Glengarry Glen Ross

Act II takes place the next morning in the real estate office, where a window is broken and boarded up from the robbery the night before. The office has been ransacked, and there is broken glass on the floor. Unlike Act I, Act II occurs in one uninterrupted scene. Aaronow and Williamson smoke and stand around. Aaronow fills the silence by chattering anxiously. Baylen, a police detective, is there. Then Roma enters, booming questions about whether the robbers stole his contracts, shouting that they owe him a Cadillac. Williamson hedges, stating that they didn’t get Roma’s contract—singular—because he filed it last night. Baylen interjects, questioning how Roma knew about the robbery. Dismissively, Roma says that Moss told him, and he doesn’t know how Moss knew, but it was obvious when he walked in. Williamson explains that they stole some of the contracts, but the contract he closed last night with Lingk is safe and already filed. Roma crows that this wins the contest for him, and he wants his Cadillac. When Aaronow speaks, he stammers quietly that the contracts were probably insured, and Williamson agrees. Roma asks how Aaronow is doing, and Aaronow says “fine” before realizing that Roma was asking how he is doing in the contest.