Born Guilty Page #5

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their gifts to the West

through an importation business.

I've looked into it

and it's gonna cost 10,000

American dollars to get started.

I don't have any family

I can borrow from

or friends I can draw from.

Marty, would you

lend me that money?

(LAUGHS)

- Are you serious?

- Rawl, man, this

is our MSW, not ATM.

- Is that a yes?

- Up his ass.

- So where is this

creative director

with his finger on the pulse?

- Oh, with you.

Bill, I would like very

much to introduce you

to Martin Weiss, the

man who's gonna create

your new campaign for

the investor too young

and too insecure to

understand why it is

he ought to be investing.

- How you doing, sir,

nice to meet you.

- Oh.

- I'm thinking the way to

sell investment programs

in this environment

might be with someone

who has nothing to lose.

Imagine a spokesman.

An earthy, long

haired, zenned out dude

who's been to the edge

of the world and back.

He has no money or

desire to have anything.

But he has that one thing

that everyone wants.

It's the secret of his

supreme confidence,

it's the thing that all

your potential clients

loaded with responsibilities

and mortgages

and families and fears all want.

- And what's that?

- Inner peace.

- [SUMMER] There's an

urgent call for Marty?

- Summer, we're in the

middle of a meeting.

- [SUMMER] I'm sorry,

sir, I wouldn't interrupt

but there appears

to be an emergency.

- Then what is it?

- [SUMMER] It's his mother, sir.

(CRYING)

- I waited in the freezing

cold for two hours

for the locksmith to come.

And without my purse, I

didn't have any cash or cards.

I had to give him my

mother's ring for collateral.

- You gave him Nana's ring?

That's a $3,000 ring

for a $300 collateral.

- Don't make me feel worse.

I had to stand in the street

like a homeless person

begging for change just

to call the locksmith!

- Mom, please, just don't cry.

I know you left your

purse on the train,

but why didn't you

just call me collect?

- Because you are

3,000 miles away.

You can't help me.

- I could have

wired you the money.

- I don't need your money!

Every god-awful night I

come home to an empty house.

Every f***ing morning

I wake up alone.

I make one stupid

decision after another

because I have no

one to talk to!

- You have friends

- My friends are preoccupied

with their own useless lives.

- Mom, listen.

You're just upset, okay?

You're probably

cold, you're hungry.

Just, why don't you

take a nice hot bath.

You know, everything will be

- I don't want to take a bath!

If you want to get off

the phone, just tell me.

Just stop lying to me

like everyone else!

- Mom!

Mom.

Just take a deep breath, okay?

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