The Informant! Page #4

in social situations.

If I can get people focused on my hands,

I can get a good result in a meeting.

Eye contact is real important too.

Hey, I'm gonna check messages.

You have one message.

My phone died. I was on with the plant.

Is there a payphone,

a public but kind of...?

- Across the lobby.

- Right.

- Mark, this is important bioproduct stuff.

- I know.

Hi, Dave. How's Holly doing?

She's good.

- Great.

It's the plant.

FBI.

- Brian, it's Mark.

I told you, I'm out of town

on business this week.

The case is getting some attention

from the Bureau.

There's another agent working

with me.

I can't talk right now.

I have a meeting.

I have people waiting for me. Bye.

I'm here, Dave.

Being able to do two things at once

is a big part of success.

I try and do abdominal exercises...

Isometrics.

...even when I'm at a meeting.

Tensing. Holding.

Then releasing.

I'll floss in the shower

while the conditioner is in my hair...

...when you're just supposed

to leave it in.

Those things can really add up

to a significant time savings.

Hey, Kirk.

I'll be heading to Europe...

...and I thought I could just hand deliver

that check for the ABP deal in person.

Remind me. ABP deal?

It's a threonine microbe.

They're making substantial improvements.

We want to get into the market.

That's the invoice.

We'll just overnight it.

I'm gonna see this Thorstensson guy,

so I'll just hand it to him.

The metric system never panned out.

We had rulers...

...with inches on one edge,

centimeters on the other.

I pronounced it "centimeters" instead of

"centimeters" and nobody corrected me.

They let me walk around stupid.

I'm not upset we never crossed over...

...though it's helpful

to know the conversions.

The liter bottle is the thing

that caught on...

...because it's a nicer word,

"liter" than "quart."

Quart.

Mark, it's Marty calling again.

Message deleted.

FBI, Agent Shepard.

Brian, it's Mark.

Look, it's been hard for me

to return a page...

...as I am out of the country

at the moment.

Listen, we need to know if you've had

any further contact with Nakawara.

I told you already

that the guy stopped calling.

Well, what about the price fixing? Have

you been able to make any more tapes?

I think you guys hanging around

has everybody scared straight.

The word is we're doing everything

by the book now.

Mick said it's over. No more price fixing.

What? When did this happen,

this conversation?

Everything has changed. I got lysine

up and running. The virus is gone.

Mick brought me into his office,

he sat me down.

He said, "Whitacre, from now on

we're doing things your way."

Mark.

Look, Mark,

the FBI knows about the crimes.

We're gonna investigate either way.

Either way?

What does "either way" mean?

We really need to get together.

It is a different approach there now.

Im telling you, it's all...

Everything's changed.

My plane is boarding. I gotta go.

I gotta go.

Ah!

- Everything okay?

- Yeah, fine.

Kids.

- Where were we?

- We were discussing bonuses.

And we should be discussing Ferraris.

You have Full federhaltertinte

all over your shirt.

Ow.

One of the Japanese guys

told me a story.

This lysine salesman is in a meeting...

...with someone from ConAgra

or some other company.

And the client leans forward and says:

"I have the same tie as you,

only the pattern is reversed."

And then he drops dead,

face down on the table.

Alive and then dead.

Brain aneurysm.

Maybe everyone has a sentence like that,

a little time bomb.

"I have the same tie as you,

only the pattern's reversed."

Dead. The last thing they'll ever say.

Something like...

High-fructose corn syrup.

There it is again.

He said that Andreas called

him into a marketing meeting.

He might be late.

If he doesn't show, the government

ought to charge him for the room.

And here it comes.

Shepard.

I can't come to the hotel tonight.

I'm still at work.

Mark, this is the third time.

I gotta go. I have work to do.

- Mark, you can't keep canceling.

- Look, I can't live two lives.

They just offered me

a $100,000 raise, okay?

I'm not gonna lose my job

because of you guys.

I have a family.

I'm building stables across the road.

- But you told us...

- The price fixing is over. It's over.

Hey, Mick.

I'm getting off the phone now.

Mark, listen to me.

The only logical thing for you to do

is cooperate.

What happens if I don't?

Then somebody else will,

and you'll end up being a defendant.

The tapes don't say anything,

because it's over. Mick said.

We have a whole new policy.

Fine, if that's what he said. Then I want

to hear the tape. We need tapes, Mark.

Okay, I never made any tapes.

I never made any because there's not

gonna be anything on the tapes.

It's over, and they'd just be stupid tapes.

- Mark, come on.

- Look, how...?

You tell me how I can prove it to you,

and I Will.

Mick Andreas and his dad

would never lie for me.

They say we're in it together.

What a joke.

at some lake in Wisconsin.

I can't protect these guys

if they're breaking the law.

Hey, I tried.

Anybody could see the choices I had.

I did my best for ADM.

You don't see them here in the chair.

Hey, how'd I do?

Mark, we have some problems.

Wait a minute. I was looking at the thing.

The needle didn't even move.

Mark, you don't know

how to read a polygraph.

Well, first of all,

they're not 100 percent accurate.

Mark, you splattered the walls with ink.

Come on. Extortionists just don't leave

their name and number, then go away.

I know it's tough...

...keeping it all bottled up inside,

keeping it a secret.

But there's only one good choice for you.

That's all there's ever been.

There's something

you're not telling us...

...but the only way to protect yourself

is to be completely honest.

Okay.

Okay.

You realize...

...that this can all be used against you

in a court of law.

I'll have to write it all up,

and you'll have to sign it.

We're going to find out what's going on,

Mark.

You're not leaving this room

until you tell us what's going on.

So before you answer

any more questions...

...I want you to think about Ginger...

...and your family, and your career.

What happened with Nakawara?

Is there a mole?

Well, yeah, I think there has definitely

been a mole, before, at ADM.

- I made it up.

- Jesus, Mark.

I had to.

Look, we've had problems with viruses

at the plant...

...and we're way behind our projections.

Dwayne is thinking about shutting us down

and everybody's looking to me.

It's all "Blame it on Whitacre."

That's how it is over there.

We're talking about my job here.

I came all the way over from Europe,

relocated my family. They made me a VP.

Uh... Uh... What about the price fixing?

It isn't over, is it?

I mean, there's no new attitude, right?

It's been going on as recently

as three weeks ago. Nothing's changed.

It's not just lysine.

It's citric, it's gluconate...

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