1 00:00:04,965 --> 00:00:07,486 Previously on Billions. 2 00:00:07,528 --> 00:00:09,127 Welcome home, Bobby. 3 00:00:09,169 --> 00:00:11,130 I think there's a mutiny in the works. 4 00:00:11,172 --> 00:00:13,572 Let's go to the videotape. We record everything. 5 00:00:13,614 --> 00:00:15,855 I guess it's always important to keep a close eye 6 00:00:15,897 --> 00:00:18,057 when your people are really your kidnap victims. 7 00:00:18,099 --> 00:00:19,619 No, Axe, not a close eye. 8 00:00:19,661 --> 00:00:21,501 A thousand eyes and ears, 9 00:00:21,543 --> 00:00:23,583 and the software to make sense of it all. 10 00:00:23,625 --> 00:00:25,225 There is an order to things. 11 00:00:25,267 --> 00:00:28,428 Learn of a crime, investigate, confirm, announce. 12 00:00:28,470 --> 00:00:30,550 And I assure you, we will find crimes. 13 00:00:30,592 --> 00:00:33,273 Fruit of a poison tree called Michael Prince. 14 00:00:33,315 --> 00:00:35,756 This is a drive that cannot be copied. 15 00:00:35,798 --> 00:00:37,237 It contains a cataloguing 16 00:00:37,279 --> 00:00:38,879 of moves I have made, 17 00:00:38,921 --> 00:00:40,601 extralegal and plain illegal. 18 00:00:40,643 --> 00:00:42,883 Would get me disbarred and jailed 19 00:00:42,925 --> 00:00:44,445 if it were to come out. 20 00:00:44,487 --> 00:00:45,967 You got a way to separate his cash 21 00:00:46,009 --> 00:00:47,809 from all the people who work there for him 22 00:00:47,851 --> 00:00:49,250 before you A-bomb his shit? 23 00:00:49,292 --> 00:00:52,093 -There is no way. -Like it, don't love it. 24 00:00:52,135 --> 00:00:54,416 What we need specifically is for you to reset 25 00:00:54,458 --> 00:00:56,338 the parameters on the risk algo. 26 00:00:56,380 --> 00:00:58,820 We have a time frame. It's right fucking now. 27 00:00:58,862 --> 00:01:00,742 Bobby, you need to reach Dunlop. 28 00:01:00,784 --> 00:01:02,384 Offer her whatever you can. 29 00:01:02,426 --> 00:01:04,386 Make sure she doesn't do the wrong thing. 30 00:01:04,428 --> 00:01:06,148 Axe, you're impressive, but this is something 31 00:01:06,190 --> 00:01:07,830 I've worked my whole life for. 32 00:01:07,872 --> 00:01:09,311 Then don't barter that dream 33 00:01:09,353 --> 00:01:10,713 to a guy so transactional 34 00:01:10,755 --> 00:01:12,757 he'll sell VP for your support. 35 00:01:13,918 --> 00:01:15,398 I've made my decision 36 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:16,879 to not only throw my support 37 00:01:16,921 --> 00:01:19,642 behind our next president, Mike Prince, 38 00:01:19,684 --> 00:01:22,405 but to become his partner, his vice president, 39 00:01:22,447 --> 00:01:24,970 for the good of our country and the whole world. 40 00:01:26,011 --> 00:01:28,852 You're on the briefings, Mike. 41 00:01:28,894 --> 00:01:31,177 -We're going to Camp David. -Boom. 42 00:02:15,544 --> 00:02:17,546 Cardamom bun. 43 00:02:21,390 --> 00:02:22,950 Fuck, Ryan. 44 00:02:22,992 --> 00:02:24,351 That's good. 45 00:02:24,393 --> 00:02:25,873 My take on La Cabra's, 46 00:02:25,915 --> 00:02:27,394 which is really their take on one I ate 47 00:02:27,436 --> 00:02:29,517 at Juno the Bakery in Copenhagen. 48 00:02:29,559 --> 00:02:31,078 Thanks for sending me on that trip, Axe, 49 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,040 and for bringing me back on board. 50 00:02:33,082 --> 00:02:34,522 Worth it. 51 00:02:34,564 --> 00:02:36,084 Those buns are no joke. 52 00:02:36,126 --> 00:02:38,086 Thanks, Chef Ryan. 53 00:03:02,834 --> 00:03:04,916 So...game day, huh? 54 00:03:07,799 --> 00:03:11,681 Ryan! Bring Sacker a bun! She needs to be fortified! 55 00:03:11,723 --> 00:03:14,046 -And a coffee, please. -Coffee! 56 00:03:31,745 --> 00:03:34,305 I love that you're ditching your race for Congress. 57 00:03:34,347 --> 00:03:35,867 I am? 58 00:03:35,909 --> 00:03:38,270 As much as we need you there, we need you here. 59 00:03:38,312 --> 00:03:40,672 Besides, not enough hand sanitizer in the world 60 00:03:40,714 --> 00:03:42,716 to make me do that job. 61 00:03:43,637 --> 00:03:45,998 You should go long Purell. I'm not ditching a thing. 62 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:47,760 But you're still here? 63 00:03:47,802 --> 00:03:50,282 My filing deadline's months away. 64 00:03:50,324 --> 00:03:51,804 But Prince's campaign's days away 65 00:03:51,846 --> 00:03:53,526 from becoming a black hole. 66 00:03:53,568 --> 00:03:55,848 Everything in its vicinity, sucked right in. 67 00:03:55,890 --> 00:03:57,730 You'll just be part of the fabric of the thing, 68 00:03:57,772 --> 00:04:01,214 unable to assert yourself as anything other than 69 00:04:01,256 --> 00:04:03,016 Prince's fill-in-the-blank. 70 00:04:03,058 --> 00:04:05,018 All because he's about to throw down a gauntlet? 71 00:04:05,060 --> 00:04:06,540 More of a grenade, 72 00:04:06,582 --> 00:04:08,662 at the parties you'll need to nominate you. 73 00:04:08,704 --> 00:04:11,145 So I establish a little distance when I leave, is all. 74 00:04:11,187 --> 00:04:12,626 With your family dough? 75 00:04:12,668 --> 00:04:14,108 With the whitest collar background 76 00:04:14,150 --> 00:04:16,230 of anyone at the firm? 77 00:04:16,272 --> 00:04:18,352 Ask Chang and Eng. 78 00:04:18,394 --> 00:04:21,678 Not a lot of distance when you're joined at the hip. 79 00:04:33,651 --> 00:04:35,450 What the fuck are you doing here? 80 00:04:35,492 --> 00:04:37,453 Sacker called to meet. Not you too? 81 00:04:37,495 --> 00:04:39,497 Yep. She called me to meet. 82 00:04:40,778 --> 00:04:42,860 Shit. 83 00:04:48,666 --> 00:04:50,669 Oh, this isn't good. 84 00:04:51,269 --> 00:04:53,109 My favorite burger in the city. 85 00:04:53,151 --> 00:04:55,432 But now I have lost my appetite. 86 00:04:55,474 --> 00:04:58,437 Yeah, this isn't good at all. She's onto us. Has to be. 87 00:05:10,690 --> 00:05:13,131 This is fucked that I have to do this. 88 00:05:13,173 --> 00:05:14,652 Speak it aloud. 89 00:05:14,694 --> 00:05:17,375 -I'm onto you. -No way. 90 00:05:17,417 --> 00:05:19,657 I'm pretty sure I know what you three have been up to. 91 00:05:19,699 --> 00:05:22,420 Or, more accurately, that you're up to something. 92 00:05:22,462 --> 00:05:25,143 That bullshit on the elevator a few hours ago 93 00:05:25,185 --> 00:05:26,705 was the final tip-off, Wags. 94 00:05:26,747 --> 00:05:28,749 The why matters more than the what, Kate. 95 00:05:29,990 --> 00:05:31,790 I came here because I respect you all. 96 00:05:31,832 --> 00:05:34,313 But I work for Prince. 97 00:05:34,355 --> 00:05:36,155 He took the shot on me. 98 00:05:36,197 --> 00:05:38,558 So you have about one minute to convince me of that "why" 99 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,602 before I turn your asses in. 100 00:05:41,723 --> 00:05:43,725 Give me three. 101 00:05:57,019 --> 00:05:59,099 You hear anything unusual on your side? 102 00:05:59,141 --> 00:06:01,622 Total focus on security and safety 103 00:06:01,664 --> 00:06:04,385 and surveillance and protection: the new norm. 104 00:06:04,427 --> 00:06:06,667 Philip is the only one able to make decisions, 105 00:06:06,709 --> 00:06:07,949 so it's quiet. 106 00:06:07,991 --> 00:06:09,190 Quiet is good. 107 00:06:28,613 --> 00:06:31,334 We're here to set the terms for the performance reviews. 108 00:06:31,376 --> 00:06:34,337 Should we wait until Philip is here before we start? 109 00:06:34,379 --> 00:06:36,381 He's not coming. 110 00:06:57,163 --> 00:06:59,243 We could have talked at the office. 111 00:06:59,285 --> 00:07:00,845 But apparently you've stopped showing up 112 00:07:00,887 --> 00:07:02,567 and taken to day drinking. 113 00:07:02,609 --> 00:07:04,891 Yeah, the office is not a place I can be right now. 114 00:07:07,734 --> 00:07:09,736 No? 115 00:07:11,698 --> 00:07:13,538 I can't live with it. 116 00:07:13,580 --> 00:07:16,542 Mike Prince rising off the rubble of Marc Ruloff. 117 00:07:16,584 --> 00:07:18,304 Professor Ruloff didn't deserve that. 118 00:07:18,346 --> 00:07:20,186 And yes, sure, 119 00:07:20,228 --> 00:07:22,388 I know the old man Eastwood quote that guys in the industry 120 00:07:22,430 --> 00:07:25,751 love to say when they screw the other party on a deal: 121 00:07:25,793 --> 00:07:27,754 "Deserve's got nothing to do with it." 122 00:07:27,796 --> 00:07:29,515 And I don't want to keep making money for someone 123 00:07:29,557 --> 00:07:31,117 who buys into all that. 124 00:07:31,159 --> 00:07:33,119 But I don't know what to do about it. 125 00:07:33,161 --> 00:07:34,721 I do. 126 00:07:34,763 --> 00:07:36,283 I know exactly what you can do about it, 127 00:07:36,325 --> 00:07:37,884 something that needs to be done 128 00:07:37,926 --> 00:07:40,327 because he won't stop just ruining businesses 129 00:07:40,369 --> 00:07:43,172 and lone men like your favorite professor. And... 130 00:07:44,894 --> 00:07:47,497 I know you know this on a deep, subconscious level. 