1 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:07,083 [Wags] Previously on "Billions"... 2 00:00:07,166 --> 00:00:09,041 [Axe] You know those poison-tip arrows 3 00:00:09,125 --> 00:00:11,000 that go through one guy and kill another? 4 00:00:11,083 --> 00:00:13,250 [Axe] As long as it doesn't come from you. 5 00:00:13,333 --> 00:00:14,750 You get someone else to ask her. 6 00:00:14,834 --> 00:00:15,959 Won't track back to me. 7 00:00:16,041 --> 00:00:18,792 [Axe] You come through for me, I'll pay off your house. 8 00:00:18,875 --> 00:00:20,625 People are getting sick on Ice Juice. 9 00:00:20,709 --> 00:00:22,166 [Chuck] Freezing the assets? 10 00:00:22,250 --> 00:00:25,083 Now, that's an Ivan Koloff bear hug you're putting on the man. 11 00:00:25,166 --> 00:00:27,083 You're squeezing the breath out of him. 12 00:00:27,166 --> 00:00:29,000 But now you owe me. 13 00:00:29,083 --> 00:00:31,041 A favor to be named later. 14 00:00:31,125 --> 00:00:33,750 Back channeling, patronage. I lost my taste for it. 15 00:00:33,834 --> 00:00:35,792 Just don't forget, it was the back channels and deal-making 16 00:00:35,875 --> 00:00:38,250 that put you in that position. 17 00:00:38,333 --> 00:00:40,834 Remind me again, and it's the last meal we share. 18 00:00:40,917 --> 00:00:42,917 It is still Axe Capital, 19 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,291 no matter who's making the day-to-day decisions. 20 00:00:45,375 --> 00:00:46,625 Are you sure? 21 00:00:46,709 --> 00:00:48,959 I know it's Axe's faith that confers value on me 22 00:00:49,041 --> 00:00:50,041 until I have a track record of my own. 23 00:00:50,125 --> 00:00:53,333 Unless it becomes necessary, I will not leave. 24 00:00:53,417 --> 00:00:55,875 I'm holding in my hand Robert Axelrod's signature 25 00:00:55,959 --> 00:00:58,125 relinquishing his ability to trade securities. 26 00:00:58,208 --> 00:01:00,208 Well... 27 00:01:00,291 --> 00:01:03,208 ol' Samson got a real buzz cut. 28 00:01:09,875 --> 00:01:13,125 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 29 00:01:13,208 --> 00:01:17,166 ♪♪♪ 30 00:01:17,250 --> 00:01:21,208 ♪♪♪ 31 00:01:21,291 --> 00:01:25,166 ♪♪♪ 32 00:01:25,250 --> 00:01:27,959 ♪ Counting Crows "Round Here" ♪ 33 00:01:28,041 --> 00:01:31,667 ♪♪♪ 34 00:01:31,750 --> 00:01:35,542 ♪♪♪ 35 00:01:35,625 --> 00:01:39,166 ♪ Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog ♪ 36 00:01:39,250 --> 00:01:42,500 ♪ Where no one notices the contrast ♪ 37 00:01:42,583 --> 00:01:44,500 ♪ Of white on white ♪ 38 00:01:44,583 --> 00:01:49,959 ♪ In between the moon and you, the angels get a better view ♪ 39 00:01:50,041 --> 00:01:54,500 ♪ Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right ♪ 40 00:01:54,583 --> 00:01:56,166 ♪ Well, I walk in the air ♪ 41 00:01:56,250 --> 00:01:58,333 -Hold on. -♪ Between the rain ♪ 42 00:01:58,417 --> 00:02:00,417 ♪ Through myself and back again ♪ 43 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:01,959 ♪ Where? ♪ 44 00:02:02,041 --> 00:02:04,834 ♪ I don't know ♪ 45 00:02:04,917 --> 00:02:07,500 ♪ Maria says she's dying ♪ 46 00:02:07,583 --> 00:02:09,041 Bobby. Are you okay? 47 00:02:09,125 --> 00:02:11,208 [Axe] I went down to the crossroads. 48 00:02:11,291 --> 00:02:12,417 What? 49 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:13,250 [Axe] I made a mistake. 50 00:02:13,333 --> 00:02:18,166 The deal. I can't do it--not trade. 51 00:02:18,250 --> 00:02:19,542 I've worked my entire life 52 00:02:19,625 --> 00:02:23,875 putting myself in a position where I would be truly free-- 53 00:02:23,959 --> 00:02:26,458 no limits, nothing I couldn't do. 54 00:02:26,542 --> 00:02:28,208 And with one signature, 55 00:02:28,291 --> 00:02:30,542 I've stripped myself of all of that. 56 00:02:30,625 --> 00:02:32,208 It wasn't the signature that did it. 57 00:02:32,291 --> 00:02:34,375 It was the living like there were no rules. 58 00:02:34,458 --> 00:02:36,375 That's what made the signature necessary. 59 00:02:36,458 --> 00:02:38,375 [Chuck] Wendy? You all right? 60 00:02:38,458 --> 00:02:40,417 Yeah. Don't wake up the kids. 61 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:43,125 I'll be right up. 62 00:02:43,208 --> 00:02:44,041 I can't do this now. 63 00:02:44,125 --> 00:02:46,875 [Wendy] Realize that limits, 64 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,750 constraints, they can be useful. 65 00:02:48,834 --> 00:02:51,000 Letting someone else run Axe Capital gives you 66 00:02:51,083 --> 00:02:53,834 a chance to realign who you are. 67 00:02:53,917 --> 00:02:57,917 To get good at letting go. Which is a different 68 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,959 kind of freedom. A more powerful kind of freedom. 69 00:03:01,041 --> 00:03:02,000 Now go to sleep. 70 00:03:02,083 --> 00:03:05,583 Even if it were a good idea, which it's not, 71 00:03:05,667 --> 00:03:08,709 there is nothing you can do to regain control at this hour. 72 00:03:08,792 --> 00:03:11,083 [sighs] 73 00:03:11,166 --> 00:03:12,625 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 74 00:03:12,709 --> 00:03:17,583 ♪♪♪ 75 00:03:17,667 --> 00:03:23,542 ♪♪♪ 76 00:03:23,625 --> 00:03:28,500 ♪♪♪ 77 00:03:28,583 --> 00:03:33,458 ♪♪♪ 78 00:03:33,542 --> 00:03:38,458 ♪♪♪ 79 00:03:38,542 --> 00:03:40,625 We need to meet. 80 00:03:40,709 --> 00:03:43,417 [Axe] These fuckers can take away my ability to trade 81 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:45,291 but not my ability to see. 82 00:03:45,375 --> 00:03:48,000 Insightful guy like you, how you gonna turn it off? 83 00:03:48,083 --> 00:03:49,417 I'm not. I can't. I don't want to. 84 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:52,333 If you can't trade on the insights, who can? 85 00:03:52,417 --> 00:03:56,125 Only those who I have reason to trust absolutely. 86 00:03:56,208 --> 00:03:58,291 -And that's me. -It better be. 87 00:03:58,375 --> 00:04:01,750 Because no one can know I'm behind any of these trades. 88 00:04:01,834 --> 00:04:04,000 Well, our doors wouldn't be open if it wasn't for your, 89 00:04:04,083 --> 00:04:07,291 um, let's say goodwill. 90 00:04:07,375 --> 00:04:09,792 And when we're done, those doors are gonna open 91 00:04:09,875 --> 00:04:11,709 on to a much bigger shop. 92 00:04:11,792 --> 00:04:13,750 Been hoping to hear from you. 93 00:04:13,834 --> 00:04:14,709 I've been wanting to expand, 94 00:04:14,792 --> 00:04:16,667 but I've never been great at the raise. 95 00:04:16,750 --> 00:04:20,208 That'll no longer be a problem for Old Oaks Investments. 96 00:04:20,291 --> 00:04:21,834 Your money is always good here. 97 00:04:21,917 --> 00:04:24,458 You can't direct funds, so how's this work? 98 00:04:24,542 --> 00:04:27,208 Let's dive the fuck in. 99 00:04:27,291 --> 00:04:29,709 I'll be in touch. 100 00:04:29,792 --> 00:04:31,709 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 101 00:04:34,250 --> 00:04:35,667 So, this is the way it's done? 102 00:04:35,750 --> 00:04:37,667 Yeah. 103 00:04:37,750 --> 00:04:39,834 And there's really nothing we can do but-- 104 00:04:39,917 --> 00:04:42,166 Hope the wheel of fate favors us. 105 00:04:42,250 --> 00:04:44,500 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 106 00:04:44,583 --> 00:04:48,333 Welcome to old New York, where judicial assignment's 107 00:04:48,417 --> 00:04:50,959 still determined by the spin of a wheel. 108 00:04:51,041 --> 00:04:53,166 Hey, it beats having Chief Judge Morgenstern 109 00:04:53,250 --> 00:04:55,041 make 'em after a long night of gin at the goulash joint. 110 00:04:55,125 --> 00:04:58,583 -Drinking or playing? -Both. 111 00:04:58,667 --> 00:05:01,375 [humming] 112 00:05:01,458 --> 00:05:05,291 For the United States v. Robert Axelrod... 113 00:05:05,375 --> 00:05:08,542 [papers rustling] 114 00:05:08,625 --> 00:05:11,041 ...Judge Leonard Funt. 115 00:05:14,375 --> 00:05:15,583 Do I have to say it? 116 00:05:15,667 --> 00:05:16,542 You really don't. 117 00:05:16,625 --> 00:05:18,375 You just got Funted. 118 00:05:18,458 --> 00:05:20,208 Ha! [laughs] 119 00:05:20,291 --> 00:05:24,000 [laughing continues in distance] 120 00:05:24,083 --> 00:05:26,333 How bad is this? 121 00:05:26,417 --> 00:05:29,625 Funt is a true believer in the power of a free market. 122 00:05:29,709 --> 00:05:31,375 Old school Libertarian. 123 00:05:31,458 --> 00:05:33,000 He's the best friend Bobby Axelrod 124 00:05:33,083 --> 00:05:34,917 could have on the bench. 125 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:35,959 Well, if Connerty builds the case right, 126 00:05:36,041 --> 00:05:39,500 the judge doesn't matter. 127 00:05:39,583 --> 00:05:41,250 Wrong. 128 00:05:41,333 --> 00:05:44,250 You need to find a way to get Funt off the case. 129 00:05:44,333 --> 00:05:46,333 So the wheel spits out another name? 130 00:05:46,417 --> 00:05:48,250 No. Only one spin, 131 00:05:48,333 --> 00:05:51,625 then it's up to Chief Judge Morgenstern. 132 00:05:51,709 --> 00:05:53,583 The other judges lobby him, depending on if they want 133 00:05:53,667 --> 00:05:58,041 on or off. So you need to stunt that process. 134 00:05:58,125 --> 00:05:59,959 That is tampering twice over. 135 00:06:00,041 --> 00:06:01,959 No. It's finesse. 136 00:06:02,041 --> 00:06:04,834 [inhales sharply] 137 00:06:04,917 --> 00:06:09,000 I don't break promises, so our unappetizing deal holds. 138 00:06:09,083 --> 00:06:11,750 -Mm. -But it will not expand. 139 00:06:11,834 --> 00:06:13,959 Fate has dealt our hand. 140 00:06:14,041 --> 00:06:16,417 Now we play it. 141 00:06:18,333 --> 00:06:21,458 [bell dings, car horn honks] 142 00:06:21,542 --> 00:06:25,291 ♪♪♪ 143 00:06:25,375 --> 00:06:27,500 [Wendy] Chuck. 144 00:06:27,583 --> 00:06:30,333 What couldn't be talked about on the phone? 145 00:06:32,041 --> 00:06:35,542 We got judge-fucked in the Axelrod case. 146 00:06:35,625 --> 00:06:39,041 And, uh, I don't mean "We, the people," I mean-- 147 00:06:39,125 --> 00:06:42,291 We. Our family. 