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<i>Previously on</i> Billions.

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This doesn't even look
fun-adjacent.

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No, not fun at all.

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A friend was climbing Makalu
as a tune-up for Everest,

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and there was an accident.

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Derek?
Can you hear me, Derek?

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We have to assume
he's alive,

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but in Chinese custody.

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The kid, Kai Huang Liu,
sells sham NFTs.

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Why can't you get this guy
under the legitimate weight

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of your own office?

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Because this guy can't be got
with normal methods.

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He's a king.

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But a mad king.

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I think there's a mutiny
in the works.

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My allies lined up against me
with my enemy.

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The company asked me
to give a talk.

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Mental telehealth start-up.

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I've become aware
of Mental.

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The CEO is stepping down.

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The board will want someone
with your credentials

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to take over.

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Robin, it's Wendy Rhoades.

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I am accepting your offer.

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How do I convince you

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it would be safe
for you to work with me?

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In what way?

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I can't find a path to get him

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within what I do.

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But with someone on the inside,
the path would reveal itself.

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Do you have a plan, now that we
can all trust each other?

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I have a goal:
take Mike Prince's billions.

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Notify the on-call pilot.

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-Destination?
-London.

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I'm going to Haddon Hall.

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Nice!

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Nice. Nice place.

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Nice!

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More, much more,

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than your average fugitive
from the law

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can scrape together.

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Not a fugitive here.

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Welcomed and appreciated
on this entire continent.

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And beyond.

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I'm just remarking on how far
my dollar stretches,

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even in these
inflationary times.

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Your dollar?

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Well, my largesse.

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My generosity of spirit left you
with the coinage to do this.

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You think, what,
get a rise out of me?

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Get me to engage emotionally?

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Guy like you, figure you can't
wait to spit the bile.

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"I couldn't have bought half
a Hockney with what you left me,

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"but I rolled that shit up

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and now I'm twice as rich
as I was before."

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Nah. Guy Hollywoods
a poker hand and loses,

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if he's smart, keeps his mouth
shut then on.

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No, absolutely.

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One thing no one doubts
about you is that you're smart.

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And I always say it's better
to have a smart adversary

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than a dumb one.

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Dumb adversary lets things
like revenge run them.

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Smart one waits for an opening.

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I never show one,
he never moves.

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You been reading your Stavridis?

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Watching Shalikashvili lectures?

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You know,
there's a comfort in knowing

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someone's an avowed foe.

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A clarity.

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Doesn't take a four-star lecture
to figure that one out.

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And there'll be an even greater
clarity in neutralizing you,

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crossing you off
my enemies list for good.

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Now, I don't know
what you were plotting

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when you hosted Wendy,
Wags and Taylor here,

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but I imagine it involved
an attack on me from within.

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Hmm, channeling
your Howard Hughes too, I see.

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The paranoia seeps in.

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No. He was paralyzed by fear.

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I move.

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But I do admire his sense
of calculated vengeance.

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So if you try anything,
it won't be you who'll suffer.

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It'll be Wendy Rhoades.

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I have her tied
to the railroad tracks,

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and I own the whole damn
transcontinental.

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You seem so proud.

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Why don't you tell me
what you did?

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The only thing you're about
to find out are my ground rules.

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Call them rules
of disengagement.

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Do any digging, I'll know.

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Contact her or try to warn her,
I'll know.

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Parry or attack from any angle,
I'll know.

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<i>It's time, Robert.</i>

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I'm calling in that debt
you owe.

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Need you to come through,
as promised.

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Not the best timing.

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<i>That is not the enthusiastic</i>
<i>response I expected.</i>

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I have a problem,
and I have cleared the path,

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because I need you
here in America now.

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Yeah, that is a problem,
but I need to call you back.

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You should know threatening her
is a bigger mistake

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than threatening me.

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I understand the rage
you're feeling...

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and how it makes you
want to do something about it.

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You think you do.

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Let me talk to you
in a language

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that you'll immediately
understand.

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That of the great
Marsellus Wallace.

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"You might feel a slight sting.

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That's pride fucking with you."

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Marsellus Wallace nearly lost
everything he had

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by obsessing over that shit,

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until he was rescued by the very
man he said those words to.

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In that case,
enemies became allies.

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But don't count on that here.

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And since we're doling out
counsel to one another,

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let me give you a bromide
turns out to be true.

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In life, focus on your friends,
Mike, not your enemies.

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Get the best out of them.

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They'll handle the attacks
for you.

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I'll follow the advice
of my countrymen,

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not exiles.

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Fact is, every serious contender
for the presidency

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has an enemies list.

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The ones that go the distance,

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they're the ones
who square theirs away.

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Like I just did.

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I shouldn't have to say it,
but I have to say it.

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-Then fucking say it, Kate.
-And that's why I have to.

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That sad-itude of yours.

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You think it seems angry,
but to me, just sad.

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Notch it down a notch,
counselor.

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We are gonna walk out
on that floor,

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and you are going
to comport yourselves

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as if all this was your idea.

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You are supportive and believe
in Prince and the plan.

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When the various Prince Cap
employees come to see you,

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you will treat them
as what they are:

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5-year-olds on the first day
of a new school,

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running to the nurse
to send them home.

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Instead, turn them around,
pat them on the butt,

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and send them back to class.

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I need your assent.
That's how this is gonna go.

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Nothing left
to misunderstanding.

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Yes.

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Assent.

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Power 'em down,
hand 'em over.

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Every device you've got,
toss them on the pile.

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This meeting is confidential.

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We don't have to tell you
Mike is under a microscope.

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Everything said here
is in cone of silence.

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Are we about to do
some trust falls?

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Quiet!

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The time for banter

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is before you get off
the elevators.

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John D. Rockefeller said,

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"Don't be afraid to give up
the good to go for the great."

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As I look toward
the coming presidential,

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and as we build on this firm's
unparalleled success,

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best on the Street,

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even as we dropped
foreign holdings

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to double down on America,

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it's time to make
some adjustments.

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To go from good, even very good,

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to full-on excellence.

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To that end, Scooter Dunbar
will now be sole COO

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of Michael Prince Capital.

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Could he be bumping Wags up
somehow?

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Philip Charyn now has sign-off
on all major trades,

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anything above 500 mill,

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in the event Scooter or I
are unavailable.

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Fuck. Other direction.

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Kate Sacker's being elevated to
a new and broad counselor role,

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overseeing legal, compliance,

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also H.R. as Wendy steps
into a new role of her own:

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CEO of Mental,

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a promising telehealth startup.

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Where the hell is Taylor?

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With a new leadership structure
comes new opportunity.

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Every rung of the ladder.

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For the first time
in this firm's history,

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I'm opening up the books,

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creating three new
partnership slots.

183
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Some people are going to get
straightened out, upped.

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These positions will be awarded,
at Philip's recommendation,

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based on performance,
above all...

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but also loyalty.

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How is this, uh,
loyalty going to be gauged?

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Loyally serve your skipper,
and we'll know.

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Otherwise you're dead weight.

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It's gonna be a bloodbath.

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Pretty sure I'm the "dead"
in dead weight.

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And Axe's old loyalists,
first ones to go.

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We need to find Taylor.

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I imagine they're off
licking their wounds.

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Freeze their accounts.

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No trading,
no movement, nothing.

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If they don't come back
in the right spirit,

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it'll flow into the main fund,
and we'll sort it out in court.

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Meantime, we need to keep up

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the info scrapes
on the employees.

201
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We're engaging with services

202
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that conduct AI scrapes
every week.

203
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We've done and are doing
a thorough job.

204
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We have NDAs. They are signed.
They are enforceable.

205
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Redouble it all.

206
00:10:10,712 --> 00:10:12,953
We need to know
what everyone is thinking.

207
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U2 is in.

208
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Great news.

209
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They asked
if you have any requests.

210
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You don't tell Bono
what songs to play.

211
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But if they do
"Until the End of the World,"

212
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I won't be mad.

213
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It'll happen.

214
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Hell of kickoff

215
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for Prince for Independence.

216
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Politico's calling it
a coronation.

217
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And with you leading
in every national poll--

218
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Only poll that matters
is Election Day.

219
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To that end, he wants you
in a bow tie, with cummerbund.

220
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Oh, I think that'll be stiff.
Let's modernize.

221
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No. No, New York City
still connotes something

222
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to the rest of the country
we want to counter.

223
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Now, if you could find
whatever tux you wore

224
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to your high school prom,
that's what I want you in.

225
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This isn't the time
to be hip or cool.

226
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Bow tie and cummerbund it is.

227
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They put a belt around your neck

228
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and told you to squeal like
a pig for them, didn't they?

229
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I've got a real pretty mouth.

230
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Nice try, but I'm not
taking the bait.

231
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'Cause there's no bait to take.

232
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Come on, we know
this shit ain't right.

233
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Legatus to the Emperor.

234
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We're not gonna
stay in a place

235
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where they put a gladiator
like you out to pasture.

236
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We're old Axe Cappers.
We gotta stick together.

237
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Helluva bouquet, boys.

238
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But "old Axe Cappers,"

239
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my pustule-covered ass.

240
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May I refer you to the words

241
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of the great yogi
and mystic Sadhguru,

242
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when I had the chance
to touch his hem.

243
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You will laugh again,

244
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even when you lose someone
you love.

245
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The only question is,
how soon?

246
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So, you're telling us
to move on.

247
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I'm telling you the facts,

248
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and the truth
that lies within them.

249
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You stayed when Axe
was run the hell out of here.

250
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I didn't.

251
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-You came back.
-True. Fuck.

252
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You'll stay when I was almost
bought the fuck out of here.

253
00:11:58,718 --> 00:12:00,999
Don't pretend you don't see
dollar signs

254
00:12:01,041 --> 00:12:03,362
in what Prince is doing here.

255
00:12:03,404 --> 00:12:07,529
You already know, deep down,
that this can work for you.

256
00:12:08,690 --> 00:12:10,010
And at the end of the day,

257
00:12:10,052 --> 00:12:11,371
law of the jungle
is all that applies.

258
00:12:11,413 --> 00:12:13,053
And if you didn't like it,

259
00:12:13,095 --> 00:12:15,097
you would have left
during your fucking orientation.

260
00:12:17,260 --> 00:12:19,100
How are you okay with this?

261
00:12:19,142 --> 00:12:22,224
How are you not begging for some
kind of walkout or overthrow?

262
00:12:22,266 --> 00:12:25,187
Nobody should be worrying
about Michael Wagner.

263
00:12:25,229 --> 00:12:26,509
Ever.

264
00:12:26,551 --> 00:12:29,112
They should be out there
killing.

265
00:12:29,154 --> 00:12:31,156
End of sentence.

266
00:12:47,455 --> 00:12:50,056
This feels like
a big chance for you, Ben Kim.

267
00:12:50,098 --> 00:12:51,818
When my mom was in
the stockroom of our store,

268
00:12:51,860 --> 00:12:54,101
my dad would sometimes
put on Phil Collins.

