1 00:00:03,887 --> 00:00:05,136 Previously on Billions... 2 00:00:05,220 --> 00:00:06,387 You guys here... 3 00:00:06,470 --> 00:00:07,887 Bobby Axelrod's spare fucking apartment. 4 00:00:07,970 --> 00:00:10,136 With goddamned Van Goghs on the walls. 5 00:00:10,220 --> 00:00:12,220 I can house your paintings in a permanent tax-free state. 6 00:00:12,303 --> 00:00:14,970 I'll store replicas, so you can hang the originals. 7 00:00:15,053 --> 00:00:16,637 Hey. One other thing you can help me with. 8 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:17,845 You know my new artist... Tanner... 9 00:00:17,929 --> 00:00:19,595 - Yeah. - He's not working. 10 00:00:19,679 --> 00:00:20,929 You know what? Let me talk to him. 11 00:00:21,011 --> 00:00:22,178 I'll see what occurs. 12 00:00:22,261 --> 00:00:24,136 - What's on your mind? - Bobby Axelrod. 13 00:00:24,220 --> 00:00:26,887 Specifically, an application he submitted for a bank charter. 14 00:00:26,970 --> 00:00:28,637 We would like you to stall the approval. 15 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:29,770 And then deny it. 16 00:00:29,853 --> 00:00:31,011 Dad. What happened? What's wrong? 17 00:00:31,095 --> 00:00:32,428 Nothing to worry about. 18 00:00:32,512 --> 00:00:34,595 His kidneys. Renal failure. 19 00:00:34,679 --> 00:00:36,303 How serious are we talking here? 20 00:00:36,387 --> 00:00:38,470 They think he'll need a kidney transplant in order to... 21 00:00:38,553 --> 00:00:39,612 survive. 22 00:01:06,095 --> 00:01:07,595 Fuck me... 23 00:01:07,679 --> 00:01:10,011 You and me both... 24 00:01:11,216 --> 00:01:13,303 Who's gonna go try and persuade 'em to walk away? 25 00:01:37,929 --> 00:01:40,261 Lucky for me, I was sleeping on my good side. 26 00:01:42,117 --> 00:01:43,387 I rolled you over. 27 00:01:55,845 --> 00:01:57,720 Wow. 28 00:01:59,804 --> 00:02:03,470 You... uh... 29 00:02:03,553 --> 00:02:05,303 That's good. You got me. 30 00:02:10,470 --> 00:02:12,095 Don't do that. 31 00:02:12,178 --> 00:02:13,804 Why? 32 00:02:13,887 --> 00:02:16,720 Figure drawing, it's art school "technique." 33 00:02:16,804 --> 00:02:18,512 Copying. 34 00:02:18,595 --> 00:02:20,178 It's like a rock band doing a cover song. 35 00:02:20,261 --> 00:02:21,303 I love a good cover. 36 00:02:22,223 --> 00:02:23,230 You kind of can't beat 37 00:02:23,303 --> 00:02:25,428 Manfred Mann's version of "Blinded by the Light." 38 00:02:25,512 --> 00:02:28,512 Yeah, well, you don't remember anything else they did. 39 00:02:30,470 --> 00:02:32,804 Well, I love this. 40 00:02:32,887 --> 00:02:35,845 For what it reveals about how you see me. 41 00:02:35,929 --> 00:02:38,762 For what it reveals about us. 42 00:02:38,845 --> 00:02:40,929 I want to keep it. 43 00:02:43,261 --> 00:02:47,095 I-I don't, um, want this stuff out in the world. 44 00:02:47,178 --> 00:02:49,512 It won't be out in the world, it'll be with me. 45 00:02:54,512 --> 00:02:57,387 It feels like I'm the one who's naked and under the covers. 46 00:02:57,470 --> 00:03:00,178 That's why I want it. 47 00:03:00,261 --> 00:03:02,220 I brought it out of you. 48 00:03:04,053 --> 00:03:06,804 Now sign it... and get back in here with me. 49 00:03:15,220 --> 00:03:19,011 So Bobby Axelrod wants to be a bank. 50 00:03:19,095 --> 00:03:21,929 But before we can ascend the heights, 51 00:03:22,011 --> 00:03:23,220 we need your beatific blessing. 52 00:03:23,303 --> 00:03:24,470 Mm. 53 00:03:24,553 --> 00:03:26,136 So I am here as his banking sherpa. 54 00:03:26,220 --> 00:03:27,553 To guide him through the craggy terrain 55 00:03:27,637 --> 00:03:29,303 of the approval process. 56 00:03:29,387 --> 00:03:31,303 Not least because of the close relationship 57 00:03:31,387 --> 00:03:33,053 you and I have, Madame Chairwoman. 58 00:03:33,136 --> 00:03:35,178 Madame Chairwoman, I need a letter from the SEC, 59 00:03:35,261 --> 00:03:36,970 supporting my bank. 60 00:03:37,053 --> 00:03:38,553 To allow me to fight for consumers 61 00:03:38,637 --> 00:03:40,261 the way that I fight for my investors. 62 00:03:40,345 --> 00:03:42,679 Like a ravening mountain lion. Whose only prey is value. 63 00:03:42,762 --> 00:03:45,470 Not according to the United States government's prosecutors. 64 00:03:45,553 --> 00:03:48,428 They say your prey is the entire financial system. 65 00:03:48,512 --> 00:03:50,103 And that when you're done with it, 66 00:03:50,165 --> 00:03:53,095 not even the buzzards can find anything left on the bone. 67 00:03:53,178 --> 00:03:56,595 I was targeted. By a vengeful individual. 68 00:03:56,679 --> 00:03:59,011 He pursued me publicly, relentlessly... 69 00:03:59,095 --> 00:04:00,970 oh, and wrongfully. 70 00:04:01,053 --> 00:04:02,178 - Mm. - And he lost. 71 00:04:02,261 --> 00:04:04,762 His job. His standing. His highest aspirations. 72 00:04:04,845 --> 00:04:08,178 As people who line up against me tend to. 73 00:04:08,261 --> 00:04:09,345 And all the charges were dropped. 74 00:04:09,428 --> 00:04:12,762 Yeah, in the end, the system worked. 75 00:04:12,845 --> 00:04:14,345 As I have faith it will now. 76 00:04:14,428 --> 00:04:16,345 Yeah, but we regulators aren't big on faith. 77 00:04:16,428 --> 00:04:17,637 We look at the record. 78 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,011 That is why Axe Cap plucked me 79 00:04:20,095 --> 00:04:22,845 from your tender regulatory bosom. 80 00:04:22,929 --> 00:04:27,345 Wait. So you're why he deserves a clean bill of health, Spyros? 81 00:04:27,428 --> 00:04:30,428 You know how I intuitively located every speck 82 00:04:30,512 --> 00:04:32,929 of financial dirt when I was in-house for you? 83 00:04:33,011 --> 00:04:35,470 How I harvested them and laid them at your feet, 84 00:04:35,553 --> 00:04:37,970 winning the title 'Mr. Roomba?' 85 00:04:38,053 --> 00:04:40,261 Well, I have brought these skills to Axe Cap 86 00:04:40,345 --> 00:04:43,136 and vacuum cleaned every crevice. 87 00:04:43,220 --> 00:04:45,595 We called you Mr. Roomba because you sucked. 88 00:04:45,679 --> 00:04:48,053 And snuck up on us. And creeped us out. 89 00:04:48,136 --> 00:04:51,637 Haha, I certainly miss the jocular banter... 90 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:53,595 And I see that you're still parading around 91 00:04:53,679 --> 00:04:55,512 in that knockoff Mensa pin. 92 00:04:55,595 --> 00:04:57,345 I had wondered why you were suddenly sporting that. 93 00:04:57,428 --> 00:04:58,887 Was that your gimmick at the SEC? 94 00:04:58,970 --> 00:05:00,595 You're a mountebank Mensa member... 95 00:05:00,679 --> 00:05:03,136 I can assure you, this is... this is very real... 96 00:05:03,220 --> 00:05:05,428 Do you know why they formed the Stock Exchange? 97 00:05:05,512 --> 00:05:07,929 To keep out a crook, a market manipulator. 98 00:05:08,011 --> 00:05:09,428 William Duer. 99 00:05:09,512 --> 00:05:12,220 Gave us our first panic in 1792. 100 00:05:12,303 --> 00:05:14,595 But I guess you feel that we could have skipped the effort 101 00:05:14,679 --> 00:05:17,261 if we had you and your hoovering skills. 102 00:05:17,345 --> 00:05:19,929 Look, I would, uh, gladly smash in Spyros's head 103 00:05:20,011 --> 00:05:22,470 with the Stock Exchange gavel if that'd make you feel better... 104 00:05:22,553 --> 00:05:23,679 Wouldn't make me feel worse... 105 00:05:23,762 --> 00:05:25,595 But this isn't about him. 106 00:05:25,679 --> 00:05:28,804 This is about the bank that I'm trying to build. 107 00:05:28,887 --> 00:05:30,804 The difference it will make to our industry, 108 00:05:30,887 --> 00:05:32,929 - to the economy. - Mm. 109 00:05:33,011 --> 00:05:35,303 You want to talk about why they really formed the Exchange? 110 00:05:35,387 --> 00:05:37,136 It was a club, not a cleanup. 111 00:05:37,220 --> 00:05:39,387 A bunch of Francophiles with mops on their heads, 112 00:05:39,470 --> 00:05:41,303 who gave themselves the sole right to trade... 113 00:05:41,387 --> 00:05:43,428 at a commission that they set. 114 00:05:43,512 --> 00:05:46,095 What we call price-fixing these days. 115 00:05:46,178 --> 00:05:48,512 That's the gang that you're part of. 116 00:05:48,595 --> 00:05:52,053 Now, I hate clubs, but if I have to join one, I make it better. 117 00:05:52,136 --> 00:05:53,470 And I make the clubhouse bigger. 118 00:05:53,553 --> 00:05:55,845 And that's why you want to give me this letter. 119 00:05:59,387 --> 00:06:03,178 Sure, I'll write it myself. 120 00:06:03,261 --> 00:06:05,428 On behalf of my 'gang.' 121 00:06:06,423 --> 00:06:09,303 But it will warn the FDIC and the Federal Reserve 122 00:06:09,387 --> 00:06:11,762 that you have been a regulatory armageddon. 123 00:06:11,845 --> 00:06:16,053 Doesn't take a Mensa member to see that they'd be crazy 124 00:06:16,136 --> 00:06:18,679 to grant you a goddamned bank charter. 125 00:06:19,694 --> 00:06:20,699 Gentlemen. 126 00:06:33,053 --> 00:06:35,095 Did the SEC bless you like a newborn? 127 00:06:35,178 --> 00:06:37,303 Are we a bank? We saw the Chairwoman leave 128 00:06:37,387 --> 00:06:38,845 and have been waiting to see you ever since. 129 00:06:38,929 --> 00:06:40,261 I want my mahogany desk. 130 00:06:40,345 --> 00:06:42,011 Settle for some fucking plywood. 131 00:06:42,095 --> 00:06:43,595 One word: Spyros. 132 00:06:43,679 --> 00:06:45,470 Second word: dickweed. 133 00:06:45,553 --> 00:06:48,762 You blow the hunt, you don't get to escape back to the cave. 134 00:06:49,467 --> 00:06:52,136 Just an opening salvo, we can find our way into... 135 00:06:52,220 --> 00:06:53,845 Bad enough to wear this if it were real. 136 00:06:53,929 --> 00:06:56,679 But a fucking fugazi? 