WEBVTT 1 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:06,470 [Bach] Previously on Billions... 2 00:00:06,470 --> 00:00:08,595 Dr. Rhoades, your medical license is under review. 3 00:00:08,595 --> 00:00:10,136 I'm sorry. Why? 4 00:00:10,136 --> 00:00:12,220 There have been accusations of malpractice. 5 00:00:12,220 --> 00:00:14,220 You reported me to the Medical Board? 6 00:00:14,220 --> 00:00:15,553 Yes, I did. 7 00:00:15,553 --> 00:00:17,553 Are you going to say it wasn't warranted? 8 00:00:17,553 --> 00:00:20,762 Help me, Chuck, or I'm fucking lost. 9 00:00:20,762 --> 00:00:22,095 Make them drop the inquest? 10 00:00:22,095 --> 00:00:24,011 Is something you can do. 11 00:00:24,011 --> 00:00:25,887 [Taylor] Tomorrow is Rebecca Cantu's first day 12 00:00:25,887 --> 00:00:27,220 as CEO of Saler's. 13 00:00:27,220 --> 00:00:29,512 I want it to be a bad one for her. 14 00:00:29,512 --> 00:00:31,512 I'm going to need to withdraw from the board. 15 00:00:31,512 --> 00:00:33,345 Me, too. How come? 16 00:00:33,345 --> 00:00:34,679 We sold our shares. 17 00:00:34,679 --> 00:00:35,720 Who'd you sell to? 18 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,470 Taylor Mason. 19 00:00:37,470 --> 00:00:39,053 I'm here to apply for a wiretap. 20 00:00:39,053 --> 00:00:40,720 On Chuck Rhoades, for public corruption. 21 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:42,970 The relationship between the good judge and Mr. Rhoades 22 00:00:42,970 --> 00:00:44,679 is all the more reason why the wire is needed. 23 00:00:44,679 --> 00:00:45,845 Well played. 24 00:00:45,845 --> 00:00:47,303 You have your wire. 25 00:00:47,303 --> 00:00:52,345 I have run into a financing snag with my development. 26 00:00:52,345 --> 00:00:54,762 So how are we going to skin this-- 27 00:00:54,762 --> 00:00:58,053 Now have a seat, Mr. Secretary, we have much to discuss. 28 00:00:58,053 --> 00:00:59,762 Positive news, Dad. 29 00:00:59,762 --> 00:01:02,220 Qatar State Bank is going to be taken off the restricted list 30 00:01:02,220 --> 00:01:04,512 and it's ready to give you a sweetheart of a loan. 31 00:01:04,512 --> 00:01:06,428 [Senior] Are you sure about this? 32 00:01:06,428 --> 00:01:08,679 [Chuck] Got it straight from the Secretary Of The Treasury. 33 00:01:08,679 --> 00:01:11,261 In the last year, your house was paid off. 34 00:01:11,261 --> 00:01:13,970 Yeah, my wife came into some money. 35 00:01:13,970 --> 00:01:17,428 I'm sorry, do you... do you want a towel, or... 36 00:01:17,428 --> 00:01:19,261 I'm good. 37 00:01:19,261 --> 00:01:20,637 The Medical Board... 38 00:01:20,637 --> 00:01:22,261 I'm sorry, Wend. 39 00:01:22,261 --> 00:01:23,970 You're gonna have to take your chances with them. 40 00:01:23,970 --> 00:01:26,220 Then I know it couldn't be done. 41 00:01:34,929 --> 00:01:38,011 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 42 00:01:38,011 --> 00:01:41,637 ♪♪♪ 43 00:01:41,637 --> 00:01:45,303 ♪♪♪ 44 00:01:47,887 --> 00:01:51,261 ♪ U2's "New Year's Day" ♪ 45 00:01:51,261 --> 00:01:55,595 ♪ Yeah ♪ 46 00:01:55,595 --> 00:01:57,637 [Krakow] The bank I moved off the restricted list-- 47 00:01:57,637 --> 00:01:59,220 [Chuck] Qatar State Bank-- 48 00:01:59,220 --> 00:02:00,512 [Krakow] That's right. A report came in. 49 00:02:00,512 --> 00:02:02,136 [Krakow] I'm gonna have to move it 50 00:02:02,136 --> 00:02:03,220 [Krakow] back onto the restricted list. 51 00:02:03,220 --> 00:02:05,095 [Chuck] Shit. 52 00:02:05,095 --> 00:02:07,136 [Krakow] We need to meet. Your father too. 53 00:02:07,136 --> 00:02:09,303 [Chuck] [sighs] How about New Year's Day? 54 00:02:09,303 --> 00:02:11,595 [Chuck] Things will be quiet... 55 00:02:11,595 --> 00:02:15,804 ♪♪♪ 56 00:02:15,804 --> 00:02:20,220 ♪♪♪ 57 00:02:20,220 --> 00:02:24,679 ♪♪♪ 58 00:02:24,679 --> 00:02:26,720 ♪ All is quiet ♪ 59 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,011 Happy New Year. ♪ On New Year's Day ♪ 60 00:02:28,011 --> 00:02:30,512 Totally. And to you. 61 00:02:30,512 --> 00:02:32,095 Just how I planned to spend it. 62 00:02:32,095 --> 00:02:33,303 ♪ A world in white ♪ 63 00:02:33,303 --> 00:02:34,720 Where'd he pull you from? 64 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,011 ♪ Gets underway ♪ Turks. You? 65 00:02:36,011 --> 00:02:37,512 St. Barths. 66 00:02:37,512 --> 00:02:38,679 I don't mind. 67 00:02:38,679 --> 00:02:40,261 If it wasn't for this job, the only way 68 00:02:40,261 --> 00:02:42,261 I'd see St. Barths is on the Travel Channel. 69 00:02:42,261 --> 00:02:44,178 If I could afford cable. Come on. 70 00:02:44,178 --> 00:02:46,428 ♪♪♪ 71 00:02:46,428 --> 00:02:51,303 ♪ Nothing changes on New Year's Day ♪ 72 00:02:51,303 --> 00:02:55,303 ♪♪♪ 73 00:02:55,303 --> 00:02:58,887 ♪ On New Year's Day ♪ 74 00:02:58,887 --> 00:03:03,804 ♪ I will be with you ♪ 75 00:03:03,804 --> 00:03:05,970 I can win, right? 76 00:03:05,970 --> 00:03:09,011 We wouldn't be prepping if we didn't think-- 77 00:03:09,011 --> 00:03:10,095 Shit. 78 00:03:10,095 --> 00:03:12,512 You don't think I can win. 79 00:03:12,512 --> 00:03:15,261 Would Axe be Skyping in if he didn't think there was a-- 80 00:03:15,261 --> 00:03:17,512 Better if he were here. 81 00:03:17,512 --> 00:03:21,428 Always is. But the boys had their hearts set on Fiji. 82 00:03:21,428 --> 00:03:24,053 Skype is not the same. 83 00:03:24,053 --> 00:03:25,470 But I guess it'll be fine. 84 00:03:25,470 --> 00:03:27,470 Has to be better than fine. 85 00:03:27,470 --> 00:03:29,970 You've got to treat today like the real thing. 86 00:03:29,970 --> 00:03:31,595 We're going to make it hard on you. 87 00:03:31,595 --> 00:03:33,261 Because when you face the Medical Board, 88 00:03:33,261 --> 00:03:35,762 and your license is at stake, it'll be brutal. 89 00:03:35,762 --> 00:03:37,512 These are smart people. 90 00:03:37,512 --> 00:03:39,053 Can I win? 91 00:03:39,053 --> 00:03:41,929 You have to convince the Board that your work with Taylor, 92 00:03:41,929 --> 00:03:45,428 with all the people here, isn't part of your medical practice. 93 00:03:45,428 --> 00:03:46,762 That the sessions aren't. 94 00:03:46,762 --> 00:03:49,720 That they are performance coaching sessions. 95 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,595 That Taylor wasn't a patient, but rather a client, 96 00:03:52,595 --> 00:03:55,762 who doesn't enjoy doctor-patient confidentiality-- 97 00:03:55,762 --> 00:03:57,553 Orrin. 98 00:03:57,553 --> 00:03:59,970 Can. I. Win? 99 00:03:59,970 --> 00:04:02,261 I'll let you know when we're done today. 100 00:04:02,261 --> 00:04:04,428 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 101 00:04:04,428 --> 00:04:06,261 [elevator dings] 102 00:04:06,261 --> 00:04:09,595 ♪♪♪ 103 00:04:09,595 --> 00:04:12,762 ♪♪♪ 104 00:04:12,762 --> 00:04:16,428 Old friends become enemies, old enemies become new-- 105 00:04:16,428 --> 00:04:18,178 We were never friends. 106 00:04:18,178 --> 00:04:20,011 So, when do we get this thing started-- 107 00:04:20,011 --> 00:04:21,595 I know: you only have the morning to give-- 108 00:04:21,595 --> 00:04:24,387 No. I'm eager. Eager to get you free of this, is all. 109 00:04:24,387 --> 00:04:26,970 As long as it can be 'accomplished by midday repast.' 110 00:04:26,970 --> 00:04:28,553 [exhales sharply] 111 00:04:28,553 --> 00:04:30,804 Well, we're all here, so let's get started-- Mm. 112 00:04:30,804 --> 00:04:32,970 [Axe] Well. It's about time. 113 00:04:32,970 --> 00:04:34,970 Been waiting on you. 114 00:04:34,970 --> 00:04:37,679 You're here! 115 00:04:37,679 --> 00:04:40,470 Let's win this thing. 116 00:04:40,470 --> 00:04:43,136 ♪♪♪ 117 00:04:43,136 --> 00:04:45,845 ♪♪♪ 118 00:04:45,845 --> 00:04:48,303 [Axe] Yeah. Helo landed a few hours ago. 119 00:04:48,303 --> 00:04:49,929 The waves were a little big. 120 00:04:49,929 --> 00:04:51,178 Gordie got scraped on a coral. 121 00:04:51,178 --> 00:04:53,345 Deanie's surfboard got broken in half. 122 00:04:53,345 --> 00:04:55,553 We have front-row seats at the Rangers game tomorrow, 123 00:04:55,553 --> 00:04:57,303 [Axe] they were happy to bug out of there. 124 00:04:57,303 --> 00:05:01,970 ♪♪♪ 125 00:05:01,970 --> 00:05:06,470 [clears throat] 126 00:05:06,470 --> 00:05:09,637 You weren't expected to be here. 127 00:05:09,637 --> 00:05:12,011 Fair enough. 128 00:05:12,011 --> 00:05:15,512 Dr. Rhoades, we're holding this inquest 129 00:05:15,512 --> 00:05:17,345 over your severe ethics violation 130 00:05:17,345 --> 00:05:19,804 and misuse of patient records. 131 00:05:19,804 --> 00:05:22,845 Tell us about the nature of your sessions with Taylor Mason. 132 00:05:22,845 --> 00:05:25,095 I never discuss what I talk about with patients. 133 00:05:25,095 --> 00:05:26,845 So Taylor was your patient? 134 00:05:26,845 --> 00:05:29,345 [Bach] If we find there was a breach, it was a breach of 135 00:05:29,345 --> 00:05:31,178 doctor-patient confidentiality then. 136 00:05:31,178 --> 00:05:32,178 Client. I meant client. 137 00:05:32,178 --> 00:05:34,220 Taylor was a client 138 00:05:34,220 --> 00:05:36,929 in my performance enhancement practice. 139 00:05:36,929 --> 00:05:40,428 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 140 00:05:40,428 --> 00:05:42,512 We have to assume Wendy Rhoades will be 141 00:05:42,512 --> 00:05:44,720 buttoned down, focused, primed to go. 142 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,929 I rattled her. She was rattled. 143 00:05:46,929 --> 00:05:48,387 And then I rattled her. 144 00:05:48,387 --> 00:05:50,220 But I suspect, as Sara does, that Wendy will rally. 145 00:05:50,220 --> 00:05:52,053 And that she'll slay. 146 00:05:52,053 --> 00:05:53,553 So we have to slay harder. 147 00:05:53,553 --> 00:05:54,929 You do, Taylor. 148 00:05:54,929 --> 00:05:56,470 Tell me to slay, I'll slay. 149 00:05:56,470 --> 00:05:58,303 Let's get into it. 150 00:06:00,136 --> 00:06:02,387 Slayed me last night. 151 00:06:02,387 --> 00:06:04,970 What did you all do for New Year's Eve? 152 00:06:06,303 --> 00:06:08,679 I mostly stayed in and did some reading. 153 00:06:08,679 --> 00:06:09,929 Same. 154 00:06:09,929 --> 00:06:11,762 You stayed in. That doesn't sound like-- 155 00:06:11,762 --> 00:06:13,345 Not same. 156 00:06:13,345 --> 00:06:15,053 I just mean, I didn't do much. 157 00:06:15,053 --> 00:06:17,387 Amateur night, you know? 158 00:06:17,387 --> 00:06:19,720 I prefer to party on the nights they're not out. 159 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,762 So I just hit a diner... with some friends. 160 00:06:23,762 --> 00:06:25,553 A friend. 161 00:06:25,553 --> 00:06:28,845 Ahh, I wish I'd known you were just chilling, Lauren. 162 00:06:32,637 --> 00:06:35,095 Happy New Year! Right? 163 00:06:36,261 --> 00:06:40,261 Hello. [clears throat] 164 00:06:40,261 --> 00:06:42,053 This is Lonnie Watley. 165 00:06:42,053 --> 00:06:43,720 He was a star under Rhoades at SDNY. 166 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,303 Chuck trained me. I worked closely with him. 167 00:06:46,303 --> 00:06:48,929 I can tell you: if he is preparing his wife 168 00:06:48,929 --> 00:06:51,095 for the hearing, she will be well-prepped. 169 00:06:51,095 --> 00:06:52,220 She will be ready to kill. 170 00:06:52,220 --> 00:06:54,178 And she will say absolutely 171 00:06:54,178 --> 00:06:56,845 anything she needs to, in order to win. 172 00:06:56,845 --> 00:06:58,470 True or not. 173 00:06:58,470 --> 00:07:00,220 What is your relationship with them now? 174 00:07:00,220 --> 00:07:02,261 I need to know that-- Do they have hooks in me? 175 00:07:02,261 --> 00:07:04,720 No. They don't. 176 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,220 Sara relayed to me what happened between you and Wendy. 177 00:07:07,220 --> 00:07:09,011 And my experience was similar. 178 00:07:09,011 --> 00:07:11,220 Brought close just to be expelled. 179 00:07:11,220 --> 00:07:12,762 Like Sammy Hagar in Van Halen. 180 00:07:12,762 --> 00:07:15,845 Because, in the end, the Rhoades' only really 181 00:07:15,845 --> 00:07:17,261 take care of the Rhoades'. 182 00:07:17,261 --> 00:07:19,303 Sounds a lot like the Axelrods. 