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Tell him being a maid is not part of the job.

Why don't you tell him, sir?

Now that I have your attention, it's my opinion this lovely lady

has better things to do than be your servant.

Do I hear a second on the motion?

Hi, dick.

I found it. Hi, frank.

The old man's coming.

Gentlemen... and ladies...

I assume you're all familiar

with the Ellison group's latest acquisitions?

Mr. macklin.

Here it comes, hotshot.

I assume that you have read Mr. ebersol's report

and you've come with your usual accurate appraisal.

The acquisition of these four breweries

that we've purchased from our minor competitors

requires the guidance of our top executive field men.

I've already selected three of them from our western offices.

The fourth, and most important,

I place in the capable hands of Mr. macklin.

I'm behind you 110%, sir.

Your in-house peer will be Mr. ebersol.

You will report to him, he will report to me.

Absolutely, sir.

What's his name?

Why don't I know his name? What's his name, ebersol?

The...

The... the landlubber we bought the brewery from in low...

What's this name?

- Charles w. Pickett. - Pickett! Of course.

Yes, you're right.

Pickett's beer...

What the American working man pickets for.

Wonderful slogan, sir. They all are.

Write that down.

I'll expect glowing reports from you.

We'll personally talk when you get back from Iowa.

Why do I have to be the one that goes to Iowa?

Should've read the report instead of screwing your way across country.

Come on, a man's got to have time to gather his body and soul.

You can only fake it for so long.

You get yourself the dubuque star brewery.

Old man pickett finally broke down.

God's gift to women better have his body in Iowa by Friday,

or his soul is on welfare on Monday. Read it and weep.

Four weeks to deliver a 50% production increase.

Dubuque is my hometown.

I can't go there like some corporate hatchetman

and make over that brewery in four weeks.

The old man is building generals, not buck privates.

This is a test, my fair-haired wonderboy.

I've done a hell of a job. Why am I being dumped on?

Dumped on? This is the biggie. The gold key club.

You go down there, get those monkeys in line,

you're gonna jump to senior vice president so fast

that you'll be giving orders to me.

On the other hand, you fall on the proverbial tokhes-eroonie,

and you'll never stop falling. Have a nice trip.

Hey, mister, what's this little car gonna be when it grows up?

About a year of your salary, friend.

You mean you paid $7,000 for this little thing?

Damn.

Damn.

Pop me a star, dude.

Blow it out your ass!

We're gonna be late, ray.

Come on, Turkey, move that piece of junk!

It's the battle of the luxury cars!

Lincoln continental, on American know-how and skill,

against the German machine.

See now? You see that sucker

flip this fine old vintage American automobile the bird?

We're talking about my country's honor, boy.

Come on! Come on, faggot!

- Damn you, jerks! - I'm gonna tear your head off!

You stupid jerks! You know what you could've done back there?

Oh, man. What are you doing here?

You come back to buy the whole town or something?

Anything left worth buying?

How you doing?

I'm doing the best I can with what I got.

You are looking good, all slicked up and ready to kick ass.

- Eh, Harry? - Slicker than owl shit.

Just about slick enough to pay us back

for those 4,000 beers you owe us.

You're on for that one.

Damn, I can't believe it's you.

Oh, shoot, we're gonna get fired.

I'm gonna collect for those beers tonight at mooney's.

Just like old times. What do you say?

Tonight? I can't make it tonight. I got a meeting.

- Tomorrow night. - Saturday night at mooney's.

Get yourself a deal, honcho.

Honcho? Jesus...

Say, viv!

Move it, come on. Roach is on my case again.

Eat it, man.

- How you doing? - Morning, Charmaine.

Binkowski!

Who's that dingo with roach?

Some computer guy. Been calling around the brewery all day.

Now, you better quit screwing around.

You got your queen-size bed, your color TV.

Takes quarters, you can get your change in the office...

Your sanitized drinking glasses.

Your deluxe John with ultraviolet germ protection on the commode.

And your own private view of the parking lot.

I'll bet when you was a kid

you never thought you'd stay in one of Mrs. hinkle's deluxe rooms?

No, ma'am, I sure didn't.

Kind of like a dream come true, ain't it?

It's like a dream, all right.

The deluxe massage is busted, they want too much to fix it.

Screw 'em. Coffee shop's still open.

I got to get to work.

Damn maid. Screw 'em.

To bigger and better.

Damn, that's good beer. Be sorry to see it go.

Could stand another day in ferment, Charlie.

