1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:03,846 Subtitles by explosiveskull 2 00:00:06,298 --> 00:00:07,388 Previously on Billions... 3 00:00:07,424 --> 00:00:09,390 I'm holding in my hand Robert Axelrod's signature 4 00:00:09,426 --> 00:00:11,601 relinquishing his ability to trade securities. 5 00:00:11,637 --> 00:00:13,144 He gave it up? 6 00:00:13,180 --> 00:00:14,896 These fuckers can take away my ability to trade 7 00:00:14,932 --> 00:00:17,148 but not my ability to see. 8 00:00:17,184 --> 00:00:19,150 Taking on the police fund as a client was 9 00:00:19,186 --> 00:00:20,359 one of the proudest moments of my life. 10 00:00:20,395 --> 00:00:23,279 I knew that if I gave you my money that you wouldn't sleep 11 00:00:23,315 --> 00:00:25,281 until you put it in all the right places. 12 00:00:25,317 --> 00:00:27,366 Michael Panay! I know how much you lost. 13 00:00:27,402 --> 00:00:31,287 You're not exactly trending in the right direction, either. 14 00:00:31,323 --> 00:00:32,538 Maybe we help each other. 15 00:00:32,574 --> 00:00:33,998 It's not the sort of thing most clients ask for, 16 00:00:34,034 --> 00:00:36,876 especially not when they're drawing heat. 17 00:00:36,912 --> 00:00:37,752 These are my needs. 18 00:00:37,788 --> 00:00:40,129 Either you meet them or you can't. 19 00:00:40,165 --> 00:00:42,298 We can get it done. 20 00:00:42,334 --> 00:00:43,966 Sometimes a man comes into your life 21 00:00:44,002 --> 00:00:45,593 at just the right time, you know? 22 00:00:45,629 --> 00:00:47,011 Absolutely. 23 00:00:47,047 --> 00:00:49,096 I know that I have transgressed materially 24 00:00:49,132 --> 00:00:51,515 but, more importantly, in terms of loyalty. 25 00:00:51,551 --> 00:00:56,938 I'll never talk to you again once this conversation's over, 26 00:00:56,974 --> 00:00:57,428 which it is. 27 00:01:19,663 --> 00:01:20,962 So, I know you figured out what I have planned for tonight. 28 00:01:20,998 --> 00:01:23,589 I know it's not a surprise. 29 00:01:23,625 --> 00:01:24,549 A girl's intuition. 30 00:01:24,585 --> 00:01:27,468 And a bit of spycraft, but... 31 00:01:27,504 --> 00:01:29,971 Still very excited. 32 00:01:30,007 --> 00:01:32,139 My favorite pasta on the menu. 33 00:01:32,175 --> 00:01:35,184 Tagliatelle with Guffanti butter from Emilia Romagna. 34 00:01:35,220 --> 00:01:36,936 If you'd like it to be even more magical, 35 00:01:36,972 --> 00:01:38,563 I recommend white truffles, 36 00:01:38,599 --> 00:01:40,731 $14 a gram. 37 00:01:40,767 --> 00:01:42,567 - No, I'm good. - Yes, please. 38 00:01:42,603 --> 00:01:43,859 I love truffles. 39 00:01:43,895 --> 00:01:45,272 Ira, you turned me on to them. 40 00:01:47,691 --> 00:01:48,823 No, not now. 41 00:01:48,859 --> 00:01:50,825 Just... just for her, I guess. 42 00:01:50,861 --> 00:01:53,155 Say when. 43 00:02:08,253 --> 00:02:09,135 That's good. 44 00:02:09,171 --> 00:02:10,553 - Thank you. - You're welcome. 45 00:02:10,589 --> 00:02:12,722 20 grams. Biggest portion of the season. Wow. 46 00:02:12,758 --> 00:02:14,849 Sir, maybe just... 47 00:02:14,885 --> 00:02:17,643 Uh, no, thank you. 48 00:02:17,679 --> 00:02:20,724 Enjoy. 49 00:02:22,768 --> 00:02:27,903 You are... you're great. 50 00:02:27,939 --> 00:02:29,155 Uh, I don't even really understand 51 00:02:29,191 --> 00:02:31,860 how I'm sitting across from you. 52 00:02:33,862 --> 00:02:34,869 Some nights when you're asleep 53 00:02:34,905 --> 00:02:35,870 and light's coming in through the window, 54 00:02:35,906 --> 00:02:39,081 I just... I... I almost can't catch my breath 55 00:02:39,117 --> 00:02:41,667 'cause of how beautiful you are. 56 00:02:41,703 --> 00:02:43,294 Even now. 57 00:02:43,330 --> 00:02:46,255 The smoothness of your skin. Who has skin like that? 58 00:02:46,291 --> 00:02:48,591 You are the sweetest man. 59 00:02:48,627 --> 00:02:50,593 So, all this is why 60 00:02:50,629 --> 00:02:52,053 I was planning 61 00:02:52,089 --> 00:02:54,430 to ask you to marry me tonight. 62 00:02:54,466 --> 00:02:55,431 But... 63 00:02:55,467 --> 00:02:57,642 But? 64 00:02:57,678 --> 00:02:59,810 I'm not sure it's fair to you, 65 00:02:59,846 --> 00:03:01,103 with everything that's happened. 66 00:03:01,139 --> 00:03:04,398 Leaving my partnership at the firm, 67 00:03:04,434 --> 00:03:05,524 the company going down, 68 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,611 my entire savings gone. Anyway... 69 00:03:08,647 --> 00:03:11,280 I can't give you the wedding you deserve, 70 00:03:11,316 --> 00:03:12,865 the honeymoon we discussed, 71 00:03:12,901 --> 00:03:15,159 the life we planned. 72 00:03:15,195 --> 00:03:17,870 I can't tell you to quit your job. 73 00:03:17,906 --> 00:03:20,706 I can't even afford the ring I picked out for you. 74 00:03:20,742 --> 00:03:22,792 Now, if knowing all this, 75 00:03:22,828 --> 00:03:28,255 you want to go ahead... 76 00:03:28,291 --> 00:03:31,753 No. You're right. We should wait. 77 00:03:33,713 --> 00:03:37,175 Okay. Good. 78 00:03:48,478 --> 00:03:49,443 Oh, my God. 79 00:03:49,479 --> 00:03:51,278 This is delicious. 80 00:03:58,447 --> 00:04:00,788 Now that the papers are signed, 81 00:04:00,824 --> 00:04:04,417 the process can take as little as four months. 82 00:04:04,453 --> 00:04:07,002 But your case is more complicated than usual. 83 00:04:07,038 --> 00:04:09,672 Even though you've agreed to a division of assets, 84 00:04:09,708 --> 00:04:11,924 it'll take a while before it's finalized. 85 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,129 Thank you, Orrin. 86 00:04:27,350 --> 00:04:29,900 The marriage was broken down irretrievably. 87 00:04:29,936 --> 00:04:30,818 That's what the document said. 88 00:04:30,854 --> 00:04:33,028 I read it. 89 00:04:33,064 --> 00:04:35,990 Never thought I'd be putting my signature on that statement. 90 00:04:36,026 --> 00:04:36,782 Me, neither. 91 00:04:36,818 --> 00:04:38,403 No one does. 92 00:04:40,906 --> 00:04:41,746 It happens. 93 00:04:41,782 --> 00:04:44,534 Yeah. 94 00:04:48,246 --> 00:04:50,171 Lar? 95 00:04:50,207 --> 00:04:51,756 The assets. 96 00:04:51,792 --> 00:04:54,091 We need to talk about that. 97 00:04:54,127 --> 00:04:56,802 I know you didn't have to honor what we've always said, 98 00:04:56,838 --> 00:04:59,221 that we'd split everything 50-50. 99 00:04:59,257 --> 00:05:00,890 You could have fought it. And won. 100 00:05:00,926 --> 00:05:03,058 I appreciate it. 101 00:05:03,094 --> 00:05:05,644 Well, we built it together. 102 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,606 That's not what I'm talking about. 103 00:05:08,642 --> 00:05:09,648 The government. The case. 104 00:05:09,684 --> 00:05:13,110 I'm looking ahead to what happens if I lose 105 00:05:13,146 --> 00:05:14,528 and they take it all. 106 00:05:14,564 --> 00:05:17,531 I haven't heard you even entertain that outcome. 107 00:05:17,567 --> 00:05:21,327 Well, I'm at the point now where I have to. 108 00:05:21,363 --> 00:05:23,579 The Feds traded out the good judge like they were 109 00:05:23,615 --> 00:05:25,956 doing the cup-and-balls trick in clear plastic 110 00:05:25,992 --> 00:05:28,209 and flaunting how they were fucking with me. 111 00:05:28,245 --> 00:05:30,252 But Orrin has said that the government can 112 00:05:30,288 --> 00:05:32,588 only claw back what they can prove is ill-gotten. 113 00:05:32,624 --> 00:05:33,255 The prosecutors and the courts, 114 00:05:33,291 --> 00:05:36,759 they're like the mob, worse. 115 00:05:36,795 --> 00:05:38,511 They have methods of accounting 116 00:05:38,547 --> 00:05:40,930 that can taint most of it, all of it. 117 00:05:40,966 --> 00:05:42,723 What do you mean, all of it? 118 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:44,099 I mean if I take into account 119 00:05:44,135 --> 00:05:46,602 everything that's run through the banking systems, 120 00:05:46,638 --> 00:05:47,686 everything that's on the radar, 121 00:05:47,722 --> 00:05:53,108 all that's left that I'm sure can't be touched 122 00:05:53,144 --> 00:05:53,901 is 300 mil, 123 00:05:53,937 --> 00:05:56,779 maybe 320. 124 00:05:56,815 --> 00:05:59,073 Fuck, Bobby. 125 00:05:59,109 --> 00:06:00,825 I... 126 00:06:00,861 --> 00:06:02,451 I can't believe I'm saying this, but that just... 127 00:06:02,487 --> 00:06:04,203 it doesn't sound like it's enough. 128 00:06:04,239 --> 00:06:06,288 I mean, of course it is. 129 00:06:06,324 --> 00:06:07,915 It's just that the life that we're used to living... 130 00:06:07,951 --> 00:06:10,251 No, it's not enough. 131 00:06:10,287 --> 00:06:11,460 So when it's done and life starts over, 132 00:06:11,496 --> 00:06:14,964 how long will it take to build back up from there? 133 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:15,881 Too fucking long. 134 00:06:15,917 --> 00:06:18,717 So, what? 135 00:06:18,753 --> 00:06:20,970 I have to get more they can't see, 136 00:06:21,006 --> 00:06:23,472 much less touch, 137 00:06:23,508 --> 00:06:26,141 and I have an idea how. 138 00:06:39,190 --> 00:06:40,573 Center mass. 139 00:06:40,609 --> 00:06:43,534 You never pulled your piece during your time on the job. 140 00:06:43,570 --> 00:06:46,287 Likelihood of that happening now has got to be far less, 141 00:06:46,323 --> 00:06:48,455 - and yet you practice. - Got to keep my cert. 142 00:06:48,491 --> 00:06:51,166 I'm not the kind of man to let hard-earned skills falter. 143 00:06:51,202 --> 00:06:51,834 Neither am I. 144 00:06:51,870 --> 00:06:53,002 It's easier for me, though. 145 00:06:53,038 --> 00:06:56,338 All I have to do is show up here, aim, and shoot. 146 00:06:56,374 --> 00:06:58,465 You're barred from practicing what you do. 147 00:06:58,501 --> 00:07:00,593 Well, the investing was only part of it. 148 00:07:00,629 --> 00:07:02,011 There was also the raises. 149 00:07:02,047 --> 00:07:04,722 I loved walking into a room, knowing there were ten guys 150 00:07:04,758 --> 00:07:06,682 who'd been in front of me, five waiting for me to leave. 151 00:07:06,718 --> 00:07:09,560 You know my favorite sound in the world was the one I heard 152 00:07:09,596 --> 00:07:13,230 on the way out, when those saps in the lobby were told 153 00:07:13,266 --> 00:07:14,857 that their meetings were canceled? 154 00:07:14,893 --> 00:07:16,191 You can't raise, either. 155 00:07:16,227 --> 00:07:17,359 Yeah, well, not at the moment. 156 00:07:17,395 --> 00:07:19,445 But I can advise close friends on what they ought to do 157 00:07:19,481 --> 00:07:21,363 with money they've been entrusted with. 158 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:23,907 Let me guess what those funds are. 159 00:07:23,943 --> 00:07:25,993 Things like Ionosphere or Victor Mateo's? 160 00:07:26,029 --> 00:07:27,369 Those are excellent choices. 