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[AXE] Previously on Billions...
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You want me to help put you
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in the State Attorney General's office.
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I do.
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[HARRY] The Churchill World War II...
it's a hell of a set.
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Well, maybe I can circle back
and grab them before they're gone.
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These are the books you asked for.
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Find all the other signed
first editions for sale.
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And buy them all,
every single last one of them.
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You could've been anything...
you chose to be a prosecutor.
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You're the guy who taught me everything.
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I'm glad you still feel that way.
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Your father has tasted
the fruits of our tribe.
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Is that my little sister,
for Chrissakes?
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- When are you coming home?
- I don't know.
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But you are coming home?
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I don't know.
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[CHUCK] When I look at the
shambles my life has become...
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[CHUCK] from my firing,
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[CHUCK] to my election
with strings attached,
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[CHUCK] to the destruction
of my marriage,
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it all tracks back to one source.
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One man. And that very man
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charged me with arresting you
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in order to force you
back into his employ.
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You were such a worthy
fucking adversary.
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I want you on my side.
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And I want you to help me take him down,
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[CHUCK] once and for all.
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Chuck Rhoades wants to use
me to help him nail Axe.
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[TAYLOR] They're both lined
up to destroy each other.
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[TAYLOR] At the right moment
when both have their guns
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[TAYLOR] raised, I'll step out
of the way and let it happen.
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[TAYLOR] They'll put
each other in the ground
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[TAYLOR] and I'll go
about my fucking business.
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Welcome home.
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Happy to be here.
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[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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It's so wonderful to be
gathered here together
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to witness this blessed occasion.
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Two souls, who've found one another,
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in the great expanse.
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Two people, fiery and strong,
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joining their flames into
a single burning ember...
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[JANE HALFTOWN] In our tradition,
marriage means 'never alone.'
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[JANE HALFTOWN] So
will you take this man,
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[JANE HALFTOWN] to care for,
for all of your days?
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[ROXANNE] I will.
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[JANE HALFTOWN] And will
you take this woman,
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to care for, for all of your days?
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Of course I will.
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For as many as I've got left, anyway.
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[LAUGHTER]
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[SIGHS]
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You will now live together
under one blanket...
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[APPLAUSE]
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[PATTI SMITH'S "GONE AGAIN"]
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- ♪♪♪
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♪ Hey, now, man's own kin ♪
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♪ We commend into the wind ♪
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♪ Grateful arms, grateful limbs ♪
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♪ Grateful soul, he's gone again ♪
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[INDISTINCT SINGING]
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[MARACAS SHAKING]
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[RHYTHMIC CHANTING]
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[STEAM HISSES]
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[CHANTING CONTINUES]
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[EXHALES HEAVILY]
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[SOFT MUSIC]
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♪♪♪
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[EXHALES HEAVILY]
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♪♪♪
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[GAGS]
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[RETCHING]
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[COUGHING]
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[GAGS]
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Ugh.
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[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
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[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
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[INHALES SHARPLY]
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[OWL HOOTS]
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Right?
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Right?!
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♪♪♪
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Yessssssss.
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See it?
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Feel it?
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It's almost too much.
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Too much goodness in the world.
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The great Earth Mother
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blowing it around
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like smoke from the trees...
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[AXE] Kings!
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They don't blow around, man.
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♪♪♪
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They stand there and they take.
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First the village, then the city.
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Mass the troops for the keep.
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And once the keep...
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Yeah. The whole world.
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♪♪♪
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That's a whole lot of war to wage.
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♪♪♪
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That's a whole lot of heads to chop,
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heads to chop,
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heads to chop...
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Chop, chop, chop...
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Mess,
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messy, mess.
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Beautiful mess.
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Yeah...
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[LAUGHS]
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Come on,
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let's see if we can make it back.
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[BAND PLAYS STRAY CATS'
"ROCK THIS TOWN"]
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♪♪♪
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[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ Well, my baby and me went
out late Saturday night ♪
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♪ I had my hair piled high and
my baby just looked so right ♪
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♪ Well, pick you up at ten,
gotta have you home at two ♪
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♪ Mama don't know what
I catched off of you ♪
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♪ But that's all right 'cause ♪
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♪ We're looking as cool as can be ♪
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You okay, Chuck?
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- Oh. You know it!
- You sure?
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Better than okay. Yes.
A venerable occasion.
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Weddings can be tough when
you've become recently...
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unattached.
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All that romance in the air.
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Exactly what I'm looking
to capitalize on.
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Who's the brunette stunner over there?
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[BROGAN] How 'bout an intro...
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♪ And change of a
dollar for the jukebox ♪
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- That'd be his wife.
- Ouch.
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- Or is it ex?
- Uh, uh.
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Not officially. Yet. Heading that way.
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What's the statute of
limitations on exes these days?
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- Ohh!
- Until your shvantz
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turns to rust and falls off, Brogan.
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Which is why I'm kidding!
Naturally. 'Cause we're all friends.
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- Sure, you're kidding.
- Absolutely.
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And I am truly blessed
to have a brain trust,
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a cadre,
a kitchen cabinet such as you all.
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♪ We're gonna rock this town,
rock it inside out ♪
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♪♪♪
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Excuse me...
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[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
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♪♪♪
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[INDISTINCT SPEAKING]
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Hey, hey, hey, watch it, Kev.
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Come on. We don't do that.
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You wanna try some wine at dinner,
we can do it together.
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- Like people.
- Sorry, Dad, I just wanted to taste it.
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- But it's gross.
- Exactly.
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[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
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♪♪♪
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It's family.
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That's what families do: stick together.
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That's why you're here?
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You're actually fucking here.
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"Sticking together"
while he marries someone
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who could be his...
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Soldier forth.
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That's what Charles always told me,
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and he's right.
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♪ We're gonna rock this town,
make 'em scream and shout ♪
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Maybe it's time to stop listening
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to what Rhoades men say
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and decide what we think
for a fucking change.
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♪ We're gonna rock till you drop,
we're gonna rock ♪
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Excuse me.
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[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS IN DISTANCE]
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Ms. Sacker.
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Sorry to crash, but I have what I need
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to give the go-ahead on
the crypto mine takedown.
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As soon as you give me the go-ahead.
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They will get in position tonight.
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Move first thing in the morning.
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- Click, click, boom. Do it.
- What about press?
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They're salivating over all
things crypto right now.
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No press. Yet.
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Then at the right moment,
lots and lots of it.
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Do the thing. I have to go, uh,
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get back to the nuptials.
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[SACKER] Maybe I'll stick around,
watch the toast.
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- [CHUCKLES]
- See you celebrate the love.
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You're a ruthless prosecutor.
It's why I hired you over.
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Don't waste it here.
Use it on the operation.
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[SACKER] Ah. First I watch you squirm.
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Then I make them squirm.
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[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
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♪ We'll have our fill of tears ♪
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♪ Our share of sighs ♪
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A dance with the groom?
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- ♪ My only prayer ♪
- Can I say no?
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I think not.
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♪ Is that you realize ♪
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♪ You'll always be beautiful ♪
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♪ In my eyes ♪
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♪ You will always be ♪
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- Avert your eyes, Chuck.
- We'll watch for you.
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We'll... We'll tell you if
the old man gets handsy.
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Oooh, he's bringing out the
old American Bandstand moves.
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Feels more like Soul Train to me.
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Ooh, he's got a pep in his step...
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I'm impressed.
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She looks stunned. In a good way.
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Good for him. Not for you.
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It does feel like a
betrayal of some sort.
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From one of them. Or both.
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No, no, no, no. It's as it should be.
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The bonds of family are stronger than...
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- Whoa, that's a deep dip!
- [LAUGHS]
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Bravo! Real Rudolph Valentino move!
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Ahh, Jesus.
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[LAUGHTER]
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[LAUGHS]
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I'll be sad to lose you
as a member of the family.
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You're the grandfather of my children:
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we'll always be family.
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So stop this madness.
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Go get some ass if
that's what you want...
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- [SIGHS]
- ...and then re-up with the unit.
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Like you did?
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We're at your wedding.
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To someone else.
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I'm sitting at a table
with your ex-wife.
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Thing you have to understand
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about me and your ex-mother-in-law is...
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May I cut in?
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You had your chance, Sonny.
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Maybe if you'd been this
insistent when she was yours...
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Dad!
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Your dance, my boy.
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♪ You'll always be beautiful ♪
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♪ In my eyes ♪
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I figured I'd move in for the save.
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There was a time for that.
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It's long passed.
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You mean to say you
enjoyed dancing with him?
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I mean, he does move like Valentino.
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Oh, for Chrissakes.
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- Really? You too?
- [CHUCKLES]
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♪♪♪
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♪ And the passing years will show ♪
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There's not a second of this I enjoy.
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Old days,
we would have made our getaway.
264
00:11:03,538 --> 00:11:06,082
McQueen and Ali MacGraw style.
265
00:11:06,166 --> 00:11:09,380
Mm. More like Beatty and Dunaway...
266
00:11:09,415 --> 00:11:12,105
lot of talk of escape, but in the end:
267
00:11:12,140 --> 00:11:14,549
[CLICKS TONGUE] ratatatat
with the Tommy gun.
268
00:11:14,632 --> 00:11:16,509
Bloody, tragic.
269
00:11:16,593 --> 00:11:18,219
No escape. From any of it.
270
00:11:18,303 --> 00:11:21,252
Just because we haven't
made our escape as of yet,
271
00:11:21,287 --> 00:11:24,392
doesn't mean we can't.
272
00:11:24,475 --> 00:11:26,895
As friends, I mean, not romantically.
273
00:11:26,978 --> 00:11:29,480
Just find our way out of here.
274
00:11:29,564 --> 00:11:30,656
Talk.
275
00:11:31,499 --> 00:11:33,401
Oh, there'll be an escape.
276
00:11:33,484 --> 00:11:34,694
Here it is.
277
00:11:34,777 --> 00:11:35,777
[MUSIC ENDS]
278
00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:37,530
[APPLAUSE]
279
00:11:39,365 --> 00:11:40,408
Go time.
280
00:11:40,491 --> 00:11:41,509
Ah.
281
00:11:41,592 --> 00:11:43,953
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
282
00:11:44,037 --> 00:11:46,247
[SOFT PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
283
00:11:46,331 --> 00:11:49,584
♪♪♪
284
00:11:49,667 --> 00:11:52,921
♪♪♪
285
00:11:53,004 --> 00:11:55,131
[MICROPHONE SQUEALS]
286
00:12:06,094 --> 00:12:08,061
I was speaking with my
mother the other day,
287
00:12:08,144 --> 00:12:13,398
about how hard it would be to
appropriately, to honestly,
288
00:12:13,433 --> 00:12:16,618
salute my father on the
day of this blessed union.
289
00:12:16,653 --> 00:12:17,946
And she said to me:
290
00:12:18,029 --> 00:12:21,366
"Look, you do not have to stand
in front of a group of people
291
00:12:21,449 --> 00:12:23,785
"and say nice things about that man.
292
00:12:23,868 --> 00:12:26,329
"You do not have to valorize him.
293
00:12:26,412 --> 00:12:29,057
Speak your truth, Son."
294
00:12:29,661 --> 00:12:32,126
Now, as most of you know,
295
00:12:32,210 --> 00:12:34,128
I have no problem making a speech
296
00:12:34,212 --> 00:12:35,922
that goes against convention,
297
00:12:36,005 --> 00:12:38,520
that brooks the tide of the expected,
298
00:12:38,555 --> 00:12:40,927
so that I may speak the unvarnished.
299
00:12:41,010 --> 00:12:44,055
And that is what I have
decided to do today.
300
00:12:44,138 --> 00:12:45,223
[CHUCKLES]
301
00:12:45,306 --> 00:12:48,977
So buckle up...
302
00:12:49,060 --> 00:12:50,979
because...
303
00:12:51,062 --> 00:12:54,315
I am not gonna say nice
things about my dad.
304
00:12:54,399 --> 00:12:55,416
I don't want to.
305
00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:57,819
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
306
00:12:57,902 --> 00:12:59,195
You all know what I would say.
307
00:12:59,279 --> 00:13:01,591
You all know the truth. No.
308
00:13:01,626 --> 00:13:04,409
Instead: I want to...
309
00:13:04,492 --> 00:13:08,997
♪♪♪
310
00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:13,751
♪♪♪
311
00:13:13,835 --> 00:13:17,839
celebrate his magnificent bride,
Roxanne!
312
00:13:17,922 --> 00:13:20,008
[LAUGHTER]
313
00:13:20,091 --> 00:13:22,010
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- [LAUGHS]
314
00:13:25,263 --> 00:13:29,767
No. Because she has done that
which I'd thought impossible.
315
00:13:29,851 --> 00:13:33,556
Turned my dad into a big pile of mush.
316
00:13:33,591 --> 00:13:36,649
- [LAUGHTER]
- Defanged the old wolf.
