1 00:00:05,714 --> 00:00:07,299 Previously on "Billions"... 2 00:00:07,382 --> 00:00:09,259 You know those poison-tip arrows 3 00:00:09,342 --> 00:00:11,849 that go through one guy and kill another? 4 00:00:11,884 --> 00:00:13,472 As long as it doesn't come from you. 5 00:00:13,555 --> 00:00:14,973 You get someone else to ask her. 6 00:00:15,056 --> 00:00:16,183 Won't track back to me. 7 00:00:16,266 --> 00:00:19,019 You come through for me, I'll pay off your house. 8 00:00:19,102 --> 00:00:20,854 People are getting sick on Ice Juice. 9 00:00:20,937 --> 00:00:22,397 Freezing the assets? 10 00:00:22,481 --> 00:00:25,317 Now, that's an Ivan Koloff bear hug you're putting on the man. 11 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,319 You're squeezing the breath out of him. 12 00:00:27,402 --> 00:00:29,237 But now you owe me. 13 00:00:29,321 --> 00:00:30,924 A favor to be named later. 14 00:00:30,964 --> 00:00:33,992 Back channeling, patronage. I lost my taste for it. 15 00:00:34,075 --> 00:00:36,036 Just don't forget, it was the back channels and deal-making 16 00:00:36,119 --> 00:00:38,497 that put you in that position. 17 00:00:38,580 --> 00:00:41,082 Remind me again, and it's the last meal we share. 18 00:00:41,166 --> 00:00:43,126 It is still Axe Capital, 19 00:00:43,210 --> 00:00:45,504 no matter who's making the day-to-day decisions. 20 00:00:45,587 --> 00:00:46,838 Are you sure? 21 00:00:46,922 --> 00:00:49,174 I know it's Axe's faith that confers value on me 22 00:00:49,257 --> 00:00:50,897 until I have a track record of my own. 23 00:00:50,932 --> 00:00:53,553 Unless it becomes necessary, I will not leave. 24 00:00:53,637 --> 00:00:56,097 I'm holding in my hand Robert Axelrod's signature 25 00:00:56,181 --> 00:00:58,350 relinquishing his ability to trade securities. 26 00:00:58,433 --> 00:01:00,435 Well... 27 00:01:00,519 --> 00:01:03,438 ol' Samson got a real buzz cut. 28 00:01:56,491 --> 00:01:58,577 - Hold on. - ♪ Between the rain ♪ 29 00:02:07,584 --> 00:02:09,044 Bobby. Are you okay? 30 00:02:09,127 --> 00:02:11,213 I went down to the crossroads. 31 00:02:11,296 --> 00:02:12,422 What? 32 00:02:12,506 --> 00:02:13,256 I made a mistake. 33 00:02:13,340 --> 00:02:18,178 The deal. I can't do it... not trade. 34 00:02:18,261 --> 00:02:20,360 I've worked my entire life 35 00:02:20,395 --> 00:02:23,892 putting myself in a position where I would be truly free... 36 00:02:23,975 --> 00:02:26,478 no limits, nothing I couldn't do. 37 00:02:26,561 --> 00:02:28,230 And with one signature, 38 00:02:28,313 --> 00:02:30,565 I've stripped myself of all of that. 39 00:02:30,649 --> 00:02:32,234 It wasn't the signature that did it. 40 00:02:32,317 --> 00:02:34,403 It was the living like there were no rules. 41 00:02:34,486 --> 00:02:36,405 That's what made the signature necessary. 42 00:02:36,488 --> 00:02:38,407 Wendy? You all right? 43 00:02:38,490 --> 00:02:40,450 Yeah. Don't wake up the kids. 44 00:02:40,534 --> 00:02:43,161 I'll be right up. 45 00:02:43,245 --> 00:02:44,810 I can't do this now. 46 00:02:44,845 --> 00:02:46,915 Realize that limits, 47 00:02:46,998 --> 00:02:48,750 constraints, they can be useful. 48 00:02:48,834 --> 00:02:51,002 Letting someone else run Axe Capital gives you 49 00:02:51,086 --> 00:02:53,839 a chance to realign who you are. 50 00:02:53,922 --> 00:02:57,926 To get good at letting go. Which is a different 51 00:02:58,009 --> 00:03:00,971 kind of freedom. A more powerful kind of freedom. 52 00:03:01,054 --> 00:03:02,609 Now go to sleep. 53 00:03:02,644 --> 00:03:05,600 Even if it were a good idea, which it's not, 54 00:03:05,684 --> 00:03:08,729 there is nothing you can do to regain control at this hour. 55 00:03:30,933 --> 00:03:34,318 _ 56 00:03:39,368 --> 00:03:40,635 We need to meet. 57 00:03:40,719 --> 00:03:43,430 These fuckers can take away my ability to trade 58 00:03:43,513 --> 00:03:45,307 but not my ability to see. 59 00:03:45,390 --> 00:03:47,705 Insightful guy like you, how you gonna turn it off? 60 00:03:47,801 --> 00:03:50,281 I'm not. I can't. I don't want to. 61 00:03:50,316 --> 00:03:53,199 If you can't trade on the insights, who can? 62 00:03:53,234 --> 00:03:56,151 Only those who I have reason to trust absolutely. 63 00:03:56,234 --> 00:03:58,320 - And that's me. - It better be. 64 00:03:58,403 --> 00:04:01,781 Because no one can know I'm behind any of these trades. 65 00:04:01,865 --> 00:04:04,034 Well, our doors wouldn't be open if it wasn't for your, 66 00:04:04,117 --> 00:04:07,329 um, let's say goodwill. 67 00:04:07,412 --> 00:04:09,831 And when we're done, those doors are gonna open 68 00:04:09,915 --> 00:04:11,708 on to a much bigger shop. 69 00:04:11,791 --> 00:04:13,752 Been hoping to hear from you. 70 00:04:13,835 --> 00:04:15,399 I've been wanting to expand, 71 00:04:15,434 --> 00:04:17,597 but I've never been great at the raise. 72 00:04:17,632 --> 00:04:20,217 That'll no longer be a problem for Old Oaks Investments. 73 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:21,843 Your money is always good here. 74 00:04:21,927 --> 00:04:24,471 You can't direct funds, so how's this work? 75 00:04:24,554 --> 00:04:27,224 Let's dive the fuck in. 76 00:04:27,307 --> 00:04:29,726 I'll be in touch. 77 00:04:35,223 --> 00:04:37,692 - So, this is the way it's done? - Yeah. 78 00:04:37,776 --> 00:04:39,861 And there's really nothing we can do but... 79 00:04:39,945 --> 00:04:42,197 Hope the wheel of fate favors us. 80 00:04:45,436 --> 00:04:48,370 Welcome to old New York, where judicial assignment's 81 00:04:48,453 --> 00:04:50,997 still determined by the spin of a wheel. 82 00:04:51,081 --> 00:04:53,166 Hey, it beats having Chief Judge Morgenstern 83 00:04:53,250 --> 00:04:55,839 make 'em after a long night of gin at the goulash joint. 84 00:04:55,874 --> 00:04:58,588 - Drinking or playing? - Both. 85 00:05:01,466 --> 00:05:05,303 For the United States v. Robert Axelrod... 86 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,059 ...Judge Leonard Funt. 87 00:05:14,396 --> 00:05:15,605 Do I have to say it? 88 00:05:15,689 --> 00:05:16,565 You really don't. 89 00:05:16,648 --> 00:05:18,400 You just got Funted. 90 00:05:18,483 --> 00:05:19,396 Ha! 91 00:05:24,114 --> 00:05:26,366 How bad is this? 92 00:05:26,449 --> 00:05:29,661 Funt is a true believer in the power of a free market. 93 00:05:29,744 --> 00:05:31,413 Old school Libertarian. 94 00:05:31,496 --> 00:05:34,916 He's the best friend Bobby Axelrod could have on the bench. 95 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,504 Well, if Connerty builds the case right, the judge doesn't matter. 96 00:05:39,588 --> 00:05:41,256 Wrong. 97 00:05:41,339 --> 00:05:44,259 You need to find a way to get Funt off the case. 98 00:05:44,342 --> 00:05:46,344 So the wheel spits out another name? 99 00:05:46,428 --> 00:05:48,263 No. Only one spin, 100 00:05:48,346 --> 00:05:51,641 then it's up to Chief Judge Morgenstern. 101 00:05:51,725 --> 00:05:54,093 The other judges lobby him, depending on if they want 102 00:05:54,128 --> 00:05:58,064 on or off. So you need to stunt that process. 103 00:05:58,148 --> 00:06:00,797 That is tampering twice over. 104 00:06:00,832 --> 00:06:02,769 No. It's finesse. 105 00:06:04,946 --> 00:06:09,034 I don't break promises, so our unappetizing deal holds. 106 00:06:09,117 --> 00:06:11,786 - Mm. - But it will not expand. 107 00:06:11,870 --> 00:06:13,997 Fate has dealt our hand. 108 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,416 Now we play it. 109 00:06:25,383 --> 00:06:27,510 Chuck. 110 00:06:27,594 --> 00:06:30,347 What couldn't be talked about on the phone? 111 00:06:32,057 --> 00:06:35,560 We got judge-fucked in the Axelrod case. 112 00:06:35,644 --> 00:06:39,745 And, uh, I don't mean "We, the people," I mean... 113 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:42,317 We. Our family. 114 00:06:45,570 --> 00:06:47,948 - Fuck. - Yeah. 115 00:06:49,532 --> 00:06:52,285 We need a judge who believes that the rich 116 00:06:52,369 --> 00:06:54,746 have gotten away with too much for too long. 117 00:06:55,539 --> 00:06:58,875 And one who won't allow Axelrod to create a distraction 118 00:06:58,958 --> 00:07:01,586 by alleging I set up a roach motel and lured him in. 119 00:07:01,670 --> 00:07:04,381 Axe can't do that without essentially admitting his guilt. 120 00:07:04,464 --> 00:07:05,840 I know. 121 00:07:05,924 --> 00:07:09,844 That's one of the things keeping me up at night. 122 00:07:09,928 --> 00:07:14,015 You know what I risked... what I gave up... to get him. 123 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,478 What would he give to get me? 124 00:07:20,397 --> 00:07:22,399 Everything. 