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♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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REPORTER: (OVER COMPUTER)
...double check their shorting closure
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amid a resurgence...
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- (COMPUTER BEEPS)
- (PHONE RINGING)
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Have I got
a Christopher Stefanowicz
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- in research?
- CHRISTOPHER STEFANOWICZ: (OVER PHONE) Speaking.
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- You look at UK pharma, right?
- CHRISTOPHER: I do, yeah.
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Do you cover
FastAide Chemist group?
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Anything behind the rally
into the close? I... I thought
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it might be the ex-Amazon guy
becoming the new CTO.
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CHRISTOPHER: Uh,
that's quite a bullish signal,
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yes, but it's already priced in
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and we don't really publish
about it anymore.
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Uh, try the cash equity guys
in New York.
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- Sorry, I'm out to dinner.
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REPORTER: When asked
about institutional
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- investors' sums...
- (COMPUTER BEEPS)
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Is there a pharma trader
on the desk I can speak with?
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NY TRADER: (OVER PHONE)
Yeah, is that London?
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It's a small UK-listed equity,
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but can you tell me
what's going on with the name
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FastAide Chemist Group?
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I'm wondering why it keeps
ticking up even after market.
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Where is it indicating to open?
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NY TRADER: Sec, sec... um,
plus 30.
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What the fuck? Sor... uh,
excuse me for the ripe language.
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NY TRADER: (CHUCKLING)
Don't apologize.
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Stock's a piece of shit.
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Uh, you know, I guess it tends
to be very choppy.
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Oh, wait, hang on, one sec.
I'll be right back.
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Nah, you seen Reddit?
Check Wall Street Bets.
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FastAide's mentions are out
of control.
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Guess it makes sense. Enormous,
short base, busted company.
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Retail investors on Reddit
are trying to save it
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from hedge funds,
but, you know, they're short
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- and want it to fail, so...
- People keep saying,
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that it's the "darling
of the British high street,"
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- whatever that means.
- NY TRADER: Retail investors
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are obviously nostalgic
about it,
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the same way they were
about Game Stop, Nokia,
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Blackberry. (CHUCKLING)
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Well, hold onto your hats
if you're short though
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'cause this is about to rally.
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I told my biggest client
to be short, in size.
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I told him FastAide was going
to zero.
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NY TRADER: Well,
is he a hat guy?
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I mean, tell him to hold
onto it.
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I'd get him out ASAP.
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♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES) ♪
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(COMPUTER BEEPS)
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(PHONE RINGING)
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BLOOM'S ASSISTANT:
(OVER PHONE) Good evening,
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Mr. Bloom
is currently unavailable,
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but please feel free to leave
a message with me.
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Okay. It's Harper Stern
from Pierpoint calling again.
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I... I need to talk to him
about his FastAide short.
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BLOOM'S ASSISTANT:
I'll be sure to pass that on.
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♪ (MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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- WAITER: Here you go ladies.
- Oh, my God.
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Why do they keep bringing
us these?
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I feel like every time
I finish one, there's another
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- waiting to be dispatched.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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I asked them
to keep them coming.
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(HUMS)
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(BOTH HUM)
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(BOTH LAUGH)
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"NEW ROMANCE"
BY BEACH HOUSE PLAYING
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♪ Days go by, no reply, ♪
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♪ The smoke high ♪
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♪ On the avenue... ♪
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KENNY KILBANE: Ladies.
(CHUCKLES)
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My antenna were up
for overt displays of joy.
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Drew me over.
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So, how about a few
to celebrate Yasmin's big move
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to PWM?
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- On me? Not in me, obviously.
- Yeah, I hear the tonic water's
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really great here.
And why don't you fuck off back
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to the bar and buy yourself one
as a leaving gift to me?
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(CHUCKLES)
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YASMIN KARA-HANANI: Kenny.
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Wow. That seemed like
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- an outsized reaction.
- It was undersized, trust me.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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(CHUCKLES)
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(GROANS) I am so glad
to be leaving. (CHUCKLES)
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CELESTE PACQUET: All right.
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I'm looking forward
to working on you.
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(CHUCKLES) Sorry, with you...
My English.
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You see? (CHUCKLES)
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I think your
English is better than mine.
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IN FRENCH...
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IN FRENCH...
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(CHUCKLES, IN ENGLISH) See?
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Simpler.
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(SIGHS) It's, uh...
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It's not a good idea.
It's the best idea,
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but it's not a good idea.
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- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (MUFFLED LAUGHTER)
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SADIE SACKEY:
Nothing quite like a promotion
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to make your life
feel worthwhile.
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What are you doing here?
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(CHUCKLES)
Came down a day early.
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- (GUS SACKEY CHUCKLES)
- (GASPS)
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Thought it'd be nice to see you
outside the usual
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- family context.
- Oh, thanks.
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SADIE: Tell me all
about the new job.
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GUS: I haven't actually
moved up, yet.
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It's not exactly a "SPAD" role,
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but she needs some help
organizing
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this anti-competition thing
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that's taking up all of her time
and, uh...
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- That's so exciting. Well done.
- (SCOFFS)
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- (BOTH CHUCKLE)
- ♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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It's great to have someone
to fight for our interests
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- on the inside.
- Mm. How's it been?
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(GROANS) Better, obviously.
But you know.
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They've advised
we have PTSD therapy.
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- Oh.
- But I don't have enough time.
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I think I've got an opportunity
to move to Chelsea
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and Westminster hospital,
if I make consultant though.
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I've been doing night shifts,
and found myself half applying
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for an MRes in Experimental
Neuroscience at Imperial.
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(CHUCKLES) Then I drift off,
wake up and get back to work.
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(SADIE SCOFFS)
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I don't think I'm going to take
the promotion.
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I know it sounds
a bit New Labour,
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but I feel like I'm making
a difference in ways
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I can actually see.
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And it's tiny and tiring,
but...
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it's definitely there.
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(CLICKS TONGUE) You gotta do,
what you gotta do.
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But Mom would be fucking
relieved,
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- if you took the new job.
- I'm enjoying what I'm doing.
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You know she knows
you left Pierpoint, right?
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- Sadie...
- SADIE: The world's best
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- worst-kept secret.
- GUS: The only person I told
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about you was Auntie Mama.
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And A, they don't speak,
and B, I wasn't specific.
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I just said
I was writing a book.
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- Lord have mercy.
- (CHUCKLES)
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- And what did she say to that?
- She told me to "stop dancing"
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- and "find employment."
- (GROANS)
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Are you seeing anyone
at the moment?
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- Yes.
- (CHUCKLES)
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- (CHUCKLES)
- Do you want to go up to Eton
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together tomorrow?
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I'm going to get there early
and have lunch with Isaac.
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I've got to be here.
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Hmm.
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- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (PHONE RINGING)
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- Uh, Rish?
- RISHI RAMDANI: Yeah?
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Where's FastAide indicating
to open?
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Plus 40 percent.
Still top of Reddit.
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- Power to the people, eh?
- DANIEL VAN DEVENTER: Ah, the illusion of power.
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Dunno, you know,
these retail investors, man.
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Any clueless knobhead
with a phone
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shouldn't be allowed to download
an app,
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punt around and move the market.
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Why not? It's democratic.
We're just clueless knobheads
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- but with more screens.
- And better tailoring.
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You know my mom bought
my baby formula from FastAide.
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Be a shame if it went tits up
like Woolworths.
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I don't think a couple
of clueless knobheads
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- are gonna save this.
- ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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Rish, does this squeeze
have any legs?
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It'd be fucking painful
to be short.
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DVD: Uh, Pierpoint's axed
the right way.
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Even if Reddit's just noise,
it's... it's not harmful noise.
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Remember, the, uh, Bloomberg
Invest conference today
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has the potential
to be a dynamite catalyst
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in the medical space.
There's a lot of flow around it.
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RISHI: Yeah, this is a day
of bloodletting
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and king-making.
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DVD: It does have
an atavistic feel, yes.
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RISHI: You what?
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DVD: Oh, atavistic. Uh, like,
um...
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Primal.
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That's fucking right mate.
That's fucking... right.
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Tell me you got Jesse
to buy FastAide.
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The guy's now 40 percent
of the desk's flow.
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I gave you the autonomy
to cover him,
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and part of that contract means
you need to sell him
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on the desk's ideas.
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JESSE BLOOM:
It's bring your kid to work day.
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I wanted to see
where Mommy worked.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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♪ (TENSE MUSIC FADING) ♪
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You look smart,
if a little uncomfortable.
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Yeah, I better get used to it.
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Gucci ties for fireside chats.
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Can't exactly go to a Bloomberg
conference wearing
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a Black Dog Tavern T-shirt
from '98.
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You're going
to Bloomberg Invest?
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Can't you just send a senior PM
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to present your firm's
top three ideas?
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- (WATER POURING)
- (GLASS CLATTERS)
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Sometimes,
it's not about the idea,
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it's about the suitably
attired presenter.
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They want me to talk
to the future of telemedicine.
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For all intents and purposes,
my investment in Rican
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makes me look like
a thought-leader there.
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They don't know
I got you into it.
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Mm-hmm. Plus, I'm thinking
of taking
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on a more ambassadorial role.
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Presidential even.
Out of the day to day,
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you know, chart watching.
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I owe you a tremendous apology
for going AWOL.
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I had some personal stuff.
It will never happen again.
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♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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People have personal stuff
going on all the time.
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That's literally
what being alive is.
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You know, I didn't come
to London to, uh, work.
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How is Leo?
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How the fuck would I know?
You see him more than I do.
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Look...
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when I met you in the hotel,
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I had no intention of talking
to you quite as much as I have.
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But given that I've invested
all of that time,
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and given the opportunity cost
of all that time invested...
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how dare you not pick up
the fucking phone to me?
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♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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I tried calling you
several times.
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After missing several
of my calls.
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Jesse, I have done everything
to facilitate your business.
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I got you into Rican
at an amazing discount.
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(SIGHS) - HARPER
STERN: The telemedicine play.
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And I took you short
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on FastAide,
their biggest competitor.
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How's that going for us?
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I even took the flow away
to Goldman to do it.
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It was that high conviction
of view.
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It simply hasn't worked yet.
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There's a group
of Reddit school shooters
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trying to force me out
of that fucking FastAide short.
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There's no way that they know
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you have a position.
It's not personal.
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What do you know?
They fucked me on Game Stop too.
