Extraordinary Measures Page #3

Are you John?

Yes.

Marcus Temple.

We spoke on the phone.

Right. Absolutely.

Good to see you.

All the way in from Atlanta.

Yes.

Well, this is for your foundation,

from my relatives,

friends and church group.

Oh! My goodness.

(MARCUS CHUCKLES)

JOHN:

Thank you very much.

Thanks.

Hi, Dr. Stonehill.

I'm Megan.

Hi, Megan.

I'm Dr. Stonehill.

Yeah, that's why I said,

"Hi, Dr. Stonehill."

Are you coming in or not?

Yeah, thanks.

Where's Mom and Dad?

They'll be down

in a minute.

Patrick's vent alarm is going off,

so they need to fix it.

His alarm goes off

even more than mine.

So, what's your deal?

You married?

Do you have a wife?

Uh, ex-wives. 2 of 'em.

Yeah? How come?

'Cause I'm so easy

to get along with.

Any other questions?

No. Your turn to ask one.

You're probably wondering

what grade I'm in.

What grade are you in?

I'm in 3rd.

My hobbies are video games and penguins.

How about you?

I already graduated.

No, I mean hobbies.

Oh...

Mostly I just work.

Little bass fishing

every once in a while, but...

What's your favorite subject?

I'm good at reading, but I like P.E. best,

especially the sprint races.

Sprint races?

Wanna see?

Sure.

Come on.

Is he here yet?

I don't know.

I'm gonna win!

Come on, slowpoke.

Yeah, I won!

(CHUCKLES)

I won.

Oh, yeah.

Told you I'm gonna beat you.

Hi.

Dr. Stonehill has 2 ex-wives.

I see that Megan's introduced herself.

Yeah.

How are you, Dr. Stonehill?

I'm okay, thank you.

This is Aileen, my wife.

So nice to meet you.

And John Jr.

Hello.

Here's Patrick.

Hi.

Hey, Patrick.

I think we should probably go inside.

AILEEN:

Yeah, come on inside.

Megan, we'll see you inside.

Come on.

Night, Patrick.

Good night.

Night, SpongeBob.

You gotta say good

night to Dr. Stonehill.

Kiss SpongeBob.

(SQUEAKS)

Good night.

Good night, son.

Good night, Patrick.

I'm not gonna say it again.

It is bedtime now.

It's for him.

AILEEN:

Oh.

Me?

For good luck.

For bass fishing.

Oh, thank you.

You like it?

Well, sure.

A happy-go-lucky little fellow,

lots of personality, huh?

He's a plastic toy.

I know.

JOHN:

Here's the father-daughter dance.

You haven't lived

until you've seen

Megan do the

Wheelchair Watusi.

Here you go.

Go ahead and eat

the cobbler while it's hot.

Smells great, honey.

(LAUGHS)

This was hilarious.

Bob, we went to

this dude ranch.

All right if

I call you Bob?

You got a check for

a half-million dollars,

hell, you can

call me Peggy Sue.

(CHUCKLES)

I'll just...

Well, Bob.

This is the first installment against

the promised half a million.

Tell you the truth,

that's more than I expected.

Dr. Stonehill,

we promise that...

Yeah, I know.

If... In enough time, then...

I know. I know.

You can learn a lot about a person

on the Internet these days.

Learn about a working-class kid

from New Jersey,

worked his way through

Harvard Business School,

clawing his way up the ladder

at Bristol-Myers.

But what Google

can't tell you

is that this scared, desperate,

bullshitting son of a b*tch...

Wait just a minute...

Don't interrupt.

Will do and say whatever it takes

to get results.

Which is why you

and me are going

into business

together, Jersey.

Excuse me?

I'm tired of begging breadcrumbs

from the university

and giving them

the patents to my ideas.

They don't value

my work. You do,

which is why I'm

setting up my own shop.

Figure any dude

in a business suit

can help me raise venture capital

and run the company,

but who's gonna be

half as motivated as

a dad who's trying

to save his own kids?

So, this is...

So this is the shittiest offer

you're ever gonna get.

I can promise you less money,

longer hours, lousy working conditions,

plus, if we raise the money, you're

gonna have to relocate to Nebraska.

(SCOFFS)

Oh, and with

the right business plan,

I can also promise you a working

enzyme for Pompe disease.

I can't cure your kids,

you know that.

They're always

gonna be in wheelchairs,

but I think I can save their lives.

Outstanding cobbler.

AILEEN:
Okay, okay.

So, we agree we can't uproot the kids.

What if Stonehill fails?

Or what if he succeeds too late

to help Megs and Patrick?

Then what?

I know.

If we're gonna

lose them young,

you want to spend every

minute you can with them.

John, that day that

you flew to Nebraska,

when you suddenly

just ditched work and...

My God, I thought you'd lost it.

You scared me.

But once we

rolled our sleeves up,

and we started fundraising and

meeting other Pompe families,

it made me feel like...

I mean, do we

just accept our fate

and do what we're told by

all the well-meaning doctors

and wait for the worst to happen,

or do we fight it?

PETE:
I think you're making

a mistake. I really do.

Even if you were credible as a CEO,

which you are not,

the odds against

you are crushing.

biotechs crash and burn.

So where does that leave your kids

when their dad is flat broke

with no job and no

health insurance?

Now, if you

stay at Bristol,

the guys upstairs

are ready to put you in

the VP slot at the end of

the 3rd quarter

with a 40% salary bump.

John.

Your family's gonna need that money,

aren't they?

Pete, you're right.

This is crazy.

I'm chasing the wind.

But I can't just

sit around and wait

for my kids to die.

I can't do it.

AUTOMATED VOICE:
You have

arrived at your destination.

Come on in. It's open.

Hey, there, Bob.

Hey, John.

How are you?

You have trouble finding me?

No problem.

Sit down.

Thanks.

Ex-wife. She loved cats.

Well, say, what do we...

What are we gonna do?

How about we work up a strategy

for the meeting at

Renzler next week?

We don't need to show

those guys anything.

The meeting's a formality.

George Renzler and I have known

each other since med school.

He's been telling me for years that

he'd give me the seed money

if I ever decide to make the big move

and set up my own shop.

Well, that's good.

That's good,

but, still, all the same, you know,

if we're gonna go in to pitch 'em,

we should have something tangible.

Those guys understand me.

They're real scientists.

They're not like a lot of these

big biotech moneymen.

Okay. All right, tell you what,

how about if we just talk it through,

and then that way we can just sketch up

something rough on paper?

You give it to me,

I'll make up a business plan.

JOHN:

We need to rough out a real strategy.

These guys are venture capitalists.

That rough enough for you?

Bob? Look, Renzler's

crucial to us.

Without them onboard,

we got zero credibility

with any of our investors.

That's why you're here, Jersey!

Whip up some business bullshit

by tomorrow.

I'm going fishing.

This is... This is gibberish!

Then you better get busy.

See you.

JOHN:

As you know, the market potential

for an orphan drug is enormous.

If you were still in business school,

I'd give you an A

for all these lovely

charts and graphs and...

But school is out.

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