Glengarry Glen Ross Page #20

LEVENE:

Five thousand. I kept half.

WILLIAMSON:

Who kept the other half?

Pause.

LEVENE:

Do I have to tell you?

(pause, Williamson

starts to open the door)

Moss.

WILLIAMSON:

That was easy, wasn't it?

Pause.

LEVENE:

It was his idea.

WILLIAMSON:

Was it?

LEVENE:

I...I'm sure he got more than the

five, actually.

WILLIAMSON:

Uh-huh?

LEVENE:

He told me my share was twenty-five.

WILLIAMSON:

Mmm.

87.

LEVENE:

Okay:
I...look: I'm going to make

it worth your while. I am. I

turned this thing around. I closed

the old stuff, I can do it again.

I'm the one's going to close 'em.

I am! I am! 'Cause I turned this

thing a...I can do that, I can do

anyth...last night. I'm going to

tell you, I was ready to Do the

Dutch. Moss gets me, "Do this,

we'll get well..." Why not. Big

f***in' deal. I'm halfway hoping

to get caught. To put me out of

my...

(pause)

But it taught me something. What

it taught me, that you've got to

get out there. Big deal. So I

wasn't cut out to be a thief. I

was cut out to be a salesman. And

now I'm back, and I got my balls

back...and, you know, John, you

have the advantage on me now:

Whatever it takes to make it right,

we'll make it right. We're going

to make it right.

WILLIAMSON:

I want to tell you something,

Shelly. You have a big mouth.

Pause.

LEVENE:

What?

WILLIAMSON:

You've got a big mouth, and now I'm

going to show you an even bigger

one.

(starts toward the

Detective's door)

LEVENE:

Where are you going, John?...you

can't do that, you don't want to do

that...hold, hold on...hold on...

wait...wait...wait...

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88.

LEVENE (CONT'D)

(pulls money out of

his pockets)

Wait...uh, look...

(starts splitting money)

Look, twelve, twenty, two, twen...

twenty-five hundred, it's...take it.

(pause)

Take it all...

(pause)

Take it!

WILLIAMSON:

No, I don't think so, Shel.

LEVENE:

I...

WILLIAMSON:

No, I think I don't want your money.

I think you f***ed up my office.

And I think you're going away.

LEVENE:

I...what? Are you, are you, that's

why...? Are you nuts? I'm...I'm

going to close for you, I'm going

to...

(thrusting money at him)

Here, here, I'm going to make this

office...I'm going to be back there

Number One...Hey, hey, hey! This

is only the

beginning...List...list... listen.

Listen. Just one moment.

List...here's what...here's what

we're going to do. Twenty percent.

I'm going to give you twenty

percent of my sales...

(pause)

Twenty percent.

(pause)

For as long as I am with the firm.

(pause)

Fifty percent.

(pause)

You're going to be my partner.

(pause)

Fifty percent. Of all my sales.

WILLIAMSON:

What sales?

89.

LEVENE:

What sales...? I just closed

eighty-two grand...Are you

f***in'...I'm back...I'm back, this

is only the beginning.

WILLIAMSON:

Only the beginning...

LEVENE:

Abso...

WILLIAMSON:

Where have you been, Shelly? Bruce

and Harriet Nyborg. Do you want to

see the memos...? They're nuts...

they used to call in every week.

When I was with Webb. And we were

selling Arizona...they're nuts...did

you see how they were living? How

can you delude yours...

LEVENE:

I've got the check...

WILLIAMSON:

Forget it. Frame it. It's

worthless.

Pause.

LEVENE:

The check's no good?

WILLIAMSON:

You stick around I'll pull the memo

for you.

(starts for the door)

I'm busy now...

LEVENE:

Their check's no good? They're

nuts...?

WILLIAMSON:

Call up the bank. I called them.

LEVENE:

You did?

90.

WILLIAMSON:

I called them when we had the

lead... four months ago.

(pause)

The people are insane. They just

like talking to salesmen.

Williamson starts for door.

LEVENE:

Don't.

WILLIAMSON:

I'm sorry.

LEVENE:

Why?

WILLIAMSON:

Because I don't like you.

LEVENE:

John:
John:...my daughter...

WILLIAMSON:

F*** you.

Roma comes out of the Detective's door. Williamson goes in.

ROMA:

(to Baylen)

A**hole...

(to Levene)

Guy couldn't find his f***in' couch

in the living room...Ah, Christ...

what a day, what a day...I haven't

even had a cup of coffee...Jagoff

John opens his mouth he blows my

Cadillac...

(sighs)

I swear...it's not a world of men...

it's not a world of men, Machine...

it's a world of clock watchers,

bureaucrats, officeholders...what

it is, it's a f***ed-up

world...there's no adventure to it.

(pause)

Dying breed. Yes it is.

(pause)

We are the members of a dying breed.

That's...that's...that's why we

have to stick together. Shel: I

want to talk to you.

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