1 00:00:07,608 --> 00:00:10,144 Previously on "Billions"... 2 00:00:10,144 --> 00:00:12,580 When did it become a crime to succeed in this country? 3 00:00:12,580 --> 00:00:14,382 [Bobby] Everyone has access to the information. 4 00:00:14,382 --> 00:00:16,083 We just know how to analyze it better. 5 00:00:16,083 --> 00:00:19,387 Suspect trading pattern on Pepsum Pharmaceuticals. 6 00:00:19,387 --> 00:00:20,688 They had inside information. 7 00:00:20,688 --> 00:00:22,456 You must get pings like that every day. 8 00:00:22,456 --> 00:00:23,691 It's bigger than that. 9 00:00:23,691 --> 00:00:26,427 [Spyros] All three firms have links to Bobby Axelrod. 10 00:00:26,427 --> 00:00:27,561 This would be a big one. 11 00:00:27,561 --> 00:00:31,031 But a good matador doesn't try to kill a fresh bull. 12 00:00:31,031 --> 00:00:33,768 You wait until he's been stuck a few times. 13 00:00:33,768 --> 00:00:35,803 Why aren't you prosecuting the investment banks 14 00:00:35,803 --> 00:00:38,105 and hedge funds for insider trading? 15 00:00:38,105 --> 00:00:40,541 Go ask the 81 convicted felons of financial crimes 16 00:00:40,541 --> 00:00:42,243 currently serving time. 17 00:00:42,243 --> 00:00:44,245 But you have a very specific conflict of interest 18 00:00:44,245 --> 00:00:45,179 right in your own home. 19 00:00:45,179 --> 00:00:47,281 Your value to the firm is absolute. 20 00:00:47,281 --> 00:00:49,517 I've been working there since before we were married 21 00:00:49,517 --> 00:00:51,185 and long before you were in office. 22 00:00:51,185 --> 00:00:52,453 I work for the public good. 23 00:00:52,453 --> 00:00:54,755 No, you work for the good of Chuck Rhoades. 24 00:00:54,755 --> 00:00:57,057 Maybe sometimes they intersect. 25 00:00:57,057 --> 00:00:58,492 You know the Norton place out at the beach? 26 00:00:58,492 --> 00:00:59,593 [Sacker] I just heard 27 00:00:59,593 --> 00:01:00,761 Bobby Axelrod is trying to buy it. 28 00:01:00,761 --> 00:01:02,329 [Bryan] How much? [Sacker] $83 million. 29 00:01:02,329 --> 00:01:04,432 People hate guys who buy things like that. 30 00:01:04,432 --> 00:01:07,067 [Hall] You said there was only one thing you were afraid of -- 31 00:01:07,067 --> 00:01:09,069 guys in windbreakers walking in your office 32 00:01:09,069 --> 00:01:11,272 saying, "Step away from the computer." 33 00:01:11,272 --> 00:01:13,507 And you told me you'd make sure it wouldn't happen. 34 00:01:13,507 --> 00:01:14,542 So let me make sure. 35 00:01:14,542 --> 00:01:15,576 [Bobby] Steven Birch? 36 00:01:15,576 --> 00:01:16,644 [Hall] It's either him or you. 37 00:01:16,644 --> 00:01:17,611 Piedmont Capital. 38 00:01:17,611 --> 00:01:19,113 Yeah. 39 00:01:19,113 --> 00:01:21,348 That swap deal he did on Arcadian Railroad -- 40 00:01:21,348 --> 00:01:23,417 Do an autopsy on the deal, 41 00:01:23,417 --> 00:01:25,519 you'll find yourself a Pulitzer in the carcass. 42 00:01:27,121 --> 00:01:28,789 Front fucking page of the Post. 43 00:01:29,857 --> 00:01:31,225 [Bryan] It's like he's daring you. 44 00:01:31,225 --> 00:01:32,860 [Hall] There's movement. 45 00:01:32,860 --> 00:01:35,663 It's likely they've opened a case file on you. 46 00:01:35,663 --> 00:01:37,164 You know what? 47 00:01:37,164 --> 00:01:38,265 I'm ready. 48 00:01:44,672 --> 00:01:47,341 ♪pensive music♪ 49 00:01:56,684 --> 00:01:58,452 [Nick Waterhouse's "High Tiding" plays] 50 00:01:58,452 --> 00:02:01,288 No, Pete, the gold standard is never coming back. 51 00:02:01,288 --> 00:02:03,190 And if it did, this world would be so fucked, 52 00:02:03,190 --> 00:02:05,526 I'd buy space travel, not gold. 53 00:02:05,526 --> 00:02:07,228 Nice pitch, though. 54 00:02:07,228 --> 00:02:08,462 If I'd have known it was a gold play, 55 00:02:08,462 --> 00:02:09,663 I'd have never put him through. 56 00:02:09,663 --> 00:02:11,198 Always put that lunatic through. 57 00:02:11,198 --> 00:02:14,435 One out of every 200 ideas he has is fucking brilliant. 58 00:02:14,435 --> 00:02:16,337 [knocks] I got this. 59 00:02:20,574 --> 00:02:21,876 Bad idea. 60 00:02:21,876 --> 00:02:24,745 "No man is a hero to his valet." 61 00:02:24,745 --> 00:02:26,146 That goes double for his C.O.O., 62 00:02:26,146 --> 00:02:27,481 so you are fucked with me either way. 63 00:02:27,481 --> 00:02:28,616 [scoffs] 64 00:02:28,616 --> 00:02:30,751 [Wags] Let's take a car to the city instead of flying. 65 00:02:30,751 --> 00:02:32,887 What's underneath this? 66 00:02:32,887 --> 00:02:35,723 Look, if the U.S. Attorney is really coming, 67 00:02:35,723 --> 00:02:39,260 maybe it's better if we don't make you more of a target. 68 00:02:39,260 --> 00:02:42,396 And more important, Garth Sykes from Flagship. 69 00:02:42,396 --> 00:02:44,698 Hated seeing you on the cover of the Post 70 00:02:44,698 --> 00:02:46,767 with that goddamned oceanfront mansion. 71 00:02:46,767 --> 00:02:48,869 Teachers in that pension fund make 40 grand a year. 72 00:02:48,869 --> 00:02:50,404 People who have it spend it. 73 00:02:50,404 --> 00:02:51,539 People who don't have it 74 00:02:51,539 --> 00:02:53,774 like billies better who spend on other folks. 75 00:02:53,774 --> 00:02:54,775 Charity, good works. 76 00:02:54,775 --> 00:02:56,844 I do, I have, and you know it. 77 00:02:56,844 --> 00:02:59,413 Today, they only remember the house. 78 00:02:59,413 --> 00:03:01,282 I have a feeling there'll be another one of us 79 00:03:01,282 --> 00:03:02,416 on the front pages soon enough, 80 00:03:02,416 --> 00:03:03,651 and they'll forget about that. 81 00:03:03,651 --> 00:03:05,853 But if Flagship does try and withdraw... 82 00:03:05,853 --> 00:03:07,555 We can't let him. 83 00:03:07,555 --> 00:03:10,958 If Flagship pulls its $1.5 billion, it gets public. 84 00:03:10,958 --> 00:03:12,960 Other institutions go, too. 85 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:14,361 Whole thing could domino. 86 00:03:14,361 --> 00:03:15,963 Get with Sykes, keep them onboard. 87 00:03:15,963 --> 00:03:17,531 That's just why I'm telling you 88 00:03:17,531 --> 00:03:18,933 to keep it a little more low-key. 89 00:03:18,933 --> 00:03:20,868 Who's more low-key than me? 90 00:03:20,868 --> 00:03:22,436 [helicopter blades whirring] 91 00:03:22,436 --> 00:03:26,373 ♪Not that it's wrong, that it needs righting♪ 92 00:03:29,777 --> 00:03:32,212 ♪Just all alone♪ 93 00:03:32,212 --> 00:03:35,616 ♪I been high tiding♪ 94 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:50,431 So, the key to bagging Axe is...? 95 00:03:50,431 --> 00:03:51,899 Pete Decker. Oh. 96 00:03:51,899 --> 00:03:53,233 His fund. Has to be. 97 00:03:53,233 --> 00:03:54,368 [Bryan] We start with Decker 98 00:03:54,368 --> 00:03:55,836 since he had the longest tenure at Axe Capital 99 00:03:55,836 --> 00:03:58,439 of anyone who left with Axe's backing. 100 00:03:58,439 --> 00:04:00,708 Get me some more of those cold sesame noodles, would you? 101 00:04:00,708 --> 00:04:03,243 No, these are -- these are dandan noodles. 102 00:04:03,243 --> 00:04:05,446 [Chuck] Same fucking thing. 103 00:04:05,446 --> 00:04:07,348 No. No, one's Szechuan, the other Taiwanese. 104 00:04:07,348 --> 00:04:08,482 It's a whole thing. 105 00:04:08,482 --> 00:04:10,684 You know, this is why I don't mind the hours. 106 00:04:10,684 --> 00:04:13,387 I'm always learning something on the job. It's incredible. 107 00:04:13,387 --> 00:04:14,989 Yeah, tell him about General Tso's, Bryan. 108 00:04:14,989 --> 00:04:16,824 Oh, no, he flings this shit at you, too? 109 00:04:16,824 --> 00:04:18,292 Sprays it all around. 110 00:04:18,292 --> 00:04:19,927 The only place you've ever been is Asia, 111 00:04:19,927 --> 00:04:21,695 you can't help yourself. 112 00:04:21,695 --> 00:04:24,598 [Sacker] Here -- indictments on that Ponzi thing. 113 00:04:24,598 --> 00:04:26,500 Tell me about the General, Bryan. Come on. 114 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:27,735 [Sacker] Well, now you've done it. 115 00:04:27,735 --> 00:04:29,536 [laughs] 116 00:04:29,536 --> 00:04:32,673 General Tso, he was a statesman in the Qing Dynasty. 117 00:04:32,673 --> 00:04:34,375 Suppressed a revolution. 118 00:04:34,375 --> 00:04:36,410 Oh, and now he has the true glory. 119 00:04:36,410 --> 00:04:39,279 A fried chicken dish named for him the world over, huh? 120 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:40,447 That was created in America. 121 00:04:40,447 --> 00:04:43,417 Maybe after we nail Axe, they'll reciprocate -- 122 00:04:43,417 --> 00:04:45,052 name a dish after you in China, huh? 123 00:04:45,052 --> 00:04:47,321 Oh-ho. General Chuck's? [Sacker laughs] 124 00:04:47,321 --> 00:04:48,989 Really, what would that -- what would that look like, 125 00:04:48,989 --> 00:04:50,591 a burger with the cheese cooked on the inside? 126 00:04:50,591 --> 00:04:51,792 [laughs] 127 00:04:51,792 --> 00:04:54,862 You really think I could ever be that richly honored? 128 00:04:54,862 --> 00:04:56,730 Hey, I will make it so. 129 00:04:56,730 --> 00:04:58,599 Not if we're still stuck. 130 00:04:58,599 --> 00:04:59,667 We need to find a way 131 00:04:59,667 --> 00:05:02,603 to get Pete Decker on the hook, right? 132 00:05:02,603 --> 00:05:06,373 Decker hires young, and he pays at the top of the range. 133 00:05:06,373 --> 00:05:08,542 Now, once these guys get a taste for that kind of money, 134 00:05:08,542 --> 00:05:10,077 they get desperate to keep it going. 135 00:05:10,077 --> 00:05:12,312 Start tracking all of his analysts and traders. 136 00:05:12,312 --> 00:05:14,948 Next one makes a mistake, we're right there. 137 00:05:14,948 --> 00:05:18,986 [camera shutters clicking] ♪mid-tempo music♪ 138 00:05:18,986 --> 00:05:21,655 [inhaling] 139 00:05:23,824 --> 00:05:25,693 Nice move. 140 00:05:25,693 --> 00:05:28,462 Just like smoking in the girls' bathroom at St. Mary's. 141 00:05:28,462 --> 00:05:30,564 You had to be quick, or you'd be over a nun's knee. 142 00:05:31,832 --> 00:05:33,634 That's a fun picture to have in my head. 143 00:05:33,634 --> 00:05:35,836 Mm. Yeah. They weren't that kind of nun. 144 00:05:35,836 --> 00:05:37,604 They looked like Dick Cheney. 145 00:05:37,604 --> 00:05:39,640 [Bobby] Look at that. 146 00:05:40,841 --> 00:05:43,844 That is such a shitty name on such a great building. 147 00:05:45,112 --> 00:05:48,015 Oh, don't. Don't focus on that. 148 00:05:48,015 --> 00:05:50,584 Think of all the good that's going on here tonight. 149 00:05:50,584 --> 00:05:53,587 Can't. It mars everything. 150 00:05:53,587 --> 00:05:55,456 The name up there should mean something. 151 00:05:55,456 --> 00:05:58,125 Should add -- add to the luster of the place. 