Hackett is clearly forcing a confrontation.

2 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:32:41.676 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Nelson Chaney tells me Beale may actually go on the air this evening.

- As far as I know, Howard's going to do it.

- You going to sit still for this, Ed?

- Yes.

- I think Hackett's overstepped himself.

- There's some kind of corporate maneuvering going on, Max.

- Hackett is clearly forcing a confrontation.

- That would account for his behavior at the stockholders' meeting.

- However, I think he's making a serious mistake with this Beale business.

- I suspect CCA will be upset at Hackett's presumptuousness. Certainly Mr. Jensen will.

- So I'm going to let Hackett have his head for a while. He just might lose it over this Beale business.

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