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things for me, Mohammed.

I hope we have what you need, Tom.

-Daddy?

-Yeah?

I never believed

what they said about you.

Thank you, honey.

Come here, big guy.

Thank you.

Faxes from Malaysia?

I can't believe it's still coming out.

It started at 7.

[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

[FEEDBACK BUZZING]

Testing.

Put these in one of the files.

[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

-Yeah, there's a real talent to fishing.

-What?

First you gotta choose the right bait...

...then you have to know

when to reel it in.

Tom, about the other day,

I didn't mean to suggest....

Yes, you did.

I apologize, and thank you.

I accept.

[GIGGLES]

Which brings us to our

Advanced Products Group.

Tom Sanders heads our

manufacturing department.

Tom, I wonder if you can come up here...

...and review for us the revolutionary

new product we call Arcamax?

Thank you, Meredith.

Arcamax is our own stand-alone

CD-ROM drive player.

Now, for a CD-ROM drive to be effective,

it has to be portable...

...it has to be fast.

Arcamax is twice as fast as any

CD-ROM drive in the world today.

In production, we've had our problems,

but we are solving them.

The problems,

are they design problems?

No, they were fabrication problems

involving the production line.

What sort of problems?

Well, for example, we should be using

automatic chip installers to lock...

...the control chip on the board.

The Malaysians have been

doing it by hand...

...literally jamming the chips

in with their thumbs.

And the quality of the air is dirty.

We should use level 7 air handlers,

we're using only level 5.

And, uh, we're ordering

our components...

...like hinge rods and clips,

not from our Singapore supplier...

...but from someone who's a lot cheaper,

but also less reliable.

I'm confused. You set up this line.

You didn't anticipate these problems?

The line was changed.

The specifications were altered.

How is that possible?

We know you to be a competent manager.

Well, you should know, Meredith.

You ordered the changes.

I don't know where you could've

got that idea.

Weren't you in Kuala Lumpur last year?

To settle a labor dispute.

I've never even seen the line.

-You've never seen the line?

-No, I don't know who told you such a--

[CROWD MUTTERING THEN LAUGHING]

You're watching Malaysian Channel 3.

Perhaps instead of digging up

Malaysian video clips...

...we should discuss

the problems in front of us...

...the problems in your department

with the line you set up.

All right.

The first memo in the file being handed

out is signed by Meredith Johnson.

It states that manual labor

will be used to install the chips.

That made the Malaysian

government happy.

It also meant voltage irregularities

and memory allocation--

That was a complex negotiation.

The Malay government insisted--

The Malaysian government

does not own shares of DigiCom.

These people here do.

The second memo...

...reduces the air handling capacity

in order to cut costs.

And that's why we're getting dirt in the

split optics, the drive arms, the chip joints.

The resulting delays will actually

increase the costs by more than 70%..

-The third memo regarding--

-The drives were your responsibility!

These problems were created

because of your incompetence, not mine.

That's the problem with this division!

-Passing the buck, back stabbing.

-Meredith--

I'm not through.

This so-called evidence of yours

is fooling no one!

You can showboat and protect your turf

and think it means something.

You weren't told of these decisions,

because they're over your head.

This merger is about a synergy...

...between hardware and software,

between cash flow and capital needs.

-That's a language you can't understand!

CONLEY:
I don't understand it either.

We were buying this company

because they could build things.

You understand what the heck

she's talking about?

I was trying to accurately convey

the sentiments of everyone here.

That's what I intended to do.

Meredith, could you step outside

for a moment?

[MOUTHS]

Bye-bye.

CONLEY:

Can you build the darn thing or not?

Yes, sir, we can.

Tom, they're replacing Meredith.

Garvin's announcing it in 10 minutes.

Ten minutes?

I'm surprised you didn't come to gloat.

Gloating is underrated. I actually

came here to pick up the Arcamax files.

-Very smart people underrated you.

-Thank you, Meredith.

Not including myself.

I beat you. I beat you fair and square.

Garvin lost his nerve.

It was his brilliant idea

to fire you for incompetence.

Him and Phil.

And I'm the one getting fired.

I've never seen you play the victim.

It's the only good quality you had.

I'm playing the game the way you guys

set it up, and I'm being punished for it.

It's fine.

I've had calls from 10 head-hunters

with job offers in the last hour.

Don't be surprised if I'm back

in 10 years to buy this place.

Did it ever occur to you, Meredith,

that maybe I set you up?

-Tom, this is my son, Spencer.

-How you doing?

-Good.

-You're at the University of Washington?

-Yeah.

-That's great. Very good.

[APPLAUSE]

Wow. Wow.

What a week!

The Chinese say:

"May you live in interesting times."

This merger is the most

interesting merger I've had...

...since my second marriage.

[ALL LAUGH]

The merger is complete.

The question now is...

...who do we find to run things

up here in Seattle?

And what I realized during this...

...very interesting week...

...is that I have probably

focused too much on...

...breaking the glass ceiling,

on finding a woman to run things here...

...when what I should have been

looking for is the best person...

...to run things up here.

Someone whose...

...long service with this company

has established a record...

...of creativity...

...sound judgment...

...and hands-on expertise.

And that person...

...is Stephanie Kaplan.

Congratulations, Stephanie.

I tell you something, she's the greatest!

STEPHANIE:

Thank you.

First, I'd like to take the opportunity

to thank the department heads:

Mary Anne Hunter

and Mark Lewyn here...

...and, um, Don Cherry, where are you?

There's Don Cherry.

And particularly, Tom Sanders...

...who epitomizes the inventiveness

of this division...

...its past and its future.

I'm counting on you to be my right hand.

[MOUTHS]

Thank you.

We are heading into a new millennium...

...a new time.

You a chemistry major, Spencer?

Yeah, I am.

I know a chemistry professor there,

Dr. Arthur Friend. A. Friend.

I don't know if he teaches freshmen

or not.

I'm his research assistant.

So if Dr. Arthur Friend was in Nepal,

for example...

...you'd have the keys to his office

and password to his computer?

Yeah.

We all work so well together

and it's exciting...

...and it's wonderful to see. Um--

[APPLAUSE]

Ah, thank you.

Your mother's an extraordinary woman.

You just figured that out?

[LAUGHS]

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