1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,162 WWW.MY-SUBS.COM 1 00:00:02,858 --> 00:00:05,006 Previously on Billions... 2 00:00:05,883 --> 00:00:07,008 The fuck is this all about? 3 00:00:07,092 --> 00:00:10,259 Site's closed. Security reasons. 4 00:00:10,342 --> 00:00:12,551 This is what it's about, Dad. 5 00:00:12,634 --> 00:00:14,426 Head of the Board of Elections is deciding 6 00:00:14,509 --> 00:00:16,259 whether to allow blockchain technology... 7 00:00:16,342 --> 00:00:18,925 - voting from mobile phones. - Chuck, welcome. 8 00:00:19,008 --> 00:00:21,551 I thought this was to be our meeting... 9 00:00:21,634 --> 00:00:24,467 The DOJ has grave concerns about mobile voting... 10 00:00:24,551 --> 00:00:26,342 Uh. You mean Jock Jeffcoat does. 11 00:00:26,426 --> 00:00:28,384 Sanford Bensinger is on the phone. 12 00:00:28,467 --> 00:00:29,676 Sandy. 13 00:00:29,758 --> 00:00:32,092 The NFL is turning you down. 14 00:00:32,175 --> 00:00:35,551 Sports franchises are how we knight people in this country. 15 00:00:35,634 --> 00:00:37,925 And you're not royalty. 16 00:00:38,008 --> 00:00:39,842 They were finally fed up with your legal troubles... 17 00:00:39,925 --> 00:00:41,259 Thank you for the firefighter prompt. 18 00:00:41,342 --> 00:00:43,842 I'm happy it was useful. 19 00:00:43,925 --> 00:00:46,092 I need you to track down some old session notes. 20 00:00:46,175 --> 00:00:48,967 All my files for Taylor Mason. 21 00:00:49,050 --> 00:00:51,259 You're not here to ask me to speak at a conference, are you? 22 00:00:51,342 --> 00:00:53,551 There have been accusations of malpractice. 23 00:00:53,634 --> 00:00:57,217 Dr. Rhoades, your medical license is under review. 24 00:01:17,306 --> 00:01:18,551 You can't allow it to happen. 25 00:01:18,634 --> 00:01:21,008 You can't let them strip me of my license. 26 00:01:21,092 --> 00:01:22,967 The Medical Board is not under my jurisdiction. 27 00:01:23,776 --> 00:01:25,967 - What you're asking... - Is something you can do. 28 00:01:26,050 --> 00:01:27,800 Make them drop the inquest? 29 00:01:29,452 --> 00:01:31,676 If I can pull it off, it'll be nearly impossible. 30 00:01:31,758 --> 00:01:32,883 And if it goes sideways, I'm... 31 00:01:32,967 --> 00:01:36,175 You wanted to know what you could do to make things better between us. 32 00:01:36,259 --> 00:01:37,509 This is it. 33 00:01:38,572 --> 00:01:39,676 So, I do this thing, 34 00:01:39,758 --> 00:01:42,008 and then what, we're all the way back? 35 00:01:42,706 --> 00:01:44,842 - Is that the promise? - I can promise you this: 36 00:01:44,925 --> 00:01:46,551 bargaining never won a woman back. 37 00:01:46,634 --> 00:01:48,509 But selfless acts have. 38 00:01:48,592 --> 00:01:52,050 I don't need Chuck Rhoades the lawyer. 39 00:01:52,134 --> 00:01:54,800 Or the husband. Or the power bottom. 40 00:01:54,883 --> 00:01:56,800 I need Chuck Rhoades the killer. 41 00:01:57,410 --> 00:02:00,717 You've judged me for being that, 42 00:02:01,456 --> 00:02:04,634 criticized me, reviled me... 43 00:02:05,392 --> 00:02:07,551 but now, when it's on your behalf... 44 00:02:07,634 --> 00:02:09,592 you're willing to call upon it. 45 00:02:09,676 --> 00:02:12,008 To let it out. Mm-hmm. 46 00:02:12,092 --> 00:02:14,217 Well, you have to want the whole package, Wendy. 47 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:15,551 As I do with you. 48 00:02:15,634 --> 00:02:16,925 Or what the devil are we? 49 00:02:17,008 --> 00:02:18,467 Right now I don't... I don't know what I am. 50 00:02:18,551 --> 00:02:21,592 I state that freely and without pride. 51 00:02:21,676 --> 00:02:23,175 But you are a killer. 52 00:02:23,984 --> 00:02:25,800 You... You kill for yourself all the time. 53 00:02:25,883 --> 00:02:27,592 So go kill for me. 54 00:02:27,676 --> 00:02:29,592 I'm giving you license to use the part of yourself 55 00:02:29,676 --> 00:02:30,800 that makes you feel most alive. 56 00:02:30,883 --> 00:02:34,134 Because it serves you. 57 00:02:35,136 --> 00:02:37,342 I've done wrong. 58 00:02:37,426 --> 00:02:41,967 Turned myself into that which I swore I would never be. 59 00:02:42,050 --> 00:02:44,342 I had to. And, uh... 60 00:02:45,670 --> 00:02:46,509 It worked. 61 00:02:46,592 --> 00:02:51,342 And yes, I... I learned something about myself that is unpleasant. 62 00:02:51,426 --> 00:02:53,175 But now I need to turn myself back into 63 00:02:53,259 --> 00:02:56,967 who I'm supposed to be... if that's even possible. 64 00:02:57,050 --> 00:02:59,967 But I can't do that if I'm not a doctor. 65 00:03:00,050 --> 00:03:04,758 So, help me, Chuck, or I'm fucking lost. 66 00:03:07,217 --> 00:03:09,925 Don't fuck with the State Medical Board, Chuck. 67 00:03:10,008 --> 00:03:12,217 You're still consolidating your power. Extending your reach. 68 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:15,175 If you try to manipulate the board and fail... 69 00:03:15,259 --> 00:03:17,217 it'll be the one scandal too many, 70 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:20,092 and too early, that ends your career. 71 00:03:20,175 --> 00:03:22,426 So, instead, prepare a defense for Wendy. 72 00:03:22,509 --> 00:03:24,426 Let the hearing happen. Win it. 73 00:03:24,509 --> 00:03:26,050 That's the smart approach. 74 00:03:26,134 --> 00:03:28,259 Well. This isn't about the smart move. 75 00:03:28,342 --> 00:03:29,883 It's about what my father would call: 76 00:03:29,967 --> 00:03:32,300 "The future of my dynasty." 77 00:03:33,262 --> 00:03:35,842 - The marriage. - I can't keep shuffling along 78 00:03:35,925 --> 00:03:38,551 with muttered apologies and half measures. 79 00:03:38,634 --> 00:03:39,925 I need to change the paradigm. 80 00:03:40,008 --> 00:03:41,925 A big move. 81 00:03:42,008 --> 00:03:44,384 Get back to zero. 82 00:03:44,467 --> 00:03:47,300 If I know my man, you have a big move at the ready. 83 00:03:47,384 --> 00:03:49,050 I know a former State Board member 84 00:03:49,134 --> 00:03:50,883 who's acquainted with every crevice 85 00:03:50,967 --> 00:03:53,134 and loophole of their disciplinary procedures. 86 00:03:53,926 --> 00:03:55,426 Why didn't you start there? 87 00:03:56,142 --> 00:03:58,134 Because I put him in prison. 88 00:04:56,883 --> 00:04:59,092 You'd think after so much time in this place, 89 00:04:59,175 --> 00:05:00,800 I'd be happy to see anyone. 90 00:05:00,883 --> 00:05:03,175 Oh. I don't fool myself that I bring any measure of joy 91 00:05:03,259 --> 00:05:05,300 to most with whom I daily interact. 92 00:05:05,384 --> 00:05:07,405 That's the prosecutor's curse. 93 00:05:08,384 --> 00:05:11,384 Like a dentist without the laughing gas. 94 00:05:11,467 --> 00:05:14,134 Do know what we called dentists in medical school? 95 00:05:14,828 --> 00:05:17,008 "Little brains." Like in Defending Your Life. 96 00:05:17,092 --> 00:05:20,217 The lawyers, we called "little hearts." 97 00:05:20,300 --> 00:05:23,300 Which I now know gave them too much credit. 98 00:05:23,384 --> 00:05:24,758 Your compatriots in here 99 00:05:24,842 --> 00:05:26,342 must love the Albert Brooks references. 100 00:05:26,426 --> 00:05:28,134 Oh. You'd be surprised. I'm useful to them, 101 00:05:28,217 --> 00:05:30,426 tend to them when they get ill, 102 00:05:30,509 --> 00:05:33,300 tell them how to get into the infirmary and off work detail, 103 00:05:33,384 --> 00:05:35,300 teach 'em what to say to get the drugs they want there. 104 00:05:35,384 --> 00:05:37,008 So they pretty much follow along, 105 00:05:37,092 --> 00:05:39,717 or try to, no matter what I'm talking about. 106 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,842 Perhaps I can be useful to you. 107 00:05:42,925 --> 00:05:44,217 That's why I came here today. 108 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:46,217 No. You came because there must be 109 00:05:46,300 --> 00:05:48,259 some way you believe I can be of use to you. 110 00:05:48,342 --> 00:05:51,426 And there's something you think that I need in trade. 111 00:05:51,509 --> 00:05:53,967 But that didn't work out so well for me last time. 112 00:05:55,405 --> 00:05:56,857 That's one way to see it. 113 00:05:57,758 --> 00:06:00,592 The other is that the eleven million dollars did, 114 00:06:00,676 --> 00:06:03,050 as promised, stay in your bank account. 115 00:06:03,654 --> 00:06:05,800 So that your wife and kids are well taken care of. 116 00:06:05,883 --> 00:06:08,634 Well, that brought me more peace before she divorced me. 117 00:06:08,717 --> 00:06:11,467 And when she was still letting the kids visit me. 118 00:06:13,111 --> 00:06:15,217 Sorry to hear that. 119 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:17,842 But I know that you don't want my sympathy. 120 00:06:17,925 --> 00:06:21,134 Thankfully, I may be able to offer you more than that... 121 00:06:21,217 --> 00:06:23,967 if you can offer some cooperation. 122 00:06:30,342 --> 00:06:32,259 A close acquaintance... a medical doctor... 123 00:06:32,342 --> 00:06:35,700 like you were and perhaps might be again... 124 00:06:35,738 --> 00:06:38,259 is facing disciplinary proceedings. 125 00:06:39,166 --> 00:06:42,175 She needs help shutting them down before she has to appear. 126 00:06:43,883 --> 00:06:45,842 You want me to be your Hannibal Lecter. 