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00:01:58Good morning, Mr. Nair.
00:02:00This early, you'll have to take the local.
00:02:02All right, Phil.
00:02:1440th floor executive, Mr. Nair.
00:02:16Thank you, Phil.
00:02:22Good morning, Miss Lanier.
00:02:23Good morning, Martha.
00:02:24I couldn't find a cab anywhere.
00:02:26It's such a lovely day, though.
00:02:3240th floor executive, Ramsey & Company, Miss Stevens.
00:02:36I'm sorry, sir, our switchboard doesn't open till 9.
00:02:39You should be able to reach him shortly thereafter.
00:02:41Ann?
00:02:43That's correct, sir.
00:02:45Mr. Staples begins with the company today.
00:02:48I'll leave your message on his desk.
00:02:51Ann, would you put this on Mr. Staples' desk, please?
00:02:53Yes, ma'am.
00:02:54Mr. Staples will be in Mr. Quinn's old office, executive corridor.
00:02:57Yes, I know.
00:03:00I said deliver it, not read it.
00:03:02Yes, ma'am.
00:03:04Executive 40th floor, Miss Stevens.
00:03:15Morning.
00:03:16Hi.
00:03:17Oh, good morning, madam.
00:03:18I wonder if Martha's going to go to work next door.
00:03:20Oh, no.
00:03:22I'm glad I don't.
00:03:24Maybe.
00:03:25Well, they really fixed up a new exec's office for him, didn't they?
00:03:28Very nice.
00:03:30A new man.
00:03:32Right next door to your boss.
00:03:34And awfully close to Mr. Ramsey.
00:03:37So happens it's a new man.
00:03:39What's his name?
00:03:40Staples?
00:03:41Mm-hmm.
00:03:42Will be working with Mr. Briggs.
00:03:44That's why they have adjoining offices.
00:03:46Marjorie, baby, you're awfully defensive.
00:03:50I guess that's because you're worried about your Mr. Briggs.
00:03:54Run along, will you?
00:03:58May I have some more cream, please?
00:04:02Next car, please.
00:04:22Next car.
00:04:23Next car, please.
00:04:24Okay.
00:04:25Next car.
00:04:29Harry, Charlie, Joe, express down.
00:04:31No stops for Jim.
00:04:41Next car.
00:04:42Next car.
00:04:43Next car, please.
00:04:44Next car.
00:04:45Next car.
00:04:46Good morning, Mr. Ramsey.
00:04:47Next car, please.
00:04:48All right.
00:04:57Thank you, Lenny.
00:04:58Yes, sir.
00:05:01Miss Lanier, Miss Stevens, he's here.
00:05:04Thank you, Martha.
00:05:09Chief Operator, please.
00:05:12Miss Phillips, you can put this morning's three long-distance calls through to Mr. Ramsey.
00:05:16Portland, Dallas, St. Louis offices.
00:05:23Good morning, Mr. Ramsey.
00:05:24Good morning, Mr. Ramsey.
00:05:25Good morning, Miss Lanier.
00:05:30Any messages?
00:05:31You have calls placed for our Portland, Dallas, and St. Louis offices.
00:05:34Nothing else important, sir.
00:05:35Martin Toole and Dyer, you said you'd wire him.
00:05:37Yes, you'll find a copy in my briefcase.
00:05:40You're right as usual, nothing important.
00:05:43I have the Portland report in my briefcase.
00:05:46I want it teletyped this morning to Seattle.
00:05:48Have someone there drive over to Portland and get it to Johnson before lunch.
00:05:52Then run off 20 copies, confidential mimeographing, and have them ready in time for the board meeting.
00:05:57I want it on the agenda.
00:05:59Has Mr. Staples arrived yet?
00:06:01Not yet, sir.
00:06:03Delay that meeting until 10 this morning to give you time to get the report mimeoed and distributed.
00:06:08I want it read, and carefully.
00:06:11Get word underground to their secretaries that no one is to count on making any early luncheon appointments.
00:06:15And make a note.
00:06:17Staples is to sit one down from Van Deventer on my left.
00:06:21Yes, sir.
00:06:22Let me know as soon as Mr. Staples arrives.
00:06:25Yes, Mr. Ramsey.
00:06:52Well, Fred, here we are.
00:06:55Yeah, here we are.
00:06:57A little different than Mansfield, isn't it?
00:06:59Now I know what a mother feels like when a child goes to school for the first time.
00:07:03Oh, goodbye, Mother.
00:07:05Looks big, doesn't it?
00:07:07Oh, give me a chance, honey. Maybe I can cut it down to my size.
00:07:11Well, I'm a little late.
00:07:13Shall I call you when I...
00:07:15No, no, no.
00:07:17You go on home after you've finished shopping.
00:07:19And find a garage somewhere around midtown and park your car.
00:07:22I'll phone you on what train I'll be on.
00:07:24Bye-bye.
00:07:29Goodbye, darling.
00:07:48Oh, Ramsey & Company, the board said...
00:07:50Yes, sir. Executive or administrative?
00:07:52Oh, the executive, Mr. Ramsey.
00:07:54Fortieth floor, sir.
00:07:56Morning.
00:07:57Morning.
00:07:59Oh, you're with the tower, sir.
00:08:02The tower elevator, sir.
00:08:05They'll be down in a minute.
00:08:06Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you.
00:08:08My pleasure, sir.
00:08:09Thank you.
00:08:10Thank you.
00:08:11Thank you.
00:08:12Thank you.
00:08:13Thank you.
00:08:14Thank you.
00:08:15I'm sorry. Thank you.
00:08:16My pleasure, sir.
00:08:18Morning.
00:08:19Morning, Ed.
00:08:20Morning.
00:08:21Good morning.
00:08:22Good morning.
00:08:23Good morning.
00:08:24Morning, Jamie.
00:08:25Good morning, Bill.
00:08:28Morning, Marge. How was the weekend?
00:08:30Fine. Your letters are on your desk and the coffee cart will be here in a minute.
00:08:33I can use some coffee.
00:08:34Didn't you get any rest at all?
00:08:35Couldn't even take my kid to the doubleheader.
00:08:37Oh, what a shame.
00:08:39That planning report's going to be a real job, Marge.
00:08:42This'll be a big week for you, too, with that thing.
00:08:44I believe we'll try a rough first draft.
00:08:46Long?
00:08:47No longer than the telephone directory.
00:08:49Phew!
00:08:51Marge?
00:08:54Has Mr. Staples come in yet, Marge?
00:08:57No, sir.
00:08:59Mr. Staples?
00:09:00Yes.
00:09:01I'm Margaret Lanier, Mr. Ramsey's secretary.
00:09:03Oh, how do you do?
00:09:04Mr. Ramsey would, of course, be here to welcome you himself,
00:09:07but you called him on a long-distance call.
00:09:09May I take you back to your office?
00:09:11Well, thank you very much.
00:09:12And on our way, I might show you some of our other departments.
00:09:15Have you met Miss Stevens?
00:09:17I introduced myself, Miss Lanier.
00:09:19Fine.
00:09:20And may I bid you my own personal welcome?
00:09:23We're very glad to see you.
00:09:25Well, that's very nice of you. Thank you.
00:09:27Now, if you'll just come with me, Mr. Staples.
00:09:32Miss Stevens?
00:09:33Marketing and sales are below here.
00:09:35We have our own research department on the 40th floor.
00:09:37Perhaps you'd like to see that later.
00:09:39This is the executive corridor.
00:09:42Mr. Ramsey's office is that one down at the end.
00:09:45Then Mr. Jamieson, head of purchasing.
00:09:47Mr. Briggs.
00:09:49You'll be working closely with Mr. Briggs.
00:09:51Mr. Van Deventer, chief engineer.
00:09:53And this is your office.
00:10:05Isn't it nice?
00:10:07I hope you like it.
00:10:09Mr. Ramsey was told by someone in your old office
00:10:11that you were especially fond of this period.
00:10:14Weren't your office in Mansfield furnished in early American?
00:10:18My furniture consisted of two filing cabinets
00:10:21and a surplus metal desk off of a destroyer escort.
00:10:27No, it's really very attractive.
00:10:30Very.
00:10:31I appreciate it very much indeed.
00:10:34Excuse me, Miss Lanier.
00:10:36Ann said you wanted to see me.
00:10:37Oh, yes, Marge.
00:10:38Mr. Staples, this is Miss Fleming.
00:10:40How do you do?
00:10:41How do you do?
00:10:42Marge, will you see that Mr. Staples has everything he needs
00:10:44in the way of office equipment?
00:10:46It was arranged for this morning at Mr. Briggs' suggestion.
00:10:48Oh, fine.
00:10:49I must rush now, Mr. Staples.
00:10:51Again, a most cordial welcome.
00:10:52Thank you very much.
00:10:54And Marge, will you step by at my desk when you finish here, please?
00:10:57Yes, Miss Lanier.
00:11:00I think I'd better explain the phone system, Mr. Staples.
00:11:03There are four lines.
00:11:05One is your private line, direct to outside.
00:11:07Two is for conference calls.
00:11:09Three is for interoffice.
00:11:11And four, this button is for your secretary.
00:11:14Oh, I'm sorry. May I?
00:11:16Oh, yes, thank you.
00:11:18Yes, I think I have that.
00:11:21Let's see.
00:11:23Outside, interoffice.
00:11:25Conference.
00:11:27Yes, that's...
00:11:29That's fine.
00:11:34Thank heavens, this isn't early American.
00:11:40Busy?
00:11:41No.
00:11:42No, not at all.
00:11:43Oh, you must be...
