1 00:00:05,046 --> 00:00:06,840 Previously on Billions. 2 00:00:06,881 --> 00:00:08,967 Are you here to tell me that you found me a donor? 3 00:00:09,009 --> 00:00:11,177 [Wendy] He's gonna die unless he gets a kidney. 4 00:00:11,219 --> 00:00:12,530 -So I thought I... You should've come to me. 5 00:00:12,554 --> 00:00:14,180 [Taylor] If you work with me, 6 00:00:14,222 --> 00:00:15,491 I need your blood because that is what I give. 7 00:00:15,515 --> 00:00:17,517 You want to own me. 8 00:00:17,559 --> 00:00:19,185 And that's not cool. 9 00:00:19,227 --> 00:00:21,688 [Axe] The mythical incorruptible artist, 10 00:00:21,730 --> 00:00:23,523 impervious to temptation. 11 00:00:23,565 --> 00:00:26,526 [Wendy] When we met, you acted like money is like chains. 12 00:00:26,568 --> 00:00:29,029 It's just that now that I have a little bit of it... 13 00:00:29,070 --> 00:00:30,697 it's startin' to feel like freedom. 14 00:00:30,739 --> 00:00:33,074 My favorite artist isn't getting paid enough. 15 00:00:33,116 --> 00:00:34,159 What do you got in mind? 16 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,201 The freezer section. 17 00:00:35,243 --> 00:00:36,703 Michael Prince is ready 18 00:00:36,745 --> 00:00:38,413 to be confirmed Ambassador Extraordinary 19 00:00:38,455 --> 00:00:40,331 and Plenipotentiary to Denmark. 20 00:00:40,373 --> 00:00:42,417 You're in a battle with Bobby Axelrod. 21 00:00:42,459 --> 00:00:44,377 Help me to help you beat him. 22 00:00:44,419 --> 00:00:46,397 You can look as long and hard as you want at my life, 23 00:00:46,421 --> 00:00:47,672 past or present. 24 00:00:47,714 --> 00:00:49,257 He's got a secret. 25 00:00:49,299 --> 00:00:50,884 Fucking find it. 26 00:00:50,925 --> 00:00:52,886 It's been brutal, really, 27 00:00:52,927 --> 00:00:55,805 to watch the world celebrate this man 28 00:00:55,847 --> 00:00:58,725 and know the truth about what he did to my son. 29 00:00:58,767 --> 00:01:00,244 Found some neighborhood folks that got fleeced 30 00:01:00,268 --> 00:01:01,394 by a payday lender. 31 00:01:01,436 --> 00:01:03,146 Company's called Plaintif-Full. 32 00:01:03,188 --> 00:01:04,582 [Chuck] I am in the mood to take someone down. 33 00:01:04,606 --> 00:01:05,899 [Victor] He went for the lure. 34 00:01:05,940 --> 00:01:06,816 And he got hooked. 35 00:01:06,858 --> 00:01:08,193 Fuck yeah! 36 00:01:08,234 --> 00:01:09,652 Why would Axe care about buying up 37 00:01:09,694 --> 00:01:11,404 a marginal shitbag operation? 38 00:01:11,446 --> 00:01:13,007 The way they got away with a bunch of their 39 00:01:13,031 --> 00:01:14,699 unethical lending is doing it in-house. 40 00:01:14,741 --> 00:01:15,992 They have a bank charter. 41 00:01:16,034 --> 00:01:18,286 We just delivered Axe his bank. 42 00:01:38,807 --> 00:01:40,058 This one? 43 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:41,601 Keep scrolling. 44 00:01:42,018 --> 00:01:43,603 We can do this a month from now. 45 00:01:43,645 --> 00:01:45,814 No, no. Time is stalking me down. 46 00:01:45,855 --> 00:01:47,440 - It's inexorable. - No, Dad. 47 00:01:47,482 --> 00:01:49,567 None of that. You're gonna outlast... 48 00:01:49,609 --> 00:01:52,487 Now listen, you keep your goddamn emotional lid on 49 00:01:52,529 --> 00:01:54,155 during the service. 50 00:01:55,323 --> 00:01:56,842 I'm everything to you, your whole world. 51 00:01:56,866 --> 00:01:58,284 I know this. 52 00:01:58,326 --> 00:02:00,286 And I gotta make this clear to you now, 53 00:02:00,328 --> 00:02:02,956 or you'll get the waterworks going 54 00:02:02,997 --> 00:02:04,457 like Iguazu Falls. 55 00:02:04,499 --> 00:02:06,918 No, sir. No, I will comport myself 56 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,213 as you have taught me... with dry eyes 57 00:02:10,255 --> 00:02:12,715 and an ass clenched tighter than. 58 00:02:12,757 --> 00:02:15,051 Steve Reeves on a busman's holiday. 59 00:02:15,093 --> 00:02:16,136 Oh! 60 00:02:16,177 --> 00:02:18,054 That's something. 61 00:02:18,096 --> 00:02:20,640 Are you burying me, or parading me through 62 00:02:20,682 --> 00:02:22,142 the streets with the Hibernians? 63 00:02:22,183 --> 00:02:24,477 You may be demonstrating a failure 64 00:02:24,519 --> 00:02:26,771 to show appreciation of what I'm goin' through here. 65 00:02:26,813 --> 00:02:28,106 I have lie in it. 66 00:02:28,148 --> 00:02:29,607 I think that's appreciation enough. 67 00:02:29,649 --> 00:02:31,317 Pesci? The Irishman? 68 00:02:31,359 --> 00:02:33,319 No? I was just looking for a moment 69 00:02:33,361 --> 00:02:34,487 of levity in the darkness. 70 00:02:34,529 --> 00:02:35,655 Now, I don't need that 71 00:02:35,697 --> 00:02:37,031 or Martin fucking Scorsese 72 00:02:37,073 --> 00:02:38,658 to explain the process of aging 73 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:40,285 and physical destruction to me. 74 00:02:40,326 --> 00:02:43,288 Especially not at four hours running time... 75 00:02:44,038 --> 00:02:45,456 when lack of time 76 00:02:45,498 --> 00:02:47,292 is the immediate problem I'm facing. 77 00:02:47,333 --> 00:02:49,002 You have got things in your life 78 00:02:49,043 --> 00:02:50,670 worth stayin' around for, Dad. 79 00:02:50,712 --> 00:02:53,131 Roxanne, the baby, my kids. 80 00:02:53,173 --> 00:02:54,507 Me. 81 00:02:54,549 --> 00:02:55,901 Let's quit the optimistic bullshit. 82 00:02:55,925 --> 00:02:59,387 I've got a couple of rock-hard peach pits 83 00:02:59,429 --> 00:03:00,972 for kidneys. 84 00:03:01,848 --> 00:03:03,266 We're buyin' a casket here. 85 00:03:03,308 --> 00:03:04,767 I am. 86 00:03:04,809 --> 00:03:06,186 As in I'm paying. 87 00:03:06,227 --> 00:03:08,146 Wouldn't give you the satisfaction. 88 00:03:08,188 --> 00:03:10,982 Well, my credit card's already on file at Frank E. Campbell. 89 00:03:11,024 --> 00:03:12,817 And I told them I'd be the one around 90 00:03:12,859 --> 00:03:15,361 to bother them if they fucked with me on this. 91 00:03:17,864 --> 00:03:19,866 I guess it is what it is, huh? 92 00:03:22,744 --> 00:03:24,078 Yeah. 93 00:03:30,835 --> 00:03:32,795 What you have in front of you... 94 00:03:32,837 --> 00:03:35,882 is a perfect expression of pizza. 95 00:03:48,561 --> 00:03:52,065 Ingredients locally sourced in Italy, flash frozen there. 