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Oh, that's great.
(CHUCKLING) Don't know why
we've ordered so much water.
We've all got rabies.
So, basically, just get crisps
shaped like rockets,
rainbow-coloured ice cream,
you know, the sort of stuff that all
the other kids have at their parties.
Blimey! More? What are we doing?
Opening a dolphinarium?
Good.
Sorted.
So
Sorry about that.
Where were we?
- Uh, healthy eating.
- TERRl: Beneficial Lifestyle Choices.
- Get in.
- What?
I've just landed Andy Murray.
- Yay! That's brilliant! Andy Murray?
- Andy Murray! Well,
- I've definitely got Andy Murray.
- Andy Murray,
- the face of Healthy Choices.
- GLENN: Oh, all right.
- TERRl: The tennis player?
- No, the *** pianist.
Nicola Murray nets Andy Murray.
OLLY: We both netted him together.
TERRl: Are you sure you want him?
- NICOLA: Uh, yeah!
- Murray?
Doesn't it sound like nepotism?
Like, in the way that people think
Russ and Diane Abbott are related?
- OLLY: Yeah.
- Possibly.
And Bill Murray's her father.
Okay, I'll level with you.
I don't like him.
NICOLA: Who would you
suggest then, Terri?
- Paula Radcliffe.
- Pooey Paula?
That's not healthy.
*** in your own pants,
that's definitely not a healthy image.
She could demonstrate
how to do the hop, *** and jump.
That is very unfair.
It only happened once.
Once is all you need!
Imagine if Bruce Forsyth, beginning of
Strictly Come Dancing
(GROANING) "There we go!"
You'd never hear the end of that.
And quite rightly.
Terri, can we move on
from your hatred of Andy Murray
and can we start trailing
a major DoSAC initiative?
Now, don't give any details
at this stage,
- just say it's major TBA.
- TBA?
- To be announced.
- Oh.
Just
It's really self-defeating if I have
to explain abbreviations to you.
- Sure, sure
- FFS.
- What's FFS?
- Oh, for ***
Oh, we're going to need
Malcolm clearance, Olly.
Okay?
Glenn, can you get rid
of all this water as well?
It looks like something
out of *** Doctor Who.
Here they come.
It's the Flying Scots-curry-man.
# Where's your poppadum? #
You have got to try this aubergine.
It's cooked in ghee.
I *** love ghee.
It's like *** freebasing butter.
Have some more wine.
Come on, get quaffing.
(MOBILE RINGING)
Oh, Christ, here we go.
No, we don't do takeaway.
Right.
(ALL LAUGHING)
Listen, see, if this is recorded spam,
I'm gonna hunt you down
and burst your *** lungs.
Where actually are you, Malcolm?
I'm on holidays.
Where are you on holiday? Where?
Right, okay,
I'm in Thailand in a sex bar.
About to get a *** facial.
Right.
Quick summary.
Andy Murray, famous tennis player,
also a lovely Scotch person,
face of Healthy Lifestyle Choices.
Nicola Murray,
slightly panicky minister-lady,
wonder if that's okay with you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Andy Murray.
Yeah, Andy Pandy *** Gandhi
having a hand shandy.
Whatever.
Just, you know,
*** off out of my life.
Okay?
Okey-dokey.
The man from Hell Monte,
he say, "***' aye.
"
Sorry about that.
Everybody's heard
about the cooking, so it's
So, Malcolm, what's all this about?
Well, I know that these are hard times
for print journalists, yeah?
I mean, I read that on the internet.
I mean, one day you're writing
for the papers
and the next,
you're sleeping under them.
What, so this is like
Malcolm Tucker's soup kitchen?
Well, it is, kind of, in a way.
I just think that you should have
one big square meal
before you end up *** living off
white lightning in your own faeces.
Come on, get stuck in.
I'll dish it up for you.
What about Tom bringing back
Steve Fleming?
That kind of makes you old news,
doesn't it?
You repositioning yourself, Malcolm?
This is about a guy sharing his ghee.
That's it.
Okay?
So, you're not currying favour, then?
(LAUGHING) Sorry.