161 00:07:27,405 --> 00:07:29,747 I can't do it, Axe. I can't even think of doing it. 162 00:07:29,783 --> 00:07:32,541 If I know that you're that close to them, others do, too. 163 00:07:32,577 --> 00:07:34,627 My board of directors wouldn't allow that. 164 00:07:34,663 --> 00:07:37,129 You got to know if I got my eye on the money, 165 00:07:37,165 --> 00:07:40,090 that's the best chance it has to grow for your members. 166 00:07:40,126 --> 00:07:41,717 You can't leave it behind. 167 00:07:41,753 --> 00:07:44,261 I was that way, too, when I first left the job. 168 00:07:44,297 --> 00:07:46,722 - But then... - Then what? 169 00:07:46,758 --> 00:07:49,058 You found other interests, deeper pursuits? 170 00:07:49,094 --> 00:07:51,518 Learned the difference between Warhol and Peter Max 171 00:07:51,554 --> 00:07:53,354 by spending weekends at the museum? 172 00:07:53,390 --> 00:07:55,356 I grew up in Westbeth, for fuck's sake. 173 00:07:55,392 --> 00:07:57,149 I have always known one was shit, the other a genius. 174 00:07:57,185 --> 00:07:59,109 But, yes, all that. 175 00:07:59,145 --> 00:08:02,154 Life changed. 176 00:08:02,190 --> 00:08:05,282 Did it solve anything for you? 177 00:08:05,318 --> 00:08:08,077 Did it make the transition easier? 178 00:08:08,113 --> 00:08:09,870 Come on, man. 179 00:08:09,906 --> 00:08:13,415 I saw the look in your eyes when you had that gun in your hand. 180 00:08:13,451 --> 00:08:14,708 You'll always miss it. 181 00:08:14,744 --> 00:08:17,920 With every breath I draw. But I had to move on. 182 00:08:17,956 --> 00:08:20,005 As do you. 183 00:08:20,041 --> 00:08:21,548 You knew it was coming. I didn't. 184 00:08:21,584 --> 00:08:24,677 You did your 20. You planned for it. 185 00:08:24,713 --> 00:08:27,846 And you had something to do with your talents. 186 00:08:27,882 --> 00:08:28,681 You went to B-school at night, 187 00:08:28,717 --> 00:08:31,183 became a trustee of the pension fund. 188 00:08:31,219 --> 00:08:33,894 You became a rich man for the first time in your life, 189 00:08:33,930 --> 00:08:35,270 but these things don't last. 190 00:08:35,306 --> 00:08:37,731 You know, you have a few down years, and you could 191 00:08:37,767 --> 00:08:39,316 - get yourself voted out. - Axe... 192 00:08:39,352 --> 00:08:41,860 Look, what if I could put you into a fund 193 00:08:41,896 --> 00:08:44,196 where there was no hint of a connection to me 194 00:08:44,232 --> 00:08:45,280 but was one I could guarantee? 195 00:08:45,316 --> 00:08:49,034 If I could give you the 2.2 bil to manage, I would. 196 00:08:49,070 --> 00:08:50,244 I can't. 197 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:53,038 The way that people look at police these days, 198 00:08:53,074 --> 00:08:56,119 we can't afford even the whiff of impropriety. 199 00:09:09,841 --> 00:09:12,516 You might want to come home late tomorrow night. 200 00:09:12,552 --> 00:09:13,767 Huh? 201 00:09:13,803 --> 00:09:15,602 Your father. 202 00:09:15,638 --> 00:09:18,564 I told you he wants to see the kids. 203 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,316 You did, and I told you I wasn't interested. 204 00:09:21,352 --> 00:09:23,986 Which is why you should stay late in the office. 205 00:09:24,022 --> 00:09:27,031 Return any and all phone calls you've been ducking. 206 00:09:27,067 --> 00:09:28,490 I'll text when he's leaving. 207 00:09:28,526 --> 00:09:30,993 I don't duck. I return all my calls every day. 208 00:09:31,029 --> 00:09:32,244 Do people really do that, not return calls? 209 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,288 Avoidance usually. 210 00:09:34,324 --> 00:09:35,539 Most people don't want to give bad news 211 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:37,458 or admit they don't know the answer. 212 00:09:37,494 --> 00:09:39,626 - What answer? - To whatever the caller wants. 213 00:09:39,662 --> 00:09:40,669 Most people aren't the final authority, but they don't want 214 00:09:40,705 --> 00:09:42,963 to let on someone else is making the decisions. 215 00:09:42,999 --> 00:09:45,132 Not me. 216 00:09:45,168 --> 00:09:47,342 No. Not you. 217 00:09:47,378 --> 00:09:50,304 Except about whether my own father can cross my door frame. 218 00:09:50,340 --> 00:09:53,599 He's a grandfather, too. 219 00:09:53,635 --> 00:09:57,186 And the kids shouldn't be deprived of him. 220 00:09:57,222 --> 00:09:59,396 - "Can I get back to you?" - What? 221 00:09:59,432 --> 00:10:01,315 Why don't they just return or take the call and say that? 222 00:10:01,351 --> 00:10:02,524 "Can I get back to you?" 223 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:05,694 They can. They don't want to. 224 00:10:05,730 --> 00:10:08,822 Well, I do, and I want to come home when I want to come home. 225 00:10:08,858 --> 00:10:10,449 I'm trying to keep this light. 226 00:10:10,485 --> 00:10:11,825 I do not want an argument. 227 00:10:11,861 --> 00:10:14,078 But there's reasons I don't want him here, 228 00:10:14,114 --> 00:10:16,449 and I don't want him seeing you. 229 00:10:18,368 --> 00:10:21,168 Reasons it won't do either one of us any good to go into, 230 00:10:21,204 --> 00:10:22,086 I promise. 231 00:10:22,122 --> 00:10:24,791 Okay. 232 00:10:26,793 --> 00:10:29,635 I'll bring the kids to him. 233 00:10:29,671 --> 00:10:31,220 Drop them off so they can see him, and you're clear. 234 00:10:31,256 --> 00:10:33,889 I'll pick them up after. 235 00:10:33,925 --> 00:10:34,801 Okay. 236 00:10:47,397 --> 00:10:50,191 The robots have come. 237 00:10:51,943 --> 00:10:54,535 I got in this racket a generation too late, 238 00:10:54,571 --> 00:10:55,994 just like Tony Soprano. 239 00:10:56,030 --> 00:10:57,454 Yep, this is how it ends. 240 00:10:57,490 --> 00:10:58,372 Civilization? 241 00:10:58,408 --> 00:11:00,374 Uh-huh. Just like in Tommyknockers. 242 00:11:00,410 --> 00:11:03,293 First it makes things better for you. Then it destroys you. 243 00:11:03,329 --> 00:11:05,420 This is how computers take over the world. 244 00:11:05,456 --> 00:11:07,422 Tommyknockers was aliens, not computers. 245 00:11:07,458 --> 00:11:09,341 Yeah, but I have heard about other funds 246 00:11:09,377 --> 00:11:11,593 that bring in quants, and it doesn't sound good. 247 00:11:11,629 --> 00:11:13,595 Once they get the algo really going... 248 00:11:13,631 --> 00:11:14,596 They get 'em measuring everything we do, 249 00:11:14,632 --> 00:11:16,765 get us competing against it. 250 00:11:16,801 --> 00:11:18,350 Who can beat a fucking computer? 251 00:11:18,386 --> 00:11:21,645 Eventually, the only human left is the guy feeding the machines. 252 00:11:21,681 --> 00:11:23,814 No computer can get the kind of info I can 253 00:11:23,850 --> 00:11:25,274 or know what to do with it the way I do, 254 00:11:25,310 --> 00:11:27,317 so buck the fuck up. 255 00:11:27,353 --> 00:11:29,027 No fear! 256 00:11:29,063 --> 00:11:31,280 Bucking. Absolutely. 257 00:11:31,316 --> 00:11:32,739 Fuck fear. 258 00:11:32,775 --> 00:11:33,866 Really? 259 00:11:33,902 --> 00:11:36,785 Nope. Scared shitless. 260 00:11:36,821 --> 00:11:38,662 - Me, too. - Yeah. I'm totally scared. 261 00:11:38,698 --> 00:11:40,414 Pussies. 262 00:11:40,450 --> 00:11:43,208 I take it you've looked at the object on the table. 263 00:11:43,244 --> 00:11:44,835 Cardboard? 264 00:11:44,871 --> 00:11:45,794 Yes. 265 00:11:45,830 --> 00:11:47,963 You can see the folds and the tabs. 266 00:11:47,999 --> 00:11:49,381 Fit the pieces into a box, 267 00:11:49,417 --> 00:11:52,128 signal when you're done, and we'll begin the interview. 268 00:12:03,556 --> 00:12:05,814 I got her ingredients 269 00:12:05,850 --> 00:12:08,442 and followed her recipe and process to the letter. 270 00:12:08,478 --> 00:12:10,319 - You think you nailed it? - You tell me. 271 00:12:10,355 --> 00:12:11,653 Because it's fucking important 272 00:12:11,689 --> 00:12:12,821 that when Raul bites into this thing, 273 00:12:12,857 --> 00:12:15,699 he is carried away on sweet reminiscences 274 00:12:15,735 --> 00:12:17,492 of our visit to Ann's Snack Bar 275 00:12:17,528 --> 00:12:19,864 and the Killer Mike R. A. P. Music release party. 276 00:12:29,165 --> 00:12:31,668 Hmm. 277 00:12:32,669 --> 00:12:33,717 Piss-poor effort, Ryan. 278 00:12:33,753 --> 00:12:35,969 Miss Ann's spinning in her grave right now, 279 00:12:36,005 --> 00:12:37,095 may she rest in peace. 280 00:12:37,131 --> 00:12:38,222 It's not good? 281 00:12:38,258 --> 00:12:40,390 Her sister told me exactly what to do... 282 00:12:40,426 --> 00:12:41,975 Oh, no, it's good. 283 00:12:42,011 --> 00:12:43,602 But this thing needs to transport the man. 284 00:12:43,638 --> 00:12:46,021 If you can't fucking do it, 285 00:12:46,057 --> 00:12:47,689 we'll fly her sister up here 286 00:12:47,725 --> 00:12:49,650 with a vat of their original cooking oil, 287 00:12:49,686 --> 00:12:51,568 even if we have to go down there and kidnap her ourselves. 288 00:12:51,604 --> 00:12:53,445 Easy, fella. Ryan, keep at it. 289 00:12:53,481 --> 00:12:56,401 This is very close. 290 00:12:58,611 --> 00:13:00,118 What the fuck, Wags? 291 00:13:00,154 --> 00:13:02,412 I've been thinking about your situation. 292 00:13:02,448 --> 00:13:04,873 And I realize it could be my situation, too. 293 00:13:04,909 --> 00:13:05,874 If this thing cascades 294 00:13:05,910 --> 00:13:08,126 and the government takes all of your shit, 295 00:13:08,162 --> 00:13:09,253 I'm next. 296 00:13:09,289 --> 00:13:11,546 And then I'll be in the same boat as you are. 297 00:13:11,582 --> 00:13:13,548 Let's be honest, if that comes to pass, 298 00:13:13,584 --> 00:13:15,384 you'll be in a much fucking smaller boat. 299 00:13:15,420 --> 00:13:16,879 Don't I know it. 300 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,145 It's actually really good. 301 00:13:27,181 --> 00:13:29,147 I might have overreacted there. 302 00:13:29,183 --> 00:13:31,441 Yeah, so, again, what the fuck? 303 00:13:31,477 --> 00:13:33,193 The quants. 304 00:13:33,229 --> 00:13:35,237 Ahh. 305 00:13:35,273 --> 00:13:36,989 Since 1602, 306 00:13:37,025 --> 00:13:39,157 when the Dutch East India Company 307 00:13:39,193 --> 00:13:41,493 first offered shares to the public, 308 00:13:41,529 --> 00:13:43,412 smart, highly trained mathematicians 309 00:13:43,448 --> 00:13:45,122 have tried, without success, to solve that market. 