240
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They think I'm a vulture
profiteering
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off of everything bad
in the world.
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All my peers are stopping out.
243
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Well then that's their loss
because FastAide
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is going to zero.
245
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What if Bezos comes back down
to Earth and decides
246
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to make FastAide
Amazon's next pet?
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Brick and mortar is dead.
248
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If not today, then tomorrow.
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No matter what any tech bro
tells you.
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JESSE: There he is. (CHUCKLES)
Dimples 2024, over here.
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(CHUCKLES)
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I was just telling Harper here,
how my, uh, coverage at Goldman
253
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has advised me to stop out
of my FastAide short.
254
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Your, uh, you're short
on my favorite equity story?
255
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JESSE: Uh, I think Goldman
thinks it's unbecoming
256
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that I'm getting pounded
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by a group
of involuntary celibates.
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(CHUCKLES) - JESSE:
Think I should, uh, cut my losses,
259
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before I'm too deep in the red
and I end up on the front page
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- of the Journal.
- Well, the Reddit squeeze
261
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is a distraction
from the acquisition story.
262
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The Amazon guy joining is just
the first signal.
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Amazon buy FastAide, uh,
264
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I reckon they become favorites
to win the hot NHS contracts
265
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and blow competitors like Rican
into irrelevancy.
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♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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Harper.
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What would you do?
Would you stop out of FastAide
269
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or would you run it?
270
00:13:17,909 --> 00:13:21,329
Obviously, as a member
of the Pierpoint CPS desk,
271
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I would have never
taken you short.
272
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Wouldn't you?
273
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But if I were your coverage
at Goldman, I would say...
274
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"What is your threshold
for pain,
275
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if you believed in the idea
in the first place?"
276
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Danny, final thing.
If your coverage had gotten you
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into a structurally
broken company like FastAide,
278
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with a massive short base,
and then hid when it began
279
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to rip the other way,
what would you do?
280
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Call them an amateur
and pull the line.
281
00:13:55,572 --> 00:13:57,699
Oh, yeah, without a doubt,
line out, finished.
282
00:13:59,284 --> 00:14:02,537
Yeah? So what have we done
to deserve your presence?
283
00:14:02,621 --> 00:14:04,789
Oh, well, I just wanted
to make Harper look
284
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like a, uh, rock star
on the desk.
285
00:14:08,710 --> 00:14:09,711
(CHUCKLES)
286
00:14:14,633 --> 00:14:17,176
DVD: You gonna tell me
what the fuck's going on?
287
00:14:17,260 --> 00:14:18,469
I don't know what
you're talking about.
288
00:14:18,553 --> 00:14:20,221
(CHUCKLES) Spare me.
What was that dance?
289
00:14:20,305 --> 00:14:22,348
- He's eccentric.
- You're his coverage.
290
00:14:22,432 --> 00:14:24,017
(PHONE RINGING)
291
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Our highest conviction long
this quarter has been FastAide.
292
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Why is he short at the point
of pain? Explain that to me.
293
00:14:28,105 --> 00:14:29,480
Do you really think he listens
to me?
294
00:14:29,564 --> 00:14:31,482
I'm a fucking
third year analyst.
295
00:14:31,566 --> 00:14:33,359
He keeps me around
because I'm young
296
00:14:33,443 --> 00:14:34,777
and a woman and I nod at him.
297
00:14:34,861 --> 00:14:36,446
Do you expect me to buy
that shit?
298
00:14:36,530 --> 00:14:38,573
Whatever happened in Berlin,
whatever is happening
299
00:14:38,657 --> 00:14:40,867
between us personally, we...
300
00:14:40,951 --> 00:14:43,244
We established a very healthy
working relationship.
301
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So if you're in trouble,
just say.
302
00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:46,414
RISHI: (OVER HOOT)
I can't believe I'm talking
303
00:14:46,498 --> 00:14:48,416
about this on the hoot,
but for better or for worse...
304
00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:49,751
- But don't lie to me.
- RISHI: ...loads of kids...
305
00:14:49,835 --> 00:14:51,252
- on the internet...
- We don't come back from that.
306
00:14:51,336 --> 00:14:53,617
RISHI: ...are making FastAide
the market story of the day.
307
00:14:54,172 --> 00:14:56,424
I have nothing to do with this.
308
00:14:56,508 --> 00:14:58,176
This is why guys like Bloom
are so hard to cover.
309
00:14:58,260 --> 00:15:00,261
You're... (SIGHS)
...you're disposable.
310
00:15:00,345 --> 00:15:01,971
He's probably got a Harper
working at every other place
311
00:15:02,055 --> 00:15:03,222
- on the street.
- I doubt it.
312
00:15:03,306 --> 00:15:04,932
RISHI: (OVER HOOT) It's
about over, plus 30 percent.
313
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So, I'll be fielding questions
on flow color for ten minutes,
314
00:15:08,311 --> 00:15:13,608
and ten minutes only.
This is beneath me. Thank you.
315
00:15:13,692 --> 00:15:16,611
That's your ego speaking.
You might have heard
316
00:15:16,695 --> 00:15:20,365
Adler's coming over for Rif,
but that's just a ruse.
317
00:15:20,449 --> 00:15:22,367
Between us, I'm not supposed
to say this yet,
318
00:15:22,451 --> 00:15:25,495
but colleague to colleague,
I've earmarked you for New York
319
00:15:25,579 --> 00:15:27,247
when we subsume
the London desk.
320
00:15:28,373 --> 00:15:29,499
You can cover Jesse from there.
321
00:15:29,583 --> 00:15:31,125
You can have
whatever glory you need.
322
00:15:31,209 --> 00:15:33,127
But I'm gonna help you call
the plays.
323
00:15:33,211 --> 00:15:34,963
You've made Jesse too important
to us now.
324
00:15:35,839 --> 00:15:37,090
That decision's
already been made?
325
00:15:37,174 --> 00:15:38,454
What about the rest of the desk?
326
00:15:39,384 --> 00:15:41,636
Couple of weeks ago. Firmly.
327
00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,014
They're still deciding who
to take to New York, but...
328
00:15:45,474 --> 00:15:46,933
CPS London's cooked.
329
00:15:47,017 --> 00:15:50,061
HARPER: And you've known
the whole time. Right?
330
00:15:50,145 --> 00:15:51,897
Adler talked to me
a couple days ago and...
331
00:15:52,939 --> 00:15:54,440
he asked me who
was worthy of being
332
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beamed up to the mothers hip.
I said,
333
00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,780
you. And, of course, Bloom.
334
00:16:00,864 --> 00:16:03,324
All we have to do now is sing
from the same hymn sheet
335
00:16:03,408 --> 00:16:04,743
and everything will be golden.
336
00:16:07,162 --> 00:16:10,623
You told me not to give a fuck
about your personal life.
337
00:16:10,707 --> 00:16:14,002
Just don't lie to me in here,
Harper. Okay?
338
00:16:19,591 --> 00:16:21,968
KENNY: You still up
for Tough Mudder next week then?
339
00:16:22,052 --> 00:16:23,428
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
340
00:16:23,512 --> 00:16:26,639
Oi, Hanani. Is it possible to be
long vega but short gamma
341
00:16:26,723 --> 00:16:28,558
on an option structure?
342
00:16:28,642 --> 00:16:32,019
- Uh, I don't know.
- Oh, answer the question,
343
00:16:32,103 --> 00:16:33,146
you ditzy cunt.
344
00:16:35,649 --> 00:16:40,070
Yeah, yeah, answer it,
you silly bitch.
345
00:16:43,782 --> 00:16:45,658
Have you ever been horrible
to anyone in your life?
346
00:16:45,742 --> 00:16:47,077
That was fucking pathetic.
347
00:16:49,371 --> 00:16:52,790
Sorry, I have no idea
what's going on.
348
00:16:52,874 --> 00:16:54,083
Whoo! (CHUCKLES)
349
00:16:54,167 --> 00:16:55,877
- Fucking hell.
- Got you a gift.
350
00:16:58,463 --> 00:16:59,881
You shouldn't have.
351
00:17:02,801 --> 00:17:03,926
- (CHUCKLES)
- (JACKIE WALSH CHUCKLES)
352
00:17:04,010 --> 00:17:07,180
Wow. (GASPS) Is it Tiffany's?
353
00:17:07,264 --> 00:17:09,307
- Oh, fuck off, clean-shirt.
- (YASMIN CHUCKLES)
354
00:17:09,391 --> 00:17:11,726
In case you get bored on the way
to the meeting.
355
00:17:11,810 --> 00:17:16,355
Well, that's very thoughtful.
Thank you. (CHUCKLES)
356
00:17:16,439 --> 00:17:17,815
Shame Wyndy's not here.
357
00:17:17,899 --> 00:17:20,569
Yeah, thoughts and prayers.
Anyway, uh...
358
00:17:22,487 --> 00:17:23,780
I didn't realize...
359
00:17:24,948 --> 00:17:28,034
how much I enjoyed
having you around.
360
00:17:29,286 --> 00:17:30,579
I appreciate you.
361
00:17:33,290 --> 00:17:34,291
Nice one.
362
00:17:40,672 --> 00:17:43,257
Kenny. Uh, I'm really sorry
about last night.
363
00:17:43,341 --> 00:17:46,511
I'm not exactly sure what
I said, I know it was heinous,
364
00:17:46,595 --> 00:17:49,555
- given that I woke up ashamed.
- Ah...
365
00:17:49,639 --> 00:17:52,725
they asked me to weigh in
with a practical joke as well.
366
00:17:52,809 --> 00:17:55,061
I didn't know if
it was inappropriate or not.
367
00:17:55,145 --> 00:17:57,522
And also, I didn't know how long
it was gonna take,
368
00:17:57,606 --> 00:18:00,191
but once it was started,
I was all in, so...
369
00:18:01,026 --> 00:18:03,277
(HUMS VICTORIOUSLY)
370
00:18:03,361 --> 00:18:04,738
- (CHUCKLES)
- (KENNY CHUCKLES)
371
00:18:06,531 --> 00:18:07,657
(YASMIN CHUCKLES)
372
00:18:10,201 --> 00:18:13,580
- I don't really use a stapler.
- Yeah, I had to Amazon it.
373
00:18:14,497 --> 00:18:16,124
Joke still stands though.
