[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[FATHER SIGHS]
[EXCLAIMING IN ANNOYANCE]
[UTENSILS CLATTERING]
Honey, it's family hour, there must be something on.
DAUGHTER: Oh, wow, Candy Critters!
[FATHER EXCLAIMS]
Oh, great. It's Monsters, our favorite show!
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
Shh, it's starting.
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
[FATHER CHUCKLES]
MAN: You're not getting it. You haven't got a prayer.
Not a prayer in the world.
The way I see it the east coast divisions are expendable.
They've got to go.
Yeah. It's just about the size of it.
I really think it's in your best interest to see things my way.
Take it to the board of directors?
Jimmy, Jimmy. Jimmy. I am the board of directors.
[SCOFFS]
There is just no two ways about it.
Fight me on this and I'll tear you to pieces, my friend.
No.
No!
Yes.
I'll be with you in a minute, Tom.
Is that how you really do it, Lawrence, with those little screens?
Do what?
Ruin old established companies.
I don't ruin old established companies, Tom.
I use my computers to take over mismanaged ones.
Hart and Son has been with my family since the Civil War.
[SIGHS]
Would you like a drink?
My share holders won't sit still for this.
I think they will.
In fact, I think when they find out about your losses for next quarter,
they'll demand that you sell off the holdings to Hart and Son...
piece by piece.
How do you know what our profit position is for the coming quarter?
You are getting inside information, Bower.
That is a dreadful allegation, Tom.
I have half a mind to sue you for slander.
Now, sign it.
I won't let you cannibalize my company.
Face it.
I've got controlling interests.
You're my boy now.
[TYPING OF COMPUTER KEYBOARD]
You're on quite a roll, aren't you, Lawrence, huh?
How many millions have you extorted by now?
Fifty? A hundred?
I make a living.
It'll catch up with you someday.
The cheating, the payoffs...
Sure, Tom.
I'll expect to be named CEO in the morning,
with full power to divest.
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Is it okay if I clean up now, Mr. Bower?
I think Mr. Hart is pretty well cleaned up by now.
But give us a few minutes.
Whatever you say, Mr. Bower.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Somehow appropriate that the only other person I've ever seen in this office
is the janitor.
Someone has to mop up the blood you spill.
Keep those computers humming, Lawrence.
You're going to need that money someday to pay the lawyers.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Yes, it's me.
Hell, yes! It worked.
[LAUGHING]
Just like you said it would.
[DOOR OPENS]
Does our friend have any other suggestions for me?
No I don't mind.
I'll catch a cab and be right over.
Right.
Good night.
Good night, Mr. Bower.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[TRIBAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[BELL DINGS]
[CEILING FAN HOVERING]
[SIGHS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[BEADS CLANKING]
Matilda.
[CHUCKLES] And did you cut him to pieces?
That's what a hostile takeover amounts too.
And you are so very good at it.
Yes, I am.
[CHUCKLES] Wandering into this shop last year is the smartest move I ever made.
You didn't wander in, Lawrence.
You were invited.
Did you not see the ad in the Journal?
[LAUGHS] "Need Money? I make it like magic,"
The other Wall Street bankers thought it was some kind of joke.
How did you know they didn't see the ad?
Of course they saw it. It was in the Journa l.
You know, you have made me a very rich man, Matilda.
You and our friend.
[CHUCKLES] My friend.
I like to think of him as a friend.
Thanks to him I made 17 million dollars today
selling of pieces of Hart and Company. [CHUCKLES]
Has he got anything new for me?
Your computer is not working?
Well, let's just say that I prefer your science.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Obeya.
Yeah.
Obeya.
[TRIBAL MUSIC PLAYING]
Give me your hand. My hand? Uh... What are you doing?
You refuse Obeya?
I didn't say that.
It's just that I don't understand why we're doing
the ritual differently, that's all.
Tonight Obeya has something special in store.
Bigger then the last take over?
Much bigger.
And Obeya will get what he wants,
and what he has planned for
from the moment he first chose you.
Hey, let's get something straight here.
Nobody chose me.
I came in here with a new idea.
Real Voodoo economics.
Oh, you believe that?
Others could have taken the risks.
They didn't. I did.
No one was invited too, just you.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
You do this freely?
Yeah. Just get on with it.
[GROANING]
[GRUNTING]
You got a kick out of it, didn't you?
[TRIBAL MUSIC PLAYING]
It is done.
It is done, Obeya!
[SIGHS] That is all.