317
00:13:36,733 --> 00:13:38,609
Well. Made him into one
of those Build-A-Bears
318
00:13:38,693 --> 00:13:41,031
with the bright red
valentine for a heart
319
00:13:41,066 --> 00:13:43,710
and the cuddly fur to hold onto and hug.
320
00:13:43,745 --> 00:13:45,629
[CHUCK] Certainly got
him going to Build-A-Bear
321
00:13:45,664 --> 00:13:47,118
[CHUCK] for his little daughter.
322
00:13:47,201 --> 00:13:49,370
[CHUCK] And Roxanne, and her people,
323
00:13:49,454 --> 00:13:52,749
have taken him in as their own.
324
00:13:52,832 --> 00:13:56,085
Much as we consider her ours.
325
00:13:58,671 --> 00:14:00,882
That's the wonderful thing about family.
326
00:14:00,965 --> 00:14:02,800
It lives and breathes.
327
00:14:02,884 --> 00:14:04,218
It never contracts.
328
00:14:04,302 --> 00:14:06,721
Only expands.
329
00:14:06,804 --> 00:14:09,390
As ours has now.
330
00:14:09,474 --> 00:14:12,935
[CHUCK] I can't believe
a man can get so lucky.
331
00:14:13,019 --> 00:14:16,898
And, uh, now I'm speaking
about me, not Dad.
332
00:14:16,933 --> 00:14:21,421
Because I have someone who
loves him as much as I do,
333
00:14:22,542 --> 00:14:24,363
someone to share him with.
334
00:14:24,447 --> 00:14:27,033
- [BAD COMPANY'S "BAD COMPANY"]
- [CHUCK] So. Here's to you both.
335
00:14:27,116 --> 00:14:31,204
And to all of us basking in
the radiance of your joy.
336
00:14:31,287 --> 00:14:33,118
[CHUCK] As we raise our glasses...
337
00:14:33,218 --> 00:14:33,748
- Yeah!
- Cheers!
338
00:14:33,831 --> 00:14:35,249
- [LAUGHTER]
- Cheers!
339
00:14:35,333 --> 00:14:38,795
[APPLAUSE]
340
00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:41,714
♪ Company ♪
341
00:14:41,798 --> 00:14:43,674
♪ Always on the run ♪
342
00:14:43,758 --> 00:14:45,760
You've come far and learned much.
343
00:14:45,843 --> 00:14:47,981
- ♪ Destiny ♪
- Until we see each other
344
00:14:48,016 --> 00:14:50,932
and move your knowledge into the world,
be well.
345
00:14:51,015 --> 00:14:55,812
- Safe travels.
- ♪ Is the rising sun ♪
346
00:14:55,895 --> 00:14:57,939
♪♪♪
347
00:14:58,022 --> 00:15:02,819
♪ Oh, I was born ♪
348
00:15:02,902 --> 00:15:06,155
♪ Six gun in my hand ♪
349
00:15:06,239 --> 00:15:08,449
♪♪
350
00:15:08,533 --> 00:15:11,244
- ♪ Behind a gun ♪
- [ENGINES START]
351
00:15:11,327 --> 00:15:15,123
♪ I'll make my final stand ♪
352
00:15:15,206 --> 00:15:19,085
♪ I'll make my final stand ♪
353
00:15:19,168 --> 00:15:23,256
♪ That's why they call me ♪
354
00:15:23,339 --> 00:15:25,716
♪ Bad company ♪
355
00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,301
♪ And I can't deny ♪
356
00:15:27,385 --> 00:15:31,806
♪♪♪
357
00:15:31,889 --> 00:15:34,392
♪ Bad company ♪
358
00:15:34,475 --> 00:15:36,978
♪ Till the day I die ♪
359
00:15:37,061 --> 00:15:37,645
♪♪♪
360
00:15:37,728 --> 00:15:41,149
♪ Till the day I die ♪
361
00:15:41,232 --> 00:15:42,692
♪♪♪
362
00:15:42,775 --> 00:15:43,817
♪ Till the day I die ♪
363
00:15:43,901 --> 00:15:47,613
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
364
00:15:47,697 --> 00:15:51,159
[DOOR CREAKS, CLOSES]
365
00:15:51,242 --> 00:15:53,161
[GATE CREAKS]
366
00:15:54,370 --> 00:15:56,122
[SIGHS]
367
00:15:59,167 --> 00:16:00,492
[WENDY] Kevin was drinking.
368
00:16:00,527 --> 00:16:02,128
Chuck, where the fuck are you?
369
00:16:02,211 --> 00:16:04,505
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
370
00:16:04,589 --> 00:16:08,426
♪♪♪
371
00:16:08,509 --> 00:16:12,305
♪♪♪
372
00:16:12,388 --> 00:16:13,481
[BRAKES SQUEAL]
373
00:16:13,564 --> 00:16:16,851
♪♪♪
374
00:16:16,934 --> 00:16:18,686
[POUNDING ON DOOR]
375
00:16:18,769 --> 00:16:20,813
♪♪♪
376
00:16:20,897 --> 00:16:22,607
[EXHALES HEAVILY]
377
00:16:23,524 --> 00:16:25,234
He's sleeping it off.
378
00:16:25,318 --> 00:16:27,737
[SIGHS]
379
00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:29,030
[DOOR CREAKS, CLOSES]
380
00:16:29,113 --> 00:16:30,489
I handled it.
381
00:16:31,656 --> 00:16:33,409
It's handled.
There's nothing for you to do.
382
00:16:33,492 --> 00:16:34,994
Babysitter will be here soon.
383
00:16:35,077 --> 00:16:36,621
- Then I'll go to work.
- Oh. Fuck.
384
00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,376
I don't know how I missed your calls.
385
00:16:39,411 --> 00:16:40,440
[SCOFFS]
386
00:16:41,016 --> 00:16:42,025
- I know.
- [SIGHS]
387
00:16:42,695 --> 00:16:44,253
[WENDY] I know where you were
and what you were doing...
388
00:16:44,337 --> 00:16:47,048
...because that's the only time
you're off the grid completely.
389
00:16:47,131 --> 00:16:48,549
That's a stiff fucking shot.
390
00:16:48,633 --> 00:16:49,842
And it landed.
391
00:16:50,936 --> 00:16:53,109
So. Standing eight count for C. Rhoades.
392
00:16:53,144 --> 00:16:55,673
Now. Can we stop punching
at each other, please?
393
00:16:55,756 --> 00:16:57,879
You flail at me wildly
394
00:16:57,914 --> 00:17:00,061
and then y-you put
your chin right there.
395
00:17:00,917 --> 00:17:02,313
What do you expect me to do?
396
00:17:02,396 --> 00:17:03,397
[SIGHS HEAVILY]
397
00:17:03,677 --> 00:17:05,691
I was in no way prepared
398
00:17:05,775 --> 00:17:07,985
for how that travesty of a
wedding was going to hit me.
399
00:17:08,069 --> 00:17:10,326
How it was gonna make me
feel about things between us.
400
00:17:10,361 --> 00:17:12,907
I was just...
401
00:17:12,990 --> 00:17:15,243
totally alone.
402
00:17:15,326 --> 00:17:17,411
And [CHUCKLES] you guys here...
403
00:17:17,495 --> 00:17:20,039
in Bobby Axelrod's
spare fucking apartment.
404
00:17:20,122 --> 00:17:23,000
With goddamned Van Goghs on the walls.
405
00:17:23,084 --> 00:17:25,753
While I'm, uh... [CHUCKLES]
406
00:17:25,836 --> 00:17:28,756
Ahh,
407
00:17:28,839 --> 00:17:32,176
it was the only thing I could think of.
408
00:17:33,451 --> 00:17:35,344
How could I have known
there would be an emergency?
409
00:17:36,354 --> 00:17:37,265
Part of being a parent...
410
00:17:37,348 --> 00:17:42,137
No, no, part of being a person,
a grown person,
411
00:17:42,172 --> 00:17:44,814
is carrying that thought
somewhere inside:
412
00:17:44,897 --> 00:17:46,987
that you might be needed
by those you love,
413
00:17:47,022 --> 00:17:48,067
by those you're responsible to,
414
00:17:48,150 --> 00:17:50,152
and making sure you're
available for that.
415
00:17:50,236 --> 00:17:53,197
Instead of being a
prisoner to your appetites.
416
00:17:53,281 --> 00:17:54,356
[SOFT MUSIC]
417
00:17:54,589 --> 00:17:55,671
You know this.
418
00:17:55,706 --> 00:17:58,327
What do I know anymore, really?
419
00:17:58,411 --> 00:18:00,037
I have lost my bearings.
420
00:18:00,121 --> 00:18:03,416
Oh. Until recently,
I had always had a North Star.
421
00:18:03,499 --> 00:18:04,875
Twin North Stars.
422
00:18:04,959 --> 00:18:08,004
Justice and Wendy Rhoades.
423
00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:11,090
And with those guiding me,
I was able to move forward,
424
00:18:11,173 --> 00:18:15,463
to progress,
to find and stay on my path.
425
00:18:15,498 --> 00:18:17,513
♪♪♪
426
00:18:17,597 --> 00:18:19,181
But in the end,
427
00:18:19,265 --> 00:18:22,143
although they were always there for me,
428
00:18:22,226 --> 00:18:23,707
I served neither.
429
00:18:23,742 --> 00:18:26,397
[CHUCK] Not nearly enough.
430
00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,454
But I have lately determined
to find my way back.
431
00:18:30,489 --> 00:18:32,361
♪♪♪
432
00:18:32,445 --> 00:18:34,822
It's clear that I must.
433
00:18:34,905 --> 00:18:36,907
♪♪♪
434
00:18:36,991 --> 00:18:38,909
I want to dive in.
435
00:18:38,993 --> 00:18:40,911
[SIGHS]
436
00:18:42,090 --> 00:18:44,165
To engage. But... it's too late.
437
00:18:44,248 --> 00:18:46,834
It's time for some self-care now.
438
00:18:46,917 --> 00:18:50,671
I can't let my happiness be
controlled by anyone but me.
439
00:18:50,755 --> 00:18:53,299
It was a mistake to call
you last night for help.
440
00:18:53,382 --> 00:18:54,717
It was my night with the kids.
441
00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,510
My problem.
442
00:18:56,594 --> 00:18:58,346
That's how divorced people talk.
443
00:18:58,429 --> 00:19:00,598
Yeah.
444
00:19:00,681 --> 00:19:02,516
It is.
445
00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,270
The separation has convinced me.
446
00:19:06,354 --> 00:19:07,688
We need to be done.
447
00:19:07,772 --> 00:19:10,066
♪♪♪
448
00:19:10,149 --> 00:19:12,193
And I want to issue a public statement.
449
00:19:12,276 --> 00:19:14,236
I-I-I want to...
I want to do it this week.
450
00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,042
Today. I want it to be out there.
451
00:19:16,077 --> 00:19:18,449
Have your office draw one up
452
00:19:18,532 --> 00:19:20,426
and have it sent it to me by day's end.
453
00:19:20,461 --> 00:19:23,704
♪♪♪
454
00:19:23,788 --> 00:19:27,208
♪♪♪
455
00:19:27,291 --> 00:19:29,168
Look at me.
456
00:19:29,251 --> 00:19:31,098
Look into my eyes.
457
00:19:31,133 --> 00:19:34,173
I know you won't believe this,
because I've given you little cause to:
458
00:19:34,256 --> 00:19:37,718
But I am on the brink of huge change.
459
00:19:37,802 --> 00:19:39,720
♪♪♪
460
00:19:39,804 --> 00:19:42,640
I am going to force myself to evolve.
461
00:19:42,723 --> 00:19:46,811
♪♪♪
462
00:19:46,894 --> 00:19:49,230
I believe that you believe that, Chuck.
463
00:19:49,313 --> 00:19:52,608
♪♪♪
464
00:19:52,692 --> 00:19:54,485
[INHALES SHARPLY]
465
00:19:54,568 --> 00:19:55,569
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
466
00:19:55,653 --> 00:20:00,074
♪♪♪
467
00:20:00,157 --> 00:20:03,494
♪♪♪
468
00:20:03,577 --> 00:20:07,123
♪♪♪
469
00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:09,166
[TIRES SCREECH]
470
00:20:09,250 --> 00:20:13,504
♪♪♪
471
00:20:13,587 --> 00:20:18,050
♪♪♪
472
00:20:18,134 --> 00:20:22,513
♪♪♪
473
00:20:22,596 --> 00:20:24,348
You are under arrest for utility theft.
474
00:20:24,432 --> 00:20:28,227
For starters.
Lock 'em up and shut 'em down.
475
00:20:28,310 --> 00:20:29,562
- [SACKER] Come on.
- [HANDCUFFS CLICK]
476
00:20:29,645 --> 00:20:30,896
[SACKER] Let's go.