183 00:07:19,303 --> 00:07:21,303 Either way, let's go get 'em. 184 00:07:21,303 --> 00:07:23,637 We will. But you should know: 185 00:07:23,637 --> 00:07:26,053 if you pursue this it's not risk-free for you. 186 00:07:26,053 --> 00:07:28,011 I'm not afraid of an attack from them-- 187 00:07:28,011 --> 00:07:30,136 If you appear and testify against Wendy, 188 00:07:30,136 --> 00:07:31,804 they could introduce information about you, 189 00:07:31,804 --> 00:07:33,637 [Lonnie] information that you don't want out there. 190 00:07:33,637 --> 00:07:36,345 Shit gets written down. Leaks happen. 191 00:07:36,345 --> 00:07:39,136 Suddenly your character and your conduct's being questioned. 192 00:07:39,136 --> 00:07:41,053 That's how they roll. 193 00:07:41,053 --> 00:07:42,428 We don't need our investors 194 00:07:42,428 --> 00:07:43,762 learning about your personal demons-- 195 00:07:43,762 --> 00:07:45,387 Is this something you want to consider, Taylor? 196 00:07:45,387 --> 00:07:48,011 [Lauren] It's worth considering-- 197 00:07:48,011 --> 00:07:50,470 And now we have. We may come back to it. 198 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:51,887 But first, let's figure out 199 00:07:51,887 --> 00:07:53,679 how to strip Wendy of her goddamn license. 200 00:07:53,679 --> 00:07:56,512 You know how we win? 'Cause I know how we win. 201 00:07:56,512 --> 00:07:57,970 We make it so Taylor doesn't show up. 202 00:07:57,970 --> 00:08:00,095 They stop cooperating with the Medical Board. 203 00:08:00,095 --> 00:08:02,011 [Bach] It's true, if Taylor didn't appear, 204 00:08:02,011 --> 00:08:03,595 or refused to state, on the record, 205 00:08:03,595 --> 00:08:06,303 what Wendy did-- this matter disappears. 206 00:08:06,303 --> 00:08:07,553 That's not going to happen, though. 207 00:08:07,553 --> 00:08:09,553 Well. Maybe I could induce it to happen. 208 00:08:09,553 --> 00:08:11,345 [Axe] Offer them something they need. 209 00:08:11,345 --> 00:08:13,929 Create leverage. You know, what I do. 210 00:08:13,929 --> 00:08:15,679 Oooh... I can't recommend-- 211 00:08:15,679 --> 00:08:17,053 Risky move, Bobby. 212 00:08:17,053 --> 00:08:18,637 Agreed. If Taylor doesn't go for it, 213 00:08:18,637 --> 00:08:21,303 and instead takes it to the Board, we're fucked worse. 214 00:08:21,303 --> 00:08:23,845 Well, Charl, none of this would have happened in the first place 215 00:08:23,845 --> 00:08:25,762 if you would have done what you were asked. 216 00:08:25,762 --> 00:08:27,053 Taylor should be dealing with 217 00:08:27,053 --> 00:08:28,679 their own legal problems right now-- 218 00:08:28,679 --> 00:08:31,220 Oh. I hardly think I'm to blame on this one, Bub. 219 00:08:31,220 --> 00:08:33,345 Your gang war resulted in extra bodies-- 220 00:08:33,345 --> 00:08:35,845 Stop. 221 00:08:35,845 --> 00:08:37,679 Taylor won't be bought, won't be moved, 222 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:39,387 and trying will only make it worse. 223 00:08:39,387 --> 00:08:42,512 I can't let anyone engage and ask them to drop it. 224 00:08:42,512 --> 00:08:45,553 I won't give Taylor the fucking satisfaction. 225 00:08:45,553 --> 00:08:49,261 Sorry to pull you out, but, uh, there's an issue. 226 00:08:49,261 --> 00:08:51,512 Mm. 227 00:09:01,637 --> 00:09:03,470 What do you got? 228 00:09:04,887 --> 00:09:06,095 Fuck me. 229 00:09:06,095 --> 00:09:07,553 What is it? 230 00:09:07,553 --> 00:09:09,261 A shitty New Year's present. 231 00:09:09,261 --> 00:09:10,887 It's a Picasso-- Boy With Pipe. 232 00:09:10,887 --> 00:09:12,553 It's also a huge fucking tax problem. 233 00:09:12,553 --> 00:09:14,512 Once you sign that, I've got seventeen more crates 234 00:09:14,512 --> 00:09:16,595 scheduled to come to you after the holiday. 235 00:09:16,595 --> 00:09:18,595 I'm not signing that. 236 00:09:18,595 --> 00:09:21,053 Well. You got to. To take possession. 237 00:09:21,053 --> 00:09:22,762 You busy today? 238 00:09:22,762 --> 00:09:24,470 No, but I'd like to be done. You know. 239 00:09:24,470 --> 00:09:26,178 Go home and watch a bowl game. 240 00:09:26,178 --> 00:09:29,261 Oh, yeah, sure. 241 00:09:29,261 --> 00:09:34,261 That is a thousand bucks-- 242 00:09:34,261 --> 00:09:37,512 and a few more for them-- 243 00:09:37,512 --> 00:09:39,387 I need you to wait here awhile. 244 00:09:39,387 --> 00:09:42,720 Ho, a day changer. Alright. 245 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,637 Okay. 246 00:09:45,637 --> 00:09:48,261 Get him a chair, a coffee, some food-- whatever he wants. 247 00:09:48,261 --> 00:09:49,929 Set up the game on the laptop for him. 248 00:09:49,929 --> 00:09:51,595 This may take a minute. 249 00:09:51,595 --> 00:09:54,762 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 250 00:09:54,762 --> 00:09:57,762 Right now that painting and 17 others like it 251 00:09:57,762 --> 00:10:00,011 are gonna run over me like a Mack truck. 252 00:10:00,011 --> 00:10:03,595 I need you to get Sean Ayles in here now--this is his fuck-up. 253 00:10:03,595 --> 00:10:04,929 Not that he'll be able to solve it. 254 00:10:04,929 --> 00:10:06,720 So get Victor in here too. Fast. 255 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:08,762 I will. 256 00:10:08,762 --> 00:10:11,637 ♪♪♪ 257 00:10:13,053 --> 00:10:14,720 Judge Funt. 258 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,887 Even though court is closed, justice never slumbers. 259 00:10:17,887 --> 00:10:20,637 At the SDNY, we are always open for business. 260 00:10:20,637 --> 00:10:21,637 [chuckles] 261 00:10:21,637 --> 00:10:23,929 And I'll play you today's. 262 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,387 [Krakow] The bank I moved off the restricted list-- 263 00:10:29,387 --> 00:10:30,679 [Chuck] Qatar State Bank-- 264 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:32,220 [Krakow] That's right. A report came in. 265 00:10:32,220 --> 00:10:33,553 [Krakow] I'm gonna have to move it 266 00:10:33,553 --> 00:10:34,720 [Krakow] back onto the restricted list. 267 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:36,220 [Chuck] Shit. 268 00:10:36,220 --> 00:10:37,762 [Krakow] We need to meet. Your father too. 269 00:10:37,762 --> 00:10:39,804 [Chuck] [sighs] How about New Year's Day? 270 00:10:39,804 --> 00:10:41,261 [Chuck] Things will be quiet... 271 00:10:43,512 --> 00:10:45,762 The wiretaps on their telephones are no longer enough. 272 00:10:45,762 --> 00:10:47,553 We need to step up surveillance. 273 00:10:47,553 --> 00:10:50,011 As you heard, Judge, they're going to meet in person 274 00:10:50,011 --> 00:10:53,011 in pursuit of their crimes and we need to be listening. 275 00:10:54,637 --> 00:10:57,011 The Title III intercept request. 276 00:11:00,929 --> 00:11:03,512 I'm going to deny bugging the NYAG office, 277 00:11:03,512 --> 00:11:05,762 that's outside the pale. 278 00:11:05,762 --> 00:11:09,512 But I'll grant-- reluctantly-- 279 00:11:09,512 --> 00:11:13,178 transmission bugs on Chuck and Rhoades Sr.'s residences. 280 00:11:13,178 --> 00:11:14,595 Not the bedrooms. 281 00:11:14,595 --> 00:11:17,512 [Funt] Home offices, living spaces only. 282 00:11:17,512 --> 00:11:19,553 Major conditions come along with this, 283 00:11:19,553 --> 00:11:21,095 [Funt] on what you can listen to. 284 00:11:21,095 --> 00:11:22,679 Of course. 285 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:26,887 Anything not case related, and it's headphones off. 286 00:11:26,887 --> 00:11:30,762 And if a lawyer is present, then the recording stops absolutely 287 00:11:30,762 --> 00:11:33,553 to protect attorney-client privilege. 288 00:11:33,553 --> 00:11:35,470 We'll put in a taint team-- 289 00:11:35,470 --> 00:11:37,887 an FBI agent and an Assistant US Attorney here-- 290 00:11:37,887 --> 00:11:39,303 who will decide what is within 291 00:11:39,303 --> 00:11:41,136 and what is outside the scope of privilege. 292 00:11:41,136 --> 00:11:42,929 Good. 293 00:11:42,929 --> 00:11:46,011 They only pass on what you're allowed to hear. 294 00:11:46,011 --> 00:11:49,887 You violate this, your case is on a road to nowhere. 295 00:11:49,887 --> 00:11:51,720 Thank you, Judge. 296 00:11:58,220 --> 00:12:00,595 Ah. Good day for you and your case-- 297 00:12:00,595 --> 00:12:02,011 [Connerty] Dancshazy can pick the agent... 298 00:12:02,011 --> 00:12:04,095 [packet thuds] ...you'll run the taint team. 299 00:12:04,095 --> 00:12:06,845 Hold up. That idea is nicht gut. 300 00:12:06,845 --> 00:12:08,845 It's supposed to be somebody not involved with the case-- 301 00:12:08,845 --> 00:12:10,261 You're not. I'm running the case. 302 00:12:12,387 --> 00:12:14,845 [scoffs] You oversaw a surveillance, 303 00:12:14,845 --> 00:12:16,720 sat in on a meeting or two, loose facts. 304 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:18,220 You're unbiased. 305 00:12:18,220 --> 00:12:19,929 We both know that I have done more than that, 306 00:12:19,929 --> 00:12:21,929 but you better believe that I am unbiased. 307 00:12:21,929 --> 00:12:23,595 And you'd better not be expecting to play 308 00:12:23,595 --> 00:12:25,762 the wink and nudge game with me. 309 00:12:25,762 --> 00:12:27,762 Or that I'll compromise my integrity. 310 00:12:27,762 --> 00:12:31,095 It's because I know you won't compromise, Kate. 311 00:12:31,095 --> 00:12:33,095 Anyone else in that office I could force to bend over. 312 00:12:33,095 --> 00:12:34,053 You won't. 313 00:12:34,053 --> 00:12:35,595 Damn straight I won't. 314 00:12:35,595 --> 00:12:37,637 Because I am not going to jail. 315 00:12:37,637 --> 00:12:40,762 And I'm not coming to visit you there either. 316 00:12:40,762 --> 00:12:43,428 Give me Agent Dancshazy's extension, 317 00:12:43,428 --> 00:12:45,804 I want his top Tac-Ops team 318 00:12:45,804 --> 00:12:47,470 planting those bugs right away... 319 00:12:47,470 --> 00:12:50,428 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 320 00:12:50,428 --> 00:12:53,178 ♪♪♪ 321 00:12:53,178 --> 00:12:55,595 ♪♪♪ 322 00:12:55,595 --> 00:12:58,637 Fact pattern: A patient enters, 323 00:12:58,637 --> 00:13:02,178 complaining of an elevated HR, say, two hundred and ten BPM. 324 00:13:02,178 --> 00:13:03,512 Now, you suspect that 325 00:13:03,512 --> 00:13:05,679 he has been doing some kind of narcotic. 326 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,095 What is your obligato per the Hippocratic? 327 00:13:09,095 --> 00:13:10,637 [sighs] 328 00:13:10,637 --> 00:13:11,929 Narcotics bring the heart rate down. 329 00:13:11,929 --> 00:13:13,428 That's why they're called downers. 330 00:13:13,428 --> 00:13:14,679 Jesus, Spyros. 331 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,470 I don't know this Spyros of whom you speak. 332 00:13:17,470 --> 00:13:20,720 I am Medical Doctor Rodizio, as my name card clearly states-- 333 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,095 That's it, Spyros. Now you've lost the coat. 334 00:13:23,095 --> 00:13:24,970 [Axe] Take it off. 335 00:13:31,470 --> 00:13:32,970 That goes too. 336 00:13:38,345 --> 00:13:39,553 Back to it then. 337 00:13:39,553 --> 00:13:41,345 Isn't it so, Ms. Rhoades-- 338 00:13:41,345 --> 00:13:44,762 Dr. Rhoades. Don't do that to them. No. 339 00:13:44,762 --> 00:13:46,595 Play through-- You play through-- 340 00:13:46,595 --> 00:13:50,637 Isn't it true, Dr. Rhoades, 341 00:13:50,637 --> 00:13:52,178 that this isn't the first time 342 00:13:52,178 --> 00:13:53,970 your patient's notes have been vulnerable 343 00:13:53,970 --> 00:13:55,929 and were used against the patient themself? 344 00:13:55,929 --> 00:13:58,095 Sometime in the recent past you were careless 345 00:13:58,095 --> 00:13:59,970 and someone in the US Attorney's office got a hold of-- 346 00:13:59,970 --> 00:14:01,679 Un-fucking-believable-- 347 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:02,845 -Whoa-- -Whoa-- 348 00:14:02,845 --> 00:14:04,637 Whoa. Whoa, hey, hold up. 349 00:14:04,637 --> 00:14:06,595 If you're going to lose your poise that easily, 350 00:14:06,595 --> 00:14:07,720 I'll recommend you don't appear 351 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,178 and take whatever decision they hand out. 352 00:14:10,178 --> 00:14:12,053 It's like that commercial: "never let 'em see you sweat." 