1 00:00:02,968 --> 00:00:04,760 [Wendy] Previously on Billions... 2 00:00:04,843 --> 00:00:07,009 On power of the President, you are fired! 3 00:00:07,093 --> 00:00:08,885 [Jock] Mr. Connerty, as your first detail 4 00:00:08,968 --> 00:00:10,635 [Jock] as United States Attorney 5 00:00:10,718 --> 00:00:11,968 [Jock] for the Southern District, 6 00:00:12,051 --> 00:00:13,927 please show this gentleman out. 7 00:00:14,009 --> 00:00:15,677 The palace coup is complete. 8 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,468 I did what I had to do to survive. And to win. 9 00:00:18,551 --> 00:00:19,885 You have to know 10 00:00:19,968 --> 00:00:23,343 that anything I do to stop you is warranted. 11 00:00:23,426 --> 00:00:24,843 [Axe] Rudy, you're fired. 12 00:00:24,927 --> 00:00:26,051 For fraternizing. 13 00:00:26,134 --> 00:00:28,134 [Axe] With our sworn fucking enemies. 14 00:00:28,218 --> 00:00:30,968 You will move assets how and when I tell you. 15 00:00:31,051 --> 00:00:33,176 [Axe] Your 2 and 20 is now 1 and 10. 16 00:00:33,259 --> 00:00:34,468 [Axe] The rest will be paid to me. 17 00:00:34,551 --> 00:00:36,301 You are now officially but unofficially 18 00:00:36,385 --> 00:00:39,301 the proud owner of half of my half of Panay's fund. 19 00:00:39,385 --> 00:00:43,301 It's time to put away childish enthusiasms. 20 00:00:43,385 --> 00:00:45,343 [Troy] They left me no choice. 21 00:00:45,426 --> 00:00:47,468 Said they were going to destroy my business, my life. 22 00:00:47,551 --> 00:00:49,426 Most of your major cases are being put under review 23 00:00:49,510 --> 00:00:51,677 by Connerty. Your name will be ruined. 24 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,301 And Epstein's vacated New York Attorney General's seat 25 00:00:54,385 --> 00:00:56,009 [Chuck] is there for me. 26 00:00:56,093 --> 00:00:57,551 He owed me a favor. 27 00:00:57,635 --> 00:00:59,343 Yeah. As I do now. 28 00:00:59,426 --> 00:01:02,426 You got that carry permit you were looking for. 29 00:01:02,510 --> 00:01:04,301 We need to be certain no money is going 30 00:01:04,385 --> 00:01:06,218 [Wags] to ex-employees of Axe Capital-- 31 00:01:06,301 --> 00:01:09,760 Please stop fucking with Taylor Mason. 32 00:01:09,843 --> 00:01:11,802 [Grigor] Forget all about them. 33 00:01:11,885 --> 00:01:14,968 But be sure you don't forget about me. 34 00:01:15,051 --> 00:01:16,760 [Wags] He's a Russian Oligarch. 35 00:01:16,843 --> 00:01:17,885 [Wags] But you, mon frère, are a motherfucking 36 00:01:17,968 --> 00:01:19,677 American Oligarch. 37 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:21,510 You will not relent. 38 00:01:21,593 --> 00:01:23,301 Taylor must pay. 39 00:01:23,385 --> 00:01:25,510 We have to do it without Grigor getting a whiff of us. 40 00:01:25,593 --> 00:01:28,093 [Axe] We don't put out this fire by pouring water on it. 41 00:01:28,176 --> 00:01:31,093 But by sucking oxygen out of the room. 42 00:01:31,176 --> 00:01:32,760 Completely. 43 00:01:39,843 --> 00:01:43,093 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 44 00:01:43,176 --> 00:01:47,593 ♪♪♪ 45 00:01:47,677 --> 00:01:52,218 ♪♪♪ 46 00:01:52,301 --> 00:01:55,635 [mechanical whirring, clanging] 47 00:01:55,718 --> 00:01:57,927 This is the competition's... 48 00:01:58,009 --> 00:02:00,218 [whirring, clanging continues] 49 00:02:00,301 --> 00:02:04,718 ♪♪♪ 50 00:02:04,802 --> 00:02:09,134 ♪♪♪ 51 00:02:09,218 --> 00:02:10,843 [Theo] Not exactly RoboCop. 52 00:02:10,927 --> 00:02:14,802 But until now, considered state of the art. 53 00:02:14,885 --> 00:02:18,385 Ooh, money just walked in. 54 00:02:18,468 --> 00:02:20,343 [Wags] Rebecca Cantu. 55 00:02:20,426 --> 00:02:22,134 Oh. So that's what a rich person looks like. 56 00:02:22,218 --> 00:02:23,677 I'd always wondered. 57 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:25,927 But check out this badass our company built. 58 00:02:26,009 --> 00:02:27,593 Brains like Will Hunting, 59 00:02:27,677 --> 00:02:29,927 strength like Artis Gilmore in the ABA days. 60 00:02:30,009 --> 00:02:31,176 [mechanical whirring] -Ooh. 61 00:02:31,259 --> 00:02:32,802 [door thuds] 62 00:02:35,218 --> 00:02:37,093 Which is why Patriot Trust Bank 63 00:02:37,176 --> 00:02:39,009 is proud to be doing this raise for you. 64 00:02:39,093 --> 00:02:40,885 I'll let the scientists who made him 65 00:02:40,968 --> 00:02:42,551 tell you how and why later on, 66 00:02:42,635 --> 00:02:44,635 but I want you to know that we are committed 67 00:02:44,718 --> 00:02:47,134 to helping put one of these in every company loading bay, 68 00:02:47,218 --> 00:02:49,009 and eventually, every home in America. 69 00:02:49,093 --> 00:02:50,635 What size investments are available? 70 00:02:50,718 --> 00:02:52,301 My kind of question. 71 00:02:52,385 --> 00:02:53,927 We're looking for no more than five firms 72 00:02:54,009 --> 00:02:55,635 to fulfill $100 mil in this C round, 73 00:02:55,718 --> 00:02:57,510 [Theo] which comes with anti-dilution rights. 74 00:02:57,593 --> 00:02:59,051 Anything else? 75 00:02:59,134 --> 00:03:00,927 [Rebecca] The, um-- The noise signature, 76 00:03:01,009 --> 00:03:02,551 that hum, uh, makes me believe 77 00:03:02,635 --> 00:03:04,551 there's a combustion engine inside there. 78 00:03:04,635 --> 00:03:07,593 Rebecca, this product wasn't hand-delivered to you early, 79 00:03:07,677 --> 00:03:09,635 so I'll forgive you for not having your research in order. 80 00:03:09,718 --> 00:03:12,385 We have a proprietary power source. 81 00:03:12,468 --> 00:03:14,635 [company CEO] It's one of the reasons we're set apart. 82 00:03:14,718 --> 00:03:16,259 Anyone else have a question? 83 00:03:16,343 --> 00:03:18,927 Oh. It's proprietary. That-- It-- 84 00:03:19,009 --> 00:03:20,718 Thanks. Withdrawn. I'm sorry. 85 00:03:20,802 --> 00:03:22,843 Over the line, Smokey. Forfeit your turn. 86 00:03:22,927 --> 00:03:25,051 -[Wags] Mark it zero. -Not how it's gonna go. 87 00:03:25,134 --> 00:03:29,510 Of course, proprietary doesn't tell us shit, does it. 88 00:03:29,593 --> 00:03:31,677 I grew up with a mechanic for a father. 89 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:33,301 So, uh, forgive me. 90 00:03:33,385 --> 00:03:35,301 That's definitely a combustion engine. 91 00:03:35,385 --> 00:03:37,468 [Rebecca] And that won't work for the military. 92 00:03:37,551 --> 00:03:39,468 [Rebecca] So you'll have to improve the battery technology, 93 00:03:39,551 --> 00:03:41,718 but the, uh, the margins on this thing 94 00:03:41,802 --> 00:03:43,885 are already thin as Kate Moss on a juice fast. 95 00:03:43,968 --> 00:03:45,760 [Theo] The money taken in today will go a long way 96 00:03:45,843 --> 00:03:47,218 in offsetting any costs we might incur-- 97 00:03:47,301 --> 00:03:48,301 Mm. It doesn't know how to walk. 98 00:03:48,385 --> 00:03:50,051 I don't know what you were looking at. 99 00:03:50,134 --> 00:03:51,718 There's no remote. No human control at all. 100 00:03:51,802 --> 00:03:54,134 But it's not actually stable, right? It's metastable. 101 00:03:54,218 --> 00:03:55,677 I've seen this demo a dozen times. 102 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:57,718 Hasn't fallen-- hasn't even stumbled--once. 103 00:03:57,802 --> 00:03:59,802 Well, you could hold a curling match on this floor. 104 00:03:59,885 --> 00:04:02,551 But, um, what about... 105 00:04:02,635 --> 00:04:05,259 ♪♪♪ 106 00:04:05,343 --> 00:04:06,927 [Rebecca] now... 107 00:04:07,009 --> 00:04:08,176 Can we run it again? 108 00:04:08,259 --> 00:04:10,718 ♪♪♪ 109 00:04:10,802 --> 00:04:14,093 [laughter] 110 00:04:14,176 --> 00:04:15,468 Any other questions? 111 00:04:15,551 --> 00:04:18,468 ♪♪♪ 112 00:04:18,551 --> 00:04:21,510 ♪♪♪ 113 00:04:21,593 --> 00:04:24,051 Whoa. They shoulda had you inside the tent. 114 00:04:24,134 --> 00:04:26,385 Could've trouble shot it, helped launch it. 115 00:04:26,468 --> 00:04:28,968 I don't launch shit products. 116 00:04:29,051 --> 00:04:30,426 Lucky she was here, 117 00:04:30,510 --> 00:04:33,009 or we might've actually gone in on that loser. 118 00:04:33,093 --> 00:04:34,718 So, straight back to the office-- 119 00:04:34,802 --> 00:04:36,843 Oh no... 120 00:04:36,927 --> 00:04:40,009 Axe, look, I know this may still seem a little bleeding edge-- 121 00:04:40,093 --> 00:04:42,176 It's the Mechanical Turk. 122 00:04:42,259 --> 00:04:44,093 But at least that beat people at chess 123 00:04:44,176 --> 00:04:45,635 before the con was revealed. 124 00:04:45,718 --> 00:04:47,760 This company has real consumer potential-- 125 00:04:47,843 --> 00:04:50,968 Yet this bank is invested in this because the chairman's son 126 00:04:51,051 --> 00:04:53,176 was in the Spee with the Chief Tech Officer. 127 00:04:53,259 --> 00:04:54,927 Or some bullshit like that. 128 00:04:55,009 --> 00:04:56,593 He told you to deliver. 129 00:04:56,677 --> 00:04:58,134 That's why you've been doing all the talking today, 130 00:04:58,218 --> 00:04:59,510 because it matters to you. 131 00:04:59,593 --> 00:05:00,802 But now you're gonna have trouble 132 00:05:00,885 --> 00:05:03,885 salvaging anyone else in this room. 133 00:05:03,968 --> 00:05:06,551 If it makes your life easier, I'll take a piece. 134 00:05:06,635 --> 00:05:07,635 You will? That's great... 135 00:05:07,718 --> 00:05:09,802 But... 136 00:05:09,885 --> 00:05:12,385 there's something that matters to me that I need in return. 137 00:05:12,468 --> 00:05:14,968 Won't cost you a penny. Will even save you some... 138 00:05:15,051 --> 00:05:17,718 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 139 00:05:17,802 --> 00:05:21,009 ♪♪♪ 140 00:05:21,093 --> 00:05:23,885 This is gonna be a time of great prosperity for us both. 141 00:05:23,968 --> 00:05:26,385 So I'm glad to continue... To renew... 142 00:05:26,468 --> 00:05:28,009 [Axe] To start... our friendship. 143 00:05:28,093 --> 00:05:29,843 I know your bank would have liked the other business... 144 00:05:29,927 --> 00:05:32,134 [Axe] But I'm touched that you prefer mine. 145 00:05:32,218 --> 00:05:34,051 ♪♪♪ 146 00:05:34,134 --> 00:05:36,051 Based on a number of factors... 147 00:05:36,134 --> 00:05:38,426 Including the brevity of your track record... 148 00:05:38,510 --> 00:05:40,635 -Alto Bank... -Bank Allemane... 149 00:05:40,718 --> 00:05:43,468 Patriot Trust Bank can't extend you leverage at this juncture. 150 00:05:43,551 --> 00:05:46,968 Thank you for your time. 151 00:05:47,051 --> 00:05:49,218 Here. Have a koozie. 152 00:05:49,301 --> 00:05:51,176 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 153 00:05:51,259 --> 00:05:55,093 ♪♪♪ 154 00:05:55,176 --> 00:05:56,843 I can set you more meetings. 155 00:05:56,927 --> 00:05:58,802 No. I've seen more eyes go cold on me 156 00:05:58,885 --> 00:06:01,259 than Agent Bill Tench did in a whole season. 157 00:06:01,343 --> 00:06:02,843 Axe got to all of the bankers. 158 00:06:02,927 --> 00:06:04,843 -I'm done. -I should have gone. 159 00:06:04,927 --> 00:06:07,009 You don't have time to waste on that shit. 160 00:06:07,093 --> 00:06:09,843 It's not time that's the problem. It's capital. 161 00:06:09,927 --> 00:06:12,301 Winston and the quant team have a huge stat arb opportunity 162 00:06:12,385 --> 00:06:14,218 that I'm gonna have to leave on the table 163 00:06:14,301 --> 00:06:16,218 if we don't lock in leverage by end of week. 164 00:06:16,301 --> 00:06:18,009 I can't let Axe cause that. 165 00:06:18,093 --> 00:06:21,051 -You have an idea? -Not even a notion. Yet. 166 00:06:21,134 --> 00:06:23,385 But I will. 167 00:06:23,468 --> 00:06:25,093 We will. 168 00:06:25,176 --> 00:06:27,885 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 169 00:06:27,968 --> 00:06:30,426 ♪♪♪ 170 00:06:30,510 --> 00:06:33,093 He actually invested in the piece of shit... 171 00:06:33,176 --> 00:06:34,843 Believe me, I was excited that we were getting into 172 00:06:34,927 --> 00:06:37,927 Private Equitatus, but badly built robots-- 173 00:06:38,009 --> 00:06:39,927 Private equity, Spyros. 