JAMIE
No, I'm saying that you're dramatically under-reacting to it. Look, we caught one break. It happened on a Friday night and nobody ever learns anything new on a Saturday. But I'll be my stock options against anyone's in this room that by Monday noon, Wes's rant will be the most searched for it in the history of the Internet. I mean, it's gonna break records. And they'll say he's crazy and they'll say he lost his marbles, but you know what else they're gonna say?

JACK
What?

JAMIE
That he was right.
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They're gonna say he was right and courageous and hallelujah somebody said it. Every cable show's gonna have non-stop roundtables about how Hollywood's taking our national culture to hell on a speedboat and we just became the symbol of that. I don't know who the bookers are even gonna get who are gonna be on our side. People for the American Way isn't gonna show up to defend UBS's primetime schedule.

JACK
When the hell did there become two sides to this?

JAMIE
When you fired Wes. He's a martyr now.

JACK
Jamie, you can't be suggesting--this is what happened in the damn movie--you can't be suggesting we give him the show back.

JAMIE
Absolutely not. What he did was unforgivably irresponsible and he put me, to say nothing of his cast and crew, in a terrible position. He's done at this network.
We need a new story and Studio 7 needs a new Executive Producer and head writer. I want to hire Matt Albie and Danny Moore.

JACK
I have a history with those two guys.

JAMIE
No kidding.

JACK
I fired them.

JAMIE
I know the history, Jack, people in Kansas know the history. That's why it's a good story. It's a big story and we get to control it. We're gonna hire two people who hate your guts and we're gonna do it 'cause we're committed to quality. It's a tacit admission of guilt and a silent act of contrition and that's what's required here.
They're exceptionally qualified, it's a splashy choice. They're classy, and we need that right now.

JACK
My thought was that we'd promote Ronald Oswald and Richard Beck. They've been co-execs for three years, they know what they're doing, they know the current cast and staff, it'll bring stability and they're--what's the word I'm looking for--

JAMIE
Hacks. Ron Oswald and Ricky Beck are hacks and stability isn't what we're looking for, we're looking for surprise.

JACK
The most expensive thing in television are executive producers you can't control.

JAMIE
The most expensive thing in television is a show that doesn't work.

JACK
You're gonna have to pay these guys.

JAMIE
Oh I'm gonna back up a Brinks truck. And I'll have to do what it takes to get 'em Wes's blessing.

JACK
They're not gonna care about Wes's blessing, Wes is at least as guilty as I am of--

JAMIE
They're gonna care.