131 00:07:52,462 --> 00:07:54,262 But first, we're gonna have to play out a scene 132 00:07:54,304 --> 00:07:56,306 back at my office. 133 00:08:03,153 --> 00:08:05,434 Prince should be at Camp David soon. 134 00:08:05,476 --> 00:08:07,396 Once he gets there, he may have to wait a while, 135 00:08:07,438 --> 00:08:09,918 'cause the president waits for no one. 136 00:08:44,517 --> 00:08:45,877 Your man is rolling in. 137 00:08:45,919 --> 00:08:47,358 I'll let you know when he's done. 138 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,402 Thanks, Hall. 139 00:08:51,004 --> 00:08:52,644 He's nine minutes out. 140 00:08:52,686 --> 00:08:55,247 That should give us between 90 minutes and two hours. 141 00:08:55,289 --> 00:08:59,131 Chuck, I guess you should go stop those leaks. 142 00:08:59,173 --> 00:09:01,814 -Indeed, sir. -If I had a cue, that's it. 143 00:09:01,856 --> 00:09:03,615 Better get over there. 144 00:09:03,657 --> 00:09:05,377 Yep. Time to open up the side door. 145 00:09:05,419 --> 00:09:07,421 I'll get to it. 146 00:09:20,475 --> 00:09:22,275 Morning, sir. 147 00:09:22,317 --> 00:09:24,357 I have Candidate Prince for a meeting with the president. 148 00:09:24,399 --> 00:09:26,440 Also attending, Scooter Dunbar. And I'm Bradford Luke. 149 00:09:26,482 --> 00:09:27,801 Yes, sir, I have you. 150 00:09:27,843 --> 00:09:30,005 I'll need all your IDs and phones. 151 00:09:37,253 --> 00:09:39,255 All clear. 152 00:09:45,422 --> 00:09:48,023 We are about to embark on something 153 00:09:48,065 --> 00:09:50,185 that we cannot afford to have confirmed 154 00:09:50,227 --> 00:09:53,709 by sources in this office before we're sure. 155 00:09:53,751 --> 00:09:57,993 And so I will be noting each and every one of you here. 156 00:09:58,035 --> 00:09:59,995 And if it does leak, 157 00:10:00,037 --> 00:10:03,559 I will assume it came from one, two, three of you, 158 00:10:03,601 --> 00:10:06,763 and all will go down. 159 00:10:06,805 --> 00:10:08,324 What US Attorney Rhoades is doing here 160 00:10:08,366 --> 00:10:10,767 is giving you an opportunity to let us know 161 00:10:10,809 --> 00:10:13,610 - before that happens. - In many organizations 162 00:10:13,652 --> 00:10:15,492 such as ours in other countries, 163 00:10:15,534 --> 00:10:17,814 they have whole mini organizations 164 00:10:17,856 --> 00:10:22,780 designed to spot this kind of betrayal and punish it. 165 00:10:22,822 --> 00:10:26,864 Do I have a similar, tight-knit operation going? 166 00:10:26,906 --> 00:10:30,027 I'd tell you, but then I'd be leaking. 167 00:10:30,069 --> 00:10:32,230 We have a source who has shared information 168 00:10:32,272 --> 00:10:35,793 that six of the largest U.S. natural gas companies 169 00:10:35,835 --> 00:10:39,077 have been colluding with and price fixing alongside of 170 00:10:39,119 --> 00:10:41,521 Russia, China, and Iran. 171 00:10:42,923 --> 00:10:45,324 We are prioritizing this investigation, 172 00:10:45,366 --> 00:10:47,045 and because it threatens 173 00:10:47,087 --> 00:10:49,248 the country's entire energy infrastructure, 174 00:10:49,290 --> 00:10:54,215 we shall do so with stealth and rigor. 175 00:11:01,383 --> 00:11:02,862 I know we've had our differences of late 176 00:11:02,904 --> 00:11:04,904 on how this office should function, 177 00:11:04,946 --> 00:11:06,746 but I think you'll agree that finding out 178 00:11:06,788 --> 00:11:08,869 if there's been malfeasance by the energy sector 179 00:11:08,911 --> 00:11:12,392 and these companies is exactly what we're here for. 180 00:11:12,434 --> 00:11:14,234 And if you will take it on, 181 00:11:14,276 --> 00:11:18,601 I promise you, we will act on what you learn. 182 00:11:22,085 --> 00:11:23,764 Okay. 183 00:11:23,806 --> 00:11:25,809 I'm on it. 184 00:11:44,148 --> 00:11:45,588 My part is done. 185 00:11:45,630 --> 00:11:47,109 The algo will now zig when it used to zag. 186 00:11:47,151 --> 00:11:49,271 So, if all the rest goes according to plan-- 187 00:11:49,313 --> 00:11:51,594 Yeah, that's the if. 188 00:11:51,636 --> 00:11:55,678 You know, when all this is over, 189 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,122 I want you back with me, running things. 190 00:11:59,164 --> 00:12:01,124 It always feels like this between us at first 191 00:12:01,166 --> 00:12:03,168 because of the mind-meld thing. 192 00:12:04,209 --> 00:12:06,211 But then something happens. 193 00:12:06,932 --> 00:12:08,732 I think it'd be different now. 194 00:12:08,774 --> 00:12:10,374 I'm different. You are. 195 00:12:10,416 --> 00:12:13,137 We have a concrete goal in mind for you, 196 00:12:13,179 --> 00:12:14,979 so there'd be a defined exit. 197 00:12:15,021 --> 00:12:17,021 Then you could go do all the positive things 198 00:12:17,063 --> 00:12:18,743 that you're destined for. 199 00:12:18,785 --> 00:12:20,505 Won't be forever. 200 00:12:20,547 --> 00:12:22,989 But I think it'd be very, very good for everyone. 201 00:12:24,871 --> 00:12:28,235 You and me, together again, kid. 202 00:12:29,636 --> 00:12:31,799 I'll give it real consideration. 203 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:34,922 You do that. 204 00:12:49,257 --> 00:12:52,298 The president's been looking forward to this, Mr. Prince. 205 00:12:52,340 --> 00:12:54,060 We should be up at the cabin in a few minutes. 206 00:12:54,102 --> 00:12:56,104 Sounds good. 207 00:13:03,713 --> 00:13:05,472 All capital's now deployed. 208 00:13:05,514 --> 00:13:07,595 Thank God we're off the sidelines. 209 00:13:07,637 --> 00:13:10,558 Not that we can make shit in this low-margin stuff. 210 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:11,919 Hey, it's what the algo dictated, 211 00:13:11,961 --> 00:13:13,401 it's what we got. 212 00:13:13,443 --> 00:13:14,682 Chill and scroll Variant News 213 00:13:14,724 --> 00:13:16,726 for ideas or something. 214 00:13:25,255 --> 00:13:27,936 Something is amiss at the Circle K. 215 00:13:27,978 --> 00:13:32,301 As in, there is cash in a long-dormant account. 216 00:13:32,343 --> 00:13:33,743 A lot of cash. 217 00:13:33,785 --> 00:13:35,945 All funds are invested. What account? 218 00:13:35,987 --> 00:13:37,989 Unclear. 219 00:13:40,712 --> 00:13:43,032 Must be some reserve the algo dictated 220 00:13:43,074 --> 00:13:44,714 be held back for optimum timing. 221 00:13:44,756 --> 00:13:46,356 And Mike and Scooter mentioned something about it. 222 00:13:46,398 --> 00:13:47,557 I'll check it out. 223 00:13:47,599 --> 00:13:49,199 I also couldn't help but notice 224 00:13:49,241 --> 00:13:51,481 a bit of a concentration in the energy sector 225 00:13:51,523 --> 00:13:52,763 in the portfolio. 226 00:13:52,805 --> 00:13:54,004 We should alert the brass. 227 00:13:54,046 --> 00:13:55,245 You're into allocation now? 228 00:13:55,287 --> 00:13:57,368 A falcon sees what he sees. 229 00:13:57,410 --> 00:13:59,410 You sound like someone who thinks they know better 230 00:13:59,452 --> 00:14:01,132 than the Trojan Defense algorithm. 231 00:14:01,174 --> 00:14:02,693 Maybe you should have a meeting about that 232 00:14:02,735 --> 00:14:04,737 with leadership when they're back. 233 00:14:15,229 --> 00:14:17,189 The press start whacking the sector yet? 234 00:14:17,231 --> 00:14:19,031 No. It's quiet so far. 235 00:14:19,073 --> 00:14:20,392 This whole thing doesn't work if-- 236 00:14:20,434 --> 00:14:21,834 Chuck will get it done. 237 00:14:23,277 --> 00:14:24,957 Hold up. 238 00:14:24,999 --> 00:14:26,679 Posts are starting to hit. 239 00:14:26,721 --> 00:14:30,002 Fintwit and the other socials are getting into the act. 240 00:14:30,044 --> 00:14:32,285 Business press, the FJ, bulletins are landing. 241 00:14:32,327 --> 00:14:33,806 - There we go. - Nice. 242 00:14:33,848 --> 00:14:35,568 They're starting to take bets on sanctions, 243 00:14:35,610 --> 00:14:38,451 and when CEOs are gonna get hauled in front of Congress. 244 00:14:38,493 --> 00:14:40,053 That must be setting off some alarm bells 245 00:14:40,095 --> 00:14:41,374 over at Mike Prince Capital, huh? 246 00:14:41,416 --> 00:14:42,856 The account's available to you. 247 00:14:42,898 --> 00:14:44,137 You poised and ready for when it's time? 248 00:14:44,179 --> 00:14:45,859 Hell yes, I'm ready. 249 00:14:45,901 --> 00:14:47,221 I'm as sharp as a bell. 250 00:14:47,263 --> 00:14:48,902 I mean, as clear as a-- 251 00:14:48,944 --> 00:14:50,947 We know what you mean. 252 00:14:51,948 --> 00:14:55,229 The stories about collusion in the natural gas sector 253 00:14:55,271 --> 00:14:57,391 are starting to hit the financial press. 254 00:14:57,433 --> 00:14:59,233 Ain't that the way it goes. 255 00:14:59,275 --> 00:15:01,796 You tell a group of people, government attorneys no less, 256 00:15:01,838 --> 00:15:03,838 to be quiet about something, and it's on the news sites 257 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:05,160 20 minutes later. 258 00:15:05,202 --> 00:15:08,203 -Wouldn't you know it. -Shocked. 