- A lot is happening but is coming from the minister and the team don't know anything about it. A Bulgarian wrestler is seeking asylum in Australia and Nicholas is pressuring John to support his bid. But all is not as it seems.
- A visitor from Mulravia says she was promised a job in return for a favor her father, the head IOC delegate for Mulravia, did for Sydney when the vote for 2000 came up. John tries to avoid seeing her, but ends up looking foolish. Bulgarian wrestler Todor Stoyanov is seeking political asylum in Australia from ethnic persecution at home and Nicholas, for some reason, is expediting matters. When he asks John to sign a letter in support of the application John pushes back, sensing a trap. Gina is shocked to discover a press release, over her own name, promising to get most Olympic visitors through customs in fifteen minutes, and goes off to the airport to investigate. The 12 million dollars for improvements has been spent, but not on the customs service. While there she learns more about Mr. Stoyanov. John has insisted that he talk to "the plucky Bulgarian" before signing anything, so Nicholas produces one, but he's not up for much of a chat as neither John nor Nicholas speaks Bulgarian. When Gina and a reporter arrive back at the office (where two more asylum seekers, from Somalia, are also waiting), the team presses Nicholas for details and learns of his scheme to ensure overwhelming Olympic gold for Australia by strategic immigration. Gina, threatening to expose him to the press, orders Nicholas to unwind his madness, and the episode ends with our wrestler submitting to a rather chilly press interview through an interpreter.—Jim Hickstein
- The episode begins with Bryan and Gina playing a practical joke on John (to do with a quid pro quo job that Bryan claims has been promised to the daughter of an IOC official from Mulravia). For some reason, the minister's secretary has issued a press release (under Gina's name) stating that the average visitor arriving at Sydney Airport will be able to clear customs in fifteen minutes, however the claim outrages Gina who knows that it will take more like two hours. John and Gina fight to thwart the minister's plans to import talented foreign athletes to compete as Australians (while seeking asylum from a country different even to their own)-all in an attempt to boost Australia's medal count. John is left to interpret (to an Australian journalist) in one such case where a champion Scottish skeet-shooter is claiming to be a Bulgarian wrestler, however as neither John or the Scotsman speak Bulgarian, they make do with a combination of esoteric Scottish poetry and Russian phrases.
- Any potential "Aussie Gold Rush" at these Olympics can be expected to profit, as gold rushes in Australia have done in earlier days, from immigration. Freedom-loving peoples everywhere who yearn to start a new life in this beautiful country, should apply directly to the Minister for Sport, stating their name, event and shirt-size. The Games team must deal with the lies coming out of the Minister's office regarding immigration.
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