127 00:06:45,925 --> 00:06:48,509 I need pressure points on committee members. 128 00:06:48,592 --> 00:06:50,676 So I can press 'em. 129 00:06:50,758 --> 00:06:54,509 Well. Like Dr. Lecter, I can put practicality above vengeance. 130 00:06:54,592 --> 00:06:56,426 So, sure, Chuck, we can negotiate. 131 00:06:56,509 --> 00:06:58,925 Get me out of here. Get me free. 132 00:06:59,008 --> 00:07:00,842 So I can remind my children of who I really am. 133 00:07:00,925 --> 00:07:02,467 And then I'll help. 134 00:07:03,766 --> 00:07:04,967 That I cannot do. 135 00:07:05,050 --> 00:07:07,384 I am no longer US Attorney. 136 00:07:07,467 --> 00:07:11,426 But I do sit a powerful throne, attended by powerful friends. 137 00:07:11,509 --> 00:07:16,259 So I will work, tirelessly, to make it so, over time. 138 00:07:17,655 --> 00:07:19,676 Yeah. I don't see how I can trust you on that. 139 00:07:19,758 --> 00:07:22,883 Again, I did let you keep the eleven million. 140 00:07:24,026 --> 00:07:26,342 It was never mine. 141 00:07:27,090 --> 00:07:29,592 And I would gladly give it back to be freed of all of this. 142 00:07:29,676 --> 00:07:33,509 So... 143 00:07:34,070 --> 00:07:36,634 No. 144 00:07:36,717 --> 00:07:39,217 If I'm your best bet, it seems all you can do 145 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:42,800 is go home and make your wife miserable. 146 00:07:42,883 --> 00:07:46,050 As I have mine. 147 00:07:46,134 --> 00:07:48,008 Yeah. Don't be surprised. 148 00:07:48,092 --> 00:07:49,800 There's at least one old colleague on the outside 149 00:07:49,883 --> 00:07:52,134 I still correspond with. 150 00:07:53,605 --> 00:07:56,509 Positively Lecter-like. 151 00:08:04,384 --> 00:08:07,084 If I hear you call anyone on the Board, 152 00:08:07,162 --> 00:08:08,967 try to make this harder for her, 153 00:08:09,050 --> 00:08:12,384 your wife... ex... whatever... 154 00:08:12,467 --> 00:08:15,467 will be prosecuted for ill gotten gains 155 00:08:15,551 --> 00:08:17,925 on that eleven million 156 00:08:18,008 --> 00:08:22,717 and your kids will end up living in a fucking housing project. 157 00:08:24,842 --> 00:08:30,175 Do we understand each other, Clarice? 158 00:08:48,634 --> 00:08:50,175 Seen better days. 159 00:08:50,259 --> 00:08:52,467 It will again, once I do my magic. 160 00:08:52,551 --> 00:08:55,717 First thing: "fire every one of these cocksuckers." 161 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,634 Hoffa. 162 00:08:57,717 --> 00:08:59,384 "You're gonna can a lot of people, 163 00:08:59,467 --> 00:09:01,134 "make sure you do it on the first day. 164 00:09:01,217 --> 00:09:04,175 "That way, the ones that are left don't feel insecure, you see. 165 00:09:04,259 --> 00:09:07,008 What they feel is grateful." 166 00:09:07,092 --> 00:09:09,800 That's a sad view of how people tick. 167 00:09:09,883 --> 00:09:12,940 But true. So when we walk into that boardroom... 168 00:09:12,975 --> 00:09:15,758 I can't fire them. I have to show stability in the Street. 169 00:09:15,842 --> 00:09:19,175 Especially since I'm making so many changes to the business. 170 00:09:19,259 --> 00:09:20,758 I'll run you through all the numbers 171 00:09:20,842 --> 00:09:22,967 before tomorrow's board meeting. 172 00:09:26,634 --> 00:09:28,342 Tomorrow is Rebecca Cantu's first day 173 00:09:28,426 --> 00:09:29,842 as CEO of Saler's. 174 00:09:29,925 --> 00:09:32,175 I want it to be a bad one for her... 175 00:09:32,259 --> 00:09:34,883 Which will ruin Bobby Axelrod's fucking day too. 176 00:09:34,967 --> 00:09:36,175 I want her to think the board is hers, 177 00:09:36,259 --> 00:09:38,008 then find out it's really mine. 178 00:09:38,092 --> 00:09:40,426 We've met with three of the largest individual stakeholders 179 00:09:40,509 --> 00:09:42,592 and accumulated a position, but not enough to be a threat. 180 00:09:42,676 --> 00:09:44,634 After all the shares Axe and Cantu bought up, 181 00:09:44,717 --> 00:09:46,259 there's not much left out there we can get 182 00:09:46,342 --> 00:09:47,967 without causing the price to skyrocket. 183 00:09:48,050 --> 00:09:49,509 But there is a white whale out there... 184 00:09:49,592 --> 00:09:51,217 Saler's biggest debtholder... 185 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:52,842 and you haven't put his blubber within reach. 186 00:09:52,925 --> 00:09:54,634 You're talking about Sanford Bensinger, 187 00:09:54,717 --> 00:09:58,050 Mr. Giving Oath, the "American Champion." 188 00:09:58,134 --> 00:09:59,300 I am. 189 00:09:59,384 --> 00:10:01,634 Good. Grab your harpoon. 190 00:10:01,717 --> 00:10:03,426 You got the meeting with Bensinger? 191 00:10:03,509 --> 00:10:05,592 I'm taking his son, Landry, to breakfast. 192 00:10:05,676 --> 00:10:07,384 He'll get us the meeting. 193 00:10:07,467 --> 00:10:09,008 Tomorrow morning? 194 00:10:09,092 --> 00:10:12,050 Tonight. And you're coming with, Taylor. 195 00:10:18,134 --> 00:10:20,050 No work allowed on site. 196 00:10:20,134 --> 00:10:22,384 Does it look like I'm here to rivet the girders? 197 00:10:22,467 --> 00:10:24,384 Family business. 198 00:10:32,551 --> 00:10:34,259 I'm getting starved out. 199 00:10:34,342 --> 00:10:36,050 If we don't resume work here soon, 200 00:10:36,134 --> 00:10:38,134 the... the... the loans are gonna crush me 201 00:10:38,217 --> 00:10:40,300 like a steel worker in a hydraulic press. 202 00:10:40,384 --> 00:10:42,509 What would you have me do? 203 00:10:42,592 --> 00:10:44,342 Prostrate myself before Jock and Connerty? 204 00:10:44,976 --> 00:10:48,175 Hell no! Find a way to hurt them back. 205 00:10:48,259 --> 00:10:50,717 Get them into the same kind of vise that they have us in. 206 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,467 And then crank the handle so hard they beg you to relent. 207 00:10:54,551 --> 00:10:57,384 And they relent in return. 208 00:10:57,467 --> 00:11:00,551 I need men and trucks in here. 209 00:11:02,372 --> 00:11:04,426 Hoh man, did the wind just change? 210 00:11:06,384 --> 00:11:08,676 What in God's name is that smell? It's brutal... 211 00:11:08,758 --> 00:11:11,175 It's the fucking porta potties! 212 00:11:11,846 --> 00:11:13,509 I need them carted out of here. 213 00:11:13,592 --> 00:11:15,634 Whatever it is construction workers consume, 214 00:11:15,717 --> 00:11:18,676 their night soil is not fit for breathing. 215 00:11:18,758 --> 00:11:20,758 I've taken to putting Vicks under my nose 216 00:11:20,842 --> 00:11:22,509 to mask the stench. 217 00:11:22,592 --> 00:11:24,050 Ah. 218 00:11:24,134 --> 00:11:27,259 Dad... 219 00:11:27,342 --> 00:11:29,092 where does it normally go? 220 00:11:29,175 --> 00:11:30,384 The shit? 221 00:11:30,467 --> 00:11:31,967 Yeah. 222 00:11:32,050 --> 00:11:34,217 Fuck if I know. It gets trucked out of here. 223 00:11:34,300 --> 00:11:35,334 I don't know where it ends up. 224 00:11:38,175 --> 00:11:40,758 Where are you going? 225 00:11:40,842 --> 00:11:42,592 To crank. 226 00:11:42,676 --> 00:11:44,384 So they beg. 227 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,384 Hoses. 228 00:11:55,467 --> 00:11:58,467 Long, industrial hoses, called cakasuckas on job sites, 229 00:11:58,551 --> 00:12:00,592 extract the waste from the portajohns 230 00:12:00,676 --> 00:12:02,259 into specially treated sanitation trucks. 231 00:12:02,342 --> 00:12:04,050 Goes into the city sewage system 232 00:12:04,134 --> 00:12:06,800 where it is dehydrated into a solid and compressed... 233 00:12:06,883 --> 00:12:08,842 Yeah, yeah, and eventually it all winds up in a landfill. 234 00:12:08,925 --> 00:12:10,717 Far, far away from New York. 235 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,925 Via the way of John Henry's hammer. 236 00:12:13,008 --> 00:12:14,883 A long cross-country train ride. 237 00:12:14,967 --> 00:12:16,426 To here. 238 00:12:18,303 --> 00:12:20,717 Karl, we're about to redraw the route 239 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:22,842 for this foul piece of transport. 240 00:12:27,509 --> 00:12:30,342 Thank you. 241 00:12:30,426 --> 00:12:31,967 You can go. 242 00:12:32,050 --> 00:12:33,925 No. 243 00:12:34,008 --> 00:12:36,384 I get to watch. 244 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:51,342 How was it? 245 00:12:51,426 --> 00:12:53,925 - Go. - You're right. 246 00:12:54,008 --> 00:12:57,426 Sometimes words can't speak what we both know. 247 00:12:57,509 --> 00:13:00,426 There's this site, Beautiful Agony, 248 00:13:00,509 --> 00:13:02,342 that is all about the O face, 249 00:13:02,426 --> 00:13:04,592 and looking at you right now I can sense... 250 00:13:04,676 --> 00:13:07,175 You are like an over-caffeinated serial killer. 251 00:13:07,259 --> 00:13:09,800 Go! 252 00:13:12,092 --> 00:13:15,217 We should talk about what happened in the meditation room. 253 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:19,008 I hit you in the face. 254 00:13:19,092 --> 00:13:21,092 You held me. 255 00:13:21,188 --> 00:13:24,842 We bonded. We should bond some more. 256 00:13:24,925 --> 00:13:27,883 Drinks, after work tonight, just the two of us. 257 00:13:27,967 --> 00:13:30,676 I usually only go out with people who have one wife. 258 00:13:30,758 --> 00:13:34,092 There was vibe. I don't mistake vibe. 259 00:13:34,175 --> 00:13:37,175 You got a stiffie because your head was between my tits. 260 00:13:37,259 --> 00:13:38,300 That's not vibe. 261 00:13:38,384 --> 00:13:39,592 It is where I come from. 262 00:13:39,676 --> 00:13:41,676 Where's that, 1954? 