353 00:14:12,053 --> 00:14:13,595 You've seen The Usual Suspects, 354 00:14:13,595 --> 00:14:15,345 only the guilty one can sleep through the night. 355 00:14:15,345 --> 00:14:18,470 Nope. Ya gotta keep as cool as a menthol. 356 00:14:18,470 --> 00:14:20,637 That's Kool with a K. 357 00:14:22,679 --> 00:14:24,345 Hey. 358 00:14:24,345 --> 00:14:25,553 Come on. 359 00:14:28,136 --> 00:14:30,261 [sighs] 360 00:14:30,261 --> 00:14:32,220 [door opens] 361 00:14:32,220 --> 00:14:36,887 You know. You're gonna have to answer some of the questions. 362 00:14:36,887 --> 00:14:39,720 And also, go easy on Chuck, he's merely doing what he's good at. 363 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,887 [scoffs] Breaking my balls? 364 00:14:43,345 --> 00:14:44,845 Yeah. He's loving it. 365 00:14:44,845 --> 00:14:46,887 Just another special talent your man has. 366 00:14:46,887 --> 00:14:49,095 That's not what's giving me trouble. 367 00:14:49,095 --> 00:14:51,095 Yeah? What's the real problem? 368 00:14:51,095 --> 00:14:53,845 If Taylor was a patient, I've committed violations. 369 00:14:53,845 --> 00:14:55,887 If Taylor was a performance coaching 'client' 370 00:14:55,887 --> 00:14:57,762 and not a patient, then I'm in the clear. 371 00:14:57,762 --> 00:14:59,679 Yeah. No confidentiality. 372 00:14:59,679 --> 00:15:01,512 But then all the other Axe Cappers I've seen 373 00:15:01,512 --> 00:15:02,804 are that as well. 374 00:15:02,804 --> 00:15:04,220 And what they've told me isn't protected. 375 00:15:04,220 --> 00:15:06,136 So if they question me about those sessions... 376 00:15:06,136 --> 00:15:08,804 Just share what you need to get you out of this. 377 00:15:08,804 --> 00:15:11,095 Like Danzig's qualms about wrecking a town. 378 00:15:11,095 --> 00:15:13,136 Dollar Bill's struggles to gain inside information-- 379 00:15:13,136 --> 00:15:15,303 not whether or not to use it, he's sanguine about that-- 380 00:15:15,303 --> 00:15:17,345 but the challenge of getting it. 381 00:15:17,345 --> 00:15:19,762 Shell corps, shell funds, dirty edge. 382 00:15:19,762 --> 00:15:21,887 Axe Cap hit squads assembled to crush competitors, 383 00:15:21,887 --> 00:15:23,595 [Wendy] destroy businesses-- I get it. 384 00:15:23,595 --> 00:15:25,679 So, if those stories, those 'sessions,' aren't protected, 385 00:15:25,679 --> 00:15:27,929 I could be subpoenaed and dragged into depositions. 386 00:15:27,929 --> 00:15:30,303 Your best bet then would be to fire me. 387 00:15:31,929 --> 00:15:33,303 It might be already. 388 00:15:33,303 --> 00:15:35,303 [scoffs] Not happening. 389 00:15:35,303 --> 00:15:38,303 We'd fight all that. You shade it a bit. 390 00:15:38,303 --> 00:15:41,679 And, look, even if you took a hit, the work doesn't change. 391 00:15:41,679 --> 00:15:43,303 [Axe] Our team will still go see you. 392 00:15:43,303 --> 00:15:45,011 As long as the work is good, 393 00:15:45,011 --> 00:15:46,929 people look past this short-term reputational bullshit. 394 00:15:46,929 --> 00:15:49,345 Steven Birch didn't. His board didn't. 395 00:15:49,345 --> 00:15:51,512 He basically bounced me out of his office-- 396 00:15:51,512 --> 00:15:52,845 Why the fuck were you talking to him? 397 00:15:52,845 --> 00:15:55,470 In trade. Something for Chuck. 398 00:15:55,470 --> 00:15:57,136 And he threw you out? 399 00:15:57,136 --> 00:15:58,804 That motherfucker just went back on my kill matrix. 400 00:15:58,804 --> 00:16:00,428 You really shouldn't have one of those-- 401 00:16:00,428 --> 00:16:01,804 [exhales sharply] 402 00:16:01,804 --> 00:16:03,637 Come on. Let's go back in. 403 00:16:03,637 --> 00:16:05,261 Try to keep your cool. 404 00:16:06,845 --> 00:16:09,095 I know. I know, coming from me, right? 405 00:16:09,095 --> 00:16:11,804 Were you having psychological problems, 406 00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:13,470 is that why you saw Wendy Rhoades? 407 00:16:13,470 --> 00:16:14,512 No. 408 00:16:14,512 --> 00:16:15,970 So it was business. 409 00:16:15,970 --> 00:16:18,011 You sought her out as a performance coach. 410 00:16:18,011 --> 00:16:19,387 No. 411 00:16:19,387 --> 00:16:20,970 Then what was it? What had you all messed up? 412 00:16:20,970 --> 00:16:22,804 Was it about gender identification? 413 00:16:22,804 --> 00:16:25,845 Was it confusion, a crisis? 414 00:16:25,845 --> 00:16:27,595 My book was fine. 415 00:16:27,595 --> 00:16:28,887 And no, it had nothing to do with 416 00:16:28,887 --> 00:16:30,679 my non-binary gender identity. 417 00:16:30,679 --> 00:16:32,345 I wasn't having psychological problems-- 418 00:16:32,345 --> 00:16:35,261 just an issue I wanted to discuss, privately, safely. 419 00:16:35,261 --> 00:16:38,011 So you were looking for a way to salve your conscience, 420 00:16:38,011 --> 00:16:39,512 over all the illicit things you had to do 421 00:16:39,512 --> 00:16:41,345 while in the employ of Bobby Axelrod? 422 00:16:41,345 --> 00:16:43,553 The whole point is: that whatever I was talking to her 423 00:16:43,553 --> 00:16:45,261 about was supposed to be private. 424 00:16:45,261 --> 00:16:46,929 Because she wasn't my performance coach, 425 00:16:46,929 --> 00:16:49,095 she was my doctor. Dr. Rhoades. 426 00:16:49,095 --> 00:16:51,679 And the whole wing of medicine is based on confidentiality. 427 00:16:51,679 --> 00:16:53,095 "And for the record, 428 00:16:53,095 --> 00:16:54,887 while the climate there may have been corrupt, 429 00:16:54,887 --> 00:16:56,220 I never was." 430 00:16:56,220 --> 00:16:58,970 Exactly right. I'll tack that on. 431 00:16:58,970 --> 00:17:02,970 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 432 00:17:05,804 --> 00:17:09,095 I would wait on line for exactly three things: 433 00:17:09,095 --> 00:17:13,053 One, the first batch of new Lemmon 714 quaaludes 434 00:17:13,053 --> 00:17:14,428 coming off the assembly line, 435 00:17:14,428 --> 00:17:17,178 two, a chance to meet Ellen DeGeneres 436 00:17:17,178 --> 00:17:19,970 and three, every time I go to Miami, 437 00:17:19,970 --> 00:17:22,220 for some Joe's Stone Crabs. 438 00:17:22,220 --> 00:17:25,595 Which is to say: I come bearing provisions and news. 439 00:17:25,595 --> 00:17:27,387 And a bit of a tan. 440 00:17:27,387 --> 00:17:29,345 Is the news as good as the provisions? 441 00:17:29,345 --> 00:17:32,387 Well, while this lunch break is in effect, 442 00:17:32,387 --> 00:17:34,595 perhaps we could have a word, Wendy? 443 00:17:34,595 --> 00:17:38,136 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 444 00:17:38,136 --> 00:17:41,178 I heard rumblings that Taylor is making a move on Kling. 445 00:17:41,178 --> 00:17:43,261 It's an appliance manufacturer. 446 00:17:43,261 --> 00:17:45,261 I ran into the CEO at LIV. 447 00:17:45,261 --> 00:17:47,053 He said that Taylor bought up a ton of stock 448 00:17:47,053 --> 00:17:49,178 right at the close on the last day of the year. 449 00:17:49,178 --> 00:17:51,345 Kling is the major supplier of Saler's. 450 00:17:51,345 --> 00:17:54,345 That's the one cash flow lifeline left at the store. 451 00:17:54,345 --> 00:17:56,804 Taylor's going to try to hold us hostage. 452 00:17:56,804 --> 00:17:59,095 This is why I came back. Knew you needed the info. 453 00:17:59,095 --> 00:18:00,261 And might have a directive. 454 00:18:00,261 --> 00:18:01,595 Dollar Bill covers them. 455 00:18:01,595 --> 00:18:03,220 My directive: get him on the phone. 456 00:18:03,220 --> 00:18:06,762 ♪♪♪ 457 00:18:06,762 --> 00:18:08,261 [line ringing] 458 00:18:08,261 --> 00:18:09,970 Gonna need you to come in. 459 00:18:09,970 --> 00:18:11,845 [Dollar Bill] And a Happy Fucking New Year to you. 460 00:18:11,845 --> 00:18:13,553 What do you know about Kling? And Taylor Mason. 461 00:18:13,553 --> 00:18:15,387 [Dollar Bill] Nothing. It's New Year's Day. 462 00:18:15,387 --> 00:18:17,637 [Dollar Bill] That's why I said Happy Fucking New Year-- 463 00:18:17,637 --> 00:18:19,637 Knowing nothing's the fucking problem. 464 00:18:19,637 --> 00:18:22,095 Get your team, get here, get them in here. 465 00:18:22,095 --> 00:18:23,428 And find out why Kling is in play-- 466 00:18:23,428 --> 00:18:26,178 which you should have known in the first place. 467 00:18:26,178 --> 00:18:29,136 Maybe there'll be some stone crab left over for you. 468 00:18:29,136 --> 00:18:31,220 Not a chance. 469 00:18:32,303 --> 00:18:35,095 Having been on all sides of these situations, 470 00:18:35,095 --> 00:18:36,470 I feel I have a good instinct 471 00:18:36,470 --> 00:18:38,470 for where the equitable resolution is. 472 00:18:38,470 --> 00:18:40,970 That's the kind of thing you say to someone 473 00:18:40,970 --> 00:18:43,220 when you're about to encourage them to take a deal. 474 00:18:43,220 --> 00:18:46,095 So it is. Yes. And the deal you should make-- 475 00:18:46,095 --> 00:18:48,845 and it's one I believe will be out there--is: 476 00:18:48,845 --> 00:18:50,762 six month suspension of your license. 477 00:18:50,762 --> 00:18:52,470 A probationary period. 478 00:18:52,470 --> 00:18:54,887 Say a year. And then it reverts. 479 00:18:54,887 --> 00:18:56,804 And in another two years, 480 00:18:56,804 --> 00:19:00,011 the record of the entire proceeding is expunged. 481 00:19:00,011 --> 00:19:03,637 You're recommending I try for that? 482 00:19:03,637 --> 00:19:04,762 Yeah. 483 00:19:04,762 --> 00:19:07,136 It'll be easier on you. 484 00:19:07,136 --> 00:19:10,011 No, Chuck. It'll be easier on you. 485 00:19:10,011 --> 00:19:12,220 Because then you can walk out of here and move onto other things 486 00:19:12,220 --> 00:19:15,679 without guilt or recrimination from me. 487 00:19:15,679 --> 00:19:18,261 I do need to move on to the rest of my day-- 488 00:19:18,261 --> 00:19:20,178 I've been working on that thing for months 489 00:19:20,178 --> 00:19:21,387 and it's time sensitive. 490 00:19:21,387 --> 00:19:23,637 But I'm not motivated by that. 491 00:19:23,637 --> 00:19:24,804 Take the deal. 492 00:19:24,804 --> 00:19:28,345 "Take the deal." 493 00:19:28,345 --> 00:19:31,345 Not "try and make a deal." 494 00:19:31,345 --> 00:19:33,970 Not "perhaps there's a deal to be made." 495 00:19:33,970 --> 00:19:36,178 Oh, you fucker. 496 00:19:36,178 --> 00:19:38,929 You're not guessing. Or spitballing. 497 00:19:38,929 --> 00:19:42,178 You're doing what magicians call a "force." 498 00:19:42,178 --> 00:19:45,095 Letting me think I'm making a decision you've already made. 499 00:19:45,095 --> 00:19:48,220 You went behind my back and pre-negotiated a deal. 500 00:19:48,220 --> 00:19:50,053 And now all I have to do is say "yes." 501 00:19:50,053 --> 00:19:53,136 Well, if Penn & Teller ever need a guest judge on Fool Us, 502 00:19:53,136 --> 00:19:55,220 you're their man. You're right. 503 00:19:55,220 --> 00:19:57,220 But that doesn't make what I did wrong. 504 00:19:57,220 --> 00:19:59,428 It's the smart thing. Easy thing. 505 00:19:59,428 --> 00:20:01,387 Maybe the right thing. 506 00:20:03,679 --> 00:20:04,845 How's she doing? 507 00:20:04,845 --> 00:20:06,220 Not good, frankly. 508 00:20:06,220 --> 00:20:08,428 She looks guilty, sounds guilty-- 509 00:20:08,428 --> 00:20:10,470 That's 'cause she feels guilty. 510 00:20:10,470 --> 00:20:13,011 Says something good about her actually. 511 00:20:13,011 --> 00:20:17,887 I mean...most people... 512 00:20:17,887 --> 00:20:20,053 they don't even care. 513 00:20:24,679 --> 00:20:27,428 How can you know me so little after all this time? 514 00:20:27,428 --> 00:20:29,679 It is publicly admitting guilt. 515 00:20:29,679 --> 00:20:31,011 It is giving up. 516 00:20:31,011 --> 00:20:32,679 And giving in to what Taylor wants. 517 00:20:32,679 --> 00:20:33,804 And I'd never do any of that. 518 00:20:33,804 --> 00:20:35,762 And I am fucking... 519 00:20:35,762 --> 00:20:37,929 [exhales sharply] 520 00:20:37,929 --> 00:20:40,345 Can I still be hurt by something you would do? 521 00:20:40,345 --> 00:20:41,929 [scoffs] 522 00:20:41,929 --> 00:20:44,387 Well, it seems I can. 523 00:20:44,387 --> 00:20:48,595 Why do you have so little confidence I can pull this off? 524 00:20:50,053 --> 00:20:52,428 You did, if we're honest here, 525 00:20:52,428 --> 00:20:54,804 use privileged information to work-over Taylor. 