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- Ready?

- No.

- How... how long?

- A year.

- Okay, I'm gonna go do the pitch by myself then. Okay?

I'll let you know how it goes, Mike.

Mike, I'm serious, I'm gonna do the pitch myself!

- "The person who puts a computer inside a phone

will change the world."

"The person who puts a computer inside a phone

will change the world."

Micsinszki.

- You're gonna bring up Micsinszki?

- Well, that quote, it's a good quote,

and I would like to cite him.

- And you need a better name.

- You're gonna cry? Mike...

Oh, it's just disappointment?

- Yeah. - You did great!

You did great.

- At least I fixed his intercom.

- Yeah!

- It's probably a blessing in disguise, really.

Imagine having to work with that guy!

- Research in Motion is the undisputed winner and champion of the handheld.

In short, RIM has wiped the floor with the competition.

Palm? Huh? Talk to the hand!

- Later on her lunch hour, Miranda checked her BlackBerry.

There it was. The uncomfortable email Berger had predicted.

- Smile.

- Do you remember me? From last year.

There is a party in my room, 308, can't miss it.

Right off the elevator. Tonight. Be there.

- What is this? What is this with the BlackBerry everywhere all the time now?

You know, it's really getting annoying.

- We're number one in handset sales,

subscriptions, customer retention,

attracting new smartphone users, and brand recognition.

We control 30% of the North American market

and with the upcoming release of the BlackBerry Bold,

we're on track to control 50% of the global market...

Now our numbers are a bit below our estimates right now,

but we are expecting a nice bump

when the 8310 comes out in March.

- Now is probably a good time to talk about...

...moving some of the assembly and construction to China.

- No. No. Take people off of Onyx

if you need more bodies, hire more people.

We're not moving to fucking China.

- Alright. - Alright.

- Oh, my God.

What?

Ah, that's a good spot to leave it for today, guys. Thank you.

- Hey. Where's Jim?

- Why?

- He's not answering my e-mails.

- We're pitching the trackpad to Verizon on Friday.

So he's probably working on that.

I'm in a meeting!

And I really believe that, Balsillie,

is that how you say it, or something like that.

He was in there, he says,

"I've heard guys screw up my name worse than you."

Anyhow, he's a patriot, he really does.

He's a hockey guy that really wants...

There's no "make money, that doesn't mean anything."

He's a hockey guy. He really wants hockey here.

No, don't!

- Hello?

Hand the phone to Jim.

- Who's this?

It's Jack Manishen in marketing. It's important.

- Jack Manishen, marketing.

- Yeah, Mike can handle it.

- Maybe you could speak to Mr. Lazaridis.

He does not want me going to Mike with this.

At least tell me where you're going.

- He wants to know where we're going. - Hang up.

So. Three things.

A widescreen iPod with touch controls.

A revolutionary mobile phone

and a breakthrough internet communications device.

An iPod...

...a phone...

...and an Internet communicator.

An iPod.

A phone.

Are you getting it?!

These are not three separate devices.

This is one device.

And we are calling it: iPhone.

Here's four smartphones, right?

The Motorola Q, the BlackBerry, Palm Treo,

Nokia E62... The usual suspects.

They all have these keyboards that are there

whether you need them or not to be there.

And they all have these control buttons

that are fixed in plastic.

- Why would anybody want a phone without a keyboard?

- What we're going to do is get rid of all these buttons

and just make a giant screen.

A giant screen.

When we start shipping in June,

we'll be selling iPhones through our own stores

and through Cingular stores.

And it's my pleasure to introduce the CEO of Cingular...

...Stan Sigman.

- Are you fucking kidding me?

- What?

- That's Stan Sigman. That's the CEO of AT&T.

- You know, Steve and I first met

about two years ago in New York City

when he shared with me this vision

that he had for this product.

- This fucking guy.

Alright, everybody. That's it!

Fun time's over. Back to work.

I need a prototype of the Bold

in my hand by Friday with a working trackpad.

Thank you.

- Okay...

- That's crazy.

- Yello?

Hi, is this Douglas?

- Uh, yeah.

I'm from the Securities and Exchange Commission

and I was wondering if you could answer some questions for me?

- Sure, okay. - Has anyone seen Allan?

- Check the NOC!

Were you involved in the hiring of a Mr. Paul Stannos?

- Sorry, you're from where?

I'm from the SEC.

- Is this a serious call?

Yes.

- Yeah. You called the wrong person.

I can't help you with anything like that.

Is this Douglas Fregin?

- Yes, ma'am.

Sorry. I have you listed here

as one of the founders of the company.

- Yeah, I guess I am. Uh...

Doug?

- I gotta go.

- Sorry. Unknown number.

- No.

- Mr. Balsillie?

- Yes?

- Welcome to the NHL.

- Thanks for having me.

