I tried.
I did, I put everything on the table.
No!
I tried my best.
But some people here live by violence.
And for them it seems…
it's the only language they understand.
Sergey Ojeda?
I'm telling you, I don't like it. Bad idea.
You keep saying that.
Because I keep thinking it.
Fucking Satan owes him money.
Exactly. He knows all the right people.
He'll want his pound of flesh in return.
Look, I say we take our chances, put it in the system.
You have the evidence, more than just the video now.
Sound the fucking alarms, man.
Look, who's gonna come running to the rescue? The cops?
I mean…
City Hall?
You know? I mean, this Fire Sale goes way above the head of some Sheriff's Deputy.
If we make the wrong decision, Tom,
Danny's dead.
Vega's got me in a corner.
We're out of time, I need Sergey on this.
Make the call.
Set it up. I'm gonna go see Danny. Make sure he's okay.
All right, start your engines.
Remember, that's Sheriff's territory. They'll be listening.
Yeah. Eyes and ears.
See ya.
- Vera Novak? - So what if I am?
- Got something for you. - Yeah?
Eyes and ears.
- Vega. - I wanna see him.
And I wanna see Ji. Tomorrow.
All right, before I do anything, I wanna see him,
I wanna make sure he's okay.
Yeah, you have my word on that, but okay.
- Come on down. - I'm on my way.
Rabineau!
Door!
Hey.
- Hey. - How you doin'?
I'm all right.
Yeah?
Yeah, I didn't sleep much, but I'll be fine.
It's good to see you.
Thanks for coming, man. Sorry you had to come out this way,
I must be one of your worst clients ever, huh?
No, Danny, you're not. Not at all.
Yeah, but I don't pay you. I pick fights, I don't listen.
You make me count my suits.
Well, you should have been keeping track from the start.
That's true.
So…
We have a problem.
What do you… What do you mean? Is… Is Ji okay?
Yeah, he's all right. For now.
But all this, you being in jail, being arrested.
It's a pretense.
This is all about Ji and Vega.
He knows about Ji?
Okay, then. What is he doing, the cop?
What does he want?
Danny, listen to me. You're gonna have to trust me, okay?
What the fuck does he want, Sugar?
He wants to trade.
What?
- Moon. Wrap it up. - Hold on, I just got here.
- You're not gonna do it, though, right? - Danny, listen to me.
No, please, I--
- Time to go. - Yo, just-- I'm serious, you can't do it.
Danny, listen, no matter what happens, no matter what it looks like…
Do not trade… Whoa! I just fucking--
- Hey! Hey! - No, do not do it!
Sugar, do not do it!
All right, all right! All right!
Don't!
Hey, Stanley, what's up?
I am so sorry to bother you. I…
You okay?
I didn't know who… who to call, so I just…
All right. Where are you?
Just a silly bird.
No, you loved him.
My daughters are grown, gone away.
My wife left me for a humanities professor.
Humanities.
Whatever that is.
Do you notice… notice the spines?
Yeah, 'cause that's how they protect themselves from the herbivores.
There's a Picasso quote about youth…
Some… I'm trying to remember it.
You know, my mind…
You wanna sit down?
That would be good.
Come on.
Oh, man.
Stanley, I'm not a tax attorney.
- What? - I don't live in Covina.
Okay, where do you live?
I wanna… I wanna talk to you, Stanley. I wanna talk to you about Senator Pavich.
- Pavich? - Yeah,
he hired you to work on something with him.
It's a project of some kind.
Sorry to disappoint you,
whoever you are, but I'm not gonna tell you.
Yes, you are, Stanley.
Stanley, Stanley, wait, listen to me.
Please.
So, talking about TV shows, caring about plants,
pretending like you give a shit about my parrot, Monty, that-that was all a lie?
No.
It wasn't a lie. I enjoyed being your friend. I still do.
I like you so much, Stanley, I just need your help.
All right, the four circles.
What are they?
They keep turning up. I don't know what they mean.
I think Pavich, with the help of a man named Henry Thorpe…
I think he betrayed a lot of people that I love.
He forced them into hiding, and I… I don't know why.
I don't know why, I don't know what happened,
but I think it's gotta do with these four circles, and I need your help.
Please. The four circles.
They're not circles.
The circles are tropospheric nodes.
Tropospheric nodes?
- To be used as what? A weapon? - No.
Not at all. No, it's to help the climate.
- To help the climate in what way? - Whatever way we want.
Dispel greenhouse gases,
raise O2, lower CO2,
optimize crop yields,
suppress wildfires, prevent flash floods, and on and on.
John, this can change the world.
Literally.
You invented this?
Oh, my good God, no. I'm just one of the engineers.
I helped to scale it up, put it together.