174 00:06:40,009 --> 00:06:41,343 Maybe just show me your mood ring 175 00:06:41,426 --> 00:06:42,468 if you want me to know how you feel. 176 00:06:42,551 --> 00:06:44,218 Or don't. Because I don't give a shit. 177 00:06:44,301 --> 00:06:45,885 [Wags] But if we go in on crappy companies 178 00:06:45,968 --> 00:06:48,468 just to get the return favor of fucking over Taylor Mason, 179 00:06:48,551 --> 00:06:50,301 it's gonna be a hard sell to our investors 180 00:06:50,385 --> 00:06:51,968 [Wags] on the wisdom of the idea. 181 00:06:52,051 --> 00:06:54,009 At a certain point, the Street's gonna start wondering 182 00:06:54,093 --> 00:06:55,677 if you care more about revenge than making money. 183 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:56,843 And so do I. 184 00:06:56,927 --> 00:06:58,968 Leave. 185 00:06:59,051 --> 00:07:01,551 [dignified] I serve at your pleasure. 186 00:07:03,968 --> 00:07:05,927 And so do I. 187 00:07:06,009 --> 00:07:10,009 Meaning: I feel the same way he does. 188 00:07:10,093 --> 00:07:13,134 If you burn cash and have down quarters just to hurt Taylor, 189 00:07:13,218 --> 00:07:15,218 you're Neil McCauley throwing it all away 190 00:07:15,301 --> 00:07:17,551 to kill Waingro in that motel. 191 00:07:17,635 --> 00:07:19,134 I can't stand by and let that happen. 192 00:07:19,218 --> 00:07:20,510 For a minute there, you're glad 193 00:07:20,593 --> 00:07:22,343 that Neil allows himself to feel. 194 00:07:22,426 --> 00:07:25,343 But then, yeah, his one moment of humanity kills him. 195 00:07:25,426 --> 00:07:27,051 But this isn't that. 196 00:07:27,134 --> 00:07:29,760 We're mixing into private equity. For real. 197 00:07:29,843 --> 00:07:31,760 And I got everybody downstairs generating ideas. 198 00:07:31,843 --> 00:07:33,718 But you haven't said yes to any of them yet. 199 00:07:33,802 --> 00:07:35,802 They have a dozen internal ideas you've turned down. 200 00:07:35,885 --> 00:07:38,093 -'Cause they all suck. -They can't all suck. 201 00:07:38,176 --> 00:07:40,551 What we need is a meaningful partnership. 202 00:07:40,635 --> 00:07:42,343 And I know how to find it... 203 00:07:42,426 --> 00:07:44,218 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 204 00:07:44,301 --> 00:07:46,843 Helena, could you have the team put together a list 205 00:07:46,927 --> 00:07:49,802 of all the private companies Rebecca Cantu is invested in. 206 00:07:49,885 --> 00:07:52,718 ♪♪♪ 207 00:07:52,802 --> 00:07:54,218 Ah, shit, Wags. 208 00:07:54,301 --> 00:07:56,093 You really know your man. 209 00:07:56,176 --> 00:07:58,718 ♪♪♪ 210 00:07:58,802 --> 00:08:01,927 I never asked to be your Attorney General. 211 00:08:02,009 --> 00:08:04,843 I'm just a small-town lawyer who was called to serve. 212 00:08:04,927 --> 00:08:07,218 And that's what I did. Under our last AG, 213 00:08:07,301 --> 00:08:10,551 Alvin Epstein, who felt the call to duty in DC. 214 00:08:10,635 --> 00:08:13,718 [Darcha] But now that fate--and the New York State Legislature-- 215 00:08:13,802 --> 00:08:16,176 [Darcha] have made me the Interim Attorney General... 216 00:08:16,259 --> 00:08:20,343 I'm asking you to let me see this mission through... 217 00:08:20,426 --> 00:08:22,134 You think he's got what it takes? 218 00:08:22,218 --> 00:08:23,468 -[Darcha] ...and keep serving. -To win? 219 00:08:23,551 --> 00:08:24,927 Well, he's starting with the job. 220 00:08:25,009 --> 00:08:26,802 As natural advantages go, that's a good start. 221 00:08:26,885 --> 00:08:28,635 And if he gets it? 222 00:08:28,718 --> 00:08:31,218 His rep is: he stays in his own side of the sandbox. 223 00:08:31,301 --> 00:08:33,176 Well, if he's not gonna scrap with us over jurisdiction 224 00:08:33,259 --> 00:08:34,468 and for cases, he's my kind of candidate... 225 00:08:34,551 --> 00:08:36,051 -Mm-hmm. -Mm. 226 00:08:36,134 --> 00:08:37,426 [Darcha] ...and to the people of New York. 227 00:08:37,510 --> 00:08:38,468 [Darcha] Thanks to the tireless... 228 00:08:38,551 --> 00:08:40,218 Look at him. Champing at the bit 229 00:08:40,301 --> 00:08:42,426 to keep the reins of power now that he has them. 230 00:08:42,510 --> 00:08:44,468 -Don't do that. -What? 231 00:08:44,551 --> 00:08:46,510 If you're talking to people, it's chomp. 232 00:08:46,593 --> 00:08:48,635 But it's not that. It's from the poem: 233 00:08:48,718 --> 00:08:49,927 "Twelve beauteous steeds, 234 00:08:50,009 --> 00:08:51,760 of golden color and with golden manes, 235 00:08:51,843 --> 00:08:53,385 Champ at the bit." 236 00:08:53,468 --> 00:08:55,051 Champ. Champ. 237 00:08:55,134 --> 00:08:56,593 We can go home now. 238 00:08:56,677 --> 00:08:58,218 Voters don't want William Safire. 239 00:08:58,301 --> 00:08:59,635 They want an Attorney General who talks like 240 00:08:59,718 --> 00:09:01,635 he's actually from New York. 241 00:09:01,718 --> 00:09:03,343 [Darcha] ...this effort and the progress we've made. 242 00:09:03,426 --> 00:09:04,802 There's still... 243 00:09:04,885 --> 00:09:06,677 The concealed carry for your client-- 244 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:08,218 personally taken care of. 245 00:09:08,301 --> 00:09:10,510 -Hand-stamped for approval. -Thank you. 246 00:09:10,593 --> 00:09:11,551 Let me know if he needs a lesson. 247 00:09:11,635 --> 00:09:13,385 I'll take him to Tiro myself... 248 00:09:13,468 --> 00:09:15,343 Why do I feel an ask is coming...? 249 00:09:15,426 --> 00:09:16,551 'Cause you're a bright boy. 250 00:09:16,635 --> 00:09:18,635 And contract makes the world go 'round. 251 00:09:18,718 --> 00:09:21,093 Okay. What's up in this rotation? 252 00:09:21,176 --> 00:09:23,176 The police pension fund. 253 00:09:23,259 --> 00:09:26,093 I need an independent look at the administrator, Raul Gomez. 254 00:09:26,176 --> 00:09:27,468 Funds unaccounted for? 255 00:09:27,551 --> 00:09:29,218 I don't have access to the books, 256 00:09:29,301 --> 00:09:31,927 but after 20 as a cop and years of restrained living, 257 00:09:32,009 --> 00:09:33,635 he's suddenly got a NetJets account. 258 00:09:33,718 --> 00:09:35,635 He flew private down to the Derby. 259 00:09:35,718 --> 00:09:39,009 Uh huh. You do, as they say, have people for that. 260 00:09:39,093 --> 00:09:40,843 Whilst I am merely a humble barrister 261 00:09:40,927 --> 00:09:42,343 with no particular portfolio. 262 00:09:42,426 --> 00:09:44,301 When cops get going investigating cops, 263 00:09:44,385 --> 00:09:46,301 they're worse than scamps in a sewing circle. 264 00:09:46,385 --> 00:09:47,802 As you well know, Chick. 265 00:09:47,885 --> 00:09:49,176 Which is why I'm coming to you. 266 00:09:49,259 --> 00:09:51,677 And to insulate yourself. 267 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,677 Raul Gomez is a man with a lot of friends, 268 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:56,093 many inside your very department. 269 00:09:56,176 --> 00:09:58,927 Some might even be more loyal to him than to you-- 270 00:09:59,009 --> 00:10:01,635 and wouldn't hesitate to lash out at little ol' me. 271 00:10:01,718 --> 00:10:04,343 -Thank you, and bless you. [applause] 272 00:10:04,426 --> 00:10:07,134 Now, who's gonna look after Rhoades if that comes to pass? 273 00:10:07,218 --> 00:10:08,635 [camera shutter clicks] 274 00:10:11,259 --> 00:10:13,259 You know how to take care of yourself. 275 00:10:13,343 --> 00:10:16,218 And even if you aren't one, you operate like an insider. 276 00:10:16,301 --> 00:10:17,718 Who's better at tracking down 277 00:10:17,802 --> 00:10:20,051 and punishing financial wrongdoing than you? 278 00:10:20,134 --> 00:10:22,259 Well, I didn't have you as a flatterer. 279 00:10:22,343 --> 00:10:25,718 I'm whatever I need to be. 280 00:10:25,802 --> 00:10:28,093 -Nice to see you. [indistinct conversations] 281 00:10:28,176 --> 00:10:29,927 ♪♪♪ 282 00:10:30,009 --> 00:10:32,134 Now I gotta be a rabbi. Excuse me. 283 00:10:32,218 --> 00:10:35,051 Oh. Guiding your boy to the top seat? 284 00:10:35,134 --> 00:10:37,802 No. He's not my boy. Yet. 285 00:10:37,885 --> 00:10:39,927 He's new to certain parts of this life, 286 00:10:40,009 --> 00:10:42,176 so I need to see him in action before I decide. 287 00:10:42,259 --> 00:10:44,176 Do what I ask and you'll graduate from 288 00:10:44,259 --> 00:10:46,551 cadging pop gun permits for big players 289 00:10:46,635 --> 00:10:48,218 to becoming one yourself again. 290 00:10:48,301 --> 00:10:51,802 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 291 00:10:51,885 --> 00:10:53,968 You looking for the endorsement of the Police Commissioner 292 00:10:54,051 --> 00:10:55,760 to catapult you into the race? 293 00:10:55,843 --> 00:10:58,301 I want his men. I want their votes. 294 00:10:58,385 --> 00:11:02,218 And I want the visual of them bathing me in all that blue. 295 00:11:02,301 --> 00:11:04,301 [indistinct conversations] 296 00:11:04,385 --> 00:11:06,134 ♪♪♪ 297 00:11:06,218 --> 00:11:09,301 Cleaning... 298 00:11:09,385 --> 00:11:12,093 Cleaning what? 299 00:11:12,176 --> 00:11:16,218 Uh...w-wages... 300 00:11:16,301 --> 00:11:19,760 I remember him speaking English when we hired him. 301 00:11:19,843 --> 00:11:22,134 Maybe it'll come back after we punt him into the Hudson. 302 00:11:22,218 --> 00:11:23,968 Eureka Building Solutions. 303 00:11:24,051 --> 00:11:26,259 New big national janitorial services company. 304 00:11:26,343 --> 00:11:27,760 Thousands of employees. 305 00:11:27,843 --> 00:11:29,301 They're chewing up the competition, 306 00:11:29,385 --> 00:11:31,843 undercutting all bids. Best margins in the industry. 307 00:11:31,927 --> 00:11:34,134 Is that what motormouth was going on about? 308 00:11:34,218 --> 00:11:36,927 [Ben Kim] Tuk has relatives without green cards, 309 00:11:37,009 --> 00:11:39,843 only temporary work visas, who work for Eureka. 310 00:11:39,927 --> 00:11:42,343 They get paid 16 bucks an hour, plus benefits. 311 00:11:42,426 --> 00:11:43,718 What's the thing? 312 00:11:43,802 --> 00:11:45,760 Company forces them to kick back salary, 313 00:11:45,843 --> 00:11:48,218 off the books. Benefits aren't real. 314 00:11:48,301 --> 00:11:50,426 [Ben Kim] They're really getting paid less than minimum wage. 315 00:11:50,510 --> 00:11:53,134 If they complain, the company jams them up with ICE. 316 00:11:53,218 --> 00:11:56,051 And the chief investor in their main competitor, 317 00:11:56,134 --> 00:11:59,009 Manifest Cleaning Services, seems to be Rebecca Cantu. 318 00:11:59,093 --> 00:12:01,176 We were told to look for overlapping businesses. 319 00:12:01,259 --> 00:12:04,843 But Eureka's a private company, so we can't short it... 320 00:12:04,927 --> 00:12:06,885 But we can burn it to the ground, 321 00:12:06,968 --> 00:12:09,593 [Axe] leaving Rebecca's company to own the market. 322 00:12:09,677 --> 00:12:13,009 Tuk, you're about to go get a job... 323 00:12:17,802 --> 00:12:19,843 Will you set a dinner with Rebecca Cantu? 324 00:12:19,927 --> 00:12:21,468 Oh. Yay. 325 00:12:21,551 --> 00:12:22,468 Can we go somewhere meaty? 326 00:12:22,551 --> 00:12:23,843 Actually, you know what? 327 00:12:23,927 --> 00:12:26,009 I'll call and set it myself. 328 00:12:26,093 --> 00:12:27,635 For two. 329 00:12:27,718 --> 00:12:29,051 [Fred Eaglesmith's "Been a Long Time"] 330 00:12:29,134 --> 00:12:30,385 [phone receiver beeps] 331 00:12:30,468 --> 00:12:31,593 [Axe] Helena, will you get Rebecca Cantu? 