"You'll all be model citizens until Gardner/Ross goes public." "Previously seen on Traders." "All I want is a letter telling the truth." " That you're a crook?" " How do you feel about this move to merchant banking?" " l don't know." "It's the new wave." "It's the future." " Potential investors like you, but as the head of a major brokerage firm, they don't buy it." "Make Cunningham head of the firm." " Congratulations from yourfather." "You spoke to him?" "You did me a favour." "I couldn't stand the place." " Be at work on Monday." "Adam... I would like to ask you to take overthe leadership of this firm." "Your daughter's a very bright woman." " Never suggested she wasn't." "Worst business decision in the world." "Every penny we made going public should've come to this floor." "We got our share." "Yeah, you got yourtoy." "Now Sally can go after hers." " Mine is betterthan hers." "What can you do with a merchant bank?" "Buy businesses." "What can you do with money?" "Buy anything." "Would you want to?" "What's the stupidest thing I could buy?" " Uh, Blomo sucks." " Not enough." "Their CEO is borderline competent." "Chris, come on, give me something truly awful." " Gardner/Ross." "Ha-ha, very cute." "No, the answer is DRP investments." "No cash flow, no decent assets, haven't made a smart move in years." "I think I'm gonna buy some." " Did you play chicken as a kid?" " No, but I was duck-duck-goose champion of my neighbourhood." "How much is in the vault?" " Double what was there last week." " Should have been more, but it'll do." "Billy, what's happening?" "You got any DRP?" "I'm not kidding. I think, with better management" "No, not today, but maybe someday." "See, you never know." "Yeah, well, I'll take that." "15,000 shares." "Okay, done." "We're sitting on a truckload of crap." "Would you feel that way if you knew Vesper was buying up DRP?" " DRP's in play?" " Follow the piper." "Vesper wouldn't move unless they knew something." "Whoa, whoa, it's not on the move, and they don't know anything." "We are the new piper." "When word spreads that Martin Stephens is buying up DRP, they are gonna race to their phones so fast..." "Oh!" " Carry on." " So how goes retirement?" " l wouldn't know." "We have a board meeting in 10 minutes." "You bought in?" " Heavily." " Does Sally know?" " l thought I'd surprise her." " DRP's moving." " Up a quarter." " Ohhh, I wonder if it ever gets boring being a god." " One of the advantages of being a publicly traded corporation is that you open the door to new ideas, new input -- and in this case, we're particularly lucky since one of our newest shareholders is also one of our oldest friends:" "Cedric Ross." "Now, Cedric has purchased nearly-- what is it?" " 10% of the outstanding shares, which makes him, well, the second-largest shareholder next to his daughter." "Now, I would like us... to recommend him for a seat on the board." " No." "I don't want him on the executive." " Obviously not." "We voted." "The motion failed." " Nobody will support him overyour objections." "You did." " Unlike the other lemmings on the board, I won't follow blindly." " My father knows my reasons." " Don't do this, Sally,." " One Ross at this firm is enough." "And he may agree with you." " Do you know anything about Fabris investments?" "I have a meeting with their CEO later." " Sally, listen to me." "I've known this man a lot longerthan you have." "He can and he will destroy us." "God!" "You were expecting somebody older?" " Mr. Fabris, l" "Ahhh!" "Of course you were. I'm a kid." "I've got no business owning this place." "And yet I do." " So are you a genius or did your dad die?" "Well, the two are not mutually exclusive." "How much?" " l beg your pardon?" "You're looking for a merchant bank." "I am a merchant bank." "How much?" "Forty-one a share, conditional upon financing and commitments from key personnel." " No way, absolutely not, no conditions." "Where are you going?" " l need those conditions." " l say no;" "you say you need them." "I say over my dead body;" "eventually someone concedes." "How long have you been in business?" " How long have you been driving?" " l want 45 a share." "Have your lock-up." "72 hours to arrange