1 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:07,100 Previously on "Billions"... 2 00:00:07,180 --> 00:00:09,060 You know those poison-tip arrows 3 00:00:09,140 --> 00:00:11,020 that go through one guy and kill another? 4 00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:13,270 As long as it doesn't come from you. 5 00:00:13,350 --> 00:00:14,770 You get someone else to ask her. 6 00:00:14,850 --> 00:00:15,980 Won't track back to me. 7 00:00:16,060 --> 00:00:18,810 You come through for me, I'll pay off your house. 8 00:00:18,890 --> 00:00:20,640 People are getting sick on Ice Juice. 9 00:00:20,730 --> 00:00:22,180 Freezing the assets? 10 00:00:22,270 --> 00:00:25,100 Now, that's an Ivan Koloff bear hug you're putting on the man. 11 00:00:25,180 --> 00:00:27,100 You're squeezing the breath out of him. 12 00:00:27,180 --> 00:00:29,020 But now you owe me. 13 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:31,060 A favor to be named later. 14 00:00:31,140 --> 00:00:33,770 Back channeling, patronage. I lost my taste for it. 15 00:00:33,850 --> 00:00:35,810 Just don't forget, it was the back channels and deal-making 16 00:00:35,890 --> 00:00:38,270 that put you in that position. 17 00:00:38,350 --> 00:00:40,850 Remind me again, and it's the last meal we share. 18 00:00:40,930 --> 00:00:42,930 It is still Axe Capital, 19 00:00:43,020 --> 00:00:45,310 no matter who's making the day-to-day decisions. 20 00:00:45,390 --> 00:00:46,640 Are you sure? 21 00:00:46,730 --> 00:00:48,980 I know it's Axe's faith that confers value on me 22 00:00:49,060 --> 00:00:50,060 until I have a track record of my own. 23 00:00:50,140 --> 00:00:53,350 Unless it becomes necessary, I will not leave. 24 00:00:53,430 --> 00:00:55,890 I'm holding in my hand Robert Axelrod's signature 25 00:00:55,980 --> 00:00:58,140 relinquishing his ability to trade securities. 26 00:00:58,220 --> 00:01:00,220 Well... 27 00:01:00,310 --> 00:01:03,220 ol' Samson got a real buzz cut. 28 00:01:56,270 --> 00:01:58,350 Hold on.- 29 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,060 Bobby. Are you okay? 30 00:02:09,140 --> 00:02:11,220 I went down to the crossroads. 31 00:02:11,310 --> 00:02:12,430 What? 32 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:13,270 I made a mistake. 33 00:02:13,350 --> 00:02:18,180 The deal. I can't do it... not trade. 34 00:02:18,270 --> 00:02:19,560 I've worked my entire life 35 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:23,890 putting myself in a position where I would be truly free... 36 00:02:23,980 --> 00:02:26,470 no limits, nothing I couldn't do. 37 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,220 And with one signature, 38 00:02:28,310 --> 00:02:30,560 I've stripped myself of all of that. 39 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:32,220 It wasn't the signature that did it. 40 00:02:32,310 --> 00:02:34,390 It was the living like there were no rules. 41 00:02:34,470 --> 00:02:36,390 That's what made the signature necessary. 42 00:02:36,470 --> 00:02:38,390 Wendy 43 00:02:38,470 --> 00:02:40,430 Yeah. Don't wake up the kids. 44 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,140 I'll be right up. 45 00:02:43,220 --> 00:02:44,060 I can't do this now. 46 00:02:44,140 --> 00:02:46,890 Realize that limits, 47 00:02:47,020 --> 00:02:48,770 constraints, they can be useful. 48 00:02:48,850 --> 00:02:51,020 Letting someone else run Axe Capital gives you 49 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:53,850 a chance to realign who you are. 50 00:02:53,930 --> 00:02:57,930 To get good at letting go. Which is a different 51 00:02:58,020 --> 00:03:00,980 kind of freedom. A more powerful kind of freedom. 52 00:03:01,060 --> 00:03:02,020 Now go to sleep. 53 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:05,600 Even if it were a good idea, which it's not, 54 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,730 there is nothing you can do to regain control at this hour. 55 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:40,640 We need to meet. 56 00:03:40,730 --> 00:03:43,430 These fuckers can take away my ability to trade 57 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,310 but not my ability to see. 58 00:03:45,390 --> 00:03:48,020 Insightful guy like you, how you gonna turn it off? 59 00:03:48,100 --> 00:03:49,430 I'm not. I can't. I don't want to. 60 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,350 If you can't trade on the insights, who can? 61 00:03:52,430 --> 00:03:56,140 Only those who I have reason to trust absolutely. 62 00:03:56,220 --> 00:03:58,310 - And that's me. - It better be. 63 00:03:58,390 --> 00:04:01,770 Because no one can know I'm behind any of these trades. 64 00:04:01,850 --> 00:04:04,020 Well, our doors wouldn't be open if it wasn't for your, 65 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:07,310 um, let's say goodwill. 66 00:04:07,390 --> 00:04:09,810 And when we're done, those doors are gonna open 67 00:04:09,890 --> 00:04:11,730 on to a much bigger shop. 68 00:04:11,810 --> 00:04:13,770 Been hoping to hear from you. 69 00:04:13,850 --> 00:04:14,730 I've been wanting to expand, 70 00:04:14,810 --> 00:04:16,680 but I've never been great at the raise. 71 00:04:16,770 --> 00:04:20,220 That'll no longer be a problem for Old Oaks Investments. 72 00:04:20,310 --> 00:04:21,850 Your money is always good here. 73 00:04:21,930 --> 00:04:24,470 You can't direct funds, so how's this work? 74 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,220 Let's dive the fuck in. 75 00:04:27,310 --> 00:04:29,730 I'll be in touch. 76 00:04:34,270 --> 00:04:35,680 So, this is the way it's done? 77 00:04:35,770 --> 00:04:37,680 Yeah. 78 00:04:37,770 --> 00:04:39,850 And there's really nothing we can do but... 79 00:04:39,930 --> 00:04:42,180 Hope the wheel of fate favors us. 80 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,350 Welcome to old New York, where judicial assignment's 81 00:04:48,430 --> 00:04:50,980 still determined by the spin of a wheel. 82 00:04:51,060 --> 00:04:53,180 Hey, it beats having Chief Judge Morgenstern 83 00:04:53,270 --> 00:04:55,060 make 'em after a long night of gin at the goulash joint. 84 00:04:55,140 --> 00:04:58,600 - Drinking or playing? - Both. 85 00:05:01,470 --> 00:05:05,310 For the United States v. Robert Axelrod... 86 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,060 Judge Leonard Funt. 87 00:05:14,390 --> 00:05:15,600 Do I have to say it? 88 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:16,560 You really don't. 89 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,390 You just got Funted. 90 00:05:18,470 --> 00:05:20,220 Ha! 91 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:26,350 How bad is this? 92 00:05:26,430 --> 00:05:29,640 Funt is a true believer in the power of a free market. 93 00:05:29,730 --> 00:05:31,390 Old school Libertarian. 94 00:05:31,470 --> 00:05:33,020 He's the best friend Bobby Axelrod 95 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:34,930 could have on the bench. 96 00:05:35,020 --> 00:05:35,980 Well, if Connerty builds the case right, 97 00:05:36,060 --> 00:05:39,520 the judge doesn't matter. 98 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,270 Wrong. 99 00:05:41,350 --> 00:05:44,270 You need to find a way to get Funt off the case. 100 00:05:44,350 --> 00:05:46,350 So the wheel spits out another name? 101 00:05:46,430 --> 00:05:48,270 No. Only one spin, 102 00:05:48,350 --> 00:05:51,640 then it's up to Chief Judge Morgenstern. 103 00:05:51,730 --> 00:05:53,600 The other judges lobby him, depending on if they want 104 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:58,060 on or off. So you need to stunt that process. 105 00:05:58,140 --> 00:05:59,980 That is tampering twice over. 106 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:01,980 No. It's finesse. 107 00:06:04,930 --> 00:06:09,020 I don't break promises, so our unappetizing deal holds. 108 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:11,770 - Mm. - But it will not expand. 109 00:06:11,850 --> 00:06:13,980 Fate has dealt our hand. 110 00:06:14,060 --> 00:06:16,430 Now we play it. 111 00:06:25,390 --> 00:06:27,520 Chuck. 112 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,350 What couldn't be talked about on the phone? 113 00:06:32,060 --> 00:06:35,560 We got judge-fucked in the Axelrod case. 114 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:39,060 And, uh, I don't mean "We, the people," I mean... 115 00:06:39,140 --> 00:06:42,310 We. Our family. 116 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,930 - Fuck. - Yeah. 117 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,270 We need a judge who believes that the rich 118 00:06:52,350 --> 00:06:54,730 have gotten away with too much for too long. 119 00:06:54,810 --> 00:06:58,890 And one who won't allow Axelrod to create a distraction 120 00:06:58,980 --> 00:07:01,600 by alleging I set up a roach motel and lured him in. 121 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,390 Axe can't do that without essentially admitting his guilt. 122 00:07:04,470 --> 00:07:05,850 I know. 123 00:07:05,930 --> 00:07:09,850 That's one of the things keeping me up at night. 