

When she confronts Chad, he admits the truth. Christine is shocked by the revelation, and refuses to believe that Chad would do this. When Christine eventually breaks this news to Howard, Howard tells Christine the truth about their scheme, and tells her that he loves her. Chad eventually sleeps with Christine, and she falls in love with him. These mishaps culminate in Howard being demoted and Chad taking his place as the head of the project after Chad places the blame for the mishaps unfairly on Howard. In the meantime, things with the project go wrong a fax Chad is supposed to have made to the home office is "lost" and a presentation Chad is supposed to deliver to the home office is unable to be carried out successfully after some documents are allegedly printed so lightly that they are illegible. Chad and Howard decide to each ask her out, and over the course of several weeks, date her simultaneously. Chad is the originator and driving force behind the scheme, while Howard is the more passive of the two, which leads to a later conflict with the scheme.Ĭhad decides upon Christine ( Stacy Edwards), a deaf coworker who is so self-conscious that she wears headphones so people, thinking that she is listening to music, are compelled to get her attention visually without immediately learning that she is deaf. Embittered by bad experiences with women, Chad and Howard form a mean-spirited revenge scheme to find an insecure woman, romance her simultaneously, and then break up with her at the same time. Chad ( Aaron Eckhart) and Howard ( Matt Malloy) are two middle management employees at a corporation, temporarily assigned to a branch office away from home for six weeks.