125 00:07:24,152 --> 00:07:27,696 Well, the judge we drew is Leonard Edward Funt. 126 00:07:27,779 --> 00:07:29,864 Isn't that good news? Doesn't he owe you... 127 00:07:29,948 --> 00:07:31,032 Yes, there is a debt. 128 00:07:31,116 --> 00:07:35,412 I once did him a kindness. But back then, during a case, 129 00:07:35,495 --> 00:07:40,458 I tried to allude to the favor in conference, 130 00:07:40,542 --> 00:07:43,920 and that man hammered me for even hinting at it. 131 00:07:47,335 --> 00:07:49,676 Seemed to grow larger as he talked, 132 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:52,901 the way some men can when they're not pretending 133 00:07:52,936 --> 00:07:55,640 to dignity and honor but they're actually made of the stuff. 134 00:07:55,724 --> 00:07:57,745 You withdrew the request? 135 00:07:58,083 --> 00:07:59,295 I did. 136 00:07:59,330 --> 00:08:02,439 And I fear it would be even worse today. 137 00:08:02,522 --> 00:08:04,941 See, if he wouldn't return a favor back when it was fresh, 138 00:08:05,024 --> 00:08:05,859 why would he do so now? 139 00:08:05,942 --> 00:08:08,486 But that's not what happened, is it? 140 00:08:08,570 --> 00:08:11,137 He didn't actually refuse. He didn't say no. 141 00:08:11,172 --> 00:08:12,532 Not in so many words. 142 00:08:12,615 --> 00:08:14,701 What he did was: spare himself the question 143 00:08:14,784 --> 00:08:17,328 by putting a tougher one to you. 144 00:08:18,270 --> 00:08:20,415 It's about will, Chuck. 145 00:08:20,498 --> 00:08:22,709 Impose your will on him until he does what 146 00:08:22,792 --> 00:08:25,712 he needs to and repays the debt. 147 00:08:27,505 --> 00:08:30,467 Why, you are a marvel. 148 00:08:34,512 --> 00:08:36,639 Go. 149 00:08:36,723 --> 00:08:38,767 Do what you have to do. 150 00:08:49,694 --> 00:08:52,447 I've recently invested nine billion of Axe Cap's money 151 00:08:52,530 --> 00:08:55,158 back into the market. In phases. And now when it's time 152 00:08:55,241 --> 00:08:57,077 for the next phase, another two billion... 153 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:58,411 You can't. 154 00:08:58,495 --> 00:09:00,205 Why? 155 00:09:00,288 --> 00:09:03,792 There's a velvet rope around it. So to speak. 156 00:09:03,875 --> 00:09:06,086 What's actually around it? 157 00:09:06,169 --> 00:09:09,380 A directive from Axe that the money remain untouched. 158 00:09:09,464 --> 00:09:13,051 Is he considering moving the funds or deploying them elsewhere? 159 00:09:14,273 --> 00:09:16,346 Never mind. You don't know. 160 00:09:16,429 --> 00:09:17,338 Don't I? 161 00:09:18,134 --> 00:09:19,724 Maybe Axe is hedging. 162 00:09:19,808 --> 00:09:20,975 Against the main fund? 163 00:09:21,059 --> 00:09:22,477 Against you. 164 00:09:36,366 --> 00:09:38,827 Ah. The two billion. 165 00:09:38,910 --> 00:09:41,162 I told them: velvet rope. 166 00:09:41,246 --> 00:09:44,290 Spoken like a man who's still mad he never got into Xenon. 167 00:09:44,374 --> 00:09:45,959 I'm on it, Taylor. 168 00:09:49,838 --> 00:09:52,048 This is clean. And it does what you need, 169 00:09:52,132 --> 00:09:54,366 how you need. Tracks it all in real time. 170 00:09:54,401 --> 00:09:56,024 We've also swept the apartment. 171 00:09:56,059 --> 00:09:58,680 There are no listening devices, no visual recording devices, 172 00:09:58,763 --> 00:10:01,015 no compromising devices of any kind. 173 00:10:01,099 --> 00:10:03,431 But guests leave eyes and ears, so we should sweep often. 174 00:10:03,510 --> 00:10:05,145 - Who else visits? - The women. 175 00:10:05,228 --> 00:10:07,605 Wand them. 176 00:10:07,689 --> 00:10:09,065 He will. 177 00:10:09,149 --> 00:10:12,443 So, this is the Counter Intel team, the new Halls. 178 00:10:14,154 --> 00:10:16,030 I don't think they care for that. 179 00:10:16,114 --> 00:10:18,033 Why should I trust you to do anything other than 180 00:10:18,116 --> 00:10:20,702 point me to the nearest avocado toast? 181 00:10:20,785 --> 00:10:21,953 For whom have you worked? 182 00:10:22,036 --> 00:10:25,555 Is this just a walk on the wild side to spice up the b-school essays? 183 00:10:25,590 --> 00:10:28,376 How much you doing this for the money? 184 00:10:29,215 --> 00:10:30,628 You can answer him. 185 00:10:30,712 --> 00:10:33,057 In re bona fides, John built the code for 186 00:10:33,092 --> 00:10:35,383 four successful startups in high school then Stanford, 187 00:10:35,466 --> 00:10:37,844 then was asked to travel to 71 countries for DARPA 188 00:10:37,927 --> 00:10:39,304 and Other Government Agency, 189 00:10:39,387 --> 00:10:40,889 all which he did without complaint. 190 00:10:40,972 --> 00:10:42,515 And Timmy Dones has a military background. 191 00:10:43,465 --> 00:10:44,726 What fucking war were you in? 192 00:10:44,809 --> 00:10:46,728 Mr. Hall fought the wars you've heard of. 193 00:10:46,811 --> 00:10:48,229 I fought the ones you haven't. 194 00:10:48,313 --> 00:10:50,290 As for your other questions. It's none of your business, 195 00:10:50,365 --> 00:10:53,443 smashed spring pea toast is the new avocado toast, 196 00:10:53,526 --> 00:10:56,154 and 70 percent. 197 00:10:57,739 --> 00:11:00,325 Are we clear to talk to Mr. Wagner going forward? 198 00:11:00,408 --> 00:11:02,493 Discuss anything except women you care about. 199 00:11:06,581 --> 00:11:10,088 Yeah, so, the two billion. 200 00:11:10,123 --> 00:11:13,326 Ah, and here I was thinking you came to keep me company. 201 00:11:13,361 --> 00:11:15,173 Look, I know you're giving it to outside funds, 202 00:11:15,256 --> 00:11:16,257 not on the surface. 203 00:11:16,341 --> 00:11:18,343 It'll get routed around the world first, 204 00:11:18,426 --> 00:11:20,136 but then it will land in certain funds, 205 00:11:20,220 --> 00:11:23,932 and suddenly they'll get hot as Farrah Fawcett in '76. 206 00:11:24,015 --> 00:11:26,267 Don't do it. One errant e-mail, 207 00:11:26,351 --> 00:11:28,603 one recorded call, one trade that tracks back 208 00:11:28,686 --> 00:11:30,605 to you... and it's Hassan chop! 209 00:11:30,688 --> 00:11:32,482 We're done. All of us. 210 00:11:32,565 --> 00:11:34,442 There's no need for it, bwana. 211 00:11:34,525 --> 00:11:37,028 Satisfy your urges some other way. 212 00:11:37,111 --> 00:11:38,738 Buy yourself something. 213 00:11:38,821 --> 00:11:40,615 I bought it all already. 214 00:11:40,698 --> 00:11:41,991 Probably thrown it out. 215 00:11:42,075 --> 00:11:44,637 What about that vintage Cheetah you've been eyeballing? 216 00:11:44,672 --> 00:11:46,633 Look, this is not a message I'm born to carry. 217 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:49,089 It goes against everything I've built my life on. 218 00:11:49,140 --> 00:11:53,378 But for you, holding back is essential right now. 219 00:11:53,461 --> 00:11:55,129 You're right about hiding the money. 220 00:11:55,213 --> 00:11:57,127 That's too dangerous. What if I didn't? 221 00:11:57,162 --> 00:11:59,801 - Huh? - I could have Taylor move it, 222 00:11:59,884 --> 00:12:03,638 on-the-books, perfectly legal disbursements to outside shops. 223 00:12:04,085 --> 00:12:07,221 Bobby... that's right, I'm not calling you "Mr. President," 224 00:12:07,256 --> 00:12:08,420 I'm calling you "Bobby" because I've never used 225 00:12:08,620 --> 00:12:11,980 your first name and I want to underline how serious this moment is. 226 00:12:12,063 --> 00:12:12,855 You've called me Bobby before. 227 00:12:12,939 --> 00:12:15,566 Strategic mistake, but not nearly as big 228 00:12:15,650 --> 00:12:17,762 as the one you're making if you ask Taylor to do this. 229 00:12:17,778 --> 00:12:20,125 They have nothing to gain by going along. 230 00:12:20,180 --> 00:12:22,412 They get to keep their princely fucking job. 231 00:12:22,447 --> 00:12:25,201 If you fire them, it will look like what it is. 232 00:12:25,285 --> 00:12:27,954 And you can't have it appear you're illegally meddling. 233 00:12:28,037 --> 00:12:30,164 Especially when you're illegally meddling. 234 00:12:30,248 --> 00:12:33,334 - My point... - I get your point. 235 00:12:33,418 --> 00:12:35,545 So you won't take the two billion? 236 00:12:35,628 --> 00:12:37,419 I get your point. 237 00:12:37,454 --> 00:12:39,757 Let's leave it at that. 238 00:12:41,718 --> 00:12:42,927 Ah! 239 00:12:43,011 --> 00:12:45,722 If it isn't George and Edward. 240 00:12:45,805 --> 00:12:48,433 Which one of you will give up the throne for love? 241 00:12:48,516 --> 00:12:50,143 That seems like a stupid reason. 242 00:12:50,226 --> 00:12:51,519 You must be George. 