By next week, won't matter anyway.

It's a good move, Henry. For the town and the brewery.

We are now responsible to a nation of beer drinkers.

We're not operating a one-horse brewery like my old man.

Makes no difference if we're called star or pickett's.

We're in the loving arms of irreversible and profitable progress.

Mr. pickett, Mr. macklin's here from the company.

Show him in, Doreen.

They gotta be kidding.

Charlie, boys, how are you?

You're the man from Ellison?

We got a ton of work to do. I suggest we get to it.

I want a complete tour of all the operations.

You wait just one lousy minute.

I'm not having no kid that worked for me snot-nosed out of high school

telling me how to run my brewery.

Study these proposals, boys.

I want the new equipment checked and installed by Monday.

Monday? Half the stuff is in crates. Your people only been here a week.

(Get someone on it.

The labeling has to be changed and the stock recartoned.

Leon, that's still your department?

Good. Henry, you follow those new brewing specs,

we'll get along just fine.

We're gonna be turning out a hell of a lot more beer

than you're used to.

I'll need a meeting with all installers.

Pull 'em off in staggered shifts. Make that 4:00, my office.

By the way, where is my office?

Come on, chop-chop here, will you?

Ho!

Hey, come on, keep it moving here.

This don't concern you. Get back on the line.

- Come on. - What's going on?

You blind? Don't know new equipment when you see it?

We been took over.

Took over?

By what?

- What's going on? - I don't know.

Big bossman. I love you more than yesterday.

I can't believe frank's heading up the whole shebang.

Ain't you the dummy today.

- I'm thinking. - Thinking?

Drinking's better than thinking, I'm gonna tell you.

How come I don't see your four-by? Silver bullet scare her off?

Something gone bad around here.

You listen, sucker... Come Sunday,

I'm gonna eat you for breakfast and fart you out for lunch.

- He's pissin' on the car. - Get out of here.

Silver bullet sounds pretty hot.

I wouldn't run that turd boiler in a soapbox derby.

Things never change.

The installers and the supervisors are here.

Send in the troops then.

This new equipment on these machines should do the trick.

- Is this the last of the star? - That's it.

From here on, it's all pickett.

All right, shut it down. Works fine.

I don't know about these old machines.

- This system's gonna run 'em... - That's what I want. Hit it.

We been running more than 20 hours. Give us a break.

- Great! What's left? - Labeler's in and running great.

Run me off some samples.

Terrific.

How about right-side up?

Hey, frank, how the hell are you?

Hey, Gus.

Hey, I know you. Do you remember me?

- B-Jo Layton. - Wow, you got some memory.

- I never forget a tongue. - Hey, honcho.

Over here!

Lacy, set us up, baby.

He showed up. I saw you and b-Jo over there.

That tongue is working as hard as it ever did.

Hey, now, look at this here fancy timepiece. P-i-a-g-e-t.

Pee-i-get. That's a hell of a name for a fancy watch.

What's something like that cost?

You've got the manners of $2 whore.

I'm worth at least four.

This fancy watch cost me one long weekend in the sack

with the ugliest woman in Milwaukee who owns sheep, snakes,

and a husband with the biggest bottling business in town.

- Strictly a business proposition. - You never change, you know?

Put another quarter in. Let's play some cutthroat.

- Grab a cue, buddy. We'll talk. - Frank, how you be?

Been a long time.

- Pretty good. How you doing? - I'm overworked and underloved.

- About yesterday... - Aw, shut up and break 'em.

I know you got an image to protect.

Time comes, you'll take care of your own.

I'm gonna get my wife Lacy up here. Y'all give her a little hand.

You bust your chops 16 hours a day, 8 days a week,

and they'll be as ugly as you are.

You could give us some particulars.

Never knew when me and old ray

might wanna take off just like you did sometime.

- You don't wanna go. - Huh?

I said you don't wanna go.

What the hell do you know about what I wanted?

You ain't been around here. You don't know what I been into.

I went to junior college. Didn't I go to junior college?

- Six months. - Got me a "b" in police science.

Was gonna be a criminologist.

That's the intricate study of crime

and its cause and effect on a given society.

And lenore, she got pregnant again.

Why don't you make me a delivery salesman

so I can wear one of those leather bowties?

Lot of changes are gonna happen.

Hey, he says there're gonna be some changes going down.

You think you're talking to some fool off the street?

What has happened since I left town?

Is j.M. Still around?

Yeah, she's still around.