152 00:05:58,125 --> 00:05:59,593 Just don't look. 153 00:05:59,593 --> 00:06:01,462 I like the building. 154 00:06:02,830 --> 00:06:03,764 How much? 155 00:06:07,668 --> 00:06:08,769 Good question. 156 00:06:11,472 --> 00:06:13,507 They're about to pass the hat. 157 00:06:13,507 --> 00:06:15,676 [Bobby] Get rid of this for us, will you? 158 00:06:15,676 --> 00:06:16,810 Mm-hmm. 159 00:06:18,045 --> 00:06:19,046 [inhales] 160 00:06:19,046 --> 00:06:21,515 ♪mid-tempo music♪ 161 00:06:23,083 --> 00:06:25,052 [indistinct conversations] 162 00:06:30,557 --> 00:06:31,825 Bobby! Birchy! 163 00:06:31,825 --> 00:06:33,660 Pchoo! Blow it up. 164 00:06:35,129 --> 00:06:37,798 [moaning] 165 00:06:40,534 --> 00:06:41,935 Yeah, baby. 166 00:06:41,935 --> 00:06:43,771 Ohhh. 167 00:06:43,771 --> 00:06:44,905 Oh! 168 00:06:44,905 --> 00:06:46,573 What are you doing to me? 169 00:06:46,573 --> 00:06:48,876 You're making me weak. 170 00:06:48,876 --> 00:06:50,878 [moaning, panting] 171 00:06:56,950 --> 00:06:58,852 Time to power up. 172 00:07:03,157 --> 00:07:05,492 [sniffs deeply] 173 00:07:05,492 --> 00:07:07,060 Ohh! [sniffs] 174 00:07:07,060 --> 00:07:08,996 That hits the spot. [chuckles] 175 00:07:08,996 --> 00:07:10,464 Mmm. 176 00:07:13,767 --> 00:07:15,068 [cellphone rings] 177 00:07:15,068 --> 00:07:17,004 Oh, fuck. 178 00:07:17,004 --> 00:07:18,605 It's work. 179 00:07:18,605 --> 00:07:19,740 It's my work ring. 180 00:07:19,740 --> 00:07:20,808 Jesus. 181 00:07:23,043 --> 00:07:24,478 [Kornbluth] It's Kornbluth. 182 00:07:24,478 --> 00:07:26,680 Thought you left white-collar crime to cover the election. 183 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,081 That's true, 184 00:07:28,081 --> 00:07:30,117 but I stumbled onto one too good to give someone else. 185 00:07:30,117 --> 00:07:32,486 Get to it. 186 00:07:32,486 --> 00:07:33,487 What do you know 187 00:07:33,487 --> 00:07:35,789 about Steven Birch and Arcadian Railroad? 188 00:07:35,789 --> 00:07:37,491 What? What do you have? 189 00:07:37,491 --> 00:07:38,926 [Kornbluth] Birch made a big play in the railroad -- 190 00:07:38,926 --> 00:07:41,128 captured 43% before good numbers, 191 00:07:41,128 --> 00:07:43,664 and expansion plans were announced 192 00:07:43,664 --> 00:07:44,798 with inside information. 193 00:07:44,798 --> 00:07:46,066 We want to know 194 00:07:46,066 --> 00:07:47,768 where the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District 195 00:07:47,768 --> 00:07:49,503 stands on an investigation. 196 00:07:49,503 --> 00:07:50,838 I'm posting this on the web in five minutes. 197 00:07:50,838 --> 00:07:51,939 It's already on the desk. 198 00:07:51,939 --> 00:07:52,940 It'd be better 199 00:07:52,940 --> 00:07:55,209 with a comment from you... 200 00:07:55,209 --> 00:07:56,710 but I can't wait. 201 00:07:56,710 --> 00:07:58,812 It's late. That might not be enough time to get a comment. 202 00:07:58,812 --> 00:07:59,713 [Kornbluth] I'm posting it. 203 00:07:59,713 --> 00:08:00,848 We can't get beat on this story. 204 00:08:00,848 --> 00:08:03,250 You can't run it without a motherfucking quote. 205 00:08:03,250 --> 00:08:05,485 [click] 206 00:08:05,485 --> 00:08:07,221 Oh, God. 207 00:08:07,221 --> 00:08:08,655 [telephone rings] 208 00:08:08,655 --> 00:08:09,790 Tara Mohr? 209 00:08:09,790 --> 00:08:11,992 [beep] Yeah, you're on speaker. 210 00:08:11,992 --> 00:08:14,261 Financial Journal called for comment on Steven Birch. 211 00:08:15,696 --> 00:08:16,930 What about him? 212 00:08:16,930 --> 00:08:18,098 They're running a story 213 00:08:18,098 --> 00:08:19,867 that he made illegal trades on Arcadian Railroad 214 00:08:19,867 --> 00:08:21,869 and that the evidence is incontrovertible. 215 00:08:22,803 --> 00:08:24,204 Stall while we check. 216 00:08:24,204 --> 00:08:25,772 But this sounds like bullshit. 217 00:08:25,772 --> 00:08:27,241 I mean, how could the paper have that 218 00:08:27,241 --> 00:08:28,842 before we do -- or the FBI? 219 00:08:28,842 --> 00:08:31,111 You know, I went to school with a few guys who work for Birch. 220 00:08:31,111 --> 00:08:33,513 You want me to -- [Chuck] Yes, right now. 221 00:08:33,513 --> 00:08:37,117 Get Terri McCue over at FBI up on this, too -- now. 222 00:08:37,117 --> 00:08:38,685 [Bryan] Right. 223 00:08:38,685 --> 00:08:39,753 [jazz music playing over speakers] ♪♪ 224 00:08:39,753 --> 00:08:40,854 [indistinct conversations] 225 00:08:40,854 --> 00:08:43,624 I'm not tolling any bells for you, Bobby. 226 00:08:43,624 --> 00:08:44,925 Sounds a bit like you are. 227 00:08:44,925 --> 00:08:46,860 There's a reason you retained my firm. 228 00:08:46,860 --> 00:08:49,596 Ah, fuck the firm -- a bunch of rich, young lawyers. 229 00:08:49,596 --> 00:08:52,633 There's a reason you retained me -- me. 230 00:08:52,633 --> 00:08:54,868 And that is... 231 00:08:54,868 --> 00:08:56,603 I look far enough down the road 232 00:08:56,603 --> 00:08:58,138 to let you avoid the speed traps. 233 00:08:58,138 --> 00:08:59,673 Okay. 234 00:08:59,673 --> 00:09:01,041 What do you see? 235 00:09:01,041 --> 00:09:04,177 U.S. Attorney needs to bag you. 236 00:09:04,177 --> 00:09:06,313 Rhoades could bring it quick or take two years. 237 00:09:06,313 --> 00:09:07,915 Two years? 238 00:09:07,915 --> 00:09:09,249 [Orrin] Then it becomes a three-front war -- 239 00:09:09,249 --> 00:09:11,685 P.R., redemptions, and the government. 240 00:09:11,685 --> 00:09:14,888 It's not too early to start a makeover of the firm's culture. 241 00:09:14,888 --> 00:09:16,223 What fucking culture? 242 00:09:16,223 --> 00:09:17,991 Big returns that beat the street by double digits 243 00:09:17,991 --> 00:09:19,893 year in, year out, making our investors rich? 244 00:09:19,893 --> 00:09:21,995 That culture? No -- the rep. 245 00:09:21,995 --> 00:09:24,932 Smart money -- maybe a little too smart. 246 00:09:24,932 --> 00:09:27,034 If they bring an action, 247 00:09:27,034 --> 00:09:29,569 the whole strategy becomes about leveraging a settlement -- 248 00:09:29,569 --> 00:09:31,705 a deferred prosecution agreement and forfeiture 249 00:09:31,705 --> 00:09:32,873 that lets you keep working. 250 00:09:32,873 --> 00:09:34,107 And the best way to get that 251 00:09:34,107 --> 00:09:36,710 is to act like you'd never settle. 252 00:09:36,710 --> 00:09:38,078 I'd never settle. 253 00:09:38,078 --> 00:09:40,847 That's the public posture, for sure. 254 00:09:40,847 --> 00:09:43,116 I'd never settle. 255 00:09:43,116 --> 00:09:45,819 Yeah. That's a good delivery. That'll work. 256 00:09:45,819 --> 00:09:47,254 [applause] 257 00:09:47,254 --> 00:09:49,589 [Penn] Thank you! Good evening! I'm gonna go find my table. 258 00:09:49,589 --> 00:09:52,693 [Penn] Thank you. How you doing? 259 00:09:52,693 --> 00:09:55,028 My name is Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller, 260 00:09:55,028 --> 00:09:58,365 and we're gonna give as much money as we can. 261 00:09:58,365 --> 00:10:00,100 I will hurt myself, 262 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:02,636 then you will hurt yourself with money. 263 00:10:02,636 --> 00:10:04,104 Gonna look like this. 264 00:10:04,104 --> 00:10:07,341 [applause] 265 00:10:12,846 --> 00:10:14,982 Think about how much that hurts 266 00:10:14,982 --> 00:10:17,384 and think about how good you would feel 267 00:10:17,384 --> 00:10:19,086 if you gave a million dollars. 268 00:10:19,086 --> 00:10:20,787 Who's giving a million dollars? Stand up. 269 00:10:20,787 --> 00:10:22,122 Come on! A million dollars! 270 00:10:22,122 --> 00:10:24,925 Starting at a stick. Fuck it. 271 00:10:25,959 --> 00:10:27,928 [Penn] $1 million! 272 00:10:27,928 --> 00:10:29,262 I'll do it. I'll do it. 273 00:10:31,865 --> 00:10:33,900 Oh! You're a good man! 274 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:36,136 No better than you. 275 00:10:39,172 --> 00:10:41,274 [Penn] Wonderful. Wonderful. That's good. 276 00:10:41,274 --> 00:10:43,377 Who are the cheapskates giving a half a million? 277 00:10:43,377 --> 00:10:44,244 Come on! 278 00:10:44,244 --> 00:10:46,380 Come on. Half a million up there. 279 00:10:47,848 --> 00:10:49,182 Get the fuck up, 280 00:10:49,182 --> 00:10:51,184 or people will think I'm not paying you enough. 281 00:10:52,686 --> 00:10:53,887 [applause] 282 00:10:53,887 --> 00:10:57,057 [cellphone chimes, buzzes] 283 00:10:57,057 --> 00:10:58,158 [Penn] Can I see $250,000? 284 00:10:58,158 --> 00:11:00,394 I'll get everybody standing up eventually. 285 00:11:00,394 --> 00:11:02,996 They will not let Teller go unless everybody stands up. 286 00:11:02,996 --> 00:11:05,732 How about $250,000 over here? 287 00:11:05,732 --> 00:11:07,234 Holy shit. 288 00:11:07,234 --> 00:11:09,903 Financial Journal just pasted Birch. 289 00:11:09,903 --> 00:11:12,439 [cellphone chimes] 290 00:11:13,907 --> 00:11:15,809 [Penn] 100 grand -- stand up. 291 00:11:15,809 --> 00:11:18,045 [applause] 292 00:11:18,045 --> 00:11:20,180 ♪slow music♪ 293 00:11:27,954 --> 00:11:29,222 [Penn] Anybody else? 294 00:11:29,222 --> 00:11:31,792 Anybody making $50,000? How about $25,000? 295 00:11:31,792 --> 00:11:34,261 He's gonna want that million back. 296 00:11:37,130 --> 00:11:39,466 We need to go. 297 00:11:39,466 --> 00:11:42,235 [Penn] Everybody should be standing up at this point! 298 00:11:54,915 --> 00:11:57,017 Hey. You need a minute before we -- 299 00:11:57,017 --> 00:11:58,085 For what? 300 00:11:58,085 --> 00:12:00,020 Pump-up sesh for the morning meeting, 301 00:12:00,020 --> 00:12:01,488 like every week. 302 00:12:01,488 --> 00:12:03,123 Not happening. 303 00:12:03,123 --> 00:12:06,259 Oh, what the fuck, Wend? I count on it. 304 00:12:06,259 --> 00:12:08,128 It's how I get in there and deal with those animals. 305 00:12:08,128 --> 00:12:10,397 Canceled until further notice. 306 00:12:10,397 --> 00:12:12,866 You don't need it -- not anymore. 307 00:12:12,866 --> 00:12:14,801 You're the best P.M. on the floor. 308 00:12:14,801 --> 00:12:16,736 You know it. 309 00:12:16,736 --> 00:12:18,004 They're fucking sure of it. 310 00:12:18,004 --> 00:12:20,240 Those animals are used to you putting them down now. 311 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,375 [Wendy] Hardly even whimper as it happens. 312 00:12:22,375 --> 00:12:25,145 Our sesh, while fun, is a waste of your time. 313 00:12:25,145 --> 00:12:26,513 And mine. 314 00:12:26,513 --> 00:12:27,781 Go get 'em! 315 00:12:29,249 --> 00:12:31,084 Fuckin' A. 316 00:12:34,321 --> 00:12:35,388 [laughs] 317 00:12:35,388 --> 00:12:37,524 You just did it, didn't you? 318 00:12:42,095 --> 00:12:43,330 All right. 