1 00:00:08,009 --> 00:00:10,220 [Boyd] Previously on Billions... 2 00:00:10,303 --> 00:00:13,181 [Dake] Today you're the man who brought down Lawrence Boyd. 3 00:00:13,264 --> 00:00:14,264 You're under arrest. 4 00:00:14,307 --> 00:00:16,851 [Dake] Today you're Elvis. 5 00:00:16,935 --> 00:00:18,770 [Chuck Sr.] The only question now is... 6 00:00:18,853 --> 00:00:21,272 which mansion will it be, Gracie or the Governor's? 7 00:00:21,356 --> 00:00:23,900 Head of Crim. Man, plum purchase. 8 00:00:23,983 --> 00:00:26,194 Freaking launch pad of the private sector. 9 00:00:26,277 --> 00:00:27,946 I mean, you land it, you're minted. 10 00:00:28,029 --> 00:00:30,114 My part is done for now. 11 00:00:31,699 --> 00:00:33,326 Oh, what the fuck. 12 00:00:33,409 --> 00:00:34,786 Hang for a minute, Bryan. 13 00:00:34,869 --> 00:00:36,955 Listen to what Bobby has to say. 14 00:00:37,038 --> 00:00:40,083 Come work for Bach's firm, on my account. 15 00:00:40,166 --> 00:00:42,919 [Dake] You know what Rhoades is, Bryan, 16 00:00:43,002 --> 00:00:46,464 and I know you made that call. 17 00:00:46,548 --> 00:00:49,342 [Chuck] What did you do to get Axelrod to drop his civil suits? 18 00:00:49,425 --> 00:00:51,386 I went back to work at Axe Capital. 19 00:00:51,469 --> 00:00:53,680 I'm happy that it works for you. 20 00:00:53,763 --> 00:00:57,100 But for us, I'm afraid it's a deal breaker. 21 00:00:57,183 --> 00:00:59,394 If you ever decide to grapple with 22 00:00:59,477 --> 00:01:01,688 why you feel happiness for you can only exist 23 00:01:01,771 --> 00:01:05,775 in the company of hairless 21-year-old girls, come see me. 24 00:01:05,858 --> 00:01:07,610 We can fix that quick. 25 00:01:07,694 --> 00:01:09,028 [laughs] 26 00:01:09,112 --> 00:01:10,488 Thanks for taking the meeting. 27 00:01:10,572 --> 00:01:11,948 Anything for Bruno. 28 00:01:12,031 --> 00:01:14,409 Sandicot's downtown is ripe for redevelopment. 29 00:01:14,492 --> 00:01:16,452 The whole county's on the edge of default. 30 00:01:16,536 --> 00:01:17,704 If they don't get the casino, 31 00:01:17,787 --> 00:01:19,107 it goes from something to consider 32 00:01:19,163 --> 00:01:20,723 to something to never think about again. 33 00:01:20,790 --> 00:01:22,584 Move forward with the bond. 34 00:01:22,667 --> 00:01:24,502 The casino is coming to Sandicot. 35 00:01:24,586 --> 00:01:26,629 We are committing to this play. 36 00:01:26,713 --> 00:01:29,215 Sandicot's not getting the gaming license. 37 00:01:29,299 --> 00:01:31,384 It's over. 38 00:01:39,601 --> 00:01:42,812 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 39 00:01:51,571 --> 00:01:53,197 [Axe] How did I get fucked? 40 00:01:53,281 --> 00:01:56,242 That casino was supposed to be locked-the-fuck in. 41 00:01:56,326 --> 00:01:58,202 When an op goes sour, 42 00:01:58,286 --> 00:02:00,538 we're taught to go back to its genesis. 43 00:02:11,257 --> 00:02:13,384 Bobby. 44 00:02:13,468 --> 00:02:15,553 Put the bat down. 45 00:02:16,512 --> 00:02:18,431 The gaming license went to another town. 46 00:02:18,514 --> 00:02:20,475 Oh, no. 47 00:02:20,558 --> 00:02:22,644 Let's have a talk with your nephew. 48 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,232 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 49 00:02:38,117 --> 00:02:39,243 Who paid you? 50 00:02:39,327 --> 00:02:41,412 It's not like that. 51 00:02:41,788 --> 00:02:43,831 Marco, it better fucking not be. 52 00:02:43,915 --> 00:02:47,001 It's not, Uncle Bru. It's not, Mr. Axelrod. 53 00:02:47,085 --> 00:02:49,170 And you, sir. 54 00:02:50,588 --> 00:02:52,632 - I'm gonna be sick. - You should be... 55 00:02:52,715 --> 00:02:55,218 because you know who you really hurt with this move. 56 00:02:55,301 --> 00:02:56,678 There was no move. 57 00:02:56,761 --> 00:02:59,597 You fronted like the whole thing was wired. 58 00:02:59,681 --> 00:03:01,974 Was that bait? Or were you the bait? 59 00:03:02,058 --> 00:03:03,559 I swear. 60 00:03:03,643 --> 00:03:06,145 [Hall] If you didn't set Mr. Axelrod up, who set you up? 61 00:03:06,229 --> 00:03:07,855 Nobody. It's a thing that happened, 62 00:03:07,939 --> 00:03:09,148 not something anyone did. 63 00:03:09,232 --> 00:03:10,817 That is the kind of thing I'd say. 64 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:12,360 You vetted the info yourself. 65 00:03:12,443 --> 00:03:13,736 I did. 66 00:03:13,820 --> 00:03:16,155 Which means whoever put you up to this 67 00:03:16,239 --> 00:03:18,741 was careful and targeted. 68 00:03:25,832 --> 00:03:28,084 [whispers] Do you understand me? 69 00:03:31,212 --> 00:03:34,090 I swear... on my eyes. 70 00:03:34,173 --> 00:03:37,468 [Hall] Yes, you do. Now, who paid you? 71 00:03:37,552 --> 00:03:40,096 No one even knew who I was going to 72 00:03:40,179 --> 00:03:43,182 for the financing, not at first. 73 00:03:43,266 --> 00:03:45,184 It's some kind of Albany machine shit. 74 00:03:45,268 --> 00:03:47,437 The kind that's been going on for 100 years 75 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:49,188 that we got caught in. 76 00:03:49,272 --> 00:03:51,691 You're getting fottuto for something someone's cousin did 77 00:03:51,774 --> 00:03:54,360 to someone else's boss in a distant part of the state. 78 00:03:54,444 --> 00:03:55,945 "Fottuto" means getting fucked. 79 00:03:56,028 --> 00:03:58,114 I picked that up in context. 80 00:04:03,745 --> 00:04:05,121 You know the kind of options 81 00:04:05,204 --> 00:04:07,582 this leaves me to get my money out. 82 00:04:12,378 --> 00:04:14,464 [dog barking in distance] Go long. 83 00:04:17,341 --> 00:04:20,011 Oh, my bad. I overshot you. 84 00:04:20,094 --> 00:04:22,263 [Mike] Looks like you finally have some family time. 85 00:04:22,346 --> 00:04:23,806 Thanks for coming down here. 86 00:04:23,890 --> 00:04:26,309 No, the Boyd business kept me living at the office, 87 00:04:26,392 --> 00:04:28,102 so I promised Kevin I'd spend the day 88 00:04:28,186 --> 00:04:29,562 with him when it was done. 89 00:04:29,645 --> 00:04:32,732 But I'm always happy to find time for you. 90 00:04:34,233 --> 00:04:35,735 Kevin, come here for a minute. 91 00:04:35,818 --> 00:04:38,237 There's someone I'd like you to meet. 92 00:04:38,321 --> 00:04:40,281 This is Mike Dimonda, 93 00:04:40,364 --> 00:04:43,409 an excellent and very influential young journalist. 94 00:04:43,493 --> 00:04:45,244 Mike, my son Kevin. 95 00:04:45,328 --> 00:04:46,412 Nice to meet you, sir. 96 00:04:46,496 --> 00:04:47,705 Helluva handshake, Kevin. 97 00:04:47,789 --> 00:04:49,123 He's a good kid. 98 00:04:49,207 --> 00:04:51,667 Okay, uh, go out. 99 00:04:52,668 --> 00:04:54,212 Skinny post. 100 00:04:54,295 --> 00:04:56,589 Omaha, Omaha. Hut. 101 00:04:58,132 --> 00:05:00,218 This is the kind of unadulterated high point 102 00:05:00,301 --> 00:05:02,470 that rarely comes along. It's hard to see what more 103 00:05:02,553 --> 00:05:04,388 there is for you to gain as U.S. Attorney. 104 00:05:04,472 --> 00:05:06,808 House, Senate, or do you have plans to run for Governor? 105 00:05:06,891 --> 00:05:08,226 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 106 00:05:08,309 --> 00:05:10,061 - Where'd you get that? - What I hear is 107 00:05:10,144 --> 00:05:11,562 you're taking a quick victory lap, 108 00:05:11,646 --> 00:05:13,773 and then it's City Hall, Capitol Building, or Albany. 109 00:05:13,856 --> 00:05:18,319 I would never even consider it while still in office. 110 00:05:18,402 --> 00:05:21,864 You will be the first to know should that change. 111 00:05:21,948 --> 00:05:24,075 Do you mind if I, uh, shoot a few of you guys 112 00:05:24,158 --> 00:05:26,285 throwing the ball around? Or is that private? 113 00:05:26,369 --> 00:05:28,454 It is. 114 00:05:28,955 --> 00:05:31,123 But if you think it has some value, 115 00:05:31,207 --> 00:05:33,626 then... we can make an exception. 116 00:05:33,709 --> 00:05:35,795 That'd be great. 117 00:05:36,712 --> 00:05:37,964 Come on, Kev. 118 00:05:38,047 --> 00:05:39,173 All right? 119 00:05:39,257 --> 00:05:41,342 How's that? 120 00:05:42,468 --> 00:05:46,806 ♪ Hangin' round downtown by myself ♪ 121 00:05:46,889 --> 00:05:49,725 ♪ And I had so much time ♪ 122 00:05:49,809 --> 00:05:52,645 ♪ To sit and think about myself ♪ 123 00:05:52,728 --> 00:05:56,315 ♪ And then there she was ♪ 124 00:05:56,399 --> 00:05:58,568 ♪ Like double cherry pie ♪ 125 00:05:58,651 --> 00:06:02,321 ♪ Yeah, there she was ♪ 126 00:06:02,405 --> 00:06:06,826 ♪ Like disco superfly... ♪ 127 00:06:06,909 --> 00:06:09,328 [panting] 128 00:06:09,412 --> 00:06:12,790 Ryan, why don't you show me the rest of the house? 129 00:06:12,874 --> 00:06:13,958 Soon, baby. 130 00:06:14,041 --> 00:06:15,501 It's just... 131 00:06:15,585 --> 00:06:17,211 I'm so close. 132 00:06:17,295 --> 00:06:18,713 Is the pool heater on? 133 00:06:18,796 --> 00:06:20,006 I think you can handle... 134 00:06:20,089 --> 00:06:21,089 [Axe] Yeah, I can. 135 00:06:21,132 --> 00:06:24,427 ♪♪♪ 136 00:06:24,510 --> 00:06:26,804 - ♪ I smell sex and candy... ♪ - Get inside. Now. 137 00:06:28,931 --> 00:06:30,308 Get the fuck out. 138 00:06:30,391 --> 00:06:31,809 [Lara] I'm a pretty chill boss, 139 00:06:31,893 --> 00:06:33,573 but how far do you want to fucking push it? 140 00:06:33,644 --> 00:06:35,271 I wasn't expecting you till tomorrow. 