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<i>Previously on</i> Billions...

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Mr. Andolov,

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My first act as
attorney general

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was to freeze your funds
in the United States.

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<i>My second act is inviting you</i>
<i>to leave our sunny shores.</i>

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I, of course, picked up
the scent of the Axelrod

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behind this.

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Charles Rhodes, Jr.
is hereby removed

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as attorney general
of the state of New York.

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<i>Everywhere</i>
<i>he goes, we are watching.</i>

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It's hard to march
toward the presidency

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when you're always
looking over your shoulder.

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The beginnings of a plan.

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Secrecy and deception.

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I'm starting to get misty.

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Jesus.
You like shaking people up.

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Like it? I don't know.

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It just happens.

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I love that you're loyal

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until I help
get you elected to Congress.

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You've accumulated so much,

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you think laws
don't apply to you?

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Who appointed you the keeper
of these cosmic rules

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in the first place?

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<i>The fucking arrogance!</i>

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Oh, I've always wanted

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to see
Vestmannaeyjar in the dark.

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Best way for a newly installed
U.S. Attorney not to be tracked.

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And for an international
fugitive not to be extradited.

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Something for everyone.

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Lay it out for me.

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I've been told
I needed to see you.

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When Wendy wants something,
she's very persuasive.

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Eh, that's why I called her.

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I need safe passage to America.

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-For you?
-No, not for me.

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I'll need a name, Robert.

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Yeah, Charles,
I'm working up to it.

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Is that because
I'm going to hate it?

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Well, you ain't gonna love it.

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Vasily Melnikov, stabbed.

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Vladislav Avayev, shot.

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Sergey Protosenya, hanged.

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Alexander Tyulyakov,
also hanged.

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And the list goes on.

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All friends and colleagues
of mine. All dead.

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My condolences.

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Dangerous time
to be an oligarch.

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Yet when you called and asked,

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even though we had agreed

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you would stay out
of my part of the world,

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I helped you anyway.

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Helped me?

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No, we both worked together

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to help the man
in the olive drab t-shirt.

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Because both he
and his country needed it.

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-Yours, too.
-Hmm.

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Not how the Kremlin sees it.

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That's how you see it.

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You know, it's no good being
a citizen, even a rich one,

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from a country
that's isolated, bled dry.

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Well, like how I felt
when you chased me

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out of the United States.

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Ah, that's semi-ancient
history.

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Now you have freedom here
in Europe. We both do.

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To walk the streets.
To wet our beaks.

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Thanks to the arms
that I financed,

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and you sourced.

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And you think this
wipes our ledger clean?

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Oh, did I forget to send you
a fucking fruit basket?

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Oh, a few kumquats is not
going to change anything.

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But our ledger is not clean.

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It is like a windshield
that was tended to

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by your...

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....squeegee men that thrived
under your Mayor Dinkins.

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All the showy effort
and noise,

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and still, windshield
covered in grime and dirt.

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Until I am rehabilitated
in the United States,

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we are not square.

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I'm not even rehabilitated
there.

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And I'm not a foreign national.
You are.

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And I am the one
defying my government

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during a purge
that makes Joe Stalin

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look like Joan fucking Baez.

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If my loyalty
is even questioned

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by the leaders of my country--

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I get it. You go on
the dead oligarch list.

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Hm. So now...

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to what I need.

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And what you will
deliver on a platter.

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I need to return to America.

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On a deeply personal mission.

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You do know that
all your funds are frozen?

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Down to the last kopek.

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Plus, you're on
a sanctions list.

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No matter what the mission,

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I suggest you conduct it
somewhere else.

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No, Axe.

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You will arrange it
so I can walk back in,

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do my business freely,

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and in return,
I will grant something to you.

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Could be tickets
to the Bolshoi,

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could be to allow you

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to keep walking around here,

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breathing freely.

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Threats? Really?

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What in my history makes you
think I respond well to threats?

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What in my history
makes you think

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it's merely a threat?

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Grigor Andolov.

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It's within your authority,

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within your ability
to figure it out anyway.

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To give
an exiled criminal a visa?

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So he can, what,

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muscle in on the Brighton Beach
heroin trade?

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Fuck with our next election?

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His wife's still in New York.

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She's suing for divorce
on grounds of abandonment.

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Well, maybe he can
countersue for irony.

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And if he can't even show up...

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she gets a default judgment
worth billions.

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Oh! Now we're talking
your love language.

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This is important to me.

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Important to you.

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To the man who defied me

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on that heliport
not so long ago?

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I would consider it
a personal favor.

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When Ali was broke,
could no longer fight,

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couldn't even
pick up his dinner tab,

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Smoking Joe
hauled him into his limo,

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counted out a thousand bucks,
cash.

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Sure, the old combatants code.

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But based on the shiny new
G800,

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plenty of purses
rolling your way.

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Yeah, I'm flush.

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So I'll make you an offer.

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You get Grigor to the U.S.,

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I'll owe you a debt.

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You do remember when I kicked
him out of there, that, too,

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was a favor to you?

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Yeah, it's all more perplexing

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than the betrayal
of Johnny Caspar.

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But I need it done.

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So if you do it,

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I promise that I will come
through for you when you ask.

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And I think you know,
when I make a promise,

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I don't come up short.

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Well, I'll say it.

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We aren't breaking through.

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Yet you remain undefined

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beyond rich, smart, nice guy.

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The party primaries are sucking
up all the media attention.

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Do I have to fly
the National damn Guard

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every time
I want some political ink?

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Can you?

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I'm not laughing.

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What else has had
that type of impact,

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historically,
for an outsider candidate?

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The only independent to ever
really get traction was--

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Yes. Perot.

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I saw it as a kid.

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I buy a--a half hour
on every major network.

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-Live speech.
-Hm. It'll play like you're

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making an acceptance speech
at your own national convention.

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Yeah, we call that
the primetime roadblock.

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No way around us, we'll
reframe the entire race.

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How do you win
outside the system?

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You run as the antidote
to the system.

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The theme will be
taking inventory,

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looking inside ourselves

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to see how
we let things get this bad.

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Yes. Asking the hard,
honest questions

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no politician dares ask...

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to remake ourselves
in order to remake the country.

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Before it's too late.

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The full Lincoln.
Do it the right way,

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the other candidates
will look like

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lawn jockeys
at the Belmont Stakes.

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Tell the story...

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of how you ask your people

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how <i>you</i> can do better,

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be better, as you
will also ask the country.

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I like that.

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Then you have to really do it.

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Solicit honest feedback
from your employees.

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Use it as fuel for the speech.

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Use it as an example.

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Yeah, great.

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I'll run focus groups with
your people to get that info.

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Hm.

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Boil it down to a lean
PowerPoint to present to you.

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I'm not sure inserting a layer

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between Mike and his guys
is the way to success.

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Happens to be the only way

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the political research
process works.

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Filters,
funnels, all of it.

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No, no, no.
I want the full fire hose.

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That's the point.
As Wendy says.

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Okay, how about this?

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I run the process
with Mike in the room.

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We make it authentic,
substantial.

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Full fat, full flavor.

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So Mike can eat it up
and then spit it out.

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We'd spend all week
Heimliching the guy.

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This has to be a battle cry.

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No, no, no time for
self-recrimination or anything

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that blunts
the tip of the sword.

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Like actual self-knowledge?

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I have to run this process.

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So you can baby-proof
the credenza.

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So I can keep out the noise.
Same process I used

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to elect a third of the Senate.

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Oh, the same guys
that are so out of touch,

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Mike had to step in
and run 'em out of town?

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I don't need my candidate
picking pepper out of fly shit

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- on the eve of a major speech.
- I've heard enough.

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Brad, you can run the process
with me in the room.

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Wendy'll be there, too.
Team of rivals.

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Make the buy,
set the meeting.

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We are gonna do something
extremely hard.

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Um, great?

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Yeah, everyone's
gonna be angry about it.

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It'll cause enormous tension
with Washington,

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with Albany, too.

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Sounds horrible.
What's it entail?

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Getting a previously
ejected oligarch

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back into the country.

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- A Russian oligarch?
- Mm-hmm.

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One with a big red
target on his back.

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From DOJ, from DHS,
from Interpol, too.

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Grigor Andolov.

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And you want to do this now,

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during the second coming
of the Red Menace.

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Like I said, extremely hard.

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If it's doable at all.

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Why would you even consider it?

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As a favor to Bobby Axelrod.

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Those words just
tumbled out of your mouth

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like a meth addict's teeth...

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...and just as fucked up.

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How do you
figure you'll pull this off?

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I have to talk
to a special advisor.

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Big man in certain circles.

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Bunky Stevens
is going to be a father

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with his third wife, Candy.

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Neat trick,
considering he died

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- a few months back.
- Mm-mm.

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Post-mortem
jizz retrieval, you dig?

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Not sure I do.

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Well, you get
the stiff on the table,

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even though
he ain't so stiff no more.

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Get my drift?

253
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And then you
drain those berries.

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You do it soon enough, you
end up with viable swimmers,

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Jizz. Stuff of life.

256
00:12:44,063 --> 00:12:46,063
Stuff of fraud.

257
00:12:46,105 --> 00:12:49,186
There's a new fertility start-up
out there doing this.

258
00:12:49,228 --> 00:12:52,629
Candy is just beefing up
her claim on the estate.

259
00:12:52,671 --> 00:12:55,432
The first and second wives
will get nothing...

260
00:12:55,474 --> 00:12:57,154
now that there's
going to be an heir.

261
00:12:57,196 --> 00:12:59,076
No respect for the starter
wives in our culture,

262
00:12:59,118 --> 00:13:00,677
chicks who break the seal.

263
00:13:00,719 --> 00:13:02,078
In Thailand,
even the minor wives

264
00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:03,560
get one hell of
a birthday bunfight.

265
00:13:03,602 --> 00:13:05,001
Uh-huh.

266
00:13:05,043 --> 00:13:06,203
You're going to want
to think global

267
00:13:06,245 --> 00:13:07,404
but act local on this one.

268
00:13:07,446 --> 00:13:08,805
Mm.