263 00:13:47,717 --> 00:13:49,676 It's happening again. 264 00:13:51,592 --> 00:13:53,925 The droogs are starting to fall all over themselves, 265 00:13:54,008 --> 00:13:55,717 fall over me. 266 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,842 I have noticed a certain 267 00:13:57,925 --> 00:14:00,717 increased level of interest on the floor. 268 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,175 Since I mentioned getting "railed" at my birthday. 269 00:14:03,259 --> 00:14:06,717 I see it... the way Spyros brings you that cortado 270 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,758 every day at 11, lingers by your desk... 271 00:14:09,842 --> 00:14:13,509 At least chatty Lurch makes good fucking coffee. 272 00:14:13,892 --> 00:14:17,384 But today it was Dollar Bill. And that's different. 273 00:14:17,467 --> 00:14:18,967 You want to know the best way to blow him off 274 00:14:19,050 --> 00:14:20,467 without fucking up the workplace? 275 00:14:21,314 --> 00:14:23,634 More like: the best way to do the thing 276 00:14:23,717 --> 00:14:25,634 without fucking up the workplace. 277 00:14:31,175 --> 00:14:34,342 Are you thinking of him as a love partner or a sex partner? 278 00:14:35,338 --> 00:14:38,134 When you put it that way, I'm thinking about yakking... 279 00:14:39,592 --> 00:14:42,758 I'm feeling a bit fucked... over. 280 00:14:42,842 --> 00:14:44,634 And a little afraid of what I might do. 281 00:14:44,758 --> 00:14:46,134 I like the way you're owning that, Ben Kim. 282 00:14:46,217 --> 00:14:47,800 But I am in session. 283 00:14:47,883 --> 00:14:51,008 Bonnie should hear this. It concerns her, too. 284 00:14:52,551 --> 00:14:56,134 I've just learned Axe Cap maintains a fund for employees. 285 00:14:56,217 --> 00:14:58,467 Yeah, that's why we fucking work here. 286 00:14:58,551 --> 00:15:00,008 To get our money invested here 287 00:15:00,092 --> 00:15:01,551 and beat everyone else's returns. 288 00:15:01,634 --> 00:15:05,467 No, a separate, elite fund called Flagship. 289 00:15:05,551 --> 00:15:07,008 Where returns are, apparently, 290 00:15:07,092 --> 00:15:08,883 three times greater than the main fund. 291 00:15:08,967 --> 00:15:12,050 But only "key employees" are in it. 292 00:15:12,134 --> 00:15:15,592 I'm a PM... and I'm not. 293 00:15:16,796 --> 00:15:17,798 Wendy, are you in it? 294 00:15:17,842 --> 00:15:20,134 I haven't heard anyone mention Flagship in years. 295 00:15:20,217 --> 00:15:22,217 I think Axe liquidated funds like that 296 00:15:22,300 --> 00:15:24,592 when he ran into his legal troubles. 297 00:15:24,676 --> 00:15:27,050 So I should let go of this anger? 298 00:15:27,134 --> 00:15:30,967 Or hold onto it for the day and see where it takes you. 299 00:15:32,243 --> 00:15:33,758 I'll let it go. 300 00:15:33,842 --> 00:15:35,175 Thanks, Wendy. 301 00:15:38,925 --> 00:15:42,967 - You didn't answer his question. - I think I did. 302 00:15:43,790 --> 00:15:45,217 Not fully. 303 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:48,175 Not the part about whether you were invested in Flagship. 304 00:15:49,142 --> 00:15:50,758 Didn't I? Huh. 305 00:15:50,842 --> 00:15:52,467 How 'bout yours? Did I answer those? 306 00:15:52,551 --> 00:15:57,634 Yeah. I know just what I need to do with Dollar Bill now. 307 00:16:02,384 --> 00:16:04,342 We're on, buddy. 308 00:16:08,092 --> 00:16:09,842 Vibe. 309 00:16:09,925 --> 00:16:12,676 I fuckin' knew it. 310 00:16:12,758 --> 00:16:14,300 Name the place. 311 00:16:14,384 --> 00:16:17,092 How about, "I Thought You Were a Real Man, 312 00:16:17,175 --> 00:16:19,467 So You Fuckin' Name It." 313 00:16:24,717 --> 00:16:26,717 You got room for improvement. 314 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,175 Not much. 315 00:16:33,050 --> 00:16:35,384 I am kicking ass and taking names. 316 00:16:35,467 --> 00:16:37,467 Only I ran out of names, 317 00:16:37,551 --> 00:16:39,509 so now it's just ass-kicking all the time. 318 00:16:39,952 --> 00:16:41,042 Join the club. 319 00:16:42,102 --> 00:16:43,800 Is it an exclusive one? 320 00:16:45,150 --> 00:16:46,426 You know it. 321 00:16:46,509 --> 00:16:47,967 Because I like entrée. 322 00:16:50,008 --> 00:16:53,967 There's another exclusive club I'd like to be in... 323 00:16:55,509 --> 00:16:58,717 the Flagship Fund. 324 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,217 How the fuck do you know about Flagship? 325 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:03,676 First rule of Flagship is you don't talk about Flagship. 326 00:17:03,758 --> 00:17:05,676 You should know it was talked about to me. 327 00:17:05,758 --> 00:17:07,717 Someone influential was whispering 328 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,384 that it might be on my horizon. 329 00:17:10,467 --> 00:17:12,967 Huh. 330 00:17:13,050 --> 00:17:15,300 Yeah, I could see that for you. 331 00:17:15,384 --> 00:17:16,925 If you keep it up... 332 00:17:18,201 --> 00:17:19,342 What are the odds of me not? 333 00:17:19,426 --> 00:17:22,008 Just saying... it is a big deal though. 334 00:17:22,092 --> 00:17:24,384 You gotta be like Eric Roberts and Chris Penn... 335 00:17:24,467 --> 00:17:26,259 Best of the Best. 336 00:17:28,190 --> 00:17:29,592 So you're in? 337 00:17:29,676 --> 00:17:35,342 Fuck yeah, ever since I... uh... 338 00:17:35,426 --> 00:17:38,342 showed Axe how I always manage to come through. 339 00:17:38,426 --> 00:17:40,592 Alongside Axe and Wags... 340 00:17:40,676 --> 00:17:43,092 And Wendy, yeah. 341 00:17:43,175 --> 00:17:45,592 And the rewards are substantial? 342 00:17:46,894 --> 00:17:48,676 Big enough to afford two families, 343 00:17:48,758 --> 00:17:52,175 with two sets of kids, all with straight teeth. 344 00:18:03,008 --> 00:18:05,758 How, with your vast knowledge of NYC nightlife, 345 00:18:05,842 --> 00:18:07,217 did you settle on this place? 346 00:18:07,300 --> 00:18:09,426 It'll make more sense to you soon. 347 00:18:16,175 --> 00:18:17,592 Never mention his dad. 348 00:18:17,676 --> 00:18:19,426 Never mention business. 349 00:18:19,509 --> 00:18:20,676 Unless you get him to. 350 00:18:20,758 --> 00:18:22,008 Then how am I gonna... 351 00:18:22,092 --> 00:18:23,175 By being yourself. 352 00:18:23,866 --> 00:18:24,967 Wow. 353 00:18:25,050 --> 00:18:26,175 This place. 354 00:18:26,259 --> 00:18:27,342 The colors. 355 00:18:27,426 --> 00:18:28,717 Throwback. 356 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:30,300 I've never been here before. 357 00:18:30,384 --> 00:18:32,342 Taylor picked it. 358 00:18:32,426 --> 00:18:34,758 You did, huh? 359 00:18:34,842 --> 00:18:37,175 Yeah. I dig the ironic camp of the place. 360 00:18:38,490 --> 00:18:40,967 Nope. I saw your face when you walked in. 361 00:18:41,050 --> 00:18:42,342 You weren't smiling ironically. 362 00:18:42,426 --> 00:18:44,092 You were taken with it. As I am. 363 00:18:44,175 --> 00:18:45,467 It makes me get back in touch 364 00:18:45,551 --> 00:18:46,758 with the child-like part of myself. 365 00:18:46,842 --> 00:18:48,883 Not childish. Child-like. 366 00:18:48,967 --> 00:18:50,426 I embrace that part of me. 367 00:18:50,509 --> 00:18:52,134 It's the most creative, most engaged part, 368 00:18:52,217 --> 00:18:54,634 the part that continues to push the rest of me to grow. 369 00:18:55,682 --> 00:18:58,175 Yeah. Yes. That's right. 370 00:18:58,259 --> 00:18:59,967 What's more evocative than the smell 371 00:19:00,050 --> 00:19:02,008 of your favorite cereal from when you were a kid. 372 00:19:02,092 --> 00:19:04,634 I don't know why I said that ironic thing. 373 00:19:04,717 --> 00:19:06,008 Because you are human, 374 00:19:06,092 --> 00:19:08,008 and we are here in this city, at this time. 375 00:19:08,092 --> 00:19:09,384 You were worried you gave yourself away. 376 00:19:09,467 --> 00:19:12,050 Don't worry. You did. And it was great to see. 377 00:19:13,384 --> 00:19:15,259 What was your flavor? 378 00:19:15,342 --> 00:19:17,342 Honey Smacks. 379 00:19:17,426 --> 00:19:20,883 When I was a kid, I only got to eat cereal once a week. 380 00:19:20,967 --> 00:19:24,050 My father wanted me to have better habits than he did. 381 00:19:24,134 --> 00:19:25,800 I still feel a little guilty when I eat it. 382 00:19:25,883 --> 00:19:27,676 But I love it. 383 00:19:27,758 --> 00:19:29,634 And this place. 384 00:19:29,717 --> 00:19:32,410 You nailed me, Taylor. That was impressive. 385 00:19:32,445 --> 00:19:33,758 Get to know each other. 386 00:19:33,842 --> 00:19:36,092 Taylor, I'll circle back. 387 00:19:38,758 --> 00:19:40,114 Frosted Flakes for me. 388 00:19:40,149 --> 00:19:41,447 Grrreeeeat! 389 00:19:45,634 --> 00:19:47,634 Lauren, you were right. 390 00:19:47,717 --> 00:19:49,175 I'll set up the meeting. 