:56:01
Great.
:56:12
- What's going on?
- I'm getting canned.
:56:15
But you're the best they've got.
You always say so.
:56:18
I know. This jerk Dickie Taylor
is calling the shots now.
:56:22
I don't know how Jack let it happen.
:56:24
God!
:56:27
And on top of that thing with Montserrat.
:56:29
Are you sure you know what you're doing?
:56:31
Marta said you practically forced her
back into Ramon's arms.
:56:35
She said that?
:56:36
I don't know what happened.
Everything was going so well.
:56:39
Then she never showed up that night
after going for her things at Ramon's.
:56:43
They talked until dawn
and she slept on his sofa...
:56:48
...which, for all I know, is true.
:56:50
Marta said he laid it on thick with
the violence and racism in the USA.
:56:54
It wouldn't change everything this way.
Something spooked her.
:56:58
As if I had crowded her.
I was really playing it cool, too.
:57:01
What makes you think that?
:57:03
Now she doesn't want to move in.
She wants a serious talk.
:57:06
- You know what that means.
- You should talk with her.
:57:09
No. That would be a disaster.
:57:11
I'd be the jerk crowding her,
whom she had to talk to seriously.
:57:15
But saying you have a work emergency?
:57:17
I do.
:57:19
- And you're too busy to see her.
- Have you ever heard of Maneuver X?
:57:23
When you get deeply into sales,
you realize that...
:57:25
...every major transaction involves
a mini identity crisis for the buyer.
:57:30
You think, ''A green carpet.
Am I really a green carpet person? ''
:57:34
In romance, the same thing applies
but on a humongous scale.
:57:38
But what is Maneuver X?
:57:39
It's removing all pressure.
:57:42
Creating a space that the customer
has to affirmatively cross.
:57:46
Only by disappearing more thoroughly
and inexplicably than Montserrat...
:57:49
...can I change the current dynamic.
:57:51
Will it? I don't know. I think it will.
:57:54
If not, I'm dead.
:57:58
You've thought this through.
That's impressive.