· 伯纳德: What if the PM insists that we help them?
· 汉弗莱: Then we follow the four-stage strategy.
· 伯纳德: What’s that?
· 多萝西（Dorothy）: The standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis.
· In stage one, we say nothing is going to happen.
· Stage two, we say something may be going to happen but we should do nothing about it.
· In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.
· In stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now.