1 00:00:05,131 --> 00:00:06,446 Previously on Billions... 2 00:00:06,446 --> 00:00:07,780 I thought I would outlast you. 3 00:00:07,780 --> 00:00:09,071 I was wrong about Axe. 4 00:00:09,071 --> 00:00:10,112 He's backing me. 5 00:00:10,112 --> 00:00:11,488 I'm waving the white flag. 6 00:00:11,488 --> 00:00:12,780 Willing to go back to supplying you. 7 00:00:12,780 --> 00:00:14,529 You cut a fucking deal with Taylor? 8 00:00:14,529 --> 00:00:15,946 I saw the friction 9 00:00:15,946 --> 00:00:17,946 that it already had created between us. 10 00:00:17,946 --> 00:00:19,613 So I let you off the hook. 11 00:00:19,613 --> 00:00:21,987 We are here today to explore serious charges 12 00:00:21,987 --> 00:00:23,530 against Doctor Wendy Rhoades. 13 00:00:23,565 --> 00:00:25,946 - If she acted in a medical capacity... - I did. 14 00:00:26,455 --> 00:00:27,863 FBI! Let me see your hands! 15 00:00:29,029 --> 00:00:31,655 Don't you lay a hand on her! 16 00:00:31,655 --> 00:00:33,112 If you answer my questions, 17 00:00:33,112 --> 00:00:35,112 neither you nor your boy need be clapped in iron. 18 00:00:35,112 --> 00:00:38,279 I'm not saying a damn thing to help you hurt my boy. 19 00:00:38,279 --> 00:00:40,112 Have I ever told you 20 00:00:40,112 --> 00:00:42,639 when I knew that you were gonna be my partner at all this. 21 00:00:42,674 --> 00:00:45,529 - You remember? - What kind of man would I be if I didn't? 22 00:00:45,529 --> 00:00:48,237 Chuck, when did you know you needed to marry me? 23 00:00:48,237 --> 00:00:51,863 I mean the... the exact moment. 24 00:00:51,863 --> 00:00:54,071 I don't remember. 25 00:00:54,071 --> 00:00:57,071 The kind of destruction you're considering, 26 00:00:57,071 --> 00:00:59,863 the relationships that'll be ruined... 27 00:00:59,863 --> 00:01:01,071 You ready for all that? 28 00:01:01,071 --> 00:01:02,237 What else is on the unredacted tape? 29 00:01:02,237 --> 00:01:03,738 What, exactly, was getting locked in the safe? 30 00:01:03,738 --> 00:01:05,571 Bryan! Stop pushing me. 31 00:01:05,571 --> 00:01:07,446 They were dancing around whatever they were doing... 32 00:01:07,446 --> 00:01:09,154 If there's documentation to be retrieved... 33 00:01:37,696 --> 00:01:39,529 I'm not ready... 34 00:01:39,529 --> 00:01:41,780 Worm is always ready for the hook. 35 00:01:41,780 --> 00:01:43,696 No. Not ready. 36 00:01:43,696 --> 00:01:45,237 Let me down. 37 00:01:50,610 --> 00:01:51,738 No. Seriously. 38 00:01:52,780 --> 00:01:53,780 Red. 39 00:01:55,780 --> 00:01:58,613 Ah. The safe word. 40 00:01:59,179 --> 00:02:02,363 So you don't think you've earned your punishment yet? 41 00:02:03,697 --> 00:02:05,613 Fine. 42 00:02:05,613 --> 00:02:08,196 Don't come back until you have. 43 00:02:36,780 --> 00:02:38,196 When you look at it, 44 00:02:38,196 --> 00:02:40,321 do you see the innocence everyone talks about? 45 00:02:40,321 --> 00:02:43,905 I guess. But I start thinking about the man who painted it. 46 00:02:43,905 --> 00:02:45,321 Not so innocent. 47 00:02:45,321 --> 00:02:47,905 'Cause he was a stockbroker first? Unfair. 48 00:02:47,905 --> 00:02:49,154 Oh, you relate to him? 49 00:02:49,154 --> 00:02:51,613 Well. Let me see: 50 00:02:51,613 --> 00:02:54,363 he was always broke, hounded by his creditors, 51 00:02:54,363 --> 00:02:56,696 had a wicked case of syphilis and liked to marry teenagers. 52 00:02:56,696 --> 00:03:00,196 So, you know, not really. 53 00:03:00,196 --> 00:03:01,571 He could have lived like a king 54 00:03:01,571 --> 00:03:03,363 for a lifetime on what you paid for this. 55 00:03:03,363 --> 00:03:05,571 Not how it works, sadly. 56 00:03:05,571 --> 00:03:08,571 The great ones... they all have to suffer 57 00:03:08,571 --> 00:03:10,237 to make something like this. 58 00:03:10,237 --> 00:03:12,196 And then usually they only get the recognition 59 00:03:12,196 --> 00:03:13,738 once they're in the dirt. 60 00:03:13,738 --> 00:03:16,112 There's no rule that says the greater you want to be, 61 00:03:16,112 --> 00:03:17,279 the more you have to suffer. 62 00:03:17,279 --> 00:03:19,946 Well. Sure seems like there is. 63 00:03:19,946 --> 00:03:21,863 I mean, look at Wendy... 64 00:03:21,863 --> 00:03:23,571 Mm. 65 00:03:23,571 --> 00:03:25,780 I need a favor. 66 00:03:27,155 --> 00:03:29,154 You know, this whole medical license thing... 67 00:03:29,154 --> 00:03:32,292 she could do with a distraction, a reset. 68 00:03:32,327 --> 00:03:35,029 - What are you thinking? - A state changer. 69 00:03:35,029 --> 00:03:37,279 In the Hamptons, a spa? 70 00:03:37,279 --> 00:03:39,237 I have my chopper standing by at the ready. 71 00:03:39,237 --> 00:03:41,696 No fucking spa. Um... 72 00:03:43,011 --> 00:03:45,905 - I have an idea. - Oh. Good. 73 00:03:45,905 --> 00:03:47,738 Why not you? 74 00:03:47,738 --> 00:03:50,821 I have the feeling she'll get a lot more out of your insights. 75 00:03:51,897 --> 00:03:53,696 Sure. 76 00:04:12,696 --> 00:04:13,821 Off to...? 77 00:04:14,987 --> 00:04:17,404 Uh. Day trip. With Rebecca. 78 00:04:17,404 --> 00:04:19,613 State changer. Or something. 79 00:04:19,613 --> 00:04:21,237 Good. 80 00:04:21,237 --> 00:04:23,571 Yeah. You let those shoulders drop. 81 00:04:24,835 --> 00:04:25,821 I don't think they'll drop 'til 82 00:04:25,821 --> 00:04:27,987 the exact terms of my suspension have been announced. 83 00:04:27,987 --> 00:04:31,905 And probably not 'til it's all over. 84 00:04:31,905 --> 00:04:34,112 While you're gone, I will be hard at it 85 00:04:34,112 --> 00:04:36,613 trying to get those terms relaxed or done away. 86 00:04:36,613 --> 00:04:38,321 Would have been easier ahead of time. 87 00:04:38,321 --> 00:04:40,863 But, uh, there must be a lever out there. 88 00:04:40,863 --> 00:04:43,029 Too much of that is what got me here. 89 00:04:43,029 --> 00:04:45,154 Sure. But you know that now. 90 00:04:46,340 --> 00:04:48,529 Wouldn't you rather repent with your medical license? 91 00:04:50,982 --> 00:04:53,446 - I suppose I would. - Then we've got to get it done now, 92 00:04:53,446 --> 00:04:54,738 before they officially rule. 93 00:04:54,738 --> 00:04:55,946 They all but have. 94 00:04:57,031 --> 00:05:00,488 And in that tiny space between "all" and "have" 95 00:05:00,488 --> 00:05:02,946 lies our hope. 96 00:05:09,987 --> 00:05:11,154 What's on the docket? 97 00:05:11,154 --> 00:05:12,946 Karl, I need you to find out 98 00:05:12,946 --> 00:05:14,946 what makes a certain man light up. 99 00:05:14,946 --> 00:05:16,321 What might move him. 100 00:05:16,321 --> 00:05:18,404 Now, this is a medical man, name of Zhang, a... 101 00:05:18,743 --> 00:05:19,755 Rhoades... 102 00:05:19,755 --> 00:05:22,196 we have business. 103 00:05:22,196 --> 00:05:25,987 What business could we possibly have, Generalissimo? 104 00:05:25,987 --> 00:05:27,529 The business of men... 105 00:05:27,529 --> 00:05:30,154 one nearly vanquished, the other ascendent again. 106 00:05:30,154 --> 00:05:32,321 I was taught never to negotiate with kidnappers. 107 00:05:32,321 --> 00:05:34,571 So, first return my old man, then, maybe we can... 108 00:05:34,571 --> 00:05:36,987 Move your shit train, and maybe your old man 109 00:05:36,987 --> 00:05:38,946 will be back in this shit-town the same day. 110 00:05:38,946 --> 00:05:41,655 Done. And now our colloquy is over. 111 00:05:41,655 --> 00:05:45,488 Eh. Palaver with me or just listen. 112 00:05:45,488 --> 00:05:47,696 I give not a Tinker's-dam. 113 00:05:51,529 --> 00:05:54,071 I am here to offer you the chance to resign 114 00:05:54,071 --> 00:05:56,571 before I crush you, publicly, 115 00:05:56,571 --> 00:05:59,696 and loud as a cow elk trying to squeeze out breached twins. 116 00:05:59,696 --> 00:06:02,196 Oh. You have neither the power nor the authority. 117 00:06:02,196 --> 00:06:03,987 You once offered me the chance to surrender 118 00:06:03,987 --> 00:06:05,905 before being visited by the plagues. 119 00:06:05,905 --> 00:06:09,071 I did not, and so I paid the price. 120 00:06:09,071 --> 00:06:12,363 Now, I have no desire to bring dishonor on our profession... 121 00:06:12,363 --> 00:06:14,946 Spare me your rodomontade. 122 00:06:14,946 --> 00:06:19,246 This is the same bargain you put to me: the chance to walk away. 123 00:06:19,921 --> 00:06:21,363 With just the bedrock certainty you had 124 00:06:21,363 --> 00:06:22,863 when you stood in my kitchen. 125 00:06:22,863 --> 00:06:25,363 You knew that train was already en route. 126 00:06:25,363 --> 00:06:27,696 I know much the same. 127 00:06:27,696 --> 00:06:29,821 You're done. 128 00:06:30,493 --> 00:06:33,852 You know, you once remarked you knew all the fancy words I did. 129 00:06:33,887 --> 00:06:36,363 That you'd gone to the same schools. 130 00:06:36,363 --> 00:06:39,905 Yet you love to deploy the earthy, the homespun, 131 00:06:39,905 --> 00:06:42,863 the language of the dirt road and the barefoot walk to school. 