Working Girl Page #6

Katherine

Um...are you there?

Tess

Yes, Katherine.

SCENE 45

Katherine

Don't get too used to those long lunches, Tess. They're letting

me go a week from today.

Tess

A week from today? Isn't that a little faster than you thought?

Katherine

Well, the doctor says I've got great bones. Of course, his

aren't too bad either!....Anyway, I need you to summarize the

Baron Oil prospectus...

Skier

Hello, Miss Katherine.

Katherine

Hi, Schatz! ...and uh, send that along to me along with the last

two quarterly reports. You are a sport.

Tess

Yes, I'm a sport.

Katherine

Thank you, Tess, so much. I'll talk to you again soon.

Tess

Okay. Bye.

SCENE 46

Jack

So what kind of figures have you been throwing out?

Tess

Well, no exact figures yet.

Jack

Well, what's their ballpark?

Tess

Well, I wanted to get them excited about the concept before I

start throwing actual figures at them.

Jack

Well, are they excited?

Tess

They're going to be.

Jack

Well, wait a minute. I've been working on this thing for 36

hours straight, trying to put this thing together. I got a

progress meeting with my...the head of my department at 2:00.

Now where the hell exactly are we?!

Tess

Don't yell at me!

Jack

Hey. Answer me!

Tess

Well, I uh, as a matter of fact, am gonna see Trask himself

tomorrow. I feel that we're strong enough to go right to him.

Jack

Oh. All right. Where are we meeting him? What time?

Tess

He's not expecting both of us.

Jack

Are you trying to fly this thing without me?!

Tess

No! I wouldn't do that.

Jack

You go and set up this meeting without me. What does...what does

that say? What the hell kind of way to do business is this?!

Tess

Would you calm down?

Jack

How am I supposed to calm down? One lost deal is all it takes to

get canned there days. Look, the line buttons on my phone all

have an inch of little pieces of tape piled on. The names of new

guys over the names of old guys, good men who aren't at the other

end of their line anymore, all 'cause of one lost deal. I don't

want to get buried under a little piece of tape.

Tess

No one's trying to bury you under a little piece of tape.

Jack

Okay, so I've been in a little bit of a slump. I'm not afraid to

admit it. There it is. Look, give me a break here. Don't go

leading me on. If you've got some doubts about me, say 'em to my

face. Give me that much.

Tess

I don't have any doubts about you.

Jack

Okay. You need me...you know.

Tess

I mean, any doubts about your ability.

Jack

You need me at that meeting.

SCENE 47

Jack

Is he jet-lagged from somewhere, or he just lunches late?

Tess

Huh?

Jack

3:
00 is a late lunch.

Tess

Well, it's not exactly lunch, but there will be food there,

though.

Jack

What's the story, Tess?

Tess

It's his daughter's wedding.

Jack

That's the meeting?

Tess

Well, it's the perfect opportunity. He's happy, he's had a

little champagne, we look for an opening. Trust me.

Jack

What are we supposed to do, jump out of the wedding cake?

Tess

Don't be silly.

SCENE 48

Guard #1

Come in, man. Come in. Welcome. Come in.

Guard #2

Welcome to our party. Come in.

Hostess

Hello! Nice to see you. Do you know which table you're at?

Jack

Uh, no.

Tess

Oh, I see Phyllis. Come on.

SCENE 49

Trask

Glad you could make it. Oren and Barbara Trask.

Tess

Tess McGill. What a great idea.

Jack

Jack Trainer.

Tess

It's so nice to see you again.

Trask

Hi.

Jack

Hello.

Trask

Well, the kids thought it would, uh, be fun.

Jack

Oh, it's beautiful.

Barbara

You must be friends of Mark's.

Tess

Right.

Trask

Well, let's get you over there.

Tess

Actually, I really should go powder my bathroom...nose. Um,

darling, will you wait here?

Jack

Oh, sure.

Tess

Us, so nice...See you later.

Jack

I think I'll get a drink.

Trask

Oh, Bunny!

SCENE 50

Tess

Get a grip, get a grip, Tess. Get a grip.

Jack

We're not even invited to this thing, are we?

Tess

Okay, so we were not exactly invited. But he's here, and we're

here, so that make us...

Jack

Total idiots!

Tess

...in the right place at the right time.

Jack

You're like one of those crazed cops, aren't you? The kind

nobody wants to ride with! Whose partners all end up dead or

crazy.

Tess

Just act like you belong.

Phyllis

Oh. Do you love it, or do you hate it?

Tess

Love it.

Phyllis

So do I! But Mark says it looks like Nicaragua and that we're

making some kind of statement.

Tess

Oh no! It, it's just like paradise. It's like a paradise with

little gold palm trees.

Phyllis

Thank you.

Tess

You're welcome.

Phyllis

I hope I'm not being rude, but...who are you?

Tess

I'm Tess. I'm a friend of Mark's. I'm just so happy that I

could...be here for you...today.

Jack

Glorious! Fabulous! Stunning, really. Super! Elegant!

Perfect!

SCENE 51

Tess

You're right. This is crazy, so let's just go.

Jack

Excuse me. The woman that's dancing with Oren, what's her name?

Bridesmaid

Oh...oh, Elizabeth Stubblefield.

Jack

That's right! Uh, Liz? Beth?

Bridesmaid

Bitsy.

Jack

Bitsy! That's right.

Tess

Jack?

Jack

You wanna do it...do it.

SCENE 52

Jack

Excuse us. Bitsy, don't break my heart and tell me you don't

remember me.

Bitsy

Of course I do!

Jack

Excuse us.

Tess

Talk about a small world, huh?....I mean, here we've just met and

yet I feel as though I've spent so much time working with you.

Trask

Hmm?

Tess

In a way. I'm in Mergers and Acquisitions at Petty, Marsh.

Trask

Oh..well, I really wish you were having more luck with your team.

Tess

Well, so do I. So do I. I've been trying to set you up with a

radio network, but my bosses, they think that you're just stuck

on acquiring television and won't even listen.

Trask

Well, that's not true.

Tess

Well, that's what I said. I said that the man who in 1971 looked

into the future and saw that it was named microwave technology,

the man who applied Japanese management principles while the

others were still kowtowing to the unions...

Trask

Mm-hm.

Tess

...the man who saw the Ma Bell break-up coming from miles

away...I mean, this man did not get to be this man, you, I mean,

by shutting himself off to new ideas. Am I right, or am I right?

Trask

Well, I think you're right.

Tess

You're damn straight I'm right!

Trask

If you've got the right property, I'd love to hear about it.

Tess

You would?

Trask

Well, absolutely!

Hostess

There she is.

Trask

Well, what...wha?

Hostess

There she is, darling.

Tess

Umm..um, you know, I really, I just realized that I...I'm hogging

the father of the bride, and I see Phyllis coming in. Well, what

do you say I give you a call on Monday?

Trask

Well, our media consultant is Tim Draper.

Tess

Tim, right.

Jack

Honey, I'm starved.

Tess

So am I. Bye.

Trask

Bye.

Jack

Bye.

SCENE 53

Tess

Go ahead and laugh. He wants us to meet with his people first

thing Monday, so....

Jack

Oren Trask? The man who said, "What if we sliced the bread

before we sold it?"

Tess

Yeah, all right.

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