269
00:12:54,143 --> 00:12:55,463
He loved him.

270
00:12:55,505 --> 00:12:57,024
What he really loved
was the drum fill

271
00:12:57,066 --> 00:12:58,706
in "In the Air Tonight."

272
00:12:58,748 --> 00:13:00,308
You know it, right?

273
00:13:04,075 --> 00:13:05,674
I know it.

274
00:13:05,716 --> 00:13:07,557
I was little, and that song
freaked me out.

275
00:13:07,599 --> 00:13:09,199
And I have to say,

276
00:13:09,241 --> 00:13:12,122
"I know the reason why
you keep this silence up,

277
00:13:12,164 --> 00:13:14,166
no you don't fool me."

278
00:13:15,408 --> 00:13:16,687
I don't have all the info,

279
00:13:16,729 --> 00:13:18,489
but this feels wrong.

280
00:13:18,531 --> 00:13:20,332
Like someone killed you
out in the water late at night.

281
00:13:20,374 --> 00:13:22,414
That's what that song's about?

282
00:13:22,456 --> 00:13:25,257
No one knows,
but I always thought so.

283
00:13:25,299 --> 00:13:28,541
There's nothing dark
or scandalous going on here.

284
00:13:28,583 --> 00:13:31,144
Doesn't matter.
If you're out, I'm out too.

285
00:13:31,186 --> 00:13:36,070
Without you, without the trader
you made me, the man...

286
00:13:36,112 --> 00:13:39,594
I'd be helping grandmas
draw down on their 401Ks.

287
00:13:39,636 --> 00:13:42,197
I brought this up the other day.
I'm splitting my time.

288
00:13:42,239 --> 00:13:44,480
I am here for you
if and when you need me.

289
00:13:44,522 --> 00:13:46,482
I should have protested
harder then.

290
00:13:46,524 --> 00:13:49,085
I mean, what if it's
now I need you?

291
00:13:49,127 --> 00:13:51,250
And every day after this one?

292
00:13:54,934 --> 00:13:57,297
You are ready.

293
00:13:58,858 --> 00:14:00,861
And have been.

294
00:14:01,782 --> 00:14:04,503
There are lots of changes,
no doubt about it.

295
00:14:04,545 --> 00:14:08,428
But that's good for whoever's
been through heavy weather

296
00:14:08,470 --> 00:14:10,993
and come out dry,
and that is you, Ben.

297
00:14:12,394 --> 00:14:13,994
This is what I'll miss.

298
00:14:14,036 --> 00:14:15,796
Nope.

299
00:14:15,838 --> 00:14:19,122
I'm still in that head of yours,
and reachable via phone.

300
00:14:20,524 --> 00:14:22,804
This is your time to kick ass.

301
00:14:22,846 --> 00:14:25,087
So go kick ass,

302
00:14:25,129 --> 00:14:27,172
and let me take care of me.

303
00:14:28,733 --> 00:14:31,455
I don't have
to love this though, right?

304
00:14:31,497 --> 00:14:33,619
No one can make you
love anything...

305
00:14:34,981 --> 00:14:37,021
or stop you from loving
what you want to.

306
00:14:37,063 --> 00:14:39,624
And now we are back
to my mother again.

307
00:14:39,666 --> 00:14:42,027
I try to tell her that.

308
00:14:42,069 --> 00:14:44,151
She never listens.

309
00:14:49,878 --> 00:14:51,880
It's so empty.

310
00:14:53,162 --> 00:14:54,682
Doesn't feel like they're taking
a personal day.

311
00:14:54,724 --> 00:14:57,165
Or any other kind of day.

312
00:14:57,207 --> 00:15:00,290
I emailed Taylor
and it bounced back.

313
00:15:01,452 --> 00:15:02,851
The bounce-back is, well,

314
00:15:02,893 --> 00:15:04,413
I don't see how we pretend

315
00:15:04,455 --> 00:15:07,096
it is anything
other than what it is.

316
00:15:07,138 --> 00:15:09,140
I don't like being abandoned...

317
00:15:10,342 --> 00:15:11,742
though I wouldn't mind
sitting in there.

318
00:15:11,784 --> 00:15:15,188
Think of the power.
And the quiet.

319
00:15:16,309 --> 00:15:17,668
The quiet power.

320
00:15:17,710 --> 00:15:20,071
Maybe the Kim Jong-un visions

321
00:15:20,113 --> 00:15:22,314
are best kept...

322
00:15:22,356 --> 00:15:24,358
You know?

323
00:15:47,225 --> 00:15:48,504
Really surprised me to hear

324
00:15:48,546 --> 00:15:50,549
that you were at the end
of the driveway.

325
00:15:51,470 --> 00:15:53,630
And a short 20-minute
drive later, here I stand.

326
00:15:53,672 --> 00:15:55,673
Prince know about this?

327
00:15:55,715 --> 00:15:57,435
I didn't fucking tell him.

328
00:15:57,477 --> 00:15:58,957
And I've stopped trying
to calculate what he knows.

329
00:15:58,999 --> 00:16:00,719
-I'm here.
-You shouldn't be.

330
00:16:00,761 --> 00:16:02,801
I figured you've got to know
about the bloodletting.

331
00:16:02,843 --> 00:16:05,164
I have my sources
on the Street.

332
00:16:05,206 --> 00:16:07,286
A cleansing set in motion
by our last meeting here.

333
00:16:07,328 --> 00:16:09,088
Even more reason
to skip this one.

334
00:16:09,130 --> 00:16:11,692
Not if you're finally
incentivized to take on Prince,

335
00:16:11,734 --> 00:16:13,213
as I suspect you are.

336
00:16:13,255 --> 00:16:15,176
Or if you need help,
as I suspect you do.

337
00:16:15,218 --> 00:16:17,138
Oh, I'm incentivized, all right.

338
00:16:17,180 --> 00:16:20,462
You're disincentivized
in a big fucking way.

339
00:16:20,504 --> 00:16:22,224
By walking out
on your garden leave,

340
00:16:22,266 --> 00:16:24,587
degrading as it is,
you're leaving, what,

341
00:16:24,629 --> 00:16:26,589
six hundred mill locked up
with Prince?

342
00:16:26,631 --> 00:16:28,631
Six-fifty and change.

343
00:16:28,673 --> 00:16:30,433
I'll call you a car.

344
00:16:30,475 --> 00:16:33,357
I don't care what it costs me.

345
00:16:33,399 --> 00:16:35,439
I don't care if Prince tries
to claw that money back from me,

346
00:16:35,481 --> 00:16:37,522
blocks me from it,
sues me or drops a dime on me,

347
00:16:37,564 --> 00:16:39,444
the last two of which
are inevitable.

348
00:16:39,486 --> 00:16:43,451
I want to take that fucker down
before he rises any higher.

349
00:16:44,732 --> 00:16:46,092
You must've really missed me.

350
00:16:46,134 --> 00:16:48,136
Well, that too.

351
00:16:49,257 --> 00:16:51,338
Here's the problem.

352
00:16:51,380 --> 00:16:53,300
Wendy's in a jackpot.

353
00:16:53,342 --> 00:16:55,302
-He jackpotted her.
-He jackpotted her.

354
00:16:55,344 --> 00:16:58,066
Mortal fucking peril.
I don't know what brand.

355
00:16:58,108 --> 00:16:59,988
I only know
that I can't warn her.

356
00:17:00,030 --> 00:17:01,830
-Neither can you.
-He built some kind of a box?

357
00:17:01,872 --> 00:17:03,592
-A trap?
-That he did.

358
00:17:03,634 --> 00:17:05,955
So you need to tell me
what's been going on.

359
00:17:05,997 --> 00:17:09,199
We need to figure out what kind
of trap she's in, free her,

360
00:17:09,241 --> 00:17:11,401
and not tip off Prince
while we do.

361
00:17:11,443 --> 00:17:13,163
Well, for starters,
Wendy was just installed

362
00:17:13,205 --> 00:17:15,045
as CEO of a company
called Mental,

363
00:17:15,087 --> 00:17:17,090
and Prince blessed it.

364
00:17:21,935 --> 00:17:23,335
You may be the only one here

365
00:17:23,377 --> 00:17:24,577
who hasn't tried
to bring me coffee

366
00:17:24,619 --> 00:17:26,379
or compliment my shirt today.

367
00:17:26,421 --> 00:17:28,301
If I was into the whole
brown-nosing thing,

368
00:17:28,343 --> 00:17:32,105
which I'm not,
I'd bring you a decent shirt.

369
00:17:32,147 --> 00:17:34,788
You might well
be partnership material.

370
00:17:34,830 --> 00:17:36,150
Oh, is that your way
of saying

371
00:17:36,192 --> 00:17:37,752
I may already be
amongst the chosen?

372
00:17:37,794 --> 00:17:39,754
You're smart,
make good analysis,

373
00:17:39,796 --> 00:17:41,316
do good trades.

374
00:17:41,358 --> 00:17:43,358
You stay out
of the inter-office morasses.

375
00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,082
I can't say that
about everybody here.

376
00:17:46,124 --> 00:17:48,084
But I need to know
that you want it.

377
00:17:48,126 --> 00:17:50,128
That you're willing
to earn it.

378
00:17:51,290 --> 00:17:53,370
"What is that button
on your body armor?"

379
00:17:53,412 --> 00:17:54,932
"A peace symbol, sir."

380
00:17:54,974 --> 00:17:56,814
"What is that you got
written on your helmet?"

381
00:17:56,856 --> 00:17:59,217
"'Born to Kill,' sir."
"What's that supposed to mean?"

382
00:17:59,259 --> 00:18:02,461
"I guess it's a comment
on the duality of man, sir."

383
00:18:02,503 --> 00:18:04,143
You're asking me
to jump on the team

384
00:18:04,185 --> 00:18:05,584
and come in for the big win

385
00:18:05,626 --> 00:18:08,069
like the colonel
in<i> Full Metal Jacket.</i>

386
00:18:09,511 --> 00:18:11,311
But I'm not sure
I'm prepared to do that

387
00:18:11,353 --> 00:18:15,117
if my moving up means
someone else is moved out.

388
00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:18,960
Whimsy has a half-life.

389
00:18:19,002 --> 00:18:21,004
And you've reached it.

390
00:18:22,246 --> 00:18:24,687
The moment you hear me
say the word "partnership,"

391
00:18:24,729 --> 00:18:26,609
you're supposed to say,
"Hell to the yeah, I want it,"

392
00:18:26,651 --> 00:18:28,653
without even blinking.

393
00:18:29,654 --> 00:18:31,495
You can always
change your mind later,

394
00:18:31,537 --> 00:18:33,857
pretend to ankle
over deal terms.

395
00:18:33,899 --> 00:18:36,380
You mean no one's taught you
how to play this game? Really?

396
00:18:36,422 --> 00:18:38,983
No. Really.

397
00:18:39,025 --> 00:18:41,827
Or maybe I don't want
to play this game.