00:11:44Bill Briggs, your next-door neighbor.
00:11:46Yes, of course.
00:11:47Well, I'm certainly glad to meet you, sir.
00:11:49I think, uh, Mr. Briggs,
00:11:52I'm glad to meet you, sir.
00:11:53I think, uh, Mr. Ramsey told me you'd been sick, didn't he?
00:11:57Oh, did he?
00:11:58Actually, it's just a...
00:12:00Just a pesky stomach that's been acting up on me.
00:12:02You just in from Mansfield?
00:12:04Yes, they took a house for...
00:12:05Oh, uh, sit down, Mr. Briggs.
00:12:07Settled already?
00:12:09Good.
00:12:10I'm not trying to set myself up as a real New Yorker.
00:12:13Altoona, Pennsylvania, that's where I came from.
00:12:16My first trip home, I was wearing spats.
00:12:19I remember my father not being able to get over it.
00:12:21He says, Bill, Bill, he says,
00:12:23you went to New York to see the sights,
00:12:25and instead you become one of them.
00:12:30Well, we just got here Friday afternoon,
00:12:32so this morning, Nancy insisted...
00:12:34Uh, my wife,
00:12:35she insisted on driving me to work the first morning.
00:12:38Well, you know the way women are.
00:12:40You know, you...
00:12:41You come out of a small-town plant,
00:12:44you...
00:12:45You feel a little lost in a place like this.
00:12:49Well, as I was saying, you know,
00:12:50we, uh, walked into our house Friday afternoon.
00:12:52We'd never laid eyes on the place before, you know?
00:12:55And there it was, furnished like a magazine.
00:12:57Milk in the icebox, bourbon on the shelf, and...
00:13:01I don't know, you gotta hand it to them
00:13:02the way they do things around here.
00:13:04Yes, Miss Lemire handles all that, does a fine job.
00:13:08That feeling that I got driving into town this morning...
00:13:13Well, I've got to admit, it's just, uh...
00:13:16It's just a little overwhelming.
00:13:19Yes, and it's a pretty wonderful thing
00:13:21to be as young as you are
00:13:23and see it all spread out in front of you like a...
00:13:27Like a Christmas tree.
00:13:29You know, you think of, uh...
00:13:33You think of big business,
00:13:34you always think of it as being very impersonal, you know?
00:13:40But, uh...
00:13:42That's certainly not true with you, Mr. Ramsey.
00:13:46I know what you mean.
00:13:50How much time did you put in in Mansfield?
00:13:52Almost six years.
00:13:53You must have blown a bugle in Ramsey's ear out in Ohio.
00:13:56He brought you here in a hurry.
00:13:58Well, actually, I wasn't at all sure
00:14:00I wanted to come to New York, but, uh...
00:14:04This Ramsey is a pretty dynamic man.
00:14:07Yes, I know.
00:14:10You see, you've been with the firm some time now, haven't you?
00:14:13Oh, maybe 40 years or so.
00:14:17I seem to recall Mr. Ramsey's talking about you
00:14:20as a production man.
00:14:22You're an engineer, aren't you?
00:14:24Yes, but, uh, from what he told me,
00:14:27I guess I'll be a little of everything around here,
00:14:29mostly in industrial relations.
00:14:33Industrial relations?
00:14:36Matter of fact, it's been one of my specialties.
00:14:40We... we ought to get along pretty well together.
00:14:44I'm sure we will.
00:14:47Excuse me.
00:14:49Mr. Ramsey's called a meeting in the conference room, Mr. Briggs.
00:14:52Oh?
00:14:53Well, Fred, it's been a real pleasure meeting you.
00:14:56Thank you.
00:14:57Mr. Ramsey's expecting Mr. Staples, too.
00:15:00Oh.
00:15:02Well, then, I'll, uh...
00:15:04I'll go in with you if you don't mind.
00:15:06Not at all.
00:15:09I just hope Mr. Ramsey remembers hiring me.
00:15:13Mr. Ramsey rarely forgets anything.
00:15:16After you.
00:15:17Thank you.
00:15:18Staples?
00:15:19Yes, hello.
00:15:20Fred, uh, this is Harvey Jameson, head of purchasing.
00:15:23Oh, how are you?
00:15:24So they finally finished it.
00:15:26What?
00:15:27Oh, Fred, your office on Friday, the painters and all,
00:15:29it was a madhouse.
00:15:30Say, Bill, are you taking along Ramsey's breakdown?
00:15:32Oh, no, I forgot that.
00:15:34A couple of other things I forgot, too.
00:15:36Jamie, would you and Fred go along together?
00:15:37I'll be in in a few minutes.
00:15:38Fine.
00:15:39I suppose Lanier's given you the cook's tour.
00:15:41What? Oh, yes.
00:15:42Did she show you the conference room?
00:15:44Oh, yes, on the other side, yes.
00:15:46Mr. Briggs?
00:15:48What is it, Marge?
00:15:52I don't know.
00:15:55Mr. Briggs, I think I ought to resign.
00:15:58Resign? What are you talking about?
00:16:00What happened?
00:16:01What is it, Marge?
00:16:03Mr. Briggs, I've just been ordered to go over to Mr. Staples'
00:16:05as his new secretary.
00:16:07Temporarily?
00:16:08No, I don't think so.
00:16:09Who gave this order?
00:16:11Miss Lanier.
00:16:12When?
00:16:13About five minutes ago.
00:16:15I'm supposed to break in your new secretary.
00:16:17They've picked a new secretary for me?
00:16:19Yes, I think so.
00:16:22It's out of the question for you to resign, Marge,
00:16:24to even think of resigning.
00:16:26You're a fine, wonderful woman and a great secretary.
00:16:29That's the reason they want you over with Staples.
00:16:32They need someone like you because he's new here
00:16:34and they want him to get into harness fast.
00:16:36Who can tell, Marge, one of these days,
00:16:39that stomach of mine is a pretty perverse organ
00:16:42and I'm tired.
00:16:45You know, as it must to all men.
00:16:48Mr. Briggs.
00:16:50Have you any idea who your successor is?
00:16:54Yes, they've chosen Sylvia Trammell.
00:16:56Miss Trammell?
00:16:58If it is so ordained, so be it.
00:17:00She's new, but she's supposed to be very good at dictation.
00:17:03Well, we'll give her a chance to prove it.
00:17:06Mr. Briggs.
00:17:09If I could only tell you what this job has meant to me.
00:17:12What working with you has meant to me.
00:17:15All right, kid.
00:17:17Wash up, get your money and get out of here.
00:17:22And give Mr. Staples all the best you've got in you.
00:17:25I know you will. That's the only way you operate.
00:17:28I like the guy.
00:17:30I have a feeling he's going to carve out a career around here.
00:17:33Yes, sir.
00:17:35Everybody seems to think so.
00:17:39I'm sorry to keep you waiting, gentlemen.
00:17:41Mr. Ramsey will be with us in a moment.
00:17:58Come on.
00:18:09Been away, have you?
00:18:11Sorry, Fred, I was held up for a few minutes.
00:18:13See you later, Fred.
00:18:15Now, where are we going to sit you?
00:18:17Here's an empty chair. I guess you can sit right here.
00:18:19Mr. Staples, will you sit over there, please?
00:18:21Right next to Mr. Van Deventer.
00:18:23One down for Mr. Ramsey, please.
00:18:28Welcome back, Bill. Feeling better?
00:18:30Much, thank you. A little stomach.
00:18:32Good. I'm glad it's cleared up.
00:18:36John, don't forget that contract.
00:18:38Can you get it through tomorrow?
00:18:42First, gentlemen, I'd like you to look over the mimeo sheet on top.
00:18:46Haverford Mutual had some doctors look into the matter of executive diets.
00:18:51Their findings showed incredible deficiencies.
00:18:54They've gotten up some food tables. I've had them mimeoed.
00:18:57I'd like you to look them over.
00:18:59As you know, it's in my feeling that a healthy executive is an efficient one.
00:19:06I think it not amiss now to introduce the newest member of our team, Mr. Fred Staples.
00:19:11He's from Mansfield, Ohio.
00:19:13As you all know, he was general manager of Queen City Tool & Dye until we took it over.
00:19:18His record there was a brilliant one.
00:19:20He's a production engineer by training, an industrial relations man by instinct.
00:19:24I expect good things from him.
00:19:33You've probably met everyone, but just for the record, reading from left to right...
00:19:37Mr. Jameson, head of purchasing.
00:19:39Yes, we met.
00:19:40Mr. Granigan, controller.
00:19:42Mr. Gordon, head of sales.
00:19:44How are you?
00:19:45Mr. Latham, head of service.
00:19:47Mr. Portier, chief of operations.
00:19:49Yes, nice knowing him.
00:19:50And Mr. Van Deventer, chief engineer.
00:19:53How are you? Nice to see you.
00:19:54Pleasure.
00:19:55Oh, and of course, you've met Mr. Briggs.
00:19:58Oh, yes.
00:19:59Who is our vice president, assistant general manager...
00:20:02in charge of everything that everybody else forgets to do.
00:20:07Now, gentlemen, you all have before you a copy of the Williamston plant purchase prospectus.
00:20:12Mr. Jameson, did you attach your supplements?
00:20:15It's right there, Mr. Ramsey.
00:20:16On page 17R, under process equipment.
00:20:19And Mr. Granigan, the stock purchase plan I outlined.
00:20:22I have your comments here.
00:20:23You do, Mr. Ramsey.
00:20:25Good.
00:20:26Feasible, is it?
00:20:27Very much so, in my opinion.
