I'm thinking I should resign now.

What?

You can't do that. You're Aslan, no-one shaves your mane.

I'm not a fucking lion, Phil.

There's going to be an inquiry into the death of a man

who died because of a policy I signed off on.

We all know how this is going to end.

I, I, I should take the dignified way out.

You've missed the dignified exit. That was straight away, basically.

Yeah.

The only silver lining in today's cloud of farts is that another one

of Morecambe and Wise's policy launches is ruined.

Are those the carers? They don't look old enough. Free travel passes or something.

It's another one of Adam and Fergus' 'Pop Up Book of Policies'.

Peter Mannion. Lovely to meet you. What vital work you do.

Peter, I'd love to introduce you to 'The Carers'...

I've just met them.

What's my plan? I didn't resign, and now this inquiry's

going to nail me up like fucking Barabbas.

Actually, he was the one they let go. Shouldn't have, he was a criminal. Wait.

We could wrong-foot Murray.

How? You could push for the inquiry to go wider.

Wider? That's mental! We want to shut it down.

Just hear me out.

We could look into the whole culture of PFI procurement.

That is a good idea. Really? Fuck, that hurt to say.

But she's right, because Murray's husband's involved in PFI

and he's as dodgy as a Russian... As a Russian.

We can backspin it, Peter. It's good.

But...but... Is revenge a mature response? Let me think. Yes, it is.

Right, let's poke her in the PFI's.

If you get any channel problems, just swing them past the purple Power Ranger over here.

Hello, again. Vital, vital work, so proud of you.

Terri, I've got a job for you.

Ah, Peter. This is all pretty white-knuckle stuff, eh?

Is it getting the old adrenalin pumping?