"Previously seen on Traders." " Her next takeovertarget will be Polar Pipelines." " l'm Sally Ross, and this is" " Miss Ross, do you have difficulty sorting out first impressions -- because you seem to be underthe impression we're having lunch." " lf you have something to prove, don't do it on the firm's time." " How do we reach their souls?" "You are wonderful!" " My husband's suing for custody." " l think Carrie's better off." "My mother's helping out." " She's your mother." "Not Carrie's." " Oh, how did you know?" "Who will wearthem?" "You need me like I need you." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Forget about survival until I make the street forget about my suspension -- that will cost." "You want this bad, don't you?" " Come on, give me a break." " lt was mom's." " l know." " l have to take a bus." " Here you go, Dad." "What the hell's that?" "What?" " That Buick on yourfinger?" " Oh, got a meeting with a client." "He likes me too much." " He proposed?" " lt's protection, you idiot." "He's 75 years old, but his hormones are... fifteen." " This is a problem foryou?" " Do you have something to do, Chris?" " No, this calm is driving me nuts." " Hot off the press!" "Absolutely nothing happening." " No kidding." " Sorry to keep you in suspense, but the printer jammed." " How's life in a lap of excess?" "What are you talking about?" "What's he talking about?" " l'm talking about Master D'Arby, the lucky cleavage-plunging aristocrat." " Listen, chump, where l come from, we walk over bigger guys than you to get to better ones." " l'd like to know what she wears when she does that." "What are you doing?" " Old exchange floortrick." "When a trader's trying to tell you something too complicated for hand signals, you read their lips." "What's going on here?" " l'm betting it's a new deal." " The Commission's coming to bust heads." "You're all wrong." " So, we'll alter our asset mix, cut our expenses and start charging for research." " Fine, we're going to do all that." "And we will fire some of our people." "[ sighing ]" "What?" "What about the support staff?" "What support staff?" "We've cut nonessential personnel to the bone." " Cut essential personnel?" " Some higher-paid people aren't pulling their own weight." " l don't intend to punish our employees for ourfailure to land deals." "You'd rather sink the entire ship than just bail a little water?" "We're talking about throwing men overboard." "We have a flow in trading." "Derivatives is running at 100% return on its capital." "We're solid in retail." " Overall... you're still in the red." " Research is uncovering dozens of opportunities a week." " l'm meeting this morning with Roz Bittner." "I'm handling the Polar Pipelines takeoverfor her." " lt's a longshot." " Donald has a deal." "About time." " People, people!" "These are Band-Aid solutions." " l prefer a Band-Aid to an amputation." " Oh, I've got it." "We put a Band-Aid on the ship's front so no one has to be amputated as they walk the plank." " l want a vote." "And where the hell's Jack?" " Ever had a father, Adam?" " Several." " Uh, I'm sorry, you can leave the couch." " Planning on moving it yourself?" "Yeah." "Thanks." " Decimation." "What?" " Roman generals would go and execute one out of every 10 defeated soldiers -- healthy pruning process." " This is a little different." " The Sally brigade doesn't have the guts for lay-offs." "Will you bet your career on that?" "Huh, huh?" "Here she comes." "Brace yourselves." " Nice knowing you." " Oh, no!" " Richie rich, your hour has come." "Bullet in the back of the head." " lf they dump D'Arby, who will they get to work up there?" " No, there's no way." " Don't worry, Donald will be able to keep you in furs, job or no job." " False alarm." " Too bad." "[ sighing ]" " This is wearing me out." " See you." " How are we doing on Polar Pipeline?" "We're barely through 3% ." " That isn't good enough, is it?" "We're just following orders, trying to keep quiet." " The market's dead, Marty." "Whenever we show our bid, the price goes up." " That's because they think we're trying to take it over." " l thought we were." " l don't care what you think!" "Let's spook the market." "What's the ask?" " Quarter." " Offer 30,000 shares at a half." "Now what I want each of you to do is try and buy 5,000 shares at a quarter, all right?" "The price won't rise if they think we're trying to unload." " Scratch one client." " ls the engagement off?" " l made that guy a fortune." " Oh, I got three more, Marty." "But boy, this market is slow." " lf l were you, I'd sell as much