243 00:12:51,602 --> 00:12:53,688 Are you coming to our game later, Uncle Wags? 244 00:12:53,771 --> 00:12:55,189 Is it official Little League? 245 00:12:55,273 --> 00:12:57,900 - Yeah. - Can't. Banned for life. 246 00:13:01,195 --> 00:13:03,698 Well, here we are on the Axelrod case together, 247 00:13:03,781 --> 00:13:07,869 so, you know, we got our fairy tale ending after all. 248 00:13:08,339 --> 00:13:10,649 You been working out? You look like you've been working out. 249 00:13:10,684 --> 00:13:12,615 There's no good way to answer that question. 250 00:13:12,657 --> 00:13:14,917 Is it ping pong? You back at the tables? 251 00:13:15,001 --> 00:13:16,794 Uh, can I get a lawyer? 252 00:13:23,829 --> 00:13:26,012 Excuse me, Ms. Gonzalez... 253 00:13:26,095 --> 00:13:28,056 Special Agent Terri McCue, FBI. 254 00:13:28,139 --> 00:13:31,184 Uh, me llamo Bryan Connerty, 255 00:13:31,267 --> 00:13:33,728 uh, Federal prosecutor. 256 00:13:33,811 --> 00:13:35,063 He's also second alternate 257 00:13:35,146 --> 00:13:36,504 at the World Table Tennis Championships. 258 00:13:36,548 --> 00:13:38,358 I'm really not... that good. 259 00:13:38,441 --> 00:13:42,028 Ms. Gonzalez, we don't care about your immigration status. 260 00:13:42,111 --> 00:13:43,404 That's not what we do. 261 00:13:43,488 --> 00:13:45,712 We may even be able to help you if you cooperate with us. 262 00:13:45,724 --> 00:13:48,076 We want to speak to you about your boss, Victor Mateo. 263 00:13:48,159 --> 00:13:51,245 Mr. Victor, he's very good. 264 00:13:51,329 --> 00:13:52,955 He and his wife, they sponsor me for 265 00:13:53,039 --> 00:13:54,832 the green card, so I don't need help. 266 00:13:54,916 --> 00:13:58,377 You're not eligible for a green card if you've committed a crime. 267 00:13:58,461 --> 00:14:00,755 A crime? No. No, no, no. 268 00:14:00,838 --> 00:14:03,382 Let's put it up on the colortini. 269 00:14:07,095 --> 00:14:11,182 That couple near you snapping selfies were undercover agents. 270 00:14:11,265 --> 00:14:13,267 Mr. Victor made me do it. 271 00:14:13,351 --> 00:14:17,605 Did Mr. Victor give you the vial? Did he pay you? 272 00:14:17,688 --> 00:14:22,068 It was someone else. A woman. But I know that it was for him. 273 00:14:22,151 --> 00:14:25,571 Him and his wife, son monstruos. 274 00:14:25,655 --> 00:14:28,736 One time I drop a glass licorera... Baccarat. 275 00:14:28,771 --> 00:14:33,246 Then Missus, she break the tail light to my car to punish. 276 00:14:33,329 --> 00:14:36,207 I had to drive home afraid that I get pulled over 277 00:14:36,290 --> 00:14:37,625 and sent back to Guatemala. 278 00:14:38,715 --> 00:14:39,841 Now I take the bus. 279 00:14:39,876 --> 00:14:42,463 I want to know how it worked. When and where... 280 00:14:42,547 --> 00:14:44,715 The way that Mr. Victor and his wife are... I can't be late. 281 00:14:46,097 --> 00:14:47,135 Or do I have to tell them... 282 00:14:47,218 --> 00:14:49,760 No, no, no. Don't... don't say anything. 283 00:14:49,795 --> 00:14:55,518 After work, you'll come to my office and give a statement. 284 00:14:55,601 --> 00:14:57,895 Lo prometo. 285 00:15:03,668 --> 00:15:05,319 Yeah, what is it? 286 00:15:05,403 --> 00:15:07,280 My maid was late today. 287 00:15:07,882 --> 00:15:09,949 She's never late. 288 00:15:12,076 --> 00:15:16,330 We have a real problem. We need to meet. 289 00:15:21,252 --> 00:15:22,336 Group of guys who own this car, 290 00:15:22,420 --> 00:15:25,715 it's a smaller club than the one that owns NBA teams, 291 00:15:25,798 --> 00:15:27,782 only 29 ever built. 292 00:15:27,817 --> 00:15:29,844 Which is exactly why I'm buying it. 293 00:15:29,927 --> 00:15:32,013 Which is why I'm gonna let you outbid me. 294 00:15:33,019 --> 00:15:34,932 Thanks. Sounds like you want something. 295 00:15:35,016 --> 00:15:36,475 I do. 296 00:15:36,559 --> 00:15:38,186 I want in on the new shit. 297 00:15:38,269 --> 00:15:41,355 You're raising money for new ventures, count me in. 298 00:15:41,439 --> 00:15:45,026 Thanks, but I'm not looking to give up any more equity. 299 00:15:47,278 --> 00:15:49,030 You're saying no to money? 300 00:15:49,113 --> 00:15:51,647 Look, Axe, let me answer the question you didn't ask, 301 00:15:51,682 --> 00:15:54,368 and this pains me to say... 302 00:15:54,452 --> 00:15:56,662 I don't want your money. 303 00:15:56,746 --> 00:15:58,831 I've got too many eyes on me, and I can't be 304 00:15:58,915 --> 00:16:02,335 anywhere near the shit show you're in the middle of right now. 305 00:16:03,165 --> 00:16:04,511 Noted. 306 00:16:11,969 --> 00:16:13,221 Michael Panay. 307 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,156 You haven't gone home with a car this year. 308 00:16:16,191 --> 00:16:18,726 Is it the one you had your heart set on all along? 309 00:16:18,809 --> 00:16:21,604 If Bill Thomas built a toaster, I'd skip work to buy that. 310 00:16:21,687 --> 00:16:24,232 But you won't actually buy this car, will you? 311 00:16:24,315 --> 00:16:27,610 Because you've been downsizing, hoping no one would see. 312 00:16:28,736 --> 00:16:30,238 We're not downsizing. 313 00:16:30,321 --> 00:16:33,366 I was on the other side of the Alperin trade. 314 00:16:33,449 --> 00:16:34,283 I know how much you lost. 315 00:16:35,356 --> 00:16:38,913 Well, I know you're not exactly trending in the right direction, either. 316 00:16:38,996 --> 00:16:40,539 Maybe we help each other. 317 00:16:40,623 --> 00:16:42,083 I lead the early bidding, knock out the dabblers, 318 00:16:42,166 --> 00:16:45,670 then you swoop in at your desired price. 319 00:16:45,753 --> 00:16:46,712 What's your number? 320 00:16:46,796 --> 00:16:49,799 Mike, I'd pedal the fucking Flintstones car 321 00:16:49,882 --> 00:16:52,134 before I went in on this with you. 322 00:17:06,399 --> 00:17:08,484 You sure? 323 00:17:08,567 --> 00:17:10,278 I know my people. 324 00:17:10,361 --> 00:17:12,280 She's been approached. 325 00:17:12,363 --> 00:17:14,991 I'll handle it. 326 00:17:15,074 --> 00:17:18,369 You know what this means, don't you? 327 00:17:18,452 --> 00:17:20,663 They'll be coming for the others. 328 00:17:28,296 --> 00:17:29,839 If that bursts into flame, 329 00:17:29,922 --> 00:17:31,632 I'm denouncing you to Governor Danforth. 330 00:17:31,716 --> 00:17:33,134 It's a focus exercise. 331 00:17:33,952 --> 00:17:35,993 And Danforth is just in the play. 332 00:17:36,028 --> 00:17:39,390 At the real Salem trials, the judge was William Stoughton. 333 00:17:39,473 --> 00:17:42,977 Careful, that sounds like something a witch would know. 334 00:17:43,060 --> 00:17:47,356 Also: We're looking good on the two billion. 335 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,192 Now that got you focused. 336 00:17:50,276 --> 00:17:52,653 I'm here to break the glass. 337 00:17:54,860 --> 00:17:57,739 In case of emergency, you know? 338 00:17:57,774 --> 00:17:59,535 Breathe, then talk. 339 00:18:00,607 --> 00:18:02,038 We're getting hit by a tsunami. 340 00:18:02,121 --> 00:18:05,499 - Shit. Did the Fed hike... - No. Actual tsunami. In Brazil. 341 00:18:05,583 --> 00:18:07,668 No way. Brazil doesn't have tsunamis. 342 00:18:07,752 --> 00:18:10,504 The worst they get is ressacas do mar. 343 00:18:10,588 --> 00:18:12,840 "Sea hangover." 344 00:18:12,923 --> 00:18:15,676 Am I the only person here who's loved a Portuguese woman? 345 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,281 Brazil does not normally have tsunamis. 346 00:18:17,316 --> 00:18:18,478 Black swan event. 347 00:18:18,513 --> 00:18:20,056 How heavy are we in Brazil? 348 00:18:20,139 --> 00:18:21,724 Jim Morrison at the end. 349 00:18:21,807 --> 00:18:24,043 Our newly redeployed funds are affected in dozens 350 00:18:24,078 --> 00:18:26,008 of different ways, among the most notable, 351 00:18:26,043 --> 00:18:28,671 - Brazilian sugar and shipping. - So we buy sugar futures. 352 00:18:28,706 --> 00:18:30,644 Impending shortage means prices go up. 353 00:18:30,679 --> 00:18:32,570 Everyone will do that, but sure. 354 00:18:32,605 --> 00:18:34,928 A few of the moves I'm already making. 355 00:18:34,963 --> 00:18:36,947 Shorting Brazil's largest debt holder, 356 00:18:37,031 --> 00:18:39,909 buying long-dated VIX calls. Also buying solar, wind, 357 00:18:39,992 --> 00:18:44,038 and every alternative energy play not dependent on government subsidy. 358 00:18:45,956 --> 00:18:48,000 Um, is no one worried 359 00:18:48,084 --> 00:18:51,796 about the people, you know, in Brazil? 360 00:18:51,879 --> 00:18:54,423 If you want to pretend you're concerned, see Wendy. 