Filming on location in New York, Rock places his character, Richard Cooper, in an investment bank in a midtown tower where they ought to review their security arrangements: sleek, sexy Nikki Tru (Kerry Washington) keeps turning up in his office uninvited and unannounced.

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The abandoned Bell Labs are fighting for their existence, and CBS's somber granite tower stands in midtown Manhattan as an impressive marker of broadcasting's better days.

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