526 00:20:54,804 --> 00:20:58,261 I don't care, morally. 527 00:20:58,261 --> 00:20:59,929 But it means the likelihood is 528 00:20:59,929 --> 00:21:02,720 that you lose in the hearing, unless you obfuscate. 529 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,595 I've manufactured a way for you to end up where you want-- 530 00:21:05,595 --> 00:21:08,637 with your license, without it on your permanent record. 531 00:21:08,637 --> 00:21:10,804 And instead of thanking me, you cast me as 532 00:21:10,804 --> 00:21:13,804 expedient, uncaring, a disappointment. 533 00:21:13,804 --> 00:21:17,136 I'm offering you a solution. 534 00:21:17,136 --> 00:21:19,512 You'll only accept a miracle. 535 00:21:19,512 --> 00:21:22,637 Now, if you still need me to stay here and keep going-- 536 00:21:22,637 --> 00:21:24,303 No. No. Go do your 'thing.' 537 00:21:24,303 --> 00:21:25,470 I'll be fine. 538 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,470 [door opens] 539 00:21:37,512 --> 00:21:39,053 [knock on door] 540 00:21:39,053 --> 00:21:42,011 Mafee has a matter he would like to run by the two of us. 541 00:21:42,011 --> 00:21:43,595 [Hammon] In person. 542 00:21:43,595 --> 00:21:45,428 Are you busy? You seem busy-- 543 00:21:45,428 --> 00:21:47,303 Shoot, Mafee. 544 00:21:47,303 --> 00:21:50,428 Well, new year, so I want to be upfront about something. 545 00:21:50,428 --> 00:21:52,387 We don't have any specific guidelines, 546 00:21:52,387 --> 00:21:54,637 but with things the way they are in the world, 547 00:21:54,637 --> 00:21:58,053 would it be okay if I asked an employee out, socially? 548 00:21:58,053 --> 00:21:59,720 Is it material for us to know who-- 549 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,345 It's Lauren. 550 00:22:04,345 --> 00:22:05,512 Mafee, as long as you approach them 551 00:22:05,512 --> 00:22:07,261 in a respectful, consensual manner, 552 00:22:07,261 --> 00:22:09,011 you are free to 'socialize' with fellow employees 553 00:22:09,011 --> 00:22:10,303 who are not your direct subordinates. 554 00:22:10,303 --> 00:22:11,595 Including Lauren. 555 00:22:11,595 --> 00:22:12,887 Cool. Thanks. 556 00:22:12,887 --> 00:22:14,470 Not sure I'm gonna. 557 00:22:14,470 --> 00:22:16,136 So if you could not say anything-- 558 00:22:16,136 --> 00:22:17,970 Got it, Mafee. Don't worry. 559 00:22:20,804 --> 00:22:22,679 [door closes] 560 00:22:22,679 --> 00:22:26,387 Like he said, new year, new start. 561 00:22:26,387 --> 00:22:28,428 So let's cut the bullshit. 562 00:22:28,428 --> 00:22:30,512 If you and Lauren are trying to keep your deal secret, 563 00:22:30,512 --> 00:22:32,637 keep it a fucking secret. 564 00:22:32,637 --> 00:22:34,220 So you know... 565 00:22:34,220 --> 00:22:35,595 You think we should tell people? 566 00:22:35,595 --> 00:22:38,887 No. I did not come to work for a hedge fund manager 567 00:22:38,887 --> 00:22:40,387 who's tagging the IR girls-- 568 00:22:40,387 --> 00:22:42,720 That's not the way it is. At all-- 569 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:44,553 I know that. 570 00:22:44,553 --> 00:22:46,011 But it can be made to look that way 571 00:22:46,011 --> 00:22:48,387 by people on the outside who want it to. 572 00:22:48,387 --> 00:22:51,428 So do a better job of keeping it secret. 573 00:22:51,428 --> 00:22:53,220 Point taken. Thank you. 574 00:22:53,220 --> 00:22:56,637 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 575 00:22:56,637 --> 00:22:57,637 [door opens] 576 00:22:57,637 --> 00:22:59,261 [elevator dings] 577 00:22:59,261 --> 00:23:03,887 ♪♪♪ 578 00:23:03,887 --> 00:23:08,136 ♪♪♪ 579 00:23:08,136 --> 00:23:09,595 Does this guy really work here? 580 00:23:09,595 --> 00:23:11,387 [Rebecca] He said he does, so I brought him up-- 581 00:23:11,387 --> 00:23:14,762 I was told to come in, but I forgot my ID. 582 00:23:14,762 --> 00:23:17,053 Do something useful. 583 00:23:18,845 --> 00:23:20,595 Hey. Hey. 584 00:23:20,595 --> 00:23:23,261 Get that shit out of your maw and start talking. 585 00:23:23,261 --> 00:23:25,387 You sleeping at the switch is possibly gonna cost us 586 00:23:25,387 --> 00:23:27,345 hundreds of millions of dollars. 587 00:23:27,345 --> 00:23:29,303 With Taylor effectively in control of Kling, 588 00:23:29,303 --> 00:23:30,887 they also control the supply 589 00:23:30,887 --> 00:23:32,845 of household appliances that Saler's sells. 590 00:23:32,845 --> 00:23:35,428 And if Taylor decides to cut the flow of those appliances? 591 00:23:35,428 --> 00:23:37,929 It'll hurt them, but it'll gut you. 592 00:23:37,929 --> 00:23:40,303 Sales of Kling appliances account for 593 00:23:40,303 --> 00:23:42,720 sixty-three percent of Saler's revenue. 594 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,261 Yeah. That would -- That would crush our business. 595 00:23:45,261 --> 00:23:47,428 And if Taylor gets outside backing, 596 00:23:47,428 --> 00:23:49,345 there's danger of a reverse merger. 597 00:23:49,345 --> 00:23:51,178 They could use Kling to take over Saler's. 598 00:23:51,178 --> 00:23:52,762 Yeah. God. That little asshole-- 599 00:23:52,762 --> 00:23:56,595 Look. I put you on their radar, it's on me to fix this. 600 00:23:56,595 --> 00:23:58,303 We need to get a new appliance supplier. 601 00:23:58,303 --> 00:23:59,929 So we're totally independent. 602 00:23:59,929 --> 00:24:02,637 I'll lead the way with the board, since this is my fault. 603 00:24:02,637 --> 00:24:06,387 Bosch, LG, Haier, Samsung... 604 00:24:06,387 --> 00:24:07,428 I need to figure out who's for sale 605 00:24:07,428 --> 00:24:09,970 or ripe for a hostile takeover. 606 00:24:09,970 --> 00:24:11,595 [sighs] 607 00:24:11,595 --> 00:24:13,595 Boss, I don't need to tell you that 608 00:24:13,595 --> 00:24:15,762 every one of those companies will cost billions. 609 00:24:15,762 --> 00:24:17,637 And Saler's has more debt than cash right now. 610 00:24:17,637 --> 00:24:19,387 Yeah. I am aware. 611 00:24:19,387 --> 00:24:21,887 You're more than welcome to find me the cheaper fucking option. 612 00:24:21,887 --> 00:24:23,261 [sighs] 613 00:24:29,387 --> 00:24:32,011 Do you recognize that? 614 00:24:32,011 --> 00:24:33,679 I do not. 615 00:24:33,679 --> 00:24:36,345 Victor, are you aware what happened last year at Art Basel? 616 00:24:36,345 --> 00:24:38,136 You went off, bought like twenty paintings, right? 617 00:24:38,136 --> 00:24:39,804 Eighteen. 618 00:24:39,804 --> 00:24:42,178 The sales and usage tax that I'm facing 619 00:24:42,178 --> 00:24:43,553 is around seventy-five mil. 620 00:24:43,553 --> 00:24:45,512 Fuck me. Yeah. 621 00:24:45,512 --> 00:24:48,261 Instead my friend Sean Ayles here 622 00:24:48,261 --> 00:24:50,220 intro'd me to a very nice Swiss banker 623 00:24:50,220 --> 00:24:52,261 who said he was willing to store them for me-- 624 00:24:52,261 --> 00:24:55,178 because while they have started reporting cash holdings 625 00:24:55,178 --> 00:24:56,595 to the US government, 626 00:24:56,595 --> 00:24:59,303 Swiss banks didn't have to report art. 627 00:24:59,303 --> 00:25:01,470 Nice-- Until now. 628 00:25:01,470 --> 00:25:03,679 The bank decided to knuckle under 629 00:25:03,679 --> 00:25:05,637 and share the news with Uncle Sam. 630 00:25:05,637 --> 00:25:07,053 Oh my... 631 00:25:07,053 --> 00:25:10,095 So he did me the good service of shipping 'em here. 632 00:25:10,095 --> 00:25:11,804 But if I take it-- 633 00:25:11,804 --> 00:25:14,011 It costs you seventy-five balloons. 634 00:25:14,011 --> 00:25:15,303 Oh my... 635 00:25:15,303 --> 00:25:16,512 Happy fucking New Year. 636 00:25:16,512 --> 00:25:18,053 Why's everybody keep saying that? 637 00:25:18,053 --> 00:25:21,345 Sean, you have anything to offer? 638 00:25:21,345 --> 00:25:22,720 No excuses, sir. 639 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,136 Any advance word from your Swiss banker friend? 640 00:25:25,136 --> 00:25:26,303 No excuses, sir. 641 00:25:26,303 --> 00:25:28,011 Any fucking suggestions? 642 00:25:28,011 --> 00:25:30,387 No excuses, sir-- 643 00:25:30,387 --> 00:25:32,970 You're not a wartime consigliere, Sean. 644 00:25:32,970 --> 00:25:36,345 I need you to find me a workaround. 645 00:25:36,345 --> 00:25:37,387 On it. 646 00:25:37,387 --> 00:25:40,428 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 647 00:25:40,428 --> 00:25:44,720 ♪♪♪ 648 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:45,887 [door closes] 649 00:25:45,887 --> 00:25:47,220 Isn't my assistant out there-- 650 00:25:47,220 --> 00:25:50,929 Do you think that, uh, Grasshopper 651 00:25:50,929 --> 00:25:53,220 left Master Po waiting in the dojo? 652 00:25:53,220 --> 00:25:54,845 I mean, it's not a fair comparison. 653 00:25:54,845 --> 00:25:56,762 Grasshopper was living there, and was kind of a servant, 654 00:25:56,762 --> 00:25:58,595 so he didn't have much of a choice. 655 00:25:58,595 --> 00:26:01,095 Yeah, well, you don't have much of a choice either there, Champ. 656 00:26:01,095 --> 00:26:05,095 Not if you want to get the stink of Eau De Loser off of you. 657 00:26:05,095 --> 00:26:07,720 But I didn't no-show you. I sent an email. 658 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,762 Our first session was-- it's already paying dividends. 659 00:26:09,762 --> 00:26:11,345 I'm cooking here. You saw when you came in-- 660 00:26:11,345 --> 00:26:12,637 I wasn't sitting behind my desk. 661 00:26:12,637 --> 00:26:14,553 "Battle stance at all times. Ready for action." 662 00:26:14,553 --> 00:26:17,095 It is a no-show even if you email. Or call. 663 00:26:17,095 --> 00:26:19,679 Or send me a goddamned bugler to sound it to me. 664 00:26:19,679 --> 00:26:21,595 I am not offended. 665 00:26:21,595 --> 00:26:24,095 I am alert to the signs that you are sending, 666 00:26:24,095 --> 00:26:27,178 buddy boy, of a blockage. 667 00:26:28,887 --> 00:26:31,345 I can see that. But this was-- 668 00:26:31,345 --> 00:26:33,178 something big is happening today. 669 00:26:33,178 --> 00:26:34,595 Something that made it impossible. 670 00:26:34,595 --> 00:26:37,011 Are you dead? 671 00:26:37,011 --> 00:26:38,637 You ask that literally? 672 00:26:38,637 --> 00:26:42,428 Yeah. I do. Are. You. Dead? Mort. 673 00:26:42,428 --> 00:26:44,053 Because then, maybe it would have been 674 00:26:44,053 --> 00:26:45,553 impossible for you to show up. 675 00:26:45,553 --> 00:26:47,929 There is always a story to tell yourself. 676 00:26:47,929 --> 00:26:50,970 You say that word impossible to me again one more time, 677 00:26:50,970 --> 00:26:52,929 and I will kick it out of your mouth along with your teeth. 678 00:26:52,929 --> 00:26:56,095 Now, you finish your all-important task here. 679 00:26:56,095 --> 00:26:59,303 And then you find me tonight. 680 00:26:59,303 --> 00:27:01,970 Or never find me again. 681 00:27:01,970 --> 00:27:03,637 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 682 00:27:03,637 --> 00:27:07,136 ♪♪♪ 683 00:27:07,136 --> 00:27:10,470 ♪♪♪ 684 00:27:14,470 --> 00:27:15,970 Yo, sassy stems-- 685 00:27:15,970 --> 00:27:19,303 Not here, never here with that pet name bullshit. 686 00:27:19,303 --> 00:27:21,512 Not that it'll matter soon enough. 687 00:27:21,512 --> 00:27:23,178 Why's that? 688 00:27:23,178 --> 00:27:26,929 Axe is sending me on the road to rustle up new outside money. 689 00:27:26,929 --> 00:27:29,261 Since we don't have an IR person right now. 690 00:27:29,261 --> 00:27:31,095 I'm the IR person. 691 00:27:31,095 --> 00:27:32,303 That's bullshit. 692 00:27:32,303 --> 00:27:33,679 It's fun as fuck. 693 00:27:33,679 --> 00:27:35,011 See you when I'm off the road. 694 00:27:36,970 --> 00:27:39,178 Hey. 695 00:27:39,178 --> 00:27:42,095 I wanted to wish you good luck at the hearing. 696 00:27:42,095 --> 00:27:43,470 Go kill it. 697 00:27:43,470 --> 00:27:44,512 You go kill it. 698 00:27:44,512 --> 00:27:46,136 Nature is metal. 699 00:27:46,136 --> 00:27:47,679 And I'm nature. 700 00:27:47,679 --> 00:27:49,595 Will do. 701 00:27:52,512 --> 00:27:57,011 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 702 00:27:57,011 --> 00:27:59,303 ♪♪♪ 703 00:27:59,303 --> 00:28:00,303 [door closes] 704 00:28:00,303 --> 00:28:01,887 Your bug is in place. 