137 00:06:56,762 --> 00:06:58,512 I would have passed the test... 138 00:06:58,595 --> 00:07:00,845 - Oh, my God. - ...if I had had time to take it. 139 00:07:00,929 --> 00:07:03,720 You actually want people to think you're in Mensa? 140 00:07:03,804 --> 00:07:06,011 Oh, Spyros, you should really work on this. 141 00:07:06,095 --> 00:07:07,970 Alright. Enough. 142 00:07:08,053 --> 00:07:09,887 The world is arrayed against us right now. 143 00:07:09,970 --> 00:07:11,720 Against me. 144 00:07:11,804 --> 00:07:14,553 I want to know what the rest of you can do to show your value... 145 00:07:14,637 --> 00:07:17,261 either by outperforming or changing our footprint 146 00:07:17,345 --> 00:07:19,136 to help make this bank happen. 147 00:07:22,929 --> 00:07:24,428 You better have some fucking answers 148 00:07:24,512 --> 00:07:25,887 the next time I ask... 149 00:07:25,970 --> 00:07:28,470 because silence will not be acceptable then. 150 00:07:29,428 --> 00:07:30,720 There's an opportunity here. 151 00:07:30,804 --> 00:07:32,679 To give Axe what his own team can't. 152 00:07:32,762 --> 00:07:34,387 Sure. They're distracted 153 00:07:34,470 --> 00:07:36,637 between becoming a bank and earning and... 154 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:38,428 We show him we are where he should 155 00:07:38,512 --> 00:07:40,387 put his investable cash... not into some bank. 156 00:07:40,470 --> 00:07:42,261 We make more money as he makes more. 157 00:07:42,345 --> 00:07:44,470 We earn his loyalty, too. 158 00:07:48,011 --> 00:07:49,845 That's not a trio that should be seen together 159 00:07:49,929 --> 00:07:53,095 unless something's seriously fucked. 160 00:07:57,512 --> 00:08:01,887 It seems the liberty of our tax haven is threatened. 161 00:08:01,970 --> 00:08:04,095 We got a painting problem. 162 00:08:10,303 --> 00:08:11,804 Hey! Hey, hey, hey! 163 00:08:11,887 --> 00:08:14,178 You have a right to inspect, not to remove. 164 00:08:14,261 --> 00:08:16,428 Gotta get it out the box to see what it is. 165 00:08:16,512 --> 00:08:19,428 Well, will you wrap your meat hooks with some kid gloves? 166 00:08:19,512 --> 00:08:22,261 These are priceless works of art. 167 00:08:22,345 --> 00:08:24,428 If they are damaged even in the slightest, 168 00:08:24,512 --> 00:08:26,261 an entire generation of youth 169 00:08:26,345 --> 00:08:28,470 would be robbed of the joy of their beauty. 170 00:08:30,584 --> 00:08:33,387 Perhaps we can come to an agreeable accommodation... 171 00:08:33,470 --> 00:08:34,970 for the children. 172 00:08:39,970 --> 00:08:41,720 For your children. 173 00:08:42,762 --> 00:08:44,470 They didn't want money in their pockets. 174 00:08:44,553 --> 00:08:46,053 Most dangerous thing in the world: 175 00:08:46,136 --> 00:08:47,303 government employees who don't hate their jobs 176 00:08:47,387 --> 00:08:48,804 enough to take a bribe. 177 00:08:48,887 --> 00:08:51,303 Doesn't seem to me like a random fucking search. 178 00:08:51,387 --> 00:08:53,845 Seems like it's targeted. 179 00:08:53,929 --> 00:08:56,428 How did they even know to go art hunting? 180 00:08:57,392 --> 00:09:01,428 Axe-associate Danny Margolis is something of a promoter. 181 00:09:01,512 --> 00:09:03,261 This time it was him trying to sell billionaires 182 00:09:03,345 --> 00:09:06,303 on parking their paintings with him, tax free. 183 00:09:06,387 --> 00:09:08,136 You're saying he's using Bobby Axelrod 184 00:09:08,220 --> 00:09:09,470 as his celebrity endorsement? 185 00:09:09,553 --> 00:09:11,136 Along those lines. 186 00:09:11,220 --> 00:09:12,470 - That's the inventory. - Ah. 187 00:09:12,553 --> 00:09:14,053 We could go after the whole concept, 188 00:09:14,136 --> 00:09:15,887 try to get him on tax fraud. 189 00:09:15,970 --> 00:09:19,095 Something poetic about taking him down the same way as Capone. 190 00:09:19,178 --> 00:09:21,512 But the laws on freeports are murky. 191 00:09:21,595 --> 00:09:22,678 It's too much of a gamble... 192 00:09:22,739 --> 00:09:25,595 I can't have us bring a case just to have freeports upheld. 193 00:09:27,845 --> 00:09:30,345 But this... 194 00:09:30,428 --> 00:09:32,470 I see actual fraud here. 195 00:09:32,553 --> 00:09:34,095 Van Gogh. What about it? 196 00:09:34,178 --> 00:09:35,845 I'm fairly certain I've seen this painting, 197 00:09:35,929 --> 00:09:38,178 up close, in one of Axe's apartments. 198 00:09:38,905 --> 00:09:41,178 Standard rich folk practice is often to store the original 199 00:09:41,261 --> 00:09:42,679 - and hang a replica. - No. 200 00:09:42,762 --> 00:09:44,512 There's a feeling you get when you're in the presence 201 00:09:44,595 --> 00:09:47,095 of the real thing, a work for the ages. 202 00:09:47,178 --> 00:09:50,011 There's a weight to it, you know? 203 00:09:50,095 --> 00:09:51,553 I do. You felt that? 204 00:09:51,637 --> 00:09:53,804 I did. 205 00:09:53,887 --> 00:09:57,095 I didn't like it at the time. But I'm starting to now. 206 00:09:57,178 --> 00:10:00,428 So how can one painting be in two places at once? 207 00:10:00,512 --> 00:10:02,053 It's my bad. 208 00:10:02,136 --> 00:10:04,220 I thought it was a business could be grown. 209 00:10:04,303 --> 00:10:06,345 Not just your bad. 210 00:10:06,428 --> 00:10:09,512 No. I brought you into this. 211 00:10:09,595 --> 00:10:12,804 Also, I brought you into this. 212 00:10:12,887 --> 00:10:15,595 If it was a business could be grown and there's extra cream, 213 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:16,887 you're not the only one who should wind up 214 00:10:16,970 --> 00:10:18,553 light and sweet, fucko. 215 00:10:18,637 --> 00:10:21,345 Alright. Let's not catalogue all the internecine ways 216 00:10:21,428 --> 00:10:23,220 you've fucked me and each other. 217 00:10:23,303 --> 00:10:24,470 I'm cataloguing. 218 00:10:24,553 --> 00:10:26,970 The replicas are in the freeport. 219 00:10:27,053 --> 00:10:28,553 They can't be there when someone 220 00:10:28,637 --> 00:10:30,720 who actually knows about art comes back. 221 00:10:30,804 --> 00:10:32,387 In theory, the paintings in a freeport 222 00:10:32,470 --> 00:10:34,512 are meant to keep circulating. 223 00:10:34,595 --> 00:10:37,720 Port to port. That's how you avoid taxation. 224 00:10:37,804 --> 00:10:40,011 Sort of like the Stones in '72. 225 00:10:40,095 --> 00:10:43,512 Good. Well, then let's make that international tour a reality. 226 00:10:43,595 --> 00:10:46,220 The real ones can't be back in my place. 227 00:10:46,303 --> 00:10:48,929 I need to get with Hall and disappear them. 228 00:10:52,804 --> 00:10:53,929 Marithane. 229 00:10:54,011 --> 00:10:55,887 You want a value multiplier, it is one. 230 00:10:55,970 --> 00:10:57,303 What does it do? 231 00:10:57,387 --> 00:10:59,595 What you need it to... brings us back to the future. 232 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:03,428 And brings us um, like, filthy lucre. 233 00:11:03,512 --> 00:11:05,428 That's like what you guys would say right? 234 00:11:05,512 --> 00:11:08,136 Instead of just: "We can make a good percentage on our money." 235 00:11:08,220 --> 00:11:12,595 You'd say: "Grab some filthy dirty lucre" or something? 236 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:14,220 Anyway, this is a way to do that. 237 00:11:14,303 --> 00:11:15,720 What does it actually do? 238 00:11:15,804 --> 00:11:17,929 Harvests methane bubbling to the ocean surface. 239 00:11:18,011 --> 00:11:20,720 Whale farts? Please tell me we're talking about whale farts. 240 00:11:20,804 --> 00:11:22,095 Cracks in the seafloor. 241 00:11:22,178 --> 00:11:23,970 - Right. - How did you find it? 242 00:11:24,053 --> 00:11:26,011 I built a toy, a social media scraper. 243 00:11:26,095 --> 00:11:28,762 Analyzes the online behaviors of leading VCs. 244 00:11:28,845 --> 00:11:31,220 Basically, it tracks who they suddenly decide to follow. 245 00:11:31,303 --> 00:11:33,011 Interest in Marithane is hockey-sticking. 246 00:11:33,095 --> 00:11:34,470 Competition will be real. 247 00:11:34,553 --> 00:11:35,679 We should get in there fast. 248 00:11:35,762 --> 00:11:37,470 Lauren, set the pitch. 249 00:11:43,762 --> 00:11:45,303 Ah! 250 00:11:45,387 --> 00:11:47,595 Auspicious timing. 251 00:11:48,206 --> 00:11:50,887 I was about to call you to contact your doorman to let me in. 252 00:11:50,970 --> 00:11:52,303 Now you can just do it. 253 00:11:52,387 --> 00:11:54,011 For the purpose of? 254 00:11:54,095 --> 00:11:56,387 Oh, Kevin left his Nintendo thing in your apartment. 255 00:11:56,470 --> 00:11:57,804 He really wants it for tonight. 256 00:11:57,887 --> 00:11:59,261 Mind if I go up and rummage around? 257 00:12:06,595 --> 00:12:08,178 - Oh, Chuck. - Mm? 258 00:12:08,261 --> 00:12:10,887 Must be going for shared-custody father of the year. 259 00:12:10,970 --> 00:12:12,428 Since you dropped everything, 260 00:12:12,512 --> 00:12:14,470 in the middle of the day, to find a doll. 261 00:12:14,553 --> 00:12:16,887 Oh. Not a doll. Game. 262 00:12:16,970 --> 00:12:19,011 And you know from separations. 263 00:12:19,095 --> 00:12:21,303 It's as if you've forced your kids to live in a gypsy caravan. 264 00:12:21,387 --> 00:12:23,512 Least I can do is recover the missing item. 265 00:12:23,595 --> 00:12:27,470 - Or buy two of everything. - Sure. 266 00:12:29,551 --> 00:12:31,220 Is this a Chateau Haut-Brion? 267 00:12:31,303 --> 00:12:33,512 It is. 2010. 268 00:12:34,863 --> 00:12:36,053 Not normally a day drinker. 269 00:12:36,136 --> 00:12:38,011 But I've always wanted to taste this vintage. 270 00:12:38,095 --> 00:12:39,929 King of wines, wine of kings... 271 00:12:40,011 --> 00:12:42,095 Why it's my house red. 272 00:12:42,962 --> 00:12:45,303 Would you mind spotting me a taste? 