:19:01
So I don't have any bullshit left.
:19:05
I just ran out of it, you see.
:19:13
Mr. Ruddy, could we have
one statement, please?
:19:16
Sorry, I don't have
all the information yet.
:19:21
If we could just have one statement
about Mr. Beale.
:19:34
Max?
:19:44
I'll want to see Mr. Beale
after this.
:19:49
The way I hear it,
you were primarily responsible...
:19:51
for this colossally
stupid prank.
:19:54
- Is that the fact?
- That's the fact.
:19:56
It was unconscionable.
:20:02
- There is nothing more to say.
- I have something to say.
:20:06
I want to know why that debasement
of the News Division...
:20:09
announced at the meeting this afternoon
was kept secret from me?
:20:14
You and I go back 20 years.
:20:16
I took this job
with your personal assurance...
:20:19
that you'd back my autonomy
against any encroachment.
:20:22
But ever since CCA acquired control
of UBS Systems ten months ago...
:20:27
Hackett's been taking over everything.
:20:29
Who is running this network?
You or some conglomerate called CCA?
:20:33
You're president
of the Systems Group.
:20:36
Hackett's nothing
but a hatchet man for CCA.
:20:40
Nelson here,
president of the network...
:20:42
and he hasn't a damned thing to say
about anything anymore.
:20:45
I told you
at the stockholders' meeting...
:20:48
that we would discuss all that
at our regular meeting tomorrow morning.
:20:51
If you had been patient,
I would have explained...
:20:54
that I, too, thought
Frank Hackett precipitate...
:20:56
and that the reorganization of the
News Division would not be executed...
:20:59
until everyone,
specifically you, Max...