about.
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Yeah, well, it better be good. That's
all I can say.
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All right, you're ten o 'clock tomorrow
here.
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Private functions, special conferences,
things like that. That's where you make
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the real cream in the hotel business.
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I mean, only last week I had a special
do. The Worshipful Order of Water
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Buffaloes.
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Something up, Ken? No.
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You should be in bed with a nice cup of
tea.
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Yeah, right.
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Could I have my key, please?
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Yes, yes, of course. Number seven. It's
on the first floor. I'll ring for a
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porter. Oh, don't worry.
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I'll take it out myself.
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See you in the morning, Ken.
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Yes, sir.
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Right, now then.
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Bike repairs, bike removals.
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Do you know, I've got the feeling I've
seen her somewhere before, but I
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No.
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Is there something you feel you should
be telling me, Ken?
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Yeah, there is, actually, Harry.
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Just make that whiskey, will you?
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Forget the tea.
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What the bloody hell's going on? Get in
the car, Mr. Boo.
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Why weren't the police informed?
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Don't you read the papers?
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Not if I can help it. If you did, you'd
understand that Albion has very good
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reasons for keeping things quiet.
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Now, please, get in.
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I'm taking you to meet Albion Fire
Truck's Managing Director, Mr.
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Flatterley. Mr. Ed Flatterley.
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See, they brought their body back for
burial, then. No, Debs, actually. Kemp's
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all right.
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Only someone's nicked his front wheel.
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Save your breath. Harry told us all
about it.
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Hey, what do you think?
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What are you going to use that for?
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Marking pastry.
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I'm not going to be rabbiting on the
radio all my life, you know.
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I'm going to be a spats rider, too.
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In fact, if White Lightning's not back
on the road, it might be sooner than you
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think.
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I don't want any questions asked in
Parliament, and I don't want anything
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to the Monopoly's commission, right?
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Oh, well, you've got to go now.
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So keep it from the leader writers, and
remember, I pay you to piss in other
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people's boots and not my own.
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Mr. Boone, come on through.
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Mr. Boone, the Freddie Black.
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Yes, I know.
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You're the local MP.
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I've seen you on the telly kissing
housewives.
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Usually babies, Mr. Boone.
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Sit down. We have business to conduct.
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Speak to her, Freddie.
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Mr. Boone, Ken.
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We represent the senior management of
Albion Fire Trucks.
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You're doubtless aware times are very
difficult for our great company.
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Our great...
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British company.
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Various bids to take us over are coming
in at a time of great delicacy.
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To ensure Albion is held at the best
possible price to the best possible
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we have to ensure that Albion has the
best possible assets.
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Bear with me, please.
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We're taking you into our confidence
here, Ken.
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Over the last few years, Albion has
developed...
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A revolutionary new firefighting
technology.
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It's been incorporated into our new
victory prototype.
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Small command vehicle, totally
automated.
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It's years ahead of all the competition,
but the whole system relies upon one
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extremely sophisticated computer
program.
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A program Dr.
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Davis here has designed.
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That program... Was in the package I was
carrying.
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And without it, interest in buying
Albion is likely to evaporate.
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Along with several thousand jobs.
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So we would like the disc to reappear.
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Pardon? We would like you to arrange for
the people who paid you to lose the
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disc to... Pay him.
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We are prepared to pay you £5 ,000.
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£5 ,000?
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Are you on the level?
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I am an MP, Mr Boone.
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A half now and a half on delivery of the
package, which you say you lost.
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I don't have the package. Why are you
accusing me?
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Mr Boone, Ken... The police.
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Get the police. I have just explained.
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Matters are so delicate, Albion cannot
afford any publicity.
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I don't credit the 5 ,000, Mr Boone. I
regard it as a straight business
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Got far bigger fish than you on the
payroll.
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Yeah, well, I just don't like being
called a thief.
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What happens if I refuse?
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It's a funny thing.
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Ed and I share the same prejudice.
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An extreme dislike of scruffy people on
noisy motorbikes. What's that supposed
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to mean?
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Don't let's waste time spelling out the
wise and wherefores, Mr. Boone. We'll
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find ways of putting your tent pod
operation out of business in a month.
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The disc by Thursday.
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Before the press conference.
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what's going on in there. You can just
get into the car, Mr. Boo. Why?
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I can't talk here. It's difficult.
Please, get in.
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So what's your part in all this, then?
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I designed the control program for the
new system.
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Yeah, but you're not senior management
like those two.
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I have their complete trust, though, as
you saw.
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Who's he working for, Freddy?
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Who?
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That little rumpoon.
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Who's paying him?
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The Germans?
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Oh, God knows.
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You can never tell any automobile
business.
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All your rivals circling like sharks,
waiting for one second of weakness.
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Sounds like the House of Commons.
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What the hell, Freddy? This deal is what
the company needs.