319 00:12:43,330 --> 00:12:44,798 3 feet apart, all right? 320 00:12:44,798 --> 00:12:46,066 Tres, all right? 321 00:12:46,066 --> 00:12:48,935 And mucha agua en la mañana. 322 00:12:48,935 --> 00:12:51,104 Can you tell him no food and lots of water in the morning? 323 00:12:51,104 --> 00:12:52,973 He knows. Does he? Yeah? 324 00:12:52,973 --> 00:12:55,208 'Cause I don't feel like I'm getting much back from him. 325 00:12:55,208 --> 00:12:56,943 I know you get it. 326 00:12:56,943 --> 00:12:58,845 You know Lu wants to do zucchini flowers on special 327 00:12:58,845 --> 00:12:59,980 now that the frost is gone, 328 00:12:59,980 --> 00:13:01,548 so let's be ready when they come in. 329 00:13:01,548 --> 00:13:02,949 You got it, boss. 330 00:13:02,949 --> 00:13:04,251 [Mike] All right, ladies and gentlemen. 331 00:13:04,251 --> 00:13:06,219 We are up 32% year-to-date, 332 00:13:06,219 --> 00:13:09,089 and we are open to all moneymaking ideas. 333 00:13:09,089 --> 00:13:11,558 Longs, shorts, sells, covers -- 334 00:13:11,558 --> 00:13:13,193 all Alpha welcome. 335 00:13:13,193 --> 00:13:16,863 The choppy waters out there are perfect -- for us. 336 00:13:16,863 --> 00:13:19,533 For the average investor, hell no. 337 00:13:19,533 --> 00:13:21,134 But never forget -- 338 00:13:21,134 --> 00:13:23,537 what's bad for him is good for us. 339 00:13:23,537 --> 00:13:28,108 If -- If we're as smart as we think we are. 340 00:13:28,108 --> 00:13:31,811 If not, the heat'll melt us like an Almond Joy in the sun. 341 00:13:31,811 --> 00:13:32,812 [laughter] 342 00:13:32,812 --> 00:13:35,815 So, are you smart enough? 343 00:13:35,815 --> 00:13:37,184 Some of us fuckin' are. 344 00:13:37,184 --> 00:13:39,152 [laughter] 345 00:13:39,152 --> 00:13:40,153 How about you, Pouch? 346 00:13:41,354 --> 00:13:43,423 How am I supposed to answer that? 347 00:13:43,423 --> 00:13:45,025 You already have. 348 00:13:45,025 --> 00:13:46,526 Sadly. 349 00:13:46,526 --> 00:13:48,562 What happened on Eureka Trans-ship? 350 00:13:48,562 --> 00:13:50,397 You knew they were gonna whiff their numbers. 351 00:13:50,397 --> 00:13:51,565 Why didn't you bang the short harder? 352 00:13:51,565 --> 00:13:53,567 You left five fucking percent on the table. 353 00:13:53,567 --> 00:13:56,603 I thought they were gonna whiff, but I didn't know. 354 00:13:56,603 --> 00:13:59,105 You are such a pussy on the short side. 355 00:13:59,105 --> 00:14:00,607 [laughter] 356 00:14:00,607 --> 00:14:02,175 Go home and get your fuckin' shinebox. 357 00:14:02,175 --> 00:14:03,210 Insulted him a little bit. 358 00:14:03,210 --> 00:14:04,344 Yeah, a little bit. 359 00:14:04,344 --> 00:14:05,879 Axe, you saw my position. 360 00:14:05,879 --> 00:14:07,147 You could have upped him. 361 00:14:07,147 --> 00:14:08,548 That's what I'm paying you for. 362 00:14:08,548 --> 00:14:10,951 You see an opportunity like that again, you grab it 363 00:14:10,951 --> 00:14:13,153 like it's a horse cock and you're Catherine the Great. 364 00:14:13,153 --> 00:14:14,454 [laughter] 365 00:14:14,454 --> 00:14:16,089 Okay, okay. 366 00:14:16,089 --> 00:14:20,160 Saldana, why are we still tied up in those hospitals? 367 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:21,461 Baby Boomers. 368 00:14:21,461 --> 00:14:23,463 They're getting old, so they're getting sick. 369 00:14:23,463 --> 00:14:25,232 When the group reports patient volumes, 370 00:14:25,232 --> 00:14:27,100 it's gonna overshoot street expectations. 371 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:29,102 [Saldana] We're talking 10% move. 372 00:14:29,102 --> 00:14:31,404 That incremental revenue will drop right to the bottom line, 373 00:14:31,404 --> 00:14:34,474 and the stock's gonna pop like a prom queen's cherry. 374 00:14:34,474 --> 00:14:35,442 [laughter] 375 00:14:35,442 --> 00:14:37,410 Good fucking answer. 376 00:14:37,410 --> 00:14:39,145 It really is. God damn it. 377 00:14:39,145 --> 00:14:41,014 Okay, new-idea time. 378 00:14:41,014 --> 00:14:43,116 [man clears throat] 379 00:14:43,116 --> 00:14:45,318 Donnie Caan, what do you have for us? 380 00:14:46,953 --> 00:14:48,188 I think Apple 381 00:14:48,188 --> 00:14:50,423 still has room to move north. 382 00:14:50,423 --> 00:14:52,158 Really? 383 00:14:53,159 --> 00:14:56,029 Our investors pay us a 3% management fee 384 00:14:56,029 --> 00:14:57,664 and 30% of their profits, 385 00:14:57,664 --> 00:15:00,900 and you want me to tell them we're buying some fucking Apple? 386 00:15:02,102 --> 00:15:03,203 Sorry, Axe. 387 00:15:03,203 --> 00:15:07,107 I-I guess I'm just not seeing the matrix right now. 388 00:15:07,107 --> 00:15:09,042 [Mike] That's a little unsettling, Donnie -- 389 00:15:09,042 --> 00:15:11,544 since seeing the matrix is your entire fucking job. 390 00:15:11,544 --> 00:15:12,912 [Mike] It's kind of like if you were a hurdler 391 00:15:12,912 --> 00:15:15,315 and instead of jumping over the fucking hurdles -- 392 00:15:15,315 --> 00:15:17,250 It's okay, Donnie. 393 00:15:17,250 --> 00:15:18,451 You'll see it again. 394 00:15:18,451 --> 00:15:19,552 Hang in. 395 00:15:19,552 --> 00:15:22,322 [Bobby] Okay, guys? 396 00:15:22,322 --> 00:15:24,257 Let's go out there, bring some meat back to camp. 397 00:15:24,257 --> 00:15:25,659 Or some nuts. 398 00:15:25,659 --> 00:15:27,260 Hunt or gather. 399 00:15:27,260 --> 00:15:28,962 [indistinct conversations] 400 00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:33,366 I'm sorry. I tried to give you the heads-up, but... 401 00:15:37,103 --> 00:15:39,306 [Steve] Phones down. 402 00:15:39,306 --> 00:15:41,508 We're S.E.C. Compliance. 403 00:15:41,508 --> 00:15:43,510 I need all portfolio managers and analysts 404 00:15:43,510 --> 00:15:45,245 to return to their desks. 405 00:15:45,245 --> 00:15:47,013 [Steve] Traders, stay here. 406 00:15:47,013 --> 00:15:49,516 Case officers will meet each pod 407 00:15:49,516 --> 00:15:52,719 and expect full cooperation. 408 00:15:55,255 --> 00:15:57,324 Better answer their questions. 409 00:15:57,324 --> 00:15:58,658 Cooperate. 410 00:15:59,993 --> 00:16:01,561 This group of energy trades -- 411 00:16:01,561 --> 00:16:03,563 I'd like you to supply the research behind them. 412 00:16:03,563 --> 00:16:06,099 I was tasked, so I supplied it. 413 00:16:06,099 --> 00:16:08,301 Right, but going through your reports, I see gaps. 414 00:16:08,301 --> 00:16:11,604 Like this Boardwalk Pipeline move -- what supported it? 415 00:16:11,604 --> 00:16:13,440 It was an event-driven strategy. 416 00:16:16,009 --> 00:16:17,644 Okay, it was based on an unsolicited tip. 417 00:16:17,644 --> 00:16:20,347 The trade was near 100,000 shares. 418 00:16:20,347 --> 00:16:25,051 Close to a $2.5 million position based on a rumor. 419 00:16:25,051 --> 00:16:27,053 It seemed... 420 00:16:27,053 --> 00:16:29,189 solid. 421 00:16:29,189 --> 00:16:31,725 Looking at tele-comm -- this Verizon trade? 422 00:16:31,725 --> 00:16:34,394 It's part of an event-driven macroplay. 423 00:16:34,394 --> 00:16:35,662 Bullshit. 424 00:16:37,364 --> 00:16:38,598 All right, I got a tip. 425 00:16:38,598 --> 00:16:40,400 And the pharmaceutical trades? 426 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,068 That was phone-a-tip. 427 00:16:42,068 --> 00:16:44,504 Incoming tip. What am I, a fucking schmuck? 428 00:16:44,504 --> 00:16:45,739 Of course I'm gonna listen. 429 00:16:45,739 --> 00:16:48,575 That was a prom-night promise. 430 00:16:48,575 --> 00:16:50,243 And that means...? 431 00:16:50,243 --> 00:16:51,678 "Just the tip." 432 00:16:52,645 --> 00:16:55,148 So, this is your entire book and trading history 433 00:16:55,148 --> 00:16:56,516 for the past three months? 434 00:16:56,516 --> 00:16:58,051 That's right. 435 00:16:58,051 --> 00:16:59,085 Wow. 436 00:16:59,085 --> 00:17:00,520 Bit of a rough patch, huh? 437 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,390 Seriously? 438 00:17:03,390 --> 00:17:05,792 Gonna need to see your trades for the past 90 days. 439 00:17:05,792 --> 00:17:07,660 Unless you got a Wells notice with my name on it, 440 00:17:07,660 --> 00:17:09,129 you're not gonna see jack shit. 441 00:17:09,129 --> 00:17:11,164 Come on, we can pull it all down from the server anyway, 442 00:17:11,164 --> 00:17:12,532 so you may as well cooperate. 443 00:17:12,532 --> 00:17:14,434 Mm. Good point. 444 00:17:14,434 --> 00:17:15,402 Lawyer. 445 00:17:15,402 --> 00:17:17,270 Your boss said you should cooperate. 446 00:17:17,270 --> 00:17:19,239 Oh. Lawyer. 447 00:17:19,239 --> 00:17:20,673 Just answer the question. 448 00:17:21,674 --> 00:17:23,410 You answer me one. 449 00:17:23,410 --> 00:17:25,211 How much do you make? 450 00:17:25,211 --> 00:17:27,113 [knock on door] 451 00:17:27,747 --> 00:17:29,115 I'm gonna need access 452 00:17:29,115 --> 00:17:31,251 to your files, paper, and computer. 453 00:17:31,251 --> 00:17:32,419 For what? 454 00:17:32,419 --> 00:17:34,220 I'm authorized to check that all trades comply -- 455 00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:35,355 I'm not a trader. 456 00:17:35,355 --> 00:17:37,624 Whatever you call yourself, after I review -- 457 00:17:37,624 --> 00:17:40,493 My files are confidential. You're not seeing them. 458 00:17:40,493 --> 00:17:42,595 You can call the Attorney General if you want, 459 00:17:42,595 --> 00:17:44,597 and tell her I say "hi" if you do. 460 00:17:44,597 --> 00:17:46,199 We had dinner last month. 461 00:17:46,199 --> 00:17:48,334 Otherwise, fuck off. 462 00:17:48,334 --> 00:17:49,469 [door slams] 463 00:17:49,469 --> 00:17:51,371 ♪dramatic music♪ 464 00:17:59,078 --> 00:18:01,614 Enough. Okay? Enough. 465 00:18:01,614 --> 00:18:03,850 [claps] 466 00:18:03,850 --> 00:18:06,252 I hope you enjoyed the lifeboat drill this morning. 467 00:18:06,252 --> 00:18:07,620 [man] Are you kidding me? 468 00:18:07,620 --> 00:18:09,389 [Bobby] We did not do well. 469 00:18:09,389 --> 00:18:12,091 In fact, we sank. 470 00:18:12,091 --> 00:18:15,161 If it were a real S.E.C. raid, we would have been fucked. 471 00:18:15,161 --> 00:18:17,330 Get the fuck out of here. [scoffs] 472 00:18:17,330 --> 00:18:18,765 I shit my pants for nothing? 473 00:18:18,765 --> 00:18:20,800 I didn't do this for my amusement. 474 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,802 What happened to Steven Birch -- 475 00:18:22,802 --> 00:18:25,872 Who I am sure will be cleared of any wrongdoing -- 476 00:18:25,872 --> 00:18:27,273 It could happen to us. 477 00:18:27,273 --> 00:18:29,809 So we need to be prepared. 478 00:18:29,809 --> 00:18:31,411 To that end, say "hello" 479 00:18:31,411 --> 00:18:34,280 to our new and improved Compliance Department. 