361 00:18:54,507 --> 00:18:56,050 He's not pretending, Wags. 362 00:18:56,133 --> 00:18:58,678 If you really care, start a walk-a-thon. 363 00:18:58,761 --> 00:19:02,014 Tough Mudders are the new walk-a-thons. 364 00:19:02,982 --> 00:19:04,392 But don't bring that shit to me. 365 00:19:04,475 --> 00:19:08,813 Our own foundation was set up for just these situations 366 00:19:08,896 --> 00:19:11,941 as a kind of emotional and fiscal catch-all 367 00:19:12,024 --> 00:19:15,277 for you to use as a tool for you to get 368 00:19:15,361 --> 00:19:17,279 your conscience out of the way. 369 00:19:17,363 --> 00:19:19,490 I wondered why you showed at this meeting, 370 00:19:19,573 --> 00:19:21,242 you fucking vulture. 371 00:19:21,325 --> 00:19:23,869 What would salve my conscience and my wallet is if I was 372 00:19:23,953 --> 00:19:25,287 a fucking contractor in Brazil. 373 00:19:25,371 --> 00:19:27,540 Too bad their leading construction company's 374 00:19:27,623 --> 00:19:28,749 a scandal factory. 375 00:19:28,833 --> 00:19:31,085 Can't get into bed with a firm that's had almost 376 00:19:31,168 --> 00:19:33,045 100 executives indicted. 377 00:19:33,129 --> 00:19:35,798 Our principal has been indicted. 378 00:19:37,842 --> 00:19:40,219 If it's a money-maker, we do it. 379 00:19:40,302 --> 00:19:42,555 Legal trouble does not mean you can't fulfill 380 00:19:42,638 --> 00:19:44,348 your teleological purpose. 381 00:19:44,432 --> 00:19:45,766 We're on the clock, people. 382 00:19:45,850 --> 00:19:48,728 Now's the time to earn your paychecks. 383 00:19:53,441 --> 00:19:55,609 There's something I always wondered: 384 00:19:55,693 --> 00:19:57,111 Why aren't you Charlie? 385 00:19:58,240 --> 00:19:58,947 Feels like you would have 386 00:19:58,982 --> 00:20:01,449 - been a great Charlie. - No, I agree. 387 00:20:01,532 --> 00:20:04,326 Oh, Charlie Rhoades, yeah, that guy's yer best friend. 388 00:20:04,410 --> 00:20:05,411 - Yeah. - Right? 389 00:20:05,494 --> 00:20:08,956 Sure. Call ol' Charlie, see if he can fill in, uh, 390 00:20:09,039 --> 00:20:10,983 as a fourth for tennis or on a double date 391 00:20:11,018 --> 00:20:14,211 or just ride around smashing mailboxes. 392 00:20:14,295 --> 00:20:16,630 Yeah. Charlie. The best. 393 00:20:16,714 --> 00:20:21,427 But in our household, my father was Charles. 394 00:20:21,510 --> 00:20:24,138 And every now and then someone, 395 00:20:24,221 --> 00:20:26,182 business associate, the guy who managed one of his buildings, 396 00:20:26,265 --> 00:20:29,477 who would get just a little casual, 397 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,021 accidentally let a Charlie fly. 398 00:20:32,867 --> 00:20:35,316 The world would stop dead. 399 00:20:36,210 --> 00:20:39,236 "Do I look like a fucking 'Charlie' to you?" 400 00:20:42,323 --> 00:20:43,783 And that was that. 401 00:20:43,866 --> 00:20:46,577 The guy would piss himself, and the day would continue. 402 00:20:46,660 --> 00:20:49,663 So, he was Charles, and you were Chuck. 403 00:20:49,747 --> 00:20:52,041 And Good Time Charlie was somewhere else 404 00:20:52,124 --> 00:20:54,794 out on the town having all the laughs. 405 00:20:55,767 --> 00:20:58,214 Christ, man. 406 00:20:58,297 --> 00:21:01,634 Don't I know it. 407 00:21:01,717 --> 00:21:03,552 And how 'bout now? 408 00:21:03,636 --> 00:21:06,555 You just show up in my chambers for the laughs. 409 00:21:06,639 --> 00:21:09,642 No. No. 410 00:21:11,185 --> 00:21:14,688 I am here in your chambers to put myself in your debt. 411 00:21:14,772 --> 00:21:15,940 In my debt. 412 00:21:16,023 --> 00:21:17,858 That's right. 413 00:21:17,942 --> 00:21:21,070 I was thinking back to our last meal together, 414 00:21:21,153 --> 00:21:23,197 wherein you told me I ought never mention 415 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,060 the favor I had done you again. And I promised then, 416 00:21:26,095 --> 00:21:28,410 and I intend to keep that promise. 417 00:21:28,494 --> 00:21:32,039 And so I am here to ask of you a favor, 418 00:21:32,122 --> 00:21:35,376 not as repayment to me but the opposite. 419 00:21:35,459 --> 00:21:38,796 Oh, this must be big. 420 00:21:39,964 --> 00:21:42,383 Judge Funt is stepping off the Axelrod case. 421 00:21:42,466 --> 00:21:43,968 No one knows. 422 00:21:44,051 --> 00:21:47,555 And when he does, Morgenstern will make a special appointment 423 00:21:47,638 --> 00:21:52,226 of the judge who convinces him he most wants the case. 424 00:21:52,309 --> 00:21:56,480 As often as not, that's the first judge to ask. 425 00:21:56,564 --> 00:21:59,108 And you need that to be me. 426 00:21:59,191 --> 00:22:01,735 We'll time it out so it will be. 427 00:22:01,819 --> 00:22:03,821 Now, there are those that would frame this 428 00:22:03,904 --> 00:22:07,032 as a favor for you, because it's a marquee case. 429 00:22:07,116 --> 00:22:09,410 But I won't. 430 00:22:09,493 --> 00:22:11,203 You would be doing me a service. 431 00:22:11,287 --> 00:22:13,247 And all you're asking is that I be the judge, 432 00:22:13,330 --> 00:22:15,056 not that I rule in Dake's favor, 433 00:22:15,091 --> 00:22:17,308 not that I'd be slanted in any way. 434 00:22:17,343 --> 00:22:19,169 That's right. It's that straightforward. 435 00:22:19,253 --> 00:22:20,880 Win. Lose. Draw. 436 00:22:20,963 --> 00:22:23,272 I want you on that bench because I know you can't be bought. 437 00:22:23,308 --> 00:22:26,176 You can't be bent. You can't be worked. 438 00:22:26,877 --> 00:22:28,255 Dake has a strong case. 439 00:22:28,290 --> 00:22:31,515 I want it heard fairly and without prejudice. 440 00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:35,686 And if I grant this request... 441 00:22:38,355 --> 00:22:40,107 There is nothing you can ask me 442 00:22:40,190 --> 00:22:44,904 that I'll refuse you for the rest of our days. 443 00:22:44,987 --> 00:22:49,381 If I agree, I would take those words as gospel, 444 00:22:49,416 --> 00:22:52,494 Chuck. And I would not be bashful to collect, 445 00:22:52,578 --> 00:22:54,622 should the need arise. 446 00:22:54,705 --> 00:22:58,125 I'd be honor bound to deliver. 447 00:22:58,208 --> 00:23:00,711 That's too small a play. It won't save us. 448 00:23:00,794 --> 00:23:02,129 Keep looking. 449 00:23:07,885 --> 00:23:09,803 Axe would be out on that floor screaming at them 450 00:23:09,887 --> 00:23:11,805 like Gordon Ramsay until they delivered. 451 00:23:11,889 --> 00:23:13,641 Hm. You're more Alton Brown. 452 00:23:13,724 --> 00:23:16,529 The ideas they're bringing... Some deployable, 453 00:23:16,564 --> 00:23:18,228 some useful as a benchmark of what other firms 454 00:23:18,312 --> 00:23:20,397 will be thinking and how we need to do better, 455 00:23:20,481 --> 00:23:23,776 but none platonically good. 456 00:23:23,859 --> 00:23:25,986 Your first round of investments coinciding 457 00:23:26,070 --> 00:23:28,781 with your first crisis. 458 00:23:28,864 --> 00:23:30,658 That would be a lot for anybody. 459 00:23:30,741 --> 00:23:34,495 Axe was already considering sidecarring two billion. 460 00:23:34,578 --> 00:23:38,499 And you think today will make the decision for him. 461 00:23:38,582 --> 00:23:41,627 I am acutely aware of the way people look at me. 462 00:23:41,710 --> 00:23:44,672 I have cultivated, through achievement and discipline, 463 00:23:44,755 --> 00:23:47,925 a mystique that compensates for my lack of track record. 464 00:23:48,008 --> 00:23:49,635 A loss shatters that, 465 00:23:49,718 --> 00:23:52,429 and with it the confidence of everyone who works here. 466 00:23:52,513 --> 00:23:56,016 In their eyes... in Axe's eyes... I become simply inexperienced. 467 00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:57,451 I can't let that happen. 468 00:23:57,486 --> 00:24:00,020 That's why I need to get through today unscathed. 469 00:24:00,104 --> 00:24:02,189 The way you think Axe would. 470 00:24:04,358 --> 00:24:08,904 It's important in your job that you face unpleasant realities. 471 00:24:08,988 --> 00:24:10,698 Axe Capital may lose money today, 472 00:24:10,781 --> 00:24:12,116 probably will. 473 00:24:14,152 --> 00:24:16,328 You know that, right? 474 00:24:18,664 --> 00:24:20,374 No. 475 00:24:42,991 --> 00:24:44,289 Wags, I'm coming in. 476 00:24:44,324 --> 00:24:46,859 The place is getting crushed without me. 477 00:24:51,905 --> 00:24:52,823 Can I stop you? 478 00:24:52,906 --> 00:24:54,825 No. 479 00:24:57,870 --> 00:25:00,581 You sure I can't stop you? 480 00:25:00,664 --> 00:25:03,500 You know that painting of Washington crossing the Delaware. 481 00:25:04,310 --> 00:25:05,965 In the boat with all his troops? 482 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,588 I forget what it's called. 