:56:00
Sounds like the basis
of a firm friendship.
:56:03
- We'll need more chairs.
- Anybody want coffee?
:56:05
I'd love some.
:56:13
This is my lawyer, Sam Haywood,
and his associate, Merrill Grant.
:56:19
Miss Christensen, just what the hell's
this all about?
:56:23
Because, when a national
television network...
:56:26
in the person of booby here
comes to me and says...
:56:31
they want to put the ongoing struggle
of the oppressed masses...
:56:34
on prime-time television...
:56:36
I have to regard this askance!
:56:38
Mr. Haywood was saying
that our client, Miss Hobbs...
:56:42
wants it up front that
the political content of the show...
:56:46
has to be in her control.
:56:49
She can have it. I don't give a damn
about the political content.
:56:53
What kind of show?
:56:55
I'm interested in doing
a weekly dramatic series...
:56:58
based on the
Ecumenical Liberation Army...
:57:00
and the first show has to be
a two-hour special on Mary Ann Gifford.
:57:04
I want a lot more film like the bank
rip-off the Ecumenical sent in.
:57:09
The way I see the series is...
:57:12
each week we open with an authentic act
of political terrorism...
:57:16
taken on the spot
and in the actual moment.
:57:19
Then we go to the drama behind
the opening film footage.
:57:22
That's your job, Miss Hobbs.
:57:24
You've got to get the Ecumenicals
to bring in that film footage for us.
:57:28
The network can't deal with them.
They are wanted criminals.
:57:32
The Ecumenical Liberation Army
is an ultra-left sect...
:57:35
creating political confusion...
:57:37
with wildcat violence
and pseudo-insurrectionary acts...
:57:40
which the Communist Party
does not endorse.
:57:42
The American masses are not yet ready
for open revolt.
:57:45
We would not want to produce
a television show...
:57:48
celebrating historically
deviational terrorism.
:57:51
I'm offering you an hour
of prime-time television every week...
:57:54
into which you can stick
whatever propaganda you want.
:57:56
The Ecumenicals are an undisciplined
ultra-left gang...
:57:59
whose leader is an eccentric,
to say the least.