148 00:06:45,542 --> 00:06:47,917 -Fuck. -Yeah. 149 00:06:49,500 --> 00:06:52,250 We need a judge who believes that the rich 150 00:06:52,333 --> 00:06:54,709 have gotten away with too much for too long. 151 00:06:54,792 --> 00:06:58,875 And one who won't allow Axelrod to create a distraction 152 00:06:58,959 --> 00:07:01,583 by alleging I set up a roach motel and lured him in. 153 00:07:01,667 --> 00:07:04,375 Axe can't do that without essentially admitting his guilt. 154 00:07:04,458 --> 00:07:05,834 I know. 155 00:07:05,917 --> 00:07:09,834 That's one of the things keeping me up at night. 156 00:07:09,917 --> 00:07:14,000 You know what I risked-- what I gave up--to get him. 157 00:07:15,583 --> 00:07:18,458 What would he give to get me? 158 00:07:20,375 --> 00:07:22,375 Everything. 159 00:07:22,458 --> 00:07:23,458 [sighs] 160 00:07:23,542 --> 00:07:27,667 Well, the judge we drew is Leonard Edward Funt. 161 00:07:27,750 --> 00:07:29,834 Isn't that good news? Doesn't he owe you-- 162 00:07:29,917 --> 00:07:31,000 Yes, there is a debt. 163 00:07:31,083 --> 00:07:35,375 I once did him a kindness. But back then, during a case, 164 00:07:35,458 --> 00:07:40,458 I tried to allude to the favor in conference, 165 00:07:40,542 --> 00:07:43,917 and that man hammered me for even hinting at it. 166 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,375 [scoffs] 167 00:07:46,458 --> 00:07:49,667 Seemed to grow larger as he talked, 168 00:07:49,750 --> 00:07:51,792 the way some men can when they're not pretending 169 00:07:51,875 --> 00:07:55,625 to dignity and honor but they're actually made of the stuff. 170 00:07:55,709 --> 00:07:56,834 You withdrew the request? 171 00:07:56,917 --> 00:07:58,542 I did. 172 00:07:58,625 --> 00:08:02,417 And I fear it would be even worse today. 173 00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:04,917 See, if he wouldn't return a favor back when it was fresh, 174 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:05,834 why would he do so now? 175 00:08:05,917 --> 00:08:08,458 But that's not what happened, is it? 176 00:08:08,542 --> 00:08:10,125 He didn't actually refuse. He didn't say no. 177 00:08:10,208 --> 00:08:12,500 Not in so many words. 178 00:08:12,583 --> 00:08:14,667 What he did was: spare himself the question 179 00:08:14,750 --> 00:08:17,291 by putting a tougher one to you. 180 00:08:17,375 --> 00:08:20,375 It's about will, Chuck. 181 00:08:20,458 --> 00:08:22,709 Impose your will on him until he does what 182 00:08:22,792 --> 00:08:25,709 he needs to and repays the debt. 183 00:08:27,500 --> 00:08:30,458 Why, you are a marvel. 184 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:36,625 Go. 185 00:08:36,709 --> 00:08:38,750 Do what you have to do. 186 00:08:38,834 --> 00:08:42,041 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 187 00:08:42,125 --> 00:08:45,875 ♪♪♪ 188 00:08:45,959 --> 00:08:49,583 ♪♪♪ 189 00:08:49,667 --> 00:08:52,417 I've recently invested nine billion of Axe Cap's money 190 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:55,125 back into the market. In phases. And now when it's time 191 00:08:55,208 --> 00:08:57,041 for the next phase, another two billion-- 192 00:08:57,125 --> 00:08:58,375 You can't. 193 00:08:58,458 --> 00:09:00,166 Why? 194 00:09:00,250 --> 00:09:03,792 There's a velvet rope around it. So to speak. 195 00:09:03,875 --> 00:09:06,083 What's actually around it? 196 00:09:06,166 --> 00:09:09,375 A directive from Axe that the money remain untouched. 197 00:09:09,458 --> 00:09:11,000 Is he considering moving the funds 198 00:09:11,083 --> 00:09:13,041 or deploying them elsewhere? 199 00:09:13,792 --> 00:09:16,333 Never mind. You don't know. 200 00:09:16,417 --> 00:09:17,125 Don't I? 201 00:09:17,208 --> 00:09:19,709 Maybe Axe is hedging. 202 00:09:19,792 --> 00:09:20,959 Against the main fund? 203 00:09:21,041 --> 00:09:22,458 Against you. 204 00:09:22,542 --> 00:09:27,125 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 205 00:09:27,208 --> 00:09:29,083 [door opens] 206 00:09:29,166 --> 00:09:32,792 ♪♪♪ 207 00:09:32,875 --> 00:09:36,250 ♪♪♪ 208 00:09:36,333 --> 00:09:38,792 Ah. The two billion. 209 00:09:38,875 --> 00:09:41,125 I told them: velvet rope. 210 00:09:41,208 --> 00:09:44,291 Spoken like a man who's still mad he never got into Xenon. 211 00:09:44,375 --> 00:09:45,959 I'm on it, Taylor. 212 00:09:47,375 --> 00:09:49,750 [cellphone beeps] 213 00:09:49,834 --> 00:09:52,041 This is clean. And it does what you need, 214 00:09:52,125 --> 00:09:53,333 how you need. Tracks it all in real time. 215 00:09:53,417 --> 00:09:54,917 We've also swept the apartment. 216 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,667 There are no listening devices, no visual recording devices, 217 00:09:58,750 --> 00:10:01,000 no compromising devices of any kind. 218 00:10:01,083 --> 00:10:03,709 But guests leave eyes and ears, so we should sweep often. 219 00:10:03,792 --> 00:10:05,125 -Who else visits? -The women. 220 00:10:05,208 --> 00:10:07,583 Wand them. 221 00:10:07,667 --> 00:10:09,041 He will. 222 00:10:09,125 --> 00:10:12,417 So, this is the Counter Intel team, the new Halls. 223 00:10:14,125 --> 00:10:16,000 I don't think they care for that. 224 00:10:16,083 --> 00:10:18,500 Why should I trust you to do anything other than 225 00:10:18,583 --> 00:10:20,667 point me to the nearest avocado toast? 226 00:10:20,750 --> 00:10:21,917 For whom have you worked? 227 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,667 Is this just a walk on the wild side 228 00:10:23,750 --> 00:10:24,667 to spice up the b-school essays? 229 00:10:24,750 --> 00:10:28,375 How much you doing this for the money? 230 00:10:28,458 --> 00:10:30,625 You can answer him. 231 00:10:30,709 --> 00:10:31,792 In re bona fides, John built the code for 232 00:10:31,875 --> 00:10:35,375 four successful startups in high school then Stanford, 233 00:10:35,458 --> 00:10:37,834 then was asked to travel to 71 countries for DARPA 234 00:10:37,917 --> 00:10:39,291 and Other Government Agency, 235 00:10:39,375 --> 00:10:40,875 all which he did without complaint. 236 00:10:40,959 --> 00:10:42,500 And Timmy Dones has a military background. 237 00:10:42,583 --> 00:10:44,709 What fucking war were you in? 238 00:10:44,792 --> 00:10:46,709 Mr. Hall fought the wars you've heard of. 239 00:10:46,792 --> 00:10:48,208 I fought the ones you haven't. 240 00:10:48,291 --> 00:10:50,959 As for your other questions. It's none of your business, 241 00:10:51,041 --> 00:10:53,417 smashed spring pea toast is the new avocado toast, 242 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:56,125 and 70 percent. 243 00:10:57,709 --> 00:11:00,291 Are we clear to talk to Mr. Wagner going forward? 244 00:11:00,375 --> 00:11:02,458 Discuss anything except women you care about. 245 00:11:06,542 --> 00:11:09,041 Yeah, so, the two billion. 246 00:11:09,125 --> 00:11:11,917 Ah, and here I was thinking you came to keep me company. 247 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,166 Look, I know you're giving it to outside funds, 248 00:11:15,250 --> 00:11:16,250 not on the surface. 249 00:11:16,333 --> 00:11:18,333 It'll get routed around the world first, 250 00:11:18,417 --> 00:11:20,125 but then it will land in certain funds, 251 00:11:20,208 --> 00:11:23,917 and suddenly they'll get hot as Farrah Fawcett in '76. 252 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,250 Don't do it. One errant e-mail, 253 00:11:26,333 --> 00:11:28,583 one recorded call, one trade that tracks back 254 00:11:28,667 --> 00:11:30,583 to you--and it's Hassan chop! 255 00:11:30,667 --> 00:11:32,458 We're done. All of us. 256 00:11:32,542 --> 00:11:34,417 There's no need for it, bwana. 257 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:37,000 Satisfy your urges some other way. 258 00:11:37,083 --> 00:11:38,709 Buy yourself something. 259 00:11:38,792 --> 00:11:40,583 I bought it all already. 260 00:11:40,667 --> 00:11:41,959 Probably thrown it out. 261 00:11:42,041 --> 00:11:43,875 What about that vintage Cheetah you've been eyeballing? 262 00:11:43,959 --> 00:11:46,959 Look, this is not a message I'm born to carry. 263 00:11:47,041 --> 00:11:49,417 It goes against everything I've built my life on. 264 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:53,375 But for you, holding back is essential right now. 265 00:11:53,458 --> 00:11:55,125 You're right about hiding the money. 266 00:11:55,208 --> 00:11:56,667 That's too dangerous. What if I didn't? 267 00:11:56,750 --> 00:11:59,792 -Huh? -I could have Taylor move it, 268 00:11:59,875 --> 00:12:03,625 on-the-books, perfectly legal disbursements to outside shops. 269 00:12:03,709 --> 00:12:06,375 Bobby--that's right, I'm not calling you "Mr. President," 270 00:12:06,458 --> 00:12:07,792 I'm calling you "Bobby" because I've never used 271 00:12:07,875 --> 00:12:10,458 your first name and I want to underline 272 00:12:10,542 --> 00:12:11,959 how serious this moment is. 273 00:12:12,041 --> 00:12:12,834 You've called me Bobby before. 274 00:12:12,917 --> 00:12:15,542 Strategic mistake, but not nearly as big 275 00:12:15,625 --> 00:12:18,166 as the one you're making if you ask Taylor to do this. 276 00:12:18,250 --> 00:12:20,667 They have nothing to gain by going along. 277 00:12:20,750 --> 00:12:21,917 They get to keep their princely fucking job. 278 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,166 If you fire them, it will look like what it is. 279 00:12:25,250 --> 00:12:27,917 And you can't have it appear you're illegally meddling. 280 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,125 Especially when you're illegally meddling. 281 00:12:30,208 --> 00:12:33,333 -My point-- -I get your point. 282 00:12:33,417 --> 00:12:35,542 So you won't take the two billion? 283 00:12:35,625 --> 00:12:36,542 I get your point. 284 00:12:36,625 --> 00:12:39,750 Let's leave it at that. 285 00:12:41,709 --> 00:12:42,917 Ah! 286 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,709 If it isn't George and Edward. 