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Max Headroom S2E3 - Grossberg's Return
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00:00This is Edison Carter coming to you very much live and direct on Network 23.
00:06Carter's the best-known reporter we have on the air.
00:08He satellites globally.
00:10Where does all this stuff come from, Bryce?
00:12The components of Carter's mind.
00:15Oh, my, Max, my, Max.
00:17People translate it as data.
00:19It's computer-generated, whatever it is.
00:21It looks like Edison.
00:22Max, Max Headroom.
00:25Max?
00:26He's a computer-generated person based on you.
00:28Two lines, but the one is single movie.
00:58Yeah!
01:00Yeah!
01:01Yeah!
01:02Yeah!
01:06Yeah!
01:09Thank you, Max.
01:10For Costco, Henry.
01:1185.
01:12Afghan Yankees, 117.
01:14And next up on Network 23, it's Lifestyles of the Poor and Pitiful.
01:39A weekly look at how the other half lives.
01:42Yes, rather weekly.
01:44If you were any kind of man, you would know I am staring at you in haughty arrogance.
01:48How dare you!
01:51You animal!
01:54You cheap oil mogul!
01:56I will never grace your bed again.
01:59I'm Harriet Garth, the Porky's Landing fans candidate in today's telelection primary.
02:06Remember, your ratings are your votes, so stay with us for a great first act and the right ending.
02:13That's a promise.
02:15Remember, I'm a fan.
02:18Elect me by staying tuned to Network 66, the home of Porky's Landing.
02:23I tell you, I love him, Eric.
02:33Love him, do you hear?
02:34And you will never see him again.
02:36Never, never.
02:38Do you hear?
02:39Why?
02:40Oh, why, Eric?
02:41Network 66 is catching us up.
02:43It doesn't make sense to Porky's Landing is like visual halitosis compared to Max and Lifestyles.
02:48So why are they accelerating like this?
02:49They've never been this close.
02:51This is obviously linked to this morning's tele-election.
02:54This rating surge holds.
02:55They'll win the audience meter autocom by 9 o'clock.
02:57I can't believe it will hold.
02:59The male lead is sensationally bad.
03:01The whole show is sensationally bad.
03:03That's why so many people watch it.
03:04But why all night?
03:05Why now just in time to grab ratings for the tele-election?
03:08Call Chubby.
03:09We have a crisis.
03:10I've been watching, Edwards.
03:15How are they doing it?
03:16We don't know.
03:17But at this rate of increase, they have enough ratings to win the tele-election by the morning auto count.
03:20I wish Formby was still with us.
03:22She used to handle things at night.
03:23That's exactly why she's no longer with us, Mr. Cheviot.
03:28What on earth is 66 up to?
03:33It's 3 a.m. and our ratings are fast catching Network 23, Chairman.
03:38The ViewDose device is working splendidly.
03:41Excellent.
03:43They'll be writhing down at 23.
03:47This will kill Cheviot.
03:49We must congratulate our new board member.
03:52Your ViewDose device seems to be a rating breakthrough, Mr. Grosberg.
03:57Thank you, Chairman.
03:58I'm rather proud of ViewDose.
04:00It's inspired.
04:04Have you absolutely no idea how they're doing this, Edwards?
04:07None at all, Ben.
04:08Overnight ratings haven't taken this kind of beating since Snow White and the Baby Eaters.
04:12My concern is the impact on the Teller election.
04:15If they beat our ratings by the 9 o'clock auto count, it'll swing it from our man, Peller.
04:19The system will automatically elect 66's Harriet Garth by a ratings landslide.
04:24My God, we've got to stop this.
04:26Get hold of Peller, Edwards.
04:27Get him in.
04:28Then get on to Bryce.
04:29Tell him to find out what's happening.
04:31I'm coming in.
04:31You better come in to 23, Peller.
04:43Crisis.
04:44Are you alone?
04:46Well, yes, of course.
04:48What do you mean?
04:49We don't want any nonsense around Tell election time, Peller.
04:56Bryce.
04:56I want you to use every machine in your department on this.
04:58I want facts, figures, analysis, evaluation.
05:01I want you to throw every techno trick in the book at them.
05:03I must find out where they're getting these figures and fast.
05:06Fast, fast, fast.
05:07You want this quickly, Mr. Edwards?
05:11Come on.
05:17Network 66 Research Department.
05:19All our line.
05:20Oh, hi, Bryce.
05:22Long time, no interface.
05:24I'm busy.
05:24I need information.
05:26Oh, I'm fine, thanks.
05:27How are you?
05:28What?
05:29Uh, fine, thanks.
05:31Uh, why are Network 66 ratings so high?