273 00:12:46,755 --> 00:12:48,428 Alright, Chuck... 274 00:12:48,512 --> 00:12:51,220 I'll keep looking for the game if that's okay. 275 00:13:06,178 --> 00:13:09,970 Yeah, I'll, uh, check the bedroom he uses... in a minute. 276 00:13:10,053 --> 00:13:11,720 Ah! 277 00:13:11,804 --> 00:13:14,387 If it isn't the Dutch master himself. 278 00:13:14,470 --> 00:13:16,804 "Noon - Rest From Work." 279 00:13:16,887 --> 00:13:19,303 Hard to believe it's in private hands. 280 00:13:19,387 --> 00:13:21,470 You know what I believe Van Gogh is telling us? 281 00:13:21,553 --> 00:13:23,512 Hmm? 282 00:13:25,013 --> 00:13:28,053 Time to get back to our own work. 283 00:13:28,136 --> 00:13:30,261 You know, it's hard to imagine living with a piece like this. 284 00:13:30,345 --> 00:13:31,637 I mean, I'm sure you're aware of 285 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,261 the forty-million- dollar elbow... 286 00:13:33,345 --> 00:13:35,053 when Steve Wynn was selling it to Steve Cohen 287 00:13:35,136 --> 00:13:38,845 and accidentally poked a new nostril in Picasso's "La Rêve." 288 00:13:38,929 --> 00:13:40,220 Yeah. Well aware. 289 00:13:40,303 --> 00:13:41,762 Both Steves felt bad about that one. 290 00:13:41,845 --> 00:13:42,929 - Mm-hmm. - And of course this one's worth 291 00:13:43,011 --> 00:13:44,887 - a fuck of a lot more than forty. - Yeah. 292 00:13:44,970 --> 00:13:47,011 Which is why I only hang replicas. 293 00:13:47,095 --> 00:13:49,261 Smart. Oh. I'd do the same. 294 00:13:49,345 --> 00:13:50,428 Since I'm all elbows. 295 00:13:50,512 --> 00:13:51,804 Oh! Fuck. 296 00:13:51,887 --> 00:13:53,679 - Geez... - Fucking clumsy of me... 297 00:13:53,762 --> 00:13:55,637 But why so protective of a replica, Bob? 298 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:57,845 I'm happy to wipe it off. 299 00:14:00,762 --> 00:14:04,303 Guess it... Guess it almost seems real to me. 300 00:14:04,387 --> 00:14:07,845 I should probably move them... move them all out of here, 301 00:14:07,929 --> 00:14:11,220 to a place where there's no risk of clumsy guests. 302 00:14:12,687 --> 00:14:14,762 Yeah. I like to pretend too. 303 00:14:14,845 --> 00:14:16,470 You know, right now I'm pretending 304 00:14:16,553 --> 00:14:17,804 I got guys downstairs, 305 00:14:17,887 --> 00:14:20,762 watching everything come in and out, 306 00:14:20,845 --> 00:14:22,804 all night long if I have to. 307 00:14:26,553 --> 00:14:30,804 Well, that is a truly profound Brion. 308 00:14:30,887 --> 00:14:34,053 But you're right... time to get back to work. 309 00:14:34,136 --> 00:14:39,011 Oh, and, uh, let me know if that game ever turns up. 310 00:14:48,136 --> 00:14:50,845 Hey. Where are you? I got a major fucking problem. 311 00:14:50,929 --> 00:14:53,303 Rhoades. I know. He moved first and fast. 312 00:14:53,387 --> 00:14:55,428 - Looking at options. - Yeah. 313 00:14:55,512 --> 00:14:58,387 Well, send me a restoration and cleaning crew, now... 314 00:15:02,762 --> 00:15:05,011 A Seurat, a Degas, multiple Van Goghs, 315 00:15:05,095 --> 00:15:07,095 all on the fucking manifest... 316 00:15:07,178 --> 00:15:09,970 Don't tell me that lucky bastard has a Bob Ross, too, 317 00:15:10,053 --> 00:15:11,679 or I'll really hate on the guy. 318 00:15:11,762 --> 00:15:13,845 Keep a watch on the building... front, back, and side doors. 319 00:15:13,929 --> 00:15:15,637 Nothing in or out. And you know your part. 320 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:16,845 Yep. Get a subpoena, 321 00:15:16,929 --> 00:15:18,178 so we can have an authenticator 322 00:15:18,261 --> 00:15:20,095 test the fuck out of those canvases. 323 00:15:20,178 --> 00:15:23,762 We prove they're real, we nail Bobby Axelrod on tax fraud. 324 00:15:23,845 --> 00:15:25,387 Like an elbow through the bank charter 325 00:15:25,470 --> 00:15:27,011 he's undoubtedly still pursuing. 326 00:15:27,095 --> 00:15:29,637 That'll make me warm and tingly in all the places. 327 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,136 Really will, Karl. Really will. 328 00:15:34,387 --> 00:15:36,053 I'm surprised by the aggressiveness 329 00:15:36,136 --> 00:15:38,220 of the sudden interest in our company. 330 00:15:38,303 --> 00:15:41,845 It's warranted, but leaves me with almost too much choice. 331 00:15:41,929 --> 00:15:43,595 We are here to alleviate that burden. 332 00:15:43,679 --> 00:15:45,845 You need a partner, to help with your hardware expenses. 333 00:15:45,929 --> 00:15:48,053 Each ship is like a startup of its own. 334 00:15:48,136 --> 00:15:50,887 And with this much methane, there's always a chance that... 335 00:15:50,970 --> 00:15:53,220 One of them could go up like a Molotov Cocktail? 336 00:15:53,863 --> 00:15:56,220 - Yeah. - We can provide you cash. 337 00:15:56,303 --> 00:15:59,303 But looking at you, I sense you need more than that. 338 00:15:59,387 --> 00:16:01,887 You need... what is it, 339 00:16:01,970 --> 00:16:03,053 the thing you're not saying, 340 00:16:03,136 --> 00:16:04,387 the thing at the corner of your mind? 341 00:16:04,470 --> 00:16:05,820 That would bring you some ease. 342 00:16:05,846 --> 00:16:08,011 What will help you, the human being, be your best. 343 00:16:08,095 --> 00:16:10,512 How can we be that for you right now? 344 00:16:10,595 --> 00:16:12,387 No one's asked that. 345 00:16:12,470 --> 00:16:16,136 Let us do more than feel your pain. 346 00:16:16,220 --> 00:16:19,470 I am having an issue. 347 00:16:20,486 --> 00:16:24,345 A former employee walked out the door with a piece of our tech. 348 00:16:24,428 --> 00:16:25,720 Now, I don't want to sue... 349 00:16:25,804 --> 00:16:26,929 The bad press and expense. 350 00:16:27,011 --> 00:16:29,011 Yes. But he's out there with my tech. 351 00:16:29,095 --> 00:16:31,261 You need him knocked out of the game... 352 00:16:31,345 --> 00:16:33,637 Excuse me. 353 00:16:40,303 --> 00:16:41,595 - You next? - I am. 354 00:16:41,679 --> 00:16:43,553 - Still prize efficiency? - You know I do. 355 00:16:43,637 --> 00:16:46,470 Then come with me. 356 00:16:50,679 --> 00:16:52,053 No reason not to do a head-to-head. 357 00:16:52,136 --> 00:16:54,470 Old friends here. We might as well pitch together. 358 00:16:54,553 --> 00:16:58,220 In fact, I can even do Oscar's pitch for him... 359 00:16:58,303 --> 00:17:01,720 I'm not saying the world's divided into makers and takers. 360 00:17:01,804 --> 00:17:04,595 I'm just saying: I'm a maker. 361 00:17:04,679 --> 00:17:06,136 A product guy. 362 00:17:06,220 --> 00:17:07,804 I've been in your shoes. 363 00:17:07,887 --> 00:17:09,136 It can be scary. 364 00:17:09,220 --> 00:17:11,428 And you're right to be scared. 365 00:17:11,512 --> 00:17:15,637 There are bad people, like Bobby Axelrod, out there. 366 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:17,929 And he corrupts everything he touches. 367 00:17:18,011 --> 00:17:20,470 Including Taylor Mason. 368 00:17:20,553 --> 00:17:21,637 Did I miss anything? 369 00:17:22,536 --> 00:17:23,679 My charm? 370 00:17:23,762 --> 00:17:25,303 I have missed that. 371 00:17:25,387 --> 00:17:28,220 But no one spends more money on green tech than big energy. 372 00:17:28,303 --> 00:17:30,136 They have the resources, the market is compelling them 373 00:17:30,220 --> 00:17:31,637 to evolve, and yeah... 374 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,887 in many cases they've broken the window needs fixing. 375 00:17:33,970 --> 00:17:37,011 But Axe Cap has deep investments and influence with them. 376 00:17:37,095 --> 00:17:39,261 So what Oscar would call corrupting influence, 377 00:17:39,345 --> 00:17:40,762 I call the strategic partnerships 378 00:17:40,845 --> 00:17:42,720 that will take you to tomorrow. 379 00:17:42,804 --> 00:17:45,637 Well, um, that was compelling. 380 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,136 I apologize. I didn't come prepared for this. 381 00:17:48,220 --> 00:17:50,929 But I will be prepared going forward. 382 00:17:51,011 --> 00:17:53,345 Not really what they want to hear from their VC, is it? 383 00:18:00,220 --> 00:18:02,512 You know, I don't mind the pinch, but I don't like looking. 384 00:18:02,595 --> 00:18:04,345 Why is that? 385 00:18:04,428 --> 00:18:07,512 It represents your life force flowing out. 386 00:18:15,220 --> 00:18:16,804 Thank you. 387 00:18:16,887 --> 00:18:18,387 Taking it to the lab now. 388 00:18:18,470 --> 00:18:20,470 We should have results for you by end of day. 389 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:28,345 I don't want to do this. 390 00:18:28,428 --> 00:18:30,762 You do. You're honored. 391 00:18:34,303 --> 00:18:36,053 Replace the blanks in this sentence 392 00:18:36,136 --> 00:18:38,679 with two three-letter words made from the same letters: 393 00:18:38,762 --> 00:18:42,053 "The woman decided to blank the beast where he lay 394 00:18:42,136 --> 00:18:44,512 rather than blank him home." 395 00:18:45,479 --> 00:18:48,512 She decided to blank... 396 00:18:48,595 --> 00:18:49,970 it's a three-letter word? 397 00:18:50,053 --> 00:18:51,595 Yeah, like this one: 398 00:18:51,679 --> 00:18:54,637 F-U-K off so we can all get back to work. 399 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,553 The words are gut and tug. 400 00:18:57,637 --> 00:19:00,387 The questions are biased. 401 00:19:00,470 --> 00:19:01,887 How are they biased? 402 00:19:01,970 --> 00:19:04,053 You're asking them in a biased way. 403 00:19:04,136 --> 00:19:06,303 You know the answer... or you don't. 404 00:19:06,387 --> 00:19:07,804 I know the answers to questions 405 00:19:07,887 --> 00:19:09,512 that you haven't even thought of yet. 406 00:19:10,954 --> 00:19:12,095 - Okay. - Just hit me 407 00:19:12,130 --> 00:19:14,345 with another Mensa-type-mindbender. 