391 00:19:49,259 --> 00:19:51,676 No guarantees beyond that. 392 00:19:51,758 --> 00:19:55,300 My father sees things I don't, which is why he is who he is. 393 00:19:55,384 --> 00:19:57,800 But I feel comfortable getting you in the room. 394 00:20:02,134 --> 00:20:04,092 That was a big fucking risk you took, 395 00:20:04,175 --> 00:20:06,092 going off book like that without telling me. 396 00:20:06,175 --> 00:20:09,259 Nah. I knew you'd crush it. 397 00:20:10,717 --> 00:20:15,592 It was fun as hell watching you think on the fly like that. 398 00:20:15,676 --> 00:20:19,050 You just come alive to the challenge. 399 00:20:19,134 --> 00:20:21,967 And then seeing him have that feeling of 400 00:20:22,050 --> 00:20:24,800 someone recognizing who he really was. 401 00:20:26,114 --> 00:20:29,134 You picked up on all that, huh? 402 00:20:29,217 --> 00:20:31,217 Think I like knowing you're watching that closely. 403 00:20:32,786 --> 00:20:37,008 So, nah, that wasn't a risk at all. 404 00:20:39,509 --> 00:20:42,883 But this... this is. 405 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,217 We broke some rules here. 406 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:19,342 Must be why it was so much fun. 407 00:21:19,426 --> 00:21:22,175 For the record I kissed you first. 408 00:21:22,259 --> 00:21:25,134 But maybe we don't mention this to Sara either way... 409 00:21:26,342 --> 00:21:28,592 Don't mention what to me? 410 00:21:30,154 --> 00:21:32,883 Lauren's got some moves that don't include shots and nightclubs. 411 00:21:32,967 --> 00:21:34,092 She landed us the Bensinger meeting 412 00:21:34,175 --> 00:21:35,717 in a very child-friendly way. 413 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,509 Nice. Good to know. 414 00:21:38,592 --> 00:21:43,175 Yeah, but keep it low, I don't want to ruin my rep. 415 00:21:46,883 --> 00:21:49,175 _ 416 00:21:49,259 --> 00:21:51,717 State Attorney General Rhoades, 417 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,217 what causes you to darken my doorstep? 418 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:56,509 Like Moses giving Pharaoh a chance 419 00:21:56,592 --> 00:21:59,509 before the plagues were visited upon Egypt, I come to... 420 00:21:59,592 --> 00:22:03,008 When heathens quoth from the book of the Good, I recoil. 421 00:22:03,092 --> 00:22:06,342 Still. Heed my word. 422 00:22:06,426 --> 00:22:08,008 Don't make Pharaoh's mistake. 423 00:22:09,634 --> 00:22:11,717 You want me to remove the blockade. 424 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,634 And if I don't, what? 425 00:22:14,717 --> 00:22:16,342 Pestilence? Locusts? 426 00:22:16,426 --> 00:22:18,592 You will be visited by horrors of that scope. 427 00:22:18,676 --> 00:22:20,967 Yes. As will your family. 428 00:22:21,050 --> 00:22:22,634 Since you have encumbered mine. 429 00:22:22,717 --> 00:22:25,217 So. Simply free my father from the bonds... 430 00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:27,842 Well, first: if the Almighty is speaking through one of us, 431 00:22:27,925 --> 00:22:29,800 I can assure you, it's me. 432 00:22:29,883 --> 00:22:31,592 Because I kneel before him. 433 00:22:31,676 --> 00:22:33,300 - On the daily. - Hmm. 434 00:22:33,384 --> 00:22:36,634 Second: He's the only one I get on my knees for. 435 00:22:36,717 --> 00:22:38,008 Or ever will. 436 00:22:38,092 --> 00:22:40,092 I don't ask for your bended knee. 437 00:22:40,175 --> 00:22:43,008 Only that you take it off my father's neck. 438 00:22:43,092 --> 00:22:45,175 You put your pappy in this position, Chuck, 439 00:22:45,259 --> 00:22:46,842 when you stood against me. 440 00:22:46,925 --> 00:22:49,092 And now he pays the price. 441 00:22:49,932 --> 00:22:51,967 How dare you fucking come down here 442 00:22:52,050 --> 00:22:54,717 from that cesspool of a city to threaten me. 443 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,050 I can even smell it on ya a little... 444 00:22:57,134 --> 00:22:59,259 Oh, you think you can smell all that on me now? 445 00:22:59,342 --> 00:23:02,384 'S right. Putrefying my pristine air. 446 00:23:02,467 --> 00:23:04,551 As do your perversions of scripture. 447 00:23:10,883 --> 00:23:13,092 That is the 12:02. 448 00:23:13,175 --> 00:23:15,551 That is your cue to vamoose. 449 00:23:15,634 --> 00:23:17,592 Now, you best get on out of here. 450 00:23:18,939 --> 00:23:20,342 You're right. 451 00:23:20,426 --> 00:23:23,050 Scent of Southern magnolias surrounds you here. 452 00:23:24,356 --> 00:23:25,417 Mmm! 453 00:23:26,504 --> 00:23:28,800 Positively redolent of 'em. 454 00:23:36,175 --> 00:23:38,592 Alright everybody, let's do this. 455 00:23:41,384 --> 00:23:43,592 I'm going to need to withdraw from the board. 456 00:23:43,676 --> 00:23:44,676 Me, too. 457 00:23:44,758 --> 00:23:46,842 - The fuck? - How come? 458 00:23:47,413 --> 00:23:49,426 We sold our shares. Deal just came through. 459 00:23:49,509 --> 00:23:51,259 Nice premium, couldn't pass it up. 460 00:23:52,072 --> 00:23:54,300 You bailed on me without even hearing my plan. 461 00:23:54,384 --> 00:23:57,092 - Who'd you sell to? - I'd prefer not to say... 462 00:23:58,900 --> 00:24:01,092 Oh, I'm gonna find out anyway. 463 00:24:01,175 --> 00:24:03,551 And when I do, I'm gonna turn my focus 464 00:24:03,634 --> 00:24:06,925 from this business, onto each of your personal holdings. 465 00:24:07,008 --> 00:24:10,300 And think about just how I can take them to zero. 466 00:24:10,384 --> 00:24:12,967 I'm gonna run you down into the dirt. 467 00:24:13,050 --> 00:24:15,717 And I'm gonna smile like the Joker while I do it. 468 00:24:17,584 --> 00:24:18,592 Taylor Mason. 469 00:24:18,676 --> 00:24:21,092 Mason's meeting with Sanford Bensinger, 470 00:24:21,175 --> 00:24:23,175 they're going to have control. 471 00:24:25,083 --> 00:24:27,551 Resignations fucking accepted. 472 00:24:28,588 --> 00:24:31,842 This meeting is postponed until the board is reconstituted. 473 00:24:35,384 --> 00:24:37,685 With the amount of convertible debt Bensinger controls, 474 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,008 he's our largest creditor. 475 00:24:39,092 --> 00:24:43,008 He can convert it into enough shares to dwarf our position. 476 00:24:43,092 --> 00:24:46,717 Then we'll get diluted and our voting power shrinks. 477 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,467 If he backs Taylor they can run the company 478 00:24:48,551 --> 00:24:50,883 right from underneath me. Or fire me. 479 00:24:50,967 --> 00:24:52,676 Kind of move he's made many fucking times. 480 00:24:52,758 --> 00:24:54,758 You know him? 481 00:24:54,842 --> 00:24:56,925 Well. Maybe we can go sue for peace. Work him. 482 00:24:57,008 --> 00:24:58,300 I do know him. 483 00:24:58,384 --> 00:25:00,092 But the kind of peace that he'll grant 484 00:25:00,175 --> 00:25:01,717 is the type that has my head on a pike. 485 00:25:02,283 --> 00:25:04,299 You have a remarkable way with people. 486 00:25:04,334 --> 00:25:05,342 Thank you. 487 00:25:05,426 --> 00:25:09,134 But believe me, we can't work this guy. 488 00:25:09,217 --> 00:25:11,342 No, it's time to punish him. 489 00:25:18,217 --> 00:25:20,300 Okay, everybody, take a nice, big, deep breath in. 490 00:25:20,384 --> 00:25:22,592 Roll your shoulders all the way up and back. 491 00:25:22,676 --> 00:25:24,509 We got the final stretch of class. 492 00:25:24,592 --> 00:25:27,967 It's never coast, never quit. 493 00:25:29,599 --> 00:25:32,008 I need everything you got all the way until the end. 494 00:25:32,092 --> 00:25:34,925 In three, two, let's go! 495 00:25:43,008 --> 00:25:47,717 That's five, four, three, two, one! 496 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,426 Done! 497 00:25:50,967 --> 00:25:53,717 Yeah! Whoo! 498 00:26:00,509 --> 00:26:01,592 Dr. Gus. 499 00:26:01,676 --> 00:26:03,758 Yeah. 500 00:26:03,842 --> 00:26:05,758 G-man can pedal! 501 00:26:06,723 --> 00:26:07,750 Thought I had you. 502 00:26:07,785 --> 00:26:09,217 - Yeah? - Yeah. 503 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:12,426 Now, how often do you say that... and turn out to be wrong? 504 00:26:12,509 --> 00:26:13,842 Next time, I'll want it more. 505 00:26:13,925 --> 00:26:16,050 It's not enough to want it more. 506 00:26:17,180 --> 00:26:18,426 I need to want it most? 507 00:26:20,130 --> 00:26:21,259 No. 508 00:26:22,268 --> 00:26:25,426 You need to sharpen your odachi and slice a hole in the universe 509 00:26:25,509 --> 00:26:27,217 between you and where you're going. 510 00:26:27,300 --> 00:26:28,592 And if you don't cut down everyone 511 00:26:28,676 --> 00:26:30,467 and everything that gets in your way, 512 00:26:30,551 --> 00:26:33,551 then they will return and they will cut you to shreds 513 00:26:33,634 --> 00:26:37,342 and then they will cover those shreds in bukkake. 514 00:26:39,883 --> 00:26:41,800 Whoo! 515 00:26:46,114 --> 00:26:47,842 These mayors... 516 00:26:47,925 --> 00:26:50,467 We need easements on their rail corridors. 517 00:26:50,551 --> 00:26:52,384 So they need to be put to a decision: 518 00:26:52,467 --> 00:26:54,217 the sweet smell of honeysuckle. 519 00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:56,092 Or the other. 520 00:26:56,175 --> 00:26:58,800 Warm 'em up and invite each of 'em to a phone call 521 00:26:58,883 --> 00:27:00,509 upon which we give 'em what they need. 522 00:27:00,592 --> 00:27:03,758 And threaten 'em if they don't take it. 523 00:27:03,842 --> 00:27:07,259 Headlocking a bunch of backwoods mayors, sounds grand. 