Manipulation Reprise

(The Home Secretary's private quarters in the Home Office. In the room are the Home Secretary himself, HENRY BROOKE, the head of MI5, ROGER HOLLIS, and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, SIR JOSEPH SIMPSON.)

This is a terribly serious matter

The Government's future is in jeopardy

This fellow, Ward, went and threatened Profumo

He can't keep his mouth shut

How best can we deal with him?

Shift the blame

And blacken his name

Let's find a way to put him inside

Shift the blame

Put him in the frame

And keep the whole damn thing

Classified

Now that Ivana's been called back to Russia

There isn't a chance we can get Ward for espionage

And by the way

He was working on our behalf

Writing useless reports on Ivanov's proclivities

So no charge for espionage

There must be something else we can do

It's high time we thought of a crime

Manipulation

Nothing new

Hollis is right

There's no chance of conviction

Perhaps we should focus on sexual behavior

Immoral earnings

Now, that might be possible

Some of those girls

Must have slipped him a bob or two

That's the one

Can you get it done?

It won't be easy

But we can try

What I need

Is you to succeed

Then we can all kiss Ward goodbye

We can all kiss Ward goodbye

We all know the way it should go

Manipulation, that's the technique

Now, forget that we ever met

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