141 00:06:35,354 --> 00:06:36,480 And you didn't call, so... 142 00:06:36,564 --> 00:06:37,982 We don't need to fucking call. 143 00:06:38,065 --> 00:06:40,026 Right. I'm sorry. 144 00:06:40,109 --> 00:06:41,319 Of course. 145 00:06:41,402 --> 00:06:42,653 I'm sorry. 146 00:06:42,737 --> 00:06:44,097 You know how much I like you, Ryan. 147 00:06:44,155 --> 00:06:46,157 But even still, I'm tempted to broom your ass. 148 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:47,658 Tell me you didn't use our bed. 149 00:06:47,742 --> 00:06:49,702 No, no. No. I did not even let her inside. 150 00:06:49,785 --> 00:06:52,204 That is lucky for you. 151 00:06:52,288 --> 00:06:54,373 Those towels go in the trash. 152 00:06:56,792 --> 00:06:57,960 [sighs] 153 00:06:58,044 --> 00:07:00,338 Sounds like you've been pardoned. 154 00:07:00,421 --> 00:07:02,214 I'm doing a war room. 155 00:07:02,298 --> 00:07:04,258 I need you to make lunch for eight. 156 00:07:04,342 --> 00:07:05,927 Thanks, Axe. 157 00:07:06,010 --> 00:07:08,095 I'm really sorry. 158 00:07:09,472 --> 00:07:12,141 And wash your fucking hands. 159 00:07:12,224 --> 00:07:14,310 Right. 160 00:07:16,270 --> 00:07:17,270 Hello. 161 00:07:17,313 --> 00:07:19,023 That was quick. 162 00:07:19,106 --> 00:07:20,399 Thought you'd be back later. 163 00:07:20,483 --> 00:07:23,903 Yeah, well, we had our catch. 164 00:07:23,986 --> 00:07:27,740 Then Dad did the interview, and we came home. 165 00:07:27,823 --> 00:07:30,117 Bye, Dad. 166 00:07:32,954 --> 00:07:35,414 You said you wanted to spend the day with him. 167 00:07:35,498 --> 00:07:38,209 Yeah, I said I wanted to spend time with him, and I did. 168 00:07:38,292 --> 00:07:39,961 You used him as a prop. 169 00:07:40,044 --> 00:07:41,587 Which you swore you'd never do, 170 00:07:41,671 --> 00:07:44,465 since that's exactly what your father did to you. 171 00:07:44,548 --> 00:07:45,716 [sighs] 172 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,219 We spent the morning at the park. 173 00:07:48,302 --> 00:07:49,929 And a reporter happened upon us 174 00:07:50,012 --> 00:07:51,263 because, at the moment, 175 00:07:51,347 --> 00:07:53,432 I am news-worthy. 176 00:07:53,516 --> 00:07:54,725 Finally in a good way. 177 00:07:54,809 --> 00:07:56,811 I'm sure it's a wonderful lesson for Kevin 178 00:07:56,894 --> 00:07:59,021 - on what really matters. - Indeed it was. 179 00:07:59,105 --> 00:08:00,731 He got to run around a little bit, 180 00:08:00,815 --> 00:08:02,775 and he got some exposure 181 00:08:02,858 --> 00:08:05,486 as to how you finesse relations with the fourth estate. 182 00:08:05,569 --> 00:08:07,947 [scoffs] 183 00:08:08,030 --> 00:08:10,616 That is exactly the kind of half-truth 184 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:13,536 that's led to our current situation. 185 00:08:13,619 --> 00:08:15,287 As is your failure to tell me 186 00:08:15,371 --> 00:08:17,331 you were going back to work for Axelrod. 187 00:08:17,415 --> 00:08:18,666 Oh, my God. 188 00:08:18,749 --> 00:08:22,253 Oh, I had to Columbo that one for myself. 189 00:08:22,336 --> 00:08:23,963 Yet it seems that I'm required 190 00:08:24,046 --> 00:08:26,382 to disclose every detail of how I spend my time. 191 00:08:26,465 --> 00:08:28,467 No, you're not. When it comes to the kids, 192 00:08:28,551 --> 00:08:30,386 yes, complete transparency, but otherwise, 193 00:08:30,469 --> 00:08:32,638 you don't have to share anything, so you know, go. 194 00:08:32,722 --> 00:08:34,890 Do whatever the fuck you want, and so will I. 195 00:08:34,974 --> 00:08:37,977 Oh, there it goes. There it goes. 196 00:08:38,060 --> 00:08:42,398 Your justification... 197 00:08:42,481 --> 00:08:45,776 slid in there so maybe I would realize it later. 198 00:08:45,860 --> 00:08:47,945 But there it was. 199 00:08:50,364 --> 00:08:52,491 You want the freedom to see other people. 200 00:08:54,869 --> 00:08:57,288 Yes. 201 00:08:57,371 --> 00:08:59,790 I want freedom... 202 00:08:59,874 --> 00:09:01,167 all around. 203 00:09:01,250 --> 00:09:02,793 And I would be free, as well. 204 00:09:02,877 --> 00:09:04,962 Consider that door open. 205 00:09:06,422 --> 00:09:08,007 You're really saying those words? 206 00:09:08,090 --> 00:09:10,468 Yes, I am. 207 00:09:10,551 --> 00:09:12,720 For both of us. 208 00:09:14,972 --> 00:09:15,972 Wendy. 209 00:09:15,973 --> 00:09:18,059 What? 210 00:09:19,769 --> 00:09:21,854 I'll see you tomorrow. 211 00:09:23,731 --> 00:09:26,317 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 212 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:30,196 ♪♪♪ 213 00:09:30,279 --> 00:09:32,114 So, it's fallen upon all of you 214 00:09:32,198 --> 00:09:33,991 to figure out how to get us un-fucked. 215 00:09:34,075 --> 00:09:35,743 The gaming license was the guarantee 216 00:09:35,826 --> 00:09:37,620 that Sandicot would pay off the notes. 217 00:09:37,703 --> 00:09:40,372 Now, the license is gone, the area is going to default, 218 00:09:40,456 --> 00:09:42,458 and we're about to eat a half a billion, 219 00:09:42,541 --> 00:09:45,586 including 100 mill in fresh capital we put in. 220 00:09:45,669 --> 00:09:47,755 Any suggestions? 221 00:09:49,507 --> 00:09:51,967 There's no road to raising tax revenues. 222 00:09:52,051 --> 00:09:53,886 I don't give a shit what we don't have. 223 00:09:53,969 --> 00:09:56,055 I need to know the roads that are open to us 224 00:09:56,138 --> 00:09:58,432 or the ground that can be cleared to make one. 225 00:09:58,516 --> 00:10:00,851 Isn't there anyone we can sell this turd to? 226 00:10:00,935 --> 00:10:03,062 Not without taking a nine-figure haircut. 227 00:10:03,145 --> 00:10:04,730 Same goes for restructuring. 228 00:10:04,814 --> 00:10:06,440 This thing stinks like Billy Batts 229 00:10:06,524 --> 00:10:08,609 in the trunk right now. 230 00:10:08,776 --> 00:10:10,569 Austerity. 231 00:10:10,653 --> 00:10:13,364 You don't need to whisper it like it's some dark spell 232 00:10:13,447 --> 00:10:15,449 that'll come true if you say it too loudly. 233 00:10:15,533 --> 00:10:17,618 It kind of is, though, isn't it? 234 00:10:21,580 --> 00:10:23,499 Yeah. Because once you say it, 235 00:10:23,582 --> 00:10:26,001 you realize it's your only option. 236 00:10:26,085 --> 00:10:27,253 Austerity. 237 00:10:27,336 --> 00:10:29,713 Okay. Step it out for everyone. 238 00:10:31,006 --> 00:10:34,552 Well, the note exchange requires that the town pay you first, 239 00:10:34,635 --> 00:10:36,804 before any of its other financial obligations, 240 00:10:36,887 --> 00:10:39,056 like union contracts with town workers, 241 00:10:39,140 --> 00:10:40,850 teachers' salaries, all that. 242 00:10:40,933 --> 00:10:42,935 Austerity just means you enforce that. 243 00:10:43,018 --> 00:10:45,771 Yes. Go ahead, seize their assets, 244 00:10:45,855 --> 00:10:47,606 like Singer did in Argentina. 245 00:10:47,690 --> 00:10:49,066 What kind of assets? 246 00:10:49,150 --> 00:10:51,277 Sandicot is not an entire South American country. 247 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,696 Right. We wouldn't be skimming cream off the top. 248 00:10:53,779 --> 00:10:55,573 We'd be gutting them for their organs, 249 00:10:55,656 --> 00:10:57,199 like in a Korean horror movie. 250 00:10:57,283 --> 00:11:00,786 You'd be mostly looking at land, buildings, and utilities. 251 00:11:00,870 --> 00:11:02,538 Town also has an original Remington. 252 00:11:02,621 --> 00:11:05,166 It's worth upwards of $900,000. 253 00:11:05,249 --> 00:11:06,750 The fuck's a Remington? 254 00:11:06,834 --> 00:11:09,587 Frederic. American artist from the 19th century. 255 00:11:09,670 --> 00:11:12,214 He specialized in depictions of the Old West. 256 00:11:13,883 --> 00:11:16,760 I took Art History for the automatic A. 257 00:11:16,844 --> 00:11:18,095 Some of it stuck. 258 00:11:18,179 --> 00:11:20,306 If you force them to pay you, 259 00:11:20,389 --> 00:11:22,391 the county would have to severely cut back 260 00:11:22,474 --> 00:11:25,311 on its municipal workforce, roll back labor contracts, 261 00:11:25,394 --> 00:11:27,062 and pillage its pension funds. 262 00:11:27,146 --> 00:11:29,398 Eventually they'd have to shutter some schools, 263 00:11:29,481 --> 00:11:31,150 leading to overpopulated classrooms 264 00:11:31,233 --> 00:11:32,860 and forced free periods. 265 00:11:32,943 --> 00:11:35,821 Decreased graduation rates, increased crime. 266 00:11:35,905 --> 00:11:39,366 They would be consolidation of hospitals, fire houses. 267 00:11:39,450 --> 00:11:41,619 There would also be cuts in police manpower. 268 00:11:41,702 --> 00:11:43,704 Which would bring other kinds of problems. 269 00:11:43,787 --> 00:11:45,164 The effects are viral. 270 00:11:45,247 --> 00:11:46,999 The losses spin off to the businesses 271 00:11:47,082 --> 00:11:48,876 that provide services to the town. 272 00:11:48,959 --> 00:11:50,753 Other area businesses start to close, 273 00:11:50,836 --> 00:11:53,339 and more jobs are lost. 274 00:11:53,422 --> 00:11:55,591 Won't all this be a PR nightmare? 275 00:11:55,674 --> 00:11:58,677 PR that comes with losing that much money is a nightmare, too. 276 00:11:58,761 --> 00:12:00,346 And we lose the money. 277 00:12:00,429 --> 00:12:02,848 I don't like any of the answers I'm hearing. 278 00:12:02,932 --> 00:12:04,934 There has to be a way to get this done 279 00:12:05,017 --> 00:12:07,019 without destroying the place. 