Scenes with Ward Meachum 13
The first rule of war and business is to know your enemy.
Ward MeachumYes, you've told me that, but in this case...
Have you considered this might be someone hired to make us look bad at a time when we don't want to look bad?
Ward
Yes, Joy and I have been all through that.
Yeah, much trickier if this actually is young Danny Rand come back to life.
Ward
That's impossible.
Stranger things have happened. If this is Danny...
Ward
Dad, come on.
Ward
If this is Danny, we can't let him go public.
No, no we cannot. Now, there are other questions to consider as well. If he's still alive, does that mean his parents are still alive? Who else knows he's alive? What does he know? Who has he told? How the hell did he learn martial arts? Why has he waited this long to show up? Huh? And now that he's here, what does he want?
Ward
I don't know.
Neither do I. Which is why you can't just send some idiot to beat the shit out of him, understood? Now we need to approach this with finesse.
Ward
Like the way you handle everything in life?
Don't be smart with me Ward. Leave this to me. I'll tell you exactly what to do.
Ward
Like always.
Danny sent all but the brown M&M's.
Ward
Is that supposed to mean something?
Yes! When we were kids... we would eat them together, all but the brown ones. Nobody would know that but Danny!
Ward
Joy, I'm sorry, but a bunch of M&M's doesn't prove anything.
It does! This is Danny, Ward. I have been in denial this whole time, but this is definite proof. We gotta get him out of that place. We've got to talk to him.
It's hard, really. Trying to get my head around all this.
This is not the time or the place.
You were like a brother to me. A terrible, jackass of a brother, but still, I looked up to you.
Ward
What does this have to do with anything?
I know you sent that guy. You were the only one with me the day I broke my arm.
Ward
Why is this so important?
Do you hate me that much?
Ward
Yes! Because the Danny Rand I knew, he's dead and I want him to stay that way.
Ward
You need to watch yourself Danny.
I'm not afraid of The Hand
Ward
Good for you. I'm talking about Harold. Be careful, he's not a replacement for your dad. The only person Harold cares about is Harold.
Ward
[resuming a meeting after Danny's entrance] Like I was saying, this anti-parasitic antimonial will have far-reaching effects. There are–
Pricing strategy for a new drug we patented.
Ward
–this will hit markets in Africa, Asia, South and Central America, even Eastern Europe. These are all possible customers.
Which means we can make this in bulk, making the production price less than $5 a pill.
LWLawrence Wilkins
So we can sell for $50 per dosage. It'll fund new research and give a nice boost to our profit margin and pharmaceutical division.
Excuse me, but umm, how many people die from, what is it?
Ward
Leishmaniasis. If left untreated, the latest numbers show roughly 50,000 a year.
And we have the cure. We can save lives at 5 bucks a pill but you want to raise the price?
Ward
I know how this looks, but this is how business is done.
That's... that's not how it works. This is normal business.
Then normal is not the best path to take. We can make our profits elsewhere.
Please Mr. Rand, we know how to do this. The World Health Organization will make most of the purchases and subsidize it for third-world countries. No one who needs this will be left untreated.
No one should make a profit off of the misery of others. It's wrong.
You want to know the truth about that meeting? It was brutal, just looking at those people in the faces, knowing exactly what they were suffering from.
Ward
That's because you're a good person.
Ward
Because you're also a good businesswomen, and that means you have to make hard decisions. You have to find a balance, and you do that better than most of us.
Ward
The suit against our Staten Island chemical plant has escalated rather quickly. I had hoped that Mr. Rand would be here to speak for his actions, but the concept of work hours is still foreign for him. However, we are a team and we need to support our colleague as he continues his transition back into this life and this company, so let us do what we do best, and save the day. I've carefully weighed our options, and after consulting with Joy, I've reached a conclusion: settling would be a mistake. Paying these people off admits there's something to hide when there isn't. This was an act of pure manipulation and I'm calling their bluff.
WWilkins
I think you might be letting right and wrong interfere with what's best for the company Ward.
Ward
Really, Lawrence? Are you willing to sacrifice $200,000,000 during one of the most challenging fiscal years this company has ever had?
WWilkins
The bad publicity could cost us even more in the long run! Can we honestly take that kind of risk?
Ward
We settle here, and suddenly everyone is knocking at the door, looking for a handout.
MRMaria Rodriguez
This looks bad.
DHDonald Hooper
They'll boycott our products.
If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that my brother has never given us a reason to doubt him. Look at his track record, every decision has been impeccable. I may not always see it at the time, but he has never once failed this company. We can trust Ward, we can trust that this is a risk worth taking.
Ward
That's yours?
Ward
You sure we're gonna be back in time?
Ward
Monastery boy in an Aston Martin.
I had the fastest donkey cart in K'un-Lun too.
[Joy gives Ward her phone to look at pictures]
Ward
What's this?
Ward
[looks through pictures of the board members in compromising situations] Jesus... is this real?
Unfortunately. Half our board is either screwing the company or someone who is not their spouse.
Ward
You couldn't put this much dirt together overnight. Where'd you get this?
I hired a private investigator awhile ago to start digging. She's worth every penny, when she is sober.
Ward
Danny Rand told me that you've had experience with The Hand, that you understand what they can do. Name your price.
YYang
No amount of money will buy the answer you are looking for.
Ward
There has to be a way to kill him.
YYang
There is a legend about a shepherd from the village of my great-grandfather. He made an arrangement with The Hand, just like your father. He was killed on the battlefield, more than once. And every time he arrived back at the village his wife was overjoyed. It seemed like such a miraculous gift, but it wasn't. Each time he came back...
Ward
He was worse
YYang
[nods] One night, without warning, he took two of his own children and roasted them on a fire. When his wife discovered it, she fled with her only remaining child in her arms. They destroy the ones closest to them first. The only solution is to run.
Ward
This has a cost, right?
We are living in a new age, where governments aren't the true controllers of man's destinies. It's corporations like Rand Enterprises that govern the world.
Ward
So you want to run Rand, like Gao?
No, not like Gao. She's all stick and no carrot. I want you in charge, because Harold has become−
Ward
Goddamn dangerous.
He can't be trusted. Our relationship would be more... quid pro quo.
I'm helping Dad free us from The Hand.
Ward
Jesus!
Ward
He's using you, Joy.
He's not using me. I came up with the plan, he needs me. Ward, he needs us.
Ward
You need to get away from him, right now. You have no idea what you're up against here.
I know exactly what I'm up against, I've laid out everything The Hand's doing.
Ward
I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about Dad.
Ward
No. He's always been a bastard to me, ever since he came back from the dead. It's like... a piece of his soul got left in the grave. He will use you, hurt you, and throw you aside without a second thought.
Ward
The sooner we can get Dad locked up, the better.
Ward
I'm helping me. I want Dad put away just as much as you do.
Ward
You think your being on the run for one day can compare to my lifetime of abuse?
He killed my parents. He caused my plane to crash.
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