Will You Accept the Charges?

"Hello, you've reached Ed Gruberman's voicemail. I'm not at my desk right now. Please leave me a message." **beep** "Hey, Ed - this is Ed. As in *you* Ed. This is your last chance. In thirty minutes, you're going to meet a man from legal who wants to schedule a meeting with you. His joke - legal is downstairs." _(bitter laughter)_ "Anyway, he's going to tell you he's got an offer you need to take a look at. Let me save you the visit - you don't. You don't need to, you don't *WANT* to take that meeting. He'll tease you, he'll tempt you - but that's his *job*, you know." _(cough)_ "I'm not gonna say who he is. But I _am_ gonna say that he can give you *anything* you want. And the only thing I came up with was this - to call me up a week ago and-" _beep over phone_ "Wait. WAIT." _rustling_ "is *THAT* why we're in New York? You put me one hour ahead so I'd...I'd...I'd miss..." _screams, crackling sounds_ _*beep*_