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[Lara]
Previously on Billions...
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Sandicot's not getting
the gaming license.
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The committee chose the location
that will bring
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the greatest benefit to
the greatest number of people.
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The gaming license
was the guarantee
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that Sandicot would
pay off the notes.
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[Axe] So, it's fallen upon
all of you to figure out
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how to get us un-fucked.
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Austerity.
It's your only option.
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Axe Cap was not what
I thought it would be.
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You care to be
a little more specific?
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I'm supposed to give
their lawyer a heads-up,
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but I think I'm pretty safe
to talk...
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if you bring me a subpoena.
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[Harry] The Churchill
World War Il. You sure, Chuck?
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"Never give in.
Never give in."
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From the day
I passed the bar,
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I have said those words
to myself
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the first morning
of every trial.
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- You can still say the words.
- Hello. I'm Taylor.
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My pronouns are "they,"
"theirs," and "them."
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You see things differently.
That's an edge.
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[Charles]
That's Camelot right there.
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That is a picture
of a man running for office.
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- Our deal hold?
- Yes, but not for you.
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You want a session?
See someone else.
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My office is off-limits.
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I should've told you about Wendy
before I even spoke to her.
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What if I won't see her?
I'll draw a line.
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[Charles] Black Jack Foley.
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How are you, Charles?
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I'll be better if you help me
out with a little something.
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I know what you
and your two daddies did
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up in Sandicot.
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♪ dramatic music ♪
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♪♪♪
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[digital virtual reality music
playing from goggles]
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♪♪♪
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[Bobby] Thanks, Wags,
but... really?
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You got me VR goggles?
What, am I turning 13?
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If you were, Uncle Wagsy would
be getting you laid
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by the most beautiful call girl
in the state.
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But you're a big man having
a big birthday,
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so the gift matches.
And you're not there yet.
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[Wags]
It's called The Arque,
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[Wags] the foremost luxury
bunker for end times.
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[Wags]
A hedge against humanity.
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[digital virtual reality music
playing from goggles]
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♪♪♪
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[Wags]
Stocks of non-perishable food,
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[Wags] water purification
equipment, seed banks,
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DNA cold storage,
medical supplies,
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and surgical equipment.
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Everything you need, jefe,
even weapons.
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- [Axelrod] For what?
- [Wags] I don't know.
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[Wags]
Terrorists. Cannibals.
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Happy birthday.
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This coin means that
you've got a spot reserved.
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I made the down payment.
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And I'm not too classy to say
that it ran me 360K.
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[snorts]
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Sic Transit Imperium.
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"So passes the empire."
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Thanks, Wags.
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I can see you put a lot
of thought into this.
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You get a spot for yourself?
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If humanity
has to be rebuilt,
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it sure as fuck shouldn't
be in my image.
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- [chuckles]
- Besides, you know I wanna be
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on the outside,
rocking with the marauders.
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Let's go.
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[birds chirping]
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You went with
a sailcloth option.
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- Huh?
- Tent.
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Oh, yeah. Lara picked it.
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♪ dramatic music ♪
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Axelrod has never made a move
as brazen, as public
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as looting a working class town.
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Yeah, now he's like the bad guy
in a Springsteen song.
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- [woman chuckles]
- [Chuck] Exactly so.
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Oh, he's the boss man closing
down the factory
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and kicking Johnny 99
to the street.
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We're going to attack. Bryan.
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[inhales deeply] Now the thrust
of this muni-bond deal,
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buying of the debt,
forcing austerity...
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Austerity.
What a lovely word
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for fucking the life
out of 180,000 people.
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Yeah. Well, the bond deal
itself, reprehensible as it is,
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is completely legal.
It's the timing that's suspect.
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Axe jumped in when he did
because he knew something.
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We laser in on how
he came by the information,
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who's involved, how money
may have changed hands.
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Information like this
is never free.
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There's bribes and payoffs
under it.
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Real Meeting Across the River
shit. [chuckles]
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What, only white men
can listen to The Boss?
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Oh, not at all. No.
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In fact, like the main character
in that deep cut,
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Axe is not gonna win here.
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Something has to tie back
to him.
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We're on a path. Uh, location
board, gaming commission.
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Uh, it's Albany.
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You can't have a PTA bake sale
without kickbacks.
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Let's mount up.
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Sandicot team has
a long drive ahead of us.
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[Chuck claps hands]
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Kate? That subpoena come
through for Steph Reed?
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Thirty minutes ago. I will have
her in here this afternoon.
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It's a big deal,
source that close.
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You have
my complete confidence.
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I thought Connerty did.
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I have enough confidence
to go around.
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[whack, ball bounces]
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Aparicio Rodriguez.
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- [whack, ball bounces]
- Plays third.
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Kid's the next Sal Bando.
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First round draft pick
next June.
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I've been paying for private
lessons for him since he was 13
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in exchange for a chunk of
the kid's future signing bonus.
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- [whack]
- It's recoup time.
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- 2,000 percent ROI...
- [whack]
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...even counting the dozen
other kids I invested in
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- but had to cut loose.
- [whack]
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- All right, guys, take a break!
- [man] Rodriguez, bring it in.
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[sighs] I got you
a birthday present.
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- Him?
- No. Klaxon.
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- Belgian car company.
- An auto scheme?
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I'd rather have the ballplayer.
At least this guy can hit.
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This is better.
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It's something I couldn't
discuss at the office.
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Did you know about this?
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Not the details, only that there
was something worth hearing.
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I heard rumors. Dug into it
off-campus, off the books.
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They're headed for a recall.
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Major fines, sanctions.
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- Bottom's gonna drop out.
- When?
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Unknown, but we gotta move fast
to lay in our position.
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This news won't hold long.
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What's your level
of certainty?
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♪ tense music ♪
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[brake pedal clatters,
engine revs, horn honks]
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[tires screech, crash]
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[shredder whirring]
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♪♪♪
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[paper rustles]
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♪♪♪
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[indistinct conversations]
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I am not uncertain.
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Any particulars
I need to know?
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No.
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I'll think about it.
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Whoa, wait.
This... this is automatic.
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This cow's got a bolt
to its head,
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and it's hanging upside-down.
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You just gotta carve it up
and eat it.
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Times are changing.
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No matter how
not uncertain you are,
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these days,
I take a laparoscope
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to the fucking guts
of every deal.
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[Wags] Gents, if I may...
What's to gain?
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A hundred million?
It's a drop in the bucket.
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It's not worth giving
the government the opening.
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Perfectly said, Wags.
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Has he made you afraid
of Rhoades,
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whispering pussy excuses
in your ear?
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You're really
that fucking scared, Axe?
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You back off, Bill.
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Why? 'Cause he can end my world,
burn my contacts,
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and keep every cent
of my bonus for himself?
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That... That's supposed
to make me hold my tongue?
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- Fuck, yeah.
- [chuckles] See? That...
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That's why you will
never buy and sell equities.
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No, all that's supposed
to make me more brazen
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when I know I'm fucking right.
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[Bobby] It's okay, Wags.
It's okay.
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Come Here.
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[hand pat]
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[shoes scuff]
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If I were standing
where you are,
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I'd be even more strident
in my approach.
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But I'm standing here,
so I have to be the opposite...
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- reflective, calm, considered.
- [exhales]
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It's just about who I am
at this precise moment in time.
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What business are we in,
hmm?
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I thought it was
a business of profit,
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of free men and women,
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beyond the apparatchiks
and their pathetic rules.
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Yeah, all of that
and "Who is John Galt?"
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Look, I'm a rich man.
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You're a very rich man.
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If we can't live how we want,
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then the terrorists have
already won.
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[hands slap sides, claps]
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[Bill] Back in the cage!
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- [fence rattles]
- [man] Let's go.
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- What the fuck was that?
- [baseball bat clanks]
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That was a guy who was giving me
all the right questions.
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♪ dramatic music ♪
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♪♪♪
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[woman] We're looking at a
police force at half-capacity.
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The library is open
12 hours a week.
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[Chuck]
Why, that is... revolting.
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No, I see
what's happening here.
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You are not invisible.
You matter.
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- Lock him up!
- [man] Yeah!
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If the law gives me
the power, I will.
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And... [chuckles]
if the law doesn't,
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well, then somebody needs to get
to work changing the law.
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- [woman] Yeah.
- [cheers and applause]
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Robert Kennedy said,
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"Every society gets
the criminal it deserves."
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Sandicot sure didn't deserve
Bobby Axelrod.
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But you do deserve
the law enforcement
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I plan on bringing.
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- [applause]
- [man] Right, right, right.
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Thank you.
[speaks indistinctly]
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[door handles clack]
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[man] Go! Gotta go!
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[reporters shouting at once,
camera shutters clicking]
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You sure you don't want
to talk to 'em?
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No. I don't need to sound
my own horn.
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Now if the people of Sandicot
wanna trumpet it for me...
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[shouting continues,
camera shutters clicking]
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Sir.
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Will you come with me?
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[shouting continues]
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♪ tense music ♪
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[waitress indistinctly speaking
to man in booth]
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[door creaks open]
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[door closes]
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Well, well.
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Impressive ground game,
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showing me there's no corner
of the state you don't touch.
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Ah, I planned to be up here.
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Sure.
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Ah, so...
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Uh, is your granddaughter
enjoying Washington?
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Just getting settled in.
Hmm.
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She and I remain touched by
the generosity of your spirit.
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Good. That's nice to hear.
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Ah, there's someone, uh,
I need you to see.
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George Minchak.
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- Okay.
- She vets all of my candidates.
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You want her
to know everything.
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- [sighs]
- It's a stress test.
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- Yeah.
- We prepare for what
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- the opposition will use.
- [clicks teeth]
249
00:11:09,962 --> 00:11:12,923
I'm not really sure I'm
entirely comfortable with that.
250
00:11:13,007 --> 00:11:15,509
My last candidate
who did not use her...
251
00:11:15,593 --> 00:11:17,136
[exhales] was Spitzer.
252
00:11:17,219 --> 00:11:19,138
I'll fit her right in.
253
00:11:19,221 --> 00:11:22,057
And we need to do it right now
because of the attention
254
00:11:22,141 --> 00:11:25,561
this, uh, unofficial
campaign visit will bring.
255
00:11:25,644 --> 00:11:27,563
I'd have told you
if I'd thought that...
256
00:11:27,646 --> 00:11:29,857
No, you... you don't need
to tell me everything.
257
00:11:29,940 --> 00:11:31,817
You need to tell Minchak
everything.
258
00:11:31,901 --> 00:11:33,986
[sniffs]
Then Minchak tells me.
259
00:11:35,404 --> 00:11:36,614
Hmm.
260
00:11:36,697 --> 00:11:39,366
- That was a joke.
- [exhales] Okay.
261
00:11:39,450 --> 00:11:42,703
Uh, what you're doing up here,
um, feeling their pain?
262
00:11:42,786 --> 00:11:45,456
It's a time-honored tradition.
263
00:11:45,539 --> 00:11:48,792
And the way you refused to,
uh, play to the grandstand,
264
00:11:48,876 --> 00:11:51,462
thus ensuring that the, uh,
reporters will chase you
265
00:11:51,545 --> 00:11:54,590
to the next whistle stop,
that brings a smile.
266
00:11:54,673 --> 00:11:57,092
Yes, I felt that to do
interviews at this time
267
00:11:57,176 --> 00:11:58,677
would only have downside.
268
00:11:58,761 --> 00:12:01,180
Yeah, it's as worthless
as a $100 dollar bill
269
00:12:01,263 --> 00:12:02,723
to a rooster with a hard on.
270
00:12:02,806 --> 00:12:04,433
- [chuckles]
- [laughs]
271
00:12:04,516 --> 00:12:07,770
Well, if you're thinking of
having a meal before you leave,
272
00:12:07,853 --> 00:12:09,438
try the Garbage Plate.
