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CibbuanoFrontline - Judge and Jury
March 14th 2007 23:40
Episode: 1.12 ‘Judge and Jury’
What Happens: Frontline airs a story on a priest accused of rape, despite the allegations being unproven.
The Issues/Cliches of Current Affairs television: Current affairs shows passing sentence and incriminating people who are possibly innocent.
Elliot-Watch: No appearance.
Celebrities: Shirley Strachan appears.
Celebrity mentions: No mentions.
Quotes:
BRIAN: (Reading from newspaper) ‘The Orange Lacewing Butterfly, previously twenty in the world… now, two.
MARTIN DI STASIO: Brian, listen…
BRIAN: Nah, nah, there’s more – “As of five o’clock yesterday, there were only four known specimens of the Speckled Bogon Moth, as of today, formally extinct.
MARTIN DI STASIO: How were we supposed to know that moths are attracted to l… light.
(Stu and Jase start laughing).
(Mike sprays some flyspray around Marty)
MARTIN DI STASIO: You right?
MIKE MOORE: Sorry, I thought I saw a butterfly.
(Marty hits him with a rolled up newspaper)
MIKE MOORE: (clutching arm) Ow, I was doing a clever joke and you were just violent!
EMMA: You took a hidden camera into a confession?
MARTIN DI STASIO: It’s alright Em, she went back and got his forgiveness.
EMMA: Two brothers from Sandringham saved a yacht crew from drowning last night.
EMMA: They’re heroes, it’s a big story.
MARTIN DI STASIO: Did they then have sex with a nun, or…
EMMA: Well, if you don’t want to do it…
MARTIN DI STASIO: No, no! I’ll take it, I’ll take it. Interview exclusive?
EMMA: Errr… for a cost.
MARTIN DI STASIO: How much?
EMMA: They want two slabs of beer.
MARTIN DI STASIO: Classy blokes.
EMMA: And they said not light.
MARTIN DI STASIO: Very classy blokes.
MARTIN DI STASIO: “Wolves in priest’s clothing”?
BROOKE: That was Brian.
EMMA: Yeah, we wanted to call it, “Priests or paedophiles”.
BROOKE: Apparently she’d forgotten the whole rape.
EMMA: How do you forget rape?
BROOKE: You don’t forget rape, you block it out. There’s some technical term for it.
MARTIN DI STASIO: Yeah, “bullshit”.
(Marty grabs some chocolates out of a charity box)
KATE: Marty!
MARTIN DI STASIO: What?
KATE: You’re meant to pay for those.
MARTIN DI STASIO: So a couple of Pandas cark it, what do I care?
EMMA: Wouldn’t be the first endangered species you’ve wiped out this week, would it Marty?
(The girls all laugh)
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