124 00:07:09,930 --> 00:07:14,020 You know what I risked... what I gave up... to get him. 125 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,470 What would he give to get me? 126 00:07:20,390 --> 00:07:22,390 Everything. 127 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:27,680 Well, the judge we drew is Leonard Edward Funt. 128 00:07:27,770 --> 00:07:29,850 Isn't that good news? Doesn't he owe you... 129 00:07:29,930 --> 00:07:31,020 Yes, there is a debt. 130 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:35,390 I once did him a kindness. But back then, during a case, 131 00:07:35,470 --> 00:07:40,470 I tried to allude to the favor in conference, 132 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,930 and that man hammered me for even hinting at it. 133 00:07:46,470 --> 00:07:49,680 Seemed to grow larger as he talked, 134 00:07:49,770 --> 00:07:51,810 the way some men can when they're not pretending 135 00:07:51,890 --> 00:07:55,640 to dignity and honor but they're actually made of the stuff. 136 00:07:55,730 --> 00:07:56,850 You withdrew the request? 137 00:07:56,930 --> 00:07:58,560 I did. 138 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:02,430 And I fear it would be even worse today. 139 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:04,930 See, if he wouldn't return a favor back when it was fresh, 140 00:08:05,020 --> 00:08:05,850 why would he do so now? 141 00:08:05,930 --> 00:08:08,470 But that's not what happened, is it? 142 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:10,140 He didn't actually refuse. He didn't say no. 143 00:08:10,220 --> 00:08:12,520 Not in so many words. 144 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,680 Spare himself the question 145 00:08:14,770 --> 00:08:17,310 by putting a tougher one to you. 146 00:08:17,390 --> 00:08:20,390 It's about will, Chuck. 147 00:08:20,470 --> 00:08:22,730 Impose your will on him until he does what 148 00:08:22,810 --> 00:08:25,730 he needs to and repays the debt. 149 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,470 Why, you are a marvel. 150 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:36,640 Go. 151 00:08:36,730 --> 00:08:38,770 Do what you have to do. 152 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:52,430 I've recently invested nine billion of Axe Cap's money 153 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,140 back into the market. In phases. And now when it's time 154 00:08:55,220 --> 00:08:57,060 for the next phase, another two billion... 155 00:08:57,140 --> 00:08:58,390 You can't. 156 00:08:58,470 --> 00:09:00,180 Why? 157 00:09:00,270 --> 00:09:03,810 There's a velvet rope around it. So to speak. 158 00:09:03,890 --> 00:09:06,100 What's actually around it? 159 00:09:06,180 --> 00:09:09,390 A directive from Axe that the money remain untouched. 160 00:09:09,470 --> 00:09:11,020 Is he considering moving the funds 161 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:13,060 or deploying them elsewhere? 162 00:09:13,810 --> 00:09:16,350 Never mind. You don't know. 163 00:09:16,430 --> 00:09:17,140 Don't I? 164 00:09:17,220 --> 00:09:19,730 Maybe Axe is hedging. 165 00:09:19,810 --> 00:09:20,980 Against the main fund? 166 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:22,470 Against you. 167 00:09:36,350 --> 00:09:38,810 Ah. The two billion. 168 00:09:38,890 --> 00:09:41,140 Velvet rope. 169 00:09:41,220 --> 00:09:44,310 Spoken like a man who's still mad he never got into Xenon. 170 00:09:44,390 --> 00:09:45,980 I'm on it, Taylor. 171 00:09:49,850 --> 00:09:52,060 This is clean. And it does what you need, 172 00:09:52,140 --> 00:09:53,350 how you need. Tracks it all in real time. 173 00:09:53,430 --> 00:09:54,930 We've also swept the apartment. 174 00:09:55,020 --> 00:09:58,680 There are no listening devices, no visual recording devices, 175 00:09:58,770 --> 00:10:01,020 no compromising devices of any kind. 176 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:03,730 But guests leave eyes and ears, so we should sweep often. 177 00:10:03,810 --> 00:10:05,140 - Who else visits? - The women. 178 00:10:05,220 --> 00:10:07,600 Wand them. 179 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:09,060 He will. 180 00:10:09,140 --> 00:10:12,430 So, this is the Counter Intel team, the new Halls. 181 00:10:14,140 --> 00:10:16,020 I don't think they care for that. 182 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:18,520 Why should I trust you to do anything other than 183 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,680 point me to the nearest avocado toast? 184 00:10:20,770 --> 00:10:21,930 For whom have you worked? 185 00:10:22,020 --> 00:10:23,680 Is this just a walk on the wild side 186 00:10:23,770 --> 00:10:24,680 to spice up the b-school essays? 187 00:10:24,770 --> 00:10:28,390 How much you doing this for the money? 188 00:10:28,470 --> 00:10:30,640 You can answer him. 189 00:10:30,730 --> 00:10:31,810 In re bona fides, John built the code for 190 00:10:31,890 --> 00:10:35,390 four successful startups in high school then Stanford, 191 00:10:35,470 --> 00:10:37,850 then was asked to travel to 71 countries for DARPA 192 00:10:37,930 --> 00:10:39,310 and Other Government Agency, 193 00:10:39,390 --> 00:10:40,890 all which he did without complaint. 194 00:10:40,980 --> 00:10:42,520 And Timmy Dones has a military background. 195 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,730 What fucking war were you in? 196 00:10:44,810 --> 00:10:46,730 Mr. Hall fought the wars you've heard of. 197 00:10:46,810 --> 00:10:48,220 I fought the ones you haven't. 198 00:10:48,310 --> 00:10:50,980 As for your other questions. It's none of your business, 199 00:10:51,060 --> 00:10:53,430 smashed spring pea toast is the new avocado toast, 200 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:56,140 and 70 percent. 201 00:10:57,730 --> 00:11:00,310 Are we clear to talk to Mr. Wagner going forward? 202 00:11:00,390 --> 00:11:02,470 Discuss anything except women you care about. 203 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:09,060 Yeah, so, the two billion. 204 00:11:09,140 --> 00:11:11,930 Ah, and here I was thinking you came to keep me company. 205 00:11:12,020 --> 00:11:15,180 Look, I know you're giving it to outside funds, 206 00:11:15,270 --> 00:11:16,270 not on the surface. 207 00:11:16,350 --> 00:11:18,350 It'll get routed around the world first, 208 00:11:18,430 --> 00:11:20,140 but then it will land in certain funds, 209 00:11:20,220 --> 00:11:23,930 and suddenly they'll get hot as Farrah Fawcett in '76. 210 00:11:24,020 --> 00:11:26,270 Don't do it. One errant e-mail, 211 00:11:26,350 --> 00:11:28,600 one recorded call, one trade that tracks back 212 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:30,600 to you... and it's Hassan chop! 213 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:32,470 We're done. All of us. 214 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:34,430 There's no need for it, bwana. 215 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,020 Satisfy your urges some other way. 216 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:38,730 Buy yourself something. 217 00:11:38,810 --> 00:11:40,600 I bought it all already. 218 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:41,980 Probably thrown it out. 219 00:11:42,060 --> 00:11:43,890 What about that vintage Cheetah you've been eyeballing? 220 00:11:43,980 --> 00:11:46,980 Look, this is not a message I'm born to carry. 221 00:11:47,060 --> 00:11:49,430 It goes against everything I've built my life on. 222 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:53,390 But for you, holding back is essential right now. 223 00:11:53,470 --> 00:11:55,140 You're right about hiding the money. 224 00:11:55,220 --> 00:11:56,680 That's too dangerous. What if I didn't? 225 00:11:56,770 --> 00:11:59,810 - Huh? - I could have Taylor move it, 226 00:11:59,890 --> 00:12:03,640 on-the-books, perfectly legal disbursements to outside shops. 227 00:12:03,730 --> 00:12:06,390 Bobby... that's right, I'm not calling you "Mr. President," 228 00:12:06,470 --> 00:12:07,810 I'm calling you "Bobby" because I've never used 229 00:12:07,890 --> 00:12:10,470 your first name and I want to underline 230 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:11,980 how serious this moment is. 231 00:12:12,060 --> 00:12:12,850 You've called me Bobby before. 232 00:12:12,930 --> 00:12:15,560 Strategic mistake, but not nearly as big 233 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:18,180 as the one you're making if you ask Taylor to do this. 234 00:12:18,270 --> 00:12:20,680 They have nothing to gain by going along. 235 00:12:20,770 --> 00:12:21,930 They get to keep their princely fucking job. 236 00:12:22,020 --> 00:12:25,180 If you fire them, it will look like what it is. 237 00:12:25,270 --> 00:12:27,930 And you can't have it appear you're illegally meddling. 238 00:12:28,020 --> 00:12:30,140 Especially when you're illegally meddling. 239 00:12:30,220 --> 00:12:33,350 - My point... - I get your point. 240 00:12:33,430 --> 00:12:35,560 So you won't take the two billion? 241 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:36,560 I get your point. 242 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,770 Let's leave it at that. 243 00:12:41,730 --> 00:12:42,930 Ah! 244 00:12:43,020 --> 00:12:45,730 If it isn't George and Edward. 