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And it ain't gonna do you any harm
either.
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Or you.
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Maybe we should pick that a bit of
pressure on Mr. Boone.
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Up his backside.
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There's also a bit from a large German
multinational, a very strong one, 320
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million.
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Oh, yes, and finally there's one from a
management workforce consortium.
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They've raised 250 million from some
merchant bank.
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And Slattery and Blackton are part of
the consortium.
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Mr. Blatterly and Sir Freddy, is that
you on the best part of the wheel,
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What's your part in all this?
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What's that?
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What?
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Thank you.
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with the same white lorry. Yeah, one of
those with the tinted... And yours comes
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back for a second bite.
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You can't touch one cent of that money
they're offering you, Ken. I'm trying to
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explain to you two, if you want this
place to survive, we've got to
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But it's dangerous.
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Imagine what we could do with five
grand.
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Count me out.
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Debbie. Look, while you two wallies are
going round Brum looking for the big
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white whale, somebody's got to man the
telephone and give you a message.
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Oi, with five grand, I could build me
mum a sunroom round the back.
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The sooner you men are replaced by
microchips, the better.
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Ken,
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you know that white lorry?
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Yes.
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You reckon it was customised?
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Yeah, it was. It had black lines and
things all round the edges.
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I've come across a place that does that
sort of thing.
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Are we taking a shortcut through
Sturtsley? Well, you know what a
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through Sturtsley can turn into.
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Yeah, a bit on the longish side.
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Would you want to take a look?
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Go on the back of me commando.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, come on.
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Okay. Can I have a word?
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They've withdrawn the bid?
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Not anything.
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Then we'll just have to think of a way
around the problem, won't we, Ed? He was
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definite.
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Albion's price is too high for his
people.
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They're going to have to see something
before they'll come up to the
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table. There's always the prototype.
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The prototype?
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Ed, listen.
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If their technicians have a chance to
look at it uninterrupted, they're bound
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be impressed.
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And think of the effect on Albion's
share price if we announce the prototype
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been withdrawn.
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The press will buy that.
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They will if we give them to understand
it's been withdrawn because of bad
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workmanship.
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And boom.
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So take my advice, Ken. I've nothing to
do with it. The politicians, the big
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men, the living world's so immense you
can't even imagine.
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You hear me?
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Ken! I never knew Sturdy had so many
dead ends.
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Sturdy's one big dead end, mate. We
should try living here.
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And that must be it down there.
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That bloke in the yard said it was just
past the marzipan factory. You sure?
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I've got a sweet tooth, boss.
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I'll never forget a marzipan factory.
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Come on.
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This is the land. Look, that's where it
hit me.
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Huh?
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That's him.
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What's his name?
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One of those men.
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I'm going in. Do you want me to cover
you?
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Of course I do. Come on.
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Oh, smell the marzipan in here.
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That factory next door turns out 50 ton
a day, do you reckon?
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Nothing. I'm gone.
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Dan, can't look at this.
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That is the package.
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Got me a dress on it.
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What are we looking for?
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That is what we're looking for.
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It's important that I speak to Mr.
Slatterley.
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I want to know why he's asked for the
prototype to be taken out of the
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And where's he taking it?
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Ask him to call me as soon as he gets
in.
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Where's he going?
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Where's he going?
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Did you let him go?
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That maniac
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on the Honda looked like Debbie.
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It was Debbie.
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Say, Blimey, you see the mess was in
here? You lot make pigs look particular.
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Cool. Look at this.
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And don't you come in with no mud on
your boots, neither.
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Sorry.
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00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,330
Messages. Was that Debbie out there on a
bike?
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So many jobs come through, she decided
to go and do them herself.
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So you're better, eh? Yeah.
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I'm manning the radio.
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What's she told me?
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Got a cup of tea?
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00:25:13,980 --> 00:25:18,219
Debbie told me about your search, Ken.
Yeah? I think it's very important that
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you find that disc.
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00:25:19,660 --> 00:25:23,480
The jobs, the happiness of a lot of
households rest on you getting that
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00:25:23,780 --> 00:25:24,830
We found it.
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00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,500
Well, at least we think we have. I'm
really dying for a cup of tea.
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00:25:28,501 --> 00:25:30,919
You'd better try it on your friend
Derry's computer.
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00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,999
It's the only way we'll know it's the
right one.
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00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,379
How do we know this is the right one for
his machine?
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00:25:35,380 --> 00:25:38,390
Well, we won't find out hanging round
here, will we? Come on.
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00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,070
Well, you've done all right for yourself
there, boss. Not bad.
332
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,680
She's just like me. Mum really looks
after you.
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00:25:45,020 --> 00:25:47,280
Oh, remind me to meet your mum sometime.
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00:25:50,540 --> 00:25:54,100
Get stuff for all Britannia. Are you
sure you can work this?