and fast as I could, hmm?" "Ah, so it's true... we're on the chopping block." "Want to return to work?" " Good to know." "You've had time." " The market's dead calm." "If we move too hard, the street smells a takeover." "The cost of the deal becomes prohibitive." " Move too hard?" "You're at 3% ." "And we've managed to do that without moving the price." "You know I wanted to move fast on this." " Roz, I want this bid to succeed as much as you do." "We either pass 10% by the end of the day, or I'm pulling the deal." " He should be here any moment." "How did you get my name?" " Uh, heh, heh, phone book." " Oh." "Well, um, Gardner/Ross has acted as lead manager forthe widest range of clients." "At present we've elected to pursue more classical underwriting specializing in value-added service as opposed to more heavily leveraged transactions." " Capital problems, huh?" " Uh, you know, I'm not sure." "Actually, short-term liabilities" " Relax." "That problem is universal." "We believe it's of a temporary nature." "Gardner/Ross is in a perfect position to weatherthis calm without effecting major changes." "Not that, that should be any of your concern." "Ah, great!" "Jack Larkin, this is Dirk Honing." " Sorry I'm late." "What's the deal?" "Actually I don't know." " 10% ?" " By the end of the day." " By the week, if price doesn't matter." "And nobody doesn't care about price." " Eurotrash at 1:00." "You really are a jerk." "By the end of the day." " Fine." " Oops!" " Last time we met, you expressed an interest in Brahms." " Last time we met, I expressed an interest in a lot of things." " l wonder if I might test your reaction to Shostakovitch." "This evening, my performance." " Double oops." " That's Anton Lieben, the conductor." "What would a railway employee be doing up here?" " l bet you that's no ticket to the Jays' game." "Well, you know, as Rome burned, Nero did fiddle." "Well, I own some land outside the city." "Uh, very attractive land." "And I want to build a sanctuary on that land." "Uh, a UFO sanctuary." "Complete with a landing pod and both sound and light tractor beams to alert the extraterrestrials as to the sanctuary's existence." "Although I'm generally able to sense their arrival well in advance and make preliminary contact myself." " Oh." " Ha." "Well, um..." "We do have some real estate deals under our belts." "This should be" " Donald." "How about a word?" "Outside." "Yeah, yeah, sure." "Could you hold on a sec?" " Oh, boy!" " l realize that the deal's a bit unusual." "You think so?" " l think we should just hearthe guy out." "We can't make money off this deal." " There's lots of wackos with money." "As soon as wackos start spending their money, they become pretty damn sane." "That's my experience." " l, uh, I need deals." " This is a non-starter, all right?" "Do us both a favour and blow this guy off, okay?" " Right, okay, sure." "Uh, Jack." "Yeah?" " Um, I..." "I know how much a father can mean." "I wanted to say I'm sorry." " Thanks." " Okay." " Thanks." " Hey, they're talking lay-offs in there." "What's the emergency?" " There's no emergency. ljust-- l wanted to see how you were." " l'm fine." "Thank you." "You called me out of the executive Committee to see how I'm doing?" " ljust-- l wanted to see how it was going in there, and, um, to see if there was, you know, anything that I could do to... [ sighing ]" "Um, are you considering lay-offs?" " Don't worry about that." " l've never lost a job before." "You're not going to lose this one." "All right, okay." " Thank you for coming in, Mr. Honing." "You don't think your numbers were a touch optimistic?" " l can work up some figures and fax them to your office." " My premonitions can be wrong." "Yeah, that can happen." " l had a thought that Gardner/Ross" "Would be unreceptive to a UFO sanctuary." " No, nope, not at all." "Uh, thank you for coming in, Mr. Honing. I'll be in touch." "[ sighing ]" "Jansky's still making us a fortune;" "Polar Pipelines' in the works." " Roz Bittner's pulling the deal." " Only if Marty can't meet the deadline." " lt's an impossible deadline." " She's lost confidence ln Gardner/Ross." " She's lost confidence ln Sally Ross." " Thank you." " So, Jack, how's Donald's deal?" "What deal?" " O-for-two." "Well, there go the Band-Aids." " Guess this means amputation." "All in favour of lay-offs?" "Yes, majority rules, thank you." " Excuse me, this area's restricted." " Oh, that's okay." " Get the hell off the floor." " Sheila Tatum. I'm an employee relations consultant." " Terribly sorry." "I'm Benny Seidleman." " Ha, Chris