1 00:00:03,929 --> 00:00:06,011 [Sacker] Previously on Billions... 2 00:00:06,095 --> 00:00:08,512 Red dots? That means sold. That means... 3 00:00:08,595 --> 00:00:10,095 There was a pre-pre-viewing? 4 00:00:10,178 --> 00:00:12,804 Damn, man. Not my intention to scoop you. 5 00:00:12,887 --> 00:00:15,178 I'd love to buy if you have more. 6 00:00:15,261 --> 00:00:17,136 Yeah. I don't paint for money. Never have. 7 00:00:17,220 --> 00:00:19,470 Before the funds land with us, we can designate them. 8 00:00:19,553 --> 00:00:20,762 Yale Law. 9 00:00:20,845 --> 00:00:22,512 Georgie boy! 10 00:00:22,595 --> 00:00:23,970 Hello, Dad. 11 00:00:24,053 --> 00:00:25,720 Sandicot's not getting the gaming license. 12 00:00:25,804 --> 00:00:27,303 It's over. 13 00:00:27,387 --> 00:00:29,196 [Axe] You fronted like the whole thing was wired. 14 00:00:29,220 --> 00:00:31,387 Was that bait? Or were you the bait? 15 00:00:31,470 --> 00:00:32,970 [Chuck] There will come a time 16 00:00:33,053 --> 00:00:34,738 when you will be forced to line up against Axe 17 00:00:34,762 --> 00:00:36,303 for your very survival. 18 00:00:36,387 --> 00:00:38,303 [Chuck] He's not capable of a true alliance. 19 00:00:38,387 --> 00:00:39,970 [Prince] Isn't it incumbent upon us 20 00:00:40,053 --> 00:00:41,571 to acknowledge that we didn't do it alone? 21 00:00:41,595 --> 00:00:43,637 I don't pretend I'm an ordinary guy got lucky. 22 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,804 [Axe] I am a monster. 23 00:00:45,887 --> 00:00:48,053 A carnivorous fucking monster. 24 00:00:54,428 --> 00:00:57,095 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 25 00:01:06,970 --> 00:01:09,512 [children shouting in distance] 26 00:01:12,553 --> 00:01:14,595 [horn honking] 27 00:01:18,053 --> 00:01:20,178 This was my favorite place in the house. 28 00:01:20,261 --> 00:01:22,595 Even though it's not technically in the house. 29 00:01:22,679 --> 00:01:23,970 Yeah. 30 00:01:24,053 --> 00:01:25,887 I come out here most every day, too. 31 00:01:25,970 --> 00:01:27,095 Even in the winter. 32 00:01:27,178 --> 00:01:28,571 My mom's worried I'll catch pneumonia. 33 00:01:28,595 --> 00:01:31,178 But I still do it. 34 00:01:31,261 --> 00:01:32,679 Yep. 35 00:01:32,762 --> 00:01:35,178 Mine didn't like it either. 36 00:01:35,261 --> 00:01:38,553 [Axe] At night I'd even sneak out here after she went to bed. 37 00:01:38,637 --> 00:01:40,512 And just breathe. 38 00:01:40,595 --> 00:01:43,637 Inside that house... 39 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,220 eh, for me, this was better. 40 00:01:46,303 --> 00:01:48,220 Yeah. I like it at night. 41 00:01:48,303 --> 00:01:50,112 - [car door closes] - Til I can hardly see the hoop. 42 00:01:50,136 --> 00:01:52,553 Looking at the lights go out the other houses. 43 00:01:52,637 --> 00:01:53,887 [Savion] And me thinking. 44 00:01:53,970 --> 00:01:55,637 [Axe] The thinking I did out here, 45 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:57,887 it's what set my whole life in motion. 46 00:01:57,970 --> 00:02:01,345 Hey, Randy, I was just telling Savion 47 00:02:01,428 --> 00:02:04,553 how I used to come out here as a kid growing up in Yonkers. 48 00:02:04,637 --> 00:02:06,261 You mind if I... 49 00:02:06,345 --> 00:02:09,720 No. Not at all. Go on ahead. 50 00:02:09,804 --> 00:02:11,220 [cellphone chimes] 51 00:02:11,303 --> 00:02:14,345 You know, this was a rough neighborhood even back then. 52 00:02:14,428 --> 00:02:16,387 No one really had any money at all. 53 00:02:16,470 --> 00:02:19,470 [Axe] Snowy mornings, I'd come out here, shovel the driveway, 54 00:02:19,553 --> 00:02:21,804 and then I'd stand here and I'd look at other people 55 00:02:21,887 --> 00:02:23,595 digging themselves out. 56 00:02:23,679 --> 00:02:25,762 Eventually the plows would come through, 57 00:02:25,845 --> 00:02:29,637 but only after they had already been to the rich neighborhoods. 58 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:31,261 Same thing now. 59 00:02:31,345 --> 00:02:32,987 [Savion] They don't give much of a shit for us. 60 00:02:33,011 --> 00:02:34,970 [Axe] Yeah. Last streets plowed, man. 61 00:02:35,053 --> 00:02:36,293 If people wanted to go to work, 62 00:02:36,345 --> 00:02:37,887 they had to get out here with a shovel. 63 00:02:37,970 --> 00:02:39,845 I saw that as an advantage. 64 00:02:39,929 --> 00:02:42,053 Started up my first business. 65 00:02:42,136 --> 00:02:45,387 You know? Did all the shoveling myself. 66 00:02:45,470 --> 00:02:47,220 Then I hired some friends. 67 00:02:47,303 --> 00:02:49,387 Then I expanded to other neighborhoods. 68 00:02:49,470 --> 00:02:52,595 And I took the money I earned. I invested it in other ideas. 69 00:02:52,679 --> 00:02:55,053 That's how I started, man. 70 00:02:55,136 --> 00:02:58,720 I have Yonkers to thank for my success. 71 00:02:58,804 --> 00:03:02,470 That's why I'm glad to be back here, returning the favor. 72 00:03:02,553 --> 00:03:04,136 [window opens] 73 00:03:04,220 --> 00:03:06,970 Ok, you two, that should just about end outside time. 74 00:03:07,053 --> 00:03:08,679 [Savion's mother] Come on in. 75 00:03:08,762 --> 00:03:10,404 Hey, I just wanted to say I really enjoyed meeting you both. 76 00:03:10,428 --> 00:03:11,696 Then come on back, and have dinner with us. 77 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:13,220 I'll make meatloaf. 78 00:03:13,303 --> 00:03:14,404 It'll make you feel like you're a kid again. 79 00:03:14,428 --> 00:03:17,053 Can't wait. Dinner at home in my hometown. 80 00:03:17,136 --> 00:03:19,637 Only I'm not gonna allow you to do any work. 81 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:20,970 I'm gonna bring my chef. 82 00:03:21,053 --> 00:03:22,637 And we're gonna make this special. 83 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:23,595 Alright. 84 00:03:23,679 --> 00:03:26,637 [window closes] 85 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:27,845 [cellphone chimes] 86 00:03:27,929 --> 00:03:30,553 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 87 00:03:30,637 --> 00:03:33,220 [Chuck] Mm. 88 00:03:33,303 --> 00:03:36,011 Of course... Unbelievable... 89 00:03:36,095 --> 00:03:37,804 The man knows no bounds. 90 00:03:37,887 --> 00:03:39,428 Who's got hold of your nectarines? 91 00:03:39,512 --> 00:03:41,053 Grapefruits. Please. 92 00:03:41,136 --> 00:03:43,178 And it's a man who's spreading his wings 93 00:03:43,261 --> 00:03:45,095 from the cozy confines of Wall Street 94 00:03:45,178 --> 00:03:46,679 to the mean streets of Yonkers. 95 00:03:46,762 --> 00:03:49,178 Opportunity Zone is up for grabs there. 96 00:03:49,261 --> 00:03:50,679 Those are pretty sweet setups... 97 00:03:50,762 --> 00:03:52,011 Real cap gains advantages. 98 00:03:52,095 --> 00:03:53,613 [Chuck] The tax breaks are supposed to be 99 00:03:53,637 --> 00:03:55,397 for the benefit of downtrodden neighborhoods, 100 00:03:55,470 --> 00:03:57,720 to stimulate investment and development. 101 00:03:57,804 --> 00:03:59,345 And treadmills were originally built 102 00:03:59,428 --> 00:04:01,595 as a system of punishment for convicts... 103 00:04:01,679 --> 00:04:02,929 Hard labor milling grain... 104 00:04:03,011 --> 00:04:06,845 Not firm-bunned soccer moms. 105 00:04:06,929 --> 00:04:08,762 You're right, old man. 106 00:04:10,053 --> 00:04:13,679 And you know what? I need you to suit up. 107 00:04:13,762 --> 00:04:15,553 Ahhh. I'm not sure I... 108 00:04:15,637 --> 00:04:18,345 Oh. You can develop with the best of 'em. 109 00:04:18,428 --> 00:04:20,178 And you're back off the sidelines 110 00:04:20,261 --> 00:04:22,136 now that you're a young father. 111 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:24,220 Alright. You don't need to win it. 112 00:04:24,303 --> 00:04:28,303 Just compete hard enough that you provoke some illegal moves, 113 00:04:28,387 --> 00:04:30,720 some unfair competition from Axe. 114 00:04:30,804 --> 00:04:34,470 [Chuck] Or destabilize him. Either way it's a win for me... 115 00:04:34,553 --> 00:04:36,762 What do you say? 116 00:04:36,845 --> 00:04:41,387 You need me to suit up, I'll suit up. 117 00:04:49,345 --> 00:04:51,095 [panting] 118 00:04:52,970 --> 00:04:54,553 Game. 119 00:04:54,637 --> 00:04:55,762 Run it back. 120 00:04:55,845 --> 00:04:57,887 My ball. No dunking. 121 00:04:57,970 --> 00:05:00,261 Other than that, come at me. 122 00:05:00,345 --> 00:05:01,970 [Dominique] And you know I will. 123 00:05:02,053 --> 00:05:05,512 MP. This isn't the only one-on-one game you're in. 124 00:05:05,595 --> 00:05:08,261 Axelrod is going after the Yonkers Opportunity Zone. 125 00:05:08,345 --> 00:05:10,512 [sighs] Alright. 126 00:05:10,595 --> 00:05:13,261 Observe and report, so I'm ready to act... 127 00:05:13,345 --> 00:05:15,512 After I handle the Human Highlight Film. 128 00:05:20,136 --> 00:05:21,720 - [basketball bouncing] - One-nothing. 129 00:05:21,804 --> 00:05:24,095 That's the only free one you get... 130 00:05:24,178 --> 00:05:26,845 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 131 00:05:29,220 --> 00:05:31,220 Wags, get me with Daymond John. 132 00:05:31,303 --> 00:05:33,011 Ooo, a poppa shark. 133 00:05:33,095 --> 00:05:35,679 I need you. In there. 134 00:05:35,762 --> 00:05:37,512 [indistinct conversations] 135 00:05:41,011 --> 00:05:43,387 Huh. Sneak attack. 136 00:05:43,470 --> 00:05:44,929 Mediation. 137 00:05:46,762 --> 00:05:50,845 Alright, well, let me get ahead of it by apologizing, 138 00:05:50,929 --> 00:05:52,887 so I can start my day. 139 00:05:55,595 --> 00:05:59,261 I'm sorry, Taylor... that you're in snowflake mode... 140 00:05:59,345 --> 00:06:00,470 Snowflake? 141 00:06:00,553 --> 00:06:02,303 And that your save-the-Earth play 142 00:06:02,387 --> 00:06:04,970 led me to a bigger score with good old rock oil. 143 00:06:05,053 --> 00:06:06,470 Well, Mr. Plainview, 144 00:06:06,553 --> 00:06:08,804 you didn't offend my delicate sensibilities. 145 00:06:08,887 --> 00:06:10,845 What you did do was fuck up the bigger score. 146 00:06:10,929 --> 00:06:12,512 - Is that right? - [Taylor] Yes, it is. 147 00:06:12,595 --> 00:06:14,303 This is a list of colleges and universities 148 00:06:14,387 --> 00:06:16,553 with endowments that were ripe for divestment. 149 00:06:16,637 --> 00:06:19,095 This first wave had a potential haul of 8.8 billion. 150 00:06:19,178 --> 00:06:20,696 All un-gettable now, since the pitch is ruined 151 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:21,970 because you made us look 152 00:06:22,053 --> 00:06:23,553 like greedy, opportunistic hypocrites. 153 00:06:23,637 --> 00:06:27,470 Projections on potential assets are always overly optimistic. 154 00:06:31,053 --> 00:06:33,470 Listen: This comes down to poor communication. 155 00:06:33,553 --> 00:06:37,428 And a lack of alignment, for which you're both to blame. 156 00:06:37,512 --> 00:06:39,261 Taylor, you should have trusted him 157 00:06:39,345 --> 00:06:40,887 and told him the entire play. 158 00:06:40,970 --> 00:06:43,387 He cracked out of turn and moved aggressively, 159 00:06:43,470 --> 00:06:46,679 and in this case... Bobby, that was in error. 160 00:06:46,762 --> 00:06:49,887 But by holding out, Taylor, you're just as responsible. 161 00:06:52,136 --> 00:06:55,303 You know, perception and optics 162 00:06:55,387 --> 00:06:57,178 are at all-time importance levels 163 00:06:57,261 --> 00:06:58,679 in our business and in life. 164 00:06:58,762 --> 00:07:01,762 And a unified team is a much more powerful image 165 00:07:01,845 --> 00:07:04,178 than either of you individually. 