05:34Are you guys using ratings enhancement because the show apparently stinks?
05:38Bryce, you're unique.
05:40We're using the new ViewDose system.
05:42It enables people to view while they sleep.
05:45It's great for ratings.
05:46Hmm.
05:47Is that a docile optics device?
05:49No, it's a cheap scam, a straight con,
05:52dreamed up by our new marketing exec.
05:55But, uh, how does ViewDose guarantee viewers?
05:59It's supposed to be an exclusive 66 system.
06:02It claims you can view while you sleep,
06:05so everybody leaves their TV on 66 all night
06:08because we're showing eight hours of poor Giz landing.
06:11I call it a drivelin'.
06:15You coming to the College of the Union think tank, Bryce?
06:18Uh, no.
06:19Last time we saw anyone, we were all ten.
06:23Thanks for the hard data, Jenny.
06:28It's called ViewDose,
06:29and it's a scam to persuade Network 66 viewers to watch TV all night.
06:33It's scientifically invalid.
06:35How on earth?
06:37Bryce, you're unique.
06:40I know.
06:41Now look, Thatcher.
06:42Our research people have cracked your ViewDose outrage.
06:45Falsifying ratings is criminal larceny.
06:48Illegal, dammit, man.
06:49Nonsense.
06:50It's merely ethically dubious.
06:52Preferably normal practice.
06:54My network does not lower itself to cheap practices
06:57to gain ratings for its political candidate.
06:59My congratulations, Mr. Groseberg.
07:05You certainly seem to be able to upset Mr. Cheviot.
07:09But, of course, you once worked for him, didn't you?
07:12On the contrary, Mr. Thatcher.
07:14He once worked for me.
07:16Harry, it's Cheviot.
07:29Yes, sir.
07:31This is an emergency.
07:32Get into control and get Edison Carter.
07:34Yes, sir.
07:35Yes, sir.
07:35Edison, it's Murray.
07:48Huh?
07:49Why?
07:50Because it's there.
07:52Um, uh, get into control.
07:54Get a hold of Theora.
07:55Don't argue.
07:56Don't swear.
07:57I'll meet you at the network.
08:02Because it's there.
08:05Oh, hello?
08:17Hello?
08:22My God, Edison.
08:25What time is it?
08:28What do you want?
08:31Edison?
08:34Edison?
08:34We're needed out of the network immediately.
08:38Sorry I intruded.
08:41This is Network 23,
08:43encouraging you to re-elect Simon Peller.
08:45Pelley election.
08:47Day two.
08:48Day Peller.
08:49Good morning, team.
09:01Good morning, Murray.
09:01How are you?
09:02What are you so glum about?
09:03I thought you thrived on action.
09:19Good morning, Murray.
09:19What's the drama?
09:21Hi, Edison.
09:21We got out of the wrong side of someone's bed, I think.
09:26Knock it off, Murray.
09:27Get to the point.
09:28What the hell's this all about?
09:29All right, all right.
09:30Big crisis.
09:31Cheviot's coming in.
09:32The ratings look bad.
09:33They'll be worried about the election.
09:35Ah!
09:36Ah!
09:36Ratings!
09:37Audiences!
09:38You're playing my to-sa-tune!
09:41Give me my own show and I'll roll, roll, roll the airwaves.
09:45My ratings would get a-boon-boon-boon-get-a-boon-elected.
09:48Come to think of it, even Simon Peller.
09:52Max, you couldn't elect us to disappear, could you?
09:55No, Edison.
09:56Leave him alone.
09:57What's good into you?
09:59That's the old left-brain-right-brain con-con-con-conflict.
10:03Of course, I'm the unemotional side.
10:05Thank you, Bryce.
10:07Children, please.
10:09I want to check any news up before Cheviot gets here.
10:13Kersler?
10:14Maria, 23.
10:16You freelancers got anything on the news line?
10:18Dayside of the planet, I've signed exclusives on a couple genocides.
10:22It's not a plague of frogs in Egypt.
10:25Here, Nightside, is just this morning's tele-election
10:27dull as chastity.
10:30All right, if anything breaks, yell at me.
10:32Everyone else is.
10:33Network 66.
10:34Let's see it.
10:37Tells of Paris and everywhere.
10:40Why, Eric?
10:41Why will you not give me my freedom?
10:43I have given you enough oil wells.
10:45Will you never be satisfied?
10:48What would you know of giving satisfaction?
10:53Love can be a gushing oil well, Amanda.
10:56A man knows that.
10:59Take your oil wells.
11:00Take your house in Malibu.
11:02Well, I wouldn't have missed this for anything.