96 00:03:52,106 --> 00:03:53,566 When it comes out of the oven, 97 00:03:53,608 --> 00:03:55,085 it's as good as anything at the restaurant. 98 00:03:55,109 --> 00:03:56,361 So you say. 99 00:03:56,402 --> 00:03:57,820 I'll be the judge, yeah? 100 00:04:14,295 --> 00:04:17,715 Holy shit. Kid, you did it. 101 00:04:17,757 --> 00:04:18,925 He did it. 102 00:04:18,967 --> 00:04:20,093 I just wrote the checks. 103 00:04:23,221 --> 00:04:25,074 You had me worried. We got a 100,000 of these things 104 00:04:25,098 --> 00:04:27,350 on a container ship headed for our shores. 105 00:04:27,892 --> 00:04:29,769 Congratulations. 106 00:04:29,811 --> 00:04:31,604 - Is Bobby taking care of you? - Yeah. 107 00:04:31,646 --> 00:04:33,791 Of course I am. We got private equity circling already. 108 00:04:33,815 --> 00:04:35,775 And once we choose who gets to take these 109 00:04:35,817 --> 00:04:37,235 fine gentlemen to the prom, 110 00:04:37,277 --> 00:04:38,736 Anthony will be liquid. 111 00:04:38,778 --> 00:04:39,779 Yes, he will. 112 00:04:39,821 --> 00:04:42,031 To Genio Della Pizza. 113 00:04:42,073 --> 00:04:44,075 The next global food brand. 114 00:04:44,117 --> 00:04:45,576 One week to launch. 115 00:04:45,618 --> 00:04:47,495 - Cent'anni. - Cent'anni. 116 00:05:02,927 --> 00:05:04,762 They'll never find anyone better, 117 00:05:04,804 --> 00:05:06,472 more committed. 118 00:05:07,223 --> 00:05:09,100 But you're not fighting back. 119 00:05:09,142 --> 00:05:10,018 I'm in the wrong. 120 00:05:10,059 --> 00:05:11,144 Who cares? 121 00:05:11,185 --> 00:05:12,645 It's time to rise up and... 122 00:05:14,981 --> 00:05:16,250 My hawk-like instincts are telling me 123 00:05:16,274 --> 00:05:17,692 to leave it there for now. 124 00:05:18,109 --> 00:05:19,152 Savvy read. 125 00:05:35,043 --> 00:05:36,461 It's Jay-Z. - Hmm. 126 00:05:36,502 --> 00:05:37,670 Distance yourself. 127 00:05:38,087 --> 00:05:40,590 You and I can do more good by letting The Mike fold 128 00:05:40,631 --> 00:05:42,967 and then raising something new from the ashes. 129 00:05:43,009 --> 00:05:44,927 We're good at that. 130 00:05:46,471 --> 00:05:47,930 Yeah, Shawn. You too. 131 00:05:48,222 --> 00:05:50,141 Get me to see Taleb. 132 00:05:50,183 --> 00:05:51,869 Gotta make sure this thing's a real black swan event. 133 00:05:51,893 --> 00:05:53,519 High priest. 134 00:05:53,561 --> 00:05:55,372 There's no profit at the end of this call sheet. 135 00:05:55,396 --> 00:05:56,856 No money to be made. 136 00:05:56,898 --> 00:05:58,483 My one job is to help you do your job. 137 00:05:58,524 --> 00:06:00,210 - And right now... - I have three cell numbers 138 00:06:00,234 --> 00:06:01,611 for this guy. 139 00:06:01,652 --> 00:06:03,237 Can I talk to you like you talk to me? 140 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:04,673 I'm gonna talk to you like you talk to me. 141 00:06:04,697 --> 00:06:06,074 This is to what? Refocus my lens? 142 00:06:06,115 --> 00:06:07,492 That it is. 143 00:06:07,533 --> 00:06:09,035 We got a bank charter 24 hours ago, 144 00:06:09,077 --> 00:06:10,512 and instead of setting up a boardroom 145 00:06:10,536 --> 00:06:11,680 and printing stationery, I'm searching 146 00:06:11,704 --> 00:06:13,164 "hashtag The Mike." 147 00:06:13,206 --> 00:06:14,558 You've been giving away majority ownership 148 00:06:14,582 --> 00:06:16,334 in this pizza company. 149 00:06:16,376 --> 00:06:18,395 What I'm really searching for is a pattern in the madness. 150 00:06:18,419 --> 00:06:20,296 But all I'm seein' is the madness. 151 00:06:20,338 --> 00:06:22,965 Hmm. The reason I can talk like that... 152 00:06:23,007 --> 00:06:24,550 Well, there are myriad reasons, 153 00:06:24,592 --> 00:06:26,219 none of which you'd understand. 154 00:06:26,260 --> 00:06:27,905 As you don't understand why my moves right now 155 00:06:27,929 --> 00:06:29,389 are the very acme of sanity. 156 00:06:29,430 --> 00:06:31,307 Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. 157 00:06:31,349 --> 00:06:32,517 Now do my bidding. 158 00:06:32,558 --> 00:06:34,310 And get me Taleb. Let's go. 159 00:06:43,361 --> 00:06:44,862 No, no, I... I understand. 160 00:06:44,904 --> 00:06:46,256 But I still think I'm the best choice 161 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:47,907 to lead "Shake the Quake." 162 00:06:50,451 --> 00:06:51,911 Of course. Uh... 163 00:06:52,412 --> 00:06:55,039 Well, let's find you a new public face. 164 00:06:55,081 --> 00:06:56,791 I'd be happy to make some calls. 165 00:06:57,375 --> 00:06:58,584 Goodbye. 166 00:07:04,674 --> 00:07:05,925 Where are we on The Mike? 167 00:07:06,426 --> 00:07:08,553 -Cancellations are piling up. 168 00:07:08,594 --> 00:07:10,471 Principals are willing to send their juniors, 169 00:07:10,513 --> 00:07:12,473 some VPs from the big firms. 170 00:07:12,515 --> 00:07:15,101 A second-tier even might as well not exist. 171 00:07:15,143 --> 00:07:16,227 Cancel it. 172 00:07:17,145 --> 00:07:18,688 It's your legacy. 173 00:07:18,729 --> 00:07:19,772 The Mike is bigger... 174 00:07:19,814 --> 00:07:23,234 Cancel... the darned... event. 175 00:07:31,993 --> 00:07:33,619 The Mike is toast. 176 00:07:34,454 --> 00:07:36,205 Charities are abandoning him. 177 00:07:37,331 --> 00:07:38,916 Let's ratchet up to personal life. 178 00:07:38,958 --> 00:07:40,835 I have to go with this one more time. 179 00:07:41,252 --> 00:07:43,254 I am here for whatever you need. 180 00:07:43,296 --> 00:07:46,424 And I'm always up for a bloody vanquishing. 181 00:07:46,466 --> 00:07:48,426 But Prince is done. He's bled out. 182 00:07:48,468 --> 00:07:50,636 And you're calling in favors for what? 183 00:07:50,678 --> 00:07:52,805 So you can fuck a dead guy's skull? 184 00:07:52,847 --> 00:07:54,891 Michael Douglas only talked about it in The Bible. 185 00:07:54,932 --> 00:07:56,476 He didn't do it. 186 00:07:56,517 --> 00:07:59,145 Besides, skullfuckery is not even fun to watch. 187 00:08:00,605 --> 00:08:02,148 Okay. That part is a lie. 188 00:08:03,274 --> 00:08:05,401 He's not dead till I say he's dead. 189 00:08:17,747 --> 00:08:19,332 Did you work all night? 190 00:08:19,707 --> 00:08:20,791 Yeah. 191 00:08:21,667 --> 00:08:23,085 I'm headed into the office. 192 00:08:23,127 --> 00:08:24,670 What do you think? 