00:20:29Good.
00:20:31Well, that about winds it up, unless there are any further points to be made.
00:20:36I do think, Mr. Ramsey, if we could keep the transaction under wraps for a bit...
00:20:39at least during the preliminaries.
00:20:41You know, what'll happen to the stock quotations...
00:20:43if it leaks out that we've agreed to purchase.
00:20:45I've arranged it this way.
00:20:47The stock quotation as of yesterday morning...
00:20:54You seem to be straining at the leash, Mr. Briggs.
00:20:56Or am I mistaken?
00:20:58You mention here that probable time of purchase would be sometime in June.
00:21:01Are the plants to be in receivership until then?
00:21:03That seems to be what it says.
00:21:05That means six months with improper maintenance of equipment.
00:21:08Oh, I doubt it, Bill.
00:21:09I've had two of my best men out there for the last six weeks.
00:21:12We had a varying voltage problem, but that was taken care of.
00:21:15You know, maintenance-wise, I doubt if there'll be $1,000 worth of deterioration.
00:21:19How about goodwill?
00:21:20What about it?
00:21:21The plant employs 900 men.
00:21:23That's half the working force of the village.
00:21:25So?
00:21:26So what do we do with these men?
00:21:27Cover them with cosmoline and put them away in a drawer...
00:21:29until we get ready to resume production?
00:21:31I thought your concern was for the plant.
00:21:33And what good is the plant without the men?
00:21:35You chop a village payroll in half for six months...
00:21:37and you might not have a plant, because you might not have a village.
00:21:40Mr. Briggs, if we may be permitted to disregard for the moment...
00:21:43the considerations that you have brought up...
00:21:45what about the rest of the plant?
00:21:47I'd say it was adequate.
00:21:49Adequate?
00:21:53That gentleman is the kiss of death, believe me.
00:21:56I've known Mr. Briggs for a long time.
00:21:58When he says something is adequate...
00:22:00what he means is that it is entirely inadequate.
00:22:02I must admit to feeling a concern over some 900 men...
00:22:05suddenly deprived of a livelihood.
00:22:07Mr. Briggs, if you would do me the goodness...
00:22:08to look at what I consider to be a fairly elementary business principle.
00:22:11By putting 900 men out of work temporarily...
00:22:14we may ultimately employ twice that number in the same town.
00:22:17By cutting production costs as a result...
00:22:19we will then be able to compete more favorably in the market.
00:22:22Thus we'll be able to sell more goods.
00:22:24We're not going to ruin that town. We're going to make it.
00:22:27I should think, Mr. Briggs, that after 30 years...
00:22:29you'd be able to think beyond the tongue-clucking stage...
00:22:32and come up with something resembling an analytical point of view.
00:22:35I was under the impression I'd given you a point of view.
00:22:37I saw none!
00:22:39I perceived what amounts to a rather emotional little tidbit...
00:22:42that was decidedly more charitable than cooperative...
00:22:44and by no means thought through.
00:22:46I asked, I believe, for an objective view of a business venture.
00:22:49From you I got, and I seem constantly to be getting...
00:22:52a very negative response of any at all.
00:22:54Adequate, I believe you said.
00:22:56Well, Mr. Briggs, this little move will save us conservatively half a million dollars...
00:22:59which we'll be able to put back into the business.
00:23:01I must say you take a liberal view of adequacy.
00:23:04I didn't intend to make a central issue out of this...
00:23:06but I did feel it important enough to air in this meeting.
00:23:13Well, you have aired it in this meeting.
00:23:15I think it's a good thing you did.
00:23:17But I think, Bill, we're pretty much of one mind about it now.
00:23:20And we may assume the matter is closed now.
00:23:24Mr. Briggs.
00:23:27How about you, Mr. Staples?
00:23:29Do you have an opinion?
00:23:31No.
00:23:33No, I think not, Mr. Ramsey.
00:23:35Why not?
00:23:37Well, frankly, it's a little out of my grasp at the moment.
00:23:40I don't know anything about the firm.
00:23:42It's corporative set-up, reasons for bankruptcy.
00:23:45Or for that matter, its product.
00:23:47I'm afraid I'll have to pass the buck.
00:23:49Well, Mr. Staples...
00:23:51I'm afraid I'll have to pass the buck.
00:23:53Or for that matter, its product.
00:23:55I'm afraid I'll have to pass.
00:23:58Good answer.
00:24:00I respect thoughtful judgment, Mr. Staples.
00:24:04Congratulations.
00:24:09We'll adjourn now until 2 o'clock.
00:24:12I'm sorry we got started so late this morning...
00:24:15but I wanted this analysis mimeoed for your inspection.
00:24:18After lunch, we'll take up the Portland report, which you have before you.
00:24:22Mr. Granigan attended the stockholders' meeting there on Tuesday...
00:24:25and we'll begin our discussion with his report.
00:24:28That's all.
00:24:30All right, sir.
00:24:32Oh, Bill.
00:24:34Why don't I come and have some lunch, huh?
00:24:36Oh, thank you.
00:24:40Oh, uh, Bill, wasn't there something you wanted to speak to me about before?
00:24:44Nothing important.
00:24:46Why? Tummy's all right, eh?
00:24:48Cast iron. Couldn't be better.
00:24:50Good. Keep it up.
00:24:53Oh, uh, Staples.
00:24:55See you, Bill.
00:24:58Good to have you with us, Staples.
00:25:00Thank you.
00:25:01The arrangement satisfactory?
00:25:02Oh, yes, just perfect.
00:25:04I'm sure you'll be hearing from my wife very soon about that.
00:25:06It's a beautiful house.
00:25:07Beautiful country up there. I'm sure you'll love it.
00:25:10Oh, uh, see you later, Bill.
00:25:14Oh, Fred.
00:25:16Briggs is working on a project now,
00:25:18a comprehensive planning report.
00:25:20The point is that it's very important,
00:25:22most important indeed for our future program,
00:25:25and it's far too big a job for Briggs
00:25:27or for any one man to handle.
00:25:29Now, what I want you to do is get your finger in there.
00:25:31Certainly.
00:25:32What I mean is more than just your finger.
00:25:35You understand?
00:25:36Yes, Mr. Ramsey. You make that quite clear.
00:25:47Oh, could I see you a minute, Miss Fleming?
00:26:10Yes, sir?
00:26:13Yes, sir?
00:26:15Oh, I wonder if you could check for me, please,
00:26:17as to who's to be my secretary.
00:26:19I need some notes typed up.
00:26:22I'm to be your secretary, Mr. Staples.
00:26:27But I thought Mr. Briggs...
00:26:29It was arranged for just before the meeting, Mr. Staples.
00:26:35I take it you'd rather remain with Mr. Briggs.
00:26:38I was Mr. Briggs' secretary for seven years, Mr. Staples.
00:26:41Well, in that case, I see no reason
00:26:43why I shouldn't be able to get someone else.
00:26:47It was Mr. Ramsey's idea.
00:26:49Do you want to give me those notes now?
00:26:55No, uh, why don't you have your lunch first, Miss Fleming?
00:26:59We'll take care of these when you come back.
00:27:12Mr. Briggs?
00:27:17There are some notes here that...
00:27:19Later, Marge.
00:27:21I'll do it later.
00:27:41Thank you.
00:27:43Thank you.
00:28:09Darling, you didn't say anything about my new hairdo.
00:28:11Do you like it?
00:28:13Yeah, it's lovely.
00:28:18I wish you could see the new dresses I bought.
00:28:20They're just beautiful.
00:28:22Where are they?
00:28:24Still at the store, having little things done to them.
00:28:26Go in the kitchen. I'll fix you a drink.
00:28:28Not the kitchen.
00:28:30The library.
00:28:33Oh.
00:28:41I hoped they'd have the dresses ready
00:28:43and have them sent over to your office this afternoon.
00:28:46I spoke to your secretary about it when I called.
00:28:49It's funny she didn't mention it.
00:28:51They didn't get the job done in time.
00:28:53She had a nice voice. What did she like?
00:28:56Who?
00:28:58Your secretary.
00:29:00Oh.
00:29:02What you might expect.
00:29:04You know.
00:29:06What's her name?
00:29:09To tell you the truth, I didn't get her name.
00:29:11Only your dimensions.
00:29:13All right.
00:29:16No, her name is Fleming.
00:29:19So happens you don't have a thing in the world to worry about.
00:29:22She doesn't like me worth a bit.
00:29:24Why?
00:29:27Well, I guess she prefers working for her former boss.
00:29:32Well, then why doesn't she?
00:29:34I don't know. Some kind of...
00:29:38strategy at the top, I guess.
00:29:42That sounds funny.
00:29:44Yeah.
00:29:46Her ex-boss happens to be only one of the vice presidents.
00:29:52My superior and a very nice guy to boot.
00:29:55Could that perhaps be a good sign?
00:29:59You figure it out. Left me a little up in the air.
00:30:03You know, Nancy,
00:30:05running a plant in Ohio is beginning to take on all the...
00:30:11aspects of a nice, simple, uncomplicated gravy train.
00:30:18What happened today?
00:30:20Oh, nothing, really.
00:30:22Just...
00:30:24an impression, I guess.
00:30:28A sort of...
00:30:30queer undercurrents and tensions and...
00:30:35Good luck.
00:31:06Mr. Ramsey?
00:31:08Good morning, Mr. Ramsey.
00:31:10Ms. Stevens?
00:31:14Fine, thanks, Jerry.
00:31:16Let me see that breakdown again.
00:31:18Oh, sure.