11:03This is my very favorite drivel.
11:05I'm called for, Carter.
11:07Look at the ratings.
11:10Now, 66 is pushing Porky's landings with a system called Budoes.
11:14They're claiming you can watch it as you sleep, and that's a lie.
11:18It's just a scheme to artificially push up ratings.
11:20It's a bold tele-election hoax.
11:22I want you, Carter, and your team to expose it.
11:25I want 66 hit and hit hard before the tele-election at 9 o'clock this morning.
11:31Keep me informed in the boardroom.
11:33I'll show it to Thatcher.
11:34Please do not concern yourself about Budoes, Mr. Chairman.
11:41It is the tele-election and Harriet Garth that matters.
11:44We need her.
11:46She needs our ratings to help score her votes.
11:49It's the natural order of the electoral democracy.
11:53My Budoes scheme simply guarantees maximum ratings at the critical moment, and thus, automatic victory.
12:00What troubles me, Mr. Grossberg, is that Cheviot can turn this his way.
12:06What if he investigates Budoes?
12:09Puts Edison Carter on the story, and he can make anything look earth-shattering.
12:14Of course, Cheviot will put Carter on the Budoes story.
12:18I've anticipated precisely that.
12:21But they will never get as far as the Budoes story.
12:25In fact, they'll forget all about it.
12:31They'll be much too busy with far more graver matters.
12:37Phoenix File, authorized executive eyes only.
12:41The Phoenix File.
12:44Cheviot, head of Network 23.
12:49Edison Carter, the world's top telejournalist.
12:54Murray, his hotshot producer.
12:56Fiora Jones, his oh-so-clever controller.
13:03And Max Hedron, the world's first and only computer-generated person.
13:07They are all about to regret the day they conspired against Ned Grossberg.
13:14Because I have a story that will not only make us top network,
13:19it will destroy each and every one of these people.
13:23And with them, Network 23.
13:25Working money right back.
13:31But first, the special work of Network 66, your tele-election trendsetter and sponsor of Harriet Gardner.
13:40Ah, Harriet.
13:42You look a little rattled this morning.
13:44Rattled?
13:45I'm furious.
13:46Calm yourself.
13:48Is everything ready?
13:50If you mean, is there a freelancer creeping about outside my apartment
13:53and a total stranger standing around in it, yes.
13:56If you mean, am I happy about it, no.
13:59Become happy about it, my dear.
14:02You're about to earn politically useful notoriety,
14:04followed by a surge of public sympathy.
14:07That and Butoh's ratings will have you elected by one minute past nine.
14:13Or, if it goes wrong, political oblivion.
14:16I don't like this, Grossberg.
14:19It's dirty.
14:20Naturally.
14:22It's politics.
14:24But it won't go wrong.
14:2523 will take the bait like a ravenous fish.
14:29Trust me.
14:30The bait?
14:43Right, Kersler.
14:53It's all set.
14:54Are you in position?
14:56Yeah.
14:56I'm hooked into her home security landline.
14:59I'm burgling time-coded pictures off her burglar alarm.
15:02Oh, by the way, I'm doubling my fee, Mr. G.
15:07Naturally, Kersler.
15:09That's why I'm tripling it.
15:10It is a pleasure working with a man like you.
15:13Talent like yours is an investment.
15:28Come on.
15:29Will you talk to Mr. Kessler on the view phone?
15:44Yeah.
15:47Okay, Murray, I got something for you.
15:49No thanks, Kersler.
15:50I got the chairman in.
15:51We got a big story rolling.
15:52Not as big as this, pal.
15:54I've got a very big story on Network 66.
15:5666?
15:58I'm outside Harry Garst's townhouse.
16:00I'm surveillancing her place.
16:01She's in there with some telejournalist guy.
16:04She's been there all night.
16:05You see what I mean?
16:06Are you sure?
16:08I'm sure.
16:09I've got pictures off her home security system.
16:11Edison.
16:13Kersler, this is all a bit circumstantial.
16:18Interesting circumstances, though.
16:19All right, show me.
16:22Your picture's upcoming.
16:27Come on, Kersler.
16:34That could be anybody.
16:35Harry Garst's townhouse.
16:37Murray, Mr. Shetian.
16:39Right, Murray.
16:39We got all that.
16:41Drop the view, Dose Story.
16:42This is dynamite.
16:44This will stop 66's telelection scam.
16:46Sex and politics.
16:47It's perfect.
16:48I smell ratings.
16:50Get Carter down there.
16:51Go for it.
16:52Mr. Cheviot, I'm very unhappy about these pictures.
16:55I mean, we need background.
16:56We need infill facts.
16:58It's a public moral story, Murray.