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00:25:54,101 --> 00:25:55,319
Of course I can.
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00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,979
I've got big brains too, you know. Well,
this is not a proper programme, is it?
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00:25:58,980 --> 00:26:03,499
It's what's on that disc. I know all
about electronics, Ken. The paper I work
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00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:07,440
for has gone over to computers and they
teach everybody how to use one of these.
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00:26:07,660 --> 00:26:08,860
I even had to go myself.
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00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,690
Can't work out why Thatcher and his mate
want this back.
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00:26:13,620 --> 00:26:14,670
Oh.
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00:26:14,671 --> 00:26:16,419
Good evening.
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00:26:16,420 --> 00:26:18,980
Mr Crawford. We were just using your
computer.
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00:26:18,981 --> 00:26:22,589
Yes, well, I didn't know you could play
tunes on it. I've got to go.
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00:26:22,590 --> 00:26:25,030
Yes, well, don't let me detain you, Miss
Smith.
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00:26:25,550 --> 00:26:28,440
And I trust the chair in your room is to
your satisfaction.
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00:26:28,710 --> 00:26:29,760
Oh, yeah, great.
348
00:26:30,070 --> 00:26:31,810
I've just got to the public library.
349
00:26:34,330 --> 00:26:39,990
Well, Cairn, perhaps you'd like to
explain?
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00:26:40,710 --> 00:26:45,070
I mean, despite my heartfelt advice on
the subject just a few hours ago...
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00:26:45,071 --> 00:26:48,229
You're obviously continuing to dabble in
matters beyond the reach of your tiny
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00:26:48,230 --> 00:26:50,190
mind. Harry, I've found the disc.
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00:26:51,050 --> 00:26:52,730
I'm sure it's not the one they want.
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00:26:52,910 --> 00:26:54,960
Look, then, I've told you. Leave it
alone.
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00:26:55,130 --> 00:26:59,110
Now just take the disc back to the Yank,
collect £5 ,000 and say ta -ra.
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00:26:59,310 --> 00:27:00,360
Davis.
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00:27:00,470 --> 00:27:04,590
It's got to be that bugger Davis working
for somebody else. Look, Ken. Now, Ken,
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00:27:04,650 --> 00:27:05,730
listen. Come back. Ken!
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00:27:06,010 --> 00:27:07,060
Ken!
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00:27:07,170 --> 00:27:08,220
Oh, dear.
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00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:17,530
Mr. Boone.
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00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,720
Dr. Davies, I think you've got some
explaining to do.
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00:28:21,940 --> 00:28:23,440
I've got some explaining to do.
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00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,500
I don't like being leaned on.
365
00:28:25,501 --> 00:28:29,079
I don't like being knocked about all
over the place, and I don't like being
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00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,419
accused of stealing things which I
didn't even have.
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00:28:31,420 --> 00:28:35,279
You had this here all the time, didn't
you? Mr. Boone, let me introduce some of
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00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:36,330
my colleagues.
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00:28:37,420 --> 00:28:41,180
Mr. Atkins, Mr. Quinn, and Mr. Bailey.
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00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:52,650
Sit down, Mr. Dean.
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00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,760
There. Thank you.
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00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:01,820
Come on, then. Get on with it.
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00:29:04,220 --> 00:29:06,200
The 1929 Albion pump.
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00:29:07,220 --> 00:29:10,940
The ladder is made from ashwood felled
in Shropshire, constructed at F .W.
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00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,010
Fish's Stowbridge.
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00:29:12,011 --> 00:29:15,059
The chassis riveted at Bates Foundry,
Castle Bromwich.
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00:29:15,060 --> 00:29:16,320
My granddad worked there.
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00:29:16,940 --> 00:29:18,140
Fabricated at Bloxwich.
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00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:20,000
The engine is made by Albion.
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00:29:20,001 --> 00:29:23,799
And the piping and tubing come from
rolling mills in Howes Owen, Wensbury.
381
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,480
Simpsons rolling mill, that work.
382
00:29:25,620 --> 00:29:28,510
Uncle Ted worked there. The brass work
came from Perry Bar.
383
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:30,780
And the paint was mixed at Dudley.
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00:29:31,180 --> 00:29:34,180
Foster's. Me dad courted me mum behind
the Terps tank.
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00:29:34,460 --> 00:29:35,660
That's where I come from.
386
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,130
You see, Ken, that whole beautiful
machine is the Black Country.
387
00:29:39,540 --> 00:29:42,960
It sprang out of the spirit of the
people.
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00:29:43,340 --> 00:29:44,390
Twinnie's right.
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00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:45,980
That's our birthright.
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00:29:45,981 --> 00:29:49,259
That's what people can create when
they're given a chance.
