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Absolute Power

Crash and Burn

Season 1, Episode 6, Aired Dec 15, 2003

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A hugely lucrative golden handcuff deal is jeopardised when one of Charles' most successful clients, the stand-up comedian Alan Boardman, is caught on CCTV camera beating up his girlfriend in the Ikea car park. The strategy Charles proposes to save his career is, even by Prentiss McCabes' shoddy moral standards, as unethical as it is shocking. An apocalyptic end seems inevitable for the sultans of spin. Meanwhile in an attempt to sex up their image, the Tory party have approached Prentiss McCabe to launch a youth-led campaign - should they choose as their anthem I Have A Dream by Westlife, It's OK by Atomic Kitten or Blue's All Rise?moreless

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Dermot Murnaghan

Himself
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Sue Elliott-Nicholls

Journalist #2
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Stephanie Callister

Newsreader

Stephen Fry

Charles Prentiss
John Bird

Martin McCabe
Sally Bretton

Cat Durnford
Zoe Telford

Alison Jackman
Nick Burns

Nick Mayer

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- As the group brainstorms, the labesls go: The Creative Team/ The Creative Team?/ The Team
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- Headline in newspaper: SHAME Is This Britain's Sickest Man? (With a picture of Charles on his cell phone.)
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QUOTES (4)
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- Charles: (to Alan, frustrated) How many times do I have to tell you? Nobody gives a ***k about the truth; that is why you employ me.
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- Charles: I thought I heard the clattering hooves of a personal hobby horse being ridden.
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- Martin: Now, I think anything involving dementia would work against him doing a future game show... (thinking)I don't know.
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- Charles: Chop chop, people! We have a career to save and a pestilence to unleash.
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NOTES (3)
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- Whiteboard #1: AVOIDING BAD PRESS STRATEGIES: 1. Deny everything 2. Admit everything 3. Don't do anything wrong in the first place
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- Whiteboard#2: How to cut it in P.R. QUALITIES NEEDED: The X factor The Y Factor MAX FACTOR
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- The disease that was created for this episode is Marquierro - Hennell Disease.
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- Alan: There he is, Diabolus himself.--The use of the name Diabolus refers to one of many nicknames Satan, the Devil has.
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- Alan's over-the-head hand-waving and chanting of "I am unworthy! I am unworthy!" towards Charles is a nod to Mike Myers and Dana Carvey's Wayne and Garth and that duo's "We're not worthy!" chant to celebrities.
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- Charles: (to the make-up woman) You've worked on Holby City...--references the Casulty spin-off; a hospital show where the woman would have, presumably, experience at what Charles et. al., were wanting.
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- Martin mentions Butch Casidy and The Sundance Kid at Charles' townhouse near the end. That is then followed up by evoking Butch and Sundance whenCharles and Martin are surrounded by the press and we don't see if they "survive" the encounter.
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