398
00:18:41,869 --> 00:18:43,871
Really.

399
00:18:44,872 --> 00:18:47,275
Walking away now.
Whimsically.

400
00:19:02,012 --> 00:19:03,092
It's chin-wagging time.

401
00:19:03,134 --> 00:19:04,854
No. I'm late.
Gotta go.

402
00:19:04,896 --> 00:19:06,816
You don't want to talk in front
of the cameras, I get it.

403
00:19:06,858 --> 00:19:08,097
-But--
-Having spoken candidly

404
00:19:08,139 --> 00:19:09,619
right in front of them,

405
00:19:09,661 --> 00:19:11,663
I'm gonna say I'm through
talking at all.

406
00:19:15,628 --> 00:19:17,348
I need to know
how you worked me.

407
00:19:17,390 --> 00:19:19,951
Specifically what disinformation
you've planted.

408
00:19:27,322 --> 00:19:29,282
Fake wireless activity, mostly,

409
00:19:29,324 --> 00:19:31,405
so you'd have no clue
about the Normandy landings.

410
00:19:31,447 --> 00:19:33,807
The repartee is a bit
less pleasing to me now.

411
00:19:33,849 --> 00:19:35,409
Oh, but I'm loving
talking to you.

412
00:19:40,938 --> 00:19:43,699
What did I ever do to you
except treat you nicely?

413
00:19:43,741 --> 00:19:46,302
You plotted against him,
and, by extension, me,

414
00:19:46,344 --> 00:19:47,664
from deep inside
the circle of trust.

415
00:19:47,706 --> 00:19:49,025
If it's contrition
you're after--

416
00:19:49,067 --> 00:19:50,587
It's information.

417
00:19:50,629 --> 00:19:51,788
I've been going over every
conversation

418
00:19:51,830 --> 00:19:53,590
we ever had in my head.

419
00:19:53,632 --> 00:19:55,955
Dude, I wasn't planting
information, I was getting it.

420
00:19:57,357 --> 00:19:58,837
Trying to, and yeah,
I wasn't sharing

421
00:19:58,879 --> 00:20:00,158
what I was really after.

422
00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,600
I guess I figured
you'd come to me

423
00:20:01,642 --> 00:20:03,242
when you realized
who he really was.

424
00:20:03,284 --> 00:20:04,804
Ask me to help you
stop him.

425
00:20:04,846 --> 00:20:06,485
Well, you figured wrong.

426
00:20:06,527 --> 00:20:09,409
Do you even care what kind
of man Prince really is?

427
00:20:09,451 --> 00:20:11,371
What kind of havoc
a Commander-in-Chief Prince

428
00:20:11,413 --> 00:20:12,893
-could wreak?
-Not if he has me

429
00:20:12,935 --> 00:20:14,455
as guardrail-in-chief.

430
00:20:14,497 --> 00:20:16,938
Filter, buffer, protector.

431
00:20:16,980 --> 00:20:18,540
Like Baker was for 40.

432
00:20:18,582 --> 00:20:20,061
Like Mattis and Kelly were
for 45.

433
00:20:20,103 --> 00:20:22,784
Oh, yeah,
those guys crushed it.

434
00:20:22,826 --> 00:20:25,307
Like Haldeman and Ehrlichman
did for 37,

435
00:20:25,349 --> 00:20:27,510
the last guy who toted around
a fucking enemies list.

436
00:20:27,552 --> 00:20:28,872
Read your history.

437
00:20:28,914 --> 00:20:30,714
They stopped him
from killing journalists,

438
00:20:30,756 --> 00:20:33,917
from planting fake evidence
that McGovern shot Wallace.

439
00:20:33,959 --> 00:20:36,881
And that pesky Cambodia bombing,
and the break-in and cover-up?

440
00:20:38,965 --> 00:20:41,088
I guess you got to take
the good with the bad.

441
00:20:52,701 --> 00:20:54,822
-No go.
-Again?

442
00:20:54,864 --> 00:20:56,744
How fucking hard can this be?

443
00:20:56,786 --> 00:20:58,666
To buy a controlling stake

444
00:20:58,708 --> 00:21:00,709
in highly-regulated
private company

445
00:21:00,751 --> 00:21:02,431
through a smokescreen
of shells and cutouts,

446
00:21:02,473 --> 00:21:03,872
in the private market,
after hours,

447
00:21:03,914 --> 00:21:05,314
without alerting
the shareholders

448
00:21:05,356 --> 00:21:06,756
we're trying to do
a secret takeover?

449
00:21:06,798 --> 00:21:08,878
You're right,
why would that be hard?

450
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,361
We don't need every share.
Just enough to free shit up,

451
00:21:11,403 --> 00:21:13,564
figure out and manage the threat
against Wendy,

452
00:21:13,606 --> 00:21:16,167
once we find out
what the fuck it is.

453
00:21:16,209 --> 00:21:18,409
Let's up our bids.

454
00:21:18,451 --> 00:21:20,532
No one's even asking the
valuation we're willing to pay.

455
00:21:20,574 --> 00:21:23,135
Price is immaterial.
They're just saying "no sale."

456
00:21:23,177 --> 00:21:25,179
Did you remember to say please?

457
00:21:26,140 --> 00:21:28,581
Shit, I knew I forgot something.

458
00:21:28,623 --> 00:21:31,024
See, this is why you were always
such a good mentor.

459
00:21:33,549 --> 00:21:36,831
I got a billion and a half in
cash sitting here, ready to go,

460
00:21:36,873 --> 00:21:38,633
and we can't get
these fucking shares.

461
00:21:38,675 --> 00:21:40,677
He's ahead of us.

462
00:21:43,681 --> 00:21:45,683
Next idea.

463
00:21:49,528 --> 00:21:51,488
Uh, it seems
ill-advised to start

464
00:21:51,530 --> 00:21:53,130
when it's just the two of us.

465
00:21:53,172 --> 00:21:54,972
Is Taylor usually late?

466
00:21:55,014 --> 00:21:57,575
That is not someone
who strikes me as a slacker.

467
00:21:57,617 --> 00:22:00,418
No. They went full Markinson.

468
00:22:00,460 --> 00:22:02,941
Unwilling to take part
in all of this.

469
00:22:02,983 --> 00:22:04,583
That's what it seems like to me.

470
00:22:04,625 --> 00:22:06,626
Smart as they are,
they just bailed?

471
00:22:06,668 --> 00:22:08,670
It's the smart move.

472
00:22:10,232 --> 00:22:12,112
I put together
some hors d'oeuvres

473
00:22:12,154 --> 00:22:14,757
when I realized Chuck
hadn't gotten any together.

474
00:22:16,759 --> 00:22:18,079
That's a host, right there.

475
00:22:18,121 --> 00:22:20,522
He made me send home
the domestics.

476
00:22:20,564 --> 00:22:22,724
For privacy.

477
00:22:22,766 --> 00:22:24,326
Only a man entirely
without courtesy

478
00:22:24,368 --> 00:22:27,090
would neglect to offer
his guests some canapés.

479
00:22:29,054 --> 00:22:32,135
Oh, Dad, I know you're just
trying to hear what's going on.

480
00:22:32,177 --> 00:22:34,778
And that is bologna
and American cheese

481
00:22:34,820 --> 00:22:38,024
that I believe you stole
from the doorman's lunch bag.

482
00:22:39,546 --> 00:22:40,705
Didn't steal anything.

483
00:22:40,747 --> 00:22:42,347
Bought it off him.

484
00:22:42,389 --> 00:22:46,192
Well, frilly toothpicks
do not a canapé make.

485
00:22:46,234 --> 00:22:48,877
Tasty. Reminds me of home.

486
00:22:55,405 --> 00:22:57,407
Now...

487
00:22:57,847 --> 00:23:00,008
where are we at, boys?

488
00:23:00,050 --> 00:23:01,970
Happy to moderate.

489
00:23:02,012 --> 00:23:04,013
Uh, it's supposed
to be Wendy's job.

490
00:23:04,055 --> 00:23:06,576
Should've been here
20 minutes ago.

491
00:23:06,618 --> 00:23:09,899
He has somehow
fucked with this, Prince.

492
00:23:09,941 --> 00:23:11,581
Made her late even though
she's more punctual

493
00:23:11,623 --> 00:23:14,184
than Mr. Diamond
in the Trevanian thing.

494
00:23:14,226 --> 00:23:16,429
I loved that book
when I was 14.

495
00:23:17,751 --> 00:23:19,591
Especially the Tanaka Sisters.

496
00:23:19,633 --> 00:23:22,754
Oh, how I imagined
it was me in their bed

497
00:23:22,796 --> 00:23:25,077
at the dawn of the war and--

498
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:26,759
Oh, I bet you did.

499
00:23:31,246 --> 00:23:33,487
Look, Taylor, Wendy, Axe,

500
00:23:33,529 --> 00:23:35,732
all unaccounted for.

501
00:23:38,295 --> 00:23:39,814
We are getting
an object lesson

502
00:23:39,856 --> 00:23:41,456
about the man we are trying
to take down,

503
00:23:41,498 --> 00:23:44,540
the danger it entails.

504
00:23:44,582 --> 00:23:46,142
People are gonna get blocked,
sacrificed,

505
00:23:46,184 --> 00:23:47,543
cut off at the knees.

506
00:23:47,585 --> 00:23:49,506
The only object lesson
that I see

507
00:23:49,548 --> 00:23:51,148
is that this D-team,

508
00:23:51,190 --> 00:23:53,833
this poor man's
McEnroe/Fleming...

509
00:23:55,795 --> 00:23:58,917
couldn't take down
a Christmas ornament.

510
00:23:58,959 --> 00:24:02,082
Just leave us to it, Dad.
Please.

511
00:24:05,006 --> 00:24:06,606
I'm McEnroe, at least, right?

512
00:24:06,648 --> 00:24:08,888
I was being charitable.

513
00:24:08,930 --> 00:24:10,933
It's Fleming/Fleming.

514
00:24:13,976 --> 00:24:15,736
Now I see
where you get it from.

515
00:24:15,778 --> 00:24:16,898
Hmm.

516
00:24:16,940 --> 00:24:18,459
But he is right.

517
00:24:20,744 --> 00:24:22,746
Come in, Wend!

518
00:24:24,589 --> 00:24:27,310
Delivery for you, Mr. Rhoades.
From Sable's.

519
00:24:27,352 --> 00:24:29,592
I didn't order all that.

520
00:24:29,634 --> 00:24:31,114
Put that down.
Thank you.

521
00:24:31,156 --> 00:24:32,636
I did.

522
00:24:32,678 --> 00:24:34,158
Oh, I can't have guests

523
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,202
and not offer them
something to nibble on.

524
00:24:38,885 --> 00:24:42,568
You think you've one-upped me,
but I smile like Jim Nabors

525
00:24:42,610 --> 00:24:44,490
because it's
the only proof I need

526
00:24:44,532 --> 00:24:48,935
that I did one thing right
in regards to your rearing.