524 00:27:07,342 --> 00:27:08,800 - Mm. - Pizza or Thai? 525 00:27:08,883 --> 00:27:11,758 I too have a dinner to attend. 526 00:27:12,603 --> 00:27:14,092 Bon appétit. 527 00:27:16,670 --> 00:27:17,842 Happy birthday, Kevin. 528 00:27:17,925 --> 00:27:20,300 Thanks, Grandpa. 529 00:27:20,384 --> 00:27:22,676 It's a fucking slinky. 530 00:27:22,758 --> 00:27:24,509 Now leave us alone and make some fun out of that 531 00:27:24,592 --> 00:27:26,426 with your hands and some hardwood stairs, huh? 532 00:27:29,592 --> 00:27:31,092 If he's still playing with it tomorrow, 533 00:27:31,175 --> 00:27:33,717 put all of your energies into the girl. 534 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,342 I have energies enough for all the people I love. 535 00:27:36,426 --> 00:27:40,092 Do you? Because I haven't heard anything 536 00:27:40,175 --> 00:27:42,551 about a matter of great personal importance. 537 00:27:42,634 --> 00:27:45,592 I might, in fact, say the same thing. 538 00:27:48,334 --> 00:27:49,509 Well... 539 00:27:49,592 --> 00:27:51,592 I always thought you two, coming together, 540 00:27:51,676 --> 00:27:54,217 united in a common cause would be a good thing but... 541 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:55,967 But nothing. 542 00:27:56,050 --> 00:27:58,467 Which is what I gather you're delivering for each of us. 543 00:28:02,742 --> 00:28:05,551 I assure you I am laboring on both of your causes. 544 00:28:05,634 --> 00:28:07,342 Save your assurance 545 00:28:07,426 --> 00:28:09,467 for those not so well versed in your bullshit. 546 00:28:09,551 --> 00:28:11,342 Normally, I'd be aghast 547 00:28:11,426 --> 00:28:13,384 at a father speaking to his son that way, 548 00:28:13,467 --> 00:28:16,175 but I know the motivational power you hold over him. 549 00:28:16,259 --> 00:28:18,750 Sure, on the inside he may be saying: 550 00:28:18,838 --> 00:28:20,467 - "Fuck the old man." - Screaming it. 551 00:28:20,551 --> 00:28:22,008 But he always comes through. 552 00:28:22,092 --> 00:28:24,008 The need for your love. 553 00:28:24,092 --> 00:28:25,717 The shame in not delivering... 554 00:28:27,341 --> 00:28:29,157 And, like a country doctor 555 00:28:29,192 --> 00:28:31,175 with an outbreak across the shire to deal with, 556 00:28:31,259 --> 00:28:34,592 I'm gonna get back to fucking work. 557 00:28:38,634 --> 00:28:43,217 _ 558 00:29:35,842 --> 00:29:38,217 Hall said a Chinese consortium is in town 559 00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:39,842 to buy the Chrysler Building. 560 00:29:39,925 --> 00:29:42,050 Which is why Bensinger is in town. 561 00:29:42,134 --> 00:29:44,676 So he's not just here to fuck with me on Rebecca's company? 562 00:29:44,758 --> 00:29:46,676 He wants to keep it out of Chinese hands. 563 00:29:46,758 --> 00:29:48,842 He's planning to purchase it preemptively. 564 00:29:48,925 --> 00:29:50,967 Part of his little campaign to preserve the nation. 565 00:29:51,050 --> 00:29:53,842 Sure. And he'll do it without fanfare, too. 566 00:29:53,925 --> 00:29:55,259 That's what he'll say anyway. 567 00:29:55,342 --> 00:29:56,967 That he wants no recognition for it. 568 00:29:57,050 --> 00:29:58,967 But somehow, he'll get it. 569 00:30:00,310 --> 00:30:02,717 Or maybe he won't, huh? 570 00:30:03,686 --> 00:30:05,676 Yeah. 571 00:30:08,967 --> 00:30:11,426 The Flagship Fund is "choice." 572 00:30:11,509 --> 00:30:13,634 And we should demand our inclusion. 573 00:30:14,832 --> 00:30:16,134 Wendy misled me? 574 00:30:16,217 --> 00:30:17,717 That's how I knew what was going on. 575 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:19,800 Maybe it's not my time. 576 00:30:19,883 --> 00:30:22,050 Maybe if I wait and keep my head down, 577 00:30:22,134 --> 00:30:23,384 I'll be rewarded down the line. 578 00:30:23,467 --> 00:30:24,925 Said every factory worker ever 579 00:30:25,008 --> 00:30:26,467 before watching his job disappear, 580 00:30:26,551 --> 00:30:27,842 then going home to beat his wife. 581 00:30:28,854 --> 00:30:30,883 Tell me you're just fine with this caste system. 582 00:30:30,967 --> 00:30:34,342 Jesus. I don't think that's an okay thing to say. 583 00:30:34,426 --> 00:30:38,800 Trying to make you angry enough to fucking do something. 584 00:30:38,883 --> 00:30:41,300 You good being salarymen in this place? 585 00:30:41,384 --> 00:30:43,259 I bust my ass. I want my due. 586 00:30:44,426 --> 00:30:46,717 Yeah, seems right. 587 00:30:47,818 --> 00:30:48,867 We're in. 588 00:30:57,217 --> 00:31:01,342 A lot of physical force goes into pulling a shot of espresso, 589 00:31:01,426 --> 00:31:03,883 and sometimes the torque of said pull, 590 00:31:03,967 --> 00:31:06,883 leads to a follow-through arc where one's hand could 591 00:31:06,967 --> 00:31:09,883 accidentally graze the outer contours 592 00:31:09,967 --> 00:31:11,676 of a receptionist's mammary. 593 00:31:11,758 --> 00:31:13,592 Whatever the fuck that is about, take it to your grave. 594 00:31:13,676 --> 00:31:16,467 You're not in trouble. At this moment. 595 00:31:16,551 --> 00:31:18,467 In fact, you are urgently needed. 596 00:31:20,059 --> 00:31:22,834 How may I be of service, fair maiden? 597 00:31:22,869 --> 00:31:23,883 Leadership. 598 00:31:23,967 --> 00:31:26,592 To take our demands to Axe. 599 00:31:26,676 --> 00:31:28,008 You have his ear. 600 00:31:28,092 --> 00:31:31,758 My words do traverse that regal canal 601 00:31:31,842 --> 00:31:34,509 like a vaporetto gliding to the Piazza San Marco. 602 00:31:36,037 --> 00:31:39,883 Yes, you are our man. 603 00:31:48,259 --> 00:31:50,384 You know how many people jumped from those buildings 604 00:31:50,467 --> 00:31:51,967 to their deaths on Black Tuesday? 605 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,342 Not a one. 606 00:31:54,426 --> 00:31:57,217 But people were so upset with the banks, 607 00:31:57,300 --> 00:31:59,300 they wanted to believe. 608 00:31:59,384 --> 00:32:00,800 What will the future believe about 609 00:32:00,883 --> 00:32:02,676 people who partnered with Bobby Axelrod? 610 00:32:03,508 --> 00:32:05,967 I think you know he's not my partner. 611 00:32:06,050 --> 00:32:07,758 Quite the opposite. 612 00:32:07,842 --> 00:32:09,217 But if you support the Saler's board 613 00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:12,134 under Rebecca Cantu, you are supporting him. 614 00:32:13,689 --> 00:32:15,342 My son said you had a direct 615 00:32:15,426 --> 00:32:17,426 and incisive way of looking at things. 616 00:32:17,509 --> 00:32:19,592 I've cultivated that within myself. 617 00:32:19,676 --> 00:32:21,676 And your son is a complete person. 618 00:32:21,758 --> 00:32:24,050 Not easy to achieve in a child raised with billions. 619 00:32:24,134 --> 00:32:26,634 A credit to you both. 620 00:32:26,717 --> 00:32:29,592 Let's say I didn't want to support Axe. 621 00:32:30,307 --> 00:32:32,342 Let's say I wanted to pay him back 622 00:32:32,426 --> 00:32:34,676 in trouble and pain for the high crimes 623 00:32:34,758 --> 00:32:36,717 and misdemeanors he's committed against me. 624 00:32:37,602 --> 00:32:39,008 Then support me. 625 00:32:39,092 --> 00:32:41,259 Convert your debt into shares and back me with them. 626 00:32:41,342 --> 00:32:43,008 I'm coming out shooting. So's he. 627 00:32:43,092 --> 00:32:44,800 When we tally up the bodies, it'll be a long ledger. 628 00:32:44,883 --> 00:32:46,883 But if you don't want it to include Saler's, 629 00:32:46,967 --> 00:32:49,134 as I believe you don't, because of your status, 630 00:32:49,217 --> 00:32:51,467 I'm your best and only choice. 631 00:33:02,092 --> 00:33:03,384 Why is he our man? 632 00:33:03,467 --> 00:33:05,300 Because of what they thought about Rambo... 633 00:33:05,384 --> 00:33:08,717 He's got PTSD and he's going to tear apart the entire office? 634 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,800 No, they thought he was expendable. 635 00:33:10,883 --> 00:33:12,717 If he gets cut down it's only him we've lost. 636 00:33:24,426 --> 00:33:25,800 Spyros. 637 00:33:25,883 --> 00:33:27,758 I don't like it when you come in here. 638 00:33:27,842 --> 00:33:29,967 Especially don't like it when you're smiling. 639 00:33:30,050 --> 00:33:32,842 I smile the people's smile. 640 00:33:32,925 --> 00:33:35,758 For I am here, not in my capacity as your grand vizier, 641 00:33:35,842 --> 00:33:38,283 but to bring their demands unto you. 642 00:33:38,318 --> 00:33:39,384 Demands? 643 00:33:39,467 --> 00:33:41,300 One demand really. 644 00:33:41,384 --> 00:33:43,536 The Fundo De Flagship. 645 00:33:43,571 --> 00:33:44,800 What about it? 646 00:33:44,883 --> 00:33:46,509 That's a hands-off situation. 647 00:33:46,592 --> 00:33:49,426 Access for all Axe Cappers. 648 00:33:53,175 --> 00:33:54,634 And everyone out there 649 00:33:54,717 --> 00:33:56,259 is on board with this campaign of yours? 650 00:34:04,259 --> 00:34:08,342 I know: "This is too much power for one man to have." 651 00:34:08,426 --> 00:34:09,883 But I gots it. 652 00:34:09,967 --> 00:34:14,717 Spyros. Most who are first pay the price. 