245 00:12:45,810 --> 00:12:48,430 Which one of you will give up the throne for love? 246 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:50,140 That seems like a stupid reason. 247 00:12:50,220 --> 00:12:51,520 You must be George. 248 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:53,680 Are you coming to our game later, Uncle Wags? 249 00:12:53,770 --> 00:12:55,180 Is it official Little League? 250 00:12:55,270 --> 00:12:57,890 - Yeah. - Can't. Banned for life. 251 00:13:01,180 --> 00:13:03,680 Well, here we are on the Axelrod case together, 252 00:13:03,770 --> 00:13:07,850 so, you know, we got our fairy tale ending after all. 253 00:13:07,930 --> 00:13:09,850 You been working out? You look like you've been working out. 254 00:13:09,930 --> 00:13:12,850 There's no good way to answer that question. 255 00:13:12,930 --> 00:13:14,930 Is it ping pong 256 00:13:15,020 --> 00:13:16,810 Uh, can I get a lawyer? 257 00:13:22,770 --> 00:13:26,020 Excuse me, Ms. Gonzalez... 258 00:13:26,100 --> 00:13:28,060 Special Agent Terri McCue, FBI. 259 00:13:28,140 --> 00:13:31,180 Uh, me llamo Bryan Connerty, 260 00:13:31,270 --> 00:13:33,730 uh, Federal prosecutor. 261 00:13:33,810 --> 00:13:35,060 He's also second alternate 262 00:13:35,140 --> 00:13:37,060 at the World Table Tennis Championships. 263 00:13:37,140 --> 00:13:38,350 I'm really not... that good. 264 00:13:38,430 --> 00:13:42,020 Ms. Gonzalez, we don't care about your immigration status. 265 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:43,390 That's not what we do. 266 00:13:43,470 --> 00:13:46,220 We may even be able to help you if you cooperate with us. 267 00:13:46,310 --> 00:13:48,060 We want to speak to you about your boss, Victor Mateo. 268 00:13:48,140 --> 00:13:51,220 Mr. Victor, he's very good. 269 00:13:51,310 --> 00:13:52,930 He and his wife, they sponsor me for 270 00:13:53,020 --> 00:13:54,810 the green card, so I don't need help. 271 00:13:54,890 --> 00:13:56,600 You're not eligible for a green card 272 00:13:56,680 --> 00:13:58,390 if you've committed a crime. 273 00:13:58,470 --> 00:14:00,770 A crime? No. No, no, no. 274 00:14:00,850 --> 00:14:03,390 Let's put it up on the colortini. 275 00:14:07,100 --> 00:14:11,180 That couple near you snapping selfies were undercover agents. 276 00:14:11,270 --> 00:14:13,270 Mr. Victor made me do it. 277 00:14:13,350 --> 00:14:17,600 Did Mr. Victor give you the vial 278 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:22,060 It was someone else. A woman. But I know that it was for him. 279 00:14:22,140 --> 00:14:25,560 Him and his wife, son monstruos. 280 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,060 One time I drop a glass licorera... Baccarat. 281 00:14:28,140 --> 00:14:33,220 Then Missus, she break the tail light to my car to punish. 282 00:14:33,310 --> 00:14:36,220 I had to drive home afraid that I get pulled over 283 00:14:36,310 --> 00:14:37,640 and sent back to Guatemala. 284 00:14:37,730 --> 00:14:39,060 Now I take the bus. 285 00:14:39,140 --> 00:14:42,470 I want to know how it worked. When and where... 286 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:44,730 The way that Mr. Victor and his wife are... I can't be late. 287 00:14:44,810 --> 00:14:47,140 Or do I have to tell them... 288 00:14:47,220 --> 00:14:48,810 No, no, no. Don't... don't say anything. 289 00:14:48,890 --> 00:14:51,600 After work, you'll come to my office 290 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,520 and give a statement. 291 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:57,890 Lo prometo. 292 00:15:02,730 --> 00:15:05,310 Yeah, what is it? 293 00:15:05,390 --> 00:15:07,270 My maid was late today. 294 00:15:07,350 --> 00:15:09,930 She's never late. 295 00:15:12,060 --> 00:15:16,310 We have a real problem. We need to meet. 296 00:15:21,270 --> 00:15:22,350 Group of guys who own this car, 297 00:15:22,430 --> 00:15:25,730 it's a smaller club than the one that owns NBA teams, 298 00:15:25,810 --> 00:15:27,020 only 29 ever built. 299 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:29,850 Which is exactly why I'm buying it. 300 00:15:29,930 --> 00:15:32,020 Which is why I'm gonna let you outbid me. 301 00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:33,390 Thanks. 302 00:15:33,470 --> 00:15:34,930 Sounds like you want something. 303 00:15:35,020 --> 00:15:36,470 I do. 304 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,180 I want in on the new shit. 305 00:15:38,270 --> 00:15:41,350 You're raising money for new ventures, count me in. 306 00:15:41,430 --> 00:15:45,020 Thanks, but I'm not looking to give up any more equity. 307 00:15:47,270 --> 00:15:49,020 You're saying no to money? 308 00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:50,730 Look, Axe, let me answer the question you didn't ask, 309 00:15:50,810 --> 00:15:54,350 and this pains me to say... 310 00:15:54,430 --> 00:15:56,640 I don't want your money. 311 00:15:56,730 --> 00:15:58,810 I've got too many eyes on me, and I can't be 312 00:15:58,890 --> 00:16:00,810 anywhere near the shit show you're in the middle of 313 00:16:00,890 --> 00:16:02,350 right now. 314 00:16:02,430 --> 00:16:06,890 Noted. 315 00:16:11,980 --> 00:16:13,220 Michael Panay. 316 00:16:13,310 --> 00:16:15,350 You haven't gone home with a car this year. 317 00:16:15,430 --> 00:16:18,730 Is it the one you had your heart set on all along? 318 00:16:18,810 --> 00:16:21,600 If Bill Thomas built a toaster, I'd skip work to buy that. 319 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:24,220 But you won't actually buy this car, will you? 320 00:16:24,310 --> 00:16:27,600 Because you've been downsizing, hoping no one would see. 321 00:16:28,730 --> 00:16:30,220 We're not downsizing. 322 00:16:30,310 --> 00:16:33,350 I was on the other side of the Alperin trade. 323 00:16:33,430 --> 00:16:34,270 I know how much you lost. 324 00:16:34,350 --> 00:16:36,890 Well, I know you're not exactly trending 325 00:16:36,980 --> 00:16:38,890 in the right direction, either. 326 00:16:38,980 --> 00:16:40,520 Maybe we help each other. 327 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,100 I lead the early bidding, knock out the dabblers, 328 00:16:42,180 --> 00:16:45,680 then you swoop in at your desired price. 329 00:16:45,770 --> 00:16:46,730 What's your number? 330 00:16:46,810 --> 00:16:49,810 Mike, I'd pedal the fucking Flintstones car 331 00:16:49,890 --> 00:16:52,140 before I went in on this with you. 332 00:17:06,390 --> 00:17:08,470 You sure? 333 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:10,270 I know my people. 334 00:17:10,350 --> 00:17:12,270 She's been approached. 335 00:17:12,350 --> 00:17:14,980 I'll handle it. 336 00:17:15,060 --> 00:17:18,350 You know what this means, don't you? 337 00:17:18,430 --> 00:17:20,640 They'll be coming for the others. 338 00:17:28,310 --> 00:17:29,850 If that bursts into flame, 339 00:17:29,930 --> 00:17:31,640 I'm denouncing you to Governor Danforth. 340 00:17:31,730 --> 00:17:33,140 It's a focus exercise. 341 00:17:33,220 --> 00:17:35,350 And Danforth is just in the play. 342 00:17:35,430 --> 00:17:39,390 At the real Salem trials, the judge was William Stoughton. 343 00:17:39,470 --> 00:17:42,980 Careful, that sounds like something a witch would know. 344 00:17:43,060 --> 00:17:47,350 We're looking good on the two billion. 345 00:17:47,430 --> 00:17:50,180 Now that got you focused. 346 00:17:50,270 --> 00:17:52,640 I'm here to break the glass. 347 00:17:53,980 --> 00:17:56,730 In case of emergency, you know? 348 00:17:56,810 --> 00:17:59,520 Breathe, then talk. 349 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,020 We're getting hit by a tsunami. 350 00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:03,730 Shit. Did the Fed hike... 351 00:18:03,810 --> 00:18:05,520 No. Actual tsunami. In Brazil. 352 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,680 No way. Brazil doesn't have tsunamis. 353 00:18:07,770 --> 00:18:10,520 The worst they get is ressacas do mar. 354 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,850 "Sea hangover." 355 00:18:12,930 --> 00:18:15,680 Am I the only person here who's loved a Portuguese woman? 356 00:18:15,770 --> 00:18:16,680 Brazil does not normally have tsunamis. 357 00:18:16,770 --> 00:18:17,890 Black swan event. 358 00:18:17,980 --> 00:18:20,060 How heavy are we in Brazil? 359 00:18:20,140 --> 00:18:21,730 Jim Morrison at the end. 360 00:18:21,810 --> 00:18:23,220 Our newly redeployed funds are affected in dozens 361 00:18:23,310 --> 00:18:25,430 of different ways, among the most notable, 362 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,180 - Brazilian sugar and shipping. - So we buy sugar futures. 363 00:18:28,270 --> 00:18:30,060 Impending shortage means prices go up. 364 00:18:30,140 --> 00:18:32,140 Everyone will do that, but sure. 365 00:18:32,220 --> 00:18:34,180 A few of the moves I'm already making. 366 00:18:34,270 --> 00:18:36,930 Shorting Brazil's largest debt holder, 367 00:18:37,020 --> 00:18:39,890 buying long-dated VIX calls. Also buying solar, wind, 368 00:18:39,980 --> 00:18:41,770 and every alternative energy play 369 00:18:41,850 --> 00:18:44,020 not dependent on government subsidy. 370 00:18:45,930 --> 00:18:48,020 Um, is no one worried 371 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:51,810 about the people, you know, in Brazil? 