332 00:12:31,677 --> 00:12:32,385 ♪ It's been a long time ♪ 333 00:12:32,468 --> 00:12:33,843 [man] Roni Supreme for ya. 334 00:12:33,927 --> 00:12:35,176 ♪ It's been a long time... ♪ 335 00:12:35,259 --> 00:12:36,968 Do you mind if I eat before you? 336 00:12:37,051 --> 00:12:38,551 I don't like to take a long lunch hour. 337 00:12:38,635 --> 00:12:39,718 This is actually the first time 338 00:12:39,802 --> 00:12:41,009 I've left the office during lunch. 339 00:12:41,093 --> 00:12:43,843 You're a partner, you can't live a little? 340 00:12:43,927 --> 00:12:46,051 Yeah. No. You're right. 341 00:12:46,134 --> 00:12:48,510 I've got a very small equity piece so technically-- 342 00:12:48,593 --> 00:12:50,843 ♪ It's been a long while ♪ 343 00:12:50,927 --> 00:12:52,468 I'm sorry about what happened to you. 344 00:12:52,551 --> 00:12:54,009 ♪ Sure has been a long, long while... ♪ 345 00:12:54,093 --> 00:12:56,426 -Was it really out of the blue? -Kinda. 346 00:12:56,510 --> 00:12:58,968 I mean, when you're almost fired so many times and then not... 347 00:12:59,051 --> 00:13:01,301 you start to believe you're Willis in Unbreakable. 348 00:13:01,385 --> 00:13:03,134 Right until they shatter your heart into a million pieces. 349 00:13:03,218 --> 00:13:05,051 Ah, shit man. 350 00:13:05,134 --> 00:13:07,176 No one there will talk to me. 351 00:13:07,259 --> 00:13:09,218 I think because they assumed I'd walk across the river 352 00:13:09,301 --> 00:13:11,176 and take a job with you guys. 353 00:13:11,259 --> 00:13:12,802 So... 354 00:13:12,885 --> 00:13:13,927 ♪ I was trying to make you... ♪ 355 00:13:14,009 --> 00:13:16,301 How's it going at Taylor Mason Capital? 356 00:13:16,385 --> 00:13:18,551 Fine. Good. 357 00:13:18,635 --> 00:13:20,259 New firm. Strikes and gutters, ya know, but-- 358 00:13:20,343 --> 00:13:22,093 I need a job, man. 359 00:13:22,176 --> 00:13:25,134 My attorney said my non-compete isn't binding. 360 00:13:25,218 --> 00:13:27,134 And Axe Cap isn't gonna fight it anyway. 361 00:13:27,218 --> 00:13:29,510 So I'm coming to you because you know what I can do. 362 00:13:29,593 --> 00:13:31,760 You know you can count on me. 363 00:13:31,843 --> 00:13:36,343 And my wife... is super pregnant. 364 00:13:36,426 --> 00:13:39,635 ♪♪♪ 365 00:13:39,718 --> 00:13:41,093 Done. Taken care of. 366 00:13:41,176 --> 00:13:42,968 Really? 367 00:13:43,051 --> 00:13:44,259 I gotta talk to the team, but, like you said, 368 00:13:44,343 --> 00:13:45,635 I have ownership interest. 369 00:13:45,718 --> 00:13:48,426 I'm employee number one-- or two. 370 00:13:48,510 --> 00:13:50,760 Is Taylor an employee? 371 00:13:50,843 --> 00:13:53,593 Doesn't matter. The point is--I got you. 372 00:13:53,677 --> 00:13:58,677 ♪ electronic music ♪ 373 00:14:00,718 --> 00:14:02,760 Mr. Panay. 374 00:14:02,843 --> 00:14:04,176 Smart of you to accept my invitation 375 00:14:04,259 --> 00:14:06,760 to discuss the police pension fund. 376 00:14:06,843 --> 00:14:09,301 [sighs] 377 00:14:09,385 --> 00:14:11,176 Surely me stalking through your office 378 00:14:11,259 --> 00:14:13,259 would raise questions you wouldn't want to answer. 379 00:14:13,343 --> 00:14:16,385 Or perhaps just whispers that might escape your walls. 380 00:14:16,468 --> 00:14:19,426 I agreed to meet you here so I could leave when I wanted to. 381 00:14:19,510 --> 00:14:22,176 We may already have arrived at that moment. 382 00:14:22,259 --> 00:14:24,885 Well, if you've nothing to hide, what's your rush? 383 00:14:24,968 --> 00:14:28,385 I'm managing more money than God-- 384 00:14:28,468 --> 00:14:31,385 and bringing in better returns than He did last year. 385 00:14:31,468 --> 00:14:33,718 So that doesn't leave me a lot of time to deal with 386 00:14:33,802 --> 00:14:36,927 a man strutting around on phantom limbs. 387 00:14:37,009 --> 00:14:39,385 I know damn well you got cut off at the knees. 388 00:14:39,468 --> 00:14:41,885 Time's a fickle beast. 389 00:14:41,968 --> 00:14:44,259 Why, a year ago, I had legions at my command 390 00:14:44,343 --> 00:14:48,134 while your fund was deflating like a Tijuana breast implant. 391 00:14:48,218 --> 00:14:49,968 Hell, I wouldn't be surprised 392 00:14:50,051 --> 00:14:52,426 [Chuck] if you were Googling how to tie a noose. 393 00:14:52,510 --> 00:14:55,760 And yet through some act of prestidigitation, 394 00:14:55,843 --> 00:14:59,718 you wound up with a lifeline instead. 395 00:14:59,802 --> 00:15:02,718 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 396 00:15:02,802 --> 00:15:07,385 ♪♪♪ 397 00:15:07,468 --> 00:15:12,218 ♪♪♪ 398 00:15:12,301 --> 00:15:15,426 Now, it's possible that the God--whose ass you are kicking 399 00:15:15,510 --> 00:15:17,051 on the board-- took pity on you. 400 00:15:17,134 --> 00:15:19,051 But I think it's more likely that Raul Gomez 401 00:15:19,134 --> 00:15:22,593 saw a desperate man that he could manipulate. 402 00:15:22,677 --> 00:15:26,843 So tell me... how's it work? 403 00:15:26,927 --> 00:15:28,259 Is he invading the principal? 404 00:15:28,343 --> 00:15:31,760 Or are you just kicking back to him? 405 00:15:31,843 --> 00:15:34,259 ♪♪♪ 406 00:15:34,343 --> 00:15:38,593 [chuckles] Raul is as clean as they come. 407 00:15:38,677 --> 00:15:40,510 He pulled the pension fund from Axe Cap 408 00:15:40,593 --> 00:15:43,301 [Panay] the second Axelrod's legal troubles set in. 409 00:15:43,385 --> 00:15:46,176 And then he picked me 410 00:15:46,259 --> 00:15:49,093 because I am a paragon of business ethics. 411 00:15:49,176 --> 00:15:50,760 You do know that Axe was in that legal trouble 412 00:15:50,843 --> 00:15:52,343 because I put him there. 413 00:15:52,426 --> 00:15:54,009 [Panay] But he survived. 414 00:15:54,093 --> 00:15:57,009 He always does. 415 00:15:57,093 --> 00:15:58,843 How come you don't know that by now? 416 00:15:58,927 --> 00:16:01,385 ♪♪♪ 417 00:16:01,468 --> 00:16:02,927 And for the record, 418 00:16:03,009 --> 00:16:04,802 I didn't even mean to mention his name. 419 00:16:04,885 --> 00:16:07,134 There is no record. 420 00:16:07,218 --> 00:16:09,009 Why does mentioning his name concern you, friend? 421 00:16:09,093 --> 00:16:12,093 You have no business with him, do you? 422 00:16:12,176 --> 00:16:14,134 Just don't want it to seem like 423 00:16:14,218 --> 00:16:16,301 I'm gloating that I took from him, is all. 424 00:16:16,385 --> 00:16:18,093 [Chuck] Hmm. 425 00:16:18,176 --> 00:16:19,551 Is that the thing? 426 00:16:19,635 --> 00:16:21,343 You took from him? 427 00:16:21,426 --> 00:16:23,093 Or is there more to it? 428 00:16:23,176 --> 00:16:25,468 This game can be cutthroat. 429 00:16:25,551 --> 00:16:27,927 That's it. 430 00:16:28,009 --> 00:16:31,301 Uh-huh. 431 00:16:31,385 --> 00:16:32,593 Hmm. 432 00:16:32,677 --> 00:16:35,468 ♪♪♪ 433 00:16:35,551 --> 00:16:37,259 Okay. 434 00:16:37,343 --> 00:16:40,218 Thanks for coming in, Mr. Panay. 435 00:16:40,301 --> 00:16:45,093 ♪♪♪ 436 00:16:45,176 --> 00:16:47,093 [keys clacking] 437 00:16:50,843 --> 00:16:54,718 I came across a tantalizing tidbit during my daily rounds. 438 00:16:54,802 --> 00:16:56,301 It's Bonnie's birthday... 439 00:16:56,385 --> 00:16:58,343 That's the tidbit? 440 00:16:58,426 --> 00:16:59,760 No. 441 00:16:59,843 --> 00:17:01,885 She was contacted by 442 00:17:01,968 --> 00:17:04,718 a certain former Axe Cap employee 443 00:17:04,802 --> 00:17:07,176 whom I'll just call "Mafee." 444 00:17:07,259 --> 00:17:11,343 And "Mafee" invited her to celebratory drinks. 445 00:17:11,426 --> 00:17:14,677 She declined, but she didn't officially report it. 446 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:16,635 Still not sharing. 447 00:17:16,718 --> 00:17:19,843 And let me guess how you came across this morsel: 448 00:17:19,927 --> 00:17:22,009 In addition to reading all the e-mails flagged 449 00:17:22,093 --> 00:17:23,802 for possible compliance violations, 450 00:17:23,885 --> 00:17:27,343 you're also perusing any sent to eligible females in our employ. 451 00:17:27,426 --> 00:17:29,635 Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. 452 00:17:29,718 --> 00:17:31,385 As the head of HR, 453 00:17:31,468 --> 00:17:33,551 I really need to ask you to cut that the fuck out. 454 00:17:33,635 --> 00:17:36,551 Axe Cap emails are not your personal Penthouse Forum. 455 00:17:36,635 --> 00:17:38,593 Is Bonnie still here? 456 00:17:38,677 --> 00:17:41,635 She's doing a B-day shindizzle with some of the people here-- 457 00:17:41,718 --> 00:17:44,760 -Are you going? -It's for the psilikatzides. 458 00:17:44,843 --> 00:17:45,968 Small timers. 459 00:17:46,051 --> 00:17:47,385 You weren't invited. 460 00:17:47,468 --> 00:17:50,093 Neither were you. 461 00:17:50,176 --> 00:17:51,968 -Wait, are you going? -Come on. 462 00:17:52,051 --> 00:17:55,051 Shut up. 463 00:17:55,134 --> 00:17:58,176 [The Commodores' "Brick House" plays over speakers] 464 00:17:58,259 --> 00:18:00,468 ♪ Mm, mm, mm ♪ 465 00:18:00,551 --> 00:18:02,385 Hi! 466 00:18:04,968 --> 00:18:06,593 Oh, come on. 467 00:18:06,677 --> 00:18:08,176 This one's classic, right? 468 00:18:08,259 --> 00:18:10,635 ♪ Ow, she's a brick house... ♪ 469 00:18:10,718 --> 00:18:12,760 You got a problem with the 'Commodes?' 470 00:18:12,843 --> 00:18:15,426 Was expecting you to bring more Steely Dan. 471 00:18:15,510 --> 00:18:17,843 Oh. I hold back the top shelf for my birthday. 472 00:18:17,927 --> 00:18:19,968 -♪ She's a brick ♪ -Uhh, 473 00:18:20,051 --> 00:18:22,009 -♪ House... ♪ -oww. 474 00:18:22,093 --> 00:18:25,009 The adults are here... to party! 475 00:18:25,093 --> 00:18:26,551 ♪ Ain't holding nothing back ♪ 476 00:18:26,635 --> 00:18:29,718 ♪ Ow, she's a brick house ♪ 477 00:18:29,802 --> 00:18:31,593 Happy birthday! 478 00:18:31,677 --> 00:18:34,551 ♪ Well put-together, everybody knows this is... ♪ 479 00:18:34,635 --> 00:18:36,259 [Natalie Merchant's "Wonder" plays over speakers] 480 00:18:36,343 --> 00:18:38,635 ♪ They say I must be one of the wonders ♪ 481 00:18:38,718 --> 00:18:40,259 ♪ Of God's own creation ♪ 482 00:18:40,343 --> 00:18:43,176 This one's mine! 483 00:18:43,259 --> 00:18:46,927 ♪ And they smile as they see they can offer ♪ 484 00:18:47,009 --> 00:18:48,802 ♪ No explanation ♪ 485 00:18:48,885 --> 00:18:50,968 Got any other celebrations planned? 486 00:18:51,051 --> 00:18:52,802 Didn't plan this one. 487 00:18:52,885 --> 00:18:55,009 People like to fete me. 488 00:18:55,093 --> 00:18:57,134 And you let them? 489 00:18:57,218 --> 00:18:59,927 I don't know. If I feel like a drank. 490 00:19:00,009 --> 00:19:02,468 Anyone you don't feel like drinking with? 491 00:19:02,551 --> 00:19:04,218 [chuckles] 492 00:19:04,301 --> 00:19:06,051 Okay, I know why you're here. 493 00:19:06,134 --> 00:19:08,593 'Cause that laxtard Mafee tried to sniff my panties. 494 00:19:08,677 --> 00:19:10,259 I shut that shit down. 495 00:19:10,343 --> 00:19:12,051 I don't need to report everything I do to mommy... 496 00:19:12,134 --> 00:19:15,093 but why is mommy spying on my shit? 497 00:19:15,176 --> 00:19:17,009 I'm the head of HR, email correspondence hits me 498 00:19:17,093 --> 00:19:18,218 even when I'm not looking for it. 499 00:19:18,301 --> 00:19:19,968 Uh huh. So, my emails just happened-- 500 00:19:20,051 --> 00:19:22,218 This isn't all about you. 501 00:19:22,301 --> 00:19:23,802 We are all as sick as our secrets. 502 00:19:23,885 --> 00:19:26,593 So stop keeping 'em. 503 00:19:26,677 --> 00:19:29,426 I will if you stop snooping. 504 00:19:29,510 --> 00:19:32,176 ♪ Faith ♪ 505 00:19:32,259 --> 00:19:37,176 -♪ She'll make her way ♪ -Deal. 506 00:19:37,259 --> 00:19:38,802 ♪ She'll make her way ♪ 507 00:19:38,885 --> 00:19:43,802 Topper. 