: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.
:48:00
Howard Beale
is processed instant God.
:48:02
It looks like he may go over bigger
than Mary Tyler Moore.
:48:04
I am not putting Howard
back on the air!
:48:07
It's not your show anymore.
It's mine.
:48:12
I gave her the show.
:48:13
I'm putting the "Network News Show"
under programming.
:48:17
Mr. Ruddy had a heart attack
and is not taking calls.
:48:20
In his absence,
I'm making all network decisions...
:48:22
including one I've been wanting to make
a long time: You're fired.
:48:27
I want you out of this building
by noon.
:48:29
I'll call security and have you
thrown out if you're still here.
:48:35
Well, let's say
fuck you, Hackett.
:48:37
You want me out of here...
:48:39
you'll have to drag me and the whole
News Division out kicking and screaming.
:48:43
You think they'll quit their jobs
for you? Not in this recession.
:48:45
Ruddy will have your ass.
:48:47
I got a hit!
Ruddy doesn't count anymore!
:48:51
He was hoping I'd fall on my face
with this Beale show, but I didn't.
:48:54
It's a big, fat, big-titted hit...
:48:56
and I don't have to waffle around
with Ruddy anymore.
:48:59
If he wants to take me before
the CCA board, let him.