1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,162 WWW.MY-SUBS.COM 1 00:00:04,567 --> 00:00:06,567 Previously on Billions... 2 00:00:06,651 --> 00:00:09,317 Foley is going to come forth. With what he knows about me. 3 00:00:09,969 --> 00:00:11,051 About us. 4 00:00:11,232 --> 00:00:12,234 Foley is terminal. 5 00:00:12,317 --> 00:00:14,359 He didn't see a doc until it was everywhere. 6 00:00:14,442 --> 00:00:17,858 So I'm proud of all of you put through college 7 00:00:17,942 --> 00:00:19,609 by the memorial foundation so far. 8 00:00:19,692 --> 00:00:21,108 Elysian Fields. 9 00:00:21,192 --> 00:00:23,400 This development is my legacy. 10 00:00:23,484 --> 00:00:26,400 This would be a disaster and create a possible scandal. 11 00:00:26,484 --> 00:00:28,567 It's all you say it is, Dad. Let's do something with this. 12 00:00:28,651 --> 00:00:30,651 I... in my private life... 13 00:00:30,734 --> 00:00:33,025 in the confines of my happy marriage... 14 00:00:33,108 --> 00:00:36,108 with my consenting wife... practice sadomasochism... 15 00:00:36,192 --> 00:00:38,275 I am done hearing you talk. 16 00:00:38,359 --> 00:00:41,567 By day's end, you will be the presumptive 17 00:00:41,651 --> 00:00:44,817 Attorney General of New York goddamned State. 18 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:46,900 Congratulations, Chuck. Can't wait to work together. 19 00:01:55,692 --> 00:01:57,234 Thank you, Anthony. 20 00:01:57,317 --> 00:01:59,275 It's such a treat watching you work. 21 00:01:59,359 --> 00:02:01,025 It's good to love what you do. 22 00:02:01,108 --> 00:02:02,359 - Enjoy, guys. - Thank you. 23 00:02:03,547 --> 00:02:04,592 Mmm. 24 00:02:05,139 --> 00:02:06,808 Man. So, to our new AG. 25 00:02:06,843 --> 00:02:08,234 - Oh. - Long may he rule. 26 00:02:08,317 --> 00:02:09,692 - Bravo. - Thank you. Uh... 27 00:02:09,776 --> 00:02:11,567 It's an honor all around... 28 00:02:11,651 --> 00:02:13,734 Wendy's first night out in a month. 29 00:02:13,817 --> 00:02:16,025 Well, the chance at a perfect pizza... 30 00:02:16,108 --> 00:02:18,484 in total privacy... was too much to pass up. 31 00:02:18,567 --> 00:02:21,776 Privacy? If the only way I could eat this pizza was naked, 32 00:02:21,858 --> 00:02:23,692 in the middle of Times Square, I would. 33 00:02:24,611 --> 00:02:26,734 Yeah. You would. You might even prefer it. 34 00:02:26,817 --> 00:02:29,359 The problem is, you'd be sure to undress me, too. 35 00:02:29,442 --> 00:02:31,692 Whether I wanted it or not. 36 00:02:32,518 --> 00:02:33,526 You're doing this, here? 37 00:02:35,692 --> 00:02:36,858 You did it. 38 00:02:39,192 --> 00:02:41,858 It's really only the ones we love, huh... 39 00:02:41,942 --> 00:02:44,317 - That make you want to kill them? - Hmm. 40 00:02:45,209 --> 00:02:47,025 Exactly. 41 00:02:47,956 --> 00:02:51,275 See. 42 00:02:51,359 --> 00:02:52,983 Yes. 43 00:02:53,067 --> 00:02:55,150 But even that you know the story ahead, 44 00:02:56,304 --> 00:02:58,526 there's no starting from zero for me anymore. 45 00:02:58,609 --> 00:03:00,234 - Used to be. - Mm. Mm. 46 00:03:00,317 --> 00:03:02,776 I could say: I'm Wendy. 47 00:03:02,858 --> 00:03:05,359 Go from there. I could add Rhoades, 48 00:03:05,442 --> 00:03:07,567 and to someone in finance it meant one thing, 49 00:03:07,651 --> 00:03:09,030 to someone in government another. 50 00:03:09,109 --> 00:03:11,983 If I'd say Dr. Wendy Rhoades, it meant something else. 51 00:03:12,067 --> 00:03:13,484 Still holds. All that still holds, yeah... 52 00:03:13,567 --> 00:03:15,400 Or I could say: I work at a hedge fund... 53 00:03:15,484 --> 00:03:17,526 - Uh-huh. - ...and we're off in a different direction. 54 00:03:17,609 --> 00:03:21,858 But I was the one to decide the what and when. 55 00:03:21,942 --> 00:03:24,317 Build a relationship. Now? 56 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,484 They just know... all of it. 57 00:03:27,567 --> 00:03:30,192 Everybody does. 58 00:03:30,275 --> 00:03:32,067 Chuck was in a tough spot. 59 00:03:32,651 --> 00:03:35,158 Yeah, there wasn't many moves he could make to win, 60 00:03:35,193 --> 00:03:37,108 - so he chose the one... - Yeah. He did. He chose. 61 00:03:37,192 --> 00:03:39,234 And now I can't walk down the street. 62 00:03:40,157 --> 00:03:42,108 And I'm no longer a blank slate 63 00:03:42,192 --> 00:03:45,234 for the guys I'm supposed to treat, inspire, change. 64 00:03:45,317 --> 00:03:47,067 There's this giant thought bubble 65 00:03:47,150 --> 00:03:49,858 just sitting there between us. 66 00:03:49,942 --> 00:03:53,108 And it features me with whips and chains. 67 00:03:54,789 --> 00:03:57,249 When I misplay something publicly 68 00:03:57,284 --> 00:03:58,900 and I feel like everyone's staring at me, 69 00:03:58,983 --> 00:04:02,275 I take comfort in this fact: 70 00:04:02,359 --> 00:04:05,817 most people are self-absorbed narcissistic assholes. 71 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:08,776 So they might revel in your shit for a minute, 72 00:04:08,858 --> 00:04:10,609 because it distracts them from theirs. 73 00:04:10,692 --> 00:04:13,609 But after that minute, they're gonna forget about you, 74 00:04:13,692 --> 00:04:15,817 just go right back to their own shitpile. 75 00:04:17,509 --> 00:04:18,608 Thank you. 76 00:04:19,018 --> 00:04:20,359 What do you say we start at zero? 77 00:04:22,595 --> 00:04:23,642 Deal. 78 00:04:25,219 --> 00:04:26,978 - Bobby... - Hmm? 79 00:04:27,013 --> 00:04:28,634 This is what's known as a keeper. 80 00:04:30,942 --> 00:04:33,734 - I'm gonna go have a few drags. - I'll join you. 81 00:04:46,572 --> 00:04:50,275 - It'll blow over. - Yeah? I dunno. 82 00:04:51,158 --> 00:04:52,858 She's been that angry at me before. 83 00:04:53,970 --> 00:04:56,108 - What'd you do to fix it? - Uh... 84 00:04:56,941 --> 00:04:59,592 Few million dollars, an Italian sports car, 85 00:04:59,625 --> 00:05:02,084 a piece of the profits, and I stopped suing you. 86 00:05:02,167 --> 00:05:05,625 And to be honest, she was still a little pissed. 87 00:05:05,709 --> 00:05:09,125 - For a long time. - Yeah, so, I dunno. 88 00:05:09,176 --> 00:05:12,250 You'd do the same again, exactly as before, 89 00:05:12,333 --> 00:05:14,001 even knowing her anger. 90 00:05:14,084 --> 00:05:16,194 As you, too, would have stayed the course. 91 00:05:16,229 --> 00:05:19,168 Mm. You know, people think guys like us don't care 92 00:05:19,258 --> 00:05:20,792 about the consequences of our actions. 93 00:05:20,876 --> 00:05:22,584 - We do care. A fuck of a lot. - Yeah. 94 00:05:23,828 --> 00:05:25,042 Yet still we forge on. 95 00:05:25,126 --> 00:05:27,750 As we must. 96 00:05:28,778 --> 00:05:29,959 Mmm. Good. 97 00:05:30,042 --> 00:05:31,342 - Mmm. - Eat up. 98 00:05:31,350 --> 00:05:33,917 I need you strong for tomorrow. Got another project for you. 99 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:37,625 Ah. The ask. 100 00:05:38,185 --> 00:05:40,917 Well, I did earn your seat, much as you did. 101 00:05:41,001 --> 00:05:42,179 Forge on. 102 00:05:43,084 --> 00:05:44,750 Taylor Mason. 103 00:05:45,422 --> 00:05:47,042 A Wall Street scalp. 104 00:05:47,752 --> 00:05:49,959 Should be just like old times for you. 105 00:05:50,042 --> 00:05:51,625 Financial crimes against the People 106 00:05:51,709 --> 00:05:53,084 are always of interest. 107 00:05:53,167 --> 00:05:55,542 And for you, I'd love to and I will. 108 00:05:55,625 --> 00:05:58,292 But, uh, while Jack Foley rode the pale horse 109 00:05:58,375 --> 00:06:00,042 before I could take my vengeance, 110 00:06:00,126 --> 00:06:01,792 I've got other names on my hit list 111 00:06:01,876 --> 00:06:03,453 I don't intend to let escape so easily. 112 00:06:03,517 --> 00:06:05,667 You can do your thing but you gotta do my thing. 113 00:06:05,750 --> 00:06:07,417 Mm-hmm. Well, I just got rid of Grigor, 114 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:10,667 - which hurt Taylor financially... - Yeah. Not bad enough. 115 00:06:10,750 --> 00:06:12,917 I want them in a fucking cell. 116 00:06:17,723 --> 00:06:18,834 I see. 117 00:06:18,917 --> 00:06:21,584 Do you know if Taylor's even done anything illegal? 118 00:06:21,667 --> 00:06:23,876 Never stopped you before. 119 00:06:28,167 --> 00:06:30,625 My master work, Biancarosa. 120 00:06:30,709 --> 00:06:32,834 But I need my sanitation permits. 121 00:06:32,917 --> 00:06:34,667 Mixed use development. 122 00:06:34,750 --> 00:06:36,625 Sixteen new buildings, four of them so high... 123 00:06:36,709 --> 00:06:38,292 I know, I read your brochure... 124 00:06:38,375 --> 00:06:39,542 ...that when you're in the penthouse, 125 00:06:39,625 --> 00:06:41,250 God looks up to you. 126 00:06:41,333 --> 00:06:43,084 And you know all we have to do to get started... 127 00:06:43,167 --> 00:06:44,709 Hey. 128 00:06:44,792 --> 00:06:47,126 We need to take those expectations down a notch. 129 00:06:47,208 --> 00:06:49,292 The old price isn't the new price. 130 00:06:49,375 --> 00:06:53,208 To do all this I'm gonna need thirty. 131 00:06:54,178 --> 00:06:55,500 I'll find you the money. 132 00:06:58,001 --> 00:07:01,834 But I need those permits. 133 00:07:59,198 --> 00:08:01,068 I never wanted Grigor Andolov's money. 134 00:08:01,092 --> 00:08:03,750 I lobbied against it once. But then I took it on. 135 00:08:03,834 --> 00:08:05,709 And it sustained us like an internal organ 136 00:08:05,792 --> 00:08:07,542 and now, without it, we're gutted. 137 00:08:07,625 --> 00:08:09,250 And it's not just about his money. 