Published: 29 August 2012
Summary: Preview of The Marker, a film about cartels.
Transcript
MARTIN: It’s been going on so long now that it’s just the way things are done.
GORDON: Oh, Neil’s replacement?
MARTIN: Yeah.
MARTIN: Give me a couple of weeks to get up to speed.
FIONA: No time for that I’m afraid.
MARTIN: Ah, I’m shattered.
GORDON: You can take the money and go run a company or stay here and help run an industry.
MARTIN: I just have to rock up, polish it and take the cash.
JEFF: Sounds perfect.
MARTIN: The tenders get rotated around.
FIONA: Congratulations, we got the tender.
MARTIN: Someone new starts up that doesn’t want to play ball then we just...
GORDON /MARTIN: Price them out.
JEFF: Don’t feel guilty. They have to catch you first.
GORDON: Everybody needs to understand that this is how things operate.
MARTIN: Is anything wrong?
JEFF: You’ve got a bit of price fixing, some government tender rigging and dividing up of territories.
GORDON: No mate, nothing’s wrong.
JEFF: It sounds like you’re running a cartel.
MARTIN: What?
FIONA: We need you to do your job.
LUCY: Who are you calling?
MARTIN: What’s it to you?
MARTIN: HEY!
FIONA: What’s gotten into you Martin?
News report on Radio: The competition watch dog has new teeth to crack down on price fixing.
JEFF: You need help. You need to talk to someone, someone who knows about this stuff.
MARTIN: Yeah...who?