166 00:07:04,261 --> 00:07:06,428 Quant and fundamental. 167 00:07:06,512 --> 00:07:09,470 Impact and traditional... The best of both worlds. 168 00:07:11,428 --> 00:07:13,804 The question is: What are we gonna do about it now? 169 00:07:13,887 --> 00:07:16,637 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 170 00:07:23,637 --> 00:07:25,887 What if we played it as an activist move... 171 00:07:25,970 --> 00:07:27,345 - Yes. - [Axe] Hmm. 172 00:07:27,428 --> 00:07:28,845 Push the companies to clean up, 173 00:07:28,929 --> 00:07:30,209 to put in the kind of initiatives 174 00:07:30,261 --> 00:07:31,720 the schools will be impressed by. 175 00:07:31,804 --> 00:07:33,553 Sell it as policing from the inside. 176 00:07:33,637 --> 00:07:36,595 Which will allow us to sell divestment to more institutions. 177 00:07:39,428 --> 00:07:42,470 I should do it. My reputation... Agreed. 178 00:07:42,553 --> 00:07:44,353 I'll go talk with Argyra and Charter Offshore. 179 00:07:50,261 --> 00:07:53,428 You practically dressed me down in front of a junior. 180 00:07:53,512 --> 00:07:56,261 I need to maintain a shred of credibility. 181 00:07:56,345 --> 00:07:58,011 We both know you missed it. 182 00:07:58,095 --> 00:08:00,345 I was trying to broker the least embarrassing version. 183 00:08:03,011 --> 00:08:04,762 [door opens] 184 00:08:07,178 --> 00:08:09,345 [indistinct conversations] 185 00:08:10,679 --> 00:08:12,929 [door beeps, opens] 186 00:08:13,762 --> 00:08:16,011 Professor Rhoades. I'm... 187 00:08:16,095 --> 00:08:18,095 Oh, I know... Catherine Brant. 188 00:08:18,178 --> 00:08:19,637 I heard you were up here. 189 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:20,929 Read your book, even. 190 00:08:21,011 --> 00:08:22,595 Which one? I've written six. 191 00:08:22,679 --> 00:08:25,095 Well, the one everyone read. The O Gap. 192 00:08:25,178 --> 00:08:26,845 Was it helpful? 193 00:08:26,929 --> 00:08:28,863 Well, I'm not saying that I needed it, just that... 194 00:08:28,887 --> 00:08:31,804 Why is it that every time I ask men if it was helpful, 195 00:08:31,887 --> 00:08:33,303 that's the reaction I get? 196 00:08:33,387 --> 00:08:34,970 Women just give me hugs of thanks. 197 00:08:35,053 --> 00:08:36,220 Are you asking for a hug? 198 00:08:36,303 --> 00:08:38,470 [chuckling] No. 199 00:08:38,553 --> 00:08:40,470 I am here with an ask, though. 200 00:08:40,553 --> 00:08:42,303 I teach in the sociology department. 201 00:08:42,387 --> 00:08:45,428 And this year, this week, in fact, 202 00:08:45,512 --> 00:08:47,470 I'm lecturing on your speech. 203 00:08:47,553 --> 00:08:50,136 Ah. Which one? I have given many. 204 00:08:50,220 --> 00:08:52,470 [chuckles] The one everyone saw. 205 00:08:52,553 --> 00:08:54,178 The one about owning your sexuality. 206 00:08:54,261 --> 00:08:55,595 And not being ashamed of it. 207 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:56,804 Was it helpful? 208 00:08:56,887 --> 00:08:57,720 Yes. 209 00:08:57,804 --> 00:08:58,970 See how easy that is. 210 00:08:59,053 --> 00:09:01,637 [laughs] For you. Yeah. 211 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,428 So here's my ask: Would you come to my class? 212 00:09:05,512 --> 00:09:07,512 Let me ask you some questions? 213 00:09:07,595 --> 00:09:09,303 Let the students ask you some? 214 00:09:09,387 --> 00:09:12,637 While the idea of spending some time together sounds fun. 215 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:17,220 The idea of talking about the Overton Window and my life... 216 00:09:17,303 --> 00:09:19,970 uh, it sounds like root canal. 217 00:09:20,053 --> 00:09:22,178 I'm trying to leave it behind. 218 00:09:22,261 --> 00:09:24,011 I understand. 219 00:09:24,095 --> 00:09:25,261 Still going to teach it. 220 00:09:25,345 --> 00:09:26,679 Well, as you should. 221 00:09:26,762 --> 00:09:29,220 I'm about to teach my first criminal law class. 222 00:09:29,303 --> 00:09:31,071 And I didn't ask the permission of the criminals. 223 00:09:31,095 --> 00:09:32,637 [chuckles] 224 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,220 Would you mind if I sat in the back and listened? 225 00:09:35,303 --> 00:09:36,595 Please do. 226 00:09:39,220 --> 00:09:41,428 [indistinct conversations] 227 00:09:46,637 --> 00:09:50,095 Good day. I'm Chuck Rhoades. 228 00:09:50,178 --> 00:09:53,845 And as my Criminal Law professor said on day one: 229 00:09:53,929 --> 00:09:58,053 I will do you the courtesy of treating you like professionals. 230 00:09:58,136 --> 00:09:59,887 Do me the same. 231 00:09:59,970 --> 00:10:04,387 Now... Is there a Mr. Kelly in attendance? 232 00:10:04,470 --> 00:10:06,929 Yeppers. 233 00:10:07,011 --> 00:10:09,595 We stand when addressing one another. 234 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:11,303 This isn't college. 235 00:10:11,387 --> 00:10:13,095 You will address a judge one day. 236 00:10:13,178 --> 00:10:15,512 And you will not be sitting on your keister when you do. 237 00:10:15,595 --> 00:10:18,553 Now, I assigned Bordenkircher by email. 238 00:10:18,637 --> 00:10:20,720 Tell me the facts and the law. 239 00:10:20,804 --> 00:10:22,679 I-I pass. 240 00:10:22,762 --> 00:10:24,679 [students murmuring] 241 00:10:24,762 --> 00:10:28,220 As my Crim prof told me the one time I wasn't prepared: 242 00:10:28,303 --> 00:10:30,470 There is no pass. Only fail. 243 00:10:30,553 --> 00:10:31,887 Since this was the first class, 244 00:10:31,970 --> 00:10:33,279 I thought it would be, like, introductory... 245 00:10:33,303 --> 00:10:35,387 No, no. You have one chance. 246 00:10:35,470 --> 00:10:37,887 All of you: If you are not prepared with a brief 247 00:10:38,011 --> 00:10:39,428 when I call your name, 248 00:10:39,512 --> 00:10:41,428 you will be asked to leave that day's class. 249 00:10:41,512 --> 00:10:43,637 If you miss two classes total, 250 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,261 you will have to take crim law again. 251 00:10:46,345 --> 00:10:48,011 - Professor Rhoades. - Yes? 252 00:10:48,095 --> 00:10:49,637 This isn't how it's done now. 253 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:51,929 We're here to learn together. Not to be shamed. 254 00:10:52,011 --> 00:10:53,387 Oh, I hardly think I shamed... 255 00:10:53,470 --> 00:10:55,929 We don't learn best under this kind of pressure. 256 00:10:56,011 --> 00:10:57,220 That's been proven now... 257 00:10:57,303 --> 00:10:59,011 [students murmuring] 258 00:10:59,095 --> 00:11:01,178 Holy shit, guys. And yeah, guys. 259 00:11:01,261 --> 00:11:03,553 I'm calling all of you guys, men, women, enbies. 260 00:11:03,637 --> 00:11:06,428 And I have tenure. So suck it if you don't like it. 261 00:11:06,512 --> 00:11:08,762 [Cat] You have the rarest of opportunities here. 262 00:11:08,845 --> 00:11:11,345 This man has faced the harshest battles 263 00:11:11,428 --> 00:11:13,095 the courts can throw at you. 264 00:11:13,178 --> 00:11:14,929 He sat where you now sit, 265 00:11:15,011 --> 00:11:17,178 and rose to the highest level a lawyer can. 266 00:11:17,261 --> 00:11:18,720 And is ready to share all that. 267 00:11:18,804 --> 00:11:21,178 And you... you lean back, 268 00:11:21,261 --> 00:11:24,512 afraid to face your own intellectual limitations. 269 00:11:24,595 --> 00:11:26,929 Instead, dive in. 270 00:11:27,011 --> 00:11:31,595 I know some of you, most of you, have done the reading, 271 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,345 prepared your briefs and are ready. 272 00:11:34,428 --> 00:11:36,428 [Cat] So sit up straight. 273 00:11:36,512 --> 00:11:39,887 Put your hands in the air, and let him see it. 274 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,470 ♪ K.d. lang's "After the Gold Rush" ♪ 275 00:11:44,553 --> 00:11:46,387 Very well. 276 00:11:46,470 --> 00:11:49,804 Uh. Who's going to tell me about Bordenkircher? 277 00:11:51,011 --> 00:11:52,095 [chuckles] 278 00:11:52,178 --> 00:11:53,970 Yes. Green sweater near the back. 279 00:11:54,053 --> 00:11:55,220 State your name first. 280 00:11:55,303 --> 00:11:57,178 I'm Mary Jane Marbach. 281 00:11:57,261 --> 00:11:59,512 [Marbach] Bordenkircher is about what a prosecutor 282 00:11:59,595 --> 00:12:01,303 can threaten a defendant with. 283 00:12:01,387 --> 00:12:03,261 [Marbach] In the case, the prosecutor... 284 00:12:03,345 --> 00:12:08,345 ♪ Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming ♪ 285 00:12:08,428 --> 00:12:09,571 ♪ Saying something about a queen ♪ 286 00:12:09,595 --> 00:12:11,011 Should I be concerned about 287 00:12:11,095 --> 00:12:12,679 what I'm seeing on Dollar Bill's sheet? 288 00:12:12,762 --> 00:12:14,804 ♪ There were peasants singing ♪ 289 00:12:14,887 --> 00:12:17,220 There may be some... issues at play there. 290 00:12:17,303 --> 00:12:19,553 That you can't discuss. ♪ And drummers drumming ♪ 291 00:12:19,637 --> 00:12:20,970 I get it. 292 00:12:21,053 --> 00:12:24,220 ♪ And the archer split the tree ♪ 293 00:12:24,303 --> 00:12:25,553 [keys clacking] 294 00:12:25,637 --> 00:12:29,387 ♪ A fanfare blowing to the sun ♪ 295 00:12:29,470 --> 00:12:31,136 You were right. 296 00:12:31,220 --> 00:12:33,679 In the session with Taylor. 297 00:12:33,762 --> 00:12:38,845 I didn't like it at the time, but I see the wisdom of it now. 298 00:12:40,345 --> 00:12:43,053 I saw the tiger in there for a minute. 299 00:12:43,136 --> 00:12:44,053 Wow. 300 00:12:44,136 --> 00:12:45,720 It was bracing. 301 00:12:45,804 --> 00:12:48,720 Well, even the great tamers need to remember 302 00:12:48,804 --> 00:12:51,553 they're dealing with wild animals. 303 00:12:51,637 --> 00:12:53,345 [chuckles] 304 00:12:53,428 --> 00:12:58,387 ♪ I was lying in a burned-out basement ♪ 305 00:12:58,470 --> 00:13:00,428 The, uh, community roots angle 306 00:13:00,512 --> 00:13:03,887 is playing a lot stronger than expected up in Yonkers. 307 00:13:03,970 --> 00:13:06,170 Maybe those roots are deeper than you thought they were. 308 00:13:06,220 --> 00:13:07,512 [Axe] Yeah. Maybe you're right. 309 00:13:07,595 --> 00:13:09,887 Being back at my old house... 310 00:13:09,970 --> 00:13:11,720 ♪ When the sun burst through the sky ♪ 311 00:13:11,804 --> 00:13:14,011 I was using it as a set for the reporter. 312 00:13:14,095 --> 00:13:15,428 Thought I was. 313 00:13:15,512 --> 00:13:19,178 But this kid, Savion, 314 00:13:19,261 --> 00:13:22,345 he was just like I was at that age. 315 00:13:22,428 --> 00:13:25,929 Found myself wondering if he was burning to get out too. 316 00:13:26,011 --> 00:13:27,738 You should dig into that when you go for dinner. 317 00:13:27,762 --> 00:13:29,428 Yeah. I will. 318 00:13:29,512 --> 00:13:32,845 ♪ I was thinking about what a friend had said ♪ 319 00:13:32,929 --> 00:13:34,512 [Chef Ryan] Let me grab these for you. 320 00:13:34,595 --> 00:13:35,929 ♪ I was hoping it was a lie ♪ 321 00:13:36,011 --> 00:13:37,929 Hey. One other thing you can help me with. 322 00:13:38,011 --> 00:13:40,595 You know my new artist... Tanner... I got working on commission. 323 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:42,428 - Yeah. - [Axe] He's not working. 324 00:13:42,512 --> 00:13:43,762 Barely painted a stroke. 325 00:13:43,845 --> 00:13:46,679 I don't know if it's painter's block or whatever. 