17:00I want a ratings peak by 9 o'clock.
17:02Hit the telelection count.
17:03Get Carter down there now.
17:08Sex and politics?
17:11I smell ratings?
17:12Where does he think I am?
17:13All right, you better get down there.
17:14See if there's anything to this.
17:17What do you want me to do?
17:18Ignore a chairman?
17:21I'm not some cheap doorstep video paparazzi
17:25poking his camera into people's private lives.
17:27That's not journalism.
17:28It's junk.
17:30Private life is nobody else's business.
17:33Well, you should practice what you preach.
17:34You seem to think my private life is your business.
17:36Oh, about five minutes.
17:40Take it.
17:41Let's get the chopper.
17:45Cheviot wants a scandal.
17:46He can have it in fast.
17:47I want a clear-headed backup.
17:50I want Angela.
17:51What is the matter with him?
18:02Well, Theora upset Edison when Edison saw Theora on the viewphone.
18:08But I wasn't seeing Theora that really, really, really upset Edison.
18:12He's got no damn business inside my private life.
18:15Right.
18:17Might be good for your career if he was.
18:19No, I'm good for my career.
18:22I could quite fancy you, though.
18:24I think she meant me.
18:27No, she meant me.
18:28She meant me.
18:31She meant me.
18:32She meant me.
18:33Me.
18:34Sounds like a hot story, Edison.
18:36Thank you, Control.
18:37We are Airborne.
18:40Harriet Garth, my word.
18:43Air, integrity, and happy endings, Candidate, seems to have slipped.
18:47Well, we all slip from time to time.
18:50Anyway, it'll give us a crack at the enemy.
18:52Enemy?
18:53It's the ratings game.
18:54Shelly, it's going for the breakfast vote.
18:56To me, it's war.
18:57Chopper 23.
18:58Are you on route?
19:00Yes, that's affirmative.
19:01Almost there.
19:02Journey to Harry.
19:03How are you this busy, Don?
19:04Too busy to chat, I don't know.
19:07She's a bit snappy.
19:09What have you been up to?
19:11Keep your eyes on the road.
19:13We might just lead you astray.
19:16Control, we are landing at Harriet Garth's building now.
19:19I have you on sight, Cam.
19:21Cassius trailer is 17 feet to your left.
19:23Red Dot's Harriet, White's a randy lover boy.
19:44That's him going into a bedroom last night.
19:50Now, all you have to do is catch him slipping away, and your fish is landed, Carter.
19:56Isn't there a big grenion hunting, Angela?
19:58They're leaving.
20:00Give me the camera.
20:01I'll talk to the randy boyfriend.
20:13We're ready to go live, Mr. Cheviot.
20:15Patch it through direct, Murray.
20:17Angela Berry for Edison Carter, Network 23.
20:25I want to ask you a few questions about Harriet Garth.
20:27Is she inside?
20:29I was interviewing her for the telection.
20:31All night?
20:33She's a very busy lady.
20:34She certainly seems to be.
20:37Now, sir...
20:38I'd like you to explain this interview, which you conducted at precisely 5.05 this morning.
20:43Now, we see you semi-new, and Ms. Garth apparently decided to conduct her interview in her bedroom.
20:52My God, is that Harriet?
20:54Who is that man?
20:56Who put 23 onto this?
20:57This is catastrophic.
20:59Grossberg.
21:00Can you tell us what positions Ms. Garth took for you?
21:09Gentlemen, Network 23 has swallowed our fish whole.
21:16I couldn't have wished for better results.
21:20Better?
21:22Hell's teeth.
21:23They're exposing a politician who's identified with this channel, and I'm warning her to tell her election in front of millions.
21:32227 million.
21:33Look at those ratings.
21:35My.
21:36Sex really sells, doesn't it?
21:38You're worrying quite unnecessarily.
21:41You see, she's innocent.
21:45It never really happened.
21:47Yeah.
21:48Yeah.
21:49This young lady really relishes the kill, doesn't she?
21:52What are we doing, Murray?
21:54I have no idea.
21:57Network 23 and Mr. Edison Carter, in their haste to discredit our friend Harriet Garth, have relied on pictures which they have not verified.
22:07Pictures do not show Harriet Garth merely an unidentified woman.
22:12Their allegations are entirely false.
22:15Are you certain of this, Grossberg?
22:16I mean, if this is provable, then...
22:21Yes, Chairman?
22:23Then we can run the counter story, reverse the ratings, condemn 23 outright, and Harriet gets a huge sympathy vote.
22:35Brilliant.
22:35Mr. Chairman, may I recommend you order that done immediately?