374
00:18:16,208 --> 00:18:21,588
(GRUNTS, HUMS "DISCO INFERNO"
BY THE TRAMMPS)
375
00:18:29,179 --> 00:18:31,222
(CHUCKLES)
376
00:18:43,234 --> 00:18:45,361
(CROWD LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)
377
00:18:45,445 --> 00:18:47,113
TRADER: Is that like
a sober thing?
378
00:18:47,197 --> 00:18:50,741
- I'm really lost.
- You should, uh...
379
00:18:50,825 --> 00:18:52,661
you should really watch
more telly. (CHUCKLES)
380
00:18:55,038 --> 00:18:56,638
- Good luck. (CHUCKLES)
- (PHONE RINGING)
381
00:18:59,751 --> 00:19:00,794
Thanks, guys.
382
00:19:04,464 --> 00:19:06,675
(PHONE RINGING)
383
00:19:12,055 --> 00:19:14,808
- Nice one. Fucking LOL.
- Uh-huh.
384
00:19:16,142 --> 00:19:17,476
Pierpoint, Yasmin speaking.
385
00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:19,353
CELESTE: (OVER PHONE)
It's your new boss.
386
00:19:19,437 --> 00:19:21,523
Can you take an hour off
for lunch?
387
00:19:22,273 --> 00:19:24,317
Yeah. Sure.
388
00:19:26,152 --> 00:19:27,320
I'm very free.
389
00:19:27,404 --> 00:19:29,739
CELESTE: You're based
in Notting Hill, right?
390
00:19:32,242 --> 00:19:35,828
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
391
00:19:35,912 --> 00:19:38,956
(EXCLAIMS) FastAide opens
up at 45 percent.
392
00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:40,124
That is wild, wild shit.
393
00:19:40,208 --> 00:19:41,542
How'd they
pull themselves away
394
00:19:41,626 --> 00:19:43,544
from their stepsister porn
long enough to buy the stock?
395
00:19:43,628 --> 00:19:45,838
HARPER: Fuck's sake,
go down you piece of shit.
396
00:19:45,922 --> 00:19:48,132
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
397
00:19:48,216 --> 00:19:50,468
DVD: Uh, you know it's like CVS
or Boots in the UK.
398
00:19:50,552 --> 00:19:52,303
Oh, do you have, uh,
a Robin hood account?
399
00:19:52,387 --> 00:19:54,347
Yeah, they're... they're not...
Actually not allowed here.
400
00:19:54,431 --> 00:19:57,225
I know we haven't really spoken,
um, since Berlin.
401
00:19:58,685 --> 00:20:00,436
I'm here to talk about it
whenever you want.
402
00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,022
I mean, obviously,
not right now. (CHUCKLES)
403
00:20:03,106 --> 00:20:04,899
Whenever else.
404
00:20:04,983 --> 00:20:08,111
There's nothing really to say.
Super fun trip though, right?
405
00:20:09,946 --> 00:20:12,240
Yeah. Super fun.
406
00:20:13,491 --> 00:20:14,701
You sure you're okay?
407
00:20:17,954 --> 00:20:19,830
I've drunk myself into infamy.
(CHUCKLES)
408
00:20:19,914 --> 00:20:21,582
Can I have one
of your vitamin C tablets?
409
00:20:21,666 --> 00:20:23,709
I have a client lunch, um,
410
00:20:23,793 --> 00:20:25,670
- need to equilibrate the brain.
- You don't have to ask,
411
00:20:25,754 --> 00:20:27,047
you can just come take it.
412
00:20:29,507 --> 00:20:31,217
It's my last day
on the desk today.
413
00:20:31,301 --> 00:20:33,678
Nice. Congratulations.
414
00:20:33,762 --> 00:20:35,888
It means we're not going to be
seeing so much of each other.
415
00:20:35,972 --> 00:20:37,932
I'm not gonna be
in your eye line.
416
00:20:38,016 --> 00:20:40,351
- It's not a very big building.
- It's quite big...
417
00:20:40,435 --> 00:20:42,061
Sorry, is there something else
that I can help you with?
418
00:20:42,145 --> 00:20:44,563
It's just this morning
has been a bit crazy.
419
00:20:44,647 --> 00:20:46,983
Fuck's sake,
I should have been in long PA.
420
00:20:47,067 --> 00:20:48,734
This thing is moving.
421
00:20:48,818 --> 00:20:50,069
You sure you're not gonna
miss this?
422
00:20:50,153 --> 00:20:52,238
Well, you should come over
for dinner sometime.
423
00:20:52,322 --> 00:20:54,532
I've got a new pizza oven,
in the garden and it's harder
424
00:20:54,616 --> 00:20:56,784
to get going
than a nuclear reactor.
425
00:20:56,868 --> 00:20:58,202
You might be able to work it.
426
00:20:58,286 --> 00:21:00,371
H, have you seen Bloomie?
Gus' boss
427
00:21:00,455 --> 00:21:01,622
just got elevated
to Health Minister.
428
00:21:01,706 --> 00:21:03,124
So that's bearish FastAide,
bullish Rican?
429
00:21:03,208 --> 00:21:05,001
Nah, it's bullish FastAide,
bearish Rican.
430
00:21:05,085 --> 00:21:07,754
- That's right, ain't it, Harper?
- Sounds good. Let's find a time.
431
00:21:09,923 --> 00:21:11,966
- I'll miss you.
- Miss you too.
432
00:21:12,550 --> 00:21:14,969
What, when Bono retires?
433
00:21:16,137 --> 00:21:17,388
What?
434
00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:22,309
RISHI: Fuck the FCA, mate.
I think I'm gonna have to get
435
00:21:22,393 --> 00:21:25,688
a burner and download Robin hood.
These geeks are making money.
436
00:21:38,535 --> 00:21:42,329
JAMIE HENSON: Turin in '05,
I bunked onto the plane,
437
00:21:42,413 --> 00:21:45,624
- and bumped into the ground.
- GUS: You did?
438
00:21:45,708 --> 00:21:48,461
The first time we played
Juventus since Heysel.
439
00:21:48,545 --> 00:21:53,591
It was fucking heavy, lad.
F... Police escorts,
440
00:21:53,675 --> 00:21:56,969
fucking raining bottles
of piss and coins.
441
00:21:57,053 --> 00:22:01,015
That's when you feel alive.
I went missing for two days
442
00:22:01,099 --> 00:22:03,476
- after, you know?
- You stop going?
443
00:22:05,228 --> 00:22:06,813
Sorta fell away, you know.
444
00:22:07,897 --> 00:22:11,943
Tickets were expensive
and then my mates...
445
00:22:13,236 --> 00:22:15,530
they stopped sorting me
'cause I kept going missing.
446
00:22:17,532 --> 00:22:21,744
Hey, I think I'm too much
for some people, you know, lad.
447
00:22:21,828 --> 00:22:25,456
- Nah, you're all right mate.
- Yeah?
448
00:22:25,540 --> 00:22:28,709
- (SNICKERS)
- Hey, listen, look have you, um,
449
00:22:28,793 --> 00:22:30,336
have you managed to find
a counsellor?
450
00:22:31,588 --> 00:22:32,713
No, it's just, look, um...
451
00:22:32,797 --> 00:22:34,197
It's just that
I've been given, a...
452
00:22:35,216 --> 00:22:36,676
A few months wait they said.
453
00:22:39,429 --> 00:22:43,766
- Well, come on, given what?
- (SCOFFS) Nothing.
454
00:22:44,893 --> 00:22:47,353
But look, it's...
I'm not qualified to talk to you
455
00:22:47,437 --> 00:22:50,314
about that kinda thing.
It's irresponsible.
456
00:22:50,398 --> 00:22:52,525
What about the guy
I connected you with?
457
00:22:52,609 --> 00:22:53,902
Oh, him? Nah...
458
00:22:55,028 --> 00:22:56,070
crap.
459
00:22:56,154 --> 00:22:57,488
There's this service
we're hoping to roll out
460
00:22:57,572 --> 00:22:59,073
to the public eventually.
461
00:22:59,157 --> 00:23:00,407
At the moment,
it's a bit pricey,
462
00:23:00,491 --> 00:23:02,576
but I'll be happy to cover you
for a few sessions.
463
00:23:02,660 --> 00:23:04,078
Nah,
you don't have to do that, lad.
464
00:23:04,162 --> 00:23:06,705
GUS: No, no, look, as many as
you need. Just go to the app store
465
00:23:06,789 --> 00:23:07,832
and look for Rican.
466
00:23:08,416 --> 00:23:10,042
(CHUCKLES)
467
00:23:10,126 --> 00:23:11,919
- Hey, what's funny?
- Oh,
468
00:23:12,003 --> 00:23:13,087
you got no idea, have ya?
469
00:23:13,171 --> 00:23:16,257
- What? (CHUCKLES)
- A fucking app store on that?
470
00:23:16,341 --> 00:23:18,092
- That's your phone?
- JAMIE: Yeah.
471
00:23:18,176 --> 00:23:20,553
- Looks like Lego.
- Look, it vibrates and everything.
472
00:23:20,637 --> 00:23:21,720
(CHUCKLES)
473
00:23:21,804 --> 00:23:23,806
Hey, bum head, have you never
seen one of these?
474
00:23:23,890 --> 00:23:27,143
Look, um, I've... I've got, uh,
I've got a thing
475
00:23:27,227 --> 00:23:29,228
out of town today, but...
476
00:23:29,312 --> 00:23:31,232
I'll be right here
when you're back this evening.
477
00:23:32,565 --> 00:23:34,483
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
478
00:23:34,567 --> 00:23:35,901
- Sound.
- (GUS CHUCKLES)
479
00:23:35,985 --> 00:23:39,948
- (PHONE RINGING)
- (MUFFLED INDISTINCT CHATTER)
480
00:23:42,867 --> 00:23:46,745
YASMIN: My house isn't exactly
a renowned lunch spot. (SIGHS)
481
00:23:46,829 --> 00:23:49,165
Although, there is the original
Ottolenghi round the corner,
482
00:23:49,249 --> 00:23:51,125
if you want to order in.
483
00:23:51,209 --> 00:23:54,128
- Would you like a drink?
- Water, if you have it.
484
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:56,881
Yeah.
485
00:23:56,965 --> 00:24:00,593
(CLICKS TONGUE, HISSES)
I have water. (CHUCKLES)
486
00:24:00,677 --> 00:24:03,179
- I live in a major conurbation.