705 00:28:01,887 --> 00:28:04,095 Great fucking news! 706 00:28:04,095 --> 00:28:05,845 What's the time frame on Chuck's house. 707 00:28:05,845 --> 00:28:08,512 Well, Chuck and the missus were also both out... 708 00:28:08,512 --> 00:28:10,387 And their kids out with Grandpa Senior. 709 00:28:10,387 --> 00:28:12,553 So the house was empty. We got up on both. 710 00:28:12,553 --> 00:28:16,595 You are the man! 711 00:28:16,595 --> 00:28:18,303 Expect a bottle in your Christmas stocking on me. 712 00:28:18,303 --> 00:28:19,762 Top shelf. Sure thing. 713 00:28:19,762 --> 00:28:21,053 Happy it worked out. Yeah. 714 00:28:21,053 --> 00:28:22,762 One thing though: chalk a big ring 715 00:28:22,762 --> 00:28:24,595 around the listening room and taint team office. 716 00:28:24,595 --> 00:28:26,470 You cross that line, Judge'll burn your case. 717 00:28:26,470 --> 00:28:28,553 And you with it. You know I will. 718 00:28:28,553 --> 00:28:29,845 [hand pats] 719 00:28:29,845 --> 00:28:31,470 [chuckles] 720 00:28:34,887 --> 00:28:39,053 No one makes me smile like my boy! 721 00:28:39,053 --> 00:28:41,553 [chuckles] What about that sweet little baby girl 722 00:28:41,553 --> 00:28:43,261 with the champion's chin? 723 00:28:43,261 --> 00:28:45,595 She fills the chest with happiness, too, of course. 724 00:28:45,595 --> 00:28:47,679 In a much less complicated way. 725 00:28:47,679 --> 00:28:50,053 She never has to perform. Never has to achieve. 726 00:28:50,053 --> 00:28:52,053 Mm. As long as she merely is, 727 00:28:52,053 --> 00:28:53,637 she brings joy. 728 00:28:53,637 --> 00:28:57,762 But you, son, bring pride along for the journey. 729 00:28:57,762 --> 00:28:59,720 What the fuck kind of meds are you on? 730 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,261 Pure adrenaline. I've been out walking the city today. 731 00:29:02,261 --> 00:29:03,428 Ah-ha. 732 00:29:03,428 --> 00:29:05,095 Youbetcha. 733 00:29:05,095 --> 00:29:07,720 Thinking of all the things that we're going to do. 734 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,679 And it freshens the blood like Geritol. 735 00:29:10,679 --> 00:29:12,136 Uh-huh. And, uh, Mom? 736 00:29:12,136 --> 00:29:13,428 She's down in Palm Beach 737 00:29:13,428 --> 00:29:15,261 enjoying the weather and the shopping. 738 00:29:15,261 --> 00:29:16,261 Good for her. 739 00:29:16,261 --> 00:29:18,261 And speaking of joy. 740 00:29:18,261 --> 00:29:20,762 I saw your kids today. 741 00:29:20,762 --> 00:29:23,136 A delight! [chuckles] 742 00:29:23,136 --> 00:29:24,762 Real gentleman and lady. 743 00:29:24,762 --> 00:29:26,595 Well, they love their grandfather. 744 00:29:26,595 --> 00:29:28,387 [laughs] Cup of tea? 745 00:29:28,387 --> 00:29:30,470 Mm. 746 00:29:30,470 --> 00:29:32,345 Ira and-- The Secretary? 747 00:29:32,345 --> 00:29:33,970 En route. 748 00:29:33,970 --> 00:29:35,470 Shouldn't be long. 749 00:29:35,470 --> 00:29:38,261 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 750 00:29:38,261 --> 00:29:41,595 ♪♪♪ 751 00:29:41,595 --> 00:29:44,762 ♪♪♪ 752 00:29:44,762 --> 00:29:46,970 What the fuck is he doing here? 753 00:29:46,970 --> 00:29:49,303 [Axe] Ah. We like him again. 754 00:29:49,303 --> 00:29:50,804 Special project. 755 00:29:50,804 --> 00:29:53,679 We're good-- 756 00:29:53,679 --> 00:29:56,261 ♪♪♪ 757 00:29:56,261 --> 00:29:58,970 ♪♪♪ 758 00:29:58,970 --> 00:30:03,595 [espresso machine whirring] 759 00:30:03,595 --> 00:30:05,303 [whirring stops] 760 00:30:07,970 --> 00:30:11,178 The Italians think anyone who puts milk on their coffee 761 00:30:11,178 --> 00:30:13,595 after 11AM is animale. 762 00:30:13,595 --> 00:30:15,887 I tend to agree. In theory, but in reality-- 763 00:30:15,887 --> 00:30:17,679 Just gimme the espresso. 764 00:30:17,679 --> 00:30:19,553 There's a guy from the shipping company here. 765 00:30:19,553 --> 00:30:21,679 Another guy. Kind of demanding to see you. 766 00:30:21,679 --> 00:30:24,470 [mug clinks] 767 00:30:26,303 --> 00:30:29,011 [exhales sharply] 768 00:30:31,970 --> 00:30:33,637 I can't afford to have my only guys 769 00:30:33,637 --> 00:30:35,845 working the holiday pulled out of service. 770 00:30:35,845 --> 00:30:38,053 You told him I spritzed you? 771 00:30:38,053 --> 00:30:39,261 [chuckles] 772 00:30:39,261 --> 00:30:40,720 He tells me everything. 773 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,595 And I tell my brother-in-law everything. 774 00:30:43,595 --> 00:30:45,011 Don't you want to know 775 00:30:45,011 --> 00:30:46,679 what my brother-in-law does for a living? 776 00:30:46,679 --> 00:30:47,762 Do I? 777 00:30:47,762 --> 00:30:49,387 He works in a little outfit called 778 00:30:49,387 --> 00:30:51,970 United States Customs and Border Protection. 779 00:30:51,970 --> 00:30:54,387 Well, isn't that a sweet set-up. 780 00:30:54,387 --> 00:30:56,095 It really is. 781 00:30:56,095 --> 00:30:58,053 Ayles! 782 00:31:00,303 --> 00:31:03,220 Will you take this gentleman somewhere to talk in private. 783 00:31:03,220 --> 00:31:05,220 Make sure he's not recording it. 784 00:31:05,220 --> 00:31:07,303 And then make him happy. 785 00:31:07,303 --> 00:31:10,553 [clears throat] I am grateful of the opportunity to, 786 00:31:10,553 --> 00:31:13,053 as they say at the rummy table, get off the schneid. 787 00:31:13,053 --> 00:31:15,512 Sir? 788 00:31:15,512 --> 00:31:18,428 If any other guys like you show up to shake me down, 789 00:31:18,428 --> 00:31:19,762 I start burning paintings. 790 00:31:19,762 --> 00:31:20,970 I'd rather lose money than deal with 791 00:31:20,970 --> 00:31:23,553 this bullshit another minute. 792 00:31:25,679 --> 00:31:27,220 [elevator dings] 793 00:31:29,512 --> 00:31:30,762 HNY. 794 00:31:30,762 --> 00:31:32,095 Why are we here? 795 00:31:32,095 --> 00:31:34,178 Well. I didn't think you'd want all of them... 796 00:31:34,178 --> 00:31:36,053 Getting a jump-start on the year ahead of you. 797 00:31:36,053 --> 00:31:37,595 But why are they here? 798 00:31:37,595 --> 00:31:40,720 They don't want me getting a jump-start on them. 799 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,887 [indistinct conversations] 800 00:31:59,762 --> 00:32:01,887 Why'd you really come back? 801 00:32:01,887 --> 00:32:04,887 How many margaritas and piña coladas can a man drink? 802 00:32:04,887 --> 00:32:07,261 When it's the man I'm looking at, a hell of a lot. 803 00:32:07,261 --> 00:32:09,929 And how long can you stay in the sun before getting burned? 804 00:32:12,804 --> 00:32:14,804 What time is it? 805 00:32:14,804 --> 00:32:18,303 Yes. The Patek is gone. 806 00:32:18,303 --> 00:32:19,929 Your dad gave that to you, didn't he? 807 00:32:19,929 --> 00:32:21,762 Bequeathed it ahead of his death. 808 00:32:21,762 --> 00:32:24,387 Quite a dry-eyed moment for him-- 809 00:32:24,387 --> 00:32:27,261 estate planning and so forth-- 810 00:32:27,261 --> 00:32:31,387 but for me, it meant a great deal. 811 00:32:31,387 --> 00:32:32,804 A great deal. 812 00:32:32,804 --> 00:32:35,762 Where is it? 813 00:32:35,762 --> 00:32:37,136 Somewhere in South Beach. 814 00:32:37,136 --> 00:32:39,428 Or maybe already riding the Silk Road 815 00:32:39,428 --> 00:32:41,929 to some exotic destination. 816 00:32:41,929 --> 00:32:43,470 You didn't get so drunk you sold it. 817 00:32:43,470 --> 00:32:45,303 Nope. 818 00:32:45,303 --> 00:32:47,261 Went back to the hotel room with a young lady I had met. 819 00:32:47,261 --> 00:32:49,345 A yacht girl. But not really. 820 00:32:49,345 --> 00:32:51,136 She was... 821 00:32:51,136 --> 00:32:52,762 I thought she was special. 822 00:32:52,762 --> 00:32:54,178 How young? 823 00:32:54,178 --> 00:32:55,762 Does it matter? 824 00:32:55,762 --> 00:32:58,595 She had an old soul... 825 00:32:58,595 --> 00:33:00,136 22. 826 00:33:01,762 --> 00:33:03,345 I thought I liked her. 827 00:33:05,679 --> 00:33:07,178 I did like her. 828 00:33:07,178 --> 00:33:09,178 And then? 829 00:33:09,178 --> 00:33:12,178 Passed out. Woke up, she, and the watch, were gone. 830 00:33:12,178 --> 00:33:14,553 You call the police? 831 00:33:14,553 --> 00:33:17,512 Too embarrassed. 832 00:33:17,512 --> 00:33:19,387 Too sad. 833 00:33:19,387 --> 00:33:22,178 Put a real dent in my faith in humanity. 834 00:33:22,178 --> 00:33:24,178 It's sweet you still have some. 835 00:33:24,178 --> 00:33:28,679 ♪ soft music ♪ 836 00:33:28,679 --> 00:33:30,345 Lemme make a call. 837 00:33:30,345 --> 00:33:31,428 It'll make you feel better. 838 00:33:31,428 --> 00:33:33,011 Watch dealer? 839 00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:35,220 Close. She's a specialist. 840 00:33:35,220 --> 00:33:36,387 In what? 841 00:33:36,387 --> 00:33:38,053 Restoring faith in humanity. 842 00:33:38,053 --> 00:33:41,553 ♪♪♪ 843 00:33:41,553 --> 00:33:44,387 ♪♪♪ 844 00:33:44,387 --> 00:33:46,261 Let's dispense with the pleasantries 845 00:33:46,261 --> 00:33:48,053 and ball tickling, shall we. 846 00:33:48,053 --> 00:33:50,470 What's this about a problem? 847 00:33:50,470 --> 00:33:53,136 Political winds shift, I have to shift with them. 848 00:33:53,136 --> 00:33:55,345 And the Middle East is the windiest of them all. 849 00:33:55,345 --> 00:33:57,095 Qatar is persona non grata again. 850 00:33:57,095 --> 00:33:59,762 That may be. But your tit's in the wringer-- 851 00:33:59,762 --> 00:34:01,136 my son put it there-- 852 00:34:01,136 --> 00:34:02,637 so you'd better not shift too much 853 00:34:02,637 --> 00:34:05,053 or it'll get ripped off. He'll tear it off. 854 00:34:05,053 --> 00:34:08,220 What he's saying in his inimitable way is: 855 00:34:08,220 --> 00:34:12,804 what can we do to keep the financing in place? 856 00:34:12,804 --> 00:34:16,303 Okay. Crap. Okay. 857 00:34:16,303 --> 00:34:17,887 Perhaps I can paper an exception 858 00:34:17,887 --> 00:34:19,845 and bury it deep in the halls of government. 859 00:34:19,845 --> 00:34:21,428 But for that, we have to go beyond 860 00:34:21,428 --> 00:34:23,512 the parameters of the original deal. 861 00:34:23,512 --> 00:34:26,053 I'm not gonna stay neutral, I need to go positive. 862 00:34:26,053 --> 00:34:28,095 -Hold on-- -[sighs] What are you saying? 863 00:34:28,095 --> 00:34:30,095 If the loan I help facilitate 864 00:34:30,095 --> 00:34:32,845 results in your development, I want to... 865 00:34:35,595 --> 00:34:37,679 From my bowl? 866 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:38,804 -Mm-hmm. -Oh my god-- 867 00:34:38,804 --> 00:34:40,679 Quiet, Ira. How much? 868 00:34:43,261 --> 00:34:45,095 Fucking shakedown. 869 00:34:45,095 --> 00:34:47,178 In line with standard finder's fees. 870 00:34:47,178 --> 00:34:48,428 He's right. 871 00:34:48,428 --> 00:34:50,512 Maybe he is. But I don't have to like it. 872 00:34:50,512 --> 00:34:54,011 Whatever our understanding, it can't just be verbal-- 873 00:34:54,011 --> 00:34:58,136 Ah. I've taken the liberty. 874 00:34:58,136 --> 00:35:00,136 For our comfort... 875 00:35:00,136 --> 00:35:02,595 All we need to do is-- 876 00:35:02,595 --> 00:35:06,804 And then everyone is nice. 877 00:35:09,303 --> 00:35:12,345 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 878 00:35:12,345 --> 00:35:14,553 ♪♪ 879 00:35:14,553 --> 00:35:16,595 [sighs] 880 00:35:16,595 --> 00:35:20,637 ♪♪♪ 881 00:35:20,637 --> 00:35:24,804 ♪♪♪ 882 00:35:24,804 --> 00:35:26,303 Perhaps you'd like to take these-- 883 00:35:26,303 --> 00:35:28,053 I'm not touching that fucking thing. 884 00:35:28,053 --> 00:35:30,178 Suit yourself. I'll just put them in my safe. 885 00:35:30,178 --> 00:35:32,512 One second, fast guy. 886 00:35:32,512 --> 00:35:36,970 ♪♪♪ 887 00:35:36,970 --> 00:35:41,762 ♪♪♪ 888 00:35:41,762 --> 00:35:46,303 [copier whirring] 889 00:35:46,303 --> 00:35:48,428 There'll be no changing it after the fact now. 890 00:35:48,428 --> 00:35:50,970 I need to go back to DC. 891 00:35:50,970 --> 00:35:53,053 I have work to do. 892 00:35:53,053 --> 00:35:55,345 Gentlemen. 893 00:35:59,345 --> 00:36:02,595 [clears throat] 894 00:36:02,595 --> 00:36:04,679 [Ira] Now that it's just the three of us, I have to say, 895 00:36:04,679 --> 00:36:07,011 I did not know the nature of that conversation beforehand... 