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00:29:49,260 --> 00:29:52,819
People might stick Michelangelos and Da
Vinci's in art galleries, but when they
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00:29:52,820 --> 00:29:55,140
want to put fires out, they come to us.
393
00:29:56,180 --> 00:29:57,230
Or came to us.
394
00:29:58,020 --> 00:29:59,070
Who are you?
395
00:30:02,980 --> 00:30:05,930
Representative of the Management
Workforce Consortium.
396
00:30:08,620 --> 00:30:10,840
We want to buy up Albion Fire Trucks.
397
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:12,610
It's our firm.
398
00:30:12,611 --> 00:30:18,219
And I thought you worked for Blackton
and Slatterley. Slatterley and Blackton
399
00:30:18,220 --> 00:30:22,039
are doing their best to destroy the
consortium. If they knew I supported
400
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,020
Are you working behind their backs? Yes.
401
00:30:24,220 --> 00:30:25,320
And I'm proud to.
402
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,330
A fair chance at a fair contest, that's
all we're asking for, Kev.
403
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,890
Well, perhaps you could start by
explaining to me all about that disc.
404
00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:05,240
Anyway, I don't know the full story.
405
00:31:05,241 --> 00:31:09,139
Slatterley and Blackton wouldn't let me
in on it. But I know they wanted that
406
00:31:09,140 --> 00:31:10,190
program stolen.
407
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:11,740
And that's why you were chosen.
408
00:31:11,820 --> 00:31:13,460
Not a normal security van.
409
00:31:13,461 --> 00:31:17,439
So someone or other could get a look at
it, see how much Albion is really worth.
410
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,299
And now they've been stopped that way.
411
00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:21,499
They've arranged for the prototype to
disappear.
412
00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:23,080
Tell the world it's not working.
413
00:31:23,660 --> 00:31:26,680
Why? So the real vehicle manufacturers
lose interest.
414
00:31:26,681 --> 00:31:31,019
Our price plummets on the stock market,
and we're ripe to be picked up and torn
415
00:31:31,020 --> 00:31:32,860
apart by any passing asset stripper.
416
00:31:32,861 --> 00:31:35,979
Ken, we've broken our backs to get this
firm back on the road.
417
00:31:35,980 --> 00:31:38,679
And now just as we've come up with a
world beater, they flog us off down the
418
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,999
river. Put us up for public auction and
refuse to disclose who the other bidder
419
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,899
is. We've got to find that prototype
before the press conference on Thursday,
420
00:31:45,900 --> 00:31:49,399
Ken. Let the British people know we
still make the best fire engines in the
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00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:50,450
world.
422
00:31:50,761 --> 00:31:54,219
Well, what are you going to do, Ken?
423
00:31:54,220 --> 00:31:55,270
Help them or us?
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00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,480
I don't know.
425
00:31:57,940 --> 00:31:59,140
Honestly, I don't know.
426
00:31:59,620 --> 00:32:02,260
If we don't find that prototype, they'll
ruin us.
427
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,180
3 ,000 of us on the dole.
428
00:32:05,380 --> 00:32:07,680
This was all twisted about when we found
it.
429
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:09,330
Mate, that's mine.
430
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,700
I thought I'd take it off and mend it.
431
00:32:12,780 --> 00:32:15,620
Used to work at Meriden, did Stan,
before they closed it.
432
00:32:15,621 --> 00:32:18,059
Before they got swamped with Jap bikes.
433
00:32:18,060 --> 00:32:21,160
I was lucky to get a job at Albion. Aye,
listen, mate, thank you.
434
00:32:22,380 --> 00:32:25,700
Used to be thousands like Stan, all over
the black country.
435
00:32:33,230 --> 00:32:34,430
Just make a good reading.
436
00:32:36,910 --> 00:32:40,970
Prototype sunk by shop floor sloth.
Workers too lazy to work.
437
00:32:41,390 --> 00:32:44,470
Mystery Albion grabber could be German.
438
00:32:45,450 --> 00:32:47,050
Wonderful thing of free press.
439
00:32:47,930 --> 00:32:51,600
Our friends are interested again now
that Albion's prices have dropped.
440
00:32:51,670 --> 00:32:54,930
Their team's been over here evaluating
the prototype.
441
00:32:55,350 --> 00:32:59,910
And a full -time bid will be submitted
before the Thursday deadline.
442
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:02,800
There's just one thing.
443
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,459
Yes? A journalist has started asking
questions about my role in the whole
444
00:33:07,460 --> 00:33:08,880
affair. So?
445
00:33:09,420 --> 00:33:11,220
There's a mouth I've got to keep shut.
446
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,120
The bike rider, Boone.
447
00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:24,600
With a sign you and me?
448
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:26,810
Yeah.
449
00:33:28,420 --> 00:33:29,620
Lovely open road.
450
00:33:30,540 --> 00:33:31,590
Being on your own.
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00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:33,850
Freedom.
