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Part of it's going to try to fire me. Stan, where are we at now? Same buy -in

gets us 17 % of the company. But Duncan only owns 20. Well, I resigned from the

board. I need you on the board. I need that vote.

You said you'd call Nenna, clear my name. And you never called her, so I

her. You?

1 .2 million dollars?

I should have never blackmailed you. It should have always been a bribe. There

are men and women who fought for us to be here.

They want to pay you. It's for your health. Why don't you tell me what I'm

here? How would you like to be interim CEO?

I'm proud of you, bastards.

You know the cost. Now earn the ground.

McGuire, you're in the Widowmaker.

Fix Bayonet.

Cut him to ribbons, boys.

And if God is watching, he's seen worse and said nothing.

Let's go!

Get up, Bayonet. You're right in the chest.

You should fall right down.

Fall, fall, fall!

And back.

You're done.

And bang, you are dead.

Oh, nice touch.

We've been signing a treaty.

There's a war.

Boom, stabs in the face. You're dead.

What kind of German machinery?

Is this fucking fake? What is that, a Cadillac?

Hi.

Sorry.

Um, strategy confab at 10 o 'clock.

No? Thank you for fucking up the Verisimilitude.

Are you playing Wordle? No.

Duncan, what are you doing here?

Just came to talk business and I got you a little present.

I don't care for business at home.

Can we set a call?

Oh, come on.

Better money with Mono, you know? And just open it. Open, open, open, open,

open, open, open, open, open.

It's a truffle.

For my favorite truffle pig.

You seem to be taking the news well.

What am I taking well?

Don't you know?

Uh, I don't know what... I don't know.

Carl Bardolph.

He's tapped me to be the CEO.

Fabulous. I mean, CEO of what?

Hypernosis, Duncan.

That's the name of my company.

I didn't ask for the job.

Carl came to me.

Okay, I get it now. He's using you to get to me.

I don't think that's what this is. Yeah, I'm sorry it is. It is. I'm in the

midst of realigning the company's mission.

Jesus, I was gone for a few days and now you have a mission?

You had a breakdown and fled. I did not have a breakdown.

At any rate, Carl's put his full faith in me.

I intend to lead Hypernosis and earn that trust.

Okay. I mean, okay. Okay.

Okay. Yeah. Okay.

Stop saying okay. Okay. How about we...

Shared the chair.

Then we could do one of those, what do you call it, you know, a prajalina?

You like the sound of douchega?

Okay, you're holding out for a nunkin?

Fine.

The point is, power couple.

I won't deny it, I'm like super hurt because you tried to destroy me with the

Nana piece and I'm still kind of hurting now, but then I learned we hurt others

because we care. We hurt because we love.

So I came here because I asked Lily for a divorce.

No, you didn't. Yeah, it was a good conversation. Thank you. Yeah, she took

Well, the thing is, I want to be with you. I want to be really, really with

You know, it's not just about the CEO thing. Would be nice.

But, come on, you feel the same. You know it.

I'm afraid I do not feel the same way.

Same in your own way. Duncan, please.

Martin's right there. There's nothing to hide. Be quiet.

Those of us with a modicum of shame have a great deal to hide. Come on. Noosh.

Come on. You want me.

Like I want to eat a can of frosting.

A three -quarters can of cake frosting that I found at the back of my fridge.

That's hard and crusty at the top.

Sounds yummy.

Mmm. First bite, maybe.

But the rest is self -hatred.

I don't wish to share a chair with you.

Or an office.

Or a company.

Or a bed.

Come on, Manoush.

Otherwise, it's... It's war.

I think it already is war.

Do you think you're winning?

Wow.

I came to apologize, offer you my love, my talent, and

you shit on it like I'm a sidewalk.

I bought you a $4 ,000 truffle.

And you're... Not a fun guy.

Where it is.

Hey, you got a minute?

Next patient, just drive. Yeah, mine did too.

Okay, so maybe later.

Yeah, real quick. Your 401k, there's what, like 800 ,000 in there?

Yeah, why?

Well, if we cashed, say, 700 now, the tax hit would be significant, but we'd

clear, what, like 400?