508 00:19:43,885 --> 00:19:45,843 What's the matter with you? 509 00:19:45,927 --> 00:19:48,677 -I've got work early tomorrow. -♪ People see me ♪ 510 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:50,843 Yeah. We all do... 511 00:19:50,927 --> 00:19:52,968 [chuckling] Oh, right. 512 00:19:53,051 --> 00:19:55,885 The other work. Sorry, bud. 513 00:19:55,968 --> 00:19:58,385 -Topper. -♪ I'm over your heads, how ♪ 514 00:19:58,468 --> 00:20:02,259 ♪ I confound you and astound you ♪ 515 00:20:02,343 --> 00:20:03,677 ♪ To know I must be one of the wonders ♪ 516 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,677 What's that mean? 517 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,426 -COAT?! The fuck is that? -♪ Of God's own creation ♪ 518 00:20:08,510 --> 00:20:12,426 It means "Chance of Action Tonight." Coat. 519 00:20:12,510 --> 00:20:14,051 [chuckles] Who were you writing that to? 520 00:20:14,134 --> 00:20:15,093 My wife. 521 00:20:15,176 --> 00:20:16,468 Oh. Puke. 522 00:20:16,551 --> 00:20:19,259 In assessing nocturnal options, 523 00:20:19,343 --> 00:20:21,301 whether to keep drinking, head home, 524 00:20:21,385 --> 00:20:24,218 or squeeze in a tight little karaoke set, 525 00:20:24,301 --> 00:20:26,301 [Spyros] it is good to know the likelihood of success 526 00:20:26,385 --> 00:20:28,551 with your special lady. 527 00:20:28,635 --> 00:20:30,134 Sexually. 528 00:20:30,218 --> 00:20:31,468 Well, assuming you pay her cash, 529 00:20:31,551 --> 00:20:32,718 chance should be north of 100. 530 00:20:32,802 --> 00:20:34,927 I can assure you, I do not pay for it. 531 00:20:35,009 --> 00:20:36,718 -No. You just beg for it. -[laughs] 532 00:20:36,802 --> 00:20:38,551 -Sometimes. -Sometimes it works! 533 00:20:38,635 --> 00:20:40,259 Maybe for you and you only. 534 00:20:40,343 --> 00:20:41,551 But not for your wife. 535 00:20:41,635 --> 00:20:43,343 What you guys don't seem to realize 536 00:20:43,426 --> 00:20:45,510 with all of your begging and whining is: 537 00:20:45,593 --> 00:20:47,385 Act like a man, 538 00:20:47,468 --> 00:20:49,426 sometimes a girl just needs to get railed. 539 00:20:49,510 --> 00:20:50,802 ♪♪♪ 540 00:20:50,885 --> 00:20:52,343 Don't you agree? 541 00:20:52,426 --> 00:20:54,677 Nobody wants to fuck a sexual panhandler. 542 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:56,343 [laughter] 543 00:20:56,426 --> 00:20:58,677 So how does it work in your bedroom? 544 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,551 ♪ Know this child will be gifted ♪ 545 00:21:02,635 --> 00:21:04,426 ♪ With love, with patience and with faith ♪ 546 00:21:04,510 --> 00:21:06,635 Action whenever either of us fucking wants it. 547 00:21:06,718 --> 00:21:08,176 -Okay. -Oh! 548 00:21:08,259 --> 00:21:09,885 -Yes. -Yeah! 549 00:21:09,968 --> 00:21:11,218 -That's it. -Cheers! 550 00:21:11,301 --> 00:21:12,760 -Come on! -Yeah! 551 00:21:12,843 --> 00:21:15,301 -[laughter] -♪ She'll make her way ♪ 552 00:21:15,385 --> 00:21:18,093 [serene music playing over speakers] 553 00:21:18,176 --> 00:21:22,301 ♪♪♪ 554 00:21:22,385 --> 00:21:26,468 ♪♪♪ 555 00:21:26,551 --> 00:21:30,635 ♪♪♪ 556 00:21:30,718 --> 00:21:34,802 ♪♪♪ 557 00:21:34,885 --> 00:21:38,802 ♪♪♪ 558 00:21:38,885 --> 00:21:40,718 [knock on door] 559 00:21:40,802 --> 00:21:44,426 ♪♪♪ 560 00:21:44,510 --> 00:21:48,176 ♪♪♪ 561 00:21:48,259 --> 00:21:50,635 [keypad beeps] 562 00:21:50,718 --> 00:21:55,593 ♪♪♪ 563 00:21:55,677 --> 00:21:57,426 May I? 564 00:21:57,510 --> 00:22:01,134 ♪♪♪ 565 00:22:01,218 --> 00:22:04,843 ♪♪♪ 566 00:22:04,927 --> 00:22:06,635 Tai chi. 567 00:22:06,718 --> 00:22:09,134 The dance of the yin and yang. 568 00:22:09,218 --> 00:22:10,551 You ever practice? 569 00:22:10,635 --> 00:22:13,343 In my day, I have tried it all. 570 00:22:13,426 --> 00:22:15,802 But I always come back to brute force. 571 00:22:15,885 --> 00:22:16,968 [music stops] 572 00:22:17,051 --> 00:22:20,218 Much like Mr. Axelrod. 573 00:22:20,301 --> 00:22:22,343 You've heard about my banking problems. 574 00:22:22,426 --> 00:22:25,468 Yes. And like your Mighty Mouse, 575 00:22:25,551 --> 00:22:28,843 ♪ Here I come to save the day. ♪ 576 00:22:28,927 --> 00:22:30,468 By providing me leverage. 577 00:22:30,551 --> 00:22:32,218 Yes. And no. 578 00:22:32,301 --> 00:22:34,843 There are friends I have. 579 00:22:34,927 --> 00:22:38,218 Uh, they do similar work, they come from a similar place. 580 00:22:38,301 --> 00:22:40,551 Brothers. The Kozlovs. 581 00:22:40,635 --> 00:22:45,051 And they're looking to get more of their money into the West. 582 00:22:45,134 --> 00:22:47,802 So you've done me the favor of finding the leverage... 583 00:22:47,885 --> 00:22:49,426 And you will do me the favor 584 00:22:49,510 --> 00:22:52,343 of being most hospitable to my friends. 585 00:22:52,426 --> 00:22:53,843 I'll look into it. 586 00:22:53,927 --> 00:22:56,218 Yes. Look before you leap. 587 00:22:56,301 --> 00:23:00,051 So long as in the end, you leap. 588 00:23:00,134 --> 00:23:03,301 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 589 00:23:03,385 --> 00:23:04,885 [Gang of Youths' "The Heart Is A Muscle" playing] 590 00:23:04,968 --> 00:23:06,968 ♪ I will look at love as more than ♪ 591 00:23:07,051 --> 00:23:09,176 -You're in a select club. -♪ Just an instrument of pain ♪ 592 00:23:09,259 --> 00:23:11,301 Female billionaires not named Oprah? 593 00:23:11,385 --> 00:23:14,593 Sure. But I meant 594 00:23:14,677 --> 00:23:17,593 people who have stopped me from making an investment. 595 00:23:17,677 --> 00:23:20,259 I'm not usually so easy to dissuade. 596 00:23:20,343 --> 00:23:22,426 You seem pretty easy. 597 00:23:22,510 --> 00:23:25,718 If you keep pouring like that I will be. 598 00:23:25,802 --> 00:23:27,426 No, but really, thank you. 599 00:23:27,510 --> 00:23:29,718 I might've been fooled by that robotics demo. 600 00:23:29,802 --> 00:23:32,134 I happen to be expert in that. 601 00:23:32,218 --> 00:23:34,051 That's the thing about doing what I do. 602 00:23:34,134 --> 00:23:35,968 You're in these investments for so long, 603 00:23:36,051 --> 00:23:37,968 you really can't take any chances. 604 00:23:38,051 --> 00:23:39,760 I have to dive deep into all these companies, 605 00:23:39,843 --> 00:23:41,259 really understand what the businesses are doing. 606 00:23:41,343 --> 00:23:43,259 I'm counting on that. 607 00:23:43,343 --> 00:23:46,385 Well [chuckles] I'm not gonna carry your fucking water. 608 00:23:46,468 --> 00:23:48,510 [chuckling] I don't expect you to. 609 00:23:48,593 --> 00:23:50,051 What if I want to partner with you? 610 00:23:50,134 --> 00:23:51,968 I'm not raising. 611 00:23:52,051 --> 00:23:54,551 You're really not taking on any money? 612 00:23:54,635 --> 00:23:55,802 Opening a new fund in a couple months. 613 00:23:55,885 --> 00:23:57,093 We could talk then. 614 00:23:57,176 --> 00:23:59,510 Maybe we don't go through the fund. 615 00:23:59,593 --> 00:24:01,843 You got a personal piece of everything, right? 616 00:24:01,927 --> 00:24:06,176 So break me off a piece of your piece. 617 00:24:06,259 --> 00:24:08,968 What are you high on from the last batch? 618 00:24:09,051 --> 00:24:10,551 A bottled cocktail company. 619 00:24:10,635 --> 00:24:12,551 A better mousetrap for backend webforms. 620 00:24:12,635 --> 00:24:14,301 Uh, an industrial custodial company, 621 00:24:14,385 --> 00:24:16,176 but that one's fully subscribed. 622 00:24:16,259 --> 00:24:17,510 Then that's the one I want. 623 00:24:17,593 --> 00:24:20,760 Why, 'cause it's so sexy? 624 00:24:20,843 --> 00:24:22,635 Hmm? 625 00:24:22,718 --> 00:24:23,968 ♪ While there's speakers in the outfield ♪ 626 00:24:24,051 --> 00:24:25,885 I wasn't doing the conman thing. 627 00:24:25,968 --> 00:24:28,009 I wasn't telling you that there's no opportunity 628 00:24:28,093 --> 00:24:30,927 so that the scarcity would get you to implore me for a way in. 629 00:24:31,009 --> 00:24:33,051 It really is full. 630 00:24:33,134 --> 00:24:36,176 Well, even if it's not a game, I believe in your confidence. 631 00:24:36,259 --> 00:24:39,218 How much of the company do you have? 632 00:24:39,301 --> 00:24:40,760 Say half. 633 00:24:40,843 --> 00:24:42,259 I'll take it. 634 00:24:42,343 --> 00:24:43,426 Not on your charmed life. 635 00:24:43,510 --> 00:24:45,551 Half of your half. 636 00:24:45,635 --> 00:24:48,051 At 1.5x the market price. 637 00:24:48,134 --> 00:24:49,468 ♪ To love someone ♪ 638 00:24:49,551 --> 00:24:51,051 What's behind the mighty hankering 639 00:24:51,134 --> 00:24:52,677 for that specific deal? 640 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,927 If you're that deep in it, I know it's the one. 641 00:24:55,009 --> 00:24:57,802 Men in business. 642 00:24:57,885 --> 00:24:59,927 It was a steady stream of no's and rejections, 643 00:25:00,009 --> 00:25:02,968 first from my bosses, then when I went looking for capital. 644 00:25:03,051 --> 00:25:04,635 And now that I don't need you, 645 00:25:04,718 --> 00:25:06,385 you all want to chip off a piece. 646 00:25:06,468 --> 00:25:08,426 I can promise you: I'm a value add. 647 00:25:08,510 --> 00:25:10,468 Yeah, I don't doubt that for some reason. 648 00:25:10,551 --> 00:25:13,802 ♪ The heart is a muscle and... ♪ 649 00:25:13,885 --> 00:25:15,718 Is that what made you leave the shopping network 650 00:25:15,802 --> 00:25:18,301 and go out on your own, shitty male bosses? 651 00:25:18,385 --> 00:25:21,093 They hired me to pick the products. 652 00:25:21,176 --> 00:25:22,802 The ones I rolled out were stone winners. 653 00:25:22,885 --> 00:25:24,885 Yet I still had to fight them. 654 00:25:24,968 --> 00:25:26,635 [Rebecca] Eventually I couldn't handle them 655 00:25:26,718 --> 00:25:28,259 [Rebecca] not listening to my ideas. 656 00:25:28,343 --> 00:25:31,677 How basic they thought. How slow they moved. 657 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,593 The way I heard it, you started hoarding all the best products 658 00:25:34,677 --> 00:25:36,677 instead of putting them in the system. 659 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,051 That way you had 'em when you launched on your own. 660 00:25:39,134 --> 00:25:41,051 Well, if that were true, 661 00:25:41,134 --> 00:25:43,134 how could I have kicked their ass in the lawsuit they brought? 662 00:25:43,218 --> 00:25:44,385 ♪ I wanna be loved ♪ 663 00:25:44,468 --> 00:25:45,802 ♪ I wanna be whole again ♪ 664 00:25:45,885 --> 00:25:47,385 I saw value. I took. 665 00:25:47,468 --> 00:25:49,009 ♪ So tuck my hair behind my ears ♪ 666 00:25:49,093 --> 00:25:51,176 You think that makes me bad? 667 00:25:51,259 --> 00:25:53,093 ♪ The window is wide ♪ 668 00:25:53,176 --> 00:25:55,468 Yeah. I do. 669 00:25:55,551 --> 00:25:57,468 In the best way. 670 00:25:57,551 --> 00:26:02,259 ♪ 'Cause I-I-I-I wanna overcome ♪ 671 00:26:02,343 --> 00:26:06,677 [Rebecca moaning] 672 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:11,385 ♪ And try-y-y-y to love someone ♪ 673 00:26:11,468 --> 00:26:13,218 ♪♪♪ 674 00:26:13,301 --> 00:26:16,009 ♪ soft music ♪ 675 00:26:16,093 --> 00:26:19,677 ♪♪♪ 676 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,051 ♪♪♪ 677 00:26:23,134 --> 00:26:26,802 ♪♪♪ 678 00:26:26,885 --> 00:26:28,968 [exhales deeply] 679 00:26:29,051 --> 00:26:33,051 ♪♪♪ 680 00:26:33,134 --> 00:26:37,093 ♪♪♪ 681 00:26:37,176 --> 00:26:40,927 ♪♪♪ 682 00:26:41,009 --> 00:26:44,927 ♪♪♪ 683 00:26:45,009 --> 00:26:48,843 ♪♪♪ 684 00:26:48,927 --> 00:26:51,009 Mm. 685 00:26:51,093 --> 00:26:54,051 ♪♪♪ 686 00:26:54,134 --> 00:26:56,343 Can I get the box? 687 00:26:56,426 --> 00:26:59,843 This is working for me. 688 00:26:59,927 --> 00:27:01,385 ♪♪♪ 689 00:27:01,468 --> 00:27:03,343 [sighs] 690 00:27:03,426 --> 00:27:06,510 ♪♪♪ 691 00:27:06,593 --> 00:27:09,635 ♪♪♪ 692 00:27:09,718 --> 00:27:12,718 [breathing heavily] 693 00:27:12,802 --> 00:27:16,218 Please? 