408 00:19:17,387 --> 00:19:22,387 If FL=6 and HX=15, what does ES equal? 409 00:19:22,470 --> 00:19:25,595 Fourteen. 410 00:19:25,679 --> 00:19:27,970 - That's right. - It's a conspiracy. 411 00:19:28,053 --> 00:19:29,929 Actually it's just the numbers of places 412 00:19:30,011 --> 00:19:31,345 between the letters in the alphabet. 413 00:19:31,428 --> 00:19:34,679 I cannot achieve genius surrounded by jealousy. 414 00:19:38,345 --> 00:19:40,095 You know we have a problem. 415 00:19:40,178 --> 00:19:41,804 He failed the SEC meeting. 416 00:19:41,887 --> 00:19:43,679 He's doomed to fail the Mensa exam. 417 00:19:43,762 --> 00:19:45,470 In another man, this double ego bruise 418 00:19:45,553 --> 00:19:48,136 might induce self-examination or humility, but... 419 00:19:48,220 --> 00:19:49,679 He's gonna lash out! 420 00:19:49,762 --> 00:19:51,011 He'll red-flag all our trades 421 00:19:51,095 --> 00:19:53,804 like the insecure, vindictive douche he is. 422 00:19:53,887 --> 00:19:55,178 Maybe he'll pass. 423 00:19:55,261 --> 00:19:57,178 Maybe we're all just underestimating him. 424 00:19:57,261 --> 00:19:59,387 No, I've been quizzing him all day. 425 00:19:59,470 --> 00:20:02,220 We're properly estimating him. 426 00:20:06,387 --> 00:20:09,011 Thought you should know, your ex is using your kids 427 00:20:09,095 --> 00:20:10,595 as pretext to tear apart my property 428 00:20:10,679 --> 00:20:13,095 like Keith Moon at a Holiday Inn. 429 00:20:13,178 --> 00:20:14,929 The thing about him being my ex? 430 00:20:15,011 --> 00:20:17,220 I don't need to apologize for him anymore. 431 00:20:17,303 --> 00:20:20,595 Someone else's past is a thorn in our side right now. 432 00:20:20,679 --> 00:20:22,929 - Oscar Langstraat. - Hmm. 433 00:20:23,011 --> 00:20:25,887 He's getting in the way of Mase Carbon's latest play. 434 00:20:30,095 --> 00:20:32,011 How's Taylor responding? 435 00:20:32,095 --> 00:20:34,428 They seem ready to stomp him like Big John Studd. 436 00:20:36,929 --> 00:20:39,470 This happen to be a Nico Tanner original? 437 00:20:39,553 --> 00:20:42,178 Signed, no less. 438 00:20:42,261 --> 00:20:43,720 You pose for this, or was it from memory? 439 00:20:43,804 --> 00:20:45,178 Why don't you call him and ask? 440 00:20:45,261 --> 00:20:47,095 No, it's just it's the first work I've seen of his 441 00:20:47,178 --> 00:20:49,011 since I helped set up his whole new life. 442 00:20:49,095 --> 00:20:50,553 Now I know why he's been so distracted... 443 00:20:50,637 --> 00:20:51,804 You're about to get bounced out of here. 444 00:20:51,887 --> 00:20:53,428 Well, since you're in there, 445 00:20:53,512 --> 00:20:56,053 maybe you can see when I can expect some art out of him. 446 00:20:56,136 --> 00:20:58,804 Something that looks a little bit more like Implosion. 447 00:21:23,970 --> 00:21:26,387 You aware of Wendy and the artist? 448 00:21:27,402 --> 00:21:28,637 As of now. 449 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,345 Let me worry about all things painted. 450 00:21:30,428 --> 00:21:32,762 While you focus on getting that bank charter. 451 00:21:32,845 --> 00:21:36,220 Mm. Good idea. With one small adjustment. 452 00:21:36,303 --> 00:21:38,136 I'll focus on the art and the charter. 453 00:21:38,220 --> 00:21:40,095 The freeport is the fucking bank. 454 00:21:40,178 --> 00:21:41,637 It's Chuck's way of blocking it. 455 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,053 If I'm hit with tax charges, 456 00:21:43,136 --> 00:21:44,428 you think the SEC will ever come around? 457 00:21:44,512 --> 00:21:45,929 They're not coming around now. 458 00:21:46,011 --> 00:21:48,095 Unless someone forces them to. 459 00:21:48,178 --> 00:21:50,178 Krakow already shook us off. 460 00:21:50,261 --> 00:21:52,762 Well this time we're tightening the rope 461 00:21:52,845 --> 00:21:54,679 and digging in the spurs. 462 00:22:00,970 --> 00:22:03,178 Anyone could have designed that toy. 463 00:22:03,261 --> 00:22:05,970 But anyone didn't. You didn't. 464 00:22:06,053 --> 00:22:08,679 Too simplistic. 465 00:22:08,762 --> 00:22:12,011 Microchip was simple; pasteurization too. 466 00:22:12,095 --> 00:22:13,970 Both changed the world. 467 00:22:14,053 --> 00:22:16,387 Not always about the degree of technical difficulty, 468 00:22:16,470 --> 00:22:19,261 sometimes it's about insight and initiative. 469 00:22:19,345 --> 00:22:20,595 No to the duh. 470 00:22:20,679 --> 00:22:22,261 I showed that shit when I figured out 471 00:22:22,345 --> 00:22:24,220 how to dump Mase Cap out of non-green investments. 472 00:22:24,303 --> 00:22:26,345 Oh, so this is a workplace 473 00:22:26,428 --> 00:22:28,929 where it's cool if you just bring it once? 474 00:22:29,011 --> 00:22:31,553 I thought the idea was to bring it every day. 475 00:22:34,845 --> 00:22:36,178 Uh huh. 476 00:22:36,261 --> 00:22:39,720 Yeah. So there's no chance that I'm a... 477 00:22:40,845 --> 00:22:42,303 Okay. 478 00:22:42,387 --> 00:22:44,178 Thank you for letting me know. 479 00:22:48,303 --> 00:22:49,804 I'm not a match. 480 00:22:49,887 --> 00:22:51,929 For Senior. 481 00:22:52,011 --> 00:22:53,387 Damnit. 482 00:22:55,553 --> 00:22:57,679 And why the hell aren't you outside Axe's? 483 00:22:57,762 --> 00:22:59,512 I got the McCluskey visit. 484 00:22:59,595 --> 00:23:01,762 Pulled me from sitting on the Don at the hospital. 485 00:23:01,845 --> 00:23:03,679 Did everything short of busting my jaw. 486 00:23:03,762 --> 00:23:05,387 - Who pulled you? - New York's finest. 487 00:23:05,470 --> 00:23:07,136 Showed me paper and everything. 488 00:23:07,220 --> 00:23:08,345 Crap. 489 00:23:08,428 --> 00:23:10,136 Yeah. 490 00:23:10,220 --> 00:23:11,762 Sorry about your blood. 491 00:23:11,845 --> 00:23:14,220 Uh... 492 00:23:15,595 --> 00:23:16,929 You heard? 493 00:23:17,011 --> 00:23:18,804 That you inserted yourself into my fucking case? 494 00:23:18,887 --> 00:23:21,762 Wanted you to get the particulars straight from me. 495 00:23:21,845 --> 00:23:23,845 The Axelrod tax fraud case is mine. 496 00:23:23,929 --> 00:23:25,845 That's criminal behavior in Manhattan. 497 00:23:25,929 --> 00:23:27,553 Literally my dominion. 498 00:23:27,637 --> 00:23:29,178 The case straddles the line. 499 00:23:29,261 --> 00:23:30,845 So you applied for a subpoena... 500 00:23:30,929 --> 00:23:32,095 Mm-hmm. Before you did. 501 00:23:32,178 --> 00:23:33,887 And I got it. What does that tell you? 502 00:23:33,970 --> 00:23:36,345 You are well-connected at the courthouse. 503 00:23:36,428 --> 00:23:38,595 And backed by the governor. 504 00:23:42,595 --> 00:23:46,095 Maybe this is the rare case we could collaborate on? 505 00:23:46,178 --> 00:23:49,887 I don't need your Axelrod hard-on accidentally poking me. 506 00:23:50,011 --> 00:23:51,220 I don't need you at all. 507 00:23:51,303 --> 00:23:53,970 The apartment is now secured by NYPD. 508 00:23:54,053 --> 00:23:57,345 The art authenticator's coming in from Boston tomorrow. 509 00:23:57,428 --> 00:24:00,053 But, hey, I'm just handling the criminal case. 510 00:24:00,136 --> 00:24:04,720 As always, Chuck, you are free to follow up on any civil angle. 511 00:24:09,845 --> 00:24:11,762 That looks like a woman who just took from us. 512 00:24:11,845 --> 00:24:14,845 Ah. You look like a woman who's gonna help me take back. 513 00:24:14,929 --> 00:24:17,178 We need to find a way to leverage Gramm. 514 00:24:17,261 --> 00:24:18,720 Get her to leave Axe to me. 515 00:24:18,804 --> 00:24:20,220 Looking for something professional? 516 00:24:20,303 --> 00:24:21,970 Yeah. Let's start there. 517 00:24:22,053 --> 00:24:23,762 I'm off to see Charles Senior. 518 00:24:23,845 --> 00:24:25,053 My best to the old man. 519 00:24:25,136 --> 00:24:27,470 That is what he demands. 520 00:24:52,679 --> 00:24:55,261 I'm happy to keep you company. But shouldn't your wife... 521 00:24:55,345 --> 00:24:57,762 There are no women in the house. 522 00:24:57,845 --> 00:25:00,845 I sent Roxanne to her people until I get my strength back. 523 00:25:01,507 --> 00:25:04,512 She married a virile bull, not an invalid. 524 00:25:04,595 --> 00:25:06,387 She loves you. 525 00:25:06,470 --> 00:25:09,303 She can look at you and see you. 526 00:25:09,387 --> 00:25:12,345 Love only makes the weak blind. 527 00:25:12,428 --> 00:25:15,095 The staunch see with striking clarity. 528 00:25:15,178 --> 00:25:16,804 Oh. 529 00:25:16,887 --> 00:25:21,011 That must be why Sonny Crockett always wore those shades, huh? 530 00:25:24,428 --> 00:25:26,970 Listen, Dad, uh, 531 00:25:27,053 --> 00:25:31,261 since the family has been more inclusive of late, 532 00:25:33,270 --> 00:25:34,804 now might be a good time to reach out 533 00:25:34,887 --> 00:25:37,804 to any previously unreported bastards. 534 00:25:39,215 --> 00:25:42,470 Just welcome them into the ever-growing fold. 535 00:25:42,553 --> 00:25:44,261 What bastards? 536 00:25:44,345 --> 00:25:46,178 There are no such issue. 537 00:25:46,261 --> 00:25:50,053 Comments like that are how rumors get started. 538 00:25:50,136 --> 00:25:52,512 And inheritances get diluted. 539 00:25:55,261 --> 00:25:58,845 Ah, shit. 540 00:26:00,345 --> 00:26:03,011 You're not a match, are you? 541 00:26:07,095 --> 00:26:09,887 I'm not. No. 542 00:26:09,970 --> 00:26:12,095 Yeah. Of course you don't have my blood flowing in your veins. 