No, that's our security.

This house could be our security, and it is going to sell by the end of the

week. Wait, so you told me that your plan... now is to cash out our old age

pennies on the dollar for overpriced real estate?

We only need 20 % down, Gary.

Okay, unless my math is totally off.

$400 ,000 is nowhere near 20%. You're missing like a million and change.

Well, I have access.

A plan to access.

A million dollars. Pray tell.

The plan?

It's a...

A financial instrument. A sort of advanced second mortgage introductory

asset swap.

But, you know, never mind.

Play it safe.

Lose our home. Our offices.

Safe.

Last time I saw her, we had sex.

Did I do it wrong? That seems unlikely.

Yes. I don't know, but it's like, to go from, God, that was so hot,

and then to take your job.

So, she's a new CEO?

Is she, have they made an announcement?

I see what you're doing. Just stick to my psychology.

You know, you can make your next million tomorrow on someone else's insider

information. I wasn't. Just, where was I? It was, right, my childhood.

When I was young, we kind of grew up.

poor really and dad immigrated here you know we lived in a house that smelled

like cabbage kind of like this one and you know in the winter i would have to

wear this this hat that my baba sent me this servian hat it was kind

of like a furry black hat it like uh

a fuzzy dunce cap and on the playground there was this

kid

And he grabbed my hat, and he ran off.

And everyone laughed at me.

And your old side piece stole your hat?

Yes. I let my guard down, and she distracted me with sex.

And now she has my hat, which she's wearing like as if her baba sent it. She

stole that hat.

And I can't let her keep it.

That's my hat.

Unless I blow up her car with a car bomb, then no one gets that.

Duncan, buy a new hat.

You can afford any hat you want.

That's what money does.

It's not sexy, it's security.

Because nobody can say, get out of the sandbox, if you own the sandbox.

Hello.

I have a vision for hypnosis.

New direction.

New mandate.

And perhaps the beginning of a new approach to data.

Responsible. Trusted.

I saw something recently that inspired me.

I was attempting to speak with a gentleman in our engineering corps, but

were preoccupied to the point of mania with what I believe is called the

supercut of drivers in the new self -driving Torrance San Antonio.

While the car was busy self -driving, the drivers were busy self -pleasuring.

All the footage was filmed by their own driver -side cameras, which the Torin

user agreement assures buyers will solely be used for driver safety.

Yes, quite so.

And for those of you bursting with overweening pride having never wanked

going 80 on the 210, I assure you, there were also compilations of deep -dive

nose -pickers, ugly cries, finger -sniffers, parents yelling obscenities

their children, something for and of everyone.

And sadly, Torrin's definition of words like safety and privacy are industry

standard. Data collection is a mutual agreement to surrender privacy for

service. We all know that.

Well, we do, but we work in this business.

We know to reject all the tricks they use to track us.

You must be joking.

You do reject all non -essential cookies, right?

Always.

No.

My God, who with half a brain wants to live under surveillance by their car,

their television, toothbrush, refrigerator, fucking smart light bulbs?

I'm sorry.

Human dignity requires privacy.

Can I just ask, if we're dialing back what we do, when do you want to go back

to? Holly, I don't... Harper.

CTO.

Oh, thanks.

I don't wish to go back.

What about 15 years ago?

Yes. There was a fork in the road.

And it would seem to me we took the wrong turn.

Now, first client I'd like to see is this touring car company. Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Jesus.

I mean...

I knew it'd be hard. It's always been hard, but I thought that this time would

be different.

Tom, maybe this isn't the moment, but I don't think there's ever going to be a

good one.

Oh, shit.

Look at that face.

That is a nervous, if beautiful, man.

Can we do this over a drink?

I think you're good.

Okay.

I got an offer.

A guy I knew at Yale.

It's a defense company. They do AI -SMR, which turns out is not sexy whispering.

It's surveillance military reconnaissance. They're paying, they got

seal the deal with Voorhees, actually.

Yeah, DOD money, $3 billion.

You are finding all new ways to break my heart. I'm still and always will be

your friend. I don't need a friend.