financing, 48 hours due diligence, during which either one of us can withdraw." " l can give you 43." " How much Do you want?" " 51% ." "49." "We need to have control." " No, absolutely not, not negotiable." "And I say over my dead body." " l'll connect you." "Yes?" "You don't trust your own sister?" " No." " l should be looking for business." " l have 48 hours to get Fabris's key people onside." " l don't have a deadline, but-- - l win." " lt's just that I'm not so good with being sneaky." " So don't sneak." "And it's demeaning and it's unethical." " Donald, if you saw somebody doing something wrong, you'd open your mouth, right?" "Well, it would depend" " Keep your eyes open. lf you see anything, open your mouth." " Uh... okay." " l wanted to thank you for supporting me." " l don't want to turn our board meetings into family feuds." "Don't confuse that with support." "You know what he did." "What the hell is going on?" " l have personal reasons for not" " Forget yourfather -- l'm talking about you bumping the offerto Fabris." "Benny," "Benny, watch the board." " l had authority to go to 45." "Just because you have the money doesn't mean you must spend it." "New York, Benny!" " l came in under." "Where will the money come from?" "We'll take it out of" " Me!" "Every dollar comes right off that floor." "Chris, leave Ayn alone." "We need long-term investments, Marty." "Why?" "We gonna make money in a long time?" "See, money now is worth more than money later." "They teach that in economics class, you know." "Chris, leave her alone!" "I'm gonna turn this car around if you two don't stop." " l know what he's capable of doing." " Marty talks a good game." " l don't care about Marty." " Right." "Capitulate, or Cedric will destroy us." "Hmm?" "I'm not gonna compromise." " lf he was anyone otherthan yourfather-  l would treat him exactly the same." " But he's yourfather." "You can't expect me to forgive and forget." " l'd settle for either one." " l don't..." "I don't feel comfortable allowing you to sit on the board of directors, not without full disclosure." " So disclose." "The board would support an axe murderer if he could bring in enough business." " Not if he stole from one of their clients." " l am not ashamed of what I did." " l am." " Then why are you here?" " Okay." "When I was 14, after Mom died" " Oh, come on, this is business." " No. I did a book report on something." "I don't remember what, but... I left it too late, of course." "Ended up staying up all night to finish it." "It wasn't good, but it wasn't bad." "You wouldn't let me hand it in." "You said I should never do anything I wasn't proud of." " Lord of the F//es." " Finished the report." "Three days later, handed it in." "Teacher refused to grade it." "It didn't matter." "I knew it was good." "You taught me neverto compromise." " Do you expect me to?" "I would've thought peace would be to our mutual advantage." " Peace?" "Peace is always to the disadvantage of the stronger party." "You may be right." " Barbie!" "Janet Hamilton?" " No time." "You don't even know why I'm here." " l know I have no time." "Barbie!" "Jack Larkin, I'm from Gardner/Ross" " Have you never heard of making appointments?" " l couldn't get one." " l don't want to work foryou." "You don't even know me." " l know you're an investment banker." " Most of your co-workers are onside." "Well, then you don't need me." "Barbie!" "Barbie!" "I need that." "Thank you." "You're confirmed with the bank at 3:00, but Lanny can't make it tomorrow at Martel." "We're prepared to make this worth your while." "What the hell's with Lanny?" " He's down at his head office." " Tell him to get here." "This is his invention and we need him." " His mother died." "We can't just put this off." "The little weasel claims he can't make it." "Some trumped-up family emergency." " l heard about Lanny's mother." " Lanny created the product -- he knows the contacts and the specs." "I'd can him if he wasn't so damn good." "And this yahoo is following me around, trying to to get me to sign a lock-up." " He's buying the place." "He goes where he wants." "So what are you gonna do about Lanny?" "There are no dead ends." "I'll close the deal