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  1. Thanks, finance.

    I don't expect this one to be hard; I just like it.

     

    "Well, what do you believe in?...Don't laugh, tell me."

     

    "Well, I belive the Number Eleven bus will get me to Hammersmith. I do not believe it will be driven by, uh, Father Christmas."

     

    ???

  2. > BRIT -- Police income tax*

    > AMER -- The pad, shakedown, "on the pad"

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    > ...Money extorted from businesses by the police, especially to gain lax enforcement. (A barber who also functioned as a bookie, etc.)

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    > *...From "In come the police and you pay the tax."

    Verbatum from the 1979 film *The Human Factor* Sourced from a novel by Graham Greene, and scripted by Tom Stoppard.

  3. ...and script by Tom Stoppard, with a cast that included Nicol Williamson, Derik Jacobi, Richard Attenborough, Robert Morley and John Gielgud. Correct. Did not get the attention that that assembly of talent deserved, IMO. Eve's thread.

  4. *7.* Flashback some 8 years or so to when the agent was operating in South Africa, with a cover story as a magazine writer. The woman was active in anti-Apartheid efforts, as was the biological father of her son. He had asked some favors in getting her out of that zone, and was obligated for some favors in return. Back in the "present day" of the 1970s, his Department is visited by a South African police official who is belligerenty eager to arrest the wife and take her back. "If you want to f**k a black ****, why don't you go to a whorehouse in Swaziland? It's still a part of your so-called commonwealth."

     

    In other developments, the Security chief reviews all facts concerning the young office man who had died. (An in-house doctor had brought about this fatality, then covered it up as a natural-causes death, to be blamed on excessive drinking.) The Security man's report: "I think you killed the wrong man." The doctor's response: "Pity."

     

    The operative now tells everything to his wife, about what he did to bring about her freedom. "I've been a double agent for seven years". Sure now that he is close to arrest, he sends the wife and son off to his mother's home, with a story that they have argued and separated. Now he must get himself to safety.

  5. *6.* Droll, deadpan comedy of manners moments: An executive, after a weekend "shoot" at his estate, brings uncleaned, unplucked dead phesants to work as gifts for underlings who are in no position to refuse them and must feign gratitude. // A man makes a lunch date with an uncaring woman who doesn't keep the date. He has to make a verbal report to a superior after the lunch, so he has some office documents with him for a quick review. He is observed by a superior -- work materials out of the office and awaiting someone who doesn't show up. And this is a man already under suspicion for leaking department info. // An executive attends his daughter's wedding reception, meeting his dreaded ex-wife for the first time in years. He gets a phone call informing him that an underling has died suddenly -- the one who misbehaved with the office documents at lunchtime. Just as the executive departs, he manages to break one of the ex-wife's prized ceramic owls.

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