She's around where?

She's around 36-24-36 and still hot for your... rod. Damn.

She never got out.

Oh, yeah, she got out, then come back,

then left again, then come back like some goddamned yo-yo.

Me and ray, we thought about you a lot while you were gone.

That's the truth.

What do y'all say we go to the company picnic tomorrow

and go down there and blow them suckers out of the race?

- Be just like the old days... - Can't. Gotta work.

Shit, man, even god rested on Sunday.

That brewery ain't going nowhere.

I want you to see bigfoot.

I got these four-foot tires, triple suspension...

I told you, I can't. I gotta work.

Take a rain check, huh?

Hey, who is this? Didn't I always take care of business?

Hmm? And the first point of business

is to take care of j.M. Halstead, isn't that right?

Bank says I need collateral.

They say working the same job for 17 years, that's not collateral.

Seems a man's gotta have money to get it, doesn't it?

Thank you, ma'am.

Sorry.

Thank you.

You're not here about the plant layoffs. I can't do anything...

Well, I'm not.

Oh, my god.

It's you.

Yeah, it's me.

I told you all that fast living was gonna ruin your eyes.

You're the man from the corporation.

- The brewery. - Yeah.

Because of you, a whole stream of people have been in here today

scared to death about being laid off.

What if I told you I'm taking care of business?

- We have some talking to do. - Hey... slow down.

Make sure Mr. oswald keeps his job and give him a raise.

You're kidding.

That remains to be seen.

You take me to all the best places.

- You never complained before. - I know. I've changed.

Haven't we all...

A hamburger, some drinks, and some old times.

Old times here are best forgotten.

Aha. One burger, hold the old times!

Look, how many people you planning to let go?

As few as possible. Mostly old timers that are well into pension time.

That's awful. You can't let people go like that, like they're old plow horses.

- It's not even good business. - Just trimming the fat.

After we get rolling, we'll be creating new jobs.

It's the macklin formula.

Miss Jean, are you coming to the picnic?

Yeah. Are you?

That's the story of my life.

So how's yours been the last ten years?

I went to college, got married to a smart-ass preppy,

put the ungrateful son of a bitch through dental school,

went back, got my masters in sociology and divorce training,

got an "a" in both, and here I am home again.

Dentists make good money, steady husbands. What happened?

He used to practice his lab classes on me.

I got tired of being drilled and filled in the same night.

- No points. - No points.

I really missed you.

Still lying.

I'd have stayed in dubuque if you had.

And done what? Got married? Had 2.6 kids?

Got a job at the brewery

so you could stay in debt the rest of our lives?

It wasn't you, and it wasn't me. And we both knew it.

I loved you, j.M.

- Promise me something. - Ifl can.

That you'll be fair and open-minded and do right by people of this town.

You sure know how to change the subject.

Call me. The number's in the book.

Blue 19.19.

Hut-hut. Hut.

Ball! Get him!

Look in the bag.

Do I know my man, or do I know my man?

- It's all right? - God damn it.

It's all right.

Do I know my man, or do I know my man?

Hurry up. Get that shirt over here.

- Gimme the shirt. - Son of a...

I'm gonna get you...

Gimme the shirt. Get him up, man.

God damn it, you jerk-off! What are you guys doing?

Get off my gut!

You come in here like you're king shit,

like old Harry don't know who you are...

Now, there. That's who you are. Let's go kick us some ass.

Looks like our corporate executive is out to soak up the local color.

Yeah. He's a hard bone for me to swallow.

You would live up a chinaman's rear end

for the kind of deal we got.

You guys would be better off with someone else driving. I'm rusty.

If you're ashamed to be with us, just say so.

Come on.

Don't shit me, honcho.

What's going on, huh?

I get $500 says our hero takes the race from the man in yellow.

You can count me in.

That boy's a shark in a pool full of goldfish.

You missed!

Come on, frank!

- God, the mud. - Come on.

Basic human nature.

- You're a bastard, you know? - I know.

Let's make love.

That's what I like... A long, healthy relationship

and all the right words.

I know. I'm a real smoothie, huh?

- Closet. - Oh, shit.

Bathroom. Let's take a shower.

No!

I like my sex dirty.

No strings. No commitments.

That's easier for you to say.

Will you still respect me in the morning?

You won't be here in the morning.

I missed you. I really did.

I used to be able to do this with one hand.

Front latch. Imagine that.

Does everything else work the same?

Less girl, more woman. And you?