527
00:24:48,977 --> 00:24:51,017
Enough patter.
Enough bullshit.

528
00:24:51,059 --> 00:24:53,062
Dad, leave us.

529
00:24:55,945 --> 00:24:58,068
We need Axe. Now.

530
00:25:10,282 --> 00:25:12,563
<i> Would love</i>
<i>an arrival time, Bob.</i>

531
00:25:12,605 --> 00:25:15,366
Happy to meet you at the gate,
if it helps.

532
00:25:15,408 --> 00:25:17,328
I appreciate the offer,

533
00:25:17,370 --> 00:25:18,770
but I'm still entangled here,

534
00:25:18,812 --> 00:25:20,452
and you know
I don't fly commercial.

535
00:25:20,494 --> 00:25:22,895
I didn't think I'd have to start
charging interest

536
00:25:22,937 --> 00:25:25,257
on the considerable debt
you owe me.

537
00:25:25,299 --> 00:25:28,301
Or is this the one time
you actually do come up short?

538
00:25:28,343 --> 00:25:29,863
No interest,

539
00:25:29,905 --> 00:25:32,826
and no interest in welching
on you either.

540
00:25:32,868 --> 00:25:34,628
Of course I'll get there.

541
00:25:34,670 --> 00:25:36,470
Just got some stuff I need
to clear off my plate first.

542
00:25:36,512 --> 00:25:39,033
How about clearing for takeoff
with your Gulfstream.

543
00:25:39,075 --> 00:25:41,236
What the fuck is going on?

544
00:25:41,278 --> 00:25:43,919
Things got complicated.

545
00:25:43,961 --> 00:25:45,881
No, meeting in the middle
of the night

546
00:25:45,923 --> 00:25:48,885
in freezing cold Vestmannaeyjar
was complicated, but I did it.

547
00:25:48,927 --> 00:25:51,007
Complicated's what we do.
Now, what the fuck?

548
00:25:51,049 --> 00:25:53,052
<i>You owe me.</i>

549
00:25:59,299 --> 00:26:01,301
Son of a bitch!

550
00:26:09,351 --> 00:26:12,514
The debt that I have
just been reminded I owe.

551
00:26:13,676 --> 00:26:15,959
We all owe someone.

552
00:26:18,722 --> 00:26:20,081
Yes, we go to the banks,

553
00:26:20,123 --> 00:26:21,723
other lenders,
assume Mental's debt.

554
00:26:21,765 --> 00:26:23,926
Yep. Suck the ground right out
from under him.

555
00:26:23,968 --> 00:26:26,371
We'll have virtual control
of the company.

556
00:26:32,738 --> 00:26:34,338
Hutton Enterprises.

557
00:26:34,380 --> 00:26:36,420
The name just came across
my screen, thank you.

558
00:26:36,462 --> 00:26:38,985
And yes, I see the play.
Let's dive in.

559
00:26:41,468 --> 00:26:43,709
Yes, yes, I'd thought
you'd fucking love it.

560
00:26:43,751 --> 00:26:45,753
-That's why I--
-No, man.

561
00:26:46,354 --> 00:26:48,356
Not you.

562
00:26:50,679 --> 00:26:54,121
Heard Tuk doing research
on this. Ran with it.

563
00:26:54,163 --> 00:26:56,484
Knew a trader with some
dark blocks of it.

564
00:26:56,526 --> 00:26:58,887
-Got in.
-Nice job, Victor.

565
00:26:58,929 --> 00:27:01,329
Turbo-charged our positions
in the sector.

566
00:27:01,371 --> 00:27:03,374
Partnership-level shit.

567
00:27:06,858 --> 00:27:09,339
I have some other ideas
in the same space,

568
00:27:09,381 --> 00:27:10,660
with major catalysts,
if you're--

569
00:27:10,702 --> 00:27:13,145
Maxed out now. Thanks.

570
00:27:29,765 --> 00:27:32,207
Fucking Antarctica,
this place.

571
00:27:43,381 --> 00:27:47,103
Jesus fuck, this is already
such a fucked day.

572
00:27:47,145 --> 00:27:48,865
A two-fuck walk-in
sentence from you

573
00:27:48,907 --> 00:27:50,987
is not something
to take lightly.

574
00:27:51,029 --> 00:27:53,032
Sure as fuck isn't.

575
00:27:57,797 --> 00:28:01,480
Got any news that's gonna
get me to vibe shift?

576
00:28:01,522 --> 00:28:03,362
No.

577
00:28:03,404 --> 00:28:05,444
Deepen the vibe you're already
working, I'm afraid.

578
00:28:05,486 --> 00:28:07,767
Axelrod is slow
to join the fight.

579
00:28:07,809 --> 00:28:10,931
And I don't think
it's because he doesn't want to.

580
00:28:10,973 --> 00:28:12,533
Feels more like he can't.

581
00:28:12,575 --> 00:28:15,536
-Details.
-He's being evasive.

582
00:28:15,578 --> 00:28:17,058
Sounds torn.

583
00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:18,540
I never heard him like this.

584
00:28:18,582 --> 00:28:21,863
Even when he was actually caged,
he wasn't caged.

585
00:28:21,905 --> 00:28:23,666
Not where it mattered.
Not in his head or heart.

586
00:28:23,708 --> 00:28:26,189
- He acknowledges he owes you?
- Yes.

587
00:28:26,231 --> 00:28:28,471
And if there's one thing
I know about that guy,

588
00:28:28,513 --> 00:28:31,154
it's that once he's committed
to something,

589
00:28:31,196 --> 00:28:33,637
once his personal sense of honor
is on the line,

590
00:28:33,679 --> 00:28:37,041
his own moral code,
he is unrelenting.

591
00:28:37,083 --> 00:28:40,207
He'd never bail
out of fear of personal harm.

592
00:28:41,288 --> 00:28:43,290
Plus, he hates Prince.

593
00:28:44,372 --> 00:28:45,811
Deep down,
he wants to do this.

594
00:28:45,853 --> 00:28:47,856
Needs to.

595
00:28:51,740 --> 00:28:53,743
What's got you shut down
like Allentown?

596
00:28:54,704 --> 00:28:56,706
You're both right.

597
00:28:58,308 --> 00:29:00,469
Something's keeping him
anchored in place.

598
00:29:00,511 --> 00:29:02,231
Invisible chains.

599
00:29:02,273 --> 00:29:04,153
Well, you two know him
better than anyone else.

600
00:29:04,195 --> 00:29:06,197
What could have that effect
upon the man?

601
00:29:09,321 --> 00:29:11,161
Prince got to him somehow.

602
00:29:11,203 --> 00:29:12,803
Put him in jeopardy.

603
00:29:12,845 --> 00:29:15,726
No.
Not him in jeopardy.

604
00:29:15,768 --> 00:29:18,449
The only thing
that would stop Axe

605
00:29:18,491 --> 00:29:21,575
is if he were putting
someone he loved in jeopardy.

606
00:29:44,802 --> 00:29:46,522
Why the 911?

607
00:29:46,564 --> 00:29:49,886
And, uh, is this
your ex-husband's...

608
00:29:49,928 --> 00:29:51,328
Am I in some kind--

609
00:29:51,370 --> 00:29:53,372
Just here
to avoid detection.

610
00:29:59,299 --> 00:30:02,661
I have a problem.
A personal one.

611
00:30:02,703 --> 00:30:05,104
I need your help
before the trading day starts.

612
00:30:05,146 --> 00:30:07,306
Mental, round two.

613
00:30:07,348 --> 00:30:10,352
You did the thumbnail for me,
now I need a deeper dive.

614
00:30:11,674 --> 00:30:14,036
Start here, with revenue.

615
00:30:15,158 --> 00:30:16,677
Looked funny to me.

616
00:30:16,719 --> 00:30:18,199
Coffee?

617
00:30:18,241 --> 00:30:21,125
I take mine with milk,
and what the fuck?

618
00:30:23,968 --> 00:30:26,529
These... these aren't
the numbers I was shown

619
00:30:26,571 --> 00:30:28,491
when you two
were still speed-dating.

620
00:30:28,533 --> 00:30:30,494
Yeah, well, now that I'm CEO,

621
00:30:30,536 --> 00:30:32,536
I have full access
to company financial data,

622
00:30:32,578 --> 00:30:34,580
and I discovered this.

623
00:30:37,023 --> 00:30:38,303
I'm sorry if I should've
recognized--

624
00:30:38,345 --> 00:30:39,584
You couldn't have.

625
00:30:39,626 --> 00:30:41,506
None of this is on you.
I just...

626
00:30:41,548 --> 00:30:44,432
need you to tell me
what you see right now.

627
00:30:46,634 --> 00:30:48,034
Well, the revenue numbers,

628
00:30:48,076 --> 00:30:49,676
they don't come close
to adding up.

629
00:30:49,718 --> 00:30:51,518
It's, like, Enron math.

630
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,361
If they billed to generate
this kind of cash flow,

631
00:30:54,403 --> 00:30:56,484
on-staff shrinks would be
working with patients

632
00:30:56,526 --> 00:30:58,847
30, 40 hours a day.

633
00:30:58,889 --> 00:31:01,772
Unless the staff roster's
missing a zero at the end?

634
00:31:03,214 --> 00:31:04,754
It isn't.

635
00:31:04,796 --> 00:31:06,798
I need you to find out where
all the money's coming from.

636
00:31:11,724 --> 00:31:14,247
Let's talk broad strategy.

637
00:31:16,329 --> 00:31:18,049
-Hi, guys.
-Ira, no.

638
00:31:18,091 --> 00:31:19,651
You can't be on the hook
for any of this.

639
00:31:19,693 --> 00:31:21,253
I've hardly slept
since The Owl.

640
00:31:21,295 --> 00:31:23,175
No, this is existential.

641
00:31:23,217 --> 00:31:25,458
This is about our grandkids,

642
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:27,340
the fact there'll never be any.

643
00:31:27,382 --> 00:31:29,385
You better fucking believe
I'm in.

644
00:31:30,786 --> 00:31:32,426
All right, then.

645
00:31:32,468 --> 00:31:34,470
Let's get back to it.

646
00:31:37,594 --> 00:31:39,596
There's always
the Red Sparrow.

647
00:31:41,238 --> 00:31:43,159
Bingo!

648
00:31:43,201 --> 00:31:45,241
The longest-running gambit
in the book,

649
00:31:45,283 --> 00:31:46,523
and for good reason.

650
00:31:46,565 --> 00:31:47,924
Rare is the man
who can withstand

651
00:31:47,966 --> 00:31:49,206
the temptations of the--

652
00:31:49,248 --> 00:31:51,088
Are you proposing a honeytrap?

653
00:31:51,130 --> 00:31:52,450
Um, yeah.

654
00:31:52,492 --> 00:31:54,494
Damn right we are.

655
00:31:55,735 --> 00:31:57,535
No, this is the most
calculating,

656
00:31:57,577 --> 00:31:59,898
careful opponent
we've encountered.

