(In his office, Walter is trying to send a wink to Cheryl but failed.)
Hi! Todd Mahar, eHarmony.
How can I help you today?
Hi. I can't seem to leave a wink for someone.
I don't know, is my page broken?
Do I maybe have a broken page, or...
I've never heard of that, but, okay.
You're trying to use your eHarmony account for the first time?
I am.
Okay.
I'm looking at your profile.
We have a pretty intricate matching algorithm.
That's what distinguishes us from other online dating services.
Yeah, I like that.
Actually, I'm just trying to leave a wink for one person.
Cheryl Melhoff.
She started in my division at work about a month ago...
and I overheard her near the bagels saying she was on your site.
Okay, that's unique.
But let me ask you.
You left a lot of this stuff...
like the "Been There, Done That" section, you left it blank.
Yeah, I think I skipped it.
Okay, you got to help me out here, man.
Don't skip stuff.
Okay, well, I haven't really been anywhere noteworthy or mentionable.
Have you done anything noteworthy, mentionable?
Hello, you still there?
Can you hang on a second?
Go, go, go! Get out! Get out!
She's gonna blow! Go! Go!
Chips!
Over here!
Chips! Thank you! How did you know about the building?
I heard barking, thought I smelled gas.
I hope it's okay.
I engineered a prosthesis for Chips while I was sprinting down the stairwell.
A little hip-joint assembly with a drop-ring lock and an anterior pelvic band.
God, you're noteworthy!
I just live by the ABC's: Adventurous, Brave, Creative.
That's everything I want in a man.
My man?
Hey, my man, you still there?
Hey.
What? Did you pass out or...
No, I just like, zoned out for a second.
Okay. Do you do that a lot?
Normal amount, I guess.
Yeah, I got to run. Sorry.
Okay, but we need a lot more...
Morning, Hernando!
There's a new nut pouch, did you hear?
Yeah. I met him.
We're gonna be evaluated.
They won't be able to.
We do intricate details back here.
Yeah.
It's tricky. And bewildering.
I should evaluate you, you should evaluate me.
I don't think they'll let us do that.
Just saying.
Hey, how long has this neg roll been here?
Out in the open.
It says "Sean O’Connell".
It came in this morning.
There's a present, too.
He sent you a present, on your desk.
Sean O'Connell still shoots on film.
That results for me in a man crush.
Hey, you want to mount these?
Seriously?
Sure.
Heard rumblings LIFE's done, man.
Wanted to say thanks.
Take a look inside, a gift for all the years of hard work.
Sorry about the neg roll.
I spilled some blood on it while self-stitching a gun wound to my abdomen,
but number 25 is my best ever.
The quintessence of life, I think.
I trust you'll get it where it needs to go.
You always do.
(On the wallet: S.O. to W.M. — Thanks for the great work.)
What did you get?
It's a wallet.
With LIFE's motto on it.
(To see the world, Things dangerous to come to, To see behind walls,To draw closer,)
(To find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of LIFE.)
Here you go.
Where's 25?
It's not there.
Hey, we need negative 25.
Sean O'Connell sent a telegram.
An actual telegram.
A 100-year-old dude came in a little hat.
So there's a floor meeting.
Bring 25.
It's here somewhere.
We'll find it.
Okay, make a contact sheet of these frames as soon as you can.
And don't say anything to anyone.
Yeah.
I just wanted to inform you all reluctantly, that...
I guess, just start back from the beginning.
Okay. I just wanted to inform you all reluctantly
that this month's issue will be our last.
What?
Yeah. What?
This is some bull!
It's sad...news, for sure.
Now, you're all valued employees.
But as we undergo this transition to LIFE online,
we wanted to be candid with you that some of you
will be determined non-vital employees to the new partnership.
And we'll be deciding which of those positions
will be remaining with us over the course of the next week.
Also, we feel sad about that, as you can see.
Now for some good news, we are very excited...
All right, Don. Ted Hendricks.
Managing director of the transition.
Never fun, this stage.
But we do have ahead of us the privilege of publishing
what will be the very last issue of LIFE magazine.
And for the final issue, we just received a telegram.
Come on. From Sean O'Connell, who has never,
I'm told, been willing to speak with the executives here.
Well, he broke his long silence
and shared his thoughts with us through that old man.
Sean O'Connell: "I expect full consideration of negative 25 for cover.
My most grand.‘The quintessence of life'."
What is that?
It means like the fullest and most rich.
Okay. So our cover will probably be the most famous ever
because it really will have the big quintessence of all time.
Very full and so rich.
So let's see this thing.
Huh?
Let's see it.
Can we...
What am I doing up here?
What's going on?
We'll receive it now from Negative Assets.
This gentleman.
The last man in.
Negative Assets.
What's that?
Ah, Major Tom.
Can I get that?
It's being processed.
All right.
Well, let's do it.
Let's process some quintessence.
Come on.
Go.
Now.
That's why I'm clapping.
When do we go to press?
Two and a half weeks.
Hi.
I'm Walter.
Cheryl.
Mitty.
Melhoff.
Yes. You work in Photo Accounts, right?
I do. Negative Assets.
Yes. I am.
You're processing the last cover photo.
That's a big deal.
Yeah, it's...there's a...we have a glitch.
Mini, on that one right now.
I wanted to say, to you...
do you maybe have an address for Sean O'Connell?
Um...It's not really that easy with him.
He moves around so much. I don't.
Yeah, he's on a freelance.
I don't know where and he doesn't have a phone.
No phone? He's old school.
Yeah.
Well...
But, you know, why don't I check with Peg?
I know she just processed a check for him.
And we could track his pay-out maybe.
Find him that way?
Cool.
Very cool.
Okay.
Walter.
Yes.
I'm on it.
Thanks.