477
00:20:30,980 --> 00:20:33,607
♪♪♪
478
00:20:33,691 --> 00:20:37,987
♪♪♪
479
00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:39,112
[POWER FADES]
480
00:20:39,196 --> 00:20:42,366
♪♪♪
481
00:20:43,754 --> 00:20:45,785
_
482
00:20:45,786 --> 00:20:48,831
Look at all this wattage, fellas...
483
00:20:50,014 --> 00:20:51,584
You see this little dink of a column?
484
00:20:51,667 --> 00:20:53,502
That was last year's
usage at the warehouse...
485
00:20:53,586 --> 00:20:55,382
- Mm-hmm.
- Then see this middle column?
486
00:20:55,417 --> 00:20:58,299
That was the estimated usage of
a 120-unit apartment building,
487
00:20:58,382 --> 00:20:59,924
as it was phonily classified.
488
00:20:59,959 --> 00:21:02,070
But look at this monster.
489
00:21:02,105 --> 00:21:05,264
That's a big, throbbing,
ugly red megawatt number...
490
00:21:05,347 --> 00:21:06,724
- Mm.
- ...now isn't it?
491
00:21:06,807 --> 00:21:08,392
What that column means is that
492
00:21:08,476 --> 00:21:10,394
your little operation was
pulling so much juice,
493
00:21:10,478 --> 00:21:13,355
the entire town ran
clean out of electricity.
494
00:21:14,575 --> 00:21:17,069
And had to go on the open market
to buy more from the grid.
495
00:21:17,104 --> 00:21:19,028
It cost hundreds of
thousands of dollars...
496
00:21:19,111 --> 00:21:22,332
and drove the town's entire rate up.
497
00:21:22,367 --> 00:21:24,325
Taxpayers, eating that burden.
498
00:21:24,408 --> 00:21:25,993
Because of you.
499
00:21:26,076 --> 00:21:28,287
And for what?
500
00:21:28,370 --> 00:21:30,664
So your multitude of
computers and servers
501
00:21:30,748 --> 00:21:33,334
could solve some abstract math equations
502
00:21:33,417 --> 00:21:36,170
resulting in the mining of Bitcoin.
503
00:21:36,253 --> 00:21:38,047
Worth millions right now... whoopee...
504
00:21:38,130 --> 00:21:39,924
but backed by what?
505
00:21:40,007 --> 00:21:42,176
Nada. Nix. Zot.
506
00:21:42,259 --> 00:21:43,677
What's the dollar backed by,
507
00:21:43,761 --> 00:21:45,137
since we went off the gold standard?
508
00:21:45,221 --> 00:21:49,725
Well, uh, roads, the military, industry,
509
00:21:49,809 --> 00:21:52,880
the credit of the federal government,
that sort of thing.
510
00:21:52,915 --> 00:21:54,688
But, I get your point.
511
00:21:54,772 --> 00:21:57,316
We're not here to discuss
monetary theory though.
512
00:21:57,399 --> 00:21:59,860
We're here to discuss who
put you fucking nerds...
513
00:21:59,944 --> 00:22:03,257
sorry: 'engineers'... in business.
514
00:22:03,292 --> 00:22:04,301
[CHUCKLES]
515
00:22:04,349 --> 00:22:06,951
We have information you work
for a Wall Street consortium...
516
00:22:07,034 --> 00:22:10,634
There are indeed certain
finance dudes involved.
517
00:22:10,669 --> 00:22:11,705
I'll allow it.
518
00:22:11,789 --> 00:22:13,207
You don't get to "allow."
519
00:22:13,290 --> 00:22:15,125
That's for court. Names.
520
00:22:15,209 --> 00:22:16,794
You're going to have to say the name.
521
00:22:16,877 --> 00:22:18,712
There's no way we're saying it.
522
00:22:18,796 --> 00:22:20,878
Any number of hedge fund magnates.
523
00:22:20,913 --> 00:22:22,883
Uh. Let's go alphabetical.
524
00:22:22,967 --> 00:22:24,510
Axelrod, Robert, for starters.
525
00:22:26,009 --> 00:22:28,931
Yes, but none of us dealt
with that guy directly.
526
00:22:29,014 --> 00:22:30,724
Then I'm gonna need the person in town
527
00:22:30,808 --> 00:22:32,893
who got paid off to let
you pull so much power
528
00:22:32,977 --> 00:22:35,227
you caused a brownout across the county.
529
00:22:35,262 --> 00:22:36,605
Because he did. Didn't he?
530
00:22:36,689 --> 00:22:38,899
[SIGHS]
531
00:22:40,498 --> 00:22:42,194
You can tell me
532
00:22:42,278 --> 00:22:43,988
or I can prosecute you
533
00:22:44,071 --> 00:22:47,074
until your lives are
smoking piles of rubble
534
00:22:47,157 --> 00:22:49,243
and you're put in a
place where a calculator
535
00:22:49,326 --> 00:22:51,620
is as close as you'll get to a computer.
536
00:22:51,704 --> 00:22:52,955
Your choice...
537
00:22:53,038 --> 00:22:57,960
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
538
00:22:58,043 --> 00:23:00,421
It's the Town Supervisor. His name is...
539
00:23:00,504 --> 00:23:03,674
♪♪♪
540
00:23:03,757 --> 00:23:05,926
[DOOR CLOSES]
541
00:23:06,010 --> 00:23:08,095
Gimme a ticket for a carousel...
542
00:23:08,178 --> 00:23:09,430
Airplane.
543
00:23:09,513 --> 00:23:10,931
Gimme a ticket for an airplane.
544
00:23:11,015 --> 00:23:12,266
Ain't got time to take a fast train...
545
00:23:12,349 --> 00:23:13,767
No. Those go place to place,
546
00:23:13,851 --> 00:23:14,935
I'm just going around in circles.
547
00:23:15,019 --> 00:23:16,687
Hence the carousel.
548
00:23:16,770 --> 00:23:18,689
Why was I surprised when
Axelrod's name got mentioned?
549
00:23:18,772 --> 00:23:21,379
- Why weren't you?
- Because I knew he was in this.
550
00:23:21,414 --> 00:23:22,735
That's why I wanted to go after it.
551
00:23:22,818 --> 00:23:25,237
Hmm. I'm happy to be working
with you again, Chuck.
552
00:23:25,321 --> 00:23:26,989
It has to help me advance
and grow this time.
553
00:23:27,072 --> 00:23:29,199
- I came over here...
- To help me make this place
554
00:23:29,283 --> 00:23:31,785
the preeminent prosecutorial
office in the state.
555
00:23:31,869 --> 00:23:33,518
Which we will. We are.
556
00:23:33,553 --> 00:23:34,558
And so you could be my rabbi
557
00:23:34,622 --> 00:23:36,290
for my congressional run,
end of next year.
558
00:23:36,373 --> 00:23:38,060
But I need to be on the inside.
559
00:23:39,379 --> 00:23:40,753
To see the moves as they are happening.
560
00:23:40,836 --> 00:23:42,212
Not as they are revealed to the world.
561
00:23:42,296 --> 00:23:44,131
I need to be your worthy assistant,
562
00:23:44,214 --> 00:23:47,051
setting up the tricks and seeing
what you did with your hands.
563
00:23:47,134 --> 00:23:48,969
- [CHUCKLES]
- Not gonna be one of those rubes
564
00:23:49,053 --> 00:23:51,501
in the audience gasping
at the magic anymore...
565
00:23:52,806 --> 00:23:55,017
[SCOFFS]
566
00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:56,579
You know. The thing about change is:
567
00:23:56,614 --> 00:24:00,522
even when you want to,
it's really fucking hard.
568
00:24:00,606 --> 00:24:02,399
I know I have to bring you in.
569
00:24:02,483 --> 00:24:04,014
And that I can trust you.
570
00:24:04,049 --> 00:24:05,945
I know it up here.
571
00:24:06,028 --> 00:24:08,921
And I'm working on bringing it
down here, too.
572
00:24:08,956 --> 00:24:10,115
Don't work on it.
573
00:24:10,199 --> 00:24:13,369
Do it. Now.
574
00:24:13,452 --> 00:24:15,986
You don't have to trust me,
but you have to trust me.
575
00:24:16,021 --> 00:24:17,957
- Ya know?
- You're talking about a partnership.
576
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,834
- You offering that, for real?
- If I don't, you staying?
577
00:24:20,918 --> 00:24:22,305
You already know the answer.
578
00:24:22,340 --> 00:24:23,375
Then you know mine.
579
00:24:23,410 --> 00:24:24,421
Yes.
580
00:24:26,701 --> 00:24:28,550
And if you see me giving in
to the man I used to be...
581
00:24:28,634 --> 00:24:29,885
I'll be all over it.
582
00:24:29,969 --> 00:24:32,012
Good.
583
00:24:32,096 --> 00:24:34,014
That's good.
584
00:24:34,542 --> 00:24:36,018
As it should be.
585
00:24:36,053 --> 00:24:37,851
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
586
00:24:37,935 --> 00:24:42,189
♪♪♪
587
00:24:42,272 --> 00:24:45,693
♪♪♪
588
00:24:45,776 --> 00:24:48,696
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
589
00:24:49,886 --> 00:24:53,325
Okay people, town hall time.
590
00:24:53,409 --> 00:24:55,661
This gonna be an every month thing,
like my period?
591
00:24:55,744 --> 00:24:56,804
[LAUGHTER]
592
00:24:57,674 --> 00:24:59,081
Keep that up and we can
make it a daily thing,
593
00:24:59,164 --> 00:25:00,916
- like you getting fisted.
- Ohh!
594
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,877
As in up the junker just like a punker.
595
00:25:03,961 --> 00:25:05,546
That'll teach ya to come at the brass...
596
00:25:05,629 --> 00:25:07,297
Spyros!
597
00:25:09,158 --> 00:25:11,385
This forum should be looked forward to.
598
00:25:11,468 --> 00:25:13,220
It's a chance for us
to investigate issues
599
00:25:13,303 --> 00:25:14,513
that affect our culture here...
600
00:25:14,596 --> 00:25:15,723
But this time it's serious.
601
00:25:15,806 --> 00:25:18,559
There was an incident...
602
00:25:18,642 --> 00:25:20,978
Someone reversing the
water on the toilet flush
603
00:25:21,061 --> 00:25:24,594
in the unisex bathroom,
which sprayed a Mase Capper...
604
00:25:24,629 --> 00:25:25,482
[LAUGHTER]
605
00:25:25,566 --> 00:25:27,484
Gross negligence on the part
of building maintenance.
606
00:25:27,568 --> 00:25:29,737
And, uh, oh, I-I do mean gross.
607
00:25:29,820 --> 00:25:32,031
No one can prove it was sabotage...
608
00:25:32,114 --> 00:25:33,449
Give me that.
609
00:25:33,532 --> 00:25:34,908
[FLASK CLINKING]
610
00:25:34,992 --> 00:25:37,661
This shit... literally...
has got to stop.
611
00:25:37,745 --> 00:25:40,366
[WENDY] There were
investors on premises.
612
00:25:40,401 --> 00:25:41,528
[WENDY] They may redeem.
613
00:25:41,563 --> 00:25:43,792
[WENDY] We're making ourselves look like
world-class schmucks here.
614
00:25:43,876 --> 00:25:45,586
So now it's time:
615
00:25:45,669 --> 00:25:47,171
We need to come together
616
00:25:47,254 --> 00:25:51,213
as one company, one team, one family.
617
00:25:51,248 --> 00:25:52,468
Now I want to hear from you all
618
00:25:52,551 --> 00:25:55,054
about what exactly the problem is here.
619
00:25:55,137 --> 00:25:57,765
♪♪♪
620
00:25:57,848 --> 00:26:01,268
[SIGHS]
621
00:26:01,351 --> 00:26:03,479
This is a safe space.
622
00:26:03,562 --> 00:26:04,938
♪♪♪
623
00:26:06,137 --> 00:26:07,562
Fine, I'll speak.
624
00:26:07,597 --> 00:26:09,860
Far from being welcoming
these last couple of months,
625
00:26:09,943 --> 00:26:11,987
the Axe Cap folks have
been downright dickish...
626
00:26:12,071 --> 00:26:12,905
- What?!
- [ALL MURMURING]
627
00:26:12,988 --> 00:26:15,657
Oh, did I not properly welcome you?
628
00:26:15,741 --> 00:26:18,057
Let me correct that rudeness right now.
629
00:26:18,092 --> 00:26:19,703
[IMITATES FARTING]
630
00:26:19,787 --> 00:26:21,914
[LAUGHTER]
631
00:26:25,042 --> 00:26:27,628
And just so you know I'm not
some thin-skinned whiner,
632
00:26:27,711 --> 00:26:30,311
I've been through Plebe
Summer at the Naval Academy.