657
00:31:59,940 --> 00:32:03,302
And you really think
we have time for someone--

658
00:32:03,344 --> 00:32:05,705
Some mythical, beautiful,
sophisticated

659
00:32:05,747 --> 00:32:07,467
and highly trained operative,

660
00:32:07,509 --> 00:32:09,950
whom we don't even have
to build a relationship,

661
00:32:09,992 --> 00:32:11,792
earn his trust?

662
00:32:11,834 --> 00:32:14,956
Okay, I can see
the counterargument.

663
00:32:14,998 --> 00:32:18,360
Oh, call me when you people
get serious.

664
00:32:23,127 --> 00:32:25,448
We've already settled
on a strategy.

665
00:32:25,490 --> 00:32:27,931
Prince needs to be impoverished.

666
00:32:27,973 --> 00:32:29,573
That's the only way to break him

667
00:32:29,615 --> 00:32:31,375
and the hold he has
over the populace.

668
00:32:31,417 --> 00:32:34,018
Only way to take away
his rationale for existing

669
00:32:34,060 --> 00:32:37,142
and running the goddamn country.

670
00:32:37,184 --> 00:32:39,464
Wags, we need you
to set the table.

671
00:32:39,506 --> 00:32:42,067
The fuck am I supposed
to do that?

672
00:32:42,109 --> 00:32:44,190
Tell us how Prince Cap
does what it does.

673
00:32:44,232 --> 00:32:45,832
The shit you never told us,

674
00:32:45,874 --> 00:32:47,514
the shit we could never
figure out on our own.

675
00:32:47,556 --> 00:32:49,556
Prince has the best portfolio
on the Street,

676
00:32:49,598 --> 00:32:52,039
best risk management
approach too.

677
00:32:52,081 --> 00:32:54,041
We need to know
everything about it,

678
00:32:54,083 --> 00:32:56,204
including how it stays
on the right side of the law,

679
00:32:56,246 --> 00:32:58,767
so we can identify
the weaknesses.

680
00:32:58,809 --> 00:33:01,570
I've made it my vocation
not to tell prosecutors shit.

681
00:33:01,612 --> 00:33:02,932
Oh, come on.

682
00:33:02,974 --> 00:33:04,894
I thought we were
past that crap.

683
00:33:04,936 --> 00:33:07,817
But, if you will let me finish,
since we are indeed past that,

684
00:33:07,859 --> 00:33:10,703
I am still not sure I can.

685
00:33:11,744 --> 00:33:14,625
He installed dual COOs

686
00:33:14,667 --> 00:33:16,788
so no one person
has all the info.

687
00:33:16,830 --> 00:33:19,511
And I willfully blinded myself
to certain things

688
00:33:19,553 --> 00:33:21,555
so I would never
be compelled to testify.

689
00:33:22,917 --> 00:33:26,239
Look, I want to terminate
that bald bull,

690
00:33:26,281 --> 00:33:28,201
drain him of every dollar
he's got.

691
00:33:28,243 --> 00:33:30,204
But the shit you're asking for,
if I give it to you,

692
00:33:30,246 --> 00:33:32,086
you will level
the whole portfolio

693
00:33:32,128 --> 00:33:34,048
and everyone
on that trading floor.

694
00:33:34,090 --> 00:33:36,211
Their holdings,
their reputations.

695
00:33:36,253 --> 00:33:37,732
Oh, how quaint.
It like the young Vito,

696
00:33:37,774 --> 00:33:39,494
trying to save a sweet
old lady and her dog

697
00:33:39,536 --> 00:33:41,537
from getting tossed out
onto the street.

698
00:33:41,579 --> 00:33:43,379
These are my people.

699
00:33:43,421 --> 00:33:45,221
And we're in a war.

700
00:33:45,263 --> 00:33:47,023
You think the Southern District
isn't littered

701
00:33:47,065 --> 00:33:49,146
with the corpses
of my people?

702
00:33:49,188 --> 00:33:51,468
Chuck's right.
There's no other way.

703
00:33:51,510 --> 00:33:54,312
There will be casualties.
We may also be casualties.

704
00:33:54,354 --> 00:33:56,356
A necessary risk.

705
00:34:00,401 --> 00:34:03,442
So you geniuses don't even
know the difference

706
00:34:03,484 --> 00:34:07,007
between asset allocation
and asset location.

707
00:34:07,049 --> 00:34:09,209
Asset allocation's
what we're buying.

708
00:34:09,251 --> 00:34:13,176
The real black magic
is where we're locating it.

709
00:34:19,502 --> 00:34:21,103
Plan "B" is fucked.

710
00:34:21,145 --> 00:34:23,225
Prince went
full Magnus Carlsen,

711
00:34:23,267 --> 00:34:24,627
moves ahead of us.

712
00:34:24,669 --> 00:34:26,229
Settled with lenders
just days ago.

713
00:34:26,271 --> 00:34:28,351
He assumed
all the outstanding debt.

714
00:34:28,393 --> 00:34:31,235
Yep. Plan "B" is fucked.

715
00:34:31,277 --> 00:34:32,997
I said it just to see

716
00:34:33,039 --> 00:34:34,518
if you would come over the top
with something,

717
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:35,799
but now you're just
parroting my line?

718
00:34:35,841 --> 00:34:38,203
Come on.
The stuff we tried here?

719
00:34:38,245 --> 00:34:40,004
Icahn could've done it.
Buffett could've done it.

720
00:34:40,046 --> 00:34:42,129
Ackman could've done it,
for God's sake.

721
00:34:44,452 --> 00:34:46,613
Where's Bobby Axelrod hiding?

722
00:34:46,655 --> 00:34:49,056
Where's the stuff
that only he could cook up,

723
00:34:49,098 --> 00:34:51,220
the stratagems
only he could pull off?

724
00:34:59,470 --> 00:35:02,111
A bad motherfucker
once told me

725
00:35:02,153 --> 00:35:04,714
hate is nature's
most perfect energy source.

726
00:35:04,756 --> 00:35:07,238
Endlessly renewable.

727
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,601
Lean into that feeling.

728
00:35:10,643 --> 00:35:12,002
Because what this
is going to take

729
00:35:12,044 --> 00:35:14,808
is one hate-fueled,
bad motherfucker.

730
00:35:19,332 --> 00:35:21,335
You've been very helpful.

731
00:35:23,858 --> 00:35:25,698
Do me a favor.

732
00:35:25,740 --> 00:35:28,381
Go talk to Gordie for
a half hour before you leave.

733
00:35:28,423 --> 00:35:31,065
He's been depressed
about the latest crypto winter.

734
00:35:31,107 --> 00:35:33,668
Tell him some war stories,
kick the tires on his algo.

735
00:35:33,710 --> 00:35:35,711
And you?

736
00:35:36,593 --> 00:35:38,595
I'm gonna sit here a while...

737
00:35:39,196 --> 00:35:41,198
and listen to the hate.

738
00:35:58,098 --> 00:36:01,299
Here's the thing
about our male counterparts.

739
00:36:01,341 --> 00:36:05,104
And I'm talking
crust on the brûlée here.

740
00:36:05,146 --> 00:36:08,388
Harvard Law Review,
federal clerkships,

741
00:36:08,430 --> 00:36:12,312
so-called cream
of the profession.

742
00:36:12,354 --> 00:36:16,998
They are more likely to become
criminal defendants

743
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,360
than criminal lawyers.

744
00:36:20,164 --> 00:36:22,445
So...

745
00:36:22,487 --> 00:36:24,847
there's opportunity for us.

746
00:36:24,889 --> 00:36:28,131
'Cause someone has gotta mop
the fucking floor with them.

747
00:36:31,417 --> 00:36:32,937
Kate.

748
00:36:32,979 --> 00:36:36,460
As someone who recently
set aside her mop,

749
00:36:36,502 --> 00:36:38,505
I can see you disagree.

750
00:36:39,466 --> 00:36:41,186
I do, D.A. Gramm.

751
00:36:41,228 --> 00:36:44,030
Opportunity's not when
we take what's left over.

752
00:36:44,072 --> 00:36:46,633
Opportunity's when we take
what we want.

753
00:36:46,675 --> 00:36:48,676
Hmm, fair.

754
00:36:49,438 --> 00:36:52,560
And it isn't the worst slogan
for a campaign.

755
00:36:52,602 --> 00:36:54,361
And I get it.

756
00:36:54,403 --> 00:36:56,044
Some think I left
the Southern District

757
00:36:56,086 --> 00:36:57,606
through a revolving door.

758
00:36:57,648 --> 00:37:00,169
But what I can do
at Prince Capital,

759
00:37:00,211 --> 00:37:01,971
what I have done,

760
00:37:02,013 --> 00:37:04,893
besides protect the company
from outside legal attacks,

761
00:37:04,935 --> 00:37:07,777
is create a Mop & Glo
culture inside

762
00:37:07,819 --> 00:37:10,460
instead of wiping up stains
from off the floor,

763
00:37:10,502 --> 00:37:12,743
so that superstar prosecutors
like Amanda here

764
00:37:12,785 --> 00:37:14,424
can't haul us into court.

765
00:37:14,466 --> 00:37:15,946
Is that right, Miss Torre?

766
00:37:15,988 --> 00:37:19,151
Are you hoping to do
some hedge fund battle

767
00:37:19,193 --> 00:37:20,552
with Miss Sacker?

768
00:37:22,557 --> 00:37:24,677
I wouldn't be a federal
prosecutor without Kate.

769
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,279
Her example.

770
00:37:26,321 --> 00:37:28,201
Her counsel when I was
approached about the job.

771
00:37:28,243 --> 00:37:30,444
Hiring you as a paralegal
in the very office one summer.

772
00:37:30,486 --> 00:37:31,926
Yeah, that too.

773
00:37:31,968 --> 00:37:34,409
Introduced me around.

774
00:37:34,451 --> 00:37:36,370
She blazed a path
that I am happy to follow.

775
00:37:36,412 --> 00:37:38,373
Doing the public good.

776
00:37:38,415 --> 00:37:39,775
Making meaningful cases

777
00:37:39,817 --> 00:37:41,736
at the best perch
from which to do that.

778
00:37:41,778 --> 00:37:44,743
But as far as squeaky-clean
hedge fund culture?

779
00:37:46,745 --> 00:37:48,504
Can't comment on ongoing
investigations.

780
00:37:54,594 --> 00:37:56,433
There's a second set of books.

781
00:37:56,475 --> 00:37:59,478
And the real one wouldn't have
passed the smell test

782
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,522
from three rooms away.

783
00:38:03,484 --> 00:38:05,044
Explain the outsized revenue,

784
00:38:05,086 --> 00:38:07,047
despite the skeletal staff
of doctors.

785
00:38:07,089 --> 00:38:10,370
Mental's been billing insurers
for its A.I. check-ins

786
00:38:10,412 --> 00:38:12,854
as if they're actual
human sessions.