310 00:13:45,158 --> 00:13:48,959 And today, Taylor begins the interviews to hire their own. 311 00:13:48,995 --> 00:13:49,918 Our own. 312 00:13:49,954 --> 00:13:51,586 You know how I feel about that. 313 00:13:51,622 --> 00:13:52,671 I do. 314 00:13:52,707 --> 00:13:55,257 Billy Beane never won a World Series. 315 00:13:55,293 --> 00:13:56,258 This isn't baseball. 316 00:13:56,294 --> 00:13:59,261 Then why didn't you put quants in place before? 317 00:13:59,297 --> 00:14:00,178 Maybe I just didn't get to it. 318 00:14:00,214 --> 00:14:03,223 Maybe I didn't feel like I needed to. 319 00:14:03,259 --> 00:14:04,516 But Taylor might. 320 00:14:04,552 --> 00:14:06,309 And if they want to do it, it's your job to help them. 321 00:14:06,345 --> 00:14:09,223 Fine. 322 00:14:13,061 --> 00:14:15,610 Damn. 323 00:14:15,646 --> 00:14:19,025 Apologize to Chef Ryan on your way out. 324 00:14:27,533 --> 00:14:29,916 Sorry to keep calling, 325 00:14:29,952 --> 00:14:32,794 but you know I need to speak to all the major shareholders, 326 00:14:32,830 --> 00:14:35,672 understand how and when the company got on Axelrod's radar. 327 00:14:35,708 --> 00:14:37,466 Oh, I love talking about this. 328 00:14:37,502 --> 00:14:38,967 What else is on your pad? 329 00:14:39,003 --> 00:14:42,387 Shall we, uh, relive my divorce and the day the music died? 330 00:14:42,423 --> 00:14:43,180 I want to put Axelrod away. 331 00:14:43,216 --> 00:14:45,474 I imagine you want the same thing. 332 00:14:45,510 --> 00:14:47,851 I want this done and out of my life. 333 00:14:47,887 --> 00:14:49,519 His conviction sets up my civil suit, 334 00:14:49,555 --> 00:14:51,688 so let's just cut to the... 335 00:14:51,724 --> 00:14:52,898 what happens after this? 336 00:14:52,934 --> 00:14:55,734 You go over what I said with your boss, 337 00:14:55,770 --> 00:14:56,777 decide if you want to interview me again. 338 00:14:56,813 --> 00:14:59,071 I don't want to drag this out, 339 00:14:59,107 --> 00:15:00,072 and I don't want to get all invested. 340 00:15:00,108 --> 00:15:03,200 I've seen Axelrod wriggle free plenty of times. 341 00:15:03,236 --> 00:15:04,076 - I'm gonna stop that. - We'll see. 342 00:15:04,112 --> 00:15:06,536 Let's just do this with your boss. 343 00:15:06,572 --> 00:15:07,662 Okay? You, me, and Dake. 344 00:15:07,698 --> 00:15:10,832 I'll come down to your place tomorrow or the next day. 345 00:15:10,868 --> 00:15:13,287 One time, with feeling. 346 00:15:22,713 --> 00:15:25,055 You know, back before Texas was civilized, 347 00:15:25,091 --> 00:15:26,264 if you were a Ranger 348 00:15:26,300 --> 00:15:29,351 and one of your compatriots fell at the hands of a rustler, 349 00:15:29,387 --> 00:15:33,105 you'd bring that rustler in dead if you brought him in at all. 350 00:15:33,141 --> 00:15:35,398 Might just make use of some rope and a tree. 351 00:15:35,434 --> 00:15:36,775 Sure. 352 00:15:36,811 --> 00:15:39,486 And people used to shit outdoors 353 00:15:39,522 --> 00:15:40,320 in the middle of the night 354 00:15:40,356 --> 00:15:42,489 so as not to stink up the house. 355 00:15:42,525 --> 00:15:44,366 And then we found a better way. 356 00:15:44,402 --> 00:15:45,784 I'm not so sure they did. 357 00:15:45,820 --> 00:15:48,495 That walk to the outhouse in the freezing cold 358 00:15:48,531 --> 00:15:50,455 made a man nut up... literally. 359 00:15:50,491 --> 00:15:51,623 But we ain't talking about 360 00:15:51,659 --> 00:15:52,332 squatting in the dark here, Chuck. 361 00:15:52,368 --> 00:15:54,209 Nossir. 362 00:15:54,245 --> 00:15:55,836 It's probably that rustler stuff 363 00:15:55,872 --> 00:15:58,505 that made you ask me to cancel my morning and come here. 364 00:15:58,541 --> 00:15:59,673 That it is. 365 00:15:59,709 --> 00:16:02,217 José Lugo. Convicted felon. 366 00:16:02,253 --> 00:16:05,220 Killed a federal prison guard when his back was turned. 367 00:16:05,256 --> 00:16:08,014 Makes it a federal matter. Our matter. 368 00:16:08,050 --> 00:16:10,183 Sounds like it might. 369 00:16:10,219 --> 00:16:12,269 Might is a New Yorker's word. 370 00:16:12,305 --> 00:16:12,936 I don't want to hear it. 371 00:16:12,972 --> 00:16:15,689 It's a lawyer's word, sir. 372 00:16:15,725 --> 00:16:17,983 I'll need to examine the facts. 373 00:16:18,019 --> 00:16:19,776 Don't condescend to me, Chuck. 374 00:16:19,812 --> 00:16:22,070 We went to the same kind of college, 375 00:16:22,106 --> 00:16:24,072 same damn law school, clerked in the same offices, 376 00:16:24,108 --> 00:16:25,907 read the same books on ethical justice 377 00:16:25,943 --> 00:16:29,703 by guys like Rawls and Dworkin. 378 00:16:29,739 --> 00:16:33,039 "The suppression of liberty is likely to always be irrational." 379 00:16:33,075 --> 00:16:36,626 I even bought in to that crap for a while. 380 00:16:36,662 --> 00:16:37,711 But a man has to grow into who he is, 381 00:16:37,747 --> 00:16:39,921 and who the fuck I am 382 00:16:39,957 --> 00:16:42,549 is a man that's not gonna allow a prisoner to shank a guard. 383 00:16:42,585 --> 00:16:45,260 And neither are you. 384 00:16:45,296 --> 00:16:47,971 I'll make sure my office looks into it. 385 00:16:48,007 --> 00:16:49,014 Believe it has. 386 00:16:49,050 --> 00:16:51,391 Believe it's dragged its feet in prosecuting. 387 00:16:51,427 --> 00:16:52,559 Believe that ends now. 388 00:16:52,595 --> 00:16:54,853 Are you picking my cases for me, General? 389 00:16:54,889 --> 00:16:57,439 Oh, I would never do that. 390 00:16:57,475 --> 00:17:00,066 I'm merely giving you continued guidance 391 00:17:00,102 --> 00:17:01,276 on the types of matters we are interested 392 00:17:01,312 --> 00:17:04,863 in seeing brought to justice under the current regime. 393 00:17:04,899 --> 00:17:08,074 I never liked the idea of a regime in power 394 00:17:08,110 --> 00:17:09,284 in this country. 395 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,704 But you did drop all the cases that didn't fit the agenda. 396 00:17:12,740 --> 00:17:14,789 I did. 397 00:17:14,825 --> 00:17:18,793 So now you're free to go after the ones that do. 398 00:17:18,829 --> 00:17:20,921 Thanks for stopping by this morning. 399 00:17:20,957 --> 00:17:22,005 Can I look forward 400 00:17:22,041 --> 00:17:25,467 to seeing you again soon, General? 401 00:17:25,503 --> 00:17:27,552 I love all my children the same, Chuck. 402 00:17:27,588 --> 00:17:29,638 But the Sovereign District of New York 403 00:17:29,674 --> 00:17:31,556 is the first among equals. 404 00:17:33,135 --> 00:17:34,851 Something I learned clerking 405 00:17:34,887 --> 00:17:37,938 for the kind of New York judge you revere so much is, 406 00:17:37,974 --> 00:17:41,227 you don't let your firstborn fuck up his Haftarah portion. 407 00:18:02,373 --> 00:18:03,463 I looked in on your candidate. 408 00:18:03,499 --> 00:18:07,050 I know what he's supposed to be doing with that box. 409 00:18:07,086 --> 00:18:08,093 He's not doing it. 410 00:18:08,129 --> 00:18:09,928 Maybe we move to the verbal portion. 411 00:18:09,964 --> 00:18:11,846 Maybe we just cancel at this point. 412 00:18:11,882 --> 00:18:14,140 - Why would I do that? - Because you've studied 413 00:18:14,176 --> 00:18:16,434 the Flash Crash of 2010, and you know that "quant" 414 00:18:16,470 --> 00:18:18,395 is just another word for "wild fucking guess... with math." 415 00:18:18,431 --> 00:18:22,190 "Quant" is another word for "systemized, ordered thinking 416 00:18:22,226 --> 00:18:23,733 represented in an algorithmic approach to trading." 417 00:18:23,769 --> 00:18:25,110 Just remember: 418 00:18:25,146 --> 00:18:29,614 Billy Beane never won a World Series. 419 00:18:29,650 --> 00:18:30,949 If I had a few more minutes... 420 00:18:30,985 --> 00:18:33,154 Forget it. Tell me why you're here. 421 00:18:34,447 --> 00:18:37,539 I combine the human edge with the quant edge. 422 00:18:37,575 --> 00:18:40,125 My system mimics human peak performance. 423 00:18:40,161 --> 00:18:41,334 Go on. 424 00:18:41,370 --> 00:18:44,254 It's a decision pattern algo me and my team are developing. 425 00:18:44,290 --> 00:18:46,047 It'll be able to examine data sets 426 00:18:46,083 --> 00:18:48,383 and mirror your own trade logic in its executions. 427 00:18:48,419 --> 00:18:51,052 At Axe Capital, we support people from all cultures, 428 00:18:51,088 --> 00:18:53,924 but when you talk to me, it better be in fucking English. 429 00:18:55,926 --> 00:18:57,767 I can model Taylor's trading patterns. 430 00:18:57,803 --> 00:19:00,061 Reproduce them. 431 00:19:00,097 --> 00:19:01,187 At ten times the speed. 432 00:19:01,223 --> 00:19:03,064 My trading patterns are imperfect. 433 00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:05,275 They're pretty fucking good. 434 00:19:05,311 --> 00:19:07,402 Yes, but I don't want a pretty fucking good algo. 435 00:19:07,438 --> 00:19:10,363 - That's what I've been saying. - No, but I start from there. 436 00:19:10,399 --> 00:19:12,824 The way that you would imitate Taylor's brain 437 00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:15,368 - is by studying it, right? - Yes, modeling, as I said. 438 00:19:15,404 --> 00:19:17,537 He wants to steal your fucking brainwaves, 439 00:19:17,573 --> 00:19:19,414 like a witch doctor. 440 00:19:19,450 --> 00:19:21,369 You see that, right? 441 00:19:24,288 --> 00:19:26,796 Yes, actually, I do. 442 00:19:26,832 --> 00:19:28,089 I don't need something that thinks like me. 443 00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:30,800 I need something that thinks better. 444 00:19:30,836 --> 00:19:32,380 Thanks for coming. 445 00:19:42,473 --> 00:19:45,815 Our master came calling again with a new assignment. 446 00:19:45,851 --> 00:19:48,652 José Lugo. 447 00:19:48,688 --> 00:19:50,111 That sound familiar? 448 00:19:50,147 --> 00:19:53,073 It does. It's an inmate who killed a guard. 449 00:19:53,109 --> 00:19:55,116 Mm-hmm. 450 00:19:55,152 --> 00:19:59,412 Uh, it was Connerty's case, but he did not pursue charges. 451 00:19:59,448 --> 00:20:02,290 We may not have that luxurious option. 452 00:20:02,326 --> 00:20:04,084 Find out why. 453 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:04,834 On it. 454 00:20:11,335 --> 00:20:15,261 Go for the Recession Special, 455 00:20:15,297 --> 00:20:16,179 even though the recession's over. 456 00:20:16,215 --> 00:20:18,765 You know what? I'm not even sure 457 00:20:18,801 --> 00:20:21,017 which recession they're referring to. 458 00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:22,477 They all end, though. 