22:41Later, we will talk to Harriet Garth herself, but first, here is Network 66's recording of that interview.
22:48The time code clearly indicates that at the time the alleged scandal took place, we were conducting an innocent interview in connection with this morning's election.
22:57It is this kind of cheap, sleazy, muckraking telejournalism and gross character assassination that I am pledged to stamp out.
23:08I absolutely deny the scandalous assertions being made by Network 23.
23:14I accuse them of deliberate falsification.
23:18Murray, Carter, what the devil is going on here?
23:20A false story mounted on flimsy evidence.
23:23My top reporter exposed as a shyster.
23:25A senior producer accused of criminal incompetence.
23:29And a major politician publicly accusing this network of character assassination.
23:33Good grief!
23:34Carter, I'll put you before the board in 30 minutes.
23:37I want to know how Harriet Garth was having an interview at exactly the same time as you claim she was having this affair.
23:46Don't say it, Murray. I shouldn't have let her do it.
23:48Save it, Edison. If it's my mistake, I can take the heat.
23:51No, it's my fault. I should have realized the guy was acting.
23:54Well done, Sir Galahad. Nice of you to protect the feelings of your new overnight friend.
23:59Well, of course you would have spotted it immediately.
24:02Since you're the damn expert at men slipping away at dawn.
24:05You know, pardon me for being right, but I'll never understand why people waste so much, so much, so much energy getting excited over the very thing they'll need energy for once the excitement's over.
24:16Anyway, stay tuned for Net-Network 23's very, very, very, very own version of Porky's Landing.
24:25Shut up!
24:30Excellent.
24:31Our candidate appears to be pulling ahead in the polls.
24:34Apparently the viewers deeply sympathize with their situation.
24:37I predict an easy victory for 66.
24:45The only applause I need is the sound of the heartbeat of this great network.
24:52I have only been able to help in some small way.
24:56The man who was the real victor.
24:58Only one man can be identified as being responsible for this triumph.
25:03Chairman Thatcher.
25:08Thank you, Walter.
25:11Congratulations.
25:15It has to be a set-up, Murray.
25:18Someone wants to destroy us and Harriet Garth in one stroke.
25:23The only question is...
25:26Who?
25:26Who?
25:26Network 66 News.
25:39The major story of the morning is the Network 23 scandal.
25:43We have this from the chairman of Network 66.
25:46I am personally shocked and horrified that a top network like 23 should act so irresponsibly.
25:53I can personally assure you of the innocence of my very good friend, Harriet Garth.
26:01You have my word as chairman of Network 66.
26:06It was obviously time to coincide with the tele-election primary.
26:10This is nothing less than political character assassination.
26:15The head of Network 23 should resign.
26:17Ridiculous.
26:17And my rival, Simon Peller, should step down immediately.
26:20Oh, continuous two-way saffler polls...
26:22Step down, Ben.
26:23That's preposterous.
26:25...in the last two minutes, away from Simon Peller.
26:28How this affects the crucial tele-election ratings is not yet clear.
26:32In an electro-democracy, we must ask the question, have networks like 23 become government?
26:38If they misuse their power, if they pervert information for their own ends, if they make ratings into religion,
26:44then where is integrity, where is honesty, where is truth, where is the code of ethics?
26:52We interrupt this commentary for a sports update.
26:55Ben, what the devil is going on?
26:57It's clear to me that we have allowed ourselves to be misled.
27:01Misled?
27:02We're being massacred!
27:04The head of this network, I hold you directly responsible for this...
27:07Put in your lip, Peller.
27:10Carter?
27:11The material we obtained appeared to be genuine.
27:14Yet, so did the interview conducted at the same time.
27:18The question is, which one was a fake, and who faked it, and why?
27:22And whether Harriet Garth was a willing participant.
27:25If not, who set her up and why?
27:26We have to establish the truth wherever it lies.
27:29The truth lies all right, Mr. Carter.
27:31We all saw the pictures.
27:33We all saw Harriet and Garth.
27:34With respect, we saw her back.
27:38Oh, we saw a bit of her front.
27:40Ashwell.
27:41Carter means her face, and he's right.
27:43Could have been a stand-in.
27:45No choice but to pursue this whatever there is.
27:48Get on this, Carter.
27:50Get to Harriet Garth.
27:53Here you go.
27:57Anything?
27:59Well, Edison's outside her house.
28:01No one's challenged him so far.
28:03She must be talking to someone.
28:08Are you okay?
28:09Yes, I'm fine.
28:12Uh, look.
28:15I know there's something wrong between you and Edison.
28:19And I don't, uh...
28:20I don't like my team to be unhappy.
28:23You want to talk about it?
