our response.

Stage one, story leaks.

Our response, we move forward to stage two.

What's our re-response when the press come back to us and then we move forward to stage three.

What's our response to their response to our response?

We've gotta think multi-dimensionally. It's fractal retaliation!

Mm-hm. Do you fancy a cup of tea?

Yeah. Have you got anything herbal? OK, yeah.

I'm sorry, do you smoke?

Hmm. They low tar?

Mm-hm. That's my favourite!

We're a dying breed, eh? Oh, yes, er...

We've met before, when you were at Defra as a junior minister.

Oh, sorry, I don't remember! Were you at the department?

No, no, no, I was at Sainsbury's.

Press, not on the tills and I set up the photo shoot for you with the sustainable sea bass...

and I remember you made some kind of quip about something to do with fishnets...

..cos there was a girl who was wearing stockings. Well, that certainly dates it.

You wouldn't be able to make that kind of comment now!

More's the pity!

How's Nicola coping, some trouble with her daughter, bullying or something?

Is her daughter being bullied?

The poor little thing!

Just because she's put on a bit of weight!

PHONE RINGS

Ah Stuart, what flavour of nut-brown piss are you gonna pour into my ear?

How's the info pump firing?

What you mean Terri Coverley? She's useless, she knows nothing, but you'd get on!

Well, she may not know the story, Peter, but just about everybody else does

so according to the matrix here, we're looking at an 83 to 90% chance of this story

making it, and if it does, well someone's gonna use it and if someone is,

then that someone should be us, yeah?

No way. 'Peter, listen.'

No-one is more shocked than I am at the chain of events here, OK?

How about you getting back here so we can have a little de-brief? Fuck that, Stuart!

We are not going to use this story.