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Why don't we look lovely, Dr. Silverman? Tonight, on Spencer for hire.

40 pounds of dynamite. Any idea what that could take out? Oh!

15 years, I've been working here! Get him out of here! So what do you want with me?

The name address and telephone number, the Mad Bomber.

This type of cancer is fairly serious. We need to remove the mass. I'm frightened.

Yeah. You go in there, you'll be careful.

Get out of here!

$17,000 worth of compressors, custom-made stuff too.

Been cheap if they just blow up the third floor.

The guard hurt? Broken leg burns. How come I'm good? Dynamite don't do that to you.

Yeah, I learned to have a healthy respect for myself years ago.

I love this weather.

Smells like snow.

How much dynamite is missing? 40 pounds. Still in last week.

file a police report. Yeah, but I don't have to turn years when to solve that.

Oh, that's your business. Bill, this is our PI here.

All right, Mr. Spencer, we am right. Secretary Vice President Delroy.

Well, you know the Emily Post. Let's get back to work.

Oh, Bill, here we give you all the background stuff, records, whatever you need.

We can also tour the site tomorrow, if you wish.

Look, solid. You'll get another job somewhere.

15 years.

That's a valuable experience to offer another company.

Louise is pregnant again, and I'm never gonna pop this on her now.

Now, we require signatures of all individuals entering the controlled area.

We require two authorized signatures for the removal of any explosive,

and two authorized signatures are required when the explosives are inside.

I'll need a copy of all the blasting records for the last six months.

Unless all the people are associated with the blasting in any way.

Unless all of the people have access to this building

from executives right down to the cleaning crew.

I don't know, I like this guy. You can even get past your garbled.

Look, Sully, it was up to me. I know, I know.

Hey, everybody here is what's going on. You and I both know who's the problem.

Everybody has, they are. Hey, just cut the company's speech, OK? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you're right. You're right, nothing I can say will help.

Look, why don't you go on home?

There's a one doing this to me. You're nothing but a Hatchet man, right?

Stop it! Stop it, stop it! 15 years, Joey! 15 years I've been working here!

So, are you better get out of here before you cause some real trouble?

J.D., get him out of there! Alright! Alright, let's get you outside. Come on.

Come

on, come on.

We've had trouble with that man for some time. Finally, he had a letter to go.

Does that have a temper? Guys, a damn good worker. Take a seat and go.

My, my, don't we look lovely, Doctor Selma? Well, thank you very much, Mr. Selma.

But it still missed Selma's.

Yeah, but in a couple of weeks, you're going to have that fancy diploma.

At 10 o'clock in the morning. Thank you. Well?

Was it worth it? What? All those lonely nights alone at the library

with nothing but reference books in the man

me of Grapp and she need to keep your company.

You mean all that time spent away from you just getting a lousy doctor? Yes.

Absolutely worth it. Well, at least you gave up the pleasure of my company

for an advanced degree. Well, I'd like to make it up to you.

You could be my first patient. You're going to have one of those black leather

tough to the surface.

Right under the frame portrait of Floyd.

I'm going to have to give me an appointment. I think you should do that.

I'm a very sick man. I'll drink to that.

You know, haven't done it with you. It's not such a bad deal.

I'm gonna have to shoot for lunch tomorrow, too.

I'd love to, but I already have an appointment. Oh, see how you are.

I'm just gonna have this settle for keep when you're out very late tonight.

And still respect me in the morning. You settle for a bagel and cream cheese?

I can't have a kid with him.

Joaquins clearly knows not the time for this discussion.

Our present focus should be completion of this contract.

Well, yeah, that's what I'm worried about. Look, last week you fired Bob and Russ.

Now, Sully, Sulli was the best-finished man we had.

He's twice as fast as any other new guy. The decision has been made.

It's a stupid decision. Look, you're letting the wrong guys go,

and it's going to cost you later on down the line here.

Is that a threat? Bill!

Bill, cool off.

