**Maid Walked 20 Miles to Work Each Day—Her Billionaire Boss Followed Her and Froze at What He Saw** — Transcript

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1. 0:04Garnet Street, Adrian. The landlord
2. 0:07signs that whole street over next month,
3. 0:09and then it's rubble. 40 floors.
4. 0:13>> I'm driving out to look at the block
5. 0:15right now.
6. 0:16>> Don't go falling for it.
7. 0:19>> It's brick, Preston. I don't fall for
8. 0:21brick.
9. 0:27Hold on.
10. 0:28>> What?
11. 0:28>> That's my housekeeper.
12. 0:30On the shoulder.
13. 0:32>> So, she lives out this way.
14. 0:35>> She left my place 3 hours ago. We're 10
15. 0:38miles out, and she's walking.
16. 0:40>> Adrian,
17. 0:41I've got investors calling me twice a
18. 0:43day. Is Garnet Street going to a vote
19. 0:45next week or isn't it?
20. 0:47>> It is. I'll call you back.
21. 1:20>> 30,000.
22. 1:22A year and a half ago, this tin had
23. 1:24thread in it.
24. 1:27>> 15 to go, Mama.
25. 1:31>> 20 miles a day, baby. Look at your feet.
26. 1:36Out that door at 4:00 in the morning,
27. 1:38home at dark.
28. 1:39You walk yourself down to nothing.
29. 1:43>> No bus goes up that hill.
30. 1:45And I sold my car to start that tin.
31. 1:49I'd sell it again.
32. 1:55>> Ninth set of soles, Simone. I'm running
33. 1:57out of shoe to glue them, too.
34. 2:00>> Otis,
35. 2:01Kessler came by again.
36. 2:0445,000 by the last day of next month or
37. 2:07114 gets sold with everything else on
38. 2:09the block.
39. 2:11>> To Northgate?
40. 2:13>> Over my dead body. Not while I've got
41. 2:16two feet.
42. 2:23>> You coming in, son, or you holding up
43. 2:24the door?
44. 2:30>> Mr. Cole? What are you doing down here?
45. 2:35>> I passed you on the highway.
46. 2:37I wanted to see that you got home.
47. 2:42>> Mama, this is Mr. Cole. I clean his
48. 2:45house. Mr. Cole, my mother, Mabel
49. 2:47Ellison.
50. 2:50>> Good afternoon.
51. 2:52Now, what brings a suit like that down
52. 2:54to Garnet Street?
53. 2:56You're not one of those Northcourt
54. 2:57people, are you?
55. 3:01Because they send men out here every
56. 3:03week to measure my sidewalk like I'm
57. 3:05already gone.
58. 3:06>> I build things, ma'am. I was looking at
59. 3:08some land nearby.
60. 3:12Simone, I had no idea you were walking.
61. 3:15Let me buy you a car.
62. 3:16Today.
63. 3:17>> No, sir.
64. 3:19>> It would be nothing to me.
65. 3:21>> It'd be something to me.
66. 3:23If I didn't work for it,
67. 3:25I don't want it.
68. 3:28>> She gets that from me.
69. 3:31>> Then let me drive you.
70. 3:33Both ways.
71. 3:35>> That's 20 miles a day out of your way.
72. 3:38>> It's 7 hours a day out of yours.
73. 3:43>> 7 hours, baby.
74. 3:45That's 7 hours behind this counter with
75. 3:47me.
76. 3:51>> All right.
77. 3:52A ride,
78. 3:53but I pay for gas.
79. 3:55>> We can argue about that in the car.
80. 4:00>> 3 hours, Adrian. You hung up on me.
81. 4:02Where were you?
82. 4:05>> Garnet Street.
83. 4:06I followed her the rest of the way.
84. 4:08Her mother runs the tailor shop on the
85. 4:09corner, 114.
86. 4:12>> 114 is the north corner. That's our
87. 4:14front door.
88. 4:21>> They've got $30,000 in a cookie tin.
89. 4:24They're saving up to buy that building
90. 4:25out from under us.
91. 4:27Then they'll come up short.
92. 4:29That's not North Geer's problem, and
93. 4:31it's definitely not yours. Push the
94. 4:33vote.
95. 4:346 weeks.
96. 4:37>> 6 weeks?
97. 4:39The land's been approved since April. I
98. 4:41can close on it tomorrow with my own
99. 4:43signature. Only the tower needs your
100. 4:45vote.