- Nice to meet you, just this way.

- Okay, great.

- Right in here.

- Jim? Gary.

Good to see you, thank you for taking the time.

- Oh, I've always got time for you, Gary.

- That's good because I think we're gonna be seeing

a lot more of one another.

- Don't tease me.

- The Penguins had us review your offer and...

...it looks good.

- That's great, Gary. That's uh...

I... I... uh... wow.

- He's happy.

- Well, no, I'm just... Yes, sorry, sorry.

Um...

Okay. What's next?

- Well, the other owners need to weigh in,

but typically, that's pretty painless.

I said we should have Mario introduce you.

- Mario? - Yeah, it'd be good for you to make some appearance together,

let people know he still has

a hand on the wheel. - Yeah.

- But don't worry, I talked to him,

he's happy to shepherd you in,

you give him a seat on the board or something.

Not stepping on toes obviously, you're gonna want to keep him in the spotlight.

At some level, the Pittsburgh Penguins are always gonna belong to Mario Lemieux.

- Of course, yeah.

- So, let's have a drink!

- Yeah.

Absolutely.

Get me on the phone with Copps Coliseum.

- Is that the arena in Hamilton?

- Yeah. Tell them I want to buy it.

- Okay. Sir, I thought you were buying the Pittsburgh Penguins.

- Yes, I am. Let's go.

- Okay. We gotta go! - One sec.

- It's good enough. Good enough. - This is good enough? - Yeah.

- Apple is launching a marketplace for applications.

It's going to be third-party developers. Anyone, anyone...

Bad time. Bad time.

- Third-party developers...

- Here, man.

It's laggy as hell!

- Good enough. Good enough. - Okay, now!

- Yeah. We got it. - Doug. Come on.

- ...they are launching an application marketplace.

- Okay, so the touchpad is working,

I don't know if I would say that it's "working" working.

What?

- Do you have a suit?

- I... I can open, I'll open the door. I wanna open the door.

- You know, it's... - I never get to do this.

- You never get to open a door for me?

- A limo?

You gotta relax, come on! Trackpad.

- 2.4 inches, 480 by 360 HVGA screen,

and to top it all off,

the world's first trackpad,

which we believe will be the dominant navigational device

for all mobile devices within the next two years.

The BlackBerry Bold.

- That's it?

- That's...

...that's what you've got for us? A trackpad?

You guys see Apple's thing?

Any reaction to that? - Plenty. Yeah.

It's an over-designed, trying-to-do-too-much toy

that will crash any network gullible enough to take it on.

It is by every metric the exact opposite

of everything we do at Research in Motion.

Less data, no frills,

reliable network.

Okay, that's BlackBerry.

- Sexy slogan, Mike.

- So, I guess you just want to kill your whole network

'cause that's what it would do.

- Yeah. The iPhone, they put a keyboard right on the screen?

- And it's the stupidest thing I've ever seen

in my entire life.

Ask anyone what they love most about their BlackBerry,

and you will get the same answer every single time.

The keyboard, the click. Okay?

This enti... - Well... Yeah. Yeah.

- This entire market was born of our innovation,

our idea to put "a keyboard on a phone,"

we did that, we build that from a pile of garbage in 1996.

Yeah. There's another slogan.

I don't know, Mike.

AT&T's got Apple.

We were kind of hoping you'd come in here

with an iPhone killer.

- I... I don't need to kill it

because it's going to commit suicide

and it's gonna take down the whole fucking

Cingular network with it.

Um, I'm giving you gold

and I think you are all misunderstanding it. Uh...

I created this entire product class.

I created this entire fucking market.

I created this entire product class.

So listen to me.

The trackpad is a mousepad...

...built into the phone.

Yeah.

And...

Right. Okay.

Yeah. Okay. Good enough.

Uh, thanks, guys, for coming down.

Tell you what, let us...

We'll talk about this internally, we'll get back to you, okay?

Tell Jim we missed him.

Let's go.

- He's back,

back in Waterloo working because...

So, he promised me not to mention...

...the other thing.

We're not quite there yet, um...

...but we're working on something pretty top secret.

Uh, he made me promise not to mention it.

Um...

Prototype, we're still a few weeks out.

Uh... but I, you know...

I can demo it with our Bold prototype.

So, it's still a BlackBerry. It's our BlackBerry.

Except for where we have keys here... screen.

The whole thing's a screen.

Uh, except...

Ours, when you press it, you will get that...

That satisfying click.

That BlackBerry click. Our trademark... click.

So. Screen.

Keyboard. Phone.

Screen. Keyboard. Phone.

Screen.

Keyboard.

Phone.

Are you getting it?

- Mike? - Stop.

- What was that? - Shut up.

Mike. Mike. What the fuck was that, dude?

Where is this fucking limo?