00:31:19Ms. Fleming, would you step in for a minute, please?
00:31:21Yes, Mr. Stevens.
00:31:26No, that's a different one.
00:31:28Oh, sorry.
00:31:29Let me see this.
00:31:31Yeah.
00:31:32Now, this is the only one that I have cross-indexed for division,
00:31:35so don't let him keep it.
00:31:36I want Billy to take my letter from Henry Jacobson with him.
00:31:39Oh, yes.
00:31:40Now, look, Billy.
00:31:42Henry is a nice, sincere guy, you know?
00:31:45Made out of Bessemer steel.
00:31:47He hasn't been off of his duff since he learned how to walk.
00:31:50He started out stoking coke furnaces when he was 14,
00:31:52was mill foreman when he was 20,
00:31:54and then he ended up buying the whole plant for his own 40th birthday present.
00:31:57So, you know what I mean. Watch out.
00:31:59I sure will.
00:32:00Now, give him that report, and then remember what he says.
00:32:02Make stenographic notes when you can,
00:32:04and when you can't, put it all down on paper as soon as you get out of the office.
00:32:07No approximations.
00:32:08Make it as... Yes, I know.
00:32:10I want to know what they're thinking.
00:32:11I want to know how they feel about every paragraph of that thing.
00:32:14I just hope they'll open up more to you than they did to me.
00:32:16I'll be down there sometime next week for their decision.
00:32:19Mention that to them, will you?
00:32:20Yes, I will.
00:32:22Hello?
00:32:23Hold it, please, just a second.
00:32:25Have a nice trip, Billy, and be sure and call me Sunday night.
00:32:28Yeah, I will. Thank you very much.
00:32:29Thank you, Mark.
00:32:30Yes, put him on.
00:32:31Don't go away, Miss Fleming, please.
00:32:33Hello?
00:32:34Judd.
00:32:35Look, I'm sorry, I meant to call you right back.
00:32:37It's about that Atlantic States Nitrate meeting set up for October the 3rd.
00:32:41I'd like a delay on that.
00:32:46Well, I want to walk in there sure on my ground,
00:32:48and October's not going to give me any ground at all.
00:32:54Yeah, could you do that?
00:32:55That'll be a help.
00:32:59November 7th?
00:33:02Fine.
00:33:04Look, I'll see you in the dining room.
00:33:06Okay, good.
00:33:08Put that on my calendar, please.
00:33:10Now then, would you get those wires off?
00:33:13Yes, sir.
00:33:14Good. Right after lunch, I want you to set up a conference call
00:33:16with Ramsey, Jameson, myself, with Frank Dering in Denver.
00:33:20Got a minute, Fred?
00:33:21Sorry, Mark, this is urgent.
00:33:22It's about that NLRB vote in Portland.
00:33:24What about it?
00:33:25Ramsey's grumbling about it. He thinks it's premature.
00:33:27Premature? What's he talking about?
00:33:29He's had that plant running on wishful thinking for 19 months now.
00:33:33We've got a labor problem out there all primed to explode in our face.
00:33:37Now, look, Bill, you better walk into his office with a great big neon sign.
00:33:40Strike, you know?
00:33:42Then tell him I've got a little estimate worked out that it'll cost us
00:33:44conservatively $4,000 a day if that plant goes out.
00:33:47Oof, you know how that'll hit him.
00:33:49Yeah, well, you go in there and dig up the ground,
00:33:50and I'll follow you with a bulldozer, and we'll plow him under.
00:33:53No, we've got 800 big lumberjacks out there,
00:33:55and if they go, that'll do it big, you know.
00:33:57This won't be any one-week picket.
00:33:58This thing could go on for a year with no strain at all.
00:34:01You walk in there, set the charge, and I'll be in to light the fuse, huh?
00:34:04Fine.
00:34:05I'll have to call you back.
00:34:12Is 2.30 convenient for your call to Denver, Mr. Staples?
00:34:16Is everything else on?
00:34:18I've got another problem out here, if you can spare a minute.
00:34:20Wow, Paul, how are you, partner?
00:34:22Mr. Staples, that gun.
00:34:24Oh, you got it, huh? You like it? You try it out yet?
00:34:26Try it yet.
00:34:2730 seconds from the time he read Winchester double barrel on the box,
00:34:29he was sighting it.
00:34:30Well, how about going out for a little skeet shooting on Sunday?
00:34:33Give it a try, huh?
00:34:34Wonderful. Can I, Dad?
00:34:35He's all yours, Fred.
00:34:37He's a little too strenuous for me.
00:34:39Mr. Staples doesn't get tired like you do, Dad.
00:34:41I don't get tired.
00:34:42He was an All-American.
00:34:44Well, it was just horrific, so I had to stop by and thank you.
00:34:46You forget it.
00:34:47Well, so long. I'll see you outside.
00:34:53Real thoughtful of you, Fred.
00:34:55It was my pleasure, Bill.
00:34:57Hello, Mr. Ramsey.
00:34:58How are you, Paul?
00:34:59Still taking your vitamins, are you?
00:35:01I guess so, sir.
00:35:02Fine, fine. Keep it up.
00:35:05Excuse me, Mr. Ramsey.
00:35:09Oh, man, I'm tired.
00:35:11I've made arrangements for your call to Denver, Mr. Staples.
00:35:13If I could go over one paragraph...
00:35:14No, I think I'll knock that off after lunch, if you don't mind, Miss Fleming.
00:35:17All right, Mr. Staples.
00:35:20No, drink it here. Relax a minute.
00:35:23Thank you.
00:35:26I will?
00:35:46Would you like some of mine?
00:35:49Yes, thank you. As a matter of fact, I would.
00:35:55No, that's plenty. Thank you.
00:36:02Where'd you play your football, Mr. Staples?
00:36:05Oh, Ohio State, but don't ask me the years. I won't tell you.
00:36:09I won't ask you.
00:36:10Anyway, I feel about three times older than when I first came here.
00:36:15They've kept you busy.
00:36:17Yes, they sure have.
00:36:19You've done very well. You fitted in quickly.
00:36:26Thank you.
00:36:30You know, I think that's the first out-and-out friendly thing you've said to me.
00:36:35I think you resent me a little, don't you, Miss Fleming?
00:36:37I don't know why. You should...
00:36:38Well, it's just a feeling that I've gotten from time to time.
00:36:44You work with a man for a long time, a fine man.
00:36:47You become part of him. You identify yourself with him.
00:36:51Then along comes the new man.
00:36:53I like Bill Briggs. I like him a lot.
00:36:56I have from the first.
00:36:58If I have done or said anything...
00:36:59No, no, no. Of course not.
00:37:03Because I must say you've been very fair.
00:37:09But seven years isn't a day.
00:37:12I owe a lot to Mr. Briggs.
00:37:13Mr. Briggs is the last of the original bunch around here.
00:37:16The people who really started this business.
00:37:18That's not easy to be the last of the original bunch.
00:37:22I know.
00:37:24He's not well. He has a bad heart.
00:37:27And an ulcer.
00:37:30I guess that's just about par for the executive course, isn't it?
00:37:34Well, I guess I've always been a field man.
00:37:36I haven't been an executive long enough to find that out for myself.
00:37:40But you're a good one.
00:37:41I think you're a very good executive.
00:37:44You admit mistakes.
00:37:46You don't pass the buck.
00:37:50You're a lot like Mr. Briggs that way.
00:37:53I take that as a very nice compliment.
00:37:55I mean it.
00:37:58Mr. Briggs' only trouble is that he could never be a yes man.
00:38:01Not even to Mr. Ramsey himself.
00:38:04He always has to speak his mind.
00:38:07And Mr. Ramsey...
00:38:08...doesn't like his judgment questioned.
00:38:11You either go along...
00:38:13...or you get off.
00:38:15Bill Briggs never got off.
00:38:18No, he never did.
00:38:21But maybe he's about to be pushed.
00:38:31He blew up at the next round, and then Howard went right by him with a 65.
00:38:35A 65, I ask you.
00:38:36Seven birdies, and he sank an 82-foot putt on the last green for an eagle.
00:38:40Oh, hello, my dear. You know, that's some golf.
00:39:05The coffee will be ready in just a little while.
00:39:08Fine.
00:39:10You know, my father's recipe for coffee...
00:39:14...was to mix salt and chocolate with the grounds.
00:39:17Cook them all up together.
00:39:20He'd never drink anything else.
00:39:22Sounds wonderful.
00:39:24They serve it at a small downtown restaurant I eat at occasionally.
00:39:29I must remember to mention it to Fred.
00:39:31You said he was a confirmed coffee drinker?
00:39:34Dedicated.
00:39:36Fine.
00:39:38He's quite a young man, this husband of yours.
00:39:41Have you had a chance to read much of the report?
00:39:43Of course, it isn't finished yet, but...
00:39:45Well, thank you for letting me see this much.
00:39:48Not according to Miss Post, I suppose, at the dinner party, but...
00:39:52...it makes me extremely proud of my gentleman.
00:39:55I'm so happy.
00:39:57He's been worried about it.
00:39:58Nancy!
00:40:00Will you excuse me?
00:40:09Wonderful party, you two.
00:40:11Makes me think I should get married.
00:40:13Oh, don't do anything as drastic as that.
00:40:15Wonderful having you, Ed. Come again soon.
00:40:17You try keeping me away.
00:40:19I'll see you at the office tomorrow, Fred.
00:40:20Yes, bright and early, Ed.
00:40:21Good night.
00:40:22Ah, Jamie, you don't have to go yet. Stick around a while. It's early.