[SIGHS IN RELIEF] You can go now.
What do you mean, "Go now,"?
[LAUGHS]
I want that tip, Matilda.
And if I don't get it,
maybe, Obeya would like a little piece of your flesh.
He has already tasted my blood.
When?
Over a hundred years ago.
Two hundred...
I've lost count.
Yeah, you're crazy.
Are you going to cut me up, Lawrence, like one of your takeovers?
It will be quite hard.
You see, I am already...
Dead.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[LAUGHING]
Did your real Voodoo economics
a lesson on real zombies?
Did you think this was a free ride, Lawrence?
Don't you know who you are dealing with?
Obeya is the lord of darkness,
and you belong to him now.
Every piece of you.
And you shall serve him...
first here...
Then there.
He is coming for you soon.
You are about to be taken over!
[SCREAMING]
[GASPING]
[SNIFFING]
[SNIFFS]
Tomorrow...
Tomorrow I'll start selling off Hart and Sons...
That should be enough profit to last me for the rest of my life.
Gold is up.
I'll buy a couple of mil in gold.
And a couple of mil in municipals as a hedge. [CHUCKLES]
That's probably Hart crying in his beer.
[ELECTRICAL BUZZING]
MATILDA: You'll be coming soon, Lawrence.
You better buy gold fast. [LAUGHING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRYING]
[FAX BUZZING]
[BEEPS]
[TRIBAL MUSIC PLAYING]
This can't be happening.
[MATILDA LAUGHING]
[WHIMPERING]
Oh, God.
I need professional help.
[SCREECHING]
[WHIMPERING] MATILDA: Obeya is looking for you now.
How does it feel to be taken over?
[LAUGHING]
[SCREAMING]
[DOOR CREAKING]
Mr. Bower? [GASPS]
Oh, thank, God.
I, I was sweeping up and I heard a noise.
Come in.
My, gosh, uh, are you okay, Mr. Bower?
Me? [SCOFFS]
I'm fine.
What is your name?
Ed.
Ed, would you like a drink?
I'm on duty, sir.
On duty? [LAUGHS]
Ed, who pays your salary?
You do.
[LAUGHING] So you are off duty.
Hey, sit down.
[STAMMERING] I got things to do, Mr. Bower.
Down stairs toilets are overflowing, there's water all over. There's a big mess.
I said sit down.
You can stay for a while, can't you?
I guess, I can.
For a while.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Do you believe in magic, Ed?
You mean, like, Penn & Teller?
No.
I mean, like...
Black magic, you know, like, witches and [CHUCKLES] demons,
and Voodoo, things like that.
I once knew a woman who believed in that stuff.
She went completely insane.
Just sat in the corner,
curled up in a ball,
screaming her lungs out...
night and day.
[LAUGHS]
Well, she's in a better place now.
She recovered?
No, she killed herself
with a darned needle and a bottle of liquid drain cleaner.
Ugly way to die.
So, this is good stuff, Mr. B.
[CHUCKLES] I keep drinking like this, I'm likely to talk all night.
And you tell such wonderful stories.
Born story teller, I guess.
About that black magic stuff,
I wouldn't worry about no demons.
Hell, they only come after bad people anyway.
Is that right? Oh, yeah.
And even then, you got to invite him into your home.
Show him a good time.
Kind of, like, you inviting me to have a drink.
Even then they can't do nothing to you.
Unless, of course...
they got a piece of you.
A piece? Yeah.
A piece of your hair, or blood.
They get a piece of you, and you can't shake 'em loose.
They just take over.
Bit by bit.
[LAUGHS] It don't make no sense.
Does it?
Maybe, you better see about your toilets, Ed.
Oh, I got time.
Time is all I got now. Really.
Since my accident.
What happened?
You might say I took a fall.
A fall?
Yeah.
Maybe, you read about it in the Bible?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
They call it a fall.
I'd say I was pushed.
[GROWLING]
[DISTORTED VOICE] We got to sell you off, Lawrence.
Make some profit from this takeover.
[CRYING] Oh, my God.
I don't like that word, Lawrence.
[SCREAMING]
[LAWRENCE WHIMPERING]
[SCREAMING]
There goes your eye.
Think I can get much for it at the eye bank?
Nice looking tongue. Not a big market for tongue though.
But will find buyers for all of you.
Piece by piece.
That's why I'm here, Lawrence.
To sweep up the pieces.
You're my boy now.
[SCREAMING]
[LAUGHING]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]