633
00:26:30,346 --> 00:26:31,381
- [ALL MURMURING]
- Wow.
634
00:26:31,465 --> 00:26:34,386
This goes beyond practical jokes.
635
00:26:34,421 --> 00:26:37,556
It's getting hostile
and it's unprofessional.
636
00:26:37,591 --> 00:26:38,597
- Exaggerated.
- Totally.
637
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,933
I've got to say,
this isn't a one-way street.
638
00:26:41,016 --> 00:26:42,142
Oh, please...
639
00:26:42,226 --> 00:26:44,144
There's a... haughty,
640
00:26:44,228 --> 00:26:47,147
condescending attitude
flowing from the quant side.
641
00:26:47,231 --> 00:26:49,221
Bunch of stuck-up bitches and bros.
642
00:26:49,256 --> 00:26:52,277
- Yeah!
- Lording their giant cerebellums...
643
00:26:52,361 --> 00:26:53,904
And we're not some Luddite dumbasses
644
00:26:53,987 --> 00:26:55,781
just because we come from
an analysis-driven...
645
00:26:55,864 --> 00:26:57,574
[CHUCKLES] Could've fooled me...
646
00:26:57,658 --> 00:27:00,452
So we don't want to debate
Full Stack versus Mean Stack
647
00:27:00,487 --> 00:27:01,537
over bagels in the kitchen.
648
00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:03,205
That doesn't mean we
can't do the math...
649
00:27:03,288 --> 00:27:04,957
Uh. Yes, it does...
650
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,667
Some of us can do the math!
651
00:27:06,750 --> 00:27:08,385
- Some of them can't.
- Mafee.
652
00:27:08,420 --> 00:27:10,087
- Suck my Node. js, Bill...
- Oh!
653
00:27:10,170 --> 00:27:12,844
You don't even know what
the fuck that means.
654
00:27:12,879 --> 00:27:14,049
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
655
00:27:14,133 --> 00:27:15,342
[WENDY] Alright. Hey.
656
00:27:15,425 --> 00:27:16,677
I'll take you outside! I will...
657
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,868
Hey! Hey! Hey!
658
00:27:18,903 --> 00:27:21,098
- Let's go!
- Hey!
659
00:27:21,181 --> 00:27:23,903
Meeting fucking adjourned.
660
00:27:24,508 --> 00:27:26,019
For now.
661
00:27:26,103 --> 00:27:28,689
But this is far from over.
Your homework for next time...
662
00:27:28,772 --> 00:27:31,024
- Homework?
- Fucking right.
663
00:27:31,108 --> 00:27:32,707
You will... each of you will...
664
00:27:32,742 --> 00:27:34,903
[WENDY] come up with three
productive things that you,
665
00:27:34,987 --> 00:27:38,394
[WENDY] personally, can do to
make this place function better.
666
00:27:38,429 --> 00:27:41,751
Do it. Or risk me getting really mad.
667
00:27:41,786 --> 00:27:43,120
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
668
00:27:52,129 --> 00:27:53,724
We both know it:
669
00:27:53,759 --> 00:27:54,882
with this business the way it is,
670
00:27:54,965 --> 00:27:56,258
it's a fight just to survive.
671
00:27:56,341 --> 00:27:57,718
We need unity.
672
00:27:57,801 --> 00:27:59,636
And this discord... I won't have it.
673
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,889
The one you should be having
this conversation with is Axe.
674
00:28:01,972 --> 00:28:03,682
It's his Plug Uglies that
are doing the instigating.
675
00:28:03,765 --> 00:28:04,933
And we both know that.
676
00:28:05,017 --> 00:28:06,560
I did have this conversation with him
677
00:28:06,643 --> 00:28:08,729
- before he left on his trip.
- And?
678
00:28:08,812 --> 00:28:11,398
He said something very
similar to what you just did.
679
00:28:11,481 --> 00:28:13,567
All systems have to die eventually.
680
00:28:13,650 --> 00:28:14,902
Excuse me.
681
00:28:14,985 --> 00:28:17,487
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
682
00:28:17,571 --> 00:28:21,158
♪♪♪
683
00:28:21,241 --> 00:28:26,538
♪♪♪
684
00:28:26,622 --> 00:28:30,918
♪♪♪
685
00:28:31,001 --> 00:28:35,589
♪♪♪
686
00:28:35,672 --> 00:28:39,217
♪♪♪
687
00:28:39,301 --> 00:28:41,303
[ENGINES SHUT OFF]
688
00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:42,179
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
689
00:28:42,262 --> 00:28:45,265
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
690
00:28:45,832 --> 00:28:46,966
You okay?
691
00:28:47,001 --> 00:28:48,060
I don't know which end,
692
00:28:48,143 --> 00:28:50,729
but I feel like
something's gonna come out.
693
00:28:50,812 --> 00:28:53,690
Well. You can handle your drugs,
must have been the bumpy road.
694
00:28:53,774 --> 00:28:55,609
[GROANS] Bumpy is right.
695
00:28:55,692 --> 00:28:56,944
I've got a case of the grapes
696
00:28:57,027 --> 00:28:58,570
like they talk about in literature.
697
00:29:05,994 --> 00:29:07,871
[SIGHS HEAVILY]
698
00:29:08,621 --> 00:29:11,291
You know, what we took last
night is nature's antidepressant.
699
00:29:11,375 --> 00:29:13,669
I see the value.
700
00:29:13,752 --> 00:29:18,173
The clarity I had, the perspective.
701
00:29:19,383 --> 00:29:23,637
Everyone should have the chance
to gaze upon their life from that perch.
702
00:29:25,373 --> 00:29:27,808
But I did not like what
I saw from that perch.
703
00:29:27,891 --> 00:29:29,810
Well, archon, we had to do something
704
00:29:29,893 --> 00:29:32,688
to ring in your status.
705
00:29:32,771 --> 00:29:36,483
Most never make it to a
million much less a billion.
706
00:29:36,566 --> 00:29:40,112
And you have ascended to that
lofty plateau of ten of those.
707
00:29:40,195 --> 00:29:42,197
If a personal net worth of ten big tubs
708
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:43,907
doesn't bring a smile to your face...
709
00:29:43,991 --> 00:29:45,643
'You're in the wrong line of work?'
710
00:29:45,678 --> 00:29:47,769
- Mm.
- Well. Maybe I am.
711
00:29:48,784 --> 00:29:51,915
I thought all of this
would make me feel...
712
00:29:51,999 --> 00:29:53,375
good.
713
00:29:54,963 --> 00:29:56,333
If this doesn't...
714
00:29:56,368 --> 00:29:58,255
Yeah.
715
00:29:58,338 --> 00:29:59,840
What will?
716
00:30:00,745 --> 00:30:02,676
Maybe this.
717
00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:08,890
An invitation for you to do a
Vanity Fair cover photo shoot
718
00:30:08,974 --> 00:30:10,851
for the "New Decas" issue,
719
00:30:10,934 --> 00:30:12,352
all about the rarified few
720
00:30:12,436 --> 00:30:14,787
who have hit the ten
billion dollar mark.
721
00:30:14,822 --> 00:30:16,829
That cover is valuable real estate.
722
00:30:16,864 --> 00:30:18,958
Lot of fresh capital
flowing in after it.
723
00:30:18,993 --> 00:30:21,862
- It's worth it...
- No, no, we're here, we're doing this.
724
00:30:21,945 --> 00:30:24,031
We should see it through.
725
00:30:24,829 --> 00:30:27,075
Thirty-four hundred more miles to go.
726
00:30:27,159 --> 00:30:29,077
Yeah. Sure. Okay.
727
00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:31,038
Somebody else will
probably get the cover.
728
00:30:31,121 --> 00:30:34,875
- ♪ Is our claim to fame ♪
- Probably... Mike Prince.
729
00:30:34,958 --> 00:30:36,376
Huh...
730
00:30:36,460 --> 00:30:37,836
So, what's your call?
731
00:30:37,919 --> 00:30:39,379
♪ I can hear them say ♪
732
00:30:42,216 --> 00:30:44,356
♪ Bad company ♪
733
00:30:44,391 --> 00:30:46,762
♪ And I won't deny ♪
734
00:30:46,845 --> 00:30:49,389
♪♪♪
735
00:30:49,473 --> 00:30:53,060
♪ Bad, bad company ♪
736
00:30:53,143 --> 00:30:55,103
♪ Till the day I die ♪
737
00:30:55,187 --> 00:30:58,690
♪ Oh, yeah, till the day I die ♪
738
00:31:00,078 --> 00:31:01,693
When did you know it wasn't just me?
739
00:31:01,777 --> 00:31:03,737
That doesn't matter at all.
740
00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:05,539
It's the New Decas!
741
00:31:05,574 --> 00:31:07,116
The Ten-Billion crew.
742
00:31:07,151 --> 00:31:09,242
The crema on top of the
crème-de-la-crème.
743
00:31:09,326 --> 00:31:11,203
And you are right in the center of it.
744
00:31:11,286 --> 00:31:12,871
Because who is more Deca than you?
745
00:31:12,954 --> 00:31:15,123
What this gathering
seems to say is that:
746
00:31:15,207 --> 00:31:16,680
We're all about the same.
747
00:31:16,715 --> 00:31:18,251
Which is not really the message
748
00:31:18,335 --> 00:31:19,669
I'm looking to get out to our investors.
749
00:31:19,753 --> 00:31:21,088
You're not gonna look the same.
750
00:31:22,050 --> 00:31:23,840
Not with your posture,
the way you set your eyes...
751
00:31:23,924 --> 00:31:25,842
And where you really set
yourself apart is the interview.
752
00:31:25,926 --> 00:31:27,742
We'll do a five minute power
session before you sit...
753
00:31:28,271 --> 00:31:29,727
Is this why you made sure she came with?
754
00:31:29,762 --> 00:31:31,098
- That and...
- So I wouldn't kill you?
755
00:31:31,181 --> 00:31:32,724
I did think if there were a witness,
756
00:31:32,808 --> 00:31:34,469
it would be harder for
you to commit homicide.
757
00:31:34,504 --> 00:31:36,481
Harder. Not impossible.
758
00:31:37,803 --> 00:31:39,272
But it's good you made sure she's here.
759
00:31:39,356 --> 00:31:41,691
Wend, let's go psych out
these motherfuckers,
760
00:31:41,775 --> 00:31:42,943
so they look shook on that cover.
761
00:31:43,026 --> 00:31:44,236
We can do that. We will do that.
762
00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:45,403
[DOOR BANGS]
763
00:31:45,487 --> 00:31:46,238
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
764
00:31:46,321 --> 00:31:50,492
♪♪♪
765
00:31:51,564 --> 00:31:53,245
Ah, the 'great man.'
766
00:31:53,328 --> 00:31:55,831
♪♪♪
767
00:31:55,914 --> 00:31:57,290
Mm-hmm.
768
00:31:58,623 --> 00:31:59,626
Mike...
769
00:31:59,709 --> 00:32:00,544
'Lo, Axe.
770
00:32:00,627 --> 00:32:01,711
- Scooter.
- Wagsy.
771
00:32:01,795 --> 00:32:02,963
I see you're still making sure
772
00:32:03,046 --> 00:32:04,798
his hand never touches a doorknob.
773
00:32:04,881 --> 00:32:06,424
As you are trying and failing
to do the same for your general.
774
00:32:06,508 --> 00:32:08,068
Michael Prince.
775
00:32:08,103 --> 00:32:10,096
Michael "Thomas Aquinas" Prince.
776
00:32:10,131 --> 00:32:12,639
- Really?
- Always an honor to meet a legend.
777
00:32:12,722 --> 00:32:15,976
And yes, just like my father
and his father and his and his.
778
00:32:16,059 --> 00:32:18,145
[CHUCKLES] Better than St. Blaise,
779
00:32:18,228 --> 00:32:20,063
patron saint of throat ailments.
780
00:32:21,437 --> 00:32:23,659
If that were the name my
Dad and the rest wore,
781
00:32:23,694 --> 00:32:24,568
I'd bear it proudly.
782
00:32:24,651 --> 00:32:26,885
I have no doubt you'd
find a way to be proud.
783
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:28,983
With just a dash of humility on top.
784
00:32:30,085 --> 00:32:32,993
A man with no humility is
a man with no pride at all.
785
00:32:33,076 --> 00:32:35,412
Alright, let's do this.
786
00:32:36,997 --> 00:32:39,624
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
787
00:32:39,708 --> 00:32:42,127
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
788
00:32:42,210 --> 00:32:43,670
How are ya?
789
00:32:43,753 --> 00:32:46,673
♪♪♪
790
00:32:46,756 --> 00:32:48,675
Turn a little bit into... Yep.
791
00:32:48,758 --> 00:32:51,720
♪♪♪
792
00:32:51,803 --> 00:32:53,555
Couldn't get him the cover alone, huh?