543 00:26:12,178 --> 00:26:14,178 If you did, you'd be goddamned President by now. 544 00:26:14,261 --> 00:26:16,136 Or the fucking Pope. 545 00:26:16,220 --> 00:26:18,387 No, your arteries must be filled with the same 546 00:26:18,470 --> 00:26:21,428 watery gruel as your mother's pinhead brother. 547 00:26:21,512 --> 00:26:25,345 That's not okay to say about somebody with microcephaly. 548 00:26:25,428 --> 00:26:29,220 Or maybe anybody ever. 549 00:26:29,303 --> 00:26:31,053 Do you know they... they used to have a rating system 550 00:26:31,136 --> 00:26:32,762 for mental infirmity? 551 00:26:32,845 --> 00:26:34,679 We're all too polite for it now. 552 00:26:34,762 --> 00:26:37,053 But that list told it like it goddamned was. 553 00:26:37,136 --> 00:26:40,220 A cretin was without a thought in their head. 554 00:26:40,303 --> 00:26:43,387 An idiot had the intellect of a two-year-old child. 555 00:26:43,470 --> 00:26:45,095 An average imbecile got up to seven. 556 00:26:45,178 --> 00:26:47,512 And a moron could be as clever 557 00:26:47,595 --> 00:26:49,220 as a feeble-minded twelve-year-old. 558 00:26:49,303 --> 00:26:51,387 You pick your fucking title. 559 00:26:53,887 --> 00:26:55,595 Good talk, Dad. 560 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,929 I'm sorry you're scared. 561 00:27:08,011 --> 00:27:10,887 I'm sorry I didn't match. 562 00:27:11,564 --> 00:27:13,845 And, uh, 563 00:27:13,929 --> 00:27:16,929 I'm sorry for insinuating there are bastards. 564 00:27:24,178 --> 00:27:26,053 They didn't match either. 565 00:27:36,804 --> 00:27:38,762 The D.A.'s subpoena establishes 566 00:27:38,845 --> 00:27:41,595 that none of the art can be moved until it's tested. 567 00:27:41,679 --> 00:27:43,512 Can we move the prosecutor? 568 00:27:43,595 --> 00:27:45,136 Nah. Gramm's immovable. 569 00:27:45,220 --> 00:27:47,595 She made that clear over our first plate of plantains. 570 00:27:47,679 --> 00:27:49,387 Who will she use to authenticate? 571 00:27:49,470 --> 00:27:52,428 The NYPD prefer a fellow named Hemlock. 572 00:27:52,512 --> 00:27:55,095 They say the man can smell pigments. 573 00:27:55,178 --> 00:27:56,929 They retained him on this case. 574 00:27:57,011 --> 00:27:59,387 The aesthete will be here tomorrow. 575 00:27:59,470 --> 00:28:00,720 At which point he'll authenticate 576 00:28:00,804 --> 00:28:02,387 the canvases in your apartment. 577 00:28:02,470 --> 00:28:04,553 At which point I'll be fucked. 578 00:28:04,637 --> 00:28:06,512 Is it too late to pay the taxes? 579 00:28:06,595 --> 00:28:07,804 Oh, come on... 580 00:28:07,887 --> 00:28:09,804 - I'm just... - Goodness, what a question... 581 00:28:09,887 --> 00:28:12,553 Yes. Even if I were willing. Which I'm not. 582 00:28:15,387 --> 00:28:16,887 I've got an idea. 583 00:28:18,887 --> 00:28:22,804 Orrin, that's your cue to get the fuck out of here. 584 00:28:22,887 --> 00:28:27,136 My wife, my third house, and my law license thank you. 585 00:28:27,220 --> 00:28:30,011 If only Bruce Cutler had a friend like Bobby Axelrod. 586 00:28:38,887 --> 00:28:40,970 What if we get Biblical. 587 00:28:41,053 --> 00:28:43,136 That Old Testament, Hebrew lightning. 588 00:28:44,007 --> 00:28:45,220 Hmm. 589 00:28:45,303 --> 00:28:48,970 To smoke 18 canvases across six thousand square feet, 590 00:28:49,053 --> 00:28:52,512 even if I can hide the origin, make it look electrical... 591 00:28:52,595 --> 00:28:54,345 we'd be taking out the whole unit, 592 00:28:54,428 --> 00:28:55,679 maybe half the building. 593 00:28:55,762 --> 00:28:57,804 Well. That's a wide fucking range. 594 00:28:57,887 --> 00:28:59,679 I can't make the fire big enough to do the job 595 00:28:59,762 --> 00:29:02,512 and small enough to be easily contained. 596 00:29:02,595 --> 00:29:05,637 Then there's the variable of the firefighters. 597 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,679 Will they get hurt? Will others? 598 00:29:07,762 --> 00:29:09,512 Not hurting any firefighters. 599 00:29:09,595 --> 00:29:12,512 Or destroying all that beauty. 600 00:29:12,595 --> 00:29:15,178 Oh. That, too. 601 00:29:19,428 --> 00:29:21,011 Houdini's Water Torture. 602 00:29:21,095 --> 00:29:23,970 He was chained up in a locked box filled with water. 603 00:29:24,053 --> 00:29:26,387 We use the same move on the paintings 604 00:29:26,470 --> 00:29:28,553 that he used to escape? 605 00:29:29,501 --> 00:29:31,512 Wait, uh, didn't he die in that box? 606 00:29:31,595 --> 00:29:33,845 Yes, which is where you're going 607 00:29:33,929 --> 00:29:36,220 unless you figure out a way to fix this. 608 00:29:40,428 --> 00:29:42,679 Margolis, 609 00:29:42,762 --> 00:29:44,345 who else did you pitch the freeport to? 610 00:29:44,428 --> 00:29:46,387 Uh... 611 00:29:47,117 --> 00:29:50,053 Axe, if it were up to me, you'd have ATMs in every ass crack. 612 00:29:50,136 --> 00:29:52,470 But the SEC is an independent agency. 613 00:29:52,553 --> 00:29:55,053 One that hates meddling, loves leaking to the press. 614 00:29:55,136 --> 00:29:56,720 Précisément. 615 00:29:56,804 --> 00:29:58,345 This is the kind of thing that leads to hearings, 616 00:29:58,428 --> 00:30:00,595 investigations, public thrashing, 617 00:30:00,679 --> 00:30:02,178 I need to be careful. 618 00:30:02,261 --> 00:30:04,553 As careful as you've been storing your Frank Stellas? 619 00:30:05,877 --> 00:30:08,720 Where is all your art, by the way? I don't see much of it here... 620 00:30:08,804 --> 00:30:10,720 Margolis gave me a tip about your freeport. 621 00:30:10,804 --> 00:30:12,595 I assumed he gave you a taste... 622 00:30:12,679 --> 00:30:14,970 Yeah. I don't care about any of that. Not today. 623 00:30:15,053 --> 00:30:16,595 But I should tell you, 624 00:30:16,679 --> 00:30:18,428 there is gonna be a freeport crackdown... 625 00:30:18,512 --> 00:30:20,095 widespread. 626 00:30:20,178 --> 00:30:21,387 Shit. 627 00:30:21,470 --> 00:30:23,720 That's gonna cost me stacks. 628 00:30:23,804 --> 00:30:24,929 Fucking IRS. 629 00:30:25,011 --> 00:30:27,595 They have no respect for authority. 630 00:30:28,512 --> 00:30:30,261 You got a workaround? 631 00:30:30,345 --> 00:30:31,553 Not at the moment. 632 00:30:31,637 --> 00:30:34,387 But I can help you offset your loss 633 00:30:34,470 --> 00:30:36,261 by augmenting your collection. 634 00:30:37,189 --> 00:30:39,428 You willing to part with something from your own? 635 00:30:39,512 --> 00:30:41,095 I can do you one better. 636 00:30:41,178 --> 00:30:44,512 Get you a one-off, a singular commission 637 00:30:44,595 --> 00:30:46,095 that's worthy of your greatness. 638 00:30:47,311 --> 00:30:48,313 A portrait? 639 00:30:48,387 --> 00:30:50,512 Nico Tanner, first and only. 640 00:30:50,595 --> 00:30:53,387 Mm. He's gotten hot thanks to you and Mike Prince. 641 00:30:53,470 --> 00:30:55,470 Didn't know Tanner did representational work. 642 00:30:55,553 --> 00:30:56,762 Ah. Few have seen it. 643 00:30:56,845 --> 00:30:59,136 But I happen to know it's good. 644 00:30:59,220 --> 00:31:02,303 - Fucking great, actually. - Hmm. 645 00:31:02,387 --> 00:31:05,470 But I need you to rip a letter on my behalf out of the SEC 646 00:31:05,553 --> 00:31:07,637 and grease the skids to a charter. 647 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,929 For the original glamor shot? Sure. 648 00:31:11,114 --> 00:31:12,303 But none of that Cubist bullshit. 649 00:31:12,387 --> 00:31:15,345 I don't want my left eyeball next to my nutsack. 650 00:31:23,053 --> 00:31:24,637 How am I back here again? 651 00:31:26,046 --> 00:31:28,470 My guess... you need something again. 652 00:31:28,553 --> 00:31:32,178 Yes, for my father. 653 00:31:32,261 --> 00:31:35,845 For you to take a blood test. 654 00:31:35,929 --> 00:31:38,595 To see if you're a match. 655 00:31:39,926 --> 00:31:41,220 What's the point, Chuck? 656 00:31:41,303 --> 00:31:44,428 Oh, none really, just saving a man's life. 657 00:31:44,512 --> 00:31:46,303 What could be more pointless than that? 658 00:31:49,178 --> 00:31:51,136 Even if I am the right blood type, 659 00:31:51,220 --> 00:31:53,845 and then the right tissue type, and then I cross-match, 660 00:31:53,929 --> 00:31:57,053 and then a team of nephrologists green-flags me onto the track, 661 00:31:57,136 --> 00:31:59,387 your father's not getting my kidney. 662 00:31:59,470 --> 00:32:03,637 I'm hanging onto them in case our kids or my family need one. 663 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:04,762 Do you know our kids' blood types? 664 00:32:04,845 --> 00:32:07,303 Don't even fucking think about it. 665 00:32:10,178 --> 00:32:11,345 You see that? 666 00:32:11,428 --> 00:32:13,220 You are still the only one 667 00:32:13,303 --> 00:32:16,553 that actively stops me from turning into him. 668 00:32:18,553 --> 00:32:20,512 You'll never be him. 669 00:32:20,595 --> 00:32:23,387 Yeah. I used to be sure that was a good thing. 670 00:32:24,693 --> 00:32:26,428 The reason I didn't measure up to my father 671 00:32:26,512 --> 00:32:28,053 was 'cause I didn't want to. 672 00:32:28,136 --> 00:32:29,261 Good. He's warped. 673 00:32:29,345 --> 00:32:31,053 Yeah? Is he? 674 00:32:31,136 --> 00:32:33,887 I look around now and he's the one who's happy. 675 00:32:33,970 --> 00:32:36,804 He's the one surrounded by loving family. 676 00:32:39,023 --> 00:32:40,553 Maybe the reason I didn't measure up... 677 00:32:40,637 --> 00:32:43,553 is because I couldn't. 678 00:32:45,098 --> 00:32:46,845 I was too different. 679 00:32:46,929 --> 00:32:50,720 On a cellular level, I was a different and lesser man. 680 00:32:54,512 --> 00:32:56,387 I'll hand it to him. 681 00:32:56,470 --> 00:32:59,512 He wired you in a way 682 00:32:59,595 --> 00:33:02,136 even I could never quite untangle. 683 00:33:02,220 --> 00:33:03,762 You're racked with guilt. 