- *** you.
Get out of my house.
- That was quite funny.
- Get out of my *** house.
- That was good, Geoffrey.
That's it.
I know I mean, no wonder
nobody's *** buying your paper.
He's really on holiday?
Malcolm hasn't been on holiday
for 10 years.
Malcolm's got to keep moving
or he's dead.
He's like a shark.
Or Bob Dylan.
TERRl: Well, who's driving the bus?
STEVE: Morning!
- Morning, DoSAC.
- GLENN: Oh.
Bollocky ***.
It's the Ghost of Christmas ***.
There's your answer, Terri.
That's the man driving the bus.
- That's Reg bloody Varney.
- Your name?
All stops to electoral oblivion.
Ding ding.
Get in my office, come on.
It'll buy us a bit of time.
GLENN: So, come on.
Have a look.
I've never seen Steve Fleming
in the flesh.
You're lucky.
For a man who brought us back
into power, he's not very imposing,
is he? He's like a Lego policeman.
Look at him.
Super Mario.
Morning, campers!
- Steve Fleming.
- Oh, no.
Hello.
Oh! Okay.
- Hello, Nicola.
- Hi.
You look like you've lost some weight.
- Do I?
- STEVE: Yeah.
I don't think so, but
I think so, yes.
No, your face looks quite gaunt.
- Muscly.
- Does it, now?
Anyway, I come bearing
caffeinated gifts.
- Oh, thank you very much.
- Okay.
Thank you very much.
TERRl: That's very thoughtful,
thank you very much.
I'm going to cut to the chase.
I need you to publish
all the crime stats since 2004
as an accompaniment
to our Transparent Government launch.
From 2004 up to the last quarter.
Okay.
We are just about to launch
Healthy Choices.
- With Andy Murray.
- Andy Murray! Whoa!
- Ace!
- Good joke.
We'll make a minister of you yet.
I mean, after that, we can try and get
you something for, say, end of the week?
After? Why after?
Why not right alongside?
Or, here's a thought
Before.
Because we're under-resourced
and it's not a priority.
The PM thinks it is a priority.
It can be done.
Oh, I seem to have reached
the end of my argument.
(LAUGHING)
Okay.
Well, look, why don't we say
Thursday lunchtime.
Okay?
Well, you've got Fran's leaving lunch
on Thursday.
I have got a lunch.
Thursday afternoon.
Yes, I don't give a ***
about Fran's leaving lunch.
I'm saying now, now, now,
now, now, now.
Now!
Okay.
Chillax.
We're on the case, Steve.
Lovely.
Thank you very much.
Good.
Okay.
Well, it's a delight to see you again.
- Oh!
- Oh, I get another one.
Mind my gaunt face.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
- Bye-bye.
- ALL: Bye.
- Bye.
- OLLY: What do you call that?
Obsessive repulsive disorder,
I would say.
I'm going to ring Malcolm.
Holiday or no holiday,
I'm going to ring Malcolm about this.
"Caffeinated gifts.
"
- Malcolm never brought us coffee.
- Bloody lunchtime.
- I like him.
- Yes, well, you like bath salts.
You're basically an idiot.
So, everybody's for coffee, yeah?
- GEOFFREY: Mmm-hmm.
- Yeah, I'm sorry I can't do espressos.
But I've made this so thick and black,
it'll be like ***
drinking plimsolls.
This Steve Fleming thing
is going to end in tears, isn't it?
I mean, you sacked him last time.
All right.
Right.
Okay.
Off the record.
Right? Okay?
While Steve is a useful tool,
and I do emphasise
the word "useful" here,
I'm still running the show.
Right?
If you're still running the show,
why do you need to tell us?
Geoffrey, all I'm saying is this.
It would be very much
*** appreciated
if you could emphasise the fact
that I'm the heart of government.
Because it's *** true.
I am the heart.
I am the ventricles.
And the *** aorta.
(CHUCKLING) Malcolm, we get it.
You're still the star of the show.
It's not for me to say that.
No, you're still the star of the show.
Yeah, until they start
wheeling out the celebrities.