372 00:18:51,890 --> 00:18:54,430 If you want to pretend you're concerned, see Wendy. 373 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:56,060 He's not pretending, Wags. 374 00:18:56,140 --> 00:18:58,680 If you really care, start a walk-a-thon. 375 00:18:58,770 --> 00:19:02,020 Tough Mudders are the new walk-a-thons. 376 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:04,390 But don't bring that shit to me. 377 00:19:04,470 --> 00:19:08,810 Our own foundation was set up for just these situations 378 00:19:08,890 --> 00:19:11,930 as a kind of emotional and fiscal catch-all 379 00:19:12,020 --> 00:19:15,270 for you to use as a tool for you to get 380 00:19:15,350 --> 00:19:17,270 your conscience out of the way. 381 00:19:17,350 --> 00:19:19,470 I wondered why you showed at this meeting, 382 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:21,220 you fucking vulture. 383 00:19:21,310 --> 00:19:23,850 What would salve my conscience and my wallet is if I was 384 00:19:23,930 --> 00:19:25,270 a fucking contractor in Brazil. 385 00:19:25,350 --> 00:19:27,520 Too bad their leading construction company's 386 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:28,770 a scandal factory. 387 00:19:28,850 --> 00:19:31,100 Can't get into bed with a firm that's had almost 388 00:19:31,180 --> 00:19:33,060 100 executives indicted. 389 00:19:33,140 --> 00:19:35,810 Our principal has been indicted. 390 00:19:37,850 --> 00:19:40,220 If it's a money-maker, we do it. 391 00:19:40,310 --> 00:19:42,560 Legal trouble does not mean you can't fulfill 392 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:44,350 your teleological purpose. 393 00:19:44,430 --> 00:19:45,770 We're on the clock, people. 394 00:19:45,850 --> 00:19:48,730 Now's the time to earn your paychecks. 395 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,100 Why aren't you Charlie? 396 00:19:57,180 --> 00:19:58,180 Feels like you would have 397 00:19:58,270 --> 00:20:01,430 - been a great Charlie. - No, I agree. 398 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,310 Oh, Charlie Rhoades, yeah, that guy's yer best friend. 399 00:20:04,390 --> 00:20:05,390 - Yeah. - Right? 400 00:20:05,470 --> 00:20:08,930 Sure. Call ol' Charlie, see if he can fill in, uh, 401 00:20:09,020 --> 00:20:10,310 as a fourth for tennis or on a double date 402 00:20:10,390 --> 00:20:14,220 or just ride around smashing mailboxes. 403 00:20:14,310 --> 00:20:16,640 Yeah. Charlie. The best. 404 00:20:16,730 --> 00:20:21,430 But in our household, my father was Charles. 405 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,140 And every now and then someone, 406 00:20:24,220 --> 00:20:26,180 business associate, the guy who managed one of his buildings, 407 00:20:26,270 --> 00:20:29,470 who would get just a little casual, 408 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,020 accidentally let a Charlie fly. 409 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:35,310 The world would stop dead. 410 00:20:35,390 --> 00:20:39,220 "Do I look like a fucking 'Charlie' to you?" 411 00:20:42,310 --> 00:20:43,770 And that was that. 412 00:20:43,850 --> 00:20:46,560 The guy would piss himself, and the day would continue. 413 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,640 So, he was Charles, and you were Chuck. 414 00:20:49,730 --> 00:20:52,060 And Good Time Charlie was somewhere else 415 00:20:52,140 --> 00:20:54,810 out on the town having all the laughs. 416 00:20:54,890 --> 00:20:58,220 Christ, man. 417 00:20:58,310 --> 00:21:01,640 Don't I know it. 418 00:21:01,730 --> 00:21:03,560 And how 'bout now? 419 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,560 You just show up in my chambers for the laughs. 420 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,640 No. No. 421 00:21:11,180 --> 00:21:14,680 I am here in your chambers to put myself in your debt. 422 00:21:14,770 --> 00:21:15,930 In my debt. 423 00:21:16,020 --> 00:21:17,850 That's right. 424 00:21:17,930 --> 00:21:21,060 I was thinking back to our last meal together, 425 00:21:21,140 --> 00:21:23,180 wherein you told me I ought never mention 426 00:21:23,270 --> 00:21:25,310 the favor I had done you again. And I promised then, 427 00:21:25,390 --> 00:21:28,390 and I intend to keep that promise. 428 00:21:28,470 --> 00:21:32,020 And so I am here to ask of you a favor, 429 00:21:32,100 --> 00:21:35,390 not as repayment to me but the opposite. 430 00:21:35,470 --> 00:21:38,810 Oh, this must be big. 431 00:21:39,980 --> 00:21:42,390 Judge Funt is stepping off the Axelrod case. 432 00:21:42,470 --> 00:21:43,980 No one knows. 433 00:21:44,060 --> 00:21:47,560 And when he does, Morgenstern will make a special appointment 434 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:52,220 of the judge who convinces him he most wants the case. 435 00:21:52,310 --> 00:21:56,470 As often as not, that's the first judge to ask. 436 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,100 And you need that to be me. 437 00:21:59,180 --> 00:22:01,730 We'll time it out so it will be. 438 00:22:01,810 --> 00:22:03,810 Now, there are those that would frame this 439 00:22:03,890 --> 00:22:07,020 as a favor for you, because it's a marquee case. 440 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:09,390 But I won't. 441 00:22:09,470 --> 00:22:11,180 You would be doing me a service. 442 00:22:11,270 --> 00:22:13,220 And all you're asking is that I be the judge, 443 00:22:13,310 --> 00:22:14,350 not that I rule in Dake's favor, 444 00:22:14,430 --> 00:22:16,390 not that I'd be slanted in any way. 445 00:22:16,470 --> 00:22:19,180 That's right. It's that straightforward. 446 00:22:19,270 --> 00:22:20,890 Win. Lose. Draw. 447 00:22:20,980 --> 00:22:23,930 I want you on that bench because I know you can't be bought. 448 00:22:24,020 --> 00:22:26,180 You can't be bent. You can't be worked. 449 00:22:26,270 --> 00:22:27,430 Dake has a strong case. 450 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:31,520 I want it heard fairly and without prejudice. 451 00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:35,680 And if I grant this request... 452 00:22:38,350 --> 00:22:40,100 There is nothing you can ask me 453 00:22:40,180 --> 00:22:44,890 that I'll refuse you for the rest of our days. 454 00:22:44,980 --> 00:22:48,470 If I agree, I would take those words as gospel, 455 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:52,470 Chuck. And I would not be bashful to collect, 456 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,600 should the need arise. 457 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,140 I'd be honor bound to deliver. 458 00:22:58,220 --> 00:23:00,730 That's too small a play. It won't save us. 459 00:23:00,810 --> 00:23:02,140 Keep looking. 460 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,810 Axe would be out on that floor screaming at them 461 00:23:09,890 --> 00:23:11,810 like Gordon Ramsay until they delivered. 462 00:23:11,890 --> 00:23:13,640 Hm. You're more Alton Brown. 463 00:23:13,730 --> 00:23:15,890 The ideas they're bringing... Some deployable, 464 00:23:15,980 --> 00:23:18,220 some useful as a benchmark of what other firms 465 00:23:18,310 --> 00:23:20,390 will be thinking and how we need to do better, 466 00:23:20,470 --> 00:23:23,770 but none platonically good. 467 00:23:23,850 --> 00:23:25,980 Your first round of investments coinciding 468 00:23:26,060 --> 00:23:28,770 with your first crisis. 469 00:23:28,850 --> 00:23:30,640 That would be a lot for anybody. 470 00:23:30,730 --> 00:23:34,470 Axe was already considering sidecarring two billion. 471 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:38,470 And you think today will make the decision for him. 472 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,640 I am acutely aware of the way people look at me. 473 00:23:41,730 --> 00:23:44,680 I have cultivated, through achievement and discipline, 474 00:23:44,770 --> 00:23:47,930 a mystique that compensates for my lack of track record. 475 00:23:48,020 --> 00:23:49,640 A loss shatters that, 476 00:23:49,730 --> 00:23:52,430 and with it the confidence of everyone who works here. 477 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,020 In their eyes... in Axe's eyes... I become simply inexperienced. 478 00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:57,020 I can't let that happen. 479 00:23:57,100 --> 00:24:00,020 That's why I need to get through today unscathed. 480 00:24:00,100 --> 00:24:02,180 The way you think Axe would. 481 00:24:04,350 --> 00:24:08,890 It's important in your job that you face unpleasant realities. 482 00:24:08,980 --> 00:24:10,680 Axe Capital may lose money today, 483 00:24:10,770 --> 00:24:12,100 probably will. 484 00:24:13,220 --> 00:24:16,310 You know that, right? 485 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,390 No. 486 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:43,560 Wags, I'm coming in. 487 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,850 The place is getting crushed without me. 488 00:24:51,890 --> 00:24:52,810 Can I stop you? 489 00:24:52,890 --> 00:24:54,810 No. 490 00:24:57,850 --> 00:25:00,560 You sure I can't stop you? 491 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,930 You know that painting of Washington crossing 492 00:25:03,020 --> 00:25:05,270 the Delaware. In the boat with all his troops? 