280 00:12:07,102 --> 00:12:08,979 Model it up for me. 281 00:12:09,063 --> 00:12:11,232 All scenarios. 282 00:12:18,197 --> 00:12:22,034 Son, I did something today 283 00:12:22,117 --> 00:12:24,536 that is gonna absolutely floor you. 284 00:12:24,620 --> 00:12:26,121 I thought you went golfing today. 285 00:12:26,205 --> 00:12:29,041 I did. Played my 18, 286 00:12:29,124 --> 00:12:30,960 and then I withdrew my membership 287 00:12:31,043 --> 00:12:32,878 from the Garden City Golf Club. 288 00:12:32,962 --> 00:12:35,839 Oh, that's your natural habitat. 289 00:12:35,923 --> 00:12:40,010 Few places a man can be as comfortable. 290 00:12:40,094 --> 00:12:41,887 But it was time. 291 00:12:41,971 --> 00:12:43,889 They don't allow women. 292 00:12:43,973 --> 00:12:46,892 And I cannot be a member of a restricted club anymore. 293 00:12:46,976 --> 00:12:48,060 Noble. 294 00:12:48,143 --> 00:12:50,854 Anticipatory. Of the future. 295 00:12:50,938 --> 00:12:52,523 That's baked right into the word. 296 00:12:52,606 --> 00:12:55,818 Your future, which should start right now. 297 00:12:55,901 --> 00:12:57,736 It's unethical for me to run while... 298 00:12:57,820 --> 00:13:01,115 The Tappan Institute commissioned a poll. 299 00:13:01,198 --> 00:13:05,077 Oh, your buddy Tate Tappan's think tank just happened... 300 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:06,412 Independent. 301 00:13:06,495 --> 00:13:08,831 No connection to me. 302 00:13:08,914 --> 00:13:10,541 The results are quite... 303 00:13:10,624 --> 00:13:13,794 I don't want to hear anything about it. 304 00:13:16,171 --> 00:13:17,756 [sighs] 305 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,801 No, I've just gotten out from under a cloud. 306 00:13:20,884 --> 00:13:23,595 If word leaks out about a poll while I'm in office, 307 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:26,307 that is gonna be a darker cloud. 308 00:13:26,390 --> 00:13:28,475 What is this, then? 309 00:13:30,602 --> 00:13:32,688 That's Camelot right there. 310 00:13:32,771 --> 00:13:34,273 Don't try to spin it. 311 00:13:34,356 --> 00:13:38,610 That is a picture of a man running for office. 312 00:13:41,447 --> 00:13:44,908 You're doing more than just dreaming about it. 313 00:13:44,992 --> 00:13:46,618 I'll send you those poll results. 314 00:13:46,702 --> 00:13:48,912 I think they're gonna be encouraging. 315 00:13:50,581 --> 00:13:55,252 But you're gonna have to resolve things with Wendy. 316 00:13:55,336 --> 00:13:58,797 You cannot be an effective candidate 317 00:13:58,881 --> 00:14:00,674 if your marriage is in the crapper. 318 00:14:00,758 --> 00:14:02,968 That's not really a thing anymore, Dad. 319 00:14:03,052 --> 00:14:05,637 That I'd need a woman standing behind me on the podium, 320 00:14:05,721 --> 00:14:07,806 that's archaic. [scoffs] 321 00:14:07,890 --> 00:14:10,017 Son, you do know why you need her 322 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:12,186 in your life, don't you? 323 00:14:13,854 --> 00:14:18,734 She is a natural-born killer. 324 00:14:18,817 --> 00:14:22,404 That's what she builds, all day... killers. 325 00:14:23,572 --> 00:14:26,450 You're a good candidate. 326 00:14:26,533 --> 00:14:29,328 She'd make you unstoppable. 327 00:14:32,206 --> 00:14:35,084 Don't get your hopes up. 328 00:14:35,167 --> 00:14:37,920 Oh, you still got your shucking skills. 329 00:14:38,003 --> 00:14:40,089 Summer job on City Island when I was 14. 330 00:14:40,172 --> 00:14:43,425 [Dean] For the record, I am not eating any of those. 331 00:14:43,509 --> 00:14:47,346 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 332 00:15:05,239 --> 00:15:06,240 Any answers? 333 00:15:06,323 --> 00:15:07,574 Getting there. 334 00:15:07,658 --> 00:15:10,035 Marc was absolutely not conning you. 335 00:15:10,119 --> 00:15:11,870 No wires or transfers. 336 00:15:11,954 --> 00:15:13,872 No evidence of inbound cash 337 00:15:13,956 --> 00:15:16,041 or altered behavior whatsoever 338 00:15:16,125 --> 00:15:17,918 in him, the wife, or other family. 339 00:15:18,001 --> 00:15:20,546 So he was conned right along with me. 340 00:15:20,629 --> 00:15:22,256 The Gaming Facility Location Board 341 00:15:22,339 --> 00:15:24,967 reassigned the license to Kingsford at the last minute. 342 00:15:25,050 --> 00:15:26,385 I confirmed that. 343 00:15:26,468 --> 00:15:28,971 A guy named Joe Scolari made the call to switch. 344 00:15:29,054 --> 00:15:30,305 No one motivated him? 345 00:15:30,389 --> 00:15:32,057 It's hard to pinpoint where the idea 346 00:15:32,141 --> 00:15:33,517 to change even originated, 347 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,477 or who he's trying to keep happy. 348 00:15:35,561 --> 00:15:37,563 But I do know that these things don't move 349 00:15:37,646 --> 00:15:39,398 unless somebody orders it to happen. 350 00:15:39,481 --> 00:15:41,066 Okay. Stay on it. 351 00:15:41,150 --> 00:15:43,819 I'm gonna get with Scolari, see if I can get a read on him. 352 00:15:50,492 --> 00:15:54,246 Thank you for agreeing to meet, Senator Scolari. 353 00:15:54,329 --> 00:15:56,498 Oh, call me Joe. 354 00:15:56,582 --> 00:15:58,459 What brings you up the Thruway? 355 00:15:58,542 --> 00:16:00,252 You looking for approval for another, 356 00:16:00,335 --> 00:16:02,880 uh, outdoor shower at your place in the Hamptons? 357 00:16:02,963 --> 00:16:04,423 [laughs] 358 00:16:04,506 --> 00:16:06,925 Well, if you've gone to so much trouble to research me, 359 00:16:07,009 --> 00:16:08,385 you must know why. 360 00:16:08,469 --> 00:16:10,262 I'm here as an investor in New York State 361 00:16:10,345 --> 00:16:12,431 meeting with one its finest representatives. 362 00:16:12,514 --> 00:16:14,266 Of course. 363 00:16:14,349 --> 00:16:17,561 I know about the note exchange on Sandicot. 364 00:16:17,644 --> 00:16:20,022 And I want you to know the Location Board 365 00:16:20,105 --> 00:16:23,484 doesn't take matters of gaming licenses lightly. 366 00:16:24,776 --> 00:16:26,945 The committee chose the location 367 00:16:27,029 --> 00:16:28,780 that would bring the greatest benefit 368 00:16:28,864 --> 00:16:30,949 to the greatest number of people. 369 00:16:31,033 --> 00:16:32,951 That turned out to be Kingsford. 370 00:16:33,035 --> 00:16:35,120 Oh, I believe that the state-appointed board, 371 00:16:35,204 --> 00:16:36,455 handpicked by the Governor, 372 00:16:36,538 --> 00:16:38,874 would be nothing short of rigorous. 373 00:16:38,957 --> 00:16:41,627 Thing is, I have it on good authority 374 00:16:41,710 --> 00:16:44,588 that Sandicot was gonna get that license. 375 00:16:44,671 --> 00:16:48,258 So the late switch seems... odd. 376 00:16:48,342 --> 00:16:52,137 Our process always seems odd to outsiders. 377 00:16:52,221 --> 00:16:55,307 That's where the whole sausage-making thing comes from. 378 00:16:55,390 --> 00:16:57,184 But let me reassure you, 379 00:16:57,267 --> 00:17:00,312 there was nothing out of the ordinary about it. 380 00:17:00,395 --> 00:17:02,648 The committee chose the location 381 00:17:02,731 --> 00:17:04,483 that would bring the greatest benefit 382 00:17:04,566 --> 00:17:06,068 to the greatest number of people. 383 00:17:06,151 --> 00:17:07,653 That turned out to be Kingsford. 384 00:17:07,736 --> 00:17:09,488 Yeah, no, you said. 385 00:17:09,571 --> 00:17:12,533 What I was looking for is a specific reason 386 00:17:12,616 --> 00:17:14,284 that decision was made. 387 00:17:14,368 --> 00:17:16,119 Oh. 388 00:17:16,203 --> 00:17:18,580 You want specifics. 389 00:17:18,664 --> 00:17:22,376 Details into our process. 390 00:17:22,459 --> 00:17:24,461 Inner workings and so forth. 391 00:17:24,545 --> 00:17:26,004 That would be helpful. 392 00:17:26,088 --> 00:17:27,339 Sure. 393 00:17:27,422 --> 00:17:29,758 I can share that. 394 00:17:29,841 --> 00:17:31,969 The committee chose the location 395 00:17:32,052 --> 00:17:33,762 that would bring the greatest benefit 396 00:17:33,845 --> 00:17:36,181 to the greatest number of people. 397 00:17:36,265 --> 00:17:39,184 That turned out to be Kingsford. 398 00:17:39,268 --> 00:17:44,147 Just as I'm sure you took on the obligations of Sandicot 399 00:17:44,231 --> 00:17:46,441 for the good of those fine people. 400 00:17:55,659 --> 00:17:58,912 I hope this has been as much fun for you as it has for me. 401 00:17:58,996 --> 00:18:01,164 Absolutely. 402 00:18:04,626 --> 00:18:08,547 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 403 00:18:14,595 --> 00:18:16,555 He doesn't make any of his own decisions. 404 00:18:16,638 --> 00:18:18,932 He's got a string hanging right out of his back. 405 00:18:19,016 --> 00:18:20,851 And it's the Governor who's pulling it. 406 00:18:20,934 --> 00:18:23,061 I'll see what I can find out. 407 00:18:23,145 --> 00:18:25,522 I didn't sleep last night. 408 00:18:26,607 --> 00:18:28,525 Your numbers have been strong, 409 00:18:28,609 --> 00:18:30,652 even in a tough market. 410 00:18:30,736 --> 00:18:33,864 Yeah, they have been. 411 00:18:33,947 --> 00:18:35,991 So what was it kept you up? 412 00:18:36,074 --> 00:18:38,160 Russian hackers. 413 00:18:39,036 --> 00:18:41,455 They can fuck with us so easily, 414 00:18:41,538 --> 00:18:44,041 in ways we can't even comprehend. 415 00:18:44,124 --> 00:18:45,834 A few keystrokes and they can bring 416 00:18:45,917 --> 00:18:47,919 an entire airline to a standstill. 