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- Maybe we should have put up more signs?

- Or maybe it's just too cold outside, Chris?

- I was hoping we'd sell at least one toy

before dinner time, Joe.

Know what? We will,

'cause I'm gonna buy one. This one!

- But you helped them make it. - So?

The whole point is that we make toys

that we'd wanna play with, right?

Right.

Then congrats on being our first official customer.

Let's do this every year.

- That's the plan. I wanna be a world-famous toymaker,

just like Santa Claus.

Just way prettier.

- Heather tells me it's my destiny to make toys

since I was born on Christmas.

Can it be my destiny too?

Even though I'm born in July.

- Of course. - Pinky promise?

Mom, look at all these toys!

Can I get one?

Ooh, that one is my favorite.

Oh, that's about $4.00.

- Right, but let manufacturing know we will reorder,

once they add a new recording to the voice chip.

- Hmm, and I have Kathleen Keller at 11:00,

so make sure that my meeting with Quality Assurance

gets pushed. Oh, one second.

Okay, yeah, go ahead.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, I'm on my way.

Tell Marketing that I will approve all overtime,

I just need everyone to stay late

so they can finish the focus group reports.

Ah! Oh! Oh! I'm-I'm so, so sorry.

No, not you, Alice.

You're in uh, quite a hurry.

It's Christmas Time. You should be slowing down.

- Uh, Alice, hold on, I have a Santa talking to me.

I-I'm sorry, what?

- You're in too much of a hurry. It's Christmas!

You should be enjoying it all.

Well, that sounds lovely,

but it's a very busy time of year for me, so--

- It's a very busy time for me, too.

You know, Christmas is 16 days away,

but I'm not bumping into people.

- You don't have a company to run,

and the biggest meeting of your life, happening today.

Yeah.

- That you know of. Ho, ho, ho.

Oh, Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.

- Looking good, Nick! - Thank you, Joe.

Ho, ho, ho. Taxi!

- Oh. Also, I wanna make sure that there is

fresh pastries available for when Kathleen arrives.

Get over here!

Why is she here so early? - I don't know,

I was in the copy room this whole time

and just saw now that she was in your office.

How long has she been waiting?

- I'm not sure. Why are you so nervous?

- Because, CEO's of top-tier toy companies

don't call me everyday to arrange a meeting.

I mean, this could be about something big!

Help me! - Good luck.

Also, your sister called again.

- Yeah, tell her I'll call her tomorrow.

Kathleen Keller,

it is such a pleasure to meet you in person.

Well, I feel the same.

- Uh, I'm so sorry to keep you waiting,

I just, I thought our meeting was at 11:00?

- You know, I was probably in LA

when I put it on my calendar,

and the cell phone didn't transfer the time zones.

Well, I hope I'm not getting you at a bad time.

Oh no, no, not at all.

I'm just so glad that you're here.

I was thrilled when I heard the CEO of Arlo Toys

wanted to meet with me.

I've just admired your work from afar

for as long as I can remember.

- I've been following yours, as well,

and to see everything you've accomplished here at CJ's Toys,

in such a short time, it's very impressive.

That's actually why I wanted to meet you.

I am uh, planning on retiring

before the end of the year. - Oh.

- And I don't wanna leave my company in just anyone's hands.

I need someone just as driven, just as dedicated,

just as business-focused as I am.

Hmm.

And from all my research,

I believe that person is you.

I... I'm flattered!

- I wouldn't ask you to give up everything

you've created here, so to preserve my legacy,

and to begin yours,

I am proposing...

that CJ's Toys and Arlo Toys merge.

To form one, brand-new company,

with you as CEO.

- A-Are you serious? - To be honest,

I really can't see Arlo Toys continuing to move forward

without someone like you at the helm.

- I mean, merging, with Arlo Toys...

being in charge of something that big

would just it-it would be an honor.

- Well, I'm happy you feel that way.

- I've been trying to expand CJ's Toys for so long,

but we never had the resources until now.

- Well, there's a bit of a process

before things become official, of course.

- Yeah, of course. - But we wanna move fast

so we can make the announcement of the merger

before the new year.

Whatever you need, I-I'm in.

- Okay, well we'll need all your quarterly reports

for the past few years. - Okay.

- And the Board will wanna meet with you

before they vote on anything officially.

- Okay, ju-just say when, and I will be there.

- Well, lots to do, as you can imagine,

but I am so happy we're on the same page.

Me too.

So, uh, I'll be in touch.

Sure. Let me walk you out.

- Oh, there was one other thing that my lawyers mentioned.

Oh, what's that?

- When CJ's first started, you had a co-founder, right?

Joe Sullivan?

What?

Uh, yeah, yeah, he uh,

he left the company years ago.

- Good, then uh, it shouldn't be a problem

to get him to sign off?

- What's that now? - Well, his name is still

on the articles of incorporation.

All the owners of the company have to sign off

for the merger to go through.

But it's not a problem, right?

- No! - Okay.

- No, no, no, not at all. - Great.

- No problem. - We'll be in touch.

- Okay. - Talk soon.

Great!

- Okay, I'm bad at lip reading, but did she just say merger?

We have a problem.

- Merging with a company as large as Arlo Toys

takes us to the next level.

Yeah, and they want me as CEO.

- That's amazing! But why do you look like

like you just saw a ghost?

- Because I have to get Joe Sullivan to sign off

on the merger. - Who's that?

- Short answer: he was my childhood best friend.

Oh.

- We co-founded CJ's Toys together,

he's the "J" in CJ's Toys. - Oh!

He left, abruptly, one day,

just after a discussion that we had about

the direction of the company.

- Still not totally seeing the problem.

- It didn't end on the best of terms,

and I have not spoken to him in seven years.

Hmm.

I have an idea. You know what?

Get our lawyers on the phone.

I bet you I can come up with a better solution than this.

Also, your sister called.

She needs you to call her back.

Hello.

Hey, Heather!

Finally I got a hold of you.

- Yeah, sorry, it's been a busy morning.

You busy? No way.

- Hey, we gotta go. - Funny. What's up?

- The headliner for the UK Christmas Folk Tour

just dropped out. They asked Todd and I to step in

for the rest of the tour.

- Oh, wow! Congrats! That's so cool!

I know that you've been wanting to tour with them for awhile.

Exactly, but it does mean

that we have to be away for a few weeks.

So, I'm calling because we need someone to watch Emma.

- Normally I would say yes in a heartbeat but um...

I just found out that Arlo Toys wants to merge with us.

With me as CEO. - Oh, wow!

That's amazing! Congratulations!

- Yeah, thank you. It's still uh...

sinking in so...

as you could imagine, there's a... a lot to do,

and apparently, it can't happen unless I get Joe Sullivan

to sign off on the merger.

- Well, there's a name that I haven't heard in a long time.