483 00:25:07,671 --> 00:25:09,339 I think it's called Washington Crossing The Delaware... 484 00:25:09,423 --> 00:25:11,800 - You didn't forget. - No. 485 00:25:11,884 --> 00:25:13,635 And do you know why it's called that? 486 00:25:13,719 --> 00:25:16,180 Because at the moment that his troops were facing 487 00:25:16,263 --> 00:25:19,141 the sting of battle, Washington was right there 488 00:25:19,224 --> 00:25:21,393 with them, leaning into the wind. 489 00:25:21,477 --> 00:25:23,395 Not back at home jerking off. 490 00:25:24,527 --> 00:25:26,171 I'll admit, Washington Crossing the Delaware 491 00:25:26,206 --> 00:25:28,324 would look pretty fucking strange without George Washington. 492 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,619 Then how can you ask me not to be with my troops right now? 493 00:25:31,654 --> 00:25:34,114 Well, Washington was allowed to talk to his men. 494 00:25:34,198 --> 00:25:35,282 He was allowed to lead. 495 00:25:35,365 --> 00:25:36,867 When we walk out of this elevator, 496 00:25:36,950 --> 00:25:40,496 you're gonna see it is quite a different situation. 497 00:25:40,579 --> 00:25:43,499 But it is what's required under your deal. 498 00:25:49,338 --> 00:25:51,465 This is Ari Spyros, Director of Compliance 499 00:25:51,548 --> 00:25:53,801 and Risk Management for Axe Capital. 500 00:25:53,884 --> 00:25:56,136 It's 12:09 p.m. I am here with Robert Axelrod 501 00:25:56,220 --> 00:25:59,707 and will stay with him anywhere he goes inside these walls, 502 00:25:59,742 --> 00:26:02,643 ensuring compliance with his preclusion from the secur... 503 00:26:02,726 --> 00:26:04,895 I'm looking at small sugar companies in Asia. 504 00:26:04,978 --> 00:26:08,076 We pick one... invest in it, grow it, help it. 505 00:26:08,111 --> 00:26:09,858 Not a big fan of... 506 00:26:09,942 --> 00:26:12,027 Oh, shit. 507 00:26:20,744 --> 00:26:23,163 What do you think he'd say about that? 508 00:26:23,247 --> 00:26:25,707 Bobby Axelrod doesn't grow mom-and-pop shops. 509 00:26:25,791 --> 00:26:29,044 He buys 'em out, turns 'em out. 510 00:26:29,128 --> 00:26:32,005 That can't happen with this one. 511 00:26:32,089 --> 00:26:33,674 Hmm. 512 00:26:33,757 --> 00:26:35,801 Well, then it sounds like your idea doesn't fucking work. 513 00:27:09,293 --> 00:27:10,627 Whoo. 514 00:27:14,131 --> 00:27:16,842 Um... 515 00:27:17,926 --> 00:27:22,222 Oh, I don't like nothing between me and the water. 516 00:27:22,306 --> 00:27:24,516 We called first. You knew we were coming. 517 00:27:25,615 --> 00:27:28,145 Yeah, doc says I gotta swim. 518 00:27:28,994 --> 00:27:31,857 Right. 519 00:27:31,940 --> 00:27:34,568 We need to talk to you about... 520 00:27:34,651 --> 00:27:38,614 About some unexplained coincidences. 521 00:27:38,697 --> 00:27:40,699 If I can sort you out... 522 00:27:40,782 --> 00:27:42,910 In the last year, your house was paid off. 523 00:27:42,993 --> 00:27:46,246 Yeah, my wife came into some money. 524 00:27:46,330 --> 00:27:47,706 Mm. 525 00:27:47,789 --> 00:27:50,417 And your kids, they stopped taking student loans. 526 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:53,542 Marcie's dorm room business, it's really taking off. 527 00:27:53,577 --> 00:27:57,674 I'm sorry, do you... do you want a towel, or... 528 00:27:57,758 --> 00:28:00,093 - I'm good. - You're fair. 529 00:28:00,177 --> 00:28:01,762 So, you got sick from Ice Juice. 530 00:28:01,845 --> 00:28:04,139 The person behind its poisoning was Bobby Axelrod, 531 00:28:04,222 --> 00:28:07,100 the same man you tried to cooperate against. 532 00:28:07,184 --> 00:28:09,519 You think he targeted me deliberately? 533 00:28:10,327 --> 00:28:12,898 Wow, that's a long road to travel for revenge. 534 00:28:12,981 --> 00:28:15,275 But if he did it, I hope you nail him. 535 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,278 That juice made me puke so hard I bust a lung. 536 00:28:18,362 --> 00:28:21,531 Hence the swimming. 537 00:28:24,201 --> 00:28:26,703 Anything else? 538 00:28:26,787 --> 00:28:30,290 Okay. Drop by any time. 539 00:28:33,251 --> 00:28:36,755 Guy flashes a little brain, and you turn into Dudley Do-Right? 540 00:28:36,838 --> 00:28:42,761 I thought under the circumstances I acquitted myself admirably. 541 00:28:42,844 --> 00:28:44,930 A lot of people think you can't get a good 542 00:28:45,013 --> 00:28:47,057 flat white outside of Australia. 543 00:28:47,140 --> 00:28:51,728 They forget, there's no such thing as a good store-bought flat white. 544 00:28:51,812 --> 00:28:53,313 It's the tongue temperature. 545 00:28:58,709 --> 00:29:00,033 _ 546 00:29:03,031 --> 00:29:07,202 Oh, please, I'd love to hear more of your expertise on flat whites. 547 00:29:07,285 --> 00:29:09,496 So I just had a fun little poolside chat 548 00:29:09,579 --> 00:29:11,999 with some friends who are very curious about you, 549 00:29:12,082 --> 00:29:13,232 me, and beverages. 550 00:29:13,267 --> 00:29:14,292 Thanks. 551 00:29:30,684 --> 00:29:32,686 Oh, shit, he's leaving. 552 00:29:48,577 --> 00:29:50,412 Hey, Mafee. 553 00:29:50,495 --> 00:29:53,248 You sure a lunch break's the thing right now? 554 00:29:53,331 --> 00:29:55,375 Nothing urgent that you should be getting... 555 00:29:55,459 --> 00:29:57,961 Are you testing me? 556 00:29:58,045 --> 00:30:01,506 Like that waiter in 'Club? 557 00:30:01,590 --> 00:30:05,469 I'm not allowed to talk to you about this. Right? I'm not? 558 00:30:05,552 --> 00:30:09,181 Or do you want me to, because... 559 00:30:39,586 --> 00:30:40,612 Hey. 560 00:30:40,796 --> 00:30:42,339 Hey. 561 00:30:42,422 --> 00:30:44,007 Got any summer plans? 562 00:30:44,091 --> 00:30:45,258 No. 563 00:30:45,342 --> 00:30:48,970 Guess Lara and I will need to talk about it. The kids. 564 00:30:49,054 --> 00:30:53,058 I don't like to go far. We got a spot in Mystic. 565 00:30:53,141 --> 00:30:55,305 While the family's looking at the boats and shit, 566 00:30:55,340 --> 00:30:57,104 I can play a little pai gow. 567 00:30:57,187 --> 00:30:59,981 I was planning to go back and climb Kili. 568 00:31:01,122 --> 00:31:03,610 How much vacay time is it culturally appropriate 569 00:31:03,693 --> 00:31:05,278 to take here? 570 00:31:05,362 --> 00:31:08,031 Ah, maybe I'll just do base camp. 571 00:31:09,407 --> 00:31:12,035 - Korst. - Scandinavian shipping company. 572 00:31:12,119 --> 00:31:13,829 While the South American companies are down for 573 00:31:13,912 --> 00:31:16,039 the count, these guys will have a shot at a monopoly. 574 00:31:16,123 --> 00:31:18,792 - We should buy in two days. - Four days, when it bottoms. 575 00:31:18,875 --> 00:31:21,378 But this is going to help dig us out a little more. 576 00:31:21,461 --> 00:31:22,712 Good work. 577 00:31:27,134 --> 00:31:29,386 Will you make sure Axe knows it came from me? 578 00:31:29,469 --> 00:31:32,139 Why would you think we're communicating about trades? 579 00:31:32,222 --> 00:31:33,306 What? 580 00:31:33,390 --> 00:31:34,599 That would be illegal. 581 00:31:34,683 --> 00:31:38,353 I know. But... 582 00:31:38,436 --> 00:31:40,147 What are you saying about me? 583 00:31:40,230 --> 00:31:42,440 What are you saying about the place you work? 584 00:31:42,524 --> 00:31:44,818 Actually, if he hates it, that would be worse. 585 00:31:44,901 --> 00:31:47,654 Don't say anything. 586 00:31:47,737 --> 00:31:49,906 It is now 1:47 on the 9th day of... 587 00:31:50,490 --> 00:31:53,243 - Really? - What? 588 00:31:53,326 --> 00:31:55,412 I'm sitting in my office, which I paid for, 589 00:31:55,495 --> 00:31:56,997 seeing how things run without me. 590 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:58,248 Won't work. 591 00:31:58,331 --> 00:32:01,001 People are afraid to take chances with you here. To be wrong. 592 00:32:01,084 --> 00:32:03,628 Or they want a slap on the ass from you. Which you can't give. 593 00:32:03,712 --> 00:32:04,713 Move over, Zapruder. I got this. 594 00:32:04,796 --> 00:32:06,840 Actually, I think this falls within my dominion, 595 00:32:06,923 --> 00:32:10,677 and the stick can be really tricky for noobs... 596 00:32:12,637 --> 00:32:15,807 Hmm. Guess it was tricky. 597 00:32:16,737 --> 00:32:19,037 Why didn't you anticipate the tsunami? 598 00:32:20,854 --> 00:32:22,397 Maybe I should have when that 599 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,900 underground earthquake hit off Mozambique. 600 00:32:24,983 --> 00:32:29,029 Strange conditions bring strange results. 