Todson, metals." "You must be Benny." "Foryears, a top specialist on the exchange." " Can I get you a coffee or a mineral water?" "No, I'm expected in the boardroom..." "So I'll just get the hell off the floor." " Good going, Chris." "You just pissed off the grim reaper." "We don't need this kind of help." " Now, now, I'm not so easily dismissed." "These are very, very difficult situations which we all dread." "You seem to be doing okay." "What are we paying her?" "When did you set this up?" " ln my judgment, we owe it to our staff to provide the best professional help available." " Didn't know you had a soft spot." " lt's standard procedure, Jack." "You want to avoid litigation, you play by the book." "Atermination consultant can guide us past these... lawsuits." "And I do hate lawsuits." " Uh, paranormal?" " No." " Parapsychology?" " No." " Uh, astral projection?" " Nope." " Intergalactic travel?" " Not recently." "I mean the closest thing we have is the shuttle, you know, the space arm." " How can I establish any decent comparables for a UFO sanctuary?" "You know, ljust can't believe that Jack went forthis." "Actually he told me to drop the deal, and I didn't." "Actually, I, uh, kind of committed us to it." " Ooh, how insubordinate of you." "Yeah, well, my reading on this thing ls eitheryou do something orthey fire you." "So I took the deal." " So now your job depends on how many Martian bus tours you can attract to the metro region?" "Much better." "Does it have to be a sanctuary?" "Yeah." "Yeah, right." "Okay." "Well, good luck." "You know, I've never paused to consider how beautiful that thing is, rolling by day after day, one stock at a time." " l lost two clients today, Benny." "Yeah, well, I've had my share of close calls." "Fierce ones:" "OPEC embargo, end of the gold standard." "Black Monday, oh, was-- and some disasters I created all by myself." " l wasn't even aware that there was anything wrong." " l love this job." "They won't fire me." "There's such a thing as loyalty." "Used to be, anyway." "After all, dismissal's not necessarily a bad thing." "Oh, excuse me." "The obvious benefits:" "freedom from a fixed schedule" " Freedom from an income." " More time for personal projects and family, an opportunity for reflection, a chance to redirect one's career." " into the toilet." " lf you'll turn to page 12 of my booklet, Termination With Dignity, and page 18, Termination Environmental Management, which deals with survivor's guilt, traces of departed colleagues in the office, favourite coffee mugs, that sort of thing." " How do I shut you up?" " Find a block of Polar." " Ha, ha." "Right." "Yes, Grant?" " ls, uh, Jack here?" " Hi, what do you want?" " l hearthat the, uh, the brass, our management may actually be considering some lay-offs." " They're here." "Why don't you ask them yourself?" " l hearthat, um, they may be firing some people." "If that's true -- l'm not saying it is" " Grant, don't worry about that." "There are no plans to eliminate your Derivatives department." "Well, that's not really fair, is it?" "I mean, my record alone should entitle me to at least equal consideration, if not better." "In fact, I would like to request, in light of my superlative achievements within the confines of this corporate entity, that I be first to get laid off." "You see, it doesn't work that way." " l'd like an exception to be made." "I have put in my time." " Six weeks." "47 days and four hours." "I don't want the job any more." " This, this is preposterous." " lt was too good an opportunity." " Grant, I'm sorry." "We can't accept your request." " Rats." " Ha, ha." "Why don't you, uh, just go back to work, huh?" " Before they sign you for life." " Oh." " Honestly, the things you have to do to nurture a profit centre." " l told you, it can't be done." "We just have to find one major block, buy it, break it into small lots" " Cross it on our books, and make the 10% announcement before anybody realizes." "The problem is when I start calling, we might as well erect a billboard." "Who did Polar's last financing?" " Reston Capital." "Who's their most gullible client?" "I guarantee they unloaded a large chunk of the deal on him." " Or her." " Or her." "Get me a name." "All right, who's the biggest idiot Reston deals with?" " l got it, Marty." " l wasn't even looking." "Every time Marty barks, I'm supposed to jump?" " l didn't say anything." " l don't need this job." "I've got 10 other offers." " l didn't say anything, Chris." " He knows I'm gunning for his job." "He'll stab me." " l didn't" " Say anything. I know." " l didn't