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The Games

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The Games	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Games was an Australian Mockumentary television series about the run-up to the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson, it had two seasons of thirteen episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000 shortly before the Olympics.The main characters are in the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). All use their real names. John Clarke is supposedly the "Olympic Supremo" and a former Olympic champion (though he never says what in); Bryan Dawe, the head accountant; Gina Riley, the head of marketing; and Nicholas Bell is the Secretary to the Minister for the Olympics.The series is heavily satirical of the corruption and wastage around the Games, and criticises SOCOG, politicians, opportunistic businesses, and the International Olympic Committee. At one point, John and Nicholas wonder aloud where their funding has gone — while they're having incredibly expensive gourmet food and wine.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })In one episode John Howard played himself. That's John Howard the actor, not John Howard the then prime minister of Australia. John Howard (the actor) apologised for the treatment of indigenous Australians, which the prime minister always refused to do. (Kevin Rudd, the succeeding prime minister, did give the apology).Season 1 of The Games was released on DVD in 2005, and Season 2 is now out in Australia. In 2011, Channel 9 was going to air The Games: London Calling, where the cast are hired to help with the London 2012 Olympics. Unfortunately, it got cancelled.The BBC produced 2012, a series with an almost-identical concept (a group of hapless bureaucrats organising the London games), but denied stealing the idea.See also The Games' Funny entry and the YMMV entry.
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The Games / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
The Games / int_149ff4b0	comment	Hilarity Ensues: The team have to deal with the Millennium Bug, and John is convinced that it doesn't exist. To prove it, he sets the date on his computer to January 1st, 2000, and …yeah, he should have reconsidered.
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The Games / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Games / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Many of The Games' storylines and events are based on rumours or news reports about the Real Life Olympics.
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The Games / int_1750b9be	type	Poisonous Friend
The Games / int_1750b9be	comment	Poisonous Friend: Nicholas, quite often. One example was when he wrote a completely incorrect press release and put Gina's name on it without even showing it to her, and tried to get John to sign another without reading it, thus setting them up as the scapegoats for his terrible plan.
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The Games / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Games / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: The Minister for the Olympics, who never appeared but was often referenced. In one episode, Joseph Williams, a businessman who basically gets whatever he wants and has his eyes on the Olympics board. He gets shot before anything happens.
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The Games / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
The Games / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: Maybe part of the dysfunction with The Games is that there's only three people running it! Bryan is in-charge of finance, but apparently is also in-charge of all transportation as well. Gina does almost all the media, marketing, merchandising, liaising, publicity, diplomacy and entertainment, etc. John handles anything that doesn't fit into the other two character's broad remit and is the Head of Administration and Logistics. Some episodes paint John as one of many department heads under the Minister and SOCOG and others paint him as the Supremo of the whole Games. Gina lampshades this in an interview saying If we all stuck to our job descriptions, nothing would ever get done
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The Games / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Games / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Tim, while on the phone, is asked what he does there, his answer: No, I just sit here... no I don't say much, they don't give me any lines... no I just tend to be doing things in the background. In 'Solar', again on the phone, John breaks the fourth wall. That's the athletics track, we're making a television program, we're pretending to organize the Olympics and that's the track. It's actually a photograph... no that's actually a photograph of the track in Seoul.
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The Games / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Games / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The episode title "J'accuse" — the episode features the Olympics team having disagreements with a journalist named Jack Hughes.
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The Games / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Games / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Of course, they didn't mean to be obstructive, it just happened that way.
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The Games / int_26bccc6e	type	Ash Face
The Games / int_26bccc6e	comment	Ash Face: At the end of "Lateline/Rural", John returns to office just in time to see the end of the country ladies proposal for the opening ceremony. Gina and Bryan use John's presence to excuse themselves. It turns out the final part involves detonating the black ring. In the outer office, Bryan and Gina are startled by an explosion that rattles the windows, and John staggers in, smoking and singed, but very impressed.
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The Games / int_2765af58	type	Language Fluency Denial
The Games / int_2765af58	comment	Language Fluency Denial: John's instructions in "Talking to the Troops" are that if anyone asks who's paying for the Olympic Games you are to say, "No spikka di Inglish."