101. 4:47>> Then the land waits, too.
102. 4:48I'm not putting my name on that street
103. 4:50until I've stood on it.
104. 4:59>> All this for a housekeeper.
105. 5:02>> She's wearing out her feet to rescue the
106. 5:03one building I'm scheduled to flattened.
107. 5:06I'd like to understand that first.
108. 5:11>> Fine.
109. 5:126 weeks. And the survey crews?
110. 5:16>> They keep working.
111. 5:17But on that street,
112. 5:19not one of our people says my name.
113. 5:32>> Hold out your arm.
114. 5:38How much was this suit?
115. 5:40>> About 4,000.
116. 5:44>> $4,000 and the sleeve is half an inch
117. 5:46too long. Whoever hemmed that owes you
118. 5:49money. Take it off. That button's
119. 5:51hanging by a prayer, too.
120. 6:00One sleeve and a button, $2.
121. 6:07>> I don't carry anything smaller.
122. 6:09>> Then you'll stand right there while I
123. 6:10count.
124. 6:1396
125. 6:1497 98 count it.
126. 6:18>> Keep it, please.
127. 6:20>> For a button? No, sir. I charge what the
128. 6:23work is worth.
129. 6:24>> [snorts]
130. 6:25>> Don't bother.
131. 6:26She once mailed a lady 40 cents. The
132. 6:28stamp cost more.
133. 6:34>> Then don't take it for the button.
134. 6:36Put it toward the building.
135. 6:39Your own wall says every dollar gets you
136. 6:41closer.
137. 6:46>> All right.
138. 6:48It goes in the tin.
139. 6:51And your name goes up on my wall with
140. 6:52everybody else's.
141. 7:02>> What's this book?
142. 7:04>> Every job I never send a bill for. 30
143. 7:07years of them.
144. 7:08Interview suits graduation gowns funeral
145. 7:12dresses taken in overnight.
146. 7:16>> You did all that for free?
147. 7:18>> Mr. Cole, these are my people.
148. 7:21Nobody mails their own people an
149. 7:23invoice.
150. 7:31>> Is this you?
151. 7:33>> I was nine.
152. 7:35>> That jacket is wearing you.
153. 7:38>> It was my father's.
154. 7:40He died that March.
155. 7:45The night before the funeral, the tailor
156. 7:46on our corner stayed open until 2:00 in
157. 7:47the morning taking it in as far as it
158. 7:49would go.
159. 7:50My mother tried to pay him.
160. 7:53He wouldn't take it.
161. 7:54I hated it.
162. 7:56Not him.
163. 7:57The owing.
164. 8:00I promised myself nobody would ever have
165. 8:01to hand me anything again. So I built
166. 8:03things that can't be taken.
167. 8:08>> You know that tailor is my mother,
168. 8:09right? Different corner, same needle.
169. 8:14>> I've noticed.
170. 8:18>> Mama's worn out.
171. 8:20Her hands quit on her by noon.
172. 8:23Here's what she doesn't know yet.
173. 8:25When that building is ours,
174. 8:27the shop is going to be mine.
175. 8:30I'm not only working for her.
176. 8:33>> You'd run it well.
177. 8:35>> I'd run it better than well.
178. 8:38>> [snorts]
179. 8:40>> Here.
180. 8:41It's a scrap from the cutting table.
181. 8:44Mama says a suit like yours looks naked
182. 8:46without something in the pocket.
183. 8:55>> How does it look?
184. 8:58>> Like two cents in a $4,000 pocket.
185. 9:01>> [laughter]
186. 9:06>> Mr. Cole, afternoon, sir. We'll have the
187. 9:08east side done by 4:00.
188. 9:12>> Finish up and go.
189. 9:14And on this street,
190. 9:15you've never seen me before.
191. 9:19>> Yes, sir.
192. 9:24>> Sit.
193. 9:26Those shoes have been begging me all
194. 9:28week.
195. 9:3411 years ago, my shop burned.
196. 9:38Bad wiring. Took every machine I owned.
197. 9:42Mabel emptied out her back room and
198. 9:44said, "Set up in here till you're back
199. 9:46on your feet."
200. 9:49I stayed a year.
201. 9:52She never once said the word rent.
202. 9:56>> What would it take to keep a street like
203. 9:57this alive?
204. 10:01>> Folks who don't leave.
205. 10:04Money blows through here like weather,
206. 10:06son. A street runs on the ones who stay
207. 10:09put.