326 00:13:46,762 --> 00:13:50,261 But any suggestions how I can get him going? 327 00:13:50,345 --> 00:13:52,095 You know what? Let me talk to him. 328 00:13:52,178 --> 00:13:53,428 I'll see what occurs. 329 00:13:53,512 --> 00:13:54,512 That'd be great... 330 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,595 Ah, if you guys are all set. 331 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:00,095 Yeah, we're all good. Thanks, Chef. 332 00:14:00,178 --> 00:14:01,220 Delicious as always. 333 00:14:01,303 --> 00:14:02,512 Thanks. 334 00:14:19,303 --> 00:14:20,720 This. 335 00:14:22,929 --> 00:14:26,303 So much better with Chuck out of the picture. 336 00:14:26,387 --> 00:14:31,553 No more, um... interference. 337 00:14:31,637 --> 00:14:36,845 Yeah. It's less complicated for sure... 338 00:14:36,929 --> 00:14:41,428 ♪ In the yellow haze of the sun ♪ 339 00:14:41,512 --> 00:14:43,136 I should probably get back to the kids. 340 00:14:43,220 --> 00:14:47,637 Okay... ♪ And colors flying ♪ 341 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,762 ♪ All around the chosen ♪ 342 00:14:50,845 --> 00:14:53,011 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 343 00:14:55,261 --> 00:14:56,762 [door opens] 344 00:14:59,470 --> 00:15:00,929 [door closes] 345 00:15:02,261 --> 00:15:04,637 - [Tanner] Wendy, yeah? - [Wendy] Mm-hmm. 346 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,845 [Tanner] Axe said you'd be stopping by. 347 00:15:07,929 --> 00:15:10,804 You figured you'd start once I left? 348 00:15:10,887 --> 00:15:13,345 Oh, I already started. 349 00:15:13,428 --> 00:15:15,178 I paint up here first. 350 00:15:15,261 --> 00:15:16,845 Hmm. 351 00:15:16,929 --> 00:15:18,428 Can you share your vision for these? 352 00:15:18,512 --> 00:15:22,011 Or is it still... [chuckling] Vision. 353 00:15:22,095 --> 00:15:24,887 I mean, I... You know, I can't... I can't talk it out. 354 00:15:24,970 --> 00:15:28,470 Because then it's just in the wind. 355 00:15:28,553 --> 00:15:31,553 You know? But it's gonna be kickass. 356 00:15:31,637 --> 00:15:35,387 [Tanner] So you can let Axe know. 357 00:15:35,470 --> 00:15:36,679 You know? 358 00:15:36,762 --> 00:15:38,529 He's definitely gonna feel his... his investment 359 00:15:38,553 --> 00:15:39,804 was worthwhile. 360 00:16:06,470 --> 00:16:08,345 [chuckling] Whoa. 361 00:16:08,428 --> 00:16:09,553 You're a trip. 362 00:16:09,637 --> 00:16:10,887 Hmm. I've been told. 363 00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:11,987 But this moment isn't about me. 364 00:16:12,011 --> 00:16:16,136 Those words: "Let Axe know." 365 00:16:16,220 --> 00:16:18,845 They can't have felt good coming out of your mouth. 366 00:16:18,929 --> 00:16:20,804 I don't need a pep talk. 367 00:16:20,887 --> 00:16:22,136 Well, you need something, bub. 368 00:16:22,220 --> 00:16:23,655 'Cause you're scared out of your fucking mind. 369 00:16:23,679 --> 00:16:24,762 Bullshit. 370 00:16:24,845 --> 00:16:26,762 I've been painting since the fifth grade. 371 00:16:26,845 --> 00:16:28,929 I sold my first painting in the ninth. 372 00:16:29,011 --> 00:16:30,387 So why does this feel so different? 373 00:16:30,470 --> 00:16:31,637 Who said it does? 374 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:33,178 Do I need to stare at you again? 375 00:16:34,887 --> 00:16:37,512 Okay. Alright. 376 00:16:37,595 --> 00:16:39,929 When I start a new one, 377 00:16:40,011 --> 00:16:43,595 I-I like to walk around the city a lot 378 00:16:43,679 --> 00:16:45,929 until I feel special. 379 00:16:46,011 --> 00:16:48,929 Until I know I'm the only one in the world that can paint it. 380 00:16:49,011 --> 00:16:50,428 [Wendy] Sure. 381 00:16:50,512 --> 00:16:52,178 Self-hypnosis. A confidence booster. 382 00:16:52,261 --> 00:16:53,387 But lately? 383 00:16:55,887 --> 00:16:57,220 We sure someone's not suffering 384 00:16:57,303 --> 00:17:00,470 from a dose of imposter syndrome? 385 00:17:00,553 --> 00:17:02,220 I know what I can do. 386 00:17:05,178 --> 00:17:07,220 So you're fine then. 387 00:17:08,345 --> 00:17:09,637 Yeah. 388 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,887 Alright. Alright. Alright. 389 00:17:17,970 --> 00:17:20,929 I can't get the feeling. 390 00:17:21,011 --> 00:17:23,553 Ever since I-I-I signed the contract 391 00:17:23,637 --> 00:17:27,970 and I agreed to the commission, I-I... 392 00:17:28,053 --> 00:17:29,970 [Tanner] The walks are getting longer, 393 00:17:30,053 --> 00:17:32,512 and 'special' doesn't seem to be around. 394 00:17:32,595 --> 00:17:36,220 Accepting this commission is a new step for you. 395 00:17:36,303 --> 00:17:39,720 And you can't figure out what it means... 396 00:17:39,804 --> 00:17:41,178 What it says about who you are. 397 00:17:41,261 --> 00:17:44,387 No. I know what it says... I'm a sellout. 398 00:17:44,470 --> 00:17:46,387 Nah. 399 00:17:46,470 --> 00:17:48,220 Too simple. 400 00:17:48,303 --> 00:17:51,345 I mean, you can vilify the money, if you want. 401 00:17:51,428 --> 00:17:54,762 Blame it for your blockage, if it helps you get past it. 402 00:17:54,845 --> 00:17:57,845 It's like Oscar Wilde said: 403 00:17:57,929 --> 00:18:00,345 "When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss art. 404 00:18:00,428 --> 00:18:04,178 When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money." 405 00:18:04,261 --> 00:18:06,804 The money shouldn't change anything. 406 00:18:06,887 --> 00:18:08,428 But it does. 407 00:18:08,512 --> 00:18:10,011 It's got me all up in my head. 408 00:18:10,095 --> 00:18:11,512 That's because you're thinking of it 409 00:18:11,595 --> 00:18:13,178 as the measure of your artistic value, 410 00:18:13,261 --> 00:18:14,488 and that's never been what's motivated you before. 411 00:18:14,512 --> 00:18:17,345 Whenever I work, I-I don't even... 412 00:18:17,428 --> 00:18:20,220 I don't even imagine a buyer's face. 413 00:18:20,303 --> 00:18:22,279 I don't even think about it. I force myself not to. 414 00:18:22,303 --> 00:18:25,637 And all I can think about now is his reaction to my work. 415 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,845 That's because someone, at some time, 416 00:18:28,929 --> 00:18:31,345 probably your mom or dad, 417 00:18:31,428 --> 00:18:33,428 made you feel like a disappointment. 418 00:18:33,512 --> 00:18:35,887 So now you're substituting him for them. 419 00:18:35,970 --> 00:18:38,387 Maybe a gym teacher. 420 00:18:38,470 --> 00:18:41,136 Nope. I was good at sports. 421 00:18:46,637 --> 00:18:49,845 Point is: You're on the precipice 422 00:18:49,929 --> 00:18:52,553 of the kind of success very few artists ever have. 423 00:18:52,637 --> 00:18:54,095 But you have created an obstruction 424 00:18:54,178 --> 00:18:56,387 between you and that success. 425 00:18:56,470 --> 00:18:58,011 Instead... 426 00:19:03,220 --> 00:19:05,637 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 427 00:19:08,929 --> 00:19:10,345 [sighs] 428 00:19:12,220 --> 00:19:14,387 Close your eyes. 429 00:19:14,470 --> 00:19:15,470 Really? 430 00:19:23,804 --> 00:19:29,595 Now, visualize yourself on the other side, 431 00:19:29,679 --> 00:19:36,595 successful, satisfied, confident. 432 00:19:36,679 --> 00:19:41,970 See the work... your best. 433 00:19:42,053 --> 00:19:45,762 See that it all turned out okay. 434 00:19:45,845 --> 00:19:49,512 That you didn't fuck up your muse. 435 00:19:49,595 --> 00:19:53,345 See the effort it took to get you there. 436 00:19:56,053 --> 00:20:01,053 Now go create the fucking painting. 437 00:20:05,220 --> 00:20:09,303 Does that work for your aggro trader bros? 438 00:20:09,387 --> 00:20:10,804 Really? 439 00:20:10,887 --> 00:20:13,929 'Cause it kind of sounds like bullshit to me. 440 00:20:14,011 --> 00:20:19,053 Well, your excuses kind of sound like bullshit to me, pal. 441 00:20:22,303 --> 00:20:24,053 See you on the other side. 442 00:20:24,136 --> 00:20:26,553 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 443 00:20:30,637 --> 00:20:33,178 [Chef Ryan] Breakfast fit for a shark: 444 00:20:33,261 --> 00:20:35,637 A little Eggs Benny and hollandaise. 445 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:36,887 Thank you. 446 00:20:36,970 --> 00:20:38,261 Thanks, Chef. 447 00:20:42,053 --> 00:20:45,387 So... Besides wanting to catch up, 448 00:20:45,470 --> 00:20:48,053 I wanted to talk to you about something more specific. 449 00:20:48,136 --> 00:20:49,053 [chuckles] Yeah. I figured. 450 00:20:49,136 --> 00:20:50,261 What's up? 451 00:20:50,345 --> 00:20:52,679 Opportunity Zone, up in Yonkers. 452 00:20:52,762 --> 00:20:54,553 - The old patch. - That's right. 453 00:20:54,637 --> 00:20:58,136 I got big plans: a pedestrian mall downtown... 454 00:20:58,220 --> 00:21:02,011 Revitalized shopping, cultural, residential, office space. 455 00:21:02,095 --> 00:21:03,804 The town could use a shot in the arm. 456 00:21:03,887 --> 00:21:05,845 Uh, you know what? It sure could. 457 00:21:05,929 --> 00:21:07,887 And many people there will do well, 458 00:21:07,970 --> 00:21:10,345 but some will do better. 459 00:21:10,428 --> 00:21:11,887 I don't need it. 460 00:21:11,970 --> 00:21:14,178 But I am happy to put in the labor. 461 00:21:14,261 --> 00:21:16,804 And I would love for you to be an important part of the board. 462 00:21:16,887 --> 00:21:18,970 Take a minute to think about it if you need to, 463 00:21:19,053 --> 00:21:20,553 but we got to move quick. 464 00:21:20,637 --> 00:21:24,220 I get it. You want me to be your face... your brown face. 465 00:21:24,303 --> 00:21:27,929 You want me to do a little dance for you for the zoning folks. 466 00:21:28,011 --> 00:21:30,261 ♪ Da-da-da-da, dah-da-dah ♪ 467 00:21:30,345 --> 00:21:32,237 You want me to hook you up and give you an in-road 468 00:21:32,261 --> 00:21:34,136 with the minority community, right? 469 00:21:34,220 --> 00:21:35,887 I want you to be my partner. 470 00:21:35,970 --> 00:21:40,428 Axe, you know I'm not gonna be your puppet... or anybody else's. 471 00:21:40,512 --> 00:21:42,011 Why don't you bring me things 472 00:21:42,095 --> 00:21:45,637 that you would bring Bensinger or Buffett? 473 00:21:46,845 --> 00:21:47,970 [elevator dings] 474 00:21:48,053 --> 00:21:50,261 [indistinct conversations] 475 00:21:52,011 --> 00:21:53,929 Daymond John passed. 476 00:21:54,011 --> 00:21:55,345 He always was sharp. 477 00:21:55,428 --> 00:21:56,512 Yep. 478 00:21:56,595 --> 00:21:58,428 I have intel: Mike Prince has been meeting 479 00:21:58,512 --> 00:22:00,261 with community leaders in Yonkers. 480 00:22:00,345 --> 00:22:01,625 He's building grassroots support. 481 00:22:01,679 --> 00:22:03,970 And he already has a history of Opportunity Zone wins 482 00:22:04,053 --> 00:22:05,595 in Atlanta, Detroit... Fucker. 483 00:22:05,679 --> 00:22:09,804 So we still need someone on our team to ensure you beat his ass. 484 00:22:09,887 --> 00:22:11,387 Someone with strong community ties, 485 00:22:11,470 --> 00:22:14,011 strong business track record, part of the firmament... 486 00:22:14,095 --> 00:22:16,762 a diversity business partner from New York. 487 00:22:16,845 --> 00:22:18,512 Here's the list of names. 