417 00:18:48,003 --> 00:18:50,088 Thousands of people stranded. 418 00:18:50,172 --> 00:18:52,090 So your fear is, uh, what? 419 00:18:52,174 --> 00:18:55,510 These hackers targeting you? The entire market? 420 00:18:55,594 --> 00:18:57,429 My portfolio could go up in flames. 421 00:18:57,512 --> 00:18:59,598 I have a family. 422 00:19:01,016 --> 00:19:02,934 When did you start losing sleep over it? 423 00:19:03,018 --> 00:19:05,270 Just last night. 424 00:19:05,354 --> 00:19:06,772 Anything happen yesterday? 425 00:19:06,855 --> 00:19:08,523 I had to go out to Axe's house 426 00:19:08,607 --> 00:19:11,443 in the Hamptons for a special meeting. 427 00:19:11,526 --> 00:19:14,279 Axe bought the distressed debt on this town upstate. 428 00:19:14,363 --> 00:19:16,740 Now they're defaulting. It's a shit load of money. 429 00:19:16,823 --> 00:19:18,909 What do you think you should do? 430 00:19:20,744 --> 00:19:22,746 Well, what are the options? 431 00:19:22,829 --> 00:19:25,207 Austerity. Or lose money. 432 00:19:35,342 --> 00:19:37,135 Do you see the connection? 433 00:19:37,219 --> 00:19:39,304 With the hackers? 434 00:19:41,056 --> 00:19:42,474 You're saying we're like them? 435 00:19:42,557 --> 00:19:43,767 They're agents of chaos 436 00:19:43,850 --> 00:19:45,602 who can destabilize all our lives 437 00:19:45,686 --> 00:19:47,479 just because they feel like it. 438 00:19:47,562 --> 00:19:49,356 Who are you to those people upstate? 439 00:19:49,439 --> 00:19:51,525 - Chaos. - Yes. 440 00:19:52,150 --> 00:19:54,486 Axe Cap is the agent of chaos. 441 00:19:54,569 --> 00:19:58,198 You know what austerity means. 442 00:19:58,281 --> 00:20:01,284 You guys traverse moral and legal gray areas 443 00:20:01,368 --> 00:20:03,161 all the time, but you can live with it 444 00:20:03,245 --> 00:20:05,997 because you're rarely aware of anyone getting hurt by it. 445 00:20:06,081 --> 00:20:09,668 With this town, you know exactly who's getting hurt, 446 00:20:09,751 --> 00:20:11,670 and where they're gonna feel their pain. 447 00:20:11,753 --> 00:20:14,214 And how their lives are gonna spin out of control 448 00:20:14,297 --> 00:20:16,341 because of decisions made in your presence, 449 00:20:16,425 --> 00:20:19,511 at a fucking mansion in the Hamptons. 450 00:20:19,594 --> 00:20:21,596 I don't even know that it's wrong for him 451 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,558 to do what he's doing... 452 00:20:24,641 --> 00:20:27,394 only that I don't like how it makes me feel. 453 00:20:27,477 --> 00:20:29,938 This is all connected. 454 00:20:32,607 --> 00:20:35,610 When a situation starts affecting you 455 00:20:35,694 --> 00:20:38,447 so much you can't sleep, 456 00:20:38,530 --> 00:20:41,700 you have to take action. 457 00:20:41,783 --> 00:20:43,285 Fighting for those people 458 00:20:43,368 --> 00:20:46,413 and fighting for yourself are one and the same. 459 00:20:54,254 --> 00:20:57,424 [woman] I taught elementary school for 30 years, 460 00:20:57,507 --> 00:20:59,968 always contributing to my pension. 461 00:21:03,638 --> 00:21:07,142 That was my nest egg for retirement. 462 00:21:07,225 --> 00:21:10,562 Then that nest egg got invested. 463 00:21:10,645 --> 00:21:15,525 But the town it was invested in mismanaged its finances. 464 00:21:15,609 --> 00:21:19,404 And now they don't want to pay what they owe, 465 00:21:19,488 --> 00:21:21,823 and my retirement is threatened. 466 00:21:25,535 --> 00:21:28,079 A spot like this will kick off our Astroturf campaign 467 00:21:28,163 --> 00:21:30,457 to make it look like the area's getting a bailout 468 00:21:30,540 --> 00:21:31,750 and not a death sentence. 469 00:21:31,833 --> 00:21:33,168 Commercials like this one, 470 00:21:33,251 --> 00:21:34,669 but specific to Sandicot, 471 00:21:34,753 --> 00:21:36,880 sell the idea that our investors, 472 00:21:36,963 --> 00:21:38,423 teachers from the Midwest, 473 00:21:38,507 --> 00:21:41,176 hardworking, responsible people from all over, 474 00:21:41,259 --> 00:21:42,969 they are the ones who suffer 475 00:21:43,053 --> 00:21:44,721 if Sandicot is allowed to default. 476 00:21:44,805 --> 00:21:47,474 Make it clear that we are the ones willing to negotiate. 477 00:21:47,557 --> 00:21:49,267 It's the town that's being difficult. 478 00:21:49,351 --> 00:21:51,520 Of course. Sandicot is being uncooperative. 479 00:21:51,603 --> 00:21:52,729 We'll say all that. 480 00:21:52,813 --> 00:21:54,898 Any questions? 481 00:21:57,108 --> 00:21:58,944 Danzig. 482 00:21:59,027 --> 00:22:00,821 You've been awfully quiet. 483 00:22:00,904 --> 00:22:04,366 Are we really gonna do this? 484 00:22:04,449 --> 00:22:07,160 I mean, we can make some market moves 485 00:22:07,244 --> 00:22:11,331 and potentially pick up some of the losses by next quarter. 486 00:22:11,414 --> 00:22:13,750 We're making it look like our investors are down 487 00:22:13,834 --> 00:22:15,168 to eating cat food. 488 00:22:15,252 --> 00:22:17,796 The people up there are sure to turn to the media 489 00:22:17,879 --> 00:22:21,466 and to cry poor, to play the victim card. 490 00:22:21,550 --> 00:22:23,218 It makes sense for us to point out 491 00:22:23,301 --> 00:22:25,345 that there are other victims. 492 00:22:25,428 --> 00:22:26,638 Exactly. 493 00:22:26,721 --> 00:22:29,808 But we are not really the victims. 494 00:22:29,891 --> 00:22:31,977 They are. 495 00:22:32,811 --> 00:22:34,896 I kind of feel like he's right. 496 00:22:36,565 --> 00:22:39,985 We could hold the debt, take a short-term loss, 497 00:22:40,068 --> 00:22:43,363 but then take the lead in re-growing Sandicot, 498 00:22:43,446 --> 00:22:45,532 redeveloping the downtown. 499 00:22:45,615 --> 00:22:47,909 Uh, create a food hall 500 00:22:47,993 --> 00:22:51,121 or bring in a minor-league team. 501 00:22:52,789 --> 00:22:55,417 Taylor, something you want to add to that? 502 00:22:58,253 --> 00:23:00,338 Yes. 503 00:23:01,756 --> 00:23:04,050 It is unfortunate... offensive, actually... 504 00:23:04,134 --> 00:23:05,510 to even be talking about this, 505 00:23:05,594 --> 00:23:07,846 and that people have to live in near-poverty. 506 00:23:11,182 --> 00:23:14,394 But in many ways, a town is like a business. 507 00:23:14,477 --> 00:23:17,564 And when a business operates beyond its means, 508 00:23:17,647 --> 00:23:19,024 when numbers don't add up, 509 00:23:19,107 --> 00:23:20,859 and the people in charge continue on, 510 00:23:20,942 --> 00:23:23,320 heedless of that face, sure that some sugar daddy, 511 00:23:23,403 --> 00:23:25,572 usually in the form of the Federal Government, 512 00:23:25,655 --> 00:23:28,491 will come along and scoop them up and cover the shortfalls, 513 00:23:28,575 --> 00:23:31,536 well, that truly offends me. 514 00:23:35,290 --> 00:23:37,375 People might say you hurt this town. 515 00:23:37,459 --> 00:23:41,338 But in my opinion, the town put the hurt on itself. 516 00:23:41,421 --> 00:23:42,797 Corrections are in order. 517 00:23:42,881 --> 00:23:44,382 There's a way to make this work, 518 00:23:44,466 --> 00:23:47,344 and that way is hard, but necessary. 519 00:23:47,427 --> 00:23:51,431 As Taleb says, "Become antifragile, or die." 520 00:23:51,514 --> 00:23:53,934 Once we do this, the town will face that challenge 521 00:23:54,017 --> 00:23:56,061 and come out stronger. 522 00:23:56,144 --> 00:23:57,771 Or it will cease being. 523 00:23:57,854 --> 00:23:59,731 Either result absolutely natural, 524 00:23:59,814 --> 00:24:02,067 as in, of nature itself. 525 00:24:02,150 --> 00:24:05,070 ♪ suspensful music ♪ 526 00:24:05,153 --> 00:24:07,489 ♪♪♪ 527 00:24:07,572 --> 00:24:09,658 [inhales, sighs] 528 00:24:32,013 --> 00:24:35,642 You've been stepping things up lately. 529 00:24:35,725 --> 00:24:39,562 Extra-nice ties, new suit. 530 00:24:39,646 --> 00:24:42,273 You been speed-dating with law firms? 531 00:24:42,357 --> 00:24:44,109 I might've tried a lightning round. 532 00:24:44,192 --> 00:24:46,277 Mm. And? 533 00:24:47,404 --> 00:24:49,280 She's not as hot as her profile pic. 534 00:24:49,364 --> 00:24:50,364 Yeah? 535 00:24:50,365 --> 00:24:52,325 No. Line AUSA's like us, 536 00:24:52,409 --> 00:24:54,327 you're only looking at 600K to start. 537 00:24:54,411 --> 00:24:56,871 If you get Chief of Crim and go private, 538 00:24:56,955 --> 00:24:59,290 it's a lot more than 600. 539 00:24:59,374 --> 00:25:01,710 It's double. 540 00:25:01,793 --> 00:25:04,504 [sighs] 541 00:25:04,587 --> 00:25:08,299 I just don't think I can stick around if Connerty gets it. 542 00:25:08,383 --> 00:25:10,552 I'm not gonna have the stomach for that shit. 543 00:25:10,635 --> 00:25:12,137 Maybe he won't get it. 544 00:25:12,220 --> 00:25:14,264 After Boyd? 545 00:25:14,347 --> 00:25:17,183 Don't count yourself out. You've been crushing it lately. 546 00:25:22,230 --> 00:25:24,107 Chuck took him to Keens for lunch. 547 00:25:24,190 --> 00:25:25,190 Oh, shit. 548 00:25:25,233 --> 00:25:27,068 Yeah. 549 00:25:27,152 --> 00:25:29,237 Shit. 550 00:25:38,747 --> 00:25:40,915 The mutton chop is the thing to order here. 551 00:25:40,999 --> 00:25:42,542 It's what they're known for. 552 00:25:42,625 --> 00:25:45,170 Mutton? I don't know. 553 00:25:45,253 --> 00:25:47,964 Come on, it's tradition. 