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♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

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JERYD MENCKEN: (ON TV)
<i>Sleepwalking into oblivion.</i>

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<i>Uncontrolled migration,
hyperinflation, rampant crime,</i>

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<i>- cultural Marxism...</i>
- Here we go.

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- (MENCKEN CONTINUES
SPEAKING ON TV)
- The 5:00 p.m.

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- All good?
- Yeah, I'm good, Greg,

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considering it's my first
post-Logan election,

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and I have Cyd, uh,
running around town,

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spitting poison like a fucking
king cobra with an iPhone.

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I have, uh, PGN
to the left of me,

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I have FVA to the right.

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I gotta deliver
the best election numbers ever

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'cause my bosses
wanna rip my heart out

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as a peace offering

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- to all comers. So, no, Greg.
- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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You know,
I'm a little bit tense.

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Just a little bit. Little tense.

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Well, yeah,
I'm feeling pretty good.

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♪ (THEME MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

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- ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- ATN NEWS REPORTER: <i>I got to the
polling location at 11:00 a.m.,</i>

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<i>I thought it was very odd
the lines were short...</i>

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- Hey, Tom.
- TOM WAMBSGANS: <i>Hey, Ken.</i>

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You good? You feeling good?

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Needs to be gangbusters
tonight, man. Yeah?

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TOM: <i>Yeah, you got it.
You got it.</i>

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All right, need
those numbers, T.

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Really wanna see
those numbers, Tom, okay?

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- TOM: <i>Okay.</i>
- Market's watching.

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<i>First Super Bowl.
How we gonna cope
without the king? Right?</i>

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Okay, got it, Ken.
All good, all good.

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- Hey, Pam. How's it looking?
- Uh, bit of crackle.

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We have a news van
in a bit of trouble in Oregon.

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Things looking fighty
in Milwaukee...

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Did you see the viral thing
about the woman,

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um, who voted, like,
40 times for Jimenez

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under her dead mom's name?

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We tracked her down.
Not super reliable.

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She's not a well person.

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She's... Well,
you're not a doctor, Pam.

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Until you qualify, why don't
you get her on the air?

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Oof! Long night in dress shoes?

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Cyd used to go for these sort of
slip-ons with a padded sock.

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Yeah, probably 'cause she
couldn't get her cloven hooves

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into her regular shoes.

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I'm perfectly comfortable, Pam.
I've got good arches.

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- PAM: All right.
- They've been remarked upon.

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DARWIN PERRY:
Five p.m. exit polls, come on.

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- Five p.m.
- Hey, Darwin. You don't, um...

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Oh, they're cool.
Um, you don't--

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you don't do anything
special tonight, do you?

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Just somebody
was talking about adult diapers?

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DARWIN: Oh, no, I think there's
always time for the bathroom.

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Fine. Okay, thanks.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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Okay. Excuse me.
Coming through.

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Coming through here.
Coming through.

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Hey, everybody.
So, terms and conditions.

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Forgive me, those of you
who already know this.

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You get, uh, you get
some rest though?

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- (DARWIN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
- No, no. Marital strife.

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Can I hear a "Got it"?

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- ALL: Got it.
- Thank you. Also,
what we're about to tell you...

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- TOM: (QUIETLY)
How was your night?
- GREG HIRSCH: With Matsson?

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Pretty monstrous. His crew knows
some unseemly venues.

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I danced with an old man.

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- What?
- Yeah. He didn't want to dance,

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but they made us dance.
He was so confused.

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I drank things
that aren't normally drinks.

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And I... I got the impression...

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Do you know about Matsson
with Shiv and their sort of...

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like, their-- their business
alliance agreement?

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Well, I'm sure I don't know
what you're talking about.

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GREG: Okay, I didn't think so.

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Do you wanna strategize?
You wanna fry her ass up?

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Information, Greg.

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It's like a bottle of fine wine.

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You store it, you hoard it,

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you save it
for a special occasion.

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And then you smash someone's
fucking face in with it.

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- Nice.
- So, what we're hearing is,

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and remember,
this is not decisive,

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what we're seeing is Mencken

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may be over-performing
in Georgia and Arizona.

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So, our early read would be

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closer than polls
have suggested.

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Close, but Jimenez likely edging

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- on what we've seen.
- Boo!

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- (CHUCKLING)
- DARWIN: Listen,
this is privileged information.

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Leaks that suppress
or encourage turnout

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could result in our ejection

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from the National
Election Pool, okay?

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- (ALL MURMURING)
- Yeah, you heard the man.

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Zip it.

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That's great.

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Okay, Tom says exit polls say
looks like Jimenez.

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- No leaks.
- (GROANS)

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That's great. I mean,
I got four smileys from Gil.

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They think they've got it.

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I have got eggplant,
eggplant, flag from Mencken.

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Well, two eggplants
is not as much

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as four smileys, obviously.

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Four smileys is symptomatic
of the complacency

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at the heart
of his out-of-touch campaign.

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Eggplant, eggplant, flag reeks
of the misogynistic bravado

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that has so repelled
the median voter.

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- Huh? Hmm?
- Jesus. Oh, I feel sick.

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- Oh, why? It's fun.
- (SHIV ROY SIGHS)

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My team is playing your team.

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It's only spicy
'cause if my team wins,

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they're gonna shoot your team.

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Okay, but what
are you hearing, seriously?

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Are these your vans?
The Nazi vans?

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The van?
Oh, the-- the fun vans?

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The, uh, the fun buses? Yeah.

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SHIV: Yeah, in Florida,
they picked people up

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telling them they were
taking them to vote,

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and then a kid got left
by the highway.

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It's fucking kidnapping, Rome.

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It's fucking kidnapping now?
False flag. Nice try.

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Kidnapping. (CHUCKLES)
It's kidnapping.

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- Hey!
- SHIV: <i>Lukas! Hey.</i>

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<i>So, it's looking
like Jimenez.</i>

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Which is good for democracy
and great for us.

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LUKAS MATSSON: <i>Okay.</i>

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So, either way,

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I think that we consider
releasing your, you know,

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your funky numbers,
maybe tomorrow?

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Day after tomorrow?
Just get ahead of the numbers

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and, you know, I can come up
with some language.

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Yeah, I was... I was talking
last night to Oskar

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and Gregory Peggory about that.

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Uh, I'm sorry,
you spoke to Greg about this?

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Yeah, well, he was part
of a conversation,

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just as a normalist.

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And, uh...
And then I was wondering,

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you know, maybe we...

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<i>Maybe we keep my...</i>

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<i>my terrible secret a secret,
you know?</i>

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- (CELL PHONE VIBRATES)
- Okay. Uh...

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Yeah, look, let me
have a think about that.

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I gotta... I gotta take this.

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I'll-- I'll--
I'll call you back.

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Nate.

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<i>How's things
in Mission Control Denver?</i>

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Are you in at ATN, Shiv?

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SHIV: <i>Upstairs.
Leave it to them, Dad's rules.</i>

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Well, they need to be covering
the intimidation.

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It's pretty dark, Shiv.

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Who watches
the watchmen, you know?

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"Who watches the watchmen?"
I fucking do.

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- You getting good numbers?
- NATE SOFRELLI: <i>Good.</i>

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I'm just watching the weather.
Storm clouds in Nevada.

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We got people in line.

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Disturbance in Wisconsin.
But, uh, yeah, yeah.

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Scared, but good.

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Precinct data is...

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Pennsylvania,
Arizona could be tough.

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Let's keep this channel open
on all things

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Matsson and me,
and the new ATN, yeah?

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All things good.

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All right. So, Jimenez wins,

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and he just waves
the fucking deal through.

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And then we're what?

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I guess, fucking last ditch,
the board?

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- (CELL PHONE VIBRATES)
- The shareholders?

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Okay, uh,
Jeryd wants face-to-face.

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Okay. Me too?

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Um, I doubt it. I'm asking.

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Do you wanna try Gil,
or maybe direct to Jimenez?

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It feels kinda sweaty.
Maybe I wait a day.

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A day-- I-- I mean, I guess,
today's the fucking day, right?

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Like, today's the day
the rooster puts its head
in our hands.

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- Today is the moment of...
- (CELL PHONE VIBRATES)

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...maximum leverage. Uh, yeah.
Nope, it looks like just me.

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It's a bit tight for both of us.

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(CHUCKLES)
Fuck him. All right, go, go, go.

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- ROMAN ROY: I'm going.
- Sure, sure.

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ROMAN: Let me know
what you come up with.

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(CELL PHONE RINGS)

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- KENDALL ROY: Hey, Rava.
- RAVA ROY: <i>Hey, listen, um,</i>

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<i>- we... we are all okay...</i>
- Yeah?

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RAVA: <i>...but, um, we're a bit,
uh, freaked out.</i>

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There is an SUV.
Well, uh, we-- we think

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there's an SUV,
and it's-- it's following us.

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So, um, can we come
to the office?

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Because, uh, you have
good security at the office?

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What's the license plate?

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- RAVA: <i>The license is T... 3...</i>
- Is it, uh, T-- TR...

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- RAVA: <i>I can't--</i>
- Right, 'cause it's probably...

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It's probably mine.
I didn't want Sophie to freak,

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so I just...
I just actioned it.

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Are you... (SCOFFS) You're...

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Oh, my God.
You're having me followed

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with th-- th--
this covert surveillance

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to show you care?
The actual fuck, Ken?

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Just an extra layer
of bubble wrap
for her and Ivey.

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Are you guys okay? You okay?

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<i>- Is she okay?</i>
- She's, um, scared, Ken. Okay?

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- I'm-- (SIGHS) I am scared.
- KENDALL: <i>Rava, Rava.</i>

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<i>- Listen, just--</i>
- I don't know what...

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There-- there is--
there is shit burning,

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<i>there is intimidation.</i>

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<i>- I don't understand--</i>
- Relax, okay? Relax.

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Tell Sophie, I love her,

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and that is why
I do everything I do.

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<i>Okay, Soph?
Soph, I love you, sweetie, okay?</i>

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<i>Nothing's gonna happen.</i>

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Exit polls say Jimenez, okay?

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I won't let the world push you,
okay, sweetie?

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- Okay.
- ♪ (GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

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- ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
- Ken.

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KENDALL: <i>Hey, man.
Just-- just calling</i>

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<i>to say good luck. Great numbers.</i>

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- NATE: <i>Thanks, man.</i>
- KENDALL: And, um,

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listen, apologies if--
if things got a bit heated.

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A lot of shit going down.

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Victory vans and shitheads
kicking off in Milwaukee.

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- ATN wanna cover?
- Yeah, I'll-- I'll-- I'll talk,

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uh, but gotta let them do
their thing. But, yeah, yeah.

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- NATE: <i>Okay.</i>
- Listen, you got Daniel there?

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You know, let me, uh,
let me see.

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(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

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DANIEL JIMENEZ: Yeah, come in.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV)

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NATE: Sir, are you here
for Kendall Roy?

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- Hey, Kendall.
- Hey, Dan. Hey, man.

228
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Good luck. Just, uh...

229
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- Just best of luck.
- Thanks, man.

230
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- Uh, great to speak.
- KENDALL: <i>Yeah.</i>

231
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But, uh...
But when this is over,

232
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uh, I think there needs to be
a big conversation about tech,

233
00:10:49,190 --> 00:10:51,108
<i>- is all I'd say.</i>
- Great to speak.

234
00:10:51,108 --> 00:10:52,860
I'm gonna put Nate back on.

235
00:10:52,860 --> 00:10:54,987
Sure. And-- and--
and may the best man

236
00:10:54,987 --> 00:10:57,448
who will, you know,
protect American jobs

237
00:10:57,448 --> 00:11:00,242
and reign in tech
and is called Daniel win,

238
00:11:00,242 --> 00:11:02,078
- you know?
- (CHUCKLES)

239
00:11:02,078 --> 00:11:03,162
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

240
00:11:03,162 --> 00:11:05,331
Let's catch up.
Have a good one, man.

241
00:11:05,331 --> 00:11:06,457
Yeah, sure. Sure, man.

242
00:11:06,457 --> 00:11:10,252
You know, tonight,
my eye is just right here,

243
00:11:10,252 --> 00:11:13,089
making sure
it's fair as fuck, all right?

244
00:11:13,089 --> 00:11:15,508
Have a good night, man.
Stay hydrated.

245
00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:18,427
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

246
00:11:31,107 --> 00:11:33,442
- (KNOCKING ON DOOR)
- (DOOR OPENS)

247
00:11:33,442 --> 00:11:35,486
- Hey, come on.
- ROMAN: Yep. Hell yeah.

248
00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:37,363
Thank you.

249
00:11:40,408 --> 00:11:42,201
ROMAN: Busy, busy.
Hello, hello!

250
00:11:42,201 --> 00:11:45,788
Look at you! Losing it,
like a massive fucking loser.

251
00:11:45,788 --> 00:11:47,456
MENCKEN: Yeah.
Well, I blame you.

252
00:11:47,456 --> 00:11:49,834
- Couldn't deliver Connor, huh?
- Whoops.

253
00:11:49,834 --> 00:11:52,837
ATN scared to run
all the fraud?

254
00:11:52,837 --> 00:11:54,672
ROMAN: Well, I keep
my hands out, you know?

255
00:11:54,672 --> 00:11:56,799
Fuck you. What is this? 'Cause,
you know, I'm quite busy.

256
00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:59,343
- Oh, you're busy?
- Yes, I am busy.

257
00:11:59,343 --> 00:12:01,595
I don't run around town
like some fucking food-bike guy,

258
00:12:01,595 --> 00:12:03,055
- you know?
- MENCKEN: Yeah.

259
00:12:03,055 --> 00:12:06,934
Just, uh, wanted to say
a couple things. (CLEARS THROAT)

260
00:12:06,934 --> 00:12:08,394
Yeah?

261
00:12:08,394 --> 00:12:10,855
Very directly. (SIGHS)

262
00:12:12,022 --> 00:12:13,607
We still think we can win.

263
00:12:13,607 --> 00:12:16,694
- Sure.
- But I am very focused

264
00:12:16,694 --> 00:12:17,778
on losing.

265
00:12:17,778 --> 00:12:19,989
- (CHUCKLES) All right.
- MENCKEN: Winning is easy.

266
00:12:19,989 --> 00:12:21,615
Winning would take care
of itself.

267
00:12:21,615 --> 00:12:24,618
- Sure.
- But if I lose...

268
00:12:24,618 --> 00:12:28,330
I need to work on what assholes
would call "The narrative."

269
00:12:28,330 --> 00:12:31,375
Uh-huh. Uh, like a
"insurgent campaign,

270
00:12:31,375 --> 00:12:33,294
unfairly maligned as extremist

271
00:12:33,294 --> 00:12:35,629
by the coastal
masturbation factories."

272
00:12:35,629 --> 00:12:36,755
Exactly. If I lose,

273
00:12:36,755 --> 00:12:38,841
I want it
correctly characterized

274
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as a huge victory.

275
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- Over-performed, huh?
- Mm-hmm.

276
00:12:43,012 --> 00:12:46,390
I want to be the president.
I want you to...

277
00:12:46,390 --> 00:12:48,517
be a partner in that,
and if it isn't tonight,

278
00:12:49,226 --> 00:12:50,227
it will be next time.

279
00:12:50,227 --> 00:12:51,979
Even if you're not going
to be the president,

280
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you're going
to be our president.

281
00:12:53,814 --> 00:12:56,901
Exactly. You, me, we'll go far.

282
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ROMAN:
Over the road and into the bar.

283
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♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

284
00:13:11,248 --> 00:13:13,083
GREG: So, listen,
at some point tonight

285
00:13:13,083 --> 00:13:14,752
could we do a chat, uh,

286
00:13:14,752 --> 00:13:16,795
in terms of the--
the me of things,

287
00:13:16,795 --> 00:13:19,215
- and, like, how to play it?
- ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

288
00:13:19,215 --> 00:13:23,052
Because Matsson,
he treated me quite abominably,

289
00:13:23,052 --> 00:13:24,470
but it felt, like, trusting

290
00:13:24,470 --> 00:13:26,055
and he was saying
a lot of things, and--

291
00:13:26,055 --> 00:13:27,264
Okay, okay.
Enough, enough, enough.

292
00:13:27,264 --> 00:13:29,850
- Where's my coffee?
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV)

293
00:13:29,850 --> 00:13:31,477
Tom, I don't do coffee anymore--

294
00:13:31,477 --> 00:13:33,395
TOM: No, Greg!

295
00:13:33,395 --> 00:13:36,190
Greg, I have to be clear.
I have to.

296
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If I get drowsy,

297
00:13:38,025 --> 00:13:42,947
and I miscall Colorado,
instability, right?

298
00:13:43,948 --> 00:13:45,824
Then the US loses credibility,

299
00:13:45,824 --> 00:13:48,202
China spots an opportunity
and invades Taiwan.

300
00:13:48,202 --> 00:13:51,413
Tactical nukes.
Fucking shit goes kablooey

301
00:13:51,413 --> 00:13:52,623
and we're back to amoeba.

302
00:13:52,623 --> 00:13:55,376
It's a long way back
from pond life,

303
00:13:55,376 --> 00:13:58,504
'cause you failed to get me
a double shot, okay?

304
00:13:58,504 --> 00:14:00,256
Okay. Well, do you...

305
00:14:00,256 --> 00:14:02,508
- (TOM SIGHS)
- ...do you want some
of what you asked for?

306
00:14:05,427 --> 00:14:09,431
Um, no, I don't...
I don't think so.

307
00:14:09,431 --> 00:14:10,724
What do you think?

308
00:14:11,642 --> 00:14:14,270
Maybe no. I me-- Election night?

