- Harvey is transferred to the Film Office where his exposure to "cinematic art" causes him to develop sexual anxiety and an acute chorea.
- Harvey is transferred to the Film Office where his exposure to "cinematic art" causes him to develop sexual anxiety and an acute chorea. The McHughs are dismayed to learn that their home might become a religious shrine after a former lodger, Roy Millane, becomes a candidate for sainthood. Harvey's mother, Monica, harbours a guilty secret about her former boarder, could it wreck Roy's chances of a thumbs-up from the Vatican? The Minister's leadership hopes are threatened when the Prime Minister signs a major trade deal with Japan. Harvey becomes an unwitting pawn in the Minister's plot to wreck the deal and start a trade war.
- Harvey McHugh works as a lowly clerk in the Government's Trust Department. The building is in very bad shape and the elevator often shuts down. When Mrs Dewhurst a pensioner tells him of a 17 cent shortage in her fortnightly benefits, Harvey decides to demonstrate his efficiency by finding the money hoping this will help him get a permanent position. Instead he discovers that all pensioners and employees are deliberately being short-changed by the Government's new computer G.O.D. (the Gatherer of Data). Harvey soon finds himself moved out of the Trust Department because of his enquiries and moved to Fisheries. Harvey, unsatisfied at being moved out, accesses G.O.D. and is caught by the Minister. Harvey tells him everything about the 17 cents, not knowing it is The Minister who is responsible for the deduction. Muldoon will let nothing stand in his way of docking money from patients' pensions and government funds as he requires the money to finance Dr Voysner's research into finding a cure for Engelbaum's Syndrome, which The Minister is suffering from. Harvey's boss, the Minister, decides to remove Harvey. He has had the elevator rigged so that it will crash upon its next trip and he has arranged that Harvey should be on it. But things go terribly wrong when the public service choir, the young Matildans, join Harvey in the lift. Harvey survives and a good job for The Minister as Harvey is his only chance of a cure for his illness. The Minister has Harvey moved to another job.
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