- Jim: Monica just confirmed it. Extensive flooding in Capetown.
- Chris Todson: Billions of dollars of damage.
- Marty Stephens: And the Jo'burg exchange is through the floor, and the beat goes on.
- Susannah Marks: You don't know what you're looking for.
- Sally Ross: I'll start at the beginning.
- Susannah Marks: You don't know what you're looking *at*.
- Sally Ross: I can read.
- Adam Cunningham: Damn it, D'Arby. What did you think you were doing over there?
- Donald D'Arby: I believe you told me to, uh, take notes, to keep my mouth shut, and to make you look good.
- Adam Cunningham: Two out of three.
- Carl Davison: Ironic, really, isn't it? The whole market's in freefall, and you go short on the one stock that's on the rise. And there's not a damn thing that you can do about it.
- Chris Todson: [completely flat voice] Quite a theory you've got there, yeah, nobody else suspects a thing. Yeah, you've really got me over a barrel. Look, why don't you just sell me the shares, you're probably late for a Mensa meeting or something.
- Jack Larkin: He's paranoid. Sees me as a threat. Thinks I'm gonna cost him his career.
- Donald D'Arby: Is he right?
- Jack Larkin: Let's hope so.
- Jack Larkin: So we do Navadyne first.
- Donald D'Arby: Then we can't do Brit Rail.
- Jack Larkin: [screams] I don't want to do Brit Rail!
- Donald D'Arby: But the Queen wants you to, and it's not good for our reputations to upset Her Majesty.
- Jack Larkin: I'm gonna kill Cunningham.
- Jack Larkin: Hey, you ever heard of a kid named Grant Jansky?
- Marty Stephens: Sure, the guy's legendary. Made six million dollars in five days in derivatives and then he retired.
- Jack Larkin: You know where he is?
- Marty Stephens, Benny Siedleman: Who?
- Jack Larkin: Jansky.
- Marty Stephens: You misunderstood. You see, the guy, I said he's legendary. i.e., mythical? Fictional? Imagined? Invented? Fabricated? Unreal!
- Marty Stephens, Benny Siedleman: The guy does not exist!
- Jack Larkin: I don't know if you remember me. I don't know if we were ever actually....
- Grant Jansky: Jack Larkin. Vancouver-based trader. August 18, 1992. Copper forwards. I took you for ninety-six thousand, seven hundred and forty-eight dollars. And a few pennies. Were you hedged?
- Jack Larkin: No.
- Grant Jansky: Sorry.
- Grant Jansky: I've got a few wants and needs that most people consider peculiar. I don't want pressure. I don't want money. I don't want any bright light. I don't want any people around. And I want... a lot of chocolate.
- Jack Larkin: Okay. I can give you all those things.
- Grant Jansky: [triumphantly] Fifty pounds of chocolate!
- Jack Larkin: Latest projections have us now losing 1.8 million dollars on the Brit Rail fiasco. Though I have to admit the prestige hasn't waned one iota.
- [Jack walks Grant into his new office--a computer in a supply closet.]
- Jack Larkin: This is our current capital.
- Grant Jansky: Going down.
- Jack Larkin: Yeah, thanks to Brit Rail. This is our capital requirement. You have three hours to make roughly 1.8 million dollars. Here you go.
- [to Donald]
- Jack Larkin: Don't put any pressure on him, okay?
- Jack Larkin: Do you have a father?
- Grant Jansky: Everyone has a father, Jack.
- Jack Larkin: Is he alive?
- Grant Jansky: Would I be like this if he was?
- Jack Larkin: [flicks his eyes to Grant's computer] What is that?
- Grant Jansky: It's chaos. Fluctuations in wheat prices since March of '29.
- Jack Larkin: Finding order in chaos. That's what it's all about.
- Grant Jansky: It's beautiful. You have a dad?
- Jack Larkin: Everyone's got a dad, Grant.