493 00:25:05,350 --> 00:25:07,600 I forget what it's called. 494 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,350 I think it's called Washington Crossing The Delaware... 495 00:25:09,430 --> 00:25:11,810 - You didn't forget. - No. 496 00:25:11,890 --> 00:25:13,640 And do you know why it's called that? 497 00:25:13,730 --> 00:25:16,180 Because at the moment that his troops were facing 498 00:25:16,270 --> 00:25:19,140 the sting of battle, Washington was right there 499 00:25:19,220 --> 00:25:21,390 with them, leaning into the wind. 500 00:25:21,470 --> 00:25:23,390 Not back at home jerking off. 501 00:25:23,470 --> 00:25:25,730 I'll admit, Washington Crossing the Delaware would look pretty 502 00:25:25,810 --> 00:25:27,770 fucking strange without George Washington. 503 00:25:27,850 --> 00:25:30,730 Then how can you ask me not to be with my troops right now? 504 00:25:30,810 --> 00:25:34,100 Well, Washington was allowed to talk to his men. 505 00:25:34,180 --> 00:25:35,270 He was allowed to lead. 506 00:25:35,350 --> 00:25:36,850 When we walk out of this elevator, 507 00:25:36,930 --> 00:25:40,470 you're gonna see it is quite a different situation. 508 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,470 But it is what's required under your deal. 509 00:25:49,350 --> 00:25:51,470 This is Ari Spyros, Director of Compliance 510 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,810 and Risk Management for Axe Capital. 511 00:25:53,890 --> 00:25:56,140 09 p.m. I am here with Robert Axelrod 512 00:25:56,220 --> 00:25:58,770 and will stay with him anywhere he goes inside these walls, 513 00:25:58,850 --> 00:26:02,640 ensuring compliance with his preclusion from the secur... 514 00:26:02,730 --> 00:26:04,890 I'm looking at small sugar companies in Asia. 515 00:26:04,980 --> 00:26:07,310 We pick one... invest in it, grow it, help it. 516 00:26:07,390 --> 00:26:09,850 Not a big fan of... 517 00:26:09,930 --> 00:26:12,020 Oh, shit. 518 00:26:20,730 --> 00:26:23,140 What do you think he'd say about that? 519 00:26:23,220 --> 00:26:25,730 Bobby Axelrod doesn't grow mom-and-pop shops. 520 00:26:25,810 --> 00:26:29,060 He buys 'em out, turns 'em out. 521 00:26:29,140 --> 00:26:32,020 That can't happen with this one. 522 00:26:32,100 --> 00:26:33,680 Hmm. 523 00:26:33,770 --> 00:26:35,810 Well, then it sounds like your idea doesn't fucking work. 524 00:27:09,310 --> 00:27:10,640 Whoo. 525 00:27:14,140 --> 00:27:16,850 Um... 526 00:27:17,930 --> 00:27:22,220 Oh, I don't like nothing between me and the water. 527 00:27:22,310 --> 00:27:24,520 We called first. You knew we were coming. 528 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,140 Yeah, doc says I gotta swim. 529 00:27:28,220 --> 00:27:31,850 Right. 530 00:27:31,930 --> 00:27:34,560 We need to talk to you about... 531 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,600 About some unexplained coincidences. 532 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,680 If I can sort you out... 533 00:27:40,770 --> 00:27:42,890 In the last year, your house was paid off. 534 00:27:42,980 --> 00:27:46,220 Yeah, my wife came into some money. 535 00:27:46,310 --> 00:27:47,680 Mm. 536 00:27:47,770 --> 00:27:50,430 And your kids, they stopped taking student loans. 537 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,730 Marcie's dorm room business, it's really taking off. 538 00:27:52,810 --> 00:27:57,680 I'm sorry, do you... do you want a towel, or... 539 00:27:57,770 --> 00:28:00,100 - I'm good. - You're fair. 540 00:28:00,180 --> 00:28:01,770 So, you got sick from Ice Juice. 541 00:28:01,850 --> 00:28:04,140 The person behind its poisoning was Bobby Axelrod, 542 00:28:04,220 --> 00:28:07,100 the same man you tried to cooperate against. 543 00:28:07,180 --> 00:28:09,520 You think he targeted me deliberately? 544 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,890 Wow, that's a long road to travel for revenge. 545 00:28:12,980 --> 00:28:15,270 But if he did it, I hope you nail him. 546 00:28:15,350 --> 00:28:18,270 That juice made me puke so hard I bust a lung. 547 00:28:18,350 --> 00:28:21,520 Hence the swimming. 548 00:28:24,180 --> 00:28:26,680 Anything else? 549 00:28:26,770 --> 00:28:30,270 Okay. Drop by any time. 550 00:28:32,310 --> 00:28:36,770 Guy flashes a little brain, and you turn into Dudley Do-Right? 551 00:28:36,850 --> 00:28:39,350 I thought under the circumstances 552 00:28:39,430 --> 00:28:42,770 I acquitted myself admirably. 553 00:28:42,850 --> 00:28:44,930 A lot of people think you can't get a good 554 00:28:45,020 --> 00:28:47,060 flat white outside of Australia. 555 00:28:47,140 --> 00:28:49,430 They forget, there's no such thing 556 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,730 as a good store-bought flat white. 557 00:28:51,810 --> 00:28:53,310 It's the tongue temperature. 558 00:29:03,020 --> 00:29:05,140 Oh, please, I'd love to hear more 559 00:29:05,220 --> 00:29:07,180 of your expertise on flat whites. 560 00:29:07,270 --> 00:29:09,470 So I just had a fun little poolside chat 561 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,020 with some friends who are very curious about you, 562 00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:12,520 me, and beverages. 563 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,310 Thanks. 564 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,680 Oh, shit, he's leaving. 565 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,390 Hey, Mafee. 566 00:29:50,470 --> 00:29:53,220 You sure a lunch break's the thing right now? 567 00:29:53,310 --> 00:29:55,390 Nothing urgent that you should be getting... 568 00:29:55,470 --> 00:29:57,980 Are you testing me? 569 00:29:58,060 --> 00:30:01,520 Like that waiter in 'Club? 570 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,470 I'm not allowed to talk to you about this. Right 571 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,180 Or do you want me to, because... 572 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:40,730 Hey. 573 00:30:40,810 --> 00:30:42,350 Hey. 574 00:30:42,430 --> 00:30:44,020 Got any summer plans? 575 00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:45,270 No. 576 00:30:45,350 --> 00:30:48,980 Guess Lara and I will need to talk about it. The kids. 577 00:30:49,060 --> 00:30:53,060 I don't like to go far. We got a spot in Mystic. 578 00:30:53,140 --> 00:30:54,680 While the family's looking at the boats and shit, 579 00:30:54,770 --> 00:30:57,100 I can play a little pai gow. 580 00:30:57,180 --> 00:30:59,980 I was planning to go back and climb Kili. 581 00:31:00,060 --> 00:31:03,600 How much vacay time is it culturally appropriate 582 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,270 to take here? 583 00:31:05,350 --> 00:31:08,020 Ah, maybe I'll just do base camp. 584 00:31:09,390 --> 00:31:12,020 - Korst. - Scandinavian shipping company. 585 00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:13,810 While the South American companies are down for 586 00:31:13,890 --> 00:31:16,020 the count, these guys will have a shot at a monopoly. 587 00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:18,810 - We should buy in two days. - Four days, when it bottoms. 588 00:31:18,890 --> 00:31:21,390 But this is going to help dig us out a little more. 589 00:31:21,470 --> 00:31:22,730 Good work. 590 00:31:27,140 --> 00:31:29,390 Will you make sure Axe knows it came from me? 591 00:31:29,470 --> 00:31:32,140 Why would you think we're communicating about trades? 592 00:31:32,220 --> 00:31:33,310 What? 593 00:31:33,390 --> 00:31:34,600 That would be illegal. 594 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,350 I know. But... 595 00:31:38,430 --> 00:31:40,140 What are you saying about me? 596 00:31:40,220 --> 00:31:42,430 What are you saying about the place you work? 597 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,810 Actually, if he hates it, that would be worse. 598 00:31:44,890 --> 00:31:47,640 Don't say anything. 599 00:31:47,730 --> 00:31:49,890 47 On the 9th day of... 600 00:31:50,470 --> 00:31:53,220 Really 601 00:31:53,310 --> 00:31:55,390 I'm sitting in my office, which I paid for, 602 00:31:55,470 --> 00:31:56,980 seeing how things run without me. 603 00:31:57,060 --> 00:31:58,220 Won't work. 604 00:31:58,310 --> 00:31:59,680 People are afraid to take chances 605 00:31:59,770 --> 00:32:01,020 with you here. To be wrong. 606 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:03,640 Or they want a slap on the ass from you. Which you can't give. 607 00:32:03,730 --> 00:32:04,730 Move over, Zapruder. I got this. 608 00:32:04,810 --> 00:32:06,850 Actually, I think this falls within my dominion, 609 00:32:06,930 --> 00:32:10,680 and the stick can be really tricky for noobs... 610 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,810 Hmm. Guess it was tricky. 611 00:32:15,890 --> 00:32:20,770 Why didn't you anticipate the tsunami? 612 00:32:20,850 --> 00:32:22,390 Maybe I should have when that 613 00:32:22,470 --> 00:32:24,890 underground earthquake hit off Mozambique. 614 00:32:24,980 --> 00:32:29,020 Strange conditions bring strange results. 