132 00:06:44,905 --> 00:06:48,571 The language, in short, of your parents and cousins. 133 00:06:49,833 --> 00:06:52,571 Well, I, too, can reach back into familial lexicon 134 00:06:52,571 --> 00:06:54,987 for bracing truths. 135 00:06:54,987 --> 00:06:59,048 And my, uh... my mother's father was from Italy... 136 00:06:59,515 --> 00:07:00,738 ...yes, a Roman, you know. 137 00:07:00,738 --> 00:07:03,404 And he taught me that when someone talks to you 138 00:07:03,404 --> 00:07:04,905 as though you are of no consequence, 139 00:07:04,905 --> 00:07:06,404 you have two choices. 140 00:07:06,404 --> 00:07:09,529 The first is to wilt away. 141 00:07:09,529 --> 00:07:13,780 And the second is to get right in their face and tell them... 142 00:07:13,780 --> 00:07:17,613 Sei fuori come un balcone, figlio di buona donna, 143 00:07:17,613 --> 00:07:20,946 ti venisse un colpo, a te e a tutta la palazzina tua 144 00:07:20,946 --> 00:07:24,987 ma guardati che sei, burino, cazzabubbolo, baciapile, 145 00:07:24,987 --> 00:07:27,154 non ti vogliono manco li cani, 146 00:07:27,154 --> 00:07:31,112 sei cosi stronzo che se pesti una merda fai scopa, 147 00:07:31,112 --> 00:07:34,905 li mortacci tua. 148 00:07:34,905 --> 00:07:37,237 Vaffanculo! Eh! 149 00:07:43,613 --> 00:07:45,404 Oh! That's good. 150 00:07:45,404 --> 00:07:47,237 - That is real good, Chuck. - Mm. 151 00:07:49,405 --> 00:07:50,773 That was a good trick. 152 00:07:50,808 --> 00:07:51,821 Ah, a good trick. 153 00:07:51,821 --> 00:07:53,446 I don't understand a word you said. 154 00:07:53,446 --> 00:07:55,488 - Mnm. - But I got the general feeling. 155 00:07:55,488 --> 00:07:57,071 And I like it. 156 00:07:57,071 --> 00:07:58,655 - You know why? - Hmm? 157 00:07:58,655 --> 00:08:02,279 Because it tells me that you are not gonna pay heed. 158 00:08:02,279 --> 00:08:03,821 So let me give you a final taste 159 00:08:03,821 --> 00:08:06,237 of biscuits and white gravy American. 160 00:08:06,237 --> 00:08:08,154 You know what happens to a lumberjack 161 00:08:08,154 --> 00:08:11,154 who doesn't react when he hears "timber"? 162 00:08:11,941 --> 00:08:14,296 He gets crushed by a tree. 163 00:08:15,829 --> 00:08:18,404 This case against you will be complete, 164 00:08:19,751 --> 00:08:20,905 and it is just gonna land on you 165 00:08:20,905 --> 00:08:24,488 like a clear-cut Ponderosa pine. 166 00:08:32,139 --> 00:08:33,321 I'm getting back late, 167 00:08:33,321 --> 00:08:38,071 so I will see you at the board meeting tomorrow. 168 00:08:38,071 --> 00:08:39,987 Yeah. You bet. 169 00:08:41,441 --> 00:08:42,655 Have a great day. 170 00:08:44,154 --> 00:08:45,196 And thank you. 171 00:09:07,946 --> 00:09:09,279 Hello? 172 00:09:09,279 --> 00:09:12,029 Sandy. Lemme ask you a question: 173 00:09:12,029 --> 00:09:13,863 You a man who likes a good breakfast? 174 00:09:13,863 --> 00:09:15,738 Hell yes, I like a good breakfast. 175 00:09:15,738 --> 00:09:17,613 Then you're gonna love what I got for ya. 176 00:09:19,734 --> 00:09:21,738 I hate the expression "mistakes were made." 177 00:09:21,738 --> 00:09:23,321 Because it avoids blame. 178 00:09:23,321 --> 00:09:25,196 And you know, in all the time I worked for him, 179 00:09:25,196 --> 00:09:27,571 there were two things I never heard Bobby Axelrod say: 180 00:09:27,571 --> 00:09:29,738 "I was wrong." And "I'm sorry." 181 00:09:29,738 --> 00:09:31,529 I'm here to tell you that that is the last time 182 00:09:31,529 --> 00:09:33,738 you will hear his name come out of my mouth in this office. 183 00:09:33,738 --> 00:09:36,112 Because I was wrong. And I am sorry. 184 00:09:36,112 --> 00:09:37,863 I got baited. 185 00:09:37,863 --> 00:09:39,738 Hooked in the mouth like a trophy marlin. 186 00:09:39,738 --> 00:09:41,571 And narrowly escaped being mounted on the wall. 187 00:09:41,571 --> 00:09:43,899 But escape I did. We did. 188 00:09:43,934 --> 00:09:45,071 And now that's the end of it. 189 00:09:45,071 --> 00:09:48,237 We are going to use this moment to officially, formally, 190 00:09:48,237 --> 00:09:50,655 and in all other ways, move beyond rivalries, 191 00:09:50,655 --> 00:09:52,655 anger, everything that doesn't clearly 192 00:09:52,655 --> 00:09:54,905 and demonstrably help Mase Cap win. 193 00:09:54,905 --> 00:09:56,780 Q is for quantitative, baby! 194 00:09:57,559 --> 00:09:58,655 That it is. 195 00:09:59,397 --> 00:10:01,154 We will return to our mathematical model. 196 00:10:01,154 --> 00:10:03,363 And you are now free, all of you, to maximize, 197 00:10:03,363 --> 00:10:05,571 without fear that I will be too distracted to notice, 198 00:10:05,571 --> 00:10:08,488 or that I will squander the resources you are providing. 199 00:10:08,488 --> 00:10:10,905 You are the smartest and best people in the industry. 200 00:10:10,905 --> 00:10:13,154 And I am proud to retake my seat amongst you. 201 00:10:13,154 --> 00:10:14,780 Damaged, but reborn. 202 00:10:14,780 --> 00:10:17,321 - Taylor Mason is back! - Yeah! 203 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:19,029 More importantly: 204 00:10:19,029 --> 00:10:22,279 Taylor Mason Capital is back! 205 00:10:35,196 --> 00:10:37,112 Dad. 206 00:10:39,125 --> 00:10:41,821 - How are my... - Your consort and child are fine. 207 00:10:41,821 --> 00:10:43,279 Don't do that. 208 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:45,571 Her name is Roxanne. 209 00:10:45,571 --> 00:10:48,321 And we call the little girl Willow. 210 00:10:48,321 --> 00:10:50,321 They're fine, anyway. How are you? 211 00:10:51,780 --> 00:10:53,738 I am spent, to be honest. 212 00:10:53,738 --> 00:10:56,613 When I was young I could've withstood a bracing like that 213 00:10:56,613 --> 00:10:59,404 while standing on my fucking head. 214 00:10:59,404 --> 00:11:02,279 But I felt myself fading. 215 00:11:03,747 --> 00:11:06,404 - You made it through. - Yeah. 216 00:11:06,404 --> 00:11:10,321 But, Sonny, they are coming for you strong. 217 00:11:10,321 --> 00:11:12,112 I hope you're ready. 218 00:11:12,112 --> 00:11:14,071 I hope so, too. 219 00:11:15,821 --> 00:11:17,863 You are my boss. So you get to have me stand here. 220 00:11:17,863 --> 00:11:21,280 But you don't get to ask me the same question 17 times. 221 00:11:21,315 --> 00:11:22,696 Or rather, you do, but I don't have to answer it. 222 00:11:22,696 --> 00:11:24,071 Let me ask it differently then, 223 00:11:24,071 --> 00:11:25,571 since I'm not doing it to fuck around 224 00:11:25,571 --> 00:11:27,571 but rather to make a case, which is, 225 00:11:27,571 --> 00:11:29,696 lest we think we are here to do the double dutch, 226 00:11:29,696 --> 00:11:31,196 the entire reason for our existence. 227 00:11:31,196 --> 00:11:32,696 Mm. Feels like double dutch. 228 00:11:32,696 --> 00:11:34,404 Jumping in place. Tripping over ourselves. 229 00:11:34,404 --> 00:11:35,780 No way you trip doing... 230 00:11:35,780 --> 00:11:38,601 Nope. I can go for hours. But I bet you would. 231 00:11:38,636 --> 00:11:40,363 Kate, this has gotten off track. I just need to know, 232 00:11:40,363 --> 00:11:42,905 and not officially... but for myself, to plan... 233 00:11:42,905 --> 00:11:44,363 if anyone is mentioned 234 00:11:44,363 --> 00:11:46,196 in the privileged part of that recording. 235 00:11:46,196 --> 00:11:47,571 Anyone material to the case. 236 00:11:47,571 --> 00:11:50,363 Eighteen. And I can't answer, won't answer. 237 00:11:50,363 --> 00:11:52,071 How do we know the agents stopped listening 238 00:11:52,071 --> 00:11:53,446 at just the right moment. 239 00:11:53,446 --> 00:11:54,446 - Maybe, after... - No, no. 240 00:11:54,446 --> 00:11:56,488 They, and I, heard it all. 241 00:11:56,488 --> 00:11:58,321 Best for everyone you don't listen. 242 00:11:58,321 --> 00:11:59,696 Then I won't get Chuck. 243 00:11:59,696 --> 00:12:02,071 - Can you live with that... - Oh. Say you do get him. 244 00:12:02,071 --> 00:12:04,279 Do you think you can ratchet back the Jack Torrance shit? 245 00:12:04,279 --> 00:12:05,738 Like from The Shining? 246 00:12:05,738 --> 00:12:07,696 Yeah. You have that same obsessed look in your eye. 247 00:12:07,696 --> 00:12:10,237 The difference is: I'm not seeing ghosts riding Big Wheels. 248 00:12:10,237 --> 00:12:11,696 I'm seeing a wrongdoer getting away. 249 00:12:11,696 --> 00:12:13,696 Once he's nailed... and Jock is pacified... 250 00:12:13,696 --> 00:12:15,946 I'll be free of all this... stuff. 251 00:12:15,946 --> 00:12:18,112 And the Southern District will become sovereign again. 252 00:12:18,112 --> 00:12:20,738 In the cause of all that is good and nob... 253 00:12:20,738 --> 00:12:22,154 And don't you want to be a part of that? 254 00:12:22,898 --> 00:12:25,488 - I do. - Then just tell me this: 255 00:12:25,488 --> 00:12:28,488 does the recording spell out who the idiot is? 256 00:12:28,488 --> 00:12:30,112 That's the one person who wasn't there. 