00:40:25Of course, I'd love to stay all night.
00:40:26We're going home.
00:40:28Can't get him out of here, Nancy.
00:40:30Usually he leaves office parties as soon as the canapes are fast.
00:40:33I thought everybody behaved very well.
00:40:35I thought so.
00:40:36Gotta give credit to them.
00:40:37Not again.
00:40:38I was beginning to like all of them.
00:40:40Will you come over and see us?
00:40:41Certainly.
00:40:42Come over during the day?
00:40:43You know, nowadays, Jamie never gets home at all.
00:40:45I think we wives ought to form a union.
00:40:47You're right. We should.
00:40:48Good night, dear.
00:40:49Bye-bye.
00:40:50Good night.
00:40:57I wonder what happened to Bill Briggs tonight.
00:41:00Oh, darling, I forgot to tell you.
00:41:01He phoned earlier.
00:41:03He said he wanted to come, but he just didn't feel up to it.
00:41:05Oh, Nancy, I wish you'd have called me to the phone.
00:41:07I wanted to talk to him.
00:41:08But, darling, you were busy.
00:41:10Well, I know, but I...
00:41:13What about Ramsey?
00:41:14Is he planning to spend the night?
00:41:16No.
00:41:17He just gravitated towards the library and made himself cozy.
00:41:21That sounds a little like artificial gravitation.
00:41:23You didn't have anything to do with it, of course.
00:41:24Well, he's really an amazing person.
00:41:29You know, I expected a real tycoon,
00:41:32but he's so simple, almost childlike.
00:41:35Baby, I just hope by mistake you never wander into a jungle.
00:41:40Good night, Jack.
00:41:41Good night, dear.
00:41:42Thank you.
00:41:43A wonderful party.
00:41:44Thank you.
00:41:48Some interesting people have come to see you.
00:41:51Some interesting reading matter here, Fred.
00:41:54Very interesting reading.
00:41:56I took the liberty of accepting your wife's kind invitation to look over your report.
00:42:01Oh, really?
00:42:03Good, heady stuff.
00:42:05Good, solid thinking.
00:42:06And some of it is better than good.
00:42:09Of course, I can't say that I agree with all your conclusions,
00:42:12but I listen to arguments.
00:42:15It'll be good to hear arguments for a change.
00:42:18Good arguments.
00:42:20Well, I can't tell you what a relief that is.
00:42:22We really sweat that one out.
00:42:24Fred, I like a man to show initiative.
00:42:27I like a man who's not afraid to think a new thought,
00:42:30to take a different kind of step on his own.
00:42:33With your permission,
00:42:34I'll borrow this extra copy of your report just overnight.
00:42:38But for now, I can say I'm very impressed.
00:42:43Well, of course, we haven't finished this thing yet,
00:42:45but Bill and I feel that another week...
00:42:47Bill?
00:42:48You mean Briggs?
00:42:51Yes, sir.
00:42:52Well, we worked together on this.
00:42:54Oh, come now, Staples.
00:42:57I pride myself on my sense for style.
00:43:00I can link what I see with what I know to be peculiar to a certain individual.
00:43:04And I know Bill Briggs well.
00:43:06I've been exposed to it since I was a voting age.
00:43:09This...
00:43:10This isn't his style.
00:43:12It isn't his brand of thinking.
00:43:14Well, I don't know what Nancy could have told you,
00:43:16but Bill and I worked together...
00:43:17Fred, learn to accept success.
00:43:20It's tougher sometimes than learning to accept failure.
00:43:24Don't take half of your accomplishment
00:43:26and hand it out gratuitously to the man on your left
00:43:29who hasn't the stuff to do it on his own.
00:43:31That's charitable, humane,
00:43:33and it makes you feel good.
00:43:35But it's not business.
00:43:36Mr. Ramsey, I'd like to clear up one point.
00:43:38There'll be a meeting on Tuesday, Fred.
00:43:40We can discuss the report then.
00:43:42I assure you I don't want any undue credit.
00:43:44I never extend undue credit.
00:43:46Ask anybody.
00:43:47Ask your friend Briggs.
00:43:50You think I'm tough on him, don't you?
00:43:54I am tough on him.
00:43:59Well, I think Bill is...
00:44:02I think he's a good man.
00:44:04He was.
00:44:06And grandfather clocks were good clocks,
00:44:08and Stanley steamers were good automobiles,
00:44:10but you can't run them in competition today.
00:44:12I must say that I like some of his ideas very much.
00:44:16Very much indeed.
00:44:17So do I.
00:44:19Some of them.
00:44:21Not many.
00:44:23Still, a man with Bill's experience and...
00:44:29I don't know. I think he'd be very hard to replace.
00:44:31I'll see if that coffee's ready.
00:44:33Are you serious, Fred?
00:44:34Briggs would be hard to replace?
00:44:36Do you honestly think that?
00:44:38And why do you think I brought you on here from Mansfield on such short notice?
00:44:41Do you think that was a whim?
00:44:43Is that what you think?
00:44:45Fred, you're Briggs' replacement.
00:44:48I thought you understood that.
00:44:51I'm...
00:44:53expecting his resignation.
00:44:55I don't like to prolong these things.
00:44:57They're unpleasant and personal,
00:44:59no matter what tack you use.
00:45:02And, uh,
00:45:03understandably,
00:45:05And, uh,
00:45:06under no circumstances could I or...
00:45:08would I undertake to fire him.
00:45:17Coffee's in the living room.
00:45:18I thought perhaps you'd like to go in there. It's quiet.
00:45:20Look at the time. I... I really must go.
00:45:23It's been a wonderful evening.
00:45:25I'm sorry you have to leave so soon.
00:45:27I really must.
00:45:29My, uh,
00:45:30coat, I think,
00:45:32My, uh,
00:45:33coat, I think, is in the bedroom.
00:45:35Oh, yes, of course. I'll get it for you.
00:45:47May I make a suggestion?
00:45:51Mr. Ramsey, I don't want to seem ungrateful.
00:45:53I'm not looking for gratitude.
00:45:56You can't run a business on thank-you notes.
00:45:58That's Briggs' trouble.
00:46:00And, God forgive me,
00:46:01that was my father's trouble, too.
00:46:04This...
00:46:06This incredible conception of a huge industry
00:46:08being run like a soup kitchen,
00:46:10like a...
00:46:11like a welfare comfort station.
00:46:15I know what the old-timers think of me.
00:46:18I've grown up getting stared at
00:46:19by a lot of tongue-clucking old fogies
00:46:21who find me ruthless.
00:46:24The kind of people who represent everything
00:46:26that might have kept our business
00:46:27from growing to anything like its present size.
00:46:31This...
00:46:32This stupid black-and-white idea
00:46:33that honesty and fair profit are incompatible.
00:46:38I just happen to feel
00:46:40that the atmosphere of a large corporation
00:46:42cannot be constantly cathedral-like.
00:46:57Thank you, Mrs. Staples.
00:46:59And, again, thanks for a wonderful evening.
00:47:09I'll see you in the morning, friend.
00:47:13You didn't steal that promotion.
00:47:16You won it.
00:47:18Remember that.
00:47:20Good night, Mr. Ramsey.
00:47:21I hope you'll come soon again.
00:47:22Thank you, Nancy.
00:47:23I hope I'll be able to.
00:47:24Good night.
00:47:25Good night.
00:47:43What was that all about?
00:47:45I'm Bill Briggs' replacement.
00:47:49A vice presidency.
00:47:51You must have really spread it on.
00:47:54Listen.
00:47:56A little rare roast beef and wifely pride
00:47:59don't get you that kind of a promotion.
00:48:01Yeah, I'll take something a little more.
00:48:04A little misrepresentation for one thing.
00:48:07A little switch in authorship for another.
00:48:09You told him I'd written that report.
00:48:11I didn't.
00:48:12I told him, Bill, it helped you.
00:48:13But, Nancy, this is Bill's basic idea.
00:48:15Oh, the same set of ideas that he's had for years.
00:48:17I gathered that much.
00:48:19You gave it life.
00:48:20You made it work.
00:48:21You made it practical.
00:48:22Even so, Nancy, I don't want any part of it.
00:48:24Oh, Fred, I happen to know what you contributed to this.
00:48:26I also know that you can't stand winning
00:48:29if you have even a nodding acquaintance with a loser.
00:48:31I don't like stepping on another human being
00:48:33to get into our capital gains bracket.
00:48:35Ramsey's stalking that poor guy like an animal.
00:48:37He'll whip him to death if he has to
00:48:39to make him pay for it.
00:48:40I didn't hear you tell Mr. Ramsey that he was mistaken.
00:48:42I didn't hear any clear-cut defense of Mr. Briggs.
00:48:45If you don't want to be successful,
00:48:47go and tell that to Mr. Ramsey.
00:48:48He'll give you a room.
00:48:49And you can check in at 7 o'clock every night.
00:48:51But don't tell him.
00:48:52Now, look, I don't want to argue about this.
00:48:54Neither do I.
00:48:55I just want you to answer me.
00:48:57Did you tell him that your wife was mistaken?
00:48:59Did you tell him that you were taking vows
00:49:01for something you did not do?
00:49:04No.
00:49:07No, I didn't.
00:49:10Why not, Fred?
00:49:13Why not?
00:49:16Because I want the job.
00:49:21Thank you.
00:49:22For a straight and honest answer.
00:49:27I'm sorry.
00:49:28I'm sorry.
00:49:29I'm sorry.
00:49:30I'm sorry.
00:49:31I'm sorry.
00:49:32Now, I think we can both sleep tonight.
