GE 1996-7 Season 3 Episode 23: Show Trial
Note: this is not a transcript, but a working draft of the script, so there may be differences in the aired version.
SHOW TRIAL
MUSIC: Isle of the Dead.
ARIEL: So Mister Minister this resume of yours is up to date?
MIN: Hmmm?
NARR: SHOW TRIAL!
ARIEL: Because I was just looking over your little "c.v." and ..
MIN: Give me that!
NARR: with Ariel ...
SFX: Whip Crack
NARR: ...Flint.
ARIEL: Says here you're a Fellow of The Harvard School of Goverment.
MIN: Does it?
NARR: Show Trial! With Ariel Flint. It's the Public's right to know.
MIN: Hey, look at me, I'm a fellow and you know I was in Boston so hey,
there are a few extra letters after my name, who does that hurt?
ARIEL: And this little Pulitzer Prize?
MIN: Oh that!
NARR: Government Members - Warts and all, on Show Trial.
MIN: It was a mail order thing .... (weeping) It cost me a hundrd bucks.
NARR: This week on Show Trial, Taxi dancer Flint shows that Liberal crony
Monty Hodder feigned stroke to avoid testifying.
ARIEL: It's pointless Minister, the door to Show Trial is always
locked ... from the outside.