452
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,240
Yeah, under the sky, wind in your face,
rain up your trouser leg.
453
00:33:40,140 --> 00:33:45,560
I deliver stuff for Albion.
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00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:47,800
All over the country.
455
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,960
I was driving back from South Wales one
night, over the Black Mountain.
456
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,620
Darkness and stars above me. All alone.
457
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,120
And suddenly I looked down.
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00:34:00,940 --> 00:34:05,800
Dead Birmingham, spread out before me,
sparkling like gold.
459
00:34:07,020 --> 00:34:13,679
A thousand, a million people, bustling
about, crackling like electricity.
460
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:17,880
I care for those people.
461
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,679
The lights are going out, Ken.
462
00:34:32,590 --> 00:34:34,640
As Greenwich Mean Time, here is the
news.
463
00:34:35,510 --> 00:34:37,010
Oh, we're clicking into that?
464
00:34:37,011 --> 00:34:38,609
Yeah, and I'm trying to think.
465
00:34:38,610 --> 00:34:40,410
Yeah, but it's the BBC World Service.
466
00:34:40,710 --> 00:34:42,790
News around the world 24 hours a day.
467
00:34:43,130 --> 00:34:45,900
Yeah, I'm sure the price of Zambian
copper is riveting.
468
00:34:46,190 --> 00:34:47,330
Oh, what's the matter?
469
00:34:47,650 --> 00:34:48,700
Eh?
470
00:34:49,110 --> 00:34:51,730
Oh, read your bloody great expectations.
471
00:34:52,370 --> 00:34:55,090
Oh, I've finished that. I'm on to Bleak
House now.
472
00:34:56,010 --> 00:35:00,649
Do you realise, if they don't find that
prototype before Thursday, the day after
473
00:35:00,650 --> 00:35:05,070
tomorrow... 3 ,000 people are going to
lose their jobs.
474
00:35:06,510 --> 00:35:12,129
And if I help them to find him, my
business, Rocky and Debbie's jobs are
475
00:35:12,130 --> 00:35:13,049
down the car.
476
00:35:13,050 --> 00:35:17,550
It isn't very certain, life, is it?
477
00:35:18,330 --> 00:35:23,869
I mean, it's my experience that the more
certain it seems, you know, mortgage
478
00:35:23,870 --> 00:35:29,769
all paid up and a brand -new Sierra in
the garage, that the more likely it is
479
00:35:29,770 --> 00:35:30,970
crumple under your feet.
480
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:37,859
But if it's really tough, you know,
uncertain, then the stronger, in fact,
481
00:35:37,860 --> 00:35:38,739
really are.
482
00:35:38,740 --> 00:35:39,880
Do you know what I mean?
483
00:35:40,820 --> 00:35:41,870
Well, yeah.
484
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,840
We're built to keep changing, not stay
still.
485
00:35:46,060 --> 00:35:48,640
If we stay the same, we fall to pieces.
486
00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:50,380
Look at me in London.
487
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,580
I mean, on the surface, my life was
fine.
488
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:55,290
Underneath?
489
00:35:55,620 --> 00:35:58,720
Worms. I changed before me life could.
490
00:36:00,330 --> 00:36:02,030
So what do you reckon I should do?
491
00:36:03,270 --> 00:36:06,520
I just spent the last five minutes
telling you your prize, Wally.
492
00:36:08,210 --> 00:36:09,260
Yeah, I know.
493
00:36:10,090 --> 00:36:12,550
Well, how the hell do I find this
prototype?
494
00:36:13,150 --> 00:36:15,610
I mean, look at that side of the black
country.
495
00:36:15,890 --> 00:36:16,940
Nothing simpler.
496
00:36:17,070 --> 00:36:19,300
We've got the whole of the Albion
workforce.
497
00:36:19,570 --> 00:36:21,630
We've got friends, relations.
498
00:36:21,631 --> 00:36:25,089
Everyone will come to the black country
for it.
499
00:36:25,090 --> 00:36:26,710
And we can use it as headquarters.
500
00:36:27,230 --> 00:36:28,770
What? Don't you worry.
501
00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:30,290
I'll organise it.
502
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,800
She reckons we should start down Sally
Oak and Bourneville. Right.
503
00:36:35,140 --> 00:36:36,580
Hey, and don't worry, Ken.
504
00:36:36,860 --> 00:36:38,970
We'll soon find it without being
charged.
505
00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:42,120
She'd just like me, Mum.
506
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:44,890
OK, Pitch.
507
00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:47,040
Give us pursuit mode.
508
00:36:47,980 --> 00:36:49,030
Pursuit mode?
509
00:37:15,980 --> 00:37:17,680
Where do you hide a fire?
510
00:37:35,620 --> 00:37:40,600
Mr.. Boom join me you join
511
00:37:47,790 --> 00:37:48,840
Go, go.