653 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,967 Very few exceptions: Maybe Vaclav Havel? 654 00:34:18,050 --> 00:34:19,384 Lech Walesa? 655 00:34:19,467 --> 00:34:21,426 The tightrope guy? 656 00:34:21,509 --> 00:34:22,634 The Flying... 657 00:34:22,717 --> 00:34:24,259 No, you simp. 658 00:34:24,342 --> 00:34:26,592 Write down those names and look 'em up later. 659 00:34:26,676 --> 00:34:28,300 I feel they could've pulled this off. 660 00:34:28,384 --> 00:34:29,925 You can't. 661 00:34:36,134 --> 00:34:37,925 Now, had you come up here 662 00:34:38,008 --> 00:34:40,342 and asked me the path to the Flagship Fund, 663 00:34:40,426 --> 00:34:42,717 I would have told you... you are compliance, 664 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,092 you don't make enough, and you are never getting in. 665 00:34:45,175 --> 00:34:48,092 Though the others could have worked their way in. 666 00:34:48,175 --> 00:34:52,717 But since you rolled heavy, no one is getting in ever again. 667 00:34:53,468 --> 00:34:55,411 There is no Flagship Fund. 668 00:34:55,446 --> 00:34:56,676 It's a thing of the past. 669 00:34:56,758 --> 00:34:58,551 Fucking dissolved. 670 00:34:58,634 --> 00:35:00,758 Everyone can eat what they kill. 671 00:35:00,842 --> 00:35:02,800 And they can invest in the main fund, 672 00:35:02,883 --> 00:35:05,842 side by side with our clients. 673 00:35:05,925 --> 00:35:09,744 Now get out of here before I don't even let you do that. 674 00:35:25,426 --> 00:35:27,758 Is buying this building so the Chinese can't 675 00:35:27,842 --> 00:35:29,259 part of a nationalistic impulse? 676 00:35:29,342 --> 00:35:32,092 Don't forget you're not a reporter at the moment... 677 00:35:32,175 --> 00:35:33,800 you're my ghostwriter. 678 00:35:33,883 --> 00:35:35,989 My WW Beauchamp. 679 00:35:36,024 --> 00:35:38,426 I still have to ask the questions, to get to your mindset. 680 00:35:38,509 --> 00:35:41,967 The question shouldn't deal with nastiness like nationalism. 681 00:35:42,050 --> 00:35:44,800 Some things should remain American owned. 682 00:35:44,883 --> 00:35:46,800 Our greatest buildings among them. 683 00:35:46,883 --> 00:35:49,384 Which is why I'm buying this one. 684 00:35:49,467 --> 00:35:53,467 And why the book is gonna be called "American Champion." 685 00:35:53,551 --> 00:35:54,634 You get all that? 686 00:35:54,717 --> 00:35:56,175 - Yes, sir. - Great. 687 00:35:56,259 --> 00:35:57,967 Pleasure doing business with you, Gary. 688 00:35:58,050 --> 00:36:00,384 Enjoy Montana. 689 00:36:00,467 --> 00:36:05,134 Sanford, I'm sorry I wasted you a trip. 690 00:36:05,217 --> 00:36:07,175 - But... - Well, this is awkward. 691 00:36:07,259 --> 00:36:09,050 He sold to the higher bidder. 692 00:36:09,134 --> 00:36:12,259 You just made a world class mistake. 693 00:36:12,342 --> 00:36:14,426 The fact is, we overpaid. 694 00:36:14,509 --> 00:36:15,800 I didn't catch your... 695 00:36:15,883 --> 00:36:17,551 Why do you give a darn, Sandy? 696 00:36:17,634 --> 00:36:20,592 Your priority was to keep this building in American hands. 697 00:36:20,676 --> 00:36:22,134 And that's where it is. 698 00:36:26,427 --> 00:36:27,676 Who the hell was that? 699 00:36:27,758 --> 00:36:31,426 That was Michael Wagner... Bobby Axelrod's COO. 700 00:36:31,509 --> 00:36:33,634 Want to give it some context, for you to overcome in the book? 701 00:36:33,717 --> 00:36:35,842 Turn that goddamn thing off. 702 00:36:38,175 --> 00:36:40,008 Time to stop the motor of the world. 703 00:36:44,592 --> 00:36:48,384 Yes, Inspector, this looks like a bona fide health risk. 704 00:36:48,467 --> 00:36:50,384 I don't know what color you'd call that sludge 705 00:36:50,467 --> 00:36:52,050 coming out the sides of those boxcars 706 00:36:52,134 --> 00:36:53,592 but you need to stop this thing. Now. 707 00:36:54,299 --> 00:36:57,175 There's a biohazard sign on the side, sir... 708 00:36:57,259 --> 00:36:59,259 but something's leaking. 709 00:36:59,342 --> 00:37:03,050 Best send a HAZMAT team. Immediately... 710 00:37:04,181 --> 00:37:06,300 Yes, I can give you the exact location... 711 00:37:32,842 --> 00:37:34,717 Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts, 712 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,842 which we are about to receive from Thy bounty. 713 00:37:36,925 --> 00:37:38,050 Through Christ, our Lord. Amen. 714 00:37:38,134 --> 00:37:39,842 Amen. 715 00:37:44,883 --> 00:37:48,092 Jock? My nose is picking up an odor that is rather off... 716 00:37:49,221 --> 00:37:50,676 Oh. What is that? 717 00:37:50,758 --> 00:37:53,509 A goddamned plague... 718 00:37:53,592 --> 00:37:55,300 I... I feel as though I might... 719 00:37:55,384 --> 00:37:56,842 Oh, lord... 720 00:37:56,925 --> 00:37:58,217 Oh, Jesus. 721 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:02,134 That fucking train is from New York City, 722 00:38:02,217 --> 00:38:04,008 courtesy of Rhoades. 723 00:38:04,092 --> 00:38:06,092 You were supposed to have your arms around him. 724 00:38:06,175 --> 00:38:08,467 I do. NYPD is still at the building site. 725 00:38:08,551 --> 00:38:09,717 Well, it hasn't stopped him 726 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,384 from deploying bio-weapons against me! 727 00:38:11,467 --> 00:38:13,426 Maybe you're so used to the foul and fetid 728 00:38:13,509 --> 00:38:15,758 up there in New York City that it doesn't faze you. 729 00:38:15,842 --> 00:38:17,842 But I consider it a fucking war crime! 730 00:38:18,620 --> 00:38:20,551 Yes, General. 731 00:38:20,634 --> 00:38:23,008 We need to slice a hole in the universe, 732 00:38:23,092 --> 00:38:25,426 cut down everyone and everything in our way, 733 00:38:25,509 --> 00:38:29,259 or they will return to cut us into shreds and... 734 00:38:29,342 --> 00:38:32,717 do some fucked up stuff to those shreds. 735 00:38:35,758 --> 00:38:38,426 I don't care about waiting for biothreat testing to come back 736 00:38:38,509 --> 00:38:40,842 or your investigation... Move that fucking train 737 00:38:40,925 --> 00:38:43,134 or I start investigating you! 738 00:38:46,259 --> 00:38:47,634 Don't strain your neck like that. 739 00:38:47,717 --> 00:38:48,967 Liable to pull a muscle. 740 00:38:49,050 --> 00:38:50,217 Breathe, you know? 741 00:38:50,300 --> 00:38:51,842 Later. 742 00:38:51,925 --> 00:38:53,758 If I don't get that shit train out of there, 743 00:38:53,842 --> 00:38:56,300 I'm gonna have a first class ticket on it. Any ideas? 744 00:38:56,384 --> 00:38:58,717 Tighten things up at the construction site. 745 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,008 Start looking for violations. 746 00:39:00,092 --> 00:39:02,342 And suffocate 'em with fines... 747 00:39:03,153 --> 00:39:06,634 Or skip the JV shit and let's just take 'em. 748 00:39:06,717 --> 00:39:08,134 For bribing Biancarosa 749 00:39:08,217 --> 00:39:09,551 and everything else we got on the wire. 750 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,175 I can't engage with marginal junk. Not now. 751 00:39:13,259 --> 00:39:16,217 What I need is the Brass Brazilians. 752 00:39:17,183 --> 00:39:18,592 I'll go see what I can come up with. 753 00:39:22,634 --> 00:39:24,634 Kornbluth called. He wouldn't talk. 754 00:39:24,717 --> 00:39:26,634 He's protecting his sinecure with Bensinger. 755 00:39:26,717 --> 00:39:27,967 One thing I did yank out of him: 756 00:39:28,050 --> 00:39:29,676 Bensinger had a good meeting with Taylor. 757 00:39:29,758 --> 00:39:32,008 With Bensinger behind Taylor, I am boxed in. 758 00:39:32,092 --> 00:39:33,259 'Fucked' is the word. 759 00:39:33,342 --> 00:39:35,050 - I'm fucked. - I know. 760 00:39:35,134 --> 00:39:37,384 Why hasn't the Chrysler move gotten him in here yet? 761 00:39:37,467 --> 00:39:38,800 What else can we do? 762 00:39:38,883 --> 00:39:40,050 Give it time to work. 763 00:39:40,134 --> 00:39:41,342 For the salt to settle in the wound. 764 00:39:41,426 --> 00:39:44,259 To grind on his sense of self... 765 00:39:44,913 --> 00:39:48,467 What the hell? I thought I ended this. 766 00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:53,092 Mm. Can you do that, appropriate the glove? 767 00:39:53,175 --> 00:39:54,634 They just did. 768 00:39:55,554 --> 00:39:57,217 You get back to your stations right now! 769 00:40:03,592 --> 00:40:06,092 Shall I line 'em all up Paths of Glory style 770 00:40:06,175 --> 00:40:07,634 and give 'em what they're asking for? 771 00:40:07,717 --> 00:40:10,800 Mass firing? No... what more of a distraction do we need? 772 00:40:14,717 --> 00:40:17,426 Oh, shit. 773 00:40:18,357 --> 00:40:19,358 Wendy! 774 00:40:23,592 --> 00:40:25,800 Something about this whole Sandinista revolt thing 775 00:40:25,883 --> 00:40:27,217 isn't clear to me. 776 00:40:28,592 --> 00:40:31,925 Where did it all start? 777 00:40:44,592 --> 00:40:47,092 You were the one who went to Wendy about the Flagship Fund. 778 00:40:47,175 --> 00:40:49,551 Where'd you find out about it? 779 00:40:49,634 --> 00:40:52,676 I shouldn't answer, I should hold strong for my source. 780 00:40:56,175 --> 00:40:57,509 Damnit... 781 00:40:57,892 --> 00:41:00,967 - Really...? - Tuk, who fed you? 782 00:41:02,102 --> 00:41:04,509 Oh, God, it was Danzig. 