896 00:36:07,011 --> 00:36:08,470 And further-- 897 00:36:08,470 --> 00:36:10,512 You can do all the mewling you want about matters legal 898 00:36:10,512 --> 00:36:12,345 once I get this copy locked in my safe. 899 00:36:12,345 --> 00:36:15,011 And then, Dad. You have to tell him everything. 900 00:36:15,011 --> 00:36:17,595 So he can defend us, whatever may come. 901 00:36:17,595 --> 00:36:20,053 You mean about the idiot who stands to lose the most? 902 00:36:20,053 --> 00:36:22,011 [Senior] Can I really-- Yes. 903 00:36:22,011 --> 00:36:23,303 I can't listen to future plans. 904 00:36:23,303 --> 00:36:24,845 But the things you've already done. 905 00:36:24,845 --> 00:36:26,887 And the people with whom you've done 'em, 906 00:36:26,887 --> 00:36:27,804 that I need to know. 907 00:36:27,804 --> 00:36:30,428 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 908 00:36:30,428 --> 00:36:32,679 [lock beeping] 909 00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:35,553 ♪♪♪ 910 00:36:35,553 --> 00:36:38,553 ♪♪♪ 911 00:36:38,553 --> 00:36:41,637 [Krakow] I've taken the liberty. 912 00:36:41,637 --> 00:36:42,929 [Krakow] For our comfort... 913 00:36:42,929 --> 00:36:44,970 [Krakow] All we need to do is... 914 00:36:44,970 --> 00:36:47,011 This is fucking incredible. 915 00:36:47,011 --> 00:36:48,345 What-- What am I hearing-- 916 00:36:48,345 --> 00:36:49,929 that they've entered into a conspiracy? 917 00:36:49,929 --> 00:36:52,136 Fraud. A quid pro quo deal. 918 00:36:52,136 --> 00:36:53,428 International banking violations. 919 00:36:53,428 --> 00:36:55,011 Money laundering to follow. Shh... 920 00:36:55,011 --> 00:36:56,136 [rustling] What's that rustling? 921 00:36:56,136 --> 00:36:57,887 Did they paper this fucking deal? 922 00:36:57,887 --> 00:36:59,387 [Krakow] Perhaps you'd like to hold these-- 923 00:36:59,387 --> 00:37:01,470 [Ira] I'm not touching that fucking thing. 924 00:37:01,470 --> 00:37:02,637 [Krakow] Suit yourself. I'll just put them in my safe. 925 00:37:02,637 --> 00:37:04,553 Stay tuned for this next part. 926 00:37:04,553 --> 00:37:06,136 [Ira] Now that it's just the three of us, I have to say, 927 00:37:06,136 --> 00:37:07,762 [Ira] I did not know the nature of that conversation 928 00:37:07,762 --> 00:37:09,345 [Ira] beforehand... And further-- 929 00:37:09,345 --> 00:37:10,970 [Senior] You can do all the mewling you want 930 00:37:10,970 --> 00:37:12,887 about matters legal once I get this copy locked in my safe. 931 00:37:12,887 --> 00:37:14,261 [Chuck] And then, Dad. 932 00:37:14,261 --> 00:37:16,136 [Chuck] You have to tell him everything. 933 00:37:16,136 --> 00:37:18,053 [Chuck] So he can defend us, whatever may come. 934 00:37:18,053 --> 00:37:19,595 [Senior] You mean about the idiot 935 00:37:19,595 --> 00:37:21,095 [Senior] who stands to lose the most? 936 00:37:21,095 --> 00:37:22,887 [Senior] Can I really-- [static hisses] 937 00:37:22,887 --> 00:37:25,220 What the hell? 938 00:37:25,220 --> 00:37:26,845 We were just getting to the good part-- 939 00:37:26,845 --> 00:37:27,929 You know what the hell. 940 00:37:27,929 --> 00:37:29,553 [sighs] 941 00:37:29,553 --> 00:37:31,720 There's no attorney-client privilege with Krakow there. 942 00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:33,428 After Krakow leaves, 943 00:37:33,428 --> 00:37:35,387 Ira Schirmer clearly states that he is their lawyer-- 944 00:37:35,387 --> 00:37:37,637 in an exculpatory way for him, I might add-- 945 00:37:37,637 --> 00:37:39,345 and is about to give legal advice. 946 00:37:39,345 --> 00:37:41,220 And so it was headphones off for the agent 947 00:37:41,220 --> 00:37:42,261 and they killed the recording. 948 00:37:42,261 --> 00:37:43,762 [sighs] [headphones thud] 949 00:37:43,762 --> 00:37:45,261 So that--that was it, 950 00:37:45,261 --> 00:37:48,595 that was all he got before he had to minimize? 951 00:37:48,595 --> 00:37:49,804 Roughly all. 952 00:37:49,804 --> 00:37:51,303 Fuck roughly. What else did he get, 953 00:37:51,303 --> 00:37:52,595 what else is on the unredacted tape? 954 00:37:52,595 --> 00:37:54,387 What, exactly, was getting locked in the safe? 955 00:37:54,387 --> 00:37:56,178 Bryan! We talked about this very fucking thing-- 956 00:37:56,178 --> 00:37:58,428 Ohh. Come on, Kate. This isn't fucking Girl Scouts. 957 00:37:58,428 --> 00:38:00,470 They were dancing around whatever they were doing-- 958 00:38:00,470 --> 00:38:02,053 if there's documentation to be retrieved, 959 00:38:02,053 --> 00:38:03,470 the audio will get me a warrant. 960 00:38:03,470 --> 00:38:05,470 Stop pushing me. 961 00:38:05,470 --> 00:38:08,387 And you shouldn't even be asking those questions. 962 00:38:08,387 --> 00:38:10,970 This is exactly what I was afraid of. 963 00:38:10,970 --> 00:38:13,720 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 964 00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:15,970 [sighs, clears throat] 965 00:38:15,970 --> 00:38:17,637 This meeting is over. 966 00:38:17,637 --> 00:38:19,804 ♪♪♪ 967 00:38:19,804 --> 00:38:21,095 [door opens] 968 00:38:24,762 --> 00:38:27,345 Danny Margolis. 969 00:38:27,345 --> 00:38:30,804 You have done some good for me in the not too distant past. 970 00:38:30,804 --> 00:38:32,178 And from what I hear, 971 00:38:32,178 --> 00:38:34,178 you made quite an impression on those Feds. 972 00:38:34,178 --> 00:38:37,095 For the record it was chilly that day by the pool. 973 00:38:37,095 --> 00:38:39,345 As I recall it was positively balmy. 974 00:38:39,345 --> 00:38:41,136 But whatever you need to tell yourself. 975 00:38:41,136 --> 00:38:43,512 Anyway, it motivated me to tighten up my game. 976 00:38:43,512 --> 00:38:45,261 I'm working out like six days a week now-- 977 00:38:45,261 --> 00:38:46,970 Good for you. Yeah. 978 00:38:46,970 --> 00:38:49,637 So. Business at hand. 979 00:38:49,637 --> 00:38:51,553 I believe I can do you some more good, Axe. 980 00:38:51,553 --> 00:38:53,095 Let me tell you what a freeport is-- 981 00:38:53,095 --> 00:38:54,929 A storage facility at a private airport 982 00:38:54,929 --> 00:38:57,136 where valuables purchased overseas can be stored 983 00:38:57,136 --> 00:38:59,345 and deemed perpetually 'in transit' so the customs, 984 00:38:59,345 --> 00:39:01,845 duties and sales tax can be avoided. 985 00:39:03,303 --> 00:39:05,136 So you do know-- Of course he does. 986 00:39:05,136 --> 00:39:07,136 But tell him the good part. 987 00:39:07,136 --> 00:39:09,512 I have one that I bought into. 988 00:39:09,512 --> 00:39:12,053 A freeport. Up in Newburgh, private airstrip. 989 00:39:12,053 --> 00:39:13,637 Is that right? Yeah. 990 00:39:13,637 --> 00:39:15,512 And I'm the commandant. 991 00:39:15,512 --> 00:39:17,845 So I can house your paintings in a permanent tax-free state. 992 00:39:17,845 --> 00:39:19,679 That is of value. 993 00:39:19,679 --> 00:39:21,512 And I can do you one even better: 994 00:39:21,512 --> 00:39:24,553 I'll store replicas, so you can hang the originals. 995 00:39:24,553 --> 00:39:26,553 If anyone asks, you say they're the replicas. 996 00:39:26,553 --> 00:39:28,887 For a small fee, of course. 997 00:39:28,887 --> 00:39:31,428 Medium fee? 998 00:39:31,428 --> 00:39:32,387 Okay. 999 00:39:32,387 --> 00:39:34,053 Stop talking. 1000 00:39:34,053 --> 00:39:36,345 The rest gets worked out between you and Victor. 1001 00:39:36,345 --> 00:39:39,345 The shipment from Europe will be rerouted to you. 1002 00:39:39,345 --> 00:39:41,136 You let me know when I can expect the 'replicas.' 1003 00:39:41,136 --> 00:39:43,387 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1004 00:39:43,387 --> 00:39:45,720 ♪♪♪ 1005 00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:48,345 ♪♪♪ 1006 00:39:48,345 --> 00:39:50,595 Hey. You did well here. 1007 00:39:50,595 --> 00:39:52,970 Keep it up. Impress me. 1008 00:39:52,970 --> 00:39:55,261 And soon enough you'll get off the austerity plan. 1009 00:39:55,261 --> 00:39:56,762 You can count on it. 1010 00:40:06,303 --> 00:40:09,178 Now, that puts a bounce in my man's step. 1011 00:40:12,595 --> 00:40:15,428 Though I'm not sure I'd use that room for that. 1012 00:40:15,428 --> 00:40:16,845 Hard floor. 1013 00:40:16,845 --> 00:40:19,053 Too hard. And very public-- 1014 00:40:19,053 --> 00:40:20,595 She's not what you think she is. 1015 00:40:21,845 --> 00:40:25,011 [door closes] 1016 00:40:25,011 --> 00:40:27,762 ♪ soft music ♪ 1017 00:40:27,762 --> 00:40:32,845 ♪♪♪ 1018 00:40:32,845 --> 00:40:35,303 You need to know that you might cry. 1019 00:40:35,303 --> 00:40:39,095 And if you do, that's just release. 1020 00:40:39,095 --> 00:40:42,637 It means connection. 1021 00:40:42,637 --> 00:40:46,136 It means freedom from having to hold it all in. 1022 00:40:46,136 --> 00:40:48,136 That sounds so good. 1023 00:40:48,136 --> 00:40:49,970 How do we... 1024 00:40:49,970 --> 00:40:53,553 ♪♪♪ 1025 00:40:53,553 --> 00:40:55,762 [hand pats] 1026 00:40:55,762 --> 00:41:00,720 ♪♪♪ 1027 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:03,303 [exhales heavily] 1028 00:41:03,303 --> 00:41:07,345 ♪♪♪ 1029 00:41:07,345 --> 00:41:11,428 ♪♪♪ 1030 00:41:11,428 --> 00:41:13,679 [Wendy] She's a professional cuddler. 1031 00:41:13,679 --> 00:41:14,887 [sobbing] 1032 00:41:14,887 --> 00:41:16,553 [Wendy] And a star in her field. 1033 00:41:16,553 --> 00:41:19,387 [sobbing intensifies] 1034 00:41:19,387 --> 00:41:23,136 ♪♪♪ 1035 00:41:23,136 --> 00:41:27,011 ♪♪♪ 1036 00:41:27,011 --> 00:41:30,011 [Wags wailing] 1037 00:41:30,011 --> 00:41:32,970 ♪♪♪ 1038 00:41:32,970 --> 00:41:35,762 ♪♪♪ 1039 00:41:35,762 --> 00:41:37,220 [inhales sharply] 1040 00:41:37,220 --> 00:41:39,595 So... 1041 00:41:39,595 --> 00:41:40,720 Hmm? 1042 00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:42,804 Oh. This our own cuddle session? 1043 00:41:42,804 --> 00:41:45,553 [chuckles] No. You already did the thing. 1044 00:41:45,553 --> 00:41:48,845 Made me feel warm and loved and cared for. 1045 00:41:48,845 --> 00:41:51,845 Oh. Well, that's something I don't hear every day. 1046 00:41:51,845 --> 00:41:54,387 Look. I don't know if Gordie really scraped his knee 1047 00:41:54,387 --> 00:41:56,136 and Dean broke his surfboard-- 1048 00:41:56,136 --> 00:41:59,178 but you came back for me. 1049 00:41:59,178 --> 00:42:02,387 As you would-- and have--for me. 1050 00:42:02,387 --> 00:42:04,637 It's more than touching, Axe. 1051 00:42:04,637 --> 00:42:09,303 It's...compared to what I have at this moment at home 1052 00:42:09,303 --> 00:42:11,637 it's, uh...really nice. 1053 00:42:11,637 --> 00:42:15,553 But also: you needed to come back for you. 1054 00:42:15,553 --> 00:42:18,512 For this... 1055 00:42:18,512 --> 00:42:20,136 What about it? They all fucked up. 1056 00:42:20,136 --> 00:42:21,929 They needed to come in and fix it. 1057 00:42:21,929 --> 00:42:23,679 No. If it wasn't today's reasons, 1058 00:42:23,679 --> 00:42:25,387 you'd have come up with others. 1059 00:42:25,387 --> 00:42:27,303 Okay. I suppose I might've. 1060 00:42:27,303 --> 00:42:29,053 You need to let them go home. 1061 00:42:29,053 --> 00:42:31,595 [sighs] Every single one of them. 1062 00:42:31,595 --> 00:42:33,512 I don't like it. If I'm here grinding, 1063 00:42:33,512 --> 00:42:35,011 they should be here grinding too. 1064 00:42:35,011 --> 00:42:36,720 Yeah. You can't let yourself take a day off, 1065 00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:38,011 so they can't take a day off. 1066 00:42:38,011 --> 00:42:39,929 So you can surround yourself. 1067 00:42:39,929 --> 00:42:44,470 Okay. Maybe I want the edge they'll get me. 1068 00:42:44,470 --> 00:42:46,428 Maybe I want them to regain their own edge. 1069 00:42:46,428 --> 00:42:47,679 Maybe I want them to feel the opposite 1070 00:42:47,679 --> 00:42:50,303 of the way Wags does right now-- 1071 00:42:50,303 --> 00:42:52,929 totally uncomfortable in their position and place, 1072 00:42:52,929 --> 00:42:55,720 scared to death of my disapproval, of failing, 1073 00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:57,470 of not being exactly where I need them to be 1074 00:42:57,470 --> 00:42:59,053 exactly when I need them there. 