[Ollie is in an office arguing with his ex-girlfriend, Angela Heaney...who's also a news journalist.]
I'm really glad you came in, Angela.
Well, I could lose my job, Ollie.
Yeah...
Because I went all hot and heavy to the news desk with three directly contradictory stories in one day.
I know,
They gave me flip-flops. You know? Someone actually went out and bought me flip-flops to give me.
Yeah. You've gotta give them credit for that, that is quite funny.
Yeah. And they pasted onto them...a fucking porn picture of a girl sucking a big cock and they wrote, "Angela Heaney swallows anything."
That is less funny. Obviously, that's actually quite offensive.
Can you give me one good reason why I shouldn't do a big story on the, you know, the day of spin?
Wh-Why? What sort of story? [Ollie starts stammering and struggling to defend himself...]
Inside story of a government department out of control. With diagrams and maybe a flow chart with your face and name on it. And Glenn's and Hugh's and big arrows showing who spoke to who and how you all fucked it up! Yeah, I think I could write that one up myself, Ollie. I think I could do the punctuation on that one!
Yeah, I-I'm sorry. Okay, I was patronis...
[Suddenly, Malcolm comes into the office.]
Hey. Hi, Angela. Oh, I like the hair, nice little corkscrews. How's it going?
Yeah, er, fine. Um, we were just, er, talking about why Angela shouldn't do a big story on the big insidery piece, kinda day of spin, sort of spread in the paper...
[to Ollie] Oh, I don't know. [to Angela] Maybe you should! Good idea.
[Malcolm leaves -- then comes back.]
Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. I know why she shouldn't. Because, you know, if she did that, she'd be dead. To me, to this department, to the government. And she'll never get another story, or a fucking whiff of a story as long as she kept her sorry, hack bitch face lingering around Westminster, because I would call every editor I know - which, obviously, that's all of them - and I'd tell them to gouge her name out of their address books so she'd never even get a job on hospital radio where the sad sack belongs. That's what I'd tell her. [to Ollie] But maybe you should do it. See you later.
Yeah. [to Angela] He's actually...He can be really nice. It's been a very long day.
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