787
00:38:14,336 --> 00:38:15,937
So our big strength,
automated therapy,

788
00:38:15,979 --> 00:38:17,579
it's actually a big scam?

789
00:38:17,621 --> 00:38:19,021
It's Medicare fraud.

790
00:38:19,063 --> 00:38:22,426
And, like, a federal crime,
for reals.

791
00:38:24,988 --> 00:38:26,469
I had nothing to do with it.

792
00:38:26,511 --> 00:38:28,712
It predates me.
Went on behind my back.

793
00:38:28,754 --> 00:38:32,238
But as CEO,
you're personally liable.

794
00:38:34,521 --> 00:38:36,281
You signed this
when you took the reins,

795
00:38:36,323 --> 00:38:39,645
personally certifying
to the company's financials.

796
00:38:39,687 --> 00:38:41,406
And the real books,

797
00:38:41,448 --> 00:38:43,689
they've somehow been
on your tablet this whole time,

798
00:38:43,731 --> 00:38:45,854
in documents linked
to your software.

799
00:38:47,816 --> 00:38:49,818
It looks like
you were aware.

800
00:38:51,060 --> 00:38:53,102
Who even knows about this?

801
00:38:55,865 --> 00:38:57,868
Prince.

802
00:38:59,028 --> 00:39:01,272
He saw beyond
what I could see.

803
00:39:02,874 --> 00:39:05,315
You saw what you were
supposed to see.

804
00:39:05,357 --> 00:39:08,600
Same as me. But this is why
he urged me to sign on.

805
00:39:09,642 --> 00:39:11,201
He used me to hurt you.

806
00:39:11,243 --> 00:39:13,606
To neutralize me
with the threat of hurting me.

807
00:39:16,329 --> 00:39:17,848
I had other offers.

808
00:39:17,890 --> 00:39:19,811
Half a dozen on this scale.

809
00:39:19,853 --> 00:39:22,615
Maybe Prince forced a card.

810
00:39:22,657 --> 00:39:24,056
Maybe the whole deck
was tainted.

811
00:39:24,098 --> 00:39:25,939
It's hard to know.

812
00:39:25,981 --> 00:39:28,263
This would probably
have happened anyway.

813
00:39:32,108 --> 00:39:34,789
I want out.

814
00:39:34,831 --> 00:39:37,274
Take my marbles
to another playground.

815
00:39:43,361 --> 00:39:44,801
I understand
your feeling that way,

816
00:39:44,843 --> 00:39:47,243
but give it a moment.

817
00:39:47,285 --> 00:39:49,125
After you've left

818
00:39:49,167 --> 00:39:51,569
the best-performing fund
on the Street?

819
00:39:51,611 --> 00:39:54,292
With where Prince is headed,
how's that gonna look?

820
00:39:54,334 --> 00:39:56,815
Like it wasn't the right fit,
I hope.

821
00:39:56,857 --> 00:39:58,176
Which it isn't.

822
00:39:58,218 --> 00:40:00,379
Given what you know about him?

823
00:40:00,421 --> 00:40:02,942
You think he's just gonna write
you a letter of recommendation?

824
00:40:02,984 --> 00:40:05,464
He'll straitjacket you
with NDAs and non-competes.

825
00:40:05,506 --> 00:40:07,509
Don't do that to yourself
on my behalf.

826
00:40:09,832 --> 00:40:11,834
Prince won this one.

827
00:40:12,555 --> 00:40:14,557
I lost.

828
00:40:14,997 --> 00:40:16,478
He'll probably always win.

829
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,839
And this is
the winning business.

830
00:40:18,881 --> 00:40:20,883
Don't throw yourself
on my sword.

831
00:40:20,925 --> 00:40:23,728
I've had a career.
You haven't.

832
00:40:26,611 --> 00:40:28,613
I loved mine.

833
00:40:29,214 --> 00:40:30,654
In some ways,
I lived for it.

834
00:40:30,696 --> 00:40:34,140
So I know
it's too much to throw away.

835
00:40:37,984 --> 00:40:39,987
You should get to the office
for the open.

836
00:40:48,637 --> 00:40:49,957
It was true
what I said up there,

837
00:40:49,999 --> 00:40:51,999
about you being
a superstar.

838
00:40:52,041 --> 00:40:53,361
I still talk to folks at SDNY.

839
00:40:53,403 --> 00:40:55,083
I hear the stats
you're putting up.

840
00:40:55,125 --> 00:40:57,125
I meant what I said too,
about following your example.

841
00:40:57,167 --> 00:40:59,567
Good, 'cause that's the real
reason I'm here,

842
00:40:59,609 --> 00:41:01,652
besides supporting the cause.

843
00:41:03,615 --> 00:41:06,656
When I run, it's gonna leave
a hole in the organization.

844
00:41:06,698 --> 00:41:08,979
Yeah, Prince'll be gone too,
won't he?

845
00:41:09,021 --> 00:41:11,582
To the White House,
if things keep up this way.

846
00:41:11,624 --> 00:41:12,984
But the firm
will continue on.

847
00:41:13,026 --> 00:41:15,148
As a blind trust.

848
00:41:17,109 --> 00:41:19,993
It's gonna take a strong general
counsel to keep it clean.

849
00:41:21,515 --> 00:41:22,754
That should be you.

850
00:41:23,997 --> 00:41:25,238
Big salary.

851
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,562
Lots of resources.
Even more perks.

852
00:41:29,405 --> 00:41:32,727
I wasn't just paneling when
I mentioned meaningful cases.

853
00:41:32,769 --> 00:41:34,529
I've always wanted
to do this work.

854
00:41:34,571 --> 00:41:36,451
I'm in the strongest office
outside of DC to do it.

855
00:41:36,493 --> 00:41:38,933
Maybe including DC.

856
00:41:38,975 --> 00:41:40,978
Hmm.

857
00:41:42,260 --> 00:41:44,500
What?

858
00:41:44,542 --> 00:41:45,741
Nothing.

859
00:41:45,783 --> 00:41:47,062
If you're happy, I'm happy.

860
00:41:48,307 --> 00:41:49,585
You've got something to say.

861
00:41:49,627 --> 00:41:50,988
-Slap leather.
-All right.

862
00:41:51,030 --> 00:41:52,430
Look, you're still
in the good part.

863
00:41:52,472 --> 00:41:54,672
I don't want to ruin
your honeymoon.

864
00:41:54,714 --> 00:41:56,995
We're already home,
and it's going fine.

865
00:41:57,037 --> 00:41:58,917
Chuck's got his eye
on the prize.

866
00:41:58,959 --> 00:42:00,839
Square G. True blue.

867
00:42:00,881 --> 00:42:03,683
He looks that way
in a certain light.

868
00:42:03,725 --> 00:42:06,926
But, uh, maybe it was just
my experience,

869
00:42:06,968 --> 00:42:10,411
but I thought
we were making cases

870
00:42:10,453 --> 00:42:13,136
for the good of the
Southern District and beyond.

871
00:42:14,778 --> 00:42:16,578
And then it became
too clear to ignore.

872
00:42:16,620 --> 00:42:19,902
I was working for the good
of Chuck Rhoades,

873
00:42:19,944 --> 00:42:22,585
prosecuting his agenda.

874
00:42:22,627 --> 00:42:24,629
Literally.

875
00:42:25,911 --> 00:42:28,792
So I went to work for a guy
who didn't hide who he was.

876
00:42:28,834 --> 00:42:31,237
And who paid
a hell of a lot better.

877
00:42:34,841 --> 00:42:37,844
Anyway, I didn't mean
to bum your roll.

878
00:42:38,886 --> 00:42:40,285
It was good to see you.

879
00:42:40,327 --> 00:42:42,527
Yeah.

880
00:42:42,569 --> 00:42:44,572
Take care.

881
00:42:52,060 --> 00:42:54,382
So even with the extent
of knowledge you have

882
00:42:54,424 --> 00:42:57,185
about the workings
of Prince Cap,

883
00:42:57,227 --> 00:42:59,508
a plan of action doesn't occur?

884
00:42:59,550 --> 00:43:01,190
A way to flip it on him?

885
00:43:01,232 --> 00:43:03,392
I've given you algorithms,

886
00:43:03,434 --> 00:43:04,954
I've given you
securities selection,

887
00:43:04,996 --> 00:43:06,476
I've given you methodology.

888
00:43:06,518 --> 00:43:08,118
But there is a level
beyond that,

889
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,162
and even I can't
pierce that veil.

890
00:43:11,804 --> 00:43:14,527
And now I've been
de-fucking-looped.

891
00:43:16,129 --> 00:43:17,609
To find it all,

892
00:43:17,651 --> 00:43:20,172
we need the instincts
of a truffle hound

893
00:43:20,214 --> 00:43:22,214
mixed with
a Daniel Negreanu-like ability

894
00:43:22,256 --> 00:43:24,257
to think nine moves ahead,

895
00:43:24,299 --> 00:43:26,539
mixed with the cold
and steady hand of a sniper

896
00:43:26,581 --> 00:43:28,741
à la Barry Pepper in<i> Ryan.</i>

897
00:43:28,783 --> 00:43:30,022
The full package.

898
00:43:30,064 --> 00:43:32,388
In other words,
we need Axelrod.

899
00:43:35,151 --> 00:43:36,790
If he were here,

900
00:43:36,832 --> 00:43:38,353
he'd already
be sharpening his knives

901
00:43:38,395 --> 00:43:40,275
like Bill the Butcher.

902
00:43:45,283 --> 00:43:46,843
<i>Yeah?</i>

903
00:43:46,885 --> 00:43:50,247
I need to meet with you.
Ira too. At your office.

904
00:43:50,289 --> 00:43:52,291
<i>It can't wait.</i>

905
00:43:54,493 --> 00:43:56,214
If I was in trouble,

906
00:43:56,256 --> 00:43:59,738
real legal trouble
at the federal level,

907
00:43:59,780 --> 00:44:01,821
what kind of help
could you provide?

908
00:44:01,863 --> 00:44:03,982
You might want
to give us some inkling

909
00:44:04,024 --> 00:44:06,027
of the trouble
you're referring to.

910
00:44:08,149 --> 00:44:09,669
If is relates to your work
at Prince Capital,

911
00:44:09,711 --> 00:44:11,712
and we could register you
as a confidential--

912
00:44:11,754 --> 00:44:13,034
It isn't.

913
00:44:13,076 --> 00:44:15,078
You can't.

914
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,321
At your new company?
Your exit strategy?

915
00:44:19,363 --> 00:44:22,166
Exit might be sealed shut.

916
00:44:23,247 --> 00:44:25,729
Could the two of you save me?

917
00:44:26,772 --> 00:44:28,774
Find another door?

918
00:44:29,814 --> 00:44:31,817
Axe knows about this,
doesn't he?

919
00:44:33,899 --> 00:44:35,379
Whatever trouble you're in,

920
00:44:35,421 --> 00:44:37,382
he's not coming
until he solves it.

921
00:44:37,424 --> 00:44:39,426
And he can't solve it.

