:46:48
Wake up, Max,
because Howard's gone.
:46:51
I'll make you some coffee.
:46:54
You don't know where he is?
The son of a bitch is a hit!
:46:57
Goddamn it!
Over 2,000 phone calls!
:46:59
In the mail room, over 14,000 telegrams!
The response is sensational!
:47:04
Tell him.
Herb's phone hasn't stopped ringing.
:47:06
Every affiliate from Albuquerque
to Sandusky! Response is sensational!
:47:11
Yes. All right.
:47:13
For you, Herb.
Go to your office.
:47:15
Moldanian called me. Joe Donnelly
called me. We've got a goddamn hit!
:47:19
Show him the Times. We even got
an editorial in the New York Times.
:47:23
- "A Call to Morality."
- I don't know where he is.
:47:25
That crazy Beale has caught on. Don't
tell me you don't know where he is.
:47:28
He could be jumping off a roof
for all I know!
:47:31
The man is insane!
He's not responsible for himself!
:47:34
He needs care and treatment.
:47:36
All you grave robbers think about
is that he's a hit.
:47:40
It's just possible
that he isn't insane...
:47:43
that he is, in fact,
imbued with some special spirit.
:47:46
I'm supposed to be the romantic!
You're the hard-bitten realist!
:47:49
All right. Howard Beale
obviously fills a void.
:47:52
The audience
obviously wants a prophet...
:47:54
even a manufactured one...
even if he's as mad as Moses.
:47:57
By tomorrow he'll have a 50 share,
maybe a 60.