287 00:12:45,792 --> 00:12:48,417 Which one of you will give up the throne for love? 288 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:50,125 That seems like a stupid reason. 289 00:12:50,208 --> 00:12:51,500 You must be George. 290 00:12:51,583 --> 00:12:53,667 Are you coming to our game later, Uncle Wags? 291 00:12:53,750 --> 00:12:55,166 Is it official Little League? 292 00:12:55,250 --> 00:12:57,875 -Yeah. -Can't. Banned for life. 293 00:13:01,166 --> 00:13:03,667 Well, here we are on the Axelrod case together, 294 00:13:03,750 --> 00:13:07,834 so, you know, we got our fairy tale ending after all. 295 00:13:07,917 --> 00:13:09,834 You been working out? You look like you've been working out. 296 00:13:09,917 --> 00:13:12,834 There's no good way to answer that question. 297 00:13:12,917 --> 00:13:14,917 Is it ping pong? You back at the tables? 298 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,792 Uh, can I get a lawyer? 299 00:13:16,875 --> 00:13:19,166 [tires screech] 300 00:13:22,750 --> 00:13:26,000 Excuse me, Ms. Gonzalez-- 301 00:13:26,083 --> 00:13:28,041 Special Agent Terri McCue, FBI. 302 00:13:28,125 --> 00:13:31,166 Uh, me llamo Bryan Connerty, 303 00:13:31,250 --> 00:13:33,709 uh, Federal prosecutor. 304 00:13:33,792 --> 00:13:35,041 He's also second alternate 305 00:13:35,125 --> 00:13:37,041 at the World Table Tennis Championships. 306 00:13:37,125 --> 00:13:38,333 I'm really not... that good. 307 00:13:38,417 --> 00:13:42,000 Ms. Gonzalez, we don't care about your immigration status. 308 00:13:42,083 --> 00:13:43,375 That's not what we do. 309 00:13:43,458 --> 00:13:46,208 We may even be able to help you if you cooperate with us. 310 00:13:46,291 --> 00:13:48,041 We want to speak to you about your boss, Victor Mateo. 311 00:13:48,125 --> 00:13:51,208 [Guatemalan accent] Mr. Victor, he's very good. 312 00:13:51,291 --> 00:13:52,917 He and his wife, they sponsor me for 313 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,792 the green card, so I don't need help. 314 00:13:54,875 --> 00:13:56,583 You're not eligible for a green card 315 00:13:56,667 --> 00:13:58,375 if you've committed a crime. 316 00:13:58,458 --> 00:14:00,750 A crime? No. No, no, no. 317 00:14:00,834 --> 00:14:03,375 Let's put it up on the colortini. 318 00:14:05,834 --> 00:14:07,000 [gasps] 319 00:14:07,083 --> 00:14:11,166 That couple near you snapping selfies were undercover agents. 320 00:14:11,250 --> 00:14:13,250 Mr. Victor made me do it. 321 00:14:13,333 --> 00:14:17,583 Did Mr. Victor give you the vial? Did he pay you? 322 00:14:17,667 --> 00:14:22,041 It was someone else. A woman. But I know that it was for him. 323 00:14:22,125 --> 00:14:25,542 Him and his wife, son monstruos. 324 00:14:25,625 --> 00:14:28,041 One time I drop a glass licorera--Baccarat. 325 00:14:28,125 --> 00:14:33,208 Then Missus, she break the tail light to my car to punish. 326 00:14:33,291 --> 00:14:36,208 I had to drive home afraid that I get pulled over 327 00:14:36,291 --> 00:14:37,625 and sent back to Guatemala. 328 00:14:37,709 --> 00:14:39,041 Now I take the bus. 329 00:14:39,125 --> 00:14:42,458 I want to know how it worked. When and where-- 330 00:14:42,542 --> 00:14:44,709 The way that Mr. Victor and his wife are--I can't be late. 331 00:14:44,792 --> 00:14:47,125 Or do I have to tell them... 332 00:14:47,208 --> 00:14:48,792 No, no, no. Don't... don't say anything. 333 00:14:48,875 --> 00:14:51,583 After work, you'll come to my office 334 00:14:51,667 --> 00:14:55,500 and give a statement. 335 00:14:55,583 --> 00:14:57,875 Lo prometo. 336 00:14:57,959 --> 00:15:00,417 [bird chirping] 337 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:02,625 [vacuum whirring] 338 00:15:02,709 --> 00:15:05,291 [Axe] Yeah, what is it? 339 00:15:05,375 --> 00:15:07,250 [Victor] My maid was late today. 340 00:15:07,333 --> 00:15:09,917 She's never late. 341 00:15:12,041 --> 00:15:16,291 We have a real problem. We need to meet. 342 00:15:21,250 --> 00:15:22,333 Group of guys who own this car, 343 00:15:22,417 --> 00:15:25,709 it's a smaller club than the one that owns NBA teams, 344 00:15:25,792 --> 00:15:27,000 only 29 ever built. 345 00:15:27,083 --> 00:15:29,834 Which is exactly why I'm buying it. 346 00:15:29,917 --> 00:15:32,000 Which is why I'm gonna let you outbid me. 347 00:15:32,083 --> 00:15:33,375 [laughs] Thanks. 348 00:15:33,458 --> 00:15:34,917 Sounds like you want something. 349 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,458 I do. 350 00:15:36,542 --> 00:15:38,166 I want in on the new shit. 351 00:15:38,250 --> 00:15:41,333 You're raising money for new ventures, count me in. 352 00:15:41,417 --> 00:15:45,000 Thanks, but I'm not looking to give up any more equity. 353 00:15:47,250 --> 00:15:49,000 You're saying no to money? 354 00:15:49,083 --> 00:15:50,709 Look, Axe, let me answer the question you didn't ask, 355 00:15:50,792 --> 00:15:54,333 and this pains me to say... 356 00:15:54,417 --> 00:15:56,625 I don't want your money. 357 00:15:56,709 --> 00:15:58,792 I've got too many eyes on me, and I can't be 358 00:15:58,875 --> 00:16:00,792 anywhere near the shit show you're in the middle of 359 00:16:00,875 --> 00:16:02,333 right now. 360 00:16:02,417 --> 00:16:06,875 Noted. 361 00:16:06,959 --> 00:16:11,875 ♪♪♪ 362 00:16:11,959 --> 00:16:13,208 Michael Panay. 363 00:16:13,291 --> 00:16:15,333 You haven't gone home with a car this year. 364 00:16:15,417 --> 00:16:18,709 Is it the one you had your heart set on all along? 365 00:16:18,792 --> 00:16:21,583 If Bill Thomas built a toaster, I'd skip work to buy that. 366 00:16:21,667 --> 00:16:24,208 But you won't actually buy this car, will you? 367 00:16:24,291 --> 00:16:27,583 Because you've been downsizing, hoping no one would see. 368 00:16:27,667 --> 00:16:28,625 [laughs] 369 00:16:28,709 --> 00:16:30,208 We're not downsizing. 370 00:16:30,291 --> 00:16:33,333 I was on the other side of the Alperin trade. 371 00:16:33,417 --> 00:16:34,250 I know how much you lost. 372 00:16:34,333 --> 00:16:36,875 Well, I know you're not exactly trending 373 00:16:36,959 --> 00:16:38,875 in the right direction, either. 374 00:16:38,959 --> 00:16:40,500 Maybe we help each other. 375 00:16:40,583 --> 00:16:42,083 I lead the early bidding, knock out the dabblers, 376 00:16:42,166 --> 00:16:45,667 then you swoop in at your desired price. 377 00:16:45,750 --> 00:16:46,709 What's your number? 378 00:16:46,792 --> 00:16:49,792 Mike, I'd pedal the fucking Flintstones car 379 00:16:49,875 --> 00:16:52,125 before I went in on this with you. 380 00:16:52,208 --> 00:16:55,083 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 381 00:16:55,166 --> 00:16:58,959 ♪♪♪ 382 00:16:59,041 --> 00:17:01,417 ♪♪♪ 383 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:06,291 ♪♪♪ 384 00:17:06,375 --> 00:17:08,458 You sure? 385 00:17:08,542 --> 00:17:10,250 I know my people. 386 00:17:10,333 --> 00:17:12,250 She's been approached. 387 00:17:12,333 --> 00:17:14,959 I'll handle it. 388 00:17:15,041 --> 00:17:18,333 You know what this means, don't you? 389 00:17:18,417 --> 00:17:20,625 They'll be coming for the others. 390 00:17:24,041 --> 00:17:25,333 [door opens] 391 00:17:28,291 --> 00:17:29,834 If that bursts into flame, 392 00:17:29,917 --> 00:17:31,625 I'm denouncing you to Governor Danforth. 393 00:17:31,709 --> 00:17:33,125 It's a focus exercise. 394 00:17:33,208 --> 00:17:35,333 And Danforth is just in the play. 395 00:17:35,417 --> 00:17:39,375 At the real Salem trials, the judge was William Stoughton. 396 00:17:39,458 --> 00:17:42,959 Careful, that sounds like something a witch would know. 397 00:17:43,041 --> 00:17:47,333 Also: We're looking good on the two billion. 398 00:17:47,417 --> 00:17:50,166 Now that got you focused. 399 00:17:50,250 --> 00:17:52,625 I'm here to break the glass. 400 00:17:53,959 --> 00:17:56,709 In case of emergency, you know? 401 00:17:56,792 --> 00:17:59,500 Breathe, then talk. 402 00:17:59,583 --> 00:18:02,000 We're getting hit by a tsunami. 403 00:18:02,083 --> 00:18:03,709 Shit. Did the Fed hike-- 404 00:18:03,792 --> 00:18:05,500 No. Actual tsunami. In Brazil. 405 00:18:05,583 --> 00:18:07,667 No way. Brazil doesn't have tsunamis. 406 00:18:07,750 --> 00:18:10,500 The worst they get is ressacas do mar. 407 00:18:10,583 --> 00:18:12,834 "Sea hangover." 408 00:18:12,917 --> 00:18:15,667 Am I the only person here who's loved a Portuguese woman? 409 00:18:15,750 --> 00:18:16,667 Brazil does not normally have tsunamis. 410 00:18:16,750 --> 00:18:17,875 Black swan event. 411 00:18:17,959 --> 00:18:20,041 How heavy are we in Brazil? 412 00:18:20,125 --> 00:18:21,709 Jim Morrison at the end. 413 00:18:21,792 --> 00:18:23,208 Our newly redeployed funds are affected in dozens 414 00:18:23,291 --> 00:18:25,417 of different ways, among the most notable, 415 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:28,166 -Brazilian sugar and shipping. -So we buy sugar futures. 416 00:18:28,250 --> 00:18:30,041 Impending shortage means prices go up. 417 00:18:30,125 --> 00:18:32,125 Everyone will do that, but sure. 418 00:18:32,208 --> 00:18:34,166 A few of the moves I'm already making. 419 00:18:34,250 --> 00:18:36,917 Shorting Brazil's largest debt holder, 420 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,875 buying long-dated VIX calls. Also buying solar, wind, 421 00:18:39,959 --> 00:18:41,750 and every alternative energy play 422 00:18:41,834 --> 00:18:44,000 not dependent on government subsidy. 423 00:18:45,917 --> 00:18:48,000 Um, is no one worried 424 00:18:48,083 --> 00:18:51,792 about the people, you know, in Brazil? 425 00:18:51,875 --> 00:18:54,417 If you want to pretend you're concerned, see Wendy. 426 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:56,041 He's not pretending, Wags. 427 00:18:56,125 --> 00:18:58,667 If you really care, start a walk-a-thon. 428 00:18:58,750 --> 00:19:02,000 Tough Mudders are the new walk-a-thons. 