28:24No, it's nothing, really.
28:31Well...
28:31When Edison called this morning...
28:35I...
28:36I wasn't alone.
28:40I see.
28:42Well, that's none of his business, as you say.
28:45That's exactly how I feel.
28:46Good.
28:47So you're sure you're not worried about me?
28:50No.
28:52Why?
28:54You don't smoke.
28:55Why do I have to embroil myself with Carter?
29:02Heller's finished.
29:03The job's done.
29:04Well, yes and no.
29:06I'm the politician, Thatcher.
29:09Goldsberg seems to think there's another round to play.
29:12Harriet, use all your loquacious guile for which you are justly famous.
29:18And soon you'll be swept into power.
29:19Our ratings are massive.
29:23What, after all, is one more lie?
29:26What, after all, is one more lie?
29:56Why, Mr. Carter, what a surprise.
30:03Have you come for the orgy?
30:05Oh, no.
30:06Don't tell me I'm the first one here.
30:10Mind if I come in?
30:12Of course.
30:13Just smash the door down and invade my privacy.
30:16Had I known you were coming, I'd have taken off my clothes.
30:18Well, if you think we should conduct the interview in the nude,
30:21I'm happy to oblige.
30:23I know our ratings would benefit.
30:24However, I've got something a lot less entertaining on my mind.
30:28I suspect, Ms. Garth, that you and I have been deliberately misled.
30:33Almost ready to go live, Control.
30:37We're just getting undressed.
30:38This is Edison Carter with Harry and Garth, live and direct.
30:43First, will you explain what happened at five minutes past five this morning?
30:49This global telelection reaches every part of the planet.
30:53My constituency is everywhere in the transmitted world.
30:57I campaigned with the satellites, Mr. Carter, not the clock.
31:01I was simply giving an interview.
31:07She's lying.
31:09What?
31:10Harriet Garth is lying.
31:13She's guilty of the indiscretions of which Carter and Network 23 accuse her.
31:16I make it a habit to be thorough.
31:21I've obtained and checked a copy of Herstler's tape of her indiscretions.
31:26You will note that the section used on air by 23 cut at this moment.
31:37Some technical matter.
31:41The woman turns and reveals she is indeed...
31:46Harriet Garth.
31:53I have evaluated this position and can recommend one single course of action
31:59to save this network's reputation.
32:03But they may accidentally run that tape on themselves.
32:06Or Carter may break her down.
32:11If she confesses, we're ruined.
32:14Indeed, we are.
32:16Our righteous outrage will backfire.
32:19Network 23 will show our denial to be a desperate cover-up
32:23to protect our political interests.
32:26Yes.
32:27The whole idea was yours, Grossberg.
32:30You will take full responsibility.
32:34Publicly.
32:34I would be delighted.
32:37Were it not for the troublesome incompatibility with the heavily broadcast evidence,
32:43to the contrary.
32:44I can personally assure you of the innocence of my very good friend, Harriet Garth.
32:56You have my word as chairman of Network 66.
33:01What does this mean?
33:07It means, Harriet Garth is lying.
33:11And if Network 23 ever examined that tape, or Carter discovers the truth from Garth,
33:19this network will lose all and any credibility, as well as the telelection.
33:29Exactly, Mr. Bartlett.
33:34Exactly.
33:35This is grotesque.
33:38You can't ask Chairman Thatcher to do this.
33:42Are you suggesting I consider...
33:44I'm not suggesting you consider.
33:47I move the vote.
33:54Those for Thatcher remaining in office.
34:01Those against.
34:02Chubb?
34:07Chubb?
34:10Chubb?
34:11Chubb?
34:11Chubb?
34:13Chubb?
34:14Chubb?
34:16Chubb?
34:17Chubb?
34:18Chubb?
34:20Chubb?
34:21PHONE RINGS
34:51Defeat is an orphan. Victory has a hundred fathers.
35:13Congratulations, Chairman Grossberg.
35:28This is your chairman.
35:30Moments ago, I accepted the resignation of Clive Thatcher.
35:34It is my public duty to advise our viewers of the truth.
35:39How about Harriet Garth?
35:41Run the prepared news item.
35:44Moments ago, Network 66 made the shock announcement.
35:49Following the Harriet Garth scandal,
35:51Chairman Clive Thatcher has resigned
35:53over accusations of conspiracy in the Harriet Garth affair.
35:56We'll have the complete Thatcher story.
35:58Network 66 news contains...
35:59They sold her out.
36:01They sold out their own man.
36:03Mary, what if both tapes were fake?
36:07What are you talking about?
36:08You can't fake a tape.
36:09Pictures don't lie.