694 00:27:16,301 --> 00:27:21,134 ♪♪♪ 695 00:27:21,218 --> 00:27:23,551 [exhales sharply] 696 00:27:23,635 --> 00:27:26,760 ♪♪♪ 697 00:27:26,843 --> 00:27:29,802 [Chuck snoring quietly] 698 00:27:29,885 --> 00:27:33,635 ♪♪♪ 699 00:27:33,718 --> 00:27:37,468 ♪♪♪ 700 00:27:37,551 --> 00:27:41,385 ♪♪♪ 701 00:27:41,468 --> 00:27:45,218 ♪♪♪ 702 00:27:45,301 --> 00:27:48,468 [birds chirping] 703 00:27:51,677 --> 00:27:54,093 How the hell did you find me... 704 00:27:54,176 --> 00:27:55,802 It wasn't easy. 705 00:27:55,885 --> 00:27:58,718 It wasn't meant to be. 706 00:27:58,802 --> 00:28:02,218 You know I'm not my father-in-law. 707 00:28:02,301 --> 00:28:04,176 Yet you're here. You tracked me down. 708 00:28:04,259 --> 00:28:06,134 What do you want? 709 00:28:08,426 --> 00:28:11,968 You once told me you knew people who... 710 00:28:12,051 --> 00:28:13,343 switched it up. 711 00:28:13,426 --> 00:28:14,760 Reversed who was dominant. 712 00:28:14,843 --> 00:28:17,343 Changed styles altogether. Yes. 713 00:28:17,426 --> 00:28:19,343 They were role players. 714 00:28:19,426 --> 00:28:20,677 Experimenting. 715 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,802 So, yes, they switched, from time to time, 716 00:28:22,885 --> 00:28:24,843 moved off of bondage altogether. 717 00:28:24,927 --> 00:28:26,885 Tried exhibitionism, voyeurism. 718 00:28:26,968 --> 00:28:28,885 Other forms of play... 719 00:28:28,968 --> 00:28:33,468 But that's not Chuck, not his arousal template. 720 00:28:33,551 --> 00:28:36,176 For him it's not a game. It's rooted deep. 721 00:28:36,259 --> 00:28:38,968 ♪♪♪ 722 00:28:39,051 --> 00:28:40,343 Thank you. 723 00:28:40,426 --> 00:28:42,426 Don't thank me. 724 00:28:42,510 --> 00:28:45,259 Just don't come back. 725 00:28:45,343 --> 00:28:49,426 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 726 00:28:49,510 --> 00:28:52,468 [keys clacking] 727 00:28:52,551 --> 00:28:54,635 Hey, I wanted to ask you-- 728 00:28:54,718 --> 00:28:56,385 I need to deal with something. Is it urgent? 729 00:28:56,468 --> 00:28:58,093 No, it's a personnel thing. 730 00:28:58,176 --> 00:28:59,802 Someone I want to bring in. 731 00:28:59,885 --> 00:29:01,426 Anyone you think meets our hiring criteria 732 00:29:01,510 --> 00:29:03,510 and fits our culture goes to the top of the list. 733 00:29:03,593 --> 00:29:06,551 Well, I don't know if he's top-of-the-list. 734 00:29:06,635 --> 00:29:07,843 It's Rudy. 735 00:29:07,927 --> 00:29:09,426 You think we need a mascot? 736 00:29:09,510 --> 00:29:11,385 I think he'd be a net positive. 737 00:29:11,468 --> 00:29:13,051 He never really got a shot to show what he could do. 738 00:29:13,134 --> 00:29:14,635 If you think I didn't coach him up well enough, 739 00:29:14,718 --> 00:29:16,051 -have at it. -I-I didn't mean-- 740 00:29:16,134 --> 00:29:18,468 You are a vital and valued member of this firm. 741 00:29:18,551 --> 00:29:20,968 And if you want to bring Rudy on, under you, 742 00:29:21,051 --> 00:29:22,677 and take responsibility for him blooming, 743 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,218 you have my full blessing. 744 00:29:24,301 --> 00:29:26,176 Excuse me. 745 00:29:26,259 --> 00:29:27,885 [sighs] 746 00:29:30,301 --> 00:29:32,259 Report. 747 00:29:32,343 --> 00:29:34,635 Here's the brief. 748 00:29:38,093 --> 00:29:40,343 Tl;dr, please. 749 00:29:40,426 --> 00:29:42,176 The Kozlovs... 750 00:29:42,259 --> 00:29:44,718 They're a rougher, messier version of Grigor Andolov. 751 00:29:44,802 --> 00:29:45,927 [Cook] Not as smart, not as rich. 752 00:29:46,009 --> 00:29:48,635 Maybe twice as vicious. Real animals. 753 00:29:48,718 --> 00:29:50,885 And we get back more. Much more. 754 00:29:50,968 --> 00:29:52,677 [Cook] They don't just order murders, 755 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,510 they carry them out. 756 00:29:54,593 --> 00:29:56,259 -Thank you. -You're paying me. 757 00:29:56,343 --> 00:29:58,093 You don't have to thank me. 758 00:30:00,968 --> 00:30:04,134 [door opens] 759 00:30:04,218 --> 00:30:05,343 [door closes] 760 00:30:05,426 --> 00:30:06,968 I think I'm gonna like him. 761 00:30:07,051 --> 00:30:08,176 You're going to like the way he does his job. 762 00:30:08,259 --> 00:30:10,009 Already do. 763 00:30:10,093 --> 00:30:11,635 He didn't offer an opinion on how we should proceed. 764 00:30:11,718 --> 00:30:12,635 He wasn't in here "pitching." 765 00:30:12,718 --> 00:30:13,885 But had you asked. 766 00:30:13,968 --> 00:30:16,051 Sure. I imagine he'd have an approach. 767 00:30:16,134 --> 00:30:17,259 I'm asking you though. 768 00:30:17,343 --> 00:30:19,134 It's still money. 769 00:30:19,218 --> 00:30:20,885 Yes. And we need it. But... 770 00:30:20,968 --> 00:30:22,927 If the Kozlovs come on board, 771 00:30:23,009 --> 00:30:24,885 that means Grigor has more capital here 772 00:30:24,968 --> 00:30:26,468 than the rest of the investors combined. 773 00:30:26,551 --> 00:30:28,009 Gives him too much power. 774 00:30:28,093 --> 00:30:29,551 He may have already gotten us into a position 775 00:30:29,635 --> 00:30:32,426 from which there is no escape, only defeat. 776 00:30:32,510 --> 00:30:33,635 Zugzwang, you know? 777 00:30:33,718 --> 00:30:35,301 It's what I almost named the firm. 778 00:30:35,385 --> 00:30:36,802 In hopes that it would inspire us 779 00:30:36,885 --> 00:30:38,134 to get the other fella in that position. 780 00:30:38,218 --> 00:30:40,218 Anyway, you're right. 781 00:30:40,301 --> 00:30:42,551 If I take the Kozlov money, Grigor is in control. 782 00:30:42,635 --> 00:30:44,718 If I refuse the money, I'm refusing Grigor's wishes. 783 00:30:44,802 --> 00:30:46,134 And he might pull his money, 784 00:30:46,218 --> 00:30:48,218 instead of backing me against Axe's threats. 785 00:30:48,301 --> 00:30:50,385 But unlike chess, this isn't just a two-person game, 786 00:30:50,468 --> 00:30:51,885 so there must be another option. 787 00:30:51,968 --> 00:30:54,802 We say yes. 788 00:30:54,885 --> 00:30:57,134 -Make the Kozlovs say no. -How? 789 00:30:57,218 --> 00:30:58,802 Well, in order to give me the money, 790 00:30:58,885 --> 00:31:00,385 they have to have the money. 791 00:31:00,468 --> 00:31:03,176 It's a good thing you didn't name the firm Zugzwang. 792 00:31:03,259 --> 00:31:05,718 Would have outed how good a player you are. 793 00:31:05,802 --> 00:31:07,134 It's better they don't know. 794 00:31:07,218 --> 00:31:08,885 Better they never know. 795 00:31:08,968 --> 00:31:12,176 I'm glad I know. 796 00:31:12,259 --> 00:31:15,510 [door opens] 797 00:31:15,593 --> 00:31:16,718 [door closes] 798 00:31:16,802 --> 00:31:21,385 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 799 00:31:21,468 --> 00:31:24,259 Why's Michael Panay afraid of Bobby Axelrod? 800 00:31:24,343 --> 00:31:27,968 I'm afraid of the Brazilian Wandering Spider. 801 00:31:28,051 --> 00:31:30,009 Well, now, see, that makes sense. 802 00:31:30,093 --> 00:31:32,009 Most venomous arachnid in the world. 803 00:31:32,093 --> 00:31:34,635 But Mr. Panay's phobia doesn't track. 804 00:31:34,718 --> 00:31:37,093 If the pension fund is really his, 805 00:31:37,176 --> 00:31:38,802 what on God's green does he have to fear? 806 00:31:38,885 --> 00:31:41,385 So my theory is, it's not. 807 00:31:41,468 --> 00:31:45,218 Axe is still handling the fund and Panay's a patsy. 808 00:31:45,301 --> 00:31:46,843 Well, that is a theory. 809 00:31:46,927 --> 00:31:48,677 Flat Earth is too. Making a comeback. 810 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,343 Only two ways it could've happened. 811 00:31:50,426 --> 00:31:53,843 Axe pulled one over on you... or Axe is paying you. 812 00:31:53,927 --> 00:31:55,718 Latter seems a lot more likely. 813 00:31:55,802 --> 00:31:57,134 Seems like old times with you two. 814 00:31:57,218 --> 00:32:00,218 I never took kickbacks. 815 00:32:00,301 --> 00:32:02,218 I originally used Axe Capital because he was the best. 816 00:32:02,301 --> 00:32:03,760 He made money for cops. 817 00:32:03,843 --> 00:32:06,218 And when your antics ruined it, I moved on. 818 00:32:06,301 --> 00:32:08,093 Because at the end of the day, that's what it's all about. 819 00:32:08,176 --> 00:32:10,635 Not about flying private to the Kentucky Derby, huh? 820 00:32:10,718 --> 00:32:13,802 I know you get off on seeing fear. 821 00:32:13,885 --> 00:32:16,593 So your balls must be turning sapphire as you wonder... 822 00:32:16,677 --> 00:32:18,551 why isn't he afraid? 823 00:32:18,635 --> 00:32:21,635 Maybe because I've never been to the Kentucky Derby in my life... 824 00:32:21,718 --> 00:32:23,635 and you're standing here without color of authority. 825 00:32:23,718 --> 00:32:25,843 You're a private citizen now. 826 00:32:25,927 --> 00:32:27,802 Get used to it. Or don't. 827 00:32:27,885 --> 00:32:30,802 Either way, you can't touch me. 828 00:32:30,885 --> 00:32:33,760 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 829 00:32:33,843 --> 00:32:37,259 ♪♪♪ 830 00:32:37,343 --> 00:32:40,718 ♪♪♪ 831 00:32:40,802 --> 00:32:43,218 Hey, hey, people, you all know what time it is... 832 00:32:43,301 --> 00:32:46,426 ♪♪♪ 833 00:32:46,510 --> 00:32:49,885 ♪♪♪ 834 00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:53,385 ♪♪♪ 835 00:32:53,468 --> 00:32:55,218 The fuck you staring at, Gumby? 836 00:32:55,301 --> 00:32:57,468 Uhh... 837 00:32:57,551 --> 00:32:59,635 You're new. You'll learn. 838 00:32:59,718 --> 00:33:01,927 This is how it works the day after payday. 839 00:33:02,009 --> 00:33:04,093 Giving back money. Doesn't seem fair. 840 00:33:04,176 --> 00:33:06,385 If you want to stay, that's the way, Gandhi. 841 00:33:06,468 --> 00:33:08,593 Gumby or-- 842 00:33:08,677 --> 00:33:11,635 Am I gonna have a fucking problem with you? 843 00:33:12,885 --> 00:33:14,218 Good. 844 00:33:14,301 --> 00:33:17,009 I'll see you next Thursday. 845 00:33:17,093 --> 00:33:18,593 [slaps arm] 846 00:33:18,677 --> 00:33:20,885 [exhales sharply] 847 00:33:20,968 --> 00:33:23,718 ♪♪♪ 848 00:33:23,802 --> 00:33:26,677 ♪♪♪ 849 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,009 More mommy and me time? 850 00:33:32,093 --> 00:33:35,176 No, I think we have an understanding. 851 00:33:35,259 --> 00:33:38,593 I was impressed with how you handled the guys. 852 00:33:38,677 --> 00:33:40,677 We're in the fucking veld. 853 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,677 It's predator or prey. Choice is clear. 854 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:47,009 [sighs] I used to tend bar in college. 855 00:33:47,093 --> 00:33:49,593 Got hit on by assholes all night long. 856 00:33:49,677 --> 00:33:51,677 It's not that different. 857 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,843 And pays a lot better. 858 00:33:53,927 --> 00:33:57,927 Do you ever worry that at some point the armor won't come off? 859 00:33:58,009 --> 00:33:59,510 [Wendy] Is that why you need a guy who doesn't beg, 860 00:33:59,593 --> 00:34:00,760 takes charge. 861 00:34:00,843 --> 00:34:02,927 Tell me when you find one. 862 00:34:03,009 --> 00:34:06,510 No, but seriously, is that what you want? 863 00:34:06,593 --> 00:34:10,468 You mean do I want to sublimate my authority at home? 864 00:34:10,551 --> 00:34:12,134 With someone who's masculine in all the right ways 865 00:34:12,218 --> 00:34:14,385 but not a douchebag. 866 00:34:14,468 --> 00:34:16,301 Let them take care of me, but make the decisions. 867 00:34:16,385 --> 00:34:18,718 Or do I want to be the shot caller. 868 00:34:20,385 --> 00:34:22,176 Maybe pay all the bills. 