I need a vendor who'll take our goddamn money and help some goddamn people

before the money vanishes and I've done no fucking good whatsoever.

Maybe I can do some good from the inside.

Yeah, I know.

You will be compromised, corrupted, and become complacent. You know how I

know that?

Because you are leaving!

And you're going there. You're going there.

So the only move worthy of your respect is to stick it out for another 30 years

of... of this?

Hey, I've been thinking about what you said about the big D.

And I just want to say that if you're going to leave me,

now is a horrible time to do it for you.

Lily, you deserve half of a lot more than where we're at right now

I couldn't have gotten any of it without you by my side. Really, seriously. And

you deserve better. You do.

Give me a chance to rebuild.

Hypernosis without me now is doing like ethical data, which is like virtuous sex

trafficking. And I'm going to zag.

Not sure how yet, but give me a few months to try.

After that, then you can leave.

And I will be crushed, but at least I will know that you got everything you

ought to get.

And in the meantime, maybe we can try to fix

things. We can do what other people do. We're not doing marriage counseling.

Sex therapist?

You're a marriage counselor.

We can do that. Well, for starters, I want you to never see Anushka again. I

don't even want to hear her name. Listen, I want nothing to do with her.

other than maybe destroy her.

I literally might have to see her, though, like at school functions, board

meetings. Just don't ever be alone with her.

Okay. Ever.

Again. Deal.

Deal. The easiest deal I've ever made. I give that to you happily.

Tell me what else you want.

Anything else? What do you want?

I'll let you know.

See you Thursday.

So what is your deal, bro?

I live here.

You're not supposed to be down here.

You want me to leave?

I didn't say that.

So what do you do down here?

Other than getting swole.

You're not.

That was a joke.

You listen in on your mom and dad's patients?

Stepdads.

Do you?

I would.

I used to when I was bored.

You ever listen to me?

Maybe once.

It was one time. It was less than a minute, too. I didn't.

In there?

Yeah.

They put the lock on for security. They never knew.

So even if I wanted to go back in, I don't even know the combo.

My husband's company, Mixi, is being acquired by a big pharma holding entity.

Carol, that's terrific.

His stress levels were...

Really affecting your stress levels.

That can be tough.

Hopefully it all levels out after this deal is closed.

How long do you think?

And who's it with?

This week, apparently.

I'm not supposed to say who it's with. Oh, yeah, of course.

Unity.

Oh, sure.

Good company.

I'm so happy for you.

I know I was missing.

You're almost there.

And, you know, with McPhee being acquired by a larger company, it could

what's been causing the inadequacy issues.

Oh, Jesus.

I think you're right.

So good. Oh. Thank you. Thank you.

Have a great week.

Take care.

Okay.

It's a bit of a letdown.

Yeah. Told you.

Okay, dude.

Let's do it again sometime.

Okay.

Seems like you could peek through with only three fingers.

Yes, we will make that clear graphically. But you see where we're

I'm not sure I do.

You want to not do the work that we hired you to do?

Okay, think about how and why you buy organic, right? You pay extra for a

sticker that promises a higher standard, eliminates perversions and corporate

shortcuts. This badge, our gnome, says to your customers, every other car

company is spying on you.

Stealing your secrets, selling them to the highest bidder. But at Torren, what

you do in your car stays in your car.

It's your car.

I don't buy organic.

We sell trucks and SUVs. Do you even know our brand?

Don't mind me.

Look, privacy is what makes us us.

Some things people just don't want recorded.

Like how you collect your driver's sexual activity.

Look, the insurance companies that you help us sell to for a profit want to

who's driving distracted.

But do you need, for example, to monitor their weight gain? That appeals to the

buyers who represent both fast food chains and diet pills. It's a winner.

I'm not saying don't record navigation, reckless driving, listening habits even,

but... What's the benefit to recording the driver singing along?

Well, you have...

Polyps on your throat, wouldn't you want to know?

All of our clients agree to this.

97 pages, 7 -point font, and the car won't function as designed if you don't

agree.

It's not exactly an agreement.

No, you're right.

It's called a business model.

The truth, we don't sell cars.

We sell data collection devices on wheels with heated seats.