783 00:41:04,592 --> 00:41:07,426 He was going to write you an email asking in. 784 00:41:07,509 --> 00:41:09,634 He asked me to review it before he hit send. 785 00:41:09,758 --> 00:41:11,676 He didn't hit send. 786 00:41:11,758 --> 00:41:14,092 So many angry words. 787 00:41:14,175 --> 00:41:15,800 So many other words misspelled. 788 00:41:15,883 --> 00:41:17,758 So. How'd the Flagship come to you... 789 00:41:20,201 --> 00:41:23,717 Rumor of the old days or fresh information? Hmm? 790 00:41:25,578 --> 00:41:27,175 Or did your seat neighbor spill? 791 00:41:27,259 --> 00:41:28,426 Hey! I kept my mouth shut... 792 00:41:31,758 --> 00:41:34,175 Except when I fucked up and told Bonnie. 793 00:41:34,259 --> 00:41:35,925 I first heard it from Ben Kim. 794 00:41:37,217 --> 00:41:38,758 The circle closes. 795 00:41:38,842 --> 00:41:40,175 And tightens. 796 00:41:40,259 --> 00:41:42,342 Which leaves our source as... 797 00:41:45,883 --> 00:41:47,008 Glad you landed back on your feet. 798 00:41:47,092 --> 00:41:48,925 Hope they're taking care of you. 799 00:41:49,008 --> 00:41:52,384 You in the Flagship yet? 800 00:41:52,467 --> 00:41:55,384 This whole thing was a psy-op 801 00:41:55,467 --> 00:41:57,967 to ruin our morale and our productivity... 802 00:41:58,050 --> 00:41:59,300 Worked pretty damn well... 803 00:41:59,384 --> 00:42:02,092 And you all fucking bit. 804 00:42:03,409 --> 00:42:06,426 But this is not a union shop. 805 00:42:06,509 --> 00:42:08,467 There's no limit to what you can earn here. 806 00:42:08,551 --> 00:42:13,592 So take responsibility and get back on it right fucking now. 807 00:42:13,676 --> 00:42:14,925 And you... 808 00:42:15,008 --> 00:42:17,217 Shit, Axe, I got fucking used. 809 00:42:18,406 --> 00:42:20,384 I don't deserve to be in the Flagship. 810 00:42:20,467 --> 00:42:21,758 I don't deserve to work here at all. 811 00:42:21,842 --> 00:42:23,426 No, no, no. 812 00:42:23,509 --> 00:42:26,175 You stay here, you stay alive and you suffer. 813 00:42:26,259 --> 00:42:27,842 I'll deal with you later. 814 00:42:29,509 --> 00:42:31,717 You're gonna wish your way out was so easy. 815 00:42:35,259 --> 00:42:36,967 Matter of time now. 816 00:42:37,050 --> 00:42:40,050 What? Before Connerty finds out about my jail visit? Yep. 817 00:42:40,134 --> 00:42:42,758 Should be enough to break the blockade on your father's site. 818 00:42:42,842 --> 00:42:44,426 - Mm. - But it was a gamble 819 00:42:44,509 --> 00:42:46,259 putting Wendy's thing in play in your fight. 820 00:42:46,342 --> 00:42:48,925 You play the pass line, you can only win small. 821 00:42:49,008 --> 00:42:51,092 Not the game I'm in. 822 00:42:51,175 --> 00:42:52,925 But I've gotta find out what Jock wants, 823 00:42:53,008 --> 00:42:54,467 what matters most to him. 824 00:42:56,156 --> 00:42:59,008 You wanted something, I have something. 825 00:43:00,114 --> 00:43:01,598 Visitor log. 826 00:43:01,633 --> 00:43:04,842 From the federal prison where a certain doctor is serving his time. 827 00:43:19,717 --> 00:43:21,842 Right this way. 828 00:43:37,134 --> 00:43:40,342 That only took a little longer than I thought. 829 00:43:40,426 --> 00:43:43,509 For me to figure out you bought that building to fuck with me? 830 00:43:43,592 --> 00:43:46,050 No. For your ego to rise up and make this all about 831 00:43:46,134 --> 00:43:50,050 you not being the one to save it... American Champion. 832 00:43:50,134 --> 00:43:53,509 Guess it takes a narcissistic egomaniac to know one. 833 00:43:54,979 --> 00:43:56,042 Fair enough. 834 00:43:56,944 --> 00:43:57,955 What now? 835 00:43:58,008 --> 00:43:59,967 You flip it to a Chinese national company 836 00:44:00,050 --> 00:44:02,008 at a steep profit just to rub it in my face? 837 00:44:02,092 --> 00:44:03,467 Actually, no. 838 00:44:03,551 --> 00:44:05,467 But you can if you want. 839 00:44:05,551 --> 00:44:07,426 Because I'm selling it to you. 840 00:44:07,509 --> 00:44:10,050 At my cost. 841 00:44:12,146 --> 00:44:14,758 Well that pitch had some break on it I didn't pick up. 842 00:44:14,842 --> 00:44:16,967 Well, I knew you'd be leaning into the fastball 843 00:44:17,050 --> 00:44:19,175 of me selling off a chunk of Americana, 844 00:44:19,259 --> 00:44:21,342 so I had to come with the hook. 845 00:44:21,426 --> 00:44:23,259 And I'll let you take all the credit 846 00:44:23,342 --> 00:44:25,092 for protecting our national heritage 847 00:44:25,175 --> 00:44:28,259 and give you that last chapter of your book. 848 00:44:29,316 --> 00:44:30,800 This is about Saler's then. 849 00:44:30,883 --> 00:44:33,592 Yes. It is. And trying to persuade you 850 00:44:33,676 --> 00:44:37,300 not to side with Taylor Mason against Rebecca Cantu. 851 00:44:38,038 --> 00:44:41,050 The Saler's chain is bigger than your personal feuds, Axelrod. 852 00:44:41,134 --> 00:44:42,467 Indeed it is. 853 00:44:42,551 --> 00:44:44,592 Which is why I had to get you here. 854 00:44:49,175 --> 00:44:50,842 You two haven't met. 855 00:44:50,925 --> 00:44:53,217 We know one another by reputation. 856 00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:56,592 And yours is a very good one, Ms. Cantu. 857 00:44:56,676 --> 00:44:58,925 Rebecca has the best vision for this company. 858 00:44:59,008 --> 00:45:00,676 So I'm gonna turn this over to her. 859 00:45:00,758 --> 00:45:02,717 It's her project, her passion... 860 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,717 And my chance to take something that mattered to me 861 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,665 and make it matter again. 862 00:45:07,700 --> 00:45:08,717 Why? 863 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,883 You know this even better than I do, Sanford. 864 00:45:10,967 --> 00:45:13,134 But legacy is important. 865 00:45:13,217 --> 00:45:16,467 So I want this now, today, 866 00:45:16,551 --> 00:45:19,426 as a businesswoman, for my legacy... 867 00:45:19,509 --> 00:45:21,883 so I can say I did what others couldn't. 868 00:45:21,967 --> 00:45:26,426 But I also want it for the little girl that I once was. 869 00:45:26,509 --> 00:45:28,800 And publicly I say that little girl was allowed to dream 870 00:45:28,883 --> 00:45:31,967 by looking at the catalog, but you know the truth: 871 00:45:32,050 --> 00:45:34,384 My parents... My parents couldn't afford to buy me anything. 872 00:45:34,467 --> 00:45:38,175 And I promised that one day I would buy it for myself. 873 00:45:38,259 --> 00:45:41,384 So now I want to own it all. 874 00:45:41,467 --> 00:45:43,925 That kind of personal stake can be very risky... 875 00:45:44,008 --> 00:45:45,800 But I'm not a child anymore. 876 00:45:45,883 --> 00:45:47,384 And when you read my plan, 877 00:45:47,467 --> 00:45:49,300 you will see a clear march forward 878 00:45:49,384 --> 00:45:52,384 to massive profitability. 879 00:45:52,467 --> 00:45:54,800 And the ice cream fountains? I'm keeping them. 880 00:45:54,883 --> 00:45:57,217 Alongside an artisanal coffee bar. 881 00:45:57,300 --> 00:45:59,092 Because coffee is good business 882 00:45:59,175 --> 00:46:00,967 and addictive and we'll sell enough of it 883 00:46:01,050 --> 00:46:02,800 to float the entire fucking enterprise. 884 00:46:02,883 --> 00:46:05,259 And ice cream is delicious 885 00:46:05,342 --> 00:46:07,467 and it's the perfect reward for everything. 886 00:46:07,551 --> 00:46:11,175 But ice cream, at a fountain... 887 00:46:12,925 --> 00:46:17,592 I mean, that makes you feel free and young, like... 888 00:46:17,676 --> 00:46:19,426 An American. 889 00:46:20,973 --> 00:46:24,065 You want Saler's to be America. 890 00:46:24,100 --> 00:46:26,842 - That's right. - And, wait, there's more: 891 00:46:26,925 --> 00:46:28,878 I'm stepping off the board. 892 00:46:28,913 --> 00:46:30,244 You two should work closely on this, 893 00:46:30,279 --> 00:46:31,411 and I don't need to be in the way... 894 00:46:31,446 --> 00:46:32,492 - Bobby... - Sanford 895 00:46:32,576 --> 00:46:34,217 can take my place on the board. 896 00:46:34,300 --> 00:46:36,134 It's a net PR win for everyone. 897 00:46:36,217 --> 00:46:39,259 No. 898 00:46:39,342 --> 00:46:41,509 The company needs Sanford. For sure. 899 00:46:41,592 --> 00:46:43,842 But I need you there helping me steer this. 900 00:46:45,189 --> 00:46:47,217 You've already protected it like a pit bull 901 00:46:47,300 --> 00:46:49,842 in this opening salvo. 902 00:46:49,925 --> 00:46:54,259 If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it. 903 00:46:54,342 --> 00:46:58,842 Bobby Axelrod actually gives a goddamn... enough to walk away. 904 00:46:58,925 --> 00:47:03,259 And you actually giving enough of a goddamn about him 905 00:47:03,342 --> 00:47:05,551 to risk me walking away. 906 00:47:05,634 --> 00:47:07,300 That's the kind of strength and loyalty 907 00:47:07,384 --> 00:47:09,426 great brands are built on. 908 00:47:09,509 --> 00:47:11,551 I want that at the heart of this company. 909 00:47:11,634 --> 00:47:14,925 And I want the wattage in your combined brain pan too. 910 00:47:17,178 --> 00:47:19,509 Okay, keep your board seat. 911 00:47:19,592 --> 00:47:21,217 I'm not going with Taylor Mason. 912 00:47:21,300 --> 00:47:22,800 I share your vision. 913 00:47:22,883 --> 00:47:26,800 But what really sold me is the two of you. Together. 