922
00:44:46,795 --> 00:44:49,236
Of course I'd always
help you if I could.

923
00:44:49,278 --> 00:44:51,280
Ira too.

924
00:44:53,883 --> 00:44:55,603
The problem is, we can't.

925
00:44:55,645 --> 00:44:57,205
We'll have to recuse
due to conflict of interest.

926
00:44:57,247 --> 00:44:59,249
Besides, it won't be
in our venue.

927
00:44:59,970 --> 00:45:02,290
And the offenses
we're talking about, Wendy,

928
00:45:02,332 --> 00:45:03,973
are criminal violations

929
00:45:04,015 --> 00:45:05,335
of the False Claims Act
and Medicare fraud

930
00:45:05,377 --> 00:45:07,177
along with false statements.

931
00:45:07,219 --> 00:45:10,500
You'll have a DOJ and SEC
investigation on your hands.

932
00:45:10,542 --> 00:45:13,263
How bad?

933
00:45:13,305 --> 00:45:15,226
False Claims
gets you up to five years.

934
00:45:15,268 --> 00:45:17,829
Healthcare fraud
gets you up to ten.

935
00:45:17,871 --> 00:45:19,874
Wire fraud? Twenty.

936
00:45:30,685 --> 00:45:33,207
Even encrypted,
we shouldn't be talking.

937
00:45:33,249 --> 00:45:35,251
There's a lot
we shouldn't be doing.

938
00:45:36,813 --> 00:45:39,454
Prince is using me to stop you
from coming after him.

939
00:45:39,496 --> 00:45:42,498
Like I said,
shouldn't be talking.

940
00:45:42,540 --> 00:45:46,262
Just figure out how to take him
the fuck down.

941
00:45:46,304 --> 00:45:49,146
I knew the risks
when I started all of this.

942
00:45:49,188 --> 00:45:50,748
And I know 'em now.

943
00:45:50,790 --> 00:45:53,110
Not gonna be the one
to destroy your future.

944
00:45:53,152 --> 00:45:56,354
You're Paden and I'm Stella
at the Midnight Star Saloon.

945
00:45:56,396 --> 00:45:58,036
Just 'cause Cobb's
threatening to kill me

946
00:45:58,078 --> 00:46:00,080
doesn't mean you can't
kill him first.

947
00:46:01,162 --> 00:46:03,162
This isn't Silverado,

948
00:46:03,204 --> 00:46:05,485
and Prince isn't Brian Dennehy
with a badge and a beard.

949
00:46:05,527 --> 00:46:07,167
This is really happening.

950
00:46:07,209 --> 00:46:10,129
I don't have a future anymore.

951
00:46:10,171 --> 00:46:12,175
<i>The country still might.</i>

952
00:46:13,095 --> 00:46:14,495
I can still free you.

953
00:46:14,537 --> 00:46:16,540
I know I can.
Just don't know how.

954
00:46:17,020 --> 00:46:18,339
<i>Just can't see it yet.</i>

955
00:46:18,381 --> 00:46:19,982
And I love you for trying,

956
00:46:20,024 --> 00:46:21,744
but you don't understand Prince.

957
00:46:21,786 --> 00:46:23,787
Not really.

958
00:46:25,871 --> 00:46:29,353
This is a man
who will do anything

959
00:46:29,395 --> 00:46:31,515
to clear his path.

960
00:46:31,557 --> 00:46:36,040
Hand over the son of a business
partner for expedience.

961
00:46:36,082 --> 00:46:38,884
<i>Use his own daughters</i>
<i>as bait in a business deal.</i>

962
00:46:38,926 --> 00:46:41,927
<i>Plant cameras in</i>
<i>a doctor's office to get intel.</i>

963
00:46:41,969 --> 00:46:45,091
Let a climber he's trying
to rescue for his wife

964
00:46:45,133 --> 00:46:46,853
get taken by
the fucking Chinese,

965
00:46:46,895 --> 00:46:48,775
<i>out of self-preservation.</i>

966
00:46:48,817 --> 00:46:51,220
<i>That's who he is.</i>

967
00:46:52,862 --> 00:46:54,502
I'm collateral damage.
I can live with that.

968
00:46:54,544 --> 00:46:56,546
But you still need
to get over here and stop him.

969
00:47:03,795 --> 00:47:05,114
I think I've gotten the picture

970
00:47:05,156 --> 00:47:06,796
as to why you've been
stiffing me.

971
00:47:06,838 --> 00:47:08,879
Well, then you'll know
I haven't been by choice.

972
00:47:08,921 --> 00:47:10,641
Yeah.

973
00:47:10,683 --> 00:47:13,564
I think it's time we made
a gesture of appeasement.

974
00:47:13,606 --> 00:47:16,408
Because that worked so well
for Neville Chamberlain.

975
00:47:16,450 --> 00:47:18,049
Our only move now.

976
00:47:18,091 --> 00:47:20,172
Only way to extricate Wendy.

977
00:47:20,214 --> 00:47:22,855
And I believe you have
an extremely valuable prisoner

978
00:47:22,897 --> 00:47:24,899
in your custody.

979
00:47:27,262 --> 00:47:31,025
Well, color me highly skeptical,
but okay, Bobby,

980
00:47:31,067 --> 00:47:33,069
tell me what you're thinking.

981
00:47:58,377 --> 00:48:00,619
You want to talk
guilt and absolution

982
00:48:00,661 --> 00:48:03,543
because you feel bad for Tuk,
maybe some of the others.

983
00:48:03,585 --> 00:48:05,424
You're okay
that it wasn't your idea?

984
00:48:05,466 --> 00:48:07,347
Was it Tuk's idea?

985
00:48:07,389 --> 00:48:10,030
Did his fourth fucking cousin
tell him at a cocktail party?

986
00:48:10,072 --> 00:48:11,951
I have no clue
who came up with it.

987
00:48:11,993 --> 00:48:13,997
I have it.

988
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,201
How do you live with yourself?

989
00:48:19,243 --> 00:48:21,283
I've lived for awhile.

990
00:48:21,325 --> 00:48:24,046
I know the truth
in the Springsteen line

991
00:48:24,088 --> 00:48:25,888
about winners and losers.

992
00:48:25,930 --> 00:48:27,731
And I know I don't want to get
caught on the wrong side

993
00:48:27,773 --> 00:48:29,774
of that line.

994
00:48:30,416 --> 00:48:31,615
He also says,

995
00:48:31,657 --> 00:48:33,017
"Wherever somebody's fighting

996
00:48:33,059 --> 00:48:34,539
for a place to stand
or a decent job."

997
00:48:34,581 --> 00:48:36,701
Yeah, he said a lot of things.

998
00:48:36,743 --> 00:48:39,905
But when he was trying to get
to the top of that mountain,

999
00:48:39,947 --> 00:48:42,187
no one was stopping him.

1000
00:48:42,229 --> 00:48:44,150
And no one's stopping me.

1001
00:48:44,192 --> 00:48:47,115
Or you, truth be told.

1002
00:48:48,676 --> 00:48:52,602
Rian, the laws
of this jungle were reset.

1003
00:48:54,644 --> 00:48:57,365
The weaker animals will
no longer be fed by the rangers,

1004
00:48:57,407 --> 00:49:00,409
so it's not a question
of living with myself.

1005
00:49:00,451 --> 00:49:02,653
It's a question of living.

1006
00:49:04,295 --> 00:49:06,136
There is good news, though.

1007
00:49:06,178 --> 00:49:07,696
What's that?

1008
00:49:07,738 --> 00:49:10,299
You're not one
of the weaker animals.

1009
00:49:10,341 --> 00:49:12,383
Never have been.

1010
00:49:12,425 --> 00:49:16,748
You just walk like you are
when you pass by a mirror,

1011
00:49:16,790 --> 00:49:19,993
so you don't have to see
how strong you really are.

1012
00:49:39,416 --> 00:49:41,176
Do I need to get Sacker
in here with us?

1013
00:49:41,218 --> 00:49:44,020
No, no, no.
I'm here bearing gifts.

1014
00:49:44,062 --> 00:49:47,223
A box of sneezing powder?
Exploding pen?

1015
00:49:47,265 --> 00:49:49,226
Gave a few of those in my day.

1016
00:49:49,268 --> 00:49:51,591
Just a little
documentation.

1017
00:49:54,474 --> 00:49:56,034
About Kai Huang Liu
the younger,

1018
00:49:56,076 --> 00:49:59,076
son of your close
Taiwanese business associate.

1019
00:49:59,118 --> 00:50:00,839
He's been languishing
in federal custody

1020
00:50:00,881 --> 00:50:02,762
ever since he sold
those sham NFTs,

1021
00:50:02,804 --> 00:50:04,763
tried to flee on your plane.

1022
00:50:04,805 --> 00:50:07,209
-And now you're releasing him.
-Already have.

1023
00:50:08,490 --> 00:50:10,773
As a gesture of good faith.

1024
00:50:11,854 --> 00:50:14,134
As a gift. For you.

1025
00:50:14,176 --> 00:50:16,177
I said I wanted him
to face justice.

1026
00:50:16,219 --> 00:50:17,739
I said so publicly.

1027
00:50:17,781 --> 00:50:20,462
And face justice he will,
back home in Taiwan.

1028
00:50:20,504 --> 00:50:22,544
He's on the plane as we speak.

1029
00:50:22,586 --> 00:50:24,427
Given his father's
considerable juice,

1030
00:50:24,469 --> 00:50:27,270
that might not even mean
a slap on the wrist.

1031
00:50:29,033 --> 00:50:31,155
I was fine with the accord
we came to on this one.

1032
00:50:31,197 --> 00:50:32,637
We both looked like
we cared about the law.

1033
00:50:32,679 --> 00:50:34,680
Because we do.

1034
00:50:35,602 --> 00:50:38,442
Sure, but I'll take
all the heat here,

1035
00:50:38,484 --> 00:50:41,689
you'll get all
the credit there.

1036
00:50:44,452 --> 00:50:45,652
Oh.

1037
00:50:48,256 --> 00:50:50,259
I get it.

1038
00:50:51,100 --> 00:50:52,740
You've accepted
that I'm likely to win.

1039
00:50:52,782 --> 00:50:55,463
You've seen the data
pointing me towards 1600 Penn,

1040
00:50:55,505 --> 00:50:58,108
and you don't want me
to fire your ass...

1041
00:51:00,111 --> 00:51:01,470
which would be my right.

1042
00:51:01,512 --> 00:51:03,633
My prerogative.

1043
00:51:03,675 --> 00:51:05,676
My pleasure, too.

1044
00:51:06,718 --> 00:51:08,478
No one wants to be fired.

1045
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:11,363
But also,
I am good at what I do.

1046
00:51:14,848 --> 00:51:17,329
And I follow
the chain of command.

1047
00:51:17,371 --> 00:51:19,571
Even before it is the official
chain of command.