269
00:13:08,847 --> 00:13:10,527
It's your worst nightmare,
isn't it?

270
00:13:10,569 --> 00:13:13,009
A paternity suit that
can't be settled out of court.

271
00:13:13,051 --> 00:13:15,692
Oh, it's a question of
basic fairness, don't you see?

272
00:13:15,734 --> 00:13:18,094
Never your concern.

273
00:13:18,136 --> 00:13:20,496
And I don't recall you
thinking much of

274
00:13:20,538 --> 00:13:22,578
Bunky or his wives, either.

275
00:13:22,620 --> 00:13:25,141
So the fact that you're
suddenly the guardian

276
00:13:25,183 --> 00:13:27,543
of the product
of his vas deferens,

277
00:13:27,585 --> 00:13:30,186
I know there's more
to the story.

278
00:13:30,228 --> 00:13:31,667
That mean that
you're not gonna

279
00:13:31,709 --> 00:13:33,669
club this company
into oblivion

280
00:13:33,711 --> 00:13:36,752
and seize the embryos that
result from this unholy process?

281
00:13:36,794 --> 00:13:38,434
It means I'll look into it,

282
00:13:38,476 --> 00:13:40,636
and decide what
I'll do as usual.

283
00:13:40,678 --> 00:13:42,638
Bye, Dad.

284
00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:44,720
Hey, sugar, you be getting
that shit I've been sending you?

285
00:13:44,762 --> 00:13:46,964
I have. And I thank you.

286
00:13:49,086 --> 00:13:51,447
It's, uh, uh,

287
00:13:51,489 --> 00:13:53,208
I guess it's what
you'd call PEDs,

288
00:13:53,250 --> 00:13:54,930
but in lozenge form.

289
00:13:54,972 --> 00:13:56,812
So, put it under your tongue.

290
00:13:56,854 --> 00:13:58,694
It hits the bloodstream
instantly.

291
00:13:58,736 --> 00:14:00,335
Like a ball-peen
fucking hammer.

292
00:14:00,377 --> 00:14:03,020
Turns any man into
a world-class sheet-athlete.

293
00:14:04,061 --> 00:14:05,540
Wonderful.

294
00:14:05,582 --> 00:14:07,462
And I'm left wondering why

295
00:14:07,504 --> 00:14:10,465
none of this sublingual supreme
has been sent my way.

296
00:14:10,507 --> 00:14:12,547
For the simple reason it may
kill you, big papa,

297
00:14:12,589 --> 00:14:14,591
like Dirty Harry in '71.

298
00:14:25,722 --> 00:14:27,802
He goes
into this speech confident,

299
00:14:27,844 --> 00:14:29,003
he comes out sailing.

300
00:14:29,045 --> 00:14:30,925
Zooming up the fucking polls.

301
00:14:30,967 --> 00:14:32,647
And we're just supposed
to stand there clapping

302
00:14:32,689 --> 00:14:34,769
like extras
in a Riefenstahl film.

303
00:14:34,811 --> 00:14:36,090
With Bradford running point,

304
00:14:36,132 --> 00:14:37,451
the feedbacks gonna be jet
fuel.

305
00:14:40,897 --> 00:14:43,817
Uh, there is a potential
equal time issue.

306
00:14:43,859 --> 00:14:45,339
It's been dealt with.

307
00:14:45,381 --> 00:14:46,900
I spread some more
ad dollars around

308
00:14:46,942 --> 00:14:48,822
and if any candidate
tries to buy equal time

309
00:14:48,864 --> 00:14:50,904
within a week of Prince, they
won't find any left for sale.

310
00:14:50,946 --> 00:14:52,146
Nicely solved.

311
00:14:52,188 --> 00:14:53,747
Power of
the motherfucking purse.

312
00:14:53,789 --> 00:14:55,791
All over but the shouting.

313
00:15:01,437 --> 00:15:03,116
She's too effective.
We need her out of here.

314
00:15:03,158 --> 00:15:04,638
Isn't she supposed
to be running for Congress,

315
00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:06,439
instead of doing
henchman duty for Prince?

316
00:15:06,481 --> 00:15:08,924
She needs to understand
the hazards of staying.

317
00:15:14,209 --> 00:15:16,890
In my experience,
rich, powerful men

318
00:15:16,932 --> 00:15:18,932
think they want to hear
the unvarnished truth

319
00:15:18,974 --> 00:15:20,773
but don't actually
want to hear it.

320
00:15:20,815 --> 00:15:23,096
Yeah, is this really
just a loyalty test?

321
00:15:23,138 --> 00:15:24,697
If it is, let's pass it,
get back to our desks.

322
00:15:24,739 --> 00:15:26,459
It's earning season, people.

323
00:15:26,501 --> 00:15:28,141
I don't know, best just
call it the way you see it.

324
00:15:28,183 --> 00:15:29,942
You mean as long as
it's what he wants to hear?

325
00:15:29,984 --> 00:15:31,984
I mean, tell him
what he wants to hear

326
00:15:32,026 --> 00:15:33,546
no matter how you see it.

327
00:15:33,588 --> 00:15:35,308
What if that comes across
as inauthentic?

328
00:15:35,350 --> 00:15:37,350
Does your comp
come across as inauthentic?

329
00:15:37,392 --> 00:15:39,151
Guys, easy peasy.

330
00:15:39,193 --> 00:15:42,034
Like seeing your dorm-mate
in an off-off-Broadway play.

331
00:15:42,076 --> 00:15:44,677
You say something vague,
adjective free,

332
00:15:44,719 --> 00:15:46,558
"That was all you up there."

333
00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,201
And then let the ego
fill in the blanks.

334
00:15:51,125 --> 00:15:53,325
I'm calling bullshit
on this whole exercise,

335
00:15:53,367 --> 00:15:56,128
and I sure as fuck
won't suck up.

336
00:15:58,012 --> 00:16:02,174
Mike, you are like
a combination of Benjamin Graham

337
00:16:02,216 --> 00:16:04,296
and fucking Hal
from <i>Space Odyssey,</i>

338
00:16:04,338 --> 00:16:06,138
everywhere, all at once,

339
00:16:06,180 --> 00:16:09,222
processing, prodding me
to make better trades.

340
00:16:14,548 --> 00:16:17,068
Why is there anything you've
been wanting to say to Mike,

341
00:16:17,110 --> 00:16:18,470
but thought you couldn't?

342
00:16:18,512 --> 00:16:20,311
I don't deserve you.

343
00:16:20,353 --> 00:16:23,314
The guilt, it's crushing me.

344
00:16:23,356 --> 00:16:26,517
That's something I think
we should work on.

345
00:16:26,559 --> 00:16:29,120
And the challenges
trading with him, day to day?

346
00:16:29,162 --> 00:16:32,643
I have this recurring dream
in which you make bank.

347
00:16:32,685 --> 00:16:34,245
I'm talking 10X

348
00:16:34,287 --> 00:16:37,368
while doing
an ungodly amount of push ups.

349
00:16:37,410 --> 00:16:38,769
But is it really a dream?

350
00:16:41,614 --> 00:16:44,655
I'm just saying it ain't easy.

351
00:16:44,697 --> 00:16:47,340
When you set a standard that's
through the freaking roof.

352
00:16:49,822 --> 00:16:51,101
Mike, this is you and me.

353
00:16:51,143 --> 00:16:53,103
Criticism? Who are we kidding?

354
00:16:53,145 --> 00:16:55,588
Uh, would you--
Would you like to, uh...?

355
00:17:09,801 --> 00:17:10,921
-Jesus.
-Let's move on.

356
00:17:10,963 --> 00:17:12,965
Yep.

357
00:17:28,860 --> 00:17:31,741
I love that you're ditching
your race for Congress.

358
00:17:31,783 --> 00:17:33,983
-I am?
-As much as we need you there,

359
00:17:34,025 --> 00:17:35,545
we need you here.

360
00:17:35,587 --> 00:17:37,146
Besides, not enough hand
sanitizer in the world

361
00:17:37,188 --> 00:17:38,868
to make me do that job.

362
00:17:38,910 --> 00:17:41,630
You should go long Purell,
I'm not ditching a thing.

363
00:17:41,672 --> 00:17:43,993
But you're still here?

364
00:17:44,035 --> 00:17:45,514
My filing deadline's
months away.

365
00:17:45,556 --> 00:17:48,157
But we're days away
from Prince's campaign

366
00:17:48,199 --> 00:17:49,918
becoming a black hole.

367
00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,401
Everything in its vicinity
sucked right in.

368
00:17:52,443 --> 00:17:55,404
You'll just be part of
the fabric of the thing,

369
00:17:55,446 --> 00:17:58,086
unable to assert yourself
as anything other than

370
00:17:58,128 --> 00:18:00,249
"Prince's fill-in-the-blank".

371
00:18:00,291 --> 00:18:02,571
All because he's
about to throw down a gauntlet?

372
00:18:02,613 --> 00:18:04,092
More of a grenade.

373
00:18:04,134 --> 00:18:06,136
At the parties you'll
need to nominate you.

374
00:18:08,058 --> 00:18:11,139
So I just establish a little
distance when I leave is all.

375
00:18:11,181 --> 00:18:12,581
With your family dough?

376
00:18:12,623 --> 00:18:14,022
With the whitest collar
background

377
00:18:14,064 --> 00:18:16,224
of anyone at the firm?

378
00:18:16,266 --> 00:18:18,827
Ask Chang and Eng.

379
00:18:18,869 --> 00:18:21,069
Not a lot of distance
when you're joined at the hip.

380
00:18:33,122 --> 00:18:34,722
Must feel different
to walk this hall

381
00:18:34,764 --> 00:18:36,204
as an impresario.

382
00:18:36,246 --> 00:18:38,286
No longer the guy
in the squared circle.

383
00:18:38,328 --> 00:18:40,648
Eh, still feel every bump.

384
00:18:40,690 --> 00:18:42,450
Whether you're giving 'em
whether you're taking 'em,

385
00:18:42,492 --> 00:18:44,331
whether you're scripting 'em.