259 00:15:08,245 --> 00:15:10,247 We'll get a fainting couch moved in. 260 00:15:13,210 --> 00:15:16,652 It's like, if I could turn this fucking Bloomberg upside down, 261 00:15:16,694 --> 00:15:19,094 all the positions would be headed in the right direction. 262 00:15:19,136 --> 00:15:21,577 These are major fucking hits we are taking. 263 00:15:21,619 --> 00:15:23,339 What can we blow out of right now? 264 00:15:23,381 --> 00:15:25,261 I'm checking the risk algo. This'll self-correct. 265 00:15:25,303 --> 00:15:26,863 We are well within the parameters. 266 00:15:26,905 --> 00:15:28,905 Self-correct my ass. 267 00:15:28,947 --> 00:15:31,908 Nat gas stocks are cratering, pulling us down with them. 268 00:15:31,950 --> 00:15:34,671 This bloodbath gets any worse, they're gonna halt these stocks. 269 00:15:34,713 --> 00:15:36,193 There's no way the exchange 270 00:15:36,235 --> 00:15:37,834 wants to answer to the SEC on this. 271 00:15:37,876 --> 00:15:40,077 -We gotta make moves. -Our moves are prescribed. 272 00:15:40,119 --> 00:15:42,760 We've got the infant car seat of algos protecting us. 273 00:15:42,802 --> 00:15:44,804 Just hang tight for the turnaround. 274 00:15:50,930 --> 00:15:52,330 Presenting Kate Sacker, 275 00:15:52,372 --> 00:15:54,572 formerly of the Southern District. 276 00:15:54,614 --> 00:15:56,494 Formerly of the attorney general's office. 277 00:15:56,536 --> 00:16:00,701 Presently general counsel of Michael Prince Capital. 278 00:16:17,519 --> 00:16:21,200 Miss Sacker, it occurs to me that in a very short time, 279 00:16:21,242 --> 00:16:24,924 your political prospects will be in tatters. 280 00:16:24,966 --> 00:16:29,890 But turning that around need not be a laborious process. 281 00:16:29,932 --> 00:16:31,531 You have ideas on that front? 282 00:16:31,573 --> 00:16:33,053 I do. 283 00:16:33,095 --> 00:16:34,855 The very fact that you were willing 284 00:16:34,897 --> 00:16:37,097 to sacrifice your ambitions marks you 285 00:16:37,139 --> 00:16:40,461 as the exact person we all need in office. 286 00:16:40,503 --> 00:16:43,344 It's who you were when we first met. 287 00:16:43,386 --> 00:16:45,867 And you've found your way back. 288 00:16:45,909 --> 00:16:47,909 So, what's the path? 289 00:16:47,951 --> 00:16:50,474 Because you're the person I want guiding me now. 290 00:16:52,436 --> 00:16:55,797 The path would entail a return to SDNY, a pay cut, 291 00:16:55,839 --> 00:16:58,640 and perhaps some more sedate 292 00:16:58,682 --> 00:17:01,003 clothing choices, unfortunately. 293 00:17:01,045 --> 00:17:02,845 But some high-profile cases. 294 00:17:02,887 --> 00:17:04,086 Crusader-type stuff. 295 00:17:04,128 --> 00:17:05,848 You can have your pick. 296 00:17:05,890 --> 00:17:08,170 The kind of cases that bolster and burnish a reputation. 297 00:17:08,212 --> 00:17:10,533 The kind that people in these offices 298 00:17:10,575 --> 00:17:13,538 have been using as a springboard for generations. 299 00:17:15,380 --> 00:17:16,699 Pencil me in. 300 00:17:18,744 --> 00:17:21,745 You crusaded to make this happen, and now it will. 301 00:17:21,787 --> 00:17:23,306 Our visitor is here? That's the knock? 302 00:17:23,348 --> 00:17:25,269 Believe so. You want to open it? 303 00:17:25,311 --> 00:17:28,194 Well, he knows the way in. You know the way in! Come on in. 304 00:17:32,879 --> 00:17:37,642 I did not expect to hear your voice or see you, Kate. 305 00:17:37,684 --> 00:17:39,844 Chuck didn't mention it with the invite. 306 00:17:39,886 --> 00:17:42,046 Wouldn't be a surprise party without the surprise. 307 00:17:42,088 --> 00:17:44,211 Or without gifts. 308 00:17:54,381 --> 00:17:57,703 You guys went and did it. You reinstated my law license. 309 00:17:57,745 --> 00:18:01,587 Somehow got around the mandatory seven-year wait. 310 00:18:01,629 --> 00:18:04,110 Uh, we might've hurried the process along a bit, yes. 311 00:18:04,152 --> 00:18:07,674 But you applied and got the recommendations 312 00:18:07,716 --> 00:18:09,716 and did the work. 313 00:18:09,758 --> 00:18:11,878 But you paid the fee, didn't you? 314 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:13,922 Who knows? Important thing, it's paid. 315 00:18:17,446 --> 00:18:18,645 I'm moved. 316 00:18:18,687 --> 00:18:22,449 I find this...moving. 317 00:18:22,491 --> 00:18:24,892 We look forward to seeing you across the aisle in court. 318 00:18:24,934 --> 00:18:26,293 I don't. 319 00:18:26,335 --> 00:18:28,296 Yeah, let's just...not. 320 00:18:35,145 --> 00:18:36,744 Before you quit that hibachi, 321 00:18:36,786 --> 00:18:39,109 save Chuck and me a seat for one last fantail shrimp. 322 00:18:41,632 --> 00:18:44,152 You know, fantail shrimp are a different thing. 323 00:18:44,194 --> 00:18:46,595 One's a Chinese delicacy, the other-- 324 00:18:46,637 --> 00:18:51,040 Oh, you... know that, don't you? 325 00:18:51,082 --> 00:18:53,642 Okay. Bye. Thanks for this. 326 00:18:53,684 --> 00:18:55,324 Bye. 327 00:19:07,379 --> 00:19:09,381 That was really... 328 00:19:10,102 --> 00:19:11,622 If someone asks me if anything fazes me, 329 00:19:11,664 --> 00:19:14,064 I can no longer say I am unfazed. 330 00:19:14,106 --> 00:19:15,986 That fazed me. 331 00:19:16,028 --> 00:19:17,508 Never get used to it. 332 00:19:17,550 --> 00:19:20,313 - Pretty G-D cool. - Sir? Your phones. 333 00:19:22,875 --> 00:19:24,075 Gentlemen. 334 00:19:30,684 --> 00:19:32,284 Uh, you're a few minutes late 335 00:19:32,326 --> 00:19:34,646 for me to ask the president to pardon you, Axe. 336 00:19:34,688 --> 00:19:36,648 No, Mike, I am right on time. 337 00:19:36,690 --> 00:19:38,610 And I'm glad you got your audience, 338 00:19:38,652 --> 00:19:40,853 'cause that's the closest you'll get to that office. 339 00:19:40,895 --> 00:19:43,656 Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life. 340 00:19:43,698 --> 00:19:47,460 Mike. Look, Mike. 341 00:19:47,502 --> 00:19:49,462 Well, that can't be right. That's got to be a hack. 342 00:19:49,504 --> 00:19:50,863 -It says-- -Yeah. 343 00:19:50,905 --> 00:19:52,705 That the entire portfolio is wiped out. 344 00:19:52,747 --> 00:19:55,388 Whatever you think you're doing, it's not gonna work. 345 00:19:55,430 --> 00:19:58,553 Not "doing," Mike. Done. 346 00:20:07,443 --> 00:20:09,603 Getting into the portfolio now. 347 00:20:09,645 --> 00:20:11,485 Have the chopper blades spinning when we get there. 348 00:20:11,527 --> 00:20:14,168 Scooter, you'll go from the heliport right to the SEC, 349 00:20:14,210 --> 00:20:16,212 -get this cleared up. -Got it. 350 00:20:17,814 --> 00:20:19,816 It's not letting me do anything. 351 00:20:21,378 --> 00:20:22,737 I'm locked out. 352 00:20:22,779 --> 00:20:23,978 Drive! 353 00:20:30,547 --> 00:20:32,267 -Fun. -Well, it's about that time. 354 00:20:32,309 --> 00:20:34,470 -I'm ready. -This part should be-- 355 00:20:34,512 --> 00:20:36,191 -Exhilarating? -Delightful? 356 00:20:36,233 --> 00:20:40,116 I was gonna say "fucking nuts," but yeah, all of it. 357 00:20:40,158 --> 00:20:42,280 Yep. Let's go. 358 00:20:45,844 --> 00:20:47,846 This is a... 359 00:20:48,326 --> 00:20:50,609 weird thing to say to a peer, but... 360 00:20:51,610 --> 00:20:53,129 I'm proud of you. 361 00:20:53,171 --> 00:20:56,933 Regardless of whatever we pull off or don't. 362 00:20:56,975 --> 00:20:59,138 The end result here isn't really in doubt. 363 00:21:00,459 --> 00:21:01,939 So that's the country's future. 364 00:21:01,981 --> 00:21:03,983 What about your future? 365 00:21:05,064 --> 00:21:06,303 I'd ask you same. 366 00:21:08,908 --> 00:21:11,589 You know, I didn't think going on as before-- 367 00:21:11,631 --> 00:21:14,953 either version of before, for either of us-- 368 00:21:14,995 --> 00:21:16,234 was gonna be an option. 369 00:21:16,276 --> 00:21:18,516 Yes. And yet the temptation. 370 00:21:18,558 --> 00:21:20,559 Isn't that the thing. 371 00:21:20,601 --> 00:21:22,921 You know, if you had looked at each of us 372 00:21:22,963 --> 00:21:24,523 the day before we got into this business, 373 00:21:24,565 --> 00:21:26,004 you would have said, "Ah, there's the one. 374 00:21:26,046 --> 00:21:28,047 There's the thread that can go 375 00:21:28,089 --> 00:21:31,452 through the smallest eye of the smallest needle." 376 00:21:33,895 --> 00:21:36,055 -Alas. -No. Yes. Alas. 377 00:21:36,097 --> 00:21:38,217 But perhaps this gives us the chance 378 00:21:38,259 --> 00:21:39,739 to pull up out of the nosedive. 379 00:21:39,781 --> 00:21:42,101 Problem is, the money does the same thing 380 00:21:42,143 --> 00:21:44,986 that flying through the clouds without instruments does. 381 00:21:45,988 --> 00:21:47,868 You can't tell which way is up, 382 00:21:47,910 --> 00:21:49,830 which is down, 383 00:21:49,872 --> 00:21:51,952 and you don't know you're spinning until it's too late. 384 00:21:51,994 --> 00:21:53,594 Unless you have a great co-pilot 385 00:21:53,636 --> 00:21:55,035 who's monitoring the instruments. 