273
00:12:09,521 --> 00:12:10,773
It's a local delicacy.
274
00:12:10,856 --> 00:12:13,275
That looks hard to resist.
275
00:12:13,359 --> 00:12:15,486
You'll hardly be able.
276
00:12:18,405 --> 00:12:20,241
Eat the shit out of it.
277
00:12:20,324 --> 00:12:22,743
[footsteps depart]
278
00:12:22,826 --> 00:12:24,370
[sighs]
279
00:12:24,453 --> 00:12:26,306
I've been angling to get
into investor relations
280
00:12:26,330 --> 00:12:27,539
for 16 months.
281
00:12:27,623 --> 00:12:29,458
Hmm. I didn't know that.
282
00:12:29,541 --> 00:12:31,961
Does that mean I haven't been
doing it assertively enough?
283
00:12:32,044 --> 00:12:34,296
Maybe, um, not necessarily.
284
00:12:34,380 --> 00:12:35,798
We can talk about ways
285
00:12:35,881 --> 00:12:37,675
to be more clear
and more goal-oriented,
286
00:12:37,758 --> 00:12:39,069
if that's what
you're interested in.
287
00:12:39,093 --> 00:12:41,971
It's just... I don't know
what I'd be selling.
288
00:12:42,054 --> 00:12:44,556
Sandicot is...
289
00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,268
is hard to swallow,
placing the calls,
290
00:12:47,351 --> 00:12:51,105
crowing about our returns
at the expense of a town.
291
00:12:51,188 --> 00:12:53,941
- Just makes me feel...
- [hands hit lap]
292
00:12:54,024 --> 00:12:56,151
so isolated...
293
00:12:56,235 --> 00:12:57,987
and kind of sad.
294
00:12:58,070 --> 00:13:00,781
A lot of people are
having problems with it.
295
00:13:00,864 --> 00:13:03,492
Do you ever feel that way,
296
00:13:03,575 --> 00:13:07,329
like the things we have to do
compromise us somehow?
297
00:13:07,413 --> 00:13:09,581
♪ tense music ♪
298
00:13:09,665 --> 00:13:13,294
This isn't about me.
299
00:13:13,377 --> 00:13:15,188
[inhales sharply] But why are
you feeling this way?
300
00:13:15,212 --> 00:13:16,922
Is it just about Sandicot?
301
00:13:17,006 --> 00:13:20,342
No. There are other things
that I see.
302
00:13:20,426 --> 00:13:23,846
And I remember being a kid
and our reverend saying,
303
00:13:23,929 --> 00:13:26,390
- "He who looks..."
- Yeah, we need to stop here.
304
00:13:26,473 --> 00:13:28,392
[notebook rustles]
305
00:13:28,475 --> 00:13:30,811
I'm not sure having
an overgrown conscience
306
00:13:30,894 --> 00:13:33,439
is gonna help you get
that investor relations job,
307
00:13:33,522 --> 00:13:35,607
you know?
308
00:13:36,692 --> 00:13:38,402
- [Deb] Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
309
00:13:38,485 --> 00:13:40,863
♪♪♪
310
00:13:40,946 --> 00:13:42,781
[door clacks]
311
00:13:42,865 --> 00:13:44,616
[door closes]
312
00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:47,661
- You know what I hate?
- Fish, fowl, or mammal?
313
00:13:47,745 --> 00:13:49,455
Learning something
about myself.
314
00:13:49,538 --> 00:13:51,415
When is that bullshit
just gonna stop?
315
00:13:51,498 --> 00:13:53,751
- Dollar Bill?
- What he said,
316
00:13:53,834 --> 00:13:56,462
he's kind of right.
I've become a pussy.
317
00:13:56,545 --> 00:13:59,715
No. We just made a choice to
stop living on the edge is all.
318
00:13:59,798 --> 00:14:01,133
Is it?
319
00:14:01,216 --> 00:14:03,260
- [door opens]
- What'd she say?
320
00:14:03,344 --> 00:14:05,064
- [door closes]
- She told me to suck it up.
321
00:14:05,137 --> 00:14:08,307
Then she said an overgrown
conscience isn't gonna help me.
322
00:14:08,390 --> 00:14:11,018
She said that?
Okay. She saw through it.
323
00:14:11,101 --> 00:14:12,853
- [file thuds]
- Axe, I was thinking about
324
00:14:12,936 --> 00:14:14,998
my position here, and I think
I would make an excellent...
325
00:14:15,022 --> 00:14:17,483
It was a script, Deb.
Don't internalize.
326
00:14:19,860 --> 00:14:22,237
[footsteps, door opens]
327
00:14:22,321 --> 00:14:24,448
Look who's making a racket
in Sandicot.
328
00:14:24,531 --> 00:14:26,158
[door closes]
329
00:14:26,241 --> 00:14:27,910
He's coming again,
isn't he?
330
00:14:27,993 --> 00:14:29,828
He never wasn't.
331
00:14:29,912 --> 00:14:31,663
[tablet cover thuds]
332
00:14:31,747 --> 00:14:33,457
♪ tense music ♪
333
00:14:33,540 --> 00:14:35,334
Tell Dollar Bill
no on Klaxon.
334
00:14:35,417 --> 00:14:37,419
♪♪♪
335
00:14:37,503 --> 00:14:40,089
[footsteps depart]
336
00:14:40,172 --> 00:14:42,508
[door opens]
337
00:14:42,591 --> 00:14:43,801
[door closes]
338
00:14:43,884 --> 00:14:46,345
What do you get a billionaire?
339
00:14:46,428 --> 00:14:49,014
God, I wish I had the stones
to skip it. I hate these things.
340
00:14:49,098 --> 00:14:50,766
You love parties.
341
00:14:50,849 --> 00:14:52,827
Well, I recently took the
Myers-Briggs personality test,
342
00:14:52,851 --> 00:14:54,937
and it turns out
I'm an introvert.
343
00:14:55,020 --> 00:14:56,605
I'm not sure that test
is rock-solid.
344
00:14:56,688 --> 00:14:58,607
I thought I like parties,
but I don't.
345
00:14:58,690 --> 00:15:00,734
On a deeper level,
it disturbs my equilibrium.
346
00:15:00,818 --> 00:15:02,587
Is that why you woke up the day
after the Christmas party
347
00:15:02,611 --> 00:15:04,738
in a yellow snow drift
behind the strip joint?
348
00:15:04,822 --> 00:15:06,281
Exactly.
349
00:15:06,365 --> 00:15:09,368
[typing on keyboard]
350
00:15:14,498 --> 00:15:15,999
[knocks on door]
351
00:15:16,083 --> 00:15:18,377
- [door clatters]
- Bearing of a Roman Centurion?
352
00:15:18,460 --> 00:15:21,046
- [door closes]
- Or slices through rough seas
353
00:15:21,130 --> 00:15:24,591
- like a Man-O-War?
- What?
354
00:15:24,675 --> 00:15:27,136
Birthday speech.
You got skills?
355
00:15:27,219 --> 00:15:28,762
Not for... all that.
356
00:15:28,846 --> 00:15:31,473
But the party,
I have a conflict.
357
00:15:31,557 --> 00:15:33,392
I want to gauge
the importance of attending.
358
00:15:33,475 --> 00:15:37,146
Axe doesn't take attendance,
but he knows who's in the room.
359
00:15:37,229 --> 00:15:40,065
- I'll leave it at that.
- Fuck. [exhales]
360
00:15:41,817 --> 00:15:43,402
Did you just say "fuck"?
361
00:15:43,485 --> 00:15:45,571
I did.
362
00:15:48,407 --> 00:15:50,492
You're one of us now.
363
00:15:53,078 --> 00:15:54,830
[door handle clacks]
364
00:15:54,913 --> 00:15:56,165
[door clatters]
365
00:15:56,248 --> 00:15:58,375
♪ dramatic music ♪
366
00:15:58,459 --> 00:16:00,259
What was the nature
of your job at Axe Capital
367
00:16:00,294 --> 00:16:01,962
as you understood it?
368
00:16:02,045 --> 00:16:06,425
I was to be next to Axe
in every meeting,
369
00:16:06,508 --> 00:16:10,387
to be the firewall
against illicit dealings.
370
00:16:10,471 --> 00:16:13,182
I was a witness
and to make sure
371
00:16:13,265 --> 00:16:15,392
things were being done
above board.
372
00:16:15,476 --> 00:16:17,144
Tell me about Axe.
373
00:16:17,227 --> 00:16:20,314
He was unreadable.
374
00:16:20,397 --> 00:16:23,275
At three o'clock,
he was writing checks
375
00:16:23,358 --> 00:16:25,861
to aid earthquake victims
in the Caribbean.
376
00:16:25,944 --> 00:16:27,946
At 3:45, he was cornering
the market
377
00:16:28,030 --> 00:16:31,825
on Churchill first editions
just to stick it to an enemy.
378
00:16:31,909 --> 00:16:34,620
And then one day,
he just fragged my ass.
379
00:16:34,703 --> 00:16:36,580
I never really saw it coming.
380
00:16:36,663 --> 00:16:38,665
Did he give an explanation?
381
00:16:38,749 --> 00:16:42,794
No. I guess he just didn't
want a witness anymore.
382
00:16:42,878 --> 00:16:45,589
Referred to himself as
a Terminator.
383
00:16:45,672 --> 00:16:46,882
What does that mean?
384
00:16:46,965 --> 00:16:49,510
A cybernetic organism,
programmed to kill.
385
00:16:49,593 --> 00:16:51,470
Living tissue
over robotic endoskeleton...
386
00:16:51,553 --> 00:16:53,055
I've seen the movie.
I just meant...
387
00:16:53,138 --> 00:16:55,891
He has some sort
of programmed mission,
388
00:16:55,974 --> 00:16:58,060
and I was standing
in the way.
389
00:16:59,937 --> 00:17:02,523
The day before he fired me,
Bill Stearn approached
390
00:17:02,606 --> 00:17:05,025
with a play that was
clearly over the line,
391
00:17:05,108 --> 00:17:07,945
citing a source named Victor.
392
00:17:08,028 --> 00:17:09,738
Did he say the...
393
00:17:09,821 --> 00:17:12,783
They didn't talk about it...
because I was in the room.
394
00:17:12,866 --> 00:17:15,077
[exhales] But without me,
one or both of them
395
00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,621
would have circled back,
no doubt about it.
396
00:17:17,704 --> 00:17:19,264
Or else Axe would've
filled my position.
397
00:17:19,331 --> 00:17:22,543
No. He wanted no impediments
to illegal activity,
398
00:17:22,626 --> 00:17:24,002
and that's what he has now.
399
00:17:24,086 --> 00:17:28,507
Dollar Bill's tough.
We have a history.
400
00:17:28,590 --> 00:17:30,676
Anyone else?
401
00:17:31,718 --> 00:17:33,845
Try Taylor Mason.
402
00:17:33,929 --> 00:17:38,183
They have become something
of a prodigy, a go-to.
403
00:17:38,267 --> 00:17:40,352
Anything big
Axe is wading into,
404
00:17:40,435 --> 00:17:43,647
Taylor's there
with a snorkel mask.
405
00:17:43,730 --> 00:17:45,857
♪ tense music ♪
406
00:17:45,941 --> 00:17:47,568
[crickets chirping]
407
00:17:47,651 --> 00:17:50,195
I believe it's time,
nay, long past time,
408
00:17:50,279 --> 00:17:52,322
to transform
your charitable arm
409
00:17:52,406 --> 00:17:55,117
and engender
a permanent foundation.