193 00:08:29,342 --> 00:08:30,301 It's intense. 194 00:08:30,343 --> 00:08:31,802 Yeah, but is it... 195 00:08:32,803 --> 00:08:35,139 You know... Finished? 196 00:08:36,641 --> 00:08:38,184 What do you think? 197 00:08:38,226 --> 00:08:39,685 They used to talk to me. 198 00:08:40,102 --> 00:08:42,188 Refuse the paint when I was done. 199 00:08:44,065 --> 00:08:45,107 And now? 200 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,236 There's a lot of other noise. 201 00:08:49,570 --> 00:08:50,947 I know. 202 00:08:52,406 --> 00:08:53,991 Penthouse walls 203 00:08:54,033 --> 00:08:56,202 "echo with the sound of salesmen." 204 00:08:56,244 --> 00:08:58,204 That guy was an artist, right? 205 00:08:58,246 --> 00:09:00,039 - Neil Peart. - Yeah. You are, too. 206 00:09:00,081 --> 00:09:02,875 You have to remind yourself why you're painting it. 207 00:09:04,043 --> 00:09:06,671 You know, there's a piece of land in Vermont 208 00:09:06,712 --> 00:09:08,256 that I could buy. 209 00:09:08,297 --> 00:09:10,716 Beautiful spread. It's got trees, and a lake. 210 00:09:10,758 --> 00:09:13,469 Vermont's nice, but you can't let that be your reason. 211 00:09:13,511 --> 00:09:15,221 Oh, there are worse ones. 212 00:09:15,263 --> 00:09:16,973 You know that collector Lisa? 213 00:09:17,014 --> 00:09:19,054 I mean, she buys one painting that's a down payment. 214 00:09:22,812 --> 00:09:23,854 Hello? 215 00:09:23,896 --> 00:09:25,523 Yeah, hold on one second. 216 00:09:25,565 --> 00:09:27,275 Uh, this is the, uh, 217 00:09:27,316 --> 00:09:28,835 collector that I had dinner with the other night. 218 00:09:28,859 --> 00:09:31,779 - I want to take this. - Okay. 219 00:09:34,907 --> 00:09:36,576 My man, you found me. 220 00:09:36,993 --> 00:09:39,245 Yeah, you got a long reach, player. 221 00:09:40,371 --> 00:09:41,914 I know it. 222 00:09:42,957 --> 00:09:44,917 Yeah. 223 00:09:47,962 --> 00:09:50,089 Mr. Moody, the power we wield 224 00:09:50,131 --> 00:09:51,841 as attorneys general 225 00:09:51,882 --> 00:09:55,219 is akin to a V-12 engine in an Italian sports car. 226 00:09:55,261 --> 00:09:57,388 You can drive the speed limit most of the time, 227 00:09:57,430 --> 00:10:00,933 but once in a while, you gotta take that power out and gun it. 228 00:10:01,350 --> 00:10:04,353 And who would you like me to run down on the Autobahn? 229 00:10:05,271 --> 00:10:07,356 Go to court and get an injunction 230 00:10:07,398 --> 00:10:10,860 blocking Bobby Axelrod's acquisition of Plaintif-Full 231 00:10:10,901 --> 00:10:13,112 and the bank charter inside. 232 00:10:13,154 --> 00:10:15,281 That individual is not fit to own a bank. 233 00:10:15,323 --> 00:10:16,782 It's a Delaware corporation. 234 00:10:16,824 --> 00:10:18,784 So, you're the man to talk to. 235 00:10:18,826 --> 00:10:21,454 The man with his hand on the switch of Ol' Sparky, 236 00:10:21,495 --> 00:10:23,623 who can send this deal to Valhalla. 237 00:10:23,664 --> 00:10:25,666 Well, do I have a race car 238 00:10:25,708 --> 00:10:27,627 or an electric chair at my disposal? 239 00:10:27,668 --> 00:10:28,919 Both. 240 00:10:28,961 --> 00:10:30,963 It would have been real good of you 241 00:10:31,005 --> 00:10:33,174 to ask 24 hours ago, 242 00:10:33,215 --> 00:10:35,801 before you took a wrecking ball to Plaintif-Full. 243 00:10:35,843 --> 00:10:37,887 All without a call to me, by the way. 244 00:10:39,013 --> 00:10:41,307 In too much of a hurry to hand-deliver Axe a bank, 245 00:10:41,349 --> 00:10:42,683 I guess. 246 00:10:44,060 --> 00:10:45,645 You started this thing. 247 00:10:45,686 --> 00:10:47,372 And you did it without seeing the consequences. 248 00:10:47,396 --> 00:10:48,981 Now you want me to fix it? 249 00:10:49,023 --> 00:10:51,317 I'm asking you to take down a larger threat. 250 00:10:51,359 --> 00:10:55,655 My mistake doesn't have to snowball into our mistake. 251 00:10:55,696 --> 00:10:57,990 There's no legal basis for this... 252 00:10:58,032 --> 00:10:59,659 No. It would be a favor. 253 00:10:59,700 --> 00:11:00,826 Which we tend to repay. 254 00:11:00,868 --> 00:11:02,286 No, not tend to. 255 00:11:02,328 --> 00:11:03,996 Always will, and always have. 256 00:11:04,038 --> 00:11:07,917 Favors are not asked lightly and will not be ignored. 257 00:11:07,958 --> 00:11:09,460 You think this is the state that. 258 00:11:09,502 --> 00:11:11,420 Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours built, 259 00:11:11,462 --> 00:11:14,298 with the cousin marrying and the wrestler murdering 260 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:17,176 and all that French aristocracy nonsense? 261 00:11:17,218 --> 00:11:19,970 The glass shards on top of the wall, 262 00:11:20,012 --> 00:11:21,472 keep the lesser family out? 263 00:11:21,514 --> 00:11:23,140 No. 264 00:11:23,182 --> 00:11:25,351 This is the state that was built on corporations 265 00:11:25,393 --> 00:11:27,228 getting what they need, 266 00:11:27,269 --> 00:11:30,314 which is freedom from the yoke of tax burden. 267 00:11:30,356 --> 00:11:32,525 I don't believe corporations are people. 268 00:11:33,776 --> 00:11:35,837 They're better than people, because they don't fuck up 269 00:11:35,861 --> 00:11:37,530 when they get so obsessed with one thing 270 00:11:37,571 --> 00:11:38,989 they can't see reality. 271 00:11:39,031 --> 00:11:41,200 So no, 272 00:11:41,242 --> 00:11:43,536 I'm not gonna participate in your agenda, 273 00:11:43,577 --> 00:11:45,996 while mine is part of a bigger economy. 274 00:11:50,084 --> 00:11:53,879 But do consider shopping for some 275 00:11:53,921 --> 00:11:57,174 tax-free, high-end electronics before you go. 276 00:12:01,721 --> 00:12:03,889 I was in my Tiara 4300, 277 00:12:03,931 --> 00:12:06,225 throttle open, shakin' on the chop so hard, 278 00:12:06,267 --> 00:12:08,394 my dick chafed. 279 00:12:08,436 --> 00:12:12,231 And suddenly I realized I was the menace. 280 00:12:12,273 --> 00:12:15,401 I wasn't in the world, I was hurting it. 281 00:12:15,443 --> 00:12:17,570 And that was my moment of clarity. 282 00:12:17,611 --> 00:12:20,156 I didn't want to be that guy. And I called you. 283 00:12:20,197 --> 00:12:21,866 I remember. 284 00:12:21,907 --> 00:12:23,367 Hmm. And you got me here. 285 00:12:24,702 --> 00:12:26,579 Made me the man I wanted to be. 286 00:12:26,620 --> 00:12:29,415 Made me money doin' it. And that's not nothin'. 