Dave doesn't threaten anybody. And Dave, huh?

Jack, you got to get this guy out of here. He's killing us with his numbers.

What's that supposed to mean? It means that you don't know what you're doing.

Dave, how would explaining where the situation is to me later?

We'll talk it all out. All right?

Fine.

Delroy, you undermine my authority when he's stepping into situations I can handle.

Well, I didn't mean to. Dave Watkins has been with us a long time.

Maybe he's got himself a point. Why don't we forget about it, and you

continue with your damage report?

What are you on the bomb squad? God, it hit pretty hard, Spencer.

It's down as an attempt at Thomas. Like, what are you doing here anyway?

Moonlighting is a welder. Delroy hired me to snoop around and find 40 pounds

of dynamite. 37 pounds of wood you're still missing. Keep it.

How you working it on your end?

Well, the lab boys tell me it was a pretty sophisticated device that bond.

So it looks like a pro.

I'm gonna go downtown and run a list of creeps that like to blow things up.

You got anything? Hey, Spencer, look, I wanted to...

I know, I know if I'd come up with any substantial information.

I'd say give it to a police officer or a post-taste. Yeah. That too.

But what I was gonna say is, please give my congratulations to Susan.

We're finally getting that degree. I mean, a doctor, that's something.

Oh, thanks. Yeah, I'll tell her. Yeah, but she's sitting on top of the world, huh?

Yeah, she's feeling good.

I've been going to recommend a surgical biopsy.

It will mean hospitalization for a few days.

Okay?

We'll need to remove the mass.

And then you assess it? Right. And depending on what we find,

it's possible we would have to take the ovary as well. Now it's only a mass.

So far as we know it could be fibros benign. And it could being malignant. Cancer.

Yes.

We have to face that possibility.

Either way, it needs to come out.

Isn't Ovarian cancer unusual in someone my age?

Statistically, the odds are greater than an older woman,

but that's only a general pattern.

which is why your regular exams are so important.

So what are my odds?

Susan?

This type of cancer is fairly serious.

If you have it, let's make the diagnosis first and then go from there.

Well, I guess I have a lot of things that we have to take care of

if I'm going to be laid up for the next week.

Thank you. Bye.

It's natural to be frightened by what I just don't do.

But try not to worry.

I mean, about the future, we can only take it a step at a time.

It's just that I have so many questions.

You don't necessarily have to take the offer, do

you? That's correct.

It's just that...

I always wanted to have children someday. Even if we do have to take one out,

you can live a normal life, including having children. I'll see you tomorrow.

25 a week in a credit union. Get a household here. You're looking, boys.

Yeah, the youngest is a girl. She fights like a boy.

My job is not exactly what I expected to happen right about now.

Hey Joey, come on, give your old man a break here, huh?

So what do you want with Mr. Spencer?

I just thought I'd see if you were the kind of guy who blows up buildings.

What do you think?

Why'd you lay it off?

What are they doing? Attitude problems.

Yeah, something like that.

You were pretty hot last time I saw you. It darn right I was. I just got canned.

I walk out in the hall. And the first guy I see is that rat Bill Wright.

And Jack Delroy. Listen, Jack Delroy's an alright guy.

He's my boss down there for 15 years, but he's one of us, you know?

Hell, he could still rip off his time, work right alongside anybody.

I've seen him do it. But not right. He's a college kid.

He doesn't know a wrench from the hammer. Waltz is in about four months ago

and starts taking over. Jack lets him.

Maybe it's just a new boss showing the old boss what a take charge guy can

be. Yeah.

Maybe.

except he hasn't figured out what people do in this business yet.

All he knows about is the figures. I guess I came in below the bottom line.

So you got mad.

Yeah, I know I got a lot of stuff right.

I throw stuff, I cook stuff.

I didn't put my fist through a door.

But I don't blow up buildings.

Listen Spencer, I'll tell you one thing about construction.

