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Bond Villain: Evil Plans: Part II
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Seated in his egg-shaped chair at the head of a briefing table, a pale-haired supervillain finishes revealing the true purpose of his organisation and smoothly invites anyone with moral doubts to simply walk away. One employee, Hugo, admits the plan sounded a bit much and says he would like to leave, promising to keep quiet. Assuring him that he certainly will, the villain reaches for a button under his armrest, but instead of a silent drop a red warning light starts flashing and a guard sets up striped safety rails around Hugo's seat. As a calm automated voice repeatedly warns that trapdoor three is about to open and asks everyone to clear the area, the villain keeps up a stream of innocent chatter about redundancy packages, pension dates and an emergency drill to keep his nervous victim in his chair. By the time the hatch finally opens, Hugo's seat is empty and the remaining staff sit in uneasy silence.
The funny people
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Highly quotable.
So, any niggling little doubts?
We need to talk about your redundancy package.
No, no, it's just an emergency drill.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
David Kerr
Director
Gareth Edwards
Producer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The sketch pays off Bond Villain: Evil Plans earlier in the same episode, in which a builder insisted on the health and safety features that now give the trapdoor away.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Supervillain
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the true purpose of the Calippo organization. Now, doubtless, this may come as a shock to some of you. So let me assure you, if any of you have any moral qualms about my little proposition, you're more than welcome to simply walk away. way. So, any niggling little doubts?
- 00:37
Hugo
Um, Yes, I thought that all sounded a bit. So, I might go, if that's all right, but I won't tell anyone, I swear.
- 00:51
Supervillain
No, Hugo. I Well, know you won't.
- 00:57
Hugo
Well, no, I won't.
- 01:00
Supervillain
I'm quite sure you won't.
- 01:14
Hugo
Um, what's that?
- 01:16
Supervillain
Nothing, Nothing, don't you worry about that.
- 01:19
Hugo
Okay, so am I free to go?
- 01:22
Supervillain
Yes, yes, just sit tight for a moment, though. We need to talk about your redundancy package.
- 01:27
Supervillain
Why, isn't it?
- 01:28
Because you need to press the other button. guard down.
- 01:37
Hugo
Sorry, What's going on?
- 01:41
Supervillain
Nothing, nothing. Now, we can forward date your pension to...
- 01:45
Attention, attention. Trap door number three is about to open. Please clear the area.
- 01:50
Hugo
Trap door? Is there a trap door?
- 01:52
Supervillain
No, no, it's just an emergency drill. You sit tight.
- 01:55
Trap door three is about to open. Please clear the area.
- 01:59
Hugo
I think I might go.
- 02:00
Supervillain
No, no, no, stay. But we haven't talked about what sort of a leaving bash you might...
- 02:04
Trapdoor three now opening.
- 02:07
Oh, terrific.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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