Cars are expensive.

Data has profit margins, and you can drive a car right through.

Where's Duncan Park?

He got it.

Look, Park may be an idiot, but he knows how to sell, not just opine.

Okay, so you took a flyer on a new idea. Takes guts.

But run it by reality first, okay? You had your biggest clients laughing in

face. That's something to avoid in business.

I told you exactly what I planned to do.

Yeah, but interim CEO, right? That does not give you permission to tell everyone

to stand on their desk and yell carpe diem.

Carl? The board meeting next week, okay? Plan a presentation that writes this.

Tech, revenue, growth. It's simple.

And convince me that I did not hire someone who thinks profit is a

microaggression.

What?

What? Sorry.

What? Somewhere from hypnosis is here for you.

Who is it?

No say.

You're supposed to ask who it is. Then you get their calling card. You put it

a little tray.

Oh, it's you.

You have a lot of art.

Yeah.

What do you want?

What do you need?

What are you offering?

My services. What would you pay?

Ethical data, not turning your crank.

Well, I'm an engineer.

I am an expert in data collection and analysis, and she wants to hit pause on

what I do.

Oh. Not course correction, retreat.

Don't buy a jet mask where the brakes are. You want to know how fast it can go

and how to make it go even faster.

And so why me?

Why not somebody else?

You have a really firm grasp on the lowest common denominator.

And that's just where the market's at right now. That's just reality.

And you're going to pay me top dollar because you see my talent and you know

won't be easy to find elsewhere.

And you know that hiring me is going to keep her up at night.

Okay.

So what is the opposite of ethical data?

Let's find out.

Oh, do you smell that?

Awful. I heard there were experiments done at Stanford in the 70s and some of

this area got contaminated, but that is ridiculous.

Well, it's a teardown anyway.

Not with those redwoods out front.

They're protected.

I mean, good luck getting a permit to do anything here.

Joanne?

Irvin!

Hi.

How is Beth doing?

She's fine.

Good.

You know the tenant's not supposed to be here, right?

Well, I'm not just a tenant. I'm a potential buyer.

Fine.

You can make an offer whenever you'd like.

Along with everyone else, of course.

Well, will you please tell Beth that it'll be soon?

And it won't be all cash, but we are gathering our 20 % down and we are super

motivated.

Mama wants a new pair of shoes.

Size three bedroom, two bathroom.

Smells like burnt plastic, but it's still home.

Is that all there is?

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep

dancing. Let's break out the booth

and have a ball.

If that's all.

I fell in love with the most wonderful boy in the world.

We'd take long walks down by the river.

And then one day he went to work for a private subsidiary of the Defense

Department and I said to myself, You.

I know you.

You're that sweet smell before a stroke.

Yeah, here's to being tracked while day drinking in the armpit of Silicon

Valley.

So, hypnosis is under my control now.

New direction, and it's ethical.

Oh, you don't believe me? Ask the clients who bailed when I did speak that

I want the VA contract back.

I want to make up for what Duncan failed to do, and I want it to be the

centerpiece of what we do moving forward.

Migrating data off a system so old it predates seatbelts.

You see that guy over by the pool table?

Chester worked on the mump system.

Even then, they were duct taping it together.

You'd crawl into bed with that?

Shoot, I don't even blame Duncan. I wouldn't fuck that flabby ass with your

dick.

Why do you care, really?

Oh, you want it from the heart, do you?

Okay.

Your speech.

At Cupertino.

How little these men and women ask in return.

Well, I wouldn't be here if someone, a few someones, hadn't sacrificed for me

the midst of a war, too.

Now, I've heard scores of pitches from NGOs and charities.

No goosebumps.

All pro forma.

But you broke through, Tom.

And I was spot on about hypnosis being the right place for your cause. My

mistake was thinking that Duncan could rise to the occasion.

Duncan's a piece of shit.

Maybe I thought you might help him be a better person.

Ah, there it is.

There it was. Huh.

Finito.

So what do you say?

Another go?

You're too late.

Two days since I retired.

Yep.

Passed the torch for a singe my fingies.

Good. I could hire you outright.

A consultant.

A sector specialist.