480 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,149 [Bill] These assholes work here now? 481 00:18:36,149 --> 00:18:37,550 That, they do. 482 00:18:37,550 --> 00:18:40,820 They're here for our support and our protection, 483 00:18:40,820 --> 00:18:42,655 and you will not even be taking a piss 484 00:18:42,655 --> 00:18:45,625 without them close enough to give it a shake. 485 00:18:45,625 --> 00:18:49,462 From here on, we evaluate every move -- 486 00:18:49,462 --> 00:18:52,198 not just for the upside, but for its ethical grounding. 487 00:18:52,198 --> 00:18:53,199 We have to be more pure 488 00:18:53,199 --> 00:18:55,435 than the Virgin Mary before her first period. 489 00:18:55,435 --> 00:18:57,537 Fuck, Wags. 490 00:18:57,537 --> 00:19:01,441 How the hell are we supposed to make any money? 491 00:19:01,441 --> 00:19:03,343 You think this is a joke, Victor? 492 00:19:05,245 --> 00:19:07,480 You, in particular, were flagged. 493 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:08,848 Flagged? 494 00:19:08,848 --> 00:19:11,885 Your short on that chip maker. 495 00:19:11,885 --> 00:19:13,887 Eleva Peripherals. 496 00:19:13,887 --> 00:19:18,157 Netted 38% fresh blubber on that seal hunt. 497 00:19:18,157 --> 00:19:21,361 [Bobby] Rotten carcass -- over the line. 498 00:19:21,361 --> 00:19:24,631 We're lucky the S.E.C. hasn't come calling already. 499 00:19:24,631 --> 00:19:25,765 You're done. 500 00:19:25,765 --> 00:19:27,367 [Bobby] Fired. 501 00:19:28,501 --> 00:19:29,903 Clear out. 502 00:19:29,903 --> 00:19:31,804 Leave your key cards. 503 00:19:39,412 --> 00:19:41,247 This is bullshit. 504 00:19:41,247 --> 00:19:42,549 I didn't do anything out-of-bounds -- 505 00:19:42,549 --> 00:19:44,183 no more than anyone else. 506 00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:45,518 Did I sign off on that trade? 507 00:19:45,518 --> 00:19:46,819 No, I did not. 508 00:19:46,819 --> 00:19:48,688 Don't say anything else. 509 00:19:48,688 --> 00:19:52,325 I trusted you with my name and my capital, 510 00:19:52,325 --> 00:19:53,693 and you fucked me. 511 00:19:53,693 --> 00:19:56,296 [Bobby] You put us all at risk 512 00:19:56,296 --> 00:19:58,331 with your deceitful, illegal moves. 513 00:19:58,331 --> 00:20:00,366 Now get out of here. 514 00:20:00,366 --> 00:20:02,468 ♪suspenseful music♪ 515 00:20:09,342 --> 00:20:11,444 All right, everybody, back at it. 516 00:20:11,444 --> 00:20:14,614 Play hard, play clean. 517 00:20:14,614 --> 00:20:17,483 Be careful out there. 518 00:20:17,483 --> 00:20:18,952 That was a hell of a public spanking. 519 00:20:18,952 --> 00:20:20,620 Make sure our investors know about it. 520 00:20:20,620 --> 00:20:21,754 On it. 521 00:20:21,754 --> 00:20:24,324 I'm gonna make sure Garth Sykes hears about it A.S.A.P. 522 00:20:24,324 --> 00:20:26,359 You're gonna be a god on the street by lunchtime. 523 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:27,694 I thought I already was one. 524 00:20:27,694 --> 00:20:29,395 Greater god. [scoffs] 525 00:20:31,297 --> 00:20:33,900 Don't you fuckin' touch me! 526 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:35,401 Or my cellphone. 527 00:20:37,403 --> 00:20:39,539 [door opens, closes] 528 00:20:50,516 --> 00:20:53,519 I was going to tell you about the compliance gag, 529 00:20:53,519 --> 00:20:55,922 but you didn't show up at the charity dinner, 530 00:20:55,922 --> 00:20:57,023 and then... 531 00:20:57,023 --> 00:21:00,493 Then...I was half a hallway from your office. 532 00:21:00,493 --> 00:21:01,961 Try again. 533 00:21:01,961 --> 00:21:04,430 Honest? It was an oversight. 534 00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:05,965 No, it wasn't. You don't make them. 535 00:21:05,965 --> 00:21:07,533 And that matters. 536 00:21:07,533 --> 00:21:09,902 But what matters more right now is that Victor 537 00:21:09,902 --> 00:21:12,739 is exactly the wrong person to fire that way. 538 00:21:12,739 --> 00:21:13,973 That was spur-of-the-moment. 539 00:21:13,973 --> 00:21:16,309 It was a spur-of-the-moment fuck-up. 540 00:21:17,310 --> 00:21:19,345 His entire psychological makeup 541 00:21:19,345 --> 00:21:21,314 sets him up to react very poorly 542 00:21:21,314 --> 00:21:22,715 to public humiliation. 543 00:21:22,715 --> 00:21:25,518 The same things that made him a profit center for you 544 00:21:25,518 --> 00:21:27,453 will make him a difficult adversary 545 00:21:27,453 --> 00:21:28,721 if he's not handled right. 546 00:21:28,721 --> 00:21:30,456 He will stew and obsess 547 00:21:30,456 --> 00:21:32,659 and find a way to exact revenge on you. 548 00:21:33,493 --> 00:21:35,528 Okay. I can see that. 549 00:21:35,528 --> 00:21:36,663 Will you fix it? 550 00:21:39,932 --> 00:21:42,468 Go do it, please. 551 00:21:42,468 --> 00:21:44,570 I made a mistake not looping you in. 552 00:21:44,570 --> 00:21:45,705 I admit that. 553 00:21:45,705 --> 00:21:47,840 "Mistake." 554 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,442 Last chance. 555 00:21:50,443 --> 00:21:52,011 Okay. 556 00:21:52,011 --> 00:21:53,780 It was a red team drill. 557 00:21:53,780 --> 00:21:56,649 I wanted everybody to react as they would naturally. 558 00:21:59,619 --> 00:22:01,587 I left you out on purpose. 559 00:22:04,490 --> 00:22:06,325 And I will make it up to you. 560 00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:07,794 Please deal with Victor. 561 00:22:15,668 --> 00:22:17,970 Sean Ayles, please. It's Lara Axelrod. 562 00:22:19,439 --> 00:22:20,707 Sean. Hi. 563 00:22:20,707 --> 00:22:22,075 This is the call you've been waiting for. 564 00:22:22,075 --> 00:22:24,811 I wanted to talk to you about making a donation. 565 00:22:24,811 --> 00:22:25,978 [chuckles] 566 00:22:25,978 --> 00:22:28,114 I figured you would. 567 00:22:28,114 --> 00:22:30,883 And about naming rights. 568 00:22:30,883 --> 00:22:33,886 [Sean] And so the names on these buildings 569 00:22:33,886 --> 00:22:36,656 become more than just identifiers. 570 00:22:36,656 --> 00:22:41,394 They become signifiers of a grander age, 571 00:22:41,394 --> 00:22:43,629 when titans of industry understood 572 00:22:43,629 --> 00:22:45,565 that the purpose of their wealth 573 00:22:45,565 --> 00:22:47,600 was to support the performative arts 574 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,368 to improve the quality of life 575 00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:52,872 for all those who live in and visit this city. 576 00:22:53,873 --> 00:22:56,008 Now give me the Gettysburg Address. 577 00:22:56,008 --> 00:22:57,543 I'm sorry. 578 00:22:57,543 --> 00:23:00,046 That... sounded rehearsed. 579 00:23:01,681 --> 00:23:02,682 I'm vamping. 580 00:23:02,682 --> 00:23:03,983 [clears throat] 581 00:23:03,983 --> 00:23:05,084 I'm in a difficult spot. 582 00:23:05,084 --> 00:23:06,652 No, yeah, I know. 583 00:23:06,652 --> 00:23:10,590 Because what you need to tell me is that the Eads family 584 00:23:10,590 --> 00:23:14,460 owns the naming rights to this building in perpetuity. 585 00:23:14,460 --> 00:23:17,396 But I'm here offering you $100 million, 586 00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:19,732 which you need to extract somehow 587 00:23:19,732 --> 00:23:21,801 without giving me what I want. 588 00:23:23,569 --> 00:23:25,438 I'm in a difficult spot. 589 00:23:25,438 --> 00:23:27,406 No, yeah, I know. 590 00:23:27,406 --> 00:23:30,610 Also, "performative" does not mean "performance." 591 00:23:32,178 --> 00:23:34,080 Most donors like an air of -- 592 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:35,481 I don't. 593 00:23:37,183 --> 00:23:39,118 There are other naming opportunities on the ground 594 00:23:39,118 --> 00:23:41,854 that would give you the status and sense of permanence 595 00:23:41,854 --> 00:23:42,889 that you need. 596 00:23:42,889 --> 00:23:45,491 Why is this building so important to you? 597 00:23:46,926 --> 00:23:49,762 Here's why it's important to you. 598 00:23:49,762 --> 00:23:52,799 It's the only way you are getting even a dollar out of me. 599 00:23:52,799 --> 00:23:54,600 [Bobby] Now, I happen to have discovered 600 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,602 that the remaining members of the Eads family 601 00:23:56,602 --> 00:23:58,604 are in a financial pinch. 602 00:23:58,604 --> 00:24:00,540 They need to raise cash. 603 00:24:00,540 --> 00:24:01,841 And they will have a hard time 604 00:24:01,841 --> 00:24:03,609 getting ahold of the kind of loan they need 605 00:24:03,609 --> 00:24:05,545 to pay off their other loans. 606 00:24:05,545 --> 00:24:07,113 So, I want you to tell them 607 00:24:07,113 --> 00:24:09,749 that I will pay them $25 million 608 00:24:09,749 --> 00:24:13,452 to allow me to replace their family name 609 00:24:13,452 --> 00:24:15,454 with mine. 610 00:24:15,454 --> 00:24:17,757 Then I will donate the 100, 611 00:24:17,757 --> 00:24:20,226 and you can begin your renovations. 612 00:24:20,226 --> 00:24:22,195 ♪pensive music♪ 613 00:24:26,499 --> 00:24:27,800 Oh. 614 00:24:29,902 --> 00:24:33,239 There is one condition I'll need you to sign off on. 615 00:24:36,709 --> 00:24:39,245 [keys jingling] 616 00:24:39,245 --> 00:24:40,479 [gasps] 617 00:24:40,479 --> 00:24:42,148 Don't scream. 618 00:24:42,148 --> 00:24:43,983 Look there. 619 00:24:43,983 --> 00:24:46,485 [ moaning ] 620 00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:48,888 What the fuck? 621 00:24:48,888 --> 00:24:50,022 Get out. 622 00:24:50,022 --> 00:24:51,190 I'm calling the police. 623 00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:52,959 You don't want to do that, Tara. 624 00:24:54,026 --> 00:24:55,127 Who the fuck are you? 625 00:24:55,127 --> 00:24:56,262 [ moaning continues ] 626 00:24:56,262 --> 00:24:57,830 Your newest and bestest. 627 00:24:57,830 --> 00:25:01,234 [Hall] You should stay and listen to me. 628 00:25:01,234 --> 00:25:04,003 Or else this goes viral. 629 00:25:04,003 --> 00:25:05,705 You're making me weak. 630 00:25:05,705 --> 00:25:07,740 "You're making me weak." 631 00:25:07,740 --> 00:25:09,609 [scoffs] 632 00:25:09,609 --> 00:25:12,044 We have -- We have training against this. 633 00:25:12,044 --> 00:25:14,680 You think you're gonna fucking blackmail me? 634 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,283 So what? I fuck girls, guys. Who cares? 635 00:25:17,283 --> 00:25:18,584 Everyone fucks. 636 00:25:18,584 --> 00:25:21,587 That thing has no chance to compromise me. 637 00:25:21,587 --> 00:25:23,222 I hope it at least gets you off, man. 638 00:25:25,291 --> 00:25:26,926 What gets me off 639 00:25:26,926 --> 00:25:30,596 would disturb you at such a deep level, honey, 640 00:25:30,596 --> 00:25:33,065 you'd be best-served never to think about it again. 