684 00:33:05,134 --> 00:33:06,261 Because I can't help him. 685 00:33:06,345 --> 00:33:08,136 Or because you don't want to. 686 00:33:10,845 --> 00:33:12,929 Wait. You think that I want him to die? 687 00:33:13,011 --> 00:33:15,136 I think, maybe, you need him to. 688 00:33:15,220 --> 00:33:16,804 Where should we begin? 689 00:33:16,887 --> 00:33:19,637 From the way he let your uncle 'make a man of you, ' 690 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,178 to the way he let you know he'd tried her too. 691 00:33:22,261 --> 00:33:23,270 Yeah. The hooker? 692 00:33:23,303 --> 00:33:24,762 The sex worker. Yes. 693 00:33:25,702 --> 00:33:27,178 That's what we must call them now? 694 00:33:27,261 --> 00:33:29,595 I'm not gonna get into the semantics of this with you right now. 695 00:33:29,691 --> 00:33:31,970 Ask your colleagues who are trying to make that fact law. 696 00:33:32,053 --> 00:33:33,637 Or your girlfriend. 697 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:34,804 She's a renowned expert. 698 00:33:39,887 --> 00:33:42,136 I need your library. 699 00:33:43,595 --> 00:33:45,720 Thank you. 700 00:33:48,553 --> 00:33:49,970 Is this for your class? 701 00:33:50,053 --> 00:33:52,804 Uh, no. It's for yours. 702 00:33:52,887 --> 00:33:54,804 The one you're about to teach me. 703 00:33:54,887 --> 00:33:56,470 On prostitution. 704 00:33:56,553 --> 00:33:58,136 Sex work. 705 00:33:58,220 --> 00:34:00,095 Call it sex work, because that's what it is, work. 706 00:34:00,178 --> 00:34:01,553 Uh-huh. 707 00:34:01,637 --> 00:34:04,261 Prostitution suggests something criminal, 708 00:34:04,345 --> 00:34:06,220 immoral... deviant. 709 00:34:06,303 --> 00:34:07,804 Why the hell isn't it deviant? 710 00:34:08,694 --> 00:34:09,887 Come at me. 711 00:34:09,970 --> 00:34:11,136 Why? 712 00:34:11,220 --> 00:34:12,762 Are you bringing a case on this? 713 00:34:12,845 --> 00:34:16,053 No. It's more that the, uh, D.A. isn't. 714 00:34:16,136 --> 00:34:18,679 She's quietly pushing decriminalization. 715 00:34:18,762 --> 00:34:20,345 Good for her. 716 00:34:20,428 --> 00:34:23,845 The Nordic Model is doing great things to decrease stigma, 717 00:34:23,929 --> 00:34:25,720 redistribute responsibility. 718 00:34:25,804 --> 00:34:27,845 Why should the workers be punished and not the patrons? 719 00:34:27,929 --> 00:34:29,970 Yes, that's the stuff. 720 00:34:30,053 --> 00:34:34,178 Make your best argument... and then help me shred it. 721 00:34:35,845 --> 00:34:37,261 I don't like this game. 722 00:34:37,345 --> 00:34:39,387 This is my life's work. 723 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,011 I'm... I'm well aware it's not a game. 724 00:34:43,095 --> 00:34:45,345 I need the D.A. off my turf. 725 00:34:45,428 --> 00:34:48,804 That may require trampling on hers. 726 00:34:48,887 --> 00:34:50,720 Have you ever even met a sex worker? 727 00:34:50,804 --> 00:34:52,679 A long time ago, my father... 728 00:34:53,461 --> 00:34:54,804 I don't want to get into it. 729 00:34:54,887 --> 00:34:59,178 Just, please, help me argue that the D.A. is hurting women. 730 00:34:59,261 --> 00:35:00,887 When she's not? 731 00:35:00,970 --> 00:35:02,595 You get to shift the Overton Window, 732 00:35:02,679 --> 00:35:05,136 and sex workers can just fall off the fucking ledge? 733 00:35:05,220 --> 00:35:09,220 Cat, I could have come here and lied about my motives... 734 00:35:09,303 --> 00:35:11,679 but I didn't. I was honest. 735 00:35:11,762 --> 00:35:13,220 That's new for me. 736 00:35:13,303 --> 00:35:15,428 Well, then be honest about this... 737 00:35:15,512 --> 00:35:18,053 Are you going to crack down, or is this really just a threat? 738 00:35:18,136 --> 00:35:20,220 Yes. Of course it's just a threat... 739 00:35:21,533 --> 00:35:23,220 which I have to mean. 740 00:35:23,303 --> 00:35:25,720 Otherwise it's not a very good threat. 741 00:35:29,095 --> 00:35:32,053 Then I have to mean this one, too... 742 00:35:32,136 --> 00:35:33,845 You can threaten the D.A., 743 00:35:33,929 --> 00:35:35,053 but if you make good on that threat, 744 00:35:35,136 --> 00:35:38,053 your library privileges will be revoked. 745 00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:41,053 Along with all the other privileges. 746 00:35:41,136 --> 00:35:42,762 Capisce? 747 00:35:44,637 --> 00:35:46,136 Good. 748 00:35:46,967 --> 00:35:48,762 Read my book. 749 00:35:51,929 --> 00:35:54,261 I blew your number out of the water on Marithane. 750 00:35:54,345 --> 00:35:55,428 2x'd you. 751 00:35:55,512 --> 00:35:56,762 That's an overpay. 752 00:35:56,845 --> 00:35:59,387 A substantial overpay. 753 00:35:59,470 --> 00:36:02,929 In part to help cover the costs of their patent issue... 754 00:36:03,011 --> 00:36:04,762 but mainly to make a fucking point. 755 00:36:04,845 --> 00:36:06,178 To you... 756 00:36:06,261 --> 00:36:08,387 You'll do this every time we go head-to-head. 757 00:36:08,470 --> 00:36:09,720 It's my new mission. 758 00:36:09,804 --> 00:36:11,136 This isn't how you normally do business. 759 00:36:11,220 --> 00:36:12,387 Or speak. 760 00:36:12,470 --> 00:36:13,762 You're exceptional. 761 00:36:13,845 --> 00:36:16,011 You merited an exception. 762 00:36:16,095 --> 00:36:20,387 I have learned, in dealing with people, to be disarming. 763 00:36:20,470 --> 00:36:23,845 I smile, I'm polite, because I was loved as a child 764 00:36:23,929 --> 00:36:27,136 and am genuinely a decent human being. 765 00:36:27,220 --> 00:36:30,178 But somewhere during my early Oakland days, 766 00:36:30,261 --> 00:36:33,345 I built an affinity for the silver and black. 767 00:36:33,428 --> 00:36:34,970 The Raiders. 768 00:36:35,053 --> 00:36:37,804 So when I'm in... it's win, baby, win... 769 00:36:37,887 --> 00:36:39,428 and when we don't, 770 00:36:39,512 --> 00:36:41,970 we beat the shit out of the opposing fans. 771 00:36:43,180 --> 00:36:45,011 Don't make me do that to you. 772 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:09,086 _ 773 00:37:44,428 --> 00:37:48,553 Liquid courage, don't fail me now. 774 00:37:51,053 --> 00:37:53,053 It's like we're all being tested. 775 00:37:53,136 --> 00:37:55,387 For a horrible disease. 776 00:38:06,220 --> 00:38:08,512 Oscar went over-the-top. I can't outspend him. 777 00:38:08,595 --> 00:38:10,220 He has an open lane to the hoop on Marithane. 778 00:38:10,303 --> 00:38:12,637 Rather he bought himself one. 779 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:14,220 Fuck. 780 00:38:14,303 --> 00:38:16,595 I need your help. 781 00:38:17,259 --> 00:38:19,387 If he overpays his way to victory every time... 782 00:38:19,470 --> 00:38:20,929 which he damn well can afford to... 783 00:38:21,011 --> 00:38:23,261 Then our burgeoning enterprise is finished. 784 00:38:25,011 --> 00:38:26,929 What kind of help are you looking for... 785 00:38:27,011 --> 00:38:28,762 emotional, personal... 786 00:38:28,845 --> 00:38:30,845 The Axe kind. How would you load Axe up 787 00:38:30,929 --> 00:38:32,095 to deal with an existential threat? 788 00:38:32,178 --> 00:38:35,261 I wouldn't need to. He registers all threats as existential. 789 00:38:35,345 --> 00:38:37,220 So I either try to stop him or at least 790 00:38:37,303 --> 00:38:40,136 point him away from civilians. 791 00:38:40,220 --> 00:38:43,303 How can I approach this like Axe without becoming him? 792 00:38:43,387 --> 00:38:46,929 Never known anyone to put on the suit without it changing them. 793 00:38:50,345 --> 00:38:53,303 But if anyone can, I suppose it's you... 794 00:38:54,954 --> 00:38:57,553 Model the will, the aggression... 795 00:38:57,637 --> 00:38:59,762 but temper it with your own fundamental advantage. 796 00:38:59,845 --> 00:39:01,070 A moral compass? 797 00:39:01,107 --> 00:39:04,220 The ability to accurately weigh reward vs. jail time. 798 00:39:09,220 --> 00:39:11,178 You know what you need now? 799 00:39:11,261 --> 00:39:13,387 I need Hard Bob. 800 00:39:15,220 --> 00:39:17,178 That's a tight flight time. 801 00:39:17,261 --> 00:39:18,887 He's a tight flyer. 802 00:39:18,970 --> 00:39:21,303 But the imprecision of the shift change... 803 00:39:21,387 --> 00:39:22,845 Maybe that's where our boys come in. 804 00:39:22,929 --> 00:39:25,428 I have not felt this excited to be part of something 805 00:39:25,512 --> 00:39:28,178 since I donned a girdle for the 124th Edition 806 00:39:28,261 --> 00:39:30,011 of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. 807 00:39:30,095 --> 00:39:31,970 I've seen the pictures. 808 00:39:34,345 --> 00:39:36,720 The paperwork's ready to be filed, yes? 809 00:39:40,970 --> 00:39:42,220 It's great fucking pie. 810 00:39:42,303 --> 00:39:44,303 But I know you just didn't want company. 811 00:39:44,387 --> 00:39:47,929 True dat, double true, as the wise men once said. 812 00:39:48,011 --> 00:39:49,303 I need you to paint something for me. 813 00:39:50,157 --> 00:39:51,387 I thought that's what I was doing. 814 00:39:51,470 --> 00:39:54,220 Yeah. A little fucking slowly, by the way. 815 00:39:54,303 --> 00:39:55,720 But this is different. 816 00:39:55,804 --> 00:39:58,512 A portrait of the sitting Treasury Secretary. 817 00:39:58,595 --> 00:40:00,929 Come on, man. I-I don't... I don't do portraits. 818 00:40:01,011 --> 00:40:03,345 Well, I think we both know otherwise. 819 00:40:03,428 --> 00:40:05,011 I've seen otherwise. 820 00:40:05,095 --> 00:40:06,804 ♪ You're so nice ♪ 821 00:40:06,887 --> 00:40:09,178 Right. Yeah. Well, that was nothing. 822 00:40:09,261 --> 00:40:10,970 And it's none of your business. 