410
00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,035
Properly stewarded,
it will write the name
411
00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,705
of your benevolence
on the ages,
412
00:17:59,788 --> 00:18:03,417
alongside Carnegie, Vanderbilt.
A creation of consequence.
413
00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:06,795
Because otherwise, what's it
all for? Is that right?
414
00:18:06,878 --> 00:18:08,213
I don't pretend to answer
415
00:18:08,297 --> 00:18:11,133
that which lies in the realm
of the theologians.
416
00:18:11,216 --> 00:18:13,927
Yet you just happened to pitch
me legacy on my birthday?
417
00:18:14,011 --> 00:18:15,262
I won't claim happenstance.
418
00:18:15,345 --> 00:18:16,930
This is the time
when a man like you
419
00:18:17,014 --> 00:18:19,474
allows reflection
to dictate action.
420
00:18:19,558 --> 00:18:23,520
He thinks I need him to steward
this whole legacy thing.
421
00:18:23,604 --> 00:18:24,980
You don't need me,
422
00:18:25,063 --> 00:18:28,025
but I would be qualified
for such a position.
423
00:18:28,108 --> 00:18:30,652
What do you make
at your current gig?
424
00:18:30,736 --> 00:18:32,176
I prefer not
to really get into that.
425
00:18:32,237 --> 00:18:34,281
It's public record, Sean.
426
00:18:34,364 --> 00:18:36,325
Have some dignity
and spare us the time.
427
00:18:36,408 --> 00:18:38,201
Two-hundred
twenty-five thousand.
428
00:18:38,285 --> 00:18:41,997
Okay.
And a, uh, "true steward"
429
00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,334
of a multi-billion dollar
charitable foundation,
430
00:18:45,417 --> 00:18:46,835
what would that
put me back, Wags?
431
00:18:46,918 --> 00:18:48,605
In the range of
$350,000 to $500,000 a year,
432
00:18:48,629 --> 00:18:49,838
I think it was.
433
00:18:49,921 --> 00:18:52,549
Yeah. See, I have
looked into this before.
434
00:18:52,633 --> 00:18:54,676
And you are not
the first one in here
435
00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:56,845
looking to double his salary.
436
00:18:59,014 --> 00:19:02,517
[clicks teeth]
But today is your lucky day,
437
00:19:02,601 --> 00:19:05,937
because I do want to set up
a permanent foundation
438
00:19:06,021 --> 00:19:07,939
with you as its steward.
439
00:19:08,023 --> 00:19:09,650
I accept.
440
00:19:09,733 --> 00:19:12,569
- [palms slap]
- With one urgent recommendation.
441
00:19:12,653 --> 00:19:14,696
Cancel your party.
442
00:19:14,780 --> 00:19:16,198
That's direct.
443
00:19:16,281 --> 00:19:18,001
You just offered me enough,
so I have to be.
444
00:19:18,075 --> 00:19:21,161
You cannot throw
a lavish party
445
00:19:21,244 --> 00:19:24,247
at the very moment when you're
draining the meager resources
446
00:19:24,331 --> 00:19:26,875
of what amounts to a village
of apple-cheeked orphans.
447
00:19:26,958 --> 00:19:30,712
That party was organized long
before Sandicot got grounded.
448
00:19:30,796 --> 00:19:33,465
A change of course?
That's reactionary. Weak.
449
00:19:33,548 --> 00:19:35,550
I am not hiring you
to serve me weak tea.
450
00:19:35,634 --> 00:19:37,886
You're really hiring him? Why?
451
00:19:37,969 --> 00:19:41,098
Hired. We shook.
452
00:19:41,181 --> 00:19:42,557
[chair clatters]
453
00:19:42,641 --> 00:19:44,726
I'm setting a course
that needs to be acknowledged
454
00:19:44,810 --> 00:19:47,729
in all future stories
about wherever we go next.
455
00:19:47,813 --> 00:19:49,856
Ayles may be what he is,
456
00:19:49,940 --> 00:19:53,527
but he speaks the nasal language
of culture and credibility.
457
00:19:53,610 --> 00:19:55,487
And you just bought that.
458
00:19:55,570 --> 00:19:57,948
It's what all
the great philanthropists did,
459
00:19:58,031 --> 00:19:59,533
wrote their names on the ages
460
00:19:59,616 --> 00:20:02,411
and laundered their reputations
in the process.
461
00:20:02,494 --> 00:20:04,663
I'm keen to get started.
462
00:20:07,749 --> 00:20:11,294
- [doorknob rattles]
- Hey. I gotta go relieve Wendy.
463
00:20:11,378 --> 00:20:14,214
- What was so important?
- [door closes]
464
00:20:14,297 --> 00:20:16,383
[briefcase thuds]
465
00:20:18,510 --> 00:20:19,803
Ice Juice.
466
00:20:19,886 --> 00:20:21,596
It's a natural beverage
company.
467
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,974
A proprietary process
called Flash-Pas.
468
00:20:24,057 --> 00:20:25,559
I own a chunk
of the company,
469
00:20:25,642 --> 00:20:28,437
and I've represented
the founder... forever.
470
00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,398
[inhales deeply]
He's done. He wants out.
471
00:20:31,481 --> 00:20:32,941
I can take it over.
472
00:20:33,024 --> 00:20:36,069
Majority ownership.
It is within reach.
473
00:20:36,153 --> 00:20:38,238
I just need the cash.
474
00:20:39,197 --> 00:20:42,909
Your, uh, lockup period
is ending?
475
00:20:42,993 --> 00:20:45,370
You said you wanted
to do something for me.
476
00:20:45,454 --> 00:20:47,706
- Now is when I need it.
- I meant what I said.
477
00:20:47,789 --> 00:20:49,791
[chuckles]
I owe you, but, I mean,
478
00:20:49,875 --> 00:20:51,960
you know my money's
in a blind trust.
479
00:20:52,043 --> 00:20:53,378
I know.
I don't want your money.
480
00:20:53,462 --> 00:20:56,923
Oh, I see.
481
00:20:57,007 --> 00:20:59,509
My father.
You want his money.
482
00:21:01,011 --> 00:21:04,931
Except I never get involved
in his business deals
483
00:21:05,015 --> 00:21:07,642
for ethical as well as...
[chuckles] personal reasons.
484
00:21:07,726 --> 00:21:09,227
Chuck, this is my chance.
485
00:21:09,311 --> 00:21:11,438
This IPO is...
It's a blockbuster.
486
00:21:11,521 --> 00:21:14,399
This is... This is that leap
that I've always talked about,
487
00:21:14,483 --> 00:21:16,294
the one I've been waiting
my whole life to take.
488
00:21:16,318 --> 00:21:19,154
Well, you know him.
Why don't you just call?
489
00:21:19,237 --> 00:21:21,466
Well, if it comes from you,
he'll take it more seriously.
490
00:21:21,490 --> 00:21:25,118
If I make the call, then it's
tantamount to me endorsing it,
491
00:21:25,202 --> 00:21:28,330
which is... not something
I can do right now.
492
00:21:28,413 --> 00:21:29,748
Look, you know I see
493
00:21:29,831 --> 00:21:32,292
the inside of more deals
per day than anyone.
494
00:21:32,375 --> 00:21:33,811
This is the one
that I've been waiting for
495
00:21:33,835 --> 00:21:36,004
to get me out of that
goddamn law office.
496
00:21:36,087 --> 00:21:38,548
I do know that
you would not be here
497
00:21:38,632 --> 00:21:40,509
unless the deal was a winner.
498
00:21:40,592 --> 00:21:41,903
- I'll... [sighs]
- [hands slap sides]
499
00:21:41,927 --> 00:21:45,972
[clicks teeth]
Let me think.
500
00:21:46,056 --> 00:21:48,725
Of course. Of course.
501
00:21:48,809 --> 00:21:50,352
All right.
502
00:21:50,435 --> 00:21:51,853
[clatter]
503
00:21:51,937 --> 00:21:54,773
Look what Wags got me.
504
00:21:54,856 --> 00:21:56,316
The Arque?
505
00:21:56,399 --> 00:21:59,361
Luxury survival bunker.
It's a scam.
506
00:21:59,444 --> 00:22:01,863
Why does everything
need to be a scam?
507
00:22:01,947 --> 00:22:06,076
When the Armageddon comes,
the doors will be locked.
508
00:22:06,159 --> 00:22:09,579
I think it's a good idea,
a fail-safe.
509
00:22:09,663 --> 00:22:11,665
The end could come sooner
than anyone might think.
510
00:22:11,748 --> 00:22:12,748
Yeah, it might already
have come.
511
00:22:12,749 --> 00:22:15,669
We just don't know it yet.
512
00:22:15,752 --> 00:22:16,979
Well, what do you
think'll happen
513
00:22:17,003 --> 00:22:20,382
when it all really
goes to shit?
514
00:22:20,465 --> 00:22:22,175
- [ladder clatters]
- [sighs] Well...
515
00:22:22,259 --> 00:22:24,052
Getting to the mountains
could be a problem.
516
00:22:24,135 --> 00:22:25,488
- [inhales sharply]
- We'd have to let the pilot
517
00:22:25,512 --> 00:22:26,930
and his family in the Arque.
518
00:22:27,013 --> 00:22:29,432
Yeah. We'd really have
to build it ourselves,
519
00:22:29,516 --> 00:22:31,226
recruit all
the security forces
520
00:22:31,309 --> 00:22:33,019
just to ensure
absolute loyalty.
521
00:22:33,103 --> 00:22:35,438
- Mm, and secrecy, you know?
- [chuckles]
522
00:22:35,522 --> 00:22:38,149
No VR sales tours.
523
00:22:38,233 --> 00:22:40,402
And we'd also have to
make room for my family,
524
00:22:40,485 --> 00:22:42,404
Matty and Mary and Ned
525
00:22:42,487 --> 00:22:45,323
and Connie
and Lu and Mo, Sean.
526
00:22:45,407 --> 00:22:47,576
Yeah, I'm not sure
about that, Lar.
527
00:22:47,659 --> 00:22:49,202
Excuse me?
528
00:22:49,286 --> 00:22:50,886
Well, we wouldn't
leave them just to die.
529
00:22:50,954 --> 00:22:53,582
We'd buy two Arques,
ours in the Canadian Rockies,
530
00:22:53,665 --> 00:22:58,003
and one for your family in...
Jersey. [clears throat]
531
00:22:58,086 --> 00:23:01,131
- So generous.
- Well, fuck it.
532
00:23:01,214 --> 00:23:03,925
I should probably just
go down with the whole ship,
533
00:23:04,009 --> 00:23:07,554
this fucking tent,
hedge funds, all of it.
534
00:23:09,222 --> 00:23:12,767
Half my life now is
ass-covering and optics,
535
00:23:12,851 --> 00:23:17,397
fucking optics of everything
from parties to put options.
536
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,441
♪ tense music ♪
537
00:23:19,524 --> 00:23:22,694
I'm spending half a mil
on some stuffed shirt
538
00:23:22,777 --> 00:23:24,529
to brush up
my fucking image.
539
00:23:24,613 --> 00:23:26,990
♪♪♪
540
00:23:27,073 --> 00:23:30,368
Come on, maybe we should split
for the weekend, now,
541
00:23:30,452 --> 00:23:32,120
before we need
the goddamn Arque.
542
00:23:32,203 --> 00:23:33,455
And bail on the party?
543
00:23:33,538 --> 00:23:35,624
Just the two of us.
We'll celebrate our way.
544
00:23:35,707 --> 00:23:37,125
No.
545
00:23:37,208 --> 00:23:40,045
Big occasions like this
need to be marked,
546
00:23:40,128 --> 00:23:41,796
acknowledged,
547
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,467
for posterity and for fun.
548
00:23:45,550 --> 00:23:47,928
You deserve to be celebrated.