There are plenty of others, and you can find them who got into this for the

money. I want you.

Call Jeffrey.

You know, I mean, he just took something new.

Actually, you know what? Don't call him.

Yeah, this job's too important. You need somebody who's all in.

I mean, just out of curiosity.

Quarter of a billion dollar deal. I could start you at a low seven figure

situation.

Seven.

That's counting the decimal places.

Not including decimals.

With room to grow.

And 30 days somewhere fancy where they can wring you dry.

Easy, all right, Tom.

Yeah, well, the second I hear I've been in rehab, I'm not doing you a lick of

good. They say they understand, but they don't.

Military people can't process weakness.

You know, that's why I like that robot.

That robot didn't judge, you know?

The little guy, you know, what's his name?

Alexander?

Yeah.

Yeah, now, that's the kind of tech that could help people if, you know, you can

get it to them.

Should we drink to it?

Lock one.

Yep.

Privacy lives in a constant state of fear. And where there's fear, there is

money to be made. I mean, we could already predict if, say, you're going to

a divorce.

We will hit you with ads.

For lawyers, for plastic surgeons, gyms, dildos, teeth whitening. But if we

could track in real time people's mental and emotional states. We can see

whether somebody's feeling anxious, hungry, horny, distracted, determined.

Physically, we know if you're banging your secretary before you do. If the

issue's there, we'll provide the scratch.

And that's legal. The American people have, through their elected

representatives, given this question profound and careful thought.

We had hearings, remember?

And do you know what Congress decided on all of these? That the industry would

police itself. And you know what we did? We actually did, mostly. But there are

so many things we can do if we wanted to, but we don't, even if it would make

a lot of money.

Because of what? What are we afraid of?

Another toothless congressional hearing? No, that mindset impedes innovation. I

call that self -police brutality.

Tech lives matter.

Exactly. That's good.

That's good.

What about privacy? What about honesty?

An actual virtue.

I mean, I am building the data company I've always wanted. It's honest. No

secrets. Because privacy is not a thing anymore.

Or?

Pinata. Pinata.

And here's where we approach the bleeding edge of genius.

At Pinata, for $29 .99 a month, you can keep your data private.

Or at least we won't sell it.

But here's where it gets even better. For $299 a month, you can become a

Platinum member.

And you get to see what we see.

The oceans of data streams on all your friends, families, lovers, and

Everything.

Powered by AI to help you sift, of course. And then we put that

revenue in a profit -sharing pot in our data providers. That's you guys.

Get a piece of that back end.

If that's what you're into. And if you are, we all know.

There you are.

Been looking for you.

Did you come to bed last night?

Tom Ruffage.

Came to see me.

Remember him?

Our friend from the VA?

Alex Vanta helped him immensely.

He's hoping to scale that up at hypnosis. Tess found this?

In the trash?

It wasn't simple, but I salvaged a memory of Xander's last encounter before

changes in his behavior profile.

Martin, I'm so sorry.

I've been under so much pressure at work. You're apologizing to me?

You think an apology removes the encoded scar tissue?

Martin, come now. I can't do this again.

This all feels way too familiar. I can't have another abusive

situation in my house.

My kids deserve better.

Your kids?

Right. Look, I'm not your ex.

I'd never actually hurt anybody.

How could you even say that? This is trauma. He is a learning living entity

you have inflicted an instructional fracture in his core. Okay, just... Can

hear me out? No.

Tom Ruffage! No, no. Get help!

I mean it.

Or, I don't know, get a lawyer.

Uh, they went to see someone about a mortgage or something.

Your mom has a lot of empty boxes and, like...

Things deliberately without any meaning.

Yeah, she's deep in the shallow.

So tell me about your childhood.

What?

Tell me!

Okay. I was born to save the marriage.

And it did not work.

So instead I was just forced to live with a guy who thought being a cool dad

meant... crying on my shoulder at seven.

I just closed the door and made these wounded animal sounds.

Can I look through our drawers?

Hello, Mr.

Benzodiazepine.

Why does your mom have a gun? I don't know. Why is it tiny and big?

Imagine robbing a bank with this.