601 00:32:29,112 --> 00:32:30,739 That's what brought this on. 602 00:32:30,822 --> 00:32:33,533 You knew right then but you couldn't act. 603 00:32:33,617 --> 00:32:35,428 Maybe you would have used your experience 604 00:32:35,463 --> 00:32:37,037 to think more globally. 605 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,149 Maybe you would have been cautious. De-risked. 606 00:32:39,184 --> 00:32:41,041 The mature move. 607 00:32:41,124 --> 00:32:42,083 Is that a dig? 608 00:32:42,167 --> 00:32:43,131 It's not. 609 00:32:43,166 --> 00:32:45,253 You have more experience. 610 00:32:45,337 --> 00:32:48,381 You connect points I don't even know to look for. 611 00:32:49,621 --> 00:32:51,801 I understand how hard it is to have things inside you 612 00:32:51,885 --> 00:32:53,511 that you can't communicate. 613 00:32:53,595 --> 00:32:56,556 I can't imagine how hard it must be to know how to say them 614 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,974 and still not be allowed to. 615 00:32:58,058 --> 00:33:01,394 And yet, you are not allowed to. 616 00:33:01,478 --> 00:33:03,167 Have you heard me direct any trades? 617 00:33:03,202 --> 00:33:05,065 The people out there don't know who they're looking to. 618 00:33:05,148 --> 00:33:08,318 Since it can't be you, it needs to be me. 619 00:33:15,617 --> 00:33:18,328 If you can't live with that, I can be the one who leaves. 620 00:33:18,411 --> 00:33:20,417 You'll probably make up the losses but get yourself 621 00:33:20,514 --> 00:33:22,916 banned for life or worse. 622 00:33:25,335 --> 00:33:27,504 I'm leaving, 623 00:33:27,587 --> 00:33:30,465 and I'm taking the two billion. 624 00:33:30,548 --> 00:33:34,719 I'll send instructions shortly about what to do with it. 625 00:33:37,138 --> 00:33:40,392 And at 1:53 p.m., 626 00:33:40,475 --> 00:33:43,603 Robert Axelrod... 627 00:33:43,687 --> 00:33:45,154 has left the building. 628 00:33:46,523 --> 00:33:47,524 I'm glad I caught you. 629 00:33:47,607 --> 00:33:49,442 You wouldn't have if my fucking car guy 630 00:33:49,526 --> 00:33:50,986 could time his job right. 631 00:33:51,069 --> 00:33:54,322 Yeah, George Washington had the same problem leaving Trenton. 632 00:33:54,406 --> 00:33:55,615 Wags told you? 633 00:33:55,699 --> 00:33:58,285 Texted me while you were rampaging through the office. 634 00:33:58,368 --> 00:34:00,495 I wasn't rampaging. I was inspiring. 635 00:34:00,578 --> 00:34:02,163 You know Washington didn't actually 636 00:34:02,247 --> 00:34:04,624 - stand in the rowboat, right? - Of course. 637 00:34:04,708 --> 00:34:07,585 Structurally unsound, and he'd have made himself a target. 638 00:34:07,669 --> 00:34:09,963 Yet you worry about neither. 639 00:34:11,923 --> 00:34:15,927 It's hard to shut it off, Wend. 640 00:34:16,011 --> 00:34:17,804 I know. 641 00:34:17,887 --> 00:34:21,850 But if you can't, you will lose the battle and the war. 642 00:34:25,812 --> 00:34:27,397 Do you want me to come with you? 643 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,107 Stay here with Taylor. 644 00:34:29,190 --> 00:34:32,694 They need some senior officer for back up. 645 00:34:37,449 --> 00:34:40,243 You're fired. 646 00:34:40,910 --> 00:34:43,496 Find out when Judge Funt's court is in recess. 647 00:34:43,580 --> 00:34:44,354 Yep. 648 00:34:45,665 --> 00:34:47,250 A Mr. Allerd is here for you. 649 00:34:49,878 --> 00:34:54,007 I'm Karl Allerd, your new AUSA. 650 00:34:54,090 --> 00:34:56,885 I think I'd remember if I hired a new line prosecutor. 651 00:34:56,968 --> 00:35:00,639 Remember when Dake said there'd be a favor to be named? 652 00:35:01,848 --> 00:35:03,683 Ah. 653 00:35:03,767 --> 00:35:05,393 You're the favor. 654 00:35:06,895 --> 00:35:08,730 You don't trust me. 655 00:35:08,813 --> 00:35:10,523 Hell, I wouldn't from your chair. 656 00:35:10,607 --> 00:35:12,817 A Spy In the House Of Lords and so forth. Yes. 657 00:35:13,707 --> 00:35:15,403 So I'll earn your trust. 658 00:35:15,487 --> 00:35:17,591 - Will you? - I look forward to seeing that trick. 659 00:35:17,626 --> 00:35:18,786 That'll be a neat trick. 660 00:35:18,821 --> 00:35:20,992 Ms. Sacker, our Head of Crim, will get you situated. 661 00:35:21,076 --> 00:35:22,202 - I will? - Mm. 662 00:35:22,285 --> 00:35:23,339 Mm, I will. 663 00:35:27,457 --> 00:35:29,273 Hey, I've been revising my idea. 664 00:35:29,308 --> 00:35:30,960 There's a division of a struggling company 665 00:35:31,044 --> 00:35:32,420 in Thailand, that I think... 666 00:35:32,504 --> 00:35:33,296 Wait, is this the sugar company? 667 00:35:33,380 --> 00:35:34,920 Is it, is this the same damn deal? 668 00:35:35,007 --> 00:35:37,884 No... It's just one facet of the company 669 00:35:37,967 --> 00:35:39,886 that I think could be promising to look into. 670 00:35:39,969 --> 00:35:41,388 It started out as a family business, and... 671 00:35:41,471 --> 00:35:42,555 So this is... this is the same deal. 672 00:35:42,639 --> 00:35:43,473 - Not really... - Kimmy, 673 00:35:43,556 --> 00:35:45,845 this piece of shit ain't Axe Cap. 674 00:36:03,993 --> 00:36:06,079 What are you working on? 675 00:36:06,162 --> 00:36:07,288 Nothing. 676 00:36:12,585 --> 00:36:16,506 I want to see all Ben Kim's search results for the day. 677 00:36:16,589 --> 00:36:18,950 You mean, like, browser results, or... 678 00:36:18,985 --> 00:36:21,553 Everything he did today. 679 00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:24,347 Hey, you on your way home? 680 00:36:24,431 --> 00:36:25,390 Nope. 681 00:36:25,473 --> 00:36:26,970 Chief. You got to get on your way 682 00:36:27,005 --> 00:36:28,143 if you want to make it in time to take 683 00:36:28,226 --> 00:36:31,187 the princelings to Little League. 684 00:36:31,938 --> 00:36:33,773 Have Bruce take 'em. 685 00:36:33,857 --> 00:36:36,609 You got it. 686 00:36:47,036 --> 00:36:49,310 He's been home three weekends this year. 687 00:36:49,345 --> 00:36:52,459 I'm almost positive one of them was his assistant's mistake. 688 00:36:52,542 --> 00:36:54,669 And he assumes I never say anything about him 689 00:36:54,753 --> 00:36:58,423 fucking his way through the entire New York pool. 690 00:36:58,506 --> 00:37:01,301 But if you can leave Axe... 691 00:37:01,384 --> 00:37:03,887 You give me courage, Lara. 692 00:37:07,711 --> 00:37:09,642 You're smart, Lilly. 693 00:37:09,726 --> 00:37:11,186 You had a career for a second. 694 00:37:12,422 --> 00:37:14,773 You know your shopper isn't your friend, 695 00:37:14,856 --> 00:37:17,484 personal trainer doesn't think you're actually making progress, 696 00:37:18,510 --> 00:37:21,446 and all the charities you give money to don't actually 697 00:37:21,529 --> 00:37:23,406 honor you when they honor you. 698 00:37:23,490 --> 00:37:26,326 But on some level, you believe every bit of it. 699 00:37:27,046 --> 00:37:31,080 You think the attention you receive is deserved. 700 00:37:31,164 --> 00:37:34,125 But when that fades, when every relationship 701 00:37:34,209 --> 00:37:37,253 in your life reveals itself to be a trade on your husband's 702 00:37:37,337 --> 00:37:40,799 net worth, you may say "Fuck false friends," 703 00:37:40,882 --> 00:37:43,245 but you'll be hiring a PR rep the first time 704 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:47,055 your Halloween costume isn't mentioned in Page Six. 705 00:37:48,598 --> 00:37:51,267 So keep your own courage, Lilly. 706 00:37:51,351 --> 00:37:54,354 And while you're at it, consider keeping that husband. 707 00:37:54,437 --> 00:37:57,190 Because while he may not give you what you think you want, 708 00:37:57,273 --> 00:38:00,193 he lets you keep on being Mrs. Keith Currier Smith, 709 00:38:00,276 --> 00:38:02,779 and I'm pretty sure that's what you need. 710 00:38:03,510 --> 00:38:06,866 Now you're trying to decide whether to be pissed or grateful. 711 00:38:06,950 --> 00:38:08,827 Definitely grateful. 712 00:38:21,256 --> 00:38:22,882 Whoa! 713 00:38:32,058 --> 00:38:34,644 Here you go. 714 00:38:34,727 --> 00:38:36,563 Have fun. 715 00:38:36,646 --> 00:38:38,523 Thanks, Bruce. 716 00:38:51,786 --> 00:38:52,975 We got your latest request. 717 00:38:53,010 --> 00:38:54,747 It's a big lift. Hard transfer. 718 00:38:54,831 --> 00:38:57,083 International withdrawals and deposits like this 719 00:38:57,166 --> 00:38:58,668 do not get done same day. 720 00:38:58,751 --> 00:39:00,253 - So? - It's not the sort of thing 721 00:39:00,336 --> 00:39:03,590 most clients ask for. Especially not when they're drawing heat. 722 00:39:03,673 --> 00:39:05,258 These are my needs. 723 00:39:05,341 --> 00:39:09,304 Either you meet them or you can't. 724 00:39:09,387 --> 00:39:12,265 We can get it done. But this isn't a reusable pipeline. 