549
00:23:48,011 --> 00:23:49,697
And you should be surrounded
by your whole gang
550
00:23:49,721 --> 00:23:51,222
so they can honor you, too.
551
00:23:51,306 --> 00:23:54,309
They work for me.
They're not my friends.
552
00:23:54,392 --> 00:23:57,270
What about Wags
and Dollar Bill?
553
00:23:57,354 --> 00:23:59,981
If they're not your friends,
they're kind of like brothers.
554
00:24:00,065 --> 00:24:03,610
You know, they deserve a chance
to show you how they feel.
555
00:24:03,693 --> 00:24:05,933
I'm not even gonna tell you
who you sound like right now.
556
00:24:05,987 --> 00:24:09,115
And Wendy, too.
557
00:24:09,199 --> 00:24:10,450
♪♪♪
558
00:24:10,533 --> 00:24:12,410
You know I decided
not to see her.
559
00:24:12,494 --> 00:24:15,497
And I was clear about that,
and I've stuck to it.
560
00:24:15,580 --> 00:24:17,499
So... [exhales] I don't
know if she'll want...
561
00:24:17,582 --> 00:24:19,502
Just because you don't talk
to her professionally
562
00:24:19,584 --> 00:24:21,252
doesn't mean that
you can't take one night
563
00:24:21,336 --> 00:24:24,214
to commemorate
the importance of it all.
564
00:24:24,297 --> 00:24:28,259
She's foundational
to Axe Capital... and to you.
565
00:24:28,343 --> 00:24:30,887
♪♪♪
566
00:24:30,971 --> 00:24:33,098
[exhales]
567
00:24:34,349 --> 00:24:35,433
[knocks on doorframe]
568
00:24:35,517 --> 00:24:37,018
Hey. Sorry I'm late.
569
00:24:37,102 --> 00:24:40,230
- No, it's okay. I was... tired.
- [book thuds]
570
00:24:40,313 --> 00:24:41,898
You were out of town?
571
00:24:41,982 --> 00:24:44,317
Uh...
572
00:24:44,401 --> 00:24:47,779
Yeah. I don't know if you heard,
but I was up in Sandicot.
573
00:24:47,862 --> 00:24:50,907
It's a real mess up there.
574
00:24:50,991 --> 00:24:54,160
Looking to punish
those responsible.
575
00:24:54,244 --> 00:24:56,329
[clicks teeth]
576
00:24:56,413 --> 00:24:59,582
I was invited
to Axe's birthday party.
577
00:24:59,666 --> 00:25:02,210
I said no.
578
00:25:02,293 --> 00:25:05,714
Hmm. What's that about?
579
00:25:05,797 --> 00:25:10,593
My readjustment back
at Axe Cap has been...
580
00:25:10,677 --> 00:25:13,013
more difficult than
I thought it would be.
581
00:25:13,096 --> 00:25:14,264
How so?
582
00:25:14,347 --> 00:25:15,640
I've felt manipulated.
583
00:25:15,724 --> 00:25:17,892
[inhales deeply]
584
00:25:17,976 --> 00:25:20,478
I may have done
some of that, too.
585
00:25:20,562 --> 00:25:22,272
I may have given you
the impression
586
00:25:22,355 --> 00:25:26,901
that I was happy there,
and I may well end up that way.
587
00:25:26,985 --> 00:25:28,737
But the truth is,
it's been bumpy.
588
00:25:28,820 --> 00:25:31,573
Well, why are you staying?
589
00:25:31,656 --> 00:25:33,324
Oh, you don't have
to answer that...
590
00:25:33,408 --> 00:25:37,245
No, it's what
I've been asking myself.
591
00:25:37,328 --> 00:25:39,914
I built something.
592
00:25:39,998 --> 00:25:42,959
I put myself into it,
and now...
593
00:25:43,043 --> 00:25:46,713
It's not what you remembered,
not what you fell in love with.
594
00:25:46,796 --> 00:25:49,716
I think I went back
to see if I still could.
595
00:25:49,799 --> 00:25:53,470
Something I tell my patients
596
00:25:53,553 --> 00:25:56,765
when they're hesitating about
making some kind of move
597
00:25:56,848 --> 00:25:59,434
in their own life is, sometimes
you have to jump in...
598
00:25:59,517 --> 00:26:02,062
- Mm.
- All the way in to find out.
599
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,857
They are lucky to have you.
600
00:26:05,940 --> 00:26:07,168
It's easy when it's
about someone else.
601
00:26:07,192 --> 00:26:08,735
Yeah.
602
00:26:08,818 --> 00:26:10,153
It's about you,
it's hard to know.
603
00:26:10,236 --> 00:26:12,530
When do you...
keep working at it?
604
00:26:12,614 --> 00:26:15,950
When do you... give up?
605
00:26:16,034 --> 00:26:17,452
♪ tense music ♪
606
00:26:17,535 --> 00:26:19,162
[whispers] I don't know.
607
00:26:19,245 --> 00:26:21,331
[whispers] I do know.
♪♪♪
608
00:26:26,836 --> 00:26:29,881
[window whirs]
609
00:26:29,964 --> 00:26:32,967
Dollar Bill's telling
the truth. It looks clean.
610
00:26:33,051 --> 00:26:35,303
Even if they trace
his burner
611
00:26:35,386 --> 00:26:39,349
or get into his air-gapped
laptop, like I did,
612
00:26:39,432 --> 00:26:41,643
nothing will come
back to you,
613
00:26:41,726 --> 00:26:43,353
unless somebody talked.
614
00:26:43,436 --> 00:26:45,855
Like his source?
615
00:26:45,939 --> 00:26:47,941
Victor Mateo.
You were right.
616
00:26:48,024 --> 00:26:49,484
[Bobby] Fuck.
617
00:26:49,567 --> 00:26:51,820
This is complicated, because
Victor always puts himself
618
00:26:51,903 --> 00:26:55,240
where the money is, but it's
usually far from pristine.
619
00:26:55,323 --> 00:26:59,035
Well, then he's
the potential weak link.
620
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:00,995
He's either looking
to get back in your graces
621
00:27:01,079 --> 00:27:02,539
or trying to get close enough
622
00:27:02,622 --> 00:27:05,208
to jab a ricin-tipped umbrella
into your thigh.
623
00:27:05,291 --> 00:27:08,294
♪♪♪
624
00:27:17,846 --> 00:27:20,140
[glass clinks,
cellphone clatters]
625
00:27:20,223 --> 00:27:22,642
[touchscreen clicks]
626
00:27:23,935 --> 00:27:25,103
[line rings]
627
00:27:25,186 --> 00:27:28,857
[telephone rings]
628
00:27:28,940 --> 00:27:30,775
- [beep]
- Hello?
629
00:27:30,859 --> 00:27:33,778
Oh. I was...
calling for Wendy.
630
00:27:33,862 --> 00:27:36,614
She's not available.
Who's calling?
631
00:27:36,698 --> 00:27:40,118
Lara Axelrod.
This must be Chuck.
632
00:27:43,288 --> 00:27:45,707
That's right.
633
00:27:45,790 --> 00:27:47,834
Can I tell her
what it's regarding?
634
00:27:47,917 --> 00:27:50,378
[Lara] My husband's
birthday party.
635
00:27:50,461 --> 00:27:53,840
She RSVP'd "no," and I just
wanted to make sure
636
00:27:53,923 --> 00:27:56,009
she knew that
both Bobby and I would
637
00:27:56,092 --> 00:27:59,846
really be delighted
to see her at the house.
638
00:27:59,929 --> 00:28:04,851
Well, uh, I will certainly
pass along your message.
639
00:28:04,934 --> 00:28:09,772
But I do know that she was
feeling a lack of...
640
00:28:09,856 --> 00:28:12,442
clarity in terms of going.
641
00:28:12,525 --> 00:28:15,236
I'm guessing things are tense
and complicated right now,
642
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,323
and this can't be helping.
643
00:28:18,406 --> 00:28:20,074
You're not guessing.
644
00:28:20,158 --> 00:28:23,328
[Lara] I know this is weird.
I was just calling to say...
645
00:28:23,411 --> 00:28:24,913
she's back at the company,
646
00:28:24,996 --> 00:28:28,583
and the company will all
be here, so she should be, too.
647
00:28:28,666 --> 00:28:29,977
You know, if we don't
mark the milestones,
648
00:28:30,001 --> 00:28:31,836
we're just passing
with the time.
649
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,713
Well said.
650
00:28:33,796 --> 00:28:36,174
And I'd invite you
as her plus one,
651
00:28:36,257 --> 00:28:38,092
but under
the circumstances...
652
00:28:38,176 --> 00:28:41,429
[chuckles] Yeah. There is
such a thing as too weird,
653
00:28:41,512 --> 00:28:43,556
even for all of us.
654
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,644
Well, uh, I will
pass along your message.
655
00:28:47,727 --> 00:28:49,979
[Chuck] Good night.
656
00:28:50,063 --> 00:28:51,189
[cellphone clicks]
657
00:28:51,272 --> 00:28:54,275
♪ melancholy music ♪
658
00:28:56,361 --> 00:28:59,364
[telephone keypad beeping]
659
00:29:01,324 --> 00:29:02,825
- [sighs]
- [line rings]
660
00:29:02,909 --> 00:29:04,053
[automated female voice
on Bluetooth] Chuck.
661
00:29:04,077 --> 00:29:06,454
- Hi, Chuck.
- [Chuck] Hey.
662
00:29:06,537 --> 00:29:09,332
You know, I think that
you're not going to the party
663
00:29:09,415 --> 00:29:11,042
because of me,
664
00:29:11,125 --> 00:29:14,212
which pleases me in a way
that it probably shouldn't.
665
00:29:14,295 --> 00:29:16,756
Oh, Chuck.
666
00:29:16,839 --> 00:29:18,049
Wendy,
667
00:29:18,132 --> 00:29:19,425
I say go to the party.
668
00:29:19,509 --> 00:29:21,970
Either it'll feel right
or it won't.
669
00:29:22,053 --> 00:29:24,430
- [hands thud]
- But...
670
00:29:24,514 --> 00:29:27,392
you gotta jump in
and find out.
671
00:29:31,104 --> 00:29:34,941
[exhales]
672
00:29:35,024 --> 00:29:37,986
[door opens]
673
00:29:38,069 --> 00:29:41,030
[hands slapping, door closes]
674
00:29:44,742 --> 00:29:46,995
[palms slap]
675
00:29:47,078 --> 00:29:49,163
How's Victor been?
676
00:29:51,582 --> 00:29:54,836
[sighs heavily] Look, I would've
told you it came from him,
677
00:29:54,919 --> 00:29:56,355
but the last time
I mentioned his name...
678
00:29:56,379 --> 00:29:58,172
For good fucking reason.
679
00:29:58,256 --> 00:30:01,426
- Because Steph Reed was there.
- Yeah, because I fired his ass.
680
00:30:01,509 --> 00:30:04,762
And sure, I paid him off
to keep the peace, but...
681
00:30:04,846 --> 00:30:07,432
My God, I think he'd still
love to roast me.
682
00:30:10,601 --> 00:30:12,228
You trust me? Right?
683
00:30:12,312 --> 00:30:13,646
With my life.
684
00:30:13,730 --> 00:30:16,691
Because there's certain guys
you just know about.
685
00:30:16,774 --> 00:30:20,153
You look 'em in the eye,
and you know.
686
00:30:20,236 --> 00:30:23,197
Other guys,
you know things about.
687
00:30:23,281 --> 00:30:26,409
And with Victor, it...
it's both. Yeah, I know him.
688
00:30:26,492 --> 00:30:28,828
But also...
689
00:30:28,911 --> 00:30:31,205
I know things about him.