What's next, Malcolm? Ant and Dec
as the new *** litter tsars?
That's when you know
you're 20 points behind in the polls.
Oh, well, thank you very much,
Mr *** Prick Robinson.
Nicola, it's your nephew on the phone.
- What? Oh, I didn't
- Your nephew.
Andy Murray.
***! On the line, now? Oh, my God!
It's Andy Murray on the line! What line?
- Press two.
- He's not there, Terri.
- ***'s sake!
- Maybe it was three.
God, it drives me insane!
Is he there now?
Yeah, yeah.
Hang on,
let me just get him off hold.
It really pisses me off!
The *** phones in this whole
Andy! Hello.
It's Nicola Murray, yes.
What a delight to talk to you!
- Hi, Malcolm.
- Olly.
Andy Murray.
Oh, good.
We are literally
confirming him as we speak.
Ditch him.
We can't go with celebrities.
Right? It's just gonna look bad.
- NICOLA: Done deal.
- Why?
MALCOLM: We're gonna
look desperate, all right?
Well, Steve Fleming likes the idea.
Never mind what Mummy says.
Just do what Daddy says, right?
Yeah, whilst you're on,
there's another thing.
Uh, Mummy has asked us to publish
the crime stats
as part of
the Transparent Government initiative.
- Is that all right with Daddy?
- It's fine.
Really? Because Nicola's got
that baffled, panicky look
like a child on the ghost train.
Give me a second
while I look up my little file
of things I really don't
give a *** about.
And here we have under the letter N,
we've got nail-bombing golf clubs,
there is the National Trust,
there is Newcastle.
Nicola Murray.
Yes.
She's still there.
So, *** can Andy Murray and just
get on with the *** crime stats.
I'll make sure that Kate liaises
with my press *** kid, Terri Coverley.
She's a woman.
But listen, if there is anything else
we can do for you,
please don't hesitate to call.
Dare I say it, we are here to serve.
(LAUGHING) If you'll excuse the pun.
All right, Andy.
Take care.
Bye.
- Malcolm says we have to drop him.
- What?
Andy.
He's not in, he's now out.
Apparently, according to Malcolm,
sent to bed without any barley water.
I mean, he's a *** tennis player.
We're not asking Shane MacGowan.
Why?
It's nothing personal.
He just said
bringing in celebrities looks desperate.
He said it's the sign
of a dying government.
We are a dying government!
Our hair's falling out
and we're coughing up blood
and our kids are asking us
to change the will.
Look, he was quite clear about this.
He said just, you know, kill it.
Kitten, breeze block, sack, canal.
Oh, I can imagine him
being clear about it.
Right.
We've got to get on to
- You've gotta get on to
- TERRl: Me?
Andy Murray's people and find
a polite way of saying, "*** off, Andy.
"Apparently you're too well-known
to front our public awareness campaign.
"
- Right.
- Right.
Good news is I have done all that pile
and that's in the system.
- OLLY: Excellent.
- Oh, *** me! What the hell is this?
It appears to be
a trolley full of crime stats.
"Vandalism.
" "Bicycle theft.
"
Oh, this is ridiculous!
Oh.
Well, that's given us
an unexpected head start.
Well done.
I would kill you but I'd have to add you
to the *** figures.
NICOLA: Okay.
Think about what you're gonna say.
- Yeah.
Okay, I've done that.
- What? Already? Is that enough time?
Kate.
Hello.
Uh, Terri Coverley.
Yes.
Yeah, we're thrilled
about Andy being on board.
(WHISPERING) Get on with it.
TERRl: (STAMMERING) No.
I'm not actually saying that it's
***! End the call.
End the call.
It's Moustache Sally.
Steve Fleming's here.
Put the phone down.
- Ah!
- TERRl: Sorry, can I call you back?
- Nicola Murray!
- Can I call you back? Bye.
How are the crime stats coming along?
It's not easy, Steve,
as you can see.
But Glenn and Olly are on top of it.
"Other theft.
"
What the *** is other theft?
I don't know what other theft is.
If you want to stay late or pull
an all-nighter if you think it'd help
You want us to work
all through the night on this?