725 00:39:12,348 --> 00:39:14,309 Fine by me. 726 00:39:18,980 --> 00:39:20,440 She's supposed to be here by 5:30. 727 00:39:20,523 --> 00:39:24,193 - It's already... - I know what time it is. Call it in. 728 00:39:29,233 --> 00:39:32,785 I'd like to have a person of interest picked up. Gonzalez, Maria. 729 00:39:33,658 --> 00:39:35,455 No Social. 730 00:39:35,538 --> 00:39:36,664 Yeah. 731 00:39:36,748 --> 00:39:39,959 D.O.B. 1/22/79. 732 00:39:40,412 --> 00:39:41,684 You think she got cold feet? 733 00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,839 I think that's best case. 734 00:39:44,923 --> 00:39:47,800 You have her already. That's great news. Where? 735 00:39:49,218 --> 00:39:50,637 Hold her. She's mine. 736 00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:52,472 She got picked up in an ICE sweep. 737 00:39:52,555 --> 00:39:55,642 She's currently at the Varick Street Detention Center. 738 00:40:11,532 --> 00:40:13,326 Are you gonna bring Maria? 739 00:40:13,409 --> 00:40:15,495 She's right there. 740 00:40:18,081 --> 00:40:19,082 Who is that? 741 00:40:19,165 --> 00:40:22,001 Maria Gonzalez. 742 00:40:22,085 --> 00:40:23,711 That may be a Maria Gonzalez, 743 00:40:23,795 --> 00:40:25,505 but that is not our Maria Gonzalez. 744 00:40:25,588 --> 00:40:27,340 That is the wrong Maria Gonzalez. 745 00:40:27,423 --> 00:40:29,842 Do you have someone else here with that name? 746 00:40:32,383 --> 00:40:34,806 We did until she was put on a goodbye charter 747 00:40:34,889 --> 00:40:36,975 from Newark Liberty. 748 00:40:38,309 --> 00:40:41,396 It's got to be some bureaucratic screw-up. 749 00:40:41,479 --> 00:40:42,346 No, it doesn't. 750 00:40:43,481 --> 00:40:45,400 Somebody knew she was gonna be picked up 751 00:40:45,483 --> 00:40:49,779 before we did and got to her info. 752 00:40:51,447 --> 00:40:52,447 _ 753 00:40:52,448 --> 00:40:54,242 This has Axe written all over it. 754 00:41:09,632 --> 00:41:13,049 They deported the wrong Maria Gonzalez. 755 00:41:13,084 --> 00:41:16,014 Our witness is on a plane that lands in 90 minutes. 756 00:41:16,097 --> 00:41:18,766 We need her met on the ground in Guatemala and returned. 757 00:41:18,850 --> 00:41:22,729 There are a lot of, uh, high-level, deeply uncomfortable 758 00:41:22,812 --> 00:41:27,275 calls required to make that happen. DOJ. DHS. State. 759 00:41:27,358 --> 00:41:29,318 And they all start with your boss. 760 00:41:29,402 --> 00:41:32,312 I really don't want to call the Attorney General about this. 761 00:41:32,347 --> 00:41:36,576 He's publicly stated this case matters to him. 762 00:41:37,910 --> 00:41:42,165 Ollie, you're a bit of a rara avis, aren't you? 763 00:41:42,248 --> 00:41:44,834 You got no "hat," no one looking out for you, 764 00:41:44,917 --> 00:41:47,462 and yet you have risen. 765 00:41:47,545 --> 00:41:50,423 Maybe it's because you have an immaculate record. 766 00:41:50,506 --> 00:41:53,009 Some guys don't trust immaculate record. 767 00:41:53,092 --> 00:41:55,728 I do. I have an immaculate record. 768 00:41:56,537 --> 00:41:58,347 Thank you, General. 769 00:41:58,431 --> 00:42:00,558 That was from a movie. 770 00:42:00,641 --> 00:42:02,518 You don't watch movies, do you, Ollie? 771 00:42:02,602 --> 00:42:06,939 I re-watch The Decalogue every year. 772 00:42:07,023 --> 00:42:08,941 Uh, well, I read what you sent me. 773 00:42:09,025 --> 00:42:13,112 Just to make sure I have it straight: We got the wrong Guad? 774 00:42:13,196 --> 00:42:16,115 That is indeed the case. 775 00:42:16,899 --> 00:42:17,858 Say it. 776 00:42:20,328 --> 00:42:24,290 We got the wrong Guad. 777 00:42:24,373 --> 00:42:27,543 But Maria Gonzalez, our Maria Gonzalez, 778 00:42:27,627 --> 00:42:28,628 is a key cooperator. 779 00:42:28,711 --> 00:42:33,257 We need her back. And since this is an extraordinary situation... 780 00:42:33,341 --> 00:42:34,801 Well, in one respect. 781 00:42:34,884 --> 00:42:37,637 In another, it's just the way things are supposed to go. 782 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:40,613 The right Maria Gonzalez came into this country illegally, 783 00:42:40,648 --> 00:42:44,519 she stayed illegally, and she committed a fraud 784 00:42:44,602 --> 00:42:47,271 on the stockholders of that snake-bit juice company. 785 00:42:47,355 --> 00:42:49,732 She is three times illegal. 786 00:42:49,816 --> 00:42:54,695 That makes her removable, and she was removed. 787 00:42:57,281 --> 00:42:58,616 Um... 788 00:42:58,699 --> 00:43:00,118 Next time... 789 00:43:00,201 --> 00:43:04,497 instead of asking me to undo your fuck-up, 790 00:43:04,580 --> 00:43:07,542 maybe just see to it that the situation remains like 791 00:43:07,625 --> 00:43:10,983 our holy Mother of Mercy, blessedly un-fucked. 792 00:43:19,762 --> 00:43:21,430 How'd that go? 793 00:43:25,101 --> 00:43:26,853 Does Axe ever hesitate? 794 00:43:27,391 --> 00:43:28,521 Why? 795 00:43:29,325 --> 00:43:31,774 I'm hesitating. Can't pull the trigger. 796 00:43:31,858 --> 00:43:34,527 Markets are closed. Overseas play? 797 00:43:34,610 --> 00:43:37,280 Ben Kim found a big opportunity in Thailand. 798 00:43:37,363 --> 00:43:40,158 A troubled public company with a promising sugar division. 799 00:43:40,241 --> 00:43:42,368 He spotted a good target but just couldn't quite 800 00:43:42,451 --> 00:43:44,495 figure out how to hit it... or didn't have the courage 801 00:43:44,579 --> 00:43:45,746 to shoot at it. 802 00:43:45,830 --> 00:43:49,041 We need to keep working with him on that. 803 00:43:49,125 --> 00:43:50,209 But you see the play? 804 00:43:50,293 --> 00:43:53,171 Yes. A PIPE. Private investment in public equity. 805 00:43:53,254 --> 00:43:55,298 Basically, we take ownership of a spin-off, 806 00:43:55,381 --> 00:43:57,049 and a commission from brokering its sale. 807 00:43:57,084 --> 00:43:59,010 So, why the hesitation? 808 00:43:59,093 --> 00:44:02,013 It will be the single largest investment I've made as CIO, 809 00:44:02,096 --> 00:44:04,265 and a type Axe Cap has never made before. 810 00:44:04,348 --> 00:44:07,059 If you make this move, where do you end up for the day? 811 00:44:07,143 --> 00:44:08,728 Unscathed? 812 00:44:12,258 --> 00:44:14,609 This would lock in a loss. 813 00:44:14,692 --> 00:44:19,572 Yes. The high-reward plays are all high-risk. 814 00:44:19,655 --> 00:44:21,282 It's good you can't run it by Axe. 815 00:44:22,909 --> 00:44:27,496 Forces you to hear your own voice and trust it. 816 00:44:29,425 --> 00:44:33,294 You'll probably do the right thing. 817 00:44:33,377 --> 00:44:36,464 And when the day comes you get one wrong, that'll be good, too. 818 00:44:36,547 --> 00:44:39,008 Because I'll realize I'm mortal and it's not so bad? 819 00:44:39,091 --> 00:44:40,760 Because it'll be fucking horrible 820 00:44:40,843 --> 00:44:44,222 and you'll do anything you can to avoid that feeling again. 821 00:44:54,523 --> 00:44:55,900 Hey. 822 00:44:57,860 --> 00:45:00,196 You know what, Bobby? 823 00:45:00,279 --> 00:45:02,990 I'm gonna do you a favor: 824 00:45:03,074 --> 00:45:04,992 You're off the hook. 825 00:45:05,076 --> 00:45:08,454 If you don't want 50-50 custody, you don't need to have it. 826 00:45:08,537 --> 00:45:10,539 I can tell other people it's 50-50, 827 00:45:10,623 --> 00:45:13,209 and I can come up with something to tell the boys, too. 828 00:45:13,292 --> 00:45:15,628 Why the fuck do you think I don't want the kids? 829 00:45:15,711 --> 00:45:19,913 You had them for one day, at a time when you don't 830 00:45:19,948 --> 00:45:22,635 have to go to work, and you ditched them. 831 00:45:22,718 --> 00:45:24,887 You let them be airlifted into Little League. 832 00:45:24,971 --> 00:45:26,472 I mean, it was mortifying. 833 00:45:26,555 --> 00:45:28,057 I didn't mean to embarrass them. 834 00:45:28,140 --> 00:45:30,810 They weren't embarrassed. 835 00:45:30,893 --> 00:45:34,188 They didn't know to be, which is a whole other thing. 836 00:45:34,272 --> 00:45:37,900 You know, I don't know if you need to work on your case 837 00:45:37,984 --> 00:45:39,777 or go on a trip 838 00:45:39,860 --> 00:45:42,947 or become a fucking cobbler, 839 00:45:43,030 --> 00:45:47,576 but it doesn't seem like you are where you need to be. 840 00:45:49,620 --> 00:45:52,290 And I'd offer to help, but my help doesn't seem 841 00:45:52,373 --> 00:45:53,374 to be what you want, either. 842 00:46:08,097 --> 00:46:10,266 I have everything positioned and ready, 843 00:46:10,349 --> 00:46:13,394 and yet... 844 00:46:13,477 --> 00:46:16,022 Judge Funt still has the case on his docket. 