208. 10:13Which reminds me,
209. 10:15you've been on this block every day for
210. 10:162 weeks.
211. 10:18That's a lot of visiting for a man who's
212. 10:20only giving a girl a ride.
213. 10:23She's not only a
214. 10:24>> Mhm.
215. 10:26>> And that fellow with the tripod, how'd
216. 10:28he know your name?
217. 10:31>> I've hired a lot of crews.
218. 10:35>> I bet you have.
219. 10:38>> Over foot.
220. 10:40>> Can the tower go up around one building?
221. 10:43>> The corner, 144.
222. 10:46I ran it Tuesday.
223. 10:48I ran it again Thursday.
224. 10:49Leave that corner standing and the
225. 10:51plaza's gone plus two decks of parking.
226. 10:53It doesn't pencil.
227. 10:55>> Then run it a third time.
228. 10:58>> What is it about that one building?
229. 11:00>> A third time, Preston.
230. 11:14>> Mr. Kessler,
231. 11:15>> Preston Hale,
232. 11:16>> how fast can you close?
233. 11:18>> Mabel, I won't dress this up. My buyer's
234. 11:20paying extra to close now and I'm taking
235. 11:22it. Your deadline's Monday.
236. 11:26>> Monday?
237. 11:28You gave me to the end of the month.
238. 11:30You shook my hand, Walt.
239. 11:34>> I did and I'm sorry.
240. 11:3645,000 by 9:00 Monday morning or 114
241. 11:40goes with the rest.
242. 11:41>> We have 33.
243. 11:43>> Then you've got till Monday to find 12.
244. 11:55>> Then we find it. Saturday. Tables on the
245. 11:58sidewalk, the whole street. You, him,
246. 12:00Mr. Otis Shine, Miss Dobs sells plates.
247. 12:05>> $12,000 in hymns, baby.
248. 12:08>> Whatever we make, it's closer than we
249. 12:10are right now.
250. 12:15The sales on Saturday, will you come?
251. 12:18>> I'll be there.
252. 12:25Kessler just cut 3 weeks off their
253. 12:26deadline.
254. 12:28Some buyer in a hurry.
255. 12:30Preston.
256. 12:32Is that buyer us?
257. 12:34We're frozen until your vote. That was
258. 12:37the deal.
259. 12:38You've got 3 weeks left on it.
260. 12:42Then get him on the phone today and tell
261. 12:44him North Gate can wait.
262. 12:48I'll take care of it.
263. 13:01>> Is that smoke?
264. 13:03>> It's steam.
265. 13:08>> That's a brand.
266. 13:10>> It's very well pressed.
267. 13:14>> You build things for a living and you
268. 13:15can't iron one shirt? Move. You're on
269. 13:17the cash box where you can't hurt
270. 13:19anybody.
271. 13:25Hush, all of you.
272. 13:27I counted it twice.
273. 13:29$5,000.
274. 13:32>> That's more than this street ever raised
275. 13:33for anything.
276. 13:35>> [laughter]
277. 13:36>> And we're still seven short with 2 days
278. 13:38left.
279. 13:43>> Then Monday morning I go see Walt
280. 13:44Keller.
281. 13:4620 years I've known that man. He can
282. 13:48tell me no to my face.
283. 13:56You know you watch her every time she
284. 13:58crosses the street.
285. 14:01>> That easy to spot?
286. 14:02>> A blind man could.
287. 14:0544 years with my Lorraine, and here's
288. 14:07the whole trick.
289. 14:09Whatever sitting on your chest,
290. 14:12put it in plain words.
291. 14:14And don't let another Monday go by.
292. 14:18>> Monday.
293. 14:19Once Kessler gives her the month back,
294. 14:21first thing.
295. 14:24>> First thing.
296. 14:30Simone, Mrs. Ellison,
297. 14:33could you both sit down?
298. 14:35I've been carrying something since the
299. 14:36first afternoon I came in here and I
300. 14:37can't carry it another day.
301. 14:40>> I just left Kessler's office.
302. 14:42I asked for one more week. He wouldn't
303. 14:45give me an hour.
304. 14:48So, whatever this is, Mr. Cole,
305. 14:51it had better be good news.
306. 15:05>> Morning, boss. Didn't figure you'd come
307. 15:07watch.
308. 15:10>> What is this?
309. 15:11>> Mr. Hale closed with the landlord at
310. 15:129:00 sharp. Whole street belongs to
311. 15:14Northgate now. We're posting every
312. 15:16building.