459 00:20:22,513 --> 00:20:24,187 Yours can, too. 460 00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:26,272 And two dogs and a drink at that price 461 00:20:26,308 --> 00:20:27,399 is a hell of a deal. 462 00:20:27,435 --> 00:20:28,316 You done? 463 00:20:28,352 --> 00:20:30,652 'Cause I'm just getting ready to go. 464 00:20:30,688 --> 00:20:32,195 Civil suit. Reimbursement and damages. 465 00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:35,365 I help EDNY hang a guilty verdict on you, 466 00:20:35,401 --> 00:20:37,867 and my case is the Dream Team versus Cuba. 467 00:20:37,903 --> 00:20:39,285 Even if you slither out of the criminal courts, 468 00:20:39,321 --> 00:20:42,080 I hammer you like the Goldmans did O. J. 469 00:20:42,116 --> 00:20:44,666 Ira, if that felon found a way not to pay a penny, 470 00:20:44,702 --> 00:20:46,501 what do you think I'm gonna do? 471 00:20:46,537 --> 00:20:49,379 Besides, can you really afford to wait that long? 472 00:20:49,415 --> 00:20:50,547 Better question, 473 00:20:50,583 --> 00:20:53,675 will that beautiful and sweet fiancée of yours? 474 00:20:53,711 --> 00:20:56,302 Oh, you're following me, you sick motherfucker? 475 00:20:56,338 --> 00:20:57,929 What do you want? 476 00:20:57,965 --> 00:21:01,349 Uh, two Recessions, and what juice are you having? 477 00:21:01,385 --> 00:21:02,892 Oh, too soon? 478 00:21:02,928 --> 00:21:05,222 Couple Cokes. 479 00:21:06,724 --> 00:21:08,189 Bobby, I'm not some sucker 480 00:21:08,225 --> 00:21:11,192 who's just gonna play along with whatever game you got running. 481 00:21:11,228 --> 00:21:13,069 I'm taking you to court, guns up. 482 00:21:13,105 --> 00:21:14,988 I'm gonna win a fat judgment, 483 00:21:15,024 --> 00:21:17,741 and then, because I got nothing else, thanks to you, 484 00:21:17,777 --> 00:21:19,159 I'm gonna make it my sole purpose in life 485 00:21:19,195 --> 00:21:21,995 to stick to you like Lester Hayes 486 00:21:22,031 --> 00:21:25,290 until you've paid it willingly just to get me to go away. 487 00:21:25,326 --> 00:21:26,916 So you take your hot dogs and shove 'em up your ass, 488 00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:30,086 lengthwise. 489 00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:32,124 That's not very open-minded of you, Ira. 490 00:21:37,755 --> 00:21:40,424 You should be more open-minded! 491 00:21:42,426 --> 00:21:44,100 I'm not in a full panic. 492 00:21:44,136 --> 00:21:47,687 When I get a full panic going, I, well... 493 00:21:47,723 --> 00:21:49,397 You can say it, whatever it is, in here. 494 00:21:49,433 --> 00:21:52,734 I... There's things I'd say to other people 495 00:21:52,770 --> 00:21:54,068 without a second's thought, 496 00:21:54,104 --> 00:21:55,612 but you listen so closely. 497 00:21:55,648 --> 00:21:57,071 That's my job. 498 00:21:57,107 --> 00:21:59,908 But it's like you see inside the best parts of me, 499 00:21:59,944 --> 00:22:01,534 and it makes me want to be better. 500 00:22:01,570 --> 00:22:04,412 Mafee: what happens when you panic? 501 00:22:04,448 --> 00:22:06,408 Butt sweat. 502 00:22:08,244 --> 00:22:09,417 And now? 503 00:22:09,453 --> 00:22:11,669 Yeah, a little. The whole idea that we could all be replaced? 504 00:22:11,705 --> 00:22:15,548 If that didn't make your butt sweat, you wouldn't be human. 505 00:22:15,584 --> 00:22:18,301 Not your butt. I would never even think about your butt. 506 00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:20,386 It's not like I stare at it when you walk by. 507 00:22:20,422 --> 00:22:21,888 I barely know you have one. 508 00:22:21,924 --> 00:22:23,097 Jesus. 509 00:22:23,133 --> 00:22:25,558 This quant thing has me all fucked up. 510 00:22:25,594 --> 00:22:26,309 You think I'm gross now. 511 00:22:26,345 --> 00:22:28,770 No, I don't. I think you're... 512 00:22:28,806 --> 00:22:30,772 I don't think I can take this. 513 00:22:30,808 --> 00:22:33,024 My mother begged me to code at Stanford, 514 00:22:33,060 --> 00:22:34,609 but I went for Applied Mathematics, 515 00:22:34,645 --> 00:22:37,445 which seemed, you know, smarter then, but now not only 516 00:22:37,481 --> 00:22:39,531 is she going to be proven right, but I'm going to be replaced 517 00:22:39,567 --> 00:22:42,158 by people who listened to their mothers 518 00:22:42,194 --> 00:22:43,243 - and learned to code. - Okay. 519 00:22:43,279 --> 00:22:46,412 You, we, are not being replaced. 520 00:22:46,448 --> 00:22:49,582 Will there be augmentation of some kind? Yes. 521 00:22:49,618 --> 00:22:53,294 Will it ask you, us, to raise our game? Yes. 522 00:22:53,330 --> 00:22:56,208 But we have to want that for this place, don't we? 523 00:22:57,167 --> 00:22:59,092 - No. - No. 524 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:01,302 Go. 525 00:23:01,338 --> 00:23:03,972 Express your fears to Taylor. 526 00:23:04,008 --> 00:23:04,592 Let them tell you, Mafee. 527 00:23:14,685 --> 00:23:17,777 Although it's lovely to see you, Bryan, 528 00:23:17,813 --> 00:23:21,239 there was no need to come in from your Rumspringa. 529 00:23:21,275 --> 00:23:23,825 Much as I dig getting my Amish on with Dake, 530 00:23:23,861 --> 00:23:26,327 I did have to come. José Lugo. 531 00:23:26,363 --> 00:23:28,329 You can't prosecute this one, Chuck. 532 00:23:28,365 --> 00:23:29,998 I went full Gil Grissom on this case, 533 00:23:30,034 --> 00:23:31,666 and there was no way to charge the kid with murder. 534 00:23:31,702 --> 00:23:35,503 Body of a prison guard would indicate otherwise. 535 00:23:35,539 --> 00:23:37,213 Lugo was being held awaiting charges on a drug offense. 536 00:23:37,249 --> 00:23:39,632 Not the end of the world. 537 00:23:39,668 --> 00:23:41,009 He couldn't make bail, 538 00:23:41,045 --> 00:23:42,927 so they stuck him at MCC for two months. 539 00:23:42,963 --> 00:23:46,764 Day one, this guard started in on Lugo, and he went beast. 540 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,725 The kid ended up in the infirmary a dozen times. 541 00:23:48,761 --> 00:23:51,603 Orbital ridge fracture, teeth, internal bleeding, 542 00:23:51,639 --> 00:23:53,938 splintered wood in the rectum, name it. 543 00:23:53,974 --> 00:23:56,274 You just did. 544 00:23:56,310 --> 00:23:59,110 I've archived 25 prisoner statements backing it all up. 545 00:23:59,146 --> 00:24:01,487 And what about the other guards? 546 00:24:01,523 --> 00:24:03,615 They refused to go on record. 547 00:24:03,651 --> 00:24:06,576 But that in itself tells the whole story, 548 00:24:06,612 --> 00:24:08,202 which is this: 549 00:24:08,238 --> 00:24:09,245 José Lugo 550 00:24:09,281 --> 00:24:13,207 is the kind of person we are here to protect. 551 00:24:15,371 --> 00:24:17,045 I'm asking you: please don't. 552 00:24:17,081 --> 00:24:18,212 Don't do this. 553 00:24:18,248 --> 00:24:20,626 Don't prosecute the case. 554 00:24:30,552 --> 00:24:32,727 Didn't take much legwork 555 00:24:32,763 --> 00:24:36,064 to put Mr. Slayton as one of your sports-betting clients 556 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:38,149 who did his part at your behest. 557 00:24:38,185 --> 00:24:39,943 Who were you working for? 558 00:24:39,979 --> 00:24:42,320 We don't take orders. We give 'em. 559 00:24:43,399 --> 00:24:45,698 I see. So, the full weight of these felonies 560 00:24:45,734 --> 00:24:47,408 should be earmarked for you two? 561 00:24:47,444 --> 00:24:49,410 - And who are you now, sugar pop? - I'm the one 562 00:24:49,446 --> 00:24:51,079 that's about to pistol-whip you. 563 00:24:51,115 --> 00:24:53,748 Guys, you know how it works. Name the power behind you. 564 00:24:53,784 --> 00:24:56,417 He's the guy that deserves to be sitting here, not you. 565 00:24:56,453 --> 00:24:58,503 We have no idea who you're referring to. 566 00:24:58,539 --> 00:25:01,089 Who's paying for him? 567 00:25:01,125 --> 00:25:03,633 - I'm guessing it's the same guy. - You can't ask that. 568 00:25:03,669 --> 00:25:06,052 You don't think we can afford a good lawyer? 569 00:25:06,088 --> 00:25:06,761 We own a nightclub. 570 00:25:06,797 --> 00:25:08,721 Nightclub? Your pisshole? 571 00:25:08,757 --> 00:25:10,890 We just got one of those digital jukeboxes. 572 00:25:10,926 --> 00:25:13,476 Give me Axelrod, the rest goes away. 573 00:25:13,512 --> 00:25:16,479 Anything else, I drop this whole thing on you. 574 00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:19,524 You become the masterminds at the head of a conspiracy 575 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,276 seeking to sabotage and manipulate companies 576 00:25:22,312 --> 00:25:23,778 and financial markets. 577 00:25:23,814 --> 00:25:24,696 We're masterminds. 578 00:25:24,732 --> 00:25:26,489 Masterminds is good. I like masterminds. 579 00:25:26,525 --> 00:25:28,866 Put us down for masterminds. 580 00:25:28,902 --> 00:25:30,618 Gentlemen, I suggest we have a private conversation. 581 00:25:30,654 --> 00:25:32,328 You know, that's a good idea, boys. 582 00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:34,664 Go talk amongst yourselves. 583 00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:37,500 You Inwood types never could learn to shut your mouths. 584 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:38,835 Sorry? 585 00:25:38,871 --> 00:25:40,962 Oh, we used to drove over from Fordham and roll your kind 586 00:25:40,998 --> 00:25:42,296 just 'cause it was easy pickings. 587 00:25:42,332 --> 00:25:44,215 That's funny. We used to ride over to the Bronx 588 00:25:44,251 --> 00:25:46,634 and beat the shit out of Fordham fruits for morning exercise. 589 00:25:46,670 --> 00:25:47,802 Can't believe we missed you. 590 00:25:47,838 --> 00:25:49,470 Must have been hiding in the corner. 591 00:25:49,506 --> 00:25:51,514 I'm gonna ask that this conversation stop. 592 00:25:51,550 --> 00:25:53,725 Why don't you stop? Let the men finish talking. 593 00:25:53,761 --> 00:25:57,061 Are you two sawed-off pricks including yourselves 594 00:25:57,097 --> 00:25:58,980 in that category? 595 00:25:59,016 --> 00:26:01,441 You don't have shit on us but some dink's word. 596 00:26:01,477 --> 00:26:04,318 You had more than that, this wouldn't be a conversation. 597 00:26:04,354 --> 00:26:06,571 So if you got the sack, make your move. 598 00:26:06,607 --> 00:26:09,902 Otherwise, we got kegs to change. 599 00:26:11,862 --> 00:26:15,038 Next time I see you boys, I'll watch 'em slap the cuffs on. 600 00:26:15,074 --> 00:26:17,326 Then I guess we won't be seeing each other. 