Out in the pouring rain, Josh is soaked to the skin and making some poor telephone operator's life miserable by trying to get the name of Sam's law firm out of her. He, of course, has once again forgotten the name, but babbles on about it for a bit. He finally gives up and hangs up, but seems to remember the name just as he's starting to go in the wrong direction.
Back at the conference table, the oil company and the GWP lawyers are going over the fine print of the contract. Sam is asked to provide some amortization information, but pauses and then launches into his bid to convince the suits to spend eleven million extra dollars to get a decent boat. He's almost frenzied in his bid to sway them, and cites the names of quite of few tankers that were involved in catastrophic oil spills around the world. Everybody's getting more and more annoyed with Sam, especially his boss. Sam says, "You don't want to pay for it? Pass it on to us!" Bwa! Just then, soaking wet Josh shows up outside the glass walls of the conference room. He knocks on the window and everyone looks. They all dismiss Josh pretty quickly and go back to explaining how they're not "indifferent to the concerns of the environmentalists, it's just that we don't give a tinker's dam," except they don't say that last part. Sam tries to pay attention but keeps looking at Josh. Josh points to his own face with both fingers, and his expression tells Sam that he has, indeed, seen the real thing in Nashua, where he went to hear Jed Bartlet speak. One of the suits says, "Excuse me, Sam...it doesn't quite feel like I have your attention." Sam says "Yeah," but he's looking at Josh, not the suit. Josh nods subtly and Sam smiles broadly. He starts to grab his notes as he stands up, and then lifts his hands away as if they were a dirty diaper and says to himself, "Not gonna need that." Without any explanation he gets up and walks out. His boss asks him to keep his seat and finally asks where he's going. As Josh opens the door for Sam and Sam strides out, Sam calls back, "New Hampshire!" Josh gives them all a jaunty little wave as he closes the door. ["Then Josh and Sam start making out. Just kidding. That would be cool, though, wouldn't it?" -- Wing Chun]













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