138 00:08:09,333 --> 00:08:10,542 When our reduced AUM goes public, 139 00:08:10,625 --> 00:08:12,167 our investors will be wondering 140 00:08:12,250 --> 00:08:14,062 about our stability and flowing out with him. 141 00:08:14,117 --> 00:08:16,959 I still look at you like Vincent Vega did Jules Winnfield... 142 00:08:17,042 --> 00:08:18,375 the smartest and toughest fella in the room. 143 00:08:18,458 --> 00:08:20,126 Thank you, Mafee. 144 00:08:20,208 --> 00:08:22,167 But I really don't need people telling me how smart I am. 145 00:08:22,250 --> 00:08:23,959 I don't feel very smart at the moment. 146 00:08:24,042 --> 00:08:25,458 I built a turbo engine here 147 00:08:25,542 --> 00:08:27,292 and the nitrous tank blew up in my face. 148 00:08:27,375 --> 00:08:28,834 So we've learned that lesson 149 00:08:28,917 --> 00:08:31,042 and now: we do the thing you do best. 150 00:08:31,126 --> 00:08:33,625 Both of you. Go invest in undervalued equities. 151 00:08:33,709 --> 00:08:35,667 Let me do the thing I do best: 152 00:08:35,750 --> 00:08:37,375 create the most helpful environment 153 00:08:37,458 --> 00:08:38,792 in which for you do it. 154 00:08:38,876 --> 00:08:41,084 - Yes. - To that end, I have made a move. 155 00:08:41,167 --> 00:08:42,625 Investor Relations. 156 00:08:43,014 --> 00:08:46,056 You know how Winston Wolfe solved dead body problems? 157 00:08:46,092 --> 00:08:48,876 This one solves dead balance sheet problems. 158 00:08:48,959 --> 00:08:51,292 Is she super young, early 20s, 159 00:08:51,375 --> 00:08:53,584 - too hip for this business? - Mm. 160 00:08:53,667 --> 00:08:56,584 In that case, I think she's already here... 161 00:09:01,584 --> 00:09:03,250 Welcome, Lauren... 162 00:09:03,333 --> 00:09:06,917 Lauren Turner, this is Taylor Mason, your boss. 163 00:09:08,333 --> 00:09:09,834 Pickle juice? 164 00:09:09,917 --> 00:09:11,792 Best hangover cure I have found. 165 00:09:12,514 --> 00:09:13,625 And I have searched. 166 00:09:13,709 --> 00:09:16,126 Don't worry, this is not where I shine. 167 00:09:16,208 --> 00:09:18,084 This is where I store up energy 168 00:09:18,167 --> 00:09:19,667 so that I can shine later. 169 00:09:19,750 --> 00:09:20,833 What... What do you need, boss? 170 00:09:20,867 --> 00:09:23,250 A Grigor-sized replacement. 171 00:09:23,333 --> 00:09:25,542 Those don't exist. Not for you. 172 00:09:25,625 --> 00:09:27,208 - Not today. - Fuck. 173 00:09:27,292 --> 00:09:29,250 - Don't sugarcoat it. - I'm ready to kill. 174 00:09:29,333 --> 00:09:31,042 Just not sure who... 175 00:09:31,126 --> 00:09:32,709 There aren't a lot of institutions 176 00:09:32,792 --> 00:09:34,001 allocating right now. 177 00:09:34,084 --> 00:09:35,876 Not in the ten-figure zip code. 178 00:09:35,959 --> 00:09:38,042 I can think of one. Right here in the City. 179 00:09:38,126 --> 00:09:39,472 Bravest, you know? 180 00:09:39,550 --> 00:09:40,864 The New York Firefighters Fund. 181 00:09:40,892 --> 00:09:42,020 Axe's firefighters? 182 00:09:42,109 --> 00:09:44,024 They were. But not lately. 183 00:09:44,092 --> 00:09:46,625 They are allocating up to three point one billion 184 00:09:46,709 --> 00:09:47,920 from the pension and health fund. 185 00:09:47,950 --> 00:09:49,542 And are currently hearing pitches. 186 00:09:49,625 --> 00:09:50,917 - Is that correct? - It is. 187 00:09:51,001 --> 00:09:52,792 And they'll never touch him again. 188 00:09:52,876 --> 00:09:56,001 You are Axe by association. 189 00:09:56,084 --> 00:09:58,208 Go make them. 190 00:10:07,584 --> 00:10:08,917 Johnny-Boy...! 191 00:10:09,818 --> 00:10:10,667 How's the fund? 192 00:10:10,750 --> 00:10:13,584 We're crushing it like Richard Petty did Daytona. 193 00:10:13,667 --> 00:10:16,084 That's an age-weighted reference for my benefit, isn't it. 194 00:10:16,167 --> 00:10:18,250 Noted and appreciated. 195 00:10:18,333 --> 00:10:19,834 And your wife and... 196 00:10:19,917 --> 00:10:21,584 We just had our second kid, 197 00:10:21,667 --> 00:10:23,084 another boy, three months ago. 198 00:10:23,167 --> 00:10:25,584 Yeah. Yeah, I, uh... 199 00:10:25,667 --> 00:10:27,876 - You sent a gift, don't worry. - Good. 200 00:10:27,959 --> 00:10:30,667 Now, I know you're positive on the quarter, so what's up? 201 00:10:30,750 --> 00:10:32,250 Yeah. Returns are solid. 202 00:10:32,333 --> 00:10:35,126 So I, uh, wanted to come by and say thank you. 203 00:10:35,208 --> 00:10:37,375 For backing me, putting me through B-school... 204 00:10:37,458 --> 00:10:38,917 Of course. Of course. 205 00:10:39,001 --> 00:10:41,126 Your dad, rest in peace, he would have done it. 206 00:10:41,208 --> 00:10:43,333 And I see you give back to the Foundation... 207 00:10:43,417 --> 00:10:45,138 And for backing me, with your capital and your endorsement 208 00:10:45,150 --> 00:10:46,556 when I opened up my own place. 209 00:10:46,626 --> 00:10:49,117 Well, a smart kid like you wouldn't come work for me, 210 00:10:49,217 --> 00:10:51,167 you know, I had to find some way to keep a little piece of you. 211 00:10:52,252 --> 00:10:56,750 Well, I am happy to make it pay off for you. 212 00:11:01,917 --> 00:11:03,208 102 million. 213 00:11:03,292 --> 00:11:05,126 Your initial investment compounded 214 00:11:05,208 --> 00:11:07,876 net of fees with a profit of 17 million. 215 00:11:07,959 --> 00:11:09,667 You're cashing me out? 216 00:11:09,750 --> 00:11:11,667 My redemption period ends tomorrow. 217 00:11:11,750 --> 00:11:13,500 I wanted to clean things up, bring it over myself. 218 00:11:13,584 --> 00:11:15,126 To say thank you. 219 00:11:15,208 --> 00:11:17,876 In our business, people never give back the money. 220 00:11:17,959 --> 00:11:19,333 So why are you giving back the money? 221 00:11:19,417 --> 00:11:21,001 You know, most people are happy 222 00:11:21,084 --> 00:11:22,625 when they're handed a hundred million-plus. 223 00:11:22,709 --> 00:11:26,667 You grew it, so that's why I want you to keep it. 224 00:11:26,750 --> 00:11:30,167 And I'm... I'm thrilled... I'm grateful that I, uh, 225 00:11:30,250 --> 00:11:33,542 had the opportunity to do that for you. 226 00:11:33,625 --> 00:11:34,917 Talk... Talk more. 227 00:11:35,580 --> 00:11:37,667 About how that gratitude results in you 228 00:11:37,750 --> 00:11:39,417 spitting my capital back in my face 229 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:41,917 like Furiosa did to Nux in Fury Road. 230 00:11:42,001 --> 00:11:44,167 An age weighted reference. Noted and appreciated. 231 00:11:44,250 --> 00:11:46,250 Uh huh. 232 00:11:46,333 --> 00:11:48,917 Axe. You know that I wrestled back at Princeton. 233 00:11:49,001 --> 00:11:51,542 Sure, used to get the updates from your mom. 234 00:11:51,625 --> 00:11:54,208 Well, I... I crushed it my sophomore year, 197. 235 00:11:54,292 --> 00:11:55,917 Then I lifted all summer, 236 00:11:56,001 --> 00:11:58,167 I came back as a heavyweight my junior year, 237 00:11:58,250 --> 00:12:00,167 I was bloated and overconfident, 238 00:12:00,250 --> 00:12:01,542 and I got smashed. 239 00:12:01,625 --> 00:12:03,208 This is that: 240 00:12:03,292 --> 00:12:05,500 My assets under management went over a billion. 241 00:12:05,584 --> 00:12:07,417 I don't want the same thing to happen. 242 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:09,667 So, a few more stops today paying out gains 243 00:12:09,750 --> 00:12:11,209 and I'll be back to where I want to be: 244 00:12:11,306 --> 00:12:14,625 in my weight class, nimble. 245 00:12:17,292 --> 00:12:19,959 I don't think this is advised. 246 00:12:20,234 --> 00:12:21,917 Come on. I'll be fine. 247 00:12:22,001 --> 00:12:25,917 And, again, thank you. 248 00:12:41,834 --> 00:12:45,333 I need to know who else this kid cashed out. And why. 249 00:12:45,417 --> 00:12:47,126 'Ae, Kimo. 250 00:12:56,542 --> 00:12:58,667 Tell the staff not to clap when I come in today, Donna, 251 00:12:58,750 --> 00:13:00,042 let's just get to work. 252 00:13:00,126 --> 00:13:01,750 I know they're gonna want to celebrate it. 253 00:13:01,834 --> 00:13:04,042 But, uh, it's not dignified. 254 00:13:04,126 --> 00:13:05,876 No clapping. Really... 255 00:13:05,959 --> 00:13:08,375 - In Japanese lore... - Ah! Fuck me... 256 00:13:08,458 --> 00:13:11,042 ...the shinobi, descended from a half-man, half-crow, 257 00:13:11,126 --> 00:13:13,208 could slip into the shogun's palace 258 00:13:13,292 --> 00:13:16,208 and open his radial artery while he slept. 259 00:13:16,292 --> 00:13:18,042 The lord would exsanguinate 260 00:13:18,126 --> 00:13:19,792 before he knew he was cut. 261 00:13:19,876 --> 00:13:22,250 Bryan. I can see you clear as day. 262 00:13:22,333 --> 00:13:24,458 Your suit is blue, not black. 263 00:13:24,542 --> 00:13:27,084 You already cut me and I'm still standing. 264 00:13:27,167 --> 00:13:28,667 Next time it'll be my turn. 265 00:13:28,750 --> 00:13:30,250 What do you want? 266 00:13:30,333 --> 00:13:32,042 I come in the spirit of cooperation, Chuck. 267 00:13:32,126 --> 00:13:33,750 I know you're gonna be sending me 268 00:13:33,834 --> 00:13:36,292 your most choice, high-resource cases, 269 00:13:36,375 --> 00:13:38,126 and I wanted to ensure a smooth handoff. 270 00:13:38,208 --> 00:13:39,792 Thought we might even discuss 271 00:13:39,876 --> 00:13:41,500 some of the finer points in person. 272 00:13:41,584 --> 00:13:43,584 I can't imagine I'd be sending you anything 273 00:13:43,667 --> 00:13:45,709 but a hearty 'how's my ass taste?' 