823 00:40:11,053 --> 00:40:12,929 Eh, well, your 'nothing' is world-class, 824 00:40:13,011 --> 00:40:14,887 and it's more than good enough for Todd Krakow. 825 00:40:14,970 --> 00:40:16,178 Who's that? 826 00:40:16,261 --> 00:40:18,637 He signs your money, now you get to sign him. 827 00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:21,011 Which'll get you even more copies of his signature. 828 00:40:24,762 --> 00:40:27,178 Thanks. 829 00:40:33,095 --> 00:40:34,470 Hey, Anthony. 830 00:40:34,553 --> 00:40:36,887 So, I'm sitting over there, eating with one artist, 831 00:40:36,970 --> 00:40:38,679 and I'm thinking to myself, 832 00:40:38,762 --> 00:40:42,053 "My favorite artist isn't getting paid enough." 833 00:40:42,136 --> 00:40:44,178 - I'm talking about you. - No. I'm fine. 834 00:40:44,261 --> 00:40:46,345 No. Your pizza, Anthony, 835 00:40:46,428 --> 00:40:48,553 is way too good for only the hundred or so people 836 00:40:48,637 --> 00:40:50,553 who are lucky enough to get in here every night. 837 00:40:50,637 --> 00:40:52,136 And what about the people who can't? 838 00:40:52,220 --> 00:40:54,136 What about the ones who can't get into New York? 839 00:40:54,220 --> 00:40:56,679 Shouldn't they have some of this, too? 840 00:40:56,762 --> 00:40:57,845 I agree. 841 00:40:57,929 --> 00:40:59,095 Who are you? 842 00:40:59,178 --> 00:41:00,845 Call me Manz. I'm Anthony's cousin. 843 00:41:00,929 --> 00:41:02,553 Business manager. 844 00:41:02,637 --> 00:41:04,303 What do you got in mind? 845 00:41:04,387 --> 00:41:07,136 The freezer section. We start there. 846 00:41:07,220 --> 00:41:09,178 Best frozen pie ever. 847 00:41:09,261 --> 00:41:10,720 Then sauce. Gelato. 848 00:41:10,804 --> 00:41:12,512 We roll out the complete line. 849 00:41:12,595 --> 00:41:16,178 The whole Una food experience... but at home. 850 00:41:16,261 --> 00:41:18,011 But if you're his business manager, 851 00:41:18,095 --> 00:41:20,136 why don't you have him going in this already? 852 00:41:20,220 --> 00:41:23,136 'Ey I tried. I got him to open up a second location. 853 00:41:23,220 --> 00:41:25,762 You know just this business or you know business? 854 00:41:25,845 --> 00:41:28,679 Graduated Stern. 4.2 weighted. 855 00:41:30,345 --> 00:41:32,011 What's in it for you? 856 00:41:32,942 --> 00:41:33,970 We partner. 857 00:41:34,053 --> 00:41:35,595 I stake it. 858 00:41:35,679 --> 00:41:38,345 This gets big and we get bought by a major conglomerate. 859 00:41:38,428 --> 00:41:40,261 It'll be what they call a 'liquidity event.' 860 00:41:40,345 --> 00:41:41,929 Because people like your cousin here... 861 00:41:42,011 --> 00:41:43,512 the best in the world at what they do... 862 00:41:43,595 --> 00:41:45,261 deserve to get rich. 863 00:41:45,345 --> 00:41:47,303 And I'm here to make that happen. 864 00:41:48,754 --> 00:41:50,178 I like it. 865 00:41:50,261 --> 00:41:52,512 And I've got some ideas. 866 00:41:53,703 --> 00:41:55,637 - Okay? - Okay. 867 00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:58,011 Okay. We'll be talking. 868 00:41:59,637 --> 00:42:02,053 Happy to be joining the Langstraat family. 869 00:42:02,136 --> 00:42:04,804 There's a hole in the universe where Alderaan used to be. 870 00:42:04,887 --> 00:42:07,929 As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror. 871 00:42:08,011 --> 00:42:10,303 What did you do? 872 00:42:10,387 --> 00:42:12,220 You have your patent back. 873 00:42:12,303 --> 00:42:13,970 And your employee... if you want him. 874 00:42:14,053 --> 00:42:17,220 Which is a gift I am giving you, whether I'm your VC or not. 875 00:42:25,053 --> 00:42:27,011 I'm confident he'll be a good boy now. 876 00:42:28,255 --> 00:42:29,637 Can I help you? 877 00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:31,345 I'm Hard Bob Beaufort, 878 00:42:31,428 --> 00:42:33,804 from the Bureau of Industry and Security. 879 00:42:33,887 --> 00:42:36,387 I understand you're something of a bullshitter. 880 00:42:36,470 --> 00:42:38,845 And I brook no bullshit. 881 00:42:41,387 --> 00:42:44,387 Oscar, I'm sorry. How do you not go with 882 00:42:44,470 --> 00:42:46,220 someone willing to do that for you? 883 00:42:46,303 --> 00:42:49,929 Well, because if they're willing to do that for you today, 884 00:42:50,011 --> 00:42:52,804 they're willing to do it to you later. 885 00:42:52,887 --> 00:42:55,178 But that's not something you can hear from me. 886 00:42:55,261 --> 00:42:56,762 You'll just have to learn that for yourself. 887 00:42:56,845 --> 00:42:58,637 Oscar, Al Davis is dead. 888 00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:00,929 And the Raiders haven't won anything in a decade. 889 00:43:01,011 --> 00:43:04,428 So go back to the bay. And heal, baby, heal. 890 00:43:11,011 --> 00:43:13,011 Madam D.A. Enjoy your dumplings. 891 00:43:13,095 --> 00:43:14,762 Thank you. 892 00:43:20,929 --> 00:43:25,720 Ah, yes, the famed Red Farm Pac-Man dumplings. 893 00:43:25,804 --> 00:43:28,178 Fitting for someone who gobbles up my cases. 894 00:43:28,261 --> 00:43:30,720 Your cases are almost as delicious. 895 00:43:30,804 --> 00:43:32,762 Which is why I want this one back. 896 00:43:33,364 --> 00:43:34,411 No chance. 897 00:43:35,637 --> 00:43:37,929 Let's see if I can shift your thinking. 898 00:43:38,011 --> 00:43:39,553 Hmm? 899 00:43:39,637 --> 00:43:42,887 My number one priority as the State's top law man 900 00:43:42,970 --> 00:43:47,011 is now fighting the scourge of what you like to call sex work... 901 00:43:47,095 --> 00:43:48,470 but which I am going to link, 902 00:43:48,553 --> 00:43:50,970 very publicly, to sex trafficking. 903 00:43:51,053 --> 00:43:53,303 Human bondage. 904 00:43:53,387 --> 00:43:55,637 And I will make it look like I'm stepping up 905 00:43:55,720 --> 00:43:57,136 because you failed to. 906 00:43:57,220 --> 00:43:59,095 Trying to scam the optics. 907 00:43:59,178 --> 00:44:02,136 I don't give a fuck about the people keeping score at home. 908 00:44:02,220 --> 00:44:04,595 But you do care about the women. 909 00:44:04,679 --> 00:44:08,595 I mean, sure, a few men, but mainly women. 910 00:44:09,552 --> 00:44:11,428 And, of course, children. 911 00:44:12,247 --> 00:44:13,595 You care about what happens 912 00:44:13,679 --> 00:44:15,303 when they're placed in the system. 913 00:44:15,387 --> 00:44:17,178 You care about them dealing with the incarceration, 914 00:44:17,261 --> 00:44:19,261 the stigma, 915 00:44:19,345 --> 00:44:21,595 the damage. 916 00:44:21,679 --> 00:44:23,595 'Cause that's what I'm gonna do to 'em... 917 00:44:23,679 --> 00:44:25,679 incarcerate them, stigmatize them 918 00:44:25,762 --> 00:44:28,095 and fucking damage them. 919 00:44:29,557 --> 00:44:31,303 Do you see this urchin? 920 00:44:31,387 --> 00:44:35,095 Her ID says her name is Inge and she's 18. 921 00:44:35,178 --> 00:44:37,178 I promise you, she's far younger than that... 922 00:44:37,261 --> 00:44:39,762 and I have no idea what she calls herself. 923 00:44:39,845 --> 00:44:43,178 I do know that not long after she reached these shores 924 00:44:43,261 --> 00:44:47,220 and this city, she found her way to a massage parlor. 925 00:44:47,303 --> 00:44:49,762 Where she was caught up in a sting, under your watch. 926 00:44:49,845 --> 00:44:52,220 You let her go. And you know what happened? 927 00:44:52,303 --> 00:44:55,679 She flourished. At this very moment, 928 00:44:55,762 --> 00:44:57,804 she's working towards her high school diploma. 929 00:44:57,887 --> 00:45:02,136 What do you think happens to the next Inge... 930 00:45:03,274 --> 00:45:05,011 under my watch? 931 00:45:06,469 --> 00:45:08,804 - I may have misjudged you. - Mm. 932 00:45:08,887 --> 00:45:11,512 Thought you had a limit on how you use your power. 933 00:45:11,595 --> 00:45:14,345 No. When it comes to the particular agenda I am pursuing, 934 00:45:14,428 --> 00:45:17,178 I will do it Rudy Giuliani-style. 935 00:45:17,261 --> 00:45:19,470 I will prosecute with a crazy eye 936 00:45:19,553 --> 00:45:21,720 and absolutely no sense of boundaries. 937 00:45:21,804 --> 00:45:24,428 Besides, I didn't put these women in this place. 938 00:45:24,512 --> 00:45:26,595 They put their own lives up for sale. 939 00:45:26,679 --> 00:45:28,512 And now those lives hang in the balance. 940 00:45:28,595 --> 00:45:30,345 Will you ransom them back? 941 00:45:30,428 --> 00:45:32,679 Or will you place Dutch paintings 942 00:45:32,762 --> 00:45:35,303 and Scandinavian values above the life 943 00:45:35,387 --> 00:45:38,220 and liberty of women most at risk? 944 00:45:38,303 --> 00:45:40,929 Wow, Chuck. 945 00:45:43,053 --> 00:45:44,637 Okay. 946 00:45:44,720 --> 00:45:47,762 Taking the missiles out of Havana. 947 00:45:48,929 --> 00:45:51,720 You can have your fucking art case. 948 00:45:51,804 --> 00:45:54,011 Thank you. 949 00:46:02,261 --> 00:46:03,887 Mmm. Delicious. 950 00:46:03,970 --> 00:46:06,595 Enjoy your noonday repast. 951 00:46:08,303 --> 00:46:09,970 Uh, hold up. 952 00:46:11,637 --> 00:46:13,303 Alright, clear out, boys. 953 00:46:34,970 --> 00:46:37,679 Get ready to authenticate. 954 00:46:37,762 --> 00:46:40,970 Mr. Rhoades, I was born ready. 955 00:46:41,053 --> 00:46:43,053 Like Eliot Ness with an MFA. 956 00:46:43,136 --> 00:46:44,720 I have a PhD. 957 00:46:44,804 --> 00:46:47,261 Well. Get ready to shove it up Axelrod's... 958 00:47:05,053 --> 00:47:07,095 Chuck. Another midday drop-by. 959 00:47:07,178 --> 00:47:08,762 I'd say you were wasting my taxes. 960 00:47:08,845 --> 00:47:11,220 If I didn't have such giant fucking deductions. 961 00:47:11,303 --> 00:47:12,929 The fuck is this bacchanalia? 962 00:47:13,011 --> 00:47:14,595 Just a little day drinking. 