488 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,095 Gonna need to dig out my sporting gear. 489 00:22:23,178 --> 00:22:25,762 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 490 00:22:44,553 --> 00:22:46,053 Nice game. 491 00:22:46,136 --> 00:22:48,095 I love the tradition of this. [chuckles] 492 00:22:48,178 --> 00:22:50,887 The guys who invented this game definitely never pictured 493 00:22:50,970 --> 00:22:52,637 a couple of gents like us playing it. 494 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,303 I think that's why I took it up in the first place. 495 00:22:55,387 --> 00:22:57,387 Because "screw them?" 496 00:22:57,470 --> 00:22:59,595 Fuck 'em. Yeah. 497 00:22:59,679 --> 00:23:01,887 That's why I thought a match like this 498 00:23:01,970 --> 00:23:04,470 was a perfect setup for our subject today. 499 00:23:04,553 --> 00:23:06,637 I'm glad that you waited till after we played. 500 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,220 Well, you know, I can be patient, when I need to be. 501 00:23:09,303 --> 00:23:10,595 But not for too long when I got 502 00:23:10,679 --> 00:23:12,178 something this good on the table. 503 00:23:12,261 --> 00:23:13,512 And what would this be? 504 00:23:13,595 --> 00:23:18,178 Opportunity... Opportunity Zone. 505 00:23:18,261 --> 00:23:20,387 I'm of a couple of different minds about these. 506 00:23:20,470 --> 00:23:21,387 No, yeah. I know. 507 00:23:21,470 --> 00:23:22,720 How do you make sure the zones 508 00:23:22,804 --> 00:23:24,512 are the ones getting all the opportunities? 509 00:23:24,595 --> 00:23:26,053 Developers score. 510 00:23:26,136 --> 00:23:29,011 Meanwhile, residents are sitting there same as before... 511 00:23:29,095 --> 00:23:30,335 If they can even afford to stay 512 00:23:30,387 --> 00:23:31,970 in the same jazzed-up neighborhood. 513 00:23:32,053 --> 00:23:33,637 That's why I need you, Franklin. 514 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,845 That's not the only reason. 515 00:23:35,929 --> 00:23:37,679 I know what you need. 516 00:23:37,762 --> 00:23:40,595 Plenty of African American businessmen I could go to. 517 00:23:40,679 --> 00:23:42,011 You bring much more. 518 00:23:42,095 --> 00:23:44,136 And you'll keep me, and my team, in line. 519 00:23:44,220 --> 00:23:46,237 Come on. Think of the positive effects this'll have. 520 00:23:46,261 --> 00:23:49,679 On the communities we serve. And on us. 521 00:23:49,762 --> 00:23:52,387 Your usual method is to dump money from above. 522 00:23:52,470 --> 00:23:54,387 Why the boots on the ground for this one? 523 00:23:54,470 --> 00:23:56,637 Well, because this one matters to me. 524 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,387 Yonkers. I grew up there. 525 00:23:58,470 --> 00:24:00,595 Can't allow some goddamned stranger 526 00:24:00,679 --> 00:24:03,387 to come squat all over my ancestral lands. 527 00:24:04,887 --> 00:24:06,345 Look. 528 00:24:06,428 --> 00:24:08,804 This is a win for us, and a final "screw you" 529 00:24:08,887 --> 00:24:11,553 to the type of folks who built places like this, 530 00:24:11,637 --> 00:24:14,553 to keep guys like us on the outside looking in. 531 00:24:16,970 --> 00:24:18,887 Send me the proposal. 532 00:24:18,970 --> 00:24:20,887 [Wags] I'm so glad you're in town. 533 00:24:20,970 --> 00:24:22,387 Dying to catch up. 534 00:24:24,303 --> 00:24:26,428 Let's talk about where I went wrong. 535 00:24:26,512 --> 00:24:27,804 Where I went right. 536 00:24:27,887 --> 00:24:30,804 There's lots of lost time to make up for. 537 00:24:30,887 --> 00:24:33,929 I have the meatloaf, a yam and cheese for you. 538 00:24:34,011 --> 00:24:35,637 I'd like to say grace. 539 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,553 That's not just a dinner thing? 540 00:24:37,637 --> 00:24:38,929 Not if you mean it. 541 00:24:44,845 --> 00:24:48,011 Heavenly Father, thank you for this time here together 542 00:24:48,095 --> 00:24:49,762 with my earthly father. 543 00:24:49,845 --> 00:24:52,045 Please bless this food for the nourishment of our bodies 544 00:24:52,095 --> 00:24:55,053 and bless our fellowship for the nourishment of our hearts. 545 00:24:55,136 --> 00:24:56,512 [George] Help me walk the path. 546 00:24:56,595 --> 00:24:58,512 Help me rend myself from evil. 547 00:24:58,595 --> 00:25:01,929 Help me stoke the fire and keep my promise to lift the fallen. 548 00:25:02,011 --> 00:25:03,303 Amen. 549 00:25:04,512 --> 00:25:06,053 Did you ad lib that? 550 00:25:06,136 --> 00:25:09,011 I like to speak to God from my heart, not a prayer book. 551 00:25:09,095 --> 00:25:10,595 I was going to offer you a job here. 552 00:25:10,679 --> 00:25:12,738 But if you can keep a straight face with this bullshit, 553 00:25:12,762 --> 00:25:14,637 I will fund your ministry myself. 554 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,136 Because you, my young acolyte, will make a mint. 555 00:25:17,220 --> 00:25:18,340 I'm not interested in money. 556 00:25:18,387 --> 00:25:20,178 Then why are you here? 557 00:25:22,553 --> 00:25:24,363 I don't want to keep my true intentions hidden. 558 00:25:24,387 --> 00:25:26,512 Please, unburden yourself. 559 00:25:26,595 --> 00:25:28,095 What are you really after? 560 00:25:28,178 --> 00:25:30,720 What do you have up the sleeve of your vestments? 561 00:25:30,804 --> 00:25:34,887 I'm here to save you... Your soul. 562 00:25:34,970 --> 00:25:37,261 Let me baptize you... 563 00:25:37,345 --> 00:25:41,095 from what can I see around here, 564 00:25:41,178 --> 00:25:42,778 saving you's only gonna be the beginning. 565 00:25:52,261 --> 00:25:54,679 Sorry to talk and eat, but I'm doing the keto thing, 566 00:25:54,762 --> 00:25:56,637 and I'm on a schedule. Not at all. 567 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,780 So glad you gave us this chance to talk carbon capture. 568 00:25:58,804 --> 00:26:00,178 Is that what we're talking? 569 00:26:00,261 --> 00:26:02,178 As you know, the price has really been dropping. 570 00:26:02,261 --> 00:26:03,929 It's lower than 94 dollars a ton. 571 00:26:04,011 --> 00:26:05,679 But the real road to profitability 572 00:26:05,762 --> 00:26:08,261 is using captured CO2 to create synthetic fuel. 573 00:26:08,345 --> 00:26:10,345 Uh huh. Ca-ching. 574 00:26:10,428 --> 00:26:12,512 Expensive. Know what I mean? 575 00:26:12,595 --> 00:26:14,470 At a dollar a liter, it's almost in line. 576 00:26:14,553 --> 00:26:17,178 And that's before you calculate the state tax incentives. 577 00:26:17,261 --> 00:26:18,553 In California, for example... 578 00:26:18,637 --> 00:26:20,804 Yeah, I crawled my way up the corporate ladder 579 00:26:20,887 --> 00:26:22,553 so I could become a tax-grubber. 580 00:26:22,637 --> 00:26:26,345 Mr. Lambert... Dell... Try to think of it 581 00:26:26,428 --> 00:26:29,053 as an evolutionary timeline question. 582 00:26:29,136 --> 00:26:31,011 We all have to get started somewhere. 583 00:26:31,095 --> 00:26:33,095 Exactly. Move past the fear. 584 00:26:33,178 --> 00:26:34,404 When Toyota launched the Prius, 585 00:26:34,428 --> 00:26:36,178 they lost money on every single car. 586 00:26:36,261 --> 00:26:37,941 - But now... - When they launched the Prius 587 00:26:37,970 --> 00:26:40,220 my blood pressure went up by 25 points. 588 00:26:40,303 --> 00:26:43,053 And I'm not afraid of a goddamn thing. 589 00:26:43,136 --> 00:26:44,387 Look, you ladies seem like 590 00:26:44,470 --> 00:26:45,987 you have your hearts in the right place... 591 00:26:46,011 --> 00:26:48,720 But those hearts are bleeding a little bit too much for me. 592 00:26:48,804 --> 00:26:50,887 All the same to you, if I'm gonna get worked, 593 00:26:50,970 --> 00:26:52,345 I'd rather Axe do it. 594 00:26:52,428 --> 00:26:54,029 After all, he's the one who bought into my company 595 00:26:54,053 --> 00:26:56,720 in the first place, not you. 596 00:26:56,804 --> 00:26:58,220 Thanks for coming. 597 00:26:58,303 --> 00:26:59,804 [silverware clinking] 598 00:27:05,679 --> 00:27:07,112 - I don't ghost anymore. - [Ben Kim] That's great, Mafee! 599 00:27:07,136 --> 00:27:08,470 Like growing up! 600 00:27:08,553 --> 00:27:09,863 But occasionally, I'll kind of just like 601 00:27:09,887 --> 00:27:11,428 not really respond in a timely... 602 00:27:11,512 --> 00:27:13,720 Oooh, I think that's still not great. 603 00:27:13,804 --> 00:27:16,345 What a fucking softboi you are, Mafee. 604 00:27:16,428 --> 00:27:17,220 Why do we have to label everything? 605 00:27:17,303 --> 00:27:18,553 Exactly what a softboi says 606 00:27:18,637 --> 00:27:19,905 when you ask if you're his girlfriend. 607 00:27:19,929 --> 00:27:21,595 I thought that's a fuckboi. 608 00:27:21,679 --> 00:27:23,679 No. A fuckboi doesn't stay in your apartment 609 00:27:23,762 --> 00:27:25,387 long enough for you to ask. 610 00:27:25,470 --> 00:27:27,762 He's not a fuckboi or a softboi. 611 00:27:27,845 --> 00:27:29,428 In college, we called him Doughboy. 612 00:27:29,512 --> 00:27:32,303 Ohh. Come here, Pillsbury! 613 00:27:32,387 --> 00:27:34,136 - Whoo-hoo! - [laughter] 614 00:27:34,220 --> 00:27:36,220 Hey, Mafee! We need you at the home shop. 615 00:27:36,303 --> 00:27:38,428 - You know, where you work. - Uh-oh. 616 00:27:38,512 --> 00:27:42,679 - Ohh. - Ohh. 617 00:27:45,929 --> 00:27:47,762 Skipper, we've got Mike Prince- 618 00:27:47,845 --> 00:27:50,595 like a case of goddamned dandruff on our heads again. 619 00:27:50,679 --> 00:27:52,488 He's making a move at Franklin Sacker's company. 620 00:27:52,512 --> 00:27:54,011 Buying up huge blocks of stock. 621 00:27:54,095 --> 00:27:55,935 Oh. That's because he knows Franklin's with me, 622 00:27:56,011 --> 00:27:58,220 and he's trying to pressure him to drop out of Yonkers. 623 00:27:58,303 --> 00:27:59,762 But this time, he's on my turf... 624 00:27:59,845 --> 00:28:01,821 And if he tries to wreck the buffet at the Harrow Club, 625 00:28:01,845 --> 00:28:03,428 I'll toss him on his ass. 626 00:28:03,512 --> 00:28:05,095 Like Victor Maitland did to Axel Foley? 627 00:28:05,178 --> 00:28:06,470 Yeah. 628 00:28:06,553 --> 00:28:08,136 Though upon thinking about it, 629 00:28:08,220 --> 00:28:10,095 things didn't work out too great for Maitland. 630 00:28:10,178 --> 00:28:12,762 No. But it must have felt good in the moment. 631 00:28:12,845 --> 00:28:15,804 Yeah. But we can't give in to feeling good in the moment. 632 00:28:15,887 --> 00:28:17,303 We have to win. 633 00:28:17,387 --> 00:28:19,512 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 634 00:28:20,970 --> 00:28:22,512 [woman] Right in here. 635 00:28:24,470 --> 00:28:27,804 Mr. Sacker, I've admired your work from a distance. 636 00:28:27,887 --> 00:28:29,512 I'm glad to finally meet you up close. 637 00:28:29,595 --> 00:28:31,762 Is it that same admiration that's driving you 638 00:28:31,845 --> 00:28:33,428 to try to partner up with me? 639 00:28:33,512 --> 00:28:36,011 Because I've gotta admit it feels like a shotgun marriage. 640 00:28:36,095 --> 00:28:38,637 It's true. I've bought up enough shares of your company 641 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,261 to take three board seats. 642 00:28:40,345 --> 00:28:42,637 With that I'll have the power to oust you. 643 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,387 Unless I withdraw from Axe's Opportunity Fund. 644 00:28:45,470 --> 00:28:46,679 Your words, not mine. 645 00:28:46,762 --> 00:28:48,845 But any company I sit the board on 646 00:28:48,929 --> 00:28:51,679 needs to have a CEO with unquestionable ethics. 