601 00:26:42,142 --> 00:26:44,692 I used to love visiting museums when I was a young man, 602 00:26:44,728 --> 00:26:47,820 back before I could afford the paintings. 603 00:26:47,856 --> 00:26:52,575 Now I'd rather look at 'em on my walls. 604 00:26:52,611 --> 00:26:54,744 I'm selling all my shit. 605 00:26:54,780 --> 00:26:56,871 You were right at the car auction. 606 00:26:56,907 --> 00:26:58,247 I am barely hanging on. 607 00:26:58,283 --> 00:27:00,708 Redemptions are starting to hit in a big way. 608 00:27:00,744 --> 00:27:03,461 It doesn't matter anyway. 609 00:27:03,497 --> 00:27:05,838 I never knew what was any good about my collection. 610 00:27:05,874 --> 00:27:07,256 I just bought what the art advisor told me to. 611 00:27:07,292 --> 00:27:10,176 That's one way to go. 612 00:27:10,212 --> 00:27:12,136 I can't imagine what I sound like. 613 00:27:12,172 --> 00:27:16,808 You sound like a guy who's had a rough couple of years. 614 00:27:16,844 --> 00:27:18,768 Happens to everyone. 615 00:27:18,804 --> 00:27:21,229 I'll have to shutter soon. 616 00:27:21,265 --> 00:27:23,898 What are you walking with? 617 00:27:23,934 --> 00:27:27,693 40. 618 00:27:27,729 --> 00:27:29,403 I guess I can live on that. 619 00:27:29,439 --> 00:27:34,200 Can you? 620 00:27:34,236 --> 00:27:35,785 Got the city apartment, 621 00:27:35,821 --> 00:27:38,412 the Hamptons place, Beaver Creek. 622 00:27:38,448 --> 00:27:42,583 The debt service and running the properties is ten a year. 623 00:27:42,619 --> 00:27:45,878 You'll have to start your new family office. 624 00:27:45,914 --> 00:27:47,630 There's a lease, an analyst or two, 625 00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:49,131 an assistant, an accountant. 626 00:27:49,167 --> 00:27:50,925 You got private school, 627 00:27:50,961 --> 00:27:52,927 your daughter's horse, you got charity. 628 00:27:52,963 --> 00:27:55,054 You can't dip below two a year on that, 629 00:27:55,090 --> 00:27:56,556 or you lose your board seats 630 00:27:56,592 --> 00:27:58,432 and your wife loses all her friends. 631 00:27:58,468 --> 00:28:00,476 You can forget flying wheels up from now on. 632 00:28:00,512 --> 00:28:02,603 You're sucking it up in commercial. 633 00:28:02,639 --> 00:28:06,190 You'll hold on to your driver until it kills you, but... 634 00:28:06,226 --> 00:28:07,316 soon, he'll be gone, too. 635 00:28:07,352 --> 00:28:09,521 Fuck! I'm broke. 636 00:28:12,649 --> 00:28:15,116 What would you give to get it back? 637 00:28:15,152 --> 00:28:19,871 Your status, all your money, the whole thing. 638 00:28:19,907 --> 00:28:21,247 Anything. 639 00:28:21,283 --> 00:28:25,251 My leg. My spleen. An inch off my dick. 640 00:28:25,287 --> 00:28:27,920 Well, then this is the best day of your new life, 641 00:28:27,956 --> 00:28:30,464 'cause I got a line on an orphaned two billion 642 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:31,507 looking for a home, 643 00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:34,176 and I can get you in the room to pitch for it. 644 00:28:34,212 --> 00:28:37,215 All you have to do is say yes. 645 00:28:42,471 --> 00:28:42,930 Got a minute? 646 00:28:46,683 --> 00:28:48,858 Roughly two minutes. 647 00:28:48,894 --> 00:28:51,569 The quants, why? 648 00:28:51,605 --> 00:28:53,905 Why now? What if we didn't? 649 00:28:53,941 --> 00:28:55,615 What if we kept things the same? 650 00:28:55,651 --> 00:28:57,617 Think of the Pulaski Academy Bruins, Mafee. 651 00:28:57,653 --> 00:28:58,701 You read me? 652 00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:01,120 The high school football team that never punts? 653 00:29:01,156 --> 00:29:03,581 Right. They were pretty solid before, 654 00:29:03,617 --> 00:29:05,082 so why'd they do that? 655 00:29:05,118 --> 00:29:06,959 Because the coach deduced that, statistically, 656 00:29:06,995 --> 00:29:09,503 they'd be better off using all four downs on offense 657 00:29:09,539 --> 00:29:11,005 and not giving the ball back. 658 00:29:11,041 --> 00:29:14,717 Yes. And because the coach wanted championships. 659 00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:16,802 - So it's about edge. - Always. 660 00:29:16,838 --> 00:29:18,679 ETFs. They sucked the dumb money out of the market. 661 00:29:18,715 --> 00:29:21,641 Trillions have poured into them. 662 00:29:21,677 --> 00:29:23,392 That was our edge, and our edge is gone. 663 00:29:23,428 --> 00:29:24,393 When I look around now, 664 00:29:24,429 --> 00:29:26,938 it's only other killers like us staring back. 665 00:29:26,974 --> 00:29:28,856 But there are a bunch of quants already out there on the market, 666 00:29:28,892 --> 00:29:30,191 already working that edge. 667 00:29:30,227 --> 00:29:32,693 That's why ours has to be better. 668 00:29:32,729 --> 00:29:34,946 Okay. Okay. 669 00:29:34,982 --> 00:29:36,781 Look, people down on the floor thought this was about 670 00:29:36,817 --> 00:29:38,741 wholesale firing and replacement. 671 00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:41,160 So I see the wisdom in adding. 672 00:29:41,196 --> 00:29:44,324 But otherwise, are we good? 673 00:29:46,410 --> 00:29:48,960 I don't know. Are we? Are you? 674 00:29:48,996 --> 00:29:50,628 Are you running all four downs, 675 00:29:50,664 --> 00:29:52,463 playing every play like it's your last? 676 00:29:52,499 --> 00:29:54,507 Is your mouth guard always in, chin strap always buckled? 677 00:29:54,543 --> 00:29:56,628 If that's you, we're good. 678 00:30:11,476 --> 00:30:14,235 Please describe the nature of your approach to the market 679 00:30:14,271 --> 00:30:15,403 and how your algorithms serve that end. 680 00:30:15,439 --> 00:30:17,738 Boring. 681 00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:20,157 What the fuck kind of way is that to kick off an interview? 682 00:30:20,193 --> 00:30:22,493 I'm rejecting the premise or flipping the script. 683 00:30:22,529 --> 00:30:23,828 I should interview you. 684 00:30:23,864 --> 00:30:25,788 For what, the school newspaper? 685 00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:28,249 Yassss, Queen. Good one, but no. 686 00:30:28,285 --> 00:30:30,584 I've got offers from half the funds on the Street 687 00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:32,294 and several tech firms out West, 688 00:30:32,330 --> 00:30:33,504 and they pay guarantees, not bonuses. 689 00:30:33,540 --> 00:30:36,799 Now, don't get me wrong. I've heard about Taylor Mason. 690 00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:38,926 Love to see if you live up to the hype, but I've got options. 691 00:30:38,962 --> 00:30:41,131 So, let me put this in your language: 692 00:30:43,967 --> 00:30:45,766 What's in it for moi? 693 00:30:45,802 --> 00:30:48,894 You Patrick Bateman/Bud Fox hybrid wannabe. 694 00:30:48,930 --> 00:30:49,812 He was doing Spader in Wall Street. 695 00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:52,732 But I don't care about his insulting tone. 696 00:30:52,768 --> 00:30:54,233 I only care about his ability 697 00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:56,652 to think clearly and rationally under pressure. 698 00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:57,319 You're not thinking of hiring him? 699 00:30:57,355 --> 00:30:59,488 She's no fool. 700 00:30:59,524 --> 00:31:01,073 No. 701 00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:03,951 But, sadly, though you may have a genius-level I. Q., 702 00:31:03,987 --> 00:31:06,328 you have no control over your emotional state. 703 00:31:06,364 --> 00:31:08,247 That's why you're lashing out in here, 704 00:31:08,283 --> 00:31:10,458 defensive, allowing your rage at yourself 705 00:31:10,494 --> 00:31:12,960 to manifest in boorish, childish behavior. 706 00:31:12,996 --> 00:31:15,671 He couldn't figure out the box, so he did that to it. 707 00:31:15,707 --> 00:31:18,424 Then he let the rest of his bullshit cloud his thinking. 708 00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:20,843 He has no idea why he had to resort to brute force, 709 00:31:20,879 --> 00:31:22,511 so he doesn't get to work here. 710 00:31:22,547 --> 00:31:24,847 Take your feet off the table 711 00:31:24,883 --> 00:31:27,052 and get the fuck out of our office. 712 00:31:32,182 --> 00:31:33,189 So, are we done with this now? 713 00:31:33,225 --> 00:31:35,232 No. 714 00:31:35,268 --> 00:31:37,777 Let me remind you. August 2007. 715 00:31:37,813 --> 00:31:40,321 The Dow crashed 400 points because of a coding error. 716 00:31:40,357 --> 00:31:42,198 That was more than ten years ago, which, 717 00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:45,076 even with the breakdown in Moore's Law, is more like 100. 718 00:31:45,112 --> 00:31:46,410 Feels like yesterday to me. 719 00:31:46,446 --> 00:31:50,033 We need to be thinking about tomorrow. So we keep going. 720 00:31:53,370 --> 00:31:57,171 Warden, I need you to say that if the guard were alive, 721 00:31:57,207 --> 00:31:58,672 you'd fire him for abuse 722 00:31:58,708 --> 00:32:00,591 and that the kid is innocent. 723 00:32:00,627 --> 00:32:02,927 My hands are clean, my conscience clean enough. 724 00:32:02,963 --> 00:32:04,762 I'm not gonna take you off the hook 725 00:32:04,798 --> 00:32:06,514 and hang myself there instead. 726 00:32:06,550 --> 00:32:08,557 Well, I didn't devote my life to the law 727 00:32:08,593 --> 00:32:10,017 to prosecute innocent men. 728 00:32:10,053 --> 00:32:12,061 Nor I to oversee their incarceration, 729 00:32:12,097 --> 00:32:13,854 but once they send them to me... 730 00:32:13,890 --> 00:32:16,232 Yep, you do your level best. 731 00:32:16,268 --> 00:32:19,985 Currently, there are 400 cases filed against you by inmates, 732 00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:22,613 which could suggest your level best 733 00:32:22,649 --> 00:32:23,906 isn't very good. 734 00:32:23,942 --> 00:32:24,990 Almost all of them pro forma. 735 00:32:25,026 --> 00:32:27,535 Their beds are too hard. Their food sucks. 736 00:32:27,571 --> 00:32:29,954 I get it. 737 00:32:29,990 --> 00:32:31,997 The cases are filed against you 738 00:32:32,033 --> 00:32:34,375 in your official capacity as warden 739 00:32:34,411 --> 00:32:37,503 and, therefore, defended by me 740 00:32:37,539 --> 00:32:40,548 in my official capacity as U. S. Attorney. 741 00:32:40,584 --> 00:32:42,091 And you're gonna throw them if I don't play ball? 742 00:32:42,127 --> 00:32:45,052 I wouldn't even know how to throw a case, 743 00:32:45,088 --> 00:32:46,846 how to lose on purpose. 