429 00:19:02,083 --> 00:19:04,375 But don't bring that shit to me. 430 00:19:04,458 --> 00:19:08,792 Our own foundation was set up for just these situations 431 00:19:08,875 --> 00:19:11,917 as a kind of emotional and fiscal catch-all 432 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,250 for you to use as a tool for you to get 433 00:19:15,333 --> 00:19:17,250 your conscience out of the way. 434 00:19:17,333 --> 00:19:19,458 I wondered why you showed at this meeting, 435 00:19:19,542 --> 00:19:21,208 you fucking vulture. 436 00:19:21,291 --> 00:19:23,834 What would salve my conscience and my wallet is if I was 437 00:19:23,917 --> 00:19:25,250 a fucking contractor in Brazil. 438 00:19:25,333 --> 00:19:27,500 Too bad their leading construction company's 439 00:19:27,583 --> 00:19:28,750 a scandal factory. 440 00:19:28,834 --> 00:19:31,083 Can't get into bed with a firm that's had almost 441 00:19:31,166 --> 00:19:33,041 100 executives indicted. 442 00:19:33,125 --> 00:19:35,792 Our principal has been indicted. 443 00:19:37,834 --> 00:19:40,208 If it's a money-maker, we do it. 444 00:19:40,291 --> 00:19:42,542 Legal trouble does not mean you can't fulfill 445 00:19:42,625 --> 00:19:44,333 your teleological purpose. 446 00:19:44,417 --> 00:19:45,750 We're on the clock, people. 447 00:19:45,834 --> 00:19:48,709 Now's the time to earn your paychecks. 448 00:19:48,792 --> 00:19:51,041 [siren wails in distance] 449 00:19:51,125 --> 00:19:53,333 [door opens] 450 00:19:53,417 --> 00:19:55,583 There's something I always wondered: 451 00:19:55,667 --> 00:19:57,083 Why aren't you Charlie? 452 00:19:57,166 --> 00:19:58,166 -[sighs] -Feels like you would have 453 00:19:58,250 --> 00:20:01,417 -been a great Charlie. -No, I agree. 454 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:04,291 Oh, Charlie Rhoades, yeah, that guy's yer best friend. 455 00:20:04,375 --> 00:20:05,375 -Yeah. -Right? 456 00:20:05,458 --> 00:20:08,917 Sure. Call ol' Charlie, see if he can fill in, uh, 457 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,291 as a fourth for tennis or on a double date 458 00:20:10,375 --> 00:20:14,208 or just ride around smashing mailboxes. 459 00:20:14,291 --> 00:20:16,625 Yeah. Charlie. The best. 460 00:20:16,709 --> 00:20:21,417 But in our household, my father was Charles. 461 00:20:21,500 --> 00:20:24,125 and every now and then someone, 462 00:20:24,208 --> 00:20:26,166 business associate, the guy who managed one of his buildings, 463 00:20:26,250 --> 00:20:29,458 who would get just a little casual, 464 00:20:29,542 --> 00:20:32,000 accidentally let a Charlie fly. 465 00:20:32,083 --> 00:20:35,291 The world would stop dead. 466 00:20:35,375 --> 00:20:39,208 "Do I look like a fucking 'Charlie' to you?" 467 00:20:39,291 --> 00:20:42,208 [scoffs] 468 00:20:42,291 --> 00:20:43,750 And that was that. 469 00:20:43,834 --> 00:20:46,542 The guy would piss himself, and the day would continue. 470 00:20:46,625 --> 00:20:49,625 So, he was Charles, and you were Chuck. 471 00:20:49,709 --> 00:20:52,041 And Good Time Charlie was somewhere else 472 00:20:52,125 --> 00:20:54,792 out on the town having all the laughs. 473 00:20:54,875 --> 00:20:58,208 Christ, man. 474 00:20:58,291 --> 00:21:01,625 Don't I know it. 475 00:21:01,709 --> 00:21:03,542 And how 'bout now? 476 00:21:03,625 --> 00:21:06,542 You just show up in my chambers for the laughs. 477 00:21:06,625 --> 00:21:09,625 No. No. 478 00:21:11,166 --> 00:21:14,667 I am here in your chambers to put myself in your debt. 479 00:21:14,750 --> 00:21:15,917 In my debt. 480 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,834 That's right. 481 00:21:17,917 --> 00:21:21,041 I was thinking back to our last meal together, 482 00:21:21,125 --> 00:21:23,166 wherein you told me I ought never mention 483 00:21:23,250 --> 00:21:25,291 the favor I had done you again. And I promised then, 484 00:21:25,375 --> 00:21:28,375 and I intend to keep that promise. 485 00:21:28,458 --> 00:21:32,000 And so I am here to ask of you a favor, 486 00:21:32,083 --> 00:21:35,375 not as repayment to me but the opposite. 487 00:21:35,458 --> 00:21:38,792 Oh, this must be big. 488 00:21:39,959 --> 00:21:42,375 Judge Funt is stepping off the Axelrod case. 489 00:21:42,458 --> 00:21:43,959 No one knows. 490 00:21:44,041 --> 00:21:47,542 And when he does, Morgenstern will make a special appointment 491 00:21:47,625 --> 00:21:52,208 of the judge who convinces him he most wants the case. 492 00:21:52,291 --> 00:21:56,458 As often as not, that's the first judge to ask. 493 00:21:56,542 --> 00:21:59,083 And you need that to be me. 494 00:21:59,166 --> 00:22:01,709 We'll time it out so it will be. 495 00:22:01,792 --> 00:22:03,792 Now, there are those that would frame this 496 00:22:03,875 --> 00:22:07,000 as a favor for you, because it's a marquee case. 497 00:22:07,083 --> 00:22:09,375 But I won't. 498 00:22:09,458 --> 00:22:11,166 You would be doing me a service. 499 00:22:11,250 --> 00:22:13,208 And all you're asking is that I be the judge, 500 00:22:13,291 --> 00:22:14,333 not that I rule in Dake's favor, 501 00:22:14,417 --> 00:22:16,375 not that I'd be slanted in any way. 502 00:22:16,458 --> 00:22:19,166 That's right. It's that straightforward. 503 00:22:19,250 --> 00:22:20,875 Win. Lose. Draw. 504 00:22:20,959 --> 00:22:23,917 I want you on that bench because I know you can't be bought. 505 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,166 You can't be bent. You can't be worked. 506 00:22:26,250 --> 00:22:27,417 Dake has a strong case. 507 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:31,500 I want it heard fairly and without prejudice. 508 00:22:33,083 --> 00:22:35,667 And if I grant this request... 509 00:22:38,333 --> 00:22:40,083 There is nothing you can ask me 510 00:22:40,166 --> 00:22:44,875 that I'll refuse you for the rest of our days. 511 00:22:44,959 --> 00:22:48,458 If I agree, I would take those words as gospel, 512 00:22:48,542 --> 00:22:52,458 Chuck. And I would not be bashful to collect, 513 00:22:52,542 --> 00:22:54,583 should the need arise. 514 00:22:54,667 --> 00:22:58,125 I'd be honor bound to deliver. 515 00:22:58,208 --> 00:23:00,709 That's too small a play. It won't save us. 516 00:23:00,792 --> 00:23:02,125 Keep looking. 517 00:23:06,667 --> 00:23:09,792 Axe would be out on that floor screaming at them 518 00:23:09,875 --> 00:23:11,792 like Gordon Ramsay until they delivered. 519 00:23:11,875 --> 00:23:13,625 Hm. You're more Alton Brown. 520 00:23:13,709 --> 00:23:15,875 The ideas they're bringing... Some deployable, 521 00:23:15,959 --> 00:23:18,208 some useful as a benchmark of what other firms 522 00:23:18,291 --> 00:23:20,375 will be thinking and how we need to do better, 523 00:23:20,458 --> 00:23:23,750 but none platonically good. 524 00:23:23,834 --> 00:23:25,959 Your first round of investments coinciding 525 00:23:26,041 --> 00:23:28,750 with your first crisis. 526 00:23:28,834 --> 00:23:30,625 That would be a lot for anybody. 527 00:23:30,709 --> 00:23:34,458 Axe was already considering sidecarring two billion. 528 00:23:34,542 --> 00:23:38,458 And you think today will make the decision for him. 529 00:23:38,542 --> 00:23:41,625 I am acutely aware of the way people look at me. 530 00:23:41,709 --> 00:23:44,667 I have cultivated, through achievement and discipline, 531 00:23:44,750 --> 00:23:47,917 a mystique that compensates for my lack of track record. 532 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,625 A loss shatters that, 533 00:23:49,709 --> 00:23:52,417 and with it the confidence of everyone who works here. 534 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:56,000 In their eyes--in Axe's eyes-- I become simply inexperienced. 535 00:23:56,083 --> 00:23:57,000 I can't let that happen. 536 00:23:57,083 --> 00:24:00,000 That's why I need to get through today unscathed. 537 00:24:00,083 --> 00:24:02,166 The way you think Axe would. 538 00:24:04,333 --> 00:24:08,875 It's important in your job that you face unpleasant realities. 539 00:24:08,959 --> 00:24:10,667 Axe Capital may lose money today, 540 00:24:10,750 --> 00:24:12,083 probably will. 541 00:24:13,208 --> 00:24:16,291 You know that, right? 542 00:24:18,625 --> 00:24:20,375 No. 543 00:24:20,458 --> 00:24:22,667 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 544 00:24:22,750 --> 00:24:27,667 ♪♪♪ 545 00:24:27,750 --> 00:24:32,667 ♪♪♪ 546 00:24:32,750 --> 00:24:37,667 ♪♪♪ 547 00:24:37,750 --> 00:24:42,583 ♪♪♪ 548 00:24:42,667 --> 00:24:43,542 [Axe] Wags, I'm coming in. 549 00:24:43,625 --> 00:24:46,834 The place is getting crushed without me. 550 00:24:46,917 --> 00:24:51,792 ♪♪♪ 551 00:24:51,875 --> 00:24:52,792 Can I stop you? 552 00:24:52,875 --> 00:24:54,792 No. 553 00:24:57,834 --> 00:25:00,542 You sure I can't stop you? 554 00:25:00,625 --> 00:25:02,917 You know that painting of Washington crossing 555 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,250 the Delaware. In the boat with all his troops? 556 00:25:05,333 --> 00:25:07,583 I forget what it's called. 557 00:25:07,667 --> 00:25:09,333 I think it's called Washington Crossing The Delaware... 558 00:25:09,417 --> 00:25:11,792 -You didn't forget. -No. 559 00:25:11,875 --> 00:25:13,625 And do you know why it's called that? 560 00:25:13,709 --> 00:25:16,166 Because at the moment that his troops were facing 561 00:25:16,250 --> 00:25:19,125 the sting of battle, Washington was right there 562 00:25:19,208 --> 00:25:21,375 with them, leaning into the wind. 563 00:25:21,458 --> 00:25:23,375 Not back at home jerking off. 564 00:25:23,458 --> 00:25:25,709 I'll admit, Washington Crossing the Delaware would look pretty 565 00:25:25,792 --> 00:25:27,750 fucking strange without George Washington. 566 00:25:27,834 --> 00:25:30,709 Then how can you ask me not to be with my troops right now? 567 00:25:30,792 --> 00:25:34,083 Well, Washington was allowed to talk to his men. 568 00:25:34,166 --> 00:25:35,250 He was allowed to lead. 569 00:25:35,333 --> 00:25:36,834 When we walk out of this elevator, 570 00:25:36,917 --> 00:25:40,458 you're gonna see it is quite a different situation. 