It would be very much appreciated
upstairs.
Ah, well.
I'm an atheist.
(LAUGHING) By the Prime Minister.
I did get the joke, by the way.
(MOUTHING) Well done.
Good morning, good morning,
good morning.
I'm back.
I'm sorry I left my sombrero at home
but here I am.
What do you think of the tan, huh?
What do you think of this shade?
I call it Custard Cancer.
- Oh, thank you very much.
- Where did you go?
I went to, um, Easter Island.
I thought I'd spend my time there
rechiselling all the statues,
so that they'd look like Westlife.
How about a coffee?
Oh, I've sent you a link
to Andy Murray's website.
There's something you should see.
Andy Murray's website?
Andy says, "Just agreed to lead the
government's Healthy Choices campaign.
"Eat, live, be well.
" *** a Pot Noodle.
Sam, prepare my horse.
I ride to DoSAC.
- Hello, Terri.
- Morning, Nicola.
- Who am I, Terri?
- You're Nicola? Nicola Murray?
- Ah.
Secretary of State for
- That's right.
I'm Secretary of State.
So, why has a sports personality
launched my policy
on his *** website?
Ah! No, I know.
I know exactly why that is.
You didn't make the phone call, did you?
- Well, uh, yes.
- Um, in other really bad news
- Good morning, by the way.
- This is about the crime stats, yeah?
Yes.
Some of the crime stats
that we published,
as it turns out, were unverified and not
ready for being in the public domain.
- Uh, Marianne Swift of The Mail
- Oh, Swine-Face Swift.
That's the one.
She noticed a drop
in the figures for aggravated burglary
in the last quarter.
- Whereas, when she checked it out
- There was no drop.
- Yeah.
- Right.
So, Swine-Face Swift
and her piggy hack-hog colleagues
Exactly.
So, we're getting
a lot of oinking on the phones.
So, basically, what that means
is that the department,
well, essentially the royal you,
um, seem to have massaged
the crime figures.
Great.
Thank you,
Steve *** "Oh, Nicola!" Fleming.
Yup.
He is a *** ninny, isn't he?
- Bring my dispatch boxes.
- Okay.
- Malcolm!
- Oh, there he is.
Bob Carolgees.
How's the wee comedy dog?
Welcome back.
Good holiday? I hear
your kitchen's lovely this time of year.
- Yeah.
Well, actually, I went to Spain.
- Oh, nice.
Yeah, yeah.
I went to Malaga.
It was lovely.
I was golfing with Stephen Hawking,
he's *** ***.
He lied about his handicap.
Mind you, I never had to hire
a golf buggy.
I just sat in his lap.
Please.
Why do we have to be like this?
All this negative energy.
Come on!
- What?
- Well, we've got to work together.
So, you know
So what? I mean, that doesn't mean
we have to like each other, does it?
- No, I mean
- Sorry.
We both know we don't like each other.
Everyone knows that.
We are the Gallagher brothers
of politics.
How does that work? Does that mean
that I am the semi-talented songwriter
and you're the *** loutish prick?
That's a lovely analogy.
You were the one who forced me out
of the sodding band.
(CHUCKLING) Come on, let's have a chat.
You were asked
to leave the *** band.
And you wouldn't *** go, would you?
You had to hang on in there
like a limpet up a whale's ***.
Why do you thrive so much
on being disliked?
People hate me? Good!
Bring it on.
Do you know what they think about you?
Oh, I'm sure you're gonna
tell me, Malcolm.
I'll tell you exactly
what people say about you.
- All right.
Go on, then.
- *** all!
Oh, do they? *** all?
People have got no *** opinion
about you.
You're like *** Special K
or *** The Moody Blues.
Actually, you're *** white noise
in the background.
Funny? Is that funny?
Do you find it funny?
No, I don't find anything
you're saying funny whatsoever.
And I'll tell you a home truth,
Malcolm Tucker,
the people who are really hated
in this country,
the people who are really hated, are us.
This government.
How about we stand together?
(MOBILE BEEPS)
Let's both be team players, shall we?