myself." "Well, then quit bitching and do it." " l'm not bitching, I'm venting." "There's a difference." "What do you have on Vectrodyne?" " The CEO needs a hole poked in his golden parachute and the inventory system is outdated" "Ahhh!" "is it any good?" "Yeah." "What do they make?" " Do you care?" " Mm-mm." "How much do you need?" " 27 million." " lt's good?" "You got it." " l gotta go to the bathroom." "You gonna follow me?" " Caltame Mining." "What about it?" "VSE stop trading, order lifted six months ago." "Hasn't moved one skinny dime since then." "I bet you can't make it move." " Oh, I can make the sun rise and the moon set." "I'm sorry." "That..." "that might've sounded pompous." " Come on, Marty." "DRP at least had some action in its sector." " Spike, yeah, no time to shmooze." "Have you got any Caltame Mining?" "Mm-hmm, yeah, okay, I'll take it all." "We've got movement." "Already?" " Even God takes time." " No, we're moving." "Somebody unloaded some Gardner/Ross." " How much?" " 9.8% of our entire float." "Who the hell" " Call Sally." "Herfather just re-retired." " l've, uh, I've recently freed up a significant amount of capital." "And I'm looking to invest in a sound merchant bank." "Well... I'll tell you, I've had some recent discussions." "Are you committed?" " l haven't received a dime." " Let's talk." " Cedric always hated merchant banks." " Oh, God bless him." " He wants it for one reason only." "So that we can't have it." " So let him have it." "Agreed." "This firm won't be dragged into my problems." "We already are." "If we blink, we're dead." "Cedric will tell the street that we're weak, the vultures will be circling the carcass in days." "So up the offerto 47, Sally." "What weaknesses?" "Nobody buys a merchant bank." "And the place is nowhere near worth 47." " Oh, are you in Research now, Stephens?" " Fabris has a number of healthy private holdings, and they're all on the books at cost." "With their key people and our management, I'd say Fabris is worth in the low 50s." "Maybe more." " No key people." "Key person." "Fabris owns the place." "Janet Hamilton does all the thinking and we don't have her onside." " Like I said, the place is worth nowhere near47." " So get her onside." " lf she's so damn important, what are we bothering with Fabris for?" "Scoop Janet." "Plough the savings back into the floor." " Ross wins the war;" "we win the spoils." "And Adam makes sure the entire street knows about it." " Go get her, Jack." " Can I help you with something?" " No, no, no." "No, thanks." "[Donald muttering]" " Cathy, Donald." " Hello." " Can I help you with something?" " No, I'm just checking something up." " Rubber." "What?" " The file, Repro Rubber Company." "Yeah." "They have... they've got a..." "a new process to, um..." " lt's a five-year-old file, Donald." "Yeah, well, it will... lt's not exactly new, but, uh... it's still state-of-the-art for, um... recycling rubber." " Do you think I was premature?" "With what?" "Well, I recommended against a public offering." " Oh, uh..." " Because the price of virgin rubber made the process uncompetitive." " Uh, well, it probably did." "Well, it was five years ago." "You can check out the current prices." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Okay." "[humming]" " There /s a house /n New Or/eans" " Hello." " They ca// the r/s/ng sun" " Hello." "You really don't believe in calling ahead, do you?" "You everthought of turning up the thermostat?" " This is the product line they can't flog tomorrow." " Earmuffs." "That's been done." "With speakers?" "State-of-the-art sound, state-of-the-art insulation." ""Hearmuffs" -- perfect forthose cold, boring winters." " That's fabulous -- we're not after Fabris." " Good." "We want you." " Fabris is for sale. I'm not." " How much do you want?" " Look, you seem to think we're in some sort of negotiation here." "We're not." "I don't like it." "I'm not good at it." "So I don't do it." "We're prepared to double your salary." "Why are you still talking to me?" "We'll make a good team." "You're wrong." "We got more in common" " No, feel these." "Go on, feel them." "Feel the lining, feel the headpiece, feel them." " l don't have to feel