615 00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:30,730 That's what brought this on. 616 00:32:30,810 --> 00:32:33,520 You knew right then but you couldn't act. 617 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:34,680 Maybe you would have used your experience 618 00:32:34,770 --> 00:32:37,020 to think more globally. 619 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:38,680 Maybe you would have been cautious. De-risked. 620 00:32:38,770 --> 00:32:41,060 The mature move. 621 00:32:41,140 --> 00:32:42,100 Is that a dig? 622 00:32:42,180 --> 00:32:42,810 It's not. 623 00:32:42,890 --> 00:32:45,270 You have more experience. 624 00:32:45,350 --> 00:32:48,390 You connect points I don't even know to look for. 625 00:32:48,470 --> 00:32:51,810 I understand how hard it is to have things inside you 626 00:32:51,890 --> 00:32:53,520 that you can't communicate. 627 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,560 I can't imagine how hard it must be to know how to say them 628 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,980 and still not be allowed to. 629 00:32:58,060 --> 00:33:01,390 And yet, you are not allowed to. 630 00:33:01,470 --> 00:33:02,520 Have you heard me direct any trades? 631 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,060 The people out there don't know who they're looking to. 632 00:33:05,140 --> 00:33:08,310 Since it can't be you, it needs to be me. 633 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,310 If you can't live with that, I can be the one who leaves. 634 00:33:18,390 --> 00:33:20,810 You'll probably make up the losses but get yourself 635 00:33:20,890 --> 00:33:22,890 banned for life or worse. 636 00:33:25,350 --> 00:33:27,520 I'm leaving, 637 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,470 and I'm taking the two billion. 638 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,730 I'll send instructions shortly about what to do with it. 639 00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:40,390 53 p.m., 640 00:33:40,470 --> 00:33:43,600 Robert Axelrod... 641 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:44,310 has left the building. 642 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:47,520 I'm glad I caught you. 643 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,430 You wouldn't have if my fucking car guy 644 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:50,980 could time his job right. 645 00:33:51,060 --> 00:33:54,310 Yeah, George Washington had the same problem leaving Trenton. 646 00:33:54,390 --> 00:33:55,600 Wags told you? 647 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,270 Texted me while you were rampaging through the office. 648 00:33:58,350 --> 00:34:00,470 I wasn't rampaging. I was inspiring. 649 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,140 You know Washington didn't actually 650 00:34:02,220 --> 00:34:04,640 - stand in the rowboat, right? - Of course. 651 00:34:04,730 --> 00:34:07,600 Structurally unsound, and he'd have made himself a target. 652 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,980 Yet you worry about neither. 653 00:34:11,930 --> 00:34:15,930 It's hard to shut it off, Wend. 654 00:34:16,020 --> 00:34:17,810 I know. 655 00:34:17,890 --> 00:34:21,850 But if you can't, you will lose the battle and the war. 656 00:34:25,810 --> 00:34:27,390 Do you want me to come with you? 657 00:34:27,470 --> 00:34:29,100 Stay here with Taylor. 658 00:34:29,180 --> 00:34:32,680 They need some senior officer for back up. 659 00:34:37,430 --> 00:34:40,220 You're fired. 660 00:34:40,890 --> 00:34:43,470 Find out when Judge Funt's court is in recess. 661 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:43,980 Yep. 662 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,270 A Mr. Allerd is here for you. 663 00:34:49,890 --> 00:34:54,020 I'm Karl Allerd, your new AUSA. 664 00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:56,890 I think I'd remember if I hired a new line prosecutor. 665 00:34:56,980 --> 00:35:00,640 Remember when Dake said there'd be a favor to be named? 666 00:35:01,850 --> 00:35:03,680 Ah. 667 00:35:03,770 --> 00:35:05,390 You're the favor. 668 00:35:06,890 --> 00:35:08,730 You don't trust me. 669 00:35:08,810 --> 00:35:10,520 Hell, I wouldn't from your chair. 670 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,810 A Spy In the House Of Lords and so forth. Yes. 671 00:35:12,890 --> 00:35:15,390 So I'll earn your trust. 672 00:35:15,470 --> 00:35:16,350 Will you? 673 00:35:16,430 --> 00:35:17,020 I look forward to seeing that trick. 674 00:35:17,100 --> 00:35:18,270 That'll be a neat trick. 675 00:35:18,350 --> 00:35:20,980 Ms. Sacker, our Head of Crim, will get you situated. 676 00:35:21,060 --> 00:35:22,180 - I will? - Mm. 677 00:35:22,270 --> 00:35:22,430 Mm, I will. 678 00:35:27,430 --> 00:35:28,350 Hey, I've been revising my idea. 679 00:35:28,430 --> 00:35:30,980 There's a division of a struggling company 680 00:35:31,060 --> 00:35:32,430 in Thailand, that I think... 681 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:33,310 Wait, is this the sugar company? 682 00:35:33,390 --> 00:35:35,930 Is it, is this the same damn deal? 683 00:35:36,020 --> 00:35:37,890 No... It's just one facet of the company 684 00:35:37,980 --> 00:35:39,890 that I think could be promising to look into. 685 00:35:39,980 --> 00:35:41,390 It started out as a family business, and... 686 00:35:41,470 --> 00:35:42,560 So this is... This is the same deal. 687 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:43,470 - Not really... - Kimmy, 688 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:48,220 this piece of shit ain't Axe Cap. 689 00:36:03,980 --> 00:36:06,060 What are you working on? 690 00:36:06,140 --> 00:36:07,270 Nothing. 691 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,520 I want to see all Ben Kim's search results for the day. 692 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:17,980 You mean, like, browser results, or... 693 00:36:18,060 --> 00:36:21,560 Everything he did today. 694 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,350 Hey, you on your way home? 695 00:36:24,430 --> 00:36:25,390 Nope. 696 00:36:25,470 --> 00:36:26,390 Chief. You got to get on your way 697 00:36:26,470 --> 00:36:28,140 if you want to make it in time to take 698 00:36:28,220 --> 00:36:31,180 the princelings to Little League. 699 00:36:31,930 --> 00:36:33,770 Have Bruce take 'em. 700 00:36:33,850 --> 00:36:36,600 You got it. 701 00:36:47,020 --> 00:36:48,640 He's been home three weekends this year. 702 00:36:48,730 --> 00:36:52,470 I'm almost positive one of them was his assistant's mistake. 703 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,680 And he assumes I never say anything about him 704 00:36:54,770 --> 00:36:58,430 fucking his way through the entire New York pool. 705 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,310 But if you can leave Axe... 706 00:37:01,390 --> 00:37:03,890 You give me courage, Lara. 707 00:37:06,930 --> 00:37:09,640 You're smart, Lilly. 708 00:37:09,730 --> 00:37:11,180 You had a career for a second. 709 00:37:11,270 --> 00:37:14,770 You know your shopper isn't your friend, 710 00:37:14,850 --> 00:37:17,470 personal trainer doesn't think you're actually making progress, 711 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,430 and all the charities you give money to don't actually 712 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,390 honor you when they honor you. 713 00:37:23,470 --> 00:37:26,310 But on some level, you believe every bit of it. 714 00:37:26,390 --> 00:37:31,060 You think the attention you receive is deserved. 715 00:37:31,140 --> 00:37:34,140 But when that fades, when every relationship 716 00:37:34,220 --> 00:37:37,270 in your life reveals itself to be a trade on your husband's 717 00:37:37,350 --> 00:37:40,810 net worth, you may say "Fuck false friends," 718 00:37:40,890 --> 00:37:42,470 but you'll be hiring a PR rep the first time 719 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:47,060 your Halloween costume isn't mentioned in Page Six. 720 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,270 So keep your own courage, Lilly. 721 00:37:51,350 --> 00:37:54,350 And while you're at it, consider keeping that husband. 722 00:37:54,430 --> 00:37:57,180 Because while he may not give you what you think you want, 723 00:37:57,270 --> 00:38:00,180 he lets you keep on being Mrs. Keith Currier Smith, 724 00:38:00,270 --> 00:38:02,770 and I'm pretty sure that's what you need. 725 00:38:02,850 --> 00:38:05,390 Now you're trying to decide whether 726 00:38:05,470 --> 00:38:06,850 to be pissed or grateful. 727 00:38:06,930 --> 00:38:08,810 Definitely grateful. 728 00:38:21,270 --> 00:38:22,890 Whoa! 729 00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:34,640 Here you go. 730 00:38:34,730 --> 00:38:36,560 Have fun. 731 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,520 Thanks, Bruce. 732 00:38:51,770 --> 00:38:52,390 We got your latest request. 733 00:38:52,470 --> 00:38:54,730 It's a big lift. Hard transfer. 734 00:38:54,810 --> 00:38:57,100 International withdrawals and deposits like this 735 00:38:57,180 --> 00:38:58,680 do not get done same day. 736 00:38:58,770 --> 00:39:00,270 - So? - It's not the sort of thing 737 00:39:00,350 --> 00:39:03,600 most clients ask for. Especially not when they're drawing heat. 738 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,270 These are my needs. 