554 00:25:48,048 --> 00:25:50,508 Oh, this place has a special character, doesn't it? 555 00:25:50,592 --> 00:25:54,012 You can almost feel all the history in this room, 556 00:25:54,095 --> 00:25:56,473 all the deals that've been made. 557 00:25:56,556 --> 00:25:59,350 It's where Senator Vandeveer brought me when she told me 558 00:25:59,434 --> 00:26:02,187 I was being appointed U.S. Attorney. 559 00:26:02,270 --> 00:26:04,856 And it's where I always thought I would take you 560 00:26:04,939 --> 00:26:07,275 when you'd earned the promotion to Head of Crim. 561 00:26:09,778 --> 00:26:12,280 Mutton's an interesting euphemism, isn't it? 562 00:26:12,363 --> 00:26:15,617 Well, nobody ever says "sheep." 563 00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:18,244 But who wants to eat something so adorable, right? 564 00:26:18,328 --> 00:26:21,122 So it's a mutton chop. 565 00:26:22,457 --> 00:26:24,626 Definitely less objectionable. 566 00:26:26,711 --> 00:26:29,964 The kangaroo industry recently tried that. 567 00:26:31,633 --> 00:26:32,926 - Did they? - Yes. 568 00:26:33,009 --> 00:26:35,095 In fact, there was a country-wide survey 569 00:26:35,178 --> 00:26:36,679 to pick a name, 570 00:26:36,763 --> 00:26:38,890 and they settled on "Australus." 571 00:26:38,973 --> 00:26:40,767 But not for the same reason as a sheep. 572 00:26:40,850 --> 00:26:44,771 No, this was entirely different. 573 00:26:44,854 --> 00:26:48,316 Seems the kangaroo has a great deal in common with the rat. 574 00:26:51,027 --> 00:26:52,529 Hence, "Australus." 575 00:26:52,612 --> 00:26:55,740 I mean, it's elegant, don't you think? 576 00:26:55,824 --> 00:26:59,119 And yet, even by any other name, 577 00:26:59,202 --> 00:27:01,579 there's still a slab of giant rat 578 00:27:01,663 --> 00:27:06,501 sitting on the plate right in front of you. 579 00:27:06,584 --> 00:27:08,044 [server] Can I get you started? 580 00:27:08,128 --> 00:27:10,797 Ah, here we go. He'll have the mutton. 581 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,966 I'm not ready yet. 582 00:27:14,175 --> 00:27:16,886 [clears throat] 583 00:27:16,970 --> 00:27:20,473 Bryan... 584 00:27:20,557 --> 00:27:22,642 do you have something to tell me? 585 00:27:24,561 --> 00:27:25,937 I'm not sure what you mean. 586 00:27:26,020 --> 00:27:28,106 I think you know. 587 00:27:31,901 --> 00:27:34,320 Are we talking about the investigation? 588 00:27:34,404 --> 00:27:36,406 Yes. 589 00:27:36,489 --> 00:27:38,449 Yes. 590 00:27:38,533 --> 00:27:40,618 We are. 591 00:27:41,870 --> 00:27:44,247 This is it. 592 00:27:44,330 --> 00:27:46,916 Your chance. 593 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,627 This is the conversation that you knew, deep down, 594 00:27:49,711 --> 00:27:51,963 you would have to have if you had any desire 595 00:27:52,046 --> 00:27:55,717 to continue to have any relationship with me. 596 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,218 This is the conversation 597 00:27:57,302 --> 00:27:59,929 that you have been dreading all these many months. 598 00:28:00,013 --> 00:28:02,640 The one about betrayal, disillusionment, 599 00:28:02,724 --> 00:28:05,685 second chances, and lost opportunities. 600 00:28:05,768 --> 00:28:07,478 This is the one where you tell me 601 00:28:07,562 --> 00:28:09,147 how and why you brought 602 00:28:09,230 --> 00:28:11,482 the investigation down upon my head. 603 00:28:11,566 --> 00:28:13,985 All right, Chuck. 604 00:28:14,068 --> 00:28:17,447 You got it right with all that grandiose indignance. 605 00:28:19,032 --> 00:28:21,701 I am the one who called the OPR. 606 00:28:21,784 --> 00:28:25,330 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 607 00:28:25,413 --> 00:28:27,498 I didn't hear a no. 608 00:28:32,629 --> 00:28:34,714 [bell jangles] 609 00:28:41,596 --> 00:28:43,306 Fuck. 610 00:28:43,389 --> 00:28:44,557 Fuck! 611 00:28:44,641 --> 00:28:46,726 [car door closes] Bryan. 612 00:28:51,439 --> 00:28:53,524 One more thing. 613 00:28:55,818 --> 00:28:57,612 Is Axe Cap bugged? 614 00:28:57,695 --> 00:28:59,364 [scoffs] Not officially. 615 00:28:59,447 --> 00:29:00,823 But right now, 616 00:29:00,907 --> 00:29:03,451 I wouldn't be surprised if it were unofficially. 617 00:29:03,534 --> 00:29:06,037 Hey, look, I know you don't want to come work for me. 618 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,205 I get it. 619 00:29:07,288 --> 00:29:08,957 You're an idealist. 620 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,042 But the man that you work for now... 621 00:29:11,125 --> 00:29:13,544 he's not just dirty, he's worse than that. 622 00:29:13,628 --> 00:29:15,546 He's a hypocrite. 623 00:29:15,630 --> 00:29:19,300 And if you know that, and you still let it happen, 624 00:29:19,384 --> 00:29:21,511 then I think you know what that makes you. 625 00:29:33,314 --> 00:29:35,984 [Chuck] Well... 626 00:29:36,067 --> 00:29:38,027 now I know for certain 627 00:29:38,111 --> 00:29:40,655 who I have to thank for my day at the Senate. 628 00:29:43,741 --> 00:29:47,412 But unlike Julius Caesar, seems I managed to pull through. 629 00:29:47,495 --> 00:29:49,414 Oh, it's clear you're a survivor. 630 00:29:49,497 --> 00:29:51,833 And it's clear I can't make you Head of Crim. 631 00:29:53,668 --> 00:29:56,296 You let him get to you. 632 00:29:56,379 --> 00:29:58,172 Only because he spoke the truth. 633 00:29:58,256 --> 00:30:00,258 You were abusing the office. 634 00:30:00,341 --> 00:30:02,010 You lied about recusing yourself. 635 00:30:02,093 --> 00:30:05,513 You stole evidence from your wife's computer. 636 00:30:05,596 --> 00:30:06,931 I made some missteps. 637 00:30:07,015 --> 00:30:08,308 Mis... [scoffs] 638 00:30:08,391 --> 00:30:11,019 Okay. More than missteps. 639 00:30:11,102 --> 00:30:15,773 In my vigor, I transgressed... 640 00:30:15,857 --> 00:30:19,610 in ways I never imagined I would. 641 00:30:19,694 --> 00:30:21,821 But I have atoned for all of it. 642 00:30:21,904 --> 00:30:25,783 And I am still in the process, personally and professionally. 643 00:30:25,867 --> 00:30:27,785 I dropped the case. 644 00:30:27,869 --> 00:30:30,621 And now you're trying to punish me. 645 00:30:30,705 --> 00:30:32,874 I earned that position. 646 00:30:34,959 --> 00:30:36,794 But... 647 00:30:36,878 --> 00:30:39,339 Chief of Crim goes to Lonnie. 648 00:30:39,422 --> 00:30:41,215 [scoffs] 649 00:30:41,299 --> 00:30:44,344 For the foreseeable future, 650 00:30:44,427 --> 00:30:46,846 the chair will remain vacant. 651 00:30:53,227 --> 00:30:56,105 Going ahead, I am committed 652 00:30:56,189 --> 00:30:58,149 to complete transparency between us. 653 00:30:58,232 --> 00:31:01,277 No more silence or subterfuge. 654 00:31:01,361 --> 00:31:04,530 If one of us is angry, or disappointed, 655 00:31:04,614 --> 00:31:07,075 we express it. 656 00:31:07,158 --> 00:31:11,287 So, you can either quit right now... 657 00:31:11,371 --> 00:31:13,915 or you can stay. 658 00:31:13,998 --> 00:31:16,084 Prove your loyalty. 659 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,838 And when you do, 660 00:31:20,922 --> 00:31:23,716 you will truly have earned that chair. 661 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,885 Are you two planning to order? 662 00:31:27,470 --> 00:31:31,808 I'll have the mutton. What about you, Bryan? 663 00:31:35,478 --> 00:31:37,605 I'll have the same. 664 00:31:42,944 --> 00:31:45,029 [chair squeaks] 665 00:31:51,869 --> 00:31:56,249 [sighs] 666 00:31:56,332 --> 00:31:58,543 [indistinct conversations] 667 00:32:02,713 --> 00:32:05,258 [Axe] Welcome sight, you in my office. 668 00:32:05,341 --> 00:32:08,094 I'm not sure my message will be all that welcome. 669 00:32:08,177 --> 00:32:09,762 Oh? 670 00:32:09,846 --> 00:32:12,056 I don't think it's in the best interest of this firm 671 00:32:12,140 --> 00:32:13,766 to foreclose on that town. 672 00:32:13,850 --> 00:32:15,351 It's not our doing. 673 00:32:15,435 --> 00:32:17,728 We would merely be collecting a debt owed to us. 674 00:32:17,812 --> 00:32:19,730 Still, it would hurt our reputation. 675 00:32:19,814 --> 00:32:21,149 Is that so? 676 00:32:21,232 --> 00:32:23,484 Or would it hurt you to watch other people suffer 677 00:32:23,568 --> 00:32:26,946 and feel like you were part of it? 678 00:32:27,029 --> 00:32:28,322 I would be... 679 00:32:28,406 --> 00:32:30,992 in a sense. 680 00:32:31,075 --> 00:32:33,161 Yes. 681 00:32:38,624 --> 00:32:40,918 Truth be told, 682 00:32:41,002 --> 00:32:42,462 I'm still glad you're in here 683 00:32:42,545 --> 00:32:46,340 because I have conflicting feelings about this, too. 684 00:32:47,383 --> 00:32:48,968 Ah. 685 00:32:49,051 --> 00:32:52,555 And I'd like to talk about it. 686 00:32:52,638 --> 00:32:55,933 ♪♪♪ 687 00:32:56,017 --> 00:32:57,685 No. 688 00:32:57,768 --> 00:33:00,771 I can't get sucked back into that. I won't. 689 00:33:00,855 --> 00:33:03,566 Because instead of really doing that exploration with me, 690 00:33:03,649 --> 00:33:06,611 I now know you'd just be using me to make yourself feel better 691 00:33:06,694 --> 00:33:09,030 about what you wanted to do in the first place. 692 00:33:09,113 --> 00:33:11,199 That's not true. 693 00:33:13,075 --> 00:33:15,119 What is true is that, 694 00:33:15,203 --> 00:33:17,079 far from harming our reputation, 695 00:33:17,163 --> 00:33:18,831 pressing our advantage at Sandicot 696 00:33:18,915 --> 00:33:20,791 would only burnish it to our investors. 697 00:33:20,875 --> 00:33:22,960 That is what is expected. 