them." "They're earmuffs." " They're real." "It's a stupid little product, but it's real." "You buy and sell stocks." "You buy and sell commodity future contracts, buy and sell this, that and the otherthing." "But have you ever actually physically laid your hands on anything not made of paper?" " Have I hit a dead end?" "We're prepared to offeryou a five-year contract." " l'm already committed forthe next five years." " Fabris?" "It's a healthy arrangement." "He pays me a lot of money, he does whatever I say, I make him a lot of money." " So if we buy Fabris out, you're mine?" " Not at all." " This... this is incredible." "You found what you were looking for?" " The price of rubber has doubled." "Why?" " l don't know. I guess it's... being used for uses it's never been used for, I guess." " l guess so." " Look at this." "There is nearly a 50% difference in the price of the two grades." "But for 15 cents, they turn a pound of "b" into "a."" "What's the difference?" " l guess one is better than the other." " l guess so." " Man!" "You gonna go check it out?" " Uh..." "Uh, in a while." "I mean it's..." "waited five years." "It can..." "You can use my phone." "Just for one... [beeping]" "We got trouble!" " Caltame Mining's still dropping." " Buy more." "With what?" " Time to level the big guns." "We're nearly at our limit." "We're past our limit." " Ooh, I'm not gonna like what you're about to tell me, am I?" "We're upping the Fabris offer to 47." "Jack crashed and burned?" "Janet Hamilton's already locked up." " Sorry, Sally, I'm deep into a stock that's not gonna move unless I push it." " Then why did you buy it?" " l was trying to demonstrate an economics rule." "And what rule would that be?" " lf you have enough money, you can do whateveryou want." "You intentionally sunk money into a lousy stock?" " Lots." "To make it work, I'll need lots more." " Playing games." " Hey, I'm winning games." "You're amazing." "Not many people can remain self-righteous in the face of their own stupidity." " Thank you." " Game's over." "I'm taking my ball and I'm going home." "What a poor sport." "I'm screwed." " lt could be a date, right?" "At 10 a.m.?" "Sure." " lt's probably nothing." " lt could be something." " There could be many reasons why Cathy would be meeting with Dantzer." " l can't think of any." "You don't know who Dantzer is, do you?" " Do I need to know?" " He's been on the other side of half our deals recently." "And Cathy is...?" " lf someone leaked a deal to Dantzer, it couldn't be Cathy." "Why?" " l hope it's not Cathy." "Who do you hope it is?" " Some stranger." "I don't know, Grant." " Magda?" " l know Magda." " So do I." " Ooh, it's just I can't watch her all the time." "I've managed to land a meeting with the CEO of Repro Rubber." "I must tell Jack." " How's Magda?" " Oh, great." "Thanks again." "I can't tell Jack." " Does she ask about me?" "Yeah, all the time." "You should keep an eye on her." "Who?" " Cathy." "Who were we talking about?" " Sorry to keep you waiting." "Jack, please go away." " Look, here's my thinking." "I know you don't want to work with us, but we want to work with you." "So one of us will have to change their mind." " Or one of us will be disappointed." " l don't like disappointments." " Shame." "Mark, hi, how are you?" " l'm sorry to hear about Lanny's mother." " Mm-hmm." " Tragic." "I'm Jack Larkin." "I'm Miss Hamilton's junior." " l'm not a team, Jack." "We've contacted 40 retail outfits in the largest northern markets, all within your distribution net." "You got specs on this thing?" " Uh, 90 DB flat from 20 to 20,000." "Stress-tested to 600 psi." " Thank you, Jack." " Rated to minus 40." "You could conservatively count on sales within the range of one-million units per annum." " Fahrenheit or Celsius?" " Both --that's how great these things are." " Get us cappuccinos, junior boy." " Marvin should see the quality of the product." " He's not interested." " l'm not interested?" " Feel this." "This is real." "These detachable earmuffs are 100% machine washable." " lf we could just focus on the bottom line for a moment, we're looking at in-store cost to you of $6-  ls this the only colour?" "We have the three