Were you the Einstein that okayed this
*** Andy Murray thing at DoSAC?
Because I've got
The Telegraph on here.
And you've probably got The Times asking
why the budget's been pre-announced
- on Twitter by *** Ryan Giggs.
- ***!
"The last quarter's crime stats,
which DoSAC have published,
"are unconfirmed projections.
" ***!
- That's DoSAC for you.
- Come on, Malcolm.
Team players!
Bring me sunshine.
No, we're not manipulating the figures.
Somebody quite simply made a mistake.
- No.
No, I couldn't possibly say who.
- Glenn Cullen.
Glenn.
With one N.
NICOLA: We have actually decided to go
in a different direction from Andy.
- Good holiday?
- Shut it, you *** hairdresser.
Got any photos?
I've got a photo of you in a minute
in your *** nailed to the desk.
Hey, you want to see something
that's truly worth photographing?
Look at Steve Fleming at work, eh?
That's the real master of spin.
He's Spini *** Hendrix.
Nicola, you and your department
have screwed up!
I'd like to agree
with the previous speaker,
only adding the words "*** royally".
Oh, Jesus! Am I being gang-bollocked?
Andy Murray's Henman-*** us
in the press.
- Well, we
- We can't have
With undue respect, Malcolm,
the crime stats ***-up
is a much bigger deal.
Yeah.
This is such a great double act,
isn't it? Good ***, bad ***.
I'll tell you what.
Why don't
you go first, man? I need a wazz.
I like you, Nicola, I quite like you.
But darling, I've got to ask you,
what the bloody hell happened?
Like you asked,
we published the crime figures
from 2004 up to the last quarter.
Yes.
Up to the last quarter but not
up to and including the last quarter,
you dozy mare!
"Up to" includes the thing
you're going up to.
Right?
If we say count up to 20, it means
count up to and include the number 20.
The events leading up
to the Second World War
do not include the Second World War.
We haven't got time
for a semantic argument about this.
- Listen, sweetheart
- Do not *** call me sweetheart!
I think you'll find
that Steve was addressing me.
- The tache is a bit of a giveaway.
- I will draft a statement.
You *** will not draft
any *** statement.
I've been minding the shop!
You were *** minding the shop
and what happened?
A bunch of *** school kids came in
and *** dropped their trousers
and *** had a *** in aisle five.
Well, thank you for giving us
a guided tour
around the Freudian nightmare
of your head.
Could you two decide between you
in which order and from which direction
I'm going to be shafted?
Andy! Let me talk you
through the decision there.
We do need to go
in a different direction.
Mmm.
(STAMMERING) Well, that's probably
We need to go black.
What? Sentiment? Comedy?
Would you like to speak
to Oliver Reeder?
'Cause he's the sort of mastermind.
The person
- Don't tell him that.
- The whole
Hello, Mr Murray.
(STAMMERING) I can assure you that you
would remain my number one choice.
But, you know, I put it together
and I don't get to have the final say
on anything, really.
You know,
in any section of my life at all.
- Or even in my personal life.
So
- GLENN: Digging.
Stop digging.
(WHISPERING) So Shut the *** up!
Ignore him.
Just come with me.
Come into my office.
Let's deal with the crime stats
Come on.
Malcolm, Malcolm.
Malcolm!
(LAUGHING) Sorry about this, everybody.
Goodbye.
Give my regards to the rest
of the *** Village People.
TERRl: Sorry, Nicola, Malcolm,
excuse me.
It's Andy Murray.
He's insisting on talking to you.
- Talk to him.
- What?
Get him back on board.
*** talk to him.
- No!
- (WHISPERS) Yes.
- You cannot be serious!
- Was that an attempt at a joke?
You told me to kill it.
I've killed it.
- No.
No, no, no.
- Right now, some photos in the papers
of a very boring man
with tight white shorts on
is going to be
a very pleasant distraction
from Steve's ***
crime stats abortion.
If we need a *** celebrity,
can we try somebody else?
- Steve Redgrave.
- He's a boring ***!
- Lewis Hamilton.
- *** boring, boring ***.
- And *** drives a car.
- Chris Boardman.