571 00:25:40,542 --> 00:25:43,458 But it is what's required under your deal. 572 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,250 [elevator chimes] 573 00:25:49,333 --> 00:25:51,458 This is Ari Spyros, Director of Compliance 574 00:25:51,542 --> 00:25:53,792 and Risk Management for Axe Capital. 575 00:25:53,875 --> 00:25:56,125 It's 12:09 p.m. I am here with Robert Axelrod 576 00:25:56,208 --> 00:25:58,750 and will stay with him anywhere he goes inside these walls, 577 00:25:58,834 --> 00:26:02,625 ensuring compliance with his preclusion from the secur-- 578 00:26:02,709 --> 00:26:04,875 I'm looking at small sugar companies in Asia. 579 00:26:04,959 --> 00:26:07,291 We pick one--invest in it, grow it, help it. 580 00:26:07,375 --> 00:26:09,834 Not a big fan of... 581 00:26:09,917 --> 00:26:12,000 Oh, shit. 582 00:26:12,083 --> 00:26:15,792 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 583 00:26:15,875 --> 00:26:20,625 ♪♪♪ 584 00:26:20,709 --> 00:26:23,125 What do you think he'd say about that? 585 00:26:23,208 --> 00:26:25,709 Bobby Axelrod doesn't grow mom-and-pop shops. 586 00:26:25,792 --> 00:26:29,041 He buys 'em out, turns 'em out. 587 00:26:29,125 --> 00:26:32,000 That can't happen with this one. 588 00:26:32,083 --> 00:26:33,667 Hmm. 589 00:26:33,750 --> 00:26:35,792 Well, then it sounds like your idea doesn't fucking work. 590 00:26:39,417 --> 00:26:42,834 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 591 00:26:42,917 --> 00:26:46,208 ♪♪♪ 592 00:26:46,291 --> 00:26:51,333 ♪♪♪ 593 00:26:51,417 --> 00:26:55,750 ♪♪♪ 594 00:26:55,834 --> 00:26:59,125 ♪♪♪ 595 00:26:59,208 --> 00:27:04,458 ♪♪♪ 596 00:27:09,291 --> 00:27:10,625 Whoo. 597 00:27:10,709 --> 00:27:11,834 [groans, sighs] 598 00:27:14,125 --> 00:27:16,834 Um... 599 00:27:17,917 --> 00:27:22,208 Oh, I don't like nothing between me and the water. 600 00:27:22,291 --> 00:27:24,500 We called first. You knew we were coming. 601 00:27:24,583 --> 00:27:28,125 Yeah, doc says I gotta swim. 602 00:27:28,208 --> 00:27:31,834 Right. 603 00:27:31,917 --> 00:27:34,542 We need to talk to you about... 604 00:27:34,625 --> 00:27:38,583 About some unexplained coincidences. 605 00:27:38,667 --> 00:27:40,667 If I can sort you out... 606 00:27:40,750 --> 00:27:42,875 In the last year, your house was paid off. 607 00:27:42,959 --> 00:27:46,208 Yeah, my wife came into some money. 608 00:27:46,291 --> 00:27:47,667 Mm. 609 00:27:47,750 --> 00:27:50,417 And your kids, they stopped taking student loans. 610 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:52,709 Marcie's dorm room business, it's really taking off. 611 00:27:52,792 --> 00:27:57,667 I'm sorry, do you... do you want a towel, or... 612 00:27:57,750 --> 00:28:00,083 -I'm good. -You're fair. 613 00:28:00,166 --> 00:28:01,750 So, you got sick from Ice Juice. 614 00:28:01,834 --> 00:28:04,125 The person behind its poisoning was Bobby Axelrod, 615 00:28:04,208 --> 00:28:07,083 the same man you tried to cooperate against. 616 00:28:07,166 --> 00:28:09,500 You think he targeted me deliberately? 617 00:28:09,583 --> 00:28:12,875 [chuckles] Wow, that's a long road to travel for revenge. 618 00:28:12,959 --> 00:28:15,250 But if he did it, I hope you nail him. 619 00:28:15,333 --> 00:28:18,250 That juice made me puke so hard I bust a lung. 620 00:28:18,333 --> 00:28:21,500 Hence the swimming. 621 00:28:21,583 --> 00:28:24,083 [sighs] 622 00:28:24,166 --> 00:28:26,667 Anything else? 623 00:28:26,750 --> 00:28:30,250 Okay. Drop by any time. 624 00:28:32,291 --> 00:28:36,750 Guy flashes a little brain, and you turn into Dudley Do-Right? 625 00:28:36,834 --> 00:28:39,333 I thought under the circumstances 626 00:28:39,417 --> 00:28:42,750 I acquitted myself admirably. 627 00:28:42,834 --> 00:28:44,917 A lot of people think you can't get a good 628 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,041 flat white outside of Australia. 629 00:28:47,125 --> 00:28:49,417 They forget, there's no such thing 630 00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:51,709 as a good store-bought flat white. 631 00:28:51,792 --> 00:28:53,291 It's the tongue temperature. 632 00:28:53,375 --> 00:28:57,500 [cellphone vibrates] 633 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,125 Oh, please, I'd love to hear more 634 00:29:05,208 --> 00:29:07,166 of your expertise on flat whites. 635 00:29:07,250 --> 00:29:09,458 [Margolis] So I just had a fun little poolside chat 636 00:29:09,542 --> 00:29:12,000 with some friends who are very curious about you, 637 00:29:12,083 --> 00:29:12,500 me, and beverages. 638 00:29:12,583 --> 00:29:14,291 [Axe] Thanks. 639 00:29:14,542 --> 00:29:19,125 [indistinct talking] 640 00:29:19,208 --> 00:29:21,500 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 641 00:29:21,583 --> 00:29:25,208 ♪♪♪ 642 00:29:25,291 --> 00:29:30,583 ♪♪♪ 643 00:29:30,667 --> 00:29:32,667 Oh, shit, he's leaving. 644 00:29:32,750 --> 00:29:33,333 [door opens] 645 00:29:33,417 --> 00:29:39,041 ♪♪♪ 646 00:29:39,125 --> 00:29:43,792 ♪♪♪ 647 00:29:43,875 --> 00:29:48,458 ♪♪♪ 648 00:29:48,542 --> 00:29:50,375 [Axe] Hey, Mafee. 649 00:29:50,458 --> 00:29:53,208 You sure a lunch break's the thing right now? 650 00:29:53,291 --> 00:29:55,375 Nothing urgent that you should be getting-- 651 00:29:55,458 --> 00:29:57,959 Are you testing me? 652 00:29:58,041 --> 00:30:01,500 Like that waiter in 'Club? 653 00:30:01,583 --> 00:30:05,458 I'm not allowed to talk to you about this. Right? I'm not? 654 00:30:05,542 --> 00:30:09,166 Or do you want me to, because-- 655 00:30:09,250 --> 00:30:11,875 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 656 00:30:11,959 --> 00:30:16,542 ♪♪♪ 657 00:30:16,625 --> 00:30:21,291 ♪♪♪ 658 00:30:21,375 --> 00:30:25,208 ♪♪♪ 659 00:30:25,291 --> 00:30:30,917 ♪♪♪ 660 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,792 ♪♪♪ 661 00:30:39,583 --> 00:30:40,709 Hey. 662 00:30:40,792 --> 00:30:42,333 Hey. 663 00:30:42,417 --> 00:30:44,000 Got any summer plans? 664 00:30:44,083 --> 00:30:45,250 No. 665 00:30:45,333 --> 00:30:48,959 Guess Lara and I will need to talk about it. The kids. 666 00:30:49,041 --> 00:30:53,041 I don't like to go far. We got a spot in Mystic. 667 00:30:53,125 --> 00:30:54,667 While the family's looking at the boats and shit, 668 00:30:54,750 --> 00:30:57,083 I can play a little pai gow. 669 00:30:57,166 --> 00:30:59,959 [Spyros] I was planning to go back and climb Kili. 670 00:31:00,041 --> 00:31:03,583 How much vacay time is it culturally appropriate 671 00:31:03,667 --> 00:31:05,250 to take here? 672 00:31:05,333 --> 00:31:08,000 Ah, maybe I'll just do base camp. 673 00:31:09,375 --> 00:31:12,000 -Korst. -Scandinavian shipping company. 674 00:31:12,083 --> 00:31:13,792 While the South American companies are down for 675 00:31:13,875 --> 00:31:16,000 the count, these guys will have a shot at a monopoly. 676 00:31:16,083 --> 00:31:18,792 -We should buy in two days. -Four days, when it bottoms. 677 00:31:18,875 --> 00:31:21,375 But this is going to help dig us out a little more. 678 00:31:21,458 --> 00:31:22,709 Good work. 679 00:31:24,709 --> 00:31:27,041 [keyboard keys clacking] 680 00:31:27,125 --> 00:31:29,375 Will you make sure Axe knows it came from me? 681 00:31:29,458 --> 00:31:32,125 Why would you think we're communicating about trades? 682 00:31:32,208 --> 00:31:33,291 What? 683 00:31:33,375 --> 00:31:34,583 That would be illegal. 684 00:31:34,667 --> 00:31:38,333 I know. But... 685 00:31:38,417 --> 00:31:40,125 What are you saying about me? 686 00:31:40,208 --> 00:31:42,417 What are you saying about the place you work? 687 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:44,792 Actually, if he hates it, that would be worse. 688 00:31:44,875 --> 00:31:47,625 Don't say anything. 689 00:31:47,709 --> 00:31:49,875 It is now 1:47 on the 9th day of... 690 00:31:49,959 --> 00:31:50,375 [door opens] 691 00:31:50,458 --> 00:31:53,208 -Really? -What? 692 00:31:53,291 --> 00:31:55,375 I'm sitting in my office, which I paid for, 693 00:31:55,458 --> 00:31:56,959 seeing how things run without me. 694 00:31:57,041 --> 00:31:58,208 Won't work. 695 00:31:58,291 --> 00:31:59,667 People are afraid to take chances 696 00:31:59,750 --> 00:32:01,000 with you here. To be wrong. 697 00:32:01,083 --> 00:32:03,625 Or they want a slap on the ass from you. Which you can't give. 698 00:32:03,709 --> 00:32:04,709 Move over, Zapruder. I got this. 699 00:32:04,792 --> 00:32:06,834 Actually, I think this falls within my dominion, 700 00:32:06,917 --> 00:32:10,667 and the stick can be really tricky for noobs-- 701 00:32:10,750 --> 00:32:12,542 [device screeches] 702 00:32:12,625 --> 00:32:15,792 Hmm. Guess it was tricky. 703 00:32:15,875 --> 00:32:20,750 Why didn't you anticipate the tsunami? 704 00:32:20,834 --> 00:32:22,375 Maybe I should have when that 705 00:32:22,458 --> 00:32:24,875 underground earthquake hit off Mozambique. 706 00:32:24,959 --> 00:32:29,000 Strange conditions bring strange results. 707 00:32:29,083 --> 00:32:30,709 That's what brought this on. 708 00:32:30,792 --> 00:32:33,500 You knew right then but you couldn't act. 709 00:32:33,583 --> 00:32:34,667 Maybe you would have used your experience 710 00:32:34,750 --> 00:32:37,000 to think more globally. 711 00:32:37,083 --> 00:32:38,667 Maybe you would have been cautious. De-risked. 712 00:32:38,750 --> 00:32:41,041 The mature move. 713 00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:42,083 Is that a dig? 714 00:32:42,166 --> 00:32:42,792 It's not. 715 00:32:42,875 --> 00:32:45,250 You have more experience. 716 00:32:45,333 --> 00:32:48,375 You connect points I don't even know to look for. 717 00:32:48,458 --> 00:32:51,792 I understand how hard it is to have things inside you 718 00:32:51,875 --> 00:32:53,500 that you can't communicate. 