257 00:12:30,112 --> 00:12:31,905 But is mentioned. We could lean on him. 258 00:12:31,905 --> 00:12:33,905 Nineteen. 259 00:12:33,905 --> 00:12:36,279 And you could. If you knew who he was. 260 00:12:36,279 --> 00:12:37,863 Can you give me a hint? 261 00:12:37,863 --> 00:12:40,029 We are not fucking playing Password, Bryan. 262 00:12:40,029 --> 00:12:42,071 This is for your good. 263 00:12:42,931 --> 00:12:44,655 For my good. 264 00:12:44,655 --> 00:12:47,321 For fucking good, you know? 265 00:13:05,196 --> 00:13:07,446 'Becca, Wendy! 266 00:13:07,446 --> 00:13:08,613 - Hi, Mark. - Cubes! 267 00:13:08,613 --> 00:13:10,655 I'm so fired up that you made it up here. 268 00:13:10,655 --> 00:13:12,363 This is gonna be so much fun. 269 00:13:12,363 --> 00:13:14,029 Wait till you get to ride on these things. 270 00:13:14,029 --> 00:13:16,196 The power is incredible. 271 00:13:16,196 --> 00:13:17,905 Anyways, this is my guy Phil. 272 00:13:17,905 --> 00:13:20,446 He's gonna train you up and make sure you have a good time. 273 00:13:20,446 --> 00:13:21,613 Place is all yours. 274 00:13:21,613 --> 00:13:23,529 - Thanks. - Can't wait. 275 00:13:26,821 --> 00:13:28,571 Sooooo, my Daddy, 276 00:13:28,571 --> 00:13:30,613 and I know you'd think I called him father, 277 00:13:30,613 --> 00:13:32,363 but he was Daddy and Mommy was... 278 00:13:32,363 --> 00:13:34,613 - Mommy? - She sure was. 279 00:13:34,613 --> 00:13:37,655 What Daddy said was: elbow grease alone 280 00:13:37,655 --> 00:13:41,237 won't solve what elbow grease and a few silver coins will. 281 00:13:41,237 --> 00:13:42,987 A real philosopher king. 282 00:13:42,987 --> 00:13:45,363 He also told me to find a career that would justify 283 00:13:45,363 --> 00:13:46,987 elbow patches on my sport coats. 284 00:13:46,987 --> 00:13:50,529 "Because that would signify useful work, Pa?" I asked. 285 00:13:50,529 --> 00:13:52,488 - Pa, now? - Pa. Yes. 286 00:13:52,488 --> 00:13:54,363 And he said: no, Son, 287 00:13:54,363 --> 00:13:56,404 because folks will believe you mean well. 288 00:13:56,404 --> 00:13:58,196 All this to say... 289 00:13:58,196 --> 00:13:59,780 Her trouble won't go away 290 00:13:59,780 --> 00:14:01,696 because we smile nice and ask even nicer. 291 00:14:01,696 --> 00:14:04,987 It's gonna take some institutional lubricant. 292 00:14:04,987 --> 00:14:06,237 How much. 293 00:14:06,237 --> 00:14:07,279 $25 million. 294 00:14:07,279 --> 00:14:09,863 Ouch. Now I think I need the lube. 295 00:14:09,863 --> 00:14:11,488 But fine. Do it. 296 00:14:13,738 --> 00:14:17,029 Hey, Ayles, you actually even know your father? 297 00:14:17,029 --> 00:14:19,029 Does anyone, really? 298 00:14:20,655 --> 00:14:21,946 How was breakfast? 299 00:14:21,946 --> 00:14:23,987 Eh. Went well... 300 00:14:23,987 --> 00:14:27,029 Listen, I want you to stay on this with Ayles. 301 00:14:27,029 --> 00:14:29,863 Make sure it happens. Never let her know we did it. 302 00:14:29,863 --> 00:14:31,905 That might be hard. These places like to advertise. 303 00:14:31,905 --> 00:14:34,196 Try. I don't want her to feel beholden. 304 00:14:34,196 --> 00:14:36,029 You are that rarest of creatures. 305 00:14:37,205 --> 00:14:38,237 An actual gentleman. 306 00:14:39,235 --> 00:14:41,154 Basically, just for her. 307 00:14:41,154 --> 00:14:43,404 But yeah. 308 00:14:48,404 --> 00:14:50,071 You mean about the idiot 309 00:14:50,071 --> 00:14:52,363 who stands to lose the most? Can I really... 310 00:14:55,071 --> 00:14:57,029 You mean about the idiot 311 00:14:57,029 --> 00:14:59,029 who stands to lose the most? Can I really... 312 00:14:59,773 --> 00:15:01,196 Fuck. 313 00:15:10,071 --> 00:15:13,655 Jock, I need some warrants... 314 00:15:13,655 --> 00:15:15,363 No. No, Funt won't grant these. 315 00:15:15,363 --> 00:15:18,154 I need your, uh, friendly judge. 316 00:15:19,083 --> 00:15:20,529 Yeah. 317 00:15:28,404 --> 00:15:30,780 Now, we can talk in here. It's been swept. 318 00:15:30,780 --> 00:15:32,446 The fridge is stocked and I can order... 319 00:15:32,446 --> 00:15:33,905 Let's not do the whole service thing. 320 00:15:33,905 --> 00:15:36,196 No food. No drink. We'll make it quick. 321 00:15:36,196 --> 00:15:37,738 Sure. Pit stop at Le Mans, 322 00:15:37,738 --> 00:15:39,738 tires, oil, back out of the chute. 323 00:15:39,738 --> 00:15:41,529 Not a long night of necking at the drive in. 324 00:15:41,529 --> 00:15:42,946 - Definitely not. - Yeah. 325 00:15:42,946 --> 00:15:44,446 No. Here's the thing: 326 00:15:44,446 --> 00:15:47,821 last time we sat here we talked about revenge. 327 00:15:47,821 --> 00:15:50,426 And how we were to help each other achieve it. 328 00:15:50,461 --> 00:15:52,529 And we have and will continue to... 329 00:15:52,529 --> 00:15:53,696 About that. 330 00:15:53,696 --> 00:15:56,112 Look, I got Taylor in the well, 331 00:15:56,112 --> 00:15:58,321 it has applied the lotion from the basket. 332 00:15:58,812 --> 00:16:00,112 All that's left is the skinning. 333 00:16:00,112 --> 00:16:03,279 Which is to say: they will soon be hemorrhaging money, 334 00:16:03,279 --> 00:16:05,780 vulnerable, desperate and ready to make the kind of move 335 00:16:05,780 --> 00:16:07,655 that will make your job very easy. 336 00:16:07,655 --> 00:16:10,154 You're always telling me how simple my gig is. 337 00:16:10,154 --> 00:16:12,279 If it's all so basic, why don't you do the skinning? 338 00:16:12,279 --> 00:16:15,196 I'll tell you: because it's bloody work. Grimy. 339 00:16:15,196 --> 00:16:17,946 Then roll 'em up and sink 'em in up to the shoulders. 340 00:16:17,946 --> 00:16:20,154 - Oh, is that an order? - It's shorthand. 341 00:16:20,154 --> 00:16:22,321 But if you need me to curtsy and bow, just say the word. 342 00:16:22,321 --> 00:16:23,946 It's one or the other. Not both. 343 00:16:23,946 --> 00:16:27,863 And no. What I need is your expertise to do it right. 344 00:16:27,863 --> 00:16:30,655 I set people up all the time, but to do it 345 00:16:30,655 --> 00:16:33,154 without opening up an entrapment charge is difficult. 346 00:16:33,154 --> 00:16:35,571 The right trap has to come from you. 347 00:16:35,571 --> 00:16:37,196 If Taylor is floundering and desperate, 348 00:16:37,196 --> 00:16:39,529 you know better than me what their next move will be. 349 00:16:39,529 --> 00:16:41,946 What might tempt them to take a chance? 350 00:16:41,946 --> 00:16:43,821 The answer to all their problems. 351 00:16:43,821 --> 00:16:46,780 Yes. And then, we dangle that. 352 00:16:46,780 --> 00:16:49,029 Now, uh, a corrupt associate. 353 00:16:50,201 --> 00:16:52,112 Weak former employee? Someone you've let go. 354 00:16:52,112 --> 00:16:53,696 Offering funds or a service 355 00:16:53,696 --> 00:16:55,571 or an opportunity too good to pass up... 356 00:17:00,363 --> 00:17:03,279 I know just the fella. 357 00:17:03,279 --> 00:17:05,363 Something about the directness of the metaphor here 358 00:17:05,363 --> 00:17:06,946 is going to feel absurd for a minute. 359 00:17:06,946 --> 00:17:08,529 I need you to fight that off. 360 00:17:08,529 --> 00:17:12,029 And own the fact that you are moving the fucking earth. 361 00:17:12,029 --> 00:17:15,196 Because that's what you are and what you do in the actual world. 362 00:17:39,279 --> 00:17:41,071 Yes! 363 00:17:42,071 --> 00:17:44,571 Ah! 364 00:17:44,571 --> 00:17:47,404 You were fucking right. We moved earth. 365 00:17:47,404 --> 00:17:49,987 We were destruction. 366 00:17:49,987 --> 00:17:52,404 Elemental. No gray area. 367 00:17:52,404 --> 00:17:53,863 Being in the cockpit was like 368 00:17:53,863 --> 00:17:55,655 hitting the stage with The Clash. 369 00:17:55,655 --> 00:17:57,905 You had to be totally present to deal with it. 370 00:17:57,905 --> 00:17:59,279 Got me right out of my head. 371 00:17:59,279 --> 00:18:01,237 I figured it would work better than a day spa. 372 00:18:01,237 --> 00:18:03,237 Thank you for taking the time. 373 00:18:03,237 --> 00:18:05,237 I needed the reset, too. 374 00:18:05,237 --> 00:18:08,112 Though I probably don't have to tell you what I need. 375 00:18:08,992 --> 00:18:11,655 You already know in what... five minutes with someone? 376 00:18:12,949 --> 00:18:14,237 - Truth: - Mm-hmm. 377 00:18:14,237 --> 00:18:16,237 I'd love to work with you, 378 00:18:16,237 --> 00:18:18,655 but you don't need much that you don't already give yourself. 379 00:18:18,655 --> 00:18:20,279 That's what sets you apart. 380 00:18:20,279 --> 00:18:22,905 Most people let their childhood bullshit run them. 381 00:18:22,905 --> 00:18:25,122 You use yours to propel you. 382 00:18:25,157 --> 00:18:26,696 And not in a way that you're hiding from it, either, 383 00:18:26,696 --> 00:18:28,529 and it's gonna bite you. 384 00:18:28,529 --> 00:18:29,946 You synthesize it. 385 00:18:29,946 --> 00:18:32,446 Like you do information about companies. 