744 00:32:46,882 --> 00:32:49,056 Normally, I would knock these nuisances away 745 00:32:49,092 --> 00:32:53,144 like a windshield wiper during a light rain. 746 00:32:53,180 --> 00:32:55,688 But what if I just... slowed down... 747 00:32:55,724 --> 00:32:58,440 let 'em build up... 748 00:32:58,476 --> 00:33:00,609 cloud your field of vision, 749 00:33:00,645 --> 00:33:03,779 the drops becoming a deluge. 750 00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:06,574 But if I say the kid was tortured 751 00:33:06,610 --> 00:33:08,909 and it was the guard's fault... 752 00:33:08,945 --> 00:33:10,327 Then I fight those cases off 753 00:33:10,363 --> 00:33:12,413 as if they were against me personally. 754 00:33:12,449 --> 00:33:14,748 - You can't think I'd testify. - No. 755 00:33:14,784 --> 00:33:15,791 No. 756 00:33:15,827 --> 00:33:18,502 There's a young journalist I know. 757 00:33:18,538 --> 00:33:20,296 He'll take your testimony. 758 00:33:20,332 --> 00:33:22,298 Stalwart, ambitious fellow 759 00:33:22,334 --> 00:33:23,174 branching out from finance 760 00:33:23,210 --> 00:33:26,218 into what we might call national news. 761 00:33:26,254 --> 00:33:27,511 He can protect your name 762 00:33:27,547 --> 00:33:29,513 if you give him enough corroboration 763 00:33:29,549 --> 00:33:31,223 to make his story undeniable. 764 00:33:31,259 --> 00:33:33,100 Thank you, Warden. 765 00:33:33,136 --> 00:33:36,103 Happy to do the right thing. 766 00:33:44,105 --> 00:33:46,655 How'd you know not to bet me? 767 00:33:46,691 --> 00:33:48,532 Win, lose 100, who gives a shit? 768 00:33:48,568 --> 00:33:49,700 You have more money than god. 769 00:33:49,736 --> 00:33:52,703 I didn't get it by wagering against Willie Mosconi. 770 00:33:52,739 --> 00:33:54,121 You were gonna sandbag me. 771 00:33:54,157 --> 00:33:54,997 Let me win a few games, 772 00:33:55,033 --> 00:33:58,667 then double the bet, then run me down. 773 00:33:58,703 --> 00:34:00,211 I didn't even bring my own cue. 774 00:34:00,247 --> 00:34:02,463 If you had, maybe I'd have gone for it, 775 00:34:02,499 --> 00:34:04,256 counting on that special vanity 776 00:34:04,292 --> 00:34:06,133 that a man with a custom cue has. 777 00:34:06,169 --> 00:34:07,551 Once you started chalking up, no chance. 778 00:34:10,173 --> 00:34:13,390 Oh. 779 00:34:13,426 --> 00:34:14,636 Thanks, Chef Ryan. 780 00:34:15,512 --> 00:34:16,894 Mm. 781 00:34:16,930 --> 00:34:19,313 Last time I had a burger this good... 782 00:34:19,349 --> 00:34:22,650 Remember that time down in Atlanta, with Killer Mike? 783 00:34:25,689 --> 00:34:28,280 That was right before I gave Axe Capital 784 00:34:28,316 --> 00:34:31,027 that extra half-billion from my fund. 785 00:34:32,153 --> 00:34:35,162 Good anchoring technique. 786 00:34:35,198 --> 00:34:36,705 No. 787 00:34:36,741 --> 00:34:38,499 But no matter how tasty, I'm not sure 788 00:34:38,535 --> 00:34:40,834 I can give the same treatment to Michael Panay. 789 00:34:40,870 --> 00:34:43,837 There is no linkage to me, so that solves the first problem. 790 00:34:43,873 --> 00:34:46,298 But he will listen to me 791 00:34:46,334 --> 00:34:48,717 and invest exactly as I instruct, 792 00:34:48,753 --> 00:34:50,344 so that solves problem two. 793 00:34:50,380 --> 00:34:53,222 Yeah, but he's on a bad run, Axe. He's bleeding out. 794 00:34:53,258 --> 00:34:54,056 But you got a surgeon stepping in. 795 00:34:54,092 --> 00:34:56,517 I know that, but my board can't. 796 00:34:56,553 --> 00:34:58,227 I got to hard-sell this guy to them. 797 00:34:58,263 --> 00:34:59,019 Well, get Panay to convince them. 798 00:34:59,055 --> 00:35:01,188 Get him in front of that board. 799 00:35:01,224 --> 00:35:03,983 You sure? It's hard to defend numbers like his. 800 00:35:04,019 --> 00:35:06,026 He's presentable. 801 00:35:06,062 --> 00:35:08,320 Let's get him in here and see. Panay! 802 00:35:08,356 --> 00:35:13,075 Looks like I'm not the only sandbagger in here. 803 00:35:13,111 --> 00:35:13,568 Mike, 804 00:35:13,570 --> 00:35:15,786 this is Raul. 805 00:35:15,822 --> 00:35:18,205 - He's gonna take you in. - Not unless you can tell me 806 00:35:18,241 --> 00:35:20,124 why you ran your fund into the ground. 807 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:21,667 They'll expect some answers. 808 00:35:21,703 --> 00:35:23,043 He'll have answers. 809 00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:25,671 Just show strength and pitch them your best three ideas, 810 00:35:25,707 --> 00:35:26,880 which I'll give you. 811 00:35:26,916 --> 00:35:28,674 And if anybody steps in your face... 812 00:35:28,710 --> 00:35:30,509 Kick 'em in the cock. 813 00:35:30,545 --> 00:35:31,885 Okay. 814 00:35:31,921 --> 00:35:33,971 I'll wear sharp shoes. 815 00:35:34,007 --> 00:35:36,056 All right. 816 00:35:36,092 --> 00:35:38,219 I'll let you know when we've booked a meeting. 817 00:35:45,602 --> 00:35:48,736 So? 818 00:35:48,772 --> 00:35:50,070 I might be able to sell him. 819 00:35:50,106 --> 00:35:52,734 But why would I? 820 00:36:12,295 --> 00:36:16,675 I must be out of my fucking mind. 821 00:36:17,759 --> 00:36:20,184 Oh, I disagree. 822 00:36:20,220 --> 00:36:22,936 I think you're showing some real nuance in your thinking, 823 00:36:22,972 --> 00:36:25,272 which is what is required since you have suffered 824 00:36:25,308 --> 00:36:27,441 at the hands of some very devious opponents 825 00:36:27,477 --> 00:36:28,734 in Rhoades and his father. 826 00:36:28,770 --> 00:36:30,152 Yeah, well, I'm here for some goddamned reason, 827 00:36:30,188 --> 00:36:33,942 so, uh, what is it you want to propose? 828 00:36:36,319 --> 00:36:38,994 That I acquire your virtually worthless shares in Ice Juice 829 00:36:39,030 --> 00:36:41,789 for considerably over market. 830 00:36:41,825 --> 00:36:44,333 30 million dollars. 831 00:36:44,369 --> 00:36:47,211 A firm called Ionosphere would paper the transaction. 832 00:36:47,247 --> 00:36:50,255 In return, you forgo your civil suit 833 00:36:50,291 --> 00:36:52,633 and refuse to testify against me. 834 00:36:52,669 --> 00:36:54,176 You'll give my people a statement 835 00:36:54,212 --> 00:36:58,806 laying out how Rhoades did what he did. 836 00:36:58,842 --> 00:37:02,976 Your best friend sold you down the river for nothing. 837 00:37:03,012 --> 00:37:06,230 He's not worth saving. 838 00:37:06,266 --> 00:37:08,816 I'm willing to pay you 30 million to tell the truth. 839 00:37:08,852 --> 00:37:12,820 It's just a transaction to you, this whole thing? 840 00:37:12,856 --> 00:37:14,405 Numbers move from here to there, 841 00:37:14,441 --> 00:37:17,074 and emotions are smoothed out, 842 00:37:17,110 --> 00:37:19,410 like ice under a Zamboni. 843 00:37:19,446 --> 00:37:21,704 No, I understand what's fair. 844 00:37:21,740 --> 00:37:24,331 And I know how to make a deal. 845 00:37:24,367 --> 00:37:27,579 So, take your life back. 846 00:37:37,589 --> 00:37:39,716 Gary? 847 00:37:48,224 --> 00:37:52,443 While you're at it, go ahead and pick one. 848 00:37:52,479 --> 00:37:54,862 On my tab. 849 00:37:54,898 --> 00:37:56,983 Why should she have to suffer? 850 00:38:10,246 --> 00:38:12,004 How does it work? What am I missing? 851 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,214 We'll get back to that. 852 00:38:14,250 --> 00:38:17,176 Résumé says you were at NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 853 00:38:17,212 --> 00:38:20,387 20 years. The most rewarding job a data scientist could ask for. 854 00:38:20,423 --> 00:38:22,347 And now finance. Why? 855 00:38:22,383 --> 00:38:25,058 The stock market is representation 856 00:38:25,094 --> 00:38:25,934 of the psychology of the entire world 857 00:38:25,970 --> 00:38:28,270 at any given moment. 858 00:38:28,306 --> 00:38:31,273 Data is an exact thumbprint of that moment. 859 00:38:31,309 --> 00:38:33,859 I get to know what the world is thinking and feeling 860 00:38:33,895 --> 00:38:35,152 and what it will do next. 861 00:38:35,188 --> 00:38:38,447 What a refreshing, excellent answer. 862 00:38:38,483 --> 00:38:39,406 Yes. 863 00:38:39,442 --> 00:38:41,074 Would you be willing to let me test it 864 00:38:41,110 --> 00:38:42,743 so I can observe it under market conditions? 865 00:38:42,779 --> 00:38:44,953 Of course. I'll give you access for the day, 866 00:38:44,989 --> 00:38:46,866 and you'll be able to see how it works. 867 00:38:47,617 --> 00:38:49,917 It doesn't fit together, right? 868 00:38:49,953 --> 00:38:51,126 You're testing the ability to realize that, 869 00:38:51,162 --> 00:38:53,545 the confidence to admit it? 870 00:38:53,581 --> 00:38:55,083 Outstanding. 871 00:39:01,422 --> 00:39:03,055 Connerty called. 872 00:39:03,091 --> 00:39:03,847 He saw the article. 873 00:39:03,883 --> 00:39:05,933 A lot of people have seen it. 874 00:39:05,969 --> 00:39:08,268 They found a good photo of the kid. 875 00:39:08,304 --> 00:39:10,187 Looks innocent, no? 876 00:39:10,223 --> 00:39:12,189 Handsome, for sure. 877 00:39:12,225 --> 00:39:13,774 Even better. 878 00:39:13,810 --> 00:39:15,442 Can't make us proceed now. 879 00:39:15,478 --> 00:39:19,196 If you had been forced to prosecute, 880 00:39:19,232 --> 00:39:21,067 could you have? 881 00:39:22,485 --> 00:39:25,786 Honestly, I don't know that I have it in me. 882 00:39:25,822 --> 00:39:29,075 Glad we won't have to find out. 883 00:39:30,285 --> 00:39:32,292 Well, now that we're all here... 884 00:39:32,328 --> 00:39:36,588 As you both know, I had a large ownership stake in Ice Juice. 885 00:39:36,624 --> 00:39:39,091 It was to be worth a great deal at one point. 886 00:39:39,127 --> 00:39:40,425 Turned out to be worth substantially less. 887 00:39:40,461 --> 00:39:43,506 Thanks to Axelrod's involvement. 888 00:39:44,757 --> 00:39:49,309 Uh, I can't and won't speak to the actions of Bobby Axelrod. 889 00:39:49,345 --> 00:39:51,478 - What? - Hold on. 890 00:39:51,514 --> 00:39:53,772 'Cause I don't actually know what he did. 891 00:39:53,808 --> 00:39:57,901 But I sure as hell will testify about what Chuck Rhoades did. 892 00:39:57,937 --> 00:39:59,528 Which is? 893 00:39:59,564 --> 00:40:03,615 Purposefully induce sabotage against my company, 894 00:40:03,651 --> 00:40:07,452 use his status and position to lure Bobby Axelrod to do it. 895 00:40:07,488 --> 00:40:09,830 And I will confirm, on the record, 896 00:40:09,866 --> 00:40:11,248 that Charles Rhoades Sr. 897 00:40:11,284 --> 00:40:13,417 was steering his own money 898 00:40:13,453 --> 00:40:15,752 and that Chuck's money was directly involved... 