- Oh! Is this like that movie Face/Off,

and you're really Jim Balsillie, but with Mike's face?

Nick Cage, John...

- Just...

- I bet the reviews were good.

Hey Mike, is this like that movie Face/Off where you're really...

Capacity maxes at 17,000

but we could enhance it to 19 without too much trouble.

Alright. I want all this basketball shit gone.

From now on, this place is a permanent rink.

- We can't do that. - Why?

- We have active contracts with a dozen clients.

- Cancel them. - Yeah, but there's going to be fines.

- I'll pay the fines. I want that...

...to be my personal box.

That's not a box.

That's not a box. - What's this bike doing here?

- No, no, no. Okay. So, it's a screen,

but it needs a raised hinge or actuator as I wrote,

between it and the body, so the entire device clicks

when you press on it.

Wait, what?

- I'm just wondering why we want to do that?

- That... That is not the question you ask me here.

I don't...

"Why" does not matter to you! Okay?

Because I said so! Because that's what I sold! Okay?

Who are you, by the way?

Easy, Mike.

Oh, come on, guys. Please.

Silent mode! When we're at the office! Charles?

- Phones off! - Sorry. Sorry, Mike. Sorry, buddy.

- Okay. So, you know what? I think, all this is,

is we are trying to do the old BlackBerry click

while embracing the new iPhone screen. That's all.

- No! No! No. We're not "embracing"

anything to do with Apple.

Guys.

It's really not hard. Okay?

We pay you a lot of money. This is really not hard.

It's a keyboard, on a screen,

on a keyboard.

And I don't care what you think of it.

- Mike...

- What the fuck is Doug talking about?

Embracing what Apple is doing? I don't understand.

- You come back from New York talking about a brand new phone.

Alright? Prototype in a week? What are we doing here?

- Can I talk to you? - It's a prototype, Charles!

I could build the fucking thing myself in one night if I had to.

- Yes, yes! But we still gotta ship the goddamn thing.

- I said use the Onyx team. - I did!

On Curve.

Alright, China.

It's the only way this gets done.

I'm sorry, China.

Yeah. Fuck it. Do it.

China.

China. Let's do it.

Wait. Wait. No. He doesn't mean that.

Hey. Hey. Don't speak for me.

- Mike, what are you doing? - What am I doing?

I'm trying to keep our biggest fucking customer.

What the fuck are you doing?

- Mike, I'm trying to help you.

- You're not, though. You're not. You're not helping me.

This doesn't help me. If you could help me,

we wouldn't be here. I don't need your fucking help anymore.

Okay? You're fucking useless.

- Okay.

- Figure out China.

Figure out China.

And I'll build the fucking thing myself.

Fuck.

What? Is this Mike Lazaridis?

- Yeah. Who is this?

My name is Dara Frankel, I'm from the SEC.

Do you have a second?

- Not really. Not right now. What is this about?

I'm trying to track down some information

on some stock options your company issued.

- Well, that's not... I wouldn't know anything about that.

I think you want to talk to Jim.

Okay.

Would there be a good time to come in and talk about this?

- No. I don't. No.

Okay. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here.

- Jack Manishen says he needs to see you.

- Okay. Yeah. Where is he?

Camped outside your office.

- Great.

Shel, do me a favor,

reach out to Carl Yankowski's office and let him know

that Jim Balsillie's got opening night tickets

to the Hamilton Penguins for him.

I know how much he loves hockey.

Oh, and have him fly up with his buddy John Travolta

sitting right next to him in the cockpit.

Alright. Alright. Relax. You got me.

- That same woman from the SEC keeps calling.

Can I give her your number? - No.

- Okay, so... First quarter...

Second quarter...

Third quarter...

fourth quarter.

This is us.

- Whose numbers are these? - Apple's internal projections.

They released the numbers on Friday.

- 500 dollars? Fully subsidized?

This is the most expensive phone in the world.

- It has the highest consumer interest

of any product in history.

We are going to go from "number one phone in the world"

to "that phone that people had before they bought an iPhone."

- It's gonna be fine.

Mike will figure it out.

What?

- Hey, um...

Why is the SEC looking at us?

- They called you? - Yeah.

Something... something about stock options.

- I'm sure it's nothing. Yeah.

- It... it's nothing?

- Yeah. What's with this Apple thing?

- What... what about it?

- Are we worried? - No.

- Okay. Why?

- Because one of them uses as much data as 5000 BlackBerries.

Because it has no keyboard. Because the thing is a joke.

- So why are people telling me that they're about to kill us?

- Because they're idiots.

- Get me a meeting with Stan Sigman at AT&T.

- What are you doing?

Okay, the soonest I can get is next month.

His office said he's leaving for vacation today.

- Tell them I'm coming to Atlanta. Right now.

Let's go! Let's go!