512
00:37:59,110 --> 00:38:00,810
Ken, do you read me?
513
00:38:01,710 --> 00:38:02,890
Do you read me?
514
00:38:03,530 --> 00:38:04,580
Karl Marx.
515
00:38:05,350 --> 00:38:07,710
I'm a great fan of his and his brothers.
516
00:38:08,290 --> 00:38:11,150
Knight of the Opera, Horse Feathers,
great movies.
517
00:38:11,590 --> 00:38:12,790
I'm worried about Ken.
518
00:38:13,090 --> 00:38:15,830
I am a great admirer of the working
classes.
519
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,900
Look at them out there. On their
streets.
520
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,800
Breeds hard, sharp men.
521
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,900
Finest entrepreneurs and financiers you
can find.
522
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,500
No nonsense. Cut through the flummery.
You're not working class.
523
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:35,040
In my position, you can afford to employ
other men to earn your money.
524
00:38:36,340 --> 00:38:37,920
But I can smell the romance.
525
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,060
Through the window at Daimler.
526
00:38:42,060 --> 00:38:44,720
From where I see you now, Mr Boone, you
are tiny.
527
00:38:45,710 --> 00:38:48,930
There are forces and powers moving like
gods above you.
528
00:38:49,810 --> 00:38:52,590
Schemes, plans, ambitions you know
nothing of.
529
00:38:53,090 --> 00:38:58,909
And as I look down on you from up here,
I realize how helpless, fragile you and
530
00:38:58,910 --> 00:38:59,960
your friends are.
531
00:39:00,630 --> 00:39:01,890
You are nothing.
532
00:39:03,490 --> 00:39:06,250
When I last saw you, I offered you 5
,000 pounds.
533
00:39:06,510 --> 00:39:07,770
I haven't got that disc.
534
00:39:07,990 --> 00:39:09,390
I am now offering you 10.
535
00:39:10,890 --> 00:39:11,940
10 ,000?
536
00:39:12,210 --> 00:39:13,260
For what?
537
00:39:13,370 --> 00:39:14,570
Keeping your mouth shut.
538
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,340
Your first lesson in the hard school of
success.
539
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:20,980
The man's a maniac, Harry.
540
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,150
Yes, well, you're in a very dangerous
situation, Ken.
541
00:39:24,151 --> 00:39:28,119
Blokes like that ought to be in a
lunatic asylum, not in the hours of the
542
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,519
commoners. Well, he hasn't given you any
option, has he? I mean, he's too
543
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,420
powerful. They found the fire engine!
544
00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:34,150
Rocky Radio 3.
545
00:39:34,300 --> 00:39:37,100
Where? At a farm near Droitwich. What
time is it?
546
00:39:37,101 --> 00:39:39,619
It's nearly six o 'clock. Right, we've
still got time.
547
00:39:39,620 --> 00:39:43,019
Look, Ken, now for the last time, leave
it. Shandy, just stay close to the radio
548
00:39:43,020 --> 00:39:45,370
in the office. I'll get hold of the old
man, lads.
549
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,180
Get hold of David and let him know.
550
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:49,780
I'd better go by the radio.
551
00:39:50,140 --> 00:39:51,420
Yes, Shandy.
552
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,560
Ladies and gentlemen of the press,
welcome to this press conference.
553
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:29,079
I am here to tell you that Albion Fire
Trucks not only has a past, as you can
554
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:35,419
see behind me, but also a future, a
dynamic future, leading us into the 21st
555
00:41:35,420 --> 00:41:36,560
century and beyond.
556
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:42,220
I shall make certain announcements as to
the future ownership of Albion.
557
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:48,659
But first, it is my unhappy task to
announce that the bid from the
558
00:41:48,660 --> 00:41:51,520
Workforce Consortium has been rejected.
559
00:41:52,500 --> 00:41:55,420
With limited financial backing...
560
00:41:55,900 --> 00:42:00,100
And their unhappy track record in the
production of the new Victory prototype,
561
00:42:00,580 --> 00:42:03,140
their bid was not considered vile.
562
00:42:03,700 --> 00:42:09,799
There was a bid from a well -known
German company, but due to the
563
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,120
upset and rumour this has caused...
564
00:42:13,550 --> 00:42:18,629
The British people will be pleased to
hear that this bid has also been
565
00:42:18,630 --> 00:42:23,789
dismissed. So after
566
00:42:23,790 --> 00:42:30,650
much thought, Albion's managing
director, Mr.
567
00:42:30,690 --> 00:42:36,849
Ed Slatterley, has finally accepted the
bid from Metropolitan Motors Corporation
568
00:42:36,850 --> 00:42:37,900
of Detroit.
569
00:42:37,970 --> 00:42:39,530
But Ed Slatterley is American.
570
00:42:40,130 --> 00:42:42,170
Management these days is international.