845 00:46:16,105 --> 00:46:19,692 My bag is packed, but I can't seem to walk out the door. 846 00:46:19,775 --> 00:46:24,322 If I fail at this, everything is dashed. 847 00:46:25,008 --> 00:46:27,742 For then I will have ruined myself 848 00:46:27,825 --> 00:46:29,410 in his eyes 849 00:46:29,493 --> 00:46:33,289 and exposed my position. 850 00:46:33,372 --> 00:46:37,585 Only a fool doesn't look at the downside. 851 00:46:37,668 --> 00:46:39,776 But only a coward allows it to dissuade him 852 00:46:39,811 --> 00:46:43,215 from that which he knows he must do. 853 00:46:43,299 --> 00:46:45,092 I know you're not a coward. 854 00:46:45,176 --> 00:46:48,846 I don't like the sound of that word coming out of your mouth. 855 00:46:48,929 --> 00:46:51,223 Neither do I. 856 00:46:51,307 --> 00:46:54,935 I'll see you at home. After. 857 00:47:03,330 --> 00:47:05,237 Chuck? 858 00:47:06,989 --> 00:47:10,701 No one takes this shortcut anymore. 859 00:47:10,785 --> 00:47:12,453 This isn't your courthouse. 860 00:47:13,355 --> 00:47:14,914 Are you lost? 861 00:47:14,997 --> 00:47:19,335 Oh, right where I need to be, Judge Funt, 862 00:47:19,418 --> 00:47:22,421 which is, unfortunately, in your way. 863 00:47:24,173 --> 00:47:25,265 Ah. 864 00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:28,094 The Axelrod case. 865 00:47:28,177 --> 00:47:32,390 You had to know a day like this would come. 866 00:47:32,473 --> 00:47:34,016 I never asked you... 867 00:47:34,100 --> 00:47:35,059 You didn't have to. 868 00:47:38,187 --> 00:47:41,065 Your son's doing well, I hope, 869 00:47:41,148 --> 00:47:43,275 made the most of his medical career. 870 00:47:45,569 --> 00:47:47,613 Yeah, he's a good doctor. 871 00:47:47,696 --> 00:47:49,532 That's what I wanted for him. 872 00:47:51,283 --> 00:47:54,537 If he hadn't have supplied those future sons of Hippocrates 873 00:47:54,620 --> 00:47:57,623 with Adderall, some other med student would have. 874 00:47:57,706 --> 00:48:00,878 I won't let you dictate my rulings. 875 00:48:01,425 --> 00:48:05,965 The bench cannot be tainted by personal debts. 876 00:48:06,048 --> 00:48:08,968 Name another favor. 877 00:48:09,051 --> 00:48:11,971 I know that this is the biggest case that you've ever drawn. 878 00:48:12,054 --> 00:48:14,765 Well, that's something that you would think about in my shoes, 879 00:48:14,849 --> 00:48:16,642 but I don't. 880 00:48:17,454 --> 00:48:20,604 No, you wouldn't. 881 00:48:20,688 --> 00:48:23,524 And you wouldn't hide in a hallway waiting 882 00:48:23,607 --> 00:48:25,818 to pounce when I walked by. 883 00:48:27,817 --> 00:48:29,196 But I am not the man you are. 884 00:48:34,243 --> 00:48:36,829 Oh. 885 00:48:36,912 --> 00:48:39,832 You're not here to ask me to shade my rulings. 886 00:48:39,915 --> 00:48:43,002 You're here to ask me to step off it. 887 00:48:43,085 --> 00:48:46,797 It's a hard laydown. And I'm asking you to lay it down. 888 00:48:49,425 --> 00:48:51,385 Ask yourself 889 00:48:51,469 --> 00:48:54,763 who you really are, Chuck. 890 00:48:54,847 --> 00:48:57,057 Are you the man that's reduced to collecting debts 891 00:48:57,141 --> 00:49:01,353 of the soul like... like old Mr. Scratch? 892 00:49:01,437 --> 00:49:03,731 Well, as with all stories about that being, 893 00:49:03,814 --> 00:49:07,485 the debt is due, even if, especially if, 894 00:49:07,568 --> 00:49:11,572 it is not fair or even right to collect it. 895 00:49:13,782 --> 00:49:18,579 Believe me, my... my insides hurt making this request. 896 00:49:18,662 --> 00:49:21,373 Oh, I don't believe that even a little. 897 00:49:21,457 --> 00:49:23,871 You like your insides just as they are. 898 00:49:23,906 --> 00:49:26,921 You want to be right here, making these moves. 899 00:49:27,004 --> 00:49:31,342 You need that feeling in your stomach to know you're alive. 900 00:49:34,971 --> 00:49:37,348 I really think I am sorry. 901 00:49:37,431 --> 00:49:39,183 Fuck you, Chuck! 902 00:49:45,618 --> 00:49:48,234 I'll recuse myself. 903 00:49:50,152 --> 00:49:52,279 My tab is clear. 904 00:50:10,506 --> 00:50:11,757 May I? 905 00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,301 Do you want me to call the Secretary of the Treasury 906 00:50:14,385 --> 00:50:17,137 and ask for a personal loan? 907 00:50:17,221 --> 00:50:21,141 I just heard DeGiulio is the new judge on the Axelrod case. 908 00:50:21,225 --> 00:50:23,227 Not our dream judge, but fair-minded, 909 00:50:23,310 --> 00:50:26,814 likely to hew closely to the law, rule narrowly. 910 00:50:26,897 --> 00:50:29,275 That'll favor us a lot more than Funt. 911 00:50:29,358 --> 00:50:31,026 Well, then, 912 00:50:31,110 --> 00:50:33,445 I guess it's a gift. 913 00:50:34,512 --> 00:50:36,323 Chuck. 914 00:50:36,407 --> 00:50:39,201 I know his fingerprints. 915 00:50:41,537 --> 00:50:43,747 Are you gonna do something about this? 916 00:50:43,831 --> 00:50:46,709 I'm not in the habit of rejecting gifts. 917 00:50:50,045 --> 00:50:53,340 Do you know about White Day in Japan? 918 00:50:53,424 --> 00:50:56,802 Over there on Valentine's Day, women buy presents 919 00:50:56,885 --> 00:51:00,180 for their salarymen bosses, and those presents are displayed 920 00:51:00,264 --> 00:51:02,914 for all to see, so the most important thing is the size. 921 00:51:02,949 --> 00:51:06,061 That's how others know that the recipient is valued. 922 00:51:06,145 --> 00:51:09,856 A month later, on White Day, the men give a return gift 923 00:51:09,891 --> 00:51:11,275 of two to three times the value. 924 00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:16,530 So if there's a salaryman you don't respect, 925 00:51:16,614 --> 00:51:19,074 you get him something small but expensive. 926 00:51:25,164 --> 00:51:28,167 Chuck just gave you diamond cufflinks, 927 00:51:28,250 --> 00:51:31,462 and when White Day comes, you're gonna have to give him 928 00:51:31,545 --> 00:51:34,006 something that costs a lot more. 929 00:52:03,452 --> 00:52:06,538 I didn't like you kicking me out. 930 00:52:06,622 --> 00:52:08,248 I apologize if I was rude. 931 00:52:08,332 --> 00:52:10,876 I don't give a fuck about rude. 932 00:52:10,959 --> 00:52:13,879 It showed you were distracted. 933 00:52:13,962 --> 00:52:15,547 How did we do today? 934 00:52:15,631 --> 00:52:16,840 Just executed a huge PIPE. 935 00:52:16,924 --> 00:52:19,095 We're going to arb a Southeast Asian sugar company. 936 00:52:19,130 --> 00:52:20,678 Fun. 937 00:52:20,761 --> 00:52:22,471 If all my projections hold, 938 00:52:22,554 --> 00:52:25,391 we're still down five percent overall. 939 00:52:25,474 --> 00:52:27,220 Anyone else would have lost 12 940 00:52:27,255 --> 00:52:29,436 or done something stupid to get even. 941 00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:32,106 Booking the loss was the only way. 942 00:52:35,004 --> 00:52:36,944 I'm not pulling the two billion. 943 00:52:38,114 --> 00:52:41,740 It's yours to invest. 944 00:52:41,824 --> 00:52:43,492 I really thought you didn't trust me. 945 00:52:43,575 --> 00:52:46,231 That's why you were in the office looking over everyone's shoulder. 946 00:52:46,329 --> 00:52:49,289 I was in the office, because as of now, 947 00:52:49,373 --> 00:52:53,585 I don't know what else to do with myself. 948 00:52:55,971 --> 00:52:57,256 And... 949 00:52:58,336 --> 00:53:03,721 as much as I can trust anyone with my name and my money... 950 00:53:04,751 --> 00:53:06,056 I trust you. 951 00:53:06,140 --> 00:53:07,266 I am irrelevant. 952 00:53:07,349 --> 00:53:10,227 You want the money because you want the stake, the control. 953 00:53:10,310 --> 00:53:12,980 You need the game to remember who you are. 954 00:53:14,732 --> 00:53:17,609 I've decided how I'm going to invest that two billion. 955 00:53:17,693 --> 00:53:21,739 I'm going to diversify, invest in outside funds. 956 00:53:21,822 --> 00:53:25,159 I'll hear pitches, among them your hand-picked favorites. 957 00:53:25,242 --> 00:53:26,952 And after I give them the money, 958 00:53:27,035 --> 00:53:30,289 I'm going to be a passive investor. 959 00:53:30,372 --> 00:53:32,207 Thank you. 960 00:53:39,047 --> 00:53:41,508 You're not doing this 'cause I need it. 961 00:53:41,592 --> 00:53:43,594 You need it. 962 00:53:45,378 --> 00:53:49,308 You're giving me a place to play so I stay off your field. 963 00:53:49,391 --> 00:53:52,436 And you want the benefit of my moves on our bottom line 964 00:53:52,519 --> 00:53:55,147 in case there's another disaster. 965 00:53:57,701 --> 00:53:59,985 I'm your hedge. 966 00:55:54,524 --> 00:55:56,619 - synced and corrected by sot26 - www.addic7ed.com 9999 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00 www.tvsubtitles.net