386
00:18:44,373 --> 00:18:46,213
I've always wondered
if I could do it.

387
00:18:46,255 --> 00:18:47,815
Fall down for a living.

388
00:18:47,857 --> 00:18:51,298
You don't have
that far to fall.

389
00:18:51,340 --> 00:18:53,380
Look, you could do it.

390
00:18:53,422 --> 00:18:55,182
When this
crowd comes alive,

391
00:18:55,224 --> 00:18:56,543
you'd come alive.

392
00:18:56,585 --> 00:18:58,986
There is nothing else...

393
00:18:59,028 --> 00:19:01,108
- like this.
- Yeah.

394
00:19:01,150 --> 00:19:04,351
Well, no one knows
the game like you do, Hunter.

395
00:19:04,393 --> 00:19:06,233
And that's why
I need your advice.

396
00:19:06,275 --> 00:19:07,754
You got a game that
needs to be played?

397
00:19:07,796 --> 00:19:09,396
Yes, exactly.

398
00:19:09,438 --> 00:19:11,718
I need to turn one guy heel,

399
00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,441
and another guy
babyface. In one move.

400
00:19:14,483 --> 00:19:15,602
Oof.

401
00:19:15,644 --> 00:19:17,404
Double turn. Tough to pull off.

402
00:19:17,446 --> 00:19:19,406
But when it's done right,

403
00:19:19,448 --> 00:19:21,247
one of my personal favorites.

404
00:19:21,289 --> 00:19:23,850
How do I pull it off?

405
00:19:23,892 --> 00:19:25,572
You need to let the heel come
in

406
00:19:25,614 --> 00:19:27,614
and get the heat from the
crowd.

407
00:19:27,656 --> 00:19:29,736
Then your babyface comes
and gets the pop.

408
00:19:31,820 --> 00:19:33,459
The heat and the pop, huh?

409
00:19:33,501 --> 00:19:35,221
Oh, yeah.

410
00:19:35,263 --> 00:19:37,663
Tell me more about these guys.
What do you got on 'em?

411
00:19:37,705 --> 00:19:40,186
Well, they both think
they're babyfaces.

412
00:19:40,228 --> 00:19:42,868
That's for damn sure.
But neither one of them is.

413
00:19:42,910 --> 00:19:45,231
Every sitting senator
would give their gavel arm

414
00:19:45,273 --> 00:19:47,793
for a survey result like this.

415
00:19:47,835 --> 00:19:49,955
Did any of it feel real to you?

416
00:19:49,997 --> 00:19:51,717
I can read between the lines.

417
00:19:51,759 --> 00:19:53,639
I picked up that
I can be intimidating.

418
00:19:53,681 --> 00:19:55,683
I'll work on that.

419
00:20:00,888 --> 00:20:04,129
This is how Vietnams happen.

420
00:20:04,171 --> 00:20:06,091
How politicians lose touch
with reality.

421
00:20:06,133 --> 00:20:08,413
Hard questions stop being asked

422
00:20:08,455 --> 00:20:10,135
and they believe
their own hype.

423
00:20:10,177 --> 00:20:11,897
So you want us to go back
around

424
00:20:11,939 --> 00:20:13,818
and troll for negative
feedback?

425
00:20:13,860 --> 00:20:15,300
So that's written down
somewhere,

426
00:20:15,342 --> 00:20:16,741
so it fucks with Mike's head?

427
00:20:16,783 --> 00:20:18,103
I wouldn't frame it like that.

428
00:20:18,145 --> 00:20:19,864
But if he's going to ask
the rest of us,

429
00:20:19,906 --> 00:20:21,466
the country, to take inventory,

430
00:20:21,508 --> 00:20:23,868
then he should
really fucking do it.

431
00:20:23,910 --> 00:20:25,390
Otherwise, he's as fake

432
00:20:25,432 --> 00:20:26,751
as the politicians
he's running against,

433
00:20:26,793 --> 00:20:27,992
and the voters are going
to smell it on him

434
00:20:28,034 --> 00:20:30,036
and send him packing.

435
00:20:31,758 --> 00:20:33,760
She's right.

436
00:20:34,801 --> 00:20:38,242
You want a samurai sword
and Hattori Hanz blade?

437
00:20:38,284 --> 00:20:41,165
Those only come
from the hottest flames.

438
00:20:41,207 --> 00:20:44,730
Find me a master swordsmith
without some serious burns.

439
00:20:56,062 --> 00:20:57,461
He's letting you

440
00:20:57,503 --> 00:20:59,022
run a second round
of honesty sessions?

441
00:20:59,064 --> 00:21:01,066
Without Prince
in the room this time.

442
00:21:01,627 --> 00:21:03,066
No Luke either.

443
00:21:03,108 --> 00:21:04,668
I'm not comfortable with this.

444
00:21:04,710 --> 00:21:06,189
We don't know where
actual honesty will lead.

445
00:21:06,231 --> 00:21:07,631
Fuck yeah, we do.

446
00:21:07,673 --> 00:21:08,952
The greatest
televised meltdown

447
00:21:08,994 --> 00:21:10,554
since Howard Beale.

448
00:21:10,596 --> 00:21:12,556
Prince's narcissism
is a mile-wide

449
00:21:12,598 --> 00:21:14,037
and a micron thick.

450
00:21:14,079 --> 00:21:16,399
Watch the movie.
Beale stays on air,

451
00:21:16,441 --> 00:21:17,961
Schumacher gets
kicked to the curb.

452
00:21:18,003 --> 00:21:19,562
I want to keep having
a firm to run.

453
00:21:19,604 --> 00:21:20,884
Watch it to the end.

454
00:21:20,926 --> 00:21:22,365
Beale gets his brains blown
out.

455
00:21:22,407 --> 00:21:23,927
Schumacher gets
to schtup a young,

456
00:21:23,969 --> 00:21:25,568
luscious-as-a-plum
Faye Dunaway.

457
00:21:25,610 --> 00:21:27,450
Taylor isn't wrong.

458
00:21:27,492 --> 00:21:29,452
This could implode MPC,

459
00:21:29,494 --> 00:21:32,177
as well as the campaign
and all of our places in it.

460
00:21:37,462 --> 00:21:40,745
I wanna slam Prince's ego
with a battering ram.

461
00:21:43,107 --> 00:21:45,149
No telling where
the fragments will land.

462
00:21:47,071 --> 00:21:49,191
If it hurts business.

463
00:21:49,233 --> 00:21:51,235
If it blows us up, too...

464
00:21:52,436 --> 00:21:54,438
price we gotta pay.

465
00:22:11,495 --> 00:22:13,615
One question, related
to the files we discussed

466
00:22:13,657 --> 00:22:15,659
a few weeks back.

467
00:22:15,979 --> 00:22:18,219
Yep.

468
00:22:18,261 --> 00:22:19,741
If I stay on board here,
am I killing

469
00:22:19,783 --> 00:22:21,383
my chances
with the mainstream party?

470
00:22:21,425 --> 00:22:23,344
Can't expect either party
to bear hug you

471
00:22:23,386 --> 00:22:25,186
after he shoots 'em
in the vitals.

472
00:22:25,228 --> 00:22:27,869
What if I wall myself off
from the campaign?

473
00:22:27,911 --> 00:22:29,711
Restrict myself to firm
business until I leave?

474
00:22:29,753 --> 00:22:32,273
The firm is the campaign.

475
00:22:32,315 --> 00:22:33,835
No wall to be built

476
00:22:33,877 --> 00:22:35,877
unless you wanna drywall
your own office door.

477
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,402
I was hoping we could,
uh, I don't know...

478
00:22:40,283 --> 00:22:41,642
think outside the box.

479
00:22:41,684 --> 00:22:43,965
Mmm, not so easy
when you're in one.

480
00:22:47,130 --> 00:22:48,489
Got the case for ya.

481
00:22:48,531 --> 00:22:50,090
Commodities fraud.

482
00:22:50,132 --> 00:22:52,173
Uh, market manipulation
in the oil industry.

483
00:22:52,215 --> 00:22:53,574
That'll do.

484
00:22:53,616 --> 00:22:55,456
Sure you want
to go down this road?

485
00:22:55,498 --> 00:22:57,658
We list Andolov
as an expert witness,

486
00:22:57,700 --> 00:22:59,780
then asked DOJ and DHS

487
00:22:59,822 --> 00:23:01,582
to parole him
into the country.

488
00:23:01,624 --> 00:23:03,704
Get ready for
some hairpin turns.

489
00:23:03,746 --> 00:23:07,027
The guy's a sanctioned oligarch
who you chased out.

490
00:23:07,069 --> 00:23:08,508
I mean, there's impossible,

491
00:23:08,550 --> 00:23:10,470
then there's climbing
the Dawn Wall

492
00:23:10,512 --> 00:23:12,712
with a pair of Havaianas
and a bag of chalk.

493
00:23:12,754 --> 00:23:14,915
I think I can sell it.

494
00:23:14,957 --> 00:23:17,277
I also learned that
Grigor's wife is not alone

495
00:23:17,319 --> 00:23:19,479
in her divorce action--
she's got a backer,

496
00:23:19,521 --> 00:23:21,401
a hedge fund,
he's bankrolling her,

497
00:23:21,443 --> 00:23:22,762
no doubt for a big piece
of the settlement.

498
00:23:22,804 --> 00:23:25,727
-Who?
-Our very own Todd Krakow.

499
00:23:27,449 --> 00:23:29,128
And knowing him,
that's not the only reason

500
00:23:29,170 --> 00:23:30,530
he's lurking around.

501
00:23:30,572 --> 00:23:31,891
Because
what we need here

502
00:23:31,933 --> 00:23:32,972
are some more obstacles.

503
00:23:36,458 --> 00:23:38,618
Damn the torpedoes,
file the parole request.

504
00:23:38,660 --> 00:23:40,299
I've got
something else for you.

505
00:23:40,341 --> 00:23:41,741
-Can it wait till morning?
-Uh...

506
00:23:41,783 --> 00:23:43,262
you're going to want
to see this today.

