Margin Call · written by J.C. Chandor · 2011

Sam challenges Jared’s emerging plan; Sarah requests time to verify the model, and Jared reveals he has already called Tuld.

Scene 35 of 76 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two

Sam Rogers
Jared Cohen
Ramesh
Sarah Robertson

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 36 min into a 1:36 film

The story so farBefore scene 35

When a junior analyst discovers exposure that could wipe out his investment bank, its executives race to unload the danger on their customers while a veteran executive confronts the price of helping them survive.

Scenes 1–12
The bank’s surviving employees return to familiar routines after firing Eric; Sam manages the floor while his dog is dying.
Scenes 13–23
Peter uncovers a threat to the firm’s survival and forces Will and Sam to respond.
Scenes 24–33
Peter’s work travels upstairs; Sam and the juniors enter Jared’s executive world and expose the scale of the risk.
Just before
Scene 32
Sam’s group walks through the assistant cubicles toward Jared’s windowless conference room.
Scene 33
Jared’s team reviews Peter’s model, confronts the bank’s trillion-dollar exposure and considers liquidating its holdings.
Scene 34
Outside the meeting, Will explains Jared’s power and hints at the danger of buyers abandoning their products.
Scene 35
This scene

35INT. JARED’S CONFERENCE ROOM

SAM ROGERS

Jared you can’t do what you are thinking

about doing.

JARED COHEN

What if we don’t have a choice?

SAM ROGERS

What does that mean? Fuck you... you

don’t have a choice.

JARED COHEN

Fuck me? Have you looked at these numbers

Sam??

SAM ROGERS

Yes, but what the hell do I know.

JARED COHEN comes back over to the table and picks up the packet.

JARED COHEN

Well, Mr. Shah tell me if I’m wrong but

to me these numbers don’t add up.

RAMESH

If I may I’d like to take some time

before we...

SARAH ROBERTSON

Jared we can’t answer that yet.

JARED COHEN

Are you fucking kidding me... this is

exactly what we’ve...

SARAH now cuts him off abruptly.

SARAH ROBERTSON

We need a little time before we can give

you our conclusion.

SARAH closes the issue off with another look to JARED.

JARED COHEN

OK. We meet in 45 minutes.

RAMESH

Sam, do you have this file?

SAM ROGERS

Yes, here it is.

SAM slides him the hard drive across the table, they all take a second to follow it.

JARED COHEN

And Sam we need Eric Dale, it’s making me

very uneasy knowing he is out there right

now wanting to put a knife in our backs

while he’s not even aware he’s holding

the knife in his hand.

SARAH and RAMESH leave the room as SAM is left alone with JARED.

SAM ROGERS