I was shot in the war zone. Raised my voice two octaves.

Liar.

Hang on a minute.

What's going on?

Give this to ray. It'll explain everything.

Son of a bitch. They've put me in racking.

Let me see.

Better talk to reach. Probably a mistake.

There must be. I'm a bottler.

I ain't no racker, that's for sure.

I want to officially welcome you to the Ellison group of companies

and to pickett's beer.

The Ellison group realizes a lot of you are set in your ways,

but I think you'll find our method of operation

will make for a higher output and smoother running machine.

I know you've noticed there've been some changes

and modifications in job situations.

There will be people here to help you over the rough spots.

I know you'll want pickett's to be everything star beer was and more.

Thank you.

Bullshit!

Who said that?

Who said that?

You people better learn which side your bread's buttered on.

All right, let's start it up!

This thing farts out bottles all daylong and don't need no one, huh?

Can't you read your form? You're in racking.

I'm a bottler, man.

- I said you're in racking. - I'm a bottler.

Come on.

Hey! Old man! You're in bunging.

- Bunging? - Yeah!

- I don't know nothing about... - Then you learn! Come on.

You got a beef?

You ain't a priest. Anybody got a bitch, you send 'em to me.

But they're coming to me, Marvin, and I'm coming to see you.

There've been four people fired off the bottling floor today.

You're the union rep. What are you gonna do?

This is a small town. I gotta do what I think's best for the majority.

That's what I thought.

You wanna shut it down, you wanna go on strike?

We got growing pains. Things'll work out.

They got the line going so fast,

I damn near hammered my thumb into the bung hole.

That brew is bad.

- Did you talk to frank yet? - He's in a meeting.

How's about after lunch?

Shit, you got a mouth. Why don't you ask him yourself?

He's your good buddy, ain't he?

- Stuff it. - You gonna eat your chips?

I wonder if you'd do me a favor.

I ain't gonna make it in that warehouse. You and the boss are good friends...

Shit, cleach.

How many loads do we have going out this afternoon?

- Two with about 5,000 cases. - I wanna talk to you.

- You got a problem? - Jimmy, go on.

- I don't owe you this. - Why'd you move ray to racking?

- He's been a bottler for ten years. - When you automate, jobs change.

Other people had to be redistributed.

Distributed. Why don't you say fired when you mean fired?

I don't know you anymore. I don't know what kind of man you've turned into.

I got a job to do.

Don't do that.

Why not? You gonna fire me, too? You don't remember me, do you?

Remember the time I held your head

while you cried like a baby the day your mama died?

How about ray? Eight stitches in his arm

when that asshole came at you with a broken bottle at mooney's.

How many times have I told you, you keep telegraphing your punch?

Go on back, please?

Heard you had some trouble this afternoon.

They teach you in college how to handle a bunch of angry workers?

I'm busy. Get to the point.

Get rid of the troublemakers now.

Thanks for the advice.

You don't pull this off, you're up shit creek without a paddle.

Keep pushing.

I'm not pushing. Just trying to help.

I know I'm a high-paid flunky like you now, but...

You don't out these people off at the knees, they'll bury you.

I'm tired. I've got a lot of work to do before I can go home.

You sure do, boy.

You've done a heck of a job, and you deserve the best.

You deserve the full body of pickett's beer.

In the finest tradition of the brewer's art,

choice western hops, sun-ripened grains

blended with clear, cold mountain water

to give you that 100% natural taste of cold gold.

Pickett's... when only the best will do.

- What have we got, Harvard? - The ad campaign is first rate.

The projection from the breweries producing at present capacity

should offer a very good picture at the onset of purchase,

if there is retention of the pickett's image

as offered by the Ellison group.

Would you mind translating that into plain-old galveston english?

I think what Mikey is trying to say is that,

let's say you had four cows living in four different barns,

you could move three of them in with one barn so that...

Those breweries will be producing enough beer to flood the market.

All you gotta do is sit back and watch your competitors

sink deeper and deeper and deeper.

That's awful interesting.

When are we gonna get a chance to see these breweries?

Harry Jr., Patty Ann, come on, get down here.

- You're making me late for work. - Coming!

You gonna eat, or what?

Where'd you get your manners, in a barnyard?

Would you please mind passing the milk, father?

You hear Clarence beaver's hernia's acting up?

Yeah, I heard.

He says he'll teach me right so it don't happen to me.

If I ever catch you within ten miles of that brewery,

I'm gonna break both your legs with an ax handle, you got me?