386 00:18:32,446 --> 00:18:34,946 You're doing exactly what you're meant to be doing. 387 00:18:35,722 --> 00:18:36,796 That was amazing. 388 00:18:36,796 --> 00:18:38,780 And you know it. 389 00:18:38,780 --> 00:18:40,279 And you get off on it. 390 00:18:40,279 --> 00:18:43,071 Well, I'm doing what I'm meant to be doing, too. 391 00:18:43,071 --> 00:18:44,905 You ever want to be out on your own? 392 00:18:44,905 --> 00:18:46,112 Have your own practice? 393 00:18:46,112 --> 00:18:47,905 I've thought about it from time to time. 394 00:18:47,905 --> 00:18:50,279 But I'm in the right place. Which is a good thing, 395 00:18:50,279 --> 00:18:52,446 because if I was out on my own, this Med Board thing 396 00:18:52,446 --> 00:18:54,446 would be putting me right out of business. 397 00:18:54,446 --> 00:18:56,279 How are you handling it? 398 00:18:58,102 --> 00:18:59,853 One thing that's come from this year: 399 00:18:59,888 --> 00:19:02,314 I know I can handle fucking anything. 400 00:19:02,349 --> 00:19:04,488 And Axe Cap, it's mine. 401 00:19:04,488 --> 00:19:09,321 They really rallied around me... in their own weird way. 402 00:19:09,321 --> 00:19:11,529 That's the upside of being on a team, I guess. 403 00:19:11,529 --> 00:19:13,154 I can see that. 404 00:19:13,154 --> 00:19:14,571 It's just not how I work. 405 00:19:16,196 --> 00:19:17,529 I like owning a team. 406 00:19:19,655 --> 00:19:21,613 Should we hit it? 407 00:19:23,655 --> 00:19:26,029 You've had a few, you sure you're alright? 408 00:19:26,029 --> 00:19:27,987 We can drive you back to your hotel... 409 00:19:27,987 --> 00:19:31,112 Oh. Don't worry, we're not driving. 410 00:19:46,987 --> 00:19:49,363 You're not going for 20 are you? 411 00:19:50,214 --> 00:19:52,154 Nope. I went about this another way. 412 00:19:52,154 --> 00:19:54,404 And you were right, and we are going to get them all. 413 00:19:55,506 --> 00:19:58,400 Sounds like somebody did some old fashioned prosecutor work. 414 00:19:58,435 --> 00:20:01,237 I figure, I'm behind the desk, maybe I should do the job. 415 00:20:01,237 --> 00:20:03,738 So I did the job. And got some warrants and subpoenas. 416 00:20:03,738 --> 00:20:06,038 And you are going to execute same. 417 00:20:06,073 --> 00:20:06,946 On? 418 00:20:06,946 --> 00:20:08,946 The sitting Secretary of the Treasury, Todd Krakow 419 00:20:08,946 --> 00:20:10,821 and the safe of the father of 420 00:20:10,821 --> 00:20:13,154 the sitting Attorney General for the State of New York. 421 00:20:13,154 --> 00:20:15,946 You will go, yourself, to handle it. 422 00:20:15,946 --> 00:20:18,363 Bring good agents with you. 423 00:20:19,594 --> 00:20:20,863 These are the warrants. 424 00:20:22,987 --> 00:20:24,237 And I'm on my way. 425 00:20:32,071 --> 00:20:34,446 Hello everybody... 426 00:20:37,237 --> 00:20:41,738 Sanford, surprised to see you here. 427 00:20:41,738 --> 00:20:44,363 You passed on a board seat when it was offered. 428 00:20:44,363 --> 00:20:45,571 I did. 429 00:20:45,571 --> 00:20:46,987 But I have a real vested interest 430 00:20:46,987 --> 00:20:49,321 in how this meeting goes. 431 00:20:49,321 --> 00:20:51,237 Uh... 432 00:20:52,499 --> 00:20:55,696 Alright, people. Big announcement, big acquisition. 433 00:20:55,696 --> 00:20:57,071 Of Kling Appliances. 434 00:20:57,071 --> 00:20:58,446 We have taken ownership of the company 435 00:20:58,446 --> 00:21:00,321 and will go back to rolling out their product. 436 00:21:00,321 --> 00:21:02,071 Now, this strategic partnership... 437 00:21:02,071 --> 00:21:04,738 We are not going to sell Kling products. 438 00:21:04,738 --> 00:21:08,237 We will be using Kling to move toward profitability 439 00:21:08,237 --> 00:21:09,946 in a wholly different way now. 440 00:21:13,292 --> 00:21:13,946 Thank you. 441 00:21:13,946 --> 00:21:17,780 Even I don't usually have an Iron Chef make my pancakes. 442 00:21:17,780 --> 00:21:19,237 All you have to do is ask... 443 00:21:19,237 --> 00:21:20,488 And send the plane. 444 00:21:21,551 --> 00:21:23,780 Thanks for this, Alex. 445 00:21:26,732 --> 00:21:28,571 Mm. 446 00:21:28,571 --> 00:21:31,946 When a man puts on a show like this, it's rarely... 447 00:21:31,946 --> 00:21:33,571 That's true. But also, 448 00:21:33,571 --> 00:21:36,946 if we're gonna have to have this conversation, and we are, 449 00:21:36,946 --> 00:21:39,196 we might as well have something this good. 450 00:21:39,196 --> 00:21:42,363 Well, it's in our mouths now. 451 00:21:42,363 --> 00:21:44,029 So... 452 00:21:45,987 --> 00:21:48,154 Saler's is a sinking ship. 453 00:21:48,914 --> 00:21:50,321 But I know how to get the chest of gold 454 00:21:50,321 --> 00:21:52,196 before it hits the ocean floor. 455 00:21:53,133 --> 00:21:54,321 You would do that to Rebecca? 456 00:21:54,321 --> 00:21:56,571 For Rebecca. 457 00:21:56,571 --> 00:21:58,071 It's helping her. 458 00:21:58,071 --> 00:22:01,154 What I didn't realize, but see now, 459 00:22:01,154 --> 00:22:03,363 is that she made the one sin that every 460 00:22:03,363 --> 00:22:05,946 private equity investor knows they can never make. 461 00:22:05,946 --> 00:22:07,279 And it happened because she is 462 00:22:07,279 --> 00:22:10,154 as kind-hearted and good as she is smart. 463 00:22:10,154 --> 00:22:12,196 - And that is... - Cares too much. 464 00:22:12,196 --> 00:22:14,279 About this one in particular. 465 00:22:14,279 --> 00:22:16,446 Mm. It's a suicide play at this point. 466 00:22:16,446 --> 00:22:18,488 She's lashed herself to the side of this thing 467 00:22:18,488 --> 00:22:20,821 and refuses to jump off. 468 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:23,890 We won't just be saving ourselves. 469 00:22:23,925 --> 00:22:25,488 We'll also be saving her. 470 00:22:25,488 --> 00:22:29,363 Yeah. I guess we will be. 471 00:22:30,731 --> 00:22:32,237 You okay with it? 472 00:22:32,237 --> 00:22:34,863 With getting the gold and doing the right thing? 473 00:22:37,237 --> 00:22:39,529 Yes I am. 474 00:22:39,529 --> 00:22:41,154 Now please pass the syrup. 475 00:22:41,154 --> 00:22:42,905 These fucking things are delightful. 476 00:22:46,029 --> 00:22:49,029 All Saler's locations will be closed, 477 00:22:49,029 --> 00:22:51,363 effective immediately. 478 00:22:51,363 --> 00:22:53,363 The real estate will be transferred 479 00:22:53,363 --> 00:22:55,154 to a real estate investment trust, 480 00:22:55,154 --> 00:22:57,279 controlled by Sanford Bensinger... and me... 481 00:22:57,279 --> 00:22:59,738 where it will eventually be sold off at market value. 482 00:22:59,738 --> 00:23:02,029 The clothing brands, home goods, 483 00:23:02,029 --> 00:23:04,071 Treads For Tots shoe line, Maker Man Tools, 484 00:23:04,071 --> 00:23:06,655 and the auto parts brand will all be spun off 485 00:23:06,655 --> 00:23:11,196 for top dollar to private equity buyers who've been lined up. 486 00:23:11,196 --> 00:23:13,446 Further, Saler's debt will be dumped 487 00:23:13,446 --> 00:23:14,987 onto Kling's balance sheet 488 00:23:14,987 --> 00:23:16,863 and that company will then be put into 489 00:23:16,863 --> 00:23:20,946 Chapter 11 bankruptcy effective immediately. 490 00:23:22,348 --> 00:23:25,196 Cute pitch, but I wonder 491 00:23:25,196 --> 00:23:29,905 how the fuck do you think 492 00:23:29,905 --> 00:23:33,863 you have the authority to do that when I'm CEO. 493 00:23:35,738 --> 00:23:38,071 Well, young lady, unfortunately, 494 00:23:38,071 --> 00:23:41,404 if you don't ratify the plan, you'll be removed. 495 00:23:41,404 --> 00:23:45,112 I've converted my debt to shares with voting rights. 496 00:23:45,112 --> 00:23:46,237 When? 497 00:23:46,237 --> 00:23:48,571 - Yesterday. - So his shares, 498 00:23:48,571 --> 00:23:50,613 along with mine and everyone else in this room, 499 00:23:50,613 --> 00:23:52,029 make up the majority. 500 00:23:52,029 --> 00:23:53,446 You can't stop it. 501 00:23:53,446 --> 00:23:56,112 What about the 50,000 employees? 502 00:23:56,112 --> 00:23:58,738 Well, we'll settle out their pension plans and benefits. 503 00:23:58,738 --> 00:24:00,780 For a fraction of what they're owed. 504 00:24:00,780 --> 00:24:05,321 I know people, and what those people will feel is: 505 00:24:05,321 --> 00:24:06,946 something's better than nothing. 506 00:24:06,946 --> 00:24:11,696 And you... you assholes... you're gonna go along with this? 507 00:24:14,196 --> 00:24:15,696 Ugh. How could you? 508 00:24:15,696 --> 00:24:18,029 Oh. They already did. The board voted. 509 00:24:18,029 --> 00:24:20,863 Or gave me their proxies. Same thing. 510 00:24:20,863 --> 00:24:23,738 It's because every shareholder will get 511 00:24:23,738 --> 00:24:27,154 a massive one time windfall dividend payment. 512 00:24:27,154 --> 00:24:28,738 And then we can all go our separate ways. 513 00:24:28,738 --> 00:24:30,946 Keith, how many shares do you hold? 514 00:24:30,946 --> 00:24:32,321 Thirty-three thousand. 