I've theorized about…
But this technology is beyond another level. It's not a weapon.
No, I-I would never…
Yeah, but it scares you.
It does, I've seen it on your face. Even now, you're… you're conflicted. Why?
Yeah, well, we have to do something.
The planet's dying! The world's on fire because of us.
That's what scares me.
But yes, a power like this? Playing God?
You'd be a fool not to be scared, so--
- I have to take this-- - I'm-I'm gonna be leaving now.
Stanley…
- Hey. - All set.
- You're on with Sergey. Be careful. - All right, good.
- What's up? - How's Ji?
You know, bitching and moaning like he's the one in jail.
Well, he's detoxing, you know?
Mood swings are normal.
Yep, I know all about it.
It's important you're there, Val.
All right, I need you to keep an eye on him.
- All right, Boss. - All right, I gotta go.
I'll call you later, okay?
- Mr. Sugar. What a pleasure. - Diego.
I was in my office doing God knows what
when Papa comes in to tell me that you reached out to him.
His face.
He was so happy.
May I?
You know I don't carry a weapon, Diego.
I know.
I'm sorry.
It's for precautions.
Sergey Ojeda.
Head of a cartel called Los Universales,
which, loosely translated, means "we're everywhere."
I did a job for him once, years ago.
Of course, he would say I did half a job for him,
and he is not a man you do half a job for.
You look good.
- Thanks. - Sit.
How do I look?
Old.
Look, I'm trying to be nice to you. Hmm?
You came to me.
Don't you want me to be nice to you?
I suppose, but it's inessential.
You have things you want done,
and sometimes it's in my ability to do them.
You know, our relationship is transactional.
Seems to me that, in the past, that's when trouble came.
You know, when we forgot that.
You're honest with me.
I didn't always agree with you, but you are.
It is a rare quality.
Do you know this Bad Bunny?
I've heard of him.
I'm meeting my granddaughter in Miami to see him.
Nice.
She's sweet, but… not looking forward to it.
So, a policeman?
What is his--
Ray Vega. He works for you.
He's an enforcer for your Fire Sale business.
So many businesses in over 50 countries--
Yeah, identity theft, housing fraud, and building kickbacks.
Hundreds of millions in federal contracts,
all on the backs of the homeless and the addicted.
I mean, it's a nasty business, Sergey, even by your standards.
John, the whole world is a nasty business.
Let's not have that argument again.
Please?
So, what do you want me to do with this policeman?
- I kill him? - No, no, no.
He's got a client of mine in jail.
And he's been trying to squeeze me, so, you know, just get him to back off.
Let my client out.
That's all?
That's it.
And me?
What do I get?
I'll finish the job.
Adiós.
And just like that, I'm back in business with Sergey Ojeda.
Looks like someone went crying to Dad.
We do what we gotta do, Ray.
Release him.
Release him?
You're watching too many movies, Sugar. Nobody talks like that.
It's over, Ray. Sergey can have you in a barrel at the bottom of the ocean
without blinking an eye.
All right. Now, it's gonna take you a minute to cover your tracks.
So, dummy your paperwork, do what you gotta do.
But I want Danny out, and I want him out tonight.
It's over.
Yep.
You know, I realized I don't have your number.
- Not many do. - I see. Dinner?
It's not even 5:00. The restaurant ain't open yet.
Okay. So, room service?
Yours or mine?
"We wind along the Pacific Coast Highway turning west once more.
The ocean now forever in your view as you move
along the breezy byways toward historic San Simeon."
"Breezy byways…"
Sounds lovely.
Cactus.
Yeah… A friend of mine gave it to me.
It's sweet.
My room doesn't have a record player.
Why did you get a record player?
I don't know.
Do you own any records?
I do not.
And yet you get the record player?
Doesn't seem fair.
Where are you from?
Ooh. Questions. Here we go.
Merion, Pennsylvania. Just outside Philadelphia.
Brothers? Sisters?
No brothers, no sisters, no kids.
Just me.
Parents?
We don't talk.
How come?
A million reasons.
They don't like what I do.
They don't like passionate humanitarianism?
Can you believe it?
They're conservative.
They want me to live in some world of years gone by…
When everything was…
I don't know what.
Uncomplicated?
But I can't do that, and I won't do that, so we don't talk.
I'm sorry.
I shouldn't be telling you this.
No, wh-why shouldn't you be telling me this?
'Cause you're a stranger.
I only just got your phone number.
- And my favorite ice cream is mint chip. - Noted.
Your turn. Where are you from?
- Can we skip that one? - What? That's like the easiest one.
No, pistachio being my favorite ice cream is much easier.
Family?
Sister.
Djen.
What's she like?
She's…
She's not…
She was… She was smart.
Beyond anything.
She was…
Loved puzzles, you know, solving problems,
and she was opinionated.