You work that hard at something,

putting in a foundation,

making a bunch of stealing glass and concrete stand up together as a building.

People can work or live.

Who could just blow that up?

I don't get it.

Thanks for your time.

Bye.

I didn't need.

You available? Me the zone. Now. Look at where some dynamite is.

Damn, you finally gonna put that green monstrosity

you've been driving out of his business. Oh, no, no.

I'm not going fishing the easy way either. So I'm just installing it.

I need to know if it's for sale.

Always be somebody buying something to be dangerous. How much you missing?

40 pounds. You ever take a sticker to them?

Mercer, somebody's really into that big bang here. Yeah, you got it.

Yeah, well, like it's out of the slide,

I'm over in fans and dooms of like to play with big firecrackers. Good.

Usually, right? Christmas sales over. Yeah, but it's January, you know?

What about the white sale? Yeah, it's you, white, and I'm that.

We need another lot of time to win up here.

Buddy, you seeing Dave?

Get out of here!

an argument came running out of me. It's about to want to carry them over there.

Now the guy doesn't have a record. He doesn't even have a heck of a temper.

He's already been up on a couple of public nuisance charges.

You ought to shut down.

I mean, this side of things keeps up. Some of my boys are going to get killed.

My boys, you're the Union rep, not their employer. You know what I mean Mr. Wright.

either this place is made safe to work or we're out of here.

shut this site down. It'll cost us $50,000 a day in penalties.

We'd also be playing right into the hands of whose ever trying to step.

Is there some insight you'd like to share?

No?

I just think it's obvious. What is?

Edward was responsible for trying to hurt this company economically.

Did you get some kind of message from the mad bomber to that effect?

Some phone call or a letter, maybe? Of course not.

That's why we hired you to find out what's going on. Spencer, what's your point?

Unless it's some grudge match, I can't figure out who would benefit

by blowing up your sights. Our competitors do. Unless you put a stop to this soon.

Jack, we have the Edison meeting in five minutes. Right.

I love you on earth.

Tell the day they stop by my office later.

How's the eye? How's it chin?

All right, no apologies offered and not accepted.

Delroy wants you to stop by later. Why? So you can fight me in person?

I was under the impression he wanted to make sure you were OK,

but you know the man better than I do. Well, he's all right.

It's not his fault he has to hire jerks to do his dirty work. Jerks?

No, no, not you. Talking about his executive VP, Mr. Wrong.

He's not your kind of guy, huh? He's a weasel. So what

do you want with me?

Well, how about the name address and telephone number of the mad bomber?

I thought it was you.

I'm not one of those guys, aren't you? Glad you were mistaken.

So I got the wrong guy. But it is one of the insiders.

Inside of us. Now

that's a very precise word and conjures up very specific images.

Come on, you

know what I'm

saying. Company closes down, loses money.

Stocks take a dive, buyers come in cheap.

How many shares are you off for you to blame one of us for what's going down here?

I'll have to work again.

So you don't know anything about any buyout.

The company's being sold. Well, so far it's just a rumor.

But why else would they bring in Mr. Raw and to cut costs and lay people off?

See, he's been yaming around here for six months talking about efficiency.

What he's really after is a great stock analyst report.

How come a construction worker knows so much about corporate finance?

Hey, you never heard of night school?

Hey.

Thanks.

Just for the weekend.

Spencer, who was anyone but my sister, I wouldn't go.

It's just that I feel like a- No, family's rights.

I just take to see you miss a great game. You just don't want to go alone.

Well, I've kind of gotten used to you asking questions about

Flankerbacks and Diamond Deapenses and Post-Patterns.

She say what was wrong?

No.

Maybe there's nothing.

Maybe it's all in my mind. It's just the fact that she called and said

that she wanted me to come down and visit her. I mean, that's very unusual for her.

So I think that it must be something important.

I'm never worried about her because she's always been so healthy.

Maybe I shouldn't worry about her now. Let's just sit there.

That's funny, the things you worry about when you don't know the facts.