Tell them we'll be there in an hour.

- It's the NHL.

- Gary! How are ya?

Good. We're ready to go over here.

How soon can you get to New York?

- Great! Uh... Anytime tomorrow.

How about today?

- Uh... That might be a little tight for me.

I've got the board here now and I don't know when

they're all going to be together again.

If you want to wait, up to you. It's your deal.

- Yeah. No. That works, Gary. I'll... yep. I'll be there.

Looking forward to it.

- Okay. Alright. Bye.

Change of plans. We're going to JFK.

We're dialled in.

- Listen to me, you mouthy fuck,

if I say we are going to JFK,

we are going to JFK. You understand?

- So we're, we're not meeting with Sigman then?

- I'm doing it all.

Fuck!

- Where's Jim? - I have no idea.

- Come on, we gotta get you outta here.

- What? Why? - SEC is raiding us.

- Wait, what? - Give me your phone.

Where's your goddamn phone?

- Michael Lazaridis? - Can you handle this?

Who are you?

- We spoke on the phone.

Wanna come and answer some questions?

- Sure. Sure.

After me, is it? Okay.

- Okay.

- Okay, what? What are they doing?

That's... No, no. They can't touch any of that stuff.

- Passwords on everything.

- Oh. What's the password, Mike?

- Am I required to give that to you?

- No. Are you hiding something?

- Um, should I not have a lawyer or something with me for this?

- Do you think you need a lawyer?

- Jim.

- Gary. What's going on? You got me waiting out here.

- Jim, look, we're not going to waste your time here, okay?

It's not going to happen with you and the Penguins.

- What?

- We held a vote with the other owners, and unfortunately,

it went against you 26-0.

- Hold on a sec. Hold on. Hold on. I thought we had a deal.

When did the other owners even...

I'm sorry, what changed here, man?

- The owners did not find you to be

of "good character and integrity."

- I don't know what the hell that means.

Gary, what the fuck is this?

- You know, it's funny.

It's one thing to have a secret plan to fuck over the NHL

and move a team to Canada.

It's another thing to brag to your rich friends

before you actually do it.

- Oh, you guys are so fucking stupid.

You know what? Maybe I'll buy this whole fucking league, huh?

How about that?

- Dawn, can we see that Mr. Bald-Silly

gets safely back to Canada?

- Oh, fuck all you people!

Fuck you!

Get ready for a hostile takeover

of this entire fucking league, okay?

You fuck!

You think I won't fucking do it?

I'm from Waterloo,

where the vampires hang out!

Go! Go! Go! Go!

- We'll never make it.

- I said let's go!

Delay Sigman. - I called.

They said he's already left for vacation.

- Where? - They just said he's going to the airport.

- Great. So are we.

- And is this your signature?

- Yeah.

- And this? - I don't know what you're looking for.

These are standard employment contracts.

- I'm just wondering how

you convinced all these engineers from around the world

to come all the way to Canada.

Doesn't make sense.

- It's because they get to work on the best phone in the world.

Mike.

- Each of these contracts offers backdated stock options.

You were illegally pricing your own shares

so you could hire engineers with money you didn't have.

Do you know what the sentence is

for multimillion-dollar stock fraud?

- Okay. I swear I had no idea about any of what you just said.

Do you expect me to believe that?

You're CEO.

- Co-CEO.

Tell me why this can't wait another few weeks?

- I'm telling you, Stan.

I'm headed for the terminal right now.

- What? - Hold up.

I'm at Gate... 7. Uh, where are ya?

- Are you runnin'? - No.

Stan. No. I'm good.

I'm telling ya. Just give me the gate.

I'm getting on a plane here, Jim.

- Okay. Listen, uh... Stan. Alright.

Here's the headline:

half a million BlackBerries for AT&T, for zero dollars.

- What's the catch? - No! No catch. They're yours.

If you're willing to release them at a discount

one month before the iPhone.

- Stan, come on, you owe me.

You've sold a lot of minutes because of us.

Yeah, but you know what the problem

with selling minutes is?

- What?

There's only one minute in a minute.

- Hey. - Okay, Mike, listen to me.

I think we've got a big problem here, I know what Apple's doing.

We shouldn't talk on the phone.

- Why?

Why? - We're in trouble with the SEC.

But get back as soon as you can.

I have a way to get us out of this.

- Okay, so, listen.

AT&T knows exactly what they're doing.

They wanted Apple to build them a data-guzzling monster

because that's where they're going to move the market.

They're not selling minutes anymore, Mike.

They're selling data.

- He's here.

Who's that?

- They're waiting for you next door.

- Who's...

What, what did you do?

- I made a deal.

The SEC gets you, your board seat,

and our full cooperation in their criminal investigation.

And for that, they'll leave us alone.

And they want 83 million dollars.

- You said next door?

- They're here.

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