1075 00:42:59,053 --> 00:43:00,720 Many of them thrive under those conditions. 1076 00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:03,428 For long bursts. But then they need to recover. 1077 00:43:03,428 --> 00:43:04,720 On my time? 1078 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:06,762 It's not all your time. It's a holiday. 1079 00:43:06,762 --> 00:43:09,595 There are no holidays when it's my money. 1080 00:43:09,595 --> 00:43:10,929 They are rich because of me. 1081 00:43:10,929 --> 00:43:12,845 So they can help me stay that way. 1082 00:43:12,845 --> 00:43:15,595 You're punishing them because they're not you. 1083 00:43:15,595 --> 00:43:18,303 You need to let them go home, Bobby. 1084 00:43:18,303 --> 00:43:20,804 So they can come back tomorrow and actually work. 1085 00:43:20,804 --> 00:43:22,804 What's the point of any of you being rich 1086 00:43:22,804 --> 00:43:24,387 if you can't fucking enjoy it. 1087 00:43:24,387 --> 00:43:26,804 I'll let you know when I do... 1088 00:43:29,136 --> 00:43:30,970 [scoffs] 1089 00:43:30,970 --> 00:43:33,679 This... 1090 00:43:33,679 --> 00:43:35,136 Yeah. 1091 00:43:35,136 --> 00:43:39,387 This is why I can't let you lose that hearing. 1092 00:43:39,387 --> 00:43:42,136 Because I have always known 1093 00:43:42,136 --> 00:43:45,470 I need you more than anyone else here. 1094 00:43:45,470 --> 00:43:47,637 At least I have since... 1095 00:43:47,637 --> 00:43:50,178 Have I ever told you 1096 00:43:50,178 --> 00:43:53,804 why and when, exactly, 1097 00:43:53,804 --> 00:43:57,637 I knew that you were gonna be my partner at all this. Forever. 1098 00:43:57,637 --> 00:43:59,095 You remember? 1099 00:43:59,095 --> 00:44:01,929 What kind of man would I be if I didn't? 1100 00:44:01,929 --> 00:44:04,929 Mnh. 1101 00:44:04,929 --> 00:44:08,178 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1102 00:44:08,178 --> 00:44:10,011 Well, this was the one time in my life 1103 00:44:10,011 --> 00:44:13,220 I wasn't able to fight for myself, and you fought for me. 1104 00:44:13,220 --> 00:44:15,178 Well. I'm sure you didn't let on that was the case. 1105 00:44:15,178 --> 00:44:16,970 Whenever this was. 1106 00:44:16,970 --> 00:44:19,595 Yeah. But you knew. 1107 00:44:19,595 --> 00:44:22,720 It was right after 9/11. 1108 00:44:22,720 --> 00:44:25,762 When I'd made the bold but foolhardy statement 1109 00:44:25,762 --> 00:44:27,970 that I would take care of all the survivors, 1110 00:44:27,970 --> 00:44:31,011 and the families of those who didn't. 1111 00:44:31,011 --> 00:44:34,804 And that I'd not only find a way to pay for every funeral, 1112 00:44:34,804 --> 00:44:37,011 put every kid through school, 1113 00:44:37,011 --> 00:44:40,053 but that I'd also pay out all the bonuses too, 1114 00:44:40,053 --> 00:44:41,428 for the next three years. 1115 00:44:41,428 --> 00:44:43,512 It wasn't foolhardy. It was generous. 1116 00:44:43,512 --> 00:44:45,220 It was the best of you. 1117 00:44:45,220 --> 00:44:47,637 Sure. But also: impossible. 1118 00:44:47,637 --> 00:44:51,428 Every business advisor I had 1119 00:44:51,428 --> 00:44:53,470 told me to shut down the company. 1120 00:44:53,470 --> 00:44:56,720 Act of God. Nothing for me to do. 1121 00:44:56,720 --> 00:44:58,845 I mean, we had no book, we had no personnel. 1122 00:44:58,845 --> 00:45:00,345 We were facing margin calls. 1123 00:45:00,345 --> 00:45:02,220 Every bank insisted I let it die. 1124 00:45:02,220 --> 00:45:03,845 But you didn't listen. 1125 00:45:03,845 --> 00:45:05,512 You'd been awake for, what, three weeks straight? 1126 00:45:05,512 --> 00:45:06,887 Mm. 1127 00:45:06,887 --> 00:45:08,470 I remember wondering how you were doing it. 1128 00:45:08,470 --> 00:45:11,011 How you stayed so lucid. 1129 00:45:11,011 --> 00:45:12,804 I didn't feel it. 1130 00:45:12,804 --> 00:45:16,261 You still don't know the moment, do you? 1131 00:45:16,261 --> 00:45:18,887 I... don't. 1132 00:45:18,887 --> 00:45:20,136 It's all such a-- 1133 00:45:20,136 --> 00:45:22,220 Yeah. It was a blur. 1134 00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:24,679 Except for the few that stand out. 1135 00:45:24,679 --> 00:45:26,762 This was at one of the funerals. 1136 00:45:26,762 --> 00:45:29,679 God. For a while that was our days, right? 1137 00:45:29,679 --> 00:45:31,970 Going down to Ground Zero in the morning, 1138 00:45:31,970 --> 00:45:33,428 funeral in the afternoon, 1139 00:45:33,428 --> 00:45:36,804 then arguing with banks and investors, you know, 1140 00:45:36,804 --> 00:45:41,178 every hour into the night, to try to save the company. 1141 00:45:41,178 --> 00:45:42,720 I mean, look. 1142 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:44,261 I knew that I'd locked in a windfall. 1143 00:45:44,261 --> 00:45:46,011 But it hadn't been repatriated yet. 1144 00:45:46,011 --> 00:45:48,553 Back then, I was still just on loan to you guys 1145 00:45:48,553 --> 00:45:50,428 from that sports psych place I worked at. 1146 00:45:50,428 --> 00:45:52,720 Yeah. We used to do the funerals together. 1147 00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:54,553 You would help with the families. 1148 00:45:54,553 --> 00:45:56,679 And then at this one funeral, 1149 00:45:56,679 --> 00:46:00,679 I got bum rushed by this group of families. 1150 00:46:00,679 --> 00:46:03,428 Who told me I wasn't getting them all paid fast enough. 1151 00:46:03,428 --> 00:46:06,011 They attacked my integrity. They called me a thief. 1152 00:46:06,011 --> 00:46:07,512 Said I was stealing money from them. 1153 00:46:07,512 --> 00:46:09,136 When all I was fucking doing 1154 00:46:09,136 --> 00:46:13,053 was arguing and scheming 1155 00:46:13,053 --> 00:46:17,637 just to keep the firm going to give them their money. 1156 00:46:17,637 --> 00:46:20,220 Normally, I'd have-- I'd have fought it. 1157 00:46:20,220 --> 00:46:24,428 But [sighs] 1158 00:46:24,428 --> 00:46:28,387 right at that moment, 1159 00:46:28,387 --> 00:46:30,595 it all just became too much. 1160 00:46:30,595 --> 00:46:32,220 Of course. 1161 00:46:32,220 --> 00:46:35,428 The grief, the sleeplessness, the survivor's guilt, 1162 00:46:35,428 --> 00:46:38,178 the impossibility of the task... 1163 00:46:38,178 --> 00:46:41,220 I just stood there, as they unloaded on me. 1164 00:46:41,220 --> 00:46:43,512 [chuckles] I was struck dumb. 1165 00:46:43,512 --> 00:46:45,762 And then the whole place started watching. 1166 00:46:45,762 --> 00:46:48,512 It almost turned into a mob situation. 1167 00:46:48,512 --> 00:46:49,762 And that is when-- 1168 00:46:49,762 --> 00:46:52,345 I stepped in between them and you. 1169 00:46:52,345 --> 00:46:54,136 [chuckles] 1170 00:46:54,136 --> 00:46:55,345 I remember now. 1171 00:46:55,345 --> 00:46:56,387 You sure did. 1172 00:46:56,387 --> 00:46:57,804 You remember what you said? 1173 00:46:57,804 --> 00:46:59,637 'Cause I remember every word. 1174 00:46:59,637 --> 00:47:01,845 Loud enough for the whole place to hear: 1175 00:47:01,845 --> 00:47:05,345 "Shut the fuck up. 1176 00:47:05,345 --> 00:47:08,345 You lost family. So did everyone else here. 1177 00:47:08,345 --> 00:47:10,929 And this man is the only hope you--or any of you-- 1178 00:47:10,929 --> 00:47:13,095 have of paying for the rest of your lives. 1179 00:47:13,095 --> 00:47:16,679 And I'll tell you another thing, I have begged him not to. 1180 00:47:16,679 --> 00:47:20,178 Because I think it'll destroy him next. 1181 00:47:20,178 --> 00:47:21,553 He doesn't need it. 1182 00:47:21,553 --> 00:47:24,887 He can move on clean and in a couple of years 1183 00:47:24,887 --> 00:47:27,220 he'll have enough wealth for twenty lifetimes. 1184 00:47:27,220 --> 00:47:29,387 But if he's really too slow for you, 1185 00:47:29,387 --> 00:47:31,428 if you really think that he is stealing from you, 1186 00:47:31,428 --> 00:47:34,679 say another word, and I will make him shut it down. 1187 00:47:34,679 --> 00:47:38,053 Otherwise, shake his fucking hand, 1188 00:47:38,053 --> 00:47:41,428 say thank you, and we can all mourn together." 1189 00:47:41,428 --> 00:47:43,387 And that's just what happened... 1190 00:47:43,387 --> 00:47:44,887 [chuckles] 1191 00:47:44,887 --> 00:47:46,762 But that's not the moment. 1192 00:47:46,762 --> 00:47:48,720 The moment is when you got to my car after. 1193 00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:49,762 And you said-- 1194 00:47:49,762 --> 00:47:52,053 I said, "Bobby, 1195 00:47:52,053 --> 00:47:54,845 you better fucking deliver for those people. 1196 00:47:54,845 --> 00:47:56,428 Or I won't just make you quit. 1197 00:47:56,428 --> 00:47:57,679 I'll kill you myself." 1198 00:47:57,679 --> 00:48:00,053 And right then 1199 00:48:00,053 --> 00:48:02,804 I knew that you were my partner in this for life. 1200 00:48:02,804 --> 00:48:07,387 Because you were loyal to me in the face of the world, 1201 00:48:07,387 --> 00:48:09,387 but in private you held me to account 1202 00:48:09,387 --> 00:48:11,762 and you were loyal to the bigger cause. 1203 00:48:11,762 --> 00:48:13,178 And you were fun as hell to watch. 1204 00:48:13,178 --> 00:48:14,595 And you still are. 1205 00:48:14,595 --> 00:48:17,929 So you say whatever you need in that hearing 1206 00:48:17,929 --> 00:48:19,428 to get you out of this. 1207 00:48:19,428 --> 00:48:22,845 And I will back you to the ends of the earth on it. 1208 00:48:22,845 --> 00:48:25,470 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1209 00:48:25,470 --> 00:48:30,011 ♪♪♪ 1210 00:48:30,011 --> 00:48:31,553 I hope I can. 1211 00:48:31,553 --> 00:48:34,261 [glass clinks] 1212 00:48:34,261 --> 00:48:37,804 And if you can't, you got to do the other thing. 1213 00:48:37,804 --> 00:48:39,929 The other thing? 1214 00:48:39,929 --> 00:48:42,178 You have the power to make this go away. 1215 00:48:42,178 --> 00:48:45,053 So that you don't have to defend yourself in that hearing. 1216 00:48:45,053 --> 00:48:48,136 I heard you earlier, that Taylor can't be moved. 1217 00:48:48,136 --> 00:48:51,679 And if it was me trying, then you'd probably be right... 1218 00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:56,303 But as much as it kills me to suggest: 1219 00:48:56,303 --> 00:48:57,512 Go to Taylor. 1220 00:48:57,512 --> 00:48:59,095 Talk to them. 1221 00:48:59,095 --> 00:49:02,887 And ask for their forgiveness. 1222 00:49:02,887 --> 00:49:04,970 [sighs] 1223 00:49:04,970 --> 00:49:08,011 ♪♪♪ 1224 00:49:08,011 --> 00:49:11,095 ♪♪♪ 1225 00:49:11,095 --> 00:49:14,512 Right. 1226 00:49:14,512 --> 00:49:17,804 ♪♪♪ 1227 00:49:17,804 --> 00:49:21,136 ♪♪♪ 1228 00:49:21,136 --> 00:49:22,387 [door closes] 1229 00:49:22,387 --> 00:49:23,804 Oh. You look zenned out. 1230 00:49:23,804 --> 00:49:25,470 Enjoy your hug? 1231 00:49:25,470 --> 00:49:27,512 Oh, she gives far more than that. 1232 00:49:27,512 --> 00:49:30,470 She imparts a total sense of well-being. 1233 00:49:30,470 --> 00:49:32,387 [elevator dings] 1234 00:49:32,387 --> 00:49:34,595 Ah. Ben Kim! Lookit that. 1235 00:49:34,595 --> 00:49:36,762 The only one to come in voluntarily. 1236 00:49:36,762 --> 00:49:38,970 I do this every year. 1237 00:49:38,970 --> 00:49:41,804 I sit at my desk, alone, visualize 1238 00:49:41,804 --> 00:49:43,345 and do my goal setting for the year. 1239 00:49:43,345 --> 00:49:44,887 Of course you do. 1240 00:49:44,887 --> 00:49:49,428 Ben, my boy, you're not doing it alone this year. 1241 00:49:49,428 --> 00:49:52,261 Come on. 1242 00:49:52,261 --> 00:49:54,553 [Axe] I guess Ben Kim's gonna get cuddled. 1243 00:49:54,553 --> 00:49:56,512 [door opens] 1244 00:49:57,845 --> 00:49:59,512 Hey. 1245 00:49:59,512 --> 00:50:00,804 Good luck. 1246 00:50:06,428 --> 00:50:09,011 Ok everyone! I love the effort. 1247 00:50:09,011 --> 00:50:10,804 And seeing your beautiful fucking faces. 1248 00:50:10,804 --> 00:50:12,679 But you've done enough. 1249 00:50:12,679 --> 00:50:17,136 So fuck off out of here and enjoy the rest of your holiday. 1250 00:50:17,136 --> 00:50:18,887 [applause] [Axe] Now, when you get home, 1251 00:50:18,887 --> 00:50:20,887 [Axe] you will find a case of champagne from me. 1252 00:50:20,887 --> 00:50:22,804 And a tin of caviar. 