719 00:32:53,583 --> 00:32:56,542 I can't imagine how hard it must be to know how to say them 720 00:32:56,625 --> 00:32:57,959 and still not be allowed to. 721 00:32:58,041 --> 00:33:01,375 And yet, you are not allowed to. 722 00:33:01,458 --> 00:33:02,500 Have you heard me direct any trades? 723 00:33:02,583 --> 00:33:05,041 The people out there don't know who they're looking to. 724 00:33:05,125 --> 00:33:08,291 Since it can't be you, it needs to be me. 725 00:33:15,583 --> 00:33:18,291 If you can't live with that, I can be the one who leaves. 726 00:33:18,375 --> 00:33:20,792 You'll probably make up the losses but get yourself 727 00:33:20,875 --> 00:33:22,875 banned for life or worse. 728 00:33:25,333 --> 00:33:27,500 I'm leaving, 729 00:33:27,583 --> 00:33:30,458 and I'm taking the two billion. 730 00:33:30,542 --> 00:33:34,709 I'll send instructions shortly about what to do with it. 731 00:33:37,125 --> 00:33:40,375 And at 1:53 p.m., 732 00:33:40,458 --> 00:33:43,583 Robert Axelrod... 733 00:33:43,667 --> 00:33:44,291 has left the building. 734 00:33:44,375 --> 00:33:46,417 [car horn honks, siren wails] 735 00:33:46,500 --> 00:33:47,500 I'm glad I caught you. 736 00:33:47,583 --> 00:33:49,417 You wouldn't have if my fucking car guy 737 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:50,959 could time his job right. 738 00:33:51,041 --> 00:33:54,291 Yeah, George Washington had the same problem leaving Trenton. 739 00:33:54,375 --> 00:33:55,583 Wags told you? 740 00:33:55,667 --> 00:33:58,250 Texted me while you were rampaging through the office. 741 00:33:58,333 --> 00:34:00,458 I wasn't rampaging. I was inspiring. 742 00:34:00,542 --> 00:34:02,125 You know Washington didn't actually 743 00:34:02,208 --> 00:34:04,625 -stand in the rowboat, right? -Of course. 744 00:34:04,709 --> 00:34:07,583 Structurally unsound, and he'd have made himself a target. 745 00:34:07,667 --> 00:34:09,959 Yet you worry about neither. 746 00:34:10,041 --> 00:34:11,834 [car horn honks] 747 00:34:11,917 --> 00:34:15,917 It's hard to shut it off, Wend. 748 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,792 I know. 749 00:34:17,875 --> 00:34:21,834 But if you can't, you will lose the battle and the war. 750 00:34:25,792 --> 00:34:27,375 Do you want me to come with you? 751 00:34:27,458 --> 00:34:29,083 Stay here with Taylor. 752 00:34:29,166 --> 00:34:32,667 They need some senior officer for back up. 753 00:34:32,750 --> 00:34:37,333 [siren wails in distance] 754 00:34:37,417 --> 00:34:40,208 You're fired. 755 00:34:40,875 --> 00:34:43,458 Find out when Judge Funt's court is in recess. 756 00:34:43,542 --> 00:34:43,959 Yep. 757 00:34:44,041 --> 00:34:45,542 [knock at door] 758 00:34:45,625 --> 00:34:47,250 A Mr. Allerd is here for you. 759 00:34:49,875 --> 00:34:54,000 I'm Karl Allerd, your new AUSA. 760 00:34:54,083 --> 00:34:56,875 I think I'd remember if I hired a new line prosecutor. 761 00:34:56,959 --> 00:35:00,625 Remember when Dake said there'd be a favor to be named? 762 00:35:01,834 --> 00:35:03,667 Ah. 763 00:35:03,750 --> 00:35:05,375 You're the favor. 764 00:35:05,458 --> 00:35:06,792 [scoffs] 765 00:35:06,875 --> 00:35:08,709 You don't trust me. 766 00:35:08,792 --> 00:35:10,500 Hell, I wouldn't from your chair. 767 00:35:10,583 --> 00:35:12,792 A Spy In the House Of Lords and so forth. Yes. 768 00:35:12,875 --> 00:35:15,375 So I'll earn your trust. 769 00:35:15,458 --> 00:35:16,333 Will you? 770 00:35:16,417 --> 00:35:17,000 I look forward to seeing that trick. 771 00:35:17,083 --> 00:35:18,250 That'll be a neat trick. 772 00:35:18,333 --> 00:35:20,959 Ms. Sacker, our Head of Crim, will get you situated. 773 00:35:21,041 --> 00:35:22,166 -I will? -Mm. 774 00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:22,417 Mm, I will. 775 00:35:27,417 --> 00:35:28,333 Hey, I've been revising my idea. 776 00:35:28,417 --> 00:35:30,959 There's a division of a struggling company 777 00:35:31,041 --> 00:35:32,417 in Thailand, that I think-- 778 00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:33,291 Wait, is this the sugar company? 779 00:35:33,375 --> 00:35:35,917 Is it, is this the same damn deal? 780 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,875 No...It's just one facet of the company 781 00:35:37,959 --> 00:35:39,875 that I think could be promising to look into. 782 00:35:39,959 --> 00:35:41,375 It started out as a family business, and... 783 00:35:41,458 --> 00:35:42,542 -So this is-- this is the same deal. 784 00:35:42,625 --> 00:35:43,458 -Not really-- -Kimmy, 785 00:35:43,542 --> 00:35:48,208 this piece of shit ain't Axe Cap. 786 00:35:48,291 --> 00:35:52,417 [indistinct chatter] 787 00:36:03,959 --> 00:36:06,041 What are you working on? 788 00:36:06,125 --> 00:36:07,250 Nothing. 789 00:36:12,583 --> 00:36:16,500 I want to see all Ben Kim's search results for the day. 790 00:36:16,583 --> 00:36:17,959 You mean, like, browser results, or... 791 00:36:18,041 --> 00:36:21,542 Everything he did today. 792 00:36:22,667 --> 00:36:24,333 [Wags] Hey, you on your way home? 793 00:36:24,417 --> 00:36:25,375 Nope. 794 00:36:25,458 --> 00:36:26,375 Chief. You got to get on your way 795 00:36:26,458 --> 00:36:28,125 if you want to make it in time to take 796 00:36:28,208 --> 00:36:31,166 the princelings to Little League. 797 00:36:31,917 --> 00:36:33,750 Have Bruce take 'em. 798 00:36:33,834 --> 00:36:36,583 [Wags] You got it. 799 00:36:36,667 --> 00:36:38,458 [indistinct chatter] 800 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,625 [Lilly] He's been home three weekends this year. 801 00:36:48,709 --> 00:36:52,458 I'm almost positive one of them was his assistant's mistake. 802 00:36:52,542 --> 00:36:54,667 And he assumes I never say anything about him 803 00:36:54,750 --> 00:36:58,417 fucking his way through the entire New York pool. 804 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:01,291 But if you can leave Axe... 805 00:37:01,375 --> 00:37:03,875 You give me courage, Lara. 806 00:37:06,917 --> 00:37:09,625 You're smart, Lilly. 807 00:37:09,709 --> 00:37:11,166 You had a career for a second. 808 00:37:11,250 --> 00:37:14,750 You know your shopper isn't your friend, 809 00:37:14,834 --> 00:37:17,458 personal trainer doesn't think you're actually making progress, 810 00:37:17,542 --> 00:37:21,417 and all the charities you give money to don't actually 811 00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:23,375 honor you when they honor you. 812 00:37:23,458 --> 00:37:26,291 But on some level, you believe every bit of it. 813 00:37:26,375 --> 00:37:31,041 You think the attention you receive is deserved. 814 00:37:31,125 --> 00:37:34,125 But when that fades, when every relationship 815 00:37:34,208 --> 00:37:37,250 in your life reveals itself to be a trade on your husband's 816 00:37:37,333 --> 00:37:40,792 net worth, you may say "Fuck false friends," 817 00:37:40,875 --> 00:37:42,458 but you'll be hiring a PR rep the first time 818 00:37:42,542 --> 00:37:47,041 your Halloween costume isn't mentioned in Page Six. 819 00:37:48,583 --> 00:37:51,250 So keep your own courage, Lilly. 820 00:37:51,333 --> 00:37:54,333 And while you're at it, consider keeping that husband. 821 00:37:54,417 --> 00:37:57,166 Because while he may not give you what you think you want, 822 00:37:57,250 --> 00:38:00,166 he lets you keep on being Mrs. Keith Currier Smith, 823 00:38:00,250 --> 00:38:02,750 and I'm pretty sure that's what you need. 824 00:38:02,834 --> 00:38:05,375 Now you're trying to decide whether 825 00:38:05,458 --> 00:38:06,834 to be pissed or grateful. 826 00:38:06,917 --> 00:38:08,792 Definitely grateful. 827 00:38:08,875 --> 00:38:12,125 [helicopter flies in distance] 828 00:38:21,250 --> 00:38:22,875 Whoa! 829 00:38:22,959 --> 00:38:24,291 [laughter] 830 00:38:29,959 --> 00:38:31,458 [shouts indistinctly] 831 00:38:32,041 --> 00:38:34,625 Here you go. 832 00:38:34,709 --> 00:38:36,542 Have fun. 833 00:38:36,625 --> 00:38:38,500 Thanks, Bruce. 834 00:38:44,625 --> 00:38:46,792 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 835 00:38:46,875 --> 00:38:51,667 ♪♪♪ 836 00:38:51,750 --> 00:38:52,375 We got your latest request. 837 00:38:52,458 --> 00:38:54,709 It's a big lift. Hard transfer. 838 00:38:54,792 --> 00:38:57,083 International withdrawals and deposits like this 839 00:38:57,166 --> 00:38:58,667 do not get done same day. 840 00:38:58,750 --> 00:39:00,250 -So? -It's not the sort of thing 841 00:39:00,333 --> 00:39:03,583 most clients ask for. Especially not when they're drawing heat. 842 00:39:03,667 --> 00:39:05,250 These are my needs. 843 00:39:05,333 --> 00:39:09,291 Either you meet them or you can't. 844 00:39:09,375 --> 00:39:12,250 We can get it done. But this isn't a reusable pipeline. 845 00:39:12,333 --> 00:39:14,291 Fine by me. 846 00:39:14,375 --> 00:39:18,875 ♪♪♪ 847 00:39:18,959 --> 00:39:20,417 She's supposed to be here by 5:30. 848 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:22,583 -It's already-- -I know what time it is. 849 00:39:22,667 --> 00:39:24,166 Call it in. 850 00:39:28,417 --> 00:39:30,250 I'd like to have a person of interest 851 00:39:30,333 --> 00:39:32,750 picked up. Gonzalez, Maria. 852 00:39:32,834 --> 00:39:35,417 No Social. 853 00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:36,625 Yeah. 854 00:39:36,709 --> 00:39:39,959 D.O.B. 1/22/79. 855 00:39:40,041 --> 00:39:41,041 [sighs] You think she got cold feet? 856 00:39:41,125 --> 00:39:44,834 I think that's best case. 857 00:39:44,917 --> 00:39:47,792 You have her already. That's great news. Where? 858 00:39:47,875 --> 00:39:49,125 [mug clatters] 859 00:39:49,208 --> 00:39:50,625 Hold her. She's mine. 860 00:39:50,709 --> 00:39:52,458 She got picked up in an ICE sweep. 861 00:39:52,542 --> 00:39:55,625 She's currently at the Varick Street Detention Center. 862 00:39:55,709 --> 00:39:58,000 [indistinct chatter] 863 00:40:02,417 --> 00:40:05,250 [door buzzes] 864 00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:13,291 Are you gonna bring Maria? 