*** cyclist! Are you *** mental?
Everybody hates cyclists.
Even *** cyclists
hate *** cyclists.
Plus, he's a boring ***.
- I cannot
- Paula Radcliffe?
- No, she shat in the street!
- And she's a boring *** as well.
How about we just launch the policy
without a celebrity?
Oh, great idea.
Hello, there.
Hi, everyone.
I, Nicola Murray,
would like to say to you
that even though you don't ***
know me from *** Adam,
I think you should cut down on carbs.
Lads, let's get this
crime stats ***-up sorted.
What have you both got so far?
Well, actually,
now we've been trying to think of
a replacement for Andy Murray.
- (CLEARS THROAT) Yeah.
- Some of the women footballers.
Uh, Jessica Clark or Sue Smith.
- We don't think that would happen.
- Or Faye White.
I cannot believe the energy going
into Andy Murray!
(LAUGHING) I can't.
What's his problem?
Just try and wrap your gin-addled brain
about this, right?
I did say I was
at the heart of government.
But when
- Malcolm.
- Excuse me.
- I need to talk to you.
- One second please.
Listen, when that
(PHONE STOPS RINGING)
When that incident occurred
I was on holiday.
Are you saying to me
that my wee caravan's
a great *** waste of time?
And my stupid ***
wing mirror extensions?
The crime stats and Andy Murray, Malc.
It's a double fault.
Listen, if you are not a ***
or a pizza guy, *** off!
Steve, listen, could you eat or ***
whatever's at the door
on your *** way out, please?
No, thanks.
How can I be held responsible?
What? For what? I've created
a what around the government?
I've created a vibe?
Listen, son, the only *** vibe
you have to worry about
is the one that your wife hides
in her knicker drawer.
I am on top of this, okay?
Oh, fine, fine.
You know, I'm just saying
I'll gladly lend you a hand if you feel
the need to keep your head down.
I don't need to keep my head down
because unlike yourself,
I don't give *** to truckers.
- (KNOCKING)
- I said *** off!
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
Oh, it's Lord Nicholson.
What an enormous pleasure this is.
Well, in fact, it's the Right Honourable
the Lord Nicholson of Arnage.
And the kissing of feet may commence.
You got all your stuff ready
for your official lording ceremony?
Have you got your mink thong
and your ermine colostomy bag?
No, I don't, no.
I have to hire that, unfortunately.
I can't wear it on the Tube or the bus,
but I would.
It would be great larks
but there we go.
- How about a coffee?
- Coffee?
- Well, if there's coffee going
- There we are.
I'd never say no
to a nice cup of coffee.
- Will you have a coffee
- Do you not drink coffee any more?
Is it all port and swan's blood
these days?
Swan's blood.
That does sound nice.
No, I'm just sort of passing through,
because obviously we need to start
booting up this crime stats enquiry.
But it's, in effect,
an investigation into the facts.
But I thought since
I was passing through
Yeah.
But you don't have to talk to me
about that, do you?
'Cause I was on my holidays then.
Did you get my postcard?
Well, I will speak to whomsoever
I need to speak to,
- holiday or no holiday.
- Where did you learn to speak like that?
Is there a special school that's just
you and Brian Sewell?
- I'm going to leave you to it, frankly.
- So soon?
And I'm going to make tracks as well,
Malcolm.
Okay, good to see you both.
The problem is that you are shifting
from the man people love to hate
to the man people just hate.
From Simon Cowell to Piers Morgan.
See you later.
Remember, my door's always open.
OLLY: I had no idea,
no idea that it was Malcolm
who drafted Fleming's resignation letter
in 2003.
I forgot your political memory only goes
back two issues of The Economist.
Hey, there's a reference to you here,
Cullen.
Where?
Alleged to have assaulted an
elderly aide at a party conference
- Elderly aide?
- Elderly aide.
God, that makes me sound
like a *** stairlift.
God, cheap flights are back.
Look, there's something here
from Continental.
"Go to New York"
- Hey, Dora the Explorer.
- Still here, then, Malcolm?
Time for a milky drink? Come on.
Come
on in.
I want to have a word with you.
