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SAM lightly knocks on the glass.
SAM ROGERS
Hey.
WILL EMERSON
Hey.
SAM looks at WILL for some hint of what is going on, then eventually puts his coat down and sits into a chair. They wait for who goes first.
SAM ROGERS
So?
WILL EMERSON
Eric Dale...
SAM ROGERS
Oh Jesus...
WILL EMERSON
Before he was escorted out of the
building by security...
SAM ROGERS
I had nothing to do with that.
WILL EMERSON
I know.
SAM ROGERS
I’m sorry, go on.
WILL EMERSON
So as he was leaving the building he
hands a disk to Peter Sullivan...
SAM ROGERS
Who’s Peter Sullivan again?
WILL EMERSON
One of Eric’s guys.
SAM ROGERS
Right.
WILL EMERSON
...and tells him that he was almost on to
something but hasn’t been able to figure
it out. So he gives him the disk and says
give it a try... but the last thing he
says as the doors to the elevator close
is ‘be careful’...
SAM ROGERS
Be careful?
WILL EMERSON
Yeah.
SAM ROGERS
Be careful?
WILL EMERSON
Yes.
SAM ROGERS
Why?
WILL EMERSON
Well... take a look.
SAM ROGERS
Speak, you know I can’t read those
fucking things they put together.
WILL EMERSON
Basically the kid dives right into the
thing after your little pep talk, nice
job by the way, and he seems to have
nailed it.
SAM ROGERS
Nailed it?
WILL EMERSON
The kid figured out what Eric was
missing. And...
SAM ROGERS
And?
WILL gives him a long pause.
WILL EMERSON
...it isn’t good.
WILL’S look gets SAM up and he comes over to stand behind WILL at his desk and look at the computer.
WILL EMERSON (cont’d)
As far as I can tell these here are the
historical volatility index limits...
which I guess our whole fucking trading
model relies on pretty heavily... and we
are so fucking levered up that if this
thing starts getting outside those limits
it gets ugly in a hurry.
SAM ROGERS
How ugly?
WILL EMERSON
Real ugly.
SAM ROGERS
And how close to those limits have we
gotten?
WILL EMERSON
Oh we’re beyond close... We broke through
five or six days over the last two weeks,
but we’ve managed to stay on the upside
of it... for now...
SAM ROGERS
For now?
WILL EMERSON
Well look what happens here when we get
on the wrong side of it.
SAM ROGERS
What am I looking at?
WILL takes his finger and points at a red number with a whole lot of zeroes after it. SAM’S look says it all.
WILL EMERSON
And that wouldn’t even be that bad a day
for us... historically speaking.
SAM ROGERS
Is this right?
WILL EMERSON
I don’t know.
SAM ROGERS
Where is Eric?
WILL EMERSON
We shut his phone off.
SAM ROGERS
Of course we did.
WILL EMERSON
And he hasn’t come home yet, I spoke to
his wife.
SAM ROGERS
He’s probably crying in a fucking beer
somewhere.
WILL EMERSON
Or worse.
SAM ROGERS
Where’s the kid who did this?
WILL EMERSON
Out looking for Eric.
SAM ROGERS
Do we think he knows what he’s doing?
WILL EMERSON
I don’t know. What do I know?
SAM ROGERS
Well get him back here.