274 00:13:46,262 --> 00:13:47,482 As you must surely know, 275 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,532 since you are loitering outside my chambers, 276 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:53,750 and those of an elected official at that. 277 00:13:53,834 --> 00:13:55,292 Have a good first day. 278 00:13:55,375 --> 00:13:57,584 And if you change your mind about those cases, 279 00:13:57,667 --> 00:13:59,709 you sure know where my office is. 280 00:14:43,001 --> 00:14:45,810 You guys may have taken this whole 'no clapping' thing too far. 281 00:14:45,834 --> 00:14:49,042 I took a pay cut and came over here from SDNY 282 00:14:49,126 --> 00:14:52,834 specifically so I could punch some wrong-doers in the face. 283 00:14:52,917 --> 00:14:54,359 No one's stopping you. Who's stopping you? 284 00:14:54,401 --> 00:14:56,762 The State of New York, which ironically 285 00:14:56,817 --> 00:14:59,748 grants the AG very few powers by statute. 286 00:14:59,784 --> 00:15:02,617 Yes. But the rest of my armament is granted by executive order. 287 00:15:02,626 --> 00:15:03,926 As in the governor... 288 00:15:03,950 --> 00:15:06,333 Well apparently he woke up with morning wood 289 00:15:06,417 --> 00:15:08,667 and decided to jam it right up our hind quarters. 290 00:15:08,750 --> 00:15:10,625 I went to file for a records subpoena 291 00:15:10,709 --> 00:15:12,542 on Taylor Mason like you asked, 292 00:15:12,625 --> 00:15:14,542 and the clerk refused to issue it. 293 00:15:14,625 --> 00:15:18,001 Seems we have no authority at all, currently. 294 00:15:18,084 --> 00:15:21,333 I know where this started. 295 00:15:21,417 --> 00:15:25,959 Half-crow, half-cowboy, all sonofabitch. 296 00:15:30,918 --> 00:15:33,042 - Who else? - I've been checking around. 297 00:15:33,126 --> 00:15:35,084 I haven't gotten answers from all parties yet... 298 00:15:35,167 --> 00:15:36,667 - Who else? - This is something 299 00:15:36,750 --> 00:15:38,234 you should really let me be thorough on. 300 00:15:38,267 --> 00:15:41,250 - Rush to judgement's no good here... - Wags. 301 00:15:42,150 --> 00:15:43,292 No one. 302 00:15:43,375 --> 00:15:45,417 You're the only one John Rice cashed out. 303 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:48,250 - Fuck. - I'm sorry, fré. 304 00:15:48,333 --> 00:15:50,084 You being 'sensitive' is intolerable. 305 00:15:50,167 --> 00:15:51,625 - Stop it. - Oh, thank God! 306 00:15:51,709 --> 00:15:53,250 Let me do it. 307 00:15:53,333 --> 00:15:55,417 Let me loose the hounds of hell on this ingrate, 308 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:57,625 this near-millennial scumbag. 309 00:15:57,709 --> 00:16:00,167 I will flay his skin from his bones 310 00:16:00,250 --> 00:16:03,167 and I won't stop until... 311 00:16:10,750 --> 00:16:13,001 Is the idea that if you get here real early 312 00:16:13,084 --> 00:16:14,542 and don't turn the lights on, 313 00:16:14,625 --> 00:16:16,084 no one will come looking for you? 314 00:16:16,167 --> 00:16:19,250 Oh, did I forget to turn on the lights? 315 00:16:19,333 --> 00:16:22,667 No. You didn't forget. 316 00:16:22,750 --> 00:16:24,292 I didn't. 317 00:16:24,375 --> 00:16:26,417 Yet you walk in. 318 00:16:27,108 --> 00:16:29,084 Well, I need you. 319 00:16:29,167 --> 00:16:30,571 Something you should have thought about 320 00:16:30,659 --> 00:16:32,084 before taking Chuck's side. 321 00:16:32,167 --> 00:16:34,167 Oh. I was taking your side. 322 00:16:34,174 --> 00:16:36,625 'Cause it's not healthy for you to be in a place of shame 323 00:16:36,709 --> 00:16:39,250 or disgrace. No reason to. 324 00:16:39,333 --> 00:16:40,667 This all hurts you, actually. 325 00:16:40,750 --> 00:16:42,126 How am I supposed to do what I do? 326 00:16:42,208 --> 00:16:43,417 No way. 327 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:44,959 This makes you better. 328 00:16:45,042 --> 00:16:47,250 This makes you more of an exotic species 329 00:16:47,333 --> 00:16:49,458 they need to impress with their alpha dog energy. 330 00:16:52,750 --> 00:16:55,042 This office isn't where we talk about me. 331 00:16:55,126 --> 00:16:58,042 But thank you. 332 00:16:58,126 --> 00:16:59,542 Now... 333 00:16:59,625 --> 00:17:01,458 John Rice. 334 00:17:01,542 --> 00:17:04,709 Kid walked in here and handed me back my money. 335 00:17:04,792 --> 00:17:06,208 Only you? 336 00:17:06,292 --> 00:17:08,542 No. Not what he said, but yes. 337 00:17:08,625 --> 00:17:10,959 Is it the rejection or the embarrassment? 338 00:17:11,042 --> 00:17:12,792 Normally, a guy takes 339 00:17:12,876 --> 00:17:14,709 what I consider to be an aggressive line against me, 340 00:17:14,792 --> 00:17:16,542 I cut him down like the Mongol hordes. 341 00:17:16,625 --> 00:17:18,458 But this time you don't feel the hot anger, 342 00:17:18,542 --> 00:17:19,792 the need to destroy. 343 00:17:19,876 --> 00:17:21,375 Oh, no, that's still there. 344 00:17:21,458 --> 00:17:24,001 But it's not the top note. 345 00:17:24,807 --> 00:17:26,458 I don't know what's going on. I... 346 00:17:28,294 --> 00:17:29,500 It's... 347 00:17:29,584 --> 00:17:32,750 Oh. Some sensation. 348 00:17:33,694 --> 00:17:36,542 You're suffering an actual emotional wound. 349 00:17:36,625 --> 00:17:38,458 That's why you don't know what the fuck's going on. 350 00:17:38,542 --> 00:17:40,042 Your feelings are involved. 351 00:17:40,126 --> 00:17:42,084 I don't traffic in those much. 352 00:17:54,142 --> 00:17:56,272 There's a world in which this is all your fault. 353 00:17:56,307 --> 00:17:57,542 Enraged but listening. 354 00:17:57,625 --> 00:17:59,292 What did you, if not promise, 355 00:17:59,375 --> 00:18:01,167 then at least pledge to him? 356 00:18:01,250 --> 00:18:03,084 You know I take care of school. 357 00:18:03,167 --> 00:18:05,042 He was already in college, 358 00:18:05,126 --> 00:18:06,667 his dad had set aside money for that. 359 00:18:06,750 --> 00:18:08,250 - I did B-school. - What else? 360 00:18:09,210 --> 00:18:11,625 Well, to be there for him. 361 00:18:12,694 --> 00:18:14,333 Well. Be a stand in. 362 00:18:14,417 --> 00:18:16,876 An ear. A shoulder. 363 00:18:16,959 --> 00:18:18,792 And have you? 364 00:18:19,748 --> 00:18:21,292 All you really offered him was money, 365 00:18:21,375 --> 00:18:23,959 when what he needed was a mentor. 366 00:18:24,042 --> 00:18:25,834 A bit of personal connection. 367 00:18:25,917 --> 00:18:27,834 Did he expect me to take him to the ballgame 368 00:18:27,917 --> 00:18:29,876 and the fucking zoo...? 369 00:18:33,809 --> 00:18:36,001 You know this is about Taylor, right? 370 00:18:37,498 --> 00:18:39,375 This feels like that to you. 371 00:18:39,458 --> 00:18:42,292 Like one of your kids spurned you. 372 00:18:42,375 --> 00:18:46,333 And through your anger, what you're really wondering: 373 00:18:46,417 --> 00:18:48,167 is if it's all your fault. 374 00:18:49,602 --> 00:18:51,292 Huh. 375 00:18:52,224 --> 00:18:54,042 You may be right. 376 00:18:55,229 --> 00:18:58,208 And now I know what to do. 377 00:19:03,804 --> 00:19:06,167 Well. We need you here. 378 00:19:07,130 --> 00:19:10,834 Upstairs. And in this room with your door open and your lights on. 379 00:19:10,917 --> 00:19:12,375 Rebecca was right. 380 00:19:12,458 --> 00:19:14,959 You've made this thing bigger than it is. 381 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,333 Just like you and John Rice. 382 00:19:17,417 --> 00:19:19,709 No. Because I know what he thinks. 383 00:19:19,792 --> 00:19:21,126 And what he did. 384 00:19:21,208 --> 00:19:23,375 You have no idea who's talking about you. 385 00:19:23,458 --> 00:19:24,917 Or if anyone even is. 386 00:19:25,001 --> 00:19:26,876 So either you confront it head on, 387 00:19:26,959 --> 00:19:28,126 or let it go. 388 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:31,208 But don't keep giving it power over you 389 00:19:31,292 --> 00:19:33,584 by staying in the dark. 390 00:20:08,025 --> 00:20:09,266 Thank you. 391 00:20:14,238 --> 00:20:16,542 They were supposed to have it hung by start of business today, 392 00:20:16,625 --> 00:20:19,584 - but they fucked it up. - Welcome to state politics, Bob. 393 00:20:20,792 --> 00:20:23,001 I know why you're here. 394 00:20:23,084 --> 00:20:25,557 I thought we were looking forward to working together. 395 00:20:25,650 --> 00:20:29,333 Ah. That's just something you say on election night. 396 00:20:30,205 --> 00:20:33,792 What do Jock Jeffcoat and his disciples have on you? 397 00:20:33,876 --> 00:20:36,876 This isn't about me, Chuck... or you. 398 00:20:37,682 --> 00:20:39,292 This is about the People. 399 00:20:40,107 --> 00:20:42,500 Jock threatened to go Federal on my ass. 400 00:20:42,584 --> 00:20:44,458 Freeze funds, delay funds, yank funds. 401 00:20:44,542 --> 00:20:46,917 Unless you yanked my powers? 402 00:20:47,001 --> 00:20:48,429 So, what was I supposed to do? 403 00:20:48,508 --> 00:20:51,500 Uh. Fight harder. You're the governor. 404 00:20:51,584 --> 00:20:53,667 They're your people. Be their fucking champion. 405 00:20:53,750 --> 00:20:55,250 Stand up for the blessed sovereignty 406 00:20:55,333 --> 00:20:57,001 of the States versus the Fed. 407 00:20:57,084 --> 00:20:59,667 That's why we bowed and scraped to get these fucking jobs. 408 00:20:59,750 --> 00:21:02,084 Wow. It sounds so good when you say it. 409 00:21:02,167 --> 00:21:04,709 But I'd rather be the guy that didn't run out of money 410 00:21:04,792 --> 00:21:07,458 to keep the streets clean and safe in his first week. 411 00:21:07,542 --> 00:21:09,375 I'm sorry that leaves you impotent, Chuck. 