think it would take him so long." "[ telephone ringing ]" "Krywarik." "Well, I won't make it easy for him." "What are you doing?" " Spreading the word." "What word?" " That's what I'm figuring out right now." "You can run comparative studies with various entities all over North America." "Each of the UFO sanctuary's separate departments has an equivalent somewhere, anywhere, you name it." "Fair grounds, video arcades, planetariums, labs." " lt's nice but I don't know how my client will see it." "What your client has in his mind is a dream." "What we have here is possible." "Yeah, um, thanks." "But it is his land." "You say potay-to;" "I say potah-to." "What?" " One man's sanctuary is another man's theme park." " How's business?" " Great, great." "How about you?" " Good." "What's good foryou is good for me." " Shouldn't you be in a bit of a jungle mood?" "Ah, well, listen, a trader has to pull his weight." "Performance is important, but you can't let that overshadow the value of teamwork." "The fact that the ultimate earnings happened to be assigned to Chris or Benny or Marty..." "That's not what it's all about, Ayn, taking credit." "[ telephone ringing ]" "Your phone." " lt's okay." " l'm working on a plan which I think could spare us all a lot of unhappiness." "It's about developing a shared vision." "You believe in this plan, right?" "Yes, well, it's not completely flushed out yet, but I certainly think" " Then why are you talking to me about it?" "You want to answer this damn thing, please?" " The manual walks you through many of our methods for humane personnel reduction." " Found someone with a block of Polar." "Bill Afferton." "He's had it forever, and he loves it." "Oh, excuse me." " lf Bill Afferton doesn't want to sell, he won't." "You know him?" " Oh, Sally, I know everybody." " Then talk to him." "What?" "And miss all this fun?" "All right, I'll take him to lunch." "Carry on." " Loss of a job can be a profoundly distressing event, not dissimilarto the loss of a loved one." "We advise our subjects to set aside a half an hour every day for grieving." "All in favour of firing this idiot?" "All opposed?" "Aw, yourfavourite mug's in the mail." " This is the fourth client I've lost today." "What is happening?" " The universe is in random flux." "You can say that again." " The uni" " Don't." "There's got to be an explanation, a remedy." " lf you can think of it in time orthink of it... outside of time." "You've put in two of those." " Oh, not enough, right?" " l could understand it if I was losing money." " Mmm." " Danish Krone!" "I've heard of playing safe- - l'm shorting it." " ls this a new hobby?" "You sit around all day, waiting forthe contracts to go limit down!" "Danish Krone hasn't done anything in weeks." " lt will crash in the next hour." "You know something?" "Yes, could I have the editorial department, please?" "Yes, I wonder if you could confirm a rumourfor me." "I have word that the Danish Prime Minister intends to hold a referendum on withdrawing from the European Union." "I don't know." "That's what I'm trying to find out." "Hmm, well, you know, it seems pretty solid to me." "Thank you very much." "Where'd you get that?" " l didn't." "Basic rules of the game, jimmy boy." "Buy on rumour, sell on fact." "I need a rumour." " Planting one." "Why, you don't think a wire service would go to press without checking their sources, do you?" " No." " Certainly not the better ones." "It's perfectly legal." "Want to join me on a shorting spree?" " They'll never bite it." "You're wasting your money." " l'm sure you're probably right." "You think the problem's going to go away just 'cause you fired the consultant?" " Hey, ljust wanted her to go away." "You might want to give this a read over before dumping Monika." " Monika's not going anywhere." "Yeah, we can't afford to lose any pure overhead around here, huh?" "Without Research, what will the trading jocks use for brains?" " Oh, I'm sorry, is princess newsletter afraid she'll have to do her own typing from now on?" "You scared you'll drink alone?" " l think you're both right." "If we make the budget cuts, we'll have to get rid of both people." "Why haven't we looked at Corporate Finance for savings yet?" " Donald's working on Polar Pipelines." "I won't consider him." " Polar Pipelines'll be dead when Adam gets back from lunch." " l want to know what's so sacred about D'Arby." " There's a difference between D'Arby's kid working foryou and D'Arby's disowned kid working foryou." "Without Donald D'Arby, there is no Corporate Finance department." " l say axe him." " Donald