Two Weeks Notice Page #4

you will work until Island Towers is finalized.

Which is completion of construction,

or I can stop you working elsewhere.

And there's no loopholes

because you drafted it and you're the best.

Subconsciously, I think you drafted it that

way because you don't really want to go.

Does it kill you how well I know you?

Honey, this contract is excellent work.

I'm very proud of you.

Dad, I'm trying to get out of it.

I don't know why you went to work

for that philandering robber baron.

You usually have impeccable instincts.

Look at your boyfriend, Ansel.

He's a dedicated environmental warrior.

This is ironclad. Houdini couldn't

get out of this contract.

You should've stayed

at the legal aid job.

If I do pro bono work with a company

with these resources...

...I can accomplish so much...

- Come on over for strawberry ice cream.

Have Tofutti! You heard what the doctor

said. Your cholesterol is over 300!

You're basically a solid.

Two of the greatest legal minds

in this country arguing over dessert.

Lucy, it was your choice to work

for that man.

You could've done anything. You could've

clerked for the Supreme Court.

I don't know what to tell you.

Short of going in

and deliberately trying to get fired.

You stay away from that freezer!

Good morning, boys.

Sorry, I am so late.

That's fine. We only just got here.

Forty-five minutes ago.

Howie, are these your kids?

You know, I've never actually met them.

They are good-Iooking boys.

That's a girl. That's Sue and Paul.

Yes, so it is.

You know what?

She is gonna be a heartbreaker.

That's Paul.

- Yeah. Thank you.

- Sorry.

So we've got the Coney Island project.

I'd like to stir up some publicity if we could.

Yes, very nice.

I'm...

I'm working on endorsements

from local merchants.

We were working

on some ideas there.

I thought that was terrific.

- Pathetic.

- What's pathetic?

- You. I know what you're doing.

- I am not doing anything.

You think if you come in late and spit

on the boss that will get you fired?

Not in this company.

- Chris.

- George.

George, I have an ulcer.

I don't sleep well, mostly because

you keep calling me at night.

If you don't call me,

I dream you're gonna call me.

I think about you in the shower,

not in a good way...

...but in an I'm-so-distracted-I-can't-

remember-if-I washed-my-hair way.

So I wash my hair twice.

So I have a hole in my stomach,

I am running out of shampoo...

...and today is the first time in my life

I did not give a 1000 percent on the job...

...and I hate that feeling!

- I won't call after hours.

- You will, George! You know you will.

Yeah, I will.

I just don't think we can see each other

professionally anymore.

All right. Stay until you find

a replacement.

Train him up for a couple of weeks,

then you can go to Slurpee Heaven.

Thank you! I promise I will find

you somebody amazing.

Somebody better than me

because I'm not even any good.

- No.

- A glorified ambulance chaser.

Thank you.

I got it. It's just my earring.

- My hair!

- Careful! That's my overpriced Italian belt.

Just get it off!

Howard.

Join us. We were just brainstorming.

- Lucy?

- Yes.

I was thinking it might be a good idea

to do a photo op at the build site...

...where George would be in the...

George in the foreground,

pointing up to the sky...

...like this.

- Yes.

Then I thought I could take my belt off,

as if to say, let's get to work!

Right. Right-o.

On behalf of Wade Corporation,

I'd like to thank the Community Board...

...for giving us the opportunity

to work with you on this project.

And we look forward to seeing

all of you at the groundbreaking.

I did well with those eight people.

- I thought you were fantastic.

- This way, Mr. Wade.

Just Mr. Wade.

- More.

- Great. Can we go now?

Absolutely. I just want to say hello

to my folks.

Folks?

Excuse me.

Hello.

- Hi, honey.

- Hi, Daddy.

- Is that a new coat? I like it.

- Thanks.

What a wonderful surprise!

We finally meet after all this time.

George Wade.

Mrs. Kelson, I presume.

What a pleasure.

Well, I can certainly see

where Lucy gets her stare from.

I'm Larry. It's a pleasure to meet you.

Thanks, Larry. Same here.

Thank you for letting Lucy quit.

It certainly made our week.

- Great pleasure.

- We should get back to the office.

- Come on! Have some cake.

- We can't.

We're two blocks from the apartment.

- You live around here?

- Sure.

- What a charming coincidence.

- It won't be charming...

...once you block out the sun

with this condo-hotel monstrosity!

We will have a sun deck.

That's something, isn't it?

Larry, Ruth, I can't tell you how much

I appreciate your support on this project.

At least you're keeping

the community center.

Unless you're willing to reconsider

the entire project.

I'm afraid that won't happen.

It is over 50 million in profits.

I think it's immoral that any human being

should acquire that much wealth.

I don't know how you sleep at night.

A machine that plays the ocean.

I used to come up here all the time

when I was a kid. My special place.

I had a small one-bedroom

on Park and 91st.

That's so very Oliver Twist.

Times were hard. But you know what?

We were happy.

- Didn't have a view as good as this.

- It's great, isn't it?

I used to take up some ice cream

and my Carole King tape...

...and look at the neighborhood.

It's amazing what you could see. At night,

the whole building went downstairs.

The fathers stood on one corner.

The mothers stood on the other.

Kids would just ride their bicycles around.

As you can see, not much has changed.

Mr. and Mrs. Goldfarb would be sitting

in the middle of the street...

...saving a parking space for their children

who were coming next weekend.

And you up here on your own.

It's hard to find a quiet place

in Brooklyn to think.

Or to replay whatever argument

I just had with my mother.

Yes.

Yeah, she's terrifying.

I thought she was gonna kill me

and feed me to the poor.

Yeah, she's a piece of work.

But for better or worse, she's the voice

in my head pushing me to do better.

Challenge the accepted wisdom. Never

settle for a B instead of an A on a test.

You once got a B?

- Hypothetically speaking.

- Right.

Of course, no matter how hard I try,

I will never live up to her expectations.

Well, there are worse things in life.

Like no one having any expectations.

There's something amuck

with this sponge cake.

Tofu.

You're not concentrating.

This offends me.

Yeah, I'm sorry, Ton.

I lost Lucy.

I just think it's a shame because I've

come to rely on her for everything.

And I trust her completely,

and she's funny.

Not deliberately, of course.

Hey, you know, it's probably

for the best though.

Oh, yeah? Why is that?

Two things I know is chess and women.

Chess, it has rules, pieces,

rooks, knights, bishops.

They move in predictable patterns.

Somebody wins, somebody loses.

But women, they don't have no rules, man.

They move in unpredictable ways too.

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