412 00:21:09,458 --> 00:21:10,959 But you'll get used to it. 413 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:23,167 I've got the lattice grid fin prototype... 414 00:21:23,250 --> 00:21:24,834 Machined it myself. 415 00:21:24,917 --> 00:21:26,834 Once I caught the harmonic frequencies on the lathe, 416 00:21:26,917 --> 00:21:28,250 the cuts got finer. 417 00:21:28,333 --> 00:21:29,792 It'll hold up to wind tunnel tests, 418 00:21:29,876 --> 00:21:31,834 I just need to rent the tunnel to be sure. 419 00:21:31,917 --> 00:21:33,167 Here... 420 00:21:34,585 --> 00:21:37,250 Materials. Equipment. Expenses that need to be covered 421 00:21:37,333 --> 00:21:38,500 to get us to a place 422 00:21:38,584 --> 00:21:40,500 where aerospace firms will be believers. 423 00:21:40,584 --> 00:21:41,917 Buyers. 424 00:21:44,769 --> 00:21:46,042 Not the best time. 425 00:21:46,126 --> 00:21:48,099 I'm trying to get money flowing in not out. 426 00:21:48,184 --> 00:21:50,167 - Why? - Because it's been flowing out. 427 00:21:50,250 --> 00:21:52,042 Flowed. Like a geyser. 428 00:21:52,126 --> 00:21:53,208 Why is that such a problem? 429 00:21:53,292 --> 00:21:55,858 I'm not being simple. I want to understand. 430 00:21:55,933 --> 00:21:57,458 I need size. To do what I do. 431 00:21:57,542 --> 00:21:59,292 The margins on the trades are small 432 00:21:59,375 --> 00:22:00,876 so we rely on the amounts being big, 433 00:22:00,959 --> 00:22:02,375 to pull down real profit. 434 00:22:02,458 --> 00:22:03,917 I'm not interested in being boutique. 435 00:22:04,001 --> 00:22:05,750 I didn't want to say, 436 00:22:05,834 --> 00:22:07,625 because I'm impressed with what you've built. 437 00:22:07,709 --> 00:22:09,001 And the culture. 438 00:22:09,084 --> 00:22:11,001 But there are other things you can do 439 00:22:11,084 --> 00:22:13,417 at the highest level. Not just make money. 440 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:16,458 This is about your old boss... Axelrod, isn't it? 441 00:22:16,542 --> 00:22:18,126 About making more money than him? 442 00:22:18,208 --> 00:22:19,293 That's right. 443 00:22:19,350 --> 00:22:21,001 More than anyone else on the Street too... 444 00:22:21,084 --> 00:22:22,313 in absolute returns. 445 00:22:22,334 --> 00:22:24,249 And to do it again next year. And the year after. 446 00:22:24,267 --> 00:22:26,333 I get it, you're a competitive animal. 447 00:22:26,417 --> 00:22:29,084 I guess I didn't expect such... machismo from you. 448 00:22:29,167 --> 00:22:31,452 I might find your effort at exploring my true purpose 449 00:22:31,459 --> 00:22:33,311 a little more affecting if it didn't feel like 450 00:22:33,325 --> 00:22:36,625 the purpose you wanted me to pursue instead was yours. 451 00:22:37,705 --> 00:22:41,750 Sorry. I'll keep refining the CNC program... 452 00:22:41,834 --> 00:22:43,500 until you're ready. 453 00:23:04,167 --> 00:23:06,375 Axe. 454 00:23:07,190 --> 00:23:08,834 Hey. Uh... 455 00:23:08,917 --> 00:23:11,084 I know why you gave the money back. 456 00:23:11,167 --> 00:23:12,417 I fucked up. 457 00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:14,625 Should have done more than said hi 458 00:23:14,709 --> 00:23:16,959 each time I checked in on my account. 459 00:23:18,109 --> 00:23:19,142 Please. 460 00:23:22,126 --> 00:23:24,458 Your father. 461 00:23:24,542 --> 00:23:27,625 He was a mentor to me at the old firm. 462 00:23:27,709 --> 00:23:30,042 I was supposed to stand in, 463 00:23:30,126 --> 00:23:32,625 try to fill that role for you... 464 00:23:32,709 --> 00:23:35,542 Yeah. Not that anyone could. 465 00:23:35,625 --> 00:23:37,250 - He used to take you fishing. - Yeah. 466 00:23:37,333 --> 00:23:38,709 Sun Valley. 467 00:23:38,792 --> 00:23:42,333 Fly fishing for, uh, rainbows and monster browns. 468 00:23:42,417 --> 00:23:44,750 Yeah. What about salt water? You ever do that? 469 00:23:44,834 --> 00:23:47,042 - Out in the deep water... - Dad? No. Never. 470 00:23:47,126 --> 00:23:49,167 Strictly, uh... Strictly rivers. 471 00:23:49,995 --> 00:23:51,126 Let me take you. 472 00:23:51,208 --> 00:23:52,667 Let's hit it. 473 00:23:52,750 --> 00:23:55,458 Yeah. Okay. When? 474 00:23:56,023 --> 00:23:57,584 - Now. - Axe... 475 00:23:57,667 --> 00:23:59,917 Stripers aren't running, but we can still chunk for them. 476 00:24:00,001 --> 00:24:01,542 And blues are always a great fight. 477 00:24:01,625 --> 00:24:02,673 All that to get me to keep your money? 478 00:24:02,684 --> 00:24:04,709 Nah, forget about that. That's done. 479 00:24:04,792 --> 00:24:06,292 You make plenty of money, I make plenty of money. 480 00:24:06,375 --> 00:24:08,417 This is about doing right. 481 00:24:08,500 --> 00:24:11,917 About re-upping a job I slacked on. 482 00:24:12,001 --> 00:24:14,667 Come on, let me do what I pledged to do. 483 00:24:14,750 --> 00:24:17,500 As your father did for me. 484 00:24:19,001 --> 00:24:21,084 Come on. 485 00:24:23,001 --> 00:24:24,625 Okay. 486 00:24:24,709 --> 00:24:26,333 Yeah. Fuck it. 487 00:24:35,042 --> 00:24:39,250 Don't remember you ever actually shopping, Dad. 488 00:24:39,333 --> 00:24:41,750 My little blue helper. 489 00:24:41,834 --> 00:24:43,417 I can't send the girl to pick it up. 490 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:45,750 Hard to explain when your mother confides in her 491 00:24:45,834 --> 00:24:48,359 that we haven't coupled since Tony Orlando last charted. 492 00:24:48,442 --> 00:24:50,191 No son should hear that kind of... 493 00:24:50,284 --> 00:24:52,001 You should, Sonny. 494 00:24:53,166 --> 00:24:54,458 Look around. 495 00:24:55,903 --> 00:24:56,917 What do you see? 496 00:24:57,001 --> 00:24:58,959 Pantyhose and deodorant. 497 00:24:59,042 --> 00:25:01,500 Before there was a Duane Reade on every corner, 498 00:25:01,584 --> 00:25:03,208 this, and places like it, 499 00:25:03,292 --> 00:25:05,038 is where history got made. 500 00:25:05,058 --> 00:25:07,625 This was Toots Shor's place. 501 00:25:07,709 --> 00:25:10,625 Chaplin came in for the steak. 502 00:25:10,709 --> 00:25:12,792 I once witnessed Shor himself 503 00:25:12,876 --> 00:25:15,500 drink Jackie Gleason under the table. 504 00:25:15,584 --> 00:25:19,792 But more importantly, half the Albany power brokers 505 00:25:19,876 --> 00:25:22,250 enjoyed cocktails and rubbed shoulders 506 00:25:22,333 --> 00:25:25,834 with mobsters and Broadway stars in here. 507 00:25:25,917 --> 00:25:27,959 This is where you met Black Jack Foley. 508 00:25:28,042 --> 00:25:29,417 Right there. 509 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:30,959 At the bar. 510 00:25:31,042 --> 00:25:33,208 And you dragged me over here to, what? 511 00:25:33,292 --> 00:25:34,625 Uh, pour one out for him? 512 00:25:34,709 --> 00:25:35,959 That's not why... 513 00:25:36,042 --> 00:25:37,667 Dad, I'm pretty fucking busy. 514 00:25:37,750 --> 00:25:38,959 Are you? 515 00:25:39,042 --> 00:25:41,208 Because as I understand it, 516 00:25:41,292 --> 00:25:43,792 - you've been spayed and neutered. - Well, I plan to... 517 00:25:43,876 --> 00:25:46,333 Whatever it is, it won't be enough. 518 00:25:49,001 --> 00:25:52,208 The first time that I met Foley, 519 00:25:52,292 --> 00:25:54,084 he told me about this alderman 520 00:25:54,167 --> 00:25:56,292 who could barely tie his own shoes. 521 00:25:56,375 --> 00:25:58,333 Rumor had it he was inbred. 522 00:25:58,417 --> 00:26:00,750 But Jack Foley had it in his mind 523 00:26:00,834 --> 00:26:03,542 that the mayor of Utica needed to be replaced... 524 00:26:03,625 --> 00:26:05,500 wasn't toeing the line, so to speak. 525 00:26:05,584 --> 00:26:07,001 Let me just skip to the end. 526 00:26:07,084 --> 00:26:09,250 So Black Jack took this idiot alderman 527 00:26:09,333 --> 00:26:11,084 and made him mayor. 528 00:26:11,167 --> 00:26:15,042 Oh, you are awfully smug for a man with no real clout. 529 00:26:15,126 --> 00:26:17,917 Anyway, one day, as I'm getting out of the car, 530 00:26:18,001 --> 00:26:19,500 they are cutting the grass 531 00:26:19,584 --> 00:26:21,250 across the street from my country place... 532 00:26:21,333 --> 00:26:24,250 And you know who is pushing the mower? 533 00:26:24,333 --> 00:26:25,667 The former mayor. 534 00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:28,042 Yes. Of course he is. 535 00:26:29,229 --> 00:26:32,042 I'm in it, Dad, trying to get back my authority. 536 00:26:32,126 --> 00:26:33,750 Aim higher! 537 00:26:33,834 --> 00:26:35,375 Don't just get your juice back, Sonny. 538 00:26:35,458 --> 00:26:38,876 Send a fucking message. 539 00:26:38,959 --> 00:26:41,625 The Mayor wasn't toeing the line, 540 00:26:41,709 --> 00:26:45,792 so Foley made him a lawn boy. 541 00:26:45,876 --> 00:26:49,959 You've got to show them what you do with power. 542 00:26:51,585 --> 00:26:54,584 Now, for longer than he was your enemy, 543 00:26:54,667 --> 00:26:57,876 Black Jack Foley was in your corner. 544 00:26:57,959 --> 00:27:01,126 So take this one last lesson from him... 545 00:27:01,208 --> 00:27:04,709 Make them fear me. 546 00:27:04,792 --> 00:27:07,292 Your vengeance, 547 00:27:07,375 --> 00:27:10,834 your whim, 548 00:27:10,917 --> 00:27:13,709 your everything. 549 00:27:19,935 --> 00:27:22,084 Jock Jeffcoat couldn't keep me out of office. 550 00:27:22,167 --> 00:27:23,476 But now he thinks he's found a way 551 00:27:23,559 --> 00:27:25,476 to keep me from that office's powers. 