I'm going to come along. No.

Um, I mean, why should you worry, too? Huh? Wait till I know something.

I was talking about you. I know.

What's going on with Miami? Yes.

Miami Beach? Yes. Where it was 86 degrees yesterday? So?

You've packed a flat on nightgown.

So you caught me, I'm having an affair.

Hey.

All right.

Yeah. I'm frightened.

Told you to let me thought I love you.

It'd be nice to hear it again.

I love you.

Susan Sudden departure made Boston even colder.

I was chilled for reasons I couldn't explain. I did, however, have a case.

It had finally led me to seek the company of Harold, financial reporter and friend.

It's Benson over here.

Make that two drafts and some more peanuts. The man dies for salt.

Earl, good to see you. How's everything? That's a joke, right? My wife left me.

I went bust in the market and my kid did I tell you about my kid?

I don't know how everyone's somebody asks you how it's everything.

That doesn't mean they want to know how everything is. I don t need tragedy.

I just want you to drink and be married.

And tell me everything you know about Delroy Construction.

Only if I can tell you what my kid.

Good isn't jail again. How'd you know? Harold, your family's a bloc on society.

They're either in jail, going to jail, or just getting out of jail.

To know them is to love them. So you're going to buy some Delroy stock? Is it hot?

It's hot. Is it a secret? What? Sure, it's a secret.

Well, good is insider information if everyone knows about it. I buy them.

I hear merger, Delroy construction, and Arata enterprises. Arata, what's that?

It's a big industrial outfit.

Like to buy and sell a little guys always for a profit, ruthless, and amoral.

So they wouldn't be above a little sabotage the lower the price?

Hey, these guys are sharks. Arata's the new breed of management,

beyond leaning into me.

Thanks.

See, Delwin's got

a rep as a mom and pop type of company. Big, but worker friendly.

Only they've been laying off people, which means they're in the transition period.

Knowing them, Rod has probably already got somebody holding the first place.

William Wright. Jack Delroy gave them to him.

You know, I hear tell that some people actually have these in their own homes.

Only in America. That's what I got. An address, no name.

The man inside is sitting on a keg of dynamite for real. So that's promising?

You go in there, you'll be careful. So you do care about me? About my feet.

Something happens to you who makes my digit.

So you want to come along and protect your interests? The Wendy City's backing.

So I got me a class-aid job in the city with Big Show. That's a challenge.

Say hello to Bush McGuire's for me. And just like that, another friend at left town.

At this point, I really wouldn't have minded some company, but Chicago was calling.

And I saw no reason to impede Hawke's progress.

He probably would have run me over if I had tried.

The fact that the matter was, he had given me all he could.

The rest was up to me, which meant to stay out.

It was a part of the business I was good at. Nobody could stay away longer.

When I woke up, I felt refreshed. I also felt foolish.

If the bomber was still home, I had two choices,

wait for him to come out or go in after him.

was tired of winning.

The lifetime of service causes workers to look

upon their companies as family, caring for

them and youth, and providing security when they grow old.

It's second me to think of so many about to

have the rug pulled out because of Delroy's

merger. It also seemed like a perfect motive for someone to hire a bomb.

Time to visit Mr. Hayes in personnel.

It's a Spencer.

And it closed for our barriot?

A couple of hours ago I tried to put a couple of bullets in my head if that counts.

Oh my god.

Where is he now? We back to Pittsburgh if you smart.

That's where the plane ticket in his room said he came from. Then the Bobby's Rover.

No, this is Sarah. You see, this man is professional.

He has no personal access to grind, just an employee for hire.

Then there's the nearly 40 pounds of dynamite still out there,

plus the man who hired him. But who would hire such a man?

Well, that's what I'm hoping your personal records will tell me. All right.

Mr. Delroy said anything you wanted.

Well, why don't we start with impending layoffs? Layoffs?

I wasn't aware of any layoffs coming up.