313. 15:18>> Hale closed?
314. 15:19On whose say so?
315. 15:21>> Yours, I figured. You're the boss.
316. 15:24>> The boss of what?
317. 15:27Young man,
318. 15:29who signs your paycheck?
319. 15:31>> Northgate Development, ma'am. That's Mr.
320. 15:32Cole's outfit.
321. 15:36>> [clears throat]
322. 15:37>> Tell me he's got the wrong man.
323. 15:40>> He doesn't.
324. 15:41Northgate is my company.
325. 15:44I didn't know about this morning,
326. 15:45but the company's mine.
327. 15:50>> And when did you find out whose shop
328. 15:52this was?
329. 15:54>> Simone,
330. 15:56the day I walked in.
331. 15:58I followed Simone off the highway with
332. 16:00the demolition map on the seat next to
333. 16:01me.
334. 16:03>> The day you walked in.
335. 16:05So, every ride,
336. 16:07every afternoon at that counter,
337. 16:10you stood there and let my mother fix
338. 16:11your sleeve.
339. 16:13>> I came here today to tell you
340. 16:16I I the words ready.
341. 16:2696, 97, 98.
342. 16:33I don't keep what I can't stand to look
343. 16:34at.
344. 16:38>> [snorts]
345. 16:38>> Mrs. Ellison, 5 minutes, please.
346. 16:41>> You see my mother's face?
347. 16:43That was your 5 minutes.
348. 16:45Go.
349. 16:51>> So, what happens to the tin?
350. 16:53>> We hold on to it.
351. 16:56Wherever we land,
352. 16:57starting over is going to cost every
353. 16:59dollar in there.
354. 17:09>> I called the agency.
355. 17:11They'll only send me up there on Daisy's
356. 17:12at his office.
357. 17:13I won't have to look at him.
358. 17:17>> And how do you plan on getting up that
359. 17:19hill?
360. 17:21>> Same way I always did.
361. 17:24>> Baby, the building's gone.
362. 17:26What are you walking for now?
363. 17:29>> Rent.
364. 17:34>> I took in that man's sleeve at my own
365. 17:36counter.
366. 17:37I wrote his name on my wall.
367. 17:41I let him drive my child home every
368. 17:43night.
369. 17:45Don't think you're hurting by yourself.
370. 18:18It came today.
371. 18:2030 years in this shop and we're out in 3
372. 18:22weeks.
373. 18:24>> Mama, there's a stack of drawings on his
374. 18:26desk. Our shop under that tower 20
375. 18:30different ways. The last one doesn't
376. 18:32have a tower in it.
377. 18:38>> Drawings don't hold up a roof.
378. 18:45>> I'm here. Say it.
379. 18:48>> You told me we were frozen.
380. 18:50Then you bought that street while I was
381. 18:52getting my shoe shippin' on it.
382. 18:54>> I closed the deal the board approved in
383. 18:56April.
384. 18:57>> You were stalling this company over a
385. 19:00housekeeper.
386. 19:01>> Somebody had to do the job.
387. 19:04>> I spent this week with our lawyers
388. 19:06learning exactly what you signed.
389. 19:08Now I'll do mine.
390. 19:10The tower is dead.
391. 19:15>> The investors will bury you.
392. 19:16>> They get every dollar back out of my
393. 19:18shares.
394. 19:24And you're done at Northgate.
395. 19:26Legal will be in touch.
396. 19:29>> 12 years I helped you build this.
397. 19:32>> And one phone call to throw it away.
398. 19:35Go home, Preston.
399. 19:42>> Where are you going?
400. 19:43>> Garnet Street.
401. 19:45>> YOUR CAR IS RIGHT THERE.
402. 19:47>> She did this walk twice a day for a year
403. 19:50and a half.
404. 19:52I can manage once.
405. 19:56>> IT'S 10 MILES. IT'S 95°!
406. 20:12>> MS. MAVEN, you better come see what's
407. 20:15limping up this sidewalk.
408. 20:23>> What happened to your leg? I didn't hear
409. 20:25a car.
410. 20:26>> There isn't one.
411. 20:27I came on foot. Simone's road, start to
412. 20:30finish.
413. 20:31>> That's 10 miles.
414. 20:34>> I know what 10 miles is now.
415. 20:39I'm not here to explain. I'm here to
416. 20:40apologize.