36:10At least not until you assemble them creatively.
36:12No, no.
36:13I mean, what if both tapes were genuine,
36:14but the set-ups and the time codes were staged?
36:16I don't know.
36:17Show me.
36:18Okay, look.
36:19Okay, look.
36:24Right.
36:35Edit lock.
36:36Kersler.
36:37Kersler hit the edit lock.
36:50Why?
36:51Identifying her as what we wanted.
36:53Yeah, but it's not what he wanted.
36:55Mary, he was deliberately delaying the truth.
36:58All right, all right.
37:00Thatcher supports Garth, right?
37:01Right.
37:02But then someone reveals she was guilty,
37:05and goodbye the chairman of 66.
37:08It's brilliant.
37:10It's sinister.
37:12The media is running events not reporting them.
37:15Mary, they're manufacturing their own truth.
37:19She was set up.
37:22And so were we.
37:25Grossberg set me up!
37:27Well, Harriet, why don't you tell a nice old guileless telejournalist exactly what happened?
37:36Fully, frankly, undressed.
37:41I am completely lost.
37:50If she is guilty of this thing-gummy, uh, men and things, why is Carter so sure she's innocent?
37:58How could she be?
37:59Politicians are always guilty of something.
38:01Usually the question is of what or when.
38:05Seems to me she's guilty of professional suicide.
38:08Look at the ratings.
38:10At least it vindicates our original report.
38:12We should get Carter out of there.
38:13He's done a fine job.
38:14The ratings are huge.
38:16And our reputation is intact.
38:18Seven minutes, and the tele-lection is ours.
38:21As ever.
38:22Carter's been very clever.
38:24Mr. Champion, Edison Carter is on the lane.
38:29Carter!
38:30So, Grossberg is back.
38:32He and 66 have double-double crossed Harriet Garth,
38:35and I think her story will illuminate the whole nasty setup.
38:37I want to go live on this.
38:39You realize this may increase Garth's chances in the tele-lection?
38:43I believe this is a moral choice, Mr. Cheviot, not a political one.
38:46We've got four minutes.
38:48Well, we must do what we have to do, Carter.
38:52Mr. Cheviot, Grossberg's on the view phone.
38:56Good morning.
38:57I'm back, Dan.
39:00You won't expect us to congratulate you.
39:02You're not welcome.
39:03Welcome?
39:05You and I built Network 23.
39:07And you damn near destroyed it.
39:09Drop the phony nostalgia and come to the point, man.
39:12Don't trade insults with me.
39:14I wouldn't trade cow-flop with you, Ned.
39:17You and I are at war.
39:19And I'm going to win this first battle, Cheviot, as 66 ticks the tele-lection.
39:28So, Edison, you're going to go for me after all.
39:34Yes, I am.
39:36You really don't fool me, Harriet.
39:38You know exactly what was happening.
39:41Save it, Carter.
39:42A couple of hours is a long time in video politics.
39:45This week ruined, next week revered.
39:48One good show with the right ratings, I'll be back in days.
39:51You're beautiful, Harriet. Everything seems to be going perfect.
40:01Roseburg.
40:02Edison, Carter.
40:05I seem to have been a little premature.
40:07Yeah, the last time you were a little premature was when you were announcing my death, as I recall.
40:12Yes, I remember a long time ago, Carter.
40:15Well, jerk yourself back to the present,
40:17or I'm about to make certain that the truth about you is made very public.
40:22Your tame politician here is not going to get elected.
40:26This is one tele-election, the public's going to win.
40:31James, Edison, Carter. Come on, let's move.
40:34Are you coming, Edison?
40:40Hey, Harriet, Carter.
40:42We are running live patrol.
40:46I've just left Harriet Garth.
40:49I now know the truth about this affair.
40:51You, the viewing public, have the right to know that you, as well as Harriet Garth,
40:56have been manipulated for political ends.
40:58With just minutes to go, this is the truth behind this morning's tele-election.
41:03What do we do now?
41:05We are going to win.
41:07The public will not pay the slightest attention to Edison Carter's hysterical crusading.
41:11They will switch to the next act of Porky's Landing, and the auto count will elect you, despite everything.
41:16You seem very certain.
41:18Indeed, I am.
41:20Soon the viewers will all be watching their favorite program again.
41:25A full belly and a diverting show makes a bad revolutionary, Harriet.
41:31Television is the opiate of the people.
41:34Long may it be so.
41:36Grossberg, what the hell do you do for a conscience?
41:41Occasionally I rent one.
41:43Network 66 persuaded millions of you to leave your TVs tuned to their channel all night,
41:49ensuring the ratings that would give them victory at the tele-election.