costs us as much as Monika and a junior trader combined." "We have ourselves a real problem here." "Anybody in favour of releasing Donald?" "How about Monika and a trader?" "Adam has the deciding vote." " How we doing on Polar?" " The good news?" "No one knows we're in the market." " That's because we're not in the market." "We've got 4% ." " Hey, Marty buddy, are they giving you a hard time in there?" "Just give it a rest, Okay, Benny?" "What?" "Are they ganging up on you?" " Okay, I'll handle it." "Are they trying to make you do things that you don't want to do?" " l'm doing the best I can." "I suggest you do the same." "You called?" "Yeah." "I would, I'd like another shot at the Dirk Honing deal." "What?" "That wacko guy?" " l'd like to propose that we pitch the development not as a UFO sanctuary, but as a, uh, UFO theme park." "Though we don't tell him it's a theme park." "We keep the bits he likes about the sanctuary, but to underwrite it, we add features of an amusement park." "It makes more sense when you see it on paper." "You didn't, uh," "You didn't blow that guy off?" "That's, uh, pretty sneaky, Donald." " Don't see how I had much choice, do you?" " Don't underestimate me." "What?" "So, my, uh, my, my job is safe?" "We'll float your proposal past Honing this afternoon." " Uh, great, thanks." "[ sighing ] [ beeping ]" "Well, would you look at that?" " They didn't." " They even used my wording," ""the Danish Prime Minister intends to hold"" "Blah, blah, blah, "withdraw from the European Union."" "Well, this is a special moment." "I'm a published writer." " Oh, yeah, fiction. I can't believe they fell forthis." "This is such a breach of journalistic-- [ imitating explosion ]" " There goes the Krone, falling like a three-week old danish." " Pastries don't fall, Chris." "What is wrong with this world?" " Too many morons, Jimmy boy." "But as long as they're here, might as well build myself a bandwagon, sit back, wait forthem all to jump on." "You're making a fortune." " Kind of the name of the game, wouldn't you say?" " Better be working on Polar Pipelines." " No." " Susannah!" "We are so dead." " Chris is making a fortune on a rumour he fabricated." " No kidding." "Ha-ha..." "Shame on him." "Ahem." "Hi." "Um," "You're an expert in, um, patterns, right?" "Six of my clients fired me today." "I need to find out why." " l'm going to lose my job, and, uh, I have you to thank." " l'm, I'm sorry?" "You see, you, you made me realize that, that all I have to do to lose my job is, is, is, uh, lose money -- so I set my computer on autopilot." "And, uh, I bet I'm down a million bucks by now." " lsn't that going up?" " l'm, I'm going to be here forever." " That's sad." "Um..." "Here's who I lost." " Um, all male, um, between the ages of 70 and 75, uh, filthy rich... and, um, and today they ate lunch at the Toronto Club." "What?" "You can tell all that from this?" "Yes." "And because I had lunch at, at, at the Toronto Club." "So I have a friend who works in the kitchen," "So, I, I, I eat there sometimes." " The Toronto Club?" " The kitchen." " Mmm." " l, I can't believe my own program beat me." " But you don't even know these guys." " Um, member chits." "Um, cheapskates they, uh, they split the bill but asked for five copies of the receipt." " Thanks, Grant." "Thank you." "You leave me no choice." "I'll have to set a new earnings record." " l'm not asking, I'm telling." "Donald stays." "When did you take over?" "Without Monika," "Gardner/Ross Research will be a joke." "You are Gardner/Ross Research." " l'm the swing vote here?" "Yeah." " Carry on." " This firm owes me." " Oh, what about me?" "I took a fall foryou." "A suspension from the OSC's hardly equal to a hit man from the Russian mob." " Don't know." "Aren't you on the same team?" "Yeah, like I care." "You're staying." "Don't mention what the firm owes you." " Come on, people." " Can't fire Donald." " Donald would be out in a flash, but it's a moot point." "Bill Afferton has agreed to sell his 7% stake in Polar Pipelines." " Thank God." "At one overthe market price." " Oh, that's great." "It could've saved us a little trench warfare lf you'd told us earlier." " Um, Sally, um," "You know, just before you start the celebration, one more little hurdle foryou." "In light of my contribution, I'm expecting half of the advisory fee to find its way into my pocket." "You had lunch." "We don't pay people for how hard they work." "Information is power, Sally." "And if I say no?" "So you would rather blow this deal and fire your own people than let me have the