309
00:14:14,270 --> 00:14:18,023
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV)
- (GREG HESITATES)

310
00:14:18,023 --> 00:14:20,734
- Um...
- GREG: Your--
your call. I mean...

311
00:14:20,734 --> 00:14:23,904
Yeah, hit me.
But this is not a-- not a thing.

312
00:14:23,904 --> 00:14:25,239
Okay? It's not going in a book.

313
00:14:25,239 --> 00:14:28,867
- It's just... Yeah, okay.
- Yeah. Quick, quick.

314
00:14:28,867 --> 00:14:30,035
Quick as a whistle.

315
00:14:31,161 --> 00:14:32,288
(CLEARS THROAT)

316
00:14:32,288 --> 00:14:34,999
(INDISTINCT ON TV)

317
00:14:34,999 --> 00:14:38,127
GREG: Oh. What do we have here?
What's on the,

318
00:14:38,127 --> 00:14:39,503
- uh, the board?
- What's on the board?

319
00:14:40,921 --> 00:14:42,381
- GREG: Want it?
- Thanks.

320
00:14:44,008 --> 00:14:46,260
GREG: Just rubbing
the board innocently.

321
00:14:46,260 --> 00:14:48,470
Simply cleaning
the whiteboard here.

322
00:14:49,388 --> 00:14:51,015
(TOM SNIFFS)

323
00:14:51,015 --> 00:14:52,266
- Okay.
- Uh...

324
00:14:52,266 --> 00:14:53,976
- TOM: Here you go.
- No, no. Not-- not for me.

325
00:14:53,976 --> 00:14:55,477
- What?
- No. I'm just starting

326
00:14:55,477 --> 00:14:57,563
- to feel normal from last night.
- What, you'll do it
with Matsson,

327
00:14:57,563 --> 00:14:58,731
and not with me?

328
00:14:58,731 --> 00:15:00,316
I don't want you looking
all judgy all night. Come on.

329
00:15:00,316 --> 00:15:03,235
No, I need a clear head,
and I don't wanna get addicted

330
00:15:03,235 --> 00:15:05,362
- from two nights in a row.
- Shut up, Greg. Don't be Mom.

331
00:15:05,362 --> 00:15:06,947
- Come on.
- I don't want to, please.

332
00:15:06,947 --> 00:15:10,159
Greg, it's medically good
for your brain. It is.

333
00:15:10,159 --> 00:15:11,619
What are you saying,
all Aztecs are stupid?

334
00:15:11,619 --> 00:15:14,121
Don't be a racist, little bitch
about it. Come on.

335
00:15:14,121 --> 00:15:15,456
- GREG: Yeah, okay.
- Come on.

336
00:15:16,749 --> 00:15:18,626
Don't-- What?
Are you pretending?

337
00:15:18,626 --> 00:15:20,586
- No, I'm--
- Are you pretending to do coke?

338
00:15:20,586 --> 00:15:22,212
- Some got up.
- Well, fucking do it.

339
00:15:22,212 --> 00:15:24,840
- All right. (SNIFFS)
- There. God!

340
00:15:25,674 --> 00:15:27,217
(CLAPS HANDS) Okay.

341
00:15:30,054 --> 00:15:32,514
What the fuck is that?

342
00:15:32,514 --> 00:15:34,016
Oh, that. I guess they...

343
00:15:34,016 --> 00:15:35,768
They were ordering
some for folks,

344
00:15:35,768 --> 00:15:36,852
I said why not get you one?

345
00:15:36,852 --> 00:15:40,481
Bodega sushi? Are you insane?

346
00:15:40,481 --> 00:15:42,441
I-- No-- That's not me,
that's Samson.

347
00:15:42,441 --> 00:15:44,818
- That's--
- TOM: No, not Samson, Greg!

348
00:15:44,818 --> 00:15:47,404
- Not Samson, not!
- ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

349
00:15:47,404 --> 00:15:49,406
I want you Gregging for me.

350
00:15:49,406 --> 00:15:51,325
You're busted back down
to Greg tonight.

351
00:15:51,325 --> 00:15:53,744
- No!
- Yeah! Tonight,
my digestive system

352
00:15:53,744 --> 00:15:55,954
is basically,
part of the constitution, okay?

353
00:15:55,954 --> 00:15:57,790
Microwaved milk
and ginger shots.

354
00:15:57,790 --> 00:16:00,876
American bottled water.
Spaghetti and olive oil, okay?

355
00:16:01,627 --> 00:16:02,753
- Okay?
- GREG: Okay.

356
00:16:02,753 --> 00:16:04,838
- Okay.
- (CELL PHONE VIBRATES)

357
00:16:04,838 --> 00:16:06,173
Hey, Con!

358
00:16:06,173 --> 00:16:07,633
CONNOR ROY: <i>Tom!</i>

359
00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:09,885
Yeah, I got this crew here.

360
00:16:09,885 --> 00:16:13,055
- TOM: <i>Uh-huh, uh-huh.</i>
- And they're filming the stuff,

361
00:16:13,055 --> 00:16:17,309
but none of it is making it
on the show, dude.

362
00:16:17,309 --> 00:16:19,186
Is there any film
in these cameras?

363
00:16:19,186 --> 00:16:23,148
Yeah, I think we are...
We are planning to feature, Con.

364
00:16:23,148 --> 00:16:25,609
Well, no, because I'm watching.

365
00:16:25,609 --> 00:16:27,820
Now, I expected to be frozen out

366
00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:30,406
<i>by all those other mooks,
but you guys? Come on.</i>

367
00:16:30,406 --> 00:16:32,199
Gimme some sugar, man!

368
00:16:32,199 --> 00:16:34,326
I mean,
maybe everyone voted for me,

369
00:16:34,326 --> 00:16:36,495
- we don't know.
- WILLA FERREYRA:
Schrödinger's cat.

370
00:16:36,495 --> 00:16:39,998
Schrödinger's cat, Tom.
Until we open the boxes,

371
00:16:39,998 --> 00:16:42,710
<i>I'm just as much President
as the other two.</i>

372
00:16:42,710 --> 00:16:45,254
<i>- Yeah? So, come on.
If I do it...</i>
- TOM: Let's go. Let's go.

373
00:16:45,254 --> 00:16:46,588
CONNOR:
<i>...that's the story of all time.</i>

374
00:16:46,588 --> 00:16:48,424
Okay, well, I'll think--
I've-- I've gotta go.

375
00:16:48,424 --> 00:16:50,384
But I'll see what I can do,
but I've gotta go

376
00:16:50,384 --> 00:16:52,177
- 'cause the polls are closing.
- Yep.

377
00:16:52,177 --> 00:16:53,262
TOM: Okay.

378
00:16:54,346 --> 00:16:56,557
Okay, if it's gonna happen anywhere,

379
00:16:56,557 --> 00:16:58,142
it's gonna happen in Kentucky.

380
00:16:58,142 --> 00:16:59,768
- ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
- Anything can happen.

381
00:16:59,768 --> 00:17:00,978
- Anything.

382
00:17:00,978 --> 00:17:03,063
- Anything can happen.
- (CHUCKLES) Yeah.

383
00:17:03,063 --> 00:17:04,481
So glad I didn't drop out.

384
00:17:04,481 --> 00:17:07,818
It just makes an election
so much more interesting,

385
00:17:07,818 --> 00:17:09,069
- when you're in it.
- Mm-hmm.

386
00:17:09,069 --> 00:17:10,279
You gotta be in it to win it.

387
00:17:10,279 --> 00:17:12,448
And it is seven o'clock
on the East Coast,

388
00:17:12,448 --> 00:17:14,324
which means polls
have just closed

389
00:17:14,324 --> 00:17:15,743
in half a dozen states.

390
00:17:15,743 --> 00:17:18,746
The most closely watched states
at this hour, Georgia,

391
00:17:18,746 --> 00:17:20,831
with its 16 electoral votes,

392
00:17:20,831 --> 00:17:24,501
and Virginia, with its 13,
both key battleground states.

393
00:17:24,501 --> 00:17:26,295
<i>As of this moment,
it is too early</i>

394
00:17:26,295 --> 00:17:27,838
<i>to project a winner in either.</i>

395
00:17:27,838 --> 00:17:29,590
- WILLA: Okay.
- PETER SAMPINO:
<i>But our decision desk</i>

396
00:17:29,590 --> 00:17:31,133
<i>can announce, at this hour,</i>

397
00:17:31,133 --> 00:17:32,843
<i>that Representative
Jeryd Mencken</i>

398
00:17:32,843 --> 00:17:34,928
<i>will defeat
Governor Daniel Jimenez</i>

399
00:17:34,928 --> 00:17:36,638
<i>- in the Commonwealth
of Kentucky...</i>
- Ooh!

400
00:17:36,638 --> 00:17:38,557
- SAMPINO: <i>...as well as
in the state of Indiana....</i>
- Okay.

401
00:17:38,557 --> 00:17:40,809
SAMPINO: <i>...where Mencken has
enjoyed a lead over Jimenez...</i>

402
00:17:40,809 --> 00:17:42,519
- Okay.
- SAMPINO:
<i>...in the pre-election polling.</i>

403
00:17:42,519 --> 00:17:43,937
TRACY LEVINGS:
<i>Governor Jimenez will win</i>

404
00:17:43,937 --> 00:17:46,106
<i>in the state of Vermont,
no big surprises there,</i>

405
00:17:46,106 --> 00:17:47,733
<i>in the early part
of the evening.</i>

406
00:17:47,733 --> 00:17:49,485
- (SIGHS)
- LEVINGS: <i>We will need
to look at more data</i>

407
00:17:49,485 --> 00:17:51,236
<i>before we can make
a projection--</i>

408
00:17:51,236 --> 00:17:54,782
♪ (ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

409
00:17:55,866 --> 00:17:57,951
Hey, fuck Kentucky, Con.

410
00:17:59,286 --> 00:18:00,788
- No.
- Yes, fuck 'em.

411
00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:03,749
No. I...

412
00:18:04,792 --> 00:18:06,210
I shan't become that, no.

413
00:18:08,128 --> 00:18:10,464
- Alas, Kentucky, Willa.
- Mmm.

414
00:18:12,424 --> 00:18:13,759
Alas, vanity.

415
00:18:16,553 --> 00:18:18,764
ATN ANCHOR: <i>Voters have made
their voices heard.</i>

416
00:18:18,764 --> 00:18:21,350
<i>This could be
the most important election</i>

417
00:18:21,350 --> 00:18:22,476
<i>in our lifetime.</i>

418
00:18:22,476 --> 00:18:24,186
{\an8}<i>- So with polls about to close...</i>
- GREG: Nope.

419
00:18:24,186 --> 00:18:26,522
I told you, you can give it
to me, Billy. Thank you.

420
00:18:26,522 --> 00:18:29,149
- (ATN ANCHOR SPEAKING ON TV)
- ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

421
00:18:29,149 --> 00:18:30,275
PAM: As we heat up, Tom,

422
00:18:30,275 --> 00:18:31,819
uh, how much
do you want to give to...

423
00:18:31,819 --> 00:18:33,487
(SIGHS)
Fair bit of intimidation.

424
00:18:33,487 --> 00:18:35,322
His folks and ours.

425
00:18:35,322 --> 00:18:39,326
So, like, fire in Wisconsin,
in Milwaukee, could be nasty.

426
00:18:39,326 --> 00:18:42,621
Could be electrical failure.
Might be Menckenists.

427
00:18:42,621 --> 00:18:45,958
"Camera smashed,
crew harassed in Portland."

428
00:18:45,958 --> 00:18:48,544
- That's them.
- Uh, I trust you.

429
00:18:48,544 --> 00:18:50,295
ATN ANCHOR:
<i>...all of these counties here.</i>

430
00:18:50,295 --> 00:18:53,715
{\an8}<i>Uh, again, a little, uh,
board malfunction here.</i>

431
00:18:53,715 --> 00:18:56,885
{\an8}- What's he doing? What's this?
- ATN ANCHOR: <i>But we'll be
right back on it in a second...</i>

432
00:18:56,885 --> 00:18:58,637
- Hey, Pam? What's going on?
- Hold-- hold on.

433
00:18:58,637 --> 00:19:00,639
- The-- the touchscreen.
- Hold on, we're checking it out.

434
00:19:00,639 --> 00:19:02,182
What's happening
with the touchscreen?

435
00:19:02,182 --> 00:19:04,226
- Tell him to stop touching
the touchscreen!
- We have a replacement--

436
00:19:04,226 --> 00:19:06,144
- TOM: The touchscreen
is malfunctioning!
- It's fine, it's fine.

437
00:19:06,144 --> 00:19:07,729
It's not fine! You can see
that it's not fine!

438
00:19:07,729 --> 00:19:09,857
- We have a replacement
on the way.
- It's malfunctioning! Fuck!

439
00:19:09,857 --> 00:19:12,025
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

440
00:19:12,025 --> 00:19:13,902
Touchscreen's malfunctioning!

441
00:19:15,612 --> 00:19:16,655
Touchscreen's malfunctioning!

442
00:19:16,655 --> 00:19:18,031
{\an8}ATN ANCHOR:
<i>And we're gonna zoom in.</i>

443
00:19:18,031 --> 00:19:20,868
{\an8}<i>Right where we can see,
right here, having a...</i>

444
00:19:20,868 --> 00:19:22,369
<i>The board seems to be acting up.</i>

445
00:19:22,369 --> 00:19:23,871
What's going on
with the touchscreen?

446
00:19:23,871 --> 00:19:25,539
The touchscreen
is malfunctioning!

447
00:19:25,539 --> 00:19:26,957
What's going on?
What the fuck is going on?

448
00:19:26,957 --> 00:19:29,042
Right, we're on it.
Uh, graphics generator just--

449
00:19:29,042 --> 00:19:30,544
- It-- it shat the bed.
- TOM: What?

450
00:19:30,544 --> 00:19:31,795
DAVE: Where is my touchscreen?

451
00:19:31,795 --> 00:19:33,130
- Don't-- You're losing it, Dave.
- DAVE: Find me a desk.

452
00:19:33,130 --> 00:19:35,591
Don't lose it, Dave.
Don't lose it tonight, Dave!

453
00:19:35,591 --> 00:19:37,843
SAMPINO: <i>It is now 9:00 p.m.
on the East Coast.</i>

454
00:19:37,843 --> 00:19:39,386
- Okay, can we get an ETA...
- Hello?

455
00:19:39,386 --> 00:19:41,513
KENDALL:
<i>What the fuck's going on
with the touchscreen, Tom?</i>

456
00:19:41,513 --> 00:19:42,764
I'm on it, I'm all over it.

457
00:19:42,764 --> 00:19:44,600
You're not on it.
Fucking get on it.

458
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:46,226
Figure it out, yeah?

459
00:19:46,226 --> 00:19:48,353
<i>- Figure it out. Now!</i>
- (OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

460
00:19:48,353 --> 00:19:49,897
Hey, it's happening.
Ken, it's happening.

461
00:19:49,897 --> 00:19:51,398
KENDALL: <i>We're about to get
a new batch, Greg,</i>

462
00:19:51,398 --> 00:19:53,108
and if we drop numbers now,
I'm gonna come down there

463
00:19:53,108 --> 00:19:54,568
and put your fucking head
through that touchscreen.

464
00:19:54,568 --> 00:19:56,361
- GREG: <i>It's all in motion.</i>
- Fix it, fix it, fix it.

465
00:19:56,361 --> 00:19:58,363
- No need to catastrophize.
- Where's the touchscreen, Pam?

466
00:19:58,363 --> 00:19:59,573
- Is it loading up?
- It's loaded up.

467
00:19:59,573 --> 00:20:01,283
Well, get it on air!
Get the new one on air.

468
00:20:01,283 --> 00:20:03,243
We're gonna be hemorrhaging.
We're gonna be a laughingstock.

469
00:20:03,243 --> 00:20:05,621
We're on it, Tom.
No one will notice, okay?

470
00:20:05,621 --> 00:20:07,080
We've done this before.

471
00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:08,749
we have three,
and they're all lined up.

472
00:20:08,749 --> 00:20:10,083
No one will notice? I noticed.

473
00:20:10,083 --> 00:20:12,294
Am I no one?
Do I look like no one? Huh?

474
00:20:13,045 --> 00:20:14,212
Do I?

475
00:20:14,212 --> 00:20:16,340
KENDALL: How the fuck are we
behind social media on this?

476
00:20:16,340 --> 00:20:17,841
All right,
we need to be leading this.

477
00:20:17,841 --> 00:20:19,384
- SHIV: Hey, Tom?
- TOM: <i>Hello?</i>

478
00:20:19,384 --> 00:20:21,887
You got this fire in Wisconsin.
You-- you-- you got this?

479
00:20:21,887 --> 00:20:24,473
Uh, yes, I think we...
Yes, I think we have that, yeah.

480
00:20:24,473 --> 00:20:27,142
- Electrical.
- Why aren't we covering, Tom?

481
00:20:27,142 --> 00:20:30,729
Um, well, because we always have
to choose what to focus on.

482
00:20:30,729 --> 00:20:33,398
And just because something
is on fire doesn't make it news.

483
00:20:33,398 --> 00:20:35,817
- Uh, electrical failure?
- NATE: <i>Not what we hear.</i>

484
00:20:35,817 --> 00:20:38,362
No. It's-- it's-- it's not
what Nate hears, Tom.

485
00:20:38,362 --> 00:20:39,905
Well, bully for Nate.

486
00:20:39,905 --> 00:20:41,615
- NATE: <i>Hey, Tom.</i>
- TOM: <i>Hey, Nate.</i>

487
00:20:41,615 --> 00:20:43,575
We need to be
all over this, Tom.