00:50:03Hi.
00:50:04Good morning, Paul.
00:50:07Where's Cora?
00:50:08She's late, I guess.
00:50:14Aren't you going to be late for school?
00:50:16It's only 8.10.
00:50:18I've still got six minutes.
00:50:20You've got it figured out to a science, haven't you?
00:50:24I've just got it figured to how far I have to go.
00:50:27I've got it figured out.
00:50:29I've just got it figured to how far I have to go
00:50:32and how long it's going to take me.
00:50:34Well, if you've found that out, you've found out a lot.
00:50:39Thanks for breakfast.
00:50:43You worked late again last night.
00:50:45Yeah, no rest for the weary.
00:50:48You haven't got it down to a science yet, have you, Dad?
00:50:51What?
00:50:53How far you have to go and how long it'll take you.
00:50:57What's the matter, Paul?
00:51:04Here, here's last night's doubleheader.
00:51:06The one we were going to see.
00:51:08Oh, I forgot all about it, Paul.
00:51:10I'm... I'm sorry.
00:51:12We didn't miss much.
00:51:14I watched it on television.
00:51:15Crummy doubleheader.
00:51:17The Braves took both of them. You're lucky.
00:51:19The Yanks are playing tonight, aren't they?
00:51:21Yeah, they play the Red Sox.
00:51:23Let's start all over again.
00:51:25You meet me at the office, we'll have dinner
00:51:27and then we'll go to the game together.
00:51:29Sounds good.
00:51:30It's a date.
00:51:32You're on.
00:51:33So long, Dad. Have a good day and...
00:51:36Uh, if you can't make it tonight,
00:51:39would you give me a call at school?
00:51:41I've raised the world's worst pessimist.
00:51:43At 8 o'clock in the morning, you're figuring out
00:51:45the worst possible thing that could happen at 6 o'clock tonight.
00:51:49Upstairs in my room, I've...
00:51:51I've got a drawer full of tickets to ballgames we've never seen.
00:51:54Because of that stuff.
00:51:56But, um...
00:51:58Call me if you can't, Dad. It's important.
00:52:00I'll make it this time, son.
00:52:03Can't you have another glass of milk and
00:52:05maybe tell me about last night's doubleheader?
00:52:08I'd be late.
00:52:09Wish I could.
00:52:11So long, Dad. Take it easy.
00:52:13Sure.
00:52:25Good evening, Mr. Staple.
00:52:27Good evening, Sally.
00:52:43Paul?
00:52:46Oh, it's you.
00:52:48It's been a long time.
00:52:50How are you?
00:52:52I'm fine.
00:52:54Hi, Bill.
00:52:56Hi, Fred.
00:52:58I thought it was my son.
00:53:00He's going to pick me up.
00:53:03Got time for a cigarette?
00:53:06Sure.
00:53:11What are you doing here? I thought you were going to the ballgame.
00:53:15I don't know.
00:53:16I thought you were going to the ballgame.
00:53:19I thought you were going to the ballgame.
00:53:21I've had a miserable headache since dinner.
00:53:24So I sent Paul on to see the game alone.
00:53:27He's going to pick me up.
00:53:29How long have you been here?
00:53:31A couple of hours, I guess.
00:53:35Can I get you an aspirin or something?
00:53:37Oh, no, no. It's much better now.
00:53:42Anyway, it gave me a chance to look over the supplements you did for the report.
00:53:47I think Ramsey's right, Fred.
00:53:50You may be an engineer by diploma, but you're a crackerjack industrial planner by instinct or something.
00:53:57Coming from you, Bill, that sounds real good.
00:54:00No question about it.
00:54:02Some of your suggestions were great, Fred.
00:54:05Really great.
00:54:06I've incorporated them verbatim.
00:54:11I like your approach, Fred.
00:54:12You think of people in terms of the human factor, not just logistically.
00:54:18Something I've never been able to make Ramsey understand.
00:54:22Anyway, now he can't complain.
00:54:25I turn in the same report every year.
00:54:28He won't be able to say that this year.
00:54:33Join me, Fred?
00:54:35No, thanks, Bill.
00:54:37I've got to pick Nancy up.
00:54:39No, thanks, Bill.
00:54:40I've got to pick Nancy up for supper and that long drive home, you know.
00:54:50I don't know. Maybe I'm just getting old.
00:54:54I used to be pretty tough.
00:54:57Still tough, I guess.
00:55:00But every now and then I get tired.
00:55:04Tired of arguments. Tired of battling.
00:55:07Tired of the whole bloody mess with all this fancy organization and super finagling.
00:55:13Oh, I know it's legal and modern and all that.
00:55:16It's what they call the trend, isn't it?
00:55:18In the old days, things were a lot simpler.
00:55:21Businesses grow, Bill.
00:55:23This business didn't grow.
00:55:25Not since old man Ramsey passed on.
00:55:27It's been added to.
00:55:29That's not growth.
00:55:30It's just plain acquisition of business of stock transfers and bank loans.
00:55:35Manipulated by hired shysters and their sharpshooting accountants.
00:55:39And organized and controlled by a barracuda like Walter Ramsey.
00:55:45You sure you won't have a snifter, Fred?
00:55:48I wish you would.
00:55:50No.
00:55:54Well, times change, Bill. You know that.
00:55:57But do they always change for the better?
00:55:59Old man Ramsey could walk down a production line and call every man by his first name.
00:56:03And get called by his first name in return.
00:56:06I know that feeling. Believe me.
00:56:09He didn't need public relations experts.
00:56:11Honor was enough. Character.
00:56:14And he never sold a share of stock in his company, either.
00:56:17Not till the depression came along and he had to raise cash or go under.
00:56:21And do you know why?
00:56:23Because he would not lay off the people he hired.
00:56:25Because he would not lay off one single man.
00:56:28That's the kind of man Jim Ramsey was.
00:56:32Now I sit in that fancy conference room with Jim Ramsey's son.
00:56:38I sit there and I see all the old man's principles.
00:56:42All his beliefs.
00:56:44Every single thing holy to him.
00:56:46Jobbed off by this spindly little financial wizard.
00:56:49This wall-eyed, ice-coated little rooster who knows more about debentures than he does about the human heart.
00:56:55Bill. I'm all right.
00:56:57Take it easy. I'm all right.
00:57:00Begin to work yourself up. I'm all right.
00:57:05Sit down, friend.
00:57:08Sit down quietly and be a nice, sympathetic friend and associate.
00:57:14I'm wondering if you're as good a human being as you are in an industrial relationship.
00:57:19I'm a business man.
00:57:24He doesn't like you, does he?
00:57:26No.
00:57:29Bill, has it ever occurred to you to resign?
00:57:34Of course it has. A thousand times.
00:57:38Why don't you?
00:57:40What?
00:57:42Resign.
00:57:46You can't take the chance of letting this man fire you.
00:57:49On our level, you don't get fired. You know that.
00:57:53After 30 years of productive work, they can't say to a man like me,
00:57:56All right, now get out.
00:57:58They just can't do that.
00:58:00So what do they do?
00:58:03They create a situation.
00:58:05A situation you can't work in and finally that you can't live in.
00:58:10Where there's tension, abuse, small humiliations.
00:58:15It all starts out on a scale so subtle, so microscopic,
00:58:20that at first you can't really believe it's happening at all.
00:58:24But gradually the thing begins to take shape.
00:58:28The pieces fit together, all the little bits.
00:58:31And it becomes unmistakable.
00:58:34They chip away at your pride, your security.
00:58:38Until you begin to have doubts.
00:58:42And then fears.
00:58:46Ramsey.
00:58:48He wants me to resign.
00:58:50He wants me to get my cross so full that I'll be miserable enough to do just that.
00:58:54But you take it.
00:58:55Yes, I take it.
00:58:56Why?
00:58:57The bigger the job, the more desperately you try to handle it.
00:58:59Why?
00:59:01Why?
00:59:02Why do you take it? Why don't you quit?
00:59:05Quit?
00:59:06Yes, quit. Get out of it. Chuck it.
00:59:08You'd have your pension, your peace of mind.
00:59:11No.
00:59:12You know Ramsey is going to go on hounding you until he makes you quit.
00:59:16Never.
00:59:18He'll never make me quit.
00:59:25Bill, I...
00:59:27I wish I could understand why you go on taking it.
00:59:31Because I'm weak, I guess.
00:59:33Because I'm 62 years old and I don't think I could get another job.
00:59:37How does that strike you?
00:59:39How do you think?
00:59:42Once in a while I have a dream.
00:59:45I dream I'm sitting in that conference room and he starts working me over.
00:59:50I'm just smiling, see?
00:59:52Perfectly calm and I'm taking it.
00:59:55I don't show the slightest resentment.
00:59:58And then...
01:00:00Then without any change of expression I get up out of my chair and I walk over to him.
01:00:06And I say, Ramsey...
01:00:07Bill.
01:00:08Ramsey!
01:00:09Bill!
01:00:10Ramsey, I say!
01:00:11And then I smash him!
01:00:12Bill!
01:00:13And then I smash him again!
01:00:14Bill, get a hold of yourself!
01:00:15And then I hit him again!
01:00:16What's wrong with you?
01:00:17And then I fall and I hold him up!
01:00:18Bill!
01:00:19Get up, Ramsey, I say! I'm not through!
01:00:20Bill!
01:00:21Wait!
01:00:27It's the kid.
01:00:29He's coming to pick me up.
01:00:30Fred, I don't want him to see me, not like this!
01:00:33You're all right, Bill. Just sit down now.
