Joy Page #9

is just me speaking from my experience...

as someone who mops the house every,

single day... from my heart.

This woman's gonna

be all business.

No way.

Oh, my God!

I can't believe it!

Can you believe it?

I thought for sure you were gonna tell

me that your counting machine was broken!

- I listened to you, you were right.

I just can't believe...

- that actually happened.

- I know.

I guess you could say we're

friends in the commerce.

- Friends in commerce.

- Yeah.

So, let's promise each other,

that if one day,

and that day may come, that we become

adversaries in commerce, that we remain friends.

That's a true friendship,

indeed.

Friends in commerce.

I agree, let's shake on it.

We've got 10 looms, and then when they're

completed this is where the mop heads are sewn.

- Who makes your parts?

- A factory out in California.

It is cheaper and faster

than anyplace around here.

Smart!

Are they gonna be able to stay on-schedule?

I hope... yeah.

- That's a great job.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- Right here?

Hello?

Grandma...

Mimi...

I so hated to

leave her that day.

I had so much I

wanted to say to her...

and to my great-granddaughter.

I felt I wanted to stay

near her and watch over her.

Christie.

There's a problem

in California.

There can't be a problem in California,

I told Neil that everything was fine.

Gerhardt keeps rising his prices,

he just did it again... more money per unit.

I can't do that,

we're gonna lose money.

I sent a representative

to handle it.

Representative? We don't have a

representative, what representative?

- Peggy went.

- Peggy?

I don't wanna talk

about this right now.

- She wanted to be part of it.

- How could you send Peggy?

She wanted to be part of it, you are both

blood relatives, you're half sisters,

it's very, very important that

you love and respect each other.

I paid them the 20 that

you owed them... I had to.

I got them to fill

the order of 100,000

with a price increase of

only two dollars per unit.

We can't increase at all,

Peggy, don't you understand?

We sold at a certain price.

Any hikes, ESPECIALLY

the ones he's asking for,

mean that I will

lose so much money

that I will be in even MORE

debt than I was before.

- You're gonna make it back.

- I'm gonna make it back?

How?

I've got ideas, you know?

There are things

I'd like to do.

I spoke to him about a project that Dad

and I have been designing. Right, Dad?

Yes we did it.

Do you have and idea how

much your idea will cost?

How or where

you'll sell it?

If you could even manufacture it,

after it's taken everything we're got

to sell this one product,

that now, thanks to you,

that is going to

cost more money?

Maybe my product is

better than your product.

I can do what you did on TV,

it's not that hard.

Isn't that the whole purpose of that channel,

is that everybody could do it?

What... what...

what your sister does is...

not easy, but,

what we were planning to do...

- is not that difficult.

- Listen me.

Never... speak...

on my behalf...

about my business... again.

Now I have to go

to California.

- Can I help you?

- I'm Joy, I'm here to see Gerhardt.

- He's not available.

- I'll wait.

She says she's here

to see Gerhardt.

Gerhardt!

- Hey... I'm Gerhardt.

- I'm Joy.

C'mon in.

Derek Markham is my boss,

he lives in Texas.

Fabri-Pac is one of the several companies

he owns or collects royalties for.

I report to him,

he makes pricing decisions.

Well, I have never met or talked

to this Derek Markham.

but I've talked to you

many times on the phone,

and I do find it very curious that

the second I'm on television

with a lot of success,

the price for our

products goes up.

It seems very unfair to me,

to say the least.

It seems like he's

shaking us down.

You met Gregory,

our plant foreman.

It's very hard for us to

lower the costs at this point.

We are already losing

a lot of money.

How can that possibly be with

the 500,000 we've given you

on TOP of the 50,000 of advanced

royalties that have gone to...

Derek Markham in Dallas.

And that's not even

counting what my sister

paid you without my authority,

by the way.

For your over-charges

and YOUR mistakes.

Your sister paid the increase,

that you refused to pay.

Well, she had no authority to do that,

she is not an officer of my corporation.

But you and I could both spend a

lot of time and money in court,

to prove I'm right, but...

that would just make

our lawyers wealthy,

while my product dies instead of being on

television, like it could be right now.

- You can pay more.

- I can't pay more.

- I won't.

- Costs are higher.

Wear and tear on the molds, we have

to re-make them every other week.

Is that so?

Can I see the molds?

They're in the machines,

it'll take some time

to prepare them for ya.

Is there a

bathroom I can use?

Yeah, it's down the hall,

Gregory'll show ya.

Thanks.

What's this?

What are you doin'

in here?

What is THIS? These are my

designs! These are MY molds!

Those are ours!

We knew you'd be trouble!

The cops are on their way,

- we called them as soon as...

- These are MY molds!

- Those are ours!

- I'm taking these with me!

I'm taking all of these with me, I want all

these boxes out and I'm taking them.

- You're trespassing!

- It's not your patent!

These are my designs!

I'm not going anywhere

without my molds!

What? No, no, this is not stealing,

this is MY property.

This is MY property, I have all of these

designs, these are all mine, they belong to me.

She's from out of state, John.

You've known me 15 years!

All right, c'mon, Ma'am,

you're trespassing.

- It's okay, Ma'am.

- I'm not trespassing.

- You're trespassing.

- I was in your office!

- I don't know, c'mon.

- He let me in his...

Gerhardt, you're not

gonna get away with this.

- You're not gonna get away with this, you're a thief!

- Be careful what you're saying.

- You're a thief, Gerhardt!

- Be careful...

- This is stealing!

- Lady, stop it.

What about Trudy's money, Joy?

You have to pay back Trudy's money.

- This is only getting worse.

- I predicted tragedy, Joy.

You're racking-up quite a steep bill,

we had to fly out here, bail you out.

Plus, it cost us an extra

10,000 dollars for Ray Cagney,

this California patent

attorney to get us to this point.

We got the State to

decline prosecution.

They see it's a

contract dispute.

When you paid royalties

to Derek Markham in Texas,

it put all YOUR parts and molds

under the umbrella of THEIR patent.

I see you brought your drawings

and hung them to prove your designs.

But, it's impossible to fight it now.

You were not

properly advised.

Christie, please!

- Tony, take her to bed.

- I don't wanna go to bed, I wanna stay here.

I paid those royalties because you told

me to, because YOUR lawyer told me to.

Our lawyer was mistaken,

this happens sometimes in business.

It didn't work for you.

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