Dr. Alfred Jones:
Did you get my email?
Bernard Sugden:
Yes. What did it say?
Dr. Alfred Jones:
Took the meeting. Waste of time as predicted. Now if you don't mind I'll get back to my work.
Bernard Sugden:
Dr. Jones.
[holds up a document which Dr. Jones takes]
Dr. Alfred Jones:
What is this?
Bernard Sugden:
P45.
Dr. Alfred Jones:
I'm sorry. I don't, I don't understand.
Bernard Sugden:
Oh, well, a P45 is the official document given to an employee when his services are no longer required by his or her employer.
Dr. Alfred Jones:
Yes, but Bernard, this has got my...
Bernard Sugden:
Or, you can sign this letter stating that you are delighted to assign yourself exclusively to the Yemeni salmon fishing project with immediate effect. Up to you.
Dr. Alfred Jones:
But Bernard, you know as well as I do this thing is a bloody joke. Where the hell you gonna get salmon that far...
Bernard Sugden:
[interrupts and taps the P45]
Just there.
Dr. Alfred Jones:
This is blackmail Sugden. This is a bloody outrage.
Bernard Sugden:
Fitzharris & Price will be paying your salary while on secondment. Almost double what it is now. I'd say that's a bloody outrage.
Dr. Alfred Jones:
Double. Can I have time to think about this?
Bernard Sugden:
Nope.
Dr. Alfred Jones:
Can I borrow your pen?
Bernard Sugden:
Yah. It's my special one with the italic nib.
[Dr. Jones grabs it, scribbles his signature on the P45 and storms out]