1048
00:51:19,613 --> 00:51:22,975
So, look forward to a grateful
call from the kid's father,

1049
00:51:23,017 --> 00:51:25,138
and I will be out of your hair

1050
00:51:25,180 --> 00:51:28,743
and doing the people's bidding
as always and until.

1051
00:51:29,905 --> 00:51:31,464
Well, I won't jinx my position

1052
00:51:31,506 --> 00:51:34,430
by promising you anything
as though I am there.

1053
00:51:36,393 --> 00:51:38,634
But I will say,

1054
00:51:38,676 --> 00:51:40,678
this is a productive start.

1055
00:51:47,246 --> 00:51:48,845
Big night for you tonight.

1056
00:51:48,887 --> 00:51:51,250
They're all big nights
from here on out.

1057
00:52:01,582 --> 00:52:03,623
I'm the best analyst
in this place,

1058
00:52:03,665 --> 00:52:06,546
and I'll be the best trader and
PM too in about five minutes,

1059
00:52:06,588 --> 00:52:09,268
and I won't have to do it
by lying and cheating.

1060
00:52:09,310 --> 00:52:12,593
So, put me
on the partnership flume,

1061
00:52:12,635 --> 00:52:15,436
or merry-go-round,
or whatever you want to call it.

1062
00:52:15,478 --> 00:52:17,720
Track. It's called a track.

1063
00:52:19,563 --> 00:52:21,323
You're declaring yourself
for it now?

1064
00:52:21,365 --> 00:52:25,208
Everyone out there,
they're looking for permission.

1065
00:52:25,250 --> 00:52:26,890
A little gold star.

1066
00:52:26,932 --> 00:52:30,174
Fighting for approval,
for recognition.

1067
00:52:30,216 --> 00:52:32,937
I see that now,
and I'm beyond it.

1068
00:52:32,979 --> 00:52:34,579
Above it.

1069
00:52:34,621 --> 00:52:36,460
I want to be.

1070
00:52:36,502 --> 00:52:39,143
And as a partner, I can be.

1071
00:52:39,185 --> 00:52:42,388
Someone's finally accepted
that whimsy has a half life.

1072
00:52:42,430 --> 00:52:43,830
Yes.

1073
00:52:43,872 --> 00:52:45,912
But making money doesn't.

1074
00:52:45,954 --> 00:52:47,956
No, it does not.

1075
00:52:50,519 --> 00:52:53,643
Go ahead then. Take it.

1076
00:54:01,482 --> 00:54:04,325
Any idea where I can scalp
a pair of tickets to this thing?

1077
00:54:06,408 --> 00:54:08,410
Can't be sold out.

1078
00:54:16,219 --> 00:54:21,103
You're actually here and sending
your favorite person to jail.

1079
00:54:21,145 --> 00:54:23,147
Yeah, I don't think so.

1080
00:54:26,310 --> 00:54:28,313
You know Derek.

1081
00:54:32,478 --> 00:54:35,242
You know of him, anyway,
don't you? He's my plus-one.

1082
00:54:37,965 --> 00:54:41,085
You know, he got here
so last-minute,

1083
00:54:41,127 --> 00:54:43,649
he hasn't had a chance
to catch up with Andy.

1084
00:54:43,691 --> 00:54:45,694
Yet.

1085
00:54:47,616 --> 00:54:49,176
You think I'm sorry

1086
00:54:49,218 --> 00:54:51,939
an American has been released
from captivity?

1087
00:54:51,981 --> 00:54:54,102
Family friend
I sent Tiger Team to rescue?

1088
00:54:54,144 --> 00:54:56,265
I'm glad you're back
on American soil, Derek.

1089
00:54:58,348 --> 00:55:00,189
How'd you do it?

1090
00:55:00,231 --> 00:55:02,513
Straight-up swap.

1091
00:55:06,278 --> 00:55:09,081
<i>Plane went for refueling</i>
<i>in Macau.</i>

1092
00:55:10,923 --> 00:55:14,127
<i>See, they have extradition</i>
<i>with China.</i>

1093
00:55:22,897 --> 00:55:25,418
Your country welcomes
you back, young man.

1094
00:55:25,460 --> 00:55:27,100
We'll be making a quick
pit stop in the Big Apple

1095
00:55:27,142 --> 00:55:28,942
on the way back to Colorado.

1096
00:55:28,984 --> 00:55:30,987
But you'll be home in a jiffy.

1097
00:55:33,590 --> 00:55:36,231
You traded Kai Huang Liu
for him.

1098
00:55:36,273 --> 00:55:38,513
Well, seems he sold
some of those bogus NFTs

1099
00:55:38,555 --> 00:55:40,436
to the Chinese as well.

1100
00:55:40,478 --> 00:55:43,439
They were real happy
to barter for him.

1101
00:55:43,481 --> 00:55:46,042
And you had Chuck
come tell me he was out,

1102
00:55:46,084 --> 00:55:48,567
so if I heard anything,
I wouldn't get suspicious.

1103
00:55:51,090 --> 00:55:53,451
Doesn't stop me from
pulling the lever on Wendy.

1104
00:55:53,493 --> 00:55:55,615
Oh, I think we both know
that it does.

1105
00:56:11,634 --> 00:56:14,716
A few weeks
in a Chinese prison camp,

1106
00:56:14,758 --> 00:56:17,479
been running my nights
with Andy through my mind.

1107
00:56:17,521 --> 00:56:20,162
What I just whispered to you,
that's just a taste

1108
00:56:20,204 --> 00:56:23,966
of what I'll be happy
to say to Anderson,

1109
00:56:24,008 --> 00:56:26,249
Christiane, Rachel,
all of them.

1110
00:56:26,291 --> 00:56:28,131
Everything.

1111
00:56:28,173 --> 00:56:30,176
From the freckle
on her glute...

1112
00:56:32,018 --> 00:56:35,502
to the way she exhales
when she's really excited.

1113
00:56:38,465 --> 00:56:39,905
No one will believe it.

1114
00:56:39,947 --> 00:56:41,187
Story will come and go.
Zero traction.

1115
00:56:41,229 --> 00:56:42,989
You want to make that bet?

1116
00:56:43,031 --> 00:56:44,830
Easy to arrange.

1117
00:56:44,872 --> 00:56:47,553
I just walk Derek onto
the step-and-repeat over there,

1118
00:56:47,595 --> 00:56:48,754
announce who he is.

1119
00:56:48,796 --> 00:56:51,238
It'll be the end for you.

1120
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,040
Forget about Andy's
embarrassment.

1121
00:56:53,082 --> 00:56:55,323
The entire country
will think of you as a man

1122
00:56:55,365 --> 00:56:57,566
who couldn't satisfy
his own wife.

1123
00:56:57,608 --> 00:57:00,529
They won't care
about arrangements

1124
00:57:00,571 --> 00:57:03,172
or you getting yours.

1125
00:57:03,214 --> 00:57:04,734
They'll just know
that she was bivouacking

1126
00:57:04,776 --> 00:57:06,096
with the mountain man

1127
00:57:06,138 --> 00:57:07,616
instead of shacking up
with you.

1128
00:57:07,658 --> 00:57:10,020
And you have to know,

1129
00:57:10,062 --> 00:57:11,701
there is nobody in this country

1130
00:57:11,743 --> 00:57:14,627
who's gonna vote
for President Cuck.

1131
00:57:16,390 --> 00:57:18,350
So here's how it's gonna go.

1132
00:57:18,392 --> 00:57:20,352
You're gonna stand down,

1133
00:57:20,394 --> 00:57:22,555
and you're gonna let Wendy
clean up the practices

1134
00:57:22,597 --> 00:57:24,037
at that company.

1135
00:57:24,079 --> 00:57:26,759
You're gonna get rid
of any documentation

1136
00:57:26,801 --> 00:57:28,161
that ties her to it.

1137
00:57:28,203 --> 00:57:30,484
She will run
that company for real,

1138
00:57:30,526 --> 00:57:33,850
and you are never
gonna fuck with her again.

1139
00:57:35,732 --> 00:57:37,412
And in return?

1140
00:57:37,454 --> 00:57:40,057
Derek here will go back
to living his life.

1141
00:57:42,140 --> 00:57:45,341
And should any accident
befall him,

1142
00:57:45,383 --> 00:57:47,984
I have his full testimony
on video, ready to go.

1143
00:57:48,026 --> 00:57:50,028
Remember that.

1144
00:57:51,229 --> 00:57:52,710
So it's an old-time

1145
00:57:52,752 --> 00:57:54,752
<i>Reservoir Dogs-</i>
<i>style standoff.</i>

1146
00:57:54,794 --> 00:57:57,516
If Wendy goes down,
so does Andy.

1147
00:57:57,558 --> 00:57:59,277
Don't try to speak
my language again, Mike.

1148
00:57:59,319 --> 00:58:02,321
It didn't work the last time.

1149
00:58:02,363 --> 00:58:04,003
But, yes.

1150
00:58:04,045 --> 00:58:05,845
You see, this is the problem
with squaring away

1151
00:58:05,887 --> 00:58:07,768
your enemies list.

1152
00:58:07,810 --> 00:58:10,931
You wake up all your enemies
in the process.

1153
00:58:10,973 --> 00:58:13,296
Smelling salts
in all our fucking faces.

1154
00:58:14,858 --> 00:58:16,137
You did me that favor, Mike,

1155
00:58:16,179 --> 00:58:18,182
after a couple years' slumber.

1156
00:58:19,143 --> 00:58:20,663
But I'm back now,

1157
00:58:20,705 --> 00:58:22,747
and I'm wide fucking awake.

1158
00:58:24,669 --> 00:58:26,870
Well, I'm sorry I can't stay up
all night with you

1159
00:58:26,912 --> 00:58:28,632
and watch the sunrise.

1160
00:58:28,674 --> 00:58:30,473
But since I can't pull
my trigger,

1161
00:58:30,515 --> 00:58:32,957
you can't pull yours.

1162
00:58:32,999 --> 00:58:35,560
So I'm going inside to be feted

1163
00:58:35,602 --> 00:58:38,203
on my way to being
elected president.

1164
00:58:38,245 --> 00:58:41,209
Hell of a concert
they're putting on for me.

1165
00:59:00,271 --> 00:59:01,710
We're going to cash.

1166
00:59:01,752 --> 00:59:03,993
-Cash?
-You mean, the entire...

1167
00:59:04,035 --> 00:59:05,955
Clear every position
in the portfolio.

1168
00:59:05,997 --> 00:59:08,038
Our enemies are on the loose
and massing.

1169
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:09,759
We're taking away their target.

1170
00:59:34,030 --> 00:59:36,032
Welcome home, Bobby.

1171
00:59:36,752 --> 00:59:38,353
Never thought I'd say it,

1172
00:59:38,395 --> 00:59:39,915
never thought I'd think it,

1173
00:59:39,957 --> 00:59:42,961
but thank God you're here.

1174
00:59:45,203 --> 00:59:47,446
Ain't that
the motherfucking truth.

1175
00:59:50,488 --> 00:59:52,690
Now let's get to work.