You're going to college, boy, if I have to drag you there myself.

- Do you understand me? - Yes, sir.

He was making conversation.

If I need conversation, I'll buy me a goddamn parrot.

You didn't tell me Clarence's hernia's acting up.

They've speeded up the line three times this week.

Bottling's no picnic, either.

Suppose I kiss you?

You'll bite my head off?

Okay... now let it out.

Ain't nothing to let out.

Honey, you've gotta talk to me.

'Cause if you're thinking of quitting your job, I gotta know.

I do wanna quit.

But you know I can't do anything else.

- Where's Harry? - He didn't come in.

- Did he call in sick? - Nah, he ain't here. Ray neither.

Where's your hardhat?

I can't find it.

I drank 15 beers, and that's a whole lot of brew in one night

when you're trying to drown the memory from your mind

it took me 15 beers to get here

I don't know how many more till I leave

- I'll take my change in tears - Two, three, four...

And drink 15 beers here

when you're trying to drown the memory from your mind

it took me 15 beers to get here

I don't know how many more till I leave

- take my change in tears - Two, three, four...

And drink my 15 beers

I thought I'd have three or four just to loosen up

- loosen up. - Loosen up.

'Cause we was really gonna swing tonight

I could almost see her long red face

and touch her long red hair

Chaser.

You guys just won't give me a break.

I say I got everything under control, but, no...

You gotta have everything go only the fricking way you want!

I am building an a-number-one brewery over there, but you...

I'm trying to make something for your damn future.

I ain't got no goddamn future.

We get right new, today.

Maybe tomorrow, but that is it, Jack.

You just don't remember.

I thought I was gonna be one of them delivery salesmen,

wear one of those leather bowties.

Instead, I'm putting puke beer in barrels.

Look what you did.

I don't like it in racking.

I want my old job back.

You can't have it.

- The machine does it. - Screw the machines!

Leave him alone.

What do you want from me? I got my own job to do!

You are taking too much of this on your shoulders.

It sure is a true-blue bitch.

I have lived here for 52 years,

and I never seen anybody in dubuque yet go but one way...

Pick up a check for eight hours, spend the next day pissing it away.

Got three color tvs in a shack of a house,

$12,000 worth of pick-up in the garage,

and they got a fishing boat they drag out on weekends

so they can get drunk and swap lies about the good life that don't exist.

Sounds like my old man, god rest him.

And sometimes...

We even fished in between the lies and the dreams.

He is the same people who'll fold like a gambler with a pair of threes.

And I say, "screw 'em, and one, two, three, get yourself out."

You ain't got the brains of a baboon.

I told you freight shipment on cans be here ready at 2:00.

You haven't done a damn thing all day but just stand here.

- You look at me when I'm yelling... - What the hell is going on here?

You send me ten new guys from who knows where,

and not one of them knows his ass from a case of beer.

And this nitwit... He's a prize package.

They all know their job. They're shining you on.

Yeah? Try and get 'em to work when they don't wanna be here.

Listen up, mister. If you don't get on the stick damn quick,

you're gonna find yourself back in that welfare line.

You fill out this dispatcher's form and get that load to the dock.

You don't need a college degree for that.

You think you can handle that�? Read it to me.

Can't read.

You can't read?

I work on the bottling floor, Mr. macklin.

You go on back.

I'll clear it.

I'm sending him back to bottling. You have till tomorrow to shape up.

Adjust the number-three pickers. The neck labels are flagging.

Doing it all day.

It's dick ebersol. Where are you, inside a cement mixer?

I just got the computer printouts, and production in your plant

is the highest of all four plants. Way to go, hotshot.

I can hardly hear you!

Put your finger in your ear and listen up!

I am coming down your way with our moneyman,

and I want to put on 3 little show for him.

Take every can and bottle you got and stack 'em up in the warehouse.

Make it look nice for the buyer, you know what I mean?

Buyer?! What are you talking about?

I'm talking about corporate history. Start to finish in four weeks

with a clear profit of... Are you ready... $27.6 million.

The old man is just about spitting up with delight.

We're gonna take all four breweries, dump 'em in one neat package

right in the lap of some squint-eyed texan

who happened to find oll underneath his outhouse.

You and yours truly happen to be sitting rather pretty.

You gotta be crazy! What does he know about breweries?!

This plant could fold in six months. It has to be nursed along.

I can hardly hear you. I got to go. Hopalong Cassidy's getting antsy.