641 00:25:37,870 --> 00:25:39,605 [Hall] Folks in your line care 642 00:25:39,605 --> 00:25:41,574 about that kind of thing, though. 643 00:25:41,574 --> 00:25:43,309 And this -- 644 00:25:43,309 --> 00:25:46,312 your hair... 645 00:25:46,312 --> 00:25:48,915 which will test positive for cocaine, 646 00:25:48,915 --> 00:25:53,019 can be in Chuck Rhoades' hands within an hour. 647 00:25:53,019 --> 00:25:57,089 You're gonna watch, listen, and report, 648 00:25:57,089 --> 00:25:59,725 and everything's gonna be fine. 649 00:26:03,095 --> 00:26:05,097 It's a lot to take in. 650 00:26:07,767 --> 00:26:09,235 We've already gone through all of this crap. 651 00:26:09,235 --> 00:26:11,904 I heard back from my sources. 652 00:26:11,904 --> 00:26:14,106 There's a war room set up at Birch's. 653 00:26:14,106 --> 00:26:16,108 Lawyers, accountants -- the whole thing. 654 00:26:16,108 --> 00:26:18,110 Guys at his shop are prepping their résumés. 655 00:26:18,110 --> 00:26:21,213 Well, if it was just smoke, they'd issue a denial -- 656 00:26:21,213 --> 00:26:22,648 keep working. 657 00:26:22,648 --> 00:26:24,984 Yeah. They're treating this article like it's a warrant. 658 00:26:24,984 --> 00:26:26,752 Somebody wanted to hurt Birch, 659 00:26:26,752 --> 00:26:28,788 and they wanted us on the ass end. 660 00:26:28,788 --> 00:26:31,657 So they leaked it. 661 00:26:31,657 --> 00:26:32,925 And I do not like it. 662 00:26:32,925 --> 00:26:35,127 We need the reins back in our hands. 663 00:26:35,127 --> 00:26:36,162 Understood. 664 00:26:36,162 --> 00:26:38,230 You want me to stay on this Axe/Decker thing? 665 00:26:38,230 --> 00:26:40,866 [Chuck] No. Set that aside. 666 00:26:40,866 --> 00:26:42,301 Until we know at least as much 667 00:26:42,301 --> 00:26:44,070 as this fucking reporter knows, 668 00:26:44,070 --> 00:26:45,938 let's keep the brights on Steven Birch. 669 00:26:45,938 --> 00:26:47,039 All right. 670 00:26:47,039 --> 00:26:48,174 [Chuck] Get me every article 671 00:26:48,174 --> 00:26:51,911 Randy Kornbluth wrote in the past year. 672 00:26:51,911 --> 00:26:53,713 All of Mike Dimonda's articles, too. 673 00:26:53,713 --> 00:26:55,247 We'll start there. 674 00:27:08,694 --> 00:27:10,096 Mike. 675 00:27:10,096 --> 00:27:12,398 [car door opens] 676 00:27:15,835 --> 00:27:18,337 Good parlor trick, knowing my address. 677 00:27:18,337 --> 00:27:20,706 That'll look like a fun intimidation tactic 678 00:27:20,706 --> 00:27:21,707 when I write this up. 679 00:27:21,707 --> 00:27:24,176 Oh. You're not writing this up. 680 00:27:24,176 --> 00:27:25,845 Because that would be a small win, 681 00:27:25,845 --> 00:27:28,247 and you're not in it for small wins. 682 00:27:28,247 --> 00:27:30,416 No, you've come too far. Too young an age for that. 683 00:27:30,416 --> 00:27:32,385 I'm in it because people deserve to know the truth 684 00:27:32,385 --> 00:27:34,053 about power and money and -- Whoa. Wait a minute. 685 00:27:34,053 --> 00:27:36,722 What are you, Glenn Greenwald all of a sudden? 686 00:27:36,722 --> 00:27:37,323 Come on. 687 00:27:37,323 --> 00:27:38,391 [both chuckle] 688 00:27:40,226 --> 00:27:42,962 You know, I've, uh, I've been reading... 689 00:27:42,962 --> 00:27:45,264 Randy Kornbluth lately. 690 00:27:45,264 --> 00:27:48,000 He usually covers state politics. 691 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,936 He hasn't had a hard business story in 18 months, 692 00:27:50,936 --> 00:27:52,304 but all of a sudden, 693 00:27:52,304 --> 00:27:54,907 he hooks into a full-blown crime story -- 694 00:27:54,907 --> 00:27:56,375 on Steven Birch. 695 00:27:57,777 --> 00:27:59,311 His article quotes 696 00:27:59,311 --> 00:28:02,148 former federal prosecutor James Robbins, 697 00:28:02,148 --> 00:28:03,816 who says that the connection 698 00:28:03,816 --> 00:28:06,352 between hedge funds and company officials 699 00:28:06,352 --> 00:28:08,187 must be probed. 700 00:28:09,789 --> 00:28:12,291 You know who else likes quoting James Robbins? 701 00:28:12,291 --> 00:28:13,926 You. 702 00:28:13,926 --> 00:28:16,262 Seven times in the past six months. 703 00:28:16,262 --> 00:28:18,097 He's a widely respected source with connections -- 704 00:28:18,097 --> 00:28:20,199 He's a fucking rent-a-quote. 705 00:28:20,199 --> 00:28:23,369 I know you really wrote the Birch story, 706 00:28:23,369 --> 00:28:27,907 and I think I know why you chose to hide that fact. 707 00:28:27,907 --> 00:28:29,809 If I am such a careerist, 708 00:28:29,809 --> 00:28:31,310 why would I ever hide something that good? 709 00:28:31,310 --> 00:28:33,879 'Cause you thought it would endear you to someone. 710 00:28:36,082 --> 00:28:37,283 What you should have done, 711 00:28:37,283 --> 00:28:40,019 if you were really playing an elevated game, 712 00:28:40,019 --> 00:28:42,455 was come to me with what you had. 713 00:28:42,455 --> 00:28:44,190 See, if I had something better to give you 714 00:28:44,190 --> 00:28:45,491 in exchange for you holding on to it -- 715 00:28:45,491 --> 00:28:46,959 You have never been willing 716 00:28:46,959 --> 00:28:48,394 to play any kind of game with me. 717 00:28:48,394 --> 00:28:50,963 I didn't know you were ready to play in the bigs, man. 718 00:28:50,963 --> 00:28:52,498 Now I do. 719 00:28:52,498 --> 00:28:54,166 So, these are the rules. 720 00:28:54,166 --> 00:28:55,734 You tell me who fed you that -- 721 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:57,336 No. 722 00:28:57,336 --> 00:28:59,872 I'm gonna head inside. 723 00:28:59,872 --> 00:29:01,807 Because this conversation has peaked, 724 00:29:01,807 --> 00:29:05,177 and you don't get to tell me the rules. 725 00:29:05,177 --> 00:29:06,745 You're correct. 726 00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:08,914 I'm not gonna write up this ambush. 727 00:29:08,914 --> 00:29:10,349 But I can. 728 00:29:10,349 --> 00:29:13,285 [Michael] Anytime I want to. 729 00:29:13,285 --> 00:29:15,321 So think about that the next time 730 00:29:15,321 --> 00:29:17,790 you try and bar me from a press conference 731 00:29:17,790 --> 00:29:19,358 or dodge my call. 732 00:29:19,358 --> 00:29:21,127 Have a good night. 733 00:29:23,062 --> 00:29:24,463 [keys jingle] 734 00:29:24,463 --> 00:29:27,466 [door opens, closes] 735 00:29:29,068 --> 00:29:30,970 ♪mid-tempo music♪ 736 00:29:34,140 --> 00:29:36,075 All right. Thank you. 737 00:29:40,980 --> 00:29:42,948 Uh... 738 00:29:42,948 --> 00:29:44,817 you know what? 739 00:29:44,817 --> 00:29:46,051 Here's the $20 740 00:29:46,051 --> 00:29:48,220 for whatever the guy in the blue shirt back there wants. 741 00:29:48,220 --> 00:29:50,055 [man] I got you. Okay, thank you. 742 00:29:50,055 --> 00:29:51,824 [Chuck] Okay, guys, let's go. Come on. 743 00:29:51,824 --> 00:29:54,193 Now, you guys remember when we threw Grandpa 744 00:29:54,193 --> 00:29:55,528 a surprise party for his birthday 745 00:29:55,528 --> 00:29:57,196 and we all had to keep the secret? 746 00:29:57,196 --> 00:29:58,330 Yeah. 747 00:29:58,330 --> 00:30:00,099 Okay. Why do we have to keep the secret? 748 00:30:00,099 --> 00:30:01,433 To make Grandpa happy. 749 00:30:01,433 --> 00:30:03,369 Right. So this is like that, okay? 750 00:30:03,369 --> 00:30:05,137 We don't tell anyone about the doughnuts 751 00:30:05,137 --> 00:30:06,972 to make Mommy happy. 752 00:30:06,972 --> 00:30:07,873 Okay? 753 00:30:08,941 --> 00:30:09,975 [Kroll] Rhoades! 754 00:30:09,975 --> 00:30:13,179 Don't you walk away before you meet my kids. 755 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,349 Mr. Kroll, we are in a public place... 756 00:30:17,349 --> 00:30:19,885 with, uh, as you say, our children. 757 00:30:19,885 --> 00:30:22,888 Uh, why don't you guys go sit on the bench over there, okay? 758 00:30:22,888 --> 00:30:24,557 Take your sister over there. 759 00:30:25,558 --> 00:30:29,995 I-I don't need your, um...kindness now. 760 00:30:29,995 --> 00:30:32,097 I-I needed it at sentencing. 761 00:30:35,167 --> 00:30:38,504 This is Margo and Stevie. 762 00:30:39,438 --> 00:30:40,839 Hello. 763 00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:43,042 I kept them out of school today so we could be together 764 00:30:43,042 --> 00:30:44,944 because I go to prison tomorrow. 765 00:30:46,345 --> 00:30:48,080 How do you live with yourself? 766 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:49,481 How? 767 00:30:49,481 --> 00:30:50,616 Yeah. 768 00:30:51,984 --> 00:30:53,219 I think long and hard 769 00:30:53,219 --> 00:30:57,523 before any prosecution in my office goes forward. 770 00:30:57,523 --> 00:31:01,160 And I'm proudest of the cases I choose not to prosecute. 771 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,597 But when I go forward, it's full guns. 772 00:31:04,597 --> 00:31:07,166 I made one goddamn mistake. 773 00:31:07,166 --> 00:31:09,635 And who got hurt? 774 00:31:09,635 --> 00:31:10,569 No one. 775 00:31:10,569 --> 00:31:11,637 [Kroll] You could have let it go. 776 00:31:11,637 --> 00:31:12,938 You committed mail fraud. 777 00:31:12,938 --> 00:31:16,275 And you knew that my wife had died... 778 00:31:16,275 --> 00:31:18,244 suddenly... 779 00:31:18,244 --> 00:31:20,446 and that I was desperate and lost. 780 00:31:20,446 --> 00:31:21,880 Y-You read the articles. 781 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,315 You -- You got letters from 100 people 782 00:31:23,315 --> 00:31:25,884 who vouched for the man that I was and would be again. 783 00:31:27,386 --> 00:31:30,489 I'm what those kids have left. 784 00:31:30,489 --> 00:31:34,560 And they won't have me again for four years. 785 00:31:36,161 --> 00:31:37,930 Have a nice stroll with yours. 786 00:31:37,930 --> 00:31:39,565 And take your fucking $20 787 00:31:39,565 --> 00:31:42,568 or just...leave it here for the birds to pick at. 788 00:31:45,170 --> 00:31:46,405 [Kroll] Let's go, kids. 789 00:31:46,405 --> 00:31:48,307 Daddy's done with this asshole. 790 00:31:53,445 --> 00:31:55,014 [Butch] You wanted to see me? 791 00:31:55,014 --> 00:31:56,382 Hey. 792 00:31:57,916 --> 00:31:59,685 I want to give you a short 793 00:31:59,685 --> 00:32:02,421 that you're not gonna bail on too quick. 794 00:32:02,421 --> 00:32:03,922 Do you know Cross-Co.? 795 00:32:03,922 --> 00:32:05,624 Cross-Co. Trucking. I've been tracking it. 796 00:32:05,624 --> 00:32:08,427 Mid-size firm, has a big distribution contract 797 00:32:08,427 --> 00:32:10,462 with that bakery company YumTime. 