507
00:23:51,672 --> 00:23:53,312
Dad.

508
00:23:53,354 --> 00:23:57,116
Uh, your pal Bunky
signed a consent form.

509
00:23:57,158 --> 00:23:59,238
Well, hold the fucking roll.
If your boy signed off on it,

510
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:00,599
how come he didn't
get the missus

511
00:24:00,641 --> 00:24:02,201
to do the extraction pre-mortem?

512
00:24:02,243 --> 00:24:03,442
I mean, that's lots more fun.

513
00:24:03,484 --> 00:24:04,683
You know what I'm sayin',
baby girl?

514
00:24:04,725 --> 00:24:06,325
He didn't want to raise a kid.

515
00:24:06,367 --> 00:24:08,527
He wanted a posthumous tot
to live on after him.

516
00:24:08,569 --> 00:24:10,569
That's like that fucking movie
about the octopus.

517
00:24:10,611 --> 00:24:12,290
She popped some eggs
from her cooch,

518
00:24:12,332 --> 00:24:14,334
and then she slides
into an undersea death spiral.

519
00:24:15,215 --> 00:24:17,736
Hm.

520
00:24:17,778 --> 00:24:20,580
This isn't about Bunky at all.
What is it?

521
00:24:22,823 --> 00:24:24,703
Okay, fine.

522
00:24:24,745 --> 00:24:26,746
I'll tell you.

523
00:24:28,708 --> 00:24:30,951
It's Roxanne and Willow.

524
00:24:34,554 --> 00:24:36,676
<i>I saw them praying...</i>

525
00:24:37,677 --> 00:24:39,837
<i>to Jesus.</i>

526
00:24:39,879 --> 00:24:41,799
When we agreed
we wouldn't raise Willow

527
00:24:41,841 --> 00:24:43,843
with religion at all.

528
00:24:46,245 --> 00:24:49,326
Beware, Sonny Boy,
legacy is a lie!

529
00:24:49,368 --> 00:24:52,409
There is no control
in the hereafter.

530
00:24:52,451 --> 00:24:54,211
Oh, shit. It's true.

531
00:24:54,253 --> 00:24:55,733
You know, once they get
the Jesus fever,

532
00:24:55,775 --> 00:24:57,294
it's rarely treatable.

533
00:24:57,336 --> 00:24:59,176
Just like the fucking
Orthodox in my tribe.

534
00:24:59,218 --> 00:25:02,259
Yeah, a Rhoades
spouting the Lord's Prayer,

535
00:25:02,301 --> 00:25:04,902
I know what a disaster
that is for you.

536
00:25:04,944 --> 00:25:06,583
You need to talk to Roxanne.

537
00:25:06,625 --> 00:25:08,385
Just rein it in
before it takes root.

538
00:25:08,427 --> 00:25:11,070
Not in a talking mood.

539
00:25:13,632 --> 00:25:15,031
I'm drawing up my demands

540
00:25:15,073 --> 00:25:17,634
for the upbringing
of my progeny.

541
00:25:17,676 --> 00:25:21,398
Schooling, vacations,
earthly pursuits.

542
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,880
This-- This God shit?

543
00:25:23,922 --> 00:25:25,602
Strictly off the list.

544
00:25:25,644 --> 00:25:28,324
Because ultimatums
work so well in a marriage?

545
00:25:28,366 --> 00:25:31,570
If she won't heed mine,
then we are headed for divorce.

546
00:25:32,731 --> 00:25:34,570
And I'm going for custody.

547
00:25:52,550 --> 00:25:56,752
I knew you'd come.
I've been expecting you.

548
00:25:56,794 --> 00:25:59,355
I saw in the papers
you're back in your old job.

549
00:25:59,397 --> 00:26:01,196
Indeed.

550
00:26:01,238 --> 00:26:03,799
But I figured
you'd make an appointment.

551
00:26:03,841 --> 00:26:06,684
I'm not actually here for that.

552
00:26:08,445 --> 00:26:10,245
It's about my father.

553
00:26:10,287 --> 00:26:13,368
Oh. Well. Usually is.

554
00:26:13,410 --> 00:26:16,413
No, I need some information.

555
00:26:18,615 --> 00:26:20,896
About the nature of control.

556
00:26:20,938 --> 00:26:22,978
Dominance.

557
00:26:23,020 --> 00:26:26,501
Why some seem
unable to give it up.

558
00:26:26,543 --> 00:26:28,703
You trying to save yourself?

559
00:26:28,745 --> 00:26:30,705
No. Not this time, no.

560
00:26:30,747 --> 00:26:32,949
My dad needs some peace.

561
00:26:34,431 --> 00:26:37,352
But his daughter...

562
00:26:37,394 --> 00:26:41,157
she needs to be spared
the kind of upbringing I had.

563
00:26:42,759 --> 00:26:45,319
That relentless,
controlling instinct which--

564
00:26:45,361 --> 00:26:47,441
Which led you here
in the first place.

565
00:26:47,483 --> 00:26:52,086
Which led me to mirror him
in 98% of my interactions.

566
00:26:52,128 --> 00:26:55,131
And then to have to completely
repudiate it here.

567
00:26:57,213 --> 00:26:58,772
Sometimes there's
a certain comfort

568
00:26:58,814 --> 00:27:01,895
in jumping
at others' command.

569
00:27:01,937 --> 00:27:04,138
Control is all
an illusion anyway.

570
00:27:04,180 --> 00:27:05,939
Huh. Tell that to the guy

571
00:27:05,981 --> 00:27:08,382
in the business end
of the truncheon.

572
00:27:08,424 --> 00:27:11,186
But if you're
paying someone to wield it,

573
00:27:12,348 --> 00:27:14,349
who's really in control?

574
00:27:15,951 --> 00:27:19,713
End of the day,
client gets the meal.

575
00:27:19,755 --> 00:27:22,836
I just plate the food.

576
00:27:22,878 --> 00:27:25,558
You think my dad
is fooling himself?

577
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,121
Raging against
his own impotence, maybe.

578
00:27:28,163 --> 00:27:30,844
His mortality.

579
00:27:30,886 --> 00:27:33,646
Control is often
an expression of fear.

580
00:27:33,688 --> 00:27:36,449
People who truly believe
they're in control?

581
00:27:36,491 --> 00:27:40,453
More likely to escalate
their actions till they fail.

582
00:27:40,495 --> 00:27:42,495
Leads to poor decision making.

583
00:27:42,537 --> 00:27:44,539
-Magical thinking.
-Hm.

584
00:27:45,540 --> 00:27:47,260
Problem is...

585
00:27:47,302 --> 00:27:49,824
telling a controller
not to doesn't work.

586
00:27:50,945 --> 00:27:52,224
I've noticed.

587
00:27:52,266 --> 00:27:54,026
Your hope lies in convincing
him

588
00:27:54,068 --> 00:27:56,829
that his true power
is best displayed

589
00:27:56,871 --> 00:27:59,073
in not having to use it.

590
00:28:08,082 --> 00:28:10,122
I promised them anonymity.

591
00:28:10,164 --> 00:28:12,404
Then work to get them past
their instinct for flattery,

592
00:28:12,446 --> 00:28:14,406
for base self-interest.

593
00:28:14,448 --> 00:28:16,450
I'm ready for
the unplugged version.

594
00:28:17,771 --> 00:28:21,293
"Self-satisfied."
"Loves himself."

595
00:28:21,335 --> 00:28:23,337
"Mother Teresa of Wall Street."

596
00:28:24,738 --> 00:28:26,458
"Loves the smell
of his own farts,

597
00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:29,340
like the "Smug Alert"
episode of <i>South Park"?</i>

598
00:28:29,382 --> 00:28:31,182
-Never saw that one.
-I have.

599
00:28:31,224 --> 00:28:33,505
It's a top-tier episode.
Heh. Who said that?

600
00:28:33,547 --> 00:28:35,186
You can't think
I'm gonna name names.

601
00:28:35,228 --> 00:28:37,348
I just-- I want to do
some relationship repair.

602
00:28:37,390 --> 00:28:39,510
Of course, no.

603
00:28:39,552 --> 00:28:42,713
Uh, "Entitled, thinks he can
buy us off with private planes.

604
00:28:42,755 --> 00:28:45,078
I mean, I'll take the flights,
but fuck that."

605
00:28:48,321 --> 00:28:51,042
"Forces you to come to his party
and act like you like it

606
00:28:51,084 --> 00:28:52,683
while he slakes his appetite--"

607
00:28:52,725 --> 00:28:53,844
Stop right there.

608
00:28:53,886 --> 00:28:55,406
There's no reason for Mike

609
00:28:55,448 --> 00:28:57,728
to be subject to
the petty staff jealousies

610
00:28:57,770 --> 00:28:59,650
and--and character sniping.

611
00:28:59,692 --> 00:29:01,652
I mean, we all
sat through your round.

612
00:29:01,694 --> 00:29:03,534
I didn't take you
for the squeamish type.

613
00:29:03,576 --> 00:29:05,496
And this is when
we bring it back around,

614
00:29:05,538 --> 00:29:07,377
put it in a context?

615
00:29:09,542 --> 00:29:11,582
Here's the context.
You have to decide

616
00:29:11,624 --> 00:29:13,423
what taking inventory
actually means.

617
00:29:13,465 --> 00:29:15,185
Whether you can push through
the friction

618
00:29:15,227 --> 00:29:17,107
as commander in chief,
a lot fucking worse

619
00:29:17,149 --> 00:29:18,548
than what you heard just now.

620
00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:19,990
And do what must be done.

621
00:29:20,032 --> 00:29:21,631
What only you can do
for the country.

622
00:29:21,673 --> 00:29:25,035
Even if it turns you
into a dartboard.

623
00:29:25,077 --> 00:29:27,797
I think you can,
or I'd be lying to your face

624
00:29:27,839 --> 00:29:31,040
like everyone else on that floor
instead of, you know...

625
00:29:31,082 --> 00:29:33,084
giving you what you asked for.

626
00:29:40,812 --> 00:29:42,814
That'll be all.