515 00:24:32,321 --> 00:24:34,363 Well, congratulations, Keith. 516 00:24:34,363 --> 00:24:36,863 You just graduated from 300 grand in a bad stock 517 00:24:36,863 --> 00:24:39,905 to thirty-three million in cash. 518 00:24:39,905 --> 00:24:41,488 Rebecca, you could be making 519 00:24:41,488 --> 00:24:43,655 close to a billion on this transaction. 520 00:24:43,655 --> 00:24:47,112 Miss Cantu, 521 00:24:47,112 --> 00:24:49,987 I know how this stings. 522 00:24:49,987 --> 00:24:52,279 I had my paper route stolen from me 523 00:24:52,279 --> 00:24:54,738 after I'd built it up to cover the entire city. 524 00:24:54,738 --> 00:24:56,946 Damn newspaper took it in-house. 525 00:24:56,946 --> 00:24:59,154 I felt steamed 526 00:24:59,154 --> 00:25:01,821 'til I bought the whole thing and sold it to a chain. 527 00:25:01,821 --> 00:25:03,655 Oracular wisdom feels better 528 00:25:03,655 --> 00:25:07,613 when the oracle hasn't just anally rended you. 529 00:25:08,987 --> 00:25:13,363 Gentlemen, ladies, why don't we go work out the myriad details 530 00:25:13,363 --> 00:25:15,696 in the back office and give them the room. 531 00:25:22,446 --> 00:25:26,529 You snake motherfucker. 532 00:25:28,237 --> 00:25:31,363 You sent me off and you set me up... 533 00:25:31,363 --> 00:25:35,613 Your way was an arduous five year, capital-intensive crawl. 534 00:25:35,613 --> 00:25:37,571 Now you've just cleared over a billion 535 00:25:37,571 --> 00:25:39,613 in a few months' time. 536 00:25:39,613 --> 00:25:41,821 It isn't about that for me and you know it. 537 00:25:43,452 --> 00:25:45,696 I want to run this business for real. 538 00:25:45,696 --> 00:25:48,029 This one wasn't fit to run. 539 00:25:48,029 --> 00:25:50,696 You can build it back up from the ground, better, 540 00:25:50,696 --> 00:25:54,071 without the negative drag of toxic fucking debt, 541 00:25:54,071 --> 00:25:55,321 if you really want. 542 00:25:55,321 --> 00:25:56,738 When did you land on your plan 543 00:25:56,738 --> 00:25:59,971 to liquidate the company out from under me, hmm... 544 00:26:01,658 --> 00:26:03,696 Was it the first time that I told you about it? 545 00:26:03,696 --> 00:26:05,529 No. 546 00:26:05,529 --> 00:26:08,363 No, it was much closer to when you climbed into bed 547 00:26:08,363 --> 00:26:11,404 and made a fucking pact with my sworn enemy. 548 00:26:12,494 --> 00:26:14,154 But, hey, as you once told me, 549 00:26:14,154 --> 00:26:16,698 you'll come to see the wisdom in this plan. 550 00:26:16,733 --> 00:26:17,951 You already do... 551 00:26:17,986 --> 00:26:19,655 Oh. Fuck you. We're done. 552 00:26:19,655 --> 00:26:21,696 Well, you should think fondly of me 553 00:26:21,696 --> 00:26:24,404 when the Street calls you a genius... for this plan... 554 00:26:24,404 --> 00:26:26,696 as you approach your next venture. 555 00:26:28,439 --> 00:26:30,987 I need to know what you told yourself. 556 00:26:36,608 --> 00:26:38,446 I wanted to let it go... 557 00:26:38,446 --> 00:26:40,404 what you did 558 00:26:40,404 --> 00:26:43,446 by making that deal with Taylor. 559 00:26:43,446 --> 00:26:46,154 I wanted to think of it the way you said: 560 00:26:46,154 --> 00:26:48,279 not as disloyal. 561 00:26:49,222 --> 00:26:51,112 Or an action against me. 562 00:26:51,907 --> 00:26:54,696 But as a practical solution to a problem 563 00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:58,613 that you... someone I loved... was faced with. 564 00:26:58,613 --> 00:27:01,613 And so that night, I told you it was fine. 565 00:27:01,613 --> 00:27:04,613 And I wanted it to be true. 566 00:27:05,950 --> 00:27:07,655 I laid there in bed next to you, 567 00:27:07,655 --> 00:27:10,279 and I just tried to breathe out the bad, 568 00:27:10,279 --> 00:27:12,154 breathe in the good. 569 00:27:12,154 --> 00:27:13,946 But with each breath, 570 00:27:13,946 --> 00:27:17,946 instead of peace, love and understanding filling my lungs, 571 00:27:19,404 --> 00:27:21,987 the old bile was there. 572 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,363 I stared at the ceiling, 573 00:27:26,363 --> 00:27:31,404 with you sleeping next to me... beautiful and serene, 574 00:27:33,158 --> 00:27:35,446 and I played out our relationship to its end. 575 00:27:38,655 --> 00:27:40,905 I thought about marriage. 576 00:27:42,382 --> 00:27:43,987 Let it land for me that it actually was 577 00:27:43,987 --> 00:27:46,946 something I'd already assumed was going to happen. 578 00:27:46,946 --> 00:27:49,488 Us having kids together, too. 579 00:27:49,488 --> 00:27:51,237 I smiled at the notion. 580 00:27:51,237 --> 00:27:52,821 It was hopeful. 581 00:27:52,821 --> 00:27:54,987 Romantic. 582 00:27:54,987 --> 00:27:58,029 The kind of thought a normal man would be having. 583 00:28:00,893 --> 00:28:03,237 But then, 584 00:28:03,237 --> 00:28:07,196 I felt something go cold in me. 585 00:28:07,196 --> 00:28:10,363 And I knew the truth was in that cold. 586 00:28:11,780 --> 00:28:14,279 And that eventually, it would turn hot. 587 00:28:14,279 --> 00:28:16,363 To rage. And when it did, 588 00:28:16,363 --> 00:28:18,905 I would blow the whole fucking thing up, 589 00:28:18,905 --> 00:28:20,404 kids and all. 590 00:28:20,404 --> 00:28:23,863 'Cause, sure, your choice was rational. 591 00:28:23,863 --> 00:28:27,571 But to me, it was traitorous. 592 00:28:27,571 --> 00:28:29,446 And I wouldn't be able to live with it. 593 00:28:29,446 --> 00:28:31,029 I'd wreck everything we had over it. 594 00:28:31,029 --> 00:28:33,821 I would make you suffer tenfold 595 00:28:33,821 --> 00:28:35,613 for what I had suffered. 596 00:28:35,613 --> 00:28:38,529 Especially if I waited, without crushing Taylor. 597 00:28:38,529 --> 00:28:42,446 Because by then, Taylor would be rich and safe. 598 00:28:44,442 --> 00:28:46,821 So I decided: fuck it. 599 00:28:48,237 --> 00:28:50,237 Might as well get my revenge 600 00:28:50,237 --> 00:28:51,946 and rip the scab off this fucking thing 601 00:28:51,946 --> 00:28:55,196 between us at the same time. 602 00:28:56,905 --> 00:28:59,154 Then we'd be even, too. 603 00:29:00,557 --> 00:29:02,071 Each fucked over. 604 00:29:02,071 --> 00:29:04,529 Each aware of who the other really is. 605 00:29:08,237 --> 00:29:11,987 Then... 606 00:29:11,987 --> 00:29:15,738 Then we could find out what was still between us. 607 00:29:18,696 --> 00:29:23,237 What's between us now is nothing. 608 00:29:38,821 --> 00:29:41,404 Bobby Axelrod has control of Saler's. 609 00:29:41,404 --> 00:29:42,696 Rebecca is out. 610 00:29:42,696 --> 00:29:44,279 He's putting Kling into bankruptcy. 611 00:29:46,613 --> 00:29:49,446 Our equity will be wiped out. Our position will go to zero. 612 00:29:49,446 --> 00:29:51,279 Our firm will lose three quarters of a billion, 613 00:29:51,279 --> 00:29:52,696 maybe a little more. 614 00:29:52,696 --> 00:29:53,946 When news of that gets out, 615 00:29:53,946 --> 00:29:55,363 we may not have a firm. 616 00:29:55,363 --> 00:29:57,112 I can have Lauren get to the investors first, 617 00:29:57,112 --> 00:29:59,363 - try to gain a vote of... - I wouldn't give me that vote, 618 00:29:59,363 --> 00:30:01,029 they won't either. No. 619 00:30:01,029 --> 00:30:03,279 What if we go Doug Flutie style, toss a literal Hail Mary? 620 00:30:03,279 --> 00:30:05,112 Just make a huge bet, on, like, four names. 621 00:30:05,112 --> 00:30:06,404 Double up or bomb out. 622 00:30:06,404 --> 00:30:07,946 I'd like to work in this business again. 623 00:30:07,946 --> 00:30:10,488 So, yeah. No. Fuck. We need time... 624 00:30:13,696 --> 00:30:16,363 I might have something. A text I got earlier. 625 00:30:18,112 --> 00:30:20,863 Mafee, we're going to a meeting with a friend of yours. 626 00:30:25,613 --> 00:30:27,696 Mm. Seems I missed the party. 627 00:30:27,696 --> 00:30:30,154 Taylor's P&L's been crippled. 628 00:30:30,154 --> 00:30:32,363 They're ripe to make that desperate move. 629 00:30:33,470 --> 00:30:35,738 I thought I smelled blood. 630 00:30:35,738 --> 00:30:37,029 Everything's in place on my end. 631 00:30:37,029 --> 00:30:39,613 Good. One more thing though. 632 00:30:39,613 --> 00:30:42,154 I want you to arrest but NOT charge Taylor. 633 00:30:44,790 --> 00:30:45,821 After everything I've done, 634 00:30:45,821 --> 00:30:49,613 all the plans I've laid in, why would I do that? 635 00:30:49,613 --> 00:30:51,071 Because it's what I want. 636 00:30:51,071 --> 00:30:55,101 And 'cause I want Taylor back at Axe Capital, working for me. 637 00:30:55,590 --> 00:30:56,612 Come again? 638 00:30:56,647 --> 00:30:58,863 They're the best player I've seen in this league 639 00:30:58,863 --> 00:31:01,571 in two decades. Real five-tool, you know? 640 00:31:03,478 --> 00:31:05,237 Back at the beginning this was advertised as 641 00:31:05,237 --> 00:31:06,821 me getting a Wall Street scalp. 