798 00:32:10,462 --> 00:32:12,231 Been holding 50. 799 00:32:12,231 --> 00:32:14,433 Fundamentals are solid. 800 00:32:14,433 --> 00:32:16,402 I don't see the short play. 801 00:32:16,402 --> 00:32:19,171 I don't need you to see it. I need you to do it. 802 00:32:19,171 --> 00:32:21,573 We'll get 50 on the tape. We'll size up later. 803 00:32:23,642 --> 00:32:27,079 [Bobby] You got a fucking problem with this? 804 00:32:27,079 --> 00:32:28,047 No. 805 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:35,487 [sighs] 806 00:32:35,487 --> 00:32:37,156 You plug that investor leakage? 807 00:32:37,156 --> 00:32:39,124 I thought I'd done exactly that, 808 00:32:39,124 --> 00:32:41,527 but I haven't been able to get Garth Sykes on the phone. 809 00:32:42,428 --> 00:32:44,296 He bails, it hurts us. 810 00:32:44,296 --> 00:32:46,031 Yeah. I tried. 811 00:32:46,031 --> 00:32:48,434 But I think I need you to show face with this guy. 812 00:32:48,434 --> 00:32:50,135 You got this. 813 00:32:50,135 --> 00:32:51,403 That's why I have you. 814 00:32:51,403 --> 00:32:52,671 [keyboard clacking] 815 00:32:52,671 --> 00:32:55,574 [birds chirping] 816 00:32:55,574 --> 00:32:57,676 That fucker thinks that if you come running over here, 817 00:32:57,676 --> 00:33:00,546 I'm gonna forget he fired me in front of everyone I know? 818 00:33:00,546 --> 00:33:02,247 Who knows what he thinks? 819 00:33:02,247 --> 00:33:04,149 One minute, you're his most trusted advisor, 820 00:33:04,149 --> 00:33:06,385 the next, you're on the outside. 821 00:33:06,385 --> 00:33:08,153 I'm here because... 822 00:33:08,153 --> 00:33:09,722 I think you might make it worse for yourself, 823 00:33:09,722 --> 00:33:11,190 and I don't want to see that. 824 00:33:11,190 --> 00:33:13,425 The money I made him... 825 00:33:13,425 --> 00:33:15,260 He treated me like a lowlife. 826 00:33:15,260 --> 00:33:17,429 And that's a trigger for you. 827 00:33:17,429 --> 00:33:19,331 Everyone laughing at me growing up. 828 00:33:19,331 --> 00:33:21,066 The dyslexia. 829 00:33:21,066 --> 00:33:22,468 Even the teachers. 830 00:33:22,468 --> 00:33:24,169 I sent every one of those pricks 831 00:33:24,169 --> 00:33:26,538 a photo of my first million-dollar bonus check. 832 00:33:26,538 --> 00:33:30,075 That made you feel really good for about 24 hours, 833 00:33:30,075 --> 00:33:31,310 and then you hated yourself 834 00:33:31,310 --> 00:33:33,645 for letting them know they ever got to you. 835 00:33:33,645 --> 00:33:34,747 Kind of. 836 00:33:34,747 --> 00:33:37,149 Sometimes. 837 00:33:37,149 --> 00:33:39,118 This is different. 838 00:33:39,118 --> 00:33:41,553 I know plenty about how Axe Capital works -- 839 00:33:41,553 --> 00:33:43,155 the dirty edge... 840 00:33:43,155 --> 00:33:45,491 the proprietary trading techniques. 841 00:33:45,491 --> 00:33:47,092 I know how the secret sauce is made. 842 00:33:47,092 --> 00:33:47,693 Yeah. 843 00:33:47,693 --> 00:33:49,027 I'm sure you could put out 844 00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:50,396 a Schott's Miscellany about the place. 845 00:33:50,396 --> 00:33:51,663 Schott's? 846 00:33:51,663 --> 00:33:54,733 It's like a Farmers' Almanac for non-farm stuff. 847 00:33:54,733 --> 00:33:57,603 Then, yeah, I could put out a couple of volumes 848 00:33:57,603 --> 00:33:59,271 of Schott's Miscellany about the place. 849 00:33:59,271 --> 00:34:01,673 You just need to ask yourself one question first -- 850 00:34:01,673 --> 00:34:04,343 are you rich enough to never get another job? 851 00:34:08,580 --> 00:34:10,783 I did work for that man. 852 00:34:10,783 --> 00:34:12,551 Bribed an oil company C.F.O. for him -- 853 00:34:12,551 --> 00:34:14,052 Stop talking. 854 00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:16,054 We're not in session. That's not privileged. 855 00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:19,625 Point is, I got all muddied up for him. 856 00:34:19,625 --> 00:34:22,461 Hard not to rub it on his clean, white shirt now. 857 00:34:27,065 --> 00:34:29,101 Remember Warren Jaffin, the analyst? 858 00:34:30,269 --> 00:34:31,537 Yeah. 859 00:34:31,537 --> 00:34:33,205 Bright guy? 860 00:34:33,205 --> 00:34:34,339 That kid was sharp. 861 00:34:34,339 --> 00:34:36,308 Employable? 862 00:34:36,308 --> 00:34:37,409 Real sharp, yeah. 863 00:34:37,409 --> 00:34:40,212 Then he balked at his bonus one year and got popped. 864 00:34:40,212 --> 00:34:43,148 He got another job right away at a huge bank -- 865 00:34:43,148 --> 00:34:45,217 $3 million a year, guaranteed. 866 00:34:45,217 --> 00:34:46,385 Only, word got back to Axe 867 00:34:46,385 --> 00:34:48,587 that Warren had badmouthed him in the interview -- 868 00:34:48,587 --> 00:34:50,789 said Axe wasn't generous with him. 869 00:34:50,789 --> 00:34:54,126 So Axe called the head of the bank, 870 00:34:54,126 --> 00:34:57,696 asked him to pull the offer that day, which the guy did. 871 00:34:59,565 --> 00:35:01,500 Can you imagine... 872 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:04,269 how humiliating that was for Warren? 873 00:35:04,269 --> 00:35:06,171 Probably told his whole family, all his friends 874 00:35:06,171 --> 00:35:07,473 that he was back. 875 00:35:07,473 --> 00:35:09,308 But Axe didn't leave it there. 876 00:35:09,308 --> 00:35:11,410 He called the president or chairman 877 00:35:11,410 --> 00:35:14,513 of every prime broker, bank, and fund in the industry 878 00:35:14,513 --> 00:35:15,781 and had him blackballed. 879 00:35:15,781 --> 00:35:17,549 Put it out over the loudspeaker, 880 00:35:17,549 --> 00:35:19,518 direct from the principal's office -- 881 00:35:19,518 --> 00:35:23,188 "If you hire Warren Jaffin, you are my enemy." 882 00:35:24,490 --> 00:35:27,860 [Wendy] Do you know what Warren does now? 883 00:35:29,595 --> 00:35:31,263 He's got a blog. 884 00:35:34,299 --> 00:35:37,269 You've built a real life for yourself, Victor -- 885 00:35:37,269 --> 00:35:38,637 a long way from Queens. 886 00:35:38,637 --> 00:35:39,872 [sighs] 887 00:35:39,872 --> 00:35:42,140 If Axe is certain you'll act like a gentleman, 888 00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:44,610 he will make sure to take care of you. 889 00:35:46,278 --> 00:35:47,746 You were the one that always told me 890 00:35:47,746 --> 00:35:49,248 to stand up for myself. 891 00:35:49,248 --> 00:35:52,618 When you can win, yes. 892 00:35:52,618 --> 00:35:56,421 The only way you can win now is by letting it go. 893 00:36:02,461 --> 00:36:05,764 You know, I have to confess to something. 894 00:36:05,764 --> 00:36:07,165 Okay. 895 00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:08,534 [sighs] You're not gonna like it. 896 00:36:08,534 --> 00:36:10,235 Fire away. 897 00:36:10,235 --> 00:36:13,272 I took the kids for doughnuts. 898 00:36:13,272 --> 00:36:15,374 I know. 899 00:36:15,374 --> 00:36:16,808 Kevin told me. 900 00:36:18,544 --> 00:36:19,545 Good. 901 00:36:19,545 --> 00:36:20,812 Oh. 902 00:36:20,812 --> 00:36:22,414 You're glad he cracked? 903 00:36:22,414 --> 00:36:25,450 No, I never want them to keep secrets from you. 904 00:36:25,450 --> 00:36:27,953 They're gonna keep them from me their entire teenage years. 905 00:36:27,953 --> 00:36:29,187 They should at least know 906 00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:31,557 that they always can confide in you. 907 00:36:31,557 --> 00:36:36,228 [Chuck] And among your many gifts, that is a great one. 908 00:36:36,228 --> 00:36:39,765 Everyone feels like you're always on their side. 909 00:36:39,765 --> 00:36:42,968 Well, I try to be, or at least... 910 00:36:42,968 --> 00:36:45,337 understand where they're coming from. 911 00:36:45,337 --> 00:36:46,939 [Chuck] That's the wonderful part of your job. 912 00:36:46,939 --> 00:36:49,508 You get to employ your empathy. 913 00:36:50,676 --> 00:36:55,614 I have to be a real prick sometimes, you know? 914 00:36:55,614 --> 00:36:56,882 At work. 915 00:36:56,882 --> 00:36:59,217 Yeah. 916 00:36:59,217 --> 00:37:02,588 Sometimes, we all do things we're not proud of at work. 917 00:37:02,588 --> 00:37:04,556 [Chuck] Well, this is different. 918 00:37:05,724 --> 00:37:08,226 When I was in the park with the kids, 919 00:37:08,226 --> 00:37:10,662 there was this guy who... 920 00:37:11,830 --> 00:37:15,334 Specifics don't matter. 921 00:37:15,334 --> 00:37:16,668 What does is, 922 00:37:16,668 --> 00:37:20,405 that every once in a while, there's this thing we say -- 923 00:37:20,405 --> 00:37:21,807 "I am never so proud 924 00:37:21,807 --> 00:37:25,911 as when I choose not to prosecute a case." 925 00:37:25,911 --> 00:37:29,381 And that's true -- in theory. 926 00:37:29,381 --> 00:37:33,518 But once in a while, I wish that I could just be more... 927 00:37:35,821 --> 00:37:37,823 ...human. 928 00:37:40,525 --> 00:37:42,527 But I haven't figured out how to do that 929 00:37:42,527 --> 00:37:45,731 and my job at the same time. 930 00:37:45,731 --> 00:37:46,832 You know? 931 00:37:46,832 --> 00:37:50,469 Being 100% good at your job... 932 00:37:52,638 --> 00:37:55,507 ...and 100% good... 933 00:37:57,409 --> 00:37:58,744 ...if you figure that one out, 934 00:37:58,744 --> 00:38:00,646 let's both quit and write that book. 935 00:38:02,981 --> 00:38:04,883 ♪exotic music♪ 936 00:38:08,053 --> 00:38:09,988 [men groaning] 937 00:38:09,988 --> 00:38:12,991 [chuckles softly] 938 00:38:12,991 --> 00:38:14,860 It's a luxury to relax every once in a while, 939 00:38:14,860 --> 00:38:16,328 isn't it, Garth? 940 00:38:16,328 --> 00:38:18,897 I remember this place -- fondly. 941 00:38:18,897 --> 00:38:20,832 Look, the stability of this firm 942 00:38:20,832 --> 00:38:22,501 has never been in question. 943 00:38:22,501 --> 00:38:25,904 I need to look into Axelrod's eyes, hear him say it. 944 00:38:25,904 --> 00:38:27,939 Yeah, he will. 945 00:38:27,939 --> 00:38:29,775 I just wanted to hear you first. 946 00:38:29,775 --> 00:38:32,444 I may be from Kentucky, but I'm no rube. 947 00:38:32,444 --> 00:38:33,645 I don't bet on long shots 948 00:38:33,645 --> 00:38:36,682 when it comes to investing the pensions of my members. 949 00:38:36,682 --> 00:38:39,918 That's why they trust me with their $5 billion. 950 00:38:39,918 --> 00:38:43,355 I get nervous, I see someone like Axelrod running around 951 00:38:43,355 --> 00:38:46,058 spending his money like he's a goddamn rap singer. 952 00:38:46,058 --> 00:38:48,894 Emcee. Like a rap emcee. 953 00:38:48,894 --> 00:38:51,563 No, some of 'em sing now. My kids showed me. 954 00:38:51,563 --> 00:38:54,399 Snoop and Kid Rock both. 955 00:38:54,399 --> 00:38:58,336 You're right -- you are no rube. 956 00:38:58,336 --> 00:39:00,839 But Bobby Axelrod isn't, either. 