See you in a couple days, buddy. Bye-bye.

God damn it, dick!

Shit.

Doreen, will you come in, please?

I want you to copy these changes exactly as written.

Get 'em xeroxed for each department head

and bring 'em back to me.

Ring up racking, warehouse, brewing, and bottling in that order.

Should I carbon copy the home office?

You do, and I'll break your pencils.

- I can't keep 'em running like this. - Shut up and tighten it down.

It won't go no more. Hold it.

Virgil, you all right?

Oh, shit, man!

You gotta be kidding. We just got up to 1,700 a minute.

Shut up and listen. Drop it back to 1,200 and do it now.

It's my responsibility, right?

Get you upstairs.

Shit. I'll get you upstairs. Come on.

What's going on?

I don't know. Come on.

- What's with him? - Taking him upstairs.

What's with the slowdown?

Your buddy upstairs can't make up his damn mind.

Slow it down, speed it up. He wants the damn thing slowed down now!

- Damn! - I don't feel so good.

Come on.

Car trouble? I'll trade you even for my Lincoln.

I guess you'll probably be needing a lift.

What's going on?

Your car didn't work.

Do you guys mind telling me what the hell is going on?

Nothing.

Surprise!

All right.

Welcome home, honcho!

Just our little way of saying thanks for slowing down the line.

I learned that playing the harmonica.

Sure, she did.

Gotta stand in line just to kiss him.

Long line.

How about you? You love him?

Who?

That's an unfair question.

We're very deeply in like.

Man, I blew it.

When corporate headquarters hears about this,

the defecation is definitely gonna contact the rotary oscillator.

Huh?

The shit's gonna hit the fan.

Hell with them sons of bitches.

There ain't a man in this room wouldn't work his ass off for you.

It's too late.

Good-bye, Mercedes. Hello, Volkswagen.

Would you like to buy my condomimium?

My condomumiam?

My apartment?

You guys know how much money I make in a year?

Take a guess.

- Go ahead. - A shitpot.

Gimme the football.

Man wants the ball.

Let's give him the ball.

Back wall's our goal, kitchen's yours.

Two out of three. Loser pays the damages.

Blue 19.19. Hut-hut.

23.

46. Go deep. Hut! Hut! Hut!

You son of a bitch. You bit me.

Boo!

Your fly's open. There's some little thing hanging out there.

Okay, so we don't know what Mr. macklin's game is.

I tell you, we let this thing continue,

Ellison'll pull out of here faster than a gypsy roofing company.

We have signed contracts.

And they have lawyers.

It's our duty to inform the home office of Mr. macklin's actions

before they find out themselves and slap a lock on the door.

Then we'll all be looking for jobs.

Suppose you could make a few calls.

Not me. I'm just a small-town grain broker

and former company president.

No, it's gotta come from lower down the ladder.

A forthright appraisement of the situation.

It's a weekend. I'll call Ellison first thing Monday.

Come Monday, you might be out of a job.

Thank you, Mr. loomis, for your concerned judgment.

Yes, good-bye. And all your small-minded, greedy little natures.

Find Mr. ebersol.

He's pitching for the company team today?

Get him here.

Thank you.

You wanted to see me, sir?

- Mr. ebersol. - Yes, sir.

You seem to have a problem.

A problem, sir?

I assume that Mr. macklin and yourself

are responsible for the care and the grooming

of the dubuque star acquisition.

Absolutely, sir.

Then I can also assume that if you don't wish to join Mr. macklin

in his search for new employment,

you will determine the form of insanity that possesses him,

correct the situation post haste,

before Mr. hooker and his natural-gas millions

are given the tour of that particular brewery.

Do you understand the situation?

Perfect.

Oh, shit.

What the hell are you doing here?

You rotten, back-stabbing son of a bitch!

It's nice to see you, too.

I just flew 400 miles down here to say that to your face.

Have a nice flight back.

Hey, you're in big trouble.

Okay, hotshot? I'm in no mood to bullshit.

Here it is right between the eyes.

You get that brewery back to full production,

or I am authorized to pull the plug, you got it?

Dick, Jane. Jane, dick.

See Jane shake hands with dick.

What is this? It's me. We been through the wars together.

Don't do the buddy shit on me.

You got two days to get your act together,

to get those goonies back to work, and to get home... where you belong!

Got it?

And remember, hotshot, two days.

I don't like that man.

You mean everything's going back the way it was?

Yep. Message came down from the mountain.