386 00:21:55,077 --> 00:21:56,717 Thanks for being mine. 387 00:21:56,759 --> 00:21:59,202 Even when I thought I wanted to fly solo. 388 00:22:00,523 --> 00:22:02,283 Same, Taylor. 389 00:22:02,325 --> 00:22:04,327 Right back at you. 390 00:22:10,494 --> 00:22:12,974 The chair of the SEC is expecting you. 391 00:22:13,016 --> 00:22:16,178 You need to go over there and get on an open line 392 00:22:16,220 --> 00:22:17,659 with the heads of the exchanges, 393 00:22:17,701 --> 00:22:19,501 and with a steady but firm hand 394 00:22:19,543 --> 00:22:22,464 ensure that no trading halts are instituted. 395 00:22:22,506 --> 00:22:24,386 And that no trades are reversed. 396 00:22:24,428 --> 00:22:26,469 To be sure, because no doubt they'll come asking. 397 00:22:26,511 --> 00:22:29,151 -Demanding. -That's why you need to do it. 398 00:22:29,193 --> 00:22:33,876 I'll get it all done. And while I say this with great affection, 399 00:22:33,918 --> 00:22:36,479 I look forward to not working together with you 400 00:22:36,521 --> 00:22:38,441 for a good long while, Chuck. 401 00:22:38,483 --> 00:22:40,485 As do I, Miss Mahar. 402 00:22:59,105 --> 00:23:01,187 Find me Wendy fucking Rhoades. 403 00:23:03,950 --> 00:23:05,953 She's actually here? 404 00:23:17,365 --> 00:23:19,885 What is so fucking wrong about me 405 00:23:19,927 --> 00:23:23,409 that you're sure I shouldn't be fucking president? 406 00:23:23,451 --> 00:23:25,371 Why don't we start with how you act 407 00:23:25,413 --> 00:23:27,293 when things don't go your fucking way. 408 00:23:27,335 --> 00:23:31,019 Now multiply that by a factor of your finger on the trigger. 409 00:23:45,515 --> 00:23:47,315 You can all do me the courtesy 410 00:23:47,357 --> 00:23:50,760 of getting the fuck out of my office before... 411 00:23:53,403 --> 00:23:56,284 Another rough-and-tumble day on Wall Street, I see. 412 00:23:56,326 --> 00:23:57,846 Governor, uh, much to talk about here, 413 00:23:57,888 --> 00:23:59,487 but I have something to deal with first. 414 00:23:59,529 --> 00:24:01,570 Not so much, I'm afraid. 415 00:24:01,612 --> 00:24:03,412 Hi, Axe. 416 00:24:03,454 --> 00:24:05,456 I want to thank you for your counsel. 417 00:24:07,178 --> 00:24:09,220 Oh, shit. 418 00:24:10,661 --> 00:24:14,664 So, aside from the best veal in the city, 419 00:24:14,706 --> 00:24:16,586 what can you really offer me? 420 00:24:16,628 --> 00:24:18,948 A revived candidacy 421 00:24:18,990 --> 00:24:22,113 and an open road to the nomination. 422 00:24:26,358 --> 00:24:27,878 Truth is, 423 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:29,760 whatever he proposes, 424 00:24:29,802 --> 00:24:32,202 I could never be his VP, 425 00:24:32,244 --> 00:24:34,725 because I never want him to be president. 426 00:24:34,767 --> 00:24:36,447 Not after what he said about nukes. 427 00:24:36,489 --> 00:24:38,809 The way he never gets there 428 00:24:38,851 --> 00:24:41,012 is by you joining his ticket now. 429 00:24:41,054 --> 00:24:43,775 When he topples, you'll move up. 430 00:24:43,817 --> 00:24:46,137 You won't have to wait very long, 431 00:24:46,179 --> 00:24:48,221 but you got to do it just as I say. 432 00:24:50,303 --> 00:24:52,386 See, we need to get him off the grid. 433 00:24:56,190 --> 00:24:58,470 Mike, I'm here to let you know I'm out, 434 00:24:58,512 --> 00:25:01,073 as in off your ticket. 435 00:25:01,115 --> 00:25:03,035 But very much still in the race. 436 00:25:03,077 --> 00:25:05,998 I am reaffirming my own candidacy shortly, 437 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,640 and I'll be taking back my supporters, 438 00:25:07,682 --> 00:25:09,162 my campaign apparatus. 439 00:25:09,204 --> 00:25:11,524 You're making a rash decision here. 440 00:25:11,566 --> 00:25:13,568 Bradford, don't walk out on me. 441 00:25:15,090 --> 00:25:16,970 I'm still a viable candidate. 442 00:25:17,012 --> 00:25:18,411 The nation is ready to follow me. 443 00:25:18,453 --> 00:25:20,494 You saw me with the president. 444 00:25:20,536 --> 00:25:22,576 I'm ready for this. It's my time. 445 00:25:22,618 --> 00:25:24,057 I don't think so, Mike. 446 00:25:24,099 --> 00:25:25,659 It's never happened that the whole premise 447 00:25:25,701 --> 00:25:26,980 for a candidacy has been erased. 448 00:25:27,022 --> 00:25:29,143 But today... it happened. 449 00:25:29,185 --> 00:25:31,265 You were the self-made rich candidate, 450 00:25:31,307 --> 00:25:33,187 and now you're not. 451 00:25:33,229 --> 00:25:34,989 There's no coming back from this. 452 00:25:35,031 --> 00:25:36,471 Not in this election cycle, anyway. 453 00:25:36,513 --> 00:25:38,192 I get it. 454 00:25:38,234 --> 00:25:41,356 The consultant jumps off the sinking ship like a rat. 455 00:25:41,398 --> 00:25:44,199 Can't catch any air once you're underwater. 456 00:25:44,241 --> 00:25:46,281 If you find yourself at loose ends, Bradford, 457 00:25:46,323 --> 00:25:49,164 Wendy Rhoades did tip me to your skills, 458 00:25:49,206 --> 00:25:51,368 and I have a spot for you. 459 00:25:52,690 --> 00:25:54,570 Were you with them? 460 00:25:54,612 --> 00:25:56,614 Nope. 461 00:25:57,295 --> 00:25:59,297 Nope. 462 00:25:59,617 --> 00:26:01,978 But, uh, I am going with her. 463 00:26:02,020 --> 00:26:05,702 Well, welcome aboard a very seaworthy ship. 464 00:26:05,744 --> 00:26:07,423 Glad to be aboard, Governor. 465 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,479 And? 466 00:26:22,521 --> 00:26:24,281 Exchanges won't be halting any trading. 467 00:26:24,323 --> 00:26:26,524 The SEC won't have the exchanges reverse the trades. 468 00:26:26,566 --> 00:26:28,246 They're honoring them. 469 00:26:28,288 --> 00:26:30,888 In the face of blatant sabotage and market manipulation? 470 00:26:30,930 --> 00:26:32,570 They said there was a federal investigation 471 00:26:32,612 --> 00:26:33,932 into collusion in the sector. 472 00:26:33,974 --> 00:26:35,814 Chuck Rhoades, no doubt. 473 00:26:35,856 --> 00:26:38,016 And that it was their mandate to protect the counterparties 474 00:26:38,058 --> 00:26:39,618 to all our trades. 475 00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:41,139 Who is the "they" besides the SEC chair 476 00:26:41,181 --> 00:26:42,461 who's shoveling this shit? 477 00:26:42,503 --> 00:26:43,702 Dave Mahar was there, 478 00:26:43,744 --> 00:26:45,063 in various capacities. 479 00:26:45,105 --> 00:26:47,108 Goddamn fix is in across the board. 480 00:26:50,071 --> 00:26:53,953 How is it that all of the firm's capital, levered three to one, 481 00:26:53,995 --> 00:26:56,155 got concentrated into six nat gas stocks 482 00:26:56,197 --> 00:26:58,878 that all happened to be under investigation 483 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,960 for an international scandal? 484 00:27:01,002 --> 00:27:03,123 And then we bottom-ticked the market on the liquidation, 485 00:27:03,165 --> 00:27:04,724 leaving us completely wiped out? 486 00:27:04,766 --> 00:27:06,006 Worse than wiped out. 487 00:27:06,048 --> 00:27:07,687 Actually, we went negative equity. 488 00:27:07,729 --> 00:27:09,369 The risk management algo set the parameters 489 00:27:09,411 --> 00:27:13,053 as per your orders, and... we never disobey. 490 00:27:13,095 --> 00:27:15,256 Must've been a glitch which, I'm sorry to say, Mike, 491 00:27:15,298 --> 00:27:16,737 lowered us below our capital reserves, 492 00:27:16,779 --> 00:27:18,539 prompting margin calls. 493 00:27:18,581 --> 00:27:20,381 And the fund was unable to meet the margin calls 494 00:27:20,423 --> 00:27:22,665 without pledging the private equity stakes. 495 00:27:29,433 --> 00:27:32,754 This is midnight at the costume ball. 496 00:27:32,796 --> 00:27:36,278 All masks off. I know it was you. 497 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,163 You played me with that loyalty act. 498 00:27:40,524 --> 00:27:42,725 And you, Kate, 499 00:27:42,767 --> 00:27:44,086 you ratted them out to me 500 00:27:44,128 --> 00:27:45,688 so that I'd trust you and Philip. 501 00:27:45,730 --> 00:27:47,850 And to ferret out the extent of the surveillance. 502 00:27:47,892 --> 00:27:49,492 You're too smart, Mike. 503 00:27:49,534 --> 00:27:51,054 We knew you'd catch them sooner or later. 504 00:27:51,096 --> 00:27:52,335 I suggested sooner. 505 00:27:52,377 --> 00:27:53,656 Disbarment be damned. 506 00:27:53,698 --> 00:27:55,338 I turned them in to you. 507 00:27:55,380 --> 00:27:57,901 If you recall, I recommended you fire the lot of them. 508 00:27:57,943 --> 00:27:59,302 What am I guilty of? 509 00:27:59,344 --> 00:28:01,346 Talking to them once you decided not to? 510 00:28:02,187 --> 00:28:03,627 How did they convince you? 511 00:28:03,669 --> 00:28:05,309 It couldn't have been money. 512 00:28:05,351 --> 00:28:08,152 Once they got me to see past my personal interests, 513 00:28:08,194 --> 00:28:10,875 my own political future, 514 00:28:10,917 --> 00:28:12,877 it was clear. 515 00:28:12,919 --> 00:28:14,478 How much did we leave on the table? 