:43:00
On behalf of the personnel
in the mail room...
:43:02
the girls in the secretarial pool,
the female executives here at Pemrose...
:43:05
we wanted to give our blessing
to this little merger.
:43:07
- Who in hell are these people?
- Is that Don? Donny!
:43:11
How ya doin'? You mind if I stand up?
I think better when I'm movin' around.
:43:15
Gotta tell you, Don.
:43:17
At first, the idea of this merger
made me as nervous...
:43:19
as a long-tailed cat
in a room full of rocking chairs.
:43:22
But then I realized
I was wrong.
:43:24
The combination of our products
and your distribution capabilities...
:43:27
could vault Pemrose right
to the top of the market.
:43:31
So glad you approve...
:43:34
whoever you are.
:43:35
Now if you get the hell out of here,
we'll finish the job.
:43:38
I can't do that for you, Don.
:43:41
See, the problem here
is management.
:43:44
Things were bad enough when
Howard was running the company.
:43:46
- Now we got you to deal with too.
- Get them out of here, now.
:43:50
He can't, Don. You see,
Brantley made arrangements...
:43:53
to buy five percent of the stock...
:43:55
in your company,
Davenport Enterprises, this morning.
:43:59
- We're buying you out.
- What?
:44:02
Get in there.
:44:04
That's right!
:44:07
We've initiated a takeover
of Davenport Enterprises...
:44:09
in a proxy fight for
the Pemrose Corporation.
:44:12
- This way, Mr. McMasters.
- Gentlemen, good afternoon.
:44:16
These are
my financial advisers.
:44:18
They agreed to lend me the money
to finance this takeover.
:44:21
Surely you're not going to invest
in some crackpot scheme...
:44:24
cooked up by a kid who used
to work in our mail room.
:44:27
Not at first, Howie,
but I had an ace in the hole:
:44:30
A major stockholder in the company
with the clout and support I needed.
:44:33
Don, I want you to meet...
:44:36
the new chairperson
of the Pemrose Corporation...
:44:39
and the daughter of the founder...
:44:41
Vera Prescott.
:44:45
Afternoon,
ladies and gentlemen.
:44:48
Brantley and I
are very old friends...
:44:50
and when he told me his wonderful
ideas for running the company...
:44:53
I knew he was
the man for the job.
:44:55
I think we all understand
your real motivation here, Vera.