Let me drive. You go ahead and have your heart attack.

Where are you taking me? What the hell's going on?

J.m., I've gotta get to work.

What are you doing?

Would you give me those keys?

Now, damn it.

Now I'm an accessory to breaking and entering.

Gimme the keys. I'm driving.

Jane Margaret, I am in no mood for this.

They made specialty beers here only a few years ago.

Wait a second. You're not serious?

You're not packing a full sea bag.

Do you realize what it would take to get this place started?

Yes. Everybody makes a little commitment. What, $100,000?

Try a million. And that's a big maybe.

Even if you could get the money, which you can't,

Ellison would bury you in a week.

Listen, I love you, but you don't know

what conglomerates do to competition.

I think you're scared. I think you're even scared of me...

What might happen to the precious macklin way of life

if you commit yourself to something unsafe.

- I have to go to work. - Come on, please?

If you won't take a chance for me, then for Harry and ray

and anyone else who's crazy enough to take a risk.

You're not being fair.

I know. I love playing dirty.

You told me that you would stay if I would.

I'm not going anywhere.

Okay, we've gotta get the raw goods set up,

the salespeople and whatever to run the shipping and the offices.

And then, by some miracle,

we have to get this place cleaned up and working,

and then... we'll be ready for the first batch.

Are there any questions?

$8,000 per family... that's a pretty big chunk, isn't it?

Cleach, that's only the seed money.

We'll get the rest from my bank on real property collateral loans.

Shit, there's that word collateral again.

You got a car, don't you?

We got cars, tvs, furniture... That's collateral.

These here machines are pretty old. I can fix 'em.

Don't worry about it. Some'll raise more, some less.

It'll even out. We all have to work together.

- How many kids are you feeding? - And what if it doesn't work?

I got seven kids.

All right. There are no guarantees. Not for me, not for you, not for anyone.

But if you wanna go for the gold ring,

you have one chance in a thousand, and this is it.

If you don't, you tell me right now, and I'm out of here.

What's it gonna be?

You said you'd make me a salesman, right?

That's right.

I'll give you the pink slip to my truck.

What?

There's something out there somewhere.

I get almost $17,000 saved. I could put that in.

What have we got in pledges?

Comes to 27,028.09.

That's terrific. Where'd we get the nine cents?

Patricia Ann Meade. $3.09. Babysitting money.

We'll offer him nine cents more a bushel than he gets from pickett.

- What'd that guy say? - He said yes and no.

At least that's a start.

Like everyone else, he's just afraid of losing pickett's business.

What's the count?

Six no's, three maybes, and one "get the hell off my land."

- Take care. - See you later.

Take it easy.

Is that you?

Madelyn... is that you?

I was driving down to my sister's wedding...

And I thought you might like some company.

I hope you've been a good boy.

Sure. I was just surprised to see you sitting there

with old what's his name here.

You never remember Churchill's name.

He's a bad boy, isn't he?

What is that smell?

Probably pig doc-doc, darling.

I'm taking you to the shower,

and then I'm going to burn these awful clothes.

Listen, would you like to get another room by yourself

down at the holiday inn, just off the highway?

You could probably make it real early right out of there,

your sister's wedding, you know...

I don't have to be there till Friday.

- Friday, huh? - Mm-hmm.

Which means I have two whole days...

Yes, two days.

To take care of you.

Two days.

Shoo.

Oh, no.

It's cold.

Avon lady.

Anybody home?

Hello in there.

It's the sandman come to tuck you in beddy-bye.

Are you all right?

I'm taking a shower.

Who is that?

I'm sorry.

I don't usually...

Oh, hell.

Leon's got our boy tied up for a good three hours.

You get those people in my office, pronto.

Can you believe the audacity of those simple-minded jackasses

to think they can open up another brewery in this town?

And you... how can you be so stupid

to let the county have the lease on that old brewery?

That's a tax shelter.

They can't get enough grain to fill a mash kettle.

Get your head out of your keister.

We got competition on our doorstep.

We'll lose 20, 30 key personnel.

How's that gonna sit with the home office?

Not too good.

You bet your left nut.

Those monkeys get here, I want them to understand

they will be clapped in jail for infringement of rights.

I don't think we got a rights infringement case here.

- You a lawyer now? - No.

Neither are they. I'll have them shaking in their boots so fast,

they'll beg for a drop in pay to stay on the line.

Not this garbage. Get me a star.

What's the deal?

I think we're fixing to get nailed to the cross.