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The Games / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Games / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: In the finale, Tim tells John and Bryan that he can't tell them the song he's understudying John Williamson for because he signed a confidentiality agreement. They both speculate that it may be "Waltzing Matilda" but Tim refuses to confirm this. Then when John asks whether he signed the confidentiality agreement before or after finding out the song was Waltzing Matilda, he answers "before".
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The Games / int_323e47e2	type	Chain of Corrections
The Games / int_323e47e2	comment	Chain of Corrections: Gina and John talking about Chariots of Fire.
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The Games / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
The Games / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: Everyone remarks on the fact that they're doing a TV series and often talk to or about the camera crew. Played with though, as most of the references are in the guise that they're actually running the Olympics and this is a genuine documentary, so within the world of 'The Games' as a comedy series the fourth wall remains untouched. However Tim in particular, will also make occasional remarks that acknowledge he's in a scripted show.
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The Games / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
The Games / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: Sydney, portrayed as a city where everyone double-crosses you, the media will crucify you if you say one bad word, your co-workers will lynch you and run off at the first opportunity and nobody will help you.
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The Games / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Games / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: The Minister and his Secretary, their schemes and/or errors create a lot of the drama that the team has to solve. Those schemes twice include the removal of a member of the team, first Bryan and then Gina, which were thwarted. Later in series 2, Nicholas switches from being a mouthpiece for the unseen Minister's schemes to peddling his own to ensure his own survival and career advancement.
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The Games / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
The Games / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: 'The Games' may refer to the Olympics or to the psychological games played by John, Bryan, Gina and Nicholas.
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The Games / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Games / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Nicholas, in fact John twice refers to him as a "bit of a bastard" and a lot of the the team's strife is due to his schemes.
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The Games / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Games / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: They got the Olympics on, but they couldn't fix the Closing Ceremony and all the cock-ups and over-budgeting means that they have to get out of there.
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The Games / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
The Games / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Averted - Despite being initially dismissive, John becomes somewhat moved by the Aboriginal issue in "Reconciliation" and tries to do what little is in his power, which really isn't anything. Gina hatches a scheme that defuses the issue without doing anything for the Aborigines.
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The Games / int_49d5f48f	type	Of Corpse He's Alive
The Games / int_49d5f48f	comment	Of Corpse He's Alive: When an IOC delegate dies under embarrassing circumstances, John and Gina need to pretend he's still alive until he can be officially found dead. They decide to make use of his presence to have a meeting with the "three" of them in order to vote down some new rules they don't like.
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The Games / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
The Games / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: One episode has John telling a journalist about an embarrassing night out that Gina had. When she later calls John, furious that somebody told, he accidentally admits that he knows who wrote it before she told him.
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The Games / int_5628a3	type	Vindicated by History
The Games / int_5628a3	comment	Vindicated by History: Despite all the cockups, the Sydney Olympics was "The Best Olympics Ever" to this day, with almost all of the permanent venues still in use.
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The Games / int_5b8cd10f	type	Badge Gag
The Games / int_5b8cd10f	comment	Badge Gag: In "Dead Man", Bryan explains to Jasmine how you can get past security just by being in a hurry, flashing any kind of ID, and brusquely stating the name of an agency, which they then put into practice as they barge through a secure area of the airport:
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The Games / int_61c2f627	type	Break the Motivational Speaker
The Games / int_61c2f627	comment	Break the Motivational Speaker: "A Management Course" has a downplayed example. John and Gina clearly do not want to be there and frustrate the instructor by refusing to engage (in John's case by picking apart minutiae and pretending unrelated events in the room were part of the scenario, in Gina's by pretending not to understand what's being asked). Bryan however does actually participate.
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The Games / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
The Games / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: 13 episodes per series.
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The Games / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Games / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: In "4 Corners", John and Bryan claim that some hidden-camera footage of them and another man discussing taxing the rich can't legally be broadcast because neither of them were aware they were being taped or consented to releasing the footage. Nicholas says that the public's right to know would outweigh that, but John and Bryan were right — they were talking about the possibility of changing the tax system, not planning to change it, and while they could certainly suggest that said system be changed, neither of them actually had the power to make such changes.