516 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:15,760 Besides hearts and guts? 517 00:28:15,802 --> 00:28:17,562 How much? 518 00:28:17,604 --> 00:28:19,804 Projections are, by the time the company's mature-- 519 00:28:19,846 --> 00:28:21,848 1.4 billion. 520 00:28:23,330 --> 00:28:25,050 You made sure we lost a big piece of business 521 00:28:25,092 --> 00:28:26,892 so the authority for the huge trades would go to Wags 522 00:28:26,934 --> 00:28:28,373 and then to Philip, 523 00:28:28,415 --> 00:28:29,815 the one person I could trust. 524 00:28:29,857 --> 00:28:31,136 Because he's mine. 525 00:28:31,178 --> 00:28:32,618 We lost that helium trade 526 00:28:32,660 --> 00:28:34,179 because we were unable to do a deal 527 00:28:34,221 --> 00:28:35,901 at that scale without your sign-off. 528 00:28:35,943 --> 00:28:38,023 What you took from that, all the subsequent decisions, 529 00:28:38,065 --> 00:28:39,625 those were yours and yours alone. 530 00:28:39,667 --> 00:28:41,587 I, uh...I hate to interrupt, 531 00:28:41,629 --> 00:28:43,631 but one of my favorite TV shows is on. 532 00:28:45,273 --> 00:28:47,994 And I heard the rumors, too, 533 00:28:48,036 --> 00:28:49,676 about corruption and collusion 534 00:28:49,718 --> 00:28:51,197 by the top American natural gas companies 535 00:28:51,239 --> 00:28:52,759 with some hostile nations. 536 00:28:52,801 --> 00:28:54,441 And there were leaks 537 00:28:54,483 --> 00:28:56,403 from various branches of law enforcement. 538 00:28:56,445 --> 00:28:57,925 But after a penetrating investigation 539 00:28:57,967 --> 00:29:00,047 by the Southern District of New York, 540 00:29:00,089 --> 00:29:03,971 these vicious rumors are just that: rumors. 541 00:29:04,013 --> 00:29:05,813 While actors from adversarial foreign governments 542 00:29:05,855 --> 00:29:07,935 did approach these companies 543 00:29:07,977 --> 00:29:10,058 in an attempt to convince them to hold back supply 544 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:11,859 and inflate prices, 545 00:29:11,901 --> 00:29:14,222 these entreaties were rebuffed. 546 00:29:14,264 --> 00:29:16,344 Forcefully. 547 00:29:16,386 --> 00:29:19,668 And so we are closing this investigation. 548 00:29:19,710 --> 00:29:22,671 These companies and this sector are healthy. 549 00:29:22,713 --> 00:29:24,273 Robust, even. 550 00:29:24,315 --> 00:29:26,034 Any short-term collateral damage 551 00:29:26,076 --> 00:29:27,916 that was done is unfortunate, 552 00:29:27,958 --> 00:29:31,080 but that is the nature of the free market. 553 00:29:31,122 --> 00:29:33,805 Those positions are all going to rebound... 554 00:29:34,846 --> 00:29:36,125 but you've sold them off. 555 00:29:36,167 --> 00:29:38,209 The algo directed they be sold off. 556 00:29:40,051 --> 00:29:43,213 My God. Comanche Gas H.O.D. 557 00:29:43,255 --> 00:29:44,895 Western Plains H.O.D. 558 00:29:44,937 --> 00:29:46,656 Marcellus Shale H.O.D. 559 00:29:46,698 --> 00:29:48,298 All going out at the high of the day. 560 00:29:48,340 --> 00:29:50,981 And we're completely sold? 561 00:29:51,023 --> 00:29:52,903 As U.S. Attorney Rhoades mentioned, 562 00:29:52,945 --> 00:29:54,945 there had been some rumors about collusion. 563 00:29:54,987 --> 00:29:57,067 We did our investigation, and we were very quickly able 564 00:29:57,109 --> 00:29:59,510 to gain cooperation from the companies in question, 565 00:29:59,552 --> 00:30:01,833 as they had nothing to hide. 566 00:30:01,875 --> 00:30:03,634 We are going to get to the source 567 00:30:03,676 --> 00:30:05,316 of these leaks and rumors, I promise you that. 568 00:30:05,358 --> 00:30:06,558 That is priority one. 569 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:07,839 I can take specific questions, 570 00:30:07,881 --> 00:30:09,080 as I'm sure there are many. 571 00:30:13,727 --> 00:30:16,448 The last time I was part of something this sweet, 572 00:30:16,490 --> 00:30:18,250 Gust Avrakotos and Charlie Wilson 573 00:30:18,292 --> 00:30:19,812 high-fived me at the end of it. 574 00:30:19,854 --> 00:30:21,574 Not sure even I have the security clearance 575 00:30:21,616 --> 00:30:22,935 to hear about that one right now. 576 00:30:22,977 --> 00:30:24,417 If it was anything like this, 577 00:30:24,459 --> 00:30:26,218 it must've floated you for quite a while. 578 00:30:26,260 --> 00:30:27,900 For a night. 579 00:30:27,942 --> 00:30:29,862 Next day, I was ready to get back to work. 580 00:30:29,904 --> 00:30:32,745 Which is why I have you two so close by at all times. 581 00:30:32,787 --> 00:30:34,828 Because I feel much the same. 582 00:30:34,870 --> 00:30:37,190 You know, Chuck, when you talked me into coming aboard at SDNY, 583 00:30:37,232 --> 00:30:38,431 you promised I'd feel this way. 584 00:30:38,473 --> 00:30:40,113 Like I actually helped 585 00:30:40,155 --> 00:30:42,075 to do something good. 586 00:30:42,117 --> 00:30:44,358 I want more of it. Need more. 587 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,599 We all do. 588 00:30:45,641 --> 00:30:47,481 And, like Allerd said, 589 00:30:47,523 --> 00:30:51,085 tomorrow we will get cracking on just those kinds of projects. 590 00:30:51,127 --> 00:30:53,848 But tonight, I'm gonna hang with my kids. 591 00:30:53,890 --> 00:30:56,651 Both of you go have fun, rest, or whatever it is you do 592 00:30:56,693 --> 00:30:58,413 when you're officially off the clock. 593 00:30:58,455 --> 00:30:59,894 Good call. Karl, 594 00:30:59,936 --> 00:31:01,816 you wanna come grab dinner with Taiga and me? 595 00:31:01,858 --> 00:31:05,580 Normally I don't like third-wheeling it, but... yes. 596 00:31:05,622 --> 00:31:07,903 Good. Good. Excellent. 597 00:31:07,945 --> 00:31:10,588 Excellent work all around. 598 00:31:15,633 --> 00:31:17,793 Scooter, I started with much less. 599 00:31:17,835 --> 00:31:19,835 We both did. 600 00:31:19,877 --> 00:31:22,600 Time to roll it back up again, my loyal friend. 601 00:31:27,125 --> 00:31:28,805 I'm sure you will, Mike. 602 00:31:28,847 --> 00:31:30,807 But you'll have to do it alone. 603 00:31:30,849 --> 00:31:32,851 It's time for me to go it on my own. 604 00:31:34,693 --> 00:31:36,333 I can't lose you. 605 00:31:36,375 --> 00:31:37,935 Not now. 606 00:31:37,977 --> 00:31:39,376 If I assess this for what it is, 607 00:31:39,418 --> 00:31:41,538 it was an expensive lesson-- 608 00:31:41,580 --> 00:31:43,060 very expensive-- 609 00:31:43,102 --> 00:31:45,343 in hubris and self-aggrandizement run amok. 610 00:31:45,385 --> 00:31:47,425 You know that's not what we set out to do. 611 00:31:47,467 --> 00:31:49,667 You know our intentions were of the highest aims, 612 00:31:49,709 --> 00:31:51,589 despite what those assholes down there think. 613 00:31:51,631 --> 00:31:54,032 But you have to know we suffered... 614 00:31:54,074 --> 00:31:55,633 drift, I guess you'd call it. 615 00:31:55,675 --> 00:31:57,716 A degree off on the compass heading 616 00:31:57,758 --> 00:31:59,157 on a long enough journey, 617 00:31:59,199 --> 00:32:00,999 you end up far from your destination. 618 00:32:01,041 --> 00:32:03,161 You end up lost. We did. 619 00:32:03,203 --> 00:32:04,843 I did. 620 00:32:04,885 --> 00:32:07,086 I failed to help you steer, 621 00:32:07,128 --> 00:32:08,647 and this is where we've landed. 622 00:32:08,689 --> 00:32:10,209 Broke and broken. 623 00:32:10,251 --> 00:32:13,653 Our mission was righteous. 624 00:32:13,695 --> 00:32:15,495 We just ran into a snag. 625 00:32:15,537 --> 00:32:17,577 Our mission is something I will be unpacking 626 00:32:17,619 --> 00:32:18,978 for a long time to come. 627 00:32:19,020 --> 00:32:21,981 I can't say I committed blindly to it. 628 00:32:22,023 --> 00:32:23,944 But I was blinded along the way 629 00:32:23,986 --> 00:32:26,306 by my sense of fealty. 630 00:32:26,348 --> 00:32:28,268 Loyalty to you. 631 00:32:28,310 --> 00:32:31,874 By your generosity, focus, brilliance. 632 00:32:33,756 --> 00:32:35,758 By our shared history. 633 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,602 In the end, the deal I made with myself was a someday deal. 634 00:32:41,644 --> 00:32:43,564 And that day came sooner than I imagined, 635 00:32:43,606 --> 00:32:44,926 and with harsher weather. 636 00:32:44,968 --> 00:32:47,651 But it's here all the same, so... 637 00:32:49,973 --> 00:32:51,975 Yeah. 638 00:32:52,536 --> 00:32:54,538 Done. 639 00:33:00,985 --> 00:33:03,267 Where does that leave me after all this? 640 00:33:04,949 --> 00:33:08,513 In a reflective place, after the swelling goes down. 641 00:33:09,554 --> 00:33:11,034 You accept that this happened. 642 00:33:11,076 --> 00:33:12,795 You figure out why. 643 00:33:12,837 --> 00:33:14,840 You go home and start over. 644 00:33:16,361 --> 00:33:20,446 As it ever has been for men like you over the centuries. 