Hello, listeners, how are you? I hope you're well. I have a little news for you, which I'll

deliver later on, you know, after the story bit and the short ad break. It's especially

interesting if you're interested in how TV shows get pitched to the companies that make them.

Oh, that sounds fascinating.

Yes, doesn't that?

It's especially useful if you're thinking of writing a show yourself.

Maybe you are, I don't know.

Anyway, this episode follows on not exactly from where we left off last time, but in the

time leading up to it.

You may recall last time, left Underwood David and Elizabeth

Daventery leaving Rose's place on Surrey Street to be met by helicopters and gunfire up on the

street. How those things came to be there is what we're about to discover, picking up Claire

Redmond's story. But before we do, a quick reminder of past events from the recap on this episode at Patreon.

In it, I refer to the original Patreon podcast, Underwood and French Underground, episode 54,

which in this podcast, the one you're listening to, is Season 6, Episode 9. Here we go.

This episode you're about to listen to carries on from where we left Claire Redmond last,

namely with her driving off in a Brighton taxi, from her place where Miguel, working with D.C.

Anna Mackay, tried to kill her.

Now, as you may recall, after that murder attempt failed,

Mackay's phone rang, and it was Coleridge, the OCU boss,

calling to check with Mackay to see how it had all gone down.

Claire played along, pretending to be Mackay, so that Coleridge

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