01:00:34No, he can't see me like this!
01:00:36Fred, help me! Help me!
01:00:38All right, all right. I'll take care of him.
01:00:40You just lay low for a minute. I'll see you get home.
01:00:42Tell him that I left early to get some rest.
01:00:44Bill, please be quiet!
01:00:45Hurry!
01:00:46Be quiet!
01:00:53Oh, it's me, Paul.
01:00:55Oh, hi, Mr. Staples.
01:00:58Man, what a place by night.
01:01:00Where do they keep the caskets?
01:01:02How you doing, partner?
01:01:03Dad said I should drop in and pick him up.
01:01:05Oh, well, he went on home. He needed a little rest.
01:01:08Oh, good.
01:01:10He's under orders not to work late.
01:01:12But he can't seem to keep away lately.
01:01:14Always work, always worrying.
01:01:17No wonder he's number two, man.
01:01:19Suppose I drop you off at Grand Central, huh?
01:01:22Well, thanks, Mr. Staples.
01:01:24Ever since I can remember, he's been married to this place.
01:01:26Mom used to say the same thing.
01:01:28They were great together, Mr. Staples.
01:01:31Mom and Dad.
01:01:32They used to yell and argue and carry on.
01:01:35He was a fighter.
01:01:37It was great growing up.
01:01:38I remember.
01:01:48Oh, thank you, Mom.
01:02:03More?
01:02:04There's another bundle in the truck.
01:02:21Mr. Staples, you left your hat in Mr. Briggs' office.
01:02:24Oh, Fred, I have the Stanley contracts made up,
01:02:26if you'd like to take a look at them.
01:02:27Oh, yeah, sure.
01:02:29Yes, Mr. Staples?
01:02:31Now, this is the proposals report.
01:02:33Give that to Miss Lanier for confidential memoing.
01:02:36Tell her that Mr. Briggs has the only carbon.
01:02:39Is he in yet?
01:02:40No, sir.
01:02:41Mr. Staples?
01:02:42Yes?
01:02:43It's not signed.
01:02:44How would you like the names?
01:02:46In the name of Mr. Briggs.
01:02:48Mr. Briggs.
01:02:49Mr. Briggs.
01:02:50Mr. Briggs.
01:02:51Mr. Briggs.
01:02:52Mr. Briggs.
01:02:53Mr. Briggs.
01:02:54Mr. Briggs.
01:02:55Mr. Briggs.
01:02:56Mr. Briggs.
01:02:57How would you like the names?
01:02:59In what order?
01:03:00First yours, or first Mr. Briggs?
01:03:02Oh, I don't care.
01:03:03It makes no difference to me.
01:03:04But in joint projects, Mr. Staples...
01:03:06I really don't think it's too important.
01:03:08Put Mr. Briggs' name first, if you like.
01:03:10Just give it to Miss Lanier right away.
01:03:13I'd like this thing printed by afternoon, if possible.
01:03:18That's all, Marge.
01:03:19Yes, Mr. Staples.
01:03:28Yes, Marge dear, what is it?
01:03:30The proposals report.
01:03:31Would you sign it so it can be printed?
01:03:33Oh, would you...
01:03:34Just a moment, please.
01:03:36Marge, will you please take it in to Mr. Ramsey?
01:03:38He asked to see it first.
01:03:40Hello?
01:03:41Oh, yes.
01:03:42Good morning.
01:03:43Is that the report?
01:03:44Yes, sir.
01:03:45Miss Lanier, I said you wanted to see it.
01:03:47Yes, I do.
01:03:48Who signed this?
01:03:49Mr. Briggs.
01:03:50Mr. Briggs.
01:03:51Mr. Briggs.
01:03:52Mr. Briggs.
01:03:53Mr. Briggs.
01:03:54Mr. Briggs.
01:03:55Mr. Briggs.
01:03:56Who signed this?
01:03:57I wrote the title page.
01:03:58Mr. Staples suggested I sign it.
01:04:05Print it.
01:04:06I'm sure that if Mr. Staples...
01:04:07Print it, Miss Fleming.
01:04:17I can sign that report now, Marge.
01:04:26Now, we meet with Ramsey in 20 minutes.
01:04:28Under the conditions and in the time we've got left,
01:04:30it's the best plan I can devise,
01:04:31and it's the only one ready,
01:04:32so you fellas have got to go along.
01:04:34There's nothing wrong with...
01:04:35Marge, I can sign that report now.
01:04:44Thank you, Marge.
01:04:56Major projects during the period of aforementioned being
01:04:58the Huber Petroleum Refinery,
01:05:00the Sterling Cast Airs Refinery,
01:05:02the Chatham Nickel Smelter Company,
01:05:04the Henderson Valley Dam,
01:05:05the Swing Carbon Steam Plant,
01:05:07and the New England Canadian Natural Gas Pipeline.
01:05:10Good report, Van.
01:05:11Thank you.
01:05:12I got a real feeling of activity during your reading.
01:05:17The next item of business is the project's proposal report.
01:05:22Clearly of the greatest single importance on our docket this morning.
01:05:25I must say, and I'm sure you'll all agree,
01:05:27that I am not given to enthusiasms at the drop of a submission.
01:05:31But of this, I feel impelled to say
01:05:33that it is unique in effort, ingenious in thought.
01:05:36To Mr. Fred Staples of our organization
01:05:38goes my heartfelt thanks and congratulations.
01:05:41Besides being our newest member,
01:05:42he seems to be shaping up as among our most astute.
01:05:45This set of proposals is ingenious, comprehensive, and fresh.
01:05:50Congratulations.
01:05:51Your success is a reaffirmation of my own judgment.
01:05:54Mr. Ramsey.
01:05:55Of my own good judgment, I may add.
01:05:56Mr. Ramsey.
01:05:57I prefer not to be drenched with modesty, Mr. Staples.
01:05:59This is not modesty,
01:06:00just the extension of credit where it's due.
01:06:03Bill here is as responsible as...
01:06:04Mr. Banks, is your name about to be used in vain?
01:06:07I don't think Fred would use my name in vain.
01:06:10And it's refreshing to find someone
01:06:11not suffering from over-modesty.
01:06:13What I was trying to say is
01:06:15that we worked on this project together.
01:06:17It's a combined effort.
01:06:18I'm sure it was.
01:06:20Well, as long as that's understood.
01:06:22Oh, it is, it is.
01:06:23It's just that I feel reasonably competent
01:06:25to assess individual performances
01:06:27and to single out those that I feel should be singled out,
01:06:31with all due regard for Mr. Staples' concern for his fellow man.
01:06:37Now then, if Mr. Briggs' ego has been sufficiently nourished...
01:06:40I don't think Fred brought this out to feed my ego.
01:06:43Oh?
01:06:44Well, then, whatever it was
01:06:45that prompted his precipitate dash to your defense.
01:06:47There was no dash to my defense.
01:06:48Why don't we drop the thing, Mr. Briggs?
01:06:50I hate becoming entangled
01:06:51in absurd little personality conflicts.
01:06:53I'll put a star by your name on the front cover
01:06:55if that'll make you happy.
01:06:56My name is no longer on the front cover.
01:06:58Mr. Briggs.
01:06:59You're twisting the entire thing
01:07:00to make it appear as if I were grubbing
01:07:01for some sort of recognition.
01:07:02Mr. Briggs.
01:07:03I find it unfair, Mr. Ramsey.
01:07:05We have a full agenda.
01:07:07If you feel so bruised
01:07:08that you must persist in prolonging this discussion...
01:07:11Mr. Ramsey.
01:07:12Let me finish, Mr. Staples, if I may.
01:07:14We have only one purpose here.
01:07:16To work.
01:07:17We cannot hope to accomplish this
01:07:19if we must be continually subjected
01:07:21to these singularly unbecoming strains and tensions.
01:07:24These childish claims and counterclaims.
01:07:27Mr. Briggs, I ask you a simple question.
01:07:30Is it or is it not within my province
01:07:32to credit a man with a job well done?
01:07:34Of course it is.
01:07:35Then may we drop it now?
01:07:36Only if it's clearly understood
01:07:38that I don't submit to any of these
01:07:39calculated discolorations of a man's worth.
01:07:41As to a man's worth, Mr. Briggs,
01:07:43I think I've proven myself a competent judge.
01:07:45I ask you to recall that I built this business
01:07:48from a scratch pile of used lumber
01:07:50and a few machines into a giant.
01:07:52And I made few mistakes in doing it.
01:07:54Few mistakes in business
01:07:55and few mistakes in judging men.
01:07:57Well, you've made one this time.
01:07:58This report...
01:07:59I refuse to engage in a running fight
01:08:00because a supposedly responsible official of this company
01:08:03persists in wasting time haggling over credit.
01:08:06That is not fair.
01:08:07I was not haggling over credit.
01:08:08This is a joint report that we worked on.
01:08:10Don't presume to tell me what's true and what is not true.
01:08:12What am I, some kind of idiot
01:08:14that I can't recognize another man's thinking?
01:08:16Whatever your abilities in the past, Mr. Briggs,
01:08:18your work hasn't shown this stamp of originality and talent
01:08:21in ten years!
01:08:23A man slips, clutches, he loses his grip,
01:08:26he tries to hang on by someone else's.
01:08:28You have no right to say that.
01:08:31Bill, will you please speak up?
01:08:34Do, by all means, Mr. Briggs.
01:08:37You think I'm mistaken, do you?
01:08:39Shall I go through 150 pages
01:08:41and point out to you line by line
01:08:43where another man has taken over for you?
01:08:45Has had to take over for you?