899 00:40:15,788 --> 00:40:16,795 Stop. 900 00:40:16,831 --> 00:40:19,673 Mr. Schirmer, you need to speak with counsel 901 00:40:19,709 --> 00:40:20,924 before going any further. 902 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,844 We all need to hold and contemplate the risks 903 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,470 these allegations pose to our case. 904 00:40:25,506 --> 00:40:27,848 Dake!...Oliver. We need to hear him out. 905 00:40:27,884 --> 00:40:29,802 This meeting is over. 906 00:40:32,722 --> 00:40:35,022 Yeah, I sort of figured. 907 00:40:39,020 --> 00:40:40,193 Why'd you let him go? 908 00:40:40,229 --> 00:40:41,820 We need to know what he had to say. 909 00:40:41,856 --> 00:40:43,780 He said Chuck induced the sabotage. 910 00:40:43,816 --> 00:40:46,325 We need to know what that means! Why the fuck... 911 00:40:46,361 --> 00:40:49,244 'Cause I know how to do my job, and the job is Axelrod. 912 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:50,537 If Chuck is part of it, 913 00:40:50,573 --> 00:40:53,040 it's prosecutorial misconduct, at a minimum. 914 00:40:53,076 --> 00:40:54,333 Is it? 915 00:40:54,369 --> 00:40:55,792 At this moment, we don't know, 916 00:40:55,828 --> 00:40:58,462 And we don't want to know. Because if you keep asking, 917 00:40:58,498 --> 00:41:00,422 you run the risk of a Brady disclosure. 918 00:41:00,458 --> 00:41:03,342 The more he says about whatever story he's put together, 919 00:41:03,378 --> 00:41:04,343 the more likely we'll be obligated 920 00:41:04,379 --> 00:41:07,304 to inform the defense of our findings. 921 00:41:07,340 --> 00:41:10,390 And what do you think they will do with that, 922 00:41:10,426 --> 00:41:13,268 other than blow up everything that we have? 923 00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:16,647 We are in the right and wrong game, and this is... 924 00:41:16,683 --> 00:41:19,524 Today we're in the "take the win and move on" game. 925 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:24,696 Is that what being a boss does to you? 926 00:41:24,732 --> 00:41:27,485 Like when Sonny Black gets upped in Brasco? 927 00:41:28,528 --> 00:41:34,164 I was brought to Eastern for one specific task: 928 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,417 to convict Bobby Axelrod. 929 00:41:37,453 --> 00:41:39,920 You were brought to Eastern for the same task 930 00:41:39,956 --> 00:41:42,923 by the very person that you are now trying to jam up, 931 00:41:42,959 --> 00:41:46,301 a man who was a mentor to you. 932 00:41:46,337 --> 00:41:50,097 That's disloyal, and I don't cotton to that. 933 00:41:50,133 --> 00:41:52,265 So if you can't do it, 934 00:41:52,301 --> 00:41:55,602 I'll find someone who can. 935 00:41:55,638 --> 00:41:57,521 That's all. 936 00:42:28,504 --> 00:42:31,221 I told you I'd see 'em slip the cuffs on. 937 00:42:31,257 --> 00:42:34,349 No one here but you and me. 938 00:42:34,385 --> 00:42:37,978 I guess this is your chance, bitch. 939 00:42:38,014 --> 00:42:38,603 Ugh! 940 00:42:44,187 --> 00:42:45,610 Hey! Johnny, you all right? 941 00:42:45,646 --> 00:42:49,281 Let's go, douchebags! We got warrants. 942 00:42:49,317 --> 00:42:50,490 Hook 'em both up. Parole violations. 943 00:42:50,526 --> 00:42:52,492 - Come on, asshole. - What the fuck? 944 00:42:52,528 --> 00:42:55,078 This guy just assaulted my brother. 945 00:42:55,114 --> 00:42:57,456 - We didn't see nothing. - Of course you didn't. 946 00:42:57,492 --> 00:42:59,624 - Come on. Let's go. - Ah, you suckered me. 947 00:42:59,660 --> 00:43:01,370 Nah, you were born that way. 948 00:43:02,663 --> 00:43:05,291 All right. Get in. Watch your head. 949 00:43:11,339 --> 00:43:13,805 I'm glad you stayed. 950 00:43:13,841 --> 00:43:16,183 I don't remember having had a choice. 951 00:43:16,219 --> 00:43:18,393 You can take these with you when you go. 952 00:43:18,429 --> 00:43:19,603 What are they? 953 00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:20,896 Chuck's. 954 00:43:20,932 --> 00:43:23,356 I've been cleaning out a walk-in closet 955 00:43:23,392 --> 00:43:26,068 to have a humidor built. 956 00:43:26,104 --> 00:43:29,863 Memorabilia for all his achievements from growing up. 957 00:43:29,899 --> 00:43:32,365 Seemed very important to him back then. 958 00:43:32,401 --> 00:43:33,867 To him, not you? 959 00:43:33,903 --> 00:43:35,368 Why would I ever give a shit 960 00:43:35,404 --> 00:43:38,371 about his third-place squash trophy from prep school? 961 00:43:38,407 --> 00:43:41,583 If he'd won, maybe I'd put it on the mantel. 962 00:43:41,619 --> 00:43:44,044 Charles... 963 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:48,381 I can see what all this is doing to you. 964 00:43:48,417 --> 00:43:50,342 Why don't you reach out, talk to him? 965 00:43:50,378 --> 00:43:53,386 What if I seeded the ground? 966 00:43:53,422 --> 00:43:55,847 Ensured you wouldn't be rebuffed? 967 00:43:55,883 --> 00:43:58,642 I'm the aggrieved party here. 968 00:43:58,678 --> 00:44:01,353 If there's any reaching out to be done, 969 00:44:01,389 --> 00:44:02,562 it should be from the other side. 970 00:44:02,598 --> 00:44:05,816 You don't know what your husband did. 971 00:44:05,852 --> 00:44:06,900 You mean use your money 972 00:44:06,936 --> 00:44:09,069 to bait Axe into committing a federal crime 973 00:44:09,105 --> 00:44:10,278 and wipe out his own trust in the process? 974 00:44:10,314 --> 00:44:13,865 He told you. 975 00:44:13,901 --> 00:44:16,076 Your son is the man you made him. 976 00:44:16,112 --> 00:44:17,494 Whatever greatness 977 00:44:17,530 --> 00:44:19,866 and whatever darkness is in him came from you. 978 00:44:23,327 --> 00:44:24,829 Clear this shit out of here. 979 00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:29,172 I'm sorry. It'll have to wait. 980 00:44:29,208 --> 00:44:31,544 I drove the Maserati tonight. It won't fit. 981 00:44:33,212 --> 00:44:36,132 Come on, kids. 982 00:44:38,384 --> 00:44:41,101 Okay. Let's talk deal. 983 00:44:41,137 --> 00:44:43,562 It's been a pleasure, but this isn't going to work out. 984 00:44:43,598 --> 00:44:47,357 But the algo performed beautifully. 985 00:44:47,393 --> 00:44:49,568 Yeah, his algo performed beautifully. 986 00:44:49,604 --> 00:44:51,778 You know I'm no fan, but even I can see... 987 00:44:51,814 --> 00:44:53,280 I could go into specifics, 988 00:44:53,316 --> 00:44:54,489 but it's just not what we're looking for. 989 00:44:54,525 --> 00:44:56,825 The NDAs have all been signed, 990 00:44:56,861 --> 00:44:59,452 and your model expired at the close today, so... 991 00:44:59,488 --> 00:45:00,907 I wish you well. 992 00:45:08,247 --> 00:45:09,546 I spotted the back door he put in, 993 00:45:09,582 --> 00:45:13,091 the one that would allow us to support our plays retroactively 994 00:45:13,127 --> 00:45:14,176 with legit-seeming data. 995 00:45:14,212 --> 00:45:15,468 Really? 996 00:45:15,504 --> 00:45:17,637 And I know that you somehow organized it. 997 00:45:17,673 --> 00:45:19,848 Is that how desperate you are to avoid quants? 998 00:45:19,884 --> 00:45:21,975 That you try to rig it to blunt them 999 00:45:22,011 --> 00:45:24,644 and try to float it past me without telling me? 1000 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:25,177 Of course not. I... 1001 00:45:27,725 --> 00:45:28,982 All right, how'd you know? 1002 00:45:29,018 --> 00:45:31,193 Your body language, the softball questions, 1003 00:45:31,229 --> 00:45:32,569 the register of your voice. 1004 00:45:32,605 --> 00:45:35,155 But the only thing I can't figure out is why. 1005 00:45:35,191 --> 00:45:36,990 Do you know how Axe and I met, 1006 00:45:37,026 --> 00:45:39,701 what the source of my loyalty to that man is? 1007 00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:42,078 I don't. 1008 00:45:42,114 --> 00:45:45,207 Well, I was at Lehman the last time a bunch of brilliant kids 1009 00:45:45,243 --> 00:45:47,709 thought that they had solved the fucking secrets of the market. 1010 00:45:47,745 --> 00:45:49,669 It almost cost me everything that I had built 1011 00:45:49,705 --> 00:45:50,670 over my entire career. 1012 00:45:50,706 --> 00:45:52,964 The rest of us, we were at their mercy 1013 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,800 because we didn't understand what they were doing, 1014 00:45:55,836 --> 00:45:57,344 so we couldn't question it. 1015 00:45:57,380 --> 00:45:59,846 It was a chance meeting with Axe at a golf outing 1016 00:45:59,882 --> 00:46:03,058 wherein he read my tarot cards for me, 1017 00:46:03,094 --> 00:46:04,976 told me what was gonna happen. 1018 00:46:05,012 --> 00:46:06,353 I was able to sell at 50. 1019 00:46:06,389 --> 00:46:08,355 If I had waited a few more months, 1020 00:46:08,391 --> 00:46:09,689 it would have been at two. 1021 00:46:09,725 --> 00:46:12,567 Axe's warning allowed me to save my ass 1022 00:46:12,603 --> 00:46:14,694 before it was too late. 1023 00:46:14,730 --> 00:46:17,697 I do not want to be in that position 1024 00:46:17,733 --> 00:46:19,658 ever again. 1025 00:46:19,694 --> 00:46:21,159 I see. 1026 00:46:21,195 --> 00:46:22,869 Even though your former company was levered 31 times 1027 00:46:22,905 --> 00:46:25,622 and there were countless other factors at play, 1028 00:46:25,658 --> 00:46:27,749 I get how traumatic that was. 1029 00:46:27,785 --> 00:46:29,751 So you're not gonna hire a quant? 1030 00:46:29,787 --> 00:46:31,670 I am not going to hire a quant. 1031 00:46:31,706 --> 00:46:33,874 That's become clear to me. 1032 00:46:36,043 --> 00:46:37,425 And you're correct. 1033 00:46:37,461 --> 00:46:39,135 Billy Beane never won a World Series. 1034 00:46:39,171 --> 00:46:41,805 But Theo Epstein did, using all the same strategies 1035 00:46:41,841 --> 00:46:43,974 Billy came up with first, and we will, too. 1036 00:46:44,010 --> 00:46:46,559 I accept I can't go outside to find what we need, 1037 00:46:46,595 --> 00:46:48,061 so we're going to build our own. 1038 00:46:48,097 --> 00:46:49,682 I'm going to oversee it. 1039 00:46:57,523 --> 00:46:58,738 He did it. 1040 00:46:58,774 --> 00:47:00,907 He damn near actually kicked the guy in the cock. 1041 00:47:00,943 --> 00:47:02,575 Only it was a woman board member. 1042 00:47:02,611 --> 00:47:04,411 They ate him up. 1043 00:47:04,447 --> 00:47:07,163 I'm just so happy for the both of you it worked out. 1044 00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:07,831 Axe, I am just so grateful. 1045 00:47:07,867 --> 00:47:12,371 You gave me back my world. 