488
00:20:43,575 --> 00:20:47,120
Uh, yeah. I-- Okay, I just think
it's important to, um,

489
00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:48,872
to keep our unique perspective

490
00:20:48,872 --> 00:20:50,916
<i>because we are getting
conflicting reporting.</i>

491
00:20:50,916 --> 00:20:52,626
Oh, what about the actual photos

492
00:20:52,626 --> 00:20:54,252
I can see of it happening
on my fucking phone?

493
00:20:54,252 --> 00:20:56,546
Look, there are-- there are
many, many things happening

494
00:20:56,546 --> 00:20:57,631
in this nation right now.

495
00:20:57,631 --> 00:20:59,007
Uh, there are
a million data points,

496
00:20:59,007 --> 00:21:02,219
and we-- we have to select
the ones that are consequential.

497
00:21:02,219 --> 00:21:04,471
If these nutjobs
are going paramilitary,

498
00:21:04,471 --> 00:21:05,889
- we can say that.
- Yeah.

499
00:21:05,889 --> 00:21:09,017
TOM: <i>Uh-huh. Yes, we just need
to respect our viewership.</i>

500
00:21:09,017 --> 00:21:11,979
By not telling them anything
they don't want to hear?

501
00:21:11,979 --> 00:21:14,481
You guys get this
about the Antifa firebombing

502
00:21:14,481 --> 00:21:15,774
in Milwaukee?

503
00:21:15,774 --> 00:21:19,069
NATE: <i>No. Uh, we-- we hear
it's his people, Mencken's.</i>

504
00:21:19,069 --> 00:21:20,320
(BLOWS RASPBERRY)

505
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,198
Okay, when it becomes a story,
then we'll run the story.

506
00:21:23,198 --> 00:21:24,658
Well, this is
happening in, what,

507
00:21:24,658 --> 00:21:26,910
- a vote counting center? So...
- Yeah. It's a story, Tom.

508
00:21:26,910 --> 00:21:27,911
- It's a story.
- I'm on it.

509
00:21:27,911 --> 00:21:29,830
- Do not micromanage me, please.
- Tom!

510
00:21:29,830 --> 00:21:31,331
- Yes? Yes?
- Tom! They're evacuating.

511
00:21:31,331 --> 00:21:33,750
We've got a local chopper up
and a reporter on the way.

512
00:21:33,750 --> 00:21:35,794
Okay. Uh, guys,
I've got to manage this.

513
00:21:35,794 --> 00:21:37,462
I'm gonna-- I'm--
I'll keep you looped, yeah?

514
00:21:37,462 --> 00:21:39,298
- Talk to Greg, yeah?
- Oh.

515
00:21:39,965 --> 00:21:41,008
Yeah, hey, hey.

516
00:21:41,008 --> 00:21:42,217
<i>Uh, happy to keep you</i>

517
00:21:42,217 --> 00:21:43,677
<i>- fully abreast here.</i>
- We're not talking to Greg.

518
00:21:43,677 --> 00:21:45,846
- GREG: <i>I can be
your link-up guy.</i>
- No. What the fuck?

519
00:21:45,846 --> 00:21:47,264
KENDALL:
Amateur hour down there.

520
00:21:47,264 --> 00:21:50,308
Uh, okay. So, if it happened
in Milwaukee,

521
00:21:50,308 --> 00:21:52,310
and if it's deliberate,
then it's Menckenists?

522
00:21:52,310 --> 00:21:53,979
Mmm. False flag. Could be.

523
00:21:53,979 --> 00:21:55,522
You can't just say
"false flag" every time

524
00:21:55,522 --> 00:21:58,150
- you don't fucking agree
with something.
- ROMAN: False flag. False flag.

525
00:21:58,150 --> 00:21:59,860
- (GROANS)
- KENDALL: Okay, guys.

526
00:21:59,860 --> 00:22:01,903
SAMPINO: <i>We want to report
about a fire in Milwaukee,</i>

527
00:22:01,903 --> 00:22:05,365
{\an8}<i>initially thought to have been
caused by an electrical failure.</i>

528
00:22:05,365 --> 00:22:07,576
<i>But now there are claims
and some counterclaims</i>

529
00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:10,120
{\an8}<i>being made by groups
who were protesting</i>

530
00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:12,205
{\an8}<i>- alleged voting irregularities.</i>
- SHIV: Hey.

531
00:22:12,205 --> 00:22:14,041
Okay, well, do you know
if any of the ballots

532
00:22:14,041 --> 00:22:15,542
- are intact?
- NATE: <i>It doesn't look likely.</i>

533
00:22:15,542 --> 00:22:16,626
Where are you at?

534
00:22:16,626 --> 00:22:18,128
Depends how many votes
have gone.

535
00:22:18,128 --> 00:22:19,921
- But ballots have been lost?
<i>- Oh, yeah.</i>

536
00:22:19,921 --> 00:22:22,299
We're chartering flights
to Milwaukee.

537
00:22:22,299 --> 00:22:25,260
A ton of number-crunching
by our analytics team.

538
00:22:25,260 --> 00:22:27,346
We're trying to check
the Milwaukee County voter rolls

539
00:22:27,346 --> 00:22:29,890
to see who's voted so far,
but, uh...

540
00:22:29,890 --> 00:22:31,933
Listen, can you help
with the narrative?

541
00:22:31,933 --> 00:22:33,351
- ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- ROMAN: Oh, yeah.

542
00:22:33,351 --> 00:22:36,313
Uh, okay, well, have you got
all the bodies that you need?

543
00:22:36,313 --> 00:22:39,232
Yeah. Yeah, we have bodies.
We have a SWAT team on it,

544
00:22:39,232 --> 00:22:41,068
they're interfacing
with the Wisconsin team.

545
00:22:46,573 --> 00:22:47,449
(ROMAN GROANS)

546
00:22:47,449 --> 00:22:49,242
GREG: Apparently,
he's just touching

547
00:22:49,242 --> 00:22:50,952
too hard for it.

548
00:22:50,952 --> 00:22:52,412
- He's touching with...
- What?

549
00:22:52,412 --> 00:22:54,623
What? No. Rome?

550
00:22:54,623 --> 00:22:57,125
Roman, no brass
on the battlefield, okay?

551
00:22:57,125 --> 00:22:58,460
That's one
of Logan's Geneva conventions.

552
00:22:58,460 --> 00:22:59,961
- Please, please.
- Just a pop-in. What's going on?

553
00:22:59,961 --> 00:23:01,171
They evacuated the count center?

554
00:23:01,171 --> 00:23:03,090
No, I don't know, I just lost
another touchscreen.

555
00:23:03,090 --> 00:23:04,758
I'm down to my last
fucking touchscreen, okay?

556
00:23:04,758 --> 00:23:06,301
- SHIV: What's going on?
- ROMAN: Oh, nothing.

557
00:23:06,301 --> 00:23:08,136
Tom just thinks
that China's hacking his tech.

558
00:23:08,136 --> 00:23:09,179
I do not, but I do think

559
00:23:09,179 --> 00:23:10,639
you would be
more comfortable upstairs.

560
00:23:10,639 --> 00:23:12,057
- What?
- Greg? Will you please, uh...

561
00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:13,725
- GREG: Oh, yes.
- Will you please help
them upstairs?

562
00:23:13,725 --> 00:23:15,769
Yeah, guys,
do you mind if I wrangle...

563
00:23:15,769 --> 00:23:16,853
Hello? Tom?

564
00:23:16,853 --> 00:23:18,563
- Hello, Siobhan.
- GREG: Can I just wrangle...

565
00:23:18,563 --> 00:23:21,024
- Wrangle? Stop saying wrangle.
- SHIV: Yeah. Are the ballots
still in there?

566
00:23:21,024 --> 00:23:22,776
- Okay, where-- where are we?
- SHIV: What's going on?

567
00:23:22,776 --> 00:23:24,945
- Tom, can you catch us up?
- Greg, will you please, uh,
take the VIPs

568
00:23:24,945 --> 00:23:26,404
- to a, uh, upstairs setting?
- GREG: Yes. I-- I--

569
00:23:26,404 --> 00:23:28,281
- PAM: Tom!
- Can I grab the three
of you and just--

570
00:23:28,281 --> 00:23:29,407
- (OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
- Tom!

571
00:23:29,407 --> 00:23:30,700
- TOM: Yes?
- Reporter on the way.

572
00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:32,536
- Uh, three, four out.
- Okay. All right, all right.

573
00:23:32,536 --> 00:23:33,912
- SHIV: Uh, Tom?
- Yes?

574
00:23:33,912 --> 00:23:36,123
- (ROMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
- Can I-- can I have a word?

575
00:23:36,123 --> 00:23:37,624
GREG: (SIGHS) I... This is--

576
00:23:37,624 --> 00:23:41,128
- I really-- I really can't.
- This won't take long,
Tom. Just...

577
00:23:41,128 --> 00:23:43,713
I know, but just let me--
Okay, I just...

578
00:23:44,756 --> 00:23:47,050
Can you please?
I just wanted to apologize

579
00:23:47,050 --> 00:23:50,512
for some of the things
that I said last night, okay?

580
00:23:50,512 --> 00:23:53,348
- Okay. Okay.
- SHIV: And to...

581
00:23:54,724 --> 00:23:57,018
you know,
give you an opportunity to...

582
00:23:57,018 --> 00:23:59,771
- TOM: Uh-huh?
- ...re... Okay.

583
00:23:59,771 --> 00:24:02,232
Well, I can't do it
to that. So...

584
00:24:02,232 --> 00:24:05,944
- (SIGHS)
- How should I frame my face?

585
00:24:06,987 --> 00:24:09,614
Huh? You scared
that I'm gonna blab

586
00:24:09,614 --> 00:24:10,782
about you and Matsson?

587
00:24:10,782 --> 00:24:12,159
SHIV: Jesus fucking Christ,

588
00:24:12,159 --> 00:24:13,743
- Tom.
- What?

589
00:24:13,743 --> 00:24:15,328
My father just died, yeah?

590
00:24:15,328 --> 00:24:16,663
- My-- Like--
- TOM: Yeah.

591
00:24:16,663 --> 00:24:19,207
My father just died.

592
00:24:19,207 --> 00:24:21,251
So maybe, you know,
I could get a little

593
00:24:21,251 --> 00:24:23,795
consideration on that and for,
you know, a number of reasons

594
00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:26,423
I've been feeling off-kilter,
so... I'm sorry,

595
00:24:26,423 --> 00:24:29,092
- but can I get a modicum of--
- Sure, sure.

596
00:24:29,092 --> 00:24:30,385
- What does that mean?
- TOM: Sure.

597
00:24:30,385 --> 00:24:31,386
"Sure."

598
00:24:31,386 --> 00:24:32,721
It means you hated him, Siobhan.

599
00:24:32,721 --> 00:24:34,639
I didn't hate him. I loved him.

600
00:24:34,639 --> 00:24:35,640
Well, it was complicated,

601
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,767
but sometimes
you certainly hated him,

602
00:24:37,767 --> 00:24:40,729
and-- and you also
sort of killed him.

603
00:24:42,439 --> 00:24:44,441
Uh... Wow!

604
00:24:44,441 --> 00:24:46,401
- What the--

605
00:24:46,401 --> 00:24:47,652
- Sort of.
- SHIV: Oh, yeah. "Sort of."

606
00:24:47,652 --> 00:24:49,946
That's the part
that I'm gonna remember, thanks.

607
00:24:49,946 --> 00:24:52,199
No, thank you.
Okay, you know what?

608
00:24:52,199 --> 00:24:55,535
Actually, also, I'm pregnant.
Yeah? By you.

609
00:24:56,661 --> 00:24:59,998
And there's-- there's
never a good time to say it,

610
00:24:59,998 --> 00:25:03,376
but you need to know. So, okay.

611
00:25:03,376 --> 00:25:05,462
- Now you know.
- TOM: Right. Right.

612
00:25:08,340 --> 00:25:09,716
- (SHIV EXHALES SHAKILY)
- Is...

613
00:25:13,345 --> 00:25:14,346
that even true?

614
00:25:17,641 --> 00:25:19,226
What?

615
00:25:19,226 --> 00:25:23,021
Like, is that even true,
or is that like a new position

616
00:25:23,021 --> 00:25:24,856
or a tactic? Or what?

617
00:25:25,565 --> 00:25:28,568
What? (BREATHES DEEPLY)

618
00:25:28,568 --> 00:25:30,695
♪ (GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

619
00:25:30,695 --> 00:25:32,239
Um, okay.

620
00:25:37,118 --> 00:25:38,119
(TOM SIGHS)

621
00:25:46,294 --> 00:25:48,964
So, we have an area.
I guess, we-- Is it upstairs?

622
00:25:48,964 --> 00:25:50,465
- Yeah, it's just--
- You okay?

623
00:25:50,465 --> 00:25:52,801
Yeah. Uh-huh, yep.

624
00:25:52,801 --> 00:25:55,929
I'm, uh...
Look, I think things are tough.

625
00:25:55,929 --> 00:25:57,138
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

626
00:25:57,138 --> 00:25:59,933
With-- with my situation
and Tom,

627
00:25:59,933 --> 00:26:02,769
- uh, but--
- You want us to have him killed?

628
00:26:02,769 --> 00:26:04,145
- Uh...
- We could do that.

629
00:26:04,145 --> 00:26:05,313
Yeah, maybe. (CHUCKLES)

630
00:26:05,313 --> 00:26:06,398
- I mean, I think...
- Okay.

631
00:26:06,398 --> 00:26:08,608
You know, he's just...

632
00:26:08,608 --> 00:26:11,778
He's just a piece of filth,
and there's stuff

633
00:26:11,778 --> 00:26:15,031
I would like to tell you,
but, uh...

634
00:26:15,031 --> 00:26:17,617
Hey, I've been trying
to get them to move.

635
00:26:17,617 --> 00:26:19,661
Not in an aggressive way, but...

636
00:26:20,662 --> 00:26:21,579
If...

637
00:26:21,579 --> 00:26:23,164
Yeah, I mean,
you just can't trust him.

638
00:26:23,164 --> 00:26:25,333
Yeah, we got you.

639
00:26:25,333 --> 00:26:26,584
ATN REPORTER:
<i>In terms of the fire,</i>

640
00:26:26,584 --> 00:26:27,836
<i>- it is still burning.</i>
- Thanks.

641
00:26:27,836 --> 00:26:29,879
ATN REPORTER: <i>And crews
are struggling to contain,</i>

642
00:26:29,879 --> 00:26:31,506
<i>let alone extinguish.</i>

643
00:26:31,506 --> 00:26:33,800
{\an8}<i>Now, are there any reports
so far of injuries?</i>

644
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,343
{\an8}<i>None for now, fortunately.</i>

645
00:26:35,343 --> 00:26:37,679
<i>The building
was evacuated immediately</i>

646
00:26:37,679 --> 00:26:39,014
<i>and all workers
have been accounted for.</i>

647
00:26:39,014 --> 00:26:41,850
Well, I'm gonna sneak...
now that we're all in here.

648
00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:43,643
{\an8}<i>There's a lot of confusion here
right now. It looks like...</i>

649
00:26:43,643 --> 00:26:45,854
{\an8}- KENDALL: Who's responsible?
<i>- ...all ballots have been
received here.</i>

650
00:26:45,854 --> 00:26:47,856
That's the story, right?
Who burnt this place down?

651
00:26:47,856 --> 00:26:49,149
Uh, to me,
it always comes down

652
00:26:49,149 --> 00:26:51,526
to a couple of old favorites,
the Blacks or the Jews.

653
00:26:52,902 --> 00:26:56,031
- I'm kidding.
It's a fucking joke.
- Would you, please? Please?

654
00:26:57,574 --> 00:26:58,867
- Got it.
- (CELL PHONE VIBRATES)

655
00:26:58,867 --> 00:27:00,577
- All right. Here.
Shiv. Just follow me.
- Hey, Connor.

656
00:27:00,577 --> 00:27:02,996
- Follow me.
- Rome.

657
00:27:02,996 --> 00:27:05,707
Um, Jeryd isn't picking up.

658
00:27:05,707 --> 00:27:06,833
ROMAN: <i>Uh-huh. Yeah.</i>

659
00:27:06,833 --> 00:27:08,835
<i>I-- I wonder
if it's a busy night for him?</i>

660
00:27:08,835 --> 00:27:10,879
Um, because I wondered

661
00:27:10,879 --> 00:27:13,882
if what we talked about
might still be on offer?

662
00:27:13,882 --> 00:27:15,216
Ambassadorship-wise?

663
00:27:15,216 --> 00:27:18,053
Uh, yeah. Well, that was kind of
a yesterday offer, Connor.

664
00:27:18,053 --> 00:27:19,220
You know
if he doesn't make this,

665
00:27:19,220 --> 00:27:20,638
you're gonna be
partially fucking responsible,

666
00:27:20,638 --> 00:27:22,057
- I hope you're cool with that.
- CONNOR: <i>Rome.</i>

667
00:27:22,057 --> 00:27:23,683
I spent like a hundred mil here.

668
00:27:23,683 --> 00:27:25,393
- (SCOFFS)
- Couldn't I get a sniff

669
00:27:25,393 --> 00:27:27,020
of even a little guy?

670
00:27:27,020 --> 00:27:29,814
Organize a little coup,
down in old Peru?

671
00:27:29,814 --> 00:27:31,441
Put me in a van to Tajikistan?

672
00:27:31,441 --> 00:27:33,693
Couldn't I just be
our fun guy in Uruguay?

673
00:27:33,693 --> 00:27:35,987
ROMAN:
Your rhymes are compelling.
But what's in it for him, Con?