739 00:39:05,350 --> 00:39:09,310 Either you meet them or you can't. 740 00:39:09,390 --> 00:39:12,270 We can get it done. But this isn't a reusable pipeline. 741 00:39:12,350 --> 00:39:14,310 Fine by me. 742 00:39:18,980 --> 00:39:20,430 30. 743 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,600 - It's already... - I know what time it is. 744 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,180 Call it in. 745 00:39:28,430 --> 00:39:30,270 I'd like to have a person of interest 746 00:39:30,350 --> 00:39:32,770 picked up. Gonzalez, Maria. 747 00:39:32,850 --> 00:39:35,430 No Social. 748 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:36,640 Yeah. 749 00:39:36,730 --> 00:39:39,980 D.O.B. 1/22/79. 750 00:39:40,060 --> 00:39:41,060 You think she got cold feet? 751 00:39:41,140 --> 00:39:44,850 I think that's best case. 752 00:39:44,930 --> 00:39:47,810 You have her already. That's great news. Where? 753 00:39:49,220 --> 00:39:50,640 Hold her. She's mine. 754 00:39:50,730 --> 00:39:52,470 She got picked up in an ICE sweep. 755 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,640 She's currently at the Varick Street Detention Center. 756 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,310 Are you gonna bring Maria? 757 00:40:13,390 --> 00:40:15,470 She's right there. 758 00:40:18,060 --> 00:40:19,060 Who is that? 759 00:40:19,140 --> 00:40:22,020 Maria Gonzalez. 760 00:40:22,100 --> 00:40:23,730 That may be a Maria Gonzalez, 761 00:40:23,810 --> 00:40:25,520 but that is not our Maria Gonzalez. 762 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,350 That is the wrong Maria Gonzalez. 763 00:40:27,430 --> 00:40:29,850 Do you have someone else here with that name? 764 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,810 We did until she was put on a goodbye charter 765 00:40:34,890 --> 00:40:36,980 from Newark Liberty. 766 00:40:38,310 --> 00:40:41,390 It's got to be some bureaucratic screw-up. 767 00:40:41,470 --> 00:40:42,140 No, it doesn't. 768 00:40:43,470 --> 00:40:45,390 Somebody knew she was gonna be picked up 769 00:40:45,470 --> 00:40:49,770 before we did and got to her info. 770 00:40:52,430 --> 00:40:54,220 This has Axe written all over it. 771 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,640 They deported the wrong Maria Gonzalez. 772 00:41:12,730 --> 00:41:16,020 Our witness is on a plane that lands in 90 minutes. 773 00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:18,770 We need her met on the ground in Guatemala and returned. 774 00:41:18,850 --> 00:41:22,730 There are a lot of, uh, high-level, deeply uncomfortable 775 00:41:22,810 --> 00:41:27,270 calls required to make that happen. DOJ. DHS. State. 776 00:41:27,350 --> 00:41:29,310 And they all start with your boss. 777 00:41:29,390 --> 00:41:31,560 I really don't want to call the Attorney General about this. 778 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:36,560 He's publicly stated this case matters to him. 779 00:41:37,890 --> 00:41:42,140 Ollie, you're a bit of a rara avis, aren't you? 780 00:41:42,220 --> 00:41:44,850 You got no "hat," no one looking out for you, 781 00:41:44,930 --> 00:41:47,470 and yet you have risen. 782 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,430 Maybe it's because you have an immaculate record. 783 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,020 Some guys don't trust immaculate record. 784 00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:55,220 I do. I have an immaculate record. 785 00:41:55,310 --> 00:41:58,350 Thank you, General. 786 00:41:58,430 --> 00:42:00,560 That was from a movie. 787 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,520 You don't watch movies, do you, Ollie? 788 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,930 I re-watch The Decalogue every year. 789 00:42:07,020 --> 00:42:08,930 Uh, well, I read what you sent me. 790 00:42:09,020 --> 00:42:13,100 We got the wrong Guad? 791 00:42:13,180 --> 00:42:16,100 That is indeed the case. 792 00:42:16,180 --> 00:42:17,640 Say it. 793 00:42:20,310 --> 00:42:24,270 We got the wrong Guad. 794 00:42:24,350 --> 00:42:27,560 But Maria Gonzalez, our Maria Gonzalez, 795 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:28,640 is a key cooperator. 796 00:42:28,730 --> 00:42:31,680 We need her back. And since this is 797 00:42:31,770 --> 00:42:33,270 an extraordinary situation... 798 00:42:33,350 --> 00:42:34,810 Well, in one respect. 799 00:42:34,890 --> 00:42:37,640 In another, it's just the way things are supposed to go. 800 00:42:37,730 --> 00:42:39,640 The right Maria Gonzalez came into this country illegally, 801 00:42:39,730 --> 00:42:44,520 she stayed illegally, and she committed a fraud 802 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,270 on the stockholders of that snake-bit juice company. 803 00:42:47,350 --> 00:42:49,730 She is three times illegal. 804 00:42:49,810 --> 00:42:54,680 That makes her removable, and she was removed. 805 00:42:57,270 --> 00:42:58,600 Um... 806 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:00,100 Next time... 807 00:43:00,180 --> 00:43:04,470 instead of asking me to undo your fuck-up, 808 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,560 maybe just see to it that the situation remains like 809 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,100 our holy Mother of Mercy, blessedly un-fucked. 810 00:43:19,770 --> 00:43:21,430 How'd that go? 811 00:43:25,100 --> 00:43:26,850 Does Axe ever hesitate? 812 00:43:27,180 --> 00:43:28,520 Why? 813 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,770 I'm hesitating. Can't pull the trigger. 814 00:43:31,850 --> 00:43:34,520 Markets are closed. Overseas play? 815 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,270 Ben Kim found a big opportunity in Thailand. 816 00:43:37,350 --> 00:43:40,140 A troubled public company with a promising sugar division. 817 00:43:40,220 --> 00:43:42,350 He spotted a good target but just couldn't quite 818 00:43:42,430 --> 00:43:44,470 figure out how to hit it... or didn't have the courage 819 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:45,730 to shoot at it. 820 00:43:45,810 --> 00:43:49,060 We need to keep working with him on that. 821 00:43:49,140 --> 00:43:50,220 But you see the play? 822 00:43:50,310 --> 00:43:53,180 Yes. A PIPE. Private investment in public equity. 823 00:43:53,270 --> 00:43:55,310 Basically, we take ownership of a spin-off, 824 00:43:55,390 --> 00:43:56,390 and a commission from brokering its sale. 825 00:43:56,470 --> 00:43:59,020 So, why the hesitation? 826 00:43:59,100 --> 00:44:02,020 It will be the single largest investment I've made as CIO, 827 00:44:02,100 --> 00:44:04,270 and a type Axe Cap has never made before. 828 00:44:04,350 --> 00:44:07,060 If you make this move, where do you end up for the day? 829 00:44:07,140 --> 00:44:08,730 Unscathed? 830 00:44:11,470 --> 00:44:14,600 This would lock in a loss. 831 00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:19,560 Yes. The high-reward plays are all high-risk. 832 00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:21,270 It's good you can't run it by Axe. 833 00:44:22,890 --> 00:44:27,470 Forces you to hear your own voice and trust it. 834 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:33,310 You'll probably do the right thing. 835 00:44:33,390 --> 00:44:36,470 And when the day comes you get one wrong, that'll be good, too. 836 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,020 Because I'll realize I'm mortal and it's not so bad? 837 00:44:39,100 --> 00:44:40,770 Because it'll be fucking horrible 838 00:44:40,850 --> 00:44:44,220 and you'll do anything you can to avoid that feeling again. 839 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:55,890 Hey. 840 00:44:57,850 --> 00:45:00,180 You know what, Bobby? 841 00:45:03,060 --> 00:45:04,980 You're off the hook. 842 00:45:05,060 --> 00:45:08,430 If you don't want 50-50 custody, you don't need to have it. 843 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,520 I can tell other people it's 50-50, 844 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,220 and I can come up with something to tell the boys, too. 845 00:45:13,310 --> 00:45:15,640 Why the fuck do you think I don't want the kids? 846 00:45:15,730 --> 00:45:18,770 You had them for one day, at a time when you don't 847 00:45:18,850 --> 00:45:22,640 have to go to work, and you ditched them. 848 00:45:22,730 --> 00:45:24,890 You let them be airlifted into Little League. 849 00:45:24,980 --> 00:45:26,470 I mean, it was mortifying. 850 00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,060 I didn't mean to embarrass them. 851 00:45:28,140 --> 00:45:30,810 They weren't embarrassed. 852 00:45:30,890 --> 00:45:34,180 They didn't know to be, which is a whole other thing. 853 00:45:34,270 --> 00:45:37,890 You know, I don't know if you need to work on your case 854 00:45:37,980 --> 00:45:39,770 or go on a trip 855 00:45:39,850 --> 00:45:42,930 or become a fucking cobbler, 856 00:45:43,020 --> 00:45:47,560 but it doesn't seem like you are where you need to be. 857 00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,270 And I'd offer to help, but my help doesn't seem 858 00:45:52,350 --> 00:45:53,390 to be what you want, either. 