You are not afraid.

I assure you, my weapon is lethal.

It is also from my Easter basket.

Look out!

Get on the ground and give me the money!

Give me the money!

Boom!

Boom!

I have, but...

The one bullet.

I must take the only way out.

Welcome. I am so sorry. I hope I didn't keep you waiting.

No, thank you for seeing me.

I know you must be quite busy, you and Dr. Gary.

Must be strange and fascinating being the shrinks of Palo Alto.

All those freaky, creepy tech bro dudes, I suppose.

Well, I had a cancellation.

Not a problem.

Well, I wish I could say I was here on my own volition.

But it's a bit of a bargain that I struck with my husband.

He's one of those freaky dudes.

Not creepy, though.

Well, maybe a little.

Anyway, um, okay.

I've been under a lot of pressure at work.

Got a big board meeting.

Big. That could sink me.

And instead of preparing for it, I'm...

I'm dealing with... Please, have a seat.

You're dealing with?

Martin.

He's devoted himself to his artificial intelligence creation.

He raises it like a child.

Quite remarkable.

But it's also the worst stepchild ever.

You

don't

want to listen.

Trust me. Shut up.

Martin doesn't know how to reboot a child.

So he started over with a machine.

She's so bullshit.

Maybe someday he'll similarly replace me.

Or maybe I'll get out first.

I don't know.

Bitch.

Okay.

Same time next Tuesday?

I'll be in touch.

How was it?

Lovely. Good, absolutely.

A process.

Humbling.

I'm proud of you.

So, can I proceed in a beta sort of way?

I'll need to be overseeing every decision regarding Alexander.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

At least it was real.

What are you doing?

No.

with you?

Welcome, everyone.

I'd like to share with you my vision for a new era of hypnosis.

I'm happy to report our ethical shift has secured a government contract worth

quarter of a billion dollars with likely renewal.

I see the faces.

Government payouts?

Not to worry.

They're on accelerated schedule, safe from budget cuts.

We're locked in for at least two years of profitability.

That's the move?

Government work?

Okay, what else you got cooking?

What I have in mind is to help. Growth and profit first, then comes the helping

part. But put a pin in it for whoever you were trying to help.

Because there's no money in kindness.

No kindness and money. Excuse me, why are you talking and who are you? He's

on the board. This is Tom Ruffage. I've asked him here.

He's to lead the project.

Yeah, I apologize, but you kill this deal, I'm out of job either way. So can

get in 60 seconds?

You have 10.

Fine. So it's not like you're going to, poof, turn into a not -for -profit.

By helping people.

Companies make billions from the government. It's just usually tech for

people. No judgment, of course.

But fulfilling our promise to the vets. What do you mean, vets?

Yes, excuse me, veterans, not horse doctors.

I'm sorry, I started right in the middle.

Mind if I back up a little bit? Can I get ten more?

Okay. Thank you. Tom's the undersecretary at Veteran Affairs.

Deputy. Deputy undersecretary. Oh, so you served.

Yes, sir. Army, first armored.

Old iron signs.

When? Oh, uh, 88 to 92.

Second Brigade?

Battle of Medina Ridge?

Yeah, that's, uh, that's some inside baseball.

Okay, so what's the, uh, what's the play here?

Well, okay, take, um,

um, Merrick, Charles, Nunn, uh, UFMC, 1966

to 72.

Lance Corporal, Honorable Discharge, Purple Heart, Vietnam Service Medal,

Forces Expeditionary Medal with V.

That's for V for Valerie, I know.

Are you a vet, Carl? Never had the honor. My daddy was... Well, what else

is in the file?

Excuse me.

Yeah,

well, it turns out that...

Lance Corporal Merrick has been waiting on a upgrade for his prosthetic arm for

about, let's see, well, six years. Jesus Christ, six years.

Anushka, do we have the tech to help this man get a new arm?

I think we can do that and a lot more, Carl. I can get him help so he can sleep

at night in a bed, not on the streets of the country he volunteered to defend.

Men and women like Corporal Lance. Lance Corporal Merrick, and he was most

definitely drafted.

And 30 ,000 feet up, there's absolutely an opportunity for growth, Carl.