674
00:27:35,987 --> 00:27:39,074
Oh, maybe just one of
the finest political operators

675
00:27:39,074 --> 00:27:40,784
of his generation
sorting shit out?

676
00:27:40,784 --> 00:27:43,453
ROMAN: Okay, yeah, I'll, uh...
I'll get back to you.

677
00:27:43,453 --> 00:27:44,871
Just this one.

678
00:27:44,871 --> 00:27:46,706
HAMILTON:
<i>Every four years, in fact.</i>

679
00:27:46,706 --> 00:27:48,166
It's probably going to come down

680
00:27:48,166 --> 00:27:51,461
to a handful of states,
like Wisconsin, Ohio,

681
00:27:51,461 --> 00:27:54,089
Pennsylvania,
Georgia, and Arizona.

682
00:27:54,089 --> 00:27:56,508
Ignore the narratives early on,

683
00:27:56,508 --> 00:27:57,801
and just realize

684
00:27:57,801 --> 00:27:59,761
that we're going to be in
for a dog fight,

685
00:27:59,761 --> 00:28:02,138
for a late night in those last
couple of states.

686
00:28:02,138 --> 00:28:04,099
{\an8}It is 11:00 p.m.
on the East Coast.

687
00:28:04,099 --> 00:28:05,392
{\an8}- SHIV: Uh-huh.
<i>- Polls have just closed</i>

688
00:28:05,392 --> 00:28:06,935
<i>in four more key states.</i>

689
00:28:06,935 --> 00:28:09,396
- Okay, thanks.
- LEVINGS: <i>The ATN
decision desk can now project...</i>

690
00:28:09,396 --> 00:28:13,024
Uh... So, under state law,
the vote can't be certified

691
00:28:13,024 --> 00:28:14,901
until the absentee ballots
are counted.

692
00:28:14,901 --> 00:28:17,404
So, no Wisconsin result is valid

693
00:28:17,404 --> 00:28:18,863
until the absentee ballots
are counted.

694
00:28:18,863 --> 00:28:20,782
Okay. And how does Daniel feel?

695
00:28:20,782 --> 00:28:22,909
Confident, but terrified.
(CHUCKLES)

696
00:28:22,909 --> 00:28:24,577
I don't know, is there--
is there a name

697
00:28:24,577 --> 00:28:26,287
for that feeling? Cuspy?

698
00:28:26,287 --> 00:28:28,748
- Hey. Yeah.
- SHIV: Rome.
So, under Wisconsin law,

699
00:28:28,748 --> 00:28:31,459
- the vote can't be certified--
- Mencken says we're done.
Wisconsin's done.

700
00:28:31,459 --> 00:28:33,711
- That's their position.
- But... (SCOFFS) Well, no.

701
00:28:33,711 --> 00:28:37,048
There's like 100,000 absentee
Milwaukee ballots missing.

702
00:28:37,048 --> 00:28:39,134
So we have to figure out
a way to go forward

703
00:28:39,134 --> 00:28:41,845
- knowing that information--
- Go forward to undermine
Mencken's lead?

704
00:28:41,845 --> 00:28:43,138
Does he have a lead?

705
00:28:43,138 --> 00:28:44,472
- I mean, is-- is that right?
- Yep, yes.

706
00:28:44,472 --> 00:28:46,307
- SHIV: Uh, an artificial lead.
- Mmm.

707
00:28:46,307 --> 00:28:48,977
With 100,000 Milwaukee
absentee ballots missing.

708
00:28:48,977 --> 00:28:51,229
Every vote must be counted.

709
00:28:51,229 --> 00:28:53,189
- Eh.
- KENDALL: I think she's right.

710
00:28:53,189 --> 00:28:54,482
- What?
- ROMAN: Hmm, well--

711
00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:55,859
- I think she's right, Rome.
- ROMAN: Well, yeah, okay.

712
00:28:55,859 --> 00:28:57,652
But we-- we-- we can count
the votes that we have.

713
00:28:57,652 --> 00:29:00,780
However, unfortunately,
some are lost. So...

714
00:29:00,780 --> 00:29:02,449
SHIV:
"Unfortunately, some are lost?"

715
00:29:02,449 --> 00:29:04,742
- Yep.
- Meaning, what?
Fascist fuckheads burnt them.

716
00:29:04,742 --> 00:29:06,035
ROMAN:
We literally do not know that.

717
00:29:06,035 --> 00:29:08,037
It could very easily be
your fucks, they love fires.

718
00:29:08,037 --> 00:29:09,372
You're making hay
for political violence.

719
00:29:09,372 --> 00:29:11,040
ROMAN: Or your guys knew
they were going to lose,

720
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,209
so they did something crazy
to throw it into question

721
00:29:13,209 --> 00:29:14,836
- and get a revote.
- You don't believe that.

722
00:29:14,836 --> 00:29:16,337
Yeah, maybe I do. I don't know.

723
00:29:16,337 --> 00:29:17,547
Okay. Well, Jimenez

724
00:29:17,547 --> 00:29:19,424
is gonna take Pennsylvania,
Michigan, and Arizona.

725
00:29:19,424 --> 00:29:21,134
So I don't know why
you're getting so fucking uppity

726
00:29:21,134 --> 00:29:22,343
- about this shit.
- Why are you getting so uppity

727
00:29:22,343 --> 00:29:23,636
about this shit
if you're so confident?

728
00:29:23,636 --> 00:29:25,555
Because if Mencken wins,
it's the end of the world, okay?

729
00:29:25,555 --> 00:29:27,015
So I'd like
a little fucking cushion.

730
00:29:27,015 --> 00:29:29,225
Can we get fucking real?
Jimenez won't block
the GoJo deal.

731
00:29:29,225 --> 00:29:31,019
So fuck the guy, right?

732
00:29:31,019 --> 00:29:33,271
Well, who knows? Maybe he would.
And that's not...

733
00:29:33,271 --> 00:29:36,065
(LAUGHING) We cannot let that
be the thing that's...

734
00:29:36,065 --> 00:29:38,526
That's not the thing, right?
Ken?

735
00:29:38,526 --> 00:29:43,448
(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV)

736
00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:44,741
- SHIV: Uh...
- I don't know.

737
00:29:46,576 --> 00:29:47,785
- Ken.
- KENDALL: I don't know.

738
00:29:47,785 --> 00:29:50,955
No, don't-- don't get cynical.

739
00:29:50,955 --> 00:29:54,292
It's-- it's not-- not cynical.
No. It's just...

740
00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:58,963
what's happening is happening.
Uh, I'm a realist.

741
00:29:58,963 --> 00:30:01,716
Oh, yeah. Says the man
who'd cut his son's throat

742
00:30:01,716 --> 00:30:03,092
and then eat him
on the high pass.

743
00:30:03,092 --> 00:30:04,969
- Jesus fucking Christ.
- We can all say
nasty shit, Shiv.

744
00:30:04,969 --> 00:30:07,388
- (DOOR OPENS)
- Hey, so, uh, FVA is saying

745
00:30:07,388 --> 00:30:09,516
they have enough vote reported
to call Wisconsin.

746
00:30:09,516 --> 00:30:11,768
So, Freedom Voice America
and VeraNews are calling it.

747
00:30:11,768 --> 00:30:13,311
- Great, the maniacs.
- ROMAN: Okay. Wow.

748
00:30:13,311 --> 00:30:15,396
Well, can't get out-flanked
and we need to be fast.

749
00:30:15,396 --> 00:30:16,773
So I think
we should call it, right?

750
00:30:16,773 --> 00:30:17,774
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

751
00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:20,026
- Hold on, hold on!
- No, no, no, no, no, no.

752
00:30:20,026 --> 00:30:22,028
Tom, what--
what is like an independent...

753
00:30:22,028 --> 00:30:23,530
Can-- can you get us

754
00:30:23,530 --> 00:30:25,865
- Decision Desk Darwin?
- Yes. Yep.

755
00:30:25,865 --> 00:30:28,535
<i>I want to say a few words
about the emerging situation</i>

756
00:30:28,535 --> 00:30:29,661
<i>in Milwaukee.</i>

757
00:30:29,661 --> 00:30:31,371
<i>- A situation the American...</i>
- (HUGO BAKER SIGHS)

758
00:30:31,371 --> 00:30:34,332
<i>...people are watching
with increasing concern.</i>

759
00:30:34,332 --> 00:30:36,042
<i>We have a process.</i>

760
00:30:36,042 --> 00:30:37,877
<i>- And it is sacrosanct...</i>
- "Respect the process.

761
00:30:37,877 --> 00:30:38,920
Count every vote."

762
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,714
I mean, he's so fucking dull.

763
00:30:41,714 --> 00:30:46,052
Flop your dick out, pop a nut.
Do something!

764
00:30:46,052 --> 00:30:48,263
<i>...that decision will have
no legitimacy</i>

765
00:30:48,263 --> 00:30:51,933
<i>if it does not account
for all the ballots cast.</i>

766
00:30:51,933 --> 00:30:54,394
Okay, Dar. Thank you.
And we have some thoughts

767
00:30:54,394 --> 00:30:55,728
and some questions. And--

768
00:30:55,728 --> 00:30:57,730
Thank you, Darwin.
Do you have a result

769
00:30:57,730 --> 00:31:00,066
- as it stands in Wisconsin?
- (DOOR CLOSES)

770
00:31:00,066 --> 00:31:02,235
- Uh, we've tallied
the vote total so far.
- KENDALL: Okay.

771
00:31:02,235 --> 00:31:03,903
- ROMAN: Yeah. Uh-huh. And?
- Margin for Mencken

772
00:31:03,903 --> 00:31:05,071
is significant.

773
00:31:05,071 --> 00:31:07,407
It couldn't be made up
by outstanding existing

774
00:31:07,407 --> 00:31:09,367
uncounted votes,
only the ones destroyed.

775
00:31:09,367 --> 00:31:11,995
Okay, and we're not waiting
for burned votes, so we call it.

776
00:31:11,995 --> 00:31:13,413
- No, I-- I think--
- ROMAN: Right?

777
00:31:13,413 --> 00:31:15,415
I think they have to
hold it again. No?

778
00:31:15,415 --> 00:31:16,749
Like, a-- a revote?

779
00:31:16,749 --> 00:31:20,253
DARWIN: Uh, I would say a revote
is incredibly rare and complex

780
00:31:20,253 --> 00:31:22,338
because, while we theoretically
know everyone

781
00:31:22,338 --> 00:31:23,881
who requested
an absentee ballot,

782
00:31:23,881 --> 00:31:26,426
we don't entirely know
how many turned them in,

783
00:31:26,426 --> 00:31:29,470
and there's nothing
in Wisconsin law

784
00:31:29,470 --> 00:31:31,097
that really covers
what to do.

785
00:31:31,097 --> 00:31:32,640
Exactly. You can't do it. Boom!

786
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,183
- Mencken. Thank you.
- DARWIN: But, of course,

787
00:31:34,183 --> 00:31:36,978
we think, um, we...
The team knows...

788
00:31:36,978 --> 00:31:38,813
We know how
the missing votes

789
00:31:38,813 --> 00:31:40,898
- would have broken down.
- ROMAN: What? They're gone.

790
00:31:40,898 --> 00:31:42,567
There's no way to know
what was on those ballots.

791
00:31:42,567 --> 00:31:45,612
- Well, we-- we do know.
Because in past elections...
- ROMAN: Mm, no.

792
00:31:45,612 --> 00:31:47,905
- Milwaukee overwhelmingly
votes Democrat.
- You know what might be on them,

793
00:31:47,905 --> 00:31:49,699
but you don't actually know.

794
00:31:49,699 --> 00:31:53,077
Sure. I just,
basically, do know.

795
00:31:53,077 --> 00:31:54,871
- We do know.
- ROMAN: Because you're
so plugged in,

796
00:31:54,871 --> 00:31:56,205
you know how all
the little peasants vote,

797
00:31:56,205 --> 00:31:57,498
what's in their hearts?
'Cause you don't know.

798
00:31:57,498 --> 00:31:59,125
Rome, come on. This is
the grown-ups table, be serious.

799
00:31:59,125 --> 00:32:01,002
This is serious.
Ballots get lost every election.

800
00:32:01,002 --> 00:32:02,420
You can't get
burnt ballots back.

801
00:32:02,420 --> 00:32:04,005
Bullshit. Just bullshit.

802
00:32:04,005 --> 00:32:05,381
- Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
- ROMAN: You're bullshit.
It's not bullshit.

803
00:32:05,381 --> 00:32:06,758
- Full of fucking bullshit.
- TOM: Shiv? Shiv?

804
00:32:06,758 --> 00:32:08,718
- What?
- You sound a little unhinged.

805
00:32:08,718 --> 00:32:10,011
You fucking watch it, Tom.

806
00:32:10,011 --> 00:32:11,429
- DARWIN: We do know.
- ROMAN: Okay, okay.

807
00:32:11,429 --> 00:32:14,515
There's no way to say in here
how people would have voted.

808
00:32:14,515 --> 00:32:15,892
I mean, you wanna
just run your model

809
00:32:15,892 --> 00:32:17,185
and not bother
with all the people?

810
00:32:17,185 --> 00:32:19,354
We're saying, historically,
people overwhelmingly--

811
00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:20,730
ROMAN: Historically,
people used to burn witches.

812
00:32:20,730 --> 00:32:22,398
- Are you saying
we should do that?
- What the fuck?

813
00:32:22,398 --> 00:32:24,484
"Burn witches"? Rome!
Look, we just know

814
00:32:24,484 --> 00:32:26,235
that the fire
would have destroyed

815
00:32:26,235 --> 00:32:27,737
a lot of Jimenez ballots.

816
00:32:27,737 --> 00:32:30,323
Oh, so, "Fire favors GOP,"
claims mad witch?

817
00:32:30,323 --> 00:32:33,159
- We just know.
- ROMAN: Okay. Well, we're not
gonna rerun the election,

818
00:32:33,159 --> 00:32:35,328
and if the Right
gets wrongly blamed for this,

819
00:32:35,328 --> 00:32:37,163
what would that do?
If the Left does?

820
00:32:37,163 --> 00:32:39,374
- Could get nasty.
- SHIV: Where are you going?

821
00:32:39,374 --> 00:32:41,542
I am going
to the bathroom to shit.

822
00:32:41,542 --> 00:32:43,336
Would you like me
to livestream it?

823
00:32:43,336 --> 00:32:45,546
HAMILTON: (ON TV)
<i>We're going to be in for
a dog fight, for a late night...</i>

824
00:32:45,546 --> 00:32:46,798
Ken, you wanna weigh in?

825
00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:48,383
SAMPINO:
<i>And Mark Ravenhead
has some thoughts</i>

826
00:32:48,383 --> 00:32:49,717
<i>about what we've been seeing
so far tonight...</i>

827
00:32:49,717 --> 00:32:53,262
- I just think it's hard.
- But we know. We just do.

828
00:32:53,262 --> 00:32:55,556
That if the lost votes
were counted,

829
00:32:55,556 --> 00:32:57,350
Jimenez would take the state.

830
00:32:57,350 --> 00:33:00,103
Mark is commenting directly,
ATN voice.

831
00:33:00,103 --> 00:33:02,271
<i>...professional politicos
who, time after time,</i>

832
00:33:02,271 --> 00:33:03,606
<i>come up with, isn't this funny,</i>

833
00:33:03,606 --> 00:33:08,361
<i>with polls which undercount
support for traditional values.</i>

834
00:33:08,361 --> 00:33:10,363
<i>So, yeah, maybe some
of the crazies</i>

835
00:33:10,363 --> 00:33:11,656
<i>heard they were underperforming</i>

836
00:33:11,656 --> 00:33:13,866
<i>and decided to stop the counting
and destroy the evidence.</i>

837
00:33:13,866 --> 00:33:16,661
<i>And so, yeah,
"You just stay quiet."</i>

838
00:33:16,661 --> 00:33:18,329
- Roman sent talking points.
- Oh.

839
00:33:18,329 --> 00:33:20,206
MARK RAVENHEAD:
<i>"We'll guess what we think
was on those ballots.</i>

840
00:33:20,206 --> 00:33:22,041
<i>- We'll decide," yeah?</i>
- KENDALL: Is he down there?

841
00:33:22,041 --> 00:33:23,626
- RAVENHEAD:
<i>They know best, right?</i>
- SHIV: Fuck's sake, Rome.

842
00:33:23,626 --> 00:33:25,002
<i>And you'll eat what's for dinner</i>

843
00:33:25,002 --> 00:33:26,587
<i>because they don't really care
for folks who answer back</i>

844
00:33:26,587 --> 00:33:28,089
<i>- or ask too many questions.</i>
- GREG: Should I...

845
00:33:28,089 --> 00:33:29,132
<i>Shut up!</i>

846
00:33:29,132 --> 00:33:30,883
<i>Innumerate residuum!</i>

847
00:33:30,883 --> 00:33:32,093
We'll figure it out,

848
00:33:32,093 --> 00:33:33,886
and issue you
with your new government

849
00:33:33,886 --> 00:33:36,681
to march into your homes
and take whatever we want

850
00:33:36,681 --> 00:33:38,766
in the way of your mechanisms
of self-defense,

851
00:33:38,766 --> 00:33:40,852
and tell your son
she's actually your daughter,

852
00:33:40,852 --> 00:33:42,478
or the other way around,
and then...

853
00:33:42,478 --> 00:33:44,939
GREG: Hey, Shiv, do you mind
actually not going on the floor?

854
00:33:44,939 --> 00:33:47,442
RAVENHEAD: "It's all
just peachy." Even though
it doesn't feel so peachy...