690
00:30:31,289 --> 00:30:34,542
And the things I know,
he can't fuck me,
691
00:30:34,625 --> 00:30:36,210
so he can't fuck you.
692
00:30:36,294 --> 00:30:38,379
So that might be enough
for you. I understand.
693
00:30:38,463 --> 00:30:42,383
But it's not enough
for me, not anymore.
694
00:30:42,467 --> 00:30:45,345
[inhales and exhales deeply]
695
00:30:45,428 --> 00:30:49,390
You know, before
the Old West gunslingers
696
00:30:49,474 --> 00:30:52,435
were turned into dime store
paperbacks and cartoons,
697
00:30:52,518 --> 00:30:56,564
the word "outlaw"
meant something.
698
00:30:56,647 --> 00:30:59,400
It meant that the law
didn't apply to you.
699
00:30:59,484 --> 00:31:00,902
No protection.
700
00:31:00,985 --> 00:31:02,737
You run across a guy
on a forest road,
701
00:31:02,820 --> 00:31:05,448
he could kill you.
No repercussions.
702
00:31:05,531 --> 00:31:06,574
[exhales]
703
00:31:06,657 --> 00:31:08,659
I mean...
you used to love Victor,
704
00:31:08,743 --> 00:31:11,371
and trust him
before all this started.
705
00:31:11,454 --> 00:31:14,916
He didn't do anything to
deserve the fate you gave him.
706
00:31:14,999 --> 00:31:18,044
That's what makes
this decision so tricky.
707
00:31:18,127 --> 00:31:20,880
He had the right
to cold dish me.
708
00:31:20,963 --> 00:31:24,592
I just don't know that
he's past it yet.
709
00:31:24,675 --> 00:31:27,762
Oh.
710
00:31:27,845 --> 00:31:29,639
Why don't you
ask him yourself?
711
00:31:29,722 --> 00:31:31,682
[paper rustles]
712
00:31:31,766 --> 00:31:35,812
Look him in the face.
713
00:31:35,895 --> 00:31:37,980
That's your present.
714
00:31:38,064 --> 00:31:41,943
And you might find it's worth
more than a hundred million.
715
00:31:42,026 --> 00:31:45,113
[slaps leg]
716
00:31:45,196 --> 00:31:48,199
♪ tense music ♪
717
00:31:50,701 --> 00:31:53,746
[clicking teeth]
718
00:31:53,830 --> 00:31:56,290
So, Steph Reed...
719
00:31:56,374 --> 00:31:58,334
I wish she were more
of an asset.
720
00:31:58,418 --> 00:32:00,336
Axelrod has been
very careful.
721
00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:02,689
Here are the notes from the
interview, if you're interested.
722
00:32:02,713 --> 00:32:04,882
[inhales deeply]
Terminator?
723
00:32:04,966 --> 00:32:07,552
Cyberdyne Systems, series 800,
Resistance Infiltrator.
724
00:32:07,635 --> 00:32:10,012
- Got it.
- It's kind of a miss,
725
00:32:10,096 --> 00:32:12,014
so I went back
into the Sandicot file
726
00:32:12,098 --> 00:32:14,684
- and ran this down.
- [folder rustles]
727
00:32:14,767 --> 00:32:16,686
Old stock car.
728
00:32:16,769 --> 00:32:20,148
Title was transferred to
casino developer, Donald Thayer,
729
00:32:20,231 --> 00:32:21,858
from Bobby Axelrod.
730
00:32:21,941 --> 00:32:26,404
Gentlemen,
start your engines.
731
00:32:28,739 --> 00:32:31,492
[door handle clacks]
732
00:32:31,576 --> 00:32:32,660
[door closes]
733
00:32:32,743 --> 00:32:34,103
Thought you forgot
the way in here.
734
00:32:34,162 --> 00:32:36,747
Know it by heart.
735
00:32:36,831 --> 00:32:38,499
Couple things.
736
00:32:38,583 --> 00:32:40,668
- Okay. Go.
- Deb Kawi.
737
00:32:40,751 --> 00:32:44,005
[snorts]
I knew you made her.
738
00:32:44,088 --> 00:32:45,732
The next time you tell someone
to lose their conscience
739
00:32:45,756 --> 00:32:49,469
- will be the first time.
- Don't run people at me.
740
00:32:49,552 --> 00:32:51,512
- Got you in the office.
- No.
741
00:32:51,596 --> 00:32:53,639
I'm here because
of the other thing.
742
00:32:53,723 --> 00:32:56,434
[inhales deeply]
Your birthday.
743
00:32:57,685 --> 00:33:01,355
[clicks teeth] Okay. What,
specifically, about that?
744
00:33:01,439 --> 00:33:05,067
Your wife asked me to come.
Said you wanted me there.
745
00:33:06,277 --> 00:33:08,779
- Is it true?
- I think you know me well enough
746
00:33:08,863 --> 00:33:11,908
to know the answer
to that question.
747
00:33:11,991 --> 00:33:14,994
♪ tense music ♪
748
00:33:17,246 --> 00:33:19,415
[footsteps depart]
749
00:33:19,499 --> 00:33:22,460
[machinery rumbling]
750
00:33:39,894 --> 00:33:43,731
[door handle clacks]
751
00:33:43,814 --> 00:33:46,234
[door closes]
752
00:33:46,317 --> 00:33:49,237
[indistinct conversations]
753
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:50,571
♪ dramatic music ♪
754
00:33:50,655 --> 00:33:52,740
♪♪♪
755
00:33:59,789 --> 00:34:01,207
Quite a hole
you've dig yourself
756
00:34:01,290 --> 00:34:04,043
right here in the middle
of scenic Kingsford, Thayer.
757
00:34:04,126 --> 00:34:08,506
It's not my best.
It's not my worst.
758
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,301
I just have one question,
759
00:34:12,385 --> 00:34:15,721
the only question
that matters.
760
00:34:15,805 --> 00:34:18,391
Who is Bobby Axelrod
to you?
761
00:34:18,474 --> 00:34:22,103
He's a friend.
[inhales deeply]
762
00:34:22,186 --> 00:34:25,606
Why else would he have given me
that Dodge out front?
763
00:34:25,690 --> 00:34:29,026
Figured you knew that if you
were here asking questions.
764
00:34:29,110 --> 00:34:30,861
I also know about
that above-market lease
765
00:34:30,945 --> 00:34:33,030
you signed on
his Sandicot land.
766
00:34:33,114 --> 00:34:37,493
Is it wrong to overspend?
767
00:34:37,577 --> 00:34:39,097
My wife dings me for that
all the time.
768
00:34:39,161 --> 00:34:40,663
- Uh-huh.
- Yeah, you know,
769
00:34:40,746 --> 00:34:42,582
- I see something I like...
- [chuckles] Nah.
770
00:34:42,665 --> 00:34:44,792
No one will believe that.
771
00:34:44,875 --> 00:34:46,419
Oh, not when
we run 'em through
772
00:34:46,502 --> 00:34:48,313
the litany of business dealings
you've engaged in
773
00:34:48,337 --> 00:34:51,799
that could, uh, most charitably
be described as shady
774
00:34:51,882 --> 00:34:53,759
and most accurately
as criminal.
775
00:34:53,843 --> 00:34:56,012
- [chuckles]
- Fraudulent loan applications,
776
00:34:56,095 --> 00:34:58,180
union payoffs,
stiffing vendors,
777
00:34:58,264 --> 00:35:01,809
and yet, writing off
the expenses on your account.
778
00:35:01,892 --> 00:35:05,771
You do everything to save
a buck on the business end.
779
00:35:05,855 --> 00:35:08,983
[laughing]
780
00:35:09,066 --> 00:35:11,068
Are you leveraging me?
781
00:35:11,152 --> 00:35:12,820
[exhales]
782
00:35:12,903 --> 00:35:17,158
I've been strong-armed
by the vowel guys.
783
00:35:17,241 --> 00:35:19,744
- Never bent.
- Oh.
784
00:35:19,827 --> 00:35:21,627
Oh, I bet you'd like
to put me in that hole...
785
00:35:21,662 --> 00:35:24,081
- [machinery beeping]
- like you used to do it.
786
00:35:24,165 --> 00:35:26,876
Then pour the concrete.
787
00:35:26,959 --> 00:35:30,129
They never find 'em when
you do that, do they?
788
00:35:30,212 --> 00:35:32,131
No one wants to tear
a whole building down,
789
00:35:32,214 --> 00:35:36,093
but you can't now.
Now, you're respectable... ish.
790
00:35:37,553 --> 00:35:38,929
You've changed
your narrative.
791
00:35:39,013 --> 00:35:42,058
So let me suggest
a new chapter in your story,
792
00:35:42,141 --> 00:35:44,518
one in which you are
the unindicted co-conspirator
793
00:35:44,602 --> 00:35:46,771
rather than a defendant.
794
00:35:46,854 --> 00:35:48,564
Which story is that?
795
00:35:48,648 --> 00:35:50,691
The story of Sandicot.
796
00:35:50,775 --> 00:35:52,902
Let me tell it to you,
then you tell it back,
797
00:35:52,985 --> 00:35:55,946
if it's true, of course,
which it is.
798
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,742
You and Axelrod entered
into a criminal conspiracy
799
00:35:59,825 --> 00:36:03,120
to bribe Marc Capparello
for inside information
800
00:36:03,204 --> 00:36:05,414
on the deliberations
of the Location Committee
801
00:36:05,498 --> 00:36:07,625
and where they were
gonna put your casino.
802
00:36:07,708 --> 00:36:09,043
[machinery rumbling]
803
00:36:09,126 --> 00:36:11,045
Wow.
804
00:36:11,128 --> 00:36:13,589
You're some fucking gangster,
805
00:36:13,673 --> 00:36:17,551
swaggering up here,
making threats.
806
00:36:17,635 --> 00:36:20,096
From you, "fucking gangster"
sounds like a compliment.
807
00:36:20,179 --> 00:36:22,556
Not how I meant it.
808
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,143
Axelrod is not your friend.
809
00:36:26,227 --> 00:36:28,479
Let me help you keep
on the right side.
810
00:36:28,562 --> 00:36:32,066
You'd love to know
what I got on him.
811
00:36:32,149 --> 00:36:34,985
[inhales sharply]
Problem is,
812
00:36:35,069 --> 00:36:38,656
I don't need whatever deal
or immunity you got.
813
00:36:38,739 --> 00:36:43,035
See, I already have
my umbrella.
814
00:36:43,119 --> 00:36:45,413
I'm singin'
in the fucking rain.
815
00:36:45,496 --> 00:36:47,123
You?
816
00:36:47,206 --> 00:36:51,127
You're just standing there,
gettin' wet.
817
00:36:51,210 --> 00:36:53,087
[scoffs]
818
00:36:53,170 --> 00:36:55,798
[machinery continues rumbling]
819
00:36:55,881 --> 00:37:00,136
I'll see you on Pearl Street
at my arraignment...
820
00:37:00,219 --> 00:37:01,595
if you got the brass.
821
00:37:01,679 --> 00:37:05,057
♪ pensive music ♪
822
00:37:05,141 --> 00:37:07,685
[footsteps depart]
823
00:37:07,768 --> 00:37:11,397
[ball thuds]
824
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,567
[thudding]
825
00:37:14,650 --> 00:37:16,110
- [grunts]
- [thudding]
826
00:37:16,193 --> 00:37:17,862
[palm slaps ball]
827
00:37:17,945 --> 00:37:19,780
Three and two,
count is full.
828
00:37:19,864 --> 00:37:23,075
I grew up playing stickball.
829
00:37:23,159 --> 00:37:25,161
You wanna grab that
broom handle and stand in?