957 00:39:00,839 --> 00:39:03,842 We've crushed the S&P seven years running, 958 00:39:03,842 --> 00:39:07,412 which means you have crushed the S&P. 959 00:39:07,412 --> 00:39:09,014 [woman] You turn over now. 960 00:39:09,014 --> 00:39:10,449 [groans] 961 00:39:10,449 --> 00:39:13,719 Everyone beats it -- till they don't. 962 00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,888 When I can I see Axe, talk to him about it? 963 00:39:16,888 --> 00:39:19,558 You don't want to rush off now, do you? 964 00:39:19,558 --> 00:39:20,926 [both moan] 965 00:39:20,926 --> 00:39:22,928 ♪pensive music♪ 966 00:39:25,864 --> 00:39:28,934 Here's McCue. She got some stuff on Birch. 967 00:39:28,934 --> 00:39:31,136 You are gonna love my nuts. 968 00:39:31,136 --> 00:39:33,438 Pierre Bernard, 969 00:39:33,438 --> 00:39:35,474 longtime C.F.O. of the Arcadian, 970 00:39:35,474 --> 00:39:37,375 gets passed over for C.E.O., 971 00:39:37,375 --> 00:39:38,610 gets censured internally 972 00:39:38,610 --> 00:39:40,078 for certain financial improprieties. 973 00:39:41,646 --> 00:39:43,849 Press clippings I thought you might want. 974 00:39:43,849 --> 00:39:46,051 And Bernard interviews for a job at Birch 975 00:39:46,051 --> 00:39:47,652 shortly before the trades. 976 00:39:47,652 --> 00:39:50,088 We have secretaries on both sides confirming the meet. 977 00:39:50,088 --> 00:39:54,526 Birch's trades in Arcadian occur a half-hour afterward. 978 00:39:54,526 --> 00:39:56,161 [Terri] We alerted our counterparts up north. 979 00:39:56,161 --> 00:39:58,130 The railroad has fired Bernard. 980 00:39:58,130 --> 00:40:00,031 The Canadians are considering prosecution. 981 00:40:00,031 --> 00:40:02,400 He's ready to make a statement implicating Birch. 982 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,035 At Quantico, they call a case this straightforward -- 983 00:40:04,035 --> 00:40:05,604 Nobody cares. 984 00:40:05,604 --> 00:40:06,671 Of course not. Why would they? 985 00:40:06,671 --> 00:40:09,074 Rookies always bring up Quantico. 986 00:40:10,809 --> 00:40:12,644 Uh, do you need something else? 987 00:40:13,578 --> 00:40:16,548 Let me know if you need PDF backups of those. 988 00:40:16,548 --> 00:40:17,549 [Bryan] Will do. 989 00:40:17,549 --> 00:40:18,884 He is right, though. 990 00:40:18,884 --> 00:40:20,886 This Birch thing's a dunker. 991 00:40:22,721 --> 00:40:24,756 Dominique all day. 992 00:40:26,591 --> 00:40:28,927 Wilkins! 993 00:40:43,141 --> 00:40:45,877 So, tomorrow morning, when the arrest warrant is issued, 994 00:40:45,877 --> 00:40:47,112 along with a search warrant, 995 00:40:47,112 --> 00:40:49,714 we meet near Birch's firm, all right? 996 00:40:49,714 --> 00:40:52,017 [Bryan] You guys take him, we take his records. 997 00:40:52,017 --> 00:40:53,885 Hey, quick question. Alan. 998 00:40:53,885 --> 00:40:55,120 Are we gonna handcuff him? 999 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,488 Yeah, obviously. 1000 00:40:56,488 --> 00:40:59,024 [man] What about the S.E.C.? Should we alert them? 1001 00:40:59,024 --> 00:41:00,158 We already have. 1002 00:41:00,158 --> 00:41:01,159 [Terri] Press? 1003 00:41:01,159 --> 00:41:02,627 Probably, all right? 1004 00:41:02,627 --> 00:41:04,129 I mean, those news cameras 1005 00:41:04,129 --> 00:41:07,065 just have a way of showing up at the right time, don't they? 1006 00:41:07,065 --> 00:41:08,567 [laughter] 1007 00:41:08,567 --> 00:41:09,835 [man] So, we're gonna hit 'em full-on, right? 1008 00:41:09,835 --> 00:41:11,002 [Bryan] Yes. 1009 00:41:11,002 --> 00:41:12,237 [echoing] We'll get local law enforcement 1010 00:41:12,237 --> 00:41:13,939 there on the perimeter, but with the lights out. 1011 00:41:13,939 --> 00:41:15,173 [laughter] 1012 00:41:15,173 --> 00:41:19,010 [talking continues indistinctly, echoes] 1013 00:41:19,010 --> 00:41:21,913 [Bryan] All right, any more questions? 1014 00:41:21,913 --> 00:41:25,217 [talking continues indistinctly, echoes] 1015 00:41:25,217 --> 00:41:26,117 Bryan? 1016 00:41:29,888 --> 00:41:31,957 Let's put a pin in the arrest. 1017 00:41:31,957 --> 00:41:32,691 Boss? 1018 00:41:32,691 --> 00:41:34,159 Get Birch in here. 1019 00:41:34,159 --> 00:41:35,560 It's time to settle. 1020 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,596 No, no. N-No way. 1021 00:41:37,596 --> 00:41:40,498 We -- We have him dead to rights on this trial. 1022 00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:42,834 I'm first chair. Then it's jail for this jamoke. 1023 00:41:42,834 --> 00:41:45,036 We have him dead to rights, so he'll fold quick, 1024 00:41:45,036 --> 00:41:48,173 and then we get back to what we were doing -- Axelrod. 1025 00:41:48,173 --> 00:41:52,510 I'm not letting us follow the riderless horse any longer. 1026 00:41:52,510 --> 00:41:53,612 Wait. Riderless h-- 1027 00:41:53,612 --> 00:41:55,780 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. 1028 00:41:55,780 --> 00:41:57,148 They were smart. 1029 00:41:58,984 --> 00:42:01,786 They sent one of their horses off in a different direction 1030 00:42:01,786 --> 00:42:04,522 so the posse would have to split up... 1031 00:42:04,522 --> 00:42:06,892 get distracted. 1032 00:42:06,892 --> 00:42:10,829 But this was no ordinary posse. 1033 00:42:10,829 --> 00:42:14,132 This was a super posse -- the super posse. 1034 00:42:14,132 --> 00:42:15,901 Mixed group of superheroes -- 1035 00:42:15,901 --> 00:42:18,570 a sheriff, a marshal, an Indian. 1036 00:42:18,570 --> 00:42:20,105 "Native American." 1037 00:42:21,106 --> 00:42:22,007 Sure. 1038 00:42:22,007 --> 00:42:23,141 And the Cherokee -- 1039 00:42:23,141 --> 00:42:25,777 man, he could read the depth of the impression 1040 00:42:25,777 --> 00:42:28,780 the horse's hooves made on rock. 1041 00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:32,851 And when he realized they were chasing a riderless horse... 1042 00:42:34,085 --> 00:42:37,222 ...they got right back on Butch's trail. 1043 00:42:37,222 --> 00:42:38,924 I remember now. 1044 00:42:38,924 --> 00:42:40,859 I watched it with my dad 1045 00:42:40,859 --> 00:42:43,828 on one of the Saturdays he showed up. 1046 00:42:43,828 --> 00:42:46,298 I didn't root for the super posse. 1047 00:42:46,298 --> 00:42:47,966 I rooted for Butch and Sundance. 1048 00:42:47,966 --> 00:42:49,968 Of course you did. We all did. 1049 00:42:52,170 --> 00:42:54,873 But that's not who we are anymore. 1050 00:43:00,946 --> 00:43:03,982 [light piano music plays, indistinct conversations] 1051 00:43:07,352 --> 00:43:09,154 How are you, Bobby? 1052 00:43:12,757 --> 00:43:14,693 Hey, Garth. 1053 00:43:14,693 --> 00:43:15,827 Ken. 1054 00:43:18,363 --> 00:43:20,098 I'd call you "Sir Ken" out of respect 1055 00:43:20,098 --> 00:43:22,367 for your advanced age and your accomplishments, 1056 00:43:22,367 --> 00:43:24,903 but, as much as you'd like it, you were born in Chicago, 1057 00:43:24,903 --> 00:43:26,838 and no one born there was ever knighted. 1058 00:43:26,838 --> 00:43:28,707 He would like it if we called him "sir." 1059 00:43:28,707 --> 00:43:30,775 He is that type. 1060 00:43:30,775 --> 00:43:32,911 You are that type, Ken. 1061 00:43:32,911 --> 00:43:34,946 And then what would we call you, Axe? 1062 00:43:34,946 --> 00:43:38,049 Oh, hell, Kenny, call me whatever the fuck you want. 1063 00:43:39,050 --> 00:43:42,187 [chair scrapes] 1064 00:43:42,187 --> 00:43:45,056 Or better, don't ever call me. 1065 00:43:45,056 --> 00:43:46,925 You know the reason why you should never call me? 1066 00:43:46,925 --> 00:43:48,927 Because you're a poacher, Ken, 1067 00:43:48,927 --> 00:43:52,063 and guys like Garth and me, we do not like poachers. 1068 00:43:52,063 --> 00:43:53,398 Come drag a deer off my land, 1069 00:43:53,398 --> 00:43:55,133 see what the fuck happens to you. 1070 00:43:56,801 --> 00:43:59,804 Well, now that you've joined us, let me ask you -- 1071 00:43:59,804 --> 00:44:01,139 how you doing? 1072 00:44:01,139 --> 00:44:04,109 I'm gonna let you in on something here, Garth. 1073 00:44:04,109 --> 00:44:06,177 Hedge fund guys only ask that question 1074 00:44:06,177 --> 00:44:08,747 when they know the other guy is running bad, 1075 00:44:08,747 --> 00:44:10,949 which he thinks because you are sitting with him. 1076 00:44:10,949 --> 00:44:12,817 Oh, we're just catching up. 1077 00:44:12,817 --> 00:44:14,152 And you still haven't answered. 1078 00:44:14,152 --> 00:44:16,321 [Bobby] It's a "crush the other guy" business. 1079 00:44:16,321 --> 00:44:19,691 It's like "Highlander" -- there can be only one. 1080 00:44:19,691 --> 00:44:23,028 [Bobby] I don't blame you, Ken. I'd do the same thing. 1081 00:44:23,995 --> 00:44:26,431 But I'm up 32% this year, 1082 00:44:26,431 --> 00:44:29,401 which, from what I know of your run-and-hide approach, 1083 00:44:29,401 --> 00:44:32,904 is 30 points better than what you are at Vista Verde. 1084 00:44:32,904 --> 00:44:35,140 Well, you can call it what you want, 1085 00:44:35,140 --> 00:44:37,175 but I call it "careful." 1086 00:44:37,175 --> 00:44:39,778 Risk-averse. 1087 00:44:39,778 --> 00:44:41,379 When I opened my fund, 1088 00:44:41,379 --> 00:44:43,448 I was very aware of the responsibility 1089 00:44:43,448 --> 00:44:45,750 that people like Garth put in my hands, 1090 00:44:45,750 --> 00:44:48,853 which is why I hedge my investments. 1091 00:44:48,853 --> 00:44:51,389 I protect the downside. 1092 00:44:52,924 --> 00:44:55,226 I may not be a rock star, 1093 00:44:55,226 --> 00:44:57,095 but I'm still plugging away, 1094 00:44:57,095 --> 00:44:59,264 all these many years later. 1095 00:45:01,166 --> 00:45:02,934 Have fun with your plugger. 1096 00:45:04,169 --> 00:45:06,337 Can we step away for a sec? 1097 00:45:14,746 --> 00:45:16,181 I love talking to you, Axe, 1098 00:45:16,181 --> 00:45:18,817 and you made us a shit ton of money, but... 1099 00:45:18,817 --> 00:45:22,720 I need to keep things nice and comfy -- 1100 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:24,823 results and optics. 1101 00:45:24,823 --> 00:45:27,392 [Sykes] My job's to spot a fund manager 1102 00:45:27,392 --> 00:45:30,862 taking his eye off the ball before he strikes out. 1103 00:45:30,862 --> 00:45:32,363 That's what my members count on. 1104 00:45:32,363 --> 00:45:36,267 And they see someone like Kenneth, dry ass that he is, 1105 00:45:36,267 --> 00:45:39,437 as solid... 1106 00:45:39,437 --> 00:45:42,107 part of the firmament. 1107 00:45:42,107 --> 00:45:43,808 Sometimes that's important. 