793
00:32:53,638 --> 00:32:56,016
[CHUCKLES] Wags, so sad.
794
00:32:56,099 --> 00:32:57,810
We didn't want a solo cover.
795
00:32:57,845 --> 00:32:59,352
Too much focus, too much attention.
796
00:32:59,436 --> 00:33:01,229
We are at the place in our lives...
all of us...
797
00:33:01,313 --> 00:33:03,857
where it is time to turn
our focus to others.
798
00:33:03,940 --> 00:33:05,609
You guys got to feel
the same way, right?
799
00:33:05,692 --> 00:33:08,403
No, of course, mos' def.
800
00:33:08,486 --> 00:33:10,572
Indube.
801
00:33:10,655 --> 00:33:12,866
Okay, everybody, eyes over here.
802
00:33:12,949 --> 00:33:14,993
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
803
00:33:16,317 --> 00:33:18,163
You know,
they didn't tell me you'd be here, Axe.
804
00:33:18,246 --> 00:33:19,873
Yeah, they failed to mention that detail
805
00:33:19,956 --> 00:33:21,666
in the pitch to me, too.
806
00:33:21,750 --> 00:33:24,544
- Been a faster "yes" had I known.
- [PHOTOGRAPHER] Awesome.
807
00:33:24,628 --> 00:33:27,214
Ball coach in high school told it to me,
I never forgot:
808
00:33:27,297 --> 00:33:29,174
You make sure the guy passing the ball
809
00:33:29,257 --> 00:33:31,218
to the guy passing it to
you gets as much credit
810
00:33:31,301 --> 00:33:32,844
as you do for putting it in the hoop.
811
00:33:32,928 --> 00:33:35,305
Yeah. But it was you won Mr. Basketball
812
00:33:35,388 --> 00:33:37,225
in the state of Indiana that year,
wasn't it?
813
00:33:37,260 --> 00:33:38,433
- Not the other guys.
- [PHOTOGRAPHER] Yep.
814
00:33:38,516 --> 00:33:40,598
Only because my teammates were so great.
815
00:33:40,633 --> 00:33:42,687
- [PHOTOGRAPHER] Great.
- It's much more fun to share the praise.
816
00:33:42,771 --> 00:33:44,648
Oh. Sure it is.
Wish my whole team was here with me.
817
00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:45,857
Yeah. Which is why I was hoping
818
00:33:45,941 --> 00:33:47,359
you'd make it to 'The Mike' this year.
819
00:33:47,442 --> 00:33:48,485
We could keep this going.
820
00:33:48,568 --> 00:33:50,403
I already accepted.
821
00:33:50,487 --> 00:33:52,726
As you always do,
but then you never show up.
822
00:33:52,761 --> 00:33:54,699
Well. I always mean to, you know?
823
00:33:54,783 --> 00:33:56,117
We'd love to host you.
824
00:33:56,201 --> 00:33:57,994
You and I could do a fireside chat.
825
00:33:58,078 --> 00:33:59,665
It'd be the highlight of the conference.
826
00:33:59,700 --> 00:34:01,998
- Ah. Maybe this year we will.
- [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
827
00:34:02,082 --> 00:34:04,459
[PHOTOGRAPHER] Awesome.
This looks great.
828
00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:06,920
He seems in prime form.
829
00:34:07,003 --> 00:34:08,546
So how was your trip?
830
00:34:09,292 --> 00:34:10,423
Good.
831
00:34:10,507 --> 00:34:12,384
I met the Creator of Souls.
832
00:34:12,467 --> 00:34:14,761
[CAMERA BEEPING, CLICKING]
833
00:34:14,844 --> 00:34:16,429
Oh.
834
00:34:16,513 --> 00:34:17,514
[PHOTOGRAPHER] Turn your bodies
835
00:34:17,597 --> 00:34:19,391
[PHOTOGRAPHER] a little bit
over on that one, please.
836
00:34:19,474 --> 00:34:20,558
Yeah, that's great. No.
That's good. Perfect.
837
00:34:20,642 --> 00:34:22,936
[CAMERA BEEPS, CLICKS]
838
00:34:23,019 --> 00:34:24,271
That was really good.
839
00:34:24,354 --> 00:34:26,231
- You got it?
- Yeah. I think we're great.
840
00:34:26,314 --> 00:34:28,066
[PHOTOGRAPHER] Alright.
Let's break down the set
841
00:34:28,149 --> 00:34:31,027
and, uh, get ready
for the individual portraits.
842
00:34:31,111 --> 00:34:33,905
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
843
00:34:36,366 --> 00:34:39,124
Got a problem upstate. The mining town.
844
00:34:39,159 --> 00:34:40,954
I can't sit for the
portrait or the interview.
845
00:34:41,037 --> 00:34:43,123
We reschedule for tomorrow.
846
00:34:43,206 --> 00:34:44,708
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
847
00:34:44,791 --> 00:34:48,461
♪♪♪
848
00:34:48,545 --> 00:34:53,842
♪♪♪
849
00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:54,801
[DOOR CLOSES]
850
00:34:54,884 --> 00:34:57,345
♪♪♪
851
00:34:57,429 --> 00:35:00,390
[KEYS CLACKING]
852
00:35:00,473 --> 00:35:02,225
[SIGHS]
853
00:35:06,771 --> 00:35:08,148
You asked for me.
854
00:35:08,231 --> 00:35:09,566
[DOOR CLOSES]
855
00:35:09,649 --> 00:35:12,652
I know that a) you don't
directly work for Axe Cap
856
00:35:12,736 --> 00:35:15,049
and b) this isn't exactly your job
857
00:35:15,084 --> 00:35:17,240
but I was hoping you might
help me with something.
858
00:35:17,324 --> 00:35:18,992
- Why am I the one that...
- It's a sensitive thing.
859
00:35:19,075 --> 00:35:20,327
[INHALES DEEPLY]
860
00:35:20,410 --> 00:35:22,329
It needs to be released
to the right people,
861
00:35:22,412 --> 00:35:23,997
in the right way,
862
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,875
I figure with your experience,
with your delicate touch...
863
00:35:26,958 --> 00:35:28,710
With my connections from
864
00:35:28,793 --> 00:35:31,534
my W Magazine and NY Post gossip days?
865
00:35:31,569 --> 00:35:33,214
Yeah.
866
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,599
You sure you want to do this?
867
00:35:43,612 --> 00:35:45,185
Chuck was supposed to do it. He didn't.
868
00:35:45,268 --> 00:35:47,187
So when one of us wants to... move on,
869
00:35:47,270 --> 00:35:48,730
with other people, in public,
870
00:35:48,813 --> 00:35:51,983
I don't want them to think
it's some kind of a scoop.
871
00:35:52,067 --> 00:35:53,652
Give the press a little red meat
872
00:35:53,735 --> 00:35:55,362
so they don't come looking
for the kill later.
873
00:35:55,445 --> 00:35:57,697
Smart.
874
00:35:59,059 --> 00:36:02,160
There are a couple phrases
I might switch around.
875
00:36:02,243 --> 00:36:04,454
Do it. I'll email it to you.
876
00:36:04,537 --> 00:36:06,873
I trust you to make it better.
877
00:36:06,956 --> 00:36:09,042
[CHUCKLES] That's what I'd say
to someone to let them know
878
00:36:09,125 --> 00:36:10,877
that I see them, that they're special.
879
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,338
Leave 'em feeling great
for doing me a service.
880
00:36:13,421 --> 00:36:14,506
But you're smoother.
881
00:36:15,342 --> 00:36:17,844
I think I might be able to
learn something from you.
882
00:36:17,879 --> 00:36:20,303
I will handle this right away.
883
00:36:21,763 --> 00:36:23,556
But first,
884
00:36:25,314 --> 00:36:26,935
let me learn from you.
885
00:36:27,018 --> 00:36:29,813
How do we fix this bullshit
between your crew and ours?
886
00:36:29,896 --> 00:36:31,648
It's getting tribal out there.
887
00:36:31,731 --> 00:36:33,191
I'm not sure that's the problem.
888
00:36:33,274 --> 00:36:35,360
It might just be the
result of the problem.
889
00:36:37,657 --> 00:36:38,947
Instead of thinking about
the culture conflict,
890
00:36:39,030 --> 00:36:41,366
maybe think about the culture itself.
891
00:36:41,449 --> 00:36:42,575
In what way?
892
00:36:42,659 --> 00:36:45,412
Mafee says Axe Cap used to be the
most fun place to work on earth.
893
00:36:45,495 --> 00:36:46,496
At one point.
894
00:36:46,579 --> 00:36:48,248
Yeah. For a time.
895
00:36:48,331 --> 00:36:50,375
Not lately. And not just from Mafee.
896
00:36:50,458 --> 00:36:52,627
The stories are out there...
the way I hear it,
897
00:36:52,711 --> 00:36:54,713
this place used to be outrageous.
898
00:36:54,796 --> 00:36:56,381
Eating contests, body sushi,
899
00:36:56,464 --> 00:36:59,427
impromptu trips on the
private jet to Amsterdam
900
00:36:59,462 --> 00:37:01,331
for frites and spacecakes
from The Bulldog.
901
00:37:01,366 --> 00:37:05,181
Fucking fun, you know,
where anything could happen.
902
00:37:05,265 --> 00:37:08,143
Now, everyone's feeling the
pressure of the numbers.
903
00:37:08,226 --> 00:37:09,519
[LAUREN] The quarter. The P&L.
904
00:37:09,602 --> 00:37:11,855
Important. Also dry.
905
00:37:11,938 --> 00:37:14,774
[LAUREN] And pressure kills results.
I can rise above.
906
00:37:14,858 --> 00:37:16,317
But if you want the rest
of these folks to stop
907
00:37:16,401 --> 00:37:19,738
thinking of each other as enemies
and come together as a unit,
908
00:37:19,821 --> 00:37:22,769
you've got to put some
fun back in this bish.
909
00:37:23,427 --> 00:37:25,515
Start tossing midgets or something.
910
00:37:26,345 --> 00:37:28,455
Or call 'em little people if
that makes you feel better.
911
00:37:28,538 --> 00:37:30,290
But toss 'em.
912
00:37:30,373 --> 00:37:31,624
[CHUCKLES]
913
00:37:31,708 --> 00:37:32,834
You're right.
914
00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:35,378
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
915
00:37:35,462 --> 00:37:40,049
♪♪♪
916
00:37:40,133 --> 00:37:41,801
[DOOR CLOSES]
917
00:37:41,885 --> 00:37:46,014
♪♪♪
918
00:37:46,097 --> 00:37:50,143
♪♪♪
919
00:37:50,226 --> 00:37:54,272
♪♪♪
920
00:37:54,663 --> 00:37:57,866
Becky, Wendy Rhoades. Long time.
921
00:37:57,901 --> 00:38:00,069
[DOOR OPENS]
922
00:38:09,008 --> 00:38:10,336
[WAGS] I spoke to Bach:
923
00:38:10,371 --> 00:38:12,703
The crypto-mine action was
done by the State AG...
924
00:38:12,786 --> 00:38:14,329
not the US Attorney or the DA.
925
00:38:14,413 --> 00:38:17,040
It was Chuck Rhoades.
926
00:38:17,124 --> 00:38:19,459
Isn't that fucking cute.
927
00:38:19,543 --> 00:38:20,794
Okay.
928
00:38:20,878 --> 00:38:22,796
So. We've got to minimize damage
929
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,465
and figure out a way to get
up and running elsewhere.
930
00:38:25,549 --> 00:38:28,302
Also. We need to talk to the other
fund managers that we partnered with.
931
00:38:28,385 --> 00:38:29,720
But you're the only
one who might be able
932
00:38:29,803 --> 00:38:31,096
- to make this go away.
- [AXE] Yeah.
933
00:38:31,179 --> 00:38:32,848
Okay. So. I'll see what I can do.
934
00:38:32,931 --> 00:38:34,433
But in the meantime you make
sure that the click monkeys
935
00:38:34,516 --> 00:38:37,561
and our inside man get some
nice insulation, okay...
936
00:38:37,644 --> 00:38:39,313
get 'em good lawyers and make
'em understand
937
00:38:39,396 --> 00:38:40,700
they should stand up.
938
00:38:40,735 --> 00:38:41,857
- Yep.
- On it.
939
00:38:41,940 --> 00:38:45,611
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
940
00:38:45,694 --> 00:38:48,280
♪♪♪
941
00:38:48,363 --> 00:38:49,948
♪♪♪
942
00:38:50,032 --> 00:38:52,659
[CELLPHONE VIBRATES]
943
00:38:52,743 --> 00:38:54,703
[SIGHS]
944
00:38:54,786 --> 00:38:56,163
[INHALES DEEPLY]
945
00:38:57,363 --> 00:39:00,085
- Hello.
- Hey, Chuck. I need to see you...
