mary beth! as beautiful as ever.
i see you brought a friend.
mary beth, what we have here, uh.
mary beth, i hope you aren't spreading this good news too widely.
well, i'll have to take your word for it, mary beth. here's your money.
mary beth! this has never been anything but --
well. if mary beth vouches for you, and if she told you the story already.
mister hebbing, we are talking about breaking the law here, i want to be sure you understand that. no one gets hurt, but the law does get broken.
and i don't just mean the sec. we could have the fbi breathing down our necks.
loose talk is the one thing i worry about.
okay, then. sit down, sit down.
the tokyo exchange is nine hours ahead of us, new york one hour behind. there isn't one hour of the day when both are open. information moves, but it has to wait. now, we have a young fellow working here -- do you know what a hacker is, mister hebbing?
you're right! and this boy tapped into that main link between tokyo and the new york stock exchange. he can give us, when it's really useful, a seven second delay in that movement of information. do you know what that means?
every once in a while, a major change comes through. we have seven seconds to take advantage, put our buy order, our sell order, into the computer in new york before the tokyo data comes in.
we have to be ready. we have to have the money, and we have to know what the information means, and we have to move immediately.
these machines -- they're in here.
want a look?
come take a look. an entire-suite of main-frame computer.
it's quite a sight. you sure?
well, if you're sure.
here you are! two rich people!
you brought a case? good.
what? this is a private office!
oh, my god! no! the scandal!
you! you and your goddamn big mouth!
who did you tell? who?
don't move!
you ruined me! you destroyed me!
get back! get back!
i'll kill the first one that follows me!
it's hollow. you'll fall through.
can't move.
it's all hollow. nothing behind it.
demon! demon! that's why you can walk on it! demon!