1253 00:50:22,804 --> 00:50:25,220 You'll have to order your own pizza, okay? 1254 00:50:25,220 --> 00:50:26,720 So, eat up, drink up. 1255 00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:29,220 And then get yourselves ready to get back here 1256 00:50:29,220 --> 00:50:30,970 for when the market opens 1257 00:50:30,970 --> 00:50:34,220 ready to motherfucking destroy for me. 1258 00:50:34,220 --> 00:50:36,804 [cheers and applause] 1259 00:50:36,804 --> 00:50:39,720 ♪ mid-tempo music ♪ 1260 00:50:39,720 --> 00:50:40,720 Come on! 1261 00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:44,428 ♪♪♪ 1262 00:50:44,428 --> 00:50:47,929 ♪♪♪ 1263 00:50:47,929 --> 00:50:51,679 ♪♪♪ 1264 00:50:51,679 --> 00:50:55,387 [switch clicks] 1265 00:50:55,387 --> 00:50:57,637 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1266 00:50:57,637 --> 00:51:01,095 ♪♪♪ 1267 00:51:01,095 --> 00:51:04,428 ♪♪♪ 1268 00:51:04,428 --> 00:51:06,762 I really thought we were done with this. 1269 00:51:06,762 --> 00:51:08,512 One last conversation. 1270 00:51:08,512 --> 00:51:10,220 One last ask? 1271 00:51:11,845 --> 00:51:14,178 Are you hoping I just don't show up to the Med Board 1272 00:51:14,178 --> 00:51:16,095 or are you going to ask me not to? 1273 00:51:16,095 --> 00:51:18,970 Whichever. 1274 00:51:18,970 --> 00:51:23,261 Look. All I want to say is: 1275 00:51:23,261 --> 00:51:25,804 I'm sorry. 1276 00:51:25,804 --> 00:51:30,220 [Wendy] I am truly sorry. 1277 00:51:30,220 --> 00:51:32,887 Some kind of desire for revenge, 1278 00:51:32,887 --> 00:51:36,470 or competitiveness, or bloodlust 1279 00:51:36,470 --> 00:51:38,220 got a hold of me and let me go too far. 1280 00:51:38,220 --> 00:51:42,887 No, I--I [clears throat] let myself go too far. 1281 00:51:42,887 --> 00:51:45,178 I'd say way too fucking far. 1282 00:51:45,178 --> 00:51:49,428 But know this: 1283 00:51:49,428 --> 00:51:51,470 you say you don't want to end up like Axe. Or me. 1284 00:51:51,470 --> 00:51:55,095 Well, that's where this kind of vengeance leads. 1285 00:51:55,095 --> 00:52:00,261 It's ugly, it's sickening 1286 00:52:00,261 --> 00:52:03,178 and I don't recommend it, to my worst enemy. 1287 00:52:03,178 --> 00:52:05,470 Much less someone I once cared so much for, 1288 00:52:05,470 --> 00:52:09,470 and--and still, oddly do. 1289 00:52:09,470 --> 00:52:12,762 Your apology isn't real. 1290 00:52:12,762 --> 00:52:14,178 Do I need to impress upon you 1291 00:52:14,178 --> 00:52:16,428 how much my medical license means to me? 1292 00:52:16,428 --> 00:52:19,720 This, like everything with you, is now merely transactional. 1293 00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:21,679 That's who and what you are. 1294 00:52:21,679 --> 00:52:24,053 So you have to actually ask me not to show up. 1295 00:52:24,053 --> 00:52:25,512 As a personal favor to you. 1296 00:52:25,512 --> 00:52:27,261 You have to say the words. 1297 00:52:27,261 --> 00:52:31,845 Please don't come to the hearing. 1298 00:52:31,845 --> 00:52:34,303 Do that for me. 1299 00:52:34,303 --> 00:52:37,345 You are torn up, Wendy. 1300 00:52:37,345 --> 00:52:39,887 The look in your eye tells me that there is still, 1301 00:52:39,887 --> 00:52:43,428 somewhere inside of you, someone who knows right from wrong. 1302 00:52:43,428 --> 00:52:45,595 This hearing is your chance to reclaim that person. 1303 00:52:45,595 --> 00:52:47,261 I am not setting you up for defeat. 1304 00:52:47,261 --> 00:52:49,470 I am giving you a chance to save yourself. 1305 00:52:49,470 --> 00:52:54,303 ♪♪♪ 1306 00:52:54,303 --> 00:52:57,011 And, in fact, that decides it. 1307 00:52:57,011 --> 00:52:58,220 I won't come to the hearing. 1308 00:52:58,220 --> 00:53:00,845 If you think you should keep your license 1309 00:53:00,845 --> 00:53:04,303 so you can continue to treat people, tell them why. 1310 00:53:04,303 --> 00:53:06,345 And I won't be there to tell them any different. 1311 00:53:06,345 --> 00:53:08,887 ♪♪♪ 1312 00:53:08,887 --> 00:53:11,637 ♪♪♪ 1313 00:53:11,637 --> 00:53:14,428 I will. Thank you. 1314 00:53:14,428 --> 00:53:16,053 I owe you one. 1315 00:53:16,053 --> 00:53:18,387 You do. 1316 00:53:18,387 --> 00:53:20,887 But you owe yourself even more. 1317 00:53:20,887 --> 00:53:23,053 ♪♪♪ 1318 00:53:23,053 --> 00:53:24,387 [scoffs] 1319 00:53:24,387 --> 00:53:28,679 ♪♪♪ 1320 00:53:28,679 --> 00:53:32,720 ♪♪♪ 1321 00:53:32,720 --> 00:53:37,011 ♪♪♪ 1322 00:53:37,011 --> 00:53:41,261 ♪♪♪ 1323 00:53:41,261 --> 00:53:45,470 ♪♪♪ 1324 00:53:45,470 --> 00:53:47,345 [Connerty] Come on. Seriously? 1325 00:53:47,345 --> 00:53:48,845 No. No. No. No. No. You're doing this. 1326 00:53:48,845 --> 00:53:52,387 You can. And will. 1327 00:53:54,470 --> 00:53:55,762 You know what this symbol is? 1328 00:53:55,762 --> 00:53:57,095 Yeah. Divine wind. 1329 00:53:57,095 --> 00:53:58,929 Kamikaze. Right? 1330 00:53:58,929 --> 00:54:00,387 Who made the ultimate sacrifice 1331 00:54:00,387 --> 00:54:02,261 for their emperor, their nation, their ideals. 1332 00:54:02,261 --> 00:54:04,345 But the board? The metaphor I get, 1333 00:54:04,345 --> 00:54:07,095 but this isn't--it's not kids' karate class. 1334 00:54:07,095 --> 00:54:08,762 Go beyond the metaphor. 1335 00:54:08,762 --> 00:54:10,345 Break through it. 1336 00:54:10,345 --> 00:54:12,261 Feel it. 1337 00:54:17,261 --> 00:54:18,720 Hyah! 1338 00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:20,261 Do you see that? 1339 00:54:20,261 --> 00:54:23,553 Do you see, Bryan, nothing makes you feel 1340 00:54:23,553 --> 00:54:27,095 the purest version of yourself more than going kamikaze. 1341 00:54:27,095 --> 00:54:30,387 I want you to make an all-out attack on success. 1342 00:54:30,387 --> 00:54:31,637 Hmm. 1343 00:54:31,637 --> 00:54:33,387 The kamikaze get a bad name 1344 00:54:33,387 --> 00:54:36,053 because everyone wants to focus on the suicide. 1345 00:54:36,053 --> 00:54:38,220 But what they miss out on 1346 00:54:38,220 --> 00:54:41,720 is the purity of the commitment. 1347 00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:43,011 Hmm. 1348 00:54:43,011 --> 00:54:44,470 Good. 1349 00:54:44,470 --> 00:54:48,679 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1350 00:54:48,679 --> 00:54:50,303 Again! 1351 00:54:50,303 --> 00:54:51,679 Ah! Yeah! 1352 00:54:51,679 --> 00:54:52,720 Yeah! Ah! 1353 00:54:52,720 --> 00:54:54,303 Yeah! Yeah! 1354 00:54:54,303 --> 00:54:56,679 Oh! One more! 1355 00:54:56,679 --> 00:55:00,470 ♪ Jackson Browne's "These Days" ♪ 1356 00:55:00,470 --> 00:55:02,679 [door closes, keys jangle] 1357 00:55:02,679 --> 00:55:06,637 ♪ Well, I've been out walking ♪ 1358 00:55:06,637 --> 00:55:08,637 You figure out your strategy? 1359 00:55:08,637 --> 00:55:12,595 Things were done, moves were made. 1360 00:55:12,595 --> 00:55:15,136 Good. 1361 00:55:15,136 --> 00:55:17,553 And your thing? 1362 00:55:17,553 --> 00:55:20,804 Productive. 1363 00:55:20,804 --> 00:55:23,428 Great. 1364 00:55:23,428 --> 00:55:27,804 ♪ These days I seem to think a lot ♪ 1365 00:55:27,804 --> 00:55:31,720 Chuck, when did you know you needed to marry me? 1366 00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:34,011 ♪♪♪ 1367 00:55:34,011 --> 00:55:38,762 I mean the--the exact moment 1368 00:55:38,762 --> 00:55:41,011 and why. 1369 00:55:41,011 --> 00:55:42,679 ♪♪♪ 1370 00:55:42,679 --> 00:55:44,845 [laughs] 1371 00:55:44,845 --> 00:55:48,178 ♪♪♪ 1372 00:55:48,178 --> 00:55:49,929 One single moment? Uh... 1373 00:55:49,929 --> 00:55:51,387 [chuckles] 1374 00:55:51,387 --> 00:55:56,220 ♪ And I had a lover ♪ 1375 00:55:56,220 --> 00:55:58,887 ...I don't remember. 1376 00:55:58,887 --> 00:56:03,220 ♪ It's so hard to risk another these days ♪ 1377 00:56:03,220 --> 00:56:05,970 [footsteps departing] 1378 00:56:05,970 --> 00:56:08,053 ♪ These days ♪ 1379 00:56:08,053 --> 00:56:10,679 Hey, kids! Dinner! 1380 00:56:10,679 --> 00:56:12,804 ♪♪♪ 1381 00:56:12,804 --> 00:56:16,553 ♪ Now, if I seem to be afraid ♪ 1382 00:56:16,553 --> 00:56:18,595 ♪ To live the life ♪ 1383 00:56:18,595 --> 00:56:23,136 ♪ That I have made in song ♪ 1384 00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:27,595 [The Pogues' "The Sickbed of Cuchulainn" plays over speakers] 1385 00:56:27,595 --> 00:56:30,261 [indistinct conversations] 1386 00:56:30,261 --> 00:56:32,762 ♪ McCormack and Richard Tauber ♪ 1387 00:56:32,762 --> 00:56:35,470 ♪ Are singing by the bed ♪ 1388 00:56:35,470 --> 00:56:38,387 ♪ There's a glass of punch below your feet ♪ 1389 00:56:38,387 --> 00:56:41,512 ♪ And an angel at your head ♪ 1390 00:56:41,512 --> 00:56:43,261 ♪ There's devils on each side of you ♪ 1391 00:56:43,261 --> 00:56:44,428 [Jackie] ...sipping fucking Jamesons 1392 00:56:44,428 --> 00:56:46,428 [Jackie] in your fancy fucking jeans 1393 00:56:46,428 --> 00:56:48,887 and your hundred dollar haircuts and your BMWs. 1394 00:56:48,887 --> 00:56:51,929 You only remember you're Irish on St. Paddy's Day and Easter. 1395 00:56:51,929 --> 00:56:53,387 [man] Believe this guy? 1396 00:56:53,387 --> 00:56:55,136 You know what? Fuck-- 1397 00:56:55,136 --> 00:56:56,387 ♪ When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt ♪ 1398 00:56:56,387 --> 00:56:58,345 ♪ And got syph down in Cologne ♪ 1399 00:56:58,345 --> 00:56:59,845 ♪ And you heard the rattling death trains ♪ 1400 00:56:59,845 --> 00:57:01,303 ♪ As you lay there all alone ♪ 1401 00:57:01,303 --> 00:57:02,720 ♪ Frank Ryan bought you whiskey ♪ 1402 00:57:02,720 --> 00:57:04,387 Don't even fucking think about it. 1403 00:57:04,387 --> 00:57:06,428 Ah, what the fuck, Jackie? 1404 00:57:06,428 --> 00:57:08,720 He fell. 1405 00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:09,762 Both of 'em? 1406 00:57:09,762 --> 00:57:11,303 They're fucking clumsy. 1407 00:57:11,303 --> 00:57:13,595 Bryan. Get your brother outta here, would ya? 1408 00:57:13,595 --> 00:57:16,220 'So you know: I had those fake fucking Irish pricks-- 1409 00:57:16,220 --> 00:57:17,762 Yeah, course you did. 1410 00:57:17,762 --> 00:57:19,345 And when was the last time you've been over in Belfast 1411 00:57:19,345 --> 00:57:20,970 supporting the cause? Well. That'd be never. 1412 00:57:20,970 --> 00:57:22,345 C'mon... 1413 00:57:22,345 --> 00:57:25,303 Yeah, but I did go to Cape Cod once-- 1414 00:57:25,303 --> 00:57:28,053 ♪♪♪ 1415 00:57:28,053 --> 00:57:32,303 So, baby brother, 1416 00:57:32,303 --> 00:57:34,136 haven't seen you in years. 1417 00:57:34,136 --> 00:57:36,136 'Cause you don't come to Ma's for Christmas anymore. 1418 00:57:36,136 --> 00:57:38,303 I don't like her ham... 1419 00:57:38,303 --> 00:57:41,387 But you suddenly showing up here... 1420 00:57:41,387 --> 00:57:43,178 Must mean you want something. 1421 00:57:43,178 --> 00:57:45,637 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1422 00:57:45,637 --> 00:57:47,720 What is it you want? 1423 00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,512 The one thing you do with those hands better than fight. 1424 00:57:50,512 --> 00:57:53,261 ♪♪♪ 1425 00:57:53,261 --> 00:57:55,053 There's a safe? 1426 00:57:55,053 --> 00:57:57,887 You bet your ass there is. 1427 00:57:57,887 --> 00:57:59,637 ♪♪♪ 1428 00:57:59,637 --> 00:58:01,470 ♪ Now you'll sing a song of liberty ♪ 1429 00:58:01,470 --> 00:58:03,595 ♪ For blacks and paks and jocks ♪ 1430 00:58:03,595 --> 00:58:05,303 ♪ And they'll take you from this dump you're in ♪ 1431 00:58:05,303 --> 00:58:06,845 ♪ And stick you in a box ♪ 1432 00:58:06,845 --> 00:58:08,512 ♪ Then they'll take you to Cloughprior ♪ 1433 00:58:08,512 --> 00:58:10,595 ♪ And shove you in the ground ♪ 1434 00:58:10,595 --> 00:58:12,220 ♪ But you'll stick your head back out and shout ♪ 1435 00:58:12,220 --> 00:58:13,679 ♪ "We'll have another round" ♪ 1436 00:58:13,679 --> 00:58:15,595 ♪ At the graveside of Cuchulainn ♪ 1437 00:58:15,595 --> 00:58:17,261 ♪ We'll kneel around and pray ♪ 1438 00:58:17,261 --> 00:58:19,011 ♪ And God is in His heaven ♪ 1439 00:58:19,011 --> 00:58:20,595 ♪ And Billy's down by the bay ♪ 1440 00:58:20,595 --> 00:58:21,720 ♪ Yeah! ♪ 1441 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:24,595 ♪♪♪