627
00:30:08,319 --> 00:30:11,079
These are all A-list attorneys.

628
00:30:11,121 --> 00:30:12,561
Serious political chops, too.

629
00:30:12,603 --> 00:30:14,002
You think
we need more firepower?

630
00:30:14,044 --> 00:30:15,644
No.

631
00:30:15,686 --> 00:30:19,127
But I don't want to leave
without replacing myself.

632
00:30:19,169 --> 00:30:21,692
But it's time. Past time.

633
00:30:23,213 --> 00:30:24,893
The speech is tomorrow.

634
00:30:24,935 --> 00:30:27,736
I need to get with the party
that can nominate me.

635
00:30:27,778 --> 00:30:30,058
Terms of my hire, remember?

636
00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:32,102
What do you want?

637
00:30:32,422 --> 00:30:34,062
What will it take

638
00:30:34,104 --> 00:30:36,865
to stick around longer
till we can right the ship?

639
00:30:36,907 --> 00:30:38,826
If I stay
and help you right it,

640
00:30:38,868 --> 00:30:41,949
it'll be pretty hard
to get off it.

641
00:30:41,991 --> 00:30:43,831
If your departure
is made public,

642
00:30:43,873 --> 00:30:45,313
this of all weeks...

643
00:30:45,355 --> 00:30:46,634
Maybe we all go quiet on this

644
00:30:46,676 --> 00:30:48,075
until the hand-off's complete.

645
00:30:48,117 --> 00:30:50,119
It has to be public.
It has to be now.

646
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:52,640
A couple of days at the most.

647
00:30:52,682 --> 00:30:56,444
I need to establish
a little distance to him.

648
00:30:56,486 --> 00:30:59,406
Scrub your name off mine
while I still can.

649
00:30:59,448 --> 00:31:01,450
It's just politics, Mike.

650
00:31:02,972 --> 00:31:04,974
I hope you understand.

651
00:31:09,218 --> 00:31:11,058
Don't walk away
from Prince Capital

652
00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:12,419
or Prince himself.

653
00:31:12,461 --> 00:31:13,820
I don't quit now,

654
00:31:13,862 --> 00:31:15,822
both parties will freeze me
out.

655
00:31:15,864 --> 00:31:17,264
Nothing on the plus side
of the ledger

656
00:31:17,306 --> 00:31:19,308
competes with that.

657
00:31:19,868 --> 00:31:21,870
"Love To Love You, Baby."

658
00:31:23,432 --> 00:31:25,232
Come again?

659
00:31:25,274 --> 00:31:27,714
It's the song that took
dance music from the club floor

660
00:31:27,756 --> 00:31:29,155
to the top of the charts.

661
00:31:29,197 --> 00:31:31,117
Broke me as a music manager.

662
00:31:31,159 --> 00:31:34,400
Made Donna Summer into
the queen of a whole new genre.

663
00:31:34,442 --> 00:31:36,402
You said it ended badly.

664
00:31:36,444 --> 00:31:38,124
Always does.

665
00:31:38,166 --> 00:31:42,328
But before that, she was
my double platinum ticket.

666
00:31:42,370 --> 00:31:44,330
No bigger pop star
in the '70s.

667
00:31:44,372 --> 00:31:47,814
No Black woman, beside Diana
with her cultural power,

668
00:31:47,856 --> 00:31:49,695
her crossover cachet.

669
00:31:49,737 --> 00:31:51,577
And she knew it.

670
00:31:51,619 --> 00:31:53,379
Came to me to cut my
percentage.

671
00:31:53,421 --> 00:31:56,022
Once, then again and again.

672
00:31:56,064 --> 00:31:58,344
Natural progression
with most stars.

673
00:31:58,386 --> 00:32:02,027
But I hung in,
choked down every indignity.

674
00:32:02,069 --> 00:32:04,109
And do you know why?

675
00:32:04,151 --> 00:32:05,871
Because everyone
answered my call.

676
00:32:05,913 --> 00:32:08,113
Just hoping it'd be about
Donna.

677
00:32:08,155 --> 00:32:10,035
It would've been worth it
to do the job for free

678
00:32:10,077 --> 00:32:12,518
for that alone.

679
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,359
No indignities
at Prince Capital.

680
00:32:14,401 --> 00:32:16,441
But unlike Donna,
the name is about to be

681
00:32:16,483 --> 00:32:18,363
a liability for me.

682
00:32:18,405 --> 00:32:20,445
You don't want to be frozen
out.

683
00:32:20,487 --> 00:32:22,407
I get it.

684
00:32:22,449 --> 00:32:25,290
But how cold are you going
to feel in the wilderness?

685
00:32:25,332 --> 00:32:29,016
In the dead of winter?
When your calls go unanswered?

686
00:32:37,664 --> 00:32:40,104
Surprise, surprise.
We've got a Russia problem.

687
00:32:40,146 --> 00:32:41,586
Hmm. Oh!

688
00:32:41,628 --> 00:32:44,709
Apparently,
it's going around.

689
00:32:44,751 --> 00:32:47,351
Chuck. My friends in DC

690
00:32:47,393 --> 00:32:49,313
tell me you're trying
to bring Grigor Andolov

691
00:32:49,355 --> 00:32:51,315
in as some bullshit witness.

692
00:32:51,357 --> 00:32:53,197
Are you fucking crazy?

693
00:32:53,239 --> 00:32:55,439
How's the country better off
with that droog in it?

694
00:32:55,481 --> 00:32:57,682
Uh, let's reframe that.

695
00:32:57,724 --> 00:33:00,604
How many tens of millions of
dollars do you stand to lose

696
00:33:00,646 --> 00:33:02,646
if he can contest
his divorce action?

697
00:33:02,688 --> 00:33:04,929
Mm. You should know better
than to mock the crime

698
00:33:04,971 --> 00:33:06,530
of spousal abandonment.

699
00:33:06,572 --> 00:33:08,052
Or the stigma and isolation?

700
00:33:08,094 --> 00:33:09,893
The inability
to plan one's future?

701
00:33:09,935 --> 00:33:12,216
A woman's emotions
torn fucking asunder.

702
00:33:12,258 --> 00:33:13,617
Ohh...

703
00:33:13,659 --> 00:33:15,339
You're not just
bankrolling her.

704
00:33:15,381 --> 00:33:17,383
You're sleeping with her.

705
00:33:18,544 --> 00:33:20,223
Okay, look...

706
00:33:20,265 --> 00:33:22,786
It started off all business,

707
00:33:22,828 --> 00:33:24,908
but Oksana is
a very soulful woman.

708
00:33:24,950 --> 00:33:27,230
She's been through a lot.

709
00:33:27,272 --> 00:33:28,832
The heart wants
what the heart wants.

710
00:33:28,874 --> 00:33:31,795
So does the DOJ,
and we need the guy here.

711
00:33:31,837 --> 00:33:33,596
Then I may need
to align with forces

712
00:33:33,638 --> 00:33:35,638
whose interests run
counter to yours.

713
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,841
In a big fucking way.

714
00:33:37,883 --> 00:33:40,365
And I never do my enemies
minor boo-boos, Chuck.

715
00:33:45,210 --> 00:33:48,491
Keep up that watered-down
Machiavelli shit with me,

716
00:33:48,533 --> 00:33:50,533
the feds will be
a far more pressing problem

717
00:33:50,575 --> 00:33:53,015
than some foreign actor.

718
00:33:53,057 --> 00:33:55,097
You better not mess
with that divorce proceeding.

719
00:33:55,139 --> 00:33:57,420
Oh, that one's all yours.

720
00:34:01,826 --> 00:34:03,265
He's not the only grouser.

721
00:34:03,307 --> 00:34:05,067
I just heard from DeGiulio.

722
00:34:05,109 --> 00:34:07,389
He got the request to parole
Grigor back into the States?

723
00:34:07,431 --> 00:34:09,111
Wants to discuss it in person.

724
00:34:09,153 --> 00:34:11,193
Along with your old pals
Governor Sweeney

725
00:34:11,235 --> 00:34:12,955
and Attorney General Mahar.

726
00:34:12,997 --> 00:34:14,516
The three of them together.

727
00:34:14,558 --> 00:34:16,078
When they come at you
as a three man,

728
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,280
think chair shot,
not rubber stamp.

729
00:34:18,322 --> 00:34:21,243
My ink pad's at the ready.

730
00:34:21,285 --> 00:34:25,247
Chuck, is it really worth
choosing Grigor over Krakow

731
00:34:25,289 --> 00:34:27,489
and not one,
but two levels of government?

732
00:34:27,531 --> 00:34:28,930
To please this guy
of all people.

733
00:34:28,972 --> 00:34:29,931
I mean, what's he ever
done for you...

734
00:34:29,973 --> 00:34:31,493
Hm.

735
00:34:31,535 --> 00:34:33,375
...except wear you out
and haunt your days?

736
00:34:33,417 --> 00:34:37,018
No, this is
the vaunted Bobby Axelrod,

737
00:34:37,060 --> 00:34:39,220
mover of markets,

738
00:34:39,262 --> 00:34:42,023
puller of levers.

739
00:34:42,065 --> 00:34:45,707
And he needed me.

740
00:34:45,749 --> 00:34:49,470
Called me. Had to ask me
for a personal favor.

741
00:34:49,512 --> 00:34:51,875
Offered to be in my debt.

742
00:34:54,397 --> 00:34:58,559
Sure, I wanted to say no,
almost did. But...

743
00:34:58,601 --> 00:35:00,321
Well, that's too rare
and valuable

744
00:35:00,363 --> 00:35:02,365
a commodity these days.

745
00:35:04,006 --> 00:35:06,409
Especially from one
who knows what it means.

746
00:35:08,371 --> 00:35:11,171
Well, that is more old school
than Sammy Davis Jr.

747
00:35:11,213 --> 00:35:12,933
tapping with
the Will Mastin Trio.

748
00:35:23,906 --> 00:35:25,465
I lead from the front.

749
00:35:25,507 --> 00:35:27,507
I do everything I ask
of those under my command

750
00:35:27,549 --> 00:35:29,269
and not from
a goddamn swivel chair.

