BILL and LEE, and JUSTINE all sit and stand in the LOUNGE. JUSTINE is expensively dressed: high heels, power suits, and lipstick. All three of them hold drinks: martinis, scotches. All three scroll on their phones. Finally, LEE looks up at BILL and JUSTINE expectantly. LEE: So: Systemas? Pause. LEE: So, guys, Systemas? Pause. LEE: Guys, Systemas: is the company that you were here to tour, we toured it, what did you think? JUSTINE: ( to LEE ) Sorry I''m reading about our company, in the news .
( to BILL ) Are you looking at this? Dad? BILL: Yeah. JUSTINE: This is crazy. BILL: Yeah. JUSTINE: (reading ) ".a senior executive frequently sent his executive assistant emails telling her he needed her to be the "T and A at table" when he was meeting buyers: "T and A "stood for Tits and Ass. One time he followed her into the women''s washroom and looked over the top of her stall while she was urinating as a quote unquote joke." "He sometimes cornered her on business trips and made advances telling her to make up for her lack of skill on the job by--" Okay, this is that brand manager? BILL: Yeah. JUSTINE: Gary.
? BILL: Yeah. JUSTINE: And the assistant, who''s she? BILL: .( shrugs) . JUSTINE: Did she go to HR? BILL: (nods) We''ve fired a couple of HR people: the ones who said her complaint didn''t strike them as. BILL gestures. BILL: Significant. JUSTINE: Shit. BILL: Yeah.
JUSTINE: But what.? Shouldn''t we be on flights home? LEE looks up, worried. BILL: ( to JUSTINE, shrugging ) We''re not answering media requests, that''s Shannon''s department. She''s set up a PR camp back home, all interviews go through her. That''s the only one so far. And Connor''s there-- LEE: Connor''s there? BILL: To handle any legal. LEE: Are the contracts here? JUSTINE: ( to BILL ) Shannon said there was a story out--I didn''t realize how bad. LEE: Where are the contracts? JUSTINE: I have them, I have them! (to BILL:) Dad, what''s.
? Why aren''t we on flights home? LEE: ( makes a jerky, frustrated motion with his body and walks away) BILL and JUSTINE look at LEE. JUSTINE: What? This seems like it might be about to.be big? LEE: ( to JUSTINE, rhetorical: ) Is it affecting stock prices? JUSTINE looks over at BILL. Beat. BILL: A small dip, but, that could be. ( BILL gestures, vague ). Beat. LEE stares at SHANNON.
JUSTINE: Okay! Okay. LEE: ( to JUSTINE ) What? JUSTINE: There are always guys like you who say "24 hour news cycle" and "it won''t affect stock prices." LEE: .I didn''t say that. JUSTINE: .and sometime that''s true. LEE: .except I didn''t say it.
JUSTINE: .and sometimes they come into your office and take away the furniture. LEE: So: Systemas. Let''s buy Systemas, okay? I''d like to finalize the deal. We have the contracts--thank you Justine--let''s get them signed, then we can fly back home and "me too" our way around the business world, we can be all rah rah women are the new men. BILL: Lee. LEE: ( to BILL ) Well she''s.! JUSTINE: ( to LEE ) I''m what? Beat.
JUSTINE: I''m what? Beat . LEE shrugs. Beat. JUSTINE: Take a look at Silicone Valley. LEE: .cool cool I''ll "take a look at it". JUSTINE: .and what''s happened to the stocks of companies with reputations for sexual harassment.
LEE: .they bounce back. JUSTINE: Not when it''s the CEO. LEE: .well, it''s not. JUSTINE: .or a pivotal exec: okay fine fine, that''s your. fine.
Beat. JUSTINE: I mean.! Beat. JUSTINE: (to BILL :) Some executive assistant''s trying to do her job, and that''s the shit that''s.? BILL: Yeah. JUSTINE: That''s what we want to.! We want to be one of those companies with women crying in the bathroom, because some fucking. brand manager.
? BILL''S phone buzzes. He looks down at it. BILL: I''m sorry, it''s Connor. BILL walks to the back of the lounge, take the call.