Maxwell Potterdam III Quotes in Men at Work (1990)

Biff: [Sits in the car with Mario, watching Susan's apartment. Car phone rings] Hello?

Maxwell Potterdam III: First, you lose the body. And then you bring me, the wrong tape. Now I know, that you two haven't personally set out to DESTROY MY COMPANY! But I sent you out to do a simple task, and simply put, you screwed up.

Mario: [Biff is listening to Potterdam, Mario has made a origami bird and is making sounds] Caw! Caw!

Maxwell Potterdam III: Now, apparently, Berger, had a relationship with his campaign manager, a Miss Susan Wilkins.

[Potterdam gives the address]

Biff: That's where we iced Berger, Chief! I know where that is!

Maxwell Potterdam III: Well, did it ever occur to you two idiots that, SHE MIGHT HAVE THE CASSETTE?

[hangs up]

Biff: I think he wants us to kill some more people.

Mario: OK.

[puts a lollipop in his mouth]

Maxwell Potterdam III: A tape? A Goddamned tape! Shrewd move, Berger!

[picks up the phone]

Maxwell Potterdam III, Biff, Mario: [Biff and Mario stand in Potterdam's office, covered in grime from dumpster diving]

Maxwell Potterdam III: What do you mean, you lost the body?

Biff: We don't know, Chief. We looked everywhere. We had it in one of the barrels tied to the back of the trunk, and...

Maxwell Potterdam III: And?

Biff: It must have... rolled off the back of the car.

[looks down]

Maxwell Potterdam III: Well! FIND IT! Find it, find it, find it! Your very lives depend upon it, gentleman!

Biff, Mario: Right, Chief.

Mario: We did get this, though, Chief.

[hands the tape taken out of Berger's pocket to Potterdam]

Maxwell Potterdam III: Well! Thank God! You're excused.