- (WATER RUNNING)
487
00:24:03,846 --> 00:24:06,349
YASMIN: London, so, uh...
488
00:24:07,392 --> 00:24:08,434
Yeah.
489
00:24:09,852 --> 00:24:12,146
I have water. (SNIFFS)
490
00:24:16,234 --> 00:24:17,277
Don't be nervous.
491
00:24:19,612 --> 00:24:20,655
I'm not nervous.
492
00:24:34,711 --> 00:24:36,045
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
493
00:24:36,129 --> 00:24:37,880
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
494
00:24:56,691 --> 00:24:59,193
(BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY)
495
00:25:05,908 --> 00:25:09,454
(YASMIN MOANS, PANTS)
496
00:25:16,210 --> 00:25:19,756
(BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY)
497
00:25:26,512 --> 00:25:27,846
(YASMIN MOANS)
498
00:25:27,930 --> 00:25:30,391
IN FRENCH...
499
00:25:30,475 --> 00:25:31,934
(YASMIN EXHALES DEEPLY)
500
00:25:33,603 --> 00:25:34,645
(MOANS)
501
00:25:48,618 --> 00:25:50,745
(BOTH MOAN)
502
00:25:55,124 --> 00:25:56,793
(IN ENGLISH)
I want to taste you.
503
00:26:00,505 --> 00:26:02,507
(YASMIN MOANS)
504
00:26:06,052 --> 00:26:07,220
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
505
00:26:09,639 --> 00:26:15,728
♪ (ROMANTIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
506
00:26:34,122 --> 00:26:35,957
(YASMIN GASPS)
507
00:26:42,713 --> 00:26:44,090
(YASMIN MOANS)
508
00:26:59,564 --> 00:27:02,316
I don't really think your
little brother's confirmation
509
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,568
is the most apposite place
for you
510
00:27:04,652 --> 00:27:07,654
to show up with a puckish
little twink.
511
00:27:07,738 --> 00:27:08,822
Within the queer taxonomy,
512
00:27:08,906 --> 00:27:10,324
I wouldn't say you're very
twinkish.
513
00:27:11,659 --> 00:27:14,787
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)
- Yeah.
514
00:27:14,871 --> 00:27:16,455
They're not totally backwards,
but there will be
515
00:27:16,539 --> 00:27:20,250
a few pregnant stares for sure.
It's not fair on Isaac.
516
00:27:20,334 --> 00:27:21,961
Have you told them
about your promotion?
517
00:27:23,463 --> 00:27:24,505
I'm not taking it.
518
00:27:27,425 --> 00:27:29,593
LEO BLOOM: Enjoying speaking
to troubled people
519
00:27:29,677 --> 00:27:32,054
on the margins too much?
520
00:27:32,138 --> 00:27:34,056
See, that's exactly the kind
of tone that you pretend to hate
521
00:27:34,140 --> 00:27:35,725
though it comes out your mouth
a lot.
522
00:27:38,269 --> 00:27:41,438
I actually really fucking enjoy
that work.
523
00:27:41,522 --> 00:27:43,148
It's rewarding in a way
that I know my family
524
00:27:43,232 --> 00:27:44,358
just won't understand.
525
00:27:45,693 --> 00:27:47,111
Mum's been in Ghana.
526
00:27:47,195 --> 00:27:50,031
Dad's not been able to get out
of Angola. Until now.
527
00:27:51,073 --> 00:27:52,074
It's weird.
528
00:27:53,201 --> 00:27:55,202
Jesse moved to London
529
00:27:55,286 --> 00:27:59,790
and it feels like we're in
a longer-distance relationship.
530
00:27:59,874 --> 00:28:01,375
He took me
to the British Museum
531
00:28:01,459 --> 00:28:04,211
on the weekend, and was like,
"Look at all this cool
532
00:28:04,295 --> 00:28:07,506
old shit." (CHUCKLES)
And I was like,
533
00:28:07,590 --> 00:28:13,220
"Yeah, it is cool,
all this old shit."
534
00:28:13,304 --> 00:28:17,225
And like, I mean, I didn't say
this obviously, but...
535
00:28:18,267 --> 00:28:19,477
those years are gone.
536
00:28:21,437 --> 00:28:22,605
What about your offer?
537
00:28:23,648 --> 00:28:24,941
Apparently, it's still pending.
538
00:28:27,777 --> 00:28:30,863
Hey, they give them out
in December.
539
00:28:34,158 --> 00:28:36,160
Why didn't you just tell me
you didn't get in?
540
00:28:38,913 --> 00:28:40,789
You worked really hard.
541
00:28:40,873 --> 00:28:42,959
It's okay to admit
you're disappointed.
542
00:28:48,256 --> 00:28:49,340
(SIGHS)
543
00:28:51,342 --> 00:28:52,552
I wanted to get in.
544
00:28:55,137 --> 00:28:57,055
You made me wanna get in.
(SCOFFS)
545
00:28:57,139 --> 00:28:59,016
And I didn't and that's fine.
546
00:28:59,100 --> 00:29:01,435
Billionaire's son
doesn't get into Oxford.
547
00:29:02,895 --> 00:29:04,397
Cry me a fucking river.
(CHUCKLES)
548
00:29:07,108 --> 00:29:08,234
(CELL PHONE BUZZING)
549
00:29:14,031 --> 00:29:15,283
Train's been cancel led.
550
00:29:16,409 --> 00:29:18,035
Frozen track. Fuck.
551
00:29:19,328 --> 00:29:20,496
Fuck it.
552
00:29:21,956 --> 00:29:22,999
I'll play the card.
553
00:29:27,169 --> 00:29:32,049
Jesse, can you, um, send a car
to take us to school?
554
00:29:32,133 --> 00:29:33,175
(SNICKERS)
555
00:29:33,259 --> 00:29:35,636
- (RAIN PATTERING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
556
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,805
- (TRAFFIC RUMBLING)
- (BREATHES DEEPLY)
557
00:29:41,517 --> 00:29:42,727
ERIC TAO: Harper!
558
00:29:45,521 --> 00:29:46,522
How are you?
559
00:29:48,733 --> 00:29:52,444
I've thrown myself headlong
into my new opportunity
560
00:29:52,528 --> 00:29:55,573
from the spacious confines
of my garret.
561
00:29:57,158 --> 00:30:00,119
- You're fucking miserable?
- (CHUCKLES)
562
00:30:02,496 --> 00:30:03,539
Are you okay?
563
00:30:06,250 --> 00:30:07,251
Uh...
564
00:30:08,794 --> 00:30:09,795
no.
565
00:30:11,005 --> 00:30:12,256
No, I'm in trouble.
566
00:30:14,050 --> 00:30:15,843
- Past fucked?
- Yeah.
567
00:30:17,219 --> 00:30:20,264
"Past fucked.
Do not collect 200 dollars”?
568
00:30:20,348 --> 00:30:22,266
- No, yeah. I'm fucked.
- Oh, boy.
569
00:30:22,350 --> 00:30:25,561
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)
- Ignorance is bliss.
570
00:30:29,482 --> 00:30:30,483
Thank you.
571
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,193
In all honesty,
572
00:30:33,277 --> 00:30:36,614
I've been thinking
of finally hitting a bid away.
573
00:30:37,615 --> 00:30:39,199
I've started taking calls,
574
00:30:39,283 --> 00:30:42,411
stopped hanging up
on headhunters.
575
00:30:42,495 --> 00:30:45,497
- High time I hitched a lift.
- So, nothing's sticking?
576
00:30:45,581 --> 00:30:48,417
Surely you could just walk
into any other job.
577
00:30:48,501 --> 00:30:53,047
At the same level? Course,
I've got the contacts.
578
00:30:54,131 --> 00:30:57,217
I'm not sure they love me
for me.
579
00:30:57,301 --> 00:30:59,886
I'm pretty sure they
never loved me... (CHUCKLES)
580
00:30:59,970 --> 00:31:01,013
...just for me.
581
00:31:03,516 --> 00:31:05,142
I've started talking
about my feelings
582
00:31:05,226 --> 00:31:06,852
a little more as you can see.
583
00:31:06,936 --> 00:31:08,816
PASSERBY: Text when
you're waiting for me, yeah?
584
00:31:10,481 --> 00:31:11,524
When I hired you...
585
00:31:12,650 --> 00:31:13,859
what'd I look like to you?
586
00:31:14,944 --> 00:31:16,529
Mr. Pierpoint, right?
587
00:31:18,489 --> 00:31:22,492
But I could be,
Mr. Morgan Stanley, Mr. Nomura.
588
00:31:22,576 --> 00:31:24,077
I wouldn't want
to be Mr. Nomura,
589
00:31:24,161 --> 00:31:25,537
but that's by the by.
590
00:31:25,621 --> 00:31:28,582
These institutions
are just shells
591
00:31:28,666 --> 00:31:31,418
that shelter you
and your key-client relationship
592
00:31:31,502 --> 00:31:32,544
and if you keep that,
593
00:31:32,628 --> 00:31:34,338
you can manage
someone like Bloom,
594
00:31:34,422 --> 00:31:36,048
you can migrate from place
to place.
595
00:31:36,132 --> 00:31:38,091
They'll fucking house you,
pay you up,
596
00:31:38,175 --> 00:31:39,259
and call you family.
597
00:31:39,343 --> 00:31:41,429
You become bigger
than the institution.
598
00:31:42,471 --> 00:31:44,890
You have Bloom,
you don't need Pierpoint.
599
00:31:47,309 --> 00:31:48,352
What about your skills?
600
00:31:51,939 --> 00:31:54,859
What are my transferable skills,
I mean, really?
601
00:31:56,318 --> 00:31:58,904
And my current client list
isn't exactly something
602
00:31:58,988 --> 00:32:01,031
you'd pay up for.
603
00:32:01,115 --> 00:32:03,367
Don't sound so defeated,
it doesn't suit you.
604
00:32:05,286 --> 00:32:07,621
Well, who was responsible
for my defeat?
605
00:32:11,876 --> 00:32:12,877
You were.
606
00:32:14,003 --> 00:32:15,921
The moment you'd accepted
you lost.
607
00:32:17,047 --> 00:32:19,299
And Daniel, of course.
608
00:32:19,383 --> 00:32:22,260
It's the quietly motivated ones
you gotta watch out for.
609
00:32:22,344 --> 00:32:24,930
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
610
00:32:25,014 --> 00:32:26,182
What are you talking about?
