corporate-couple A counter productive attempt

适得其反的尝试

The corporation was too close to the city council for its own good.

为了自身的利益公司离 市政委员会太近了.

The relationship was cosy with the suspicion of corrupt dealings too likely.

关系太密切,很可能让 人怀疑有腐败交易.

And it was becoming costly;

这给公司带来了很大 的损失

the Corporation's public approval was declining.

公司的公众支持率在 不断下降.

Mike Danner,an accountant in the office,

办公室会计迈克·丹纳 看出了这一点,

could see this and he decided that he had to try and fix it.

认为他得努力解决这 个问题.

As he walked down

当他走过

the corridors of the cosmopolitan building where he worked,

他工作的国际性建筑的 走廊的时候,

he knew that an argument with the president would be counterproductive.

他明白与总裁争论会产 生相反的结果.

He had to find a way of counseling the president

他得想办法劝告总裁：

that he needed distance from his counterpart in the local government.

他有必要与当地政府中 地位和他相对应的人保 持距离.

They were an odd couple,he and the mayor; corective measures were needed

总裁和市长是奇怪的一 对,需要采取矫正措施

But Mike Danner

但迈克·丹纳

never thought that there would be any true corresponding crime.

从没想过真的会有 相关的犯罪.

Counterfeit money was being produced in the back offices of the corporate parking lot

公司停车场后面的办公 室正在印伪钞,

and shipped to the city council in corrugate boxes

并用起皱的纸箱运往市 政委员会

where the mayor would countersign their authenticity.

在那里市长要给它们辨 明真伪.

The corpus of the council knew this. He was walking into the fire!

市政委员会所有人都知 道这件事,他是在玩火

The next day,when his body was found with his cortex pealed from his head

第二天,当丹纳头皮被 剥掉的尸体被人发现的 时候,

the press never thought to correlate his murder

新闻界根本就没想到 把他的被杀

with a controversy surrounding the corporation and the city council.

和围绕公司与市政委员 会的争议联系到一起,

Instead they created a cosmetic motive

他们反倒编造了一个表 面动机,

for a local drug dealer to be put in prison on false charges.

以莫须有的罪名把当地 的一个毒品贩子关进了 监狱.

The Chief of Police was involved in the counterfeit deal as well.

警察局长也卷入了伪 钞案中,

And he wasn't about to sacrifice the college money for his three kids

他可不会牺牲三个孩子 上大学的学费.

for some curious corporate office boy.

为了某个好奇的 公司勤杂员.