I mean, she had her opinions, and she wouldn't rest…
until you saw things her way.
Which you might have because she was so convincing.
Yeah.
She was kind.
Loving. You know, she could be so loving, but tough too.
I think the first memory I have…
The first kind of feeling I can recall is just
you know, not wanting to let her down.
She was…
She was something.
What… What happened to her?
I don't know.
She just… She died.
I'm sorry.
That's terrible.
Yeah. It is.
Yeah.
You wanna get an ice cream with me?
- Hell yeah. - Yeah?
- Yeah. - All right.
Let's do that.
- Tom? - Sergey's dead.
- Can you meet? - Yep, I'm in the lobby.
So, yeah, a plane went down near Lake Charles en route to Miami.
Some fog in the area, some lightning, but too soon to know anything yet.
They know no survivors, right? You said no survivors?
That they do know.
He's dead, the crew.
What about Diego? The son?
- He always travels with him. - Let's see.
I bet he wasn't on the plane.
I got three killed, was told two crew.
So, yeah, you win that bet.
Fire Sale's Diego.
It's not Sergey, it was never Sergey. Why didn't I know that?
I should have known that.
Okay, so you're good, not perfect.
Yeah, I know. I know. But Danny's not gettin' out now, Tom.
You understand that? I gotta meet Vega with an answer before…
In eight hours.
So, yeah.
Talk to me, brother. What can I do?
I don't know.
Sergey was never a sure thing.
I mean, we-we knew that.
So, I guess now we… we go to plan B.
Okay, good.
Hey, it's gonna work out.
It was always gonna go this way, right?
Yeah, I know. I know.
I was the fighter first, you know?
Way before Danny.
Youth Sectionals.
Youth Regionals.
This dude once said I could be the next Myung-Woo Yuh.
Maybe the next Pacquiao.
- The hype was real, you know? - You keep fucking shooting me.
Oh, sorry.
But I fucked it up.
Broke my hand, and so, you know, "Here's some meds for that."
Then I had this other shit going on,
like, Ma getting cancer and Dad being a whatever.
Then I broke my hand again and, "Here's some more shit for that,"
and so on and so on.
- You guys been doing this all night? - Don't look at me.
Insomnia, bro. I can't sleep.
I still had Danny.
Being with him and seeing his life go.
It's the only good thing I have left.
- About to fuck that up too. - No, you're not. You'll be fine.
Everything I touch turns to shit.
Fuckin' A, man. You sound like my sister.
Sister?
All your excuses set up in a row.
My mom, my hand, my pills.
Like you're the only person in history of the fuckin' world that goes through shit.
So everyone needs to feel fuckin' bad for you and pick up your mess.
- Fuckin' baby. - Whoa.
Do you know what Sugar's getting ready to do for you right now?
What he's willing to sacrifice for you?
Why?
Because you're such a great person?
'Cause he's willing to do something for someone else.
You should really try it sometime.
You're a fuckin' bitch, man.
Well, you're a fuckin' loser.
Rather be a loser than a fuckin' bitch.
Spoken like a fuckin' loser.
Dude.
Dude. You gotta cover me.
No brother?
We're not doing that.
No? What are we doing?
Panamanian passports, huh?
Yeah, there's one for you, one for your daughter.
There's also one for your ex-wife in case you want her to join you.
That's the deed to a villa in Playa Coronado.
It used to belong to a friend of mine. He no longer needs it.
Now, it's beautiful. It's on the beach.
Golf course down the road.
- That's a bank account. - "Banco Banistmo."
Yeah, 'cause money's important.
It's a real offer.
It's a bribe.
That's not the way I mean it.
Everyone's good.
You know, that's what I was taught.
At the beginning, everyone's pure.
And then life happens to us, and we go out into the world
and maybe we make choices that lead us from our true selves.
And if we don't turn back from those choices in time,
if we don't turn it around,
you know, we're… we're changed forever.
This is a chance to turn it around, Ray.
You know, it's true what you're saying.
A lot of it. It's true.
Yeah.
I remember the look on my pop's face the day that I graduated from the academy.
Man, he'd been waiting so long just to be proud of me.
But that one moment, you know. It's…
You were on the right side of things.
You could be again.
You had potential. You still do.
Take it. Take it and walk.
Just make a new life.
Yeah, you know…
Thanks, man, but LA's home for me.
Don't do that. After everything? Just to be given this?
Please.
Take it and walk.
- Where the hell is Ji? - I said we're not doing that.
Then I'm gonna go back to County, I'm gonna open up Danny's cell,
and I'm gonna ring the dinner bell. How's that?
And I hang on to Ji. And you take your chances
that his testimony doesn't put you away for the rest of your life.
There's no sheriff guards in state prison.