865 00:40:13,375 --> 00:40:15,458 She's right there. 866 00:40:18,041 --> 00:40:19,041 Who is that? 867 00:40:19,125 --> 00:40:22,000 Maria Gonzalez. 868 00:40:22,083 --> 00:40:23,709 That may be a Maria Gonzalez, 869 00:40:23,792 --> 00:40:25,500 but that is not our Maria Gonzalez. 870 00:40:25,583 --> 00:40:27,333 That is the wrong Maria Gonzalez. 871 00:40:27,417 --> 00:40:29,834 Do you have someone else here with that name? 872 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:34,792 We did until she was put on a goodbye charter 873 00:40:34,875 --> 00:40:36,959 from Newark Liberty. 874 00:40:38,291 --> 00:40:41,375 It's got to be some bureaucratic screw-up. 875 00:40:41,458 --> 00:40:42,125 No, it doesn't. 876 00:40:42,208 --> 00:40:43,375 [keyboard keys clacking] 877 00:40:43,458 --> 00:40:45,375 Somebody knew she was gonna be picked up 878 00:40:45,458 --> 00:40:49,750 before we did and got to her info. 879 00:40:52,417 --> 00:40:54,208 This has Axe written all over it. 880 00:40:54,291 --> 00:40:57,834 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 881 00:40:57,917 --> 00:41:02,709 ♪♪♪ 882 00:41:02,792 --> 00:41:07,458 ♪♪♪ 883 00:41:09,625 --> 00:41:12,625 They deported the wrong Maria Gonzalez. 884 00:41:12,709 --> 00:41:16,000 Our witness is on a plane that lands in 90 minutes. 885 00:41:16,083 --> 00:41:18,750 We need her met on the ground in Guatemala and returned. 886 00:41:18,834 --> 00:41:22,709 There are a lot of, uh, high-level, deeply uncomfortable 887 00:41:22,792 --> 00:41:27,250 calls required to make that happen. DOJ. DHS. State. 888 00:41:27,333 --> 00:41:29,291 And they all start with your boss. 889 00:41:29,375 --> 00:41:31,542 I really don't want to call the Attorney General about this. 890 00:41:31,625 --> 00:41:36,542 He's publicly stated this case matters to him. 891 00:41:37,875 --> 00:41:42,125 Ollie, you're a bit of a rara avis, aren't you? 892 00:41:42,208 --> 00:41:44,834 You got no "hat," no one looking out for you, 893 00:41:44,917 --> 00:41:47,458 and yet you have risen. 894 00:41:47,542 --> 00:41:50,417 Maybe it's because you have an immaculate record. 895 00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:53,000 Some guys don't trust immaculate record. 896 00:41:53,083 --> 00:41:55,208 I do. I have an immaculate record. 897 00:41:55,291 --> 00:41:58,333 Thank you, General. 898 00:41:58,417 --> 00:42:00,542 [Jock] That was from a movie. 899 00:42:00,625 --> 00:42:02,500 You don't watch movies, do you, Ollie? 900 00:42:02,583 --> 00:42:06,917 I re-watch The Decalogue every year. 901 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,917 Uh, well, I read what you sent me. 902 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,083 Just to make sure I have it straight: We got the wrong Guad? 903 00:42:13,166 --> 00:42:16,083 That is indeed the case. 904 00:42:16,166 --> 00:42:17,625 Say it. 905 00:42:20,291 --> 00:42:24,250 We got the wrong Guad. 906 00:42:24,333 --> 00:42:27,542 But Maria Gonzalez, our Maria Gonzalez, 907 00:42:27,625 --> 00:42:28,625 is a key cooperator. 908 00:42:28,709 --> 00:42:31,667 We need her back. And since this is 909 00:42:31,750 --> 00:42:33,250 an extraordinary situation-- 910 00:42:33,333 --> 00:42:34,792 [Jock] Well, in one respect. 911 00:42:34,875 --> 00:42:37,625 In another, it's just the way things are supposed to go. 912 00:42:37,709 --> 00:42:39,625 The right Maria Gonzalez came into this country illegally, 913 00:42:39,709 --> 00:42:44,500 she stayed illegally, and she committed a fraud 914 00:42:44,583 --> 00:42:47,250 on the stockholders of that snake-bit juice company. 915 00:42:47,333 --> 00:42:49,709 She is three times illegal. 916 00:42:49,792 --> 00:42:54,667 That makes her removable, and she was removed. 917 00:42:57,250 --> 00:42:58,583 Um... 918 00:42:58,667 --> 00:43:00,083 [Jock] Next time... 919 00:43:00,166 --> 00:43:04,458 instead of asking me to undo your fuck-up, 920 00:43:04,542 --> 00:43:07,542 maybe just see to it that the situation remains like 921 00:43:07,625 --> 00:43:10,083 our holy Mother of Mercy, blessedly un-fucked. 922 00:43:10,166 --> 00:43:14,250 [receiver clicks] 923 00:43:17,083 --> 00:43:19,667 [receiver clatters] 924 00:43:19,750 --> 00:43:21,417 How'd that go? 925 00:43:21,834 --> 00:43:23,583 [door opens] 926 00:43:25,083 --> 00:43:26,834 Does Axe ever hesitate? 927 00:43:26,917 --> 00:43:27,083 [door closes] 928 00:43:27,166 --> 00:43:28,500 Why? 929 00:43:28,583 --> 00:43:31,750 I'm hesitating. Can't pull the trigger. 930 00:43:31,834 --> 00:43:34,500 Markets are closed. Overseas play? 931 00:43:34,583 --> 00:43:37,250 Ben Kim found a big opportunity in Thailand. 932 00:43:37,333 --> 00:43:40,125 A troubled public company with a promising sugar division. 933 00:43:40,208 --> 00:43:42,333 He spotted a good target but just couldn't quite 934 00:43:42,417 --> 00:43:44,458 figure out how to hit it-- or didn't have the courage 935 00:43:44,542 --> 00:43:45,709 to shoot at it. 936 00:43:45,792 --> 00:43:49,041 We need to keep working with him on that. 937 00:43:49,125 --> 00:43:50,208 But you see the play? 938 00:43:50,291 --> 00:43:53,166 Yes. A PIPE. Private investment in public equity. 939 00:43:53,250 --> 00:43:55,291 Basically, we take ownership of a spin-off, 940 00:43:55,375 --> 00:43:56,375 and a commission from brokering its sale. 941 00:43:56,458 --> 00:43:59,000 So, why the hesitation? 942 00:43:59,083 --> 00:44:02,000 It will be the single largest investment I've made as CIO, 943 00:44:02,083 --> 00:44:04,250 and a type Axe Cap has never made before. 944 00:44:04,333 --> 00:44:07,041 If you make this move, where do you end up for the day? 945 00:44:07,125 --> 00:44:08,709 Unscathed? 946 00:44:11,458 --> 00:44:14,583 This would lock in a loss. 947 00:44:14,667 --> 00:44:19,542 Yes. The high-reward plays are all high-risk. 948 00:44:19,625 --> 00:44:21,250 It's good you can't run it by Axe. 949 00:44:21,333 --> 00:44:22,792 [papers rustle] 950 00:44:22,875 --> 00:44:27,458 Forces you to hear your own voice and trust it. 951 00:44:28,667 --> 00:44:33,291 You'll probably do the right thing. 952 00:44:33,375 --> 00:44:36,458 And when the day comes you get one wrong, that'll be good, too. 953 00:44:36,542 --> 00:44:39,000 Because I'll realize I'm mortal and it's not so bad? 954 00:44:39,083 --> 00:44:40,750 Because it'll be fucking horrible 955 00:44:40,834 --> 00:44:44,208 and you'll do anything you can to avoid that feeling again. 956 00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:55,875 Hey. 957 00:44:57,834 --> 00:45:00,166 You know what, Bobby? 958 00:45:00,250 --> 00:45:02,959 I'm gonna do you a favor: 959 00:45:03,041 --> 00:45:04,959 You're off the hook. 960 00:45:05,041 --> 00:45:08,417 If you don't want 50-50 custody, you don't need to have it. 961 00:45:08,500 --> 00:45:10,500 I can tell other people it's 50-50, 962 00:45:10,583 --> 00:45:13,208 and I can come up with something to tell the boys, too. 963 00:45:13,291 --> 00:45:15,625 Why the fuck do you think I don't want the kids? 964 00:45:15,709 --> 00:45:18,750 You had them for one day, at a time when you don't 965 00:45:18,834 --> 00:45:22,625 have to go to work, and you ditched them. 966 00:45:22,709 --> 00:45:24,875 You let them be airlifted into Little League. 967 00:45:24,959 --> 00:45:26,458 I mean, it was mortifying. 968 00:45:26,542 --> 00:45:28,041 I didn't mean to embarrass them. 969 00:45:28,125 --> 00:45:30,792 They weren't embarrassed. 970 00:45:30,875 --> 00:45:34,166 They didn't know to be, which is a whole other thing. 971 00:45:34,250 --> 00:45:37,875 You know, I don't know if you need to work on your case 972 00:45:37,959 --> 00:45:39,750 or go on a trip 973 00:45:39,834 --> 00:45:42,917 or become a fucking cobbler, 974 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:47,542 but it doesn't seem like you are where you need to be. 975 00:45:49,583 --> 00:45:52,250 And I'd offer to help, but my help doesn't seem 976 00:45:52,333 --> 00:45:53,375 to be what you want, either. 977 00:45:53,458 --> 00:45:57,333 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 978 00:45:57,417 --> 00:46:02,166 ♪♪♪ 979 00:46:02,250 --> 00:46:06,417 ♪♪♪ 980 00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:08,000 [siren wails in the distance] 981 00:46:08,083 --> 00:46:10,250 I have everything positioned and ready, 982 00:46:10,333 --> 00:46:13,375 and yet... 983 00:46:13,458 --> 00:46:16,000 Judge Funt still has the case on his docket. 984 00:46:16,083 --> 00:46:19,667 My bag is packed, but I can't seem to walk out the door. 985 00:46:19,750 --> 00:46:24,291 If I fail at this, everything is dashed. 986 00:46:24,375 --> 00:46:27,709 [sighs] For then I will have ruined myself 987 00:46:27,792 --> 00:46:29,375 in his eyes 988 00:46:29,458 --> 00:46:33,250 and exposed my position. 989 00:46:33,333 --> 00:46:37,583 Only a fool doesn't look at the downside. 990 00:46:37,667 --> 00:46:38,750 But only a coward allows it to dissuade him 991 00:46:38,834 --> 00:46:43,208 from that which he knows he must do. 992 00:46:43,291 --> 00:46:45,083 [Wendy] I know you're not a coward. 993 00:46:45,166 --> 00:46:48,834 I don't like the sound of that word coming out of your mouth. 994 00:46:48,917 --> 00:46:51,208 Neither do I. 995 00:46:51,291 --> 00:46:54,917 I'll see you at home. After. 996 00:47:00,125 --> 00:47:02,250 [footsteps approaching] 997 00:47:02,333 --> 00:47:05,208 Chuck? 998 00:47:06,959 --> 00:47:10,667 No one takes this shortcut anymore. 999 00:47:10,750 --> 00:47:12,417 This isn't your courthouse. 1000 00:47:12,500 --> 00:47:14,875 Are you lost? 1001 00:47:14,959 --> 00:47:19,333 Oh, right where I need to be, Judge Funt, 1002 00:47:19,417 --> 00:47:22,417 which is, unfortunately, in your way. 1003 00:47:24,166 --> 00:47:24,583 Ah. 1004 00:47:24,667 --> 00:47:28,083 The Axelrod case. 1005 00:47:28,166 --> 00:47:32,375 You had to know a day like this would come. 1006 00:47:32,458 --> 00:47:34,000 I never asked you... 1007 00:47:34,083 --> 00:47:35,041 You didn't have to. 1008 00:47:38,166 --> 00:47:41,041 Your son's doing well, I hope, 1009 00:47:41,125 --> 00:47:43,250 made the most of his medical career. 