859 00:46:08,100 --> 00:46:10,270 I have everything positioned and ready, 860 00:46:10,350 --> 00:46:13,390 and yet... 861 00:46:13,470 --> 00:46:16,020 Judge Funt still has the case on his docket. 862 00:46:16,100 --> 00:46:19,680 My bag is packed, but I can't seem to walk out the door. 863 00:46:19,770 --> 00:46:24,310 If I fail at this, everything is dashed. 864 00:46:24,390 --> 00:46:27,730 For then I will have ruined myself 865 00:46:27,810 --> 00:46:29,390 in his eyes 866 00:46:29,470 --> 00:46:33,270 and exposed my position. 867 00:46:33,350 --> 00:46:37,600 Only a fool doesn't look at the downside. 868 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:38,770 But only a coward allows it to dissuade him 869 00:46:38,850 --> 00:46:43,220 from that which he knows he must do. 870 00:46:43,310 --> 00:46:45,100 I know you're not a coward. 871 00:46:45,180 --> 00:46:48,850 I don't like the sound of that word coming out of your mouth. 872 00:46:48,930 --> 00:46:51,220 Neither do I. 873 00:46:51,310 --> 00:46:54,930 I'll see you at home. After. 874 00:47:02,350 --> 00:47:05,220 Chuck? 875 00:47:06,980 --> 00:47:10,680 No one takes this shortcut anymore. 876 00:47:10,770 --> 00:47:12,430 This isn't your courthouse. 877 00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,890 Are you lost? 878 00:47:14,980 --> 00:47:19,350 Oh, right where I need to be, Judge Funt, 879 00:47:19,430 --> 00:47:22,430 which is, unfortunately, in your way. 880 00:47:24,180 --> 00:47:24,600 Ah. 881 00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:28,100 The Axelrod case. 882 00:47:28,180 --> 00:47:32,390 You had to know a day like this would come. 883 00:47:32,470 --> 00:47:34,020 I never asked you... 884 00:47:34,100 --> 00:47:35,060 You didn't have to. 885 00:47:38,180 --> 00:47:41,060 Your son's doing well, I hope, 886 00:47:41,140 --> 00:47:43,270 made the most of his medical career. 887 00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:47,600 Yeah, he's a good doctor. 888 00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:49,520 That's what I wanted for him. 889 00:47:51,270 --> 00:47:54,520 If he hadn't have supplied those future sons of Hippocrates 890 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,600 with Adderall, some other med student would have. 891 00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,140 I won't let you dictate my rulings. 892 00:48:00,220 --> 00:48:05,980 The bench cannot be tainted by personal debts. 893 00:48:06,060 --> 00:48:08,980 Name another favor. 894 00:48:09,060 --> 00:48:11,980 I know that this is the biggest case that you've ever drawn. 895 00:48:12,060 --> 00:48:14,770 Well, that's something that you would think about in my shoes, 896 00:48:14,850 --> 00:48:16,640 but I don't. 897 00:48:16,730 --> 00:48:20,600 No, you wouldn't. 898 00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,520 And you wouldn't hide in a hallway waiting 899 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,810 to pounce when I walked by. 900 00:48:26,930 --> 00:48:29,180 But I am not the man you are. 901 00:48:34,220 --> 00:48:36,810 Oh. 902 00:48:36,890 --> 00:48:39,810 You're not here to ask me to shade my rulings. 903 00:48:39,890 --> 00:48:43,020 You're here to ask me to step off it. 904 00:48:43,100 --> 00:48:46,810 It's a hard laydown. And I'm asking you to lay it down. 905 00:48:49,430 --> 00:48:51,390 Ask yourself 906 00:48:51,470 --> 00:48:54,770 who you really are, Chuck. 907 00:48:54,850 --> 00:48:57,060 Are you the man that's reduced to collecting debts 908 00:48:57,140 --> 00:49:01,350 of the soul like... like old Mr. Scratch? 909 00:49:01,430 --> 00:49:03,730 Well, as with all stories about that being, 910 00:49:03,810 --> 00:49:07,470 the debt is due, even if, especially if, 911 00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:11,560 it is not fair or even right to collect it. 912 00:49:13,770 --> 00:49:18,560 Believe me, my... my insides hurt making this request. 913 00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,350 Oh, I don't believe that even a little. 914 00:49:21,430 --> 00:49:23,060 You like your insides just as they are. 915 00:49:23,140 --> 00:49:26,930 You want to be right here, making these moves. 916 00:49:27,020 --> 00:49:31,350 You need that feeling in your stomach to know you're alive. 917 00:49:33,980 --> 00:49:37,350 I really think I am sorry. 918 00:49:37,430 --> 00:49:39,180 Fuck you, Chuck! 919 00:49:44,770 --> 00:49:48,220 I'll recuse myself. 920 00:49:50,140 --> 00:49:52,270 My tab is clear. 921 00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:11,770 May I? 922 00:50:11,850 --> 00:50:14,310 Do you want me to call the Secretary of the Treasury 923 00:50:14,390 --> 00:50:17,140 and ask for a personal loan? 924 00:50:17,220 --> 00:50:21,140 I just heard DeGiulio is the new judge on the Axelrod case. 925 00:50:21,220 --> 00:50:23,220 Not our dream judge, but fair-minded, 926 00:50:23,310 --> 00:50:26,810 likely to hew closely to the law, rule narrowly. 927 00:50:26,890 --> 00:50:29,270 That'll favor us a lot more than Funt. 928 00:50:29,350 --> 00:50:31,020 Well, then, 929 00:50:31,100 --> 00:50:33,430 I guess it's a gift. 930 00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,310 Chuck. 931 00:50:36,390 --> 00:50:39,180 I know his fingerprints. 932 00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:43,730 Are you gonna do something about this? 933 00:50:43,810 --> 00:50:46,730 I'm not in the habit of rejecting gifts. 934 00:50:50,060 --> 00:50:53,350 Do you know about White Day in Japan? 935 00:50:53,430 --> 00:50:56,810 Over there on Valentine's Day, women buy presents 936 00:50:56,890 --> 00:51:00,180 for their salarymen bosses, and those presents are displayed 937 00:51:00,270 --> 00:51:02,270 for all to see, so the most important thing is the size. 938 00:51:02,350 --> 00:51:06,060 That's how others know that the recipient is valued. 939 00:51:06,140 --> 00:51:08,980 A month later, on White Day, the men give a return gift 940 00:51:09,060 --> 00:51:11,270 of two to three times the value. 941 00:51:11,350 --> 00:51:16,520 So if there's a salaryman you don't respect, 942 00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,060 you get him something small but expensive. 943 00:51:25,140 --> 00:51:28,180 Chuck just gave you diamond cufflinks, 944 00:51:28,270 --> 00:51:31,470 and when White Day comes, you're gonna have to give him 945 00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,020 something that costs a lot more. 946 00:52:03,430 --> 00:52:06,520 I didn't like you kicking me out. 947 00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:08,220 I apologize if I was rude. 948 00:52:08,310 --> 00:52:10,890 I don't give a fuck about rude. 949 00:52:10,980 --> 00:52:13,890 It showed you were distracted. 950 00:52:13,980 --> 00:52:15,560 How did we do today? 951 00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:16,850 Just executed a huge PIPE. 952 00:52:16,930 --> 00:52:18,390 We're going to arb a Southeast Asian sugar company. 953 00:52:18,470 --> 00:52:20,680 Fun. 954 00:52:20,770 --> 00:52:22,470 If all my projections hold, 955 00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,390 we're still down five percent overall. 956 00:52:25,470 --> 00:52:26,310 Anyone else would have lost 12 957 00:52:26,390 --> 00:52:29,430 or done something stupid to get even. 958 00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:32,100 Booking the loss was the only way. 959 00:52:34,060 --> 00:52:36,930 I'm not pulling the two billion. 960 00:52:37,020 --> 00:52:41,730 It's yours to invest. 961 00:52:41,810 --> 00:52:43,470 I really thought you didn't trust me. 962 00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:45,020 That's why you were in the office 963 00:52:45,100 --> 00:52:46,730 looking over everyone's shoulder. 964 00:52:46,810 --> 00:52:49,270 I was in the office, because as of now, 965 00:52:49,350 --> 00:52:53,600 I don't know what else to do with myself. 966 00:52:56,180 --> 00:52:57,270 And... 967 00:52:57,350 --> 00:53:02,020 as much as I can trust anyone with my name 968 00:53:02,100 --> 00:53:03,730 and my money... 969 00:53:03,810 --> 00:53:06,060 I trust you. 970 00:53:06,140 --> 00:53:07,270 I am irrelevant. 971 00:53:07,350 --> 00:53:10,220 You want the money because you want the stake, the control. 972 00:53:10,310 --> 00:53:12,980 You need the game to remember who you are. 973 00:53:14,730 --> 00:53:17,600 I've decided how I'm going to invest that two billion. 974 00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:21,730 I'm going to diversify, invest in outside funds. 975 00:53:21,810 --> 00:53:25,140 I'll hear pitches, among them your hand-picked favorites. 976 00:53:25,220 --> 00:53:26,930 And after I give them the money, 977 00:53:27,020 --> 00:53:30,270 I'm going to be a passive investor. 978 00:53:30,350 --> 00:53:32,220 Thank you. 979 00:53:39,060 --> 00:53:41,520 You're not doing this 'cause I need it. 980 00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:43,600 You need it. 981 00:53:44,810 --> 00:53:49,310 You're giving me a place to play so I stay off your field. 982 00:53:49,390 --> 00:53:52,430 And you want the benefit of my moves on our bottom line 983 00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,140 in case there's another disaster. 984 00:53:56,850 --> 00:53:59,980 I'm your hedge.