01:08:46And I can point out sections of this report
01:08:48that I never had to touch?
01:08:49Had to, Mr. Staples, of course you can.
01:08:51Let me show them to you.
01:08:53I've seen them submitted year after year.
01:08:55Principles and precepts for better business.
01:08:58Mr. Briggs, yearly platitudes.
01:09:01But you translated his unworkable, well-intentioned philosophy
01:09:04into tough business procedure.
01:09:06You make it work.
01:09:08Ramsay!
01:09:09Mr. Briggs, I will not tolerate insubordination on any level.
01:09:13And if anyone here finds that intolerable,
01:09:15he has the God-given right to offer his resignation.
01:09:31Bill.
01:09:33Please.
01:09:37Mr. Ramsay.
01:09:38I had no intention of seeming insubordinate, I...
01:09:59Meeting is adjourned.
01:10:09Mr. Briggs.
01:10:14Mr. Briggs.
01:10:17Bill!
01:10:19Bill, are you there?
01:10:20Bill!
01:10:22Bill, can you hear me?
01:10:24Little...
01:10:25Little...
01:10:26Bottle of pills.
01:10:28Cold feet.
01:10:29Office.
01:10:30Get some water.
01:10:31Yes.
01:10:32I'll be right back.
01:10:33Mr. Briggs.
01:10:34Mr. Briggs.
01:10:35Mr. Briggs.
01:10:36Mr. Briggs.
01:10:38Rannigan, get an ambulance.
01:10:39I'll call Dr. Laker.
01:10:40Don't move him.
01:10:42Fred.
01:10:43He's still...
01:10:45Still giving orders.
01:10:48Do me a favor, Fred.
01:10:50What, Bill?
01:10:51Tell him.
01:10:53Tell him.
01:10:55Go to him.
01:11:08Hello?
01:11:14Thank you, Mr. Staples.
01:11:20Five minutes to go.
01:11:38I just had word from the hospital.
01:11:41He died five minutes ago.
01:11:44Thank you, Mr. Rannigan.
01:12:07Thank you.
01:12:37Thank you.
01:12:38Thank you.
01:13:07Thank you.
01:13:37Thank you.
01:13:56Nancy?
01:13:58What are you doing here?
01:14:00I called your office.
01:14:02And there wasn't any train, so I drove here.
01:14:07How did you know where to find me?
01:14:09They told me at the hospital.
01:14:14Does Paul know?
01:14:19Yes, he's with Bill's sister. He's all right.
01:14:23Care for something, miss?
01:14:27Have you had anything to eat?
01:14:30Huh?
01:14:32Have you eaten anything?
01:14:38Fred.
01:14:41What happened?
01:14:44Nothing.
01:14:46Not a thing.
01:14:49Except a murder.
01:14:52There were witnesses, too. Plenty of us.
01:14:56And no one lifted a finger to stop it.
01:14:58Oh, Fred.
01:14:59Nancy, I know. I didn't lift a finger.
01:15:01You don't know.
01:15:02I'm not going to have you going around in sackcloth and ashes for something that you did everything in your power to stop.
01:15:08You begged him to resign. You know that.
01:15:11What more could you have done?
01:15:13What more could anyone have done?
01:15:15Nancy, I think you'd better go home.
01:15:17Would you take this, please?
01:15:19Are you coming?
01:15:20No.
01:15:22Then I won't go.
01:15:24I want you to go home and start packing.
01:15:27Where are we going?
01:15:29I don't know.
01:15:30Somewhere, anywhere.
01:15:32Just away.
01:15:34There's an awful stink in this town and we're going to get away from it.
01:15:40Come on, I'll put you in the car.
01:15:41No, I'm not going to leave you alone.
01:15:43Nancy, I want you to go home, please.
01:15:45No, I'm not going tonight.
01:15:47Tomorrow I'll do anything you ask.
01:15:49I'll pack, I'll go anywhere you ask, but not tonight.
01:15:51Not in the state you're in.
01:15:52Now look, there's something I've got to do.
01:15:54Fine.
01:15:55Then we'll do it together.
01:15:56Fine.
01:15:58Then we'll do it together.
01:16:26Bill was supposed to go to Lansing tomorrow morning for a meeting with Phillips.
01:16:52You'll have to take his place.
01:16:54I believe I've already mentioned that.
01:16:56Yeah, you mentioned it.
01:17:03You'll leave on flight number 116832 from LaGuardia.
01:17:09Miss Lanier will meet you at the airport with your reservation
01:17:11and all the memoranda and correspondence pertaining to the negotiation.
01:17:15You'll have three uninterrupted hours in the air to familiarize yourself with all the details.
01:17:21I have no interest whatever in the Phillips matter.
01:17:24What was that?
01:17:26I'm telling you that I don't want the job.
01:17:28I'm through, I'm quitting, I resign as of now.
01:17:31Why?
01:17:32Because I hate your guts.
01:17:34You used Bill Briggs for a whipping boy.
01:17:37You made him knuckle under and then you beat him to death.
01:17:40You wouldn't try anything like that with me because I'd kill you first.
01:17:43I'm not a nice human being.
01:17:45What else?
01:17:46You're nothing but a freak.
01:17:47You drive your people into peak efficiency if they can make it or a grave if they can't.
01:17:52Because Bill Briggs lacked the strength and the capacity.
01:17:54He was second in command.
01:17:56He had a lot of responsibility to hold and he cracked up.
01:17:58It was his business too.
01:18:00It's no one's business.
01:18:02It belongs only to the best.
01:18:04To those who can control it, sustain it, nurture it, keep it growing.
01:18:07Right now it belongs to us because we're producing.
01:18:10But in the future it belongs to whoever has the brains, the nerve and the skill to take it away from us.
01:18:15Well, they can have my share of it right now because I don't want any part of it.
01:18:18What do you want from me? Apologies?
01:18:20I don't apologize.
01:18:21I don't apologize.
01:18:23What else?
01:18:25A nice unsullied conscience?
01:18:28You walk out of here with a halo because you spoke your mind?
01:18:32What do you do then?
01:18:34Go to work for some nickel and dime outfit run by nice people
01:18:38who won't challenge you and prod you and goad you and drive you to a height you never even dreamed of?
01:18:43A company where there's nothing to fight for because you're the best and there's no competition?
01:18:47Where everything is handed to you and nothing is worth fighting for?
01:18:51I want you to stay!
01:18:55I don't think you understand, Ramsey.
01:18:58I don't like you. I don't like anything about you.
01:19:01I didn't hire you to like me.
01:19:03All right, I'm not a nice person in your eyes.
01:19:06But whatever I am, you learn more, grow more and do more here with me than anywhere else on earth.
01:19:12I want you to stay because I need help on my level.
01:19:14And you're the only one who's able to function there.
01:19:17Be a conscience for me if you want.
01:19:19Be anything you like.
01:19:21And if it's something I don't like, you'll know about it soon enough.
01:19:24I think you're strong enough to take it.
01:19:27And if not, I think you're strong enough to get out.
01:19:30Name your terms.
01:19:32All terms are negotiable.
01:19:34I don't think so.
01:19:36Not mine.
01:19:38All right.
01:19:40I just assume not waste any time doing trading.
01:19:42As of now, your salary is doubled.
01:19:45Your stock option is doubled right down the line.
01:19:48Your expense account is whatever you make it.
01:19:51Add to that a new title, vice president.
01:19:57I want a lot more than that.
01:19:59You're not going to take me on as just another vice president you can push around.
01:20:04You'll take me as someone who hates you down to the bare nerve.
01:20:08Nothing in the world will ever change that.
01:20:09I'll argue with you, contradict you, fight you in every way I know how.
01:20:14I'll do everything in my power to push you out and take your place myself.
01:20:18Go ahead and try.
01:20:21Mr. Staples, you have yourself a deal.
01:20:25Have it drawn up.
01:20:27No reservations now?
01:20:32Yes, one.
01:20:34Bill had one deal.
01:20:36Yes, one.
01:20:38Bill had one pitiful little dream that someday he'd walk in here and break your jaw.
01:20:44I reserve the right to have that wish for myself.
01:20:48I'll have it drawn into the contract.
01:20:51With a little rider giving me the same privilege.
01:21:02Oh, uh...
01:21:03Staples, you'll be pleased to know that Bill Briggs' boy is being taken care of.
01:21:12Will that let you sleep better tonight?
01:21:16It begins, huh?
01:21:19It begins. Fair enough?
01:21:22Fair enough.
01:21:33Fair enough.
01:22:04Do we pack?
01:22:07No. We stay.
01:22:10On whose terms?
01:22:12Mine.
01:22:14And his.
01:22:16Are you satisfied?
01:22:18Yes.
01:22:20Oh, Fred.
01:22:22You know, it's easy enough to chuck something you think is wrong, but...
01:22:26I don't know, this way maybe there's a chance.
01:22:29I'm so happy.
01:22:30Well, we'll see.
01:22:32I've got to go to Lansing.
01:22:35Morning train.
01:22:36When will you be back?
01:22:38Tomorrow night.
01:22:40I'll be late.
01:22:43Aren't you always?
01:23:00Morning train.
01:23:02When will you be back?
01:23:04Tomorrow night.
01:23:06I'll be late.
01:23:08Aren't you always?
01:23:10Morning train.
01:23:12When will you be back?
01:23:14Tomorrow night.
01:23:16I'll be late.
01:23:18Aren't you always?
01:23:20Morning train.
01:23:22When will you be back?
01:23:24Tomorrow night.
01:23:26I'll be late.
01:23:27Aren't you always?