Other People's Money Page #3

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have to be hungry.

Why? It don't taste better that way.

- How would you know?

- What do you want?

- I need a month.

- Get lost.

I just got involved. I need time to get

everybody's act together.

My act is together.

If you give me some time,

I think we can work something out.

Settle?

Work something out.

- I only settle when I'm in trouble.

- Or when it makes sense.

It only makes sense when I'm in trouble.

Well, if you prefer, we'll go to court.

Get an injunction, have a fight.

All kinds of allegations.

Costs them, costs you, and for what?

I live in court.

You gotta do better than that.

I won't love you anymore.

- Two weeks.

- Standstill agreement.

- Both sides.

- No more buying.

- Two weeks.

- Thank you.

Whoa, where are you going?

We haven't talked about

what I wanna talk about.

- What's that?

- You and me sweating between satin sheets.

Garfield, put your hand between your legs.

Do it!

Good. Now look directly down

at that little guy...

...and you say, "You must behave yourself

when you're in the presence of a lady."

Garfield, if you don't say exactly that

right now, I'm resigning from this case.

- You must behave yourself...

- You must behave yourself...

...when you're in the presence...

...when you're in the presence...

...of a lady.

See? Not so hard.

See you in two weeks.

Wow! Did you see that, Carmen?

I'm in love, I'm in love.

- Goodbye, Miss Sullivan.

- Goodbye.

Call Erickson. Tell him to arrange

some money through the Royal Bank.

Don't pay more than we did

on Fleetwood Furniture.

Then call Hathaway.

Tell him I want to make a tender offer

for New England Wire and Cable.

Don't put it under our name.

Label it OPM Holdings.

But what if she finds out

we broke the agreement?

Richardson, what were you,

born yesterday?

What do you think she's doing?

That kewpie doll's up to no good.

Do it.

I got us an extra two weeks.

Now we have to move fast.

Get the board to buy up as many shares

as they can.

Use your own working capital.

No, that's not what

those dollars are for.

- That's our safety net.

- Then borrow the money.

- No borrowing.

- Andrew, listen to her. She's making sense.

For every share you acquire,

it's one less for Garfield.

The more we buy, the less for him.

The more it costs, the less profit he makes.

So get the stock up.

And, Mom, make sure to buy it

through an out-of-state broker.

I don't wanna borrow money.

We've been debt-free since the depression.

But see, that's the trouble, Jorgy.

It's your gorgeous balance sheet

that makes you so attractive.

And, Mom, get letters out

to the shareholders.

Tell them how great business is

and how wonderful the future looks.

- I'll do it.

- Great.

I'll call you tomorrow.

Good night.

Good morning, honey.

How you doing this morning, huh?

You got it up again.

Another point and a half.

- Pfeiffer.

- Good morning, Mr. Garfield.

- Woody.

- Good morning, Mr. Garfield.

- Harriet.

- Good morning.

Miss Sullivan is gonna call

tomorrow morning.

You tell her I'm not taking calls.

Then, when she comes over here

and tries to storm into the office...

...you try to keep her out.

But then let her push past.

Don't worry, she's desperate but harmless.

Find out where she lives and call a florist.

- Florist?

- Florist.

You have a good evening, Miss Sullivan.

- Hello, Michael.

- Oh, Miss Sullivan, here.

- Somebody brought these by for you.

- Oh, thank you.

- Good night.

- Good night.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

- You ruthless son of a b*tch!

- Excuse me?

Jeez, I wonder what her problem is.

All right, all right.

Excuse me.

- Hello, Miss Sullivan, may I help you?

- No, I'm sorry. I don't care. I will...

- I don't care! I'm not gonna...

- It's all right, Harriet.

- You can't go in.

- It's not all right, you hypocrite! You lied!

- But, baby-poo...

- We had an agreement.

We had a standstill!

No more buying!

- OPM Holdings? You know nothing about it?

- OPM?

- Not a lot to know.

- You broke the agreement!

You embarrassed me with my firm.

You embarrassed me with my clients!

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Don't come on so holier-than-thou with me.

What am I supposed to do,

sit here while you drive up the stock?

- I did no such thing.

- You're full of sh*t.

All that buying coming from some little

cockamamie brokerage firm in Rhode Island?

You'd think you'd use an out-of-state firm.

I know nothing about that.

Give me a break.

Who am I dealing with here,

Mother Teresa?

You want to play the game,

learn to play it right.

Oh, is that what you call it,

a game?

You're damn right.

The best game in the world.

I'll teach you. It's easy.

You make as much as you can

for as long as you can.

And then what?

"And then what?"

Whoever has the most when he dies,

wins.

Look. It's the American way.

I'm doing my job.

I'm a capitalist.

I'm simply following

the law of free enterprise.

What law is that?

Survival of the fittest.

Maybe some people don't see it that way.

Maybe they don't see it

as survival of the fittest.

- Maybe they see it as survival of the fattest!

- Oh, Katie, why are you so hard on me?

Because you're not nice.

Since when do you have to be nice

to be right?

You're not right.

You're what's happening.

One day we'll smarten up and pass some

laws and put you out of business.

They can pass all the laws they want.

All they can do is change the rules.

They can never stop the game.

I don't go away. I adapt.

Ten years from now, they'll be studying

you at the Wharton School.

They'll call it the Garfield Era...

...and rinse their mouths out

when they leave the room!

- I'll see you in court!

- Oh, Katie.

Don't leave.

We haven't talked about sex yet.

- At least have a doughnut.

- Stuff it!

Come on. Don't be a poor loser!

Lying to protect your client

is just doing a good job. I understand that.

You didn't even ask me

what OPM stands for.

Other people's money!

All right, come on, come on!

Let's go!

- Work, work, work!

- Yes, sir!

Gotcha! Oh, yes.

How do you have them?

Two years ago, he tried to take over

Westridge Corporation.

He was put under indictment for failing

to disclose his 13D.

- What's this?

- Christmas list.

- What did they do?

- Nothing. Dropped the charges.

- Investors get hurt?

- Nope.

If the charges were dropped,

it's a technicality.

He was required to disclose.

Gerber's in prison, Richard.

Judge Pollard ain't gonna give you

a restraining order based on a technicality.

We are a nation of laws, Marcia.

Ultimately, those laws come down

to technicalities.

Without those technicalities,

what do we have?

Anarchy.

Garfield.

- Anarchy? That's the basis for your brief?

- Correct.

Honeybunch, you better write

a fantastic brief.

- I intend to.

- You wanna send anything to Garfield?

Yeah. A court order.

Do the Japanese celebrate Christmas?

No, but I hear they're buying it.

I had nothing to do with any of this.

Pfeiffer comes walking in...

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