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The Games / int_76c30df4	type	Will Not Tell a Lie
The Games / int_76c30df4	comment	Will Not Tell a Lie: John's general policy
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The Games / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
The Games / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Averted with the 100 Meters track course when they bring in the stadium contractor. They work out that while the oval shaped main track is the standard 400 meters but that the 100 metres track, that starts off the main track and joins the main oval, is about 100 metres long. It's so short that Brian, a middle aged and not particularly athletic man can run it fast enough to break the Australian record, and that an upcoming schoolboy championship will result in the World Record being broken.
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The Games / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Games / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: As mentioned above under And Then What?, Gina (and probably everyone else) hasn't thought about what the stadiums will be used for after the games. And as it turns out, a large number of host cities never thought about it either, because their stadiums are abandoned wrecks. Vindicated by History: Despite all the cockups, the Sydney Olympics was "The Best Olympics Ever" to this day, with almost all of the permanent venues still in use.
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The Games / int_8c38815e	type	Mister Descriptor
The Games / int_8c38815e	comment	Mister Descriptor: Mr. Sydney Olympic Games
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The Games / int_91489a9a	type	Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names
The Games / int_91489a9a	comment	Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names: Referenced in "IOC Man" when Bill Ten Eyck says his son is named "Bill, Jr.", leading John to ask if he didn't bother naming his daughters.
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The Games / int_9bb8ac92	type	Stealing the Credit
The Games / int_9bb8ac92	comment	Stealing the Credit: One of the most frequently acknowledged traits of the Minister. Also however frequently subverted when the Minister and Nicholas ask John to take credit for things that may have secret PR time-bombs in them.
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The Games / int_9c4a7090	type	Springtime for Hitler
The Games / int_9c4a7090	comment	Springtime for Hitler: In "Strike", Gina tells a major industrialist to stick his demands up his arse... not expecting him to actually back down.
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The Games / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
The Games / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: Everyone souvenirs something in the final episode.
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The Games / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
The Games / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?:
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The Games / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
The Games / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: John Clarke, while often sarcastic and somewhat argumentative, is definitely a benevolent boss to Bryan and Gina, with A Father to His Men qualities as well. He even almost resigned himself rather than carry out orders to fire Gina.
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The Games / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Games / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Nicholas starts occasionally popping up here and there as essentially the voice of the invisible Minister for the Games, he merely serves to present challenges for the team. By the second series though, he's a lot more present, a fourth member of the main cast, and even has plot lines of his own. At the end, Gina even adds him in her lyrics for the series theme "John, Gina, Bryan and the Minister's Secretary". Tim is introduced in the second series and grows in importance as the series goes on, he plays a big role in the finale.
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The Games / int_a67371c2	type	Character as Himself
The Games / int_a67371c2	comment	Character as Himself: John Howard (the character) played by John Howard (the actor) in order to be mistaken for John Howard (the Prime Minister).
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The Games / int_aae0ee10	type	Punny Headlines
The Games / int_aae0ee10	comment	Punny Headlines: An article about John's indiscreet comments at an 'old boys dinner' is titled "Gold Medal Loudmouth". John had mistakenly thought the comments were Off the Record
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The Games / int_ace24b2c	type	Halfway Plot Switch
The Games / int_ace24b2c	comment	Halfway Plot Switch: Several episodes begin with two separate plots that weave together. Season 2 Episode 7 has a plot about Gina being said to have sent out a press release stating customs would clear people in 15 minutes, while John tries to avoid having to agree to signing in support of a Bulgarian wrestler defecting to Australia. When Gina shows up to talk with Customs, the customs agent mentions that the Bulgarian wrestler is actually Scottish.
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The Games / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Games / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: "We are stuffed!" "Oh, we're doomed." "We're buggered."
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The Games / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Games / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Most of the cast, but John Clarke raises it to an absolute artform.
