Glengarry Glen Ross Page #16

LEVENE:

(simultaneously)

I'm sure she can...

68.

ROMA:

(to Lingk)

We're going to talk. I'm going to

tell you something. Because

(sotto)

there's something about your

acreage I want you to know. I

can't talk about it now. I really

shouldn't. And, in fact, by law,

I...

(shrugs, resigned)

The man next to you, he bought his

lot at forty-two, he phoned to say

that he'd already had an offer...

Roma rubs his head.

LEVENE:

Rick...?

ROMA:

I'm coming, Ray...what a day! I'll

call you this evening, Jim. I'm

sorry you had to come in...Monday,

lunch.

LINGK:

My wife...

LEVENE:

Rick, we really have to go.

LINGK:

My wife...

ROMA:

Monday.

LINGK:

She called the consumer...the

attorney, I don't know. The

attorney gen...they said we have

three days...

ROMA:

Who did she call?

LINGK:

I don't know, the attorney gen...

the...some consumer office, um...

ROMA:

Why did she do that, Jim?

69.

LINGK:

I don't know.

(pause)

They said we have three days.

(pause)

They said we have three days.

ROMA:

Three days.

LINGK:

To...you know.

Pause.

ROMA:

No, I don't know. Tell me.

LINGK:

To change our minds.

ROMA:

Of course you have three days.

Pause.

LINGK:

So we can't talk Monday.

Pause.

ROMA:

Jim, Jim, you saw my book...I

can't, you saw my book...

LINGK:

But we have to before Monday. To

get our money ba...

ROMA:

Three business days. They mean

three business days.

LINGK:

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

ROMA:

I don't understand.

LINGK:

That's what they are. Three

business...I wait till Monday, my

time limit runs out.

70.

ROMA:

You don't count Saturday.

LINGK:

I'm not.

ROMA:

No, I'm saying you don't include

Saturday...in your three days.

It's not a business day.

LINGK:

But I'm not counting it.

(pause)

Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. So

it would have elapsed.

ROMA:

What would have elapsed?

LINGK:

If we wait till Mon...

ROMA:

When did you write the check?

LINGK:

Yest...

ROMA:

What was yesterday?

LINGK:

Tuesday.

ROMA:

And when was that check cashed?

LINGK:

I don't know.

ROMA:

What was the earliest it could have

been cashed?

Pause.

LINGK:

I don't know.

71.

ROMA:

Today.

(pause)

Today. Which, in any case, it was

not, as there were a couple of

points on the agreement I wanted to

go over with you in any case.

LINGK:

The check wasn't cashed?

ROMA:

I just called downtown, and it's on

their desk.

LEVENE:

Rick...

ROMA:

One moment, I'll be right with you.

(to Lingk)

In fact, a...one point, which I

spoke to you of which

(looks around)

I can't talk to you about here.

Detective puts his head out of the doorway.

BAYLEN:

Levene!!!

LINGK:

I, I...

ROMA:

Listen to me, the statute, it's for

your protection. I have no

complaints with that, in fact, I

was a member of the board when we

drafted it, so quite the opposite.

It says that you can change your

mind three working days from the

time the deal is closed.

BAYLEN:

Levene!

ROMA:

Which, wait a second, which is not

until the check is cashed.

BAYLEN:

Levene!!

72.

Aaronow comes out of the Detective's office.

AARONOW:

I'm through, with this f***ing

meshugaas. No one should talk to a

man that way. How are you talking

to me that...?

BAYLEN:

Levene!

Williamson puts his head out of the office.

AARONOW:

...how can you talk to me that...

that...

LEVENE:

(to Roma)

Rick, I'm going to flag a cab.

AARONOW:

I didn't rob...

Williamson sees Levene.

WILLIAMSON:

Shelly:
get in the office.

AARONOW:

I didn't...why should I..."Where

were you last..." Is anybody

listening to me...? Where's

Moss...? Where...?

BAYLEN:

Levene?

(to Williamson)

Is this Lev...

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