963 00:47:16,637 --> 00:47:19,637 I'm afraid these paintings no longer belong to Mr. Axelrod. 964 00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:21,095 They're hanging in his apartment. 965 00:47:21,178 --> 00:47:24,845 Actually, this is no longer a private residence at all. 966 00:47:26,303 --> 00:47:28,011 Your family foundation. You didn't... 967 00:47:28,095 --> 00:47:31,470 These works, every impeccable inch of them, 968 00:47:31,553 --> 00:47:32,845 are now the proud possession 969 00:47:32,929 --> 00:47:34,804 of the Axelrod Charitable Foundation. 970 00:47:34,887 --> 00:47:37,720 Which maintains and runs this museum. 971 00:47:37,804 --> 00:47:39,220 It's a real feather in our cap. 972 00:47:39,303 --> 00:47:41,553 Uh-huh. 973 00:47:41,637 --> 00:47:44,303 A private art museum... for replicas. 974 00:47:44,387 --> 00:47:45,845 Course not. 975 00:47:45,929 --> 00:47:48,261 These are as real as I am standing here. 976 00:47:49,215 --> 00:47:50,720 And they got here, how exactly? 977 00:47:50,804 --> 00:47:52,303 We've been watching, day and night. 978 00:47:52,387 --> 00:47:54,470 I guess not every angle. 979 00:47:59,845 --> 00:48:02,804 Whoops. 980 00:48:02,887 --> 00:48:04,261 Don't make 'em like they used to. 981 00:48:04,345 --> 00:48:05,428 - Hey! - Fuck you! 982 00:48:05,512 --> 00:48:07,387 - Whoo! - Come back here! 983 00:48:07,470 --> 00:48:09,345 Huh?! Come and get me! 984 00:48:09,428 --> 00:48:10,720 Let's get him! 985 00:48:21,261 --> 00:48:22,345 Let's go! 986 00:48:22,428 --> 00:48:23,845 Go, go, go! 987 00:48:23,929 --> 00:48:25,261 Come on! Keep moving! 988 00:48:25,345 --> 00:48:26,512 Got it. 989 00:48:31,220 --> 00:48:32,679 Hurry up. Hurry up. 990 00:48:32,762 --> 00:48:34,595 Okay, come on. Careful. 991 00:48:34,679 --> 00:48:36,595 Why? They're empty anyways. 992 00:48:37,671 --> 00:48:38,929 You can check the security footage 993 00:48:39,011 --> 00:48:40,387 from the neighboring roofs. 994 00:48:40,470 --> 00:48:41,512 Tough to move paintings this big, 995 00:48:41,595 --> 00:48:42,679 had to innovate. 996 00:48:42,762 --> 00:48:44,553 Might be facing an FAA fine. 997 00:48:44,637 --> 00:48:46,345 But, oh, well. 998 00:48:46,428 --> 00:48:49,095 I should have done the whole museum thing many years ago. 999 00:48:49,178 --> 00:48:51,845 Share the majesty instead of hoarding it for myself. 1000 00:48:51,970 --> 00:48:54,095 And I want thank you, Chuck, for the impetus... 1001 00:48:54,178 --> 00:48:55,720 and opportunity. 1002 00:48:55,804 --> 00:48:57,553 I need to take a closer goddamned look... 1003 00:48:57,637 --> 00:48:59,845 Sure. But it will have to wait. 1004 00:48:59,929 --> 00:49:02,136 Museum hours are over for the month. 1005 00:49:02,220 --> 00:49:03,512 Wonderful collection! 1006 00:49:03,595 --> 00:49:05,679 - Yeah. - Thank you. 1007 00:49:05,762 --> 00:49:08,220 Let's get the fuck out of here. 1008 00:49:25,428 --> 00:49:29,387 Whoo-hoo-hoo! 1009 00:49:36,178 --> 00:49:37,970 After Fischer beat Spassky... 1010 00:49:38,053 --> 00:49:39,512 Reykjavik, '72... 1011 00:49:39,595 --> 00:49:42,303 he described his chief moment of pleasure 1012 00:49:42,387 --> 00:49:46,261 as seeing his opponent's ego break. 1013 00:49:46,345 --> 00:49:50,178 I want you to know, as a newly-minted Mensan, 1014 00:49:50,261 --> 00:49:53,136 that I feel no need to break you. 1015 00:49:53,220 --> 00:49:56,387 I see no Cold War between us. 1016 00:49:56,470 --> 00:49:58,512 I always knew you had it in you. 1017 00:50:18,387 --> 00:50:19,970 Should I intentionally leave one or two wrong, 1018 00:50:20,053 --> 00:50:21,595 so he knows he wasn't punked? 1019 00:50:21,679 --> 00:50:23,136 If he were thinking that clearly, 1020 00:50:23,220 --> 00:50:25,095 he'd have the real pin already. 1021 00:50:27,470 --> 00:50:29,470 It's a silly little trinket. 1022 00:50:29,553 --> 00:50:31,053 Proves nothing, of course... 1023 00:50:31,136 --> 00:50:32,720 besides the company of 1024 00:50:32,804 --> 00:50:36,720 Asimov, Carol Oates, Geena Davis. 1025 00:50:36,804 --> 00:50:38,970 Well. I hardly need to wear it... 1026 00:50:39,053 --> 00:50:40,303 Oh, you know what? 1027 00:50:40,387 --> 00:50:44,804 I will, why not... in the name of learning! 1028 00:50:44,887 --> 00:50:48,095 And don't let this bauble, this curio, 1029 00:50:48,178 --> 00:50:52,178 remind you of the yawning gap between us. 1030 00:50:52,261 --> 00:50:54,845 But I will be mindful. 1031 00:50:54,929 --> 00:50:56,637 And I will be here. 1032 00:50:56,720 --> 00:50:58,887 As a mentor. 1033 00:50:58,970 --> 00:51:00,887 A teacher. 1034 00:51:00,970 --> 00:51:03,220 A guide. 1035 00:51:08,053 --> 00:51:10,720 I am never doing another nice thing. 1036 00:51:10,804 --> 00:51:13,679 I say that every day. But we are who we are. 1037 00:51:25,011 --> 00:51:26,679 How do I look? 1038 00:51:26,762 --> 00:51:28,553 Not great. 1039 00:51:28,637 --> 00:51:30,220 Good. 1040 00:51:30,303 --> 00:51:32,220 Two stopped-up urinals in my gut, 1041 00:51:32,303 --> 00:51:35,637 if I get a compliment I know I'm a fucking goner. 1042 00:51:36,614 --> 00:51:38,512 I had my blood typed. 1043 00:51:39,237 --> 00:51:40,595 We're not a match. 1044 00:51:43,220 --> 00:51:44,762 You did that for Chuck? 1045 00:51:44,845 --> 00:51:47,303 I did it for your grandkids. 1046 00:51:48,845 --> 00:51:52,136 And for myself, too, maybe. 1047 00:51:54,220 --> 00:51:58,011 Second worst thing about dialysis, after the bedpans? 1048 00:51:58,095 --> 00:52:01,303 Turns everyone into a goddamned Hallmark card. 1049 00:52:01,387 --> 00:52:04,261 People want to say what they've been meaning to say. 1050 00:52:04,345 --> 00:52:06,136 How about: Here's a fucking kidney? 1051 00:52:06,220 --> 00:52:09,178 All I've got is: They're doing wonders with xenotransplants. 1052 00:52:09,261 --> 00:52:11,887 I'm a little rough on my Greek. 1053 00:52:11,970 --> 00:52:13,720 Pig kidneys. 1054 00:52:13,804 --> 00:52:15,220 You're already pig-headed. 1055 00:52:15,303 --> 00:52:17,679 I don't see why you wouldn't want a kidney to match. 1056 00:52:17,762 --> 00:52:19,387 I'd rather die. 1057 00:52:20,335 --> 00:52:21,929 You might. 1058 00:52:23,168 --> 00:52:25,136 One thing I know about the Greeks, 1059 00:52:26,967 --> 00:52:27,970 the great tragedies 1060 00:52:28,053 --> 00:52:31,261 rarely featured death scenes. 1061 00:52:31,345 --> 00:52:33,512 Plain left that shit offstage. 1062 00:52:33,595 --> 00:52:37,845 They just did not find it interesting. 1063 00:52:37,929 --> 00:52:40,261 Living... 1064 00:52:40,345 --> 00:52:42,428 that's the real drama. 1065 00:52:42,512 --> 00:52:44,637 The real classroom. 1066 00:52:46,970 --> 00:52:50,136 Plenty of lessons left to teach. 1067 00:52:52,011 --> 00:52:53,136 You're worried about Willow. 1068 00:52:53,220 --> 00:52:54,845 Good God no. 1069 00:52:54,929 --> 00:52:57,762 She won't even remember me, 1070 00:52:57,845 --> 00:53:00,053 and she'll have her mother 1071 00:53:00,136 --> 00:53:03,637 to fill her full of whatever. 1072 00:53:05,492 --> 00:53:07,679 But Chuck... 1073 00:53:07,762 --> 00:53:10,136 if I'm not here 1074 00:53:10,220 --> 00:53:13,553 to push him, to mold him, 1075 00:53:15,261 --> 00:53:18,136 who knows all the ways he'll fuck himself up. 1076 00:53:22,470 --> 00:53:24,762 You got me there. 1077 00:53:28,595 --> 00:53:30,720 It got ugly. 1078 00:53:30,804 --> 00:53:32,512 I got ugly. 1079 00:53:32,595 --> 00:53:34,470 I went halfway to Ed Exley. 1080 00:53:34,553 --> 00:53:36,637 Didn't know I had it in me. 1081 00:53:40,303 --> 00:53:41,762 You won. 1082 00:53:41,845 --> 00:53:43,970 For the moment. 1083 00:53:44,053 --> 00:53:46,428 Did you make good on your threat? 1084 00:53:49,553 --> 00:53:51,470 Good. 1085 00:53:51,553 --> 00:53:53,804 Would you have really followed through, though? 1086 00:53:55,027 --> 00:53:56,387 It's possible something inside me 1087 00:53:56,470 --> 00:54:00,011 would have caught, backed down. 1088 00:54:01,179 --> 00:54:02,188 I truly don't know. 1089 00:54:02,261 --> 00:54:03,345 Would you have? 1090 00:54:03,428 --> 00:54:05,303 Yup. 1091 00:54:05,387 --> 00:54:07,553 Which would have been unfortunate. 1092 00:54:07,637 --> 00:54:09,595 Because then 1093 00:54:09,679 --> 00:54:12,136 we couldn't have enjoyed 1094 00:54:12,220 --> 00:54:13,387 this. 1095 00:54:18,387 --> 00:54:23,470 Is, uh, this a reward, or to teach me a lesson? 1096 00:54:23,553 --> 00:54:24,679 Both. 1097 00:54:24,762 --> 00:54:26,220 Neither. 1098 00:54:26,303 --> 00:54:28,887 Whatever we want to make of it. 1099 00:54:28,970 --> 00:54:30,762 Come on. 1100 00:54:35,428 --> 00:54:37,470 I'm sorry Axe saw it. 1101 00:54:40,095 --> 00:54:41,178 You know, I didn't show it to him, 1102 00:54:41,261 --> 00:54:42,762 I didn't try to show it to him anyway... 1103 00:54:42,845 --> 00:54:46,345 I know you meant no harm, but harm is coming. 1104 00:54:48,762 --> 00:54:50,387 It's open! 1105 00:55:03,595 --> 00:55:05,095 I'm ready for my close-up. 1106 00:57:09,720 --> 00:57:11,136 Hello? 1107 00:57:11,220 --> 00:57:13,220 Hey. You know what, we should all do dinner... 1108 00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,345 Me, you, Tanner. 1109 00:57:19,428 --> 00:57:22,136 Maybe I'll bring someone, too... 1110 00:57:23,208 --> 00:57:25,136 Well... 1111 00:57:25,220 --> 00:57:28,136 The art world's been good to me lately. 1112 00:57:28,220 --> 00:57:29,595 It's gonna get me my bank charter. 1113 00:57:31,387 --> 00:57:32,804 I'd like to show my appreciation. 1114 00:57:34,804 --> 00:57:36,637 That'd... That'd be great. 1115 00:58:45,407 --> 00:58:48,926 - synced and corrected by sot26 - www.addic7ed.com