There you go.
How was Cabinet? Was it good?
Is Tom looking after you?
You're all over the newspapers
like a *** puppy, Malcolm.
Well, I think you'll find that's what
we masters of the dark arts call a blip.
Tomorrow that will all be old news.
It'll be like the *** War of
the Roses.
Or AIDS.
Remember AIDS?
Listen, Nicola, see that Did Julius
mention to you about his enquiry?
- Yeah.
- The enquiry into the whole ***
- crime stats ***-up?
- Yeah.
You know the phone call that came
through to me from your office?
- You know, about the whole idea?
- Yeah, yeah.
It didn't happen, right?
You want me to cover your back?
I want you to get
the old enquiry screen out
and slap it on, *** factor 50,
why not?
Listen, I'll tell you what.
This is what I'll do.
I will get for you
some really good press attention
for your *** Healthy Choices
nonsense.
How about that?
I'll get you some big ***
healthy headlines.
You're in no position
to give me anything.
You can't even get a *** bagel
cleaned up off your door.
Do you mind?
What? Do you think
I can't get it up any more? Is that it?
You're looking
at *** Lazarus, sweetheart.
And not just plain Lazarus.
I'm *** self-raising Lazarus, right?
Yeah.
So I'll tell Nicola to expect
your call on Healthy Choices
- sometime this afternoon.
Choices would be absolutely great.
- Well done, Malcolm.
- He's very impressive, isn't he?
In a way that Chairman Mao
was actually quite impressive.
Well, that's the thing about the evil,
isn't it?
Their amazing work ethic.
How are the hacks?
Ready to eat their own ***.
(SNIGGERS) They're only journalists,
Steve, not *** Rangers supporters.
I know they are.
Yeah, well, I need 10 minutes.
I need to
google some jokes about Andy Murray.
- Shall I go first?
- Warm them up.
Tell them Olivier is on his way
but in the meantime, here's an audience
with Peter *** Bowles.
Tuesday meeting.
What do you think?
Oh, there he is! Screaming Lord Crutch.
I like the flunkies, by the way.
That's a very nice touch.
It's a wee bit Graham Norton.
Don't needle me, Malcolm.
Not when people are under scrutiny.
- I'm under scrutiny?
- Yes.
I'm *** Nosferatu.
That's really *** scary.
I'm walking on.
We're moving on.
I'm lan Botham.
I'm walking on for hospice care.
How's it going with
Lord Bonnie Longford?
I've not been in yet.
I've just been
standing here for 20 minutes.
So, if this phone call does come up
No! No, that's not
You're nothing if not persistent,
are you, Malcolm?
- I wasn't She was
- Don't do that!
- I made it quite clear
- I was standing over there
and I thought, "Nicola's choking.
"
But she wasn't.
She was laughing,
retrospectively, at
your massive shiny head
Oh, what happened?
Did you get heckled off?
What was the line?
"Taxi for Tom Selleck"?
Yeah.
Could I have a quick word?
Just five minutes.
(SIGHS)
So, Malcolm, mate.
What is it? What's
What's the problem? You look like
you *** coughed up your own twin.
(CLICKING TONGUE)
No, no, no, no.
I need to talk to Tom.
No, Tom isn't immediately available
to you.
*** off.
Malcolm, the Prime Minister
respects you enormously.
Sam, get ahold of Pat, right
Actually, I'm going to need that.
That's an official Blackberry.
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
- *** off!
- Right.
Your five minutes starts now.
- MALCOLM: *** off.
- This is an acutely
private moment, Julius.
Would it seem terribly rude if I asked
you to *** off for five minutes?
Yes, it would.
- MALCOLM: Can you *** off as well?
- Julius, what
Sorry.
Excuse me?
Julius, what is the deal
At the moment,
Malcolm is getting the sack.
***.
Now? Literally?
I mean, I'm actually in the sacking?
Yeah, well, let's see what the ***
Prime Minister has to say about that!
Huh? Let's see what he has to say.
Listen to me a minute!
The Prime Minister
supports you fully in whatever
you decide to do next.
You.
*** Nicola.
Right, tell them.
