Maddox fights for his interview with radical Muslim cleric Abu Hadad to be published while news editor Amelia argues the article isn't interesting.
Oliver orders Maddox to start the Politics Minute vodcast (with 48 seconds of content and an advert), while also rejecting the Abu Hadad article.
A tip is revealed on the wires that Sir Elton John has reportedly assaulted a security guard in Argos branch in Wolverhampton.
Oliver is again not interested in a story that Maddox has written on healthy food, and instead wants to write an article on the fattest kid in the country (Terry from Tottenham).
With a photograph wife of the finance secretary heading into the London Bullion Company, Freddy leaves the office to "chase the story".
The finance secretary announces his resignation after it is revealed that his wife was stashing gold bullion and was prompted by Oliver's "coded-messages" in his out of office replies.
The Politics Minute has been further cut to 38 seconds while Oliver has hired model and television star Debbie de Winter as guest columnist.
A public school photograph of the bankers at Canary Wharf emerges, showing Freddy in the background who is worried that his reputation as a "street-kid" will be ruined.
Oliver and Maddox are invited by the Prime Minister's wife to Downing Street who attempts to get them not to publish the story as she is concerned for his welfare.
The PM invites the pair to a face-to-face meeting as a delaying tactic the following morning, and instead goes on a talk show to admit his problem.
Freddy returns from Swindon after doing his own research on the hacker, finding background information about his family and childhood as he pushes Maddox to introduce a personal and entertainment angle.
During discussion with Oliver, Maddox finds out that the hackers extradition was won but he has a criminal history for cruelty to animals which Freddy failed to uncover.
Oliver rejects Maddox's copy on the palm oil article, preferring to allow the British National Party to advertise in the space instead.
Carol and Maddox get into an argument after she asks him to cover a story on an overweight Orangutan eating a Big Mac, which she tries to sell as an animal rights issue.
Freddy receives a phone call from a bank worker with a tip-off that a Liberal Democrat MP Julie Compton has withdrawn £50,000, which Maddox suspects is a sign of upcoming corruption.
Princess Arabella, 22nd in line to the thrown, is looking to change her public image and is due to visit the newspaper which excites Masha immensely.
Maddox meets with the MP and confronts her with what he knows, who eventually reveals that she is paying out of her own pocket for the pensioners lunch club due to funding cuts.
At a meal with Deanbrook, Maddox is interrupted by Freddy who begins to question Miles that his adjectives are all in alphabetical order, and that characters appear at regular intervals.
Snooping on the future events calendar, Freddy and Maddox find that unscrupulous Russian oligarch Andrei Zinoviev is docked on the Isle of Wight and visiting for the same period Oliver is away.
Maddox suggests running a piece he had previously spiked on the Russian, and that a co-operative business model would be better than being taken over by the billionaire, but Oliver quickly rejects the likeliness of the idea.
Planning on extinction of species to fuel a vast mark-up, Oliver is uncomfortable talking to Andrei as he announces that the contracts are due to be signed tomorrow.
Maddox sneaks on to the yacht and is caught by Zinoviev's guards, but managed to retrieve a document from the office which reveals that Oliver is due to be fired by the new owner despite promises to the contrary.
Further digging by Freddy finds that Isabella lied about the donation for publicity, with her agents buying a kidney for the recipient to prevent the bad press.