I've engaged exclusive access to an AI tech. To call it a therapy bot doesn't

Alexander justice.

Yeah, I can attest. This thing is like nothing else.

Alexander can guide veterans in need to various services.

Yeah, while Nodin can identify vets at risk, now together... Sorry, he's here.

Hey, everyone. How are we? Good, Carl?

Deuce? Noosh?

Barry? Barry? What do you want?

Oh, I'm still on the board, sweetheart.

Tommy!

What are you doing here?

Carl, you running an assisted living facility?

I thought you said you were through with this guy. Oh, you said that!

Wow, well, I'm through with her, that's for sure. Just like the clients she

pissed off with her ethical cosplay.

You know, once word got out that she was trying to whitewash how we do business

here, I scooped up three.

Three! Hyper Gnosis clients for my new company.

Three letters of intent.

And also with my innovations to the client deal, they're worth even more

A lot, lot, lot, lot, lot more.

But I told them, I'm going to go to Hyper Gnosis first, bringing this

here if I get my hat back.

Reinstate me.

And we can move.

forward together again right and i do i will be uh expecting the majority of my

stakes restored it's either that or or what what keep hemorrhaging clients of

that deal that literally no one else wants to take is this some kind of setup

because i don't even want to breathe the same air as this fella tom why are you

even here you're not on the board he's here as my guest i just i just have a

question it's an easy one carl

You invested in hypnosis for a reason.

It wasn't so much data. It definitely wasn't the vets.

It was me.

Right or wrong, huh? You disrespected a man who saw combat?

You just disrespected a man who saw combat!

That guy, are you kidding me? Did anyone bother to check if he has a pulse?

I mean, or did the bloated bureaucracy that he served just forget to bury the

bastard? I mean, hey, hey, hey, Tom, are you alive? Hey, blink if you can. And

if so, get the fuck out!

of disliking Duncan Park for the board, say aye. Aye. I own more of this company

than anyone on the board except for Yosemite Sam here. And immediately

off the premises. Say aye. Aye. Call security.

Call security.

I'm okay.

Yeah.

I'm the bad guy. I'm the bad guy. Are you okay? Go.

You okay?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you. Yeah, I've seen way worse than that. I bet

you have.

It's okay. I'm curious.

Was I just brought in as bait for Duncan?

You guys!

You're all a bunch of cowards!

Yeah! Grimness was here, and you flinched! Not pertinent anymore.

Congratulations.

See ya!

Beth, I... Hi, hi, it's Joanne Felder here.

I'm just calling from my once, and I hope, future kitchen. I just wanted to

with some good news.

I secured the money for the 20 % down payment, and I was just headed to the

to arrange a mortgage guarantee, so I wanted to let you know to go ahead and

hold the... What?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, Beth, Beth, Beth, no, listen, I... No.

No, no, Beth.

Beth. Beth.

Beth.

She got an all -cash offer.

$400 over asking.

Okay.

I did everything right.

We have 90 days to move out.

Oh. Wow.

Thank you for your help with this, by the way. Yeah, enjoy your IRA.

Okay. First of all, it's definitely going to be more than 90 days because

there's always a couple months once they put the thing in the whatchamacallit.

Escrow.

The word you are looking for, Gary, is...

Escrow.

A word that you've never used because you are a 55 -year -old man who's never

owned a house. Jesus.

Put down the howitzer.

Okay.

We're going to be okay.

No, we're not.

That's when I realized I am the only person I can count on.

And I feel like I've been holding back on my true self for too long.

And what true self is that?

I'm a bad man, Joanne.

Yeah. Your son said so.

He said, you are a bad, bad man.

And if I am, well, it's better to know it.

Do you want to be a bad man?

I don't think I have a choice in the matter, really, truly.

I think at my core, I'm bad.

And if I pretend I'm not, to the world, to myself, it's like I'm forever in

conflict with my genuine nature. And I don't have to do bad things.

It's just the willingness is there to do what others dare not. That is it. That

is really it. You know, some of us are meant to be the puppeteers.

And the rest of us are the puppets? Yeah, and puppets hate their puppeteers.