830
00:37:25,244 --> 00:37:26,746
I'll get too intense.
831
00:37:26,829 --> 00:37:28,289
Okay.
832
00:37:28,372 --> 00:37:30,458
[ball thuds]
833
00:37:31,417 --> 00:37:33,127
[thudding]
834
00:37:33,210 --> 00:37:35,421
People are telling me
I can't miss your party.
835
00:37:35,504 --> 00:37:39,091
No, because those people think
the only way to advance
836
00:37:39,175 --> 00:37:42,470
is by following the rules
and social mores.
837
00:37:42,553 --> 00:37:45,222
They have no fucking idea
why we do what we do.
838
00:37:45,306 --> 00:37:47,475
I don't think I'm
any better than them.
839
00:37:47,558 --> 00:37:48,893
Of course you do.
840
00:37:48,976 --> 00:37:52,396
You even know it
a little bit.
841
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,607
Do not feel obligated
to attend.
842
00:37:54,690 --> 00:37:57,485
- [bird calling in distance]
- Okay.
843
00:37:59,195 --> 00:38:00,696
Why are you missing it,
by the way?
844
00:38:00,780 --> 00:38:02,573
You don't wanna
party with me?
845
00:38:02,656 --> 00:38:04,200
It's my sister's wedding.
846
00:38:04,283 --> 00:38:07,328
Rehearsal dinner
on Mackinac Island in the U.P.
847
00:38:07,411 --> 00:38:09,830
- Michigan.
- Oh, yeah. I know.
848
00:38:09,914 --> 00:38:11,290
Not a lot of flights.
849
00:38:11,373 --> 00:38:14,126
You're rich.
They're called private planes.
850
00:38:14,210 --> 00:38:16,086
- [palm slaps ball]
- I almost booked it.
851
00:38:16,170 --> 00:38:17,970
I just don't know if I can
actually get on it.
852
00:38:18,047 --> 00:38:19,590
The carbon footprint alone
is...
853
00:38:19,673 --> 00:38:21,634
You're really that worried
about the world ending?
854
00:38:21,717 --> 00:38:23,219
Yes.
855
00:38:23,302 --> 00:38:25,679
What about your own world?
856
00:38:25,763 --> 00:38:28,224
Not so much.
857
00:38:28,307 --> 00:38:31,519
Well, before that
existential dread racks you,
858
00:38:31,602 --> 00:38:33,479
buy some offsets.
859
00:38:33,562 --> 00:38:35,022
Donate to
the Rainforest Alliance.
860
00:38:35,105 --> 00:38:37,024
As a matter of fact,
if you do that,
861
00:38:37,107 --> 00:38:39,944
I'll have Deb book the plane
for ya. Done. Move on.
862
00:38:40,027 --> 00:38:42,029
It's not just that. It's...
863
00:38:42,112 --> 00:38:45,908
I never thought I'd be thinking
about living this life.
864
00:38:45,991 --> 00:38:48,077
You're living it already.
865
00:38:49,411 --> 00:38:51,705
Do you think I ever thought
I'd be here?
866
00:38:52,998 --> 00:38:55,558
I never thought I'd be more than
just a numbers guy at the track.
867
00:38:55,626 --> 00:38:56,961
Aqueduct?
868
00:38:57,044 --> 00:38:59,338
Nah. Trotters.
I'd still be at the track
869
00:38:59,421 --> 00:39:02,132
if it weren't for
this one guy, a gambler.
870
00:39:02,216 --> 00:39:05,052
He worked a seat at Commodities.
He thought I'd be good.
871
00:39:05,135 --> 00:39:08,931
So he took me to Four World
Trade, and I saw it immediately.
872
00:39:09,014 --> 00:39:11,767
I could read the tape just like
the odds on the board.
873
00:39:11,851 --> 00:39:13,227
It was like
walking into something
874
00:39:13,310 --> 00:39:14,687
between a casino
and the U.S. Mint.
875
00:39:14,770 --> 00:39:17,398
So I bought a seat
at the exchange for 64K,
876
00:39:17,481 --> 00:39:18,691
and that was it.
877
00:39:18,774 --> 00:39:20,401
Is that a common
career trajectory?
878
00:39:20,484 --> 00:39:23,404
Not anymore.
Wasn't back then either.
879
00:39:23,487 --> 00:39:25,322
And you're glad it went
this way?
880
00:39:25,406 --> 00:39:27,408
Yeah. Why shouldn't I be?
881
00:39:27,491 --> 00:39:29,618
So before I let you get back
to your childhood,
882
00:39:29,702 --> 00:39:32,413
the moral of the story is...
883
00:39:32,496 --> 00:39:34,456
just get on
the fucking plane, huh?
884
00:39:34,540 --> 00:39:37,084
No.
885
00:39:37,167 --> 00:39:40,421
The moral of the story is,
you get one life,
886
00:39:40,504 --> 00:39:42,840
so do it all.
887
00:39:54,184 --> 00:39:55,311
[ball thuds]
888
00:39:55,394 --> 00:39:59,023
[engine rumbling]
889
00:39:59,106 --> 00:40:01,191
[gears shift, engine turns off]
890
00:40:02,484 --> 00:40:04,570
[horns honks in distance]
891
00:40:09,033 --> 00:40:11,118
[door handle clacks]
892
00:40:19,043 --> 00:40:22,588
Why did I have Thayer
dead to rights,
893
00:40:22,671 --> 00:40:25,049
and he wasn't even nervous?
894
00:40:25,132 --> 00:40:28,510
Why were you sitting with Thayer
in the first place?
895
00:40:28,594 --> 00:40:31,680
How does that help you with
headlines, blind items...
896
00:40:31,764 --> 00:40:33,974
- [chuckles]
- community leaders?
897
00:40:34,058 --> 00:40:36,477
Oh, you weren't encouraging me
to be smart.
898
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,396
You were protecting
one of your own.
899
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,565
Did you handpick him
for the deal?
900
00:40:41,649 --> 00:40:45,069
Did I make a mistake
with you?
901
00:40:45,152 --> 00:40:47,529
Are you fighting for inches
or yards?
902
00:40:47,613 --> 00:40:49,823
[sighs]
903
00:40:49,907 --> 00:40:54,703
I am so close
to getting Axe.
904
00:40:54,787 --> 00:40:57,247
I can run on that.
905
00:40:57,331 --> 00:40:59,041
I can win on that.
906
00:40:59,124 --> 00:41:01,126
That's what we both want.
907
00:41:01,210 --> 00:41:04,088
If you are the man I think
and... and hope you are,
908
00:41:04,171 --> 00:41:08,384
you will get him...
on something else.
909
00:41:08,467 --> 00:41:12,972
You know it's not the first time
Axe has gone bad on something.
910
00:41:13,055 --> 00:41:14,974
What did Thayer give you,
four points?
911
00:41:15,057 --> 00:41:17,351
[clicks teeth]
912
00:41:17,434 --> 00:41:21,814
I don't handcuff. You're free
to go after Thayer if you want.
913
00:41:21,897 --> 00:41:24,858
But play out
those dominoes first,
914
00:41:24,942 --> 00:41:27,152
and not just for Axe.
915
00:41:27,236 --> 00:41:29,530
♪ pensive music ♪
916
00:41:29,613 --> 00:41:32,491
Thayer takes a hit,
the casino goes away.
917
00:41:32,574 --> 00:41:35,911
Those upstate jobs go away.
918
00:41:35,995 --> 00:41:40,916
It leaks that my father
started things in Sandicot...
919
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,377
and the last one
falls on me.
920
00:41:43,460 --> 00:41:46,171
Chuck,
Sandicot is a circle.
921
00:41:46,255 --> 00:41:48,757
Wherever you start
on that path,
922
00:41:48,841 --> 00:41:52,845
it leads right back to you...
to us.
923
00:41:52,928 --> 00:41:55,139
And right now, no one knows
that you and my father
924
00:41:55,222 --> 00:41:57,850
crushed that town
as much as Axe.
925
00:41:57,933 --> 00:41:59,727
- Yes.
- [sighs]
926
00:41:59,810 --> 00:42:02,104
And why don't we keep it
that way?
927
00:42:02,187 --> 00:42:05,899
You know what, Jack?
928
00:42:05,983 --> 00:42:09,611
I think I'll get Axe
on something else.
929
00:42:09,695 --> 00:42:12,489
Whatever you feel is best.
930
00:42:15,576 --> 00:42:18,579
["I Don't Want to Go Home"
playing in distance from stereo]
931
00:42:21,206 --> 00:42:22,708
♪♪♪
932
00:42:22,791 --> 00:42:24,269
[Southside Johnny music band
playing from stage]
933
00:42:24,293 --> 00:42:26,253
♪ Well, I know that
it's getting late ♪
934
00:42:26,336 --> 00:42:27,504
[clacking]
935
00:42:27,588 --> 00:42:31,884
♪ But I don't wanna go home ♪
936
00:42:31,967 --> 00:42:33,403
- [kisses]
- ♪ I'm in no hurry, baby ♪
937
00:42:33,427 --> 00:42:35,554
♪ Time can wait ♪
938
00:42:35,637 --> 00:42:38,140
♪ 'Cause I don't wanna go home ♪
939
00:42:38,223 --> 00:42:39,558
♪♪♪
940
00:42:39,641 --> 00:42:43,228
♪ Listen to the man
sing his song ♪
941
00:42:43,312 --> 00:42:46,106
You're seeming... shy tonight.
942
00:42:46,190 --> 00:42:47,941
We can't escape our nature.
943
00:42:48,025 --> 00:42:49,502
[Ben] Enough with
the Myers-Briggs, Mafee.
944
00:42:49,526 --> 00:42:50,795
- [woman] Cheers.
- [Ben] Cheers.
945
00:42:50,819 --> 00:42:52,362
- The man here yet?
- [glasses clink]
946
00:42:52,446 --> 00:42:53,757
- [Ben] Nah, I haven't seen him.
- [Taylor] Cheers.
947
00:42:53,781 --> 00:42:55,908
What? Weird.
948
00:42:55,991 --> 00:42:57,260
- [knock on door]
- [Chuck] Yeah?
949
00:42:57,284 --> 00:42:58,619
- [doorknob rattles]
- Hey.
950
00:42:58,702 --> 00:43:01,163
Have a seat.
951
00:43:03,415 --> 00:43:06,460
[door closes]
952
00:43:06,543 --> 00:43:08,629
[sighs deeply]
953
00:43:09,505 --> 00:43:12,007
Fuck.
Thayer stonewalled us?
954
00:43:12,091 --> 00:43:15,636
I'm not gonna shield you
from this, Bryan, all right?
955
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:19,306
I have decided not to pursue
Thayer or Sandicot,
956
00:43:19,389 --> 00:43:22,601
for strategic reasons.
957
00:43:23,769 --> 00:43:25,187
- Politics.
- Yeah.
958
00:43:25,270 --> 00:43:28,690
[exhales]
Plain and simple.
959
00:43:28,774 --> 00:43:31,276
- Tell the team.
- [palms slap]
960
00:43:34,905 --> 00:43:37,074
[engine rumbling]
961
00:43:37,157 --> 00:43:40,244
[crickets chirping]
962
00:43:40,327 --> 00:43:42,412
[engine turns off]
963
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,505
[footsteps]
964
00:43:51,588 --> 00:43:54,591
[bowling pins clattering]
965
00:44:00,180 --> 00:44:02,891
Welcome to my bowling club.
966
00:44:02,975 --> 00:44:04,661
I worked it out so I had it
private tonight.
967
00:44:04,685 --> 00:44:08,397
Sweet. How are ya, Victor?
968
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,023
[exhales]
969
00:44:10,107 --> 00:44:13,443
Lots of times, I thought about,
if I ran into you,
970
00:44:13,527 --> 00:44:16,655
what I might say...
or do.