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The Games / int_b10d7e8e	type	Head-in-the-Sand Management
The Games / int_b10d7e8e	comment	Head-in-the-Sand Management: The Minister (and by extension, Nicholas) and SOCOG
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The Games / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Games / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: As a result of the 94 meter long 100 Meters race track, Bryan suggests that there is no rule saying the 100 Meters race has to be on a straight track. The John Howard incident is an example of loophole abuse. Even though it's not the 'real' John Howard in terms of what was meant to happen, the person who delivers the speech is still named John Howard.
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The Games / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Games / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: The video designed to be an introduction to Sydney. It contained an absolute shirtload of errors (such as calling Sydney the capital of Australia and the home of the world's most famous athlete, and contains even more visual errors, like shots of Melbourne's Botanic Gardens, the Bank of Melbourne, and a shot of the freeway in Queensland) and was too hilarious to be anything but a failure. Three words: 'No wuckin' furries'.
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The Games / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Games / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: In "Job Search" John repeatedly shouts at at Bryan and Gina for focusing on future job prospects instead of on the Olympics. It turns out he rigged the events of the episode so he'd get a job at Athens 2004.
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The Games / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
The Games / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: In one episode, Gina is asked by the crew what the main stadium will be used for after the games. She's completely taken off guard and manages to say that it will obviously be a marvellous asset to the community, after she's managed to stop nervously laughing. In real life the main stadium continues to be used for football & rugby sports, along with the occasional concert involving top tier stars like Taylor Swift. The precinct as a whole is in a weird location, boxed in by rivers & mangrove swamps, highways and an industrial area, with only a handful of large residential towers (one of which was at risk of collapsing in 2018). This makes it a ghost town on days without a major event.
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The Games / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Games / int_ba236071	comment	As a result of the 94 meter long 100 Meters race track, Bryan suggests that there is no rule saying the 100 Meters race has to be on a straight track.
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The Games / int_bebb370	type	Gratuitous Italian
The Games / int_bebb370	comment	Gratuitous Italian: Gina uses a "$5 phrasebook" to angle for a job at the Turin 2006 games in "Job Search". Nicholas must have the same book, because both of them talk about Sydney's "grande ponticello" (big bridge).
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The Games / int_c2e2a445	comment	Jade-Colored Glasses: The amount of cynicism in this series is enough to sink a battleship.
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The Games / int_c3accb7c	comment	Double Speak: In one episode, it's explained that 'X has my/our full support' means that the person in question is about to be fired. In another, the IOC is said to talk in 'code', with one example being 'all host cities in the near future' (Athens).
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The Games / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: In Horse and Dream Team Gina describes John as one of nature's gentlemen. Cut to John "politely" setting down terms with the agent of the American dream team which involve the phrase "stuff it up their arse".
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The Games / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: The modus operandi of the fake IOC Delegate in "IOC Man" impersonating and IOC delegate to receive paid trips and accommodations from host cities.
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The Games / int_da297ad2	type	One of Our Own
The Games / int_da297ad2	comment	One of Our Own: When Bryan's job is threatened, Gina and John do their best to make sure he keeps it. In another episode, John gets very mad when Nicholas tries to sack Gina and refuses to let him.
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The Games / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: "100 Metre Track" features Robbo (the Minister for the Environment) blaming a Kevin Nowra for his office's failure to comply with guidelines. Then at the end Mr. Wilson, Bryan and John all agree to blame the issue with the 100 metre track not being 100 metres on Kevin as well.
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The Games / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: John and a Scottish athlete do this in "Immigration" when they are forced to talk with a journalist who thinks the athlete is Bulgarian and doesn't speak English. John has to pretend to translate to Bulgarian and then the athlete reply in Bulgarian, though neither knows the language. The athlete ends mostly quoting the words of Robert Burns' poems ("To a Mouse", "Auld Lang Syne" and "A Red, Red Rose"). John by contrast largely lists off famous Russians (though he does slip in "very bad nuclear accident" at one point).
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The Games / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: When John is put on a mandatory 'holiday' by Nicholas (essentially a suspension), Gina is very reluctantly left in charge. When a letter from the IOC arrives with a major issue, Gina tries to chase down the bike messenger to get him to take it back rather than deal with it. Bryan tells her more than once that she's in-charge now.
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