645 00:33:37,223 --> 00:33:39,744 You've orchestrated this thing 646 00:33:39,786 --> 00:33:42,067 like Phil Spector did "River Deep." 647 00:33:42,109 --> 00:33:45,430 Perhaps not who I'd have used to make the point, but, yes, 648 00:33:45,472 --> 00:33:47,873 we put together a wrecking crew and let them play, 649 00:33:47,915 --> 00:33:49,114 much as he did. 650 00:33:49,156 --> 00:33:51,797 Watched it all happening on here. 651 00:33:51,839 --> 00:33:53,719 Real toe-tapper. 652 00:33:53,761 --> 00:33:56,282 I assume you made sure to be invisible 653 00:33:56,324 --> 00:33:58,004 in the carrying out of your duties? 654 00:33:58,046 --> 00:34:00,046 Have you known me to be otherwise? 655 00:34:00,088 --> 00:34:01,768 Yes. Almost solely. 656 00:34:01,810 --> 00:34:05,091 So I need to know, Dad, that you covered your tracks 657 00:34:05,133 --> 00:34:08,054 when you planted the stories about the natural gas companies 658 00:34:08,096 --> 00:34:12,379 because I put someone good, and I mean very good, on this. 659 00:34:12,421 --> 00:34:14,901 Of course. You told me to cover my tracks, 660 00:34:14,943 --> 00:34:16,143 I covered my tracks. 661 00:34:16,185 --> 00:34:18,786 They will arrive at me 662 00:34:18,828 --> 00:34:21,949 after they find the... the grassy knoll gunman 663 00:34:21,991 --> 00:34:24,632 and who killed Jimmy Hoffa. 664 00:34:24,674 --> 00:34:26,676 Good. Real good. 665 00:34:27,597 --> 00:34:29,277 Fantastic. 666 00:34:29,319 --> 00:34:31,321 -I should get back to it. -Chuck. 667 00:34:32,923 --> 00:34:35,165 You did great. 668 00:34:36,927 --> 00:34:38,927 You marshaled all resources. 669 00:34:38,969 --> 00:34:41,330 You partnered with a man 670 00:34:41,372 --> 00:34:43,732 you'd tangled with for almost a decade. 671 00:34:43,774 --> 00:34:46,415 You set that aside to take out a bigger threat. 672 00:34:46,457 --> 00:34:49,658 That's advanced. That's elevated. 673 00:34:49,700 --> 00:34:51,420 That's the kind of thing that gives me comfort 674 00:34:51,462 --> 00:34:53,102 for what happens after I'm gone. 675 00:34:54,786 --> 00:34:57,266 Let's hope that's a long time from now. 676 00:34:57,308 --> 00:34:58,668 It'll be when it'll be. 677 00:34:58,710 --> 00:35:00,712 The point is... 678 00:35:01,873 --> 00:35:04,196 I now know that you'll be fine. 679 00:35:05,998 --> 00:35:08,801 You've learned all the lessons I have to teach and then some. 680 00:35:10,162 --> 00:35:12,164 It's all inside you. 681 00:35:13,406 --> 00:35:14,965 You know, Pop, I've long held 682 00:35:15,007 --> 00:35:19,891 that the two heaviest letters in the alphabet 683 00:35:19,933 --> 00:35:21,853 were J and R. 684 00:35:21,895 --> 00:35:26,137 But now, after what we've been through together in this last, 685 00:35:26,179 --> 00:35:28,462 they've started to feel just right. 686 00:35:40,194 --> 00:35:42,915 Now that you're...you're wearing the Junior mantle easier... 687 00:35:42,957 --> 00:35:44,717 Mm. 688 00:35:44,759 --> 00:35:49,041 ...maybe stop slumping about the shoulders when you walk. 689 00:35:49,083 --> 00:35:53,446 Have some personal pride in your gait, for Christ's sakes. 690 00:35:53,488 --> 00:35:55,610 You're still a Rhoades. 691 00:36:09,826 --> 00:36:12,186 Found these guys on the way in. 692 00:36:12,228 --> 00:36:16,270 We got the text inviting us to come see something special? 693 00:36:16,312 --> 00:36:17,552 What... 694 00:36:17,594 --> 00:36:19,596 um... 695 00:36:20,277 --> 00:36:22,279 What happened here? 696 00:36:28,926 --> 00:36:33,329 Mike, hear this in the manner I mean it. 697 00:36:33,371 --> 00:36:34,690 Not as a dig, 698 00:36:34,732 --> 00:36:36,892 or to rub your face in the situation. 699 00:36:36,934 --> 00:36:39,015 Not about that at all. 700 00:36:39,057 --> 00:36:40,977 But... 701 00:36:41,019 --> 00:36:43,299 I'd like to assume the lease to this place. 702 00:36:43,341 --> 00:36:44,701 Take it off your hands. 703 00:36:44,743 --> 00:36:46,985 Uh-huh. Of course you do. 704 00:36:51,390 --> 00:36:53,070 So this is it. 705 00:36:53,112 --> 00:36:55,672 Hey, man, endings are tough. 706 00:36:55,714 --> 00:36:57,837 Someone always ends up unsatisfied. 707 00:36:59,278 --> 00:37:01,280 Truer thing never said. 708 00:37:02,562 --> 00:37:06,043 I don't mind admitting I'm a bit rattled right now. 709 00:37:06,085 --> 00:37:08,087 Standing eight count. I'll get my wind back. 710 00:37:09,569 --> 00:37:12,690 You have to know I'm going to sue the lot of you 711 00:37:12,732 --> 00:37:15,133 and see to it that criminal charges are brought. 712 00:37:15,175 --> 00:37:16,735 I think you're gonna find a road to that 713 00:37:16,777 --> 00:37:19,498 that's very steep and slippery. 714 00:37:19,540 --> 00:37:21,019 And expensive, 715 00:37:21,061 --> 00:37:23,302 which may present some difficulty. 716 00:37:23,344 --> 00:37:25,344 But if you decide to persist, 717 00:37:25,386 --> 00:37:27,386 please refer all legal action 718 00:37:27,428 --> 00:37:30,669 to Orrin Bach here, my general counsel. 719 00:37:30,711 --> 00:37:33,392 You gonna finally come on and do this for me, Orrin? 720 00:37:33,434 --> 00:37:36,356 Why not? You'll take up all my time anyway, 721 00:37:36,398 --> 00:37:39,601 but... I'm delighted to make it official. 722 00:37:41,163 --> 00:37:44,446 So, yeah, Mike, this is what it's like to lose. 723 00:37:46,688 --> 00:37:48,048 I bet that felt good. 724 00:37:48,090 --> 00:37:50,092 That one did, yeah. 725 00:37:51,213 --> 00:37:53,173 I read all about your deposits 726 00:37:53,215 --> 00:37:56,016 in those black-owned banks through Killer Mike. 727 00:37:56,058 --> 00:37:57,818 You've still got about a hundred million 728 00:37:57,860 --> 00:37:59,500 in those accounts, don't you? 729 00:37:59,542 --> 00:38:00,741 Just about, yeah. 730 00:38:00,783 --> 00:38:02,503 Well, in Indiana, 731 00:38:02,545 --> 00:38:04,547 that's like being a billionaire. 732 00:38:07,350 --> 00:38:09,230 That's right. 733 00:38:09,272 --> 00:38:11,275 Yes, it is. 734 00:38:13,597 --> 00:38:15,797 You know what? 735 00:38:15,839 --> 00:38:17,679 Maybe I should be thanking all you bastards 736 00:38:17,721 --> 00:38:20,723 for giving me a chance to go out and do it all again. 737 00:38:20,765 --> 00:38:22,204 Spin it up. 738 00:38:22,246 --> 00:38:24,086 You're welcome, then. 739 00:38:24,128 --> 00:38:28,092 Did wonders for me when you put me in that very position. 740 00:38:43,789 --> 00:38:45,951 This country's built on second acts. 741 00:38:50,396 --> 00:38:52,156 And when you see mine, 742 00:38:52,198 --> 00:38:54,881 you'd better duck and fucking cover. 743 00:39:20,788 --> 00:39:23,752 I'm surprised to see so many long faces in here right now. 744 00:39:24,913 --> 00:39:27,073 Ain't you glad I'm back? 745 00:39:27,115 --> 00:39:28,995 Uh, well, we would be, 746 00:39:29,037 --> 00:39:31,518 but there's the little matter of the fact that all our money 747 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,281 got fucking wiped out with Prince's! 748 00:39:34,323 --> 00:39:36,325 Oh, is that the thing? 749 00:39:39,929 --> 00:39:41,529 Did it? 750 00:39:41,571 --> 00:39:43,130 What's on your mind, commander? 751 00:39:43,172 --> 00:39:44,972 You know I've had a hard time 752 00:39:45,014 --> 00:39:46,614 warming up to the plan. 753 00:39:46,656 --> 00:39:49,417 Siphoning the coffers of an enemy to near empty? 754 00:39:49,459 --> 00:39:51,539 I wouldn't imagine that would cause you such problems. 755 00:39:51,581 --> 00:39:53,541 No, Chuck, as much as I like the idea 756 00:39:53,583 --> 00:39:54,943 of Mike Prince going broke-- 757 00:39:54,985 --> 00:39:56,745 And believe me, I do-- 758 00:39:56,787 --> 00:40:00,028 I can't help but feeling this is your guitar solo. 759 00:40:00,070 --> 00:40:03,111 Now I'm fine guesting in a two-guitar band. 760 00:40:03,153 --> 00:40:04,873 A supergroup, if you think about it. 761 00:40:04,915 --> 00:40:06,755 Wow, you really are good at this, the ass-kissing. 762 00:40:06,797 --> 00:40:08,757 Hey, it's heartfelt. 763 00:40:08,799 --> 00:40:11,921 Okay, I know what's missing for me, 764 00:40:11,963 --> 00:40:14,043 and I'm ready to lay down my overdub now. 765 00:40:14,085 --> 00:40:16,966 It's not enough to just break him. 766 00:40:17,008 --> 00:40:20,730 We gotta get everyone else rich in the process. 767 00:40:20,772 --> 00:40:22,852 Really rich. Wealthy, even. 768 00:40:22,894 --> 00:40:25,295 Well, that ups the degree of difficulty, doesn't it? 769 00:40:25,337 --> 00:40:28,659 Takes it from a straight bet to a daily double with an exacta. 770 00:40:28,701 --> 00:40:30,180 That's why the payout's so good. 771 00:40:30,222 --> 00:40:32,663 But how? If we crash the fund, it all goes. 772 00:40:32,705 --> 00:40:34,345 Doesn't have to. 773 00:40:34,387 --> 00:40:36,947 We have a little thang that's been laying fallow 774 00:40:36,989 --> 00:40:39,590 inside the structure of the company for a while now 775 00:40:39,632 --> 00:40:41,913 known as the Admirals Fund. 776 00:40:41,955 --> 00:40:43,995 -Tell 'em, Wags. -Little side pocket we had 777 00:40:44,037 --> 00:40:46,478 so the brass could enjoy the spoils of the best ideas. 