Where the hell is frank?

All right, everyone inside, single-file.

We can talk, or you can walk.

What time did Harry say?

About 8:00.

I couldn't get out myself till after 7:00.

They had a mix-up with the holding tanks.

- Look... - Please...

You're a grown man.

If dogs and showers are your thing, then who am I[...

- She was an old friend. - I certainly hope so.

She came for her sister's wedding. I didn't expect her to show up.

Look, she took her dog and left.

I don't have the slightest interest in your sexual escapades.

Where is everybody?

Shit, honcho. It was a damn fool idea to start with.

What are you talking about?

It can't work. We're nothing but a bunch of dumb-ass clockpunchers.

- We ain't never gonna change. - It needs time, commitment.

Let it go.

They hold all the cards.

Wait a second. What happened?

Somebody got to you. Was it Charlie pickett?

Damn it, what did he say?

We can go to jail, be sued, there's competition clauses.

- It's a bluff. - They got us cold.

They've got nothing, believe me.

My life now revolves around a paycheck coming in once a week.

I'm not about to put my wife and kids on the line.

Neither are any of these other people.

You talk about getting yourself out. You just dig yourself in deeper. Shit.

I should've just... l was stupid to get involved with you guys.

Just do my job and get the hell out.

Maybe so.

Yeah. Look, if you don't go for it now, in ten years,

you're gonna be too old, too scared.

You got out, honcho.

That's something.

I'm so...

Very sorry.

What are you gonna do now?

Kiss Ellison's ass in the public square.

I'm a genius, remember?

I guess you'll be going home now.

For a while there, I thought I was home.

That is an extremely amusing story, sir.

I don't think I've heard anything like that in a long time. Here we are.

- Nice, huh? - Nice.

- How are you? - Great.

(Good.

- Would you have a light on you? - You bet, Mr. hooker.

- Thank you so much. - You're welcome.

They're here! Mr. ebersol and a whole bunch of other people

going through the warehouse, coming right this way.

What's this all about? What are they doing here?

I'm supposed to be handling this company after you've gone.

Watch your step here. It gets a little slippery on this floor.

We just saw the warehouse, and it is sensational.

Tremendous output. I want you to meet Mr. William hooker,

the proud owner of Ellison's new brewery.

Hello there, son. How are you? I've heard a lot about you.

You've done a good job.

I've always wanted to own one of these big breweries.

Then congratulations. Let me be the first one to welcome you

to pisswater beerworks here.

I wouldn't drink this garbage if I was dying of thirst in the desert.

We're up to our necks in this shit. 1,800 an hour!

You wanna get it up to 2,000? We got the guys that can do it.

How'd you like to be president of pisswater beerworks?

Old Billy boy needs someone here who knows what they're doing

'cause god knows, he doesn't know bullshit about brewing.

Frank's had a few already himself. Can I talk to you for a second?

- Kind of important. - Don't go away. Be right back.

Do you wanna spend the rest of your life in a trailer? I don't.

I don't know whether you've lost your mind.

- What's this all about? - I don't know.

What the hell's he talking about? Hey, you!

We've had it all redone for you. You're gonna enjoy this like crazy.

It's right down this way. Have to get around this thing.

Hey, pal! Hey, no!

Come on, buddy.

Come on, you guys! Let's get it up to 4,000.

We can do it.

Get out of the way, will you? Get out of the way?

Do we know how to do things around here?

- Come on, we can do it! - What's this all about?

- Ellison sold you out. - Is that true?

Ask him!

They've gone crazy. Damn it, turn it off!

- Did Ellison sell me out? - Yes, you stupid old man.

You gotta cut that out.

There's more where that came from!

What are you gonna do? Do something!

Break it with this. In here.

Are you happy now, frank?

Huh? Is this what you wanted?

'Cause you could've had it all, hotshot!

Bottling floor. Harry "by god" Meade.

Could you hold, please?

Ellison.

I understand, Mr. macklin, that congratulations are in order.

According to Mr. ebersal, you have done a consummate job.

I think it's fair for you to know that I personally have chosen you

to head up the entire Canadian subsidiary network.

I assume that you'll return here post haste.

I realize it's a big job, the offer may have rendered you speechless,

but I'm waiting for an answer.

You can take your job and shove it!

What?!

What did he say?

I forgot to tell you.

You're still a snot-nosed kid.

Shit.

Y'all wanna bankroll a hell of a little brewery sometime,

you come back and see us.

Screw 'em.