855
00:33:47,442 --> 00:33:49,402
- GREG: Shiv?
- RAVENHEAD: ...that you can't
go out at night,

856
00:33:49,402 --> 00:33:51,154
and the new president
is opening up his borders

857
00:33:51,154 --> 00:33:52,697
- to his friends, yeah...
- Bullshit.

858
00:33:52,697 --> 00:33:54,449
Bullshit, Roman, fuck you.

859
00:33:54,449 --> 00:33:57,243
It's obvious that we need to
be smarter than this,
better than this.

860
00:33:57,243 --> 00:33:58,953
We need a fucking
opposing viewpoint.

861
00:33:58,953 --> 00:34:02,081
- ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (ATN ANCHOR
SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

862
00:34:02,081 --> 00:34:04,250
GREG: Could you call security
for me?

863
00:34:05,877 --> 00:34:08,963
Sorry, you can't come down here.
It's-- it's not me, it's just...

864
00:34:08,963 --> 00:34:10,339
Hey, Lukas.

865
00:34:10,339 --> 00:34:11,966
What the fuck is going on?

866
00:34:11,966 --> 00:34:13,926
Uh, yeah,
great fucking question.

867
00:34:13,926 --> 00:34:15,136
ROMAN: Powerful commentary, huh?

868
00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:17,930
I don't feel good,
necessarily, about this, Rome.

869
00:34:17,930 --> 00:34:18,890
Shucks!

870
00:34:18,890 --> 00:34:20,683
(ATN ANCHOR
SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

871
00:34:20,683 --> 00:34:22,935
LUKAS:
<i>Is it okay? Do I need to hustle?</i>

872
00:34:22,935 --> 00:34:24,812
Do I need to get ready
to be cozy

873
00:34:24,812 --> 00:34:27,148
with this fucking Mr. Scary?

874
00:34:27,148 --> 00:34:28,900
No. No, I can handle.
I can handle it.

875
00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:30,985
Yeah, 'cause Greg tells me
it's getting kinda hairy
in there.

876
00:34:30,985 --> 00:34:31,986
SHIV: <i>Mm-hmm.</i>

877
00:34:31,986 --> 00:34:33,780
Don't let them break
my toy, Shiv, okay?

878
00:34:33,780 --> 00:34:36,783
No. All good. I'll be in touch.

879
00:34:36,783 --> 00:34:39,076
Sorry, we just need you
off the floor, if that's okay.

880
00:34:39,076 --> 00:34:40,119
Yeah, got a minute?

881
00:34:40,119 --> 00:34:42,705
RAVENHEAD: (LAUGHING)
And now, apparently,

882
00:34:42,705 --> 00:34:46,459
the Democrats are accusing
this fire of being biased.

883
00:34:46,459 --> 00:34:48,085
That's right. Yeah, that sounds

884
00:34:48,085 --> 00:34:50,004
pretty much something
out of their camp.

885
00:34:50,004 --> 00:34:52,173
"It only burnt
Democratic votes."

886
00:34:52,173 --> 00:34:53,633
Yeah? You know,
it's one of those--

887
00:34:53,633 --> 00:34:55,968
it's one of those picky fires.
(LAUGHS)

888
00:34:57,595 --> 00:34:59,222
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

889
00:34:59,222 --> 00:35:00,348
- Come on in.
- Yeah.

890
00:35:01,849 --> 00:35:04,894
- So...
- Yeah, just wanted to check in.

891
00:35:04,894 --> 00:35:08,648
- You know? It's been busy. So...
- Right. Yeah, on election day.

892
00:35:10,233 --> 00:35:11,359
SHIV: Yeah.

893
00:35:11,359 --> 00:35:15,404
Yeah. So, how was your night,
last night, with Lukas?

894
00:35:17,615 --> 00:35:20,535
Shiv, I... I went
for a drink with him.

895
00:35:20,535 --> 00:35:23,287
- That-- that's not my fault.
- SHIV: Uh-huh.

896
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,334
Do you find me
attractive, Gregory?

897
00:35:32,421 --> 00:35:36,050
I don't think of things
such as that.

898
00:35:36,050 --> 00:35:39,053
Oh. Oh, I thought you were
a "disgusting brother."

899
00:35:39,053 --> 00:35:41,597
Is that-- Was that
too disgusting for you?

900
00:35:42,598 --> 00:35:44,308
This is not appropriate.
(CHUCKLES)

901
00:35:45,768 --> 00:35:46,811
- It's...
- SHIV: Uh-huh.

902
00:35:48,187 --> 00:35:50,731
Yeah, I, uh... I'm...
Sorry, I don't--

903
00:35:50,731 --> 00:35:52,400
'Cause I'm just
letting you know...

904
00:35:53,568 --> 00:35:55,278
that if you try to fuck me...

905
00:35:56,445 --> 00:35:57,488
I'll kill you.

906
00:36:00,032 --> 00:36:01,284
- Mm-hmm?
- Mm-hmm, got it.

907
00:36:02,869 --> 00:36:04,370
Got it. Sorry, yeah.

908
00:36:06,122 --> 00:36:08,708
I guess my-- my only question...

909
00:36:10,126 --> 00:36:13,045
would be, if--
if anything did come to pass,

910
00:36:13,045 --> 00:36:15,590
in terms of you and he...

911
00:36:17,383 --> 00:36:20,136
- you know, silence is golden.
- SHIV: Hmm.

912
00:36:22,388 --> 00:36:24,223
Like how golden?

913
00:36:24,223 --> 00:36:26,434
- SHIV: Uh-huh.
- GREG: Is there an offer?

914
00:36:27,268 --> 00:36:30,313
Yeah. Uh, yeah.

915
00:36:30,313 --> 00:36:32,565
How about I offer for you
to keep all your internal organs

916
00:36:32,565 --> 00:36:35,151
on your insides, rather than
I pull them out your asshole?

917
00:36:35,151 --> 00:36:37,486
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

918
00:36:37,486 --> 00:36:39,989
- (DOOR OPENS)
- SHIV: Go on. You're lumber.

919
00:36:41,115 --> 00:36:42,408
Keep your snout out.

920
00:36:46,162 --> 00:36:49,582
<i>Simultaneously destroying
diversity of opinion</i>

921
00:36:49,582 --> 00:36:51,208
<i>- wherever possible...</i>
- (DOOR OPENING)

922
00:36:52,418 --> 00:36:53,461
Hey, guess what?

923
00:36:55,171 --> 00:36:57,298
Mencken will block the deal.
(CHUCKLES)

924
00:36:57,298 --> 00:36:58,382
Straight up. He'll kill it.

925
00:36:58,382 --> 00:37:00,301
If he wins,
he'll refer it to FTC.

926
00:37:00,301 --> 00:37:02,219
Whatever, new law,
foreign ownership tightening.

927
00:37:02,219 --> 00:37:04,680
Whatever, he'll screw it up.
In exchange...

928
00:37:05,932 --> 00:37:07,099
for our support tonight.

929
00:37:07,099 --> 00:37:11,479
- In, like-- in so many words?
- In those words.

930
00:37:11,479 --> 00:37:13,814
Shall I get Tom?
Shall I get the human abacus?

931
00:37:13,814 --> 00:37:15,608
Shall I? Let's do it.

932
00:37:17,026 --> 00:37:18,069
This is good news.

933
00:37:19,862 --> 00:37:23,074
♪ (NEWS THEME PLAYING ON TV) ♪

934
00:37:24,367 --> 00:37:25,368
ROMAN: Hey, hey.

935
00:37:25,368 --> 00:37:27,453
- TOM: Hey.
- So, uh, thanks for, uh...

936
00:37:27,453 --> 00:37:29,747
Whatever.
Uh, we have the votes. So...

937
00:37:30,331 --> 00:37:31,582
Can't rerun fairly

938
00:37:31,582 --> 00:37:34,961
and can't let lefty terrorism
affect us, so let's call it.

939
00:37:34,961 --> 00:37:38,714
On what precedent?
By-- by what authority?

940
00:37:38,714 --> 00:37:41,842
Uh, by the power of me,
the CEO of Waystar,

941
00:37:41,842 --> 00:37:44,136
telling you what to put on
the telly-box mouth-people.

942
00:37:44,136 --> 00:37:45,763
DARWIN: Uh... (CHUCKLES)

943
00:37:45,763 --> 00:37:47,807
I don't think
we can do that, guys.

944
00:37:47,807 --> 00:37:49,266
I think we can do it, Dar.

945
00:37:49,266 --> 00:37:52,019
If we call it,
and the-- the-- the others

946
00:37:52,019 --> 00:37:53,354
- went his way--
- ROMAN: Right, well, look.

947
00:37:53,354 --> 00:37:54,897
There are still
outstanding states.

948
00:37:54,897 --> 00:37:57,316
There's Michigan,
Ohio, Georgia, Arizona.

949
00:37:57,316 --> 00:37:58,985
It's really not that big a deal.
It's one state.

950
00:37:58,985 --> 00:38:00,611
I'm worried it's not a decision

951
00:38:00,611 --> 00:38:03,447
- that I could necessarily--
- ROMAN: Uh-huh. Yeah, thank you.

952
00:38:03,447 --> 00:38:05,157
And everyone
respects you, Darwin,

953
00:38:05,157 --> 00:38:07,118
but this isn't actually
a numbers thing.

954
00:38:07,118 --> 00:38:09,245
I mean, the Wisconsin
Elections Commission,

955
00:38:09,245 --> 00:38:11,038
the Milwaukee
Election Commission

956
00:38:11,038 --> 00:38:14,250
will go to court and the camps
will litigate it.

957
00:38:14,250 --> 00:38:16,377
- ROMAN: Mm-hmm.
- And it'll be
a jurisdiction fight

958
00:38:16,377 --> 00:38:17,712
that I think Mencken
might shade,

959
00:38:17,712 --> 00:38:20,381
- but, you know, we can't--
- Yeah, that's-- that's great.

960
00:38:20,381 --> 00:38:23,634
Uh, but I'm just gonna say
we're good and that's on me.

961
00:38:23,634 --> 00:38:25,845
The votes that exist
have been tallied,

962
00:38:25,845 --> 00:38:27,221
and that gives Mencken
the state.

963
00:38:27,221 --> 00:38:30,016
But you don't-- you don't
make the call. I make the call.

964
00:38:30,016 --> 00:38:31,517
We're gonna make
the call together, Tom--

965
00:38:31,517 --> 00:38:33,769
You can't make the call
until I make the call.

966
00:38:33,769 --> 00:38:35,896
ROMAN: Okay. So-- and I'm not
gonna make you do anything.

967
00:38:35,896 --> 00:38:37,440
This is the situation
in Wisconsin.

968
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,193
How would you feel if we were
to not "call it" call it,

969
00:38:41,193 --> 00:38:42,319
but, um...

970
00:38:42,319 --> 00:38:45,114
TOM: Like, pending.
We could call it pending.

971
00:38:45,114 --> 00:38:46,365
ROMAN:
You could even explain it.

972
00:38:46,365 --> 00:38:49,035
We can get a camera on you
to explain it to people.

973
00:38:49,035 --> 00:38:51,829
{\an8}PGN ANCHOR: <i>We had a number
of Jimenez campaign surrogates
over the last week,</i>

974
00:38:51,829 --> 00:38:54,206
{\an8}<i>sounding the alarm
about the lack of turnout</i>

975
00:38:54,206 --> 00:38:56,792
{\an8}<i>- of Black and Latino voters...</i>
- I could explain.

976
00:38:58,002 --> 00:39:01,714
And could there be a graphic
that makes it clear

977
00:39:01,714 --> 00:39:03,424
the call isn't a...

978
00:39:05,217 --> 00:39:06,177
"call" call?

979
00:39:06,177 --> 00:39:07,720
"Pending call."

980
00:39:09,513 --> 00:39:10,890
DARWIN: Okay, okay.

981
00:39:11,515 --> 00:39:12,933
- Uh...
- Mm! Sorry.

982
00:39:12,933 --> 00:39:14,060
DARWIN: (SOFTLY) Okay.

983
00:39:14,894 --> 00:39:16,479
- All right, so...
- ROMAN: Yeah?

984
00:39:16,479 --> 00:39:18,147
- DARWIN: Okay.
- ROMAN: Satisfied, fucky fucks?

985
00:39:18,147 --> 00:39:19,106
- Okay.
- Soon as we can.

986
00:39:19,106 --> 00:39:21,275
- ROMAN: Great.
- Uh... (EXHALES HEAVILY)

987
00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:24,320
- What's up?
- (GROANS)

988
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,405
- ROMAN: You okay? What?
- (DARWIN GROANS)

989
00:39:26,405 --> 00:39:28,574
There's something
in my eyes. Um...

990
00:39:28,574 --> 00:39:32,286
- (INHALES SHARPLY, GROANS)
- TOM: Greg? Wasabi.

991
00:39:32,286 --> 00:39:35,247
Is it wasabi?
There's wasabi in my eyes?

992
00:39:35,247 --> 00:39:37,249
- I've got wasabi in my eyes?
- ROMAN: Oh, Jesus.

993
00:39:37,249 --> 00:39:38,459
Wait, wait, wait, hold on.

994
00:39:38,459 --> 00:39:41,045
(DARWIN MOANS IN PAIN)

995
00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:42,838
No, it's gone more in.
It's gone more in.

996
00:39:42,838 --> 00:39:44,215
- What's going on?
- It's on my fingers.

997
00:39:44,215 --> 00:39:45,758
- SHIV: What's going on?
- (OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

998
00:39:45,758 --> 00:39:47,510
- What did you do to him?
- (GROANS) It stings!

999
00:39:47,510 --> 00:39:50,096
- GREG: What?
- TOM: Get some water
or something, Greg!

1000
00:39:50,096 --> 00:39:51,639
(GROANS) Holy mother!
Mother of God.

1001
00:39:51,639 --> 00:39:53,766
- Fuck me slowly, this smarts.
- GREG: Okay.

1002
00:39:53,766 --> 00:39:55,893
Quick Greg, put water in it.
Put water in--

1003
00:39:55,893 --> 00:39:57,103
(GROANS)

1004
00:39:57,103 --> 00:39:59,063
- It's washing it in!
- TOM: That's lemon!

1005
00:39:59,063 --> 00:40:00,356
It's lemon, Greg!

1006
00:40:00,356 --> 00:40:02,775
- That's clear. It's La Croix!
- Jesus! Fuck, Greg.

1007
00:40:02,775 --> 00:40:04,276
- What are you doing?
- ROMAN: Oh, come on.

1008
00:40:04,276 --> 00:40:06,529
- It's lemony, Greg. It's lemony!
- GREG: It's La Croix!

1009
00:40:06,529 --> 00:40:08,155
Jesus H. Christ!

1010
00:40:08,155 --> 00:40:09,907
- GREG: No, it's natural!
Like, medical!
- TOM: Get some tissues, man.

1011
00:40:09,907 --> 00:40:12,159
DARWIN: (GROANS)
Give it to me. Oh, my God.

1012
00:40:12,159 --> 00:40:14,954
It's not that lemony!
It's just a hint of lemon.

1013
00:40:14,954 --> 00:40:17,289
- Darwin? You good to call it?
- (PANTING)

1014
00:40:17,289 --> 00:40:19,125
He can't fucking call it, Rome.

1015
00:40:19,125 --> 00:40:20,501
{\an8}We're calling it, Shiv.

1016
00:40:20,501 --> 00:40:22,753
{\an8}- He just called it, okay?
- ROMAN: Great. Thanks.

1017
00:40:22,753 --> 00:40:26,465
Greg, do not put
any more lemon water,

1018
00:40:26,465 --> 00:40:28,926
or wasabi, in his eyes, okay?

1019
00:40:30,094 --> 00:40:33,305
(WILLA AND CONNOR
TALKING QUIETLY)

1020
00:40:33,305 --> 00:40:35,349
Hey, Con, you shouldn't
really be in here.

1021
00:40:35,349 --> 00:40:37,268
And a very good evening
to you, too.

1022
00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:39,895
- Hey! <i>Presidente.</i> Sike!
- CONNOR: Rome.
Sweetheart. One sec.

1023
00:40:39,895 --> 00:40:41,730
Would you wait over here
for me a second, baby?

1024
00:40:41,730 --> 00:40:43,816
- Uh, sure.
- Fellas, would you wait
over here for me a second?

1025
00:40:43,816 --> 00:40:45,651
- Yeah. Yep? Mm-hmm?
- Rome. One thought.

1026
00:40:45,651 --> 00:40:47,236
How about I concede

1027
00:40:48,028 --> 00:40:49,864
in his direction?

1028
00:40:49,864 --> 00:40:52,533
I scratch his balls,
he scratches mine?

1029
00:40:52,533 --> 00:40:55,161
That's interesting.
Uh, perhaps-ish.

1030
00:40:55,161 --> 00:40:57,413
- Let me check on that, yeah.
- CONNOR: "Perhaps-ish"?

1031
00:40:57,413 --> 00:40:58,914
- Perhaps-ish, yeah. Come on.
- I'm coming.

1032
00:40:58,914 --> 00:41:00,749
- ANCHOR: (ON TV) <i>Seventeen
electoral votes...</i>
- TOM: Pam?

1033
00:41:00,749 --> 00:41:02,960
We're calling, uh, Wisconsin
for Mencken.

1034
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:03,919
Get the graphics up.

1035
00:41:03,919 --> 00:41:05,129
Dave, let them know
we're five out

1036
00:41:05,129 --> 00:41:06,714
- from calling Wisconsin.
- All right.

1037
00:41:06,714 --> 00:41:08,382
We are calling Wisconsin
for Mencken.

1038
00:41:08,382 --> 00:41:09,884
Five minutes.
Is that graphic ready?