571
00:42:42,540 --> 00:42:44,340
And Metropolitan's his old company.
572
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:51,999
The board of directors decided that
acceptance of this extremely generous
573
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:58,479
bid would in the long term be in the
best interests of both the company
574
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,260
and the workforce.
575
00:43:00,261 --> 00:43:04,179
Sir Freddie, is it true that you've got
shares in Metropolitan Motors? Ladies
576
00:43:04,180 --> 00:43:09,180
and gentlemen, as promised, now our tour
of the factory.
577
00:43:09,900 --> 00:43:12,380
Oh! Oh! Woo!
578
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,470
We just had it on the radio. We've been
sold to the Yanks.
579
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:03,320
Metropolitan Motors of Detroit.
580
00:44:03,980 --> 00:44:07,820
In two years' time, this fire engine
will be produced in factories in
581
00:44:08,300 --> 00:44:11,560
My program will be used in firefighting
systems the world over.
582
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,790
And Albion fire trucks here in Bratt
will be shut down.
583
00:44:14,791 --> 00:44:17,079
Yeah, shut down. We've got to do
something.
584
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,900
Yeah. We could take the prototype back
to the factory.
585
00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:21,340
Show the journalists.
586
00:44:21,341 --> 00:44:25,419
That'll get this country stirred up.
That won't stop them Yanks. We've got to
587
00:44:25,420 --> 00:44:26,800
something with a bit of push.
588
00:44:27,050 --> 00:44:31,130
Something that hits people between the
eyes. I think I've got it.
589
00:44:37,150 --> 00:44:42,090
Mr Crawford, what about this thing here?
Yes, yes, yes. Mr Crawford, I...
590
00:44:58,600 --> 00:44:59,650
I don't know, Ken.
591
00:44:59,780 --> 00:45:04,200
Oh, you've got to do it, Shandy. I came
to Birmingham to think things over.
592
00:45:04,860 --> 00:45:05,910
Well,
593
00:45:06,260 --> 00:45:07,700
you wanted a purpose in life.
594
00:45:07,701 --> 00:45:11,019
I mean, what's wrong with stopping some
unemployment? Shandy, Tremblay
595
00:45:11,020 --> 00:45:14,499
mysteriously disappeared, suddenly
appearing in the, well, on the top of a
596
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:15,439
victory prototype.
597
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,280
The press couldn't resist it. I mean, it
could work. I mean, stir the public up.
598
00:45:19,340 --> 00:45:24,079
The government wouldn't dare let the
Yanks buy Albion. Yeah, we could wrap
599
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:25,130
in a Union Jack.
600
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:26,440
Times have changed.
601
00:45:26,441 --> 00:45:29,829
It's not... Enough of you blokes to go
around gawping at girls with no clothes
602
00:45:29,830 --> 00:45:30,749
on no more.
603
00:45:30,750 --> 00:45:32,510
I discovered that last week.
604
00:45:33,070 --> 00:45:35,550
Besides, I'm an intellectual.
605
00:45:35,930 --> 00:45:38,700
And intellectuals don't go walking
around in the nude.
606
00:45:43,110 --> 00:45:47,330
Unless... Debbie, it's about time us
girls got a knife or two in it.
607
00:45:47,331 --> 00:45:48,369
It's race.
608
00:45:48,370 --> 00:45:49,750
Ken, you're the local hero.
609
00:45:50,230 --> 00:45:52,460
Yes, she's right about that, you know,
mate.
610
00:45:52,730 --> 00:45:56,090
So, if you pose on top of the victory,
I'll join you.
611
00:45:57,330 --> 00:46:02,210
What? What do you mean, in the all
together?
612
00:46:02,570 --> 00:46:04,370
Stand up for Britain, Mike. Go on, Ken.
613
00:46:04,371 --> 00:46:06,569
I don't think I can live up to it,
Harry.
614
00:46:06,570 --> 00:46:08,809
Well, it wouldn't have to be in the all
together.
615
00:46:08,810 --> 00:46:11,130
Well, perhaps the almost, but not quite.
616
00:46:11,590 --> 00:46:12,730
Almost, but not quite?
617
00:46:12,731 --> 00:46:13,629
Don't worry.
618
00:46:13,630 --> 00:46:15,070
I'll see it's done tasteful.
619
00:46:15,071 --> 00:46:18,709
And while we're keeping the
photographers busy... I'll tell the
620
00:46:18,710 --> 00:46:20,010
exactly what's going on.
621
00:47:27,061 --> 00:47:29,129
We're finished.
622
00:47:29,130 --> 00:47:30,630
We gave it a good run.
623
00:47:32,030 --> 00:47:35,929
It's been suggested that I make an
announcement that I won't be contesting
624
00:47:35,930 --> 00:47:39,540
next election because of increasing
commitments in the City of London.