287 00:12:30,791 --> 00:12:33,043 We shared values. 288 00:12:33,085 --> 00:12:34,712 We still share values. 289 00:12:34,754 --> 00:12:37,089 I don't know. 290 00:12:37,131 --> 00:12:38,883 I know what's in your head, 291 00:12:38,924 --> 00:12:41,093 and it's ancient history. 292 00:12:41,135 --> 00:12:44,096 What I did to David showed a lack of morality on my part, 293 00:12:44,138 --> 00:12:45,931 and I have to live with it. 294 00:12:45,973 --> 00:12:47,558 It's a heck of a heavy load. 295 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,268 Yeah. It's yours to carry. 296 00:12:49,310 --> 00:12:50,603 It is. 297 00:12:50,644 --> 00:12:52,605 But who do you want in your corner? 298 00:12:52,646 --> 00:12:55,941 Someone who's never put money before humanity? 299 00:12:55,983 --> 00:12:58,235 Or do you want someone who knows the cost 300 00:12:58,277 --> 00:13:01,781 of putting humanity aside, and how it'll break you? 301 00:13:01,822 --> 00:13:05,451 Without my past, how would I have known 302 00:13:05,493 --> 00:13:07,453 how to lead you from that gas guzzling, 303 00:13:07,495 --> 00:13:10,456 ear shattering, overcompensating Tiara 304 00:13:10,498 --> 00:13:14,335 to a sailboat and to the present moment? 305 00:13:20,007 --> 00:13:21,801 Perfect people don't exist. 306 00:13:22,802 --> 00:13:24,136 But flawed people... 307 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,974 who have taken a walk through their own wounded psyche, 308 00:13:29,016 --> 00:13:32,812 reforged themselves and come out stronger? 309 00:13:34,146 --> 00:13:36,398 We're the great hope for the species. 310 00:13:46,158 --> 00:13:48,244 I still think I have to pull my money. 311 00:13:49,703 --> 00:13:51,497 Fair enough. More than fair. 312 00:13:53,582 --> 00:13:55,209 Get up. Let me walk you out. 313 00:13:55,251 --> 00:13:56,710 Yeah. 314 00:13:56,752 --> 00:13:58,128 It's your money. 315 00:13:58,170 --> 00:13:59,505 You can take it right now, 316 00:13:59,547 --> 00:14:01,048 and you could walk out this door. 317 00:14:01,090 --> 00:14:02,716 Leave while I'm down. 318 00:14:02,758 --> 00:14:04,134 Tell yourself and everyone 319 00:14:04,176 --> 00:14:05,636 you did it because you're Matt Allen 320 00:14:05,678 --> 00:14:07,429 and you don't consort with my kind. 321 00:14:07,471 --> 00:14:09,181 Because you, Matt Allen, 322 00:14:09,223 --> 00:14:11,141 will not be associated with someone 323 00:14:11,183 --> 00:14:14,019 who could do something like this. 324 00:14:17,565 --> 00:14:19,441 But power is atomic. 325 00:14:20,401 --> 00:14:21,861 And eventually, this moment, 326 00:14:21,902 --> 00:14:23,946 this moment where one electron 327 00:14:23,988 --> 00:14:26,031 is slightly out of whack, will end, 328 00:14:26,073 --> 00:14:27,616 the world will right itself again. 329 00:14:27,658 --> 00:14:28,951 I'll be on top again. 330 00:14:28,993 --> 00:14:30,452 And the curious thing 331 00:14:30,494 --> 00:14:32,746 is that I will have forgotten your name. 332 00:14:34,707 --> 00:14:37,209 I don't believe in enemies. It's not that I don't have them, 333 00:14:37,251 --> 00:14:39,128 it's that when you become my enemy, 334 00:14:39,169 --> 00:14:41,547 my next move, my only move, 335 00:14:41,589 --> 00:14:43,674 is to continue to rise. 336 00:14:43,716 --> 00:14:45,676 While you will eddy. 337 00:14:45,718 --> 00:14:47,177 Sink. 338 00:14:47,219 --> 00:14:48,888 Not by my hand 339 00:14:48,929 --> 00:14:51,307 but by your lack of connection to me. 340 00:14:52,433 --> 00:14:53,893 So walk out with your money. 341 00:14:53,934 --> 00:14:55,436 It's yours. 342 00:14:56,228 --> 00:14:58,063 But you won't be done with me. 343 00:14:59,231 --> 00:15:03,360 "On every wall in place" 344 00:15:03,402 --> 00:15:06,071 my fearsome name will be heard. 345 00:15:06,697 --> 00:15:09,241 "I'm the atomic punk." 346 00:15:10,951 --> 00:15:12,745 I will remain so. 347 00:15:13,662 --> 00:15:18,083 And you, Matt, will simply evaporate. 348 00:15:23,881 --> 00:15:27,384 You know what? I... I think... Mike, sure, 349 00:15:27,426 --> 00:15:29,595 I'll stay. For now. 350 00:15:29,637 --> 00:15:32,932 Give it a quarter or two, see how this shakes out. 351 00:15:34,266 --> 00:15:35,517 Good call. 352 00:15:38,896 --> 00:15:40,689 I'm not doing that again. 353 00:15:42,149 --> 00:15:43,943 The save or the beat down? 354 00:15:43,984 --> 00:15:45,569 Because it was gorgeous. 355 00:15:45,611 --> 00:15:47,988 Big Cat Ernie Ladd level. 356 00:15:49,114 --> 00:15:50,574 How do you even know who that is? 357 00:15:50,616 --> 00:15:52,117 You don't watch wrestling. 358 00:15:52,159 --> 00:15:54,119 I'd have said like, Fafner clubbing Fasol 359 00:15:54,161 --> 00:15:56,747 to death in Das Rheingold, but I need you in the gutter, 360 00:15:56,789 --> 00:15:57,915 not the heavens. 361 00:15:57,957 --> 00:15:59,458 How do you even come up with it? 362 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:00,810 I just start talking and magic comes out. 363 00:16:00,834 --> 00:16:02,336 Same with what I just saw you do. 364 00:16:02,378 --> 00:16:04,755 That was a Michael Thomas Aquinas Prince 365 00:16:04,797 --> 00:16:06,256 who I can help. 366 00:16:06,298 --> 00:16:08,175 That was the M-Tap I've been waiting for. 367 00:16:08,217 --> 00:16:09,718 I feel dirty. 368 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,429 This shirt feels dirty. I want to change. 369 00:16:12,471 --> 00:16:14,056 This isn't who I am. 370 00:16:14,098 --> 00:16:15,099 What I built. 371 00:16:15,140 --> 00:16:16,517 You did build it. 372 00:16:16,558 --> 00:16:18,352 And now you have to defend it. 373 00:16:18,394 --> 00:16:20,312 That's who we have to be right now. 374 00:16:20,354 --> 00:16:22,231 You got hurt, we hurt back. 375 00:16:22,272 --> 00:16:23,941 You need to make Axe suffer. 376 00:16:23,983 --> 00:16:25,442 How? 377 00:16:25,484 --> 00:16:27,361 I figured out what the devil cares about. 378 00:16:27,403 --> 00:16:28,904 Pizza. 379 00:16:28,946 --> 00:16:30,823 First he overspent on a joint in Yonkers. 380 00:16:30,864 --> 00:16:33,158 But now he's invested in a new company 381 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:34,952 that's getting buzzy. 