778 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,882 Cherry-picking trades for a secret internal fund. 779 00:40:50,924 --> 00:40:53,805 That could look very bad. 780 00:40:53,847 --> 00:40:55,047 Fraudulent, even. 781 00:40:55,089 --> 00:40:56,889 In a certain light, maybe. 782 00:40:56,931 --> 00:41:00,252 But, as I say, it's dormant. 783 00:41:00,294 --> 00:41:02,535 Yeah, Chuck, we're well past that, aren't we? 784 00:41:02,577 --> 00:41:04,579 Bloodhound can't help blood-hounding. 785 00:41:05,540 --> 00:41:06,939 But he's all bark now, 786 00:41:06,981 --> 00:41:08,741 and I suppose we all need our motivators. 787 00:41:08,783 --> 00:41:10,785 Carry on. 788 00:41:11,586 --> 00:41:13,947 We're gonna siphon the employee money 789 00:41:13,989 --> 00:41:15,508 into the Admirals Fund, 790 00:41:15,550 --> 00:41:17,991 and when the basket of stocks hits rock-bottom, 791 00:41:18,033 --> 00:41:20,035 we're gonna buy them. 792 00:41:21,357 --> 00:41:24,037 So that's where we are now. 793 00:41:24,079 --> 00:41:26,961 If wiping out Prince was my masterpiece, 794 00:41:27,003 --> 00:41:30,885 putting the Admirals Fund with all your money in 795 00:41:30,927 --> 00:41:33,888 on the other side so we could take him out at the lows, 796 00:41:33,930 --> 00:41:36,292 that is my magnum opus. 797 00:41:39,616 --> 00:41:42,217 I've rarely seen a rocket ride like this one. 798 00:41:42,259 --> 00:41:44,499 There's nothing like government 799 00:41:44,541 --> 00:41:45,941 clearing these companies, 800 00:41:45,983 --> 00:41:47,342 giving them a clean bill of health, 801 00:41:47,384 --> 00:41:48,624 to send these stocks soaring 802 00:41:48,666 --> 00:41:50,065 right to the close. 803 00:41:50,107 --> 00:41:52,428 So that's what you're here to see, Ben. 804 00:41:52,470 --> 00:41:54,029 Tuk. 805 00:41:54,071 --> 00:41:56,031 All of you. 806 00:41:56,073 --> 00:41:58,194 Our shit didn't go down the tubes. 807 00:41:58,236 --> 00:42:01,557 Yeah. Even though you were too fucking mercenary to join me, 808 00:42:01,599 --> 00:42:03,601 I let it happen. 809 00:42:04,082 --> 00:42:06,404 We're in the Admirals Fund? 810 00:42:10,969 --> 00:42:12,409 We're in the fucking Admirals Fund? 811 00:42:12,451 --> 00:42:13,770 We're in the fucking Admirals Fund! 812 00:42:13,812 --> 00:42:15,853 -Oh, shit! -Fuck, yeah! 813 00:42:15,895 --> 00:42:17,775 We're in the Admirals Fund! 814 00:42:17,817 --> 00:42:20,177 We're in the Admirals Fund! 815 00:42:20,219 --> 00:42:22,179 Ah! 816 00:42:22,221 --> 00:42:24,784 Uh...am I? 817 00:42:26,986 --> 00:42:29,667 Because, you know, I-I had your backs the whole time. 818 00:42:29,709 --> 00:42:32,390 What the fuck happened to you? 819 00:42:32,432 --> 00:42:34,953 Spyros, you ran all the way to Camp David 820 00:42:34,995 --> 00:42:36,995 to try and warn Prince, didn't you? 821 00:42:37,037 --> 00:42:39,039 The Marine Guards wouldn't let me in. 822 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,080 They're not a good group to get pushy with. 823 00:42:42,122 --> 00:42:44,123 We included you anyway. 824 00:42:44,165 --> 00:42:46,285 I must be getting soft in my old age. 825 00:42:46,327 --> 00:42:48,407 So I'm not broke? 826 00:42:48,449 --> 00:42:50,609 - I'm actually... - Yeah. Rich. 827 00:42:50,651 --> 00:42:52,331 Very fucking rich. 828 00:42:55,697 --> 00:42:56,976 All of you lucky bastards 829 00:42:57,018 --> 00:42:59,459 are up 3X today and rising, 830 00:42:59,501 --> 00:43:00,981 thanks to Bobby Axelrod. 831 00:43:09,752 --> 00:43:12,032 In case any of you are wondering, 832 00:43:12,074 --> 00:43:15,556 you are now standing in the new headquarters of Axe Global! 833 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,760 And I am looking for intrepid souls 834 00:43:19,802 --> 00:43:21,963 who are willing to go out every day 835 00:43:22,005 --> 00:43:26,247 and kill for me in an epic quest for fucking alpha. 836 00:43:26,289 --> 00:43:28,810 So, who among you 837 00:43:28,852 --> 00:43:32,334 is ready to join me in my new assault on wealth? 838 00:43:32,376 --> 00:43:33,575 Who's with me? 839 00:43:35,259 --> 00:43:37,261 Yeah! 840 00:43:40,384 --> 00:43:42,665 Yeah! Yeah! 841 00:43:42,707 --> 00:43:45,430 Yeah! Come on! 842 00:43:58,123 --> 00:44:01,645 I heard those hyenas cheering down there. 843 00:44:01,687 --> 00:44:04,488 I assume Axelrod threw them some fresh meat. 844 00:44:04,530 --> 00:44:06,130 More or less. 845 00:44:06,172 --> 00:44:08,174 I also assume you're staying. 846 00:44:09,575 --> 00:44:11,375 Perfect. 847 00:44:11,417 --> 00:44:12,937 I warned you once, back then, 848 00:44:12,979 --> 00:44:15,059 that things would get dirty and dangerous. 849 00:44:15,101 --> 00:44:17,181 You more than embraced that, though, didn't you? 850 00:44:17,223 --> 00:44:19,264 Joining up with that backstabbing marauder 851 00:44:19,306 --> 00:44:20,585 is the perfect post for you. 852 00:44:20,627 --> 00:44:21,987 It's a wonder you didn't warn me 853 00:44:22,029 --> 00:44:23,108 what kind of animal you'd become. 854 00:44:23,150 --> 00:44:24,469 Let me stop you there, 855 00:44:24,511 --> 00:44:25,751 before you really say some stuff 856 00:44:25,793 --> 00:44:27,112 we're both gonna regret 857 00:44:27,154 --> 00:44:28,714 at the next holiday get-together. 858 00:44:28,756 --> 00:44:31,156 The holidays? You have got to be kidding me. 859 00:44:31,198 --> 00:44:33,118 Hey, you're still my uncle. Family. 860 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,602 So, you didn't take the ride with us. 861 00:44:36,644 --> 00:44:38,444 That wasn't something I could swing. 862 00:44:38,486 --> 00:44:40,528 But I couldn't let you take the fall with Prince either. 863 00:44:41,569 --> 00:44:43,571 You're still a rich man. 864 00:44:50,939 --> 00:44:52,941 That is your account. 865 00:44:54,543 --> 00:44:55,943 Kept it sidelined. 866 00:44:55,985 --> 00:44:58,505 Totally out of the action today. 867 00:44:58,547 --> 00:45:00,548 You're still at about a hundred mill. 868 00:45:00,590 --> 00:45:02,710 Like Prince ended up. 869 00:45:02,752 --> 00:45:04,754 There's something poetic in that. 870 00:45:06,676 --> 00:45:10,638 I have gone from a rich man, to a pauper, 871 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,843 back to a rich man in the course of a single day. 872 00:45:14,885 --> 00:45:17,728 And it has made me realize what I need to do with my life. 873 00:45:19,209 --> 00:45:21,211 Pick up that baton for real. 874 00:45:22,893 --> 00:45:24,373 My own. 875 00:45:24,415 --> 00:45:26,857 One that belongs to me, not some legend's. 876 00:45:27,979 --> 00:45:29,538 Find myself on the stage 877 00:45:29,580 --> 00:45:31,661 and in front of an orchestra. 878 00:45:31,703 --> 00:45:33,543 You'll do it, maestro. 879 00:45:33,585 --> 00:45:35,587 I know you will. 880 00:45:53,085 --> 00:45:54,565 Impressive work, man. 881 00:45:54,607 --> 00:45:56,287 Well, you played an integral part in it. 882 00:45:56,329 --> 00:45:57,808 No way it all happens without-- 883 00:45:57,850 --> 00:45:59,530 No, I just mean climbing up on that desk. 884 00:45:59,572 --> 00:46:01,412 -Oh. -Impressive. 885 00:46:01,454 --> 00:46:04,335 Christ, I'd need some Doan's for the back if I even tried. 886 00:46:04,377 --> 00:46:05,817 Don't fool yourself. 887 00:46:05,859 --> 00:46:08,099 I'm not the same guy I was when we first met. 888 00:46:08,141 --> 00:46:10,622 I was worried I was gonna roll my ankle on the dismount. 889 00:46:10,664 --> 00:46:12,666 Yeah. Sure. 890 00:46:14,428 --> 00:46:16,428 You're not the same guy, either. 891 00:46:16,470 --> 00:46:18,591 -Didn't like that version. -Hmm. 892 00:46:18,633 --> 00:46:20,392 But the fella standing in front of me... 893 00:46:20,434 --> 00:46:22,114 Yeah, I know it. 894 00:46:22,156 --> 00:46:25,718 Something about going through the wars with someone. 895 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,042 Yeah, you learn a lot facing a man, battling against him. 896 00:46:29,084 --> 00:46:30,483 But when you throw in together... 897 00:46:30,525 --> 00:46:32,205 Absolutely. 898 00:46:32,247 --> 00:46:35,290 Yeah, like Clapton and Winwood in Blind Faith. 899 00:46:36,291 --> 00:46:37,731 Problem is, 900 00:46:37,773 --> 00:46:40,254 that kind of talent in one group 901 00:46:40,296 --> 00:46:42,576 can only ever last one album. 902 00:46:42,618 --> 00:46:44,138 Well, I think the heroin and blow 903 00:46:44,180 --> 00:46:45,619 had more to do with that breakup, 904 00:46:45,661 --> 00:46:47,341 but I get your point. 905 00:46:47,383 --> 00:46:49,263 At least they got that one great moment on tape, 906 00:46:49,305 --> 00:46:52,266 together in the studio, before it blew apart. 907 00:46:52,308 --> 00:46:53,828 Everything does. 908 00:46:53,870 --> 00:46:55,710 Eventually. 