552 00:27:25,559 --> 00:27:28,726 He doesn't just think it. He did it. 553 00:27:28,808 --> 00:27:30,808 So what are we gonna do? 554 00:27:30,892 --> 00:27:33,309 I want you to look into the State Assembly. 555 00:27:33,392 --> 00:27:35,142 Start with Joe Scolari 556 00:27:35,225 --> 00:27:36,892 and his cabal of senior legislators. 557 00:27:36,975 --> 00:27:38,184 The ones who really pull the levers 558 00:27:38,267 --> 00:27:40,100 of hydrodynamic shit in Albany. 559 00:27:40,184 --> 00:27:42,434 I never mind snaking through the sewer pipes, 560 00:27:42,517 --> 00:27:44,517 but with our legal powers currently curtailed... 561 00:27:44,601 --> 00:27:47,017 We're not building a legal case, not right now. 562 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:49,225 Just... I need you to get what you can 563 00:27:49,309 --> 00:27:51,267 and I need you to get it quickly and quietly. 564 00:27:51,350 --> 00:27:53,017 Does it need to stand up in court? 565 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:55,620 Eventually. But for now it just needs to be true. 566 00:27:55,944 --> 00:27:56,950 Do it. 567 00:28:08,010 --> 00:28:09,017 Uh, Wags? 568 00:28:14,392 --> 00:28:17,017 Smoother? Any difference? 569 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:19,184 This thing's supposed to zap wrinkles. 570 00:28:19,267 --> 00:28:21,309 Yeah, you look like Benjamin Button. 571 00:28:21,993 --> 00:28:25,632 So, Rudy... what was the name of that, um... 572 00:28:25,667 --> 00:28:26,933 apparatus he had? 573 00:28:27,017 --> 00:28:28,850 Ah, the fleshlight. 574 00:28:28,933 --> 00:28:31,142 The repository for all of the sadness of the male world. 575 00:28:31,225 --> 00:28:33,559 And whose... model was it? 576 00:28:33,642 --> 00:28:36,374 I believe he had the Lisa Ann. 577 00:28:36,409 --> 00:28:38,892 She is a first ballot hall of famer. 578 00:28:38,927 --> 00:28:40,572 You buying someone a gift? 579 00:28:41,850 --> 00:28:44,184 You're password hunting. 580 00:28:47,622 --> 00:28:48,808 I need to look at his social media. 581 00:28:48,892 --> 00:28:50,100 Rudy's? 582 00:28:50,184 --> 00:28:51,933 He'll be the easiest to get into. 583 00:28:52,017 --> 00:28:53,850 I tried to get a keystroke log from IT, 584 00:28:53,933 --> 00:28:55,684 but they erase every two weeks... 585 00:28:55,767 --> 00:28:57,559 Chuck opened up a part of my private life 586 00:28:57,642 --> 00:28:58,975 when he made that speech. 587 00:28:59,058 --> 00:29:01,142 Made me vulnerable. 588 00:29:01,225 --> 00:29:03,559 Any employee's vulnerability 589 00:29:03,642 --> 00:29:05,267 is a threat to Axe Cap and our business. 590 00:29:05,350 --> 00:29:07,808 So I need to know what our enemies are saying. 591 00:29:07,892 --> 00:29:09,267 They're saying plenty. 592 00:29:09,350 --> 00:29:10,808 Other firms. I went down a rabbit hole. 593 00:29:10,892 --> 00:29:14,808 But Rudy is in contact with our chief enemy, so... 594 00:29:15,659 --> 00:29:17,958 'Password is no longer valid'. He changed it. 595 00:29:17,993 --> 00:29:19,084 May I? 596 00:29:23,750 --> 00:29:25,350 Nicole Aniston. 597 00:29:26,446 --> 00:29:27,850 Blair Williams. 598 00:29:27,933 --> 00:29:30,058 No. Wait. 599 00:29:34,172 --> 00:29:35,309 Cory Chase. 600 00:29:35,392 --> 00:29:36,684 If you're a Lisa Ann fan, 601 00:29:36,767 --> 00:29:38,225 you're a Cory Chase fanatic. 602 00:29:38,309 --> 00:29:39,726 She's a national treasure. 603 00:29:42,518 --> 00:29:44,225 Oh, hey... uh, Benjamin Button 604 00:29:44,309 --> 00:29:46,892 at the beginning when he's old and crusty, 605 00:29:46,975 --> 00:29:49,850 or at the end when he's got the baby smooth skin? 606 00:29:49,933 --> 00:29:52,017 Right?! 607 00:30:05,050 --> 00:30:07,933 Rods and bait are on board... 608 00:30:11,128 --> 00:30:12,434 We gonna do this right? 609 00:30:14,054 --> 00:30:15,434 Won't get any service out there anyway. 610 00:30:29,631 --> 00:30:31,100 Yanks are making some good moves... 611 00:30:31,184 --> 00:30:32,392 Oh. Fuck that. 612 00:30:32,476 --> 00:30:34,434 Let's talk about the real stuff. 613 00:30:34,517 --> 00:30:35,892 Your Dad. 614 00:30:36,906 --> 00:30:38,601 You know, I used to get my ass out of bed 615 00:30:38,684 --> 00:30:40,726 at 4:30 every morning. 616 00:30:40,808 --> 00:30:44,767 No matter what, he always beat me to the office. 617 00:30:44,850 --> 00:30:48,726 One morning, he's yea deep slinging Asian long bonds... 618 00:30:48,808 --> 00:30:50,933 yelling at everybody to bring him a coffee, 619 00:30:51,017 --> 00:30:54,601 not realizing it was only 6am and no one's in yet. 620 00:30:54,684 --> 00:30:56,767 - No one but you. - Fuckin' right. 621 00:30:56,850 --> 00:30:58,476 So you made him coffee? 622 00:30:58,559 --> 00:31:00,767 What am I, his secretary? 623 00:31:00,850 --> 00:31:03,392 Oh. He didn't drink the office swill anyway. 624 00:31:03,476 --> 00:31:05,100 I went out for it. 625 00:31:05,184 --> 00:31:06,726 Light and sweet. 626 00:31:07,776 --> 00:31:09,476 He was impressed that I'd paid attention 627 00:31:09,559 --> 00:31:11,975 to the stuff that didn't matter... 628 00:31:12,058 --> 00:31:14,225 because of course it matters. 629 00:31:14,309 --> 00:31:16,017 Everything fucking matters. 630 00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:18,184 So I should pay attention to the details? 631 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:20,828 And watch your six. 632 00:31:20,863 --> 00:31:22,309 Same rules for investing, cards... 633 00:31:22,392 --> 00:31:25,517 - And women... - Exactly... 634 00:31:26,476 --> 00:31:28,892 He was a hell of a gin player. 635 00:31:28,975 --> 00:31:31,601 The partners would play for five cents a point, 636 00:31:31,684 --> 00:31:33,642 and he'd rough them all up. 637 00:31:33,726 --> 00:31:36,392 I used to love watching that. 638 00:31:43,698 --> 00:31:45,434 You got your meeting with the smoke eaters. 639 00:31:45,517 --> 00:31:47,808 - How? - Johnny Utah's. 640 00:31:49,612 --> 00:31:50,642 You wanted to know. 641 00:31:50,726 --> 00:31:52,476 So, shots and a mechanical bull? 642 00:31:52,559 --> 00:31:55,476 And my group of pretty, personable young friends, yes. 643 00:31:55,559 --> 00:31:57,476 Those are the raw materials, 644 00:31:57,559 --> 00:32:00,142 but what I make of them is the art. 645 00:32:00,225 --> 00:32:03,559 And I suddenly understand why I now employ an IR person. 646 00:32:03,642 --> 00:32:05,184 Now, onto the meeting itself, 647 00:32:05,267 --> 00:32:06,642 a bit of forewarning. 648 00:32:06,726 --> 00:32:08,184 Everyone is getting a half hour. 649 00:32:08,267 --> 00:32:10,100 We got ten minutes. 650 00:32:10,184 --> 00:32:12,808 The last slot before the board breaks up for the season. 651 00:32:12,892 --> 00:32:14,100 It's a mercy fuck. 652 00:32:14,184 --> 00:32:15,767 These guys didn't want to see you 653 00:32:15,850 --> 00:32:18,058 because you came up under someone they hate. 654 00:32:18,142 --> 00:32:19,808 If they buy MaseCap, 655 00:32:19,892 --> 00:32:23,017 it'll be because you sold them a better story. 656 00:32:23,100 --> 00:32:26,476 A story about you that they like more than they hate Axe. 657 00:32:53,439 --> 00:32:55,850 Where is... everybody? 658 00:32:56,422 --> 00:32:58,642 - Conference room. - On what... 659 00:32:58,726 --> 00:33:00,517 Whatever it is, I'm not needed. 660 00:33:00,601 --> 00:33:03,058 - And neither are you. - Or you'd be in there. 661 00:33:11,490 --> 00:33:12,933 I think you might have forgotten to... 662 00:33:13,017 --> 00:33:15,476 You will be called when and if needed. 663 00:33:17,618 --> 00:33:18,808 Here's what we're gonna do. 664 00:33:26,524 --> 00:33:31,720 Times of tragedy call for silence and sustenance. 665 00:33:31,755 --> 00:33:34,100 Hear hear. And what I want to add is... 666 00:33:34,184 --> 00:33:36,559 Times of tragedy 667 00:33:36,642 --> 00:33:39,517 call for silence and... 668 00:33:42,726 --> 00:33:47,017 Well, we will all miss Black Jack. 669 00:33:48,933 --> 00:33:51,184 He was like a father to me. 670 00:33:51,267 --> 00:33:54,267 He was the type of man I always wanted to be. 671 00:33:54,350 --> 00:33:56,476 A breed that has been dying... 672 00:33:56,559 --> 00:33:58,517 And now has died. 673 00:34:00,350 --> 00:34:02,309 This is a real loss. 674 00:34:02,392 --> 00:34:04,892 But it's also... a new day. 675 00:34:05,974 --> 00:34:07,601 For just as he was not your father, 676 00:34:07,684 --> 00:34:09,933 his vendettas do not live past him. 677 00:34:10,630 --> 00:34:12,892 You are free to vote your conscience and your interests. 678 00:34:12,975 --> 00:34:15,559 And to once more embrace me. 679 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:18,850 Especially when to do otherwise 680 00:34:18,933 --> 00:34:21,225 would not be in your interests. 681 00:34:24,676 --> 00:34:27,017 Some conscientious members of my investigative team 682 00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:29,808 have collected this list of misdeeds 683 00:34:29,892 --> 00:34:31,476 by the State Assembly. 684 00:34:32,642 --> 00:34:33,701 - I see... - Mm. 685 00:34:33,784 --> 00:34:36,850 - This is unfortunate. - It is. 686 00:34:36,933 --> 00:34:41,933 Especially since you're on it. 687 00:34:42,017 --> 00:34:44,225 Now, I can go and build all these cases 688 00:34:44,309 --> 00:34:46,933 and hand them to the press and the Feds... 689 00:34:47,017 --> 00:34:49,726 The US Attorney himself greeted me on my own steps 690 00:34:49,808 --> 00:34:52,100 my first morning... inviting this. 691 00:34:52,184 --> 00:34:56,540 Or, if you will substantiate this information, 692 00:34:56,575 --> 00:34:58,601 I could take a different path. 693 00:34:58,684 --> 00:34:59,975 Ignore these violations... 