647 00:28:53,804 --> 00:28:57,220 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 648 00:28:57,303 --> 00:28:59,595 Tough talk, Mike. 649 00:28:59,679 --> 00:29:03,261 Ah, the old ambuscade. 650 00:29:03,345 --> 00:29:06,345 I was wondering how you were staying so frosty, sir. 651 00:29:06,428 --> 00:29:08,845 You can buy up all the shares you want, 652 00:29:08,929 --> 00:29:11,345 and you can threaten this fine, upstanding man. 653 00:29:11,428 --> 00:29:13,679 But you won't outflank him, or me. 654 00:29:13,762 --> 00:29:15,571 [Axe] 'Cause I'll buy three times more than you 655 00:29:15,595 --> 00:29:17,279 and I'll stack the boardroom to block you... 656 00:29:17,303 --> 00:29:19,804 Oh, and I'll be sure to tell everyone, especially the press, 657 00:29:19,887 --> 00:29:22,637 how the great Michael Thomas Aquinas Prince 658 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,387 is trying to run an African American man 659 00:29:24,470 --> 00:29:25,762 out of his own C-suite. 660 00:29:25,845 --> 00:29:27,363 You would try to make this about race... 661 00:29:27,387 --> 00:29:28,845 No, you did... 662 00:29:28,929 --> 00:29:31,720 I'm pursuing the O.Z. in Yonkers for the right reason... 663 00:29:31,804 --> 00:29:33,887 - And I'm not? - I don't know what you're doing, 664 00:29:33,970 --> 00:29:35,762 but I'll tell you right now, Axelrod: 665 00:29:35,845 --> 00:29:37,595 I hate it when people fuck with my money. 666 00:29:37,679 --> 00:29:41,595 Whoa, listen to the filthy mouth on Saint Mike! 667 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:48,970 [door slams] 668 00:29:49,053 --> 00:29:50,553 Good to know he rattles. 669 00:29:50,637 --> 00:29:52,804 You must have that effect on many. 670 00:29:54,303 --> 00:29:55,804 [horn honks] 671 00:29:55,887 --> 00:29:57,970 [indistinct conversations] 672 00:30:12,512 --> 00:30:13,512 [car door closes] 673 00:30:13,595 --> 00:30:15,845 [siren wailing] 674 00:30:16,929 --> 00:30:20,512 Keep a close eye on it, this neighborhood. 675 00:30:29,762 --> 00:30:31,261 Housewarming gift. 676 00:30:32,261 --> 00:30:33,804 Nothing makes a place feel like home 677 00:30:33,887 --> 00:30:35,762 as much as the smell of warm bread baking. 678 00:30:35,845 --> 00:30:38,387 What is that, a thousand-dollar bread maker? 679 00:30:38,470 --> 00:30:41,220 That'll do wonders for my street cred. 680 00:30:41,303 --> 00:30:42,970 Which is why this thing should find itself 681 00:30:43,053 --> 00:30:45,428 ensconced in an Upper East Side classic seven. 682 00:30:45,512 --> 00:30:47,345 Hmm. 683 00:30:47,428 --> 00:30:49,762 I'm not running for Congress there. 684 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,845 [Franklin] I get the grassroots thing, Kate, 685 00:30:52,929 --> 00:30:55,470 but why not move back and run on the UES? 686 00:30:55,553 --> 00:30:57,887 Steamroll the process with money. 687 00:30:57,970 --> 00:31:01,845 I can make real change here. Which will get noticed. 688 00:31:01,929 --> 00:31:04,178 Hard for a congressperson to break out otherwise. 689 00:31:04,261 --> 00:31:06,470 And in terms of steamrolling with money... hell yeah. 690 00:31:06,553 --> 00:31:08,595 We will do that... here. 691 00:31:08,679 --> 00:31:10,553 How else do we combat the notion 692 00:31:10,637 --> 00:31:12,804 that I'm not really connected to the community? 693 00:31:12,887 --> 00:31:14,804 That's what my opponents will be selling. 694 00:31:14,887 --> 00:31:18,553 So tell your friends to get their checkbooks ready. 695 00:31:18,637 --> 00:31:20,261 That won't be a problem. 696 00:31:20,345 --> 00:31:24,303 And, uh... I hope this won't either. 697 00:31:24,387 --> 00:31:29,178 Ah, the reason for the visit... 698 00:31:29,261 --> 00:31:33,345 I'm working with Bobby Axelrod on the Yonkers Opportunity Zone. 699 00:31:33,428 --> 00:31:35,345 Jesus, Dad. 700 00:31:40,011 --> 00:31:41,512 Axe is using you as a pawn... 701 00:31:41,595 --> 00:31:43,845 Thinks you're insulated from the law because of me, 702 00:31:43,929 --> 00:31:45,679 and that the diversity crowd will like you 703 00:31:45,762 --> 00:31:47,053 because you are one of them. 704 00:31:47,136 --> 00:31:48,404 [Franklin] Let's assume that's true. 705 00:31:48,428 --> 00:31:49,929 So what? 706 00:31:50,011 --> 00:31:51,987 In business, everyone puts his own interests first. 707 00:31:52,011 --> 00:31:55,011 Recognizing that is a key to success. 708 00:31:55,095 --> 00:31:57,011 But want to or not, Axe is gonna have to do good 709 00:31:57,095 --> 00:31:58,720 for an underprivileged neighborhood. 710 00:31:58,804 --> 00:32:00,112 And I'll be there to make sure of it. 711 00:32:00,136 --> 00:32:01,595 Mm. You're not the only person 712 00:32:01,679 --> 00:32:03,571 who's walked into a kissing booth with Bobby Axelrod 713 00:32:03,595 --> 00:32:05,029 certain they wouldn't come out pregnant. 714 00:32:05,053 --> 00:32:06,887 Stop channeling your boss. 715 00:32:06,970 --> 00:32:08,470 Axe has already come through for me. 716 00:32:08,553 --> 00:32:11,011 He just backed me in a proxy fight against Mike Prince. 717 00:32:11,095 --> 00:32:12,720 Because he needed you. 718 00:32:12,804 --> 00:32:15,553 That'll all go away when he doesn't anymore. 719 00:32:15,637 --> 00:32:17,970 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 720 00:32:19,303 --> 00:32:20,970 [door closes] 721 00:32:27,887 --> 00:32:29,470 [sighs heavily] 722 00:32:30,804 --> 00:32:32,053 Drink, Sacker? 723 00:32:32,136 --> 00:32:34,220 No. I'm good. I, uh... I need to talk... 724 00:32:34,303 --> 00:32:35,595 Uh-huh. 725 00:32:37,470 --> 00:32:38,845 Go ahead. 726 00:32:38,929 --> 00:32:40,720 I've forgotten secrets you wouldn't believe. 727 00:32:40,804 --> 00:32:42,428 Yeah. It's fine. Proceed. 728 00:32:42,512 --> 00:32:45,136 I don't suppose anybody wants to step in and help? 729 00:32:46,470 --> 00:32:48,220 - I'm good... - I don't know how. 730 00:32:48,303 --> 00:32:51,428 Well, you just... how can you not know how? 731 00:32:51,512 --> 00:32:54,428 I act like I can't do anything and I hire people who can. 732 00:32:54,512 --> 00:32:57,595 Well, I'm trying to teach the kids to do for themselves. 733 00:32:57,679 --> 00:32:59,970 Never mind. Ms. Sacker. 734 00:33:00,053 --> 00:33:01,762 My father has teamed up with Axelrod. 735 00:33:01,845 --> 00:33:04,428 - Yonkers? - [Sacker] Yep. 736 00:33:04,512 --> 00:33:07,929 I felt a duty to inform, but I don't want you going after him. 737 00:33:08,011 --> 00:33:09,970 Well, you can try to persuade him to step aside, 738 00:33:10,053 --> 00:33:12,637 but if he won't... He will be a fair target. 739 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:13,929 [Chuck] These are the waters. 740 00:33:14,011 --> 00:33:15,428 Kings start making mistakes. 741 00:33:15,512 --> 00:33:16,929 Sometimes they fall, 742 00:33:17,011 --> 00:33:19,762 and the crown gets stolen or passed down. 743 00:33:19,845 --> 00:33:21,512 Verily... 744 00:33:21,595 --> 00:33:24,845 Oh, and I learned something else from my dad: 745 00:33:24,929 --> 00:33:28,095 Axe and Mike Prince are like two dogs fighting over the same bone 746 00:33:28,178 --> 00:33:30,303 when it comes to him and the Opportunity Zone... 747 00:33:32,053 --> 00:33:33,813 Make sure to match the lefts with the rights. 748 00:33:35,053 --> 00:33:36,845 There are lefts and rights? 749 00:33:36,929 --> 00:33:39,053 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 750 00:33:40,887 --> 00:33:43,970 You know, Axelrod hasn't gone after me at all in this. 751 00:33:44,053 --> 00:33:45,613 - [door opens, closes] - He's given me a free pass. 752 00:33:45,637 --> 00:33:46,637 Which means... 753 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,303 Mike Prince is Axe's real enemy. 754 00:33:50,387 --> 00:33:51,679 [sighs] 755 00:33:53,804 --> 00:33:55,220 I know how to work this. 756 00:33:59,387 --> 00:34:01,387 [cellphone vibrating] 757 00:34:03,220 --> 00:34:04,720 [cellphone chimes] 758 00:34:04,804 --> 00:34:08,762 Hey. Ok. So your rap might not be total bullshit. 759 00:34:08,845 --> 00:34:11,095 Look. 760 00:34:11,178 --> 00:34:13,095 [Wendy] A-ha! 761 00:34:13,178 --> 00:34:15,303 There we go. 762 00:34:15,387 --> 00:34:17,011 Yeah. 763 00:34:17,095 --> 00:34:19,804 Well. You'll be the first to see it when it's done. 764 00:34:19,887 --> 00:34:21,762 I better be. 765 00:34:21,845 --> 00:34:23,679 [bells chiming] 766 00:34:23,762 --> 00:34:24,929 [birds chirping] 767 00:34:25,011 --> 00:34:27,178 [indistinct conversations] 768 00:34:30,178 --> 00:34:31,595 [engine shuts off] 769 00:34:41,762 --> 00:34:43,095 Welcome home, sir. 770 00:34:44,136 --> 00:34:45,428 And who are you? 771 00:34:45,512 --> 00:34:48,011 BJ and Sean are friends from Fellowship. 772 00:34:48,095 --> 00:34:49,279 We're psyched to show you the way. 773 00:34:49,303 --> 00:34:51,345 [BJ] You're gonna love our music, too. 774 00:34:51,428 --> 00:34:53,387 Come on. This way. 775 00:34:54,261 --> 00:34:55,470 Georgie-Boy. 776 00:34:55,553 --> 00:34:57,178 You wanted to find that closeness? 777 00:34:57,261 --> 00:34:58,720 This is it. 778 00:35:00,136 --> 00:35:01,470 Wait until you feel this. 779 00:35:01,553 --> 00:35:04,220 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 780 00:35:11,637 --> 00:35:13,261 [knock on door] 781 00:35:13,345 --> 00:35:15,303 - [door opens] - [sighs] 782 00:35:16,970 --> 00:35:18,387 [chuckles] 783 00:35:19,762 --> 00:35:21,845 You said I didn't need to bring a lawyer. 784 00:35:21,929 --> 00:35:25,220 Didn't even go through my lawyer, so what do we got? 785 00:35:25,303 --> 00:35:27,720 You're in a battle with Bobby Axelrod. 786 00:35:27,804 --> 00:35:31,011 Help me to help you beat him. 787 00:35:31,095 --> 00:35:32,804 How would I do that? 788 00:35:32,887 --> 00:35:37,178 If you announced a donation to the city of Yonkers, 789 00:35:37,261 --> 00:35:40,929 to be given after the decision, regardless of how it turns out, 790 00:35:41,011 --> 00:35:45,261 Axe will move to bribe them or do something else illegal 791 00:35:45,345 --> 00:35:47,929 along those lines in order to win. 792 00:35:48,011 --> 00:35:52,595 And I will be there waiting. 793 00:35:52,679 --> 00:35:55,011 I give you your opportunity zone, you give me mine. 794 00:35:55,095 --> 00:35:56,804 [chuckles] Well put. 795 00:35:56,887 --> 00:36:00,553 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 796 00:36:00,637 --> 00:36:03,261 I don't know you. 797 00:36:03,345 --> 00:36:05,679 Or where the hell this is coming from. 798 00:36:05,762 --> 00:36:07,845 But I'll tell you straight up: 799 00:36:07,929 --> 00:36:11,345 I've steered clear of that line for a long while now; 800 00:36:11,428 --> 00:36:12,428 it's served me well. 801 00:36:12,512 --> 00:36:13,804 Mm. 802 00:36:18,679 --> 00:36:20,345 Just think about it. 803 00:36:29,887 --> 00:36:31,720 [Axe Cappers] Eight! 804 00:36:31,804 --> 00:36:33,345 Nine! 805 00:36:33,428 --> 00:36:34,804 Ten! 806 00:36:34,887 --> 00:36:36,345 Eleven! 807 00:36:36,428 --> 00:36:38,720 - [Dollar Bill] Stick in 15. - [Axe Cappers] Twelve! 808 00:36:38,804 --> 00:36:40,929 He was "Camp Champ" five years in a row. 809 00:36:41,011 --> 00:36:42,428 He's lobbying for Stay-Puft. 810 00:36:42,512 --> 00:36:44,220 But no matter how many marshmallows, 811 00:36:44,303 --> 00:36:46,136 he'll always be Pillsbury. 812 00:36:46,220 --> 00:36:48,887 You again?! Don't you have a fucking desk? 813 00:36:48,970 --> 00:36:51,220 [indistinct conversations] 814 00:36:53,929 --> 00:36:55,887 [laughter] 815 00:37:08,470 --> 00:37:11,845 I have been thinking a lot about... a lot of things. 