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Prescott's aide tells them that they have to look for budget items to slash to build a fund to protect the company. At the meeting, it's announced that another powerful CEO, named Donald Davenport (Fred Gwynne), is acquiring large portions of Pemrose stock in a bid to take over the company. She's initially quite rude and dismissive but eventually warms to him. Brantley attends a meeting of the high-level Pemrose management and meets Christy Wells (Helen Slater), an attractive exec whom Brantley is immediately smitten with. Though he's very careful to hide his intentions, his boss in the mail room begins to suspect him. The next day Brantley goes to the same office before his mail rounds and is able to procure a secretary for himself and set himself up in the terminated exec's place, adopting the alias Carlton Whitfield. Brantley is able to set up a shipping plan for the company, his initiative in solving the problem impressing the rep. One of the man's contacts has called asking why there are shipping problems for his company in the Midwest. Brantley sits in the office dreaming about being an exec when the phone rings. During their mail rounds, Fred informs Brantley that an exec had been fired and that the mail room staff knew about it three days ahead of the man getting the news. Babbling about how he's disgraced his family by having sex with his aunt, he bolts out and leaves. Brantley is terrified to know he's coming toward the pool house and is even more terrified to see that it's Howard Prescott himself. Brantley tells her he wants to make it on his own. After having sex, she tells him she'll help him advance in the company. Brantley is able to convince her otherwise and the two take a swim where she seduces him.

She tells him about how her marriage has faltered and that she feels unattractive at her age. His boyish charm soon wins her over on the ride and she invites him to stay for a drink at her palatial estate. Back in the mail room, Brantley is charged with driving another Pemrose exec, the bad-tempered Vera (Margaret Whitton), to her home in Litchfield in a limo after her car broke down. Brantley is also able to acquire information about the company by looking through memos and other important documents, gaining as much knowledge as he can about the inner workings of the corporation. Fred also tells Brantley not to mix with the executives in the building while he makes deliveries.

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Brantley is immediately disliked by his boss and teamed up with another worker, Fred Melrose (John Pankow), who teaches Brantley how to deliver the mail and leave enough time for goofing off. Prescott and his secretary seemed very impressed with Brantley's tenacity (the young man creates a business card by photocopying his smiling face and signing it) and Prescott gives him a job working in the Pemrose mail room. Brantley goes to his uncle's office and convinces Prescott's secretary to give him five minutes alone with Prescott himself. With no good prospects, Brantley decides to play his last card: prior to leaving Kansas, his mother tells him that he's related to Howard Prescott (Richard Jordan), a distant uncle & the CEO of Pemrose, a large New York investment firm and one of the richest in the world. He's repeatedly turned down with all his interviewers telling him that he lacks the experience necessary. However, even without employment, Brantley refuses to give up looking for another job.

When he arrives at the firm, he finds that it's closing because it was acquired in a hostile takeover and that 90% of the workforce, including himself, is now jobless. He moves into a crummy Manhattan studio apartment and prepares for work. He travels to New York City to join a large investment firm in an entry-level position he obtained while still a student. Fox) is a young college graduate who has just earned a degree in business in his home state of Kansas.

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