1039
00:41:09,884 --> 00:41:12,595
<i>There is a big ol' call
to make right now,</i>

1040
00:41:12,595 --> 00:41:15,723
<i>and that is ATN is projecting
that Jeryd Mencken</i>

1041
00:41:15,723 --> 00:41:17,766
<i>- has won the state of Wisconsin.
- ♪</i> (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

1042
00:41:17,766 --> 00:41:19,894
SAMPINO: <i>You know, we've been
reporting on that fire</i>

1043
00:41:19,894 --> 00:41:22,021
<i>in the Milwaukee
vote count center.</i>

1044
00:41:22,021 --> 00:41:23,647
<i>Nonetheless, our decision desk</i>

1045
00:41:23,647 --> 00:41:26,192
<i>is confident
in making this call.</i>

1046
00:41:26,192 --> 00:41:29,236
<i>Jeryd Mencken has won
the state of Wisconsin,</i>

1047
00:41:29,236 --> 00:41:32,865
<i>and there goes the blue wall.
That's ten electoral votes, that</i>

1048
00:41:32,865 --> 00:41:35,826
<i>- brings Mencken up to 246...</i>
- (CELL PHONE VIBRATES)

1049
00:41:35,826 --> 00:41:39,038
Okay, man. Okay.
There's something there.

1050
00:41:39,038 --> 00:41:41,373
Sordid backseat fuck job.

1051
00:41:41,373 --> 00:41:43,417
CONNOR: Oh, tell me more.

1052
00:41:43,417 --> 00:41:45,044
ROMAN: He wants
to keep up the momentum.

1053
00:41:45,044 --> 00:41:48,297
ATN ANCHOR: <i>Jeryd Mencken
is now 24 electoral votes away</i>

1054
00:41:48,297 --> 00:41:50,007
<i>from winning the presidency.</i>

1055
00:41:50,007 --> 00:41:51,258
Do you really wanna?

1056
00:41:51,926 --> 00:41:53,302
Slovenia, Willa.

1057
00:41:54,386 --> 00:41:55,387
Mm-hmm.

1058
00:41:57,348 --> 00:42:01,268
I mean, I am torn,
and he's very, uh, right-wing.

1059
00:42:03,604 --> 00:42:08,359
But Vienna for lunch,
Venice for dinner.

1060
00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:10,444
And Dubrovnik for breakfast.

1061
00:42:11,445 --> 00:42:13,030
CONNOR: (ON TV)
<i>My fellow Americans,</i>

1062
00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:16,742
<i>it's becoming clear tonight,
that as far as we can tell,</i>

1063
00:42:16,742 --> 00:42:18,535
<i>Mr. Jeryd Mencken will likely be</i>

1064
00:42:18,535 --> 00:42:20,704
<i>the next president
of the United States.</i>

1065
00:42:20,704 --> 00:42:22,623
- KARL MULLER: Yes.
- HUGO BAKER: Mm-hmm.

1066
00:42:22,623 --> 00:42:24,541
<i>- And I, for one, wish him well.</i>
- Connor was running
for president?

1067
00:42:24,541 --> 00:42:27,378
- (LAUGHTER)
- CONNOR: <i>For although I set out
a clear and compelling path...</i>

1068
00:42:27,378 --> 00:42:30,130
- KARL: Okay, all right.
- CONNOR: <i>...America,
in her divine wisdom,</i>

1069
00:42:30,130 --> 00:42:31,924
has chosen to take another.

1070
00:42:32,925 --> 00:42:35,803
Well, good luck. And...

1071
00:42:35,803 --> 00:42:37,554
<i>I'd like to say
to my first running mate,</i>

1072
00:42:37,554 --> 00:42:39,807
<i>who I will not dignify
with a name-check,</i>

1073
00:42:39,807 --> 00:42:43,185
<i>but had that woman
not dropped out,</i>

1074
00:42:43,185 --> 00:42:45,479
<i>and then had I not
had to replace her</i>

1075
00:42:45,479 --> 00:42:46,647
<i>with another figure,</i>

1076
00:42:46,647 --> 00:42:48,440
<i>who turned out not to be able
to bear the weight</i>

1077
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:49,692
<i>of public scrutiny,</i>

1078
00:42:49,692 --> 00:42:53,696
<i>had I not been betrayed
by those two jackrabbits,</i>

1079
00:42:54,238 --> 00:42:55,823
<i>who knows?</i>

1080
00:42:55,823 --> 00:42:59,618
<i>Politics of envy. Ugly game.</i>

1081
00:43:00,369 --> 00:43:02,079
<i>I happen to be a billionaire.</i>

1082
00:43:02,871 --> 00:43:04,498
<i>Sorry.</i>

1083
00:43:04,498 --> 00:43:06,750
<i>But honestly, America,
you flunked it.</i>

1084
00:43:06,750 --> 00:43:08,335
<i>I guess
you're gonna have to find</i>

1085
00:43:08,335 --> 00:43:11,547
<i>some other poor mook's paps
to suckle on.</i>

1086
00:43:11,547 --> 00:43:12,965
- Okay.
<i>- The corrupt bipartisan</i>

1087
00:43:12,965 --> 00:43:15,551
<i>- system zombie marches on.</i>
- All right.

1088
00:43:15,551 --> 00:43:17,511
And so I call out
to my friends tonight,

1089
00:43:17,511 --> 00:43:18,679
to my people.

1090
00:43:18,679 --> 00:43:22,766
I say, Conheads, I salute you.
And, America, be afraid.

1091
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:24,643
Be warned...

1092
00:43:25,602 --> 00:43:27,313
for the Conheads are coming.

1093
00:43:27,313 --> 00:43:29,898
Thank you. God bless America.

1094
00:43:29,898 --> 00:43:32,318
<i>ATN decision desk
is now projecting</i>

1095
00:43:32,318 --> 00:43:34,862
<i>Daniel Jimenez
has won the state of Michigan</i>

1096
00:43:34,862 --> 00:43:36,822
<i>- over Jeryd Mencken.</i>
- Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

1097
00:43:36,822 --> 00:43:39,491
<i>That's 15 electoral votes.
Our tally now goes...</i>

1098
00:43:39,491 --> 00:43:41,035
<i>- Are you ready for this?</i>
- All right, all right.

1099
00:43:41,035 --> 00:43:42,870
<i>Two-hundred-and-sixty-two
for Mencken,</i>

1100
00:43:42,870 --> 00:43:47,166
<i>- and 262 for Daniel Jimenez.</i>
- HAMILTON: <i>A dead heat.</i>

1101
00:43:47,166 --> 00:43:48,959
SAMPINO: <i>Polls will be
closing soon in Alaska,</i>

1102
00:43:48,959 --> 00:43:52,463
<i>the only state yet to be called
other than Arizona</i>

1103
00:43:52,463 --> 00:43:54,465
<i>and its 11 electoral votes.</i>

1104
00:43:54,465 --> 00:43:56,467
LEVINGS: <i>Let's maybe go harass
the decision desk about what's</i>

1105
00:43:56,467 --> 00:43:58,719
<i>- taking so long for Arizona.</i>
- Guys. Uh, just a heads-up.

1106
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,138
We hear... We are getting it
from the campaigns

1107
00:44:01,138 --> 00:44:02,681
that the data nerds

1108
00:44:02,681 --> 00:44:06,226
are hearing that...
Well, Dar, you say.

1109
00:44:06,226 --> 00:44:09,563
So, uh, Arizona is gonna go red.

1110
00:44:09,563 --> 00:44:10,856
ROMAN: All right,
well then that's, uh...

1111
00:44:10,856 --> 00:44:12,900
- That would be it, right?
- I mean, we're--

1112
00:44:12,900 --> 00:44:16,236
we're kind of boxed in,
uh, because of Wisconsin.

1113
00:44:16,236 --> 00:44:18,530
Uh, I mean, I-- I don't
feel comfortable calling it.

1114
00:44:18,530 --> 00:44:20,616
I mean, PGN is gonna be
calling it. Right, Tom?

1115
00:44:20,616 --> 00:44:22,534
- TOM: Yeah...
- ROMAN: I mean,
they're going to call Arizona.

1116
00:44:22,534 --> 00:44:25,621
Because if we call it,
because of Wisconsin, we...

1117
00:44:25,621 --> 00:44:27,539
we called Wisconsin
"pending," so--

1118
00:44:27,539 --> 00:44:29,958
Yeah, we already
called Wisconsin, okay?

1119
00:44:29,958 --> 00:44:31,585
We can't
un-call Wisconsin, can we?

1120
00:44:31,585 --> 00:44:33,921
That would make us all look
pretty unprofessional.

1121
00:44:33,921 --> 00:44:36,632
So, Arizona?

1122
00:44:36,632 --> 00:44:39,968
- We're calling the election?
- Yeah.

1123
00:44:39,968 --> 00:44:41,095
- KENDALL: No, no.
- No?

1124
00:44:41,095 --> 00:44:42,429
- No.
- ROMAN: It's math, dude.

1125
00:44:42,429 --> 00:44:43,889
Tom, will you guys give us
a minute, please?

1126
00:44:43,889 --> 00:44:45,766
- Fuck. (CHUCKLES)
- TOM: Sure, okay.

1127
00:44:45,766 --> 00:44:48,143
ROMAN: One minute.
Be back in one minute, please.

1128
00:44:48,143 --> 00:44:49,770
- What?
- (DOOR CLOSES)

1129
00:44:49,770 --> 00:44:51,480
- That's it. That's it.
- KENDALL: I don't know, Rome.

1130
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,148
Like, maybe-- maybe we...

1131
00:44:54,775 --> 00:44:56,151
revisit Wisconsin.

1132
00:44:56,151 --> 00:44:57,903
- Okay. (CHUCKLES)
- KENDALL: Because, yeah, we...
I mean, we...

1133
00:44:57,903 --> 00:45:00,614
- That was... kind of...
- Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1134
00:45:00,614 --> 00:45:01,740
- Right?
- Okay, I get it.

1135
00:45:01,740 --> 00:45:03,492
No, you're gonna, like,
big brother it right now.

1136
00:45:03,492 --> 00:45:05,202
- That's what you're gonna do?
- No.

1137
00:45:05,202 --> 00:45:06,745
- Like what?
- Oh, like when, you know,

1138
00:45:06,745 --> 00:45:08,580
if you want roast chicken
and I wanted steak,

1139
00:45:08,580 --> 00:45:09,998
we always had chicken.

1140
00:45:09,998 --> 00:45:12,668
Because you'd-- you'd freak out.
You'd tantrum.

1141
00:45:12,668 --> 00:45:14,920
- So they thought--
- I would fucking tantrum

1142
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:16,672
because I never had
fucking steak.

1143
00:45:16,672 --> 00:45:19,883
Well, I think
they got scared if...

1144
00:45:19,883 --> 00:45:22,177
you know, if you tantrumed,
then you'd think you'd won,

1145
00:45:22,177 --> 00:45:23,637
- so they couldn't let you--
- I never won.

1146
00:45:23,637 --> 00:45:24,888
It was always fucking chicken.

1147
00:45:24,888 --> 00:45:26,473
So, because we had so much
chicken when we were kids,

1148
00:45:26,473 --> 00:45:29,560
- I have to like the fascist?
- Yeah. (CHUCKLES)

1149
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:30,811
If we don't call it early

1150
00:45:30,811 --> 00:45:32,771
and he wins anyway,
which is perfectly possible,

1151
00:45:32,771 --> 00:45:35,149
but without us tonight?
Think about that.

1152
00:45:35,149 --> 00:45:37,025
With FVA and VeraNews
backing him,

1153
00:45:37,025 --> 00:45:39,403
we're left the most
dickless eunuchs in cuck town.

1154
00:45:39,403 --> 00:45:41,405
- We call it? We call this?
- ROMAN: Mm-hmm.

1155
00:45:41,405 --> 00:45:43,282
- KENDALL: If we push it...
- Yeah?

1156
00:45:43,282 --> 00:45:44,491
...maybe it happens.

1157
00:45:44,491 --> 00:45:46,827
Yeah. We give it to Mencken,
Mencken blocks the deal.

1158
00:45:46,827 --> 00:45:48,537
He's not fucking wishy-washy.
He's a guy.

1159
00:45:48,537 --> 00:45:50,456
(SIGHS) I don't know, dude.
I mean...

1160
00:45:50,456 --> 00:45:54,334
ANCHOR (ON TV): <i>Exactly.
All of the mainstream media.
All of the Democrats...</i>

1161
00:45:54,334 --> 00:45:55,419
My kids.

1162
00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:58,255
- The whole thing.
- "Oh, America! Oh."

1163
00:45:58,255 --> 00:46:01,967
Well, I mean, it is kind of
a nice idea, you know?

1164
00:46:01,967 --> 00:46:03,552
All the different people together.

1165
00:46:03,552 --> 00:46:07,681
(CHUCKLES) What? All right.
What-- what would Dad do?

1166
00:46:07,681 --> 00:46:09,558
- Oh, come on.
- I don't know.
I don't actually know.

1167
00:46:09,558 --> 00:46:10,851
Yes, you fucking do, man!

1168
00:46:10,851 --> 00:46:11,852
The guy in the pocket.

1169
00:46:11,852 --> 00:46:12,936
The guy that's gonna answer
our calls.

1170
00:46:12,936 --> 00:46:15,147
The fucking guy
printing US dollars.

1171
00:46:15,147 --> 00:46:16,482
This is all upside.

1172
00:46:16,482 --> 00:46:18,609
Apart from the matter of him
smashing the country to pieces.

1173
00:46:18,609 --> 00:46:20,819
Oh, God! Don't be
such a fucking prissy...

1174
00:46:20,819 --> 00:46:23,030
Okay, maybe we could deal
with a dose of that, right?

1175
00:46:23,030 --> 00:46:24,865
Like a nice little dose
of the frighteners?

1176
00:46:24,865 --> 00:46:26,074
Wind shit back 20?

1177
00:46:26,074 --> 00:46:28,702
You know one of those fucking
guys pushed my daughter.

1178
00:46:28,702 --> 00:46:31,121
- Uh, she's okay?
- If we do this...

1179
00:46:33,332 --> 00:46:34,750
people...
people are gonna say shit.

1180
00:46:34,750 --> 00:46:37,461
Yeah. We'll be in the West Wing.
Nothing matters, Ken.

1181
00:46:37,461 --> 00:46:39,296
Nothing fucking matters.
Dad's dead,

1182
00:46:39,296 --> 00:46:41,381
and the country's
just a big pussy

1183
00:46:41,381 --> 00:46:42,591
waiting to get fucked.

1184
00:46:43,383 --> 00:46:44,218
(LAUGHS)

1185
00:46:44,218 --> 00:46:46,178
Fucking... (CLAPS HANDS)
...action, okay?

1186
00:46:46,178 --> 00:46:47,387
We can pay for any damages.

1187
00:46:47,387 --> 00:46:49,973
Let's just jam our fuckin' heads
in the bosom of history

1188
00:46:49,973 --> 00:46:51,892
and just... (GOBBLES)

1189
00:46:51,892 --> 00:46:54,394
Right? I mean...
Or, we sit on our hands

1190
00:46:54,394 --> 00:46:56,146
like a couple
of damsels in distress,

1191
00:46:56,146 --> 00:46:59,107
and, you know,
watch our chance slip away.

1192
00:46:59,107 --> 00:47:02,444
PGN ANCHOR: <i>PGN has
a major projection to announce,</i>

1193
00:47:02,444 --> 00:47:05,280
<i>and that is that Jeryd Mencken
will win Arizona.</i>

1194
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,033
<i>So, he is the winner
of 11 electoral votes</i>

1195
00:47:08,033 --> 00:47:09,368
<i>- in Arizona...</i>
- (KNOCKING ON DOOR)

1196
00:47:09,368 --> 00:47:11,453
- SHIV: Hey.
- KENDALL: Hey.

1197
00:47:11,453 --> 00:47:13,830
- Can we talk for a minute?
- (TV AUDIO MUTES)

1198
00:47:13,830 --> 00:47:17,918
Yeah. We're fucked, Ken.
We're fucked.

1199
00:47:17,918 --> 00:47:19,294
Because we called, it's fucked.

1200
00:47:19,294 --> 00:47:21,838
I don't know what we should do.
I feel like my head is just...

1201
00:47:21,838 --> 00:47:23,799
I-- I can't-- I can't, uh...

1202
00:47:25,133 --> 00:47:27,177
get the scale of it,
what this is.

1203
00:47:27,177 --> 00:47:28,929
I mean, we can recant, yeah?

1204
00:47:28,929 --> 00:47:33,475
His team is being very direct.
They will block Matsson's deal.

1205
00:47:34,393 --> 00:47:35,936
Uh, well, he says he will.

1206
00:47:35,936 --> 00:47:38,063
We call it for him,
that gives him legitimacy

1207
00:47:38,063 --> 00:47:39,064
to declare.

1208
00:47:39,064 --> 00:47:41,483
I mean, we're in bed
with him, I think, yeah?

1209
00:47:41,483 --> 00:47:42,776
Yeah, I...

1210
00:47:42,776 --> 00:47:45,654
I mean, it'll get ground out
in the courts, whatever we say.

1211
00:47:46,321 --> 00:47:48,031
Sure, right. But...

1212
00:47:48,031 --> 00:47:49,950
Yeah, look, shall we be...

1213
00:47:51,368 --> 00:47:54,246
- totally honest in here?
- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

1214
00:47:54,246 --> 00:47:56,456
KENDALL: (SIGHS)
I have sometimes felt

1215
00:47:56,456 --> 00:47:58,500
like I could do it.

1216
00:47:58,500 --> 00:48:01,378
You know, like,
I should do it. Me.