1108 00:45:44,876 --> 00:45:46,177 I hear you. 1109 00:45:46,177 --> 00:45:50,081 And I know you hated the headline in the newspaper. 1110 00:45:50,081 --> 00:45:52,417 Do what you have to do. 1111 00:45:52,417 --> 00:45:54,319 But I hope that in the days to come, 1112 00:45:54,319 --> 00:45:56,454 you see me as part of that firmament. 1113 00:45:58,523 --> 00:46:00,391 I think you will. 1114 00:46:07,065 --> 00:46:08,533 [door closes] 1115 00:46:10,468 --> 00:46:13,905 You've all seen the evidence we've gathered 1116 00:46:13,905 --> 00:46:16,207 regarding your railroad trades. 1117 00:46:16,207 --> 00:46:18,343 If we prevail at trial -- 1118 00:46:18,343 --> 00:46:20,078 which we're confident we will -- 1119 00:46:20,078 --> 00:46:21,446 the federal sentencing guidelines 1120 00:46:21,446 --> 00:46:24,549 call for you to serve 11 years. 1121 00:46:26,851 --> 00:46:29,354 We understand that you have young children. 1122 00:46:29,354 --> 00:46:31,256 Well, maybe they'll be out of college 1123 00:46:31,256 --> 00:46:33,324 by the time you're released. 1124 00:46:33,324 --> 00:46:35,827 Maybe you can make it to their weddings. 1125 00:46:35,827 --> 00:46:39,531 [Bryan] But like we told your lawyers, 1126 00:46:39,531 --> 00:46:42,233 we're willing to forgo that for a quick plea -- 1127 00:46:42,233 --> 00:46:43,401 an admission of guilt, 1128 00:46:43,401 --> 00:46:47,839 a forfeiture money judgment of $386 million. 1129 00:46:47,839 --> 00:46:50,408 [Chuck] As well as the voluntary shuttering of your fund 1130 00:46:50,408 --> 00:46:53,411 and conversion of it to a family office. 1131 00:46:53,411 --> 00:46:55,446 You'll no longer handle any outside money. 1132 00:46:55,446 --> 00:46:57,882 I can get the S.E.C. in here right now to do that 1133 00:46:57,882 --> 00:46:58,816 if you don't agree. 1134 00:47:01,119 --> 00:47:03,021 So, settlement or trial? 1135 00:47:04,556 --> 00:47:06,824 We're prepared to fight this for as long as we -- 1136 00:47:06,824 --> 00:47:08,293 I... 1137 00:47:08,293 --> 00:47:10,929 came here today to take a deal. 1138 00:47:11,996 --> 00:47:14,065 I don't want to go to jail. 1139 00:47:15,567 --> 00:47:18,369 Wise choice, Mr. Birch. 1140 00:47:18,369 --> 00:47:19,470 Stay in the light. 1141 00:47:19,470 --> 00:47:22,607 You won't be getting a chance like this again. 1142 00:47:33,885 --> 00:47:35,220 This doesn't have to be over. 1143 00:47:35,220 --> 00:47:37,288 I'm actually relieved we settled. 1144 00:47:37,288 --> 00:47:39,257 [door closes] 1145 00:47:49,167 --> 00:47:51,302 [cellphone chimes] 1146 00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:12,156 [groans] 1147 00:48:13,891 --> 00:48:15,026 Comfortable? 1148 00:48:16,227 --> 00:48:19,097 For the first time all fucking day. 1149 00:48:19,097 --> 00:48:22,033 Well, I have someone coming in here soon, 1150 00:48:22,033 --> 00:48:24,936 and they might be a little freaked to see their boss... 1151 00:48:29,374 --> 00:48:32,243 I just came by to say "thank you" and "sorry" -- 1152 00:48:32,243 --> 00:48:34,012 two words I don't say very often. 1153 00:48:34,012 --> 00:48:37,482 So it's handled with Victor? 1154 00:48:37,482 --> 00:48:40,351 You nailed it -- on every count. 1155 00:48:40,351 --> 00:48:42,053 And he got paid. 1156 00:48:42,053 --> 00:48:45,657 I used everything I knew about him to make him capitulate. 1157 00:48:45,657 --> 00:48:47,392 That's why I asked you to go. 1158 00:48:47,392 --> 00:48:49,494 [Wendy] You know why I went? 1159 00:48:49,494 --> 00:48:51,529 For you. 1160 00:48:53,631 --> 00:48:56,601 You and I... 1161 00:48:56,601 --> 00:48:58,436 we've never let each other down 1162 00:48:58,436 --> 00:49:00,438 in all these years. 1163 00:49:00,438 --> 00:49:02,273 And I wasn't about to start 1164 00:49:02,273 --> 00:49:05,109 because you acted like that never happened. 1165 00:49:08,613 --> 00:49:11,015 Cut me out again... 1166 00:49:11,015 --> 00:49:12,283 and I'm gone. 1167 00:49:14,152 --> 00:49:16,054 I know. 1168 00:49:16,054 --> 00:49:18,189 [cellphone vibrates] 1169 00:49:21,392 --> 00:49:22,994 [cellphone chimes] 1170 00:49:27,098 --> 00:49:28,299 I won't. 1171 00:49:43,181 --> 00:49:44,382 Ellis Eads. 1172 00:49:44,382 --> 00:49:47,318 We are honored to share this privilege with you, Mr. Axelrod. 1173 00:49:47,318 --> 00:49:48,686 With you, too, Mrs. Axelrod. 1174 00:49:48,686 --> 00:49:50,988 There's no sharing, Ellis. It's Axelrod Hall now. 1175 00:49:50,988 --> 00:49:52,523 No. Of course. We understand. 1176 00:49:52,523 --> 00:49:54,192 You think you do. 1177 00:49:56,694 --> 00:49:58,629 Now, I saw that when I came in here, 1178 00:49:58,629 --> 00:50:00,264 you don't remember me, Chad. 1179 00:50:00,264 --> 00:50:02,300 I know who you are. 1180 00:50:02,300 --> 00:50:06,070 But you don't actually remember. 1181 00:50:06,070 --> 00:50:07,004 We've met before. 1182 00:50:08,740 --> 00:50:11,642 I caddied at The Spoon when I was a kid. 1183 00:50:11,642 --> 00:50:14,345 It was the perfect summer job. 1184 00:50:14,345 --> 00:50:16,114 I carried your grandfather's bag 1185 00:50:16,114 --> 00:50:17,515 quite a few times. 1186 00:50:17,515 --> 00:50:18,783 Your bag, too, Chad, 1187 00:50:18,783 --> 00:50:20,385 in the summer after middle school. 1188 00:50:21,652 --> 00:50:24,789 How funny that we all end up here. 1189 00:50:24,789 --> 00:50:26,691 [Bobby] Now, here's the thing. 1190 00:50:26,691 --> 00:50:29,093 A lot of numbers have been thrown around -- 1191 00:50:29,093 --> 00:50:32,797 100 for the naming rights, 25 for your name to come down. 1192 00:50:32,797 --> 00:50:36,734 But there is one number that really matters to me -- 1193 00:50:36,734 --> 00:50:39,604 16. 1194 00:50:39,604 --> 00:50:40,805 And we'll see 1195 00:50:40,805 --> 00:50:42,774 if you still think it's funny, Chad. 1196 00:50:42,774 --> 00:50:46,644 [Bobby] $16 is what a caddy got paid for a loop. 1197 00:50:46,644 --> 00:50:50,681 Four hours of humping bags, smelling sour cigars, 1198 00:50:50,681 --> 00:50:52,617 and watching all of you lie to each other 1199 00:50:52,617 --> 00:50:55,486 about your golf scores in the 95-degree heat, 1200 00:50:55,486 --> 00:50:58,322 but I was happy for the job. 1201 00:50:58,322 --> 00:50:59,690 [Bobby] That 16 bucks -- 1202 00:50:59,690 --> 00:51:01,325 and I would do two loops a day, 1203 00:51:01,325 --> 00:51:04,228 so it was $32 on a Saturday, $32 on a Sunday. 1204 00:51:04,228 --> 00:51:06,697 By the end of the weekend, I'd have 64 bucks. 1205 00:51:06,697 --> 00:51:07,732 16 weekends, 1206 00:51:07,732 --> 00:51:10,635 Memorial to Labor Day, $1,024. 1207 00:51:10,635 --> 00:51:12,837 [Lara] That was his spending money for the entire year. 1208 00:51:12,837 --> 00:51:15,440 He'd stretch it out until the next summer. 1209 00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,275 Pretty much. 1210 00:51:18,376 --> 00:51:20,411 Until -- 1211 00:51:20,411 --> 00:51:22,380 and you were there for this, Chad -- 1212 00:51:22,380 --> 00:51:25,383 your grandfather asked me to read a putt on three. 1213 00:51:25,383 --> 00:51:28,085 It was a left-to-right leaker, and I told him so. 1214 00:51:28,085 --> 00:51:30,388 I'd seen the putt all summer long. 1215 00:51:30,388 --> 00:51:34,125 He closed the face, pulled it, missed it by a foot. 1216 00:51:34,125 --> 00:51:35,593 You laughed at him. 1217 00:51:35,593 --> 00:51:37,395 [Bobby] You made fun of his eyesight. 1218 00:51:37,395 --> 00:51:40,097 And he turned to me, 1219 00:51:40,097 --> 00:51:43,167 and he fired me right there. 1220 00:51:43,167 --> 00:51:47,271 Not from the round, but from the club. 1221 00:51:47,271 --> 00:51:50,441 Now, I needed that $16, but he didn't give a shit. 1222 00:51:50,441 --> 00:51:52,677 Because he was embarrassed to have missed a putt 1223 00:51:52,677 --> 00:51:53,878 in front of his grandson. 1224 00:51:53,878 --> 00:51:55,246 Are you saying we are here 1225 00:51:55,246 --> 00:51:56,547 because of that ancient bullshit? 1226 00:51:56,547 --> 00:51:58,483 That's right! 1227 00:51:58,483 --> 00:52:00,351 16. 1228 00:52:00,351 --> 00:52:02,520 ♪pensive music♪ 1229 00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:04,288 Which is why I am presenting you 1230 00:52:04,288 --> 00:52:08,726 with a check for $25 million 1231 00:52:08,726 --> 00:52:10,828 minus 16, 1232 00:52:10,828 --> 00:52:13,364 which leaves you with $9 million. 1233 00:52:13,364 --> 00:52:15,333 [gasps] That is bullshit! 1234 00:52:15,333 --> 00:52:16,634 [man] This is unacceptable. [Chad] Ellis, this is bullshit. 1235 00:52:16,634 --> 00:52:19,203 We will walk out of here if you don't honor the full amount. 1236 00:52:19,203 --> 00:52:20,872 No, you won't. 1237 00:52:20,872 --> 00:52:23,207 You need this $9 million. 1238 00:52:23,207 --> 00:52:25,776 Because none of you -- not one -- 1239 00:52:25,776 --> 00:52:27,712 has done a single day of work 1240 00:52:27,712 --> 00:52:29,914 from the moment your miserable prick of a grandfather 1241 00:52:29,914 --> 00:52:32,483 fell facedown in the sand in Palm Beach. 1242 00:52:32,483 --> 00:52:35,186 And after reviewing your holdings, 1243 00:52:35,186 --> 00:52:37,221 your business interests, your debts, 1244 00:52:37,221 --> 00:52:39,223 I know that this check is the only thing 1245 00:52:39,223 --> 00:52:42,393 standing between your family and bankruptcy. 1246 00:52:42,393 --> 00:52:45,663 So pick it up, put it in your pocket, 1247 00:52:45,663 --> 00:52:47,632 and walk out of here. 1248 00:52:47,632 --> 00:52:49,901 Or I will. 1249 00:52:56,674 --> 00:52:58,543 ♪bold music♪ 1250 00:53:00,545 --> 00:53:02,547 [man] Let's get out of here. 1251 00:53:02,547 --> 00:53:03,948 Mnh! 1252 00:53:10,488 --> 00:53:12,590 [Sean] So, now the Axelrod name 1253 00:53:12,590 --> 00:53:17,261 will be forever affixed to this building for all time. 1254 00:53:17,261 --> 00:53:18,629 Or until some guy richer than me 1255 00:53:18,629 --> 00:53:20,331 wants it to come down. 1256 00:53:22,233 --> 00:53:23,968 You really started something. 1257 00:53:23,968 --> 00:53:25,636 [saw whirring] 1258 00:53:25,636 --> 00:53:27,438 ["High Tiding" plays] 1259 00:53:27,438 --> 00:53:31,776 ♪Not that it's wrong, that it needs righting♪ 1260 00:53:34,912 --> 00:53:37,648 ♪Just all alone♪ 1261 00:53:37,648 --> 00:53:40,384 ♪I've been high tiding♪ 1262 00:53:41,886 --> 00:53:45,856 ♪Some quick or some slow♪ 1263 00:53:45,856 --> 00:53:49,894 ♪Sometimes it drops so low♪ 1264 00:53:49,894 --> 00:53:53,898 ♪And I ride as it rises♪ 1265 00:53:53,898 --> 00:53:58,436 ♪Concerns capsizing♪ 1266 00:54:16,921 --> 00:54:18,456 [ding!] [man] mm.