primary colours -- red, black and green." "At $6 per, and we're talking about a wholesale price with 100% mark-up, which still leaves plenty of room" " My wife likes purple." "Her winter coat is purple." "Lots of people wear purple in winter." " The red would go nice with that." "You can't make them in purple?" " Sure." "How many would you like?" "Are you a total idiot, Jack?" " That's what he wants." " Our job is to tell him what he wants." "Do you have any idea how much purple dye costs?" " So it costs us a few pennies more." "Big deal." "Aniline dyes, Jack -- we're gonna have to retool the entire factory and get an environmental reassessment." "We'll be up to our ears in purple tape." " Mr. Moran?" " That's me." "Limo's in the shop." "[chuckling]" " Cathy?" " Can I help you with something?" " No." " Five years ago, this place was worth... well, it wasn't worth anything back then, either." "We just didn't know it yet." " Does the process work?" "We discovered a way to turn water into wine." " Right." " Only to find out that the whole world had turned teetotallers." " Do you still own it?" "Yeah." "Thinking of going condo." " l'd like a chance to take this operation public." " Look at this place." "I owe three mil to the bank, half a mil in back taxes." "It was a bad idea at a bad time." "Yeah, but the world is drinking again, Mr. Moran." "What?" " Uh, your metaphor..." "about the teetotallers." "I was... it's just that a... a Gulf Coast styrene plant blew up and a number of Brazilian plantations have burned in the last 12 months." " That's good news." "Yeah." " Takes seven years for rubbertrees to become productive." " Prices are at record levels." "We take this public and raise" "Wait a minute, wait a minute." "I'd have to give up control, wouldn't I?" "Well, uh, some of it, yeah, but..." " Relax, I'm just kidding." "Keep talking." "Well, I'll crunch the numbers and figure how much we need." "Excellent." "Thank you." " lt's not enough." " l'm not bluffing." " l don't doubt it." " Forty-seven is as high as I can go and still maintain a trading department." "And unfortunately, that offer is a lot less attractive than yourfather's latest proposal." "And you're committed?" " l haven't received a dime." "What's his offer?" " Forty-three." "What, he reduced the price by $2 a share?" " He withdrew his conditions." "I wouldn't be prepared to accept an offerfrom you for under 52." "Where's D'Arby?" " He has a deal." "Where's Marty?" " He has a problem on the floor." "How the hell did my father pull this off?" " The deal's crooked." "Orthere's been a serious change to the laws of the universe." " Off-table offer." "It's the same way that your maid can live off what you and your neighbours pay her?" "Cash payments." "Untraceable, no taxes." " Oh, that explains all those maids living like royalty in Rosedale." " Repairs around the house, private retailers -- l mean, we've all been offered discounts for cash." "We all know what's going on, and we all do it." "Well, most of us do it." "And my father has just taken things to the next logical step." " So instead of 50 to 100 bucks, he's dealing in the million-dollar range." " $43 taxable offer and four orfive into a Swiss bank account." " To Fabris, that's as good as getting offered 51." " That's it." "We beat him at his own game." " No." "We beat him at our game." " Right." " She was my girlfriend." "Almost." "But now she's Donald's, which is good because I could never actually talk to her." "So it probably wouldn't have gone very..." "We can't win the game if we're not playing by the same rules." "Just one set of rules, Jack." "You have Janet locked up?" "We can't afford this deal -- not this way." " Now, you get Janet, we'll get the money." "Ah, you're enjoying this, aren't you, Bobby?" "Yeah, just name a-- l paid a buck more for it this morning." "Okay, yes, I suppose I am an idiot." "All right, done." "We need more money, Marty." "When you want ham, do you ask a Jewish butcher?" "You took my money away." "Where do we stand?" "We were doing well until Miss Damn-the-torpedoes's last visit." "Now we're doing really --what's that word I'm looking for?" " really-  l get the point." "We must know your