698 00:33:23,044 --> 00:33:25,254 Still, I haven't decided on a course of action 699 00:33:25,338 --> 00:33:29,842 because I do care about the potential toll 700 00:33:29,926 --> 00:33:31,761 on the people out there. 701 00:33:31,844 --> 00:33:34,222 And these are the feelings I want to discuss. 702 00:33:34,305 --> 00:33:36,390 No. 703 00:33:37,350 --> 00:33:40,144 Then I'm not the only one who might be putting my own needs 704 00:33:40,228 --> 00:33:42,438 above those of the good people of Sandicot. 705 00:33:42,522 --> 00:33:45,566 ♪ suspensful music ♪ 706 00:33:45,650 --> 00:33:48,819 ♪♪♪ 707 00:34:30,486 --> 00:34:32,822 [speaking Russian] 708 00:34:34,282 --> 00:34:38,578 A colleague saw you and Chuck having lunch at Keens. 709 00:34:38,661 --> 00:34:40,788 I hope congratulations are in order. 710 00:34:40,871 --> 00:34:44,125 That night at the pizza place, 711 00:34:44,208 --> 00:34:47,878 you never told me Axe was gonna be there. 712 00:34:47,962 --> 00:34:50,423 He's my client. I did as he asked. 713 00:34:50,506 --> 00:34:53,259 No, you knew I would never meet with him privately. 714 00:34:53,342 --> 00:34:54,969 Because if anyone found out 715 00:34:55,052 --> 00:34:57,346 I was meeting with Axelrod in the middle of the night, 716 00:34:57,430 --> 00:34:59,557 it would seriously compromise me. 717 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,100 And it has. So, no. 718 00:35:01,183 --> 00:35:03,894 No, congratulations are not in fucking order. 719 00:35:03,978 --> 00:35:05,980 I'm lucky I still have my job. 720 00:35:06,063 --> 00:35:08,399 If you still want it. 721 00:35:08,482 --> 00:35:12,653 My client legitimately saw in you what I see... 722 00:35:12,737 --> 00:35:15,281 prodigious talent. 723 00:35:15,364 --> 00:35:18,075 He merely wanted to make sure you understood the choice 724 00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:21,704 you were making by continuing to work for Rhoades. 725 00:35:21,787 --> 00:35:25,166 The offer that was made that night still holds. 726 00:35:27,460 --> 00:35:30,046 You can come work for me. 727 00:35:30,129 --> 00:35:31,756 Or you can take your chances 728 00:35:31,839 --> 00:35:34,258 with a mentor you no longer trust. 729 00:35:38,554 --> 00:35:42,099 I have no mentors. Not anymore. 730 00:35:42,183 --> 00:35:43,809 You acted like my rabbi, 731 00:35:43,893 --> 00:35:46,437 proffering wisdom when you were working me, 732 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,105 fucking with my head, 733 00:35:48,189 --> 00:35:50,566 undermining my sense of purpose. 734 00:35:50,650 --> 00:35:55,446 Your job is not your purpose. 735 00:35:55,529 --> 00:35:57,281 Chuck is not your savior. 736 00:35:57,365 --> 00:36:00,326 And if I'm not your friend, 737 00:36:00,409 --> 00:36:02,662 you have no friends. 738 00:36:02,745 --> 00:36:04,789 Fuck your client, 739 00:36:04,872 --> 00:36:06,957 and fuck you, too. 740 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:15,840 [Deb] Stop. 741 00:36:15,841 --> 00:36:18,387 [laughter in distance] 742 00:36:24,392 --> 00:36:27,061 [crickets chirping] 743 00:36:38,698 --> 00:36:42,535 Upside-down day, breakfast for dinner. 744 00:36:42,618 --> 00:36:44,245 [scoffs] 745 00:36:44,328 --> 00:36:45,538 No thanks. 746 00:36:45,621 --> 00:36:47,248 You always thought that your mother 747 00:36:47,331 --> 00:36:50,000 made those waffles from scratch. 748 00:36:50,084 --> 00:36:51,460 I was eating Eggos? 749 00:36:51,544 --> 00:36:53,796 Yeah, she heated them on the griddle. 750 00:36:53,879 --> 00:36:56,090 I used the toaster. 751 00:36:56,173 --> 00:36:59,635 Put some syrup on it, it's delicious. 752 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,012 So... 753 00:37:02,096 --> 00:37:03,806 the poll results. 754 00:37:03,889 --> 00:37:06,308 What do you think? 755 00:37:06,392 --> 00:37:09,854 I think I'm ready to... 756 00:37:09,937 --> 00:37:12,022 explore. 757 00:37:12,106 --> 00:37:14,233 - That's my boy. - It's just preliminary. 758 00:37:14,316 --> 00:37:16,360 I'm not committing to anything. 759 00:37:16,444 --> 00:37:18,946 - I hear you. - 'Cause the thing is, 760 00:37:19,029 --> 00:37:21,532 I'm really not sure that I finished my mission. 761 00:37:21,615 --> 00:37:24,577 Well, who ever does, kid? 762 00:37:24,660 --> 00:37:27,872 You can weigh all that from your goddamn nursing home. 763 00:37:27,955 --> 00:37:30,875 The poll... 764 00:37:30,958 --> 00:37:33,419 What did you learn? 765 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,384 Well, uh... 766 00:37:40,468 --> 00:37:43,053 it's pretty clear what my vulnerabilities are. 767 00:37:43,137 --> 00:37:45,014 My upstate numbers are weak. 768 00:37:45,097 --> 00:37:48,642 They are, but we can buff and polish you up there. 769 00:37:48,726 --> 00:37:50,811 I am not worried about that. 770 00:37:53,022 --> 00:37:55,441 How do I go about this? 771 00:37:55,524 --> 00:37:56,817 What do I do first? 772 00:37:56,901 --> 00:37:59,278 First thing we do is we get you anointed. 773 00:37:59,361 --> 00:38:02,615 Ah. The whispered names. 774 00:38:02,698 --> 00:38:04,408 You have to really know them now. 775 00:38:04,492 --> 00:38:07,411 One at least... Black Jack Foley. 776 00:38:07,495 --> 00:38:09,413 I haven't heard that one in quite awhile. 777 00:38:09,497 --> 00:38:11,290 By design. 778 00:38:11,373 --> 00:38:13,083 You need some personal time with him 779 00:38:13,167 --> 00:38:14,710 so that he can take your measure, 780 00:38:14,794 --> 00:38:17,588 and so he'll bless you. 781 00:38:18,798 --> 00:38:20,424 Things still run through him? 782 00:38:20,508 --> 00:38:22,593 Indeed. 783 00:38:22,676 --> 00:38:25,054 Now... 784 00:38:25,137 --> 00:38:29,975 I want you to get his granddaughter a clerkship. 785 00:38:31,852 --> 00:38:34,480 Then we wait for the call. 786 00:38:43,948 --> 00:38:46,033 [knock on door] 787 00:39:06,971 --> 00:39:09,139 Hi. 788 00:39:29,827 --> 00:39:32,413 [Craig] Hmmm. 789 00:39:32,496 --> 00:39:34,582 [Craig] Hmmm. Morning. 790 00:39:36,792 --> 00:39:38,836 How'd you sleep? 791 00:39:38,919 --> 00:39:41,005 Good. 792 00:39:47,636 --> 00:39:51,015 You know, uh, my life moves fast. 793 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,895 And I tend to avoid the kind of connections 794 00:39:55,978 --> 00:39:59,356 that lead to dependence or can slow me down. 795 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:00,816 I know. 796 00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:05,446 Weightlessness is a priority for you. 797 00:40:05,529 --> 00:40:07,364 It's one of the reasons I called. 798 00:40:07,448 --> 00:40:11,744 Doesn't this seem like a whole different thing? 799 00:40:11,827 --> 00:40:12,870 This? 800 00:40:12,953 --> 00:40:15,122 Us. 801 00:40:15,205 --> 00:40:16,916 Like, I'm a restless person. 802 00:40:16,999 --> 00:40:18,751 I'm never happy unless I'm in motion 803 00:40:18,834 --> 00:40:21,545 or running seven projects simultaneously. 804 00:40:21,629 --> 00:40:24,298 But last night I was here. 805 00:40:25,466 --> 00:40:27,217 Even right now. 806 00:40:27,301 --> 00:40:30,888 I haven't stayed in bed past 5 a.m. since 2001. 807 00:40:30,971 --> 00:40:35,476 Yet right now I feel still, and I like it. 808 00:40:36,769 --> 00:40:40,814 And... since I'm here... 809 00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:44,985 Hold up. 810 00:40:45,778 --> 00:40:49,949 I'm glad you found another dimension 811 00:40:50,032 --> 00:40:52,159 you can exist in. 812 00:40:52,242 --> 00:40:54,954 But at the moment, 813 00:40:55,037 --> 00:40:57,748 the present is all I can really handle. 814 00:41:00,709 --> 00:41:03,837 And the light of day is a little bright for me right now. 815 00:41:05,965 --> 00:41:06,965 Okay. 816 00:41:06,966 --> 00:41:08,258 I got an early meeting. 817 00:41:08,342 --> 00:41:09,843 Mind if I take the first shower? 818 00:41:09,927 --> 00:41:12,012 All yours. 819 00:41:20,062 --> 00:41:21,855 Kids ready for camp? 820 00:41:21,939 --> 00:41:23,816 They're brushing their teeth. 821 00:41:23,899 --> 00:41:28,237 Did I just see, uh, the sitter getting into a taxi? 822 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,031 Why would she be here in the morning? 823 00:41:35,953 --> 00:41:38,414 You know, I had a craving 824 00:41:38,497 --> 00:41:41,625 for a boudin noir last night, 825 00:41:41,709 --> 00:41:44,169 so I went to Bistro Grisby. 826 00:41:44,253 --> 00:41:45,838 We used to go there all the time. 827 00:41:45,921 --> 00:41:48,632 Yeah, when we were first married. 828 00:41:48,716 --> 00:41:51,218 Not in a long time. 829 00:41:53,220 --> 00:41:54,304 Now it's gone. 830 00:41:54,388 --> 00:41:56,265 Gone? 831 00:41:56,348 --> 00:41:59,893 It's, uh, a nail salon now. 832 00:41:59,977 --> 00:42:02,187 They closed four years ago. 833 00:42:02,271 --> 00:42:03,439 Sad. 834 00:42:03,522 --> 00:42:05,607 Mm. 835 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:11,905 Look... 836 00:42:11,989 --> 00:42:15,784 I know that I reacted poorly 837 00:42:15,868 --> 00:42:20,664 when I learned that you were going back to Axe Capital. 838 00:42:20,748 --> 00:42:23,500 I'm sorry. 839 00:42:23,584 --> 00:42:25,961 I was being selfish. 840 00:42:29,423 --> 00:42:31,216 If you are happy there, 841 00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:36,096 then... that's where you should be. 842 00:42:39,808 --> 00:42:42,311 I want you to be happy. 