Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Page #9

not to sell any more to my boy!

But if you'd been there, Dad...

If you hadn't been in prison,

it would've been different.

Winnie, you got no idea

how much I beat myself up,

how many mistakes I made as a father.

Rudy...

He was a victim, you know.

Like, he had cancer.

You cannot blame me.

And you gotta stop blaming yourself.

You're all I got left, honey.

Nothing else

matters.

I cannot make it right again,

but I can make things better.

I'm your dad.

And whatever you say

till the day that I die,

you're my gal.

You're the only one.

You're my baby.

Please.

Winnie, just try to forgive me.

Dad.

JAKE:
It's done, Doc.

Look, you're an older guy, so

I don't want you to have a heart attack.

But Bretton James just said

we're gonna get $100 million!

- DR. MASTERS:
Are you serious, my boy?

- Yes!

Bretton says the Chinese are close!

But look, you get some sleep, all right?

You deserve it.

- Thank you, Jacob.

- I'll talk to you soon.

FEMALE NEWS ANCHOR 1:

There is carnage on Wall Street.

The shares of the major

financial stocks plummeting.

It's triggering a major sell-off

in the markets.

The damage, widespread.

FEMALE NEWS ANCHOR 2:

The NASDAQ's plunging.

The Dow Jones Industrial A verage

is plunging, and oil is plunging.

Literally a 180 points

just added to the decline.

You can hear the hollering on the floor.

We're down 260, literally in a split second.

Right now,

the Dow Jones Industrial A verage

is now 500 points on the decline.

MARIA:
The headline of the

new housing report is grim

that this is shaping up to be the worst

real estate market in a generation.

MALE NEWS ANCHOR 1:

We are now at the highest point there, 724.

That was the biggest loss

we've seen today.

We're now in historic territory.

FEMALE NEWS ANCHOR 3: Investors

are getting their heads handed to them

as another US banking institution

nears collapse.

The President's Working Group

is going into emergency meetings

with the Secretary of the Treasury

and the Federal Reserve Board.

(WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY)

The President's Chief of Staff

is calling back in an hour.

He's with the President.

And he's going to want to know

what I think we should do.

BRETTON:
This isn't Keller Zabel, Bill.

This is too big to fail.

- BILL:
This is just an insane situation.

- This is now.

There's about 70-plus trillion out there

in credit default swaps

held by roughly 17 banks.

And we do not know where the bottom is.

How much are you guys thinking?

At least five.

I think six.

Bill, I frankly think

Harry and Charlie are low.

I think we're talking seven, eight.

BILL:
Hundred billion?

(SIGHS)

MAN:
Selling this to Congress

is the problem.

They're going to want to know

where the money's going.

They'll jawbone this to death.

- Scare them.

- MAN:
How?

Tell them the truth.

The government's got to

restore confidence.

If we don't stop the bleeding,

in three days,

half the banks in this room

are out of business.

And in five days, we're all gone.

You men realize what you've done here?

You are asking for the biggest bailout

in the history of this country.

You're talking nationalization, Bretton.

Socialism.

I have fought it all my life.

And if we don't get it, Bill,

there won't be any history.

Music stops.

Ball's over.

Julie?

It'll get worse now, because it'll go faster.

Money markets will dry up

around the world by the end of the week.

ATMs will stop spitting bills.

Federal Deposit Insurance will collapse.

Banks will close.

Mobs, panic.

It's going to be the end of the world, Bill.

(WHISTLES DRAMATICALLY)

See?

Huh!

All right, boys.

You'll hear from us tonight.

MALE NEWS ANCHOR:

What is going to happen here?

Does government have to get involved?

Are we potentially at a point

where we might actually lose

the financial system as we know it?

If the government doesn't get involved,

there is a risk of a global meltdown

of the global financial system.

This is a financial crisis,

and anyone who doesn't admit that

is just kidding themselves.

- We've seen something like this.

- PUNDIT 1:
Polly, I disagree.

You've gotta get the government to say no

in a situation like this.

True capitalism

is about disaster and correction.

It's a natural cycle.

Without it, you create all kinds

- of artificial anomalies in the market.

- But if we don't fix this now,

you're going to have...

BUFFETT:
This is something

this country hasn't experienced before.

It's an economic Pearl Harbor.

We got to figure out some way

to put the fire out.

And that means government...

Your father predicted this.

When I was little,

I'd hear my dad in the kitchen late at night.

His case was on appeal.

I'd go and sit with him. We'd eat ice cream.

I never knew him as a peaceful person.

It always scared me.

This is scary.

What's going to happen?

Lt'll be the end.

Well, that's unacceptable.

Why?

Because I'm pregnant, Jake.

(BOTH LAUGH)

- You're pregnant?

- Yeah.

(MYBIG NURSEPLAYING)

When the lake's on fire

- That's fantastic.

- (LAUGHS)

With all the world's desires

Compact, relaxed

Intact, give thanks

I'm counting all the possibilities

MALE NEWS ANCHOR 1:

And we are talking on the S&P 500

a loss of almost eight percent in one day,

surpassing September 17th, 2001.

That's the day markets opened

after the attacks of 9/11.

MALE NEWS ANCHOR 2:

... last night on Wall Street

and swept through

Japan, China, India and Europe

after one of the worst days

on global stock markets in modern times.

They said your office.

It's too depressing today.

This is my other office.

This might be dangerous.

Think you can keep up?

World's crashing anyway. We'll see, right?

That's not bad, Jake.

Though I think they might have given you

the faster bike.

I'm sure that's what it was.

You know,

I've always believed

that a man should have,

at one time or another in his life,

both a mentor and a protg.

Who's yours?

The man who brought me

into Churchill Schwartz.

Bill Clark at Treasury. He's been

a good friend to us during this crisis.

You got the makings of a leader, Jake.

I just want you to know,

there's no hard feelings on this.

No one's going to lose.

With Clark in, I think we're in good shape.

You got a great future.

I don't understand.

Didn't you read this morning's

capital breakdown?

No, I came right up to the roof.

Why? What happened?

Look, the Chinese money,

it's going to Babaco Solar.

- What?

- We took another look

and we just don't think United Fusion

is ever gonna achieve what they claim.

Babaco needs this money to build

these three fabrications...

You might as well

just burn the money, Bretton.

You told me, I told Dr. Masters.

He's expecting it.

The decision's been made.

Unless you want it to die.

Of course. Seawater is in a lot more supply

than crude. Right, Bretton?

- You an idealist or a capitalist, Jacob?

- I'm a realist.

You're a real piece of work, Bretton.

You're giving the money to Babaco

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