694 00:35:00,058 --> 00:35:02,642 by you and your closest confederates... 695 00:35:02,726 --> 00:35:06,017 so long as you all vote to restore my powers. 696 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:11,850 Times of tragedy call for... 697 00:35:11,933 --> 00:35:14,767 Yes. Silence and sustenance. 698 00:35:17,268 --> 00:35:19,933 And a new spirit of cooperation. 699 00:35:26,476 --> 00:35:27,601 Okay. Keep on him. 700 00:35:27,684 --> 00:35:30,017 Keep on him. Where is he? 701 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:31,142 - Here we go. - You got him. 702 00:35:31,225 --> 00:35:32,517 Oh, he's fighting. He's a fighter. 703 00:35:34,267 --> 00:35:37,225 Get him tight on the line. Bring him in. 704 00:35:37,309 --> 00:35:38,684 Good. He's a beaut! 705 00:35:38,808 --> 00:35:40,642 - Bring him in. - Yeah, he's fighting... 706 00:35:40,726 --> 00:35:42,058 All right. You got him? 707 00:35:42,142 --> 00:35:43,601 I got him. Whoo! 708 00:35:43,684 --> 00:35:46,184 Aah! Nice. 709 00:35:46,267 --> 00:35:48,017 - Oh, my God. Look at that. - Yeah! 710 00:35:48,100 --> 00:35:49,551 That's huge. 711 00:35:53,850 --> 00:35:56,225 - Whoo! - Nice fish. 712 00:35:56,309 --> 00:35:58,309 You want to eat him, or let him go to fight another day? 713 00:35:58,392 --> 00:35:59,726 Throw him back. 714 00:35:59,808 --> 00:36:01,349 Ah. A true sportsman. 715 00:36:06,253 --> 00:36:08,808 - Want a beer? - Yeah. 716 00:36:25,099 --> 00:36:26,348 Ahh. 717 00:36:26,383 --> 00:36:27,767 You know, before you call timeout, 718 00:36:27,850 --> 00:36:30,017 you might want to check with Chris Webber. 719 00:36:30,875 --> 00:36:32,184 Sometimes, there are none available. 720 00:36:32,267 --> 00:36:33,726 Mm. Here we go. 721 00:36:33,808 --> 00:36:35,309 Oh, no. You want to hear this. 722 00:36:35,392 --> 00:36:37,017 That's why you really came out here. 723 00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:38,808 To have me talk some sense into you. 724 00:36:38,892 --> 00:36:40,434 The way your dad would have. 725 00:36:41,408 --> 00:36:42,684 I know how it is. 726 00:36:42,767 --> 00:36:44,517 You have your ideas, your information, 727 00:36:44,601 --> 00:36:46,100 your strategies. 728 00:36:46,184 --> 00:36:49,850 And it all makes sense up to a few hundred million. 729 00:36:49,933 --> 00:36:53,392 And then you get to a billion and you think: 730 00:36:53,476 --> 00:36:55,517 how do I deploy all this? 731 00:36:56,210 --> 00:36:58,309 You know? Will it work at this size? 732 00:36:58,392 --> 00:37:00,017 Is my analysis solid enough? 733 00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:01,808 And where's my edge gonna come from? 734 00:37:01,892 --> 00:37:03,392 So you scan the horizon, 735 00:37:03,476 --> 00:37:05,808 you throw yourself against the questions, 736 00:37:05,892 --> 00:37:08,476 and new strategies, on the new scale, 737 00:37:08,559 --> 00:37:10,601 present themselves. And you just get bigger. 738 00:37:11,848 --> 00:37:14,184 It's the biological imperative for guys like us. 739 00:37:15,478 --> 00:37:16,726 Is it, though? 740 00:37:17,655 --> 00:37:19,268 What else would it be? 741 00:37:19,303 --> 00:37:20,309 Chasing? 742 00:37:21,082 --> 00:37:22,142 When I think about managing, 743 00:37:22,225 --> 00:37:23,476 much less making, another billion... 744 00:37:23,559 --> 00:37:25,434 and not feeling that good about it... 745 00:37:25,517 --> 00:37:27,808 I just want to go Natalie Wood off the side of this thing. 746 00:37:28,380 --> 00:37:29,559 That's another solid reference. 747 00:37:31,646 --> 00:37:32,726 You know your history. 748 00:37:32,808 --> 00:37:35,058 You got some philosophy. 749 00:37:36,146 --> 00:37:37,309 The money that I spent to educate you 750 00:37:37,392 --> 00:37:39,184 did not go totally to waste. 751 00:37:39,267 --> 00:37:42,142 The best education, though, is living it. 752 00:37:42,225 --> 00:37:44,392 Don't imagine what it's like to run two billion. 753 00:37:44,476 --> 00:37:46,058 Or five. Or ten. 754 00:37:46,142 --> 00:37:47,850 Just fucking run it. 755 00:37:48,724 --> 00:37:50,267 Why do you think I staked you? 756 00:37:50,350 --> 00:37:51,601 To be nice? 757 00:37:51,684 --> 00:37:53,225 That's what school was for. 758 00:37:53,309 --> 00:37:56,100 That's what the Christmas presents were for. 759 00:37:56,184 --> 00:37:57,434 The investment? 760 00:37:57,517 --> 00:37:59,559 It's 'cause I saw something. 761 00:37:59,642 --> 00:38:01,309 A work ethic. 762 00:38:01,392 --> 00:38:03,184 Pride. Hunger. 763 00:38:04,196 --> 00:38:06,380 But now I'm seeing something I don't like. 764 00:38:07,184 --> 00:38:08,338 Contentment? 765 00:38:08,373 --> 00:38:10,517 Fear. The mind-killer. 766 00:38:11,787 --> 00:38:13,601 I'm not afraid, Axe. 767 00:38:13,684 --> 00:38:14,975 Good. 768 00:38:15,058 --> 00:38:16,601 Should I tear up the check? 769 00:38:16,684 --> 00:38:19,642 Got it in my pocket. 770 00:38:20,954 --> 00:38:21,984 Maybe not yet. 771 00:38:26,082 --> 00:38:27,933 Should we call it? 772 00:38:28,017 --> 00:38:30,601 Sure. 773 00:38:46,758 --> 00:38:48,392 Oh. You're fucking kidding me. 774 00:38:48,476 --> 00:38:50,267 Maybe it's the fuel line? 775 00:38:51,909 --> 00:38:52,975 What, on each of the engines? 776 00:38:53,058 --> 00:38:55,058 Nah. We got a short somewhere. 777 00:39:00,821 --> 00:39:03,933 This is Vanquisher. 41 degrees North, 71 West. 778 00:39:04,982 --> 00:39:06,320 This is Tow-Ur-Boat. 779 00:39:06,355 --> 00:39:07,990 We read you Vanquisher. 780 00:39:08,025 --> 00:39:09,500 What's your situation? 781 00:39:09,886 --> 00:39:10,996 We need a tow. 782 00:39:11,031 --> 00:39:12,861 It's a busy day here, Vanquisher. 783 00:39:12,896 --> 00:39:14,225 It'll... It'll be a few hours. 784 00:39:14,309 --> 00:39:17,522 Uh. Keep us updated on your position if you drift. 785 00:39:17,557 --> 00:39:19,559 I'll give you ten grand if you put us at the top of the list. 786 00:39:19,642 --> 00:39:21,434 Damn, for real? 787 00:39:21,517 --> 00:39:23,267 I would if I could... But we're jammed up... 788 00:39:23,350 --> 00:39:25,309 Make it a hundred. I need to get the fuck in. 789 00:39:26,398 --> 00:39:28,434 Shit, are you... are you kidding me? 790 00:39:28,517 --> 00:39:31,017 Sorry, Vanquisher, b-both our teams 791 00:39:31,100 --> 00:39:33,434 are already engaged on an emergency. 792 00:39:33,517 --> 00:39:38,309 You and your hundred are gonna have to wait. 793 00:39:49,565 --> 00:39:50,750 - Hey. - Hey. 794 00:39:50,785 --> 00:39:52,392 I've got something, and it stinks of garbage. 795 00:39:52,476 --> 00:39:53,933 I'm inhaling. 796 00:39:54,017 --> 00:39:56,975 We're years into a probe into the City Sanitation Department. 797 00:39:57,058 --> 00:39:59,184 A very interesting set of permits just got expedited. 798 00:39:59,267 --> 00:40:00,684 The beneficiary... 799 00:40:00,767 --> 00:40:03,017 one Charles Rhoades, Senior. 800 00:40:24,288 --> 00:40:25,726 Jake Biancarosa. 801 00:40:27,085 --> 00:40:28,517 That's what my ma' named me. 802 00:40:28,601 --> 00:40:30,434 You expedited permits for Charles Rhoades, Senior. 803 00:40:30,517 --> 00:40:32,392 Mm. That's a little below my level. 804 00:40:32,476 --> 00:40:34,434 I don't personally concern myself with all the paperwork... 805 00:40:34,517 --> 00:40:37,646 I promise... whatever he has on you, we have more. 806 00:40:37,681 --> 00:40:39,476 Okay. Maybe he's a friend. 807 00:40:39,559 --> 00:40:41,933 Would you be here on a maybe? 808 00:40:42,017 --> 00:40:44,350 The FBI is diligent, Mr. Biancarosa, 809 00:40:44,434 --> 00:40:47,590 they may build slow, but they build to last. 810 00:40:47,625 --> 00:40:48,659 We really do. 811 00:40:50,184 --> 00:40:54,100 Shit, I knew I made somebody following me... 812 00:40:55,629 --> 00:40:57,517 Tell us how it works... 813 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:08,897 Nothing? 814 00:41:08,932 --> 00:41:11,267 Nope. 815 00:41:13,338 --> 00:41:17,309 So, what do you say... enough folksy bullshit? 816 00:41:18,552 --> 00:41:20,309 I know I'm the only one you cashed out. 817 00:41:25,601 --> 00:41:27,559 It's truth time, huh? 818 00:41:28,699 --> 00:41:30,017 Okay. Good. 819 00:41:30,100 --> 00:41:32,350 Here's some truth for you: 820 00:41:32,434 --> 00:41:35,267 I might take my fund to twice its current size. 821 00:41:35,350 --> 00:41:37,559 Or a hundred. I don't know. I might go to zero. 822 00:41:37,642 --> 00:41:40,100 But whatever happens... I'm doing it without you. 823 00:41:40,184 --> 00:41:41,476 That was the point. 824 00:41:44,112 --> 00:41:45,517 See, my dad was home enough for me to understand 825 00:41:45,601 --> 00:41:46,933 what went on at the office. 826 00:41:47,017 --> 00:41:48,309 Whom he respected. 827 00:41:48,392 --> 00:41:50,684 And, um, that was not you. 828 00:41:51,874 --> 00:41:54,684 When I got old enough, I heard all the stories about how you worked. 829 00:41:54,808 --> 00:41:57,601 And I knew the situation you were in when the towers fell, 830 00:41:57,684 --> 00:41:59,460 before the press even broke it. 831 00:42:01,726 --> 00:42:04,071 But you weren't in a position to move away from me. 832 00:42:04,106 --> 00:42:05,434 No, I wasn't. 833 00:42:06,468 --> 00:42:07,767 And now you are. 834 00:42:07,850 --> 00:42:10,601 It took me years to get here. 835 00:42:10,684 --> 00:42:13,601 And now, I don't want my fund associated with your name. 836 00:42:13,684 --> 00:42:17,517 And, uh, I don't want to be associated with you. 837 00:42:19,662 --> 00:42:21,392 I see. 838 00:42:23,211 --> 00:42:25,559 Well, I'm sorry you feel that way, John. 839 00:42:41,619 --> 00:42:42,692 Lookit that... 840 00:43:02,886 --> 00:43:05,601 When I was in seventh grade, my father invented an airfoil. 