Anyone who beats the game without losing a life, for example, sees Nick walk off a train back in the Midwest after leaving New York.

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What follows is a hair-raising escape involving an SUV and a freight train, after which Nick concocts the grand design that brings him 200 feet above midtown.

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The Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg told me that it would bring the gravy train of European Parliament to Westminster.

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