946
00:39:00,169 --> 00:39:01,545
As soon as you can do it.
947
00:39:01,629 --> 00:39:03,088
I'll tell you what it's about in person.
948
00:39:03,172 --> 00:39:04,673
Well. I'm, uh,
in the middle of something,
949
00:39:04,757 --> 00:39:06,300
it's going to have to be tomorrow.
950
00:39:06,383 --> 00:39:09,037
What you're in the middle
of is what it's all about.
951
00:39:09,072 --> 00:39:10,080
Needs to be now.
952
00:39:10,154 --> 00:39:11,639
[CHUCKLES]
953
00:39:11,722 --> 00:39:14,808
Well. Sorry, pard,
it's going to have to hold.
954
00:39:14,892 --> 00:39:18,562
♪♪♪
955
00:39:18,646 --> 00:39:21,190
♪♪♪
956
00:39:21,273 --> 00:39:24,652
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
957
00:39:24,735 --> 00:39:28,656
♪♪♪
958
00:39:28,739 --> 00:39:32,660
♪♪♪
959
00:39:32,743 --> 00:39:36,580
♪♪♪
960
00:39:36,664 --> 00:39:40,292
♪♪♪
961
00:39:40,376 --> 00:39:41,669
[TAYLOR] Rage room?
962
00:39:41,752 --> 00:39:43,453
I don't see a situation where I'd...
963
00:39:43,458 --> 00:39:46,799
I can't imagine the pressure
building inside of you
964
00:39:46,882 --> 00:39:49,176
as you try to navigate
what you're trying to.
965
00:39:49,259 --> 00:39:51,101
All without ever losing your cool
966
00:39:51,136 --> 00:39:52,680
or letting on how you really feel.
967
00:39:52,763 --> 00:39:54,765
Just letting everyone believe I
see the world the way they do.
968
00:39:54,848 --> 00:39:56,642
I've got this.
969
00:39:56,725 --> 00:39:59,520
Just so you know, there's an outlet
970
00:39:59,603 --> 00:40:02,564
for when you can't keep
it off your face anymore.
971
00:40:02,648 --> 00:40:05,651
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
972
00:40:05,734 --> 00:40:09,863
♪♪♪
973
00:40:09,947 --> 00:40:11,532
[DOOR OPENS]
974
00:40:11,615 --> 00:40:16,245
♪♪♪
975
00:40:16,328 --> 00:40:21,041
♪♪♪
976
00:40:21,125 --> 00:40:25,838
♪♪♪
977
00:40:25,921 --> 00:40:29,883
♪♪♪
978
00:40:29,967 --> 00:40:34,680
♪♪♪
979
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,474
Hmm.
980
00:40:37,558 --> 00:40:42,396
♪♪♪
981
00:40:42,479 --> 00:40:44,690
I was about to break my PB.
982
00:40:44,773 --> 00:40:47,234
For swimming in place?
983
00:40:47,317 --> 00:40:50,195
This is the most time and energy
efficient way to get laps in.
984
00:40:50,279 --> 00:40:51,655
- No need for flip turns.
- Ah.
985
00:40:51,739 --> 00:40:53,866
And I'm not sure questioning
my workout practices
986
00:40:53,949 --> 00:40:56,285
- is something I'd do...
- Then let me make a flip turn
987
00:40:56,368 --> 00:40:59,747
and tell you about the
call I just got from Axe.
988
00:40:59,830 --> 00:41:02,332
I have him in a Peruvian Necktie.
989
00:41:02,416 --> 00:41:04,293
- You know what that is?
- No. But it sounds tight.
990
00:41:04,376 --> 00:41:06,412
Mm. Gets even tighter.
991
00:41:06,447 --> 00:41:08,589
I made a certain bust
in the crypto space.
992
00:41:08,672 --> 00:41:10,841
One that's costing him a lot of money.
993
00:41:10,924 --> 00:41:13,510
Which you wouldn't have
stumbled upon but for me.
994
00:41:13,594 --> 00:41:17,681
What I need now is for you
to get close to any small,
995
00:41:17,765 --> 00:41:20,142
seemingly off-the-cuff
meetings you see happening,
996
00:41:20,225 --> 00:41:21,226
to listen to the whispers, to...
997
00:41:21,310 --> 00:41:23,434
You still don't know how
all the pieces go together
998
00:41:23,469 --> 00:41:24,855
on the crypto thing, huh?
999
00:41:24,938 --> 00:41:27,591
I can't tie it to Axe as is,
if that's what you're asking.
1000
00:41:27,626 --> 00:41:29,467
Which means this thing won't touch him.
1001
00:41:29,502 --> 00:41:30,944
Axe still isn't talking to me about
1002
00:41:31,028 --> 00:41:32,780
what you might call
'the deckle of the chop.'
1003
00:41:32,863 --> 00:41:35,616
Mm. Just nibbling at the edges, huh?
1004
00:41:35,699 --> 00:41:37,534
And, uh, swimming in place.
1005
00:41:37,618 --> 00:41:39,328
As you see, yes.
1006
00:41:39,411 --> 00:41:42,058
But you have both the
imagination and the perseverance
1007
00:41:42,093 --> 00:41:44,666
to convince yourself that
this is not treading water.
1008
00:41:44,750 --> 00:41:46,526
What this pool says about you
1009
00:41:46,561 --> 00:41:49,129
is that you have the
capacity to fight boredom,
1010
00:41:49,213 --> 00:41:52,841
the tide, the endless,
beating march against you.
1011
00:41:53,894 --> 00:41:56,284
These are basically the
only qualities of my own
1012
00:41:56,319 --> 00:41:58,806
that are worth a damn.
They speak well of you.
1013
00:41:58,889 --> 00:42:01,559
And are almost the direct
opposite of the qualities
1014
00:42:01,594 --> 00:42:05,521
that make Axe the
shining light of his age.
1015
00:42:06,635 --> 00:42:10,442
Oh. People like us must
destroy people like him.
1016
00:42:11,616 --> 00:42:12,486
You're not wrong.
1017
00:42:12,569 --> 00:42:15,259
I understand how and
why you see it that way.
1018
00:42:15,294 --> 00:42:16,490
As I, of course, do.
1019
00:42:16,573 --> 00:42:18,492
I will try my best.
1020
00:42:19,692 --> 00:42:21,161
I trust that you will.
1021
00:42:21,245 --> 00:42:23,664
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
1022
00:42:23,747 --> 00:42:26,250
♪♪♪
1023
00:42:26,333 --> 00:42:28,085
♪♪♪
1024
00:42:28,168 --> 00:42:33,507
[POOL BEEPS, HUMS]
1025
00:42:33,590 --> 00:42:36,510
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
1026
00:42:36,593 --> 00:42:40,556
♪♪♪
1027
00:42:40,639 --> 00:42:44,601
♪♪♪
1028
00:42:44,685 --> 00:42:48,647
♪♪♪
1029
00:42:48,730 --> 00:42:51,775
♪♪♪
1030
00:42:53,256 --> 00:42:55,696
Did you serve me best by
letting me walk into that shoot,
1031
00:42:55,779 --> 00:42:57,406
or would it have been better to prep me,
1032
00:42:57,489 --> 00:43:00,029
deal with the consequences
of me refusing to go?
1033
00:43:00,064 --> 00:43:02,411
- Well, which is it?
- I haven't decided yet.
1034
00:43:02,494 --> 00:43:04,421
Yes you have.
And you're here to thank me.
1035
00:43:04,456 --> 00:43:07,875
I'm here because when I
hit the ten billion mark,
1036
00:43:07,958 --> 00:43:10,002
I felt a flicker of excitement
1037
00:43:10,085 --> 00:43:11,670
about the same as finding
a twenty dollar bill
1038
00:43:11,753 --> 00:43:15,174
on the sidewalk, and then... nothing.
1039
00:43:16,099 --> 00:43:17,843
The ayahuasca...
1040
00:43:17,926 --> 00:43:21,346
I had a moment of seeing
the whole thing, from above,
1041
00:43:21,430 --> 00:43:25,058
from inside,
from a whole other dimension.
1042
00:43:25,142 --> 00:43:27,391
But even from every vantage point,
1043
00:43:27,426 --> 00:43:31,064
what I saw was ugliness,
1044
00:43:31,148 --> 00:43:33,734
and while maybe I hadn't lost yet,
1045
00:43:33,817 --> 00:43:35,903
there was no feeling that...
1046
00:43:35,986 --> 00:43:38,238
[SIGHS] that I'd won.
1047
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:40,407
None at all.
1048
00:43:40,490 --> 00:43:43,327
You would never allow
yourself to take it in,
1049
00:43:43,410 --> 00:43:45,037
to appreciate it,
1050
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,581
because that would mean
acknowledging you'd done well,
1051
00:43:48,634 --> 00:43:49,958
succeeded, won the game.
1052
00:43:50,042 --> 00:43:52,294
That there was a place to pause.
Or stop.
1053
00:43:53,230 --> 00:43:55,066
Is it a game can be won?
1054
00:43:55,101 --> 00:43:59,482
Eh. The answer to that is
a philosophical axiom...
1055
00:43:59,517 --> 00:44:00,886
true without needing to be proved:
1056
00:44:00,969 --> 00:44:02,471
When you decide you've won, you've won.
1057
00:44:02,554 --> 00:44:04,745
Until then, no.
1058
00:44:05,248 --> 00:44:06,725
Hmm.
1059
00:44:12,022 --> 00:44:13,774
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
1060
00:44:13,857 --> 00:44:15,817
So you gonna thank me?
1061
00:44:24,910 --> 00:44:27,162
You asked for Vanity Fair.
1062
00:44:28,031 --> 00:44:28,956
[AXE] This is last month's.
1063
00:44:29,039 --> 00:44:30,332
The one he's gracing the cover of.
1064
00:44:30,415 --> 00:44:31,875
The only one that matters.
1065
00:44:31,959 --> 00:44:33,794
It's not out yet.
1066
00:44:33,877 --> 00:44:35,671
It's hitting online shortly.
1067
00:44:35,754 --> 00:44:37,005
[DOOR OPENS]
1068
00:44:38,321 --> 00:44:39,236
Hmm.
1069
00:44:39,271 --> 00:44:42,135
- [DOOR CLOSES]
- I'd like to try this.
1070
00:44:42,219 --> 00:44:44,596
Huh. On it, sire.
1071
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:46,640
Update on the crypto situation.
1072
00:44:46,723 --> 00:44:47,975
[VICTOR] Our miners walked.
1073
00:44:48,058 --> 00:44:49,648
- Huh. That was quick.
- [VICTOR] Yeah.
1074
00:44:49,683 --> 00:44:51,812
You think they cut a deal? If those
little shits cut a deal, I will...
1075
00:44:51,895 --> 00:44:53,272
Of course they cut a deal. What else?
1076
00:44:53,355 --> 00:44:54,523
The Town Supervisor was picked up.
1077
00:44:54,606 --> 00:44:56,149
He's being held without bail.
1078
00:44:56,233 --> 00:44:57,727
- [CELLPHONE VIBRATES]
- They're squeezing him.
1079
00:44:58,329 --> 00:44:59,861
Vanity Fair article dropped.
1080
00:44:59,945 --> 00:45:02,489
[KEYS CLACKING]
1081
00:45:04,658 --> 00:45:07,327
Those ink-stained motherfuckers.
1082
00:45:07,411 --> 00:45:09,037
Sonofabitch.
1083
00:45:09,121 --> 00:45:10,956
Mike Prince made a move.
1084
00:45:11,039 --> 00:45:12,749
[WAGS] Fuck. We'll have this taken down.
1085
00:45:12,833 --> 00:45:14,708
We'll pay to pull back
the print version.
1086
00:45:14,743 --> 00:45:16,336
We'll pulp the whole goddamned run.
1087
00:45:16,420 --> 00:45:18,380
Enough, Wags.
You got flanked by his guy...
1088
00:45:18,463 --> 00:45:20,841
- Fucking Scooter...
- And I got flanked by him.
1089
00:45:20,924 --> 00:45:23,343
[AXE] [CHUCKLES]
1090
00:45:23,427 --> 00:45:25,178
"Investors with a traditional strategy,
1091
00:45:25,262 --> 00:45:26,388
"like Axe, have become legends,
1092
00:45:26,471 --> 00:45:27,681
"and they deserve to be legends.
1093
00:45:27,764 --> 00:45:30,017
"But legends fade,
and their value is then
1094
00:45:30,100 --> 00:45:32,027
"mostly in the stories about them,
1095
00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:35,105
lessons to future generations
on what to do, what not to do."
1096
00:45:35,188 --> 00:45:36,481
Fucking Prince's pull quote.
1097
00:45:36,565 --> 00:45:38,066
Fucker is putting me out to pasture.
1098
00:45:38,150 --> 00:45:39,818
- Cocksuc...