They're coming, all right. And I bet

you got a list of all the employees who've

got 20 years or more of service. Yes.

Mr. Wright wanted to keep that a secret.

of the secrets over.

I don't like being lied to. No one lied to you.

With holding relevant information, lying by a mission. The

Arata merger?

You were told what you needed to know. What happened?

What could the mergers have to do with the bombings?

How would you feel if everything you've worked for your entire adult life,

including your retirement, were wiped out? That make you angry?

Angry enough to want to blow something up? I don't know what you're talking about.

I just came from personnel. You have over 500 employees here.

140 or senior employees just waiting for the axe to drop.

140 people who will lose their retirement if this merger goes through.

What's this about 140 employees? Nothing important.

A routine probe we were doing on staff.

As routine is the last three companies that Arotta took over.

All of that is none of your business, Mr. Spencer. Maybe not.

But I want to know what happened with the last 3 companies. You really don't know.

I wouldn't be asking you if I did.

You're gonna have to get your hatchet man to tell you

because I don't have the stomach for it. Where'd he go? I'm out of here.

Are you quitting? You oughta be a detective.

to leave.

Visiting hours are over. Thank you.

Hi.

If you didn't have any visitors either.

Well, no, I didn't. Not until you came to see me. Were you expecting somebody?

Oh, no. My mommy had a good New York this morning.

But she'll be back tomorrow. Then I can go home with her.

Well, I bet you're excited about that.

Yeah. I had my tonsils out, and her hardly hurts at all anymore.

Only when you swallow. That's

right. How did you know?

Well, because when I was a little girl, I had tonsils up too.

Are you gonna have another operation?

And nobody came to see you tonight? How come?

Well, I didn't tell anyone I was here. Why?

Well, I guess I didn't want them to worry about me.

They'll come to see me after the operation.

Gee, I'd be scared being loved myself before it happened. Aren't you scared?

Well, i guess I was, until you showed up.

There you are Emily, time to go back to your floor now young lady.

Here, you keep mandy tonight, then you won't be alone.

Thank you Emily.

Do you in the morning? Bye-bye.

Time.

You're a hard man to lose.

I want you to come back to work for me.

My man was not really good at crawling. I don't want you to crawl.

I want you again be a good reason. It's just as much in the dark as you.

Well, almost as much. You don't know about the layoffs.

After the merger, all those men losing their tensions.

I knew that there was going to be some, but I didn't realize to what extent.

I'll held the fact is I didn t coasting these last few months.

The turnover more authority than Bill and I should have.

Give him.

What are you doing now? Well, I can't to protect my employees. Through the merger.

That might not be so easy. The type of people you've sold out to. Look, Spencer.

Herge was very good for her company.

It's necessary. Why,

I'll run it.

They made a good presentation, and also they offer me a lot of money.

But I didn't realize how ruthless it would be.

Whether you believe or not, I care for those people who work there.

I want to make one point clear here.

I'm not gonna let any one of my employees lose their pension.

Even if the merger busts up, where I go bankrupt.

It's not gonna happen.

Now if you want to come back to work for me again.

What did you have in mind? Something else that was being held back from me.

Just terrific. When did Delroy come up with this? A couple hours ago.

Someone delivered it to his office late this afternoon.

How many warnings has he had? Personally? None. That's the point. And who?

William Wright is second in command. Delroy squeezed that out of him.

Why is he holding back? He had orders from the Arotta Corporation

to make this merger work. Be a big plus for him, corporately.

He was afraid of a killer for him at the home office. Oh, I see.

So they hire you to solve the bombing

before everyone gets killed or they get bad publicity.

It also means that this professional bomber may be out of the picture, but nothing.

The guy who hired him, this stuff falls into the hands of amateurs.

40 pounds of dynamite. Any idea what that could take out?

Oh, half a city blocker, so give it a take a building. Sleep tight.

Hey, I'm supposed to take care of yourself.

You know, we haven't got a name on the pro yet.

Right now you're the only guy that can idea him.