869 00:34:22,259 --> 00:34:25,385 And end up with someone who'll swallow that? 870 00:34:25,468 --> 00:34:27,510 Yeah. 871 00:34:27,593 --> 00:34:30,635 When I get home from work, 872 00:34:30,718 --> 00:34:33,885 if I didn't go drinking, 873 00:34:33,968 --> 00:34:36,343 and sometimes even if I did, 874 00:34:36,426 --> 00:34:39,218 I lace up the Nikes and I run the West Side Highway 875 00:34:39,301 --> 00:34:41,093 until I forget that I want anything at all. 876 00:34:42,968 --> 00:34:46,009 Then I come back here. 877 00:34:46,093 --> 00:34:48,510 ♪♪♪ 878 00:34:48,593 --> 00:34:50,301 What about you? 879 00:34:50,385 --> 00:34:52,551 ♪♪♪ 880 00:34:52,635 --> 00:34:54,968 -This isn't-- -About you. 881 00:34:55,051 --> 00:34:56,677 ♪♪♪ 882 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,927 Sure it's not. 883 00:35:00,009 --> 00:35:02,593 ♪♪♪ 884 00:35:02,677 --> 00:35:05,677 I guess I get out the running shoes from time to time. 885 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:10,593 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 886 00:35:10,677 --> 00:35:13,218 Is that always the way you do business? 887 00:35:13,301 --> 00:35:14,385 Yeah. You? 888 00:35:14,468 --> 00:35:15,843 Of course. 889 00:35:15,927 --> 00:35:17,259 Seriously, never had an evening 890 00:35:17,343 --> 00:35:19,176 that started at a tiki bar end so well. 891 00:35:19,259 --> 00:35:21,093 Well, next time we'll try a luau. 892 00:35:21,176 --> 00:35:22,802 Love to see you in a grass skirt. 893 00:35:22,885 --> 00:35:24,259 Gotta have the legs for it. 894 00:35:24,343 --> 00:35:26,677 I'll have the papers memorializing 895 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,259 your piece of the business sent over this afternoon. 896 00:35:29,343 --> 00:35:31,593 Unless you didn't really want to take a stake. 897 00:35:31,677 --> 00:35:33,301 I want it. 898 00:35:33,385 --> 00:35:35,677 Scrounging for equity's not a pick-up move. 899 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,385 Then we'll be in touch. 900 00:35:38,468 --> 00:35:40,343 [elevator bell dings] 901 00:35:46,301 --> 00:35:48,885 [elevator doors close] 902 00:35:48,968 --> 00:35:50,635 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 903 00:35:50,718 --> 00:35:51,885 You get it? 904 00:35:51,968 --> 00:35:53,593 I almost pooped myself. 905 00:35:53,677 --> 00:35:56,385 But I think so. Most of it. 906 00:35:56,468 --> 00:35:59,802 Well, scoop up any other intel you can. 907 00:35:59,885 --> 00:36:01,802 And hold your mud. 908 00:36:01,885 --> 00:36:06,718 ♪♪♪ 909 00:36:06,802 --> 00:36:08,635 [elevator bell dings] 910 00:36:08,718 --> 00:36:11,426 ♪♪♪ 911 00:36:11,510 --> 00:36:13,259 Hey. 912 00:36:13,343 --> 00:36:16,051 [smooches] 913 00:36:16,134 --> 00:36:17,635 [horn honking] 914 00:36:17,718 --> 00:36:18,843 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 915 00:36:18,968 --> 00:36:20,677 [elevator bell dings] 916 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,259 ♪♪♪ 917 00:36:24,343 --> 00:36:27,802 ♪♪♪ 918 00:36:27,885 --> 00:36:29,468 Bob? 919 00:36:29,551 --> 00:36:32,802 ♪♪♪ 920 00:36:32,885 --> 00:36:36,343 ♪♪♪ 921 00:36:36,426 --> 00:36:40,343 I once remarked you wouldn't even sweat... 922 00:36:40,426 --> 00:36:43,718 and here you are dry as a bone after a workout. 923 00:36:43,802 --> 00:36:45,718 No workout. 924 00:36:45,802 --> 00:36:47,968 Kelly just stretches me. 925 00:36:48,051 --> 00:36:49,468 [Axe] She's the best in the city. 926 00:36:49,551 --> 00:36:51,343 Mm-hmm. 927 00:36:51,426 --> 00:36:53,510 I can have her stay after, take care of you. 928 00:36:53,593 --> 00:36:55,259 Another day maybe. 929 00:36:55,343 --> 00:36:57,051 After we speak about a friend of yours. 930 00:37:00,176 --> 00:37:02,343 Sorry to cut this short. 931 00:37:02,426 --> 00:37:04,259 Of course. See you. 932 00:37:14,593 --> 00:37:17,009 I don't want to have you in the cross hairs anymore. 933 00:37:17,093 --> 00:37:20,760 Cross hairs only matter if they're sitting atop a weapon. 934 00:37:20,843 --> 00:37:23,343 You're out of office; you no longer have one. 935 00:37:23,426 --> 00:37:27,176 I've been tasked, I have been given a task, 936 00:37:27,259 --> 00:37:29,259 by folks who do. 937 00:37:29,343 --> 00:37:31,593 Ah. 938 00:37:31,677 --> 00:37:35,009 So answer this: 939 00:37:35,093 --> 00:37:39,426 what happens to you if I take down Raul Gomez? 940 00:37:41,551 --> 00:37:43,176 I'd prefer that didn't happen. 941 00:37:43,259 --> 00:37:45,843 And I appreciate the gesture of you coming here to ask. 942 00:37:45,927 --> 00:37:48,343 But we can't just leave it there. 943 00:37:48,426 --> 00:37:50,885 -Because, as I said-- -You've been tasked. 944 00:37:50,968 --> 00:37:53,218 I have. 945 00:37:53,301 --> 00:37:55,009 [sniffs] 946 00:37:55,093 --> 00:37:58,051 Is there some other way to satisfy your taskmaster on this? 947 00:37:58,134 --> 00:38:01,009 He seems to feel that Raul is using the pension fund 948 00:38:01,093 --> 00:38:04,218 the way Chris Stapleton uses Tennessee Whiskey, 949 00:38:04,301 --> 00:38:05,927 to slake his thirst. 950 00:38:06,009 --> 00:38:07,426 He's not. 951 00:38:07,510 --> 00:38:09,176 Not in the way your man thinks he is. 952 00:38:09,259 --> 00:38:10,968 Tell me how it really is. 953 00:38:11,051 --> 00:38:13,051 Then we solve it together. 954 00:38:13,134 --> 00:38:15,677 If a solution presents, yes. 955 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,968 The man who sent you after this, is he law enforcement? 956 00:38:19,051 --> 00:38:20,093 He is. 957 00:38:20,176 --> 00:38:21,760 How high ranking? 958 00:38:21,843 --> 00:38:23,760 They all salute him. 959 00:38:23,843 --> 00:38:25,218 [chuckles] 960 00:38:25,301 --> 00:38:27,885 That man came up around when Raul did. 961 00:38:27,968 --> 00:38:29,426 He can't like the fact that he's running 962 00:38:29,510 --> 00:38:31,593 the most storied police force in the nation 963 00:38:31,677 --> 00:38:34,051 for not even a quarter of what Raul makes on the books. 964 00:38:34,134 --> 00:38:35,927 So it's jealousy. 965 00:38:36,009 --> 00:38:38,426 And from where I sit, 966 00:38:38,510 --> 00:38:41,009 I usually see jealousy turn into the other thing. 967 00:38:41,093 --> 00:38:43,176 Greed. 968 00:38:43,259 --> 00:38:44,593 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 969 00:38:44,677 --> 00:38:47,259 Ah. 970 00:38:47,343 --> 00:38:49,885 There may be a way for you to satisfy everyone involved, 971 00:38:49,968 --> 00:38:51,176 without hurting anyone. 972 00:38:51,259 --> 00:38:53,802 Everyone wins and no one loses? 973 00:38:53,885 --> 00:38:56,426 [chuckles] I thought you and I live in the real world. 974 00:38:56,510 --> 00:38:59,051 Maybe Michael Panay loses. 975 00:38:59,134 --> 00:39:01,218 Which, in the scheme of things... 976 00:39:01,301 --> 00:39:03,468 Yeah. Not really such a loss. 977 00:39:03,551 --> 00:39:05,218 No. 978 00:39:05,301 --> 00:39:08,134 And if there's a big loser, 979 00:39:08,218 --> 00:39:10,218 there has to be a big winner. 980 00:39:10,301 --> 00:39:12,635 Now, who's that gonna be? 981 00:39:12,718 --> 00:39:15,468 ♪♪♪ 982 00:39:15,551 --> 00:39:16,677 Take a guess. 983 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:21,343 ♪♪♪ 984 00:39:21,426 --> 00:39:25,760 ♪♪♪ 985 00:39:25,843 --> 00:39:30,426 ♪♪♪ 986 00:39:30,510 --> 00:39:32,134 You know that scene in Pretty Woman 987 00:39:32,218 --> 00:39:33,677 where the salesgirl treats her like garbage, 988 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,593 so she marches down the street to another shop, 989 00:39:35,677 --> 00:39:37,843 buys absolutely everything, then circles back 990 00:39:37,927 --> 00:39:40,051 to the first store just to throw it in their face? 991 00:39:40,134 --> 00:39:42,510 [Taylor] Well, I'm Julia Roberts, and you're fucked. 992 00:39:42,593 --> 00:39:45,677 You made a big mistake. Big. Huge. 993 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,343 -I got all the money I need. -From where?! 994 00:39:48,426 --> 00:39:50,927 [Russian accent] None of your fucking business. 995 00:39:51,009 --> 00:39:52,551 [Taylor] [normal voice] So you can bet the next time 996 00:39:52,635 --> 00:39:53,885 I need so much as a checking account, 997 00:39:53,968 --> 00:39:55,385 I'm going elsewhere. 998 00:39:55,468 --> 00:39:57,259 Thanks for the koozie, asshole. 999 00:40:01,968 --> 00:40:03,843 [Theo] If it was a loan from a Russian bank, 1000 00:40:03,927 --> 00:40:05,051 I'd see it on my system. 1001 00:40:05,134 --> 00:40:06,677 An individual. 1002 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:08,718 Not Grigor, he's an investor... 1003 00:40:08,802 --> 00:40:10,468 The Kozlovs? 1004 00:40:10,551 --> 00:40:11,927 They use you as their prime... 1005 00:40:12,009 --> 00:40:13,468 Yes. We've lent them capital, 1006 00:40:13,551 --> 00:40:15,927 but for infrastructure projects mainly. 1007 00:40:16,009 --> 00:40:18,677 [Axe] Force a capital call on a few of those projects then. 1008 00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,510 Pull back the loans. 1009 00:40:20,593 --> 00:40:23,134 I want them cash poor on this side of the Atlantic. 1010 00:40:23,218 --> 00:40:25,468 Cripple their ability to dole out to Taylor. 1011 00:40:25,551 --> 00:40:27,051 That's a big request... 1012 00:40:27,134 --> 00:40:28,718 I can practically feel your hand in my pocket. 1013 00:40:28,802 --> 00:40:31,593 I already went in on that dipshit robotics play. 1014 00:40:31,677 --> 00:40:34,677 This costs me more, so it costs you more. 1015 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,176 Drop Spartan-Ives, make me your main prime. 1016 00:40:37,259 --> 00:40:39,510 Well, if you fight for me as hard 1017 00:40:39,593 --> 00:40:41,927 as you're fighting for your bank... 1018 00:40:42,009 --> 00:40:43,301 that's on the table. 1019 00:40:43,385 --> 00:40:45,843 Good enough for me... 1020 00:40:45,927 --> 00:40:50,760 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1021 00:40:50,843 --> 00:40:54,385 Hey, guys, Theo from Patriot Trust... 1022 00:40:54,468 --> 00:40:56,510 [Theo] I know we thought we could extend 1023 00:40:56,593 --> 00:40:58,176 [Theo] that billion-two for a year, 1024 00:40:58,259 --> 00:41:01,343 but it turns out we need to pull it back. 1025 00:41:01,426 --> 00:41:04,510 Fuck you. 1026 00:41:04,593 --> 00:41:05,593 When? 1027 00:41:05,677 --> 00:41:07,176 Immediately. 1028 00:41:07,259 --> 00:41:09,385 You guys should come in so we can hammer it out. 1029 00:41:09,468 --> 00:41:12,218 [grunts] 1030 00:41:12,301 --> 00:41:17,009 ♪♪♪ 1031 00:41:17,093 --> 00:41:19,551 [horns honking] 1032 00:41:19,635 --> 00:41:21,385 [indistinct conversations] 1033 00:41:21,468 --> 00:41:24,385 So, how dirty is my man? 1034 00:41:24,468 --> 00:41:26,551 Training Day or Prince of the City? 1035 00:41:26,635 --> 00:41:28,802 Raul is taking money. You were right. 1036 00:41:28,885 --> 00:41:30,718 I smelled it. 1037 00:41:30,802 --> 00:41:32,927 You have the evidence I can use to seize his pension? 1038 00:41:33,009 --> 00:41:34,593 Not exactly. 1039 00:41:34,677 --> 00:41:37,385 God damn it, Chuck. Did I send in the wrong man? 1040 00:41:37,468 --> 00:41:39,551 In a way. 1041 00:41:39,635 --> 00:41:41,802 Because I don't have what you asked for. 1042 00:41:41,885 --> 00:41:45,385 But in another way, I know how to get what you really want. 1043 00:41:45,468 --> 00:41:47,218 Spit it out. 1044 00:41:47,301 --> 00:41:50,385 Keep Raul, have him fire Panay. 1045 00:41:50,468 --> 00:41:52,510 Now, why the fuck would I do that? 1046 00:41:54,093 --> 00:41:57,843 Raul was in his job before you were in yours. 1047 00:41:57,927 --> 00:42:00,259 He's not your man. 1048 00:42:00,343 --> 00:42:04,385 You do not have an... understanding with him. 1049 00:42:04,468 --> 00:42:06,551 So you think you won't have an understanding 1050 00:42:06,635 --> 00:42:10,009 with whatever manager he hires. 