State of Play2003

Cameron Foster:
Come in ! [Cal enters Cameron's office] Cal McCaffrey, Yvonne Shaps, legal executive. As from now, Yvonne will be making all my headline decisions for me.

Yvonne Shaps:
Nowhere near true. I'm here to avoid us printing material that invites more writs than readers. I've withdrawn the appeal against the injunction.

Cal McCaffrey:
Oh... great first move.

Yvonne Shaps:
On the grounds that we shouldn't be spending legals defending a story that couldn't defend itself.

Cal McCaffrey:
That story is good. It's better than good.

Yvonne Shaps:
Bits of it are. You can't accuse an international corporation of murder without evidence !

Cal McCaffrey:
Implying responsibility.

Yvonne Shaps:
You paid an anonymous source for a briefcase containing instructions for the assassination of Sonia Baker.

Cal McCaffrey:
Requiring less implication.

Yvonne Shaps:
Anonymous source is nowhere near good enough for something this size! If you can't back it, we can't print it... Oh please don't look at me like that message just came from Mars.

Cal McCaffrey:
Uh, listen Yvonne. I don't know who sent you but, um, well you'd have to be pretty thick...

Cameron Foster:
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No spitting. No, Yvonne's not saying the big no. Just little noes until we get a version of the story we CAN print.

Cal McCaffrey:
Cameron, Cameron, if we don't go with this and soon, it'll be hijacked by every...

Cal McCaffrey:
I know ! Shut up ! Maybe that's Yvonne's secret plan. We'll find out. Why don't you go and, uh, and type something, uh, lovely and then we'll calm down and regroup when she's had a chance to read it intelligently ?