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The writers had contrived for Zoe to be brought up for a political “show trial” (in the words of her boss, Harry), indicted for the murder of an undercover policeman her department had not been informed of. Though Harry has been promised by someone in the Home Office that Zoe would only have her wrist slapped, she is found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison. To save one of his “most valuable officers” from that, Harry gives Zoe a new identity and a Chilean passport....
So, the morning after the first 60 pushups at a go, Goines was thinking how he might be written off his show when that shroud of death descended. How would it descend? What would he be doing at the time? Was it possible – he wondered as he counted: 55, 56... – to just continue at one go to do push-ups until his heart gave out, his brain maybe continuing to count a few downs-and-ups after his body had collapsed? As Goines struggled even to accomplish a round 60 again, he found himself utterly incapable of doing 61, let alone enough to leave the show.
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Ah, the very Roman concept of choosing your own way to go. The Emperor might summon you to your death, but if you go out on your own what can he do about it? Like Seneca the Younger, falsely accused of conspiring with Piso to assassinate Nero. Instead of complying with the order, he threw a party with all his friends, had a surgeon cut a vein in his elbow, wrapped it in a towel to hide the blood, and ate and drank convivially while he bled to death. Those with the testicular fortitude might choose their own way even today. But please dear Muse, let it not be soon!
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