382 00:16:34,994 --> 00:16:37,830 But the deal is way too favorable for his partners. 383 00:16:39,707 --> 00:16:40,833 And? 384 00:16:40,874 --> 00:16:42,501 Axe giving favorable terms? 385 00:16:42,543 --> 00:16:44,211 That means it matters to him. 386 00:16:45,045 --> 00:16:47,673 So, now we take it away. 387 00:16:47,715 --> 00:16:48,841 Painfully. 388 00:16:49,633 --> 00:16:51,677 I see the appeal. I really do. 389 00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:55,264 But this isn't the path for me. 390 00:16:55,305 --> 00:16:58,017 So, you exorcise your demons however you want. 391 00:16:59,059 --> 00:17:00,686 I need to face mine. 392 00:17:11,613 --> 00:17:13,991 Okay, I gave you the entire trip back from Delaware 393 00:17:14,033 --> 00:17:16,076 and the car ride from Penn Station to get over it. 394 00:17:16,118 --> 00:17:18,829 What is the plan, 395 00:17:18,871 --> 00:17:20,497 or the next move in the plan, 396 00:17:20,539 --> 00:17:22,458 or the next step in the move of the plan? 397 00:17:22,499 --> 00:17:25,335 Well, there is no plan. 398 00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:27,880 Despite your enthusiasm, there's no move. 399 00:17:28,589 --> 00:17:30,174 No, Moody is right. 400 00:17:30,215 --> 00:17:32,301 I made this shit soup, and now I have to sip it. 401 00:17:32,342 --> 00:17:34,178 Fine. You want to act existential, 402 00:17:34,219 --> 00:17:35,804 does not mean that I have to. 403 00:17:35,846 --> 00:17:37,723 No act. No, this right here, 404 00:17:37,765 --> 00:17:40,059 is what my alienist would call Anhedonia. 405 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:42,227 The kind of paralysis that can only come 406 00:17:42,269 --> 00:17:44,480 when every move you make hurts. 407 00:17:45,022 --> 00:17:46,148 Wendy's gone. 408 00:17:46,190 --> 00:17:48,317 Her successor, also gone. 409 00:17:48,358 --> 00:17:50,069 Meanwhile, my enemies thrive. 410 00:17:50,110 --> 00:17:52,196 If we can pause with the Freudian analysis... 411 00:17:52,237 --> 00:17:54,490 Ribot came up with the concept. 412 00:17:55,199 --> 00:17:56,658 Freud got all the glory. 413 00:17:56,700 --> 00:17:58,178 So the least we can do is give ol' Theodule 414 00:17:58,202 --> 00:17:59,596 - his credit where it's due. - Okay, 415 00:17:59,620 --> 00:18:01,371 back from Europe to here in NYC. 416 00:18:01,413 --> 00:18:03,308 What if we pull the charter and get someone from the FDIC 417 00:18:03,332 --> 00:18:05,667 or OCC to review it for minor infractions? 418 00:18:05,709 --> 00:18:08,003 They're not gonna block this over a punctuation error. 419 00:18:08,045 --> 00:18:11,006 And Axe can resubmit a clean charter if they do. 420 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,342 - We could... - Stop. 421 00:18:13,383 --> 00:18:14,927 I can't. And neither should you. 422 00:18:14,968 --> 00:18:17,679 We could threaten the board of the bank 423 00:18:17,721 --> 00:18:19,932 with investigations into personal misdeeds. 424 00:18:19,973 --> 00:18:21,391 Send them running. 425 00:18:21,433 --> 00:18:22,893 And give Axe a chance to form a board 426 00:18:22,935 --> 00:18:24,645 even more amenable to his goals? 427 00:18:24,686 --> 00:18:25,562 No. 428 00:18:25,604 --> 00:18:27,439 Okay, so... 429 00:18:27,481 --> 00:18:30,275 let's figure out what Moody really wants. 430 00:18:30,317 --> 00:18:31,485 I'm done. 431 00:18:31,527 --> 00:18:33,862 You're done. Go home. 432 00:18:33,904 --> 00:18:36,073 Stock up on canned goods for the coming plague. 433 00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:37,533 It all fucking blows. 434 00:18:37,574 --> 00:18:39,493 This is about your father. All of this. 435 00:18:39,535 --> 00:18:41,411 The dulled eyes, the defeated attitude, 436 00:18:41,453 --> 00:18:43,205 the backstroking through French psychology. 437 00:18:43,247 --> 00:18:45,082 But the fight must go on, Chuck. 438 00:18:45,124 --> 00:18:46,792 You have to go on. 439 00:18:48,252 --> 00:18:49,795 It's what he'd expect. 440 00:18:50,629 --> 00:18:51,964 So you say. 441 00:18:52,005 --> 00:18:54,049 So they say. So it is said. 442 00:18:54,091 --> 00:18:55,717 And so it is written. 443 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:57,302 Doesn't mean it's true. 444 00:19:13,277 --> 00:19:15,696 -Thank you for seeing me. 445 00:19:15,737 --> 00:19:18,448 If you're here about the NDA, I know I broke it. 446 00:19:19,199 --> 00:19:20,534 I don't care. 447 00:19:21,118 --> 00:19:24,121 This isn't like before when I had no one on my side. 448 00:19:24,830 --> 00:19:26,999 I've got people helping me now. 449 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,543 So whatever threat or lawsuit 450 00:19:29,585 --> 00:19:32,087 or blackmail you think you might have over me, 451 00:19:32,129 --> 00:19:33,380 you can forget it. 452 00:19:33,422 --> 00:19:35,215 I don't go looking for fights. 453 00:19:36,133 --> 00:19:38,343 Can't say the same for Bobby Axelrod. 454 00:19:40,679 --> 00:19:42,306 He's bankrolling your legal defense. 455 00:19:42,347 --> 00:19:44,224 He's making sure that I don't go broke 456 00:19:44,266 --> 00:19:45,517 for telling the truth. 457 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:47,561 But you don't know the truth. 458 00:19:47,603 --> 00:19:49,354 Not the whole thing, at least. 459 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:51,815 You only know what happened after. 460 00:19:51,857 --> 00:19:54,526 And now so does everyone else. 461 00:19:56,570 --> 00:19:58,697 Do you want to know about that night? 462 00:19:59,698 --> 00:20:00,741 With David? 463 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,129 After I showed him the plane ticket 464 00:20:14,171 --> 00:20:17,299 and the cashier's check, we went out for pancakes. 465 00:20:17,341 --> 00:20:19,551 I... I don't know why pancakes, it's what he wanted. 466 00:20:19,593 --> 00:20:21,511 Uh, maybe it was to sober up. 467 00:20:21,553 --> 00:20:23,680 Or maybe it was all he could think of. 468 00:20:23,722 --> 00:20:25,265 Or maybe it was all he could eat 469 00:20:25,307 --> 00:20:27,351 because of all the drugs and the booze. 