611
00:32:27,641 --> 00:32:29,309
You don't feel the knife
612
00:32:29,393 --> 00:32:31,479
when it goes in right
between your ribs.
613
00:32:37,568 --> 00:32:40,946
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (PHONE RINGING)
614
00:32:41,030 --> 00:32:42,907
RISHI: FastAide coming off
its high here.
615
00:32:47,203 --> 00:32:48,995
(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
616
00:32:49,079 --> 00:32:51,665
Rish-Rish, what's behind
this reversal in FastAide?
617
00:32:51,749 --> 00:32:53,333
- Any ideas?
- (MOUSE CLICKING)
618
00:32:53,417 --> 00:32:57,505
Sec. Sec. It does look that way.
I'm just digging on IB. Sec.
619
00:32:58,839 --> 00:33:00,299
(PHONE RINGING)
620
00:33:01,842 --> 00:33:03,594
(PHONE VIBRATING)
621
00:33:06,514 --> 00:33:10,100
So, This is where it happens,
huh? All that learning.
622
00:33:10,184 --> 00:33:12,644
Um, Leo
said you needed transport,
623
00:33:12,728 --> 00:33:15,063
is he here? Hmm?
624
00:33:15,147 --> 00:33:19,151
Ah, hey. I didn't see,
uh, taxicab driver
625
00:33:19,235 --> 00:33:22,029
in my future but, uh,
we are where we are.
626
00:33:23,572 --> 00:33:25,115
Why are you here?
627
00:33:25,199 --> 00:33:26,950
You know, I ask myself
the same thing
628
00:33:27,034 --> 00:33:28,494
every time I'm away from my rig.
629
00:33:30,246 --> 00:33:32,247
(WHISPERS) You know I can
do whatever I want right?
630
00:33:32,331 --> 00:33:35,668
- (DOOR SHUTTING)
- (CELLPHONE BUZZES)
631
00:33:36,836 --> 00:33:39,963
So I have two very conspicuous
looking escalades
632
00:33:40,047 --> 00:33:42,466
waiting outside.
It's like I'm moving weight.
633
00:33:42,550 --> 00:33:44,217
One is going to take you
634
00:33:44,301 --> 00:33:46,219
to the chief nursery
of England's statesmen,
635
00:33:46,303 --> 00:33:48,513
and the other one is gonna take
you and I
636
00:33:48,597 --> 00:33:50,682
wherever you wanna go, Leo.
637
00:33:50,766 --> 00:33:52,351
Can you just give me
a lift into town?
638
00:33:55,938 --> 00:33:59,608
Gus. When am I gonna see
some ROI on all that cash
639
00:33:59,692 --> 00:34:02,319
I dropped on Leo's tutelage?
I mean, you're fucking my son,
640
00:34:02,403 --> 00:34:04,112
the least you could do
is get him into college, right?
641
00:34:04,196 --> 00:34:05,530
- What the fuck?
- JESSE: Don't worry,
642
00:34:05,614 --> 00:34:06,740
you know I'm an ally.
643
00:34:06,824 --> 00:34:08,742
It's not financially viable
not to be
644
00:34:08,826 --> 00:34:09,910
in the current culture.
645
00:34:12,621 --> 00:34:15,416
He's, um, he's still waiting
to hear back.
646
00:34:16,625 --> 00:34:20,087
All right. I cleared my entire
schedule for today...
647
00:34:21,088 --> 00:34:23,340
and you are gonna have lunch
with me.
648
00:34:23,424 --> 00:34:25,467
Why are you dressed like
pound shop GQ?
649
00:34:25,551 --> 00:34:27,052
(CHUCKLES)
I don't know what that is.
650
00:34:27,136 --> 00:34:29,012
I have an evening engagement.
651
00:34:29,096 --> 00:34:32,891
I am a public figure, Leopold.
Your father's a public figure.
652
00:34:32,975 --> 00:34:35,769
All right? Are you not
in any way proud of that?
653
00:34:35,853 --> 00:34:37,020
Not particularly, Dad, no.
654
00:34:37,104 --> 00:34:38,605
JESSE: Well, you know what?
Neither am I.
655
00:34:38,689 --> 00:34:40,398
Apple does not fall far
from the tree.
656
00:34:40,482 --> 00:34:42,776
Sorry, sorry, Jesse,
I really do need to go.
657
00:34:42,860 --> 00:34:44,027
Are you okay
to let yourself out?
658
00:34:44,111 --> 00:34:45,737
- Yeah.
- JESSE: Yeah, the car is waiting for you.
659
00:34:45,821 --> 00:34:47,322
We can continue this
on the way home?
660
00:34:47,406 --> 00:34:48,949
- Just drop me off in town.
- Hey, dude.
661
00:34:49,033 --> 00:34:50,283
Uh, hey. I'm...
I'm really trying now.
662
00:34:50,367 --> 00:34:51,701
Can you... can you give me
a break?
663
00:34:51,785 --> 00:34:53,870
LEO: Can you not do this
in front of Gus?
664
00:34:53,954 --> 00:34:55,915
It's not what he expects
from a public figure.
665
00:35:04,506 --> 00:35:06,132
I really do appreciate the lift.
666
00:35:06,216 --> 00:35:09,595
- (CELLPHONE BUZZING)
- I bet your parents are proud.
667
00:35:12,222 --> 00:35:14,766
(SIGHS) All we have
is work, huh?
668
00:35:14,850 --> 00:35:17,227
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
669
00:35:17,311 --> 00:35:18,728
Listen Jesse, I think this thing
is about to move
670
00:35:18,812 --> 00:35:20,939
- our fucking way.
- I'm done with you.
671
00:35:21,023 --> 00:35:22,941
- Why did I pick up?
- HARPER: Why did you pick up?
672
00:35:23,025 --> 00:35:24,901
I'm fucked if I know,
but we can psychoanalyze
673
00:35:24,985 --> 00:35:27,279
the whys of you and me
when I'm old and you're older.
674
00:35:27,363 --> 00:35:29,489
But, right now,
you just need to listen.
675
00:35:29,573 --> 00:35:31,533
RISHI: (OVER HOOT)
FastAide very fucking fragile
676
00:35:31,617 --> 00:35:32,951
up here now.
Most of the key shorts
677
00:35:33,035 --> 00:35:36,538
have been cleared out
and positioning is much cleaner.
678
00:35:36,622 --> 00:35:38,999
I assume there's a couple
of big institutional guys
679
00:35:39,083 --> 00:35:40,333
still to go.
Those Reddit virgins
680
00:35:40,417 --> 00:35:42,294
don't ever really stand
a chance against fundamentals
681
00:35:42,378 --> 00:35:43,379
and gravity.
682
00:35:45,005 --> 00:35:46,840
So the party's over?
683
00:35:46,924 --> 00:35:48,466
Our short's moving
in our direction.
684
00:35:48,550 --> 00:35:50,636
Prudent to stop out
at a more favorable level.
685
00:35:51,428 --> 00:35:53,514
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
686
00:35:55,057 --> 00:35:56,308
No, our party's just starting.
687
00:35:57,893 --> 00:35:58,894
Do you trust me?
688
00:35:58,978 --> 00:36:01,479
I don't know where you're going
with this.
689
00:36:01,563 --> 00:36:05,942
That whatever, ineffable,
subconscious thing,
690
00:36:06,026 --> 00:36:09,487
do you have that with me?
Do you trust me?
691
00:36:09,571 --> 00:36:12,365
JESSE: Look your trader says
it's held up by air.
692
00:36:12,449 --> 00:36:14,951
After the last guy stops out,
it's cratering.
693
00:36:15,035 --> 00:36:16,536
And that last guy is me.
694
00:36:16,620 --> 00:36:19,497
That's not the trade.
That's not our trade.
695
00:36:19,581 --> 00:36:21,583
I'm not stopping out.
I am not letting you walk away
696
00:36:21,667 --> 00:36:24,836
from this with a loss.
We sell more into the reversal.
697
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,547
And we pummel this bitch
until she yelps.
698
00:36:27,631 --> 00:36:30,091
That's all very cute,
but you heard your trader.
699
00:36:30,175 --> 00:36:33,470
He thinks it's going down now,
from his lips to God's ears.
700
00:36:33,554 --> 00:36:35,138
He's not going to put
in a strong bid.
701
00:36:35,222 --> 00:36:37,515
- I mean, w... what's the catalyst?
- Yes, it's going down.
702
00:36:37,599 --> 00:36:39,809
But that is the trade
after the trade.
703
00:36:39,893 --> 00:36:42,354
First, he needs to think
it's going up...
704
00:36:42,438 --> 00:36:45,607
because a big investor
still needs to buy to cover
705
00:36:45,691 --> 00:36:47,359
in order to stop out.
706
00:36:47,443 --> 00:36:50,528
You are gonna be
that big investor.
707
00:36:50,612 --> 00:36:52,489
I'll make sure he reads you
the wrong way.
708
00:36:53,782 --> 00:36:55,867
We are going to cheat him.
709
00:36:55,951 --> 00:36:58,078
We're gonna tell him
that you're stopping out,
710
00:36:58,162 --> 00:37:00,872
he'll think you're buying
to cover the short,
711
00:37:00,956 --> 00:37:03,041
so he'll set his price high.
712
00:37:03,125 --> 00:37:05,669
We'll get his price,
and then we'll sell through him
713
00:37:05,753 --> 00:37:07,420
and move this thing
our direction.
714
00:37:07,504 --> 00:37:10,215
- JESSE: You pull this off...
- Then you are my client.
715
00:37:11,175 --> 00:37:12,926
And you will tell everyone.
716
00:37:13,010 --> 00:37:19,516
And if I wanna go to MS, GS,
CS, Citi, fucking Mars,
717
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,726
you will tell them
that I am the guarantor
718
00:37:21,810 --> 00:37:22,853
of your business.
719
00:37:23,979 --> 00:37:27,066
You make this happen,
maybe we are talking again.
720
00:37:29,318 --> 00:37:32,487
- Sec.
- (PHONE RINGING)
721
00:37:32,571 --> 00:37:37,117
Rish, Bloom's in max pain.
He shorted a ton of FastAide
722
00:37:37,201 --> 00:37:39,703
through Goldman and he wants
to stop out through us,
723
00:37:39,787 --> 00:37:41,747
cut his short. Can we help?