1051 00:42:10,093 --> 00:42:12,468 And I imagine, as you've gotten older, 1052 00:42:12,551 --> 00:42:15,843 contemplated your retirement, 1053 00:42:15,927 --> 00:42:19,176 an understanding seems more and more important to you. 1054 00:42:19,259 --> 00:42:22,176 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1055 00:42:22,259 --> 00:42:24,843 ♪♪♪ 1056 00:42:24,927 --> 00:42:27,259 ♪♪♪ 1057 00:42:27,343 --> 00:42:28,843 And you think I can get that 1058 00:42:28,927 --> 00:42:31,968 with whoever Raul hires to replace Panay? 1059 00:42:32,051 --> 00:42:36,635 I think the new manager and you would be fucking soulmates. 1060 00:42:36,718 --> 00:42:39,885 Because I believe that man would be Bobby Axelrod. 1061 00:42:39,968 --> 00:42:42,802 [chuckles] 1062 00:42:42,885 --> 00:42:45,093 ♪♪♪ 1063 00:42:45,176 --> 00:42:47,843 Oh, you really got down in those NYC sewers. 1064 00:42:47,927 --> 00:42:49,426 That's what you get with me. 1065 00:42:49,510 --> 00:42:52,885 No fear, of power or alligators. 1066 00:42:52,968 --> 00:42:56,593 It's why you and your union are gonna back me for AG. 1067 00:42:56,677 --> 00:42:58,885 Thought that might be coming. 1068 00:42:58,968 --> 00:43:00,301 It's better for you. 1069 00:43:00,385 --> 00:43:01,718 You were saddled with Darcha 1070 00:43:01,802 --> 00:43:04,134 by baroque rules of New York State succession. 1071 00:43:04,218 --> 00:43:06,009 He's not your choice. 1072 00:43:06,093 --> 00:43:09,968 He doesn't know how this town really works. 1073 00:43:10,051 --> 00:43:13,009 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1074 00:43:13,093 --> 00:43:16,510 ♪♪♪ 1075 00:43:16,593 --> 00:43:18,426 [door closes] 1076 00:43:18,510 --> 00:43:21,927 [inhales sharply] 1077 00:43:22,009 --> 00:43:23,551 Just the one photo? 1078 00:43:26,927 --> 00:43:28,718 I tossed the ones of me with Chuck. 1079 00:43:28,802 --> 00:43:29,927 And I haven't yet had the chance to 1080 00:43:30,009 --> 00:43:31,885 shake and smile with all the machers. 1081 00:43:31,968 --> 00:43:34,134 So no pics with him. But his words in your mouth. 1082 00:43:34,218 --> 00:43:36,343 Okay. It suits you. 1083 00:43:36,426 --> 00:43:39,134 Uh, you still have Darcha on your wish list for state AG? 1084 00:43:39,218 --> 00:43:41,009 Yes. I back-channeled with his Chief Of Staff, 1085 00:43:41,093 --> 00:43:42,343 and he said they have no interest 1086 00:43:42,426 --> 00:43:43,635 in fighting it out with us. 1087 00:43:43,718 --> 00:43:45,259 I think they'll basically do our bidding 1088 00:43:45,343 --> 00:43:47,510 and back the fuck off when we want 'em to. 1089 00:43:47,593 --> 00:43:50,343 Darcha really would have been our ideal man then. 1090 00:43:50,426 --> 00:43:52,301 Why "would have been"? 1091 00:43:52,385 --> 00:43:54,510 He cancelled his appearance at San Gennaro tomorrow. 1092 00:43:54,593 --> 00:43:56,635 [scoffs] 1093 00:43:59,426 --> 00:44:01,176 What about Sansome? 1094 00:44:01,259 --> 00:44:03,051 Still appearing. 1095 00:44:03,134 --> 00:44:05,134 Hmm. 1096 00:44:05,218 --> 00:44:07,718 [door opens] -Motherfuck. 1097 00:44:07,802 --> 00:44:09,343 [door closes] 1098 00:44:09,426 --> 00:44:11,802 They pay me... then they take the money back. 1099 00:44:11,885 --> 00:44:14,176 I can't leave. They call Immigration... 1100 00:44:14,259 --> 00:44:16,385 It's a story being told over and over 1101 00:44:16,468 --> 00:44:18,551 inside the ranks of Eureka Building Solutions. 1102 00:44:18,635 --> 00:44:20,176 What had once looked like a leader 1103 00:44:20,259 --> 00:44:21,468 in the industrial cleaning space 1104 00:44:21,551 --> 00:44:23,134 awaiting a huge valuation, 1105 00:44:23,218 --> 00:44:24,760 is now rumored to be facing probes 1106 00:44:24,843 --> 00:44:25,885 by several regulatory agencies-- 1107 00:44:25,968 --> 00:44:27,218 [TV turns off] 1108 00:44:27,301 --> 00:44:30,134 That is one powerful piece of journalism. 1109 00:44:30,218 --> 00:44:32,218 It is. And accurate. 1110 00:44:32,301 --> 00:44:34,259 It's gone up on the journal's site by now, 1111 00:44:34,343 --> 00:44:35,551 but I wanted to show it to you personally, since, you know... 1112 00:44:35,635 --> 00:44:37,218 Sure. 1113 00:44:37,301 --> 00:44:40,176 It's wrong what that company did to those workers. 1114 00:44:40,259 --> 00:44:43,718 They deserve their bread and their roses too. 1115 00:44:46,051 --> 00:44:47,551 Tuk did good work here. 1116 00:44:47,635 --> 00:44:49,343 Went above and beyond. 1117 00:44:49,426 --> 00:44:52,468 He's complaining he still smells like pine cleaner. 1118 00:44:52,551 --> 00:44:54,009 Go give him an attaboy, Ben. 1119 00:44:54,093 --> 00:44:56,718 Took me three years with you to earn an attaboy. 1120 00:44:56,802 --> 00:44:58,385 Then fuck the attaboy. 1121 00:44:58,468 --> 00:45:00,343 Did his job. Got paid. Move on. 1122 00:45:00,426 --> 00:45:02,051 Your guy. Your call. 1123 00:45:02,134 --> 00:45:04,510 ...I think I'll give him an attaboy... 1124 00:45:07,385 --> 00:45:10,551 [footsteps approaching] 1125 00:45:14,259 --> 00:45:15,551 Move. 1126 00:45:15,635 --> 00:45:19,426 Ooh, a She-E-O. Nice... 1127 00:45:19,510 --> 00:45:21,968 Uh, Axe... 1128 00:45:22,051 --> 00:45:23,885 I was trying to figure out why you invested 1129 00:45:23,968 --> 00:45:26,218 in that dogshit robotics company. 1130 00:45:26,301 --> 00:45:29,426 And if I fucked an idiot or just someone really duplicitous. 1131 00:45:29,510 --> 00:45:30,760 Who told you? 1132 00:45:30,843 --> 00:45:32,677 Patriot Trust Bank. 1133 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,426 Trying to drum up more business. 1134 00:45:34,510 --> 00:45:35,843 Definitely not switching primes. 1135 00:45:38,843 --> 00:45:40,259 [door opens] 1136 00:45:40,343 --> 00:45:42,176 I heard you were denying Taylor Mason leverage. 1137 00:45:42,259 --> 00:45:44,051 -I wanted the Street to know. [door closes] 1138 00:45:44,134 --> 00:45:47,218 Now I see what's behind everything: Your wrath. 1139 00:45:47,301 --> 00:45:49,259 Which I am now going to blunt. 1140 00:45:49,343 --> 00:45:52,009 I'm gonna get Taylor their leverage. 1141 00:45:52,093 --> 00:45:54,885 That is not what I would call a proportionate response. 1142 00:45:54,968 --> 00:45:57,468 Because proportionate responses 1143 00:45:57,551 --> 00:45:59,593 don't work on nation states like you. 1144 00:45:59,677 --> 00:46:02,009 I-I don't care if you lie or obfuscate. 1145 00:46:02,093 --> 00:46:05,009 I care when you take profits that should be mine. 1146 00:46:05,093 --> 00:46:07,051 Your cleaning company is worth 1147 00:46:07,134 --> 00:46:09,635 significantly more than it was yesterday. 1148 00:46:09,718 --> 00:46:11,885 You know what kind of horrible shit your competition was up to? 1149 00:46:11,968 --> 00:46:13,677 Of course I did. And I would've beaten them, 1150 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:15,426 in time, through proper business practices. 1151 00:46:15,510 --> 00:46:16,885 And now you have. 1152 00:46:16,968 --> 00:46:18,843 And my piece would have been worth even more 1153 00:46:18,927 --> 00:46:20,259 if I didn't cut you in. 1154 00:46:20,343 --> 00:46:21,677 Somehow I don't think it would have 1155 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:23,093 gone up so quick if you hadn't. 1156 00:46:23,176 --> 00:46:25,009 -Really? -Like I told you: 1157 00:46:25,093 --> 00:46:26,259 I'm a value add. 1158 00:46:26,343 --> 00:46:28,677 Give me back the shares, fucko. 1159 00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,510 [laughing] I paid you handsomely. 1160 00:46:31,593 --> 00:46:33,551 You can buy me out at current value. 1161 00:46:33,635 --> 00:46:35,510 Take the rest of the ride yourself. 1162 00:46:35,593 --> 00:46:37,093 If you want to be rid of me that badly. 1163 00:46:37,176 --> 00:46:39,885 Fine. Half my shares back. 1164 00:46:39,968 --> 00:46:42,093 Well, as you said, they're worth more now. 1165 00:46:42,176 --> 00:46:45,218 -So what price, uh-- -I get the profit on those. 1166 00:46:45,301 --> 00:46:46,927 You get only your initial investment back on 'em. 1167 00:46:47,009 --> 00:46:48,885 And I let you have a clear shot at Taylor Mason. 1168 00:46:48,968 --> 00:46:50,635 [inhales sharply] Expensive... 1169 00:46:50,718 --> 00:46:52,343 But worth it. 1170 00:46:52,426 --> 00:46:53,968 Good. Done. 1171 00:46:54,051 --> 00:46:55,843 And we'll take the rest of this ride together. 1172 00:46:58,802 --> 00:47:00,718 By the way, you got bigger. 1173 00:47:00,802 --> 00:47:03,927 You now have 4,200 new and hard-working employees 1174 00:47:04,009 --> 00:47:05,468 ready to step aboard your cleaning company. 1175 00:47:05,551 --> 00:47:07,551 Our company. 1176 00:47:07,635 --> 00:47:09,134 Now what? 1177 00:47:09,218 --> 00:47:10,301 You hungry? 1178 00:47:10,385 --> 00:47:11,968 I could eat. 1179 00:47:15,259 --> 00:47:16,176 [knock on door] 1180 00:47:16,259 --> 00:47:18,009 [Chuck] Come in. 1181 00:47:21,259 --> 00:47:23,468 Donna didn't announce the United States Attorney 1182 00:47:23,551 --> 00:47:25,510 for the Southern District. 1183 00:47:25,593 --> 00:47:26,968 She must've stepped out. 1184 00:47:27,051 --> 00:47:28,927 And that's when you stepped in. 1185 00:47:29,009 --> 00:47:30,176 Ah. 1186 00:47:30,259 --> 00:47:31,760 Always angle-shooting. 1187 00:47:31,843 --> 00:47:34,009 Shooting angles. Important difference. 1188 00:47:34,093 --> 00:47:35,593 You taught me that. 1189 00:47:35,677 --> 00:47:38,551 -Should I go? -Nah. I'm just getting warm. 1190 00:47:38,635 --> 00:47:40,802 -Ahh. -I know what you're doing. 1191 00:47:40,885 --> 00:47:42,385 And I'm here to tell you, don't. 1192 00:47:42,468 --> 00:47:43,927 Don't do it. Don't run. 1193 00:47:44,009 --> 00:47:45,510 You didn't come to plead. 1194 00:47:45,593 --> 00:47:47,176 You came to threaten. 1195 00:47:47,259 --> 00:47:49,343 So hit me with the back half. 1196 00:47:49,426 --> 00:47:52,134 I've been keeping out of your way as much as possible. 1197 00:47:52,218 --> 00:47:54,051 What do you call reviewing all my old cases? 1198 00:47:54,134 --> 00:47:56,510 My duty. But like I said, 1199 00:47:56,593 --> 00:47:58,635 I've been holding back the full power of my office. 1200 00:47:58,718 --> 00:47:59,885 [Connerty] And I think you know what that power is. 1201 00:47:59,968 --> 00:48:02,176 [Connerty] What it can do. So if you run, 1202 00:48:02,259 --> 00:48:06,009 if you try to again put yourself in a position of public trust 1203 00:48:06,093 --> 00:48:07,593 and public authority, 1204 00:48:07,677 --> 00:48:10,385 I will be forced to let slip the dogs of war. 1205 00:48:10,468 --> 00:48:13,885 Oh, that one I definitely taught you. 1206 00:48:13,968 --> 00:48:15,802 Yeah. That's the one I used on Axelrod 1207 00:48:15,885 --> 00:48:17,343 to get him to make his first mistake. 1208 00:48:17,426 --> 00:48:19,843 Sometimes you learn from the worst. 1209 00:48:19,927 --> 00:48:21,677 You didn't need to bring out the needle to nudge me. 1210 00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,843 I was running. I am running. 1211 00:48:24,927 --> 00:48:26,677 And when I win, 1212 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:30,134 I'm gonna roll over you like it's Tiananmen Square. 1213 00:48:30,218 --> 00:48:32,760 [bones crack] 1214 00:48:32,843 --> 00:48:35,009 [groans] 1215 00:48:35,093 --> 00:48:37,176 [door opens] 1216 00:48:37,259 --> 00:48:39,802 [Slaid Cleaves' "If I Had A Heart" plays over speakers] 1217 00:48:39,885 --> 00:48:43,802 [indistinct conversations] 1218 00:48:43,885 --> 00:48:46,134 -Hey, buddy. -Hey. 1219 00:48:46,218 --> 00:48:48,927 So, 1220 00:48:49,009 --> 00:48:51,510 how's it work at a quant overlay? 