commission?" " Oh, you're not quite sure, are you?" "Whereas I'm quite sure you care too much to let that happen." "See, information is power." " Done." "We'll act for buyer and seller." "And pull in both commissions?" " l want you to cross Afferton's block in small lots." "Hopefully, the market won't see a blip." "We'll be at 10% by the end of today." " l'll make Roz's takeover announcement at the close, go to balance in the morning." " lt's moving!" "What's moving?" " Polar's going through the roof." "What, what have you done?" " Nothing!" "What did you do?" " Nothing." " Okay, somebody knows." "We've got a leak." " Up another point." "Why is this happening?" " lt's coming from somewhere else." "What's happening?" "This is going through the roof." "Any of you chat this up?" " No." " No!" " No." "We have to douse this." "Put in an offerto sell." " lt won't work, 'cause it worked this morning." " How does the street know I'm taking over?" " lf they knew someone that green was up to it, they wouldn't be moving this fast." " Thank you." " Teddy, you think I would forget about you just because I'm getting married?" "Oh, that, that's certainly very astute thinking." "Teddy, I'm going to miss you." "You know, we had some times, didn't we?" "Remember when we made, what was it?" "47% on DRP calls in 48 hours." "Yeah, that was fun." "Ha-ha." "Um, but, you know, I guess I'm just going to have to find somebody else to have fun with in between the cooking and the cleaning of course." "Glad to have you back." "And actually, you know, Teddy, I'm not really getting married anyway." "Ijust, uh-- he didn't appreciate me." " l want you to start a rumour." " Seriously?" "Atrue rumour." "A rumourthat I'm doing the takeover." "[ laughing ]" " Okay, listen up here, people." "Now, this is just a rumour, but..." " See, this was the hard part..." "setting the transfirmerator so that it would act on both Martusials as well as Pondils." "[ laughing ]" "Anyway, ljust wanted you guys to see her." "Hee, hee, hee, isn't she a beauty?" "Very nice." "Very nice." "Mr. Honing, we believe this project has enormous potential." "We've drawn up a proposal." "Okay, now... lf, uh, one were to imagine three components:" "an information centre:" "videos, cd roms -- an entertainment area:" "virtual reality encounters with aliens, space rides, a roller coaster, video arcades, and so on." "But at its core, as you've outlined... the experimental arm " "The landing pod." " lt sounds like a theme park." "Yeah." "Uh, yeah, I suppose it, um, it could sound that way." " l hate it." " Perhaps you need a little time" " Space rides?" " No, not at its core." "At its core" "Video arcades?" "This, this is a travesty." " Mr. Honing, you'll have to compromise on certain" " Compromise!" "We are talking about receiving dignitaries on their first official visit to Earth." "Did, did, Eisenhower receive Khrushchev in a theme park?" "Did, did Reagan receive Gorbachev in a theme park?" "Yeah, actually, Yes, yes, he did." "What?" " He did." " Dirk, we're trying our best to bring this thing to market." "Well, this thing won't do." "You lose your sincerity, you lose everything." "This is an insincere proposal." " Damn." "You did your best." " l blew it." "Have to tell the Board." " Not today we don't." " No, it's not fairto Monika." "It's not fairto anybody." "Why did yourfather disown you, Donald?" " Because l" " Not you, this firm forced you to betray him." "We owe you." " That's in the past." "What?" " lt's in the past." " lt is?" "I bet yourfather has friends in every brokerage firm on the street." "Yeah, why don't you try on Earth?" " Monika loses her job it's a safe bet that somebody else hires her monday morning." "Same with every other broker out there." " l must stand on my own two feet." " lt's pretty tough if someone's sawing your legs off at the knees." " l don't know." "[ sighing ]" " Hey, whose nebulon transfirmerator?" "We got to talk." " There's nothing to talk about." "If Polar dies so does Donald's career." " Donald's staying." " Oh, Larkin, you definitely need house-training." "You do recall who has the swing vote." "You're not voting for Donald to go." " Ha, ha, really." " Donald D'Arby is gay." " Ha, what universe do you live in, Jack?" "People get fired every day for being gay." " People get sued forfiring people because they're gay." " Donald D'Arby?" "[ chuckling ] [ chuckling ]" " Between you and me, ourfearless leader is wet behind the ears." "I'd unload before everybody else figures that out." " Buying at a quarter down." "You know you got to get rid of Polar Pipeline