843 00:42:51,779 --> 00:42:53,906 That's lovely, Chuck. 844 00:42:55,157 --> 00:42:57,242 It really is. 845 00:42:59,661 --> 00:43:02,289 I'll go get the kids. 846 00:43:13,801 --> 00:43:15,594 Boss... 847 00:43:15,677 --> 00:43:18,263 I received a concerning bit of news. 848 00:43:18,347 --> 00:43:20,432 Mick Danzig just quit. 849 00:43:21,225 --> 00:43:22,810 Is that so? 850 00:43:22,893 --> 00:43:25,062 [Mafee] I just never thought I'd have an issue 851 00:43:25,145 --> 00:43:26,688 dating someone in the office. 852 00:43:26,772 --> 00:43:29,566 And I really didn't. 853 00:43:29,650 --> 00:43:30,818 I don't know... 854 00:43:30,901 --> 00:43:34,655 it's just distracting with Everett here. 855 00:43:34,738 --> 00:43:37,116 I see the way she looks at him, and... 856 00:43:39,535 --> 00:43:41,620 We are in the middle of a session. 857 00:43:41,703 --> 00:43:43,288 Mafee, out. 858 00:43:43,372 --> 00:43:46,416 Yeah, we were just shooting the breeze, catching up. 859 00:43:46,500 --> 00:43:48,752 That was completely inappropriate. 860 00:43:48,836 --> 00:43:50,754 How can I possibly do my job if your guys 861 00:43:50,838 --> 00:43:53,715 think you might come barging through the door at any moment? 862 00:43:53,799 --> 00:43:55,676 It takes me long enough to convince them 863 00:43:55,759 --> 00:43:57,302 you don't have my office bugged. 864 00:43:57,386 --> 00:43:59,930 Once you realized you couldn't influence my thinking, 865 00:44:00,013 --> 00:44:01,890 you decided to influence someone else's? 866 00:44:01,974 --> 00:44:03,976 - That's my job. - For the good of the firm, 867 00:44:04,059 --> 00:44:05,394 which I do not define 868 00:44:05,477 --> 00:44:07,271 as making one of my best earners quit. 869 00:44:07,354 --> 00:44:09,273 I didn't make anyone do anything. 870 00:44:09,356 --> 00:44:11,483 I know you had a session with Mick Danzig. 871 00:44:11,567 --> 00:44:12,734 What did you say to him? 872 00:44:12,818 --> 00:44:13,986 I can't discuss that. 873 00:44:14,069 --> 00:44:16,738 You contract here is very clear. 874 00:44:16,822 --> 00:44:18,949 You are here to help my employees perform 875 00:44:19,032 --> 00:44:20,617 at their peak level. 876 00:44:20,701 --> 00:44:23,120 In any manner I see fit. You don't like it, fire me. 877 00:44:23,203 --> 00:44:24,955 Pay me out. I agreed to come back. 878 00:44:25,038 --> 00:44:27,332 I am back doing exactly what I am paid to do. 879 00:44:27,416 --> 00:44:29,126 You made the deal, Bobby. 880 00:44:29,209 --> 00:44:31,295 You can get out of it any time. 881 00:44:35,299 --> 00:44:37,092 [door opens] 882 00:44:37,176 --> 00:44:39,261 [door closes] 883 00:44:43,932 --> 00:44:46,810 That was a neat trick you pulled with the A.G. 884 00:44:46,894 --> 00:44:49,605 I mean, I've never seen her flanked before. 885 00:44:49,688 --> 00:44:50,898 Impressive. 886 00:44:50,981 --> 00:44:54,443 All in the service of justice. 887 00:44:54,526 --> 00:44:56,528 Well, and the Southern District. 888 00:44:56,612 --> 00:44:57,821 Mm. 889 00:44:57,905 --> 00:44:59,615 Now you get to have your moment... 890 00:44:59,698 --> 00:45:02,284 as well you should. 891 00:45:02,367 --> 00:45:06,830 The question is, what will you do with it? 892 00:45:06,914 --> 00:45:10,042 Such ambitions are far from my focus. 893 00:45:10,125 --> 00:45:12,211 I see a run for office. 894 00:45:13,921 --> 00:45:16,882 Is it possible you'll go the other way? 895 00:45:16,965 --> 00:45:18,842 Cash out, go private? That's not you. 896 00:45:18,926 --> 00:45:23,096 No. Sadly, I'm like you. Public servant for life. 897 00:45:23,180 --> 00:45:27,434 Uh, and it's in that role that I'm here. 898 00:45:27,517 --> 00:45:28,894 I have come across 899 00:45:28,977 --> 00:45:31,897 a wonderful young law student, Emma Foley. 900 00:45:31,980 --> 00:45:34,733 She's at Cardoza. Smart. Studious. 901 00:45:34,816 --> 00:45:37,611 And a clerkship with you would, uh... 902 00:45:37,694 --> 00:45:40,197 Oh, slice that baby up. 903 00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,491 Thank you. 904 00:45:42,574 --> 00:45:45,786 Oh, I love the sound it makes when they carve it. 905 00:45:45,869 --> 00:45:46,870 There you go. 906 00:45:46,954 --> 00:45:48,830 Uh. All right. 907 00:45:48,914 --> 00:45:49,914 [skin crackling] 908 00:45:49,915 --> 00:45:52,001 That crackle. 909 00:45:53,543 --> 00:45:55,337 Look, if this young lady is qualified, 910 00:45:55,420 --> 00:45:57,714 I'll consider her as I would any other candidate. 911 00:45:57,798 --> 00:45:59,549 I recognize the last name. 912 00:45:59,633 --> 00:46:02,511 So I have a feeling if she were really as super as you say, 913 00:46:02,594 --> 00:46:04,221 she'd already have a clerkship. 914 00:46:04,304 --> 00:46:06,390 Well, we're not talking about appointing her 915 00:46:06,473 --> 00:46:08,433 to the Supreme Court. 916 00:46:08,517 --> 00:46:10,435 This is how things are done, right? 917 00:46:10,519 --> 00:46:13,814 Not for me. Not anymore. 918 00:46:13,897 --> 00:46:15,691 I look at the way things get done. 919 00:46:15,774 --> 00:46:19,069 The view changes when you see things from the bench. 920 00:46:19,152 --> 00:46:20,152 Uh-huh. 921 00:46:20,153 --> 00:46:22,865 Favor-trading, deal-making, 922 00:46:22,948 --> 00:46:25,909 back channeling, patronage. 923 00:46:25,993 --> 00:46:28,495 I'll admit, I took advantage every now and then 924 00:46:28,578 --> 00:46:30,539 when I was in the trenches. 925 00:46:30,622 --> 00:46:33,250 But... I lost my taste for it. 926 00:46:33,333 --> 00:46:36,086 True objectivity. 927 00:46:36,169 --> 00:46:38,088 It's the ultimate luxury. 928 00:46:38,171 --> 00:46:39,715 It's corrosive, Chuck. 929 00:46:39,798 --> 00:46:42,301 I mean, I went to law school to help fix the system, 930 00:46:42,384 --> 00:46:43,760 not succumb to it. 931 00:46:43,844 --> 00:46:45,762 Sounds like you're feeling the holy spirit. 932 00:46:45,846 --> 00:46:49,349 For the first time since clerking for RBG. 933 00:46:49,433 --> 00:46:52,769 Which is why I'm careful with my own clerks. 934 00:46:52,853 --> 00:46:54,688 This is very personal for me. 935 00:46:54,771 --> 00:46:57,232 I mean, I'm finally in a position to do some good. 936 00:46:57,316 --> 00:46:58,608 Very inspiring. 937 00:46:58,692 --> 00:47:00,235 Just don't forget, 938 00:47:00,319 --> 00:47:02,195 it was the back channels and deal-making 939 00:47:02,279 --> 00:47:05,198 that put you in that position. 940 00:47:05,282 --> 00:47:08,368 Remind me again, and this is the last meal we share. 941 00:47:10,370 --> 00:47:11,788 Help yourself. 942 00:47:11,872 --> 00:47:13,957 Absolutely right. 943 00:47:16,126 --> 00:47:17,502 Thank you. 944 00:47:17,586 --> 00:47:21,757 I think you'll make an excellent candidate, Chuck. 945 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:25,135 I actually think you're built for the political life. 946 00:47:25,218 --> 00:47:28,347 I mean, if I'm you, I'd go for it. 947 00:47:28,430 --> 00:47:30,515 Mm. 948 00:47:33,643 --> 00:47:36,063 [Hall] It wasn't the Governor who called the shot. 949 00:47:36,146 --> 00:47:37,522 Sure, he controls Scolari. 950 00:47:37,606 --> 00:47:39,524 But this goes to who controls the Governor, 951 00:47:39,608 --> 00:47:41,026 and that's Jack Foley. 952 00:47:41,109 --> 00:47:43,695 I know who that is... old steel and railroad money. 953 00:47:43,779 --> 00:47:45,655 One of the first Western businessmen 954 00:47:45,739 --> 00:47:47,699 into Russia after the wall fell. 955 00:47:47,783 --> 00:47:50,202 But more than that, an Albany machine man. 956 00:47:50,285 --> 00:47:52,287 His family goes all the way back to Tweed. 957 00:47:52,371 --> 00:47:53,455 Huh. 958 00:47:53,538 --> 00:47:54,748 Foley's war chest got three 959 00:47:54,831 --> 00:47:56,291 of the last four Govs elected, 960 00:47:56,375 --> 00:47:58,001 along with half the Assembly. 961 00:47:58,085 --> 00:48:00,629 But it seems, in this case, he focused on the casino. 962 00:48:00,712 --> 00:48:02,881 So, why would Foley want to fuck me? 963 00:48:02,964 --> 00:48:06,134 Unclear. Look, it's like that Marco kid said, 964 00:48:06,218 --> 00:48:08,053 this likely wasn't a targeted strike. 965 00:48:08,136 --> 00:48:10,597 It was collateral on a strike against someone else. 966 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,308 It may actually be random Albany bullshit. 967 00:48:13,392 --> 00:48:14,935 But we can't be sure it wasn't. 968 00:48:15,018 --> 00:48:17,104 No, we can't. 969 00:48:24,528 --> 00:48:26,321 I'm Tier two, which means I can sign out 970 00:48:26,405 --> 00:48:27,948 during the day to look for a job. 971 00:48:28,031 --> 00:48:30,033 But I don't want to talk about this place. 972 00:48:30,117 --> 00:48:32,202 I want to hear about the world. 973 00:48:32,494 --> 00:48:35,372 Well... 974 00:48:35,455 --> 00:48:39,084 I'm having problems with that bond I bought upstate. 975 00:48:39,167 --> 00:48:40,752 I saw. 976 00:48:40,836 --> 00:48:42,921 Albany moved the gaming license. 977 00:48:43,004 --> 00:48:44,297 You trying to get it back? 978 00:48:44,381 --> 00:48:47,926 It's too late. I have to take action. 979 00:48:48,009 --> 00:48:50,887 The only way that I can come out ahead, 980 00:48:50,971 --> 00:48:53,056 it's pretty grisly. 