1221 00:48:51,593 --> 00:48:53,176 Am I still gonna be an analyst or-- 1222 00:48:53,259 --> 00:48:55,677 I'm sorry, man. I can't do it. 1223 00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:56,760 ♪ The more I read ♪ 1224 00:48:56,843 --> 00:48:58,218 Taylor blocked it. 1225 00:48:58,301 --> 00:48:59,677 ♪ The dumber I think I am ♪ 1226 00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:01,510 They're like the HAL 9000 or Rain Man. 1227 00:49:01,593 --> 00:49:03,426 They're always playing the percentages. 1228 00:49:03,510 --> 00:49:05,051 Yeah, they're not. 1229 00:49:05,134 --> 00:49:06,635 They see... everything. 1230 00:49:06,718 --> 00:49:08,093 It's why they did what they did with Axe, 1231 00:49:08,176 --> 00:49:10,051 despite the risk. 1232 00:49:10,134 --> 00:49:13,802 Why they brought me here and put a lot of faith in me... 1233 00:49:13,885 --> 00:49:16,468 and why I gotta say no. 1234 00:49:16,551 --> 00:49:17,802 You're blocking me? 1235 00:49:17,885 --> 00:49:19,593 I think you're a great dude. 1236 00:49:19,677 --> 00:49:21,051 If I was 13 again, 1237 00:49:21,134 --> 00:49:22,843 I would play Magic: The Gathering with you, 1238 00:49:22,927 --> 00:49:24,885 like, every day at lunch. 1239 00:49:24,968 --> 00:49:28,051 But when you're a man, you gotta put childish things away... 1240 00:49:28,134 --> 00:49:30,051 at work. 1241 00:49:30,134 --> 00:49:31,677 I got responsibilities now. 1242 00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:33,551 Like you said, I'm a partner. 1243 00:49:33,635 --> 00:49:35,635 ♪ And in these times you remind me ♪ 1244 00:49:35,718 --> 00:49:38,510 ♪ Of the man I used to be... ♪ 1245 00:49:38,593 --> 00:49:40,927 You're a fucking asshole. 1246 00:49:41,009 --> 00:49:42,468 You think you're better than me. 1247 00:49:42,551 --> 00:49:44,551 I don't think I'm better than you. 1248 00:49:44,635 --> 00:49:45,968 I'm just better at my job. 1249 00:49:46,051 --> 00:49:48,134 And I will definitely figure out 1250 00:49:48,218 --> 00:49:51,218 what an appropriate baby gift is and send one. 1251 00:49:51,301 --> 00:49:52,968 ♪ Seen the bashing of brains ♪ 1252 00:49:53,051 --> 00:49:56,426 ♪ Seen the city unwind ♪ 1253 00:49:56,510 --> 00:50:00,802 ♪ Seen the overthrow of dictators and tyrants ♪ 1254 00:50:00,885 --> 00:50:03,468 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1255 00:50:03,551 --> 00:50:08,218 ♪♪♪ 1256 00:50:08,301 --> 00:50:12,468 ♪♪♪ 1257 00:50:12,551 --> 00:50:14,093 You ready? 1258 00:50:14,176 --> 00:50:16,468 You want me to go with you? Or send Cook. 1259 00:50:16,551 --> 00:50:20,009 No. I have to face Grigor alone. 1260 00:50:20,093 --> 00:50:22,051 I hope he doesn't recognize that I did it. 1261 00:50:22,134 --> 00:50:23,927 What are the chances of that? 1262 00:50:24,009 --> 00:50:25,593 If he does know, 1263 00:50:25,677 --> 00:50:28,259 he's either going to take them out or take me out. 1264 00:50:28,343 --> 00:50:32,301 ♪♪♪ 1265 00:50:32,385 --> 00:50:36,343 ♪♪♪ 1266 00:50:36,426 --> 00:50:40,343 ♪♪♪ 1267 00:50:40,426 --> 00:50:44,343 ♪♪♪ 1268 00:50:44,426 --> 00:50:48,468 ♪♪♪ 1269 00:50:48,551 --> 00:50:51,468 [soft music playing on piano] 1270 00:50:51,551 --> 00:50:54,009 ♪♪♪ 1271 00:50:54,093 --> 00:50:56,802 ♪♪♪ 1272 00:50:56,885 --> 00:50:59,885 Garlic pepper and dill for you. 1273 00:50:59,968 --> 00:51:02,259 ♪♪♪ 1274 00:51:02,343 --> 00:51:04,843 Horseradish for me. 1275 00:51:04,927 --> 00:51:06,968 [vodka pours, glasses clink] 1276 00:51:07,051 --> 00:51:09,134 [glass thuds] 1277 00:51:09,218 --> 00:51:13,009 ♪♪♪ 1278 00:51:13,093 --> 00:51:17,134 [Grigor] I bring what to most would be bad news. 1279 00:51:17,218 --> 00:51:20,593 The Kozlovs, the men who wanted to give you money, 1280 00:51:20,677 --> 00:51:24,927 have had some reversals and no longer have money to give. 1281 00:51:25,009 --> 00:51:27,426 I suppose that is bad news. For me. 1282 00:51:27,510 --> 00:51:30,927 [Taylor] But for you... these friends are overextended. 1283 00:51:31,009 --> 00:51:33,218 Perhaps you could rescue them or... 1284 00:51:33,301 --> 00:51:36,218 and I'm just thinking out loud here... take them out. 1285 00:51:36,301 --> 00:51:38,968 ♪♪♪ 1286 00:51:39,051 --> 00:51:41,510 [Taylor] They are vulnerable. Prone. 1287 00:51:41,593 --> 00:51:44,301 You could buy all their assets for pennies on the dollar. 1288 00:51:44,385 --> 00:51:48,968 Your idea of fun is to dangle my friends in front of Axe 1289 00:51:49,051 --> 00:51:50,802 and watch him feed on them? 1290 00:51:50,885 --> 00:51:52,843 I'm feeding them to you. 1291 00:51:52,927 --> 00:51:55,760 Axe just cut 'em down into digestible bites. 1292 00:51:55,843 --> 00:51:58,968 This is a course of action 1293 00:51:59,051 --> 00:52:03,468 only the nastiest of the Bratva would take. 1294 00:52:03,551 --> 00:52:07,718 It is also what I thought you might say, and do. 1295 00:52:07,802 --> 00:52:10,718 ♪♪♪ 1296 00:52:10,802 --> 00:52:13,635 ♪♪♪ 1297 00:52:13,718 --> 00:52:16,343 [glasses thud] 1298 00:52:16,426 --> 00:52:18,968 All this raises the question: The Kozlovs, 1299 00:52:19,051 --> 00:52:20,510 ♪♪♪ 1300 00:52:20,593 --> 00:52:23,385 how good friends are they really? 1301 00:52:23,468 --> 00:52:27,426 ♪♪♪ 1302 00:52:27,510 --> 00:52:32,426 It turns out... 1303 00:52:32,510 --> 00:52:33,968 not so good. 1304 00:52:34,051 --> 00:52:36,218 ♪♪♪ 1305 00:52:36,301 --> 00:52:39,093 I accept this most gracious gift. 1306 00:52:39,176 --> 00:52:42,426 And in return, you hope what, 1307 00:52:42,510 --> 00:52:47,134 that the leverage you so crave will now come directly from me? 1308 00:52:47,218 --> 00:52:49,468 I think you like that Axe has shut the banks to me. 1309 00:52:49,551 --> 00:52:51,551 Because it makes me more reliant on you. 1310 00:52:51,635 --> 00:52:53,885 That ends now. 1311 00:52:53,968 --> 00:52:57,259 Like the once great American Bob Ritchie said: 1312 00:52:57,343 --> 00:52:59,009 "You can knock me down and watch me bleed./ 1313 00:52:59,093 --> 00:53:01,051 But you can't keep no chains on me." 1314 00:53:01,134 --> 00:53:02,885 The Kid Rock. 1315 00:53:02,968 --> 00:53:05,718 I admire him greatly. 1316 00:53:05,802 --> 00:53:07,510 I need independent leverage. 1317 00:53:07,593 --> 00:53:11,635 You'll use your influence to open the banks back up to me. 1318 00:53:11,718 --> 00:53:14,635 ♪♪♪ 1319 00:53:14,718 --> 00:53:17,635 ♪♪♪ 1320 00:53:17,718 --> 00:53:20,051 This I do. 1321 00:53:20,134 --> 00:53:21,843 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1322 00:53:21,927 --> 00:53:23,677 "Only God Knows Why." 1323 00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,468 ♪♪♪ 1324 00:53:25,551 --> 00:53:29,927 [Italian music playing over speakers] 1325 00:53:30,009 --> 00:53:32,927 [indistinct conversations] 1326 00:53:33,009 --> 00:53:35,677 ♪♪♪ 1327 00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,218 ♪♪♪ 1328 00:53:38,301 --> 00:53:41,677 [bell rings] 1329 00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:46,051 ♪♪♪ 1330 00:53:46,134 --> 00:53:50,718 ♪♪♪ 1331 00:53:50,802 --> 00:53:55,176 ♪♪♪ 1332 00:53:55,259 --> 00:53:59,760 ♪♪♪ 1333 00:53:59,843 --> 00:54:01,718 -Oh? -Yeah, yeah. 1334 00:54:01,802 --> 00:54:03,760 ♪♪♪ 1335 00:54:03,843 --> 00:54:07,468 [bell rings] 1336 00:54:07,551 --> 00:54:10,426 Here. Can you just give me one second? 1337 00:54:10,510 --> 00:54:11,677 Yeah. 1338 00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,510 ♪♪♪ 1339 00:54:15,593 --> 00:54:17,551 So glad the fund's coming back to Axe Capital, 1340 00:54:17,635 --> 00:54:19,134 where it belongs. 1341 00:54:19,218 --> 00:54:21,176 Somehow you always seem to get what you want. 1342 00:54:21,259 --> 00:54:25,426 ♪♪♪ 1343 00:54:25,510 --> 00:54:27,760 Pure luck. 1344 00:54:27,843 --> 00:54:29,635 [bell rings] 1345 00:54:31,802 --> 00:54:35,134 [priest] ...from the scourge of spreading disbelief. 1346 00:54:35,218 --> 00:54:37,093 [priest] Free us from all evils 1347 00:54:37,176 --> 00:54:39,718 [priest] and dangers that threaten us from every side. 1348 00:54:39,802 --> 00:54:41,218 [bell rings] 1349 00:54:41,301 --> 00:54:42,927 [priest] May the faith for which you sacrifice... 1350 00:54:43,009 --> 00:54:46,426 You sure you're ready for the glare of public life again? 1351 00:54:46,510 --> 00:54:48,301 You're good at working in the shadows. 1352 00:54:48,385 --> 00:54:49,843 Don't worry about me, buddy boy. 1353 00:54:49,927 --> 00:54:52,551 [priest] ...the Lord our God can rightfully expect 1354 00:54:52,635 --> 00:54:55,426 from His servants. Amen. 1355 00:54:55,510 --> 00:54:56,843 [cheers and applause] 1356 00:54:56,927 --> 00:54:59,426 Thank you, Father. 1357 00:54:59,510 --> 00:55:01,760 Thank you, Father! 1358 00:55:01,843 --> 00:55:05,760 I think there's one thing we can all agree upon as New Yorkers. 1359 00:55:05,843 --> 00:55:08,176 Someone always wants something from ya. 1360 00:55:08,259 --> 00:55:10,176 Someone's always hocking ya. 1361 00:55:10,259 --> 00:55:13,635 'Help me. Support me. Endorse me.' 1362 00:55:13,718 --> 00:55:15,635 Well, maybe you've noticed. 1363 00:55:15,718 --> 00:55:17,510 I don't do a lot of endorsing. 1364 00:55:17,593 --> 00:55:21,051 Until someone like the next guy comes along. 1365 00:55:21,134 --> 00:55:24,009 Then I'm practically hocking him. 1366 00:55:24,093 --> 00:55:27,551 I've seen the good he's done to clean up the streets of Gotham. 1367 00:55:27,635 --> 00:55:30,593 And I can't wait to see what he's gonna do 1368 00:55:30,677 --> 00:55:32,301 for the rest of New York State. 1369 00:55:32,385 --> 00:55:35,843 I give you your next Attorney General... 1370 00:55:35,927 --> 00:55:38,718 Chuck Rhoades! 1371 00:55:38,802 --> 00:55:41,802 [cheers and applause] 1372 00:55:44,551 --> 00:55:47,218 -[Chuck] Wonderful. Thank you. -[Sansome] You bet. 1373 00:55:47,301 --> 00:55:49,134 -Thank you. -All right. 1374 00:55:49,218 --> 00:55:50,677 Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, 1375 00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,385 I am so proud to be here with you tonight. 1376 00:55:53,468 --> 00:55:56,593 In fact, "I am chomping at the bit 1377 00:55:56,677 --> 00:55:58,635 to be your next Attorney General"! 1378 00:55:58,718 --> 00:56:00,677 -Yes! [cheers and applause] 1379 00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:03,385 [laughing] Okay. 1380 00:56:03,468 --> 00:56:05,718 [wolf-whistles] 1381 00:56:05,802 --> 00:56:08,009 [Italian music playing over speakers] 1382 00:56:08,093 --> 00:56:09,593 [cheers and applause continue] 1383 00:56:09,677 --> 00:56:11,426 Yeah! 1384 00:56:11,510 --> 00:56:14,843 ♪♪♪ 1385 00:56:14,927 --> 00:56:18,593 ♪♪♪ 1386 00:56:18,677 --> 00:56:21,593 ♪ Gang of Youths' "The Heart Is a Muscle" ♪ 1387 00:56:21,677 --> 00:56:23,009 ♪♪♪ 1388 00:56:23,093 --> 00:56:27,510 ♪ Break me off a piece of that ♪ 1389 00:56:27,593 --> 00:56:31,718 ♪ And mix it in with a little wine ♪ 1390 00:56:31,802 --> 00:56:36,259 ♪ With someone warm and smart I guess ♪ 1391 00:56:36,343 --> 00:56:38,218 ♪ With a heart in first ♪ 1392 00:56:38,301 --> 00:56:40,927 ♪ And a soul behind ♪ 1393 00:56:41,009 --> 00:56:44,259 ♪ And I ♪ 1394 00:56:44,343 --> 00:56:46,218 ♪ Won't give in ♪ 1395 00:56:46,301 --> 00:56:49,677 ♪♪♪ 1396 00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:53,677 ♪ 'Cause I ♪ 1397 00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:55,885 ♪ Wanna try again ♪ 1398 00:56:55,968 --> 00:57:00,885 ♪♪♪ 1399 00:57:00,968 --> 00:57:05,885 ♪♪♪ 1400 00:57:05,968 --> 00:57:10,927 ♪♪♪ 1401 00:57:11,009 --> 00:57:15,927 ♪♪♪ 1402 00:57:16,009 --> 00:57:20,927 ♪♪♪ 1403 00:57:21,009 --> 00:57:24,134 ♪♪♪