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Capital City

Capital City

1989 - 1990

Second Quarter Figures

26th September 1989
Episode 1
No overview available.

Insider Trading

3rd October 1989
Episode 2
Chief Trader Wendy Foley's ceiling collapses when the man upstairs runs a bath once too often, tempting her to move house and change career; Max is trying to use computers to weather-watch a prediction of next year's grain and crop harvests; Declan meets a stripper disguised as a policewoman after cutting the clamps off his Audi once too often; Chas and Jimmy take Louise furniture-shopping; Executive Leonard Ansen fends off Lee Wolfe's insider-dealing accusation, which wildcard bank part-owner Peter Longman flies in from Tahiti to defuse.

Thanksgiving

10th October 1989
Episode 3
Michelle takes Declan swimming in an attempt to cure his aqua~diving phobia, while she considers a marriage offer from old flame Bruno; Alex puts the house up for sale under Hudson's nose; Sirrka gets blotto and clocks a rival after their deal went sour; Declan's roof leaks and he drives Michelle and Bruno around after her licence is revoked again for speeding; Max's converted-church apartment suffers a power failure for thanksgiving dinner, while Hudson improvises lighting and Max arranges a vast luxury Chinese takeaway, courtesy of Max's experience in Beijing. Bruno solves Sirrka's deal with a scheme based on German regional elections matching the Bonds with the right client.

Max in Trouble

17th October 1989
Episode 4
Posh student Colin wins few friends on 'work experience' by outplaying Declan and Chas at basketball and dating. Declan's deal is wrecked by Jimmy selling the bonds he needs to Stephanie: she then sells them back to the client very discounted, causing Declan to punch Jimmy; Louise goes shopping, cooking, is harrassed by Jimmy at a party, and leaves; coke-user Sophie's interest in Max wanes after he seems more interested in the vastly complex deal he is creating, only later does he reveal he once lost a friend to cocaine. Max leaps into the deal too early to maximise his margin and gets left with the whole scheme in his face and a vast hole for Shane Longman to trade out of.

Pension Fund

24th October 1989
Episode 5
Max conceives a scheme at the dentist to lift Shane Longman's profile by using an installation artist "like Christo" to wrap Dover Cliff in parachute silk; Hudson deals with an errant pigeon at home; Information Systems manager Hannah has husband trouble; Jimmy is moving further off the deep end handling a major Dutch State Loans issue; and the computers crash.

Newspaper Story

31st October 1989
Episode 6
Max is scammed by hatchet-job "off the record" quotes by a journalist he used to date; Hudson is managing a billion-dollar deal with a possibly-corrupt bank in Venice; while Jimmy goes Tweeds and Shotgun for a hunting weekend, demonstrating his prowess by shooting a hole in the Dealing-Room floor.

Rainforest

7th November 1989
Episode 7
No overview available.

Takeover

14th November 1989
Episode 8
Hudson is stuck choosing a new nanny for Jamie while his mother visits, with even less success when Declan and Max's choices are even less suitable. Leonard and Hannah team up to take their stylish teenage daughters out, while Yolanda's condition makes Sirrka take stock and pour her last vodka down the drain. Hudson's next-generation genetically-engineered horticulture swap buyout deal fails despite all his efforts, proving that not all stories have happy endings and than not even this financial wizard can save every deal.

Japanese Fund

21st November 1989
Episode 9
No overview available.

Max in Space

28th November 1989
Episode 10
Max takes the dealers gliding while waxing lyrical about the promise of commercialised space. Sirrka has a run-in with a child in a supermarket. Declan has a run-in with a stylish Italian dealer while her major EEC-ESA fund launch collapses and the Italian press portray him as the woman's toy-boy. Jimmy begins to cook his dealing book. Chas is irked by his musician-brother's contempt for banking, leading him off the cuff to create a £30,000 fund they can use to buy a supporting act slot on tour.

Twelve Degrees Capricorn

5th December 1989
Episode 11
Max is using astrology to predict deals and outcomes, to varying effect; while Sirrka's quest for affection and contact leads to high-class hooking, until she meets a pair of tricks she doesn't want to handle; Michelle wants out of her hotel suite and into a proper home; Max's astrology seems to work on major projections, and Hannah has a birthday.

Max in Poland

12th December 1989
Episode 12
Max meets art-gallery assistant Maxine while arranging a deal in Warsaw with a Polish Shipyard: convincing the buyer to buy two to guarantee work for the Shipyard workers union; Michelle goes househunting; Alex applies for custody of Jamie; Sirrka is burgled and ODs on vodka in a hotel until rescued by Chas; giving Leonard the opportunity to run her position with flair for a day while she recuperates.

The Snail and the Photographer

19th December 1989
Episode 13
Hudson buys £45 worth of giant Amazon snail for his nephew. Max has paranoid chills over a menacing black American he thinks is an SEC investigator. Wendy quits as Head Trader, lured upstairs to create new markets for James and Peter; she is replaced by the brusque, hard-nosed Lee Wolfe-appointee Sylvia Roux Teng. Michelle finds the perfect flat and Declan takes her for an aerodrome spin in her restored beloved 911. Sirrka sees Hudson's escaped Acoccatina Maginata in an alcoholic haze, convincing her to go to AA, meets fellow traveller Yolande, who introduces her to H and lesbian experimentation. Jimmy is finally fired for falsifying his position for eight weeks. To Max's relief the huge black mysterious American turns out to be a photographer who does a major shoot on the dealers for Shane Longman PR.
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Capital City was a television show produced by Euston Films which focused on the lives of investment bankers in London living and working on the corporate trading floor for the fictional international bank Shane-Longman. Despite its short run in the UK, it was rebroadcast on UKTV Gold as well as a handful of PBS stations in the United States and starred a number of now well known faces. The music for the series was composed by the Colin Towns and enjoyed some success in its own right.

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