981 00:48:55,475 --> 00:48:58,437 Playing Torquemada's never fun. 982 00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:00,605 [indistinct shouting] 983 00:49:07,529 --> 00:49:10,782 I'm still stuck on how the whole license thing went down. 984 00:49:10,866 --> 00:49:13,118 It was supposed to be a done deal. 985 00:49:13,201 --> 00:49:16,955 But the switch... it tracks back to Jack Foley. 986 00:49:17,038 --> 00:49:19,458 What do you want to know about Black Jack? 987 00:49:19,541 --> 00:49:22,252 What drives him. What moves him. 988 00:49:22,335 --> 00:49:23,962 Who he's close to. 989 00:49:24,045 --> 00:49:26,131 How I can get close to him. 990 00:49:26,214 --> 00:49:28,842 He's driven by maintaining influence... 991 00:49:28,925 --> 00:49:30,552 naturally... 992 00:49:30,635 --> 00:49:33,138 and growing his six-generation fortune 993 00:49:33,221 --> 00:49:35,682 and staying invisible despite it all. 994 00:49:35,765 --> 00:49:38,310 Advisor to kings and princes. 995 00:49:38,393 --> 00:49:39,728 There was a time not long ago 996 00:49:39,811 --> 00:49:41,688 I could have put you in a room with him. 997 00:49:41,771 --> 00:49:45,484 But I'm off his speed dial now. 998 00:49:45,567 --> 00:49:47,652 All the way off. 999 00:49:48,862 --> 00:49:50,614 Roberto... 1000 00:49:50,697 --> 00:49:52,991 what you're considering upstate, 1001 00:49:53,074 --> 00:49:56,786 the vulture play, know this... 1002 00:49:56,870 --> 00:49:58,205 everybody's a Libertarian 1003 00:49:58,288 --> 00:50:00,207 until it's their town that's dying. 1004 00:50:00,290 --> 00:50:03,585 Then a bailout only seems right. 1005 00:50:03,668 --> 00:50:04,961 Before I ended up in here, 1006 00:50:05,045 --> 00:50:07,464 I would've said to you, 1007 00:50:07,547 --> 00:50:09,716 "Let it implode. Raze the fucker. 1008 00:50:09,799 --> 00:50:12,302 Let something new grow in its place. 1009 00:50:12,385 --> 00:50:14,095 Prop it up and you're only delaying 1010 00:50:14,179 --> 00:50:15,639 the inevitable collapse." 1011 00:50:15,722 --> 00:50:16,973 But now? 1012 00:50:17,057 --> 00:50:18,517 You have to handle it right, 1013 00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,019 or you'll be facing the same torches and pitchforks 1014 00:50:21,102 --> 00:50:22,521 that landed me in here. 1015 00:50:22,604 --> 00:50:24,689 Except that what I'd be doing isn't illegal. 1016 00:50:26,983 --> 00:50:28,818 I did everything I could 1017 00:50:28,902 --> 00:50:30,570 to make sure it didn't come to this. 1018 00:50:30,654 --> 00:50:32,739 But still it went bad. 1019 00:50:35,408 --> 00:50:37,536 Just don't forget... 1020 00:50:37,619 --> 00:50:39,120 if they hate you enough, 1021 00:50:39,204 --> 00:50:41,873 they will find legal grounds to fuck you. 1022 00:50:41,957 --> 00:50:44,042 You know this. 1023 00:50:49,089 --> 00:50:51,007 [sighs] 1024 00:50:51,091 --> 00:50:53,843 You're not gonna be able to find out what I need to know. 1025 00:50:53,927 --> 00:50:56,346 I'm gonna have to sit down face-to-face with Foley. 1026 00:50:56,429 --> 00:50:58,431 He'll be resistant. 1027 00:50:58,515 --> 00:51:01,643 So start thinking of ways to overcome that resistance. 1028 00:51:01,726 --> 00:51:02,894 [Hall] Will do. 1029 00:51:02,978 --> 00:51:05,814 [phone rings] 1030 00:51:13,488 --> 00:51:15,574 Yeah. 1031 00:51:16,449 --> 00:51:17,576 No, I wasn't. 1032 00:51:17,659 --> 00:51:19,744 But send him up. 1033 00:51:27,794 --> 00:51:29,879 [brakes squeal] 1034 00:51:35,260 --> 00:51:37,554 I understand what "vulture" means now, huh. 1035 00:51:39,431 --> 00:51:42,309 I know things didn't work out the way we thought they would. 1036 00:51:42,392 --> 00:51:44,728 And I know this is a bad situation for you. 1037 00:51:44,811 --> 00:51:46,313 But I got to ask you to please 1038 00:51:46,396 --> 00:51:49,441 not take it out on Marco's town. 1039 00:51:49,524 --> 00:51:51,109 You know you've got a finder's fee 1040 00:51:51,192 --> 00:51:52,527 coming to you either way. 1041 00:51:52,611 --> 00:51:54,487 Come on, I don't give a shit about that. 1042 00:51:54,571 --> 00:51:57,115 You can throw it right in if it changes anything. 1043 00:51:57,198 --> 00:51:59,242 Bobby, I've known you since you're a kid. 1044 00:51:59,326 --> 00:52:01,870 I don't know why you want to hurt all of these people 1045 00:52:01,953 --> 00:52:03,747 who got so little as it is. 1046 00:52:03,830 --> 00:52:07,042 These people, they're just like you while growing up. 1047 00:52:07,125 --> 00:52:09,002 Now you've got everything. 1048 00:52:09,085 --> 00:52:11,588 They're gonna have less than nothing. 1049 00:52:11,671 --> 00:52:14,674 I can't have that on my head, and you don't want it on yours. 1050 00:52:14,758 --> 00:52:16,760 I hear you, Bruno. 1051 00:52:16,843 --> 00:52:19,304 Like you said, you've known me since I was a kid, 1052 00:52:19,387 --> 00:52:21,181 so you know I'm telling you the truth 1053 00:52:21,264 --> 00:52:25,185 when I say I want to avoid doing it. 1054 00:52:25,268 --> 00:52:27,437 I'm trying my best. 1055 00:52:46,498 --> 00:52:49,876 [boys shouting] 1056 00:53:22,075 --> 00:53:24,160 I saw Bruno down there. 1057 00:53:24,244 --> 00:53:25,829 He was here about the muni bond? 1058 00:53:25,912 --> 00:53:28,415 Lobbying for Sandicot. 1059 00:53:33,253 --> 00:53:35,338 What do you think I should do? 1060 00:53:37,048 --> 00:53:40,009 You finally asking me for my opinion? 1061 00:53:40,093 --> 00:53:42,178 I wasn't cutting you out. 1062 00:53:44,013 --> 00:53:46,558 I'm just trying to wrap my head around all this. 1063 00:53:46,641 --> 00:53:48,893 But now I really need to know what you think. 1064 00:53:54,023 --> 00:53:57,235 I can see how painful this is for you. 1065 00:53:57,318 --> 00:54:00,113 It was all over your face when you were talking to Bruno. 1066 00:54:03,283 --> 00:54:06,369 It's tough. 1067 00:54:06,453 --> 00:54:08,663 I just sank a shit ton of money into a place 1068 00:54:08,747 --> 00:54:11,624 that will never be able to repay its obligations. 1069 00:54:13,460 --> 00:54:16,337 But if we go soft, like Bruno wants us to, 1070 00:54:16,421 --> 00:54:19,549 we'll lose the better part of 500 million dollars. 1071 00:54:21,676 --> 00:54:26,598 Whereas if we do what it takes to make the bond viable, 1072 00:54:26,681 --> 00:54:29,017 we're gonna clear over $100 million. 1073 00:54:31,478 --> 00:54:35,231 I can see both sides of this. 1074 00:54:35,315 --> 00:54:37,609 Those people up there are who we used to be. 1075 00:54:37,692 --> 00:54:39,903 That's what Bruno said. 1076 00:54:42,822 --> 00:54:46,618 Did anyone ever help us, or look out for us? 1077 00:54:48,161 --> 00:54:49,871 When my mother was closing the blinds 1078 00:54:49,954 --> 00:54:52,791 so that bill collectors wouldn't know that anyone was home? 1079 00:54:52,874 --> 00:54:54,501 No. 1080 00:54:54,584 --> 00:54:57,378 The way we were brought up, it was always them or us. 1081 00:54:57,462 --> 00:54:59,589 And it still is. 1082 00:54:59,672 --> 00:55:03,051 That's what I think. 1083 00:55:03,134 --> 00:55:05,887 And like you said, Bobby... 1084 00:55:05,970 --> 00:55:08,848 in the end, everyone else is cannon fodder. 1085 00:55:08,932 --> 00:55:12,644 So I say you go up there, and you do what you got to do. 1086 00:55:12,727 --> 00:55:14,646 Cut off the gangrenous parts. 1087 00:55:14,729 --> 00:55:17,273 And then we go in with charter schools and outrage, 1088 00:55:17,357 --> 00:55:18,650 for about $30 million. 1089 00:55:18,733 --> 00:55:20,109 We capture the tax write-off, 1090 00:55:20,193 --> 00:55:22,195 and those kids will be better off 1091 00:55:22,278 --> 00:55:24,614 than their parents, or we, ever were. 1092 00:55:27,450 --> 00:55:31,412 ♪ AC/DC's "For Those About to Rock" ♪ 1093 00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:48,263 Before we go out, can you order pizza for the kids? 1094 00:55:48,346 --> 00:55:50,390 Chinese tonight. 1095 00:55:50,473 --> 00:55:52,308 The one they like doesn't deliver. 1096 00:55:52,392 --> 00:55:53,685 And George isn't here yet. 1097 00:55:53,768 --> 00:55:56,604 I'll get it. 1098 00:55:56,688 --> 00:55:58,273 Seize all their assets... 1099 00:55:58,356 --> 00:56:02,151 property, utilities, machinery, vehicles, buildings. 1100 00:56:02,235 --> 00:56:05,780 Everything, even Town fucking Hall. 1101 00:56:05,864 --> 00:56:07,740 Look to seize the town's bank accounts, 1102 00:56:07,824 --> 00:56:10,201 payroll accounts, pension funds. 1103 00:56:11,536 --> 00:56:13,621 [engine revs] 1104 00:56:18,251 --> 00:56:19,961 Do it. 1105 00:56:20,044 --> 00:56:22,589 They'll fucking agree to it because they've got no choice. 1106 00:56:22,672 --> 00:56:25,633 And don't stop till we get what we're owed. 1107 00:56:25,717 --> 00:56:30,638 ♪ For those about to rock, we salute you ♪ 1108 00:56:32,807 --> 00:56:35,643 ♪ For those about to rock ♪ 1109 00:56:35,727 --> 00:56:39,647 ♪ We salute you ♪ 1110 00:56:39,731 --> 00:56:43,192 ♪ We rock at dawn on the front line ♪ 1111 00:56:43,276 --> 00:56:47,030 ♪ Like a bolt right out of the blue ♪ 1112 00:56:47,113 --> 00:56:50,742 ♪ The sky's alight with the guitar bite ♪ 1113 00:56:50,825 --> 00:56:54,162 ♪ Heads will roll and rock tonight ♪ 1114 00:56:54,245 --> 00:56:56,831 ♪ For those about to rock ♪ 1115 00:56:56,915 --> 00:57:00,960 ♪ We salute you ♪ 1116 00:57:01,044 --> 00:57:03,963 ♪ For those about to rock ♪ 1117 00:57:04,047 --> 00:57:08,509 ♪ We salute you ♪ 1118 00:57:08,593 --> 00:57:10,762 ♪ For those about to rock... ♪