- There's more:
1099
00:45:39,901 --> 00:45:41,528
[AXE] "But I'm not interested
in becoming a story just yet.
1100
00:45:41,611 --> 00:45:43,196
"So I change with the times.
1101
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,699
"Investors like me,
who are also business operators,
1102
00:45:45,782 --> 00:45:47,743
"are always on the cutting edge,
1103
00:45:47,826 --> 00:45:49,947
[AXE] "shifting to machine
learning and impact investing,
1104
00:45:50,030 --> 00:45:53,366
not just for profit but for
the profitability of mankind."
1105
00:45:53,450 --> 00:45:54,193
Prick.
1106
00:45:54,207 --> 00:45:56,119
You want me to look over
his companies for weakness?
1107
00:45:56,202 --> 00:45:59,423
- Maybe put some shorts on?
- No.
1108
00:45:59,461 --> 00:46:01,374
He's too big, he's too powerful.
1109
00:46:01,458 --> 00:46:03,960
Man's a Grizz, Kodiak Island sized.
1110
00:46:04,044 --> 00:46:06,546
And dangerous.
1111
00:46:06,629 --> 00:46:08,298
[SIGHS]
1112
00:46:08,381 --> 00:46:11,760
We got to get close to bring him down.
1113
00:46:11,843 --> 00:46:14,554
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
1114
00:46:14,637 --> 00:46:17,265
♪♪♪
1115
00:46:17,348 --> 00:46:21,228
[CELLPHONE VIBRATES]
1116
00:46:21,288 --> 00:46:24,381
Hey. Good looking cover,
Mike, congratulations.
1117
00:46:24,451 --> 00:46:25,940
Kind of you to call, Axe.
1118
00:46:26,024 --> 00:46:27,546
I thought we were all
going to be on there,
1119
00:46:27,630 --> 00:46:30,156
I don't know how the hell they decided
to go with that picture of me.
1120
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,225
Yeah, of course. How could you.
1121
00:46:32,308 --> 00:46:34,476
Me? I don't need that kind of press...
1122
00:46:34,559 --> 00:46:36,773
[AXE] you know, investors and all...
but good for you.
1123
00:46:36,856 --> 00:46:39,859
Anyway, I've, uh,
decided the time is right.
1124
00:46:39,943 --> 00:46:41,945
[AXE] Let's have that fireside chat.
1125
00:46:42,028 --> 00:46:44,322
Oh, that's great news. Great.
1126
00:46:44,406 --> 00:46:46,241
It'll be the highlight
of the conference.
1127
00:46:46,324 --> 00:46:49,202
- I'm looking forward to...
- Yeah, me too.
1128
00:46:51,621 --> 00:46:53,373
Try to take me out in some magazine?
1129
00:46:53,456 --> 00:46:55,417
I'll come see you on
your home fucking turf.
1130
00:46:56,918 --> 00:46:58,169
[SIGHS]
1131
00:46:58,253 --> 00:47:01,131
- [WOMAN] Motherfucker, just let me in.
- [WOMAN #2] Who are you?
1132
00:47:01,214 --> 00:47:02,841
[WOMAN] I will run right through you.
1133
00:47:02,924 --> 00:47:04,509
[WOMAN] Who am I? Let me in.
1134
00:47:04,592 --> 00:47:06,763
[WOMAN #2] Yeah,
I'm just gonna call security,
1135
00:47:06,798 --> 00:47:07,512
and you need to stop yelling.
1136
00:47:07,595 --> 00:47:09,180
[WOMAN] No, you're not gonna
call security, you stupid dope.
1137
00:47:09,264 --> 00:47:10,849
[WOMAN] I will freakin'
dance on your head.
1138
00:47:10,932 --> 00:47:12,976
I need to see Wendy Rhoades.
1139
00:47:13,059 --> 00:47:14,686
Not without an appointment.
1140
00:47:14,769 --> 00:47:16,980
You tell Wendy Rhoades to
get out of her little office
1141
00:47:17,063 --> 00:47:19,858
[WOMAN] right now before I go back there
and fuck the head off her!
1142
00:47:19,941 --> 00:47:21,526
I told you to never come
to my place of work!
1143
00:47:21,609 --> 00:47:23,778
You're gonna have to throw me out.
1144
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,111
- Whoa!
- Ugh! Ugh!
1145
00:47:26,146 --> 00:47:27,385
Ugh! Ugh!
1146
00:47:27,420 --> 00:47:28,575
[GRUNTS]
1147
00:47:32,579 --> 00:47:33,872
Ohh!
1148
00:47:42,522 --> 00:47:43,715
Oh!
1149
00:47:43,798 --> 00:47:45,884
[BOTH LAUGHING]
1150
00:47:45,967 --> 00:47:49,304
♪♪♪
1151
00:47:49,387 --> 00:47:52,465
[WENDY] Axe Capital, MaseCap,
1152
00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:54,726
I give you, the champion of the world,
1153
00:47:54,809 --> 00:47:56,227
The MAN!
1154
00:47:56,311 --> 00:47:57,395
Becky Lynch!
1155
00:47:57,479 --> 00:48:00,023
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
1156
00:48:03,318 --> 00:48:07,072
Thank you! Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you, thank you.
1157
00:48:07,155 --> 00:48:09,324
Thank you. Thank you.
1158
00:48:10,859 --> 00:48:11,618
Yeah.
1159
00:48:11,701 --> 00:48:13,745
Now, none of youse know this,
1160
00:48:13,828 --> 00:48:15,955
because Wendy over here
keeps her mouth shut,
1161
00:48:16,039 --> 00:48:19,128
but when I was in my low
and lost period of my life,
1162
00:48:19,163 --> 00:48:22,462
before I became The Man,
it was Wendy who convinced me
1163
00:48:22,545 --> 00:48:24,881
that finally a woman
could be the biggest star
1164
00:48:24,964 --> 00:48:26,417
in professional wrestling.
1165
00:48:26,452 --> 00:48:27,888
And she was right.
1166
00:48:27,923 --> 00:48:29,761
I am The Man in that business now.
1167
00:48:29,844 --> 00:48:31,304
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
1168
00:48:31,388 --> 00:48:32,887
So when she asked me to come here
1169
00:48:32,922 --> 00:48:34,391
and share a few professional secrets,
1170
00:48:34,474 --> 00:48:36,393
there was no way I was lettin' her down.
1171
00:48:36,476 --> 00:48:39,229
So secret number one,
the real Kayfabe shit:
1172
00:48:39,312 --> 00:48:41,231
The greatest thing that
you can do in my game
1173
00:48:41,314 --> 00:48:43,983
is to "put someone over,"
to make them look good.
1174
00:48:44,067 --> 00:48:45,485
[LIGHT LAUGHTER]
1175
00:48:45,568 --> 00:48:47,320
In wrestling,
we don't all like each other.
1176
00:48:47,404 --> 00:48:49,114
- That part's not for show.
- [LAUGHTER]
1177
00:48:49,197 --> 00:48:53,136
I honestly cannot stand some of
them women that I have to fight.
1178
00:48:53,171 --> 00:48:55,954
But at the end of the day, we're all
part of a bigger family, alright?
1179
00:48:56,037 --> 00:48:57,914
And we all 'do the job' for each other.
1180
00:48:57,997 --> 00:49:00,250
Which is what we call it when
we let someone else pin us
1181
00:49:00,333 --> 00:49:03,503
because there is nothing more
noble than taking a beatin'
1182
00:49:03,586 --> 00:49:05,547
and makin' somebody else look good
1183
00:49:05,630 --> 00:49:08,633
for the good of the whole
goddamned operation.
1184
00:49:08,716 --> 00:49:11,010
And, no. No.
Sometimes it doesn't feel good.
1185
00:49:11,094 --> 00:49:12,886
We all want to fight.
We all want to win.
1186
00:49:12,921 --> 00:49:16,641
And when the time is right,
you shut your mouth and you do the job.
1187
00:49:16,724 --> 00:49:19,144
And then maybe you move
to a different town,
1188
00:49:19,227 --> 00:49:21,729
and someone does the job for you.
1189
00:49:26,818 --> 00:49:29,320
Can I just say holy shit!
1190
00:49:29,404 --> 00:49:31,197
Holy shit!
1191
00:49:31,281 --> 00:49:34,742
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
1192
00:49:37,579 --> 00:49:39,247
You may, Mafee.
1193
00:49:39,330 --> 00:49:43,001
Now. Becky, who could obviously
1194
00:49:43,084 --> 00:49:45,310
kick my ass to the ground,
1195
00:49:45,345 --> 00:49:47,840
just did the job for me.
1196
00:49:47,875 --> 00:49:50,750
To remind us that we're
all in this together,
1197
00:49:51,630 --> 00:49:55,513
and what a fucking pisser
it is to work here...
1198
00:49:55,597 --> 00:49:58,516
where a stunt like this is,
you know, just a Tuesday.
1199
00:49:58,600 --> 00:49:59,601
[LIGHT LAUGHTER]
1200
00:49:59,684 --> 00:50:02,770
So: are we ready to
1201
00:50:02,854 --> 00:50:05,648
do the fucking job for
each other or what?
1202
00:50:05,732 --> 00:50:07,859
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
1203
00:50:11,029 --> 00:50:14,032
[MID-TEMPO MUSIC]
1204
00:50:14,115 --> 00:50:17,535
♪♪♪
1205
00:50:17,619 --> 00:50:20,371
♪♪♪
1206
00:50:20,455 --> 00:50:24,876
♪♪♪
1207
00:50:24,959 --> 00:50:27,629
That was impressive. A grand gesture.
1208
00:50:27,712 --> 00:50:29,047
I can see how much you
care about this place.
1209
00:50:29,130 --> 00:50:30,632
And it moves me to say:
1210
00:50:30,715 --> 00:50:32,467
I'll do what I can to
get my people to lean in.
1211
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:34,926
Good.
1212
00:50:34,961 --> 00:50:37,347
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
1213
00:50:37,430 --> 00:50:39,265
♪♪♪
1214
00:50:39,349 --> 00:50:40,475
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
1215
00:50:41,557 --> 00:50:44,646
If that's how you feel,
then you should probably tell him.
1216
00:50:44,729 --> 00:50:46,064
Tell him what?
1217
00:50:46,147 --> 00:50:47,732
Whatever it is you're really doing here.
1218
00:50:47,815 --> 00:50:51,402
♪♪♪
1219
00:50:51,486 --> 00:50:54,364
♪♪♪
1220
00:50:54,447 --> 00:50:59,035
♪♪♪
1221
00:50:59,118 --> 00:51:00,245
You think this will fix
1222
00:51:00,328 --> 00:51:02,747
the adjustment problems of our teams?
1223
00:51:02,830 --> 00:51:05,069
And also fix the problems
between me and you?
1224
00:51:05,104 --> 00:51:07,418
We need to feel like one company.
Or none of it will work...
1225
00:51:07,502 --> 00:51:09,921
And then I would
confide in you again, right?
1226
00:51:10,004 --> 00:51:12,465
♪♪♪
1227
00:51:12,549 --> 00:51:14,050
I am not here because
you forced me to be.
1228
00:51:14,133 --> 00:51:15,802
Or because Chuck did.
1229
00:51:15,885 --> 00:51:18,221
I am here as Chuck's operative
because he wants to get you.
1230
00:51:19,835 --> 00:51:21,432
I know.
1231
00:51:21,516 --> 00:51:23,461
I figured there was a
good chance of it anyway.
1232
00:51:23,496 --> 00:51:24,644
How?
1233
00:51:24,727 --> 00:51:25,895
If you were really here
'cause I forced you to be,
1234
00:51:25,979 --> 00:51:27,689
your body language would be different.
1235
00:51:27,772 --> 00:51:29,524
I have tried to slump my shoulders.
1236
00:51:29,607 --> 00:51:31,067
But if it were real,
1237
00:51:31,150 --> 00:51:33,278
you'd try to avoid showing
me you were hurting.
1238
00:51:33,361 --> 00:51:35,550
You'd walk with your shoulders back...
1239
00:51:35,585 --> 00:51:37,699
If you didn't trust me,
why did you want me working for you?
1240
00:51:37,782 --> 00:51:39,367
'Cause I thought our goals were aligned.
1241
00:51:39,450 --> 00:51:41,072
And I still think they can be.
1242
00:51:41,107 --> 00:51:42,495
Even after what I just told you?
1243
00:51:42,579 --> 00:51:44,706
You need to be here.
1244
00:51:44,789 --> 00:51:47,208
Doing this... not just for a living,
1245
00:51:47,292 --> 00:51:50,522
not just to keep your name
strong in the business...
1246
00:51:50,557 --> 00:51:52,297
but to feel alive.
1247
00:51:52,380 --> 00:51:54,465
Maybe even to be alive.
1248
00:51:54,549 --> 00:51:56,968
You need that feeling you get
1249
00:51:57,051 --> 00:51:58,970
when you see what no one else can.