1010 00:47:43,333 --> 00:47:45,458 [smacks lips] 1011 00:47:45,542 --> 00:47:47,583 Yeah, he's a good doctor. 1012 00:47:47,667 --> 00:47:49,500 That's what I wanted for him. 1013 00:47:49,583 --> 00:47:51,166 [smacks lips] 1014 00:47:51,250 --> 00:47:54,500 If he hadn't have supplied those future sons of Hippocrates 1015 00:47:54,583 --> 00:47:57,583 with Adderall, some other med student would have. 1016 00:47:57,667 --> 00:48:00,125 I won't let you dictate my rulings. 1017 00:48:00,208 --> 00:48:05,959 The bench cannot be tainted by personal debts. 1018 00:48:06,041 --> 00:48:08,959 Name another favor. 1019 00:48:09,041 --> 00:48:11,959 I know that this is the biggest case that you've ever drawn. 1020 00:48:12,041 --> 00:48:14,750 Well, that's something that you would think about in my shoes, 1021 00:48:14,834 --> 00:48:16,625 but I don't. 1022 00:48:16,709 --> 00:48:20,583 No, you wouldn't. 1023 00:48:20,667 --> 00:48:23,500 And you wouldn't hide in a hallway waiting 1024 00:48:23,583 --> 00:48:25,792 to pounce when I walked by. 1025 00:48:26,917 --> 00:48:29,166 But I am not the man you are. 1026 00:48:34,208 --> 00:48:36,792 Oh. 1027 00:48:36,875 --> 00:48:39,792 You're not here to ask me to shade my rulings. 1028 00:48:39,875 --> 00:48:43,000 You're here to ask me to step off it. 1029 00:48:43,083 --> 00:48:46,792 It's a hard laydown. And I'm asking you to lay it down. 1030 00:48:46,875 --> 00:48:49,333 [sighs] 1031 00:48:49,417 --> 00:48:51,375 Ask yourself 1032 00:48:51,458 --> 00:48:54,750 who you really are, Chuck. 1033 00:48:54,834 --> 00:48:57,041 Are you the man that's reduced to collecting debts 1034 00:48:57,125 --> 00:49:01,333 of the soul like-- like old Mr. Scratch? 1035 00:49:01,417 --> 00:49:03,709 Well, as with all stories about that being, 1036 00:49:03,792 --> 00:49:07,458 the debt is due, even if, especially if, 1037 00:49:07,542 --> 00:49:11,542 it is not fair or even right to collect it. 1038 00:49:13,750 --> 00:49:18,542 Believe me, my...my insides hurt making this request. 1039 00:49:18,625 --> 00:49:21,333 Oh, I don't believe that even a little. 1040 00:49:21,417 --> 00:49:23,041 You like your insides just as they are. 1041 00:49:23,125 --> 00:49:26,917 You want to be right here, making these moves. 1042 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,333 You need that feeling in your stomach to know you're alive. 1043 00:49:33,959 --> 00:49:37,333 I really think I am sorry. 1044 00:49:37,417 --> 00:49:39,166 Fuck you, Chuck! 1045 00:49:44,750 --> 00:49:48,208 I'll recuse myself. 1046 00:49:50,125 --> 00:49:52,250 My tab is clear. 1047 00:49:52,333 --> 00:49:55,709 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1048 00:49:55,792 --> 00:49:59,291 ♪♪♪ 1049 00:49:59,375 --> 00:50:02,625 ♪♪♪ 1050 00:50:02,709 --> 00:50:06,125 ♪♪♪ 1051 00:50:06,208 --> 00:50:10,417 [door creaks open, closes] 1052 00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:11,750 May I? 1053 00:50:11,834 --> 00:50:14,291 Do you want me to call the Secretary of the Treasury 1054 00:50:14,375 --> 00:50:17,125 and ask for a personal loan? 1055 00:50:17,208 --> 00:50:21,125 I just heard DeGiulio is the new judge on the Axelrod case. 1056 00:50:21,208 --> 00:50:23,208 Not our dream judge, but fair-minded, 1057 00:50:23,291 --> 00:50:26,792 likely to hew closely to the law, rule narrowly. 1058 00:50:26,875 --> 00:50:29,250 That'll favor us a lot more than Funt. 1059 00:50:29,333 --> 00:50:31,000 Well, then, 1060 00:50:31,083 --> 00:50:33,417 I guess it's a gift. 1061 00:50:33,500 --> 00:50:36,291 Chuck. 1062 00:50:36,375 --> 00:50:39,166 I know his fingerprints. 1063 00:50:41,500 --> 00:50:43,709 Are you gonna do something about this? 1064 00:50:43,792 --> 00:50:46,709 I'm not in the habit of rejecting gifts. 1065 00:50:50,041 --> 00:50:53,333 Do you know about White Day in Japan? 1066 00:50:53,417 --> 00:50:56,792 Over there on Valentine's Day, women buy presents 1067 00:50:56,875 --> 00:51:00,166 for their salarymen bosses, and those presents are displayed 1068 00:51:00,250 --> 00:51:02,250 for all to see, so the most important thing is the size. 1069 00:51:02,333 --> 00:51:06,041 That's how others know that the recipient is valued. 1070 00:51:06,125 --> 00:51:08,959 A month later, on White Day, the men give a return gift 1071 00:51:09,041 --> 00:51:11,250 of two to three times the value. 1072 00:51:11,333 --> 00:51:16,500 So if there's a salaryman you don't respect, 1073 00:51:16,583 --> 00:51:19,041 you get him something small but expensive. 1074 00:51:25,125 --> 00:51:28,166 Chuck just gave you diamond cufflinks, 1075 00:51:28,250 --> 00:51:31,458 and when White Day comes, you're gonna have to give him 1076 00:51:31,542 --> 00:51:34,000 something that costs a lot more. 1077 00:51:34,083 --> 00:51:37,041 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1078 00:51:37,125 --> 00:51:40,750 ♪ Counting Crows "Round Here" ♪ 1079 00:51:40,834 --> 00:51:44,500 ♪♪♪ 1080 00:51:44,583 --> 00:51:48,291 ♪♪♪ 1081 00:51:48,375 --> 00:51:51,041 ♪ Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog ♪ 1082 00:51:51,125 --> 00:51:55,000 ♪ Where no one notices the contrast ♪ 1083 00:51:55,083 --> 00:51:57,125 ♪ Of white on white ♪ 1084 00:51:57,208 --> 00:51:59,834 ♪ In between the moon and you ♪ 1085 00:51:59,917 --> 00:52:03,333 ♪ Angels get a better view ♪ 1086 00:52:03,417 --> 00:52:06,500 I didn't like you kicking me out. 1087 00:52:06,583 --> 00:52:08,208 I apologize if I was rude. 1088 00:52:08,291 --> 00:52:10,875 I don't give a fuck about rude. 1089 00:52:10,959 --> 00:52:13,875 It showed you were distracted. 1090 00:52:13,959 --> 00:52:15,542 How did we do today? 1091 00:52:15,625 --> 00:52:16,834 Just executed a huge PIPE. 1092 00:52:16,917 --> 00:52:18,375 We're going to arb a Southeast Asian sugar company. 1093 00:52:18,458 --> 00:52:20,667 Fun. 1094 00:52:20,750 --> 00:52:22,458 If all my projections hold, 1095 00:52:22,542 --> 00:52:25,375 we're still down five percent overall. 1096 00:52:25,458 --> 00:52:26,291 Anyone else would have lost 12 1097 00:52:26,375 --> 00:52:29,417 or done something stupid to get even. 1098 00:52:29,500 --> 00:52:32,083 Booking the loss was the only way. 1099 00:52:34,041 --> 00:52:36,917 I'm not pulling the two billion. 1100 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:41,709 It's yours to invest. 1101 00:52:41,792 --> 00:52:43,458 I really thought you didn't trust me. 1102 00:52:43,542 --> 00:52:45,000 That's why you were in the office 1103 00:52:45,083 --> 00:52:46,709 looking over everyone's shoulder. 1104 00:52:46,792 --> 00:52:49,250 I was in the office, because as of now, 1105 00:52:49,333 --> 00:52:53,583 I don't know what else to do with myself. 1106 00:52:53,667 --> 00:52:56,083 [smacks lips] 1107 00:52:56,166 --> 00:52:57,250 And... 1108 00:52:57,333 --> 00:53:02,000 as much as I can trust anyone with my name 1109 00:53:02,083 --> 00:53:03,709 and my money... 1110 00:53:03,792 --> 00:53:06,041 I trust you. 1111 00:53:06,125 --> 00:53:07,250 I am irrelevant. 1112 00:53:07,333 --> 00:53:10,208 You want the money because you want the stake, the control. 1113 00:53:10,291 --> 00:53:12,959 You need the game to remember who you are. 1114 00:53:14,709 --> 00:53:17,583 I've decided how I'm going to invest that two billion. 1115 00:53:17,667 --> 00:53:21,709 I'm going to diversify, invest in outside funds. 1116 00:53:21,792 --> 00:53:25,125 I'll hear pitches, among them your hand-picked favorites. 1117 00:53:25,208 --> 00:53:26,917 And after I give them the money, 1118 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:30,250 I'm going to be a passive investor. 1119 00:53:30,333 --> 00:53:32,208 Thank you. 1120 00:53:39,041 --> 00:53:41,500 You're not doing this 'cause I need it. 1121 00:53:41,583 --> 00:53:43,583 You need it. 1122 00:53:44,792 --> 00:53:49,291 You're giving me a place to play so I stay off your field. 1123 00:53:49,375 --> 00:53:52,417 And you want the benefit of my moves on our bottom line 1124 00:53:52,500 --> 00:53:55,125 in case there's another disaster. 1125 00:53:56,834 --> 00:53:59,959 I'm your hedge. 1126 00:54:00,041 --> 00:54:02,000 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1127 00:54:02,083 --> 00:54:05,792 ♪♪♪ 1128 00:54:05,875 --> 00:54:11,250 ♪♪♪ 1129 00:54:11,333 --> 00:54:13,333 ♪ Maria says she's dying ♪ 1130 00:54:13,417 --> 00:54:15,709 ♪ Through the door, I hear her crying ♪ 1131 00:54:15,792 --> 00:54:16,834 ♪ Why? ♪ 1132 00:54:16,917 --> 00:54:21,000 ♪ I don't know ♪ 1133 00:54:21,083 --> 00:54:23,041 ♪ 'Round here ♪ 1134 00:54:23,125 --> 00:54:28,250 ♪ We always stand up straight ♪ 1135 00:54:31,083 --> 00:54:33,375 ♪ 'Round here ♪ 1136 00:54:33,458 --> 00:54:34,041 [chicken clucking] 1137 00:54:34,125 --> 00:54:37,667 ♪ Something radiates ♪ 1138 00:54:37,750 --> 00:54:42,291 ♪♪♪ 1139 00:54:42,375 --> 00:54:44,083 ♪ Maria came from Nashville ♪ 1140 00:54:44,166 --> 00:54:46,709 ♪ With a suitcase in her hand ♪ 1141 00:54:46,792 --> 00:54:51,166 ♪ She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis ♪ 1142 00:54:51,250 --> 00:54:54,208 ♪ And she walks along the edge ♪ 1143 00:54:54,291 --> 00:54:57,000 ♪ Of where the ocean meets the land ♪ 1144 00:54:57,083 --> 00:54:58,709 ♪ Just like she's walking ♪ 1145 00:54:58,792 --> 00:55:01,458 ♪ On a wire in a circus ♪ 1146 00:55:01,542 --> 00:55:04,208 ♪ She parks her car outside of my house ♪ 1147 00:55:04,291 --> 00:55:07,583 ♪ And takes her clothes off ♪ 1148 00:55:07,667 --> 00:55:12,041 ♪ Says she's close to understanding Jesus ♪ 1149 00:55:12,125 --> 00:55:15,291 ♪ And she knows she's more than just a little ♪ 1150 00:55:15,375 --> 00:55:17,375 ♪ Misunderstood ♪ 1151 00:55:17,458 --> 00:55:22,166 ♪ She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous ♪ 1152 00:55:22,250 --> 00:55:22,542 ♪ 'Round here ♪