41:53The man who devised the scheme is Ned Grossberg, now chairman of Network 66.
41:58He's the same man who brought you the Harriet Garth story.
42:01A story that is entirely false.
42:03You, the public, have been callously duped by a man who regards truth as a market commodity.
42:11As for my own mistake...
42:13Check the election polls.
42:15They're evening out.
42:17Keller's leading.
42:18Could go either way.
42:20It's a horse race.
42:22Look again, they're both dropping.
42:24What's happening?
42:25What's going on?
42:26Network 85's trending up astronomically.
42:28They can't win.
42:29They can't possibly.
42:40Viewers have spoken.
42:42I'll be a stutter.
42:44Mr. Grossberg's on the view phone.
42:46Cheviot, I will destroy you and your network, but not today.
42:51So sweat a little, Ben.
42:53You'll never know when it will come, but it will come when I decide.
42:57When I am ready.
42:59Vengeance, you see, is a dish best eaten cold.
43:05Knife bastard.
43:09Well, looks as if you're out of a job, Simon.
43:20It seems the truth could be an expensive commodity.
43:24But Carter did the right thing.
43:26They abandoned both our networks by the millions.
43:28They just voted with their channel switches.
43:30Maybe we don't fool them after all.
43:36Is that your daughter or your mistress, Murray?
43:41Excuse me.
43:45You know, Kersler, we need to screw it up and tell election, Murray.
43:48Yeah, well, you cleaned up your mess, Kersler.
43:51That, uh, that frame up there, that was disgusting.
44:07Yeah, but you fell for it, Murray.
44:09Just like the viewers.
44:11Beware of jealousy.
44:13It is the green-green-eyed monster which mocks the meat it feeds on.
44:18Who loves not his wronger?
44:22Who doubts, yet doubts, yet so soundly loves?
44:27Shakespeare.
44:29And Edison Carter.
44:30That's great.
44:31Very bad.
44:37I'm sorry.
44:39I had no right to act so protectively.
44:46It's my fault.
44:48Well, it's refreshing to know that you're not perfect and invincible.
44:54Let's not go too far.
44:56Ah, blessed, blessed, blessed are the peacemakers.
45:02What's happened to you people at 66?
45:05No, I'll tell you what's happened to you.
45:07Ned Grossberg has happened to you.
45:10That is what has happened to you.
45:13This is war now.
45:14Do you understand that?
45:15This is war.
45:16Go eat your milk and cookies like a good boy.
45:19Hurry.
45:20I don't like milk.
45:21What are you doing?
45:22Hey!
45:23What about me?
45:24Me!
45:25You're outnumbered 66 to 23.
45:26You need all the help.
45:27You can get!
45:28Get!
45:29Get!
45:30Get!
45:31Get!
45:32Get!
45:33Oh, my God!
45:34Oh, my God!
45:35Oh!
45:36Look out!
45:37Come on, Ned!
45:38Come on!
45:39Come on!
45:40Come on!
45:41Come on!
45:42Oh, my God!
45:43Oh!
45:44Oh!
45:45Oh!
45:46Oh!
45:47Oh!
45:48Oh!
45:49Oh!
45:50Oh!
45:51Come on, Ned!
45:52Come on!
45:53Come on!
45:54Come on!
45:55Come on!
45:56I'll give you a damn good fight!
45:57Get out!
45:58Fight!
45:59Fight!
46:00Oh!
46:01Oh!
46:02Oh!
46:03Oh!
46:04Oh!
46:05Oh!
46:06Oh!
46:07That... that it?
46:08What... what about the bit where I duck duck and the guy next to me gets hit?
46:12I think I can look forward to plenty of that and then that Grossberg's back.
46:15Well, I should hope you're quite pleased with yourself, Carter.
46:18Thanks to your fearless reporting of the Garth business, we both lost the telelectrum.
46:22You overdosed my public.
46:24I just reported a political farce, Simon.
46:27I just decided to watch it a different soap opera.
46:30You should leave it to me next time.
46:32Leave it to someone who understands show business.
46:36If I rule the world, every day would be the first day of spring.
46:45RAH!
46:46RAH!
46:47RAH!
46:48RAH!
46:49RAH!
46:51RAH!
46:52RAH!
46:53RAH!
46:54I under helped see the difference in passing!
46:57It was toaro go on JUST AENTITY!
46:58Sir...
46:59It's destroyed pueden...
47:01Thriller!
47:03This ran out it and I've already pestered!
47:05You should have doubled the crew!
47:07It's due!
47:08Thanks a lot!
47:09To采 experts!!!
47:11T 是 a lot of money,
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