People who come to blow you up don't just load their dynamite into a taxi.

No. The bomber

had driven to my place. And I knew his car.

I was the one who put the bullet hole in the windshield.

It took a better part of an hour but I finally found it parked several blocks away.

It's all falling apart.

No, not a descent, Sean.

I can go back to the department store. I like that job.

Just till you find something else.

Thank you for your time.

Honey, I'm 59 years old. This is about it as far as me working.

No one's gonna hire me.

I'm not at home. Yeah, I figured that out. Look, we finally got a name on that.

That name's that important. This one is. I found his car four blocks from my house.

That was in the front.

Explain how I got access to the Dynamite magazine at Delroy's. Read the signature.

JD Hayes.

Nelson.

Oh my God. Yeah, I'm on it. What?

He's as hold up in Del Roy's office. He's got himself wired to the dynamite.

Stay back.

I'm one little man.

I've sat behind my desk for 36 years coming into work every day.

Do you know?

Can you imagine how many people I've had to fire in 36 years?

No, those people.

But I never felt really lousy about it until now.

You want to know why, Mr. Delroy? Yeah, yeah, sure I do. Hold it.

So okay Mr. Hayes.

Nobody's gonna get hurt. They've

already been hurt.

used to be people who mattered Mr. Delroy, but they don't anymore.

What's good for the company isn't even what matters. It's what's good, for the boss.

How much money will go into the big guy's pocket?

One big guy taking everything he can. Me is who matters today.

Grab it all up before anybody else can have any.

You've got more than you could possibly use in your whole life.

You've had houses, you've got cars, you...

How much more?

Do you need?

And to get all that, you'll take it off every guy who walks in the door.

A little cut off his pension, a little less pay, longer hours shorter. Lush!

Finally, we get nothing.

The one big fat guy at the top.

He's got it all.

And is this the solution?

blowing everything up.

It doesn't solve anything and you know it.

Somebody has to take a stand.

this.

Not by destroying everything. He's right, JD.

Look, you care. Everything you've just said proves that.

But God, man, what about the rest of it?

What about your family, your wife? What does it matter?

They'll have nothing if you take away my pension.

You're going to take away, my pension! I worked 36 years!

That's it.

And what is it to you?

Yeah.

And I've said all, but I want to say.

want to talk anymore.

You get out of your own view. Listen, JD, you'll get

what you deserve.

You'll get your pension.

Everyone will. I promise it.

Please don't hurt anyone else. Don't hurt yourself.

Look, I

made some mistakes.

I'm sorry.

What are you doing?

I'm gonna blow us all up bitch! I heard it, George.

Thank you.

No, he just wanted to say a few words.

JD's widow will get the pension.

I saw his kids grow up.

I let him down.

You made him a promise.

I think that's the thing to remember.

It's what you do for all the other JDs who work for you now that's gonna come.

You always did have a lousy sense of direction.

Miami is way south of here. Well, I went and came back. I didn't like my tan.

that you called my sister.

I don't want to have convinced that you were somewhere in the house.

I must try to remember not to outfox the fox.

Why don't we get the feeling I was lied to? Because you were.

I guess it wouldn't do much good to try to make it sound like Little Blan-Eather.

Now, a little one is when you, uh, tell me

it'll look good when my tie doesn't match,

or that there are any calories in hot-fudge Sundays.

telling me you're going away for the weekend when

you're really having exploratory surgery as a whopper.

I needed some time for myself.

trying to make sense of it.

You couldn't help me with that.

I'll talk to you later.

So you know.

benign

It's in a wonderful word.

You

That's it everybody, attention on behalf of the Board of Regents.

Upset University, I'd like to present this diploma to Dr. Susan Sauerna.

I'm gonna get you that something, congratulations. Look at this face, that's good.

Let it go. Oh, yeah.

She's doing fine. What I got, I got a little bit of the best.

Very much. Cheers! Cheers! Cheers! That's pretty weird.