Halt and Catch Fire Page #3
- TV-14
- Year:
- 2014
- 60 min
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INT. SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE -- DAY
The room where your dad’s boss held court. Enviously big.
Credenzas with framed family pictures (wife, two young boys)
shadowed behind prominently displayed sales awards.
8.
But this isn’t IBM. The windows look out onto a flat and
seemingly endless horizon of low-rise buildings and prairie.
We’re a long way from New York.
ANGLE ON JOHN BOSWORTH (48), an eagle resting in permanent
judgment, comfortably in power behind his desk. When he
speaks, it’s equal parts brass tacks and Texas drawl.
But right now, he’s listening.
MACMILLAN (O.S.)
Eight weeks inpatient, six months
physical therapy.
BOSWORTH:
So why’d you do it?
ANGLE ON Joe MacMillan seated across from him, somehow back
from the dead. In his black suit, but with a vivid red tie. A
small scar runs along the outside of his eye.
MACMILLAN:
accident on the resume.
Bosworth picks up a single sheet of paper from his desk.
BOSWORTH:
Let’s talk about what I do see on
it. Three bold letters. I. B. M.
(tosses paper down)
I know what IBM is. I also know
what IBM ain’t. And anything that
ain’t IBM is cheaper, better,
faster. That’s what this company
lives by.
MACMILLAN:
Well, John, that’s what General
Electric thought. And RCA. And
UNIVAC-
BOSWORTH:
And Burroughs, and NCR, and
Honeywell and Control Data, and
blah, blah, blah. I know all the
companies that IBM has chased out
of this business or out of business
entirely. Cardiff Giant is not one
of them, and it won’t be.
(pause)
Look at you; same suit, different
tie.
(MORE)
9.
BOSWORTH (CONT'D)
Dallas is pretty far from Armonk,
New York, son, and that’s no
accident. You think I’m gonna see
something other than a dyed-in-thewool
company stooge?
MACMILLAN:
There is one thing IBM knows how to
do.
BOSWORTH:
An’ what’s that?
MACMILLAN:
Make money. That’s what I did for
them. And I did it very well.
Bosworth sits back in his chair, evaluating him.
BOSWORTH:
...I know.
(pause)
Look, you wouldn’t even be sittin’
in front of me if Al didn’t like
you. And he liked you. I’m just
tryin’ to figure out why.
MACMILLAN:
I’m a heavy hitter. You bring me
on, you legitimize your sales
force, this company, this town.
Maybe Silicon Prairie takes the
stage with Silicon Valley. Maybe
the suits back east will sit up and
pay attention.
BOSWORTH:
I’ll be honest with you, Joe.
Personally, I think you might be a
basket case.
(pause)
But at the end of the day, I need
someone who can come in here and
blow the balls off the numbers.
(pause)
An’ I will tell you this is systems
software, straight up. Scheduling,
database, doc management, who does
it go to, when, how many copies,
everything that makes a mainframe
purr. It ain’t sexy, but it sure as
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