1217
00:48:01,378 --> 00:48:03,213
- Uh-huh.
- KENDALL: Just me.

1218
00:48:04,590 --> 00:48:06,508
But I don't want that
to be an end

1219
00:48:06,508 --> 00:48:09,970
to the...
the family thing, right?

1220
00:48:09,970 --> 00:48:12,055
I would just-- I would like
to be able to talk...

1221
00:48:12,931 --> 00:48:15,934
openly about
that feeling, maybe.

1222
00:48:17,060 --> 00:48:19,605
Sure. Yeah, no, I appreciate--
I appreciate that.

1223
00:48:19,605 --> 00:48:23,191
Mencken is kinda Roman's guy,
so that's complicated.

1224
00:48:23,191 --> 00:48:26,987
- Yeah, right.
- And, honestly, I feel...

1225
00:48:26,987 --> 00:48:29,573
threatened, maybe,
by their relationship, and...

1226
00:48:30,198 --> 00:48:31,575
So I want...

1227
00:48:31,575 --> 00:48:33,619
A piece of me wants
to not support that,

1228
00:48:33,619 --> 00:48:36,872
and that's maybe in there,
pulling away from Mencken.

1229
00:48:37,247 --> 00:48:38,248
Uh-huh.

1230
00:48:40,375 --> 00:48:45,130
- But also, you're a good guy.
- Well, I don't know.

1231
00:48:45,130 --> 00:48:47,341
- SHIV: Sure. You are.
- Thank you.

1232
00:48:47,341 --> 00:48:49,551
- I don't know.
- SHIV: No, essentially, you're--

1233
00:48:49,551 --> 00:48:50,844
you're a good guy.

1234
00:48:56,141 --> 00:48:59,144
But we-- we all
wanna stop Matsson, right?

1235
00:48:59,144 --> 00:49:01,980
- That's the thing?
- Mm-hmm.

1236
00:49:03,899 --> 00:49:04,900
Yeah.

1237
00:49:05,859 --> 00:49:06,943
Go-- go on.

1238
00:49:06,943 --> 00:49:09,529
Uh, well, I think whatever...

1239
00:49:11,031 --> 00:49:14,326
Whatever advantage to us as--
as-- as corporate players

1240
00:49:14,326 --> 00:49:15,535
in the short term...

1241
00:49:17,037 --> 00:49:18,997
You know... (SIGHS)

1242
00:49:18,997 --> 00:49:22,793
He's...
Mencken's the nightmare, yeah?

1243
00:49:23,627 --> 00:49:25,587
Plausible in a decadent era.

1244
00:49:25,587 --> 00:49:28,674
He says the bad shit,
he believes the bad shit.

1245
00:49:28,674 --> 00:49:30,967
We wouldn't actually
be making him president.

1246
00:49:30,967 --> 00:49:33,470
Oh, sure. We might not be able
to crown him, but we can--

1247
00:49:33,470 --> 00:49:35,222
we can stop him.

1248
00:49:35,222 --> 00:49:37,974
He gets momentum tonight,
it makes it possible.

1249
00:49:38,767 --> 00:49:40,560
He needs our call.

1250
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:44,272
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

1251
00:49:50,362 --> 00:49:52,406
I don't think
I'm a very good father.

1252
00:49:54,408 --> 00:49:58,912
You are. You're--
No, you're okay.

1253
00:49:58,912 --> 00:50:03,041
You've tried.
That's all we can do.

1254
00:50:03,041 --> 00:50:08,380
- Maybe the poison drips through.
- No. No. And you know what?

1255
00:50:08,380 --> 00:50:10,632
I don't think even Dad
would back him tonight.

1256
00:50:10,632 --> 00:50:13,760
- He basically picked him.
- Sure, but we throw the papers

1257
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:15,095
and the whole thing in for him?

1258
00:50:15,095 --> 00:50:17,389
And then in a-- in a month,
a week from now,

1259
00:50:17,389 --> 00:50:18,640
the courts go the other way?

1260
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:20,684
It's-- We're essentially done
as a news organization.

1261
00:50:20,684 --> 00:50:22,519
It's just hard to think

1262
00:50:22,519 --> 00:50:24,396
we'd give it all away
to Matsson.

1263
00:50:27,566 --> 00:50:31,570
Could we try?
Could you try once?

1264
00:50:31,570 --> 00:50:35,615
Direct to Nate, to get something
from them to block the deal?

1265
00:50:36,283 --> 00:50:38,452
Uh... yeah.

1266
00:50:40,954 --> 00:50:43,248
- Yeah.
- SHIV: Sure.

1267
00:50:45,125 --> 00:50:47,043
- One of these?
- Yeah.

1268
00:50:49,629 --> 00:50:50,672
You're a good guy.

1269
00:50:53,216 --> 00:50:54,217
Okay, yeah.

1270
00:50:57,053 --> 00:51:00,474
♪ (GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

1271
00:51:10,776 --> 00:51:12,277
(MUFFLED) Hey, Nate.

1272
00:51:12,277 --> 00:51:16,072
Yeah, just calling
with a quick, uh, check-in.

1273
00:51:18,033 --> 00:51:20,327
- Uh, yeah.
- AUTOMATED VOICE: <i>We're sorry.
The number you have reached...</i>

1274
00:51:20,327 --> 00:51:22,537
- SHIV: To be honest,
just wondering if Jimenez...
<i>- ...is not in service.</i>

1275
00:51:22,537 --> 00:51:25,457
<i>- Please check the number,
or try your call again.</i>
- SHIV: I don't know, could he...

1276
00:51:25,457 --> 00:51:27,250
♪ (NEWS THEME PLAYING ON TV) ♪

1277
00:51:27,250 --> 00:51:30,170
- So, um...
- PGN ANCHOR: <i>Mencken now
stands at 265...</i>

1278
00:51:30,170 --> 00:51:32,798
Yeah, Shiv's seeing
what we can get from the Dems.

1279
00:51:32,798 --> 00:51:34,508
Oh, get the fuck out of here.

1280
00:51:34,508 --> 00:51:37,093
- Why? We got it.
- I really need to know
what we're doing, guys.

1281
00:51:37,093 --> 00:51:38,845
If we're gonna stick
with Wisconsin--

1282
00:51:38,845 --> 00:51:41,723
- Okay, one moment.
One moment, Tom. One moment.
- ROMAN: We're gonna stick-- Ugh.

1283
00:51:42,557 --> 00:51:45,477
KENDALL: So? You talk to him?

1284
00:51:45,477 --> 00:51:46,895
Uh, yeah. I think there's, uh...

1285
00:51:46,895 --> 00:51:48,396
there's--
there's something there.

1286
00:51:48,396 --> 00:51:51,733
- No, there's not.
- KENDALL: Like? Like?

1287
00:51:51,733 --> 00:51:54,694
Like, they might be--
they are-- willing to think.

1288
00:51:54,694 --> 00:51:56,988
Oh! They might be,
or maybe they are,

1289
00:51:56,988 --> 00:51:58,949
willing to think. Maybe.

1290
00:51:58,949 --> 00:52:00,700
- That sounds like horseshit.
- No. Rome.

1291
00:52:00,700 --> 00:52:02,536
They're just not so direct.

1292
00:52:02,536 --> 00:52:05,497
Yeah? I-- I-- I think we can
probably get 'em to stop it.

1293
00:52:05,497 --> 00:52:06,873
ROMAN: Oh, they "probably."
Yeah, go.

1294
00:52:06,873 --> 00:52:09,084
Sorry, no.
Uh, game over. Bullshit.

1295
00:52:09,084 --> 00:52:10,710
No. We have to call it.

1296
00:52:10,710 --> 00:52:12,838
- Mencken is rock-solid.
- SHIV: Roman, even Dad...

1297
00:52:12,838 --> 00:52:15,048
Even-- even Dad,
in this situation,

1298
00:52:15,048 --> 00:52:16,716
- would respect the process.
- ROMAN: No!

1299
00:52:16,716 --> 00:52:18,260
Dad did whatever the fuck
he wanted.

1300
00:52:18,260 --> 00:52:20,554
He-- One fax,
he took out a government.

1301
00:52:20,554 --> 00:52:22,722
He did the "Fuck Lyle!" Send.

1302
00:52:22,722 --> 00:52:24,182
And that was it.
That's all it took.

1303
00:52:24,182 --> 00:52:26,309
Fucking Canada, here.
He didn't give a shit.

1304
00:52:26,309 --> 00:52:27,811
He liked stability, Rome.
He pushed,

1305
00:52:27,811 --> 00:52:29,104
but he didn't want shit
to unravel.

1306
00:52:29,104 --> 00:52:31,815
He-- he helped end--
I mean, he ended wars.

1307
00:52:31,815 --> 00:52:32,983
He ended wars that he started.

1308
00:52:32,983 --> 00:52:34,234
He did whatever
the fuck he wanted.

1309
00:52:34,234 --> 00:52:35,986
What did they say, Shiv?

1310
00:52:35,986 --> 00:52:37,529
Like, what did Nate
actually say?

1311
00:52:37,529 --> 00:52:39,197
He said, uh, they would talk,

1312
00:52:39,197 --> 00:52:40,991
and that they
could see the arguments,

1313
00:52:40,991 --> 00:52:43,451
and I-- I-- I think
it's encouraging.

1314
00:52:44,536 --> 00:52:46,079
ROMAN: You felt like
it was encouraging? Wow!

1315
00:52:46,079 --> 00:52:47,581
SHIV: It was.
It was encouraging.

1316
00:52:47,581 --> 00:52:49,791
It was a feeling.
I got something real.

1317
00:52:49,791 --> 00:52:51,793
- (SHIV SIGHS)
- This is fuckin' pointless.

1318
00:52:51,793 --> 00:52:53,378
- What a waste of time.
- What are you doing?

1319
00:52:53,378 --> 00:52:55,505
I'm gonna call.
I-- I-- I'm just gonna--

1320
00:52:55,505 --> 00:52:56,590
I'm gonna be very direct.

1321
00:52:56,590 --> 00:52:58,216
We just-- we just need
a little bit more,

1322
00:52:58,216 --> 00:52:59,426
- and, uh--
- SHIV: Don't call him.

1323
00:53:00,010 --> 00:53:01,219
Why?

1324
00:53:01,219 --> 00:53:03,763
They're-- Uh, they're busy.

1325
00:53:03,763 --> 00:53:06,099
(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV)

1326
00:53:09,060 --> 00:53:10,645
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

1327
00:53:10,645 --> 00:53:13,899
ROMAN: Can't have uncertainty.
Can't. Fucking market.

1328
00:53:13,899 --> 00:53:16,651
The chaos of trying to rerun
an entire election

1329
00:53:16,651 --> 00:53:18,528
could just send the country
into meltdown, you know?

1330
00:53:18,528 --> 00:53:20,322
- SHIV: Okay. Bad faith argument.
- ROMAN: I'm telling you.

1331
00:53:20,322 --> 00:53:22,574
I'm just telling you.
You cannot have uncertainty.

1332
00:53:22,574 --> 00:53:24,576
- China is coming.
- "China is coming"?

1333
00:53:24,576 --> 00:53:26,745
- ROMAN: China's coming.
- China's already been. Next.

1334
00:53:28,914 --> 00:53:31,917
ROMAN: It's not like the fucking
"final" final anyway.

1335
00:53:31,917 --> 00:53:33,293
Okay? There's the court shit,

1336
00:53:33,293 --> 00:53:35,754
and it all kind of
just fuzzes along, you know?

1337
00:53:35,754 --> 00:53:37,797
It's just a waste
of fucking time.

1338
00:53:37,797 --> 00:53:39,507
That we don't have, by the way.

1339
00:53:42,552 --> 00:53:44,804
KENDALL: Hey, Greg?
Can I ask you a question?

1340
00:53:44,804 --> 00:53:46,056
GREG: What's up?

1341
00:53:46,056 --> 00:53:48,808
Do you know
if there's something going on?

1342
00:53:48,808 --> 00:53:50,352
(ROMAN GROANS)

1343
00:53:50,352 --> 00:53:54,272
What else Nate and Gil
and fucking Jimenez offer you?

1344
00:53:54,272 --> 00:53:57,359
Unlimited
social security spending
with this one weird trick?

1345
00:54:07,494 --> 00:54:08,870
ROMAN: How was that call?

1346
00:54:10,038 --> 00:54:12,290
What'd you get?
Whole bunch of not much?

1347
00:54:13,833 --> 00:54:15,710
- KENDALL: Really?
- ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

1348
00:54:15,710 --> 00:54:18,380
- SHIV: What?
- "I think you're a good guy"?

1349
00:54:20,590 --> 00:54:23,259
Uh, well... (SCOFFS)
I found it hard to get Nate,

1350
00:54:23,259 --> 00:54:24,844
so I summarized
some impressions.

1351
00:54:24,844 --> 00:54:28,139
Oh, right, right, right.
Smart. Really good, Shiv.

1352
00:54:29,432 --> 00:54:30,684
But you lied.

1353
00:54:30,684 --> 00:54:32,018
- Oh... (MUMBLES)
- KENDALL: Right?

1354
00:54:32,018 --> 00:54:33,853
She didn't get anything
from Nate.

1355
00:54:33,853 --> 00:54:35,522
- ROMAN: Really?
- She didn't speak to Nate.

1356
00:54:35,522 --> 00:54:37,315
- (CHUCKLES)
- KENDALL: And she's in
with Matsson.

1357
00:54:37,315 --> 00:54:39,025
- SHIV: Mm...
- Sorry, what?

1358
00:54:39,025 --> 00:54:41,987
No, I... (SCOFFS) No.

1359
00:54:41,987 --> 00:54:46,032
No. I-- I-- I-- I did
what we all agreed to,

1360
00:54:46,032 --> 00:54:47,951
that I got close to him
so that I could help--

1361
00:54:47,951 --> 00:54:50,412
- Shiv's fucking us.
Right, Shivy?
- Wow.

1362
00:54:50,412 --> 00:54:53,832
No. No! No, no, no.
I-- I-- I-- I-- I-- I--

1363
00:54:53,832 --> 00:54:55,375
- KENDALL: "I-- I-- I-- I-- I--"
- ...was...

1364
00:54:55,375 --> 00:54:57,293
I fucking some asked you
some real questions, Shiv.

1365
00:54:57,293 --> 00:54:58,545
I wondered why
you looked like a goose

1366
00:54:58,545 --> 00:55:01,006
trying to shit a house brick,
you piece of dirt.

1367
00:55:01,006 --> 00:55:03,842
Okay, what? You got yourself
a little fucking side deal here?

1368
00:55:03,842 --> 00:55:06,136
No. No. I have some options.
I-- I was, uh...

1369
00:55:06,136 --> 00:55:07,971
- I was going through
with the plan.
- ROMAN: Uh-huh.

1370
00:55:07,971 --> 00:55:11,349
- SHIVE: And then you two...
- Well, Mencken. Mencken, right?

1371
00:55:11,349 --> 00:55:13,059
- Mencken.
- SHIV: No! What?

1372
00:55:13,059 --> 00:55:14,811
ROMAN: Tom!

1373
00:55:14,811 --> 00:55:17,355
- No! You even wanted to push
us out of the fucking nest.
- KENDALL: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

1374
00:55:17,355 --> 00:55:19,357
- Sure, sis. Sure, sure, sure.
- Please! Ken.

1375
00:55:19,357 --> 00:55:21,526
Aside from all this,
this is not the right thing.

1376
00:55:21,526 --> 00:55:23,194
KENDALL: Aside from the fact
that you lied to us,

1377
00:55:23,194 --> 00:55:25,113
and that doing what you want
precisely plays into

1378
00:55:25,113 --> 00:55:27,866
- your own interests, yeah?
- Oh, and this doesn't? Yeah?

1379
00:55:27,866 --> 00:55:31,411
Ken, please, come on.
Come on! Who are we?

1380
00:55:31,411 --> 00:55:33,038
Oh, yeah. Will no one think
of the children?

1381
00:55:33,038 --> 00:55:35,040
You know what? No, I'm not
gonna let this happen.

1382
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:36,708
There comes a time...

1383
00:55:36,708 --> 00:55:38,752
- ROMAN: "There comes a time..."
- ...when you have to stand up
for what you--

1384
00:55:38,752 --> 00:55:40,086
(BABBLES MOCKINGLY)

1385
00:55:40,086 --> 00:55:41,337
SHIV: Seriously. This is real.

1386
00:55:41,337 --> 00:55:42,756
- ROMAN: Mm-hmm.
- SHIV: Okay? I have a concern

1387
00:55:42,756 --> 00:55:44,674
for the state of the republic,
and-- and pluralism and--

1388
00:55:44,674 --> 00:55:46,468
- and the future of this country.
- ROMAN: I'm snoring.

1389
00:55:46,468 --> 00:55:47,802
- You're so boring.
- And it-- It is real.

1390
00:55:47,802 --> 00:55:49,554
ROMAN: You're such
a bore, Shiv. Jesus.

1391
00:55:50,346 --> 00:55:53,850
- Fuck you. Ken?
- He's right.

1392
00:55:53,850 --> 00:55:56,644
Yeah. You're boring. And you
don't have a pass for in here.

1393
00:55:56,644 --> 00:55:59,022
Okay, well, fine. You know what?
I'm-- Maybe I'll-- I'll go pu--

1394
00:55:59,022 --> 00:56:00,231
I'll-- I'll-- I'll go public.

1395
00:56:00,231 --> 00:56:01,858
- ROMAN: Oh yeah?
- I'll go to the papers,

1396
00:56:01,858 --> 00:56:03,443
and people, and-- and tell 'em
what you're actually
fucking doing.