before it freezes." " l hate to say anything negative about my boss, but..." "Well put." "I guess we can take that many." "A half below?" "Uh, all right, done." "But you owe me." "It's working." "The street has absolutely no confidence in you." "Just what I wanted to hear." " Okay, no." "I said yes, didn't I?" " Oh." " Sorry." " Sorry." "Ah, no, please." " There she goes, a perfect bounce." " Polar go back up again?" " Oh, no, sorry. I, I was wrong." " Oh, ha, ha." "Your rumour discredited?" "About time." " The krone is rallying." "It's payola time." " How big a position did you take?" "A million dollars." "Whoa, I did three." " Benny, you" "Well, I, uh, you know, when you mentioned, uh... I saw a report on the wire." "I knew it was wrong." "Am I supposed to overlook it?" " $3 million." " Uh, actually $3.8 million now." "And climbing." " How's that for a little unemployment insurance?" "What has happened to the price of Polar Pipelines?" " The price went up; we brought it back down most of the way." "We had a problem, but we handled it." " No, you didn't have a problem, You had a leak." " l can assure you, Roz, we won't rest until we discover the source of the leak." "Right now we need to be" " Don't bother... because I'm pulling the plug, now!" " Roz!" "[ sighing ]" " Benny, stop buying polar." "Trickle it back out." " Marty..." " Don't worry, Jimbo, you're all fine." "Okay, let's just rubber-stamp this thing; we get back to work." "Would you like me to speak with Donald?" "I'm pretty good at these kind of things." " l'll be glad when this day's over." "All in favour of dismissing Donald D'Arby." "Susannah?" " For." " Marty?" " For." "Jack?" "Against." " Sally, against." "Adam?" " Let's retain him." "What?" " Did ljust miss something here?" " l said retain him." "Let's just get on with it." " No, I want an explanation." "Well, I thought about it, and I decided that Donald is, after all, somebody that we can't afford to lose." " But you said my job was safe." "I don't understand." " lt's not you." "It's, uh... it's circumstances." "And there's fiscal problems and it's lots of..." "Yeah, yeah, I know." "Ijust bought it from you a minute ago, but I'd like you to have it back." "No, no, no new info, just a, just a, you know, a portfolio adjustment handed down from upstairs, that's all." " This just isn't right." "I've made all the right moves foryears." "And you did very well for a lot of years." "You just, you got caught at the bottom of the food chain on the wrong day." " This isn't fair." " No." "No, it's not." "It's, um, securities trading." "If l-- if you need a letter or anything like that, you know..." "How are we doing on Polar?" "Almost out." "It's killing us, though." "All right." "Well, let's hold on to the rest, and we'll dump it when the price sorts itself out." " Hey, Jack, how did you manage?" " To do what?" " Save my job. I can't even land a lunatic's deal." " l explained to Cunningham how indispensable you are." " So you, you lied to him." " Uh, I don't know." "Anyway, uh, thanks." "And so if you just configure the coupling device according to the blain protocol, you can dock Tribulons and Martusials." "And with the Shatski equations, the tractor beams would be compatible with five of the seven known intergalactic fleets." "And believe me, you don't want to be docking the othertwo." "You know, I can't tell you how thrilled I am to talk with you about these things." "You have been a tremendous help." "And any time you need a job just give me a call." " Thanks, but I already have a job... that I don't want." " Take care, Grant." "I underestimated this place." "You have some good people working here." "On balance, I'd have to say I've changed my mind." "I may be back." " No, you were right." "We didn't believe in your deal and we pitched you anyway." "You've recently suffered a loss." "And I sense that you took my project on forthe sake of your associate." "[ elevator chiming ]" "I admire your humanity." " Thank you." " Sally." " Hey." "Ah, it was wonderful, a wonderful performance." "It's always fascinated me" "How Shostakovich managed to, to mix his atonal work into the second last movement." "It's, uh-- l think it's such a romantic piece." "What if I told you that we had to switch to Prokofiev tonight?" "You didn't." " No." "But your seat was empty." " l give up." "I'm sorry." "[ sighing ] lt was a really bad day." " Can you talk?" "Or perhaps I can try to make you forget." "At least for a little while." "Your palms are sweaty." "Yeah?" "Sorry." " Hey there, little guys." "DVD subtitles:" "CNST, Montreal"