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Hackett just walked in.

-ABC again, they want the tape.

Tell him to go f*** himself.

That goes for you too.

You're off the air as of now.

He wants to talk to you.

-Who's replacing Beale tomorrow?

-We're flying Snowden up from Washington.

-Everybody, hold it.

Let's see how the other networks

handle this.

Ten o'clock news opened with it.

Good evening.

Howard Beale, one of television's....

They're all gonna make it their lead story.

Howard Beale interrupted his

Network News program tonight...

...to announce

that he was gonna kill himself.

An unusual thing happened at one

of our sister networks, UBS, this evening.

How are we handling it?

Halloway's going to make a brief statement

at the end of the show...

...that Howard's been under

great personal stress, et cetera.

I'll call you back, John.

All right. We've got

a stockholders' meeting tomorrow...

...at which we're gonna announce

the restructuring-of-management plan.

I don't want this grotesque incident

to interfere with that.

I'll suggest Mr. Ruddy open with a short

statement, washing this whole thing off.

You, Max,

you better have some answers...

...for those nuts

that come to stockholders' meetings.

Mr. Beale has been under

professional and personal strain.

I've got some surprises

for you too, Schumacher.

I've had it up to here with your cruddy

division and its annual $33 million deficit!

You keep your hands off

my news division, Frank.

We're responsible to corporate level,

not you.

-Well, goddamn, we'll see about that.

-All right, take it easy.

Right now,

how do we get Beale out of here?

I understand there's at least a hundred

reporters and camera crews in the lobby.

We got a limo at the freight exit.

Howard, you're gonna spend the night

at my place.

There's bound to be press around yours.

I want Snowden here by noon.

Have Lester cover the CIA hearings...

...and give the White House to Doris.

You're late for your screening, Max.

Right. Okay.

If John Wheeler calls,

switch him to Projection Room 7.

Margot, come in here a minute.

-I'm sorry. This Beale business....

-It's all right.

Sit down.

Diana asked if she could sit in on this.

Fine. How's it going?

I think you'll like this footage better

than the stuff I showed you last time, Max.

Max Schumacher.

Goddamn it. When, Louise?

Laureen?

Well, did he say anything?

--Communist Party to be these--

All right, thank you.

--splintered underground groups?

The Communist Party believes...

...that the most pressing

political necessity today...

...is the consolidation

of the revolutionary, radical...

...and democratic movements

into a united front.

Harry, Howard Beale left my house

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