The main characters say fate had Mercer steal Kate’s car so they could be together. God is discussed and dismissed, but “fate” is mentioned as guiding people’s lives. However, Mercer takes a moral slide by stealing a car, taking illegal drugs and attempting to lose his virginity. THE GO-GETTER is well written, acted and directed. Towards the end, Kate meets up with him, and together they finish the journey. Throughout all of his escapades, he talks via phone to Kate and they form an unusual relationship. Mercer’s mother died a few months ago and so he wants to find his only family member, Arlen a half brother whom he has not seen in 14 years. Kate and Mercer begin to talk as he reveals why he’s on the road. For Cappy's sake, the couple agree to live in his mansion.THE GO-GETTER is the story of Mercer who sets out to find his long-lost half brother by stealing a car and taking a road trip, only to enter into a relationship via cell phone with Kate, the woman whose car he stole.
Cappy finds them rowing back to land.īill negotiates an end to the strike, and Cappy decides to send Skinner to Shanghai instead. Margaret follows him, and the captain drops a lifeboat. When the captain of the ship refuses Bill's request to turn around, Bill jumps overboard. Then Cappy receives word that his men have gone on strike, and they trust and will only negotiate with Bill. He buys up all the staterooms in the ship Bill is to take, but Bill and Margaret get married and manage to sneak aboard the ship anyway. When Bill insists on marrying Margaret immediately so she can accompany him, Cappy does his best to stop him. Cappy is so impressed, he offers Bill a promotion to manager of his Shanghai office. Cappy and Skinner have pre-arranged all sorts of obstacles to make the task impossible, but Bill overcomes them all, and by hocking Margaret's ring to help pay the $1000 price of the vase and persuading a Navy pilot friend (on his honeymoon night, no less) to fly him ahead of the already departed train, he succeeds. He gives Bill instructions to buy it whatever the cost and bring it to him at the railway station by eight o'clock. Cappy telephones Bill and tells him he saw a vase he liked, but could not spare the time to purchase it. He and Skinner go ahead with the "blue vase" test, a test everybody has failed, including Skinner. When he tells Cappy of his plans, however, the widowed Cappy is adamantly opposed to losing Margaret's company. With his commission from his trip, he buys an engagement ring. Meanwhile, Bill and Margaret fall in love. Not only does Bill sell all of the spruce, he also generates orders for all of the lumber the company has and more, all in a single business trip across the western United States, forcing Cappy to send him to Seattle to buy the shortfall from a hard-negotiating competitor.
He and Skinner decide to give Bill the hardest task they can think of: selling a half million feet of unwanted skunk spruce Cappy bought years ago as a favor to a friend. Cappy, who is frustrated with the way Skinner and Peasely have been running the businesses he built up, is quite willing to countermand them. She sees her father first, and asks him to give Bill a chance. He assumes she is also a job seeker and makes a date with her, unaware she is Cappy's only offspring. While waiting in the reception area, he encounters Margaret again. Undeterred, Bill seeks out Cappy Ricks, the retired founder of both companies. Matt Peasely, head of a shipping firm in the same building, is more polite, but the answer is still the same. He tries a lumber company run by Lloyd Skinner, interrupting a meeting between Skinner and his fiancee Margaret Ricks.
He goes looking for employment, but jobs are scarce in San Francisco. Bill loses a leg as a result of the crash and leaves the Navy. When the US Navy rigid airship Macon is damaged in a storm and crashes into the water (as the real USS Macon did in 1935), helmsman Bill Austin stays with his commanding officer until the rest of the crew has gotten safely away.
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