642 00:31:06,821 --> 00:31:09,821 But now that it's haircut time, you tell me no. 643 00:31:09,821 --> 00:31:11,571 Why don't you just hire the kid back 644 00:31:11,571 --> 00:31:13,613 and stop wasting my fucking time? 645 00:31:13,613 --> 00:31:15,071 'Cause they won't come for money. 646 00:31:15,071 --> 00:31:16,905 But they will come from fear. 647 00:31:16,905 --> 00:31:20,987 And from leverage. So leverage them and scare them. 648 00:31:22,569 --> 00:31:24,863 And if anyone's been wasting fucking time here... 649 00:31:46,894 --> 00:31:47,571 Hello? 650 00:31:47,571 --> 00:31:49,696 Dr. Rhoades. I am pleased to tell you 651 00:31:49,696 --> 00:31:51,571 that the Medical Board has taken into account 652 00:31:51,571 --> 00:31:53,446 the fact that you willingly came forward. 653 00:31:53,446 --> 00:31:55,571 And that you could have easily lied. 654 00:31:58,076 --> 00:31:58,976 Really. 655 00:31:59,011 --> 00:32:02,237 Yes. It showed that you are already making changes. 656 00:32:02,237 --> 00:32:04,571 And that you are, at core, a doctor who cares. 657 00:32:06,021 --> 00:32:07,350 We have also been provided with 658 00:32:07,385 --> 00:32:09,122 dozens of letters to your character. 659 00:32:09,976 --> 00:32:11,811 And that highlight how much you have given 660 00:32:11,846 --> 00:32:14,321 of your time over the years to those less fortunate. 661 00:32:14,321 --> 00:32:18,655 So we've decided to set aside the findings of the proceeding. 662 00:32:18,655 --> 00:32:20,613 And to give you a verbal warning instead. 663 00:32:21,809 --> 00:32:23,987 Consider that given, and the matter concluded. 664 00:32:26,780 --> 00:32:29,154 Thank you, Dr. Zhang. 665 00:32:33,696 --> 00:32:35,321 Yeah. I'm just finishing up a few things, 666 00:32:35,321 --> 00:32:37,488 you can head out for the night. 667 00:32:46,722 --> 00:32:47,746 _ 668 00:32:49,987 --> 00:32:51,780 _ 669 00:34:38,129 --> 00:34:39,321 You mean about the idiot 670 00:34:39,321 --> 00:34:41,529 who stands to lose the most? Can I really... 671 00:34:41,529 --> 00:34:44,079 Yes. I can't listen to future plans. 672 00:34:44,114 --> 00:34:45,321 But the things you've already done. 673 00:34:45,321 --> 00:34:47,237 And the people with whom you've done 'em, 674 00:34:47,237 --> 00:34:49,112 that I need to know. 675 00:34:49,112 --> 00:34:51,987 Go ahead. Press on. Privilege was clearly in place. 676 00:34:51,987 --> 00:34:55,154 Once I tell you who he is, Ira, we can't go back. 677 00:34:55,154 --> 00:34:57,154 It's a real mindblower. 678 00:34:57,154 --> 00:34:59,780 We should all brace ourselves for what's coming. 679 00:34:59,780 --> 00:35:02,071 Yes. 680 00:35:02,071 --> 00:35:04,863 Well. Do it, Dad. Say the name. 681 00:35:04,863 --> 00:35:08,571 Well, I mean, at this point it's gotta be clear, right? 682 00:35:10,655 --> 00:35:14,655 The idiot in question is Bryan Connerty. 683 00:35:15,756 --> 00:35:16,962 Yes. Well. The rub of it is. 684 00:35:17,062 --> 00:35:18,571 If Connerty is listening right now, 685 00:35:18,571 --> 00:35:20,821 it means he's crossed all legal and ethical bounds 686 00:35:20,821 --> 00:35:23,237 and our little plan is about to bear fruit... 687 00:35:23,237 --> 00:35:25,321 But, uh, you're not listening, 688 00:35:25,321 --> 00:35:26,987 are you, Bryan? 689 00:35:26,987 --> 00:35:29,237 'Cause you don't break the law. 690 00:35:29,237 --> 00:35:32,154 But, if he is "headphones on" right now, 691 00:35:32,154 --> 00:35:34,404 it means he's gone completely over the line 692 00:35:34,404 --> 00:35:37,154 and committed all manner of crimes that led to this, 693 00:35:37,154 --> 00:35:40,321 and his arrest is, uh, moments away. 694 00:35:40,321 --> 00:35:43,071 Which is why we dubbed the man 'the idiot'. 695 00:35:43,071 --> 00:35:44,863 Should've called him the fucking idiot... 696 00:35:56,488 --> 00:35:59,404 Ah, fuck. 697 00:35:59,404 --> 00:36:02,154 You should probably say it again. Louder. 698 00:36:02,154 --> 00:36:03,821 Cuz yeah. You are fucked. 699 00:36:03,821 --> 00:36:05,946 Let's go. 700 00:36:12,489 --> 00:36:13,112 Kate... 701 00:36:13,112 --> 00:36:15,529 Bryan, I had them hold you in here, as a courtesy... 702 00:36:15,529 --> 00:36:18,628 - but what the fuck? - I... 703 00:36:18,663 --> 00:36:21,164 You kept asking if you would understand everything 704 00:36:21,199 --> 00:36:23,237 if you listened to the tape. I told you 705 00:36:23,237 --> 00:36:25,112 unfortunately the answer was yes. 706 00:36:26,488 --> 00:36:28,868 It was my hope you never found out what came next. 707 00:36:28,903 --> 00:36:30,987 Whatever bullshit they were running on that recording, 708 00:36:30,987 --> 00:36:33,363 tell me you recovered stuff from the safes 709 00:36:33,363 --> 00:36:36,196 that will prove this thing for what it is. 710 00:36:36,196 --> 00:36:38,196 Oh, I got proof from the safes, Bryan, 711 00:36:39,486 --> 00:36:40,946 but not the kind you were looking for. 712 00:36:53,404 --> 00:36:54,987 This isn't a contract laying out 713 00:36:54,987 --> 00:36:57,321 your participation in some real estate scam. 714 00:36:57,321 --> 00:36:59,655 No, but it is my participation in 715 00:36:59,655 --> 00:37:02,279 a New York State sting operation targeting certain 716 00:37:02,279 --> 00:37:04,446 corrupt members of the Department of Justice. 717 00:37:06,071 --> 00:37:07,780 An overzealous prosecutor... 718 00:37:07,780 --> 00:37:09,446 especially a US Attorney... 719 00:37:09,446 --> 00:37:11,363 is a very dangerous thing... 720 00:37:16,071 --> 00:37:17,571 And Rhoades Senior? 721 00:37:24,270 --> 00:37:25,696 Don't ruin my box. 722 00:37:49,821 --> 00:37:52,321 It's not what you wanted, but it is what was there. 723 00:38:00,071 --> 00:38:02,279 Sonofabitch... 724 00:38:08,664 --> 00:38:09,780 May I? 725 00:38:13,154 --> 00:38:15,446 Keep it brief, we still have processing to do. 726 00:38:21,738 --> 00:38:24,821 Oh. Bryan, it pains me to be here like this... 727 00:38:24,821 --> 00:38:27,279 - Does it? - But you lined up against me, 728 00:38:27,279 --> 00:38:29,321 and that just wasn't right. 729 00:38:32,154 --> 00:38:34,196 We could've worked together. 730 00:38:34,196 --> 00:38:37,321 But you broke ranks and tried to take me out. 731 00:38:37,321 --> 00:38:39,738 So I had to make a contingency plan. 732 00:38:44,863 --> 00:38:46,321 How far back? 733 00:38:47,796 --> 00:38:50,529 Well, you know, 734 00:38:50,529 --> 00:38:51,821 pretty far... 735 00:38:51,821 --> 00:38:54,237 This development is my legacy. 736 00:38:54,237 --> 00:38:57,196 Hell, it's your legacy too. 737 00:38:57,196 --> 00:38:59,821 Well, I'm glad to see you've got your legs under you again, Dad. 738 00:39:09,613 --> 00:39:12,488 Dad, 739 00:39:12,488 --> 00:39:15,655 I know how we can spin this like a top. 740 00:39:16,468 --> 00:39:17,738 We're gonna have to put on a hell of a show... 741 00:39:17,738 --> 00:39:20,905 But, yeah, this will be our legacy. 742 00:39:23,404 --> 00:39:25,321 I knew you'd be coming after me 743 00:39:25,321 --> 00:39:27,821 and that you'd be up on me sooner than later... 744 00:39:27,821 --> 00:39:29,184 There's no heat, Sonny, 745 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,363 my permits came back without a hitch... 746 00:39:32,326 --> 00:39:34,780 And of course I knew that you knew that Judge DeGiulio would deny 747 00:39:34,780 --> 00:39:36,154 your wiretap request... 748 00:39:36,154 --> 00:39:38,696 FBI observed father and son 749 00:39:38,696 --> 00:39:40,488 on the building site in question. 750 00:39:40,488 --> 00:39:42,863 You got a family portrait. 751 00:39:43,870 --> 00:39:46,279 And come to me with that information. 752 00:39:46,279 --> 00:39:48,780 Connerty came for a wire on you. 753 00:39:50,008 --> 00:39:51,063 Did you grant it? 754 00:39:51,063 --> 00:39:52,279 I killed it. 755 00:39:52,279 --> 00:39:55,404 And that you'd be watching. 756 00:39:55,404 --> 00:39:57,488 So we gave you what you needed 757 00:39:57,488 --> 00:39:59,029 to secure those wiretaps... 758 00:40:01,162 --> 00:40:02,237 You have your wire. 759 00:40:02,237 --> 00:40:04,821 And I knew you'd do as I trained you to do, 760 00:40:04,821 --> 00:40:08,071 programmed you almost, so you'd get on our phones. 761 00:40:08,071 --> 00:40:12,946 I have run into a financing snag with my development. 762 00:40:12,946 --> 00:40:14,488 What's the problem? 