417. 20:46I knew what my company meant to this
418. 20:47shop the minute I stepped through that
419. 20:49door, and I kept my mouth shut for a
420. 20:51month.
421. 20:53That's mine to carry.
422. 20:57The tower is dead.
423. 21:00Not on hold.
424. 21:01Dead.
425. 21:03Northgate is restoring Garnet Street
426. 21:05instead.
427. 21:06Roofs, wiring, all of it.
428. 21:09Nobody moves out. Nobody's rent goes up
429. 21:11a dollar.
430. 21:13I signed it this morning.
431. 21:17Brick I know how to repair.
432. 21:19What I broke with the two of you, I
433. 21:20don't.
434. 21:25You don't owe me forgiveness.
435. 21:28But you were owed the truth out of my
436. 21:29own mouth.
437. 21:33>> You walked 10 miles in dress shoes to
438. 21:35say that?
439. 21:38>> It was the only way I could think of to
440. 21:39say it that cost me something.
441. 21:49>> Sit.
442. 21:50I'm not having a man bleed on my floor
443. 21:52standing up. Lord, your feet are worse
444. 21:54than hers.
445. 22:02>> Italian leather.
446. 22:04Pretty as a hearse and about as good for
447. 22:05walking.
448. 22:07The ones who stay put. Remember?
449. 22:11>> I remember.
450. 22:21>> Morning, boss. This one I don't mind
451. 22:23hanging.
452. 22:27>> Now.
453. 22:28>> about this building.
454. 22:31I set out to buy it a year and a half
455. 22:32ago, and a new landlord doesn't change
456. 22:35my plans.
457. 22:38>> After everything, it ought to just be
458. 22:39yours.
459. 22:41Let me sign it over.
460. 22:44>> No, sir.
461. 22:45If I didn't buy it, it isn't mine.
462. 22:49Give me a number, or I'll stand on this
463. 22:51sidewalk telling you no until the street
464. 22:54lights come on.
465. 23:00>> Fine. You want a number?
466. 23:03It's whatever sitting in that tin.
467. 23:05Not a dollar more.
468. 23:07>> That's 7,000 short of Kessler's price.
469. 23:11>> You told me you charge what the work is
470. 23:13worth.
471. 23:14So do I.
472. 23:18A year and a half on that highway?
473. 23:20I'd say it's been paid for.
474. 23:30>> 37,902.
475. 23:38>> And this goes back in.
476. 23:41I've held onto it since the day you
477. 23:42returned it.
478. 23:46>> 98? Then it counts. 38,000 even.
479. 23:53Count it twice. Sold.
480. 23:57>> Simone,
481. 23:59I've rehearsed a dozen speeches.
482. 24:01Mr. Otis told me to throw them out and
483. 24:03use the plain words.
484. 24:05I love you.
485. 24:11That first afternoon I followed you just
486. 24:13to find out where you'd end up.
487. 24:16Now I'd like to walk there next to you.
488. 24:19>> Adrian.
489. 24:22>> Say that again.
490. 24:24>> Adrian.
491. 24:28>> All this time, and you've never once
492. 24:30called me that.
493. 24:32>> Get used to it.
494. 24:34Lie to me again and you'll walk that
495. 24:35highway barefoot.
496. 24:38I love you, too.
497. 24:40I think it started when you put a scrap
498. 24:42of my mother's cutting table in a $4,000
499. 24:44pocket.
500. 24:52>> Simone.
501. 24:53Nine sets of soles and not one complaint
502. 24:56out of you. Hold out your hand.
503. 25:04>> Mama.
504. 25:05You mean it?
505. 25:07>> I've meant it for a year.
506. 25:09It's your shop now.
507. 25:11I'm going to go find out what a chair
508. 25:13feels like.
509. 25:15One thing.
510. 25:17Count the change.
511. 25:19Every time.
512. 25:22>> Twice.
513. 25:27>> 11 customers before noon and every one
514. 25:29of them got the right change. I was
515. 25:31watching.
516. 25:32>> Mama, retired people don't keep score
517. 25:33from the sidewalk.
518. 25:35>> This one does.
519. 25:41>> 10th pair. This one I built from
520. 25:43scratch.
521. 25:48>> We own two cars, you know.
522. 25:50>> I know.
523. 25:52>> So, why are we out here?
524. 25:55>> Because the first time I really saw this
525. 25:57road,
526. 25:59you were on it alone.
527. 26:02>> Then make yourself useful.