971
00:44:16,738 --> 00:44:20,200
Here I am. Hit me.
I can take it.
972
00:44:20,284 --> 00:44:22,369
That's in the past.
973
00:44:23,287 --> 00:44:25,539
Fuck you, Axe.
974
00:44:25,622 --> 00:44:27,782
You think every time you take
a meeting or take a shit,
975
00:44:27,833 --> 00:44:30,836
it's deep and filled
with wisdom.
976
00:44:30,919 --> 00:44:33,046
But you made a mistake
letting me go.
977
00:44:33,130 --> 00:44:37,009
You cut me, but you cut yourself
worse in the process.
978
00:44:37,092 --> 00:44:38,552
You're not wrong, Victor.
979
00:44:38,635 --> 00:44:41,430
You were collateral damage.
I regretted it.
980
00:44:41,513 --> 00:44:44,600
- Really?
- Briefly.
981
00:44:44,683 --> 00:44:48,312
And for a few moments after,
which surprised me.
982
00:44:48,395 --> 00:44:50,480
You getting soft?
983
00:44:52,232 --> 00:44:55,235
♪ tense music ♪
984
00:44:58,614 --> 00:45:00,657
I came all the way
out here, Victor,
985
00:45:00,741 --> 00:45:04,953
on the recommendation
of a dear friend,
986
00:45:05,037 --> 00:45:06,955
to look at you.
987
00:45:07,039 --> 00:45:08,749
♪♪♪
988
00:45:08,832 --> 00:45:10,083
[shoes scuff]
989
00:45:10,167 --> 00:45:14,755
What do you see?
A man who's stuck...
990
00:45:14,838 --> 00:45:19,134
at a boutique firm,
a glorified day trader.
991
00:45:19,218 --> 00:45:23,388
Making good money, but not
as good as it used to be.
992
00:45:23,472 --> 00:45:25,766
But that's not
the sticky part.
993
00:45:26,767 --> 00:45:31,355
You can't be who you are,
and it's ripping you up.
994
00:45:31,438 --> 00:45:33,523
Bit by bit.
995
00:45:33,607 --> 00:45:37,694
What do you have
and what do you want?
996
00:45:37,778 --> 00:45:41,782
I want back in.
Not with the main fund.
997
00:45:41,865 --> 00:45:45,410
I understand you can't do that,
and I don't want you to.
998
00:45:45,494 --> 00:45:50,082
I want my own shop,
a satellite.
999
00:45:50,165 --> 00:45:52,084
[inhales] Terms will be
very generous for you
1000
00:45:52,167 --> 00:45:54,294
the first few years,
1001
00:45:54,378 --> 00:45:57,965
and I will give you
the prime fucking meats.
1002
00:45:58,048 --> 00:45:59,967
[file rustles]
1003
00:46:00,050 --> 00:46:03,136
Everything I know
about Klaxon.
1004
00:46:03,220 --> 00:46:08,058
Internal memos,
company documents.
1005
00:46:08,141 --> 00:46:10,352
It's bigger than a recall.
1006
00:46:10,435 --> 00:46:13,897
You leak this cover-up,
they'll drown in lawsuits.
1007
00:46:13,981 --> 00:46:15,607
You could cover at zero.
1008
00:46:15,691 --> 00:46:20,487
[papers rustle]
1009
00:46:20,570 --> 00:46:22,239
[sighs]
1010
00:46:22,322 --> 00:46:24,408
[inhales sharply ]
Start looking for office space.
1011
00:46:26,785 --> 00:46:28,912
Welcome back.
1012
00:46:41,049 --> 00:46:42,843
Donna!
1013
00:46:42,926 --> 00:46:45,345
I need Sacker now!
1014
00:46:48,682 --> 00:46:50,309
[taps papers]
1015
00:46:50,392 --> 00:46:53,770
- This. What the fuck is this?
- [door closes]
1016
00:46:53,854 --> 00:46:56,857
Steph Reed says that Axe bought
some enemy's books?
1017
00:46:56,940 --> 00:46:59,067
Yes. He cornered
the first edition book market
1018
00:46:59,151 --> 00:47:02,154
for those specific books
to spite a rival.
1019
00:47:02,237 --> 00:47:04,448
And did she say...
1020
00:47:04,531 --> 00:47:06,283
which books?
1021
00:47:06,366 --> 00:47:08,910
Second World War
by Churchill.
1022
00:47:08,994 --> 00:47:11,371
Motherfucker.
1023
00:47:11,455 --> 00:47:13,832
[scoffs]
1024
00:47:13,915 --> 00:47:16,543
♪ tense music ♪
1025
00:47:16,626 --> 00:47:18,754
This is what they do.
1026
00:47:18,837 --> 00:47:22,049
How the fuck do you compete
with something that powerful,
1027
00:47:22,132 --> 00:47:25,052
that swims around
for days on end,
1028
00:47:25,135 --> 00:47:29,681
just waiting for
the faintest smell of blood
1029
00:47:29,765 --> 00:47:31,975
so it can attack
without warning,
1030
00:47:32,059 --> 00:47:34,603
and with all the ferocity
and half the conscience
1031
00:47:34,686 --> 00:47:38,065
of a goddamn bull shark?
[inhales sharply]
1032
00:47:38,148 --> 00:47:40,400
♪♪♪
1033
00:47:40,484 --> 00:47:44,071
You can't.
[breathes deeply]
1034
00:47:44,154 --> 00:47:47,366
Unless you can somehow
anticipate where it will strike
1035
00:47:47,449 --> 00:47:50,702
and then match its strength
when it does...
1036
00:47:50,786 --> 00:47:53,288
which you can't.
1037
00:47:54,664 --> 00:47:56,875
I can see books
are a trigger for you...
1038
00:47:56,958 --> 00:47:59,503
Thank you, Sacker.
1039
00:47:59,586 --> 00:48:03,298
♪♪♪
1040
00:48:03,382 --> 00:48:04,966
[door opens]
1041
00:48:05,050 --> 00:48:08,512
[papers thud]
1042
00:48:08,595 --> 00:48:10,722
[door closes]
1043
00:48:10,806 --> 00:48:13,767
[clears throat]
1044
00:48:13,850 --> 00:48:14,935
[exhales]
1045
00:48:15,018 --> 00:48:18,021
♪ pulsating music ♪
1046
00:48:21,900 --> 00:48:24,277
[thud]
1047
00:48:24,361 --> 00:48:27,364
♪♪♪
1048
00:48:30,158 --> 00:48:32,327
[clears throat]
1049
00:48:32,411 --> 00:48:34,496
[touchscreen clicks]
1050
00:48:35,831 --> 00:48:38,417
Dad, I'm messengering something
to you,
1051
00:48:38,500 --> 00:48:41,753
and I will be over to discuss it
in a while.
1052
00:48:41,837 --> 00:48:43,964
♪♪♪
1053
00:48:44,047 --> 00:48:45,298
- [fingers tap desk]
- Good.
1054
00:48:45,382 --> 00:48:48,760
[Chuck Sr.]
Son, credit where it's due.
1055
00:48:48,844 --> 00:48:52,472
This Ice Juice thing
is a win.
1056
00:48:52,556 --> 00:48:54,224
I've already spoken to Ira.
1057
00:48:54,307 --> 00:48:57,769
He... ran me through
a few more of the numbers.
1058
00:48:57,853 --> 00:49:00,480
Yeah, well, I knew if
Ira said it, it would be so.
1059
00:49:00,564 --> 00:49:02,484
Yeah, he told me you almost
didn't bring it to me
1060
00:49:02,524 --> 00:49:05,610
out of some worry about...
conflict?
1061
00:49:05,694 --> 00:49:07,654
That would've been
shortsighted.
1062
00:49:07,737 --> 00:49:10,449
I agree,
and I am most certainly
1063
00:49:10,532 --> 00:49:13,243
taking the longer view
at the moment.
1064
00:49:13,326 --> 00:49:14,786
Good boy.
1065
00:49:14,870 --> 00:49:18,248
We can't let
this opportunity slide by.
1066
00:49:18,331 --> 00:49:20,417
This IPO could be the start
1067
00:49:20,500 --> 00:49:25,297
of a billion dollar windfall,
and it's a life-changer for him.
1068
00:49:25,380 --> 00:49:27,674
You keep saying "we."
1069
00:49:27,757 --> 00:49:29,593
I'm not liquid enough
to pull the trigger.
1070
00:49:29,676 --> 00:49:31,386
I find that hard to fathom.
1071
00:49:31,470 --> 00:49:34,139
My cash on hand happens to be
1072
00:49:34,222 --> 00:49:36,683
tied up in an few real estate
deals right now,
1073
00:49:36,766 --> 00:49:38,852
and it's not the right time
to sell.
1074
00:49:38,935 --> 00:49:41,855
Huh. Let me guess.
1075
00:49:41,938 --> 00:49:43,064
Kingsford?
1076
00:49:43,148 --> 00:49:45,650
I think it's best
we not discuss that.
1077
00:49:45,734 --> 00:49:48,987
With your position,
that would be unethical.
1078
00:49:49,070 --> 00:49:52,657
But there is a solution.
1079
00:49:52,741 --> 00:49:55,535
The chunk of cash I need
1080
00:49:55,619 --> 00:49:58,205
is on a statement
with your name on it.
1081
00:49:58,288 --> 00:50:02,876
- The blind trust.
- But, uh, why tell me about it?
1082
00:50:02,959 --> 00:50:04,729
Uh, isn't the whole point
to a blind trust that
1083
00:50:04,753 --> 00:50:06,939
I'm not supposed to know what
you're doing with the money?
1084
00:50:06,963 --> 00:50:08,465
No, not this time.
1085
00:50:08,548 --> 00:50:11,927
That trust was set aside
for you and the children.
1086
00:50:12,010 --> 00:50:15,138
But even the safest IPO
1087
00:50:15,222 --> 00:50:19,267
has a different risk profile
than a normal investment.
1088
00:50:19,351 --> 00:50:23,480
You have to know
before I do it.
1089
00:50:23,563 --> 00:50:26,066
You want me to break
my public vow?
1090
00:50:26,149 --> 00:50:27,317
[hands fall to lap]
1091
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:28,669
The moment
that I'm transitioning
1092
00:50:28,693 --> 00:50:31,446
into elected office?
1093
00:50:31,530 --> 00:50:34,407
It's only damaging
if it gets out.
1094
00:50:34,491 --> 00:50:37,744
I'll invest silently.
Your role will be hidden.
1095
00:50:37,827 --> 00:50:41,206
We'll replace the funds as soon
as we sell some of the stock.
1096
00:50:41,289 --> 00:50:43,833
No one's the wiser.
1097
00:50:43,917 --> 00:50:46,002
Hmm.
1098
00:50:48,672 --> 00:50:52,259
Well, if this is what
it takes...
1099
00:50:52,342 --> 00:50:55,011
uh, to help you and Ira...
1100
00:50:55,095 --> 00:50:58,598
- Does that mean...
- Yeah.
1101
00:50:58,682 --> 00:51:01,142
Crack it open.
1102
00:51:01,226 --> 00:51:04,437
- [hands fall to lap]
- Use a bit for your venture.
1103
00:51:04,521 --> 00:51:06,940
[sighs]
I trust your judgment.
1104
00:51:07,023 --> 00:51:10,235
[exhales] As always.
1105
00:51:10,318 --> 00:51:12,821
♪ dramatic music ♪
1106
00:51:12,904 --> 00:51:13,905
♪♪♪
1107
00:51:13,989 --> 00:51:15,365
♪ jazzy rock music ♪
1108
00:51:15,448 --> 00:51:17,576
Excuse me. Wendy.