751
00:35:29,311 --> 00:35:31,831
The difference between you
and General Patton?

752
00:35:31,873 --> 00:35:34,034
He didn't ask for
his employee's criticism.

753
00:35:34,076 --> 00:35:35,555
He just slapped them
in the face.

754
00:35:35,597 --> 00:35:37,077
Criticism informs, elucidates.

755
00:35:37,119 --> 00:35:39,121
This was insubordination.

756
00:35:40,081 --> 00:35:41,721
Maybe Luke was right--
maybe you weren't ready

757
00:35:41,763 --> 00:35:43,723
for the full fire hose.

758
00:35:43,765 --> 00:35:46,806
My own people think
that they can lie to me,

759
00:35:46,848 --> 00:35:48,850
mock me.

760
00:35:49,891 --> 00:35:51,370
Plus, Sacker's leaving,

761
00:35:51,412 --> 00:35:52,892
planning on
"distancing herself"?

762
00:35:52,934 --> 00:35:54,253
We were cruising along

763
00:35:54,295 --> 00:35:55,735
at flank speed before all this.

764
00:35:55,777 --> 00:35:57,817
Mm. The presidential.

765
00:35:57,859 --> 00:35:59,939
When did I become Lex Luthor?

766
00:35:59,981 --> 00:36:01,660
Anytime somebody
runs for office,

767
00:36:01,702 --> 00:36:03,863
they either become Superman
or that other thing.

768
00:36:03,905 --> 00:36:05,544
I didn't change.

769
00:36:05,586 --> 00:36:07,226
Everybody looks at you
through different eyes now,

770
00:36:07,268 --> 00:36:10,469
but that doesn't matter.
What matters is this:

771
00:36:10,511 --> 00:36:12,631
There's nothing wrong
with deciding you want

772
00:36:12,673 --> 00:36:14,513
the unvarnished,
unquestioned love.

773
00:36:14,555 --> 00:36:17,838
In fact, that may be
the most healthy choice.

774
00:36:22,723 --> 00:36:24,725
Sometimes quitting
isn't capitulation.

775
00:36:26,807 --> 00:36:30,208
Sometimes it shows grit
and wisdom.

776
00:37:17,416 --> 00:37:18,615
Scooter called you?

777
00:37:18,657 --> 00:37:20,177
He told me what happened.

778
00:37:20,219 --> 00:37:22,579
I know this is
where you'd go.

779
00:37:22,621 --> 00:37:24,021
Well, it used to actually work.

780
00:37:24,063 --> 00:37:25,542
Now I feel the chill
in this room, too.

781
00:37:25,584 --> 00:37:27,184
Well, too warm
and you slip on the court.

782
00:37:31,510 --> 00:37:34,951
I used to feel the warmth
in every room I entered.

783
00:37:34,993 --> 00:37:36,433
Especially
Michael Prince Capital.

784
00:37:36,475 --> 00:37:38,114
Now it just seems like a lie.

785
00:37:38,156 --> 00:37:40,398
Those rooms were warm
because you paid them.

786
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,880
I told myself I didn't care.

787
00:37:43,922 --> 00:37:46,763
But I thought the warmth
was real. Or I wanted to.

788
00:37:46,805 --> 00:37:48,244
Then let's
talk court conditions.

789
00:37:48,286 --> 00:37:51,249
I was at Indiana A&M, too.

790
00:37:52,690 --> 00:37:54,010
My teammates loved me there.

791
00:37:54,052 --> 00:37:55,451
If we're really
taking inventory,

792
00:37:55,493 --> 00:37:57,053
some of them hated your guts.

793
00:37:57,095 --> 00:37:59,055
Until they got to know me,
maybe.

794
00:37:59,097 --> 00:38:00,416
No.

795
00:38:00,458 --> 00:38:02,738
Until you lead them
to some wins.

796
00:38:02,780 --> 00:38:04,782
Then they loved you.

797
00:38:07,985 --> 00:38:10,105
I just had to show them
I was all about the team.

798
00:38:10,147 --> 00:38:12,868
The team was all about you.
Always.

799
00:38:12,910 --> 00:38:14,510
You always had the ball.

800
00:38:14,552 --> 00:38:16,472
You always made your shots
or dished it.

801
00:38:16,514 --> 00:38:19,034
They had to learn that
the path to glory

802
00:38:19,076 --> 00:38:21,637
ran through you.

803
00:38:21,679 --> 00:38:24,920
So I shouldn't worry about
seeking real love?

804
00:38:24,962 --> 00:38:28,643
I'm saying, the way to get it
is to be a winner.

805
00:38:28,685 --> 00:38:30,685
That's as real
as it fucking gets.

806
00:38:30,727 --> 00:38:34,169
Is that cold or superficial
or hollow?

807
00:38:34,211 --> 00:38:37,692
Well, that's the world
we're living in.

808
00:38:37,734 --> 00:38:40,215
And it's the one
you say you want to lead.

809
00:38:50,507 --> 00:38:52,509
And he's fucking late.

810
00:38:53,990 --> 00:38:56,951
Quite the assemblage
for a pro forma parole request.

811
00:38:56,993 --> 00:38:59,393
Pro fucking forma?
Coddling a Russian criminal

812
00:38:59,435 --> 00:39:01,235
on the dawn of
a second Cold War.

813
00:39:01,277 --> 00:39:03,878
Last I saw you, Governor,
you were forcing me from office

814
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:05,279
in a bloodless coup.

815
00:39:05,321 --> 00:39:07,121
I'd say cold wars
are your <i>métier.</i>

816
00:39:07,163 --> 00:39:09,243
Uh, Mr. Andolov has agreed

817
00:39:09,285 --> 00:39:11,445
to cooperate
in a critical case.

818
00:39:11,487 --> 00:39:13,727
His safe passage
will be strictly limited--

819
00:39:13,769 --> 00:39:16,370
To rat-fucking me and my
biggest donor, Todd Krakow.

820
00:39:16,412 --> 00:39:19,093
Chuck,
my office, your old office,

821
00:39:19,135 --> 00:39:22,015
you personally ran Grigor
out of this country.

822
00:39:22,057 --> 00:39:25,098
Surely, whatever grudge you hold
against the governor--

823
00:39:25,140 --> 00:39:27,821
Me? I'm all about
moving forward.

824
00:39:27,863 --> 00:39:29,823
This has to stop
at the water's edge.

825
00:39:29,865 --> 00:39:31,425
Let this fucker in and we're
going to look ridiculous.

826
00:39:31,467 --> 00:39:33,186
Like patsies. Like...

827
00:39:33,228 --> 00:39:35,268
Putin's got pee tapes
on the lot of us.

828
00:39:35,310 --> 00:39:37,991
I know better
than to try to stop you, Chuck.

829
00:39:38,033 --> 00:39:39,352
You will find a way over,

830
00:39:39,394 --> 00:39:40,674
you will find a way through.

831
00:39:40,716 --> 00:39:43,076
Used to be my <i>modus,</i> sure.

832
00:39:43,118 --> 00:39:45,118
I am appealing
to you, though.

833
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:46,519
Don't alienate us.

834
00:39:46,561 --> 00:39:48,281
And don't burn Todd Krakow

835
00:39:48,323 --> 00:39:50,243
and 50 other
political powerhouses

836
00:39:50,285 --> 00:39:51,884
in your first months back
at Southern.

837
00:39:51,926 --> 00:39:55,007
Don't make them your last.

838
00:39:55,049 --> 00:39:57,810
I used to believe in
zero-sum...

839
00:39:57,852 --> 00:40:00,253
in choosing a side,
generally my own,

840
00:40:00,295 --> 00:40:02,295
and alienating all others.

841
00:40:02,337 --> 00:40:07,259
But this go-around, I see
that we can all be winners,

842
00:40:07,301 --> 00:40:09,261
all be friends.

843
00:40:09,303 --> 00:40:11,463
Why draw lines in the sand

844
00:40:11,505 --> 00:40:13,345
when we can build a castle?

845
00:40:13,387 --> 00:40:16,028
Castles made of sand?

846
00:40:16,070 --> 00:40:19,231
You know, it's happened, Chuck.
You've lost your fucking mind.

847
00:40:19,273 --> 00:40:20,632
Maybe I just found it, Bob.

848
00:40:20,674 --> 00:40:23,157
Chuck,
in a known language, please.

849
00:40:24,718 --> 00:40:28,520
I'm talking about
telling our own story.

850
00:40:28,562 --> 00:40:31,523
A story in which we work
the emotional levers

851
00:40:31,565 --> 00:40:34,005
to all get
what we actually want.

852
00:40:34,047 --> 00:40:37,889
And how exactly do we reach
this promised land?

853
00:40:37,931 --> 00:40:42,694
My special advisor on this
will answer all your questions.

854
00:40:42,736 --> 00:40:45,418
You might say
he does it for a living.

855
00:41:03,596 --> 00:41:05,798
So, you found
a good lawyer yet?

856
00:41:06,839 --> 00:41:08,079
Excuse me?

857
00:41:08,121 --> 00:41:09,960
Your custody case.

858
00:41:10,002 --> 00:41:12,763
Oh, I know your prenup's
a fortress of steel,

859
00:41:12,805 --> 00:41:15,288
and that you're ready to crush.

860
00:41:16,529 --> 00:41:18,048
I'm short-listing litigators

861
00:41:18,090 --> 00:41:20,290
and still building out
my list of demands.

862
00:41:20,332 --> 00:41:22,334
Uh-huh.

863
00:41:22,815 --> 00:41:24,695
Go ahead, son.

864
00:41:24,737 --> 00:41:26,256
I've known you
long enough to know

865
00:41:26,298 --> 00:41:27,658
when you've got a point to
make.

866
00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:29,139
Well...

867
00:41:29,181 --> 00:41:30,901
probably not one
that's welcome here, so--

868
00:41:30,943 --> 00:41:32,945
Out with it.