724
00:37:43,707 --> 00:37:46,585
If he can hear me,
if the prick can hear me...
725
00:37:47,503 --> 00:37:48,670
He get that?
726
00:37:50,047 --> 00:37:51,798
Tell him I, uh, I love the name.
727
00:37:51,882 --> 00:37:54,968
No, no. I... I adore the name.
I introduced the name
728
00:37:55,052 --> 00:37:57,303
to my parents after I rattled
her seven ways to Sunday.
729
00:37:57,387 --> 00:37:59,431
That's how much
I love FastAide.
730
00:37:59,515 --> 00:38:00,765
Getting out is gonna cost him.
731
00:38:00,849 --> 00:38:02,934
Okay, he gets it.
You have a big dick.
732
00:38:03,018 --> 00:38:04,019
You know his direction?
733
00:38:04,103 --> 00:38:05,603
He has to buy to cover
to stop out.
734
00:38:05,687 --> 00:38:07,022
He wants to know
how wide you'll be
735
00:38:07,106 --> 00:38:09,315
- in 19 million shares.
- Actually, tell him,
736
00:38:09,399 --> 00:38:11,985
the exact amount
is 18.952 million,
737
00:38:12,069 --> 00:38:13,778
then he'll definitely think
it's an unwind
738
00:38:13,862 --> 00:38:15,030
and I'm getting out.
739
00:38:15,114 --> 00:38:18,825
Sorry the exact amount is, um,
18.952 million shares.
740
00:38:18,909 --> 00:38:21,120
- (KEYBOARD CLACKING)
- Full size, only you.
741
00:38:22,371 --> 00:38:25,582
RISHI: Okay, last trade
was 92, trading up.
742
00:38:26,708 --> 00:38:28,668
I can make him
60 points wide around my mid
743
00:38:28,752 --> 00:38:33,006
on 18.952 million,
if he guarantees to trade now.
744
00:38:33,090 --> 00:38:34,632
Fuck Dodd Frank.
How're you left?
745
00:38:34,716 --> 00:38:35,843
JESSE: Tell him to wait.
746
00:38:38,137 --> 00:38:40,388
RISHI: 85/45 around 3.
He like it?
747
00:38:40,472 --> 00:38:42,140
Make him wait.
We'll get a better price.
748
00:38:42,224 --> 00:38:45,977
Off. Higher now, make him 95/55.
I'm taking him to the cleaners.
749
00:38:46,061 --> 00:38:47,062
Do the man there.
750
00:38:47,146 --> 00:38:48,772
- Yours. Sell, sell, sell.
- Yours.
751
00:38:48,856 --> 00:38:52,484
Bloom sells 18.952 million
at 295.
752
00:38:52,568 --> 00:38:54,027
JESSE: I'm quietly impressed.
753
00:38:54,736 --> 00:38:55,695
Um... (CHUCKLES)
754
00:38:55,779 --> 00:38:57,530
..."yours"? What do you mean
fucking yours?
755
00:38:57,614 --> 00:38:59,741
- ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- I mean, he sells.
756
00:39:00,909 --> 00:39:01,910
Are you mentally challenged?
757
00:39:01,994 --> 00:39:03,286
Are you out
of your fucking tree?
758
00:39:03,370 --> 00:39:05,872
He guaranteed you a trade.
On your spread. On your price.
759
00:39:05,956 --> 00:39:07,124
Not a direction.
760
00:39:08,709 --> 00:39:11,878
You read him too far,
took the piss, he called you out
761
00:39:11,962 --> 00:39:13,005
and that's that.
762
00:39:15,966 --> 00:39:17,342
Do you think I'm soft?
763
00:39:19,845 --> 00:39:22,722
You put your hand up to signal
we were done and he was a buyer.
764
00:39:22,806 --> 00:39:24,015
You misread my signal.
(CHUCKLES)
765
00:39:24,099 --> 00:39:27,602
I told you to wait,
and then I signaled to sell.
766
00:39:27,686 --> 00:39:30,105
Rish, we have a verbal contract.
(CHUCKLES) You know that.
767
00:39:30,189 --> 00:39:34,192
Shit happens. Let's just eat it.
It's Bloom. He's satisfied...
768
00:39:34,276 --> 00:39:37,404
Harper, I'm the fucking spiv.
You don't spiv the spiv.
769
00:39:37,488 --> 00:39:39,948
You knowingly helped Rishi
read him the wrong way.
770
00:39:40,032 --> 00:39:42,492
So Rishi laid three points
above the fair price,
771
00:39:42,576 --> 00:39:44,035
expecting Jesse to buy it
off him.
772
00:39:44,119 --> 00:39:46,162
Right! And now I'm long
a load more of this shit
773
00:39:46,246 --> 00:39:49,499
at a shit price.
I'm in a 75-million-dollar hole.
774
00:39:49,583 --> 00:39:51,918
I heard the whole
sorry fucking thing.
775
00:39:52,002 --> 00:39:54,295
I was patched
into your line, Harper.
776
00:39:54,379 --> 00:39:55,922
Well, then,
why didn't you fucking step in?
777
00:39:56,006 --> 00:39:58,258
I wanted proof of who she was.
778
00:39:58,342 --> 00:40:00,718
RISHI: She's blown up
my entire year.
779
00:40:00,802 --> 00:40:02,595
(METAL CLANGING) - RISHI:
You're gonna be losing friends
780
00:40:02,679 --> 00:40:04,890
- with this kind of behavior.
- And who are you then?
781
00:40:06,433 --> 00:40:09,686
Face value?
I knew you were full of shit.
782
00:40:11,355 --> 00:40:12,397
Go fuck yourself.
783
00:40:14,524 --> 00:40:16,526
I have to take this upstairs
immediately.
784
00:40:17,611 --> 00:40:19,445
Immediately.
Log out of your Bloomie.
785
00:40:19,529 --> 00:40:21,531
Fucking now!
I'm not fucking around!
786
00:40:23,325 --> 00:40:24,368
(COMPUTER CHIMES)
787
00:40:33,877 --> 00:40:38,757
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
788
00:40:42,928 --> 00:40:44,095
(CHUCKLES)
789
00:40:44,179 --> 00:40:46,431
Well, would you look at that,
it's starting to tick up.
790
00:40:50,894 --> 00:40:52,974
Turns out your man's no match
for the internet, love.
791
00:40:58,110 --> 00:40:59,569
Get off my fucking floor.
792
00:41:23,218 --> 00:41:27,263
“The room was in that disorder,
produced only by those
793
00:41:27,347 --> 00:41:29,725
- who have always had servants.”
- (CHUCKLES)
794
00:41:31,518 --> 00:41:32,810
Hemingway.
795
00:41:32,894 --> 00:41:35,230
About a very rich girl
who doesn't know
796
00:41:35,314 --> 00:41:37,357
what she's doing with her life.
(CHUCKLES)
797
00:41:38,692 --> 00:41:42,529
- Was she hot at least?
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)
798
00:41:47,117 --> 00:41:49,619
I've never come that many times.
799
00:41:52,122 --> 00:41:56,501
- So many... stages.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)
800
00:41:56,585 --> 00:41:59,545
YASMIN: And I've never been
with a married person before.
801
00:41:59,629 --> 00:42:03,132
CELESTE: IN FRENCH...
802
00:42:03,216 --> 00:42:04,801
YASMIN: (IN ENGLISH) I've never
thought of myself as
803
00:42:04,885 --> 00:42:07,554
- I'autre femme. (CHUCKLES)
- La maîtresse.
804
00:42:08,889 --> 00:42:10,349
I wouldn't worry. (SIGHS)
805
00:42:12,267 --> 00:42:15,144
Elsa and I have our rules.
806
00:42:15,228 --> 00:42:18,648
When it developed to the stage
it got to last night,
807
00:42:18,732 --> 00:42:19,900
I had to tell her.
808
00:42:22,110 --> 00:42:25,113
It's just how we operate.
It works for us.
809
00:42:29,034 --> 00:42:30,994
What did you say?
810
00:42:31,078 --> 00:42:36,500
I told her I was in danger
of breaking one of our rules.
811
00:42:37,459 --> 00:42:39,210
Surely people don't actually
have rules
812
00:42:39,294 --> 00:42:42,588
- around these things.
- Uh, yes. (CHUCKLES)
813
00:42:42,672 --> 00:42:43,756
We established them
814
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:47,969
when we established
that she was the more
815
00:42:48,053 --> 00:42:51,014
open partner
in our open arrangement.
816
00:42:53,809 --> 00:42:57,729
Sorry, I didn't mean
to freak you out.
817
00:42:57,813 --> 00:43:00,565
I don't mean
to use such practical language.
818
00:43:00,649 --> 00:43:04,569
Elsa is very exacting.
She's a QC, you see.
819
00:43:06,405 --> 00:43:08,114
(CLICKS TONGUE)
How long have you been open?
820
00:43:08,198 --> 00:43:09,533
CELESTE: That's Elsa's phrasing.
821
00:43:10,450 --> 00:43:12,953
I prefer polyamorous.
822
00:43:14,496 --> 00:43:16,206
She's not one for monogamy.
823
00:43:17,374 --> 00:43:21,670
She was very promiscuous, and,
I guess it was the '70s.
824
00:43:22,838 --> 00:43:27,384
Then she had a cancer scare
in her 50s,
825
00:43:28,176 --> 00:43:30,137
but I needed some parameters.
826
00:43:34,599 --> 00:43:37,978
She's seeing someone,
so why can't I?
827
00:43:42,816 --> 00:43:45,651
It's nice to be
in an institution as comforting
828
00:43:45,735 --> 00:43:47,779
as marriage
and not feel trapped.
829
00:43:47,863 --> 00:43:49,655
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
830
00:43:49,739 --> 00:43:51,449
CELESTE: I know you're younger
than me, but surely
831
00:43:51,533 --> 00:43:54,035
you're not naïve enough
to think...
832
00:43:54,119 --> 00:43:56,496
I'm not just a little... messy,
huh?
833
00:43:56,580 --> 00:43:57,706
(CHUCKLES)
834
00:43:58,748 --> 00:43:59,916
(CHUCKLES)
835
00:44:06,423 --> 00:44:10,552
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
836
00:44:16,099 --> 00:44:17,726
(PHONES RINGING)
837
00:44:20,604 --> 00:44:21,855
Good lunch?