841 00:43:05,684 --> 00:43:08,142 Radical. Worth millions. 842 00:43:08,856 --> 00:43:11,434 But taken from him by the company he worked for. 843 00:43:11,517 --> 00:43:14,100 He never saw a penny, never got his name on the patent, 844 00:43:14,184 --> 00:43:15,726 never got anything... 845 00:43:15,808 --> 00:43:19,058 except fired, as soon as it was convenient. 846 00:43:19,142 --> 00:43:21,933 They stole his contribution and value. 847 00:43:22,017 --> 00:43:23,767 He never saw it coming. 848 00:43:23,850 --> 00:43:25,933 Never paid attention to where he was vulnerable. 849 00:43:26,017 --> 00:43:27,476 Or to what was stalking him. 850 00:43:28,300 --> 00:43:29,684 Every other manager walking through that door 851 00:43:29,767 --> 00:43:32,184 is probably pitching you investment strategy. 852 00:43:32,267 --> 00:43:37,997 Giving you value, small cap, hedge, bond, sector, global. 853 00:43:38,032 --> 00:43:40,392 But they're not paying attention to where you're exposed. 854 00:43:40,476 --> 00:43:42,267 Or to what's stalking you. 855 00:43:42,350 --> 00:43:44,058 - Which is? - Death. 856 00:43:44,644 --> 00:43:45,684 Smoke. 857 00:43:46,633 --> 00:43:47,650 Fire. 858 00:43:48,963 --> 00:43:50,033 Explosion. 859 00:43:50,804 --> 00:43:53,850 Seventy percent of your members will be injured in the line, 860 00:43:53,933 --> 00:43:56,142 fifty-two percent of their families 861 00:43:56,225 --> 00:43:58,058 are going to be owed survivor benefits. 862 00:43:58,142 --> 00:43:59,767 You're gonna beat the Reaper? 863 00:43:59,850 --> 00:44:01,726 Your members' bravery and service 864 00:44:01,808 --> 00:44:04,350 are their contribution and value. 865 00:44:04,434 --> 00:44:07,933 And if you're not careful, it's going to get stolen. 866 00:44:08,694 --> 00:44:13,350 I know this because my former fucking boss tried to steal mine. 867 00:44:13,434 --> 00:44:16,309 I didn't let that happen to me. 868 00:44:16,392 --> 00:44:19,684 And I won't let it happen to you... 869 00:44:26,476 --> 00:44:28,225 As known to us 870 00:44:28,309 --> 00:44:31,850 from Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, 871 00:44:31,933 --> 00:44:34,309 brothers and sisters, behold. 872 00:44:34,392 --> 00:44:36,350 I tell you a mystery. 873 00:44:36,434 --> 00:44:38,642 We shall not all fall asleep, 874 00:44:38,726 --> 00:44:42,933 but we will all be changed in an instant, 875 00:44:43,017 --> 00:44:44,392 in the blink of an eye. 876 00:44:44,476 --> 00:44:45,975 Listen, Chuck, I'm prepping my eulogy. 877 00:44:46,058 --> 00:44:47,559 I didn't save you a seat. I'm sure there's some 878 00:44:47,642 --> 00:44:49,350 - standing room in the back... - Sorry, Governor, 879 00:44:49,434 --> 00:44:52,601 but you have temporarily curtailed my powers by fiat. 880 00:44:52,684 --> 00:44:54,684 I can have them permanently restored 881 00:44:54,767 --> 00:44:56,601 by act of the State Legislature. 882 00:44:56,684 --> 00:44:58,559 I have the votes to override you. 883 00:44:58,642 --> 00:45:00,267 How do you have the votes? 884 00:45:01,294 --> 00:45:04,017 I have become aware of a torrent of misdeeds... 885 00:45:04,100 --> 00:45:08,434 crimes actually... committed by our State Assembly. 886 00:45:08,517 --> 00:45:10,350 When I made them aware that I was aware 887 00:45:10,434 --> 00:45:13,090 there was a sudden willingness to back me. 888 00:45:13,125 --> 00:45:15,082 Yeah. In return you bury it all. 889 00:45:15,117 --> 00:45:17,517 I can make you a myth, a legend, 890 00:45:17,601 --> 00:45:20,850 a man to accomplish the unthinkable: 891 00:45:20,933 --> 00:45:22,559 clean up Albany. 892 00:45:23,555 --> 00:45:26,178 Sign off on this grant of executive power. 893 00:45:26,213 --> 00:45:27,601 And sign off on this order, 894 00:45:27,684 --> 00:45:30,392 directing me to prosecute Scolari and his cronies. 895 00:45:30,476 --> 00:45:32,422 You will receive full credit. 896 00:45:32,457 --> 00:45:34,601 - ...the Word that is written... - Think of it, Governor, 897 00:45:34,684 --> 00:45:36,724 you'll be in every New York newspaper, 898 00:45:36,759 --> 00:45:38,316 on every Sunday morning show. 899 00:45:38,351 --> 00:45:39,425 For weeks. 900 00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:41,767 Right out of the gate. 901 00:45:42,795 --> 00:45:44,350 The sting of death is sin, 902 00:45:44,434 --> 00:45:47,392 and the power of sin is the law. 903 00:45:48,943 --> 00:45:50,214 Thanks be to God... 904 00:45:50,249 --> 00:45:52,267 I guess Jock can go fuck himself, huh? 905 00:45:52,350 --> 00:45:55,642 ...victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 906 00:45:55,726 --> 00:45:56,917 Amen. 907 00:45:57,100 --> 00:45:59,559 Amen. 908 00:46:15,225 --> 00:46:19,642 How fortunate we all were to live in the time of Jack Foley. 909 00:46:20,686 --> 00:46:23,933 One of the last men of might and principle. 910 00:46:24,798 --> 00:46:26,850 He was a Caesar. 911 00:46:27,824 --> 00:46:30,559 And what did they do at the funeral of a Caesar? 912 00:46:30,642 --> 00:46:33,225 At the funeral of Gaius Julius Caesar, 913 00:46:33,309 --> 00:46:34,850 a man stood at the rostrum 914 00:46:34,933 --> 00:46:38,808 and called out criminals and conspirators. 915 00:46:39,822 --> 00:46:42,100 Those in the senate that would sully Caesar's city 916 00:46:42,184 --> 00:46:44,434 and dishonor his legacy. 917 00:46:45,548 --> 00:46:48,642 And I come today... 918 00:46:49,859 --> 00:46:51,642 to do the same. 919 00:46:57,060 --> 00:46:58,642 When the people heard what they had done in the senate, 920 00:46:58,726 --> 00:47:01,642 they set upon them, tearing some apart, 921 00:47:01,726 --> 00:47:04,100 and forcing others from the city. 922 00:47:04,184 --> 00:47:07,184 Now, I have been empowered by my great friend, 923 00:47:07,267 --> 00:47:09,767 your August governor... not to allow bloodsport, 924 00:47:09,850 --> 00:47:12,642 but to bring justice to the venal actors 925 00:47:12,726 --> 00:47:16,142 who have betrayed our great commonwealth... 926 00:47:28,225 --> 00:47:29,684 Immunity! 927 00:47:29,767 --> 00:47:32,350 I thought we had a deal. 928 00:47:32,434 --> 00:47:35,100 No deal for you, pal. 929 00:47:37,318 --> 00:47:39,142 And we will continue to purge these pews 930 00:47:39,225 --> 00:47:43,892 until corruption has been cleansed from the Empire State. 931 00:47:49,076 --> 00:47:52,975 Oh, Jack, I hope I have learned well from you, 932 00:47:53,058 --> 00:47:55,892 that I have honored you, 933 00:47:55,975 --> 00:48:00,309 and that I have given you a proper sendoff... 934 00:48:23,325 --> 00:48:26,264 Hey, uh, I'm sorry I lost my shit out there. 935 00:48:26,299 --> 00:48:28,767 I-I don't know if I even meant half the stuff I said, 936 00:48:28,850 --> 00:48:30,434 it's just... 937 00:48:30,517 --> 00:48:33,684 you know, you reach a point where you're your own man. 938 00:48:34,704 --> 00:48:36,172 It doesn't matter if someone is your dad... 939 00:48:36,207 --> 00:48:37,767 or if they knew your dad... you just... 940 00:48:37,850 --> 00:48:40,142 you want to make your own decisions your own way. 941 00:48:40,225 --> 00:48:43,305 - Believe me, I get that. - I was hoping you would. 942 00:48:43,340 --> 00:48:44,392 And who knows, maybe there's a world... 943 00:48:44,476 --> 00:48:46,684 down the line... where you do come back into the fund. 944 00:48:46,767 --> 00:48:49,225 So, uh, let's keep an open channel. 945 00:48:49,309 --> 00:48:51,559 In case. For the future. 946 00:48:52,508 --> 00:48:55,559 John, John... 947 00:48:56,608 --> 00:48:59,114 I tried. I really did. 948 00:48:59,149 --> 00:49:00,933 I gave you every chance. 949 00:49:01,017 --> 00:49:04,017 But you didn't know where you were in the fucking hand. 950 00:49:04,100 --> 00:49:05,850 Just like your old man. 951 00:49:05,933 --> 00:49:08,808 Because the part of the story I didn't tell you is: 952 00:49:08,892 --> 00:49:10,808 your father may have talked shit about me 953 00:49:10,892 --> 00:49:12,892 and the way I went about earning. 954 00:49:12,975 --> 00:49:15,726 But he bit off plenty of big chunks from my sheet 955 00:49:15,808 --> 00:49:17,267 when it came bonus time. 956 00:49:17,350 --> 00:49:19,058 And, yeah, sure, 957 00:49:19,142 --> 00:49:22,420 while he was a killer gin player at five cents a point, 958 00:49:22,455 --> 00:49:24,517 when the partners upped the stakes to a dollar... 959 00:49:24,601 --> 00:49:26,100 they mopped the fucking floor with him. 960 00:49:26,184 --> 00:49:28,392 Because he was a piker who couldn't handle the pressure 961 00:49:28,476 --> 00:49:30,017 when the stakes were high. 962 00:49:30,100 --> 00:49:33,642 And you are a chip off the old fucking block. 963 00:49:34,722 --> 00:49:36,476 Maybe I should take an Uber back to the city. 964 00:49:37,784 --> 00:49:38,892 Yeah. 965 00:49:39,868 --> 00:49:41,017 You do that. 966 00:49:41,100 --> 00:49:42,933 But first, 967 00:49:44,165 --> 00:49:47,434 you might want to check your messages. 968 00:49:47,517 --> 00:49:51,142 _ 969 00:49:51,225 --> 00:49:53,309 Wait, you... you released a fucking interview 970 00:49:53,392 --> 00:49:55,850 bashing my approach... 