816 00:37:11,929 --> 00:37:13,696 And I have noticed that you seem to be happier 817 00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:14,863 out on the main trading floor. 818 00:37:14,887 --> 00:37:16,679 Happier? No way! 819 00:37:16,762 --> 00:37:18,470 Maybe you'd be more effective, then. 820 00:37:18,553 --> 00:37:20,845 Sitting out there. Being in the flow, picking up intel. 821 00:37:20,929 --> 00:37:23,095 It could benefit all of us. 822 00:37:25,929 --> 00:37:27,136 I see what you're saying. 823 00:37:27,220 --> 00:37:28,553 Yeah, that could work. 824 00:37:28,637 --> 00:37:29,905 I'd be willing to give it a try. 825 00:37:29,929 --> 00:37:31,196 I mean, if that's what you want. 826 00:37:31,220 --> 00:37:33,845 Yes, I'd like you to start sitting out there. 827 00:37:33,929 --> 00:37:35,679 You got it. Thank you. 828 00:37:35,762 --> 00:37:38,804 Hey, Mafee, why'd you pick me in the first place, 829 00:37:38,887 --> 00:37:41,178 out of all the intern applications? 830 00:37:41,261 --> 00:37:43,345 You were the only one who didn't seem boring. 831 00:37:43,428 --> 00:37:45,679 Who didn't seem to care about the same bullshit 832 00:37:45,762 --> 00:37:47,553 that every kid from Wharton or HBS did. 833 00:37:47,637 --> 00:37:49,196 You seemed like someone I could learn from, 834 00:37:49,220 --> 00:37:51,053 even as I was teaching. 835 00:37:51,136 --> 00:37:54,095 There was no doubt you were the winner back then. 836 00:37:54,178 --> 00:37:55,303 Thank you. 837 00:38:03,387 --> 00:38:05,929 [door closes] 838 00:38:06,011 --> 00:38:09,887 I lost a CEO yesterday and maybe also Mafee, too. 839 00:38:09,970 --> 00:38:12,345 Something's blocking my... efficiency. 840 00:38:12,428 --> 00:38:15,637 I'll say it: I need to learn how to win again. 841 00:38:18,095 --> 00:38:21,512 The Taylor Mason I first met never started a sentence with I. 842 00:38:21,595 --> 00:38:23,220 And never talked about personal wins. 843 00:38:23,303 --> 00:38:25,595 And that Taylor Mason won all the time. 844 00:38:25,679 --> 00:38:26,929 You're right. 845 00:38:27,011 --> 00:38:28,136 Focus on process, 846 00:38:28,220 --> 00:38:29,595 it's where your genius shows up. 847 00:38:29,679 --> 00:38:32,512 The rest will flow. 848 00:38:32,595 --> 00:38:33,929 Give me specifics. 849 00:38:34,011 --> 00:38:35,303 Met with the fossil fuel CEO. 850 00:38:35,387 --> 00:38:37,804 And it went... it didn't go well. 851 00:38:37,887 --> 00:38:40,095 I don't know if it was generational, or factional, 852 00:38:40,178 --> 00:38:42,303 but... The guy only wanted to talk to Axe. 853 00:38:42,387 --> 00:38:44,887 Then you talk to Axe. Ask for his guidance. 854 00:38:44,970 --> 00:38:47,470 The younger version of me would not have hesitated. 855 00:38:47,553 --> 00:38:48,637 Damn. 856 00:38:53,345 --> 00:38:55,929 Taylor needs another shot with the CEO. 857 00:38:56,011 --> 00:38:57,929 And some coaching. 858 00:38:58,011 --> 00:38:59,363 What happened at the first meeting? 859 00:38:59,387 --> 00:39:01,053 It didn't go as planned. 860 00:39:01,136 --> 00:39:03,029 In the name of full disclosure, I Gerry'd the meeting. 861 00:39:03,053 --> 00:39:04,929 Completely. 862 00:39:05,011 --> 00:39:07,512 Okay. 863 00:39:07,595 --> 00:39:09,804 I'll get him to give you a second meeting. 864 00:39:09,887 --> 00:39:12,637 And what you do is... 865 00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:17,220 You know what, what you do is you bring Wendy along with you. 866 00:39:17,303 --> 00:39:19,303 'Cause she's the best I've seen at bridging the gap 867 00:39:19,345 --> 00:39:21,220 between differing points of view. 868 00:39:21,303 --> 00:39:23,345 So she gets you to the view she sees. 869 00:39:23,428 --> 00:39:26,053 But you won't even feel it happening. 870 00:39:26,136 --> 00:39:27,220 Go. 871 00:39:35,887 --> 00:39:37,762 You go for a midday swim? 872 00:39:37,845 --> 00:39:41,136 Yeah, in the river Jordan. 873 00:39:41,220 --> 00:39:45,762 I've lost another... one to the pole and one to Jesus. 874 00:39:45,845 --> 00:39:47,303 Which feels worse? 875 00:39:47,387 --> 00:39:49,470 Feels about the same... 876 00:39:49,553 --> 00:39:51,929 I've fucked it all up. 877 00:39:52,011 --> 00:39:54,261 I don't know how to talk to any of 'em. 878 00:39:54,345 --> 00:39:56,237 I ceded the responsibility of raising them to their mothers, 879 00:39:56,261 --> 00:39:57,845 while I was working. 880 00:39:57,929 --> 00:40:00,387 It was what I thought I was supposed to do... to support them. 881 00:40:00,470 --> 00:40:03,178 But this is where we ended up. 882 00:40:03,261 --> 00:40:06,679 I'm a complete fucking washout. 883 00:40:06,762 --> 00:40:08,679 [sighs] 884 00:40:08,762 --> 00:40:11,470 I'm gonna get you a drink, but I'm not gonna drink with you. 885 00:40:11,553 --> 00:40:13,053 I'm out to Yonkers. 886 00:40:15,261 --> 00:40:16,679 What'll you have? 887 00:40:16,762 --> 00:40:19,011 Another. 888 00:40:19,095 --> 00:40:21,845 I'll have another. 889 00:40:21,929 --> 00:40:24,178 Another... I can do it. 890 00:40:24,261 --> 00:40:26,220 It's not too late. 891 00:40:26,303 --> 00:40:30,178 I am not young, but she will be. 892 00:40:30,261 --> 00:40:31,929 Hallelujah, I'm gonna go again. 893 00:40:32,011 --> 00:40:33,428 A do-over. 894 00:40:33,512 --> 00:40:36,637 And finally get it fucking right. 895 00:40:39,595 --> 00:40:41,720 [Senior] ...The people of this community 896 00:40:41,804 --> 00:40:44,553 have been getting the short end of the stick for generations. 897 00:40:44,637 --> 00:40:46,303 And quite frankly, they're not very good 898 00:40:46,387 --> 00:40:47,929 at using what stick they get 899 00:40:48,011 --> 00:40:51,345 either as a lever or kindling or whatever else. 900 00:40:51,428 --> 00:40:52,679 Which is sad. 901 00:40:52,762 --> 00:40:55,303 [Senior] But let's stay on point. 902 00:40:55,387 --> 00:40:58,387 Entrust me with heading up 903 00:40:58,470 --> 00:41:00,887 this Opportunity Zone 904 00:41:00,970 --> 00:41:04,178 and I will use it as a lantern 905 00:41:04,261 --> 00:41:07,512 to lead these lost people 906 00:41:07,595 --> 00:41:12,053 out of the mess they've made and into profitability. 907 00:41:12,136 --> 00:41:13,512 Thank you. 908 00:41:15,220 --> 00:41:17,303 Thank you, Mr. Rhoades. 909 00:41:17,387 --> 00:41:19,512 [Bledsoe] Mr. Prince, you have the floor. 910 00:41:23,512 --> 00:41:25,303 Your father just presented. 911 00:41:25,387 --> 00:41:26,595 And? 912 00:41:28,929 --> 00:41:30,428 Oh boy... 913 00:41:30,512 --> 00:41:32,488 Mother taught me: If you don't have anything nice to say... 914 00:41:32,512 --> 00:41:35,178 That bad, huh? Got it. Who's next? 915 00:41:35,261 --> 00:41:36,428 Prince, then Axe. 916 00:41:36,512 --> 00:41:37,762 [sighs] 917 00:41:37,845 --> 00:41:39,261 [Prince] ...Profit comes, sure. 918 00:41:39,345 --> 00:41:41,595 But there's other ways to make money. 919 00:41:41,679 --> 00:41:45,720 I could invest in tobacco and plastics. 920 00:41:45,804 --> 00:41:48,261 But I prefer to invest in people. 921 00:41:48,345 --> 00:41:50,011 In neighborhoods like this one. 922 00:41:50,095 --> 00:41:52,095 As I have done with my partners... 923 00:41:52,178 --> 00:41:54,595 [Prince] In Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta. 924 00:41:54,679 --> 00:41:57,637 We don't just build the housing and the businesses. 925 00:41:57,720 --> 00:41:59,970 We don't just build the fields and the courts. 926 00:42:00,053 --> 00:42:02,637 We establish the leagues and the programs 927 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:05,303 that keep the kids off the streets and playing. 928 00:42:05,387 --> 00:42:07,053 Give the man a civilian medal. 929 00:42:07,136 --> 00:42:09,387 Mm. And I could use an insulin pump. Stat. 930 00:42:09,470 --> 00:42:10,720 Or a barf bag. 931 00:42:15,804 --> 00:42:18,470 Our results and successes speak for themselves. 932 00:42:18,553 --> 00:42:20,637 And before I wrap up, it's incumbent upon me 933 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:24,512 to sound a cautionary note about certain of my colleagues here. 934 00:42:24,595 --> 00:42:27,261 To make sure this project is executed as intended. 935 00:42:27,345 --> 00:42:28,970 I have brought a special guest... 936 00:42:35,303 --> 00:42:36,595 [door closes] 937 00:42:37,679 --> 00:42:39,804 Meet Marc Capparello. 938 00:42:39,887 --> 00:42:42,553 [Prince] He's a former town councilman from Sandicot. 939 00:42:42,637 --> 00:42:45,553 Where Robert Axelrod made similar financial inroads 940 00:42:45,637 --> 00:42:46,762 into the community. 941 00:42:46,845 --> 00:42:48,220 How did that work out, Marc? 942 00:42:48,303 --> 00:42:50,553 Honestly? Not too well. 943 00:42:50,637 --> 00:42:53,178 [Marc] There was a lot of rosy talk about the future 944 00:42:53,261 --> 00:42:54,887 and promises were made. 945 00:42:54,970 --> 00:42:57,387 Only for our town's financing to be ripped away 946 00:42:57,470 --> 00:42:59,512 like one of those wax jobs in a beauty salon. 947 00:42:59,595 --> 00:43:02,345 [Marc] Hmm? It really stung. 948 00:43:02,428 --> 00:43:04,512 And our town will be recovering... 949 00:43:04,595 --> 00:43:07,011 Trying to grow its hair back, if you will... 950 00:43:07,095 --> 00:43:09,512 For generations to come. 951 00:43:09,595 --> 00:43:12,679 I'm sorry. 952 00:43:12,762 --> 00:43:14,053 Thank you. 953 00:43:14,136 --> 00:43:15,762 [spectators murmuring] 954 00:43:17,387 --> 00:43:20,095 Told you, Axelrod: I hate it when people mess with my money. 955 00:43:20,178 --> 00:43:22,720 [Bledsoe] Mr. Axelrod, you have the floor. 956 00:43:25,595 --> 00:43:29,887 Let me tell you what went wrong in Sandicot. 957 00:43:29,970 --> 00:43:33,929 It's true I made a big investment there... 958 00:43:34,011 --> 00:43:39,011 and we all had high hopes for the future... until this man... 959 00:43:39,095 --> 00:43:41,428 No, no! You're a sore goddamned loser... 960 00:43:41,512 --> 00:43:43,553 Decided to pull his casino, 961 00:43:43,637 --> 00:43:45,637 for no reason other than his own greed, 962 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,345 and moved it to land he held elsewhere. 963 00:43:48,428 --> 00:43:51,845 He left us all holding the bag. 964 00:43:51,929 --> 00:43:54,553 Now, efforts are still being made. 965 00:43:54,637 --> 00:43:57,303 But that callous style of development 966 00:43:57,387 --> 00:43:59,178 is one of the real drivers for me here... 967 00:43:59,261 --> 00:44:02,637 Because this is different. 968 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:03,720 This is home... 969 00:44:03,762 --> 00:44:06,053 What a steaming pile of bullshit. 970 00:44:06,136 --> 00:44:07,261 Sir! 971 00:44:07,345 --> 00:44:09,679 [spectators murmuring] 972 00:44:09,762 --> 00:44:11,470 [door opens] 973 00:44:11,553 --> 00:44:13,011 [door closes] 974 00:44:13,095 --> 00:44:14,929 - Did you get that? - Yeah. 975 00:44:15,011 --> 00:44:16,595 Can I move? 976 00:44:16,679 --> 00:44:18,053 Excuse me? 977 00:44:18,136 --> 00:44:19,470 Is there a rule that says 978 00:44:19,553 --> 00:44:20,821 we have to do this here in the boardroom? 979 00:44:20,845 --> 00:44:23,095 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 980 00:44:32,261 --> 00:44:35,637 You know why I can see Yonkers' future? 