capital position, so we can determine how much money we need to raise." "This is not the solution." "If Grant could raise that much money whenever he wanted to, we'd be billionaires." " Can one of you leave?" "We need money, which means we need to take chances." " Can... can both of you leave?" "You're losing your objectivity here." "You think we should back down?" " Maybe I should leave." " l think we should consider other options." "What?" "We've tapped every dime from the public offering, our credit line is maxed out and trading is -- what's the word Marty was looking for?" " Derivatives are the riskiest play we've got going." " High risk, high return." "Pull out all the stops, Grant." " How much do you need?" " How much can you raise?" " lt'll cost at least a million dollars to pay off the back taxes, get the factory operational, and that's not including the costs of staffing and materials." " ls that your pitch?" " No, no, I'm not quite..." " Don't you have an office?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I'm just, uh, there's just more room here, and, uh... and all the research." "I'll be quiet." " Hi." "I'd like to speak to your head of sales." " Certainly." "You probably haven't heard of us." "Well, I'm fairly well-connected with most of the west-coast retailers." " Trust me, we're new." "We're interested in one of your products." " Excellent." " Hearmuffs." " Hearmuffs." "We were contacted as part of a preliminary market study." "I don't know, maybe you didn't proceed or" "Well, there was some sort of a problem with the colours." "Apparently, we're waiting to get them in purple." " Purple?" "Nobody's doing purple this season." "We're interested in 50K in green and 50K in black." "And, uh, I have a deposit with me." "You deliver?" "You know, you're the second person who's tried to order Hearmuffs today?" "I..." "I'll speak to purchasing." "You'll have your order by next Wednesday." " That's great." "Thank you very much." " She thinks the hermit can save the firm?" "Well, Grant was up 2 mil last time I checked." "We'll have to keep him on." "At this rate," "Gardner/Ross will be able to buy Fabris out of petty cash." " So pull the plug on what's-his-name." " l'm not going to compromise the firm." " l put a lot of time and effort into driving the price of that merchant bank into the stratosphere." "And I've done it for one reason only -- so that Gardner/Ross won't be able to afford it." "Well, Sally's buying it anyway." " l hope so." " God." "[chuckling]" "You can't do that, Adam." "Well, I'm the senior partner, a position which you" "We need money." " Uh, Grant's a sensitive kid." "I hate that, but if he thinks he's drowning, he's not gonna go back in the pool again." "[sighing]" " Okay." "How much has he lost?" " He's down." " How much?" " l don't... lt's a disaster." " lt's over." "Well, Sally, uh... you know, I'm certainly prepared to... to liquidate some of my holdings in Gardner/Ross." " Okay." "We'll loan our cash back to the firm." " l can't believe I'm doing this." " Lots of men carry purses these days." "Yeah, generally their own." " l never ask." "How's your deal?" " Fine, great." "Cathy went to the library for Susannah." "And she left her purse?" "Yeah." "Why do you have it?" " She put something in here from ourfiles." "Why... why would she do that?" "Well, maybe she wants to give it to Dantzer tomorrow at 10 a.m. at 158 Asquith Ave." " That wouldn't have occurred to me." " Seemed obvious to me." "How's Magda?" " She's still fine." "I can't look in a woman's purse." "There might be personal stuff in there." " Like what?" "What are you doing?" " Sally told me to pull out all the stops." "It could get dangerous." "You may want to, uh, move back a bit." "You're up nearly a million dollars." " Bad afternoon." "Sally and the old guy won't be happy." "Are you opening it or what?" " No." "Jack should do it." " lt's his sister, right?" " l can't let Jack do it." "It could be nothing." " Maybe something." "Yeah." "Oh..." "Ah." "Okay." "[opening zipper]" "This is so wrong." "Oh, that..." "that feels too personal." "So does that." "Oh, and that." "And, uh... paperwork." " ls it nothing or something?" " "Confidential