: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.
:45:01
I admit I felt...
:45:03
some attraction towards Brantley
at the beginning...
:45:06
but as you've always
told me, Howard...
:45:09
love is love...
:45:10
but business is business.
:45:13
You've run Daddy's company
into the ground, Howard...
:45:16
and I believe these people here can
bring it back to where it belongs again.
:45:20
Now, up, Howard,
out of that chair.
:45:23
Don't be ridiculous.
I'm not about to resign my position.
:45:27
You don't have to, Howard.
You're fired.
:45:30
What?
:45:33
- Vera, you can't!
- Yes, I can.
:45:35
You see, Mr. Davenport...
:45:37
as of this afternoon,
I control 50.1% of the voting stock.
:45:41
You, too, Art.
You're history.
:45:47
Brantley, Christy,
Jean, Melrose.
:45:59
Gentlemen, just in time.