981 00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:38,720 'Cause I can see its past. 982 00:44:38,804 --> 00:44:42,220 Right down there, that's where Ricky's Clam House was. 983 00:44:42,303 --> 00:44:43,887 You know, you couldn't walk by 984 00:44:43,970 --> 00:44:46,345 without that smell pulling you inside. 985 00:44:46,428 --> 00:44:49,845 Even when I could only afford like, what, three baked clams, 986 00:44:49,929 --> 00:44:52,929 always found my way there. 987 00:44:53,011 --> 00:44:55,220 Two doors down was Dicey Reilly's. 988 00:44:55,303 --> 00:44:57,261 - Dicey Reilly's. - [woman] Yeah! 989 00:44:57,345 --> 00:44:58,745 I used to take my best friend Ike... 990 00:44:58,804 --> 00:45:00,053 Damn right he did! 991 00:45:00,136 --> 00:45:01,970 Went there when we were 14 years old. 992 00:45:02,053 --> 00:45:05,053 You know, we had fake IDs, but they never asked for 'em. 993 00:45:05,136 --> 00:45:07,136 [Axe] I learned plenty in there. 994 00:45:07,220 --> 00:45:09,011 Like if an old guy offers you odds 995 00:45:09,095 --> 00:45:11,136 if you take the Giants and the points, 996 00:45:11,220 --> 00:45:13,762 don't take the damned Giants and the points. 997 00:45:13,845 --> 00:45:16,762 [laughter] 998 00:45:16,845 --> 00:45:19,637 Used to take dates down there to the Park Hill theater. 999 00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:22,303 Yeah, right. Our pal Freddie used to work there as an usher, 1000 00:45:22,387 --> 00:45:24,845 would always open up the back door and let us sneak in. 1001 00:45:24,929 --> 00:45:26,363 Yeah. And then of course, afterwards, 1002 00:45:26,387 --> 00:45:27,529 we'd head over to see Bruno... 1003 00:45:27,553 --> 00:45:29,136 - Yeah. - ..down at Capparello's. 1004 00:45:29,220 --> 00:45:30,780 And even though Bruno's down in Florida, 1005 00:45:30,804 --> 00:45:33,387 living his dream, the store still stands... 1006 00:45:33,470 --> 00:45:34,720 - Mm-hmm. - And will 1007 00:45:34,804 --> 00:45:36,220 as long as I'm alive. 1008 00:45:36,303 --> 00:45:37,345 That's right. 1009 00:45:40,011 --> 00:45:41,929 Look, I'll tell ya, I... 1010 00:45:44,762 --> 00:45:49,011 I'm not an overly emotional guy, 1011 00:45:49,095 --> 00:45:52,679 but I could do this for every single store in the town, 1012 00:45:52,762 --> 00:45:55,345 and all the houses too, probably. 1013 00:45:55,428 --> 00:45:56,845 [Axe] Just as this man could... 1014 00:45:56,929 --> 00:45:58,095 [Axe] Come here. 1015 00:46:00,679 --> 00:46:02,762 Savion Williams. 1016 00:46:03,970 --> 00:46:07,303 This is very moving, but this board has one concern: 1017 00:46:07,387 --> 00:46:08,762 that you're a leaver. 1018 00:46:08,845 --> 00:46:10,029 [Bledsoe] That you won't stay the course. 1019 00:46:10,053 --> 00:46:12,804 No. No. Like Savion, I was born here. 1020 00:46:12,887 --> 00:46:14,970 This was my childhood. 1021 00:46:15,053 --> 00:46:18,303 You know the house he lives in now was my house. 1022 00:46:18,387 --> 00:46:21,345 But this whole town is my home. 1023 00:46:21,428 --> 00:46:25,261 And, yes, sure, I left for a while, 1024 00:46:25,345 --> 00:46:27,095 but I'm back. 1025 00:46:27,178 --> 00:46:30,387 And the thought of anyone else helping to rebuild this place. 1026 00:46:30,470 --> 00:46:33,220 Well, it just feels wrong. 1027 00:46:33,303 --> 00:46:34,512 They wouldn't understand. 1028 00:46:34,595 --> 00:46:36,470 [Axe] Though rebuild it we must, 1029 00:46:36,553 --> 00:46:40,929 not for nostalgia, but for the future. 1030 00:46:41,011 --> 00:46:43,553 For Savion's future. 1031 00:46:43,637 --> 00:46:46,095 [Bledsoe] Wow. Thanks, Bobby. 1032 00:46:46,178 --> 00:46:47,929 [Bledsoe] That brought me back. [chuckles] 1033 00:46:48,011 --> 00:46:49,595 We'll give you our decision shortly. 1034 00:46:49,679 --> 00:46:51,595 - Okay. - But thanks for that. 1035 00:46:51,679 --> 00:46:53,404 Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate your time. 1036 00:46:53,428 --> 00:46:55,428 [Axe] Thanks very much. Come on, buddy. 1037 00:47:00,095 --> 00:47:01,845 [knock on door, door opens] 1038 00:47:03,553 --> 00:47:04,762 [chuckles] 1039 00:47:04,845 --> 00:47:07,053 Heard how it all went up there, 1040 00:47:07,136 --> 00:47:09,595 that you got a taste of the old Bobby Axelrod boogie. 1041 00:47:09,679 --> 00:47:11,512 - I've seen worse. - [Chuck] Ah. 1042 00:47:11,595 --> 00:47:13,011 I've seen all kinds. 1043 00:47:13,095 --> 00:47:14,970 Yeah. I'll bet. 1044 00:47:15,053 --> 00:47:16,762 But you're gonna lose the O.Z. 1045 00:47:16,845 --> 00:47:18,387 unless you play a little ball now. 1046 00:47:18,470 --> 00:47:20,095 I came here to tell you: 1047 00:47:20,178 --> 00:47:23,804 I've already felt too much pull to my old ways. 1048 00:47:23,887 --> 00:47:26,345 [Prince] I've fought to not be that person. 1049 00:47:26,428 --> 00:47:28,303 Escaping it once was hard enough. 1050 00:47:28,387 --> 00:47:29,595 I can't give in to it now. 1051 00:47:29,679 --> 00:47:34,136 Yeah, Axe took out his lute 1052 00:47:34,220 --> 00:47:37,679 and played 'em a hypnotic old folk ballad. 1053 00:47:37,762 --> 00:47:39,136 [Prince] He probably won it. 1054 00:47:39,220 --> 00:47:41,011 - Mm. - [Prince] Sucks. It does. 1055 00:47:41,095 --> 00:47:44,762 But heck, I'm still rich enough for twenty lifetimes. 1056 00:47:44,845 --> 00:47:48,804 That's not how you became who you are, by giving up. 1057 00:47:48,887 --> 00:47:50,929 The problem is the feeling you get... 1058 00:47:51,011 --> 00:47:54,136 And I know you get it, too... when you engage in a fight like this, 1059 00:47:54,220 --> 00:47:56,261 in the way that you're proposing. 1060 00:47:56,345 --> 00:47:57,637 It feels good. 1061 00:47:57,720 --> 00:47:59,679 Nope. That's a lie. 1062 00:47:59,762 --> 00:48:02,095 It feels truly great. [chuckles] 1063 00:48:02,178 --> 00:48:05,553 The endorphins. The adrenaline. 1064 00:48:05,637 --> 00:48:12,178 It all pushes you further, deeper, darker. 1065 00:48:12,261 --> 00:48:13,553 Mm. 1066 00:48:16,762 --> 00:48:20,053 I had a game, senior year, 1067 00:48:20,136 --> 00:48:22,762 I put up sixty points. 1068 00:48:22,845 --> 00:48:25,136 The cheering with each bucket. 1069 00:48:25,220 --> 00:48:28,053 Knowing none of the guys could stop me. 1070 00:48:28,136 --> 00:48:29,512 Woof! 1071 00:48:29,595 --> 00:48:30,845 [laughs] 1072 00:48:30,929 --> 00:48:32,679 Felt like a giant afterwards. 1073 00:48:32,762 --> 00:48:34,637 Couldn't sleep for two days. 1074 00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:39,053 And when I came down, I saw how I had alienated myself 1075 00:48:39,136 --> 00:48:40,845 from my teammates and my family. 1076 00:48:40,929 --> 00:48:43,679 [Prince] I had forgotten they existed. 1077 00:48:43,762 --> 00:48:47,637 [Prince] And just went and got mine. 1078 00:48:47,720 --> 00:48:49,136 I've done the same in business. 1079 00:48:49,220 --> 00:48:51,720 Until I shut it down for good. 1080 00:48:53,887 --> 00:48:57,887 I will not let Axe turn me back into... 1081 00:48:57,970 --> 00:49:01,804 [sighs] well, in his words, a monster. 1082 00:49:03,887 --> 00:49:07,637 But did you win that game when you scored the sixty? 1083 00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:09,470 Yah. Bet you did. 1084 00:49:09,553 --> 00:49:11,512 So do it again. Win this game. 1085 00:49:11,595 --> 00:49:13,387 Then feel bad. 1086 00:49:13,470 --> 00:49:15,261 Otherwise Bobby Axelrod wins. 1087 00:49:15,345 --> 00:49:16,720 And you did nothing about it. 1088 00:49:16,804 --> 00:49:18,136 You lose. 1089 00:49:18,220 --> 00:49:20,762 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 1090 00:49:24,512 --> 00:49:26,053 [clears throat] 1091 00:49:26,970 --> 00:49:28,804 Is Axelrod in the pisser? 1092 00:49:30,220 --> 00:49:32,428 [Lambert] Oh, crap. Just you two. 1093 00:49:32,512 --> 00:49:35,387 Shoulda known, but Axe said he wanted to talk. 1094 00:49:35,470 --> 00:49:37,220 He wanted you to talk. To us. 1095 00:49:37,303 --> 00:49:38,595 This is Wendy Rhoades. 1096 00:49:38,679 --> 00:49:40,039 [Lambert] Ah. I've been shanghaied. 1097 00:49:40,095 --> 00:49:41,762 Yeah, you got suckered into a meeting. 1098 00:49:41,845 --> 00:49:42,965 [Wendy] Soak in the feeling, 1099 00:49:43,011 --> 00:49:44,845 because it'll be a hundred times worse 1100 00:49:44,929 --> 00:49:46,863 when you get suckered out of your position at this company. 1101 00:49:46,887 --> 00:49:49,470 Or you can get smart, right fucking now. 1102 00:49:49,553 --> 00:49:51,095 Pow, huh? 1103 00:49:51,178 --> 00:49:53,428 Your rep is you build people up, not knock 'em down. 1104 00:49:53,512 --> 00:49:55,178 Oh, when we're on the same team, 1105 00:49:55,261 --> 00:49:58,428 I'll have you hotter than the barrel of a just-emptied M60. 1106 00:49:58,512 --> 00:50:02,136 Next week, you will announce the new Argyra Petroleum, 1107 00:50:02,220 --> 00:50:04,595 striving to become the first ESG-friendly company 1108 00:50:04,679 --> 00:50:06,261 in the Fortune 500. 1109 00:50:06,345 --> 00:50:09,095 We are trying to stop you from the same fate the whalers had. 1110 00:50:09,178 --> 00:50:11,303 Back in the mid-1800s, whaling was like Facebook. 1111 00:50:11,387 --> 00:50:14,095 Blubber was the oil that lighted the Western world. 1112 00:50:14,178 --> 00:50:16,220 But by the second half of that century, 1113 00:50:16,303 --> 00:50:17,679 whale oil was replaced by kerosene. 1114 00:50:17,762 --> 00:50:19,387 Whaling became MySpace. 1115 00:50:19,470 --> 00:50:21,970 And then kerosene collapsed with the invention of electricity. 1116 00:50:22,053 --> 00:50:24,303 So you can look like a loser from 1830, 1117 00:50:24,387 --> 00:50:27,261 or you can look like a hero of the 2020s and beyond. 1118 00:50:27,345 --> 00:50:29,011 [Wendy] To the environmentalists, sure. 1119 00:50:29,095 --> 00:50:30,446 [Wendy] But even more to the industry and the Street. 1120 00:50:30,470 --> 00:50:35,178 Because you will be making so much money. 1121 00:50:35,261 --> 00:50:37,542 - I like how that sounds. - [Wendy] You are a trailblazer. 1122 00:50:37,595 --> 00:50:39,261 And you are the perfect person to do it. 1123 00:50:39,345 --> 00:50:40,845 They all already admire you. 1124 00:50:40,929 --> 00:50:42,970 They all already think you're a maverick. 1125 00:50:43,053 --> 00:50:46,178 You will set the new industry standard. 1126 00:50:46,261 --> 00:50:48,461 But we're still just dealing with the icing on the cake, 1127 00:50:48,512 --> 00:50:49,804 not the cake itself. 1128 00:50:49,887 --> 00:50:51,970 The cake is that you will get first look 1129 00:50:52,053 --> 00:50:53,720 at every one of these impact deals. 1130 00:50:53,804 --> 00:50:54,720 You will set the terms. 1131 00:50:54,804 --> 00:50:57,178 And you will make more money 1132 00:50:57,261 --> 00:51:00,512 than all of your competitors combined. 1133 00:51:00,595 --> 00:51:01,720 [chuckles] 1134 00:51:01,804 --> 00:51:04,011 You're gonna greenwash me. 1135 00:51:04,095 --> 00:51:05,679 Clean as a newborn baby. 1136 00:51:05,762 --> 00:51:07,553 It's a greed play that looks selfless. 1137 00:51:07,637 --> 00:51:09,595 It's the holy grail, 1138 00:51:09,679 --> 00:51:14,178 and you are Sir Motherfucking Galahad. 1139 00:51:14,261 --> 00:51:16,178 Damn right I am. 1140 00:51:16,261 --> 00:51:17,929 [laughs] 1141 00:51:19,762 --> 00:51:22,512 Let's really get into the text. 1142 00:51:22,595 --> 00:51:24,553 "Masks. 1143 00:51:24,637 --> 00:51:26,178 [Cat] Binds. 