analysis of Markham Steel as a target for acquisition."" " That would be something." " Do you have Janet onside yet?" " l will." "How are we funding this?" "Are you selling the family jewels?" "Adam and I sold a third of our holdings in the firm, and I still can't go higher than 50." "I may throw in a few preferred shares." " He'll take it." "Fabris will take that." " He wanted 52." " He'll take 50 honest dollars." " l don't think he'll lose lots of sleep overthat." " No." "I bet he loses sleep worrying about anonymous phone calls to the tax department." "[chuckling]" "Hi." "Are you my 7:00?" " ljust talked to Barbie." "You don't have a 7:00." "Which means I'm not meeting with you." " ls that how you treat the man landing you a multimillion-dollar deal?" "We call them sales, Jack." "Whatever." "You know, you're an idiot." " Oh, that's better." "We both pulled the same dumb-ass stunt." "We make a good team." "Yeah, working together, we managed to blow a sale." "Working together, we saved it." " Separately, we got lucky." "What are you saying?" "You don't want to work with me?" " Not if you were the last investment banker on earth." " l gotta go." " l'd hate to see you lose sleep over something like that." "And here I was thinking that you and yourfather had nothing in common." "I'll give 49% if you waive the conditions." "We no longer require the conditions." "We need the conditions." " l thought you had her." " So did I." "Waive the conditions and give them 51% ." "You want me to give up control?" " Do you want to make the deal?" " They'll fold." " Mike, would you trust a 21-year-old kid with control of your company?" " l want mutual veto power and a seat on your board." "Are you onside?" " Subject to one condition." "You didn't want to work together." " That's my condition." "You're good." "But I don't want you anywhere near my deals." " Done." " Uh-oh." "We're down to 13 1/2." " Fabris's stock goes through the roof, and ours goes through the cellar." "We bought him out at 50 a share." "What did you expect?" " Come on, got nothing betterto do?" " Hey, we're talking about stocks here." " Not stocks, we're actually trading." " Hey, we're looking for market lessons here." " Good foryou. I got one foryou." "No good deed goes unpunished." " Ha=ha, how would you know, huh?" " Not all lessons are learned by experience." "Well, in a few months, our investment in Fabris will pay off, the price of Gardner/Ross will come back up again." " lf the investment pays off." " Um, what the hell's a month?" " Longerthan I'm prepared to wait." " Um, we're looking at a six-month start-up phase." "Where's Cathy?" " l don't know." "Coffee?" " No, thanks." "And you can have another48 months for recoupment -- optimistically." " Unless the gap between virgin and recycled rubber widens." "And if it narrows?" " lt's been going the other way forthe last six months." "Isn't she supposed to be in at 9:00?" "Yeah." "Six months is the blink of an eye for an operation like this." "I'm sorry, Donald." " This could be huge." "It's quarterto 10:00..." " lt can't support an ipo." "It's too early, it's too risky." "Tell him to run the company for a few years and then come back and talk to us." " But he doesn't have any money." "Well..." "[Jack]:" "D'Arby!" " Uh..." " Hey, we just jumped." " Come on, people, quit licking your wounds." "Let's make us some money here." " Hey, Gardner/Ross is up to 14." "And it's moving." " Oh, my God, time flies." " Maybe a Fabris investment paid off." " Overnight?" "That's not the way things work overthere." " Street must've heard we wired into Caltame Mining." " Except that we're not." "Where is she?" " Um, she's late." "Yeah, I know that." "What's going on?" "With Cathy?" " Ha, ha, ha." "Unless she's doing surveillance on somebody else." " Uh, well, actually, she's, uh..." "[Jack chuckling]" "You have an appointment?" " l asked for one thing." "Remember what that was?" " This is my associate, Donald D'Arby." "Donald, this is, uh, Janet Hamilton," "VP Operations over at, uh, Fabris." " Charmed." "Are you gonna answer my question?" " l, uh, I told Legal that you wanted as much independence as possible." " No, I wanted total independence." "It's a