Look, these people aren't the old- world malavita anymore. They'rebusinessmen. Their only code isprofit and loss. They'll do thingsto Paul that can't be undone for anyamount of money.
GETTY:
Paul got himself into this. The boy's going to have to live with theconsequences of his actions.
CHACE:
Don't let him die just for being achild. We have to pay.
GETTY:
I can't.
CHACE:
I'm sorry?
GETTY:
It simply isn't possible right now.
My financial position has changed.
CHACE:
I'm not all that bright but I canmultiply as well as you. With oil up 7% this morning you made a fortune.
GETTY:
Precisely. I'm highly leveraged to the price of oil right now.
CHACE:
In the middle of an oil embargo I'dsay that's a good place to be.
GETTY:
When the oil price is rising, it is.
But what if the price of oil weresuddenly to fall? What if the embargois lifted? What then? I would be exposed. Do you know how JesseLivermore died?
CHACE:
I don't know who he was.
69.
GETTY:
He was the greatest speculator instocks ever to work on Wall Street.
He blew his brains out in a coat check room after he lost every pennyhe had. That's how fast a man's fortune can turn. Don't you see?
I've never been more vulnerable financially than I am right now.
CHACE:
No one has ever been richer than youare at this moment.
GETTY:
I don't have the money to spare.
CHACE:
What would it take? How much would it take for you to feel secure?
GETTY:
More.
Chace is struck silent. Getty turns on him: GETTY (CONT'D) I didn't need to hire an ex-CIA officer just to pay people off. I can do that myself. I hired you todo things other people can't, orwon't. That means rescuing the boy.