763 00:40:14,488 --> 00:40:17,987 Now, I know you have some banking contacts these days. 764 00:40:17,987 --> 00:40:19,696 I'll try to help. 765 00:40:21,365 --> 00:40:23,905 So I needed to squeeze certain players for help. 766 00:40:23,905 --> 00:40:26,446 You're probably wondering how you're gonna get out of this. 767 00:40:26,446 --> 00:40:28,404 Indeed. It crossed my mind. 768 00:40:28,404 --> 00:40:31,279 Well, you'll join me in a greater plan 769 00:40:31,279 --> 00:40:33,613 for the greater good. 770 00:40:37,446 --> 00:40:40,112 Listening and loving it... 771 00:40:41,484 --> 00:40:43,404 I needed your boss fully engaged, 772 00:40:43,404 --> 00:40:45,363 pushing you, breathing fire down your back. 773 00:40:45,363 --> 00:40:48,279 So once I knew it was the thing that mattered to him, 774 00:40:48,279 --> 00:40:50,613 I hit the election angle hard. 775 00:40:50,613 --> 00:40:53,488 By the time I parked the shit train in his backyard, 776 00:40:53,488 --> 00:40:56,613 both you and Jock were leaning in so hard, 777 00:40:56,613 --> 00:40:59,613 it was just a question of playing out an ending for you. 778 00:40:59,613 --> 00:41:02,738 I've taken the liberty. 779 00:41:02,738 --> 00:41:04,363 For our comfort... 780 00:41:04,985 --> 00:41:07,237 What's that rustling? Did they paper this fucking deal? 781 00:41:07,237 --> 00:41:09,196 I need to go back to D.C. 782 00:41:09,196 --> 00:41:11,446 I have work to do. 783 00:41:11,446 --> 00:41:14,363 Gentlemen. 784 00:41:18,613 --> 00:41:21,237 I've got to admit that I was a little surprised 785 00:41:21,237 --> 00:41:23,987 by how eager you were for the dirty tricks 786 00:41:23,987 --> 00:41:26,321 and even crime. 787 00:41:26,321 --> 00:41:29,655 It's the power, of the office, that gets you leaning forward. 788 00:41:29,655 --> 00:41:32,655 It's dangerous and hard to ride, 789 00:41:32,655 --> 00:41:35,112 like an unbroken horse. 790 00:41:35,112 --> 00:41:37,905 That's something you never really heard me on. 791 00:41:37,905 --> 00:41:42,029 It is not easy, not easy at all. 792 00:41:43,323 --> 00:41:46,029 But I guess you'll have a long time to think about it. 793 00:41:47,866 --> 00:41:50,112 They call this getting what you deserve, don't they? 794 00:41:51,702 --> 00:41:52,755 It's coming for all of us. 795 00:41:57,110 --> 00:41:59,529 What about Jock... 796 00:42:00,294 --> 00:42:01,488 Is he left standing? 797 00:42:01,488 --> 00:42:03,696 I just caught up with the man... 798 00:42:06,655 --> 00:42:08,987 You are a real troublemaker, Rhoades. 799 00:42:08,987 --> 00:42:11,696 - Runs in my blood. - Runs in your kind. 800 00:42:11,696 --> 00:42:13,446 You take that to mean ethnic, fine. 801 00:42:13,446 --> 00:42:16,446 Or New Yorkers. Or guys with hair all over their faces. 802 00:42:17,126 --> 00:42:18,321 That's just like you... 803 00:42:18,321 --> 00:42:21,363 focused on a man's beard with so much intensity 804 00:42:21,363 --> 00:42:23,738 you miss his foot coming up to kick you in the gonads. 805 00:42:23,738 --> 00:42:24,821 Good luck there, pard. 806 00:42:24,821 --> 00:42:26,529 Ah. Don't need luck. 807 00:42:26,529 --> 00:42:27,863 No. 808 00:42:27,863 --> 00:42:29,446 You know, the last time we were in here, 809 00:42:29,446 --> 00:42:31,488 in what was my office, 810 00:42:31,488 --> 00:42:33,655 it didn't turn out well for me. 811 00:42:33,655 --> 00:42:36,655 And I told myself I wouldn't step foot back in this place 812 00:42:36,655 --> 00:42:38,946 until it was you who'd be sent packing. 813 00:42:38,946 --> 00:42:40,571 And that is today. 814 00:42:40,571 --> 00:42:43,279 That is right now. 815 00:42:44,416 --> 00:42:45,905 How're those low hangers feeling? 816 00:42:45,905 --> 00:42:48,613 Heavy, full, and ready to shoot. 817 00:42:48,613 --> 00:42:51,404 You think just 'cause I had an overzealous underling, 818 00:42:51,404 --> 00:42:53,363 that I'm gonna take a fall? 819 00:42:53,363 --> 00:42:55,071 I am not. 820 00:42:55,071 --> 00:42:58,029 Connerty acted on his own, of his own volition. 821 00:42:58,029 --> 00:42:59,404 He screwed up. 822 00:42:59,404 --> 00:43:01,685 So now he's screwed. Not me. 823 00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:04,571 You came to me on biblical grounds a short time ago. 824 00:43:04,571 --> 00:43:06,905 And when you left, it occurred to me 825 00:43:06,905 --> 00:43:10,488 that faith can be a beautiful thing, 826 00:43:11,516 --> 00:43:13,905 except when it's misplaced. 827 00:43:16,821 --> 00:43:19,112 I'm not legally allowed to listen to this... 828 00:43:19,112 --> 00:43:21,321 If I order it, it's fucking legal. 829 00:43:21,321 --> 00:43:23,946 Now, you get your hands on that fucking tape... 830 00:43:27,237 --> 00:43:30,071 So, the ballsack has to feel at least a twinge by now. 831 00:43:30,071 --> 00:43:33,279 How the fuck...? 832 00:43:34,780 --> 00:43:36,363 I had an instinct that 833 00:43:36,363 --> 00:43:37,987 at least some of what Connerty did 834 00:43:37,987 --> 00:43:40,446 would be at your direction... 835 00:43:42,738 --> 00:43:45,237 We are running down some promising leads and... 836 00:43:47,279 --> 00:43:50,029 This could be the call. 837 00:43:50,029 --> 00:43:51,279 Connerty... 838 00:43:55,404 --> 00:43:57,154 No, I'll be right there. 839 00:43:57,154 --> 00:44:00,279 Good work. 840 00:44:00,279 --> 00:44:02,696 Good luck finishing off the Rhoadeses. 841 00:44:15,112 --> 00:44:17,404 You really did it... 842 00:44:17,404 --> 00:44:20,154 got me right in the onions... 843 00:44:24,279 --> 00:44:27,279 So, no, Bryan, no. 844 00:44:29,738 --> 00:44:32,237 When it comes to me, the thing you've got to learn is: 845 00:44:32,237 --> 00:44:35,154 no one's left standing. 846 00:44:47,237 --> 00:44:51,488 ♪ Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me ♪ 847 00:44:51,488 --> 00:44:54,613 ♪ Il nome mio nessun saprà ♪ 848 00:44:54,613 --> 00:44:59,112 ♪ No, no, sulla tua bocca ♪ 849 00:44:59,112 --> 00:45:02,196 ♪ Lo diro ♪ 850 00:45:02,196 --> 00:45:05,780 ♪ Quando la luce ♪ 851 00:45:05,780 --> 00:45:09,446 ♪ Splenderà ♪ 852 00:45:11,446 --> 00:45:14,237 My dude, that was... I have like tears in my eyes, 853 00:45:14,237 --> 00:45:16,112 and I don't even own that Three Tenors album. 854 00:45:16,112 --> 00:45:18,696 My father was a... 855 00:45:18,696 --> 00:45:20,863 Look, I'll sing for you another time. 856 00:45:21,704 --> 00:45:23,446 For now, let's talk Nigerian Oil Warrants. 857 00:45:23,446 --> 00:45:24,863 You talk. I'll listen. 858 00:45:24,863 --> 00:45:26,446 They are highly illiquid instruments. 859 00:45:26,446 --> 00:45:27,821 There's no real market for them. 860 00:45:27,821 --> 00:45:29,529 So the few brokers who deal in them 861 00:45:29,529 --> 00:45:31,613 can set almost any price. 862 00:45:31,613 --> 00:45:33,571 You invest a few million dollars, 863 00:45:33,571 --> 00:45:35,738 we wait a week, and I have them revalued. 864 00:45:35,738 --> 00:45:37,071 How high? 865 00:45:37,071 --> 00:45:38,780 Units that cost you, say, ten grand each 866 00:45:38,780 --> 00:45:40,529 could suddenly be valued at a hundred grand. 867 00:45:40,529 --> 00:45:42,738 Or two. Or five hundred. 868 00:45:44,071 --> 00:45:46,363 For a few million dollars we can balloon these things up 869 00:45:46,363 --> 00:45:50,029 and basically state that the firm is even on the year. 870 00:45:53,196 --> 00:45:54,279 So, what do you think...? 871 00:46:04,863 --> 00:46:06,905 Hello there. 872 00:46:08,613 --> 00:46:11,780 You said I was foolish for wishing for a miracle. 873 00:46:13,488 --> 00:46:16,529 But I guess they do happen... 874 00:46:16,529 --> 00:46:18,946 when you make them happen. 875 00:46:20,571 --> 00:46:22,780 I'm grateful you got my suspension lifted. 876 00:46:25,613 --> 00:46:28,154 Well, I'm glad that it all worked out. 877 00:46:44,446 --> 00:46:46,321 Grab me a glass. 878 00:46:46,321 --> 00:46:47,655 I'll come join you. 879 00:47:06,523 --> 00:47:09,279 _ 880 00:47:29,613 --> 00:47:32,321 Did you even fucking try? 881 00:47:34,696 --> 00:47:37,029 No. I didn't. 882 00:47:38,690 --> 00:47:40,613 I could explain. But no. 883 00:47:41,449 --> 00:47:42,863 Yeah. I thought not. 884 00:47:44,905 --> 00:47:45,963 Watch the kids. 885 00:47:45,963 --> 00:47:49,029 - Where are you going... - Out. 886 00:47:49,029 --> 00:47:51,029 - When are you coming home? - I don't know. 887 00:47:51,029 --> 00:47:52,738 But you are coming home? 888 00:47:54,299 --> 00:47:55,363 I don't know. 889 00:48:30,237 --> 00:48:31,780 Hold up. 890 00:48:38,655 --> 00:48:40,029 You're not under arrest. 891 00:48:40,029 --> 00:48:43,655 But it would be good if you act like you are... 892 00:48:58,905 --> 00:49:00,696 Let's talk Nigerian Oil Warrants. 893 00:49:00,696 --> 00:49:02,321 You talk. I'll listen. 894 00:49:02,321 --> 00:49:03,780 That right there is 895 00:49:03,780 --> 00:49:06,780 the very picture of criminal conduct. 896 00:49:06,780 --> 00:49:09,279 And the part where I refuse and walk out? 897 00:49:11,154 --> 00:49:12,696 Thank you, Rudy. 898 00:49:12,696 --> 00:49:14,321 But you were singing "Nessun Dorma" before, 899 00:49:14,321 --> 00:49:16,112 which is about somebody hiding something. 