Margin Call Page #4

escorted by f***ing security, by the way...

- I had nothing to do with that.

- I know.

I'm sorry. Go on.

Before he leaves the building,

he hands this disk to Peter Sullivan.

- Who's Peter Sullivan again?

- Doesn't matter.

- He's one of Eric's guys.

- All right.

But before the elevator doors are closing, the

last thing that he says is, "Be careful."

"Be careful"?

Yeah.

- "Be careful"?

- Yeah.

- Why?

- Take a look.

Oh, Jesus. You Know

I can't f***ing read these things.

Just speak to me in English.

All right. Basically, this Kid, Peter Sullivan,

he gets all inspired by your pep talk.

Nice job, by the way.

And he delves straight in after work.

And I think he nailed it.

Nailed it?

Yeah, I think he figured out

what Eric was missing.

And?

It's not good, Sam.

These here are

the historical volatility index limits

which, of course, our entire trading model

relies on pretty f***ing heavily.

Well, we're now so levered up

that once it gets outside of these limits,

it gets ugly in a hurry.

And how close to those limits

have we gotten?

Sam, we're beyond close.

We broke through these limits

five or six days in the last two weeks.

Now, somehow we've managed to

stay on the right side of it for now.

For now.

Well, look what happens

when we get on the wrong side of it.

- Wait a minute. What am I looking at?

- You're looking at this figure here.

- Whoa. Is that...

- Yeah.

And that would not be a bad day for us,

historically speaking.

- Is that figure right?

- I don't know. I can't be sure.

Where's Eric Dale?

- We shut his phone off.

- Of course we did.

Yeah. So I called his wife,

who says he's not home.

Yeah, he's probably crying

in some f***ing beer somewhere.

Yeah, or worse.

Where's the kid that did this?

I sent him out looking for Eric.

You think he knows what he's doing?

I don't know. What do I know?

Get him back here. Get him back here.

What do you think these girls

make in a night?

$1,500?

Two grand?

Two grand.

F***. That's... That's pretty great.

I mean, all considered.

Sh*t.

Will.

Yep.

No. No, we asked, and nobody's seen him.

Okay, yep.

All right, so what do you think

Rogers makes in a year?

- I don't know, I have no idea.

- Come on. Play along.

- What year? I don't know.

- Last year.

Three quarters of a million.

Come on.

- What?

- Oh, it's not even close.

- More?

- Much more.

A million?

Will Emerson made

two and a half million last year.

- F*** you.

- F*** me.

F*** you. How do you know that?

- He told me.

- He just told you?

I asked him, and yeah, he told me.

You think that's true?

Yeah, probably.

That's f***ed up.

- Why is that f***ed up?

- I don't know, does it seem right to you?

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