470 00:20:27,392 --> 00:20:31,188 We talked about the trip we were taking to Rio, 471 00:20:32,064 --> 00:20:34,066 the girls we would meet there, 472 00:20:35,317 --> 00:20:37,569 about the company we would start next. 473 00:20:37,611 --> 00:20:40,447 David wanted to replace modems and routers 474 00:20:40,489 --> 00:20:42,407 with something more secure. 475 00:20:42,449 --> 00:20:44,117 It was brilliant, his idea, 476 00:20:44,159 --> 00:20:47,120 but scattered, and I really wish I could remember it. 477 00:20:47,537 --> 00:20:50,082 Because I bet it would change the world. 478 00:20:50,332 --> 00:20:51,917 But I can't. 479 00:20:51,959 --> 00:20:53,752 Because that whole time eating pancakes, 480 00:20:53,794 --> 00:20:55,462 the only thing I could think of was 481 00:20:55,504 --> 00:20:58,048 how I had to get him on that plane. 482 00:21:01,009 --> 00:21:03,428 He was so happy in that moment... 483 00:21:04,721 --> 00:21:05,847 and funny. 484 00:21:06,390 --> 00:21:08,433 You know how he could get a joke going, 485 00:21:08,475 --> 00:21:11,770 and keep it going way longer than anybody else. 486 00:21:11,812 --> 00:21:14,022 Well, he was going and going. 487 00:21:14,064 --> 00:21:16,608 And all I had was the cold, 488 00:21:16,650 --> 00:21:20,445 hollow excitement of knowing that I was stealing from him. 489 00:21:22,322 --> 00:21:24,616 I told myself that it was because he wouldn't be able 490 00:21:24,658 --> 00:21:26,702 to handle the new situation 491 00:21:26,743 --> 00:21:28,870 or that he'd blow our deal. 492 00:21:29,997 --> 00:21:31,873 That it'd be too much for him. 493 00:21:33,166 --> 00:21:34,918 But deep down, I knew. 494 00:21:35,669 --> 00:21:37,421 I still know. 495 00:21:38,338 --> 00:21:40,549 I wanted it all for myself. 496 00:21:45,846 --> 00:21:47,681 You shouldn't have come. 497 00:21:47,723 --> 00:21:51,601 Please. I... I understand that I can't get your forgiveness. 498 00:21:51,643 --> 00:21:53,979 Because what I did was unforgivable. 499 00:21:54,021 --> 00:21:55,731 But if there's... 500 00:21:56,648 --> 00:21:58,817 anything that I can do for you, 501 00:22:00,193 --> 00:22:01,611 anything at all, 502 00:22:01,653 --> 00:22:04,156 that will heal this thing between us. 503 00:22:05,198 --> 00:22:07,993 Or maybe just make us both feel better. 504 00:22:08,035 --> 00:22:10,037 Because I'm tired of hurting. 505 00:22:11,121 --> 00:22:12,372 Aren't you? 506 00:22:13,957 --> 00:22:15,417 Yeah, I am. 507 00:22:16,668 --> 00:22:18,503 But the funny thing is, 508 00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:20,839 it's decades later, 509 00:22:20,881 --> 00:22:23,508 and sometimes I can't picture David's face 510 00:22:23,550 --> 00:22:25,385 without looking at a photograph. 511 00:22:26,386 --> 00:22:28,513 You know, it's been so long. 512 00:22:29,639 --> 00:22:31,767 But the same thing keeps happening. 513 00:22:32,476 --> 00:22:35,854 People want me to tell them how to make them feel better. 514 00:22:36,772 --> 00:22:38,732 You want me to do your work for you, 515 00:22:38,774 --> 00:22:40,317 but I'm not going to. 516 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,945 I've worked hard enough to get through this. 517 00:22:44,905 --> 00:22:47,199 So, if you're looking for absolution, 518 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,534 you're gonna have to find it on your own. 519 00:22:50,535 --> 00:22:53,955 I want a path back to goodness. 520 00:22:55,791 --> 00:22:58,293 A way to be a force for good again. 521 00:22:59,127 --> 00:23:01,213 Yeah, I know you do, Michael. 522 00:23:01,963 --> 00:23:03,590 You do? 523 00:23:03,632 --> 00:23:05,300 Yeah. 524 00:23:05,342 --> 00:23:08,595 But I can't be the subject of that, or the object, 525 00:23:08,637 --> 00:23:10,889 or the road map. 526 00:23:10,931 --> 00:23:15,394 I mean, I can point you in the right direction. 527 00:23:18,438 --> 00:23:21,024 Stop ruining good people 528 00:23:21,066 --> 00:23:23,944 because you think you're better than them. 529 00:23:25,112 --> 00:23:28,281 You're not better than anyone. 530 00:23:37,124 --> 00:23:38,834 You blanked me this afternoon. 531 00:23:39,251 --> 00:23:40,836 Oh, you really had me running 532 00:23:40,877 --> 00:23:42,157 for those Philadelphias, though. 533 00:23:43,338 --> 00:23:44,464 Almost took the second game. 534 00:23:44,506 --> 00:23:46,049 No, you're just being kind. 535 00:23:46,091 --> 00:23:49,010 But there is another kindness you can do me. 536 00:23:50,137 --> 00:23:51,388 What do you need? 537 00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:54,266 Write my father's eulogy for me. 538 00:23:54,307 --> 00:23:57,811 Last time I wrote you a speech, you basically tore it up on TV. 539 00:23:59,146 --> 00:24:00,439 I'll give it. 540 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:01,773 I believe I can do that much, 541 00:24:01,815 --> 00:24:03,775 get through the thing. But, uh... 542 00:24:04,734 --> 00:24:06,445 no, I can't bare the writing. 543 00:24:12,284 --> 00:24:13,910 These are my notes. 544 00:24:13,952 --> 00:24:16,663 Such as they are, the pertinent details. 545 00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:18,623 Whoa, Chuck. 546 00:24:18,665 --> 00:24:20,876 Let me just absorb this for a minute. 547 00:24:21,334 --> 00:24:23,712 No, yeah, sure, of course, natch. 548 00:24:23,753 --> 00:24:25,088 Do what you gotta. 549 00:24:25,130 --> 00:24:27,174 Chew it over with your burnt ends. 550 00:24:29,342 --> 00:24:31,094 I mean, the whole thing is ironic too, 551 00:24:31,136 --> 00:24:33,597 because of this persistent fantasy I used to have. 552 00:24:33,638 --> 00:24:34,973 About? 553 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,309 Me, as a younger man, 554 00:24:37,350 --> 00:24:39,728 standing tall at his funeral. 555 00:24:39,769 --> 00:24:42,647 Strong arm around my grieving mother, 556 00:24:42,689 --> 00:24:44,900 all of New York in attendance 557 00:24:44,941 --> 00:24:48,236 as I delivered a profound and stirring eulogy. 558 00:24:51,531 --> 00:24:53,158 But in my fantasy, see, 559 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,161 my father was also somehow alive... 560 00:24:57,037 --> 00:24:58,997 - Hmm. - And witnessed the speech 561 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:01,333 with all the pride and approval 562 00:25:01,374 --> 00:25:02,792 you can imagine. 