Diane: What can I do for you, sir?
Wackner: I want to hire you.
Diane: You want to?
Wackner: Hire you, your firm. I did my research, and I’m willing to pay your retainer.
Diane: Are you being sued?
Wackner: No, I’m creating a courtroom, and I need to know the best way to do it.
Diane: We don’t do that, sir.
Wackner: But you do try to make money.
Diane: We do.
Wackner: I’m willing to pay money. I looked online. One of your services is consultation on legal issues. Your website is incredibly insistent on that. Well, I need consultation, and I’m willing to pay.
Diane: Mr. Wackner, I don’t like what you’re doing.
Wackner: And I’m not trying to convince you. I’m using your skepticism, and the incentive of capitalism to acquire your services to perfect my little clubhouse of the law. I want you and I want Marissa to help me.
Diane: Our retainer is not… it’s sizable.
Wackner: I got money.
Diane: Why are you doing this, sir? It’s not going to benefit you.
Wackner: It’s odd. I might talk for a while, so just let me. Since the ‘80s, people have been discussing everything, ‘cause if it’s built on, what can benefit or disadvantage. You remember a time before that? People used to want to write the great American novel and not sell out. Build a beach sculpture, fly to Ecuador, help people. Do you remember the last time you heard those words ‘Peace Corps?’ I do. I want a new Peace Corps for America.
Diane: I’ll have downstairs draw up a retainer agreement.