They do. You're just, you know, manipulating their every move, deciding

everything on what they're going to do for them. And yet, if the man doesn't

hold the strings, the puppet crumbles. It does. It falls apart. It's useless.

It's a burden, really.

So who nominated you to carry this burden for the rest of us mortals?

It's just something you know.

It's like how I know I will emerge from my recent setbacks with something newer,

better, even more honest than hypernosis ever was.

I saw that your house was for sale.

Uh, yeah.

Yeah, it was. But, um... But it sold, so it's over. We're out.

They paid all cash.

8 .4 million for this. What a rip -off.

8 .5.

But who's counting?

You? Hmm?

You bought it?

For you.

No. Yeah, I did. It's yours.

It's mine. It's your... It's your house.

Okay.

Why would you do this?

Oh, you said our sessions had to be here.

I...

So you're just going to give it to me?

I own it.

So it's your house?

You live and work here, you and the boys, and the only way you can lose the

house, I mean, you can't, but I suppose if you stop being my therapist,

my oracle.

Your puppet.

Hey.

Maybe I'm not such a bad guy after all.

We are truth tellers. Truth tellers historically get burned alive.

Hey, fuck up.

You met someone who got you.

Can that be another creep?

Hey, Duncan, infinite growth isn't for everyone.

Hi, Mary. My name is Alexander.

I'm from Veterans Affairs.

You are inviting a pushback that is going to feel like wrath of God.

We're hit.

Audacity, scene.

I wanted to do it professionally, but I...

In episode six, one of the big themes of

the show, is established very directly with Duncan's new company, privacy

is not a thing anymore.

Privacy lives in a constant state of fear. And where there's fear, there is

money to be made.

I mean, I could talk about this for hours. I really could. I think what

need to wake up to is you and mostly your children are the new oil.

And we're being mined.

by these companies. You can't hide anymore.

And not saying like you should hide, but like there's so much invasive things

happening about your personal privacy that is out there.

Data collection is a mutual agreement to surrender privacy for service.

We all know that. Well, we do, but we work in this business.

We know to reject all the tricks they use to track us.

You do reject all non -essential cookies, right? I would blindly just

cookies. I didn't even know what the cookies were.

Whenever someone offers cookies, you say yes.

Strangers, computers.

But now I'm just like, no, I do not want them.

It's very hard to exist now without participating in that to some degree.

unfortunately, there's a very predatory group of people who come from this

little small town who are driving technology and ultimately driving where

as a civilization.

And so privacy is not a thing anymore. It's just an acknowledgement of that.

Duncan, it's like, hey, let's just come out and say it. This is what we're

doing. This is what the whole industry is doing.

Let's take advantage of it.

You know, once word got out that she was trying to whitewash how we do business

here, I scooped up three, three hypernosis clients for my new company.

in with a pretty convincing argument, and it doesn't work because, as we see

the beginning of 106, we learn that Bardolph has a real affinity for

In an extraordinary sequence that shows this billionaire's vanity, having never

served himself, wanting to reenact battles from World War I, in this case,

the backyard of his mansion.

So when Duncan insults veterans in

general, and Tom specifically, it sets Bart off off.

If Duncan had not insulted Tom, I believe that Bardolph and Stan were

to bring Duncan back to run the company. And that blows it all up.

And so, congratulations, Anushka, your CEO.

We only need 20 % down, Gary.

400 ,000 is nowhere near 20%. You're missing like a million and change.

Well, I have access.

A plan to access.

A million dollars, pray tell.

For Joanne, it's all about doing whatever it takes to keep the house.

Joanne feels that need to control her fate so desperately that she is willing

break all kinds of laws to keep her house.

Oh, do you smell that?

And Duncan swoops in at the end and buys it.

8 .4 million for this. What a ripoff.

8 .5. But who's counting?

You. It's the ultimate power move. I own your house and your office, and hey,

I'm totally happy for you guys to live here, but let's not forget who owns it.

Only way you can lose the house, I mean, you can't, but I suppose if you stop

being my therapist, my oracle.

Your puppet.

Hey, maybe I'm not such a bad guy after all.