909 00:46:55,752 --> 00:46:57,912 Things end. 910 00:46:57,954 --> 00:47:00,837 As our time working together has to. 911 00:47:02,679 --> 00:47:06,483 I'm going back to doing what I do, so... 912 00:47:08,165 --> 00:47:10,526 you'd best run this place right. 913 00:47:10,568 --> 00:47:14,210 I once told you what a badge does to a man. 914 00:47:14,252 --> 00:47:16,692 And as in almost everything, 915 00:47:16,734 --> 00:47:19,217 you were right, Robby. 916 00:47:21,740 --> 00:47:23,980 To that end, Carlos. 917 00:47:24,022 --> 00:47:26,102 And Wags is really gonna hate that I'm doing this, 918 00:47:26,144 --> 00:47:30,747 but I must have got caught up in the spirit of togetherness. 919 00:47:32,471 --> 00:47:34,473 Here. 920 00:47:38,117 --> 00:47:40,317 You're hoping this buys you some indulgences. 921 00:47:40,359 --> 00:47:42,361 Damn straight I am. 922 00:47:44,764 --> 00:47:46,766 Thanks, Axe. 923 00:47:47,767 --> 00:47:49,769 For all of it. 924 00:47:50,170 --> 00:47:51,369 My pleasure. 925 00:47:51,411 --> 00:47:53,852 And to you too, Chuck. 926 00:48:11,432 --> 00:48:12,992 I thought it'd convince you, 927 00:48:13,034 --> 00:48:16,075 that all this today would be a good pitch. 928 00:48:16,117 --> 00:48:17,717 But you're leaving for good, aren't you? 929 00:48:17,759 --> 00:48:20,360 Yep. Just like you're staying. 930 00:48:20,402 --> 00:48:22,162 Yeah, I am. 931 00:48:22,204 --> 00:48:24,446 It's where I'm meant to be. 932 00:48:26,288 --> 00:48:28,290 You sure? 933 00:48:29,572 --> 00:48:31,812 'Cause we could do great things if you stayed. 934 00:48:31,854 --> 00:48:34,575 Great and vicious things. 935 00:48:34,617 --> 00:48:35,936 I know. 936 00:48:35,978 --> 00:48:37,618 Exactly why I'm leaving. 937 00:48:37,660 --> 00:48:39,823 It's time for me to be done with that. 938 00:48:41,624 --> 00:48:43,865 My other office is now available. 939 00:48:43,907 --> 00:48:45,827 Be a great place to run a philanthropy out of. 940 00:48:45,869 --> 00:48:47,871 It's yours if you want it. 941 00:48:48,272 --> 00:48:49,511 Final act of charity 942 00:48:49,553 --> 00:48:51,513 I'll be doing today. 943 00:49:12,617 --> 00:49:14,337 I bet you think I want to rub it in. 944 00:49:14,379 --> 00:49:16,980 I actually think better of you. 945 00:49:17,022 --> 00:49:19,182 You once offered me the chance, if I were feeling down, 946 00:49:19,224 --> 00:49:20,984 to come share some Scotch with you. 947 00:49:21,026 --> 00:49:24,190 I want you to know, I hope you do the same. 948 00:49:25,831 --> 00:49:28,152 You made me better at what I do. 949 00:49:28,194 --> 00:49:30,354 In every way. 950 00:49:30,396 --> 00:49:32,637 Are you saying that's why you bested us? 951 00:49:32,679 --> 00:49:34,841 No. I was kick-ass at that stuff. 952 00:49:36,122 --> 00:49:37,602 I mean as a human 953 00:49:37,644 --> 00:49:39,646 and second in command. 954 00:49:41,048 --> 00:49:43,050 You're the tops I've seen. 955 00:49:44,251 --> 00:49:46,131 And yet. 956 00:49:46,173 --> 00:49:49,054 It's because you're a good person you lost. 957 00:49:49,096 --> 00:49:51,096 Not Prince. You. 958 00:49:51,138 --> 00:49:53,179 Oddly, of little consolation. 959 00:49:53,221 --> 00:49:55,263 But you will come for that drink? 960 00:49:56,384 --> 00:49:58,384 I think I actually might. 961 00:49:58,426 --> 00:49:59,826 Yes. 962 00:50:19,488 --> 00:50:20,848 Good. 963 00:50:20,890 --> 00:50:23,090 I've been looking forward to this moment. 964 00:50:23,132 --> 00:50:25,413 An old-fashioned negotiation for your services 965 00:50:25,455 --> 00:50:28,096 as performance coach and head of HR. 966 00:50:28,138 --> 00:50:29,537 Or, not to tip my hand, 967 00:50:29,579 --> 00:50:31,419 you looking to expand your portfolio? 968 00:50:35,025 --> 00:50:36,505 Shit. 969 00:50:36,547 --> 00:50:38,549 You're out too. 970 00:50:43,314 --> 00:50:45,516 I'd really love it if you stayed, Wend. 971 00:50:47,478 --> 00:50:49,841 I finally made my way back. This could be like old times. 972 00:50:50,962 --> 00:50:52,642 Part of me would really love to. 973 00:50:52,684 --> 00:50:54,924 But I'm gonna stay at Mental, 974 00:50:54,966 --> 00:50:57,687 that telehealth thing, and make a go of it. 975 00:50:57,729 --> 00:50:59,731 I'm gonna help a lot of people from there. 976 00:51:01,173 --> 00:51:03,175 Maybe one day you'll take me public. 977 00:51:04,777 --> 00:51:06,697 Won't be the same without you here. 978 00:51:06,739 --> 00:51:08,138 What if I can't do it? 979 00:51:08,180 --> 00:51:10,020 It'll be different, but you can do it. 980 00:51:10,062 --> 00:51:12,703 And I have the name of someone 981 00:51:12,745 --> 00:51:15,386 who'll be a hell of a replacement for me too. 982 00:51:15,428 --> 00:51:17,550 And most of the people here already know Dr. Mayer. 983 00:51:21,474 --> 00:51:24,397 I really didn't want to say goodbye to you again. 984 00:51:28,482 --> 00:51:30,082 Then don't. 985 00:51:30,124 --> 00:51:33,045 We got through the shadow of 9/11 986 00:51:33,087 --> 00:51:34,847 and stayed connected. 987 00:51:34,889 --> 00:51:38,130 We got through the arrests, 988 00:51:38,172 --> 00:51:39,852 the rebellions, 989 00:51:39,894 --> 00:51:42,535 the exit, the rebuilding, 990 00:51:42,577 --> 00:51:45,298 and always stayed connected. 991 00:51:45,340 --> 00:51:46,819 Where it mattered. 992 00:51:46,861 --> 00:51:48,701 We'll both be in the same city. 993 00:51:48,743 --> 00:51:50,743 We're the same people. 994 00:51:50,785 --> 00:51:52,788 We'll stay connected now, too. 995 00:51:54,670 --> 00:51:57,433 Just not at this place. 996 00:51:58,914 --> 00:52:00,554 Yeah. 997 00:52:00,596 --> 00:52:03,239 Yeah to all of it. 998 00:52:05,922 --> 00:52:08,004 Thank you, Bobby. 999 00:52:09,165 --> 00:52:11,167 Thank you. 1000 00:52:12,048 --> 00:52:13,287 For everything. 1001 00:53:20,881 --> 00:53:22,721 I kind of hoped you'd be here waiting. 1002 00:53:22,763 --> 00:53:24,765 No, not kind of. I... 1003 00:53:26,207 --> 00:53:28,209 I hoped you'd be here. 1004 00:53:28,649 --> 00:53:30,652 I'm always here. 1005 00:53:31,973 --> 00:53:33,573 I know. 1006 00:53:33,615 --> 00:53:35,014 You are, too. 1007 00:53:35,056 --> 00:53:36,576 Seems to be true. 1008 00:53:36,618 --> 00:53:38,378 You know, I wasn't sure he'd let you leave. 1009 00:53:38,420 --> 00:53:40,420 Or you'd be able to resist. 1010 00:53:40,462 --> 00:53:42,504 It's time for me to find my own way. 1011 00:53:43,665 --> 00:53:45,025 And it's the only way 1012 00:53:45,067 --> 00:53:46,827 that the relationships can last 1013 00:53:46,869 --> 00:53:49,832 with either of you. 1014 00:53:51,193 --> 00:53:53,196 That's probably true. 1015 00:53:56,319 --> 00:53:58,481 Where are you off to right now? 1016 00:54:00,123 --> 00:54:02,123 I hadn't really thought about it. 1017 00:54:02,165 --> 00:54:04,045 I was probably just gonna head back to the house. 1018 00:54:04,087 --> 00:54:06,087 I have the kids tonight. 1019 00:54:06,129 --> 00:54:08,532 I was in the mood for some tempura or something. 1020 00:54:10,094 --> 00:54:11,493 You want to make it a family dinner? 1021 00:54:11,535 --> 00:54:14,656 The kids would love that. Absolutely. 1022 00:54:14,698 --> 00:54:16,701 And so would I. 1023 00:54:34,119 --> 00:54:36,239 Make sure all this shit gets carefully packed 1024 00:54:36,281 --> 00:54:37,481 and sent to him wherever. 1025 00:54:37,523 --> 00:54:39,002 I will. 1026 00:54:39,044 --> 00:54:40,924 Have the designer get all that green crap 1027 00:54:40,966 --> 00:54:43,567 off the walls downstairs, and strip out some of this wood. 1028 00:54:43,609 --> 00:54:46,292 Let's cool this place off a bit. 1029 00:54:49,215 --> 00:54:51,055 Thought about how you'll redecorate yet? 1030 00:54:51,097 --> 00:54:53,938 I've had other things on my mind, capo di tutti capi. 1031 00:54:53,980 --> 00:54:56,100 Well, after a victory such as this, 1032 00:54:56,142 --> 00:54:58,425 things do take a moment to settle. 1033 00:54:59,506 --> 00:55:01,626 -But... -Yeah. 1034 00:55:01,668 --> 00:55:03,108 You don't have to say it. 1035 00:55:03,150 --> 00:55:04,509 I will be here with you 1036 00:55:04,551 --> 00:55:06,952 to get this place cranking again. 1037 00:55:06,994 --> 00:55:09,034 -But then... -What? 1038 00:55:09,076 --> 00:55:10,476 Miami? 1039 00:55:10,518 --> 00:55:12,037 With all those other rich fucks? 1040 00:55:12,079 --> 00:55:14,800 You know, it does have a lot to recommend it. 1041 00:55:14,842 --> 00:55:16,963 It is the center of it all right now. 1042 00:55:17,005 --> 00:55:19,045 Maybe we take a trip down together. 1043 00:55:19,087 --> 00:55:21,487 But first, bring 'em in. 1044 00:55:41,631 --> 00:55:43,551 What are our instructions? 1045 00:55:43,593 --> 00:55:45,313 Yeah, Axe, what do you want us to do? 1046 00:55:45,355 --> 00:55:46,874 Do? 1047 00:55:46,916 --> 00:55:49,237 What do you think I want you to do? 1048 00:55:54,725 --> 00:55:56,885 Let's make some fucking money. 1049 00:55:56,927 --> 00:55:58,929 All right! All right, yeah! 1050 00:56:00,291 --> 00:56:02,571 - Fuck, yeah! - Let's go. 1051 00:56:32,685 --> 00:56:34,687 Whoa!