838
00:44:24,399 --> 00:44:25,483
JACKIE: Have you seen
what that analyst
839
00:44:25,567 --> 00:44:27,568
at Alliance Bernstein's saying
about FastAide?
840
00:44:27,652 --> 00:44:28,986
The Gerry Adams looking one.
841
00:44:29,070 --> 00:44:30,947
KENNY: Nah, I'd say he's more
Harold Shipman.
842
00:44:31,031 --> 00:44:32,448
JACKIE: Similar vibe, though.
843
00:44:32,532 --> 00:44:34,575
Is this... is this Robert?
844
00:44:34,659 --> 00:44:35,785
KENNY: Oh, yeah,
the old glasses...
845
00:44:35,869 --> 00:44:37,078
- Um. (CHUCKLES)
- KENNY: ...beard aesthetic.
846
00:44:37,162 --> 00:44:39,247
Big criminal energy that combo.
You rock that combo...
847
00:44:39,331 --> 00:44:40,623
- In joke.
- VENETIA BERENS: Hmm.
848
00:44:40,707 --> 00:44:41,874
KENNY: ...what is he saying?
849
00:44:41,958 --> 00:44:43,292
JACKIE: Nothing interesting
actually, the more I listen.
850
00:44:43,376 --> 00:44:45,294
Our sense of humor
has matured since then.
851
00:44:45,378 --> 00:44:46,463
(CHUCKLES)
852
00:44:47,547 --> 00:44:48,548
Do you know him?
853
00:44:48,632 --> 00:44:52,885
He's kind of mentoring me.
I think.
854
00:44:52,969 --> 00:44:55,221
Interesting path to follow.
(CHUCKLES)
855
00:44:55,305 --> 00:44:56,639
JACKIE: Gerry Adams
and Harold Shipman
856
00:44:56,723 --> 00:44:58,433
would make a better equity
analyst than this fella...
857
00:44:58,517 --> 00:44:59,684
YASMIN: Actually,
858
00:44:59,768 --> 00:45:02,186
I'm more and more certain
he is one of the good ones.
859
00:45:02,270 --> 00:45:04,856
(CHUCKLES) Uh, don't worry,
860
00:45:04,940 --> 00:45:08,193
I'd never let myself get used
and abused.
861
00:45:11,112 --> 00:45:14,699
Good. (CHUCKLES) So,
you shouldn't, me neither.
862
00:45:18,912 --> 00:45:20,664
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
863
00:45:26,169 --> 00:45:29,172
YASMIN: I know I've not been
much of a mentor.
864
00:45:29,256 --> 00:45:31,299
(CHUCKLES) At all.
865
00:45:31,383 --> 00:45:34,094
But if you ever need anything,
I'm just upstairs.
866
00:45:39,266 --> 00:45:40,725
- (CHUCKLES)
- VENETIA: Thank you.
867
00:45:41,643 --> 00:45:42,810
Okay.
868
00:45:42,894 --> 00:45:46,439
♪ ("I VOW TO THEE MY COUNTRY"
PLAYING ON PIPE ORGAN) ♪
869
00:45:46,523 --> 00:45:49,775
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
870
00:45:49,859 --> 00:45:52,821
- (BIRDS CHIRPING)
- (BELL TOLLING)
871
00:46:00,579 --> 00:46:02,622
- Somewhere to be?
- (GUESTS MUTTERING)
872
00:46:02,706 --> 00:46:04,916
Oh, just a work thing later.
873
00:46:05,959 --> 00:46:08,127
We're staying in London
for a week.
874
00:46:08,211 --> 00:46:11,797
Come round for dinner.
You and Leo.
875
00:46:11,881 --> 00:46:15,343
You can see your nephews.
You know, in person.
876
00:46:15,427 --> 00:46:17,095
I'm sorry
I've been a bit absent.
877
00:46:19,431 --> 00:46:20,598
How are they?
878
00:46:20,682 --> 00:46:23,100
Walking reminders
that we're all going to die.
879
00:46:23,184 --> 00:46:25,395
(CHUCKLES) They're walking,
already?
880
00:46:26,187 --> 00:46:27,939
I look at them and think "Fuck,
881
00:46:28,023 --> 00:46:31,442
we haven't got much left,
have we?" (SNICKERS)
882
00:46:31,526 --> 00:46:35,488
- That sounds morbid.
- It's fantastic! (CHUCKLES)
883
00:46:35,572 --> 00:46:38,199
- Reminds me I'm alive.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)
884
00:46:39,826 --> 00:46:43,162
You know, we'll blink and be
back here with both of them.
885
00:46:43,246 --> 00:46:45,248
Kwaku tried to sign them up
from the hospital
886
00:46:45,332 --> 00:46:46,415
the moment they were born.
887
00:46:46,499 --> 00:46:48,167
Apparently, they don't do
that anymore.
888
00:46:48,251 --> 00:46:50,086
Well, seems
more meritocratic.
889
00:46:51,755 --> 00:46:53,798
It's a miracle we got him here.
890
00:46:53,882 --> 00:46:57,051
He's having
some behavioral issues.
891
00:46:57,135 --> 00:46:59,220
I think they'd appreciate it
if you visited him
892
00:46:59,304 --> 00:47:02,724
once in a while. Talk to him.
Get him back on the right track.
893
00:47:07,562 --> 00:47:10,482
You know you have
to take that promotion, right?
894
00:47:12,567 --> 00:47:14,151
It's admirable,
what you've been doing,
895
00:47:14,235 --> 00:47:16,321
it really is.
And we're all proud of you...
896
00:47:17,238 --> 00:47:18,864
but you need to get going again.
897
00:47:18,948 --> 00:47:21,033
We're not going to just let you
throw your life away.
898
00:47:21,117 --> 00:47:22,243
That seems a bit melodramatic.
899
00:47:22,327 --> 00:47:25,121
Well, we're all prone
to melodrama in this family.
900
00:47:26,956 --> 00:47:29,668
You told them you'd do
three years at Pierpoint.
901
00:47:30,460 --> 00:47:32,420
You did less than a year.
902
00:47:32,504 --> 00:47:35,506
You spend a year
treading water.
903
00:47:35,590 --> 00:47:38,634
Frankly, wasting time,
not contributing.
904
00:47:38,718 --> 00:47:42,847
Static yet unstable.
You've barely seen any of us.
905
00:47:42,931 --> 00:47:45,182
They give you latitude
in other parts of your life.
906
00:47:45,266 --> 00:47:47,146
- What does that mean?
- You know what it means.
907
00:47:48,311 --> 00:47:50,771
And they don't really care
anymore.
908
00:47:50,855 --> 00:47:54,525
I mean, they care as little now
as they're ever going to care,
909
00:47:54,609 --> 00:47:57,194
but this instability,
910
00:47:57,278 --> 00:47:59,238
they won't tell you this,
but it kills them.
911
00:47:59,322 --> 00:48:01,741
- I'm working now.
- SADIE: And it's tantamount to social work.
912
00:48:01,825 --> 00:48:04,619
It has no visible trajectory.
913
00:48:04,703 --> 00:48:06,746
You're bailing out the boat
but the water's just rushing
914
00:48:06,830 --> 00:48:08,248
back in through the holes.
915
00:48:09,207 --> 00:48:10,625
One man can't make
a difference there.
916
00:48:10,709 --> 00:48:12,627
Oh, that's a virtuoso piece
of rhetoric, well done.
917
00:48:12,711 --> 00:48:14,337
- She'd be proud.
- She'd be a lot less subtle
918
00:48:14,421 --> 00:48:15,505
if she got going.
919
00:48:18,007 --> 00:48:21,260
They just want us to live up
to their expectations.
920
00:48:21,344 --> 00:48:24,472
Otherwise, what else
was all this for?
921
00:48:29,227 --> 00:48:32,647
I'm not sure that's physically
or spiritually possible.
922
00:48:32,731 --> 00:48:34,941
SADIE: Well, then just live up
to your own.
923
00:48:35,984 --> 00:48:37,735
Don't you think
you have a responsibility
924
00:48:37,819 --> 00:48:39,279
to give your kids what you got?
925
00:48:42,365 --> 00:48:44,743
You going to do that
on seventeen grand a year?
926
00:48:50,248 --> 00:48:51,916
It's time to stop dancing.
927
00:48:53,793 --> 00:48:55,628
♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
928
00:48:55,712 --> 00:48:58,130
PRIEST: In the name
of the Father and of the Son,
929
00:48:58,214 --> 00:48:59,340
and of the Holy Spirit.
930
00:49:00,091 --> 00:49:01,425
Amen.
931
00:49:01,509 --> 00:49:03,052
(PHONE RINGING) - JACKIE:
Oh, thank fuck I don't work in equities.
932
00:49:03,136 --> 00:49:04,929
KENNY: Yas,
who's Mark Michaelides'
933
00:49:05,013 --> 00:49:06,222
number two at Millennium?
934
00:49:06,306 --> 00:49:08,475
Sorry, it was a Wyndy contact.
He's about to jump on.
935
00:49:08,933 --> 00:49:10,018
Samuel Shinner.
936
00:49:11,144 --> 00:49:15,147
Sam! Uh, S... Samuel.
Are you going now?
937
00:49:15,231 --> 00:49:17,192
Samuel, can I call you
back in five?
938
00:49:18,318 --> 00:49:19,444
Cheers, buddy, thank you.
939
00:49:20,779 --> 00:49:23,030
RISHI: I'm gonna concede
I have too active of a sex life
940
00:49:23,114 --> 00:49:24,281
- to be a Reddit or.
- KENNY: Hey!
941
00:49:24,365 --> 00:49:25,658
(PANTS)
RISHI: But I respect them.
942
00:49:25,742 --> 00:49:26,826
YASMIN: Thanks.
943
00:49:28,077 --> 00:49:29,286
KENNY: So,
944
00:49:29,370 --> 00:49:31,956
how many times a week do you
expect to be entertaining then?
945
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,792
Five. Couple of lunches,
946
00:49:34,876 --> 00:49:37,503
the odd weekend here and there,
my entire life. (CHUCKLES)
947
00:49:37,587 --> 00:49:39,463
Silver stone, Ascot,
Henley that sort of thing?
948
00:49:39,547 --> 00:49:42,091
(CHUCKLES) - KENNY: Stamps
on a drunken asshole's passport.
949
00:49:42,175 --> 00:49:43,259
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
950
00:49:43,343 --> 00:49:44,635
You know, you spend
that much time with your boss
951
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:46,346
and they're effectively
your spouse.