625
00:47:40,150 --> 00:47:41,200
Don't worry.
626
00:47:41,450 --> 00:47:43,670
We at Metropolitan look after our own.
627
00:47:44,230 --> 00:47:49,550
And to think, it all came apart because
of the incorruptibility of one common,
628
00:47:49,690 --> 00:47:52,170
uneducated little nobody.
629
00:47:53,650 --> 00:47:56,060
Yeah, you're right, Ken. You didn't live
up to it.
630
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,040
You're too old to wear shorts, mate. It
was your idea.
631
00:47:59,660 --> 00:48:01,140
I had to bloody wear them.
632
00:48:01,860 --> 00:48:03,420
Anyway, why didn't you tell me?
633
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:07,320
What? That I had Shandy Tremblay staying
here at the coaching inn incognito.
634
00:48:07,780 --> 00:48:11,140
If I told you, she wouldn't be
incognito, would she, Burke?
635
00:48:11,141 --> 00:48:15,319
You know, Ken, I sometimes wonder at
your basic commercial instincts.
636
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,720
Yeah, I sometimes wonder about yours and
all.
637
00:48:17,721 --> 00:48:22,649
Anyway, it seems that there's going to
be a full government inquiry.
638
00:48:22,650 --> 00:48:26,929
I reckon that Mr Blackton owned masses
of shares with Metropolitan Motors, so
639
00:48:26,930 --> 00:48:28,810
that's his career up the chute. Good.
640
00:48:29,350 --> 00:48:32,390
And Mr Ed Slatterley, he can get on an
aeroplane and go home.
641
00:48:32,391 --> 00:48:37,029
There's somewhere else to start closing
that down. And the management and
642
00:48:37,030 --> 00:48:40,170
workers' consortium now stand a very
good chance.
643
00:48:40,171 --> 00:48:44,589
Well, Ken, you've helped British people
produce British vehicles well into the
644
00:48:44,590 --> 00:48:47,420
future, and I think you can be bloody
proud of that, mate.
645
00:48:47,430 --> 00:48:48,570
Well, I must then.
646
00:48:49,290 --> 00:48:50,770
Oh, it's been nice. Yeah.
647
00:48:51,130 --> 00:48:52,410
I won't forget this, Ken.
648
00:48:52,650 --> 00:48:55,490
And all that stuff you did for Albion.
No, it was nothing.
649
00:48:55,770 --> 00:48:56,870
Yes, I can see.
650
00:48:57,630 --> 00:48:58,680
I'll bring you back.
651
00:48:59,150 --> 00:49:01,830
Thank you.
652
00:49:02,701 --> 00:49:04,649
Bye -bye.
653
00:49:04,650 --> 00:49:05,700
Bye -bye.
654
00:49:06,590 --> 00:49:10,109
Are you sure you won't do that
Freemasons that I've got next week in
655
00:49:10,110 --> 00:49:11,160
function room?
656
00:49:11,161 --> 00:49:14,709
I mean, nothing tacky. Some of Sutton
Caulfield's most respectable and
657
00:49:14,710 --> 00:49:15,790
respectful citizens.
658
00:49:16,010 --> 00:49:17,060
Harry.
659
00:49:17,390 --> 00:49:18,440
Oh, Lord.
660
00:49:19,529 --> 00:49:21,970
You've been an education, Ken. Do you
know that?
661
00:49:22,410 --> 00:49:26,109
In future, if they want me to take my
clothes off, it's got to be for
662
00:49:26,110 --> 00:49:27,160
worthwhile.
663
00:49:28,210 --> 00:49:29,890
Well, bye.
664
00:49:30,570 --> 00:49:31,620
Bye.
665
00:49:31,950 --> 00:49:33,000
Take care, Ken.
666
00:49:33,370 --> 00:49:34,420
Bye,
667
00:49:35,230 --> 00:49:36,310
Mr Crawford. Hey,
668
00:49:38,050 --> 00:49:39,990
don't read too many books.
669
00:49:54,799 --> 00:49:55,849
Lovely girl.
670
00:49:57,260 --> 00:49:59,480
I sometimes wish I had a daughter of my
own.
671
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:07,760
Shandy Trembley.
672
00:50:09,580 --> 00:50:11,160
I reckon I should put up a plaque.
673
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:29,280
The Texas Rangers, there they ride
again.
674
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:34,180
They ride in thunder.
675
00:50:34,420 --> 00:50:36,020
They ride in rain.
676
00:50:36,380 --> 00:50:39,160
It makes one wonder if they feel no
pain.
677
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,420
They never falter. They never fail.
678
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,740
They hang their halter on a rusty nail.
679
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:53,500
The Texas Rangers, Texas toughest men.
680
00:50:54,250 --> 00:51:00,830
The Texas Rangers, there they ride
again.
681
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:05,430
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