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Ross: he'll be here, one chance in a quillion he isn't, then we go Condition Red, we get him on the . . .
    F OX : . . . because . . .
    G OULD : Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm with you.
    F OX : Be . . .
    G OULD : . . . You understand . . . I wanted to do . . .
    F OX : . . . I understand . . .
    G OULD : I wanted to do it in person . . .
    F OX : Yes.
    G OULD : . . . ‘Cause you're gonna be the Bringer of Good News . . .
    F OX : No, no, you're absolutely right.
    G OULD : Do it in person . . .
    F OX : . . . yes . . .
    G OULD : And forge that bond.
    F OX : It's just. . .
    G OULD : Don't worry.
    F OX : Not me. It's just, you move up to the big league . . . ( Pause. )
    G OULD : Charlie. Your ship has come in . . .
    F OX ( Pause ): . . . all I'm saying . . . Ross . . .
    G OULD : What's Ross going to say . . . “No"? It's done.
    F OX : Lord, I believe, aid thou my unbelief. . . the sucker walked in, said “I love the script.”
    G OULD : Oh yes, Charlie, for we're now the Fair- haired boys.
    F OX : I couldn't believe it, you talk, talk about, talk, what is the . . . “watersheds.”
    G OULD : That's right.
    F OX : And, that is one of them.
    G OULD : And why shouldn't it be—you understand . . .?
    F OX : I don't know.
    G OULD : ‘Cause you . . .
    F OX : . . . I, I don't know . . .
    G OULD : . . . You worked for it. . . you know, you know . . .
    F OX : “I'm going to be rich and I can't believe it.”
    G OULD : Rich, are you kidding me? We're going to have to hire someone just to figure out the things we want to buy . . .
    F OX : I mean, I mean, you think about a concept, all your life . . .
    G OULD : . . . I'm with you . . .
    F OX : “Wealth.”
    G OULD : Yes. Wealth.
    F OX : Then it comes down to you . . .
    G OULD : Uh huh . . .
    F OX : All you can think of. . . “ This is what that means . . .”
    G OULD : And that is what it means. ( Pause. )
    F OX : How, how, figuring up the rentals, tie in, foreign, air, the . . .
    G OULD : Uh huh . . .
    F OX : Over the course . . .
    G OULD : . . . don't forget the sequels.
    F OX : Do we . . . we're tied in to that. . .?
    G OULD : Are we tied in to that, Charl? Welcome to the world.
    F OX : Hhhhh. How . .. ( Pause. )
    G OULD : The question, your crass question: how much money could we stand to make . . . ?
    F OX : Yes.
    G OULD : I think the operative concept here is “lots and lots . . .”
    F OX : Oh, maan . . .
    G OULD : Great big jolly shitloads of it.
    F OX : Oh, maan . . .
    GOULD : But money . . .
    F OX : Yeah.
    G OULD : Money, Charl. . .
    F OX : Yeah . . .
    G OULD : Money is not the important thing.
    F OX : No.
    G OULD : Money is not Gold.
    F OX : No.
    G OULD : What can you do with Money?
    F OX : Nothing.
    G OULD : Nary a goddamn thing.
    F OX : . . . I'm gonna be rich.
    G OULD : “Buy” things with it.
    F OX : Where would I keep them?
    G OULD : What would you do with them?
    F OX : Yeah.
    G OULD : Take them out and dust them, time to time.
    F OX : Oh yeah.
    G OULD : I piss on money.
    F OX : I know that you do. I'll help you.
    G OULD : Fuck money.
    F OX : Fuck it. Fuck “things” too . . .
    G OULD : Uh huh. But don't fuck “people.”
    F OX : No.
    G OULD : ‘Cause, people, Charlie . . .
    F OX : People . . . yes.
    G OULD : Are what it's All About.
    F OX : I know.
    G OULD : And it's a People Business.
    F OX : That it is.
    G OULD : It's full of fucken’ people . . .
    F OX : And we're gonna kick some ass, Bob.
    GOULD : That we are.
    F OX : We're gonna kick the ass of a lot of them fucken’ people.
    G OULD : That's right.
    F OX : We get rolling, Bob. It's “up the ass with gun and camera.”
    G OULD : Yup.
    F OX : ‘Cause when you spend twenty years in the barrel . . .
    G OULD : . . . I know . . .
    F OX : No, you don't know, you've forgotten. Due respect.
    G OULD : . . . may be . . .
    F OX : But, but . . . oh maan . . . I'm gonna settle some fucken’ scores.
    G OULD : Better things to do . . .
    F OX : If there are, show them to me, man . . . A bunch of cocksuckers out there. Gimme’ a