952
00:49:47,889 --> 00:49:50,016
Well, that's why you don't cross
a line, do you?
953
00:49:52,393 --> 00:49:56,314
Uh, fuck, Kenny that really
was not a dig at you, um...
954
00:49:57,941 --> 00:50:01,277
Uh, honestly, it was a promise
to my future self. (CHUCKLES)
955
00:50:01,361 --> 00:50:05,197
Future selves, eh? They are pesky
fuckers to please. (CHUCKLES)
956
00:50:05,281 --> 00:50:06,282
Mm-hmm.
957
00:50:07,283 --> 00:50:09,285
Look, I don't know
if it's having
958
00:50:09,369 --> 00:50:10,536
to pick up Wyndy's slack
959
00:50:10,620 --> 00:50:12,705
or the prospect of actually
having to manage people
960
00:50:12,789 --> 00:50:14,707
with some degree of competency,
but I feel like I need to...
961
00:50:14,791 --> 00:50:19,170
Oh, no, no, please. It's, um,
it's entirely unnecessary.
962
00:50:19,254 --> 00:50:21,046
- Honestly you don't need to...
- You give someone like me
963
00:50:21,130 --> 00:50:24,383
- a little bit of power and... I dunno...
- It's a hierarchy.
964
00:50:24,467 --> 00:50:27,178
- I... I get it, I get it.
- No.
965
00:50:27,262 --> 00:50:29,973
Nah, that's shit.
It's scapegoating.
966
00:50:31,266 --> 00:50:32,349
I sat under Wyndham
967
00:50:32,433 --> 00:50:35,144
and he was never anything
but fair to me,
968
00:50:35,228 --> 00:50:38,814
and sometimes I wonder
what my career would look like
969
00:50:38,898 --> 00:50:42,443
if I had to work under someone
like me. Y'know, like I was.
970
00:50:43,653 --> 00:50:45,946
Well, it's a lottery
who you get to sit next to.
971
00:50:46,030 --> 00:50:50,451
Um... I've won plenty of those
in my life, so it's fine.
972
00:50:50,535 --> 00:50:52,328
- Honestly, it's fine.
- I'm, uh...
973
00:50:54,497 --> 00:50:55,581
I'm glad you're ending up
somewhere
974
00:50:55,665 --> 00:50:56,749
you're gonna flourish.
975
00:50:56,833 --> 00:50:59,252
Because I... I actually do,
I want that for you.
976
00:50:59,836 --> 00:51:01,587
And, um...
977
00:51:01,671 --> 00:51:03,756
I'm sure you don't want to hear
anything about me
978
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:05,049
for the millionth time.
979
00:51:05,133 --> 00:51:08,636
Um, and you're probably worried
that this is just, uh,
980
00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:10,930
some more bullshit about my own
bullshit, but...
981
00:51:13,099 --> 00:51:14,350
from a place of empathy...
982
00:51:15,810 --> 00:51:18,646
or like, as close as anyone
can physically hope
983
00:51:18,730 --> 00:51:21,357
to understand how somebody else
must have felt.
984
00:51:21,441 --> 00:51:23,484
And I need to say this
to you, um...
985
00:51:27,196 --> 00:51:30,033
I am so sorry, Yasmin.
986
00:51:31,868 --> 00:51:32,952
(CLEARS THROAT)
987
00:51:35,955 --> 00:51:37,081
(DOOR CLOSES)
988
00:51:37,165 --> 00:51:39,542
GUS: Hey, Leo. I think
you should give your dad a call.
989
00:51:39,626 --> 00:51:41,502
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
990
00:51:41,586 --> 00:51:43,713
No, I just don't think
you should lie to your family.
991
00:51:45,381 --> 00:51:46,841
Yeah, call him.
992
00:51:51,179 --> 00:51:53,264
You telling him
will be way more meaningful
993
00:51:53,348 --> 00:51:55,183
than the content
of what you actually say.
994
00:51:57,352 --> 00:51:59,562
Okay. Okay, gotta go, good luck.
995
00:51:59,646 --> 00:52:02,815
- ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
996
00:52:18,790 --> 00:52:22,167
Martingale always loses,
eventually. (CLEARS THROAT)
997
00:52:22,251 --> 00:52:24,753
(INHALES DEEPLY)
998
00:52:24,837 --> 00:52:27,548
I'm gonna eat the loss.
Stop out through Goldman.
999
00:52:30,385 --> 00:52:32,261
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC FADING) ♪
1000
00:52:32,345 --> 00:52:33,513
Jesse, who are we kidding?
1001
00:52:34,806 --> 00:52:37,308
This is you.
This is not about the money.
1002
00:52:38,768 --> 00:52:41,562
What is it about then?
You tell me.
1003
00:52:43,231 --> 00:52:44,232
(SCOFFS)
1004
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,151
I look like I'm about to go
on Leno.
1005
00:52:48,569 --> 00:52:49,779
Like a fucking clown.
1006
00:52:50,738 --> 00:52:52,740
What is this about?
(CLEARS THROAT)
1007
00:52:54,409 --> 00:52:56,369
You can't buy the first flush
of a career.
1008
00:52:58,037 --> 00:53:03,876
That white heat of a career
trajectory just starting out.
1009
00:53:05,294 --> 00:53:08,339
You gave that to me
so you could feel it again.
1010
00:53:10,341 --> 00:53:12,176
You really gonna let
the fucking mob win?
1011
00:53:13,344 --> 00:53:18,849
- Over you? Jesse fucking Bloom?
- (CHUCKLES)
1012
00:53:18,933 --> 00:53:21,769
You're... you're appealing
to the worst part of me.
1013
00:53:23,062 --> 00:53:26,274
- (CHUCKLES)
- It's the part that thrills you.
1014
00:53:27,775 --> 00:53:30,986
I don't have to tell you,
life is gamified.
1015
00:53:31,070 --> 00:53:34,323
You strip away the jargon,
the expertise,
1016
00:53:34,407 --> 00:53:36,283
the fucking ceremony.
1017
00:53:36,367 --> 00:53:38,828
You chose a career
in the ultimate game.
1018
00:53:40,204 --> 00:53:41,247
And you chose me...
1019
00:53:42,915 --> 00:53:44,667
because I remind you
1020
00:53:44,751 --> 00:53:48,253
that it can still have meaning
if we win.
1021
00:53:48,337 --> 00:53:51,298
Go out there,
talk your fucking book,
1022
00:53:51,382 --> 00:53:52,758
just like you did
with the pandemic.
1023
00:53:52,842 --> 00:53:55,928
♪ ("GOSH" BY JAMIE XX PLAYING) ♪
1024
00:53:58,056 --> 00:53:59,264
You are gonna go out there.
1025
00:53:59,348 --> 00:54:00,933
You're gonna say
the highest conviction short
1026
00:54:01,017 --> 00:54:04,061
of your lifetime is FastAide.
It's a piece of shit.
1027
00:54:04,145 --> 00:54:05,480
It belongs in the dirt.
1028
00:54:06,647 --> 00:54:08,691
You have the power
to obliterate it
1029
00:54:09,484 --> 00:54:11,319
just by dint of who you are.
1030
00:54:14,614 --> 00:54:15,948
Welcome to the feeling.
1031
00:54:16,032 --> 00:54:17,574
CONFERENCE HOST: (IN DISTANCE)
...healthcare and telemedicine,
1032
00:54:17,658 --> 00:54:20,953
and who is better qualified
to talk about these things
1033
00:54:21,037 --> 00:54:22,717
- than Jesse Bloom?
- (CELL PHONE VIBRATES)
1034
00:54:23,581 --> 00:54:24,874
Harper, it's my son.
1035
00:54:27,376 --> 00:54:28,711
Hey. Yeah.
1036
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,217
It's fine. It's... it's fine.
(CHUCKLES)
1037
00:54:35,551 --> 00:54:37,678
No, now's good.
Can you get lost?
1038
00:54:40,515 --> 00:54:42,183
I'm here. Yeah.
1039
00:54:43,184 --> 00:54:44,935
CONFERENCE HOST:
Please take your seats,
1040
00:54:45,019 --> 00:54:46,770
- the talk is about to begin.
- I'll see you out there.
1041
00:54:46,854 --> 00:54:49,524
This is our last chance.
I'm already done at Pierpoint.
1042
00:54:51,317 --> 00:54:52,902
♪ Easy, easy ♪
1043
00:54:54,821 --> 00:54:56,948
♪ Hold it down,
Hold it down... ♪
1044
00:55:00,910 --> 00:55:05,915
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1045
00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:20,721
Rat.
1046
00:55:27,061 --> 00:55:29,105
♪ Oh my gosh ♪
1047
00:55:30,815 --> 00:55:32,608
♪ Oh my gosh ♪
1048
00:55:34,318 --> 00:55:35,736
♪ Easy, easy ♪
1049
00:55:37,905 --> 00:55:39,782
♪ Hold it down, hold it down ♪
1050
00:55:39,866 --> 00:55:41,659
♪ Hold it down... ♪
1051
00:55:43,452 --> 00:55:47,206
(CLEARS THROAT) Apologies,
but due to unforeseen
1052
00:55:47,290 --> 00:55:50,125
circumstances, Jesse Bloom
will not be gracing us
1053
00:55:50,209 --> 00:55:51,293
with his presence.
1054
00:55:51,377 --> 00:55:54,171
We'll be moving straight on
to Diana Amoa
1055
00:55:54,255 --> 00:55:57,133
on telemedicine
from an ESG perspective.
1056
00:55:58,342 --> 00:56:01,345
(AUDIENCE APPLAUD)
1057
00:56:29,707 --> 00:56:30,917
Why are you here then?
1058
00:56:32,335 --> 00:56:33,544
Are we worth a bid away?
1059
00:56:38,132 --> 00:56:41,177
Shut the door, take a seat.
1060
00:56:46,307 --> 00:56:49,810
SONG CONTINUES...
1061
00:57:36,190 --> 00:57:37,441
♪ In Ireland, France, Belgium ♪
1062
00:57:37,525 --> 00:57:40,110
♪ Wherever you can
Pick this up, man ♪
1063
00:57:40,194 --> 00:57:43,572
♪ Many thanks for still
Keeping the vibe alive ♪
1064
00:57:47,118 --> 00:57:48,828
SONG CONCLUDES...