Christmas in the City Page #3

and we treat all

of our employees as if they were

part of the family.

To cheat them at Christmas...

- The employee bonuses stay.

- Fine. the day care, then.

Another frivolous cost,

which obviously needs

to be done away with.

- The day care is hardly

a frivolous cost.

Do you know how many

of our staff rely on it

to be able to come to work?

- Well, I'm sorry.

If you can't afford them,

then don't have them

- the day care also stays.

Mr. wolman,

with all due respect,

the board of directors hired me

to raise your sales figures.

And I highly doubt

that they'd be pleased

to hear about any resistance

I'm getting

trying to save their investment.

- We'll cut the day care cost

in half.

- Agreed?

- agreed.

We'll see the first

preliminary numbers by Friday.

- What about this investor

you promised us

would come on board?

Without him, I don't see

how even you can

get us into the black.

- Don't worry about that.

Moore's money is as good

as in the bank.

Now, Mr. wolman,

you take care of yourself,

and I will take good care

of your company.

- Thank you, teanna.

- Thank you, teanna.

Let's go, uncle Harry.

- Get me Ken on the phone.

- On it.

Here you go, boss.

- Teanna, how are things

at the old relic?

- Better, now that I'm here.

I was wondering if you'd

made a decision

about my lucrative

investment opportunity.

- About that,

the offer's changed.

Replace the old man,

and the money's in the bank.

- Got it?

- Of course, Ken.

I'll make sure it happens.

I just need to convince

this nephew of his.

- Well, make sure it happens

by Christmas.

After that, the offer

is off the table.

Fool!

How dare he make me look bad

by changing the deal.

Mm.

Although he's right.

If I had my way around here,

I could work wonders

to reinvent this mausoleum.

All I'd have to do

is convince that

heart-bleeding nephew of his

to ink the deal with Moore

to keep my on board

this sinking ship.

When the ink is dry,

I'd be captain of the ship.

Teanna wolman...

That does have kind of

a ring to it, huh?

- Uh... teanna tolman,

or teanna tilman,

I like that one.

- Ugh. shut up.

- Nice to see you, Claire.

You are looking younger

every year.

- I'm not sure bringing her

in here was the right decision.

- As much as I don't like it

either, Tommy,

it must be done.

Besides, it's only

till Christmas.

After that, we are in the clear.

- Hello, munchkin.

- Mommy!

- hi!

You about ready to go home?

- Uh-huh.

Wanna meet my new friend?

- Of course I do.

- Thank you so much.

- His name is William.

- Hello, William.

Does your mom work here

in the store too?

- No, she just shops a lot.

- Oh, dear.

Well, I guess that means

we'll be seeing you again.

Did you make

a Christmas tree, Grace?

- Uh-huh.

- oh, it's so cool.

Say good-bye to William.

- Bye, William.

- Bye.

Look, we can hang it.

And it has eyeballs.

- Hey, welcome home.

- Hi.

That was the longest rehearsal.

- I saved you some lo mein.

- Oh, thank goodness.

They didn't even give us a break

at rehearsal.

- Hey, you know,

I'm a pretty good cook.

- Why are you laughing?

- William said that

there's no special

lighting of the Christmas tree

like in Quinton,

no bake sales,

not even any carolers.

- Wow, grumpy.

Listen. I'm sure there's

something christmassy

that we can find to do here

in the city.

- Let's ask Tom, he'll know.

- Okay, time for bed.

Go on. I'll meet you in there.

- You like him.

- No, I do not like him.

- What's there not to like?

He's cute, single as far

as I can tell,

and he stands to inherit

the entire wolman dynasty.

So not a bad catch,

if you ask me.

- He's not a fish.

He's my boss.

- Only until Christmas.

- Hey, look, it's Tom.

- Hey, Tom.

- Hey.

- How are you today?

- Good.

How are you guys doing?

- We're good, we're good.

- That's it.

Take your little donation box

or whatever,

and find yourself another store.

Ta-ta.

Thomas, there you are.

Now, I wanted to go over

a couple of things with you.

- Why are the carolers

being sent away?

- I guess it's something

we needed to do.

- No, Grace,

that's Tom's business,

although it is a shame.

- William was right.

This place has

no Christmas fun at all.

- Grace...

- no Christmas?

Why, look at where you are.

What says Christmas

more than shopping?

- Grace, what's your idea

of Christmas fun?

- I like skating.

- You ladies skate? I do too.

- Oh, no, no, no, I don't skate.

I haven't skated in years,

but Grace is a beautiful skater.

- Ah, our old rink

was just paved over last year.

Oh, but the... there's a park

across the street

with the world's best

peppermint hot chocolate.

You gotta get some.

- Ooh.

- can we, mommy?

- Well, I do have

the day off tomorrow, so

if Tom tells me where it is.

- Tom can come with us.

- Oh, that's ridiculous.

Tom and I have

too much work to do.

- But you have to have time

for fun too.

- You know what? You're right.

How about I meet you

out in front

of the store tomorrow, say 3:00?

- But Thomas, we have

serious business to attend to.

- I'm sure it can wait.

- Gotta run.

- Okay.

- Yay, Tom really likes us.

- Tom is a nice man.

- Okay, Grace.

Come on, I gotta get to work.

Let's go.

- So maybe this musical

will get picked up,

and I'll get to go to,

like, Broadway,

or the west end in London

or something.

I mean, it has everything...

Singing, dancing, love.

- Is my best friend

gonna be on Broadway?

- Okay, very important.

When you finishing

cashing out for the day,

carefully lock the cash

deposit bag in the drawer.

It's your responsibility.

- Cash deposit bag

in the drawer, got it.

- So, I was thinking,

since we're both off tomorrow,

maybe you can bring Grace

by my rehearsal.

- Oh, I can't.

- What do you mean you can't?

- Tom is taking Grace and me

to the park.

But actually,

in hindsight, I think

he's just taking us there.

I don't think he's gonna

stay and hang out with us.

Whatever. it's not a big deal.

- You're going on a date

with Tom?

Sorry.

You're going on a date with Tom?

- Seriously, if teanna hears me

talking about this,

I'm totally gonna get fired.

- Why? you think she likes him?

- I think she might,

I don't know. Who cares?

I'm not here to find a man.

I am here to save

my father's store.

- Why can't you do both?

- Wendy's it's been five years.

It's time.

- Bruno!

- yeah, boss?

- Find me everything you can

on Wendy carroll

and her little candy store.

Everyone has an agenda...

Even you, little miss carroll.

- I don't know what's happened

to this place.

I mean, paving over the ice rink

to make room for what,

more parking?

Used to be, Christmas was

the most magical time of year.

All the trees were lit up.

There were carolers

on every corner.

No one loved Christmas

more than my uncle Harry.

He always made sure

that wolman's

had the most spectacular

window displays

and the biggest tree

in the lobby.

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