914 00:47:26,883 --> 00:47:29,509 Ms. Cantu, if you can make this fallen man 915 00:47:29,592 --> 00:47:31,967 part of something good, 916 00:47:32,050 --> 00:47:35,008 you can make us all part of something great. 917 00:47:50,467 --> 00:47:52,426 I'm gonna need you to tell me what Chuck Rhoades wanted. 918 00:47:52,509 --> 00:47:53,925 And I need to know now... 919 00:48:23,300 --> 00:48:25,925 Now I know what this is really all about... 920 00:48:26,008 --> 00:48:28,259 I missed it at first, but now I see. 921 00:48:28,928 --> 00:48:30,008 See what? 922 00:48:30,092 --> 00:48:33,925 That sure, this is a psy-op, like I said. 923 00:48:34,008 --> 00:48:36,342 That it was about the Flagship Fund. 924 00:48:37,156 --> 00:48:38,342 But it's more than that. 925 00:48:40,300 --> 00:48:42,592 This is a move. 926 00:48:42,676 --> 00:48:43,751 On you. 927 00:48:44,634 --> 00:48:46,467 - Is that right? - Yeah. 928 00:48:46,551 --> 00:48:49,008 That's what all this was, 929 00:48:49,092 --> 00:48:51,925 on top of sowing general chaos in here 930 00:48:52,008 --> 00:48:54,259 and distracting me from the billionaire 931 00:48:54,342 --> 00:48:56,217 that I was tangling with: 932 00:48:56,300 --> 00:48:58,758 this is Taylor poaching you... 933 00:48:58,842 --> 00:49:01,800 I see how they all look to you out there... 934 00:49:01,883 --> 00:49:04,008 and Taylor must have figured it out too. 935 00:49:04,092 --> 00:49:06,592 They're going to reach out to you, come at you... 936 00:49:11,384 --> 00:49:12,925 Or did they already? 937 00:49:13,984 --> 00:49:15,175 It's possible. 938 00:49:19,676 --> 00:49:22,750 When you take that meeting with Taylor, 939 00:49:22,836 --> 00:49:24,634 you tell them that you are staying at Axe Capital. 940 00:49:24,717 --> 00:49:26,676 Because Axe values you. 941 00:49:26,758 --> 00:49:29,800 So much so, in fact, that he's reopened the Flagship Fund 942 00:49:29,883 --> 00:49:33,217 under a different name and put you in it. 943 00:49:34,248 --> 00:49:36,050 Which I just did. 944 00:49:37,654 --> 00:49:38,883 Nah. 945 00:49:38,967 --> 00:49:41,634 I'm not gonna tell Taylor that. 946 00:49:44,175 --> 00:49:46,426 Axe should have put you in the Flagship Fund. 947 00:49:46,509 --> 00:49:48,883 Come aboard here and you'll be treated right. 948 00:49:54,967 --> 00:49:58,134 Hey Taylor, Bonnie's very happy at Axe Capital. 949 00:49:58,217 --> 00:49:59,758 We're taking great care of her. 950 00:49:59,842 --> 00:50:01,967 And she's staying. 951 00:50:05,467 --> 00:50:08,426 I guess I was wrong about you... I thought you were smart. 952 00:50:09,883 --> 00:50:13,217 The elevator is that way. 953 00:50:22,925 --> 00:50:25,217 Bensinger's not going our way. 954 00:50:26,393 --> 00:50:28,551 We lost this one. Against Axe and Rebecca. 955 00:50:28,634 --> 00:50:30,800 Bensinger's backing them. 956 00:50:35,259 --> 00:50:36,592 Okay. 957 00:50:36,676 --> 00:50:38,676 This means our data's come in: 958 00:50:38,758 --> 00:50:40,467 Axe is that emotionally committed to Rebecca. 959 00:50:40,551 --> 00:50:42,426 Especially so if I'm coming after her. 960 00:50:43,595 --> 00:50:44,967 Is that a stopper? 961 00:50:45,882 --> 00:50:47,842 The opposite. A structural weakness. 962 00:50:47,925 --> 00:50:49,467 This means if I push hard enough 963 00:50:49,551 --> 00:50:52,342 it all collapses on both of them. 964 00:50:52,426 --> 00:50:54,925 And Bensinger, we just quietly retreat? 965 00:50:57,675 --> 00:51:01,050 Nope. He just added himself to my fucking list. 966 00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:37,217 Part of me still roots for you, Bryan, you know that? 967 00:51:37,790 --> 00:51:39,134 Oh, yeah? Which part's that? 968 00:51:39,217 --> 00:51:41,342 The part that remembers an idealistic young man 969 00:51:41,426 --> 00:51:43,217 walking into my office, 970 00:51:43,300 --> 00:51:45,758 asking for a chance to chase the bad guys. 971 00:51:45,842 --> 00:51:47,050 Whaddaya think happened to change him? 972 00:51:47,134 --> 00:51:48,142 Better question: who? 973 00:51:48,225 --> 00:51:51,426 Oh, you're gonna say it was me did that to you. 974 00:51:51,509 --> 00:51:55,008 But we both know that no man can change the nature of another. 975 00:51:55,092 --> 00:51:58,592 No. You went dark because good was just too fucking hard. 976 00:51:58,676 --> 00:52:01,092 But you're not really dark either, are you? 977 00:52:01,175 --> 00:52:03,134 No. It's like back during Project Mercury, 978 00:52:03,217 --> 00:52:05,217 you either had the right stuff or you didn't. 979 00:52:05,300 --> 00:52:06,467 And I don't see any wings on you... 980 00:52:06,551 --> 00:52:08,800 Enough. Look. 981 00:52:08,883 --> 00:52:10,676 You won this fucking round. 982 00:52:10,758 --> 00:52:12,676 Move that shit train 983 00:52:12,758 --> 00:52:14,592 and Jock will let your father's people go. 984 00:52:14,676 --> 00:52:17,217 But that's where we were... 985 00:52:17,300 --> 00:52:19,967 before the rain of frogs and the river running red. 986 00:52:20,050 --> 00:52:23,050 You want more. 987 00:52:23,134 --> 00:52:25,342 You want us to clear things up with the med board. 988 00:52:25,426 --> 00:52:26,967 Med board? 989 00:52:27,050 --> 00:52:28,384 I know you went to see that doctor in jail. 990 00:52:28,467 --> 00:52:31,592 I know why. And I know you wanted me to know. 991 00:52:31,676 --> 00:52:33,717 It's what you really need. And to get it you'll have to... 992 00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,592 Oooh, I did teach you how to make a deal. Didn't I? 993 00:52:36,676 --> 00:52:37,925 Better than you think. 994 00:52:38,008 --> 00:52:39,925 Because the deal requires you also walk away 995 00:52:40,008 --> 00:52:41,384 from the voting nonsense. 996 00:52:41,467 --> 00:52:43,050 Blockchain. Your pilot program. 997 00:52:44,540 --> 00:52:47,342 So that's what Jock needs. 998 00:52:47,426 --> 00:52:51,426 Of all I could do for him, that's what matters most? 999 00:52:51,509 --> 00:52:53,883 I tried to convince the man to have you owe him one. 1000 00:52:53,967 --> 00:52:55,967 Classic Rhoades: lord one over 'im 1001 00:52:56,050 --> 00:52:57,050 and hold out for something bigger. 1002 00:52:57,134 --> 00:53:00,384 But, uh, he wants to be paid up front. 1003 00:53:00,467 --> 00:53:03,384 Yeah. That shit train is powerful. 1004 00:53:03,467 --> 00:53:06,008 No. I move it and you give me both. 1005 00:53:06,092 --> 00:53:09,175 Uh uh. You need two things, you give two things. 1006 00:53:10,018 --> 00:53:11,300 No mobile voting. 1007 00:53:11,384 --> 00:53:14,050 These are the terms: Your dad gets taken care of. 1008 00:53:14,134 --> 00:53:17,092 Wendy gets taken care of. Jock gets taken care of. 1009 00:53:17,175 --> 00:53:20,050 Everyone gets something. Except me. 1010 00:53:20,134 --> 00:53:23,509 So really that's one more thing for you. 1011 00:53:23,592 --> 00:53:26,384 Do we have a deal? 1012 00:53:27,777 --> 00:53:29,300 I'll give you your answer now. 1013 00:53:29,384 --> 00:53:30,384 No. 1014 00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,717 Not even you can be this petty, 1015 00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:36,259 that you'll let your wife suffer just... 1016 00:53:36,342 --> 00:53:39,592 Some things are even more important than marriage. 1017 00:53:40,568 --> 00:53:42,134 Like fair and free elections? 1018 00:53:42,217 --> 00:53:43,634 Bullshit! 1019 00:53:43,717 --> 00:53:45,300 I know you too well to buy that from you. 1020 00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,426 Well, when you figure that out... why this matters... 1021 00:53:48,509 --> 00:53:50,426 maybe you'll become an ally. 1022 00:53:50,509 --> 00:53:51,967 Or a worthy opponent. 1023 00:53:52,050 --> 00:53:54,050 Or maybe you'll finally be fully corrupt. 1024 00:53:54,134 --> 00:53:58,384 But either way, the answer is official and the answer is no. 1025 00:54:00,883 --> 00:54:04,842 Another in a long line of Chuck Rhoades mistakes. 1026 00:54:07,008 --> 00:54:10,175 One step closer to the fucking end. 1027 00:54:42,967 --> 00:54:46,008 You fucking played me. 1028 00:54:46,092 --> 00:54:49,008 You're in the fund and I'm out. 1029 00:54:49,092 --> 00:54:51,092 That's the only reason we had our tomahawk date. 1030 00:54:51,175 --> 00:54:54,134 Not the only reason. 1031 00:54:55,717 --> 00:54:57,050 Not even the biggest one. 1032 00:55:37,806 --> 00:55:39,800 The Medical Board... 1033 00:55:40,637 --> 00:55:42,175 I'm afraid it's a no-go. 1034 00:55:47,467 --> 00:55:48,967 I'm sorry, Wend. 1035 00:55:49,050 --> 00:55:50,758 You're gonna have to take your chances with them. 1036 00:55:55,286 --> 00:55:58,758 I asked you to go out and kill, and... 1037 00:55:58,842 --> 00:56:00,592 I couldn't. 1038 00:56:04,092 --> 00:56:05,717 I just didn't have the pull. 1039 00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,758 Then I know it couldn't be done. 1040 00:56:41,092 --> 00:56:43,008 I don't usually work this late. 1041 00:56:43,092 --> 00:56:44,634 And I don't take walk-ins... 1042 00:56:46,883 --> 00:56:49,592 I don't have the right stuff... 1043 00:56:51,676 --> 00:56:52,800 Re-make me. 1044 00:58:04,824 --> 00:58:08,039 - synced and corrected by sot26 - www.MY-SUBS.com