971 00:49:57,006 --> 00:49:59,850 You got Birch and Malverne and all those other guys to agree? 972 00:49:59,933 --> 00:50:01,517 I didn't 'get them to.' 973 00:50:01,601 --> 00:50:02,892 They just happened to. 974 00:50:02,975 --> 00:50:04,476 Holy shit. 975 00:50:04,559 --> 00:50:07,309 I... I've had a flood of redemptions. 976 00:50:07,392 --> 00:50:09,267 And yesterday no one wanted out. 977 00:50:09,670 --> 00:50:12,684 Right when no one could reach you? Ouch... 978 00:50:12,767 --> 00:50:16,100 Lemme guess, today you are down 979 00:50:16,184 --> 00:50:18,100 about seventy, eighty percent 980 00:50:18,184 --> 00:50:21,184 on assets under management. 981 00:50:25,255 --> 00:50:26,830 I'd bet some of your investors 982 00:50:26,865 --> 00:50:28,892 thought they were happy... 983 00:50:28,975 --> 00:50:31,476 Some of 'em probably needed a real shove... 984 00:50:31,559 --> 00:50:34,850 Problems? Yeah, I suppose I would call them problems. 985 00:50:34,933 --> 00:50:36,601 Operational ones. Back office ones. 986 00:50:36,684 --> 00:50:38,267 Strategic ones. 987 00:50:38,350 --> 00:50:40,850 Enough for Axe to pull all of his capital... 988 00:50:40,933 --> 00:50:42,434 It killed him to pull that money. 989 00:50:42,517 --> 00:50:44,267 You read the interview. And believe me 990 00:50:44,350 --> 00:50:45,559 he'd backed this kid from the start... 991 00:50:45,642 --> 00:50:47,309 Others I'm betting bolted 992 00:50:47,392 --> 00:50:49,512 at the first sight of greener land... 993 00:50:49,547 --> 00:50:50,684 I'm authorized to cut our fees. 994 00:50:50,767 --> 00:50:52,559 We'll do a nine percent hurdle rate for the first year... 995 00:50:52,642 --> 00:50:54,601 which means you don't pay a cent until we clear 10% returns 996 00:50:54,684 --> 00:50:56,058 if you come over to Axe Cap. 997 00:50:56,142 --> 00:50:58,309 It's a fucking free roll, but it has to be now... 998 00:50:58,392 --> 00:51:01,225 And your reputation may not be entirely intact. 999 00:51:01,309 --> 00:51:03,309 Yeah, Sag Harbor PD is going light, 1000 00:51:03,392 --> 00:51:06,350 but we've seen the photos of him running red lights to Shinnecock 1001 00:51:06,434 --> 00:51:08,017 with powder on his upper lip. 1002 00:51:08,100 --> 00:51:09,933 His wife is going for blood in the divorce... 1003 00:51:10,017 --> 00:51:11,559 At least half. 1004 00:51:11,642 --> 00:51:13,601 You want a fund manager occupied with that shit? 1005 00:51:16,767 --> 00:51:19,808 Here's your script. 1006 00:51:21,250 --> 00:51:22,300 I'm bleeding out. 1007 00:51:26,434 --> 00:51:31,100 I mean, you... you ruined my business, my name... 1008 00:51:32,034 --> 00:51:36,100 I told you never give back the money, kid. 1009 00:51:37,642 --> 00:51:39,767 You said you wanted to stay small. 1010 00:51:42,892 --> 00:51:44,726 Small enough for you now? 1011 00:52:10,114 --> 00:52:11,559 I fuckin' knew you'd do it. 1012 00:52:11,642 --> 00:52:14,350 I am glad to have deserved your confidence. 1013 00:52:18,188 --> 00:52:20,226 Congratulations. You got what you wanted. 1014 00:52:20,261 --> 00:52:21,684 I know you don't understand... 1015 00:52:21,767 --> 00:52:23,850 I understand it's important to you. 1016 00:52:23,933 --> 00:52:25,476 How's the CNC program coming? 1017 00:52:26,308 --> 00:52:27,434 A few bugs, but it'll be ready 1018 00:52:27,517 --> 00:52:29,150 when the time for production comes. 1019 00:52:29,185 --> 00:52:30,476 Good. 1020 00:52:30,559 --> 00:52:34,476 I've decided I will help you launch to the production stage. 1021 00:52:35,726 --> 00:52:37,933 Would you have done it if you hadn't brought that new money on? 1022 00:52:38,017 --> 00:52:41,601 I did bring that new money on. 1023 00:52:45,642 --> 00:52:47,142 Come on! Bring it in! 1024 00:52:47,225 --> 00:52:49,808 - Yeah! Yeah! - Cheers, you fucking brigands. 1025 00:52:49,892 --> 00:52:51,392 Another fuckin' drink. 1026 00:52:51,476 --> 00:52:53,267 - Hey! - Hey! 1027 00:52:54,601 --> 00:52:56,184 - Yeah! - So, we caught two blues, 1028 00:52:56,267 --> 00:52:58,808 a few sea bass and a nice striper... 1029 00:52:59,765 --> 00:53:01,267 You know, we did a bit better. 1030 00:53:01,350 --> 00:53:05,225 Of Rice's billion, we put 741 million into play... 1031 00:53:08,032 --> 00:53:10,434 430 of it, including your 100 and change, 1032 00:53:10,517 --> 00:53:11,817 came on board... 1033 00:53:13,184 --> 00:53:15,100 The rest exited and is in the ether... 1034 00:53:16,162 --> 00:53:17,434 "Sorry, Vanquisher, uh, 1035 00:53:17,517 --> 00:53:20,225 both our teams are already engaged on an emergency." 1036 00:53:23,718 --> 00:53:26,309 A loss for him was a win for us today. 1037 00:53:28,559 --> 00:53:31,808 I never thought I'd be part of a real life Wannsee Conference. 1038 00:53:34,748 --> 00:53:36,476 Or that it would be so much fun. 1039 00:53:41,072 --> 00:53:42,108 Livin' on the edge. 1040 00:53:42,192 --> 00:53:43,559 Come on. Let's keep it coming. 1041 00:53:43,642 --> 00:53:45,559 That was some great work on the marine radio. 1042 00:53:45,642 --> 00:53:47,517 God, I wish I saw the look on his face. 1043 00:53:47,601 --> 00:53:49,392 Yeah, yeah! 1044 00:53:56,932 --> 00:53:58,392 You're back above ground, 1045 00:53:58,476 --> 00:54:00,933 finally letting the team see your face. 1046 00:54:01,017 --> 00:54:03,309 Turns out you and Rebecca were wrong. 1047 00:54:04,058 --> 00:54:05,392 But also right. 1048 00:54:05,427 --> 00:54:06,434 You weren't making more of it? 1049 00:54:06,517 --> 00:54:07,933 No, sir. 1050 00:54:08,900 --> 00:54:11,267 The thinnest Google search reveals 1051 00:54:11,350 --> 00:54:14,100 that people are fucking obsessed... 1052 00:54:14,184 --> 00:54:16,975 They want to know what whips I use, 1053 00:54:17,058 --> 00:54:18,808 what bustier I wear, 1054 00:54:18,892 --> 00:54:21,392 what Chuck sounds like when he squeals. 1055 00:54:21,476 --> 00:54:23,476 I'll admit to wondering about two of those. 1056 00:54:23,559 --> 00:54:25,142 Kind of like a stuck pig. 1057 00:54:25,225 --> 00:54:26,573 Mm. Not that one... 1058 00:54:26,642 --> 00:54:30,933 The thing is: as I read it, it stopped mattering. 1059 00:54:31,017 --> 00:54:32,808 Stopped really being about me. 1060 00:54:32,892 --> 00:54:34,559 Stopped having anything to do with me. 1061 00:54:34,642 --> 00:54:36,642 Because I don't know those people. And they don't know me. 1062 00:54:36,726 --> 00:54:39,309 So you snapped the computer shut and moved on? 1063 00:54:39,392 --> 00:54:40,975 I think you know I did not. 1064 00:54:41,058 --> 00:54:43,850 I had Rudy's sad social media password, 1065 00:54:44,893 --> 00:54:46,559 saw what the Mason Capital folks were saying. 1066 00:54:48,100 --> 00:54:49,601 How bad? 1067 00:54:50,612 --> 00:54:53,142 About what you'd expect. 1068 00:54:53,225 --> 00:54:57,850 Gifs, photoshops of my head on Dita Von Teese's body. 1069 00:54:57,933 --> 00:55:00,642 - Mm. - Everyone piled on. 1070 00:55:01,500 --> 00:55:02,509 Except Taylor. 1071 00:55:02,592 --> 00:55:04,554 Oh. Taylor stayed above the fray? 1072 00:55:04,589 --> 00:55:05,642 No. More than that. 1073 00:55:06,488 --> 00:55:08,211 Told them to stop. 1074 00:55:08,246 --> 00:55:09,392 That someone my age shouldn't be mocked 1075 00:55:09,476 --> 00:55:11,642 for getting her kicks however she needed to. 1076 00:55:11,726 --> 00:55:12,933 - Wow. - Yeah. 1077 00:55:13,017 --> 00:55:14,559 I guess it makes sense. 1078 00:55:15,416 --> 00:55:17,684 After the whole thing broke, they were the only one to reach out. 1079 00:55:17,767 --> 00:55:19,476 They reached out? 1080 00:55:19,559 --> 00:55:22,559 I didn't take their call, of course. But they tried. 1081 00:55:22,642 --> 00:55:24,017 Taylor really did that...? 1082 00:55:24,100 --> 00:55:25,309 Yup. 1083 00:55:25,392 --> 00:55:26,933 Guess they think I'm so pathetic 1084 00:55:27,017 --> 00:55:28,884 as to no longer pose a threat. 1085 00:55:28,917 --> 00:55:32,058 No, that is the act of an open and evolved person 1086 00:55:32,142 --> 00:55:33,726 who understands vulnerability... 1087 00:55:36,039 --> 00:55:37,267 Lame. 1088 00:56:02,452 --> 00:56:03,933 Taylor? Hi. 1089 00:56:05,181 --> 00:56:07,392 I would like to talk... 1090 00:56:08,412 --> 00:56:10,892 I'd like to see you... 1091 00:56:24,874 --> 00:56:25,933 Well. I got your text. 1092 00:56:26,816 --> 00:56:28,392 What the hell are we doing here, Dad? 1093 00:56:28,476 --> 00:56:30,392 I thought we should celebrate, 1094 00:56:30,476 --> 00:56:33,142 we both had very big days. 1095 00:56:33,225 --> 00:56:34,726 You did it. 1096 00:56:34,808 --> 00:56:36,684 Oh, my... You went ahead with your project 1097 00:56:36,767 --> 00:56:38,476 even after I asked you not to. 1098 00:56:38,559 --> 00:56:41,225 There's too much heat to get involved in this, Dad. 1099 00:56:41,309 --> 00:56:43,309 If you'd whined this much as a baby, 1100 00:56:43,392 --> 00:56:45,100 I'd've slipped more whisky in your bottle 1101 00:56:45,184 --> 00:56:47,184 and risked the chance that you'd be a dullard. 1102 00:56:48,198 --> 00:56:49,257 There's no heat, Sonny... 1103 00:56:49,357 --> 00:56:50,642 ...my permits came back without a hitch. 1104 00:56:53,192 --> 00:56:54,850 Now, listen carefully 1105 00:56:55,335 --> 00:56:58,940 and learn how I am going to refill your trust fund 1106 00:56:58,967 --> 00:57:01,476 and how you'll bring my great-grandchildren to this spot 1107 00:57:01,559 --> 00:57:04,142 and tell them the story of what we did here. 1108 00:58:21,646 --> 00:58:23,726 - synced and corrected by sot26 - www.MY-SUBS.com