subtle difference." " Excuse me, I really have to, uh..." " Stay there, Donald." "This won't take a minute." " "Employee --"" "that would be me -- "shall operate her department in such a manner as she determines is in the best interest of the firm."" ""Subject to the direction of the employer" --you " ""on all matters related to A} start-up investments," "B} expenditures in excess of a million dollars," "C} blah-blah-blah, when should I date, how often should I call my mother..."" "There, that's much better." " Some of these provisions are negotiable." "All these provisions will be deleted." "Tell me something that makes sense, Jack, and I'll listen." "But I don't take orders." " This is our operation." "We have to maintain some control." "You bring nothing to the table." " Except for a lot of cash." " Not one deal." "Actually" "You can go." " l think I have a deal foryou." "[Jack and Janet]:" "For who?" " Rubber recycling process." "But I have to run." "We're in play." " Somebody likes us?" "A lot." "We're through 16." " Oh, jeez." " Learn to relax, will you, Mart?" "Every buck up means a lot more in your pocket." " Get Sally down here." "Herfather's trying to take us over." "What did Jack say?" "Well, we really don't know if she did anything wrong." "She could have taken the report home to review it in her spare time or something." " l would've told him." "Yeah." "Where's 158 Asquith Ave.?" " Uh, it's between, uh, 156 and 160." "Right here." "Should we ring?" "What" " Ugh, okay." " Be careful." " Okay." "[thud]" " Grant?" "[dogs barking]" "Grant, uh... look for, uh, a briefcase, or a sealed envelope, anything that looks like it doesn't belong." "Whoo-hoo!" "This is neat." "What?" " Somebody's garbage." "Okay." "Phew." "Oh." " Grant, I can't afford to ruin another pair of pants." "Why would somebody throw out garbage?" " Stop looking at the garbage." "What else is there?" "Whatever else it is we're looking for." "Oh." "[banging]" " Maybe that's it now." " Come on out, Jack." "[straining]" " Uh, Jack's not here." " Perhaps we could help you with something?" " They want 17." " Take whateverthey have." " Cedric's takeover announcement just came overthe wire." " That means he's through to 10% , people." " He never wanted Fabris." " No, he wanted to deflate our price." " Oh, and I put a third of my holdings back onto the market." " Come on, Jimbo, you can do betterthan that." " Pay it." " But he wants" "Whatever he's asking." " Done at 19." "This is out of control." "What's our capital position?" " Everything's tied up in Fabris." " Oh-ho, yourfather's good." "We've almost finished with Jansky's windfall." " Grant's up?" "That son of a bitch." "I can't believe Adam would do this." "We've reached our limit." " Keep buying." "Whoa, capital-requirement regulations." "We don't just" " Keep buying!" "You heard her, keep buying." "Jack had to be taught to mind his own business." "Yeah, well, I'm not so sure he got the message." "Excuse me." "What?" " The whole point is you were supposed to tell him." " Oh, forgive me for not, uh, fully appreciating the intricacies of your plan." " lt was sweet." "[chuckling]" "Anything you've got." "Any price." " Us; we're buying ourselves." "No, I said buying, you jerk." " Enough, enough." "Close up shop, people." " My father's still buying." "Yourfather still has money." "We'll find the money." "Keep buying." "You're in breach of about 17 securities regulations." "We have no choice." "You have no choice." "These people still have careers." " l'm not giving up." "You fought yourfight;" "you lost." "I'm selling my shares to Cedric." "Once he crosses 50% , the price will crash as fast as it rose." "There's no point in standing on principle." " Fine." " Sally, you're fired." "What?" "You got to be kidding!" " l own this company." "I will populate the board with people I can be proud to associate with." "She broke the law." "She compromised herself." " Oh, I hope it was worth it, Adam." "You said it yourself -- we only have room for one Ross in this firm." "I made my choice." "We're not done here." " l am." " So are all the meetings like this?" " l thought it was the right decision." "DVD subtitles:" "CNST, Montreal"