1397
00:56:03,443 --> 00:56:05,528
ROMAN: Wow.
Well, if you're gonna
just be hysterical,

1398
00:56:05,528 --> 00:56:06,654
we're gonna have to, you know,

1399
00:56:06,654 --> 00:56:08,073
- ask you to leave.
- SHIV: Fuck you!

1400
00:56:08,073 --> 00:56:09,741
People are trying to do
some serious work in here.

1401
00:56:09,741 --> 00:56:12,327
Fuck you. This is about
the future of the country.

1402
00:56:13,453 --> 00:56:14,996
No, I think it's because
you broke up

1403
00:56:14,996 --> 00:56:16,456
with your boyfriend.

1404
00:56:16,456 --> 00:56:18,208
- (DOOR OPENS)
- Jesus, you're a prick.

1405
00:56:18,208 --> 00:56:19,417
TOM: Hello.

1406
00:56:19,417 --> 00:56:20,627
- ROMAN: Hey, Tom.
- Hey.

1407
00:56:20,627 --> 00:56:23,463
- So, call it. You can call it.
- SHIV: No!

1408
00:56:23,463 --> 00:56:25,423
- We're calling it?
- ROMAN: Yeah.
We called Wisconsin,

1409
00:56:25,423 --> 00:56:27,258
now we're gonna call Arizona,
so we call the election.

1410
00:56:27,258 --> 00:56:28,635
- We call the election?
- Call it.

1411
00:56:28,635 --> 00:56:30,845
- ROMAN: Call it.
- No. No, Tom. No.

1412
00:56:30,845 --> 00:56:32,972
You're making
a terrible mistake.

1413
00:56:32,972 --> 00:56:35,600
- SHIV: Please don't.
- Hey, guys, it's not my call.

1414
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:36,976
It's not my call.

1415
00:56:36,976 --> 00:56:38,978
- It's your call. It's up to you.
- ROMAN: Okay? It's our call.

1416
00:56:38,978 --> 00:56:41,439
- TOM: If you say so, I say so.
- ROMAN: Call it. I say so.

1417
00:56:41,439 --> 00:56:43,817
Fucking Pontius Pilate.

1418
00:56:43,817 --> 00:56:45,652
ROMAN: No one cares.
No one-- no one cares.

1419
00:56:45,652 --> 00:56:47,987
- GREG: <i>Hey, yeah. Okay.</i>
- Hey. Tell 'em I'm coming down.

1420
00:56:47,987 --> 00:56:50,949
Yes. We're gonna call it.
Yeah, we're calling for Mencken.

1421
00:56:50,949 --> 00:56:52,158
- ROMAN: All right.
- GREG: <i>Oh.</i>

1422
00:56:52,158 --> 00:56:54,786
Okay. Tell 'em I'm coming.
All right. Okay.

1423
00:56:54,786 --> 00:56:56,830
- ROMAN: Great work, Tom.
- TOM: Thank you.

1424
00:56:59,374 --> 00:57:00,542
ROMAN: Good stuff. Great night.

1425
00:57:02,085 --> 00:57:05,046
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

1426
00:57:06,089 --> 00:57:09,884
- (SIGHS) Fuck.
- You okay?

1427
00:57:11,261 --> 00:57:14,347
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I, uh... I-- I... (SIGHS)

1428
00:57:14,347 --> 00:57:16,683
I have to go, um...

1429
00:57:16,683 --> 00:57:20,228
tell them, I think...
we're calling it. For Mencken.

1430
00:57:21,229 --> 00:57:22,564
- Whoa.
- GREG: Yeah.

1431
00:57:24,107 --> 00:57:25,150
So... (EXHALES)

1432
00:57:25,150 --> 00:57:26,276
- I should-- I should--
- Right.

1433
00:57:26,276 --> 00:57:28,903
I should go. I'll get in trouble
if I don't go.

1434
00:57:28,903 --> 00:57:31,614
JESS JORDAN:
Okay, dude. I mean... (CHUCKLES)

1435
00:57:31,614 --> 00:57:33,950
GREG: Yeah. I mean,
it's not really my choice,

1436
00:57:33,950 --> 00:57:35,451
- right? So...
- Sure.

1437
00:57:35,451 --> 00:57:38,413
- I mean, right. Yeah.
- (BREATHES DEEPLY) Yeah.

1438
00:57:38,413 --> 00:57:39,914
I'm just--
I'm pressing the button.

1439
00:57:39,914 --> 00:57:41,457
Or I'm not even
pressing the button, I'm just--

1440
00:57:41,457 --> 00:57:45,003
I'm asking them to prepare
to press the button.

1441
00:57:45,003 --> 00:57:47,338
JESS: Right,
and all that does is just, like,

1442
00:57:47,338 --> 00:57:49,966
launch a nuclear attack.

1443
00:57:51,718 --> 00:57:53,303
So...

1444
00:57:53,303 --> 00:57:56,806
It's not gonna change anything
if I don't go. So...

1445
00:57:56,806 --> 00:57:59,434
- Couple minutes. So, I mean...
- Right, right.

1446
00:57:59,434 --> 00:58:02,228
- You...
- But realistically...

1447
00:58:02,228 --> 00:58:05,523
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS) ♪

1448
00:58:05,523 --> 00:58:07,233
(EXHALES) Wow.

1449
00:58:09,861 --> 00:58:11,779
- Crazy.
- Yeah.

1450
00:58:11,779 --> 00:58:12,864
Crazy.

1451
00:58:14,449 --> 00:58:18,328
Crazy one. (BREATHES DEEPLY)

1452
00:58:21,206 --> 00:58:23,958
- (ANCHORS TALKING ON TV)
- GREG: So, Tom just told me.

1453
00:58:25,376 --> 00:58:27,587
Everybody,
calling it for Mencken.

1454
00:58:28,671 --> 00:58:29,797
He's calling it for Mencken.

1455
00:58:31,466 --> 00:58:33,301
- Everyone, yeah?
- TOM: So he said, yeah?

1456
00:58:33,301 --> 00:58:35,220
- GREG: I just said.
- I'm calling it for Mencken.

1457
00:58:36,012 --> 00:58:37,055
Okay?

1458
00:58:38,932 --> 00:58:40,600
- PAM: Okay.
- TOM: Okay, yeah.

1459
00:58:42,018 --> 00:58:44,312
Okay. Well, then, uh, Dave?

1460
00:58:44,312 --> 00:58:46,898
Okay. Uh, Lydia,
get me "Mencken wins."

1461
00:58:46,898 --> 00:58:49,609
Get the ticker going on,
uh, ATN Citizens.

1462
00:58:49,609 --> 00:58:52,695
Let the people know, two mins,
and ATN is gonna call it.

1463
00:58:53,947 --> 00:58:55,782
SAMPINO:
<i>We are gonna make this call now.</i>

1464
00:58:55,782 --> 00:58:59,244
<i>The ATN decision desk
has looked at the numbers</i>

1465
00:58:59,244 --> 00:59:04,249
<i>and is ready to declare Arizona
for Jeryd Mencken.</i>

1466
00:59:04,249 --> 00:59:07,460
<i>This means that Mencken
will be the next president</i>

1467
00:59:07,460 --> 00:59:10,129
<i>of the United States,
winning the most unreal,</i>

1468
00:59:10,129 --> 00:59:12,924
<i>surreal election we have
ever seen in this country.</i>

1469
00:59:12,924 --> 00:59:14,968
<i>His candidacy
starting in Virginia</i>

1470
00:59:14,968 --> 00:59:16,135
<i>only six months ago</i>

1471
00:59:16,135 --> 00:59:18,513
<i>against a dozen
other Republican candidates</i>

1472
00:59:18,513 --> 00:59:19,681
<i>in the wake of the president</i>

1473
00:59:19,681 --> 00:59:22,141
<i>saying he wasn't going
to run for re-election.</i>

1474
00:59:22,141 --> 00:59:25,812
<i>What started off
as an unlikely impossibility,</i>

1475
00:59:25,812 --> 00:59:28,356
<i>now a reality, it is Mencken.</i>

1476
00:59:28,356 --> 00:59:30,775
- (CROWD CHEERING)
<i>- Uh, well...</i>

1477
00:59:30,775 --> 00:59:33,695
(CHUCKLES)
<i>It's now clear I have won</i>

1478
00:59:33,695 --> 00:59:37,240
<i>sufficient electoral votes
to be declared</i>

1479
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:40,159
<i>the next president
of the United States.</i>

1480
00:59:40,159 --> 00:59:41,661
(CROWD CHEERING)

1481
00:59:41,661 --> 00:59:44,664
MENCKEN: <i>And I find
the responsibility awesome!</i>

1482
00:59:46,082 --> 00:59:47,792
<i>Now, I know
there are some who feel</i>

1483
00:59:47,792 --> 00:59:49,419
<i>there is something left
to contest.</i>

1484
00:59:49,419 --> 00:59:54,090
<i>But votes have been cast,
votes have been tallied.</i>

1485
00:59:54,090 --> 00:59:58,011
<i>On another day, in another time,
they might have fallen</i>

1486
00:59:58,011 --> 01:00:00,179
<i>in another fashion.</i>

1487
01:00:00,179 --> 01:00:01,639
<i>The election
has been called for me</i>

1488
01:00:01,639 --> 01:00:04,517
<i>by an authority
of known integrity.</i>

1489
01:00:04,517 --> 01:00:07,437
TOM: Maybe we should get,
um, like, a history guy?

1490
01:00:07,437 --> 01:00:09,230
- (MENCKEN CONTINUES ON TV)
- TOM: You know, like a brain--

1491
01:00:09,230 --> 01:00:10,523
like a real brainiac,

1492
01:00:10,523 --> 01:00:15,153
to say why this sort of thing
has happened in the past,

1493
01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:17,572
and that it'll all be fine?

1494
01:00:17,572 --> 01:00:21,200
{\an8}<i>To my critics,
I am not a demagogue.</i>

1495
01:00:22,076 --> 01:00:25,830
{\an8}<i>I am a defender of democracy.</i>

1496
01:00:25,830 --> 01:00:31,961
<i>But democracy, it has this
tendency that we have to beware</i>

1497
01:00:31,961 --> 01:00:34,297
<i>to become mere transaction.</i>

1498
01:00:34,297 --> 01:00:37,300
<i>I give you this.
You give me that.</i>

1499
01:00:37,300 --> 01:00:42,889
{\an8}<i>I come begging for your vote.
Welfare checkbook out.</i>

1500
01:00:42,889 --> 01:00:45,725
<i>Crowning the welfare
kings and queens</i>

1501
01:00:45,725 --> 01:00:47,935
<i>till everyone has become
a little tyrant,</i>

1502
01:00:47,935 --> 01:00:49,187
<i>crowned by the state.</i>

1503
01:00:50,355 --> 01:00:51,606
<i>The model that I follow</i>

1504
01:00:51,606 --> 01:00:54,359
<i>isn't from
the scorched marketplace,</i>

1505
01:00:54,359 --> 01:00:58,571
<i>where cunning men
haggle for the best price.</i>

1506
01:00:58,571 --> 01:01:01,699
<i>That's not me.
The democracy I believe in</i>

1507
01:01:01,699 --> 01:01:04,410
<i>is where a leader
emerged from the people,</i>

1508
01:01:05,244 --> 01:01:07,705
<i>willed almost into being,</i>

1509
01:01:07,705 --> 01:01:09,874
<i>brought forth
by the great sweetness</i>

1510
01:01:09,874 --> 01:01:12,418
<i>of the virtue
of the combined wisdom</i>

1511
01:01:12,418 --> 01:01:15,421
<i>of the good people
of this republic.</i>

1512
01:01:16,672 --> 01:01:20,718
{\an8}<i>Don't we long sometimes
for something clean</i>

1513
01:01:20,718 --> 01:01:24,722
{\an8}<i>once in this polluted land?
That's what I hope to bring.</i>

1514
01:01:24,722 --> 01:01:27,266
{\an8}<i>Not something grubby
with compromise.</i>

1515
01:01:27,266 --> 01:01:30,478
{\an8}<i>Something clean and true,
and refreshing.</i>

1516
01:01:30,478 --> 01:01:32,605
He's a guy
we can do business with.

1517
01:01:32,605 --> 01:01:33,564
ROMAN: Yeah.

1518
01:01:33,564 --> 01:01:35,066
MENCKEN:
<i>Something proud and pure...</i>

1519
01:01:35,066 --> 01:01:37,860
He'll play ball. You should
hear him talk semiconductors.

1520
01:01:37,860 --> 01:01:40,822
- MENCKEN: <i>And God bless
the United States of America.</i>
- The market's holding the leash.

1521
01:01:40,822 --> 01:01:42,740
- (CROWD CHEERING)
- ROMAN: We just made
a night of good TV.

1522
01:01:42,740 --> 01:01:45,493
That's what we've done.
Nothing happens.

1523
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:48,746
Things do happen, Rome.

1524
01:01:51,207 --> 01:01:55,002
(PHONE BUZZES)

1525
01:01:55,002 --> 01:01:56,254
President calling.

1526
01:01:58,464 --> 01:02:00,341
Yo, Hocus-POTUS.

1527
01:02:00,341 --> 01:02:02,677
Sitting in the POTUS position.
What's up?

1528
01:02:02,677 --> 01:02:04,470
MENCKEN: <i>Hey, man. I--
Look, no time.</i>

1529
01:02:04,470 --> 01:02:07,890
<i>But just-- just thanks, yeah?
You and me, man. We'll go far.</i>

1530
01:02:07,890 --> 01:02:09,684
ROMAN:
Over the road and into the bar.

1531
01:02:11,352 --> 01:02:13,896
<i>An election unlike anything
we've ever seen,</i>

1532
01:02:13,896 --> 01:02:16,023
<i>followed by a speech
for the ages...</i>

1533
01:02:16,023 --> 01:02:18,901
The legal process
is gonna be lengthy.

1534
01:02:18,901 --> 01:02:20,611
When do you think
it'll all be over?

1535
01:02:20,611 --> 01:02:23,072
This-- this could be going on
for the next three months.

1536
01:02:23,072 --> 01:02:24,115
- GREG: Hey, Tom?
- Uh-huh.

1537
01:02:24,115 --> 01:02:26,617
Your phone. It's, uh--
it's red-hot, Tom.

1538
01:02:26,617 --> 01:02:29,829
It, uh-- A lot
of very important people are...

1539
01:02:29,829 --> 01:02:32,206
A lot of very important people
wanna scream at you.

1540
01:02:32,206 --> 01:02:33,791
PGN ANCHOR:
<i>But allegedly, allegedly...</i>

1541
01:02:33,791 --> 01:02:35,126
This is a little pointed.

1542
01:02:35,126 --> 01:02:38,421
<i>The call was made personally
by ATN boss Tom Wambsgans.</i>

1543
01:02:38,421 --> 01:02:41,507
Um... Darwin wants to know
when to do his caveats.

1544
01:02:41,507 --> 01:02:42,758
Is there time for him to do--

1545
01:02:42,758 --> 01:02:44,051
- No.
- GREG: No.

1546
01:02:44,051 --> 01:02:45,595
PGN ANCHOR: <i>...he was
given by his decision desk.</i>

1547
01:02:45,595 --> 01:02:48,222
<i>So it's unclear whether
Wambsgans's alleged action</i>

1548
01:02:48,222 --> 01:02:50,933
<i>- was an error of judgment,
or there was a personal...</i>
- GREG: Hello? No.

1549
01:02:50,933 --> 01:02:53,394
PGN ANCHOR:
<i>...or political dimension
to the decision.</i>

1550
01:02:53,394 --> 01:02:56,939
<i>He is, of course, known to be
an associate of Jeryd Mencken.</i>

1551
01:02:56,939 --> 01:02:59,650
Jesus fucking Christ.
What's going on?

1552
01:02:59,650 --> 01:03:02,403
SHIV: Those funky numbers?
I'm sending you words, yeah?

1553
01:03:02,403 --> 01:03:04,155
Let's get 'em out
in the next 24.

1554
01:03:04,155 --> 01:03:07,325
- Lot of fucking news.
- You guys are crazy.

1555
01:03:07,325 --> 01:03:09,660
Yeah, it's more
than just fucking crazy, Lukas.

1556
01:03:09,660 --> 01:03:12,538
No, but this is crazy.

1557
01:03:12,538 --> 01:03:14,332
Yeah, well, we're gonna do
a number on 'em.

1558
01:03:14,332 --> 01:03:17,084
We're gonna fuck them so hard.
We're gonna fix this, yeah?

1559
01:03:18,336 --> 01:03:19,212
Fuck.

1560
01:03:19,212 --> 01:03:22,298
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

1561
01:03:22,298 --> 01:03:24,467
Can I come see the kids?

1562
01:03:24,467 --> 01:03:26,427
- RAVA: <i>They're asleep, Ken.</i>
- Just... I know.

1563
01:03:26,427 --> 01:03:28,763
Yeah. Well, I can--
I can wait up for them.

1564
01:03:28,763 --> 01:03:30,389
RAVA: (SIGHS)
<i>I should be asleep,</i>

1565
01:03:30,389 --> 01:03:32,266
<i>but I... I can't.</i>

1566
01:03:32,266 --> 01:03:34,393
Okay. I'll-- I'll--
I'll see you tomorrow.

1567
01:03:34,393 --> 01:03:36,229
I'll see you
at the funeral, okay?

1568
01:03:39,023 --> 01:03:40,358
(SIGHS)

1569
01:03:47,281 --> 01:03:49,575
Some people
just can't cut a deal, Fikret.

1570
01:03:50,868 --> 01:03:54,455
♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

1571
01:04:57,268 --> 01:04:59,353
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