869
00:41:34,586 --> 00:41:39,109
No, it's just that I've noticed
that power is the ability

870
00:41:39,151 --> 00:41:40,991
to influence others,

871
00:41:41,033 --> 00:41:43,713
not dictate to them.

872
00:41:43,755 --> 00:41:47,559
True power is
not having to use it.

873
00:41:50,642 --> 00:41:53,523
Are you gonna flash
your history chops now

874
00:41:53,565 --> 00:41:56,806
and hold forth
on how the great emperors

875
00:41:56,848 --> 00:41:59,048
and cons were such
because they showed mercy?

876
00:41:59,090 --> 00:42:00,570
I'm not.

877
00:42:00,612 --> 00:42:02,772
We both know I'm talking
about your daughter.

878
00:42:02,814 --> 00:42:04,053
That's right.

879
00:42:04,095 --> 00:42:06,215
Now, she ought not be beholden

880
00:42:06,257 --> 00:42:08,057
to some made-up deity.

881
00:42:08,099 --> 00:42:11,022
When you'd rather have her
be beholden to you.

882
00:42:12,984 --> 00:42:14,904
Your way.

883
00:42:14,946 --> 00:42:16,665
You'll have her obedience

884
00:42:16,707 --> 00:42:20,069
and you'll have moments
of her affection...

885
00:42:20,111 --> 00:42:22,311
Uh, she's human, after all.

886
00:42:22,353 --> 00:42:26,435
And won't be able to escape
her inclination to love you,

887
00:42:26,477 --> 00:42:28,919
but she'll try.

888
00:42:30,441 --> 00:42:33,161
Oh, boy, how she'll try,

889
00:42:33,203 --> 00:42:36,046
if you run power games
on her and her mother.

890
00:42:38,528 --> 00:42:40,929
Domination...

891
00:42:40,971 --> 00:42:43,932
is an all-or-nothing
proposition.

892
00:42:43,974 --> 00:42:47,936
It does not work
if you carve out exemptions.

893
00:42:47,978 --> 00:42:50,058
What is it that
you're suggesting?

894
00:42:50,100 --> 00:42:52,983
Go on dominating
everyone else in your life.

895
00:42:54,384 --> 00:42:57,385
Put your stamp on things
and mark your turf.

896
00:42:57,427 --> 00:43:00,188
Yes, and go ahead
and show her that,

897
00:43:00,230 --> 00:43:02,109
when she's old enough
to apprehend it.

898
00:43:02,151 --> 00:43:05,114
But when it comes to her now...

899
00:43:06,636 --> 00:43:08,638
give her a sense of
stability...

900
00:43:09,318 --> 00:43:11,439
and self worth.

901
00:43:11,481 --> 00:43:15,484
Because that's where
<i>true</i> power comes from.

902
00:43:20,489 --> 00:43:22,930
Ease up.

903
00:43:22,972 --> 00:43:24,972
As a means of achieving
the same result.

904
00:43:25,014 --> 00:43:29,698
Actually, control them more
by seeming to cede it.

905
00:43:31,820 --> 00:43:33,822
Wouldn't have worked with you.

906
00:43:34,223 --> 00:43:35,742
Who's to say

907
00:43:35,784 --> 00:43:38,305
I may have needed the firm
hand,

908
00:43:38,347 --> 00:43:40,347
but neither of these
women are me.

909
00:43:40,389 --> 00:43:41,908
Oh, that's for damn sure.

910
00:43:41,950 --> 00:43:44,150
It could spare
you a custody fight.

911
00:43:44,192 --> 00:43:46,953
You might even get
what's on that list of yours,

912
00:43:46,995 --> 00:43:48,635
and they'll never know

913
00:43:48,677 --> 00:43:51,359
they played right
into what you wanted.

914
00:43:58,206 --> 00:43:59,565
I like this plan.

915
00:43:59,607 --> 00:44:00,726
Hm.

916
00:44:00,768 --> 00:44:01,928
Some sense must have been

917
00:44:01,970 --> 00:44:03,809
whipped into you after all.

918
00:44:03,851 --> 00:44:06,014
That firm hand. Yep.

919
00:44:08,536 --> 00:44:10,538
Okay, sonny...

920
00:44:11,419 --> 00:44:12,698
I will try it your way.

921
00:44:12,740 --> 00:44:14,742
Good.

922
00:44:16,624 --> 00:44:18,103
Continental style in this
house,

923
00:44:18,145 --> 00:44:20,706
left hand, tines downward.

924
00:44:20,748 --> 00:44:23,270
This look like
Ruby fucking Tuesday to you?

925
00:44:35,522 --> 00:44:37,082
Speech of his life.

926
00:44:37,124 --> 00:44:38,844
I cannot believe
he missed the run-through.

927
00:44:38,886 --> 00:44:40,365
Mike doesn't
need run-throughs.

928
00:44:40,407 --> 00:44:42,287
He's Africa/Brass-era Coltrane.

929
00:44:42,329 --> 00:44:44,809
-He finds it as he goes.
-Can you find it if it went?

930
00:44:44,851 --> 00:44:46,731
We're live on eight channels
in five minutes

931
00:44:46,773 --> 00:44:48,973
and he's not even here.

932
00:44:49,015 --> 00:44:50,535
There he is.

933
00:44:50,577 --> 00:44:53,498
Who's ready
to turn this upside down?

934
00:44:53,540 --> 00:44:55,219
Didn't need a run-through.

935
00:44:55,261 --> 00:44:57,382
Any more than Jay-Z
needs to write down his lyrics.

936
00:44:57,424 --> 00:44:59,426
Just roll tape and let me go.

937
00:45:03,830 --> 00:45:05,590
Thank you.

938
00:45:05,632 --> 00:45:07,872
For not keeping me safe.

939
00:45:07,914 --> 00:45:09,473
In my bubble.

940
00:45:09,515 --> 00:45:11,395
The idea that I would
reassess my campaign,

941
00:45:11,437 --> 00:45:13,758
quit, because of a few grumblers
in the company...

942
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,520
Well, I needed to hear that.

943
00:45:16,562 --> 00:45:19,843
I was a professional
boot in the ass.

944
00:45:19,885 --> 00:45:21,887
Finally saw what you were doing.

945
00:45:22,768 --> 00:45:26,410
The destiny, it's in me.

946
00:45:26,452 --> 00:45:29,453
I knew you'd put yourself
back together.

947
00:45:29,495 --> 00:45:31,495
Glad you did.

948
00:45:31,537 --> 00:45:33,337
Ready?

949
00:45:37,863 --> 00:45:39,422
I put him back together

950
00:45:39,464 --> 00:45:42,067
after you kicked the pieces
across the floor.

951
00:45:56,881 --> 00:45:58,721
I thought you were out the
door.

952
00:45:58,763 --> 00:46:02,365
I'd like to stay at MPC
until my filing deadline.

953
00:46:02,407 --> 00:46:05,208
Then run as an independent
on Mike's ticket.

954
00:46:05,250 --> 00:46:07,610
Stay close to the resources,
the juice.

955
00:46:07,652 --> 00:46:09,932
If you're sure, I can get you
on a cutaway shot.

956
00:46:09,974 --> 00:46:12,815
I know it's a risk
taking on the party machinery.

957
00:46:12,857 --> 00:46:16,058
I'm not just going to be some
schmo out in the wilderness...

958
00:46:16,100 --> 00:46:18,102
in a run for Congress.

959
00:46:18,502 --> 00:46:20,743
We're live.

960
00:46:20,785 --> 00:46:25,990
In five, four, three...

961
00:46:34,598 --> 00:46:36,398
I'm Mike Prince.

962
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,320
If you only follow
the primaries,

963
00:46:38,362 --> 00:46:39,721
you don't know me.

964
00:46:39,763 --> 00:46:41,603
That's by design.

965
00:46:41,645 --> 00:46:44,808
So the status quo can keep
a hold of your futures.

966
00:46:46,129 --> 00:46:48,330
I bought this time
and it didn't come cheap

967
00:46:48,372 --> 00:46:50,572
because I'm my own man.

968
00:46:50,614 --> 00:46:52,614
And because we need
to have a hard conversation

969
00:46:52,656 --> 00:46:56,700
about why both parties,
and our system, are broken.

970
00:46:58,341 --> 00:47:00,702
This is about the inventory
we all need to take

971
00:47:00,744 --> 00:47:03,064
in order to get
where we're going,

972
00:47:03,106 --> 00:47:05,308
even if we don't
always like what we see.

973
00:47:19,161 --> 00:47:21,041
Grigor.

974
00:47:21,083 --> 00:47:23,764
Buddy, you're back.

975
00:47:23,806 --> 00:47:27,247
You are surprised
to see me here?

976
00:47:27,289 --> 00:47:30,410
I'm surprised
to see you here as well,

977
00:47:30,452 --> 00:47:32,653
since four of
the last five nights,

978
00:47:32,695 --> 00:47:36,737
you've been spotted outside
Oksana's penthouse.

979
00:47:36,779 --> 00:47:39,259
My penthouse, not your own.

980
00:47:39,301 --> 00:47:41,621
She's been distraught
in your absence.

981
00:47:41,663 --> 00:47:43,143
I've tried to counsel her.

982
00:47:43,185 --> 00:47:45,825
Tell her to, you know, hang in.

983
00:47:45,867 --> 00:47:49,229
This is why I brought you
a special gift.

984
00:47:49,271 --> 00:47:51,991
You should open it now.

985
00:47:52,033 --> 00:47:57,116
Might come in handy
in case you need to "hang in."

986
00:47:57,158 --> 00:48:01,561
My friend Christian
designed them personally.

987
00:48:01,603 --> 00:48:03,723
Gossamer wings.

988
00:48:03,765 --> 00:48:07,246
Now, I cannot tell you
if they support flights,

989
00:48:07,288 --> 00:48:10,529
since I didn't test them
myself, but...

990
00:48:10,571 --> 00:48:14,373
Since you live
on the 29th floor,

991
00:48:14,415 --> 00:48:18,898
maybe you would
like to be the test pilot.

992
00:48:18,940 --> 00:48:21,941
You could have sent this
message in so many ways,

993
00:48:21,983 --> 00:48:24,023
without coming to New York.