You're gonna be real popular in Pelican Bay.
So, what do we do?
Look, there's your friend.
I wonder what she wants, huh?
She can wait.
Nah, you know what?
Let's put a pin in it for now.
She looks worried. Maybe you guys should talk, you know?
Ray.
All right. I'll see you around, pal.
Last chance.
You know, you keep saying that, but I don't think so.
- …video games-- - You were playing video games?
- It was the one thing I asked you to do. - I know. I'm so sorry.
It's all right. We're gonna have to…
He could be… He could be anywhere.
All right, we're just gonna have to go back to square one.
We're gonna have to go to all the places that he… he frequented,
places he scored drugs, the pool hall, wherever.
Well, you were right. They lost him.
Play it again.
- The whole thing? - Play it again.
- What are you doing? - He's gone.
- What do you mean he's gone? - I mean, he fuckin' left.
He took my car. He's gone.
Val, you were supposed to watch him.
I know. I'm so sorry.
I was watching him and then we stayed up really late.
- We were playing video games-- - You were playing video games?
- It was the one thing I asked you to do. - I know. I'm so sorry.
- Boss. - It's all right.
- We're gonna have to… - Phone call.
He could be…
Lieutenant Vega.
What's your number?
Who am I speaking with?
You know.
Give me your number, I'm gonna video call you.
Hey. Nice to see you again.
I bet.
Thought you were with Sugar.
- Nope. - Well, where's he at?
Fuck him. Fuck you. Fuck me.
Okay.
I'm so tired of this shit, man.
Being the loser fuckin' fuckup.
One time, one fucking time I wanna do something right.
That sounds good. What are you… What are you thinking?
You want a trade?
Let's trade.
Me for my brother.
No tricks, no, like, fuckin' double crosses.
Just me and you and Danny.
Well, that seems fair.
Where you at, bud?
Hey, sorry about your brother. It sucks.
To be real though, this is sort of him trying to do right by you,
you know, which you gotta respect.
Sort of a dying wish sort of thing, you know?
Jesus Christ!
What the fuck are you doing?
You're gonna hurt yourself.
How's that? Better?
I'll be right back.
Hey, Ji?
Hey. Your brother's here.
Fuckin' junkie.
All right, change of plans.
Motherfucker!
I told you.
Ji!
Danny!
I thought I wasn't gonna see you again, bro!
Hey, what happened?
No, I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay.
I'm so sorry.
- Okay, Joe, that's enough. - Come on, Maxie.
Only had five rounds. Can't I have a couple more?
You heard me. I said that's enough now.
Remember, that's Sheriff's territory.
They'll be listening.
Yeah. Eyes and ears.
Cremated, that's what I said.
While you guys kept me up here gabbing,
that Corkle gets my body out of the plane and has me cremated.
- What do you mean he's gone? - I mean, he's gone.
- He stole my fuckin' car and he left. - Val, you were supposed to watch him.
I know, but fuck, we stayed up really late playing video games.
- I'm taking you back. - Yeah, but you can't.
Didn't we just tell you? I haven't got a body anymore.
What of it? I'll get you another body.
- You'll do what? - Another body?
Well, that's what I said. Come along, Joseph.
No, wait a minute, wait a minute. What kind of a deal is this?
Couldn't we have him reborn?
I'm not going to go through that again.
No tricks, okay? No fuckin', like, double crosses.
Just me and you and Danny.
That seems fair.
Where you at, bud?
I want you to get in the trunk of that car.
Okay.
Mr. Jordan, I've never seen anything as beautiful as that, not even in heaven.
She's in a tough spot.
Got a lot of courage to come all the way up here alone to fight for her father.
She worships him.
She's no match for those buzzards.
She needs help. She's in trouble. You better go to work.
Farnsworth is the only one who can help her, Joe.
And he's dead.
But you can be Farnsworth.
You're quiet.
How are you feeling, John?
I'm fine.
You know what this means, right?
I did what I had to do. I had no choice.
What'd you say?
Nothing.
Come to bed.
I'm sorry, I keep on staring at you like this.
That's okay. I'm doing a little staring myself.
I'm all mixed up.
In fact, I didn't come here so much to thank you, as to…
Because I had to see you again.
Well, that's wonderful.
- That's wonderful! - A miracle.
A miracle? Why?
Well, that a man like Bruce Farnsworth could actually
think the way I was brought up to think about people.
That he could have a real feeling for the happiness of others.
Well, that's as good a way to go through life as any other, isn't it?
Yes, that's all I meant.
Except, when you find that in somebody, it's a great discovery.
I guess that's why I keep staring.
I can't help it.
I suddenly feel so warm and alive and happy.
It's something in your eyes and what's behind them that…
that I keep trying to see.