1144 00:51:26,261 --> 00:51:27,679 [Cat] Ropes. 1145 00:51:27,762 --> 00:51:28,970 Fire." 1146 00:51:29,053 --> 00:51:30,845 And this was all on live television! 1147 00:51:30,929 --> 00:51:32,679 Raise your hand if you saw it live. 1148 00:51:32,762 --> 00:51:34,929 [students murmuring] 1149 00:51:35,011 --> 00:51:38,553 [Cat] You know what? Stop taking notes. 1150 00:51:38,637 --> 00:51:40,595 Talk to me. 1151 00:51:40,679 --> 00:51:44,053 Why do you think he gave this insane speech? 1152 00:51:44,136 --> 00:51:46,136 What do you think he was trying to do? 1153 00:51:49,804 --> 00:51:50,887 Oh come on! 1154 00:51:50,970 --> 00:51:52,470 This part won't be on the midterm. 1155 00:51:52,553 --> 00:51:54,233 I know you're all full of lots of opinions, 1156 00:51:54,303 --> 00:51:56,223 you're just waiting for someone to break the ice. 1157 00:51:56,303 --> 00:51:59,595 I see it as the ultimate act of humiliation. 1158 00:51:59,679 --> 00:52:01,196 Sounds like you're getting Freudian on me. 1159 00:52:01,220 --> 00:52:03,178 - Elaborate. - Yeah, exactly... 1160 00:52:03,261 --> 00:52:05,762 It's classic masochism death drive stuff. 1161 00:52:05,845 --> 00:52:08,205 [Narit] Rhoades was ready to sacrifice his political career, 1162 00:52:08,261 --> 00:52:09,720 but only on his own terms. 1163 00:52:09,804 --> 00:52:12,720 But he did it to win an election. 1164 00:52:12,804 --> 00:52:15,053 He's a cis white man running for office. 1165 00:52:15,136 --> 00:52:16,321 [Kara] He's in a privileged position 1166 00:52:16,345 --> 00:52:17,887 to control his own narrative. 1167 00:52:17,970 --> 00:52:19,387 [chuckles] I'm honestly surprised 1168 00:52:19,470 --> 00:52:22,512 it took one of you so long to mention privilege. 1169 00:52:22,595 --> 00:52:24,553 This might be a new record. 1170 00:52:24,637 --> 00:52:26,261 But I agree with you. 1171 00:52:26,345 --> 00:52:28,637 Is the speech subversive at all? 1172 00:52:28,720 --> 00:52:30,261 Not really, no. 1173 00:52:30,345 --> 00:52:32,929 [Cat] So maybe that's exactly what masochism is. 1174 00:52:33,011 --> 00:52:35,136 It's the pursuit of autonomy in 1175 00:52:35,220 --> 00:52:37,679 and the control over pain and suffering. 1176 00:52:37,762 --> 00:52:42,512 Rhoades played subservient in order to win dominance. 1177 00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:47,804 But why don't we ask Rhoades himself? 1178 00:52:47,887 --> 00:52:50,679 Chuck, get on up here. 1179 00:52:50,762 --> 00:52:52,178 Thank you, Cat. 1180 00:52:53,845 --> 00:52:55,470 Now, don't be shy! 1181 00:52:55,553 --> 00:52:58,679 You ask AG Rhoades all your questions and don't go easy. 1182 00:52:58,762 --> 00:53:00,011 [chuckles] Okay. 1183 00:53:00,095 --> 00:53:02,762 As a self-identified submissive, 1184 00:53:02,845 --> 00:53:05,261 did you receive any gratification... 1185 00:53:05,345 --> 00:53:09,303 what I mean is... did you get off on giving this speech? 1186 00:53:09,387 --> 00:53:11,970 Uh... 1187 00:53:12,053 --> 00:53:16,303 The release I felt was more emotional than carnal. 1188 00:53:16,387 --> 00:53:18,553 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 1189 00:53:22,762 --> 00:53:24,595 I feel like Carmelo coming back to New York. 1190 00:53:24,679 --> 00:53:26,053 Wait, bad example. 1191 00:53:26,136 --> 00:53:27,387 Marbury. Fuck. 1192 00:53:27,470 --> 00:53:29,345 No Knicks. I mean I... 1193 00:53:29,428 --> 00:53:32,637 Once you go through the wars with someone, 1194 00:53:32,720 --> 00:53:33,863 they are always your brother. 1195 00:53:33,887 --> 00:53:38,095 Even if they are... Doughboy forever. 1196 00:53:38,178 --> 00:53:39,637 [laughter] 1197 00:53:39,720 --> 00:53:41,470 No grown man should be that happy 1198 00:53:41,553 --> 00:53:43,136 at getting to sit next to his friends... 1199 00:53:43,220 --> 00:53:49,845 Still, it was nice of you, more than nice. 1200 00:53:49,929 --> 00:53:52,804 Must've cost you a lot. 1201 00:53:52,887 --> 00:53:54,845 We should do it... What we did today. 1202 00:53:54,929 --> 00:53:56,845 [laughs] 1203 00:53:56,929 --> 00:53:58,345 We nailed it for sure. 1204 00:53:58,428 --> 00:53:59,762 We should do it again. 1205 00:53:59,845 --> 00:54:01,553 Turn Mase Cap into an impact fund. 1206 00:54:01,637 --> 00:54:03,845 Together. Within Axe Cap. But ours. 1207 00:54:03,929 --> 00:54:05,261 There's so much money out there. 1208 00:54:05,345 --> 00:54:06,905 And so much possibility to make a change. 1209 00:54:06,929 --> 00:54:08,071 We could become even bigger than... 1210 00:54:08,095 --> 00:54:11,220 I know... Bigger than US Steel. 1211 00:54:11,303 --> 00:54:13,345 I was going to say Axe Cap. 1212 00:54:13,428 --> 00:54:14,804 When we are together, just us, 1213 00:54:14,887 --> 00:54:17,053 we can drop the Godfather routine, can't we? 1214 00:54:17,136 --> 00:54:18,887 Yes. 1215 00:54:18,970 --> 00:54:20,887 So what do you think? Partners? 1216 00:54:24,178 --> 00:54:26,095 You almost never take this much of a beat 1217 00:54:26,178 --> 00:54:27,261 before saying something. 1218 00:54:27,345 --> 00:54:29,136 I usually know what I think, 1219 00:54:29,220 --> 00:54:30,321 and don't have to do a gut check. 1220 00:54:30,345 --> 00:54:33,095 This time, I... I wanted the gut check. 1221 00:54:33,178 --> 00:54:36,220 Because you like it. I do. Yes. 1222 00:54:36,303 --> 00:54:38,679 Once we show a positive track record, 1223 00:54:38,762 --> 00:54:40,679 all the assholes will want to invest. 1224 00:54:40,762 --> 00:54:42,845 It's true. You're an asshole whisperer. 1225 00:54:42,929 --> 00:54:44,679 Maybe the asshole whisperer. 1226 00:54:44,762 --> 00:54:46,929 And I mean that in the best possible way. 1227 00:54:47,011 --> 00:54:48,887 I receive it as such. 1228 00:54:48,970 --> 00:54:51,595 ♪ Mid-tempo music ♪ 1229 00:55:01,303 --> 00:55:03,887 Can't believe Axelrod won that thing. 1230 00:55:03,970 --> 00:55:07,345 I gotta get me one of these Opportunity Zones. 1231 00:55:08,220 --> 00:55:11,303 Ah, another emissary from Yonkers. 1232 00:55:11,387 --> 00:55:14,136 And one with glad tidings. 1233 00:55:14,220 --> 00:55:17,470 My father called me. To gloat. 1234 00:55:17,553 --> 00:55:20,720 And to tell me that his alliance with Axe isn't over, 1235 00:55:20,804 --> 00:55:23,261 it's only just beginning. 1236 00:55:23,345 --> 00:55:26,053 I appreciate your bringing this to me. 1237 00:55:26,136 --> 00:55:29,220 I know the inner turmoil that the decision must have caused. 1238 00:55:29,303 --> 00:55:32,261 I can tell you that yes, these are the waters. 1239 00:55:32,345 --> 00:55:34,261 And I'm channeling them into a moat 1240 00:55:34,345 --> 00:55:36,929 and protecting the crown or something like that, Chuck. 1241 00:55:37,011 --> 00:55:38,178 [sighs] 1242 00:55:38,261 --> 00:55:40,553 I tried to warn him. 1243 00:55:40,637 --> 00:55:44,970 But my father is used to doling out advice, and not taking it. 1244 00:55:45,053 --> 00:55:47,303 My conscience is clear. 1245 00:55:47,387 --> 00:55:51,470 Well I, for one, am grateful for your counsel. 1246 00:55:51,553 --> 00:55:55,720 So tell me, what other venture are they embarking upon? 1247 00:55:55,804 --> 00:55:57,637 They're going into banking. 1248 00:55:57,720 --> 00:55:59,679 ♪ Dramatic music ♪ 1249 00:56:01,720 --> 00:56:03,220 Then so are we. 1250 00:56:09,053 --> 00:56:12,470 [laughter, indistinct conversations] 1251 00:56:12,553 --> 00:56:13,679 [car door closes] 1252 00:56:25,053 --> 00:56:26,261 [engine shuts off] 1253 00:56:26,345 --> 00:56:27,845 [beep] 1254 00:56:27,929 --> 00:56:29,804 [dog barking] 1255 00:56:32,970 --> 00:56:34,011 [car door closes] 1256 00:56:37,804 --> 00:56:38,887 [car door closes] 1257 00:56:40,428 --> 00:56:42,428 [cellphone vibrates] 1258 00:56:46,261 --> 00:56:48,553 [Prince] Axe. 1259 00:56:48,637 --> 00:56:50,553 I wanted you to hear it from me. 1260 00:56:50,637 --> 00:56:53,011 I'm fine with you winning in Yonkers. 1261 00:56:53,095 --> 00:56:55,637 I am laying down my sword. 1262 00:56:55,720 --> 00:56:57,929 - Really? - [Prince] Yes. 1263 00:56:58,011 --> 00:57:00,220 I'll still have it nearby, of course, 1264 00:57:00,303 --> 00:57:02,970 and my shield, to ward off any possible attack, 1265 00:57:03,053 --> 00:57:05,011 but I sincerely hope it won't be necessary. 1266 00:57:05,095 --> 00:57:06,637 [Prince] You'll do your thing. 1267 00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:08,220 I'll still be Mike Prince. 1268 00:57:08,303 --> 00:57:10,011 And all will return to normal. 1269 00:57:10,095 --> 00:57:11,553 Fine. Good. 1270 00:57:11,637 --> 00:57:15,136 Though easy for you to say now that you've lost. 1271 00:57:16,303 --> 00:57:19,387 I was wrong to think that I could beat you in Yonkers. 1272 00:57:19,470 --> 00:57:21,553 I'm just a poser there. It's not about me. 1273 00:57:21,637 --> 00:57:24,095 [Prince] But you? Hell, man, Yonkers is you. 1274 00:57:24,178 --> 00:57:27,553 [Prince] You are Yonkers. You've never really left. 1275 00:57:27,637 --> 00:57:29,804 [Prince] It's in your manner. Your bearing. 1276 00:57:29,887 --> 00:57:32,261 You stink of the place. 1277 00:57:32,345 --> 00:57:34,470 And now you're back in it. 1278 00:57:34,553 --> 00:57:36,970 [Prince] So, as I said, congratulations. 1279 00:57:37,053 --> 00:57:40,553 Yeah. Ok. 1280 00:57:40,637 --> 00:57:43,720 ♪ Motley Crue's "Home Sweet Home" ♪ 1281 00:57:43,804 --> 00:57:45,512 ♪ You know I'm a dreamer ♪ 1282 00:57:45,595 --> 00:57:47,220 Ready to head in, boss? 1283 00:57:47,303 --> 00:57:50,595 ♪ But my heart's of gold ♪ 1284 00:57:50,679 --> 00:57:53,428 ♪ I had to run away high ♪ 1285 00:57:53,512 --> 00:57:55,112 I should. ♪ So I wouldn't come home low ♪ 1286 00:57:55,178 --> 00:57:57,095 It's... the right thing. 1287 00:57:57,178 --> 00:57:59,595 [Chef Ryan] Let's do it. ♪ Just when things went right ♪ 1288 00:57:59,679 --> 00:58:01,319 ♪ It doesn't mean they were always wrong ♪ 1289 00:58:01,387 --> 00:58:03,553 Yeah. 1290 00:58:03,637 --> 00:58:05,095 I don't think I can. 1291 00:58:05,178 --> 00:58:06,345 ♪ And you'll never feel ♪ 1292 00:58:06,428 --> 00:58:07,261 Whatever you want to do, Axe. 1293 00:58:07,345 --> 00:58:09,053 ♪ Left all alone ♪ 1294 00:58:09,136 --> 00:58:12,929 Go inside. Feed them. 1295 00:58:13,011 --> 00:58:15,553 I've gotta get the fuck out of this dipshit town. 1296 00:58:15,637 --> 00:58:17,595 ♪ Just one more night ♪ [engine revs] 1297 00:58:17,679 --> 00:58:22,679 ♪ And I'm comin' off this long and winding road ♪ 1298 00:58:25,345 --> 00:58:31,011 ♪ I'm on my way ♪ 1299 00:58:31,095 --> 00:58:35,220 ♪ Home sweet home ♪ 1300 00:58:35,303 --> 00:58:38,011 ♪ Tonight, tonight ♪ 1301 00:58:38,095 --> 00:58:43,595 ♪ I'm on my way ♪ 1302 00:58:43,679 --> 00:58:48,470 ♪ Home sweet home ♪ 1303 00:58:50,053 --> 00:58:53,303 ♪ You know that I've seen ♪ 1304 00:58:53,387 --> 00:58:57,136 ♪ Too many romantic dreams ♪ 1305 00:58:57,220 --> 00:58:58,595 ♪ Up in lights ♪ 1306 00:58:58,679 --> 00:59:02,512 ♪ Fallin' off the silver screen ♪ 1307 00:59:02,595 --> 00:59:05,762 ♪ My heart's like an open book ♪ 1308 00:59:05,845 --> 00:59:09,053 ♪ For the whole world to read ♪ 1309 00:59:09,136 --> 00:59:11,512 ♪ Sometimes nothing ♪ 1310 00:59:11,595 --> 00:59:15,178 ♪ Keeps me together at the seams ♪ 1311 00:59:15,261 --> 00:59:21,220 ♪ I'm on my way ♪ 1312 00:59:21,303 --> 00:59:22,428 ♪ Home sweet... ♪ 1313 00:59:24,679 --> 00:59:26,095 ♪ Ho set. ♪