*** tell them that
there was no *** phone call.
Speak! I *** ask you, speak!
Open sesame.
I'm not here, Malcolm.
I'm not
- You are *** here!
- I'm not seeing this.
Open your *** mouth for once
and say something!
I'm not getting involved.
You *** speak! You've always
*** got something to say.
- I'm only a cabinet minister!
- *** off, then.
- Malc.
Malc.
Come on, Malc.
- Don't *** touch me!
You cannot *** me! You cannot *** me!
I am unfuckable!
I have never been ***!
And if you *** try and *** me,
you'll find my *** ***
will *** grow *** fangs.
STEVE: All right.
Now, come and listen to me.
I'll *** snap your *** *** off.
Will you listen to me?
Malcolm Tucker, will you listen to me?
Go right ahead.
Yeah.
Let's hear it.
Let's hear it.
Listen to me for one second.
Go right ahead.
I wouldn't tell you
what I've just told you
before I'd told the press pack, would I?
That would be very, very unprofessional.
So, there's no point in getting angry
because the show's over.
It's curtains.
No curtain call.
Everyone loved the show
but it just wasn't buttering
any parsnips any more, brother.
Yeah.
You don't have the *** balls,
apart from that great inflated
*** ball on the *** end
of your *** neck.
Ooh, look.
Oh.
STEVE: (SOFTLY) Malcolm Tucker resigns.
- Looks pretty factual to me.
- *** this.
*** this.
*** you all.
- Just *** off.
- No, no.
That's all right.
Kate! Kate, yeah.
- (WHISPERING) It's Andy Murray's agent.
- Ah.
Get her to *** off.
- Hi.
Uh, no.
Absolutely not.
- Malcolm's gone.
I'll call you back.
What did you say?
Malcolm Tucker has resigned.
Malcolm's resigned.
He's resigned.
TERRl: What?
OLLY: Take the telly.
Take
GLENN: Tucker's gone.
TERRl: He's resigned?
(ALL LAUGHING)
Happy days! Now, we don't have to
I just want to hug someone.
Please?
Is this good?
I mean, it feels good but
OLLY: Yeah.
GLENN: Are you sure it's good?
Not because
I don't want to hug you, Terri.
We're not *** finished!
You are finished, though.
That is what I've been trying to
Out of the way!
What are you doing to her?
Don't worry.
Just
Leave her *** alone.
Don't worry.
It's all right,
it's all right.
TERRl: Yeah, listen.
Wine.
TERRl: I've got some wine.
OLLY: Get the wine.
Get the wine.
I've got some wine from the
Tackling Drugs Changes Lives launch.
Where is it?
Need a bit of help with the
- What is it?
- It's just, this is a bit
- The
- TERRl: Oh, Nicola! Hi!
- OLLY: Malcolm's gone.
- I know.
- Would you like a glass of wine?
- No, I'm good, thanks.
OLLY: It's fantastic!
NICOLA: I know, yeah.
I've sorted everything out
with Andy's agent.
- That's Well, I mean, more or less.
- Good stuff.
TERRl: I can't get it out.
- This is no way to celebrate.
- TERRl: Shall I run it under a hot tap?
- I'll go run it under a hot tap.
- Don't run it under a hot tap,
- it's white wine.
- TERRl: A cold tap, then.
What good's running it
under a cold tap gonna do?
That's only going to make it worse.
Don't do that! That looks awful.
Get back to *** Wind in the Willows,
'cause that's where you *** belong.
I didn't ask you to
I didn't ask you to come back in.
- I'm not ***
- Would you leave my office, please?
I'm not *** gonna waste
my breath on you.
As for you
Malcolm, I am sick to death
You can explain
(MALCOLM YELLING)
- Don't touch me, Malcolm!
- I'll *** touch you if I like.
Because I'll tell you this, man,
you shafted me, boy.
- I'll *** strike you, Malcolm.
- Don't you *** touch me.
- I warn you!
- Don't touch that scarf!
That's Paul Smith.
***.
Move!
You will see me again!
You will *** see me again!
(REPORTERS CLAMOURING)