994
00:48:24,065 --> 00:48:27,586
What fucking fun would there be
in letting someone else

995
00:48:27,628 --> 00:48:30,349
throw you out the window?

996
00:48:30,391 --> 00:48:32,951
I swear, Oksana and I
are just friends.

997
00:48:32,993 --> 00:48:34,513
W-we're not even friends.

998
00:48:34,555 --> 00:48:36,595
It was just a--a mere
business arrangement--

999
00:48:36,637 --> 00:48:40,318
But you spent so many months
in her company.

1000
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,040
I'll never see her again.

1001
00:48:42,082 --> 00:48:43,682
I'll stop funding
the divorce action.

1002
00:48:43,724 --> 00:48:46,284
In fact, I'll end it
with one fucking phone call.

1003
00:48:46,326 --> 00:48:48,689
It's hard to argue
abandonment now anyway.

1004
00:48:49,730 --> 00:48:52,090
This is good news.

1005
00:48:52,132 --> 00:48:55,934
It clears the way
for my own divorce suit...

1006
00:48:55,976 --> 00:48:58,658
on grounds of adultery.

1007
00:49:01,501 --> 00:49:03,503
Thank you.

1008
00:49:27,246 --> 00:49:32,211
My business is concluded.
Now, yours can begin.

1009
00:49:33,692 --> 00:49:35,572
It's quite a favor
Axe granted you.

1010
00:49:35,614 --> 00:49:37,614
And that you granted him.

1011
00:49:40,419 --> 00:49:42,659
How the hell did you two
become friends again,

1012
00:49:42,701 --> 00:49:44,461
after what he did to you?

1013
00:49:44,503 --> 00:49:47,344
Well, one has
the greatest respect

1014
00:49:47,386 --> 00:49:50,347
for one's fiercest adversary.

1015
00:49:50,389 --> 00:49:54,633
Who else believes so strongly
in your abilities?

1016
00:49:56,635 --> 00:49:59,515
Well, it's time.
You ready to do the turn?

1017
00:49:59,557 --> 00:50:02,400
Like Andre in '87.

1018
00:50:47,284 --> 00:50:49,724
Let's go. Out of the car.

1019
00:50:49,766 --> 00:50:53,088
You have no authority over me.

1020
00:50:53,130 --> 00:50:55,090
I am a sovereign citizen.

1021
00:50:55,132 --> 00:50:59,133
I reject the right of the
United States to detain me,

1022
00:50:59,175 --> 00:51:02,056
or to compel my testimony.

1023
00:51:02,098 --> 00:51:06,100
I am a citizen
of the greatest nation

1024
00:51:06,142 --> 00:51:10,304
<i>in the history of the world,</i>
<i>led by the greatest leader.</i>

1025
00:51:10,346 --> 00:51:14,188
<i>So fuck you and fuck America.</i>

1026
00:51:18,594 --> 00:51:20,634
Mr. Andolov
was here to testify

1027
00:51:20,676 --> 00:51:22,957
in a federal case,
to work with us.

1028
00:51:22,999 --> 00:51:24,999
However, he took that
opportunity to try and steal

1029
00:51:25,041 --> 00:51:27,962
sensitive military technology
for his country.

1030
00:51:28,004 --> 00:51:30,204
Now, upon receiving
this intel, I handed it off

1031
00:51:30,246 --> 00:51:32,686
to federal law enforcement
for coordinated action.

1032
00:51:32,728 --> 00:51:33,927
Chuck.

1033
00:51:35,851 --> 00:51:37,010
As U.S. Attorney,

1034
00:51:37,052 --> 00:51:38,932
I realized that this was

1035
00:51:38,974 --> 00:51:40,854
a complex federal matter,

1036
00:51:40,896 --> 00:51:44,658
so I contacted Solicitor General
DeGiulio and the DOJ.

1037
00:51:47,623 --> 00:51:50,103
Main Justice saw the critical
nature of this case

1038
00:51:50,145 --> 00:51:52,467
on New York
and included the state AG.

1039
00:51:55,871 --> 00:51:59,152
Using state police
and undercover operatives,

1040
00:51:59,194 --> 00:52:03,236
we conducted a sting operation
and interdicted Mr. Andolov

1041
00:52:03,278 --> 00:52:05,598
before any secrets
could be stolen.

1042
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:07,080
As you can see in the video,

1043
00:52:07,122 --> 00:52:09,202
his true sentiments
came to light.

1044
00:52:09,244 --> 00:52:11,444
He will be deported
immediately.

1045
00:52:11,486 --> 00:52:13,366
It is a bad day for the
Kremlin,

1046
00:52:13,408 --> 00:52:15,768
a good day for justice
around the world.

1047
00:52:15,810 --> 00:52:17,169
Questions?

1048
00:52:20,094 --> 00:52:21,894
What about the risk
of rolling an old criminal

1049
00:52:21,936 --> 00:52:24,697
like Mr. Andolov into the U.S.
in the first place?

1050
00:52:24,739 --> 00:52:26,741
He was poised to have...

1051
00:52:27,581 --> 00:52:29,341
Wow...

1052
00:52:29,383 --> 00:52:31,143
He swoops in, kills my play,

1053
00:52:31,185 --> 00:52:32,704
does a heel turn here.

1054
00:52:32,746 --> 00:52:34,867
He's rehabbed in Russia,
a hero to the Kremlin,

1055
00:52:34,909 --> 00:52:36,108
quashing those rumors
that he helped Ukraine.

1056
00:52:36,150 --> 00:52:37,549
Mm.

1057
00:52:37,591 --> 00:52:38,911
You guys are all
champions of the city.

1058
00:52:38,953 --> 00:52:40,993
-Ah.
-It's quite a work you put on.

1059
00:52:41,035 --> 00:52:43,555
Mm-hmm.
Except for the part with you.

1060
00:52:43,597 --> 00:52:45,677
-That was a shoot.
-Hm.

1061
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:47,159
Fuck. You weren't in on that?

1062
00:52:47,201 --> 00:52:48,760
No, real.

1063
00:52:48,802 --> 00:52:51,523
Only way I see it,
everything he said stands.

1064
00:52:51,565 --> 00:52:55,166
He'll now have Moscow's full
backing to do whatever he wants,

1065
00:52:55,208 --> 00:52:56,528
wherever he wants.

1066
00:52:56,570 --> 00:52:58,610
Long arms.

1067
00:52:58,652 --> 00:53:00,852
One warning was enough.

1068
00:53:00,894 --> 00:53:02,734
That and those fucking wings.

1069
00:53:02,776 --> 00:53:04,938
We cooperate...

1070
00:53:07,821 --> 00:53:09,941
The dial groups
we ran during the speech--

1071
00:53:09,983 --> 00:53:11,462
spiked the whole time.

1072
00:53:11,504 --> 00:53:12,944
I've never seen
anything like it.

1073
00:53:12,986 --> 00:53:15,186
Mike is trending
on every platform.

1074
00:53:15,228 --> 00:53:17,508
Pundits on both sides
are calling it a major victory.

1075
00:53:17,550 --> 00:53:20,431
Calling me for jobs, too.
My phone's blowing up.

1076
00:53:20,473 --> 00:53:21,792
All this coverage,

1077
00:53:21,834 --> 00:53:23,714
-you couldn't buy it.
-But he did.

1078
00:53:23,756 --> 00:53:25,115
"Rising above the smallness

1079
00:53:25,157 --> 00:53:27,157
and negativity
of the primaries."

1080
00:53:27,199 --> 00:53:29,920
"Owning primetime,
because he can. Literally."

1081
00:53:29,962 --> 00:53:31,682
Mike wants to do
one of these every month.

1082
00:53:31,724 --> 00:53:34,246
Draw up a check,
I'll draw up a plan.

1083
00:53:42,975 --> 00:53:45,415
I owe you an apology.

1084
00:53:45,457 --> 00:53:47,057
We both had our points of view.

1085
00:53:47,099 --> 00:53:48,658
I had my own agenda.

1086
00:53:48,700 --> 00:53:50,380
Keeping control of the
campaign.

1087
00:53:50,422 --> 00:53:52,542
You just served Mike.

1088
00:53:52,584 --> 00:53:54,464
No wonder
he trusts you so much.

1089
00:53:57,709 --> 00:53:59,229
It's the kind of speech

1090
00:53:59,271 --> 00:54:01,110
no politician ever gives.

1091
00:54:01,152 --> 00:54:03,673
<i>Because they can't afford to.</i>
<i>In more ways than one.</i>

1092
00:54:03,715 --> 00:54:06,756
<i>That alone gives Michael Prince</i>
<i>the edge tonight,</i>

1093
00:54:06,798 --> 00:54:09,078
<i>a true independent,</i>
<i>storming the gates...</i>

1094
00:54:23,254 --> 00:54:24,613
It's done.

1095
00:54:24,655 --> 00:54:28,137
I saw. Thanks.

1096
00:54:28,179 --> 00:54:30,419
No, I should be thanking you.

1097
00:54:30,461 --> 00:54:32,541
For making me better. Sharper.

1098
00:54:32,583 --> 00:54:36,265
For raising the level of play,
as you always have.

1099
00:54:36,307 --> 00:54:37,906
I can't say I wish
I was back there

1100
00:54:37,948 --> 00:54:39,628
-slugging it out with you.
<i>-Mm-hmm.</i>

1101
00:54:39,670 --> 00:54:41,950
-We went enough rounds.
<i>-Yeah.</i>

1102
00:54:41,992 --> 00:54:44,032
Took me some time to realize,
that was reason enough

1103
00:54:44,074 --> 00:54:45,554
to help you from the start.

1104
00:54:45,596 --> 00:54:47,436
Old combatants' code.

1105
00:54:47,478 --> 00:54:49,438
<i>That's the other reason.</i>

1106
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,521
Someday, and that day
will definitely come,

1107
00:54:52,563 --> 00:54:55,886
I will call upon you
to repay this debt.

1108
00:54:57,567 --> 00:55:00,170
And I know
you won't come up short.