1046 00:47:20,129 --> 00:47:21,344 Hey, hey! 1047 00:47:21,380 --> 00:47:23,388 - Hey, Dad. - Hey. 1048 00:47:23,424 --> 00:47:25,432 How are you, sweetheart? Good to see you. 1049 00:47:25,468 --> 00:47:27,017 How you doing, brother? You good? 1050 00:47:27,053 --> 00:47:30,312 Mwah. Good to see you. 1051 00:47:32,892 --> 00:47:34,566 Well... 1052 00:47:34,602 --> 00:47:36,568 I got dragged in. 1053 00:47:36,604 --> 00:47:37,944 How was it? 1054 00:47:37,980 --> 00:47:41,406 Fine, after your father got done browbeating Kevin 1055 00:47:41,442 --> 00:47:43,074 over his handshake. 1056 00:47:43,110 --> 00:47:44,451 He could probably use it. 1057 00:47:44,487 --> 00:47:47,454 Right, because the tensile strength of his grip alone 1058 00:47:47,490 --> 00:47:48,455 will dictate his outcome in life. 1059 00:47:48,491 --> 00:47:50,576 You'd be surprised. 1060 00:47:52,286 --> 00:47:54,210 Listen, he's doing his best to hide it, 1061 00:47:54,246 --> 00:47:56,087 but your father is... 1062 00:47:56,123 --> 00:47:58,298 wrecked by what's happened between you two. 1063 00:47:58,334 --> 00:48:00,842 He gave as good as he got, believe me. 1064 00:48:00,878 --> 00:48:01,968 Maybe. 1065 00:48:02,004 --> 00:48:03,136 But men of his age, 1066 00:48:03,172 --> 00:48:06,222 the big blows have an actual effect on their health. 1067 00:48:06,258 --> 00:48:07,932 Yeah, in Somerset Maugham stories. 1068 00:48:07,968 --> 00:48:09,476 He's an ox. 1069 00:48:09,512 --> 00:48:10,810 He'll likely see me into the ground. 1070 00:48:10,846 --> 00:48:12,812 Chuck, I might be persuaded to let it go 1071 00:48:12,848 --> 00:48:14,731 if you were sleeping through the night. 1072 00:48:14,767 --> 00:48:17,150 But you are basically the undead 1073 00:48:17,186 --> 00:48:17,984 wandering the house until morning, 1074 00:48:18,020 --> 00:48:20,898 so some resolution would help you, too. 1075 00:48:22,525 --> 00:48:25,403 If he came brokering peace, I'd hear him out. 1076 00:48:28,572 --> 00:48:30,580 What, you want me to initiate, for Christ's sake? Come on. 1077 00:48:38,499 --> 00:48:39,923 Yes, General? 1078 00:48:39,959 --> 00:48:42,425 You scheduled a press conference for tomorrow? 1079 00:48:42,461 --> 00:48:44,552 Not yet, but wise idea. 1080 00:48:44,588 --> 00:48:46,554 Yes, given the wave of outrage at MCC 1081 00:48:46,590 --> 00:48:49,099 and sympathy for the young man, I think it makes sense 1082 00:48:49,135 --> 00:48:51,434 to tell them that we will not be prosecuting. 1083 00:48:51,470 --> 00:48:53,770 Yes. Tonight José Lugo 1084 00:48:53,806 --> 00:48:55,563 is quite the cause célèbre. 1085 00:48:55,599 --> 00:48:58,024 But we are most certainly prosecuting. 1086 00:48:58,060 --> 00:49:01,945 I read different websites than you do, watch different shows. 1087 00:49:01,981 --> 00:49:02,946 The more your New York Times 1088 00:49:02,982 --> 00:49:05,198 is blaring about Lugo's mistreatment, 1089 00:49:05,234 --> 00:49:09,619 the more Breitbart is inflamed about a dead prison guard. 1090 00:49:09,655 --> 00:49:13,790 This case has national attention now, so attention must be paid. 1091 00:49:13,826 --> 00:49:16,501 You savvy what I'm saying to you, Chuck? 1092 00:49:16,537 --> 00:49:20,338 You, uh, want to proceed with the prosecution? 1093 00:49:20,374 --> 00:49:24,217 I don't know how cooperative the witnesses at MCC will be. 1094 00:49:24,253 --> 00:49:25,635 Reading between the lines of that story, 1095 00:49:25,671 --> 00:49:27,637 I think the warden... 1096 00:49:27,673 --> 00:49:29,055 Warden's been fired. 1097 00:49:29,091 --> 00:49:29,848 But you got a good point. 1098 00:49:29,884 --> 00:49:32,559 You got some leaks up there, 1099 00:49:32,595 --> 00:49:34,519 either in your shop, the prison's. 1100 00:49:34,555 --> 00:49:36,646 I'll plug 'em. 1101 00:49:36,682 --> 00:49:39,691 Yeah, well, you'll do more than that. 1102 00:49:39,727 --> 00:49:41,359 Where I come from, 1103 00:49:41,395 --> 00:49:42,902 the dogs don't stop yapping, 1104 00:49:42,938 --> 00:49:44,446 you don't just muzzle 'em. 1105 00:49:44,482 --> 00:49:47,902 You hit 'em with a shock collar until they quiet up nice. 1106 00:50:01,999 --> 00:50:03,840 What is it? 1107 00:50:03,876 --> 00:50:05,049 The attorney general 1108 00:50:05,085 --> 00:50:07,927 is ordering me to prosecute an innocent man, 1109 00:50:07,963 --> 00:50:10,132 and I don't think I can stop it from happening. 1110 00:50:18,557 --> 00:50:21,352 I have yet to meet the man you can't outmaneuver. 1111 00:50:23,145 --> 00:50:25,439 Find your angle. 1112 00:50:32,530 --> 00:50:34,954 Is that blood? 1113 00:50:34,990 --> 00:50:36,664 Not mine. 1114 00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:39,250 I-I hit someone tonight, hard. 1115 00:50:39,286 --> 00:50:41,085 Self-defense, or... 1116 00:50:41,121 --> 00:50:42,629 That law book you're reading would call it assault. 1117 00:50:42,665 --> 00:50:44,672 Battery, too. 1118 00:50:44,708 --> 00:50:48,468 With intent to harm? 1119 00:50:48,504 --> 00:50:49,969 With intent to try and make myself feel 1120 00:50:50,005 --> 00:50:53,056 like I was actually doing something. 1121 00:50:53,092 --> 00:50:55,141 Did it work? 1122 00:50:55,177 --> 00:50:56,893 Nothing is. Move over. 1123 00:51:10,776 --> 00:51:14,619 They're in this. 1124 00:51:14,655 --> 00:51:17,914 I can't look away from it anymore. 1125 00:51:28,877 --> 00:51:31,553 Are you trying to show me something by working this late? 1126 00:51:31,589 --> 00:51:34,133 No. By this. 1127 00:51:37,511 --> 00:51:39,269 Effort's never been my problem. 1128 00:51:39,305 --> 00:51:40,937 No, you're an effort guy. 1129 00:51:40,973 --> 00:51:42,605 That's why I keep you around. 1130 00:51:42,641 --> 00:51:44,268 No matter who else I bring in here. 1131 00:51:56,238 --> 00:51:58,496 Great. Have a good night. 1132 00:51:58,532 --> 00:52:00,331 Thanks for hanging in. 1133 00:52:00,367 --> 00:52:01,374 What's up? 1134 00:52:01,410 --> 00:52:01,874 Didn't work. 1135 00:52:01,910 --> 00:52:04,168 We got to do Lugo. 1136 00:52:04,204 --> 00:52:07,505 We announce tomorrow, so file first thing. 1137 00:52:07,541 --> 00:52:08,756 You serious? 1138 00:52:08,792 --> 00:52:11,426 Mm-hmm, as heart attacks and cancer 1139 00:52:11,462 --> 00:52:14,679 and all those serious things. 1140 00:52:14,715 --> 00:52:18,427 Proposed strategy? 1141 00:52:27,770 --> 00:52:29,068 Play racial animus. 1142 00:52:29,104 --> 00:52:31,654 Associate Lugo with the violence of his neighborhood. 1143 00:52:31,690 --> 00:52:33,156 Imply unofficial gang affiliation 1144 00:52:33,192 --> 00:52:34,907 through any friends or acquaintances 1145 00:52:34,943 --> 00:52:36,326 with records or old charges. 1146 00:52:36,362 --> 00:52:38,453 Tie this death to recent police violence, 1147 00:52:38,489 --> 00:52:39,579 like it was payback. 1148 00:52:39,615 --> 00:52:42,665 Hammer the most convenient version of the facts. 1149 00:52:42,701 --> 00:52:44,959 Lugo, while awaiting charges for drug possession, 1150 00:52:44,995 --> 00:52:46,502 had a confrontation with a man 1151 00:52:46,538 --> 00:52:48,546 hired to protect the public from criminals, 1152 00:52:48,582 --> 00:52:51,215 and that man is now dead. 1153 00:52:51,251 --> 00:52:53,051 I guess you do have it in you. 1154 00:52:53,087 --> 00:52:57,430 Is this how it's going to be now? 1155 00:52:57,466 --> 00:53:00,350 Yes, it is. 1156 00:53:00,386 --> 00:53:02,310 And no. 1157 00:53:02,346 --> 00:53:06,314 You know all those cases we dropped for the A. G.? 1158 00:53:06,350 --> 00:53:07,607 - Yeah. - Tomorrow morning, 1159 00:53:07,643 --> 00:53:09,233 I want you to start working that Ponzi scheme case 1160 00:53:09,269 --> 00:53:11,986 - that hurt all those teachers. - LeRoy? 1161 00:53:12,022 --> 00:53:13,738 Yes, in earnest and off the radar. 1162 00:53:13,774 --> 00:53:14,822 Start building it out. 1163 00:53:14,858 --> 00:53:16,658 We'll figure out who to give it to. 1164 00:53:16,694 --> 00:53:17,825 And go to your FBI agent 1165 00:53:17,861 --> 00:53:20,995 and start adding others that fit the bill. 1166 00:53:21,031 --> 00:53:22,914 This space is now assigned to you. 1167 00:53:22,950 --> 00:53:26,209 Officially, it is where you will review office priorities. 1168 00:53:26,245 --> 00:53:28,711 Unofficially, it will be our war room. 1169 00:53:28,747 --> 00:53:32,215 Where we, the Maquisards, will mount the resistance. 1170 00:53:32,251 --> 00:53:33,966 We will not let this son of a bitch 1171 00:53:34,002 --> 00:53:36,463 define justice for the SDNY. 1172 00:53:49,852 --> 00:53:51,984 Who are you? 1173 00:53:53,564 --> 00:53:55,655 Hey! 1174 00:53:55,691 --> 00:53:56,823 Hey, stop! 1175 00:53:56,859 --> 00:53:59,283 Hi, Mike. 1176 00:53:59,319 --> 00:54:01,994 Good job winning the board over. 1177 00:54:02,030 --> 00:54:03,830 Axe? 1178 00:54:03,866 --> 00:54:07,083 I am here to set the terms. 1179 00:54:07,119 --> 00:54:08,501 I thought. 1180 00:54:08,537 --> 00:54:10,628 Well, of course you did. 1181 00:54:10,664 --> 00:54:15,216 But. You will move assets how and when I tell you. 1182 00:54:15,252 --> 00:54:18,594 Your 2 and 20 is now 1 and 10. 1183 00:54:18,630 --> 00:54:20,805 The rest will be converted into cryptocurrency 1184 00:54:20,841 --> 00:54:22,014 and paid to me. 1185 00:54:22,050 --> 00:54:23,182 You will sign documents 1186 00:54:23,218 --> 00:54:26,352 testifying to your full and willing participation 1187 00:54:26,388 --> 00:54:27,854 in all of this right now. 1188 00:54:27,890 --> 00:54:30,356 Those documents will disappear from sight, 1189 00:54:30,392 --> 00:54:31,858 but they'll always exist. 1190 00:54:31,894 --> 00:54:36,231 The gentlemen here will help you handle the details. 1191 00:54:39,860 --> 00:54:42,326 You have been brought back to life, 1192 00:54:42,362 --> 00:54:44,370 as promised. 1193 00:54:44,406 --> 00:54:45,872 But it's not free. 1194 00:54:45,908 --> 00:54:49,083 You can refuse right now, right here, 1195 00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:51,752 but then everything will go away. 1196 00:54:51,788 --> 00:54:54,875 Are you in? 1197 00:54:56,752 --> 00:55:01,465 Are you in? 1198 00:55:05,427 --> 00:55:07,435 Good. 1199 00:55:07,471 --> 00:55:11,856 Then all is as it should be in the world. 1200 00:55:31,119 --> 00:55:33,794 You are now officially but unofficially 1201 00:55:33,830 --> 00:55:37,340 the proud owner of half of my half of Panay's fund, 1202 00:55:37,376 --> 00:55:39,592 paid in crypto, of course. 1203 00:57:15,426 --> 00:57:20,426 Subtitles by explosiveskull