You Can't Take It With You Scene 12 Summary

  • Over to Mr. Kirby's offices, where they're all excited about the deal.
  • Mr. Kirby is in the conference room and seems kind of sad. He contemplates the harmonica and throws it across the table.
  • The other businessmen burst in and are about to bustle out all together again when Ramsey shows up.
  • He's the rival manufacturer Kirby screwed over by buying up all the land around him.
  • He accuses Kirby of being a heartless jerk. Basically the same things Grandpa said, in case you missed it the first time.
  • Ramsey dramatically keels over and has to be helped out.
  • Kirby grabs that harmonica again. Symbol!
  • Tony comes in. Mr. Kirby says he wants to make Tony president, but Tony says he's going to quit.
  • He doesn't like banking, which seems reasonable. So he's going to leave and maybe try to work on figuring out how grass uses solar power.
  • Kirby is deep in contemplation.
  • Then it turns out Ramsay died in the washroom of heart failure.
  • Ramsay's death is actually announced twice. Capra is not into subtlety.
  • So Kirby goes upstairs to the meeting.
  • Everyone claps when his elevator door opens… but then Kirby has them take him downstairs, and he leaves the building.