900 00:49:16,112 --> 00:49:17,946 Which makes me wonder why that particular aria 901 00:49:17,946 --> 00:49:20,237 was in your mouth. So it's a no for now. 902 00:49:20,237 --> 00:49:22,613 I'll learn to live without the Nigerian Warrants. And you. 903 00:49:26,154 --> 00:49:27,363 You're a charming tenor. 904 00:49:27,363 --> 00:49:29,112 Do more of that. Less of this. 905 00:49:34,071 --> 00:49:37,905 It seems there was a camera malfunction... 906 00:49:39,281 --> 00:49:40,321 I see. 907 00:49:40,321 --> 00:49:41,946 Well, in that case, I'd like to speak to... 908 00:49:41,946 --> 00:49:45,780 Or at least that was to be the case 909 00:49:45,780 --> 00:49:48,279 when you balked at the illicit deal. 910 00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:53,071 But, uh I've lost my taste 911 00:49:53,071 --> 00:49:56,202 for this particular set-up right now. 912 00:49:56,638 --> 00:49:58,154 - Have you? - Mm. 913 00:49:59,738 --> 00:50:03,071 When I look at the shambles my life has become... 914 00:50:04,058 --> 00:50:06,946 From my firing, to my public disgrace, 915 00:50:06,946 --> 00:50:09,613 to my election with strings attached, 916 00:50:11,051 --> 00:50:12,529 to the destruction of my marriage, 917 00:50:13,598 --> 00:50:17,404 to my family falling into disrepair... 918 00:50:17,404 --> 00:50:20,863 Ah, did I make mistakes to cause it? 919 00:50:22,752 --> 00:50:23,804 Perhaps. 920 00:50:26,029 --> 00:50:28,154 But a truer reckoning is: 921 00:50:28,154 --> 00:50:32,279 it all tracks back to one source. 922 00:50:33,610 --> 00:50:35,112 One man. 923 00:50:36,314 --> 00:50:40,071 A man so corrosive, so virulently infective 924 00:50:40,071 --> 00:50:43,529 as to strip me of every good quality I ever had: 925 00:50:43,529 --> 00:50:47,571 my kindness, my empathy, my sense of justice. 926 00:50:47,571 --> 00:50:50,029 Maybe even my ability to love. 927 00:50:54,059 --> 00:50:56,029 And that very man 928 00:50:56,029 --> 00:50:58,655 charged me with arresting you 929 00:50:58,655 --> 00:51:02,946 in order to force you back into his employ. 930 00:51:04,695 --> 00:51:06,363 He wants me to come back to work for him? 931 00:51:06,363 --> 00:51:08,321 At Axe Capital. He wants that? 932 00:51:08,321 --> 00:51:10,279 Yes, 933 00:51:10,279 --> 00:51:13,821 which gives us an opening. 934 00:51:15,211 --> 00:51:16,571 I don't want to force you. 935 00:51:17,932 --> 00:51:20,112 I want you to go back willingly, but as if I had, 936 00:51:20,112 --> 00:51:23,905 and I want you to help me take him down, 937 00:51:25,827 --> 00:51:27,404 once and for all. 938 00:51:41,488 --> 00:51:43,446 I should have known what would happen. 939 00:51:43,446 --> 00:51:44,987 I once confessed to you that 940 00:51:44,987 --> 00:51:47,029 competition brought on vertigo-like symptoms in me. 941 00:51:47,029 --> 00:51:48,905 Well. I certainly feel faint right now. 942 00:51:48,905 --> 00:51:50,571 Tighten your stomach. 943 00:51:50,571 --> 00:51:52,613 It'll push the blood back up into your brain. 944 00:51:52,613 --> 00:51:54,780 - You'll feel better. - Won't help my firm. 945 00:51:54,780 --> 00:51:57,071 Or my balance sheet. Which you destroyed. 946 00:51:57,071 --> 00:51:58,738 I didn't make you cook the books though. 947 00:51:58,738 --> 00:52:00,404 That was all you. 948 00:52:01,311 --> 00:52:03,154 I figured an extra quarter or two without redemptions 949 00:52:03,154 --> 00:52:04,946 and disruptions and I could make a comeback. 950 00:52:04,946 --> 00:52:06,655 Well. We always think we can. 951 00:52:06,655 --> 00:52:08,946 But then you had your friend waiting to arrest me. 952 00:52:08,946 --> 00:52:10,404 So I can't. 953 00:52:13,321 --> 00:52:15,738 He's no friend of mine, believe me. 954 00:52:15,738 --> 00:52:17,446 Just a useful tool. 955 00:52:17,446 --> 00:52:19,529 And I wasn't gonna let him take you to jail. 956 00:52:19,529 --> 00:52:20,821 As long as... 957 00:52:20,821 --> 00:52:23,112 Yes. As long as I come under heel. 958 00:52:23,112 --> 00:52:25,154 Well. Don't think of it like that. 959 00:52:25,154 --> 00:52:27,738 Or do. Whichever. 960 00:52:27,738 --> 00:52:31,321 But, yes, you are coming back to me. 961 00:52:32,537 --> 00:52:35,071 You were such a worthy fucking adversary 962 00:52:35,071 --> 00:52:37,613 that even with a much smaller bankroll 963 00:52:37,613 --> 00:52:41,321 you cost me my relationship and pushed me to a stalemate. 964 00:52:41,321 --> 00:52:42,696 Right until the very end... 965 00:52:42,696 --> 00:52:45,154 So, yeah, I want you on my side. 966 00:52:45,154 --> 00:52:46,821 It won't be forever. 967 00:52:46,821 --> 00:52:49,821 I'll walk away soon enough and your firm will have survived. 968 00:52:49,821 --> 00:52:51,112 Will it have? 969 00:52:51,112 --> 00:52:52,196 That's gonna be up to you. 970 00:52:52,196 --> 00:52:54,821 But it can. It should. 971 00:52:54,821 --> 00:52:56,321 You're still you. 972 00:52:57,325 --> 00:52:59,184 So how would it work... I keep my own shingle? 973 00:52:59,219 --> 00:53:01,821 Yes. Under my banner. 974 00:53:01,821 --> 00:53:03,529 And you and I are going to, what, 975 00:53:03,529 --> 00:53:05,279 bullshit about ideas all day long? 976 00:53:05,279 --> 00:53:07,196 We don't have to be best friends. 977 00:53:07,196 --> 00:53:08,780 Or friends of any kind. 978 00:53:08,780 --> 00:53:10,529 I just want your brain. 979 00:53:10,529 --> 00:53:12,154 And it won't all be bad for you. 980 00:53:12,154 --> 00:53:13,946 We'll pre-set a bonus structure. 981 00:53:13,946 --> 00:53:16,071 And you will know exactly where you will end up. 982 00:53:16,071 --> 00:53:17,696 That will be a signed document. 983 00:53:17,696 --> 00:53:20,196 It will. And we will also have a separate, 984 00:53:20,196 --> 00:53:22,029 special document, signed by Rhoades too, 985 00:53:22,029 --> 00:53:23,738 that says at a date certain 986 00:53:23,738 --> 00:53:26,196 whatever he has on you disappears forever. 987 00:53:36,571 --> 00:53:39,529 Where we at? 988 00:53:39,529 --> 00:53:41,905 I'm going back to work at Axe Capital. 989 00:53:42,544 --> 00:53:43,563 Will you come with me? 990 00:53:50,626 --> 00:53:51,629 In. 991 00:53:52,849 --> 00:53:55,071 Chuck Rhoades wants to use me to help him nail Axe. 992 00:53:56,288 --> 00:53:57,655 Crazy. 993 00:53:58,567 --> 00:53:59,646 Are you going to do it? 994 00:53:59,646 --> 00:54:01,154 I told him I would. 995 00:54:01,154 --> 00:54:04,237 And I made Axe believe I was done trying to destroy him. 996 00:54:04,237 --> 00:54:06,321 But I learned something: 997 00:54:06,321 --> 00:54:08,488 they're both lined up to destroy each other. 998 00:54:08,488 --> 00:54:10,905 At the right moment when both have their guns raised, 999 00:54:10,905 --> 00:54:12,863 I'll step out of the way and let it happen. 1000 00:54:12,863 --> 00:54:14,279 I'll help it happen. 1001 00:54:14,279 --> 00:54:15,821 They'll put each other in the ground 1002 00:54:15,821 --> 00:54:18,404 and I'll go about my fucking business. 1003 00:54:49,529 --> 00:54:50,887 Hey. 1004 00:54:50,987 --> 00:54:52,655 Hey. 1005 00:54:53,750 --> 00:54:56,112 - Some day. - Yeah. 1006 00:54:56,112 --> 00:54:59,363 Look, um, that thing with Rebecca, 1007 00:54:59,363 --> 00:55:00,780 I didn't mean to put you in a... 1008 00:55:00,780 --> 00:55:02,404 Nope. I'm not here for that. 1009 00:55:04,363 --> 00:55:05,738 I want to thank you. 1010 00:55:05,738 --> 00:55:07,071 I don't know how... 1011 00:55:07,071 --> 00:55:08,613 You don't even have to. 1012 00:55:10,404 --> 00:55:13,738 And I don't want to stay at home tonight. 1013 00:55:13,738 --> 00:55:15,154 Oh. 1014 00:55:15,154 --> 00:55:17,613 Or at some hotel. 1015 00:55:19,753 --> 00:55:21,446 Oh... 1016 00:55:32,102 --> 00:55:33,112 Oh. Shit. 1017 00:55:33,112 --> 00:55:36,237 Six maids and they leave it like this... 1018 00:55:37,016 --> 00:55:38,279 You can't sleep in Dean and Gordie's room, 1019 00:55:38,279 --> 00:55:39,821 'cause they have small beds. 1020 00:55:39,821 --> 00:55:42,488 And art is piled all over the other rooms. 1021 00:55:47,714 --> 00:55:49,196 You know what? 1022 00:55:53,780 --> 00:55:55,529 We can do this. 1023 00:56:12,780 --> 00:56:14,571 Well. 1024 00:56:18,814 --> 00:56:20,662 Text me what you want for breakfast in the morning, 1025 00:56:20,697 --> 00:56:22,529 I'll let Chef Ryan know. 1026 00:56:31,196 --> 00:56:34,655 And, you know, if you want to talk, 1027 00:56:34,655 --> 00:56:36,571 I'm right down the hall. 1028 00:56:40,571 --> 00:56:42,404 Have a good night. 1029 00:57:41,404 --> 00:57:43,112 Hi, Taylor! Hi, Mafee! 1030 00:57:43,112 --> 00:57:44,571 Shut the fuck up, Ben. 1031 00:57:45,905 --> 00:57:47,446 Hi, Ben. 1032 00:57:58,738 --> 00:58:02,321 Welcome home. 1033 00:58:03,262 --> 00:58:04,529 Happy to be here. 1034 00:58:15,946 --> 00:58:18,321 Now, I'm ready. 1035 00:58:19,593 --> 00:58:21,404 I've earned it. 1036 00:58:23,175 --> 00:58:25,071 String me up. 1037 00:59:28,226 --> 00:59:31,656 - synced and corrected by sot26 - www.addic7ed.com