563 00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:05,086 Strange as it is, it somehow makes sense. 564 00:25:05,128 --> 00:25:08,965 Yeah. Stopped having it when I became US attorney. 565 00:25:09,007 --> 00:25:12,135 Well, reaching that height, that achievement, 566 00:25:12,177 --> 00:25:14,262 puts you beyond the need for his approval. 567 00:25:14,304 --> 00:25:15,388 Maybe. 568 00:25:17,015 --> 00:25:20,185 Now, though, I've got this persistent sense of guilt, 569 00:25:21,186 --> 00:25:23,480 as if my reverie somehow... 570 00:25:24,564 --> 00:25:26,691 caused his current condition. 571 00:25:30,987 --> 00:25:33,698 You'll feel worse if you don't write it yourself. 572 00:25:45,085 --> 00:25:48,296 So, you spilled your pint of blood. Great. 573 00:25:48,338 --> 00:25:50,465 Nothing wrong with appeasing the old gods. 574 00:25:50,507 --> 00:25:52,050 I need a list of all the companies 575 00:25:52,092 --> 00:25:53,552 whose reputation and balance sheet 576 00:25:53,593 --> 00:25:55,178 are being hurt by their association 577 00:25:55,220 --> 00:25:56,638 with my name. 578 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,223 All the good people who don't deserve 579 00:25:58,265 --> 00:26:00,016 to be collateral damage to my mistakes. 580 00:26:00,058 --> 00:26:03,520 So you can... Free them. Sell them off. 581 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,315 It went that badly with the mother? 582 00:26:07,357 --> 00:26:09,276 She butchered me, like one of those buffaloes 583 00:26:09,317 --> 00:26:10,777 at the end of Apocalypse Now. 584 00:26:10,819 --> 00:26:14,114 We can't take a billion dollar plus loss 585 00:26:14,155 --> 00:26:15,907 so you can assuage your guilt over something 586 00:26:15,949 --> 00:26:17,534 you can't go back and change. 587 00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:19,452 Right now, this company is the house built on 588 00:26:19,494 --> 00:26:21,705 a Native American burial ground. 589 00:26:21,746 --> 00:26:24,082 It doesn't matter how good the house is. 590 00:26:24,958 --> 00:26:26,876 We have to start from scratch. 591 00:26:35,802 --> 00:26:38,263 Um, shark in the water, shark in the water. 592 00:26:38,888 --> 00:26:39,931 Meaning? 593 00:26:39,973 --> 00:26:41,516 There's a selloff happening. 594 00:26:41,558 --> 00:26:43,226 So I was trying to make it sound exciting. 595 00:26:43,268 --> 00:26:46,354 See? And it's all in the same sector. 596 00:26:49,149 --> 00:26:51,443 It's not a sector. It's a person. Mike Prince. 597 00:26:51,484 --> 00:26:53,945 We should be buying this. All of it. 598 00:26:53,987 --> 00:26:56,281 We'd own big swaths of the green energy market; 599 00:26:56,323 --> 00:26:58,116 - more than that. - How much to buy it all? 600 00:26:58,158 --> 00:26:59,534 More than we have on hand. 601 00:26:59,576 --> 00:27:00,636 I mean, I think more than we have. 602 00:27:00,660 --> 00:27:02,120 So how do we get it? 603 00:27:02,954 --> 00:27:04,080 Shit. Right. 604 00:27:04,122 --> 00:27:05,457 You have to ask Axe. 605 00:27:05,498 --> 00:27:06,684 Like an advance on your allowance. 606 00:27:06,708 --> 00:27:08,043 It's outside our guidance. 607 00:27:08,084 --> 00:27:09,502 I mean, it sucks to have to ask. 608 00:27:09,544 --> 00:27:10,980 But it will suck a fuck of a lot less 609 00:27:11,004 --> 00:27:12,756 when we own all of Prince's stuff. 610 00:27:12,797 --> 00:27:14,483 Which is exactly how I'm going to sell this to Axe. 611 00:27:14,507 --> 00:27:16,267 Buying Prince's companies feeds into his need 612 00:27:16,301 --> 00:27:17,636 to destroy Mike Prince. 613 00:27:17,677 --> 00:27:18,720 Go feed the need. 614 00:27:18,762 --> 00:27:20,639 Thank you. I think I will. 615 00:27:24,225 --> 00:27:26,144 Hey, I need to ask you something. 616 00:27:26,853 --> 00:27:28,647 Oh, yeah. Hold on a sec. 617 00:27:31,358 --> 00:27:32,484 Trying to connect with Axe. 618 00:27:32,525 --> 00:27:34,027 I'm on with him now. 619 00:27:37,614 --> 00:27:39,282 You seeing it? 620 00:27:39,324 --> 00:27:41,326 Mike Prince spiraling out, hemorrhaging money? 621 00:27:41,368 --> 00:27:43,745 It's quaint. And also very satisfying. 622 00:27:43,787 --> 00:27:45,830 Beyond satisfying, it gives us an advantage. 623 00:27:45,872 --> 00:27:47,957 He's driving down the cost by flooding the market. 624 00:27:47,999 --> 00:27:50,502 He's selling just to sell, which means we can buy it all. 625 00:27:50,543 --> 00:27:52,754 - I just need the leverage. - That's a splashy move 626 00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:54,589 and publicly humiliating for him. 627 00:27:54,631 --> 00:27:56,091 Yeah... 628 00:27:58,385 --> 00:28:01,513 No. I am not helping Prince cleanse his conscience. 629 00:28:01,554 --> 00:28:03,598 We'll never get this chance again. 630 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,225 I know. 631 00:28:05,266 --> 00:28:06,827 Which is why I'm thinking I'd rather that you 632 00:28:06,851 --> 00:28:10,021 dump everything you have that coincides with him. 633 00:28:10,063 --> 00:28:12,565 Actually, dump everything that you have 634 00:28:12,607 --> 00:28:14,567 that shares even the tiniest overlap 635 00:28:14,609 --> 00:28:17,654 of Venn diagram with Mike Prince and his ideology. 636 00:28:17,696 --> 00:28:18,697 What? 637 00:28:18,738 --> 00:28:19,948 Well, like you said, 638 00:28:19,989 --> 00:28:21,658 he's driving the price down. 639 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:23,660 Now I want you to make those companies worthless. 640 00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:25,787 Unproductive. This is insane. 641 00:28:25,829 --> 00:28:27,580 What? Kicking Prince when he's down? 642 00:28:27,622 --> 00:28:29,040 I'd say nothing could be saner. 643 00:28:29,082 --> 00:28:31,084 - Bobby. - This isn't profitable. 644 00:28:31,126 --> 00:28:32,544 You're going to ruin industries 645 00:28:32,585 --> 00:28:34,462 to prove a point you've already proven. 646 00:28:34,504 --> 00:28:36,548 Plus, the Mase Carbon balance sheet will take a hit, 647 00:28:36,589 --> 00:28:38,526 which will drive down the value of the associated companies. 648 00:28:38,550 --> 00:28:40,719 Our P and I will look like a mine shaft. 