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Linda, get me a lawyer now.

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- They actually believe my father stole $5 million.

lt's not what Cedric wanted.

- His incarceration's made it all the more imperative

that we accept this bank's offer immediately.

- l now own a controlling share of this firm.

- Right now, the bank's offer's looking awfully attractive.

- Talk to me again when our senior partners

aren't slow dancing with their cell mates.

- This man is completely unproven.

He's never handled a deal before.

-What's he doing here? - l'm trying to break into the show.

To do that, l must contact Gerald Graykirk.

- Larkin's a cowboy. - ls he any good?

Yeah.

- Point and a half. One-off deal.

When do we start negotiating?

- So based on one summer's experience in investment banking,

you feel you can make this decision on behalf of the entire company.

- She has that authority. -We're passing.

- Do we have a deal? - The deal is foolish and dangerous.

What other choice do we have?

- lt's still my floor, isn't it? - For another half hour.

Unless you can drive GMl back up!

Chris, what's the damage?

-A little over4 million. -What way?

- Our way. - Our way!

5/8 on them.

Uh, 15.

No, no, no, no. You want 5/8, you got to come 15 bid.

Glad you think they're hiking the discount rate.

Going long on Canada 7 1/2 of '97.

Are you with me? - lt was a good company;

then they sunk $80 million

into Mexico and Mexico went down.

- There's no such thing as no risk.

You can get hit by a bus, then where would you be?

Exactly.

l have no opinion on that.

lf you want to dump VX at K-Mart prices,

who am l to tell you what kind of bath to take?

Just give me a couple of minutes.

OK, listen up, listen up!

l've got 200,000 VX to move at 3/8.

Can't lose that. Want some in-house buyers.

Do it before he changes his mind.

l can move 10.

- l can do 15. Don't let it go. Marty!

Of course l'm listening to you, George. Marty!

Marty! Nah, it's an urban myth.

l don't think their CEO's ever been to the keys.

Stephens!

Listen, George, l gotta go, l really do.

-What's going on? Where's everybody going?

- lt's called a fire alarm. lt means there's a fire.

- l don't smell smoke. Do you smell smoke?

Does anybody here smell smoke?

- l don't hear anything. lt's the line.

l'll call you back in 10. Something's going down right now.

l got a yard of VX to unload.

Would you get back to work?

Fifteen, you got my 15?

-Anyone who leaves is fired, how's that?

Go to hell, Marty.

l'm warning you guys.

You go out that door, don't bother coming back!

- l'll give anyone 5-to-1 odds the whole place burns down.

What, you never heard of hedging?

l still got VX to unload.

ls someone gonna help me do that, please?

You got my 15?

What's happening in this world?

Doesn't anybody care about money anymore?

Did you say 5 to 1?

Heard you had a fire sale.

- Oh, real cute. Didn't spread above the fourth floor,

so just lay off.

Speaking of layoffs...

Oh, please.

- So how many people did you cut loose, huh? Come on.

- Come here. -Whoa!

Come on, come here.

- lt was strange seeing the police there.

-Yeah, l know Dad really appreciated the visit.

- lt was my file. - lt was his file.

l did the due diligence.

l should be the one facing criminal charges.

- Nobody should be facing any charges.

Nobody did anything wrong.

- Money is missing, Documents are missing.

Good morning, Adam.

Where is everybody? - Nobody took me seriously.

Everybody knows l'll say anything in the middle of a big trade.

- So is everyone back this morning?

They will be.

-Anyone read The Report On Business this morning?

''A spokesman from Gardner-Ross indicates

that a major announcement could expected as soon as Friday.''

News to me.

- Nice having you on board, Mr. Larkin.

Did you speak to the press

without consulting the executive committee?

- Every day. - Given my father's situation,

l'm not sure that we can afford any kind of scrutiny.

-What scrutiny? We're talking about business reporters here.

-Andrew Carnegie said, ''The only thing worse

than being talked about is not being talked about.''

-We could have someone else arrested.

- lf it paid the bills, l'd turn you in.

Oscar Wilde.

What?

- The quote -- it wasn't Carnegie, it was Oscar Wilde.

-Ah, thank God none of us will leave underthat misconception.

-What will you tell the press? - l have a deal,

l'll tell them about it. How about you, Larkin?

- l don't generally talk to the press, Adam.

So what will you tell us?

Ahem, Navadyne.

Never heard of it.

- l can make a fortune taking over companies

that guys in brogues never heard of.

So who is the buyer?

l'll let you know... Friday.

He's got squat.

And you?

Well, that was fun.

Why?

Because Cunningham's right.

lf l'm gonna earn my keep around here, l need deals.

- So you promised to name a buyer by Friday.

- l couldn't resist the irony with that one.

- Navadyne's not even for sale, Jack.

Fulfillable promises, Donald, fulfillable promises.

Linda, make me a few calls.

McGee at the Ministry of Transport,

Afferton at Finance, Franklin and Marchesi at Labour.

Hell, call everybody l know.

- Uh, pardon me, but l've found that before you find a buyer,

you generally have to find something forthem to buy, Jack.

- Tips like that make you indispensable, Donald.

So if you don't have something you need, what do you do?

lt wouldn't hurt you to be a little more aggressive.

l, um, l go get it?

lf l teach you nothing else...

Let's go.

- ... and Morrison at the Bank of Canada.

Oh, and call McNally over at our bank and let him know

the buyout announcement's gonna have to wait a little while.

ls that all, Mr. Cunningham?

No.

Find out what Navadyne is.

- Now, you see, most navigation devices

work on some sort of GPS interferometry principle.

Positions can be located to within 50 metres

using a single-frequency system

and a fleet of 24 satellites.

Now, what we discovered -- um, quite by accident --

if you subdivide a single source into two beams

and measure the phase difference between the two,

one could pinpoint locations on the earth

up to a few cubic millimetres.

Do you have a prototype?

Uh, this...is...

this.

That's that?

Yeah, it's a scale model.

- l think we should explain the correlation receivers.

- l think that's a little too complicated, Tim.

-Well, how can they understand it

if you don't explain correlation receivers?

-We do understand the correlation receivers, Tim.

You do?

Absolutely.

Explain them, then.

- Go ahead, Donald, explain correlation receivers.

-Well, the correlation receivers are necessary to, uh...

to correlate, obviously,

the... the range of variables, which is received

by the, um, uh...

receivers, because of the, uh, phase difference?

Not even close.

-We don't even have to know correlation receivers

to know that you got a major problem here.

-We have orders through till next year.

But your credit's overextended,

and you can't afford to go into production, right?

Yeah.

-And the banks won't go nearyou.

lf you can't find a lender, betterfind a partner.

Someone who'll buy out your shares at a reasonable price.

-We won't sell the company. - Not all of it.

40% .

Who will we sell them to?

- l can't give you the name right now,

but what they'll give you,

over and above a large shot of capital,

is a managing partner who knows the ropes.

- This is our company. - Look at it this way.

60% of something is a lot better than 100% of nothing, right?