1250
00:51:59,053 --> 00:52:01,139
And bet on that vision. And be right.
1251
00:52:02,190 --> 00:52:04,809
'Cause you, Taylor,
are a profit generating organism.
1252
00:52:04,892 --> 00:52:07,312
You're just put together that way.
1253
00:52:07,395 --> 00:52:08,938
That's what I need.
1254
00:52:09,022 --> 00:52:10,898
And why we are aligned.
1255
00:52:10,982 --> 00:52:13,610
No matter your conflicted feelings.
1256
00:52:15,526 --> 00:52:16,548
And Rhoades?
1257
00:52:16,583 --> 00:52:18,043
Fight him off, neutralize him.
1258
00:52:18,078 --> 00:52:19,824
- And if I can't?
- Fuck 'can't.'
1259
00:52:19,907 --> 00:52:22,368
We just agreed on who you are.
1260
00:52:22,452 --> 00:52:23,995
The person who does.
1261
00:52:24,078 --> 00:52:26,414
♪♪♪
1262
00:52:27,740 --> 00:52:29,167
Okay. I will.
1263
00:52:29,250 --> 00:52:32,712
♪♪♪
1264
00:52:32,795 --> 00:52:34,756
I see that.
1265
00:52:35,428 --> 00:52:36,507
Good.
1266
00:52:37,340 --> 00:52:39,010
Now, how do you recommend
I deal with Rhoades?
1267
00:52:40,050 --> 00:52:41,804
He is going to continue
to act like a friend.
1268
00:52:41,888 --> 00:52:44,098
Remind him of why
actually being your friend
1269
00:52:44,182 --> 00:52:46,267
is the smartest course of action.
1270
00:52:46,351 --> 00:52:49,520
♪♪♪
1271
00:52:49,604 --> 00:52:54,776
♪♪♪
1272
00:52:58,863 --> 00:53:01,282
[COMPUTER DINGS]
1273
00:53:01,655 --> 00:53:03,623
_
1274
00:53:04,952 --> 00:53:07,955
- ♪♪♪
- _
1275
00:53:08,774 --> 00:53:11,542
Oh, what the fuck...
1276
00:53:11,626 --> 00:53:14,379
♪♪♪
1277
00:53:14,462 --> 00:53:15,672
[LINE RINGING]
1278
00:53:16,584 --> 00:53:18,925
You've reached Wendy Rhoades.
Please leave a message.
1279
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:21,344
- [LINE BEEPS]
- Uh. Yeah, Wend, it's me.
1280
00:53:22,241 --> 00:53:24,889
I see we've reached the
place of unilateral action.
1281
00:53:26,116 --> 00:53:28,624
Not gracious, or cool,
1282
00:53:28,659 --> 00:53:30,895
or reflective in any way of
how we've fucking gone about...
1283
00:53:30,978 --> 00:53:35,566
♪♪♪
1284
00:53:35,650 --> 00:53:38,111
Just give me a call
back after you get this.
1285
00:53:38,194 --> 00:53:40,655
♪♪♪
1286
00:53:40,738 --> 00:53:41,948
[CELLPHONE THUDS]
1287
00:53:42,031 --> 00:53:45,076
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
1288
00:53:45,159 --> 00:53:48,329
♪♪♪
1289
00:53:48,413 --> 00:53:49,447
[SIGHS]
1290
00:53:53,835 --> 00:53:55,169
[DOOR CLOSES]
1291
00:53:56,149 --> 00:53:57,151
Everything okay?
1292
00:53:57,166 --> 00:54:00,383
Oh. Just some upheaval
on the home front, as you know.
1293
00:54:00,466 --> 00:54:02,552
Everything'll settle into place.
1294
00:54:02,635 --> 00:54:04,429
What do you got there?
1295
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:07,473
Something meaningful.
1296
00:54:10,268 --> 00:54:12,770
[SOFT MUSIC]
1297
00:54:12,854 --> 00:54:15,398
♪♪♪
1298
00:54:16,851 --> 00:54:19,485
Ahh.
1299
00:54:19,569 --> 00:54:21,279
[SIGHS]
1300
00:54:21,362 --> 00:54:22,655
[SNIFFS]
1301
00:54:22,739 --> 00:54:24,949
[CHUCKLES]
1302
00:54:26,644 --> 00:54:27,652
Ahh.
1303
00:54:28,641 --> 00:54:29,645
'Never give in.
1304
00:54:30,396 --> 00:54:34,348
'Never in nothing,
great or small; large or petty.
1305
00:54:34,383 --> 00:54:35,752
'Never give in,
1306
00:54:35,835 --> 00:54:38,636
'except to convictions
of honor and good sense.
1307
00:54:38,671 --> 00:54:41,166
'Never yield to force.
1308
00:54:42,863 --> 00:54:44,093
'Never yield to the apparently
1309
00:54:44,177 --> 00:54:47,623
overwhelming might of the enemy.'
1310
00:54:48,519 --> 00:54:49,789
[TAPS ON BOOK]
1311
00:54:50,740 --> 00:54:53,895
I went back to my book seller
a few months after I sold it.
1312
00:54:53,978 --> 00:54:56,495
He told me the set had been bought.
1313
00:54:56,530 --> 00:55:00,318
And I couldn't find any others.
1314
00:55:00,401 --> 00:55:02,445
No. It seems the, uh,
1315
00:55:02,528 --> 00:55:05,823
market on first-edition
Churchills had been cornered.
1316
00:55:05,907 --> 00:55:08,189
That's what I do to markets.
1317
00:55:08,224 --> 00:55:10,119
Ah. [CHUCKLES]
1318
00:55:10,203 --> 00:55:12,830
But now, I am returning these to
you as an act of friendship...
1319
00:55:12,914 --> 00:55:15,374
Because I want you to remember
when we weren't friends,
1320
00:55:15,458 --> 00:55:18,544
how the world was a very
hot and uncomfortable place.
1321
00:55:18,628 --> 00:55:20,004
And to that end,
1322
00:55:20,087 --> 00:55:22,840
I would like you to also
help me keep it cool.
1323
00:55:22,924 --> 00:55:24,592
♪♪♪
1324
00:55:24,675 --> 00:55:25,968
How shall I do that?
1325
00:55:26,052 --> 00:55:28,513
- That crypto mine that you busted upstate...
- Mm.
1326
00:55:28,596 --> 00:55:30,515
I'd appreciate it if
you'd drop the case.
1327
00:55:30,598 --> 00:55:34,018
Well, Bobby,
I very much want to be friends.
1328
00:55:34,101 --> 00:55:35,686
[CHUCKLES]
1329
00:55:35,770 --> 00:55:38,689
And I was surprised...
dismayed really...
1330
00:55:38,773 --> 00:55:39,782
when we made the arrests
1331
00:55:39,815 --> 00:55:41,651
and found out you were
in the middle of that.
1332
00:55:41,734 --> 00:55:44,803
Not really in the middle...
maybe loosely connected.
1333
00:55:44,838 --> 00:55:46,364
All the same...
1334
00:55:46,447 --> 00:55:48,366
I can't just drop it, not altogether.
1335
00:55:48,449 --> 00:55:50,159
It's too far along.
1336
00:55:50,243 --> 00:55:54,056
Questions will be raised,
prying eyes will be focused.
1337
00:55:54,091 --> 00:55:55,206
Uh huh.
1338
00:55:55,289 --> 00:55:56,832
Then what can you do for me?
1339
00:55:56,916 --> 00:55:58,417
[SIGHS]
1340
00:56:01,045 --> 00:56:04,549
Best I can do is make it a
civil and not a criminal action.
1341
00:56:04,632 --> 00:56:08,451
Which will be hard to sell
to my team and my office
1342
00:56:08,486 --> 00:56:11,514
and is an act of friendship
that goes beyond the norm.
1343
00:56:11,597 --> 00:56:15,518
It is, in fact,
of the kind you just demonstrated.
1344
00:56:15,601 --> 00:56:19,397
So, it'll cost you some money in fines,
1345
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:22,441
but as you like to remind the world,
you got plenty of that.
1346
00:56:22,525 --> 00:56:24,860
Yeah. Sure, Chuck.
1347
00:56:26,199 --> 00:56:27,204
That I do.
1348
00:56:27,288 --> 00:56:29,991
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
1349
00:56:30,074 --> 00:56:32,994
♪♪♪
1350
00:56:33,077 --> 00:56:35,913
♪♪♪
1351
00:56:35,997 --> 00:56:38,749
[DOOR OPENS]
1352
00:56:38,833 --> 00:56:39,417
[DOOR CLOSES]
1353
00:56:39,500 --> 00:56:41,544
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
1354
00:56:47,049 --> 00:56:48,926
It's a triple cross.
1355
00:56:49,010 --> 00:56:51,675
Taylor told Axelrod
why they're at Axe Cap.
1356
00:56:51,710 --> 00:56:53,764
- How'd you figure it?
- He came at me,
1357
00:56:53,848 --> 00:56:56,278
to remind me of the
last time I went at him.
1358
00:56:56,313 --> 00:56:58,269
- What it cost me.
- What are we gonna do about it?
1359
00:56:58,352 --> 00:57:01,147
He wants to be friends,
so we'll be friends.
1360
00:57:01,230 --> 00:57:03,858
Right up until the moment we drop him.
1361
00:57:03,941 --> 00:57:07,889
Unless you think that's too,
uh, "Old Chuck."
1362
00:57:07,924 --> 00:57:09,322
No, that's just Chuck.
1363
00:57:09,405 --> 00:57:11,133
- [CHUCKLES]
- As it should be.
1364
00:57:11,168 --> 00:57:13,284
As it ever will be.
1365
00:57:13,367 --> 00:57:15,578
Okay. Here's what I'm thinking.
1366
00:57:15,661 --> 00:57:17,747
[PATTI SMITH'S "SUMMER CANNIBALS"]
1367
00:57:17,830 --> 00:57:22,043
♪♪♪
1368
00:57:22,126 --> 00:57:25,463
♪♪♪
1369
00:57:25,546 --> 00:57:28,841
♪ I was down in Georgia ♪
1370
00:57:28,924 --> 00:57:32,136
♪ Nothing was as real ♪
1371
00:57:32,219 --> 00:57:35,139
♪ As the street beneath my feet ♪
1372
00:57:35,222 --> 00:57:37,725
♪ Descending into air ♪
1373
00:57:37,808 --> 00:57:41,729
♪♪♪
1374
00:57:41,812 --> 00:57:44,106
♪♪♪
1375
00:57:45,351 --> 00:57:48,069
♪ The cauldron was a-bubbling ♪
1376
00:57:48,152 --> 00:57:51,364
♪ The flesh was lean ♪
1377
00:57:51,447 --> 00:57:54,659
♪ And the women moved forward ♪
1378
00:57:54,742 --> 00:57:57,828
♪ Like piranhas in a stream ♪
1379
00:57:57,912 --> 00:58:00,998
♪ They spread themselves before me ♪
1380
00:58:01,082 --> 00:58:04,518
♪ An offering so sweet ♪
1381
00:58:04,553 --> 00:58:07,672
♪ And they beckoned and they beckoned ♪
1382
00:58:07,755 --> 00:58:11,342
♪ "Come on, darling, eat" ♪
1383
00:58:11,425 --> 00:58:12,677
♪ Eat the summer cannibals ♪
1384
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:14,679
[GRUNTING]
1385
00:58:14,762 --> 00:58:17,541
♪ Eat, eat, eat ♪
1386
00:58:17,576 --> 00:58:20,935
♪ You eat the summer cannibals ♪
1387
00:58:21,018 --> 00:58:23,979
♪ Eat, eat, eat ♪
1388
00:58:24,063 --> 00:58:27,191
♪♪♪
1389
00:58:27,274 --> 00:58:30,403
♪♪♪
1390
00:58:30,486 --> 00:58:33,989
♪ They circled around me ♪
1391
00:58:34,073 --> 00:58:37,201
♪ Natives in a ring ♪
1392
00:58:37,284 --> 00:58:40,037
♪ And I saw their souls a-withering ♪
1393
00:58:40,121 --> 00:58:43,747
♪ Like snakes in chains ♪
1394
00:58:43,782 --> 00:58:47,140
♪ And they wrapped
themselves around me ♪
1395
00:58:47,175 --> 00:58:50,005
♪ Mmm, what a treat ♪
1396
00:58:50,089 --> 00:58:53,981
♪ And they rattled their tales hissin' ♪
1397
00:58:54,016 --> 00:58:56,929
♪ "Come on, let's eat" ♪
1398
00:58:57,012 --> 00:59:00,224
♪ Eat the summer cannibals ♪
1399
00:59:00,307 --> 00:59:02,143
♪ Eat, eat ♪
1400
00:59:04,009 --> 00:59:07,331
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