649 00:28:41,219 --> 00:28:44,347 You know Taylor's right. I can see it in your eyes. 650 00:28:50,437 --> 00:28:51,896 Okay. 651 00:28:51,938 --> 00:28:53,982 No, you're right. He's done. 652 00:28:54,023 --> 00:28:57,068 So Mase Carb can buy up Prince's positions? 653 00:28:57,110 --> 00:29:00,488 Yes. I'll give you the leverage outside the guidance. 654 00:29:00,530 --> 00:29:01,823 Thank you. I'll let you know 655 00:29:01,865 --> 00:29:04,075 how much we're able to scoop up. 656 00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:09,456 So that's how my resident genius is doing. 657 00:29:09,497 --> 00:29:10,623 How's our painter doing? 658 00:29:10,665 --> 00:29:12,333 Fine. 659 00:29:12,375 --> 00:29:14,711 Fine, like I'll be seeing paintings 660 00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:17,255 for the big empty walls I have waiting for them? 661 00:29:20,467 --> 00:29:22,927 What did you like about his work when you saw it? 662 00:29:24,888 --> 00:29:26,973 Well, the power, the strength. 663 00:29:27,015 --> 00:29:29,142 Not many out there who can make art 664 00:29:29,184 --> 00:29:31,060 that feels like it's breathing. 665 00:29:32,145 --> 00:29:33,730 Wait a minute. Why are you asking? 666 00:29:33,772 --> 00:29:34,898 Should I be worried? 667 00:29:35,690 --> 00:29:37,233 I don't know. 668 00:29:38,026 --> 00:29:39,444 He's off. 669 00:29:39,486 --> 00:29:42,071 No, no, that... That's too strong. He's... 670 00:29:43,239 --> 00:29:45,325 He's painting for other people. 671 00:29:45,366 --> 00:29:48,286 He's got collectors and commissions in his head. 672 00:29:48,328 --> 00:29:50,330 And that real estate is only for you? 673 00:29:50,371 --> 00:29:53,124 You know, he's actually got real estate there, too. 674 00:29:53,666 --> 00:29:55,126 For what it's worth, 675 00:29:55,168 --> 00:29:57,712 Tanner was always supposed to be this. 676 00:29:57,754 --> 00:30:00,089 Successful, sought after. 677 00:30:00,131 --> 00:30:03,051 And he's lucky to have you to keep his head in the game. 678 00:30:03,635 --> 00:30:04,928 I'm glad for you. 679 00:30:04,969 --> 00:30:06,638 Thank you. 680 00:30:06,679 --> 00:30:09,557 But, I could, you know, if you wanted me to, 681 00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:11,226 take some pressure off, uh, 682 00:30:11,267 --> 00:30:13,478 give him some room to think. 683 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,980 Maybe call Lisa, give her two of mine 684 00:30:16,022 --> 00:30:18,399 and then take my other two later. 685 00:30:18,441 --> 00:30:20,944 Oh, it would be fucking with another man's cash flow but, 686 00:30:20,985 --> 00:30:23,071 you know, if that's what you think he needs. 687 00:30:23,112 --> 00:30:25,508 But the most important thing is he gets back on track, right? 688 00:30:25,532 --> 00:30:26,950 Right. 689 00:30:26,991 --> 00:30:29,077 So I'll make the call? 690 00:30:33,039 --> 00:30:34,499 Maybe just leave it. 691 00:30:35,667 --> 00:30:36,918 Sure. 692 00:30:37,877 --> 00:30:39,170 I'm just trying to help. 693 00:30:39,212 --> 00:30:40,505 I know. 694 00:30:51,891 --> 00:30:53,601 We got a problem. 695 00:31:05,071 --> 00:31:06,656 We got a problem. 696 00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:08,175 The pizza freighter broke down in the Atlantic. 697 00:31:08,199 --> 00:31:09,343 We're gonna miss our delivery window. 698 00:31:09,367 --> 00:31:10,702 - Shit. - Bad luck, 699 00:31:10,743 --> 00:31:12,036 you know, something like that. 700 00:31:12,078 --> 00:31:13,305 We need to call the distributor, 701 00:31:13,329 --> 00:31:14,557 the product guy, and let them know 702 00:31:14,581 --> 00:31:15,373 we're gonna be late. 703 00:31:15,415 --> 00:31:16,875 We show up late, 704 00:31:16,916 --> 00:31:18,710 we're gonna miss our launch with goPuff. 705 00:31:18,751 --> 00:31:20,545 They're gonna blow this 'za out. 706 00:31:20,587 --> 00:31:23,673 We won't get that momentum back for a year, maybe ever. 707 00:31:23,715 --> 00:31:25,675 There's no such thing as bad fucking luck, 708 00:31:25,717 --> 00:31:27,677 not when money's involved. 709 00:31:27,719 --> 00:31:30,054 Where exactly is this freighter? 710 00:31:31,431 --> 00:31:34,392 Okay, this is a satellite snapshot of every ship at sea, 711 00:31:34,434 --> 00:31:36,019 updated every 20 minutes. 712 00:31:36,060 --> 00:31:38,021 So where the fuck are our pizzas? 713 00:31:38,062 --> 00:31:41,065 Forty-four degrees, 32 minutes, 23.8 seconds North 714 00:31:41,107 --> 00:31:44,569 by 25 degrees, seven minutes, 51.6 seconds West. 715 00:31:46,070 --> 00:31:47,780 North Atlantic Ocean. 716 00:31:47,822 --> 00:31:49,699 The ship carrying your pizzas 717 00:31:49,741 --> 00:31:52,577 broke down two hours ago. 718 00:31:52,619 --> 00:31:55,204 So now what? They rot at sea? 719 00:31:55,246 --> 00:31:56,807 Maybe we could find someone to fix the ship. 720 00:31:56,831 --> 00:31:58,750 Why did you say "broke down" like that? 721 00:31:58,791 --> 00:32:00,293 Because something is off. 722 00:32:00,335 --> 00:32:02,170 A dead ship, one without power, 723 00:32:02,211 --> 00:32:04,297 will drop anchor and put out a distress signal. 724 00:32:04,339 --> 00:32:06,424 Even if the ship drifted onto the anchor line, 725 00:32:06,466 --> 00:32:09,260 it would have drifted East along the wave path, 726 00:32:09,302 --> 00:32:11,721 and your boat has moved North. 727 00:32:11,763 --> 00:32:14,349 Somebody is fucking around with your boat. 728 00:32:23,149 --> 00:32:24,442 Check your IB. 729 00:32:28,655 --> 00:32:30,239 Shit, Axe, really? 730 00:32:30,281 --> 00:32:32,450 You're an executing trader. 731 00:32:32,492 --> 00:32:33,743 You got a problem executing? 732 00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:35,536 No, Axe. 733 00:32:35,578 --> 00:32:36,972 But I have a problem trading these particular names 734 00:32:36,996 --> 00:32:38,498 without Taylor. 735 00:32:39,165 --> 00:32:40,291 I hired you. 736 00:32:40,333 --> 00:32:41,250 You quit. 737 00:32:41,292 --> 00:32:42,627 I hired you back. 738 00:32:42,669 --> 00:32:44,087 Let you walk back in here 739 00:32:44,128 --> 00:32:45,588 despite your lack of loyalty. 740 00:32:45,630 --> 00:32:48,257 Because I knew, one day there would be 741 00:32:48,299 --> 00:32:50,176 