1109
00:51:17,659 --> 00:51:20,370
- Lara.
- Welcome.
1110
00:51:20,453 --> 00:51:22,747
- Thank you.
- [kisses cheek]
1111
00:51:22,831 --> 00:51:25,667
You know, we never really had
you over to the house enough.
1112
00:51:25,750 --> 00:51:26,960
Thanks for the invite.
1113
00:51:27,043 --> 00:51:29,004
And I appreciate
the personal follow-up.
1114
00:51:29,087 --> 00:51:30,964
Chuck was, um... [chuckles]
1115
00:51:31,047 --> 00:51:32,716
quite surprised
to hear from you.
1116
00:51:32,799 --> 00:51:35,468
Well, I'm glad you came.
1117
00:51:35,552 --> 00:51:37,596
Bobby will really value
you being here.
1118
00:51:37,679 --> 00:51:40,265
Hmm. I couldn't tell
when I spoke to him at work.
1119
00:51:40,348 --> 00:51:41,891
♪♪♪
1120
00:51:41,975 --> 00:51:45,812
Oh. I thought you weren't
really talking at work.
1121
00:51:45,895 --> 00:51:49,816
I'm sure it must be hard for you
to not have access to him,
1122
00:51:49,899 --> 00:51:51,610
but we think it's best
for everyone.
1123
00:51:51,693 --> 00:51:53,987
Clear boundaries this time.
1124
00:51:55,739 --> 00:51:57,616
Right...
1125
00:51:57,699 --> 00:52:01,995
which is why
I set the policy.
1126
00:52:02,078 --> 00:52:03,264
It was the only way
I could work there.
1127
00:52:03,288 --> 00:52:04,706
I couldn't keep seeing him.
1128
00:52:04,789 --> 00:52:07,167
it wasn't like doctor-patient
or even athlete-coach.
1129
00:52:07,250 --> 00:52:10,295
It was more Hannibal-Clarice.
1130
00:52:10,378 --> 00:52:12,088
♪ tense music ♪
1131
00:52:12,172 --> 00:52:14,453
Not seeing him was one of your
conditions for coming back.
1132
00:52:14,507 --> 00:52:18,053
I thought it was important
for both of us, really.
1133
00:52:18,136 --> 00:52:20,347
♪♪♪
1134
00:52:20,430 --> 00:52:23,600
Thanks again for the invite.
I could use a drink.
1135
00:52:23,683 --> 00:52:27,103
[footsteps depart]
1136
00:52:27,187 --> 00:52:29,898
♪♪♪
1137
00:52:29,981 --> 00:52:33,693
[cellphone vibrates]
1138
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:36,571
Where are you?
1139
00:52:36,655 --> 00:52:40,116
I'm at the front gate.
Come meet me.
1140
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:43,370
♪♪♪
1141
00:52:43,453 --> 00:52:44,704
[woman laughs]
1142
00:52:44,788 --> 00:52:47,791
[camera shutter clicking]
1143
00:52:49,376 --> 00:52:54,130
[car door opens, closes]
1144
00:52:54,214 --> 00:52:57,217
[airplane engines whirring]
1145
00:53:00,970 --> 00:53:04,808
[camera shutter clicking]
1146
00:53:04,891 --> 00:53:06,017
[car door closes]
1147
00:53:06,101 --> 00:53:08,228
♪♪♪
1148
00:53:08,311 --> 00:53:11,564
[heels clacking]
1149
00:53:11,648 --> 00:53:13,733
[door handle clacks]
1150
00:53:14,859 --> 00:53:16,986
[door closes]
1151
00:53:17,070 --> 00:53:20,699
Let's get outta here.
Fuck this.
1152
00:53:20,782 --> 00:53:22,826
It's a mistake.
1153
00:53:22,909 --> 00:53:25,745
I see how we made it...
[inhales deeply]
1154
00:53:25,829 --> 00:53:28,331
because we forgot.
1155
00:53:28,415 --> 00:53:31,835
I forgot...
where I'm from.
1156
00:53:31,918 --> 00:53:35,463
I forgot that I don't give
a fuck about any of this.
1157
00:53:35,547 --> 00:53:37,632
It's all sailcloth
held up with poles
1158
00:53:37,716 --> 00:53:40,218
lit by lighting designers and
ripped to the ground tomorrow.
1159
00:53:40,301 --> 00:53:43,930
♪♪♪
1160
00:53:44,013 --> 00:53:46,099
I wanna be with you.
1161
00:53:46,182 --> 00:53:49,519
I wanna take you somewhere
that matters.
1162
00:53:49,602 --> 00:53:51,938
♪♪♪
1163
00:53:52,021 --> 00:53:55,024
Everyone's waiting for you.
1164
00:53:55,108 --> 00:53:58,236
Wags is about to give
his speech.
1165
00:53:58,319 --> 00:54:00,405
[sighs]
1166
00:54:03,241 --> 00:54:05,493
[amplified voice] I've had
quite a challenge this week
1167
00:54:05,577 --> 00:54:10,498
to put together words,
ordinary words,
1168
00:54:10,582 --> 00:54:13,334
to describe the most
extraordinary man I ever met.
1169
00:54:13,418 --> 00:54:16,504
A man as steely
as a Roman centurion,
1170
00:54:16,588 --> 00:54:20,592
cooler than Jean-Paul Belmondo.
1171
00:54:20,675 --> 00:54:24,804
He's a jaguar shark,
an American Sniper,
1172
00:54:24,888 --> 00:54:26,931
every decision in the space
of seven breaths.
1173
00:54:27,015 --> 00:54:28,641
Ifyou cross him,
1174
00:54:28,725 --> 00:54:30,602
he'll put a fucking ding
in your universe.
1175
00:54:30,685 --> 00:54:33,021
[laughter]
1176
00:54:33,104 --> 00:54:34,689
♪♪♪
1177
00:54:34,773 --> 00:54:37,025
But these are all
exaggerations, derivative.
1178
00:54:37,108 --> 00:54:39,110
♪♪♪
1179
00:54:39,194 --> 00:54:42,781
[Wags] They don't limn the truth
of an indefinable essence.
1180
00:54:44,908 --> 00:54:48,161
[Wags] They don't speak
to my real feelings.
1181
00:54:48,244 --> 00:54:49,954
[Wags]
It's no exaggeration to say
1182
00:54:50,038 --> 00:54:52,165
that Bobby Axelrod is the man
who gave me my life,
1183
00:54:52,248 --> 00:54:54,667
or at least let me keep it.
1184
00:54:54,751 --> 00:54:59,589
But even more than that,
he's given me friendship...
1185
00:54:59,672 --> 00:55:01,358
the kind of friendship,
it's more than money,
1186
00:55:01,382 --> 00:55:05,303
it's more than talent, it's...
[inhales deeply]
1187
00:55:05,386 --> 00:55:07,305
...almost family.
1188
00:55:07,388 --> 00:55:10,725
[Wags] But unlike family,
he never turns away.
1189
00:55:10,809 --> 00:55:14,354
He's the only one who truly
sees me and doesn'tjudge.
1190
00:55:16,356 --> 00:55:20,193
He accepts me as I am,
1191
00:55:20,276 --> 00:55:22,946
and that kind
of friendship is...
1192
00:55:23,029 --> 00:55:26,991
everything.
1193
00:55:27,075 --> 00:55:29,369
It is the stuff of life itself.
1194
00:55:29,452 --> 00:55:32,497
♪♪♪
1195
00:55:32,580 --> 00:55:35,375
So thank you...
1196
00:55:35,458 --> 00:55:37,252
for my life.
1197
00:55:37,335 --> 00:55:38,711
♪♪♪
1198
00:55:38,795 --> 00:55:40,547
Traders trade.
1199
00:55:40,630 --> 00:55:42,507
Lovers love.
1200
00:55:42,590 --> 00:55:46,010
Cars are meant to go.
1201
00:55:46,094 --> 00:55:48,680
Happy birthday, Axe,
1202
00:55:48,763 --> 00:55:50,098
wherever you are.
1203
00:55:50,181 --> 00:55:52,267
[cheers and applause]
1204
00:55:52,350 --> 00:55:56,104
[Man] Way to go, Wags!
1205
00:55:56,187 --> 00:55:57,981
Axe didn't show up?
1206
00:55:58,064 --> 00:55:59,732
Who does that,
skips his own party?
1207
00:55:59,816 --> 00:56:01,693
That's fucking fantastic.
1208
00:56:01,776 --> 00:56:02,795
[Mafee]
Maybe he's an introvert, too.
1209
00:56:02,819 --> 00:56:05,446
No, he's not an introvert.
1210
00:56:05,530 --> 00:56:08,241
He just remembered
he's an outlaw.
1211
00:56:08,324 --> 00:56:10,952
A fucking desperado.
1212
00:56:11,035 --> 00:56:14,497
[indistinct conversations]
1213
00:56:14,581 --> 00:56:17,417
Hey. Axe said
to give this to you.
1214
00:56:17,500 --> 00:56:21,254
[indistinct conversations]
1215
00:56:21,337 --> 00:56:24,257
♪ Bob Dylan's
"Visions of Johanna" ♪
1216
00:56:24,340 --> 00:56:27,343
♪♪♪
1217
00:56:31,514 --> 00:56:34,475
♪ Ain't itjust like the night ♪
1218
00:56:34,559 --> 00:56:38,563
♪ To play tricks when you're
tryin' to be so quiet? ♪
1219
00:56:38,646 --> 00:56:42,108
♪♪♪
1220
00:56:42,191 --> 00:56:44,611
♪ We sit here stranded ♪
1221
00:56:44,694 --> 00:56:49,073
♪ Though we're all doing
our best to deny it ♪
1222
00:56:49,157 --> 00:56:52,368
♪♪♪
1223
00:56:52,452 --> 00:56:56,372
♪ And Louise holds
a handful of rain ♪
1224
00:56:56,456 --> 00:56:59,459
♪ Temptin' you to defy it ♪
1225
00:56:59,542 --> 00:57:03,087
♪♪♪
1226
00:57:03,171 --> 00:57:07,926
♪ Lights flicker
from the opposite loft ♪
1227
00:57:08,009 --> 00:57:12,347
♪ In this room,
the heat pipes just cough ♪
1228
00:57:12,430 --> 00:57:14,098
♪♪♪
1229
00:57:14,182 --> 00:57:16,976
♪ The country music station
plays soft ♪
1230
00:57:17,060 --> 00:57:20,563
♪ But there's nothing,
really nothing to turn off ♪
1231
00:57:20,647 --> 00:57:23,274
♪♪♪
1232
00:57:23,358 --> 00:57:26,194
♪ Just Louise ♪
1233
00:57:26,277 --> 00:57:28,029
♪ And her lover ♪
1234
00:57:28,112 --> 00:57:30,907
♪ So entwined ♪
1235
00:57:30,990 --> 00:57:33,868
♪♪♪
1236
00:57:33,952 --> 00:57:36,329
♪ And these visions ♪
1237
00:57:36,412 --> 00:57:39,165
♪ Of Johanna ♪
1238
00:57:39,248 --> 00:57:43,711
♪ That conquer my mind ♪
1239
00:57:43,795 --> 00:57:46,798
♪♪♪
1240
00:57:54,514 --> 00:57:58,518
♪ In the empty lot
where the ladies play ♪
1241
00:57:58,601 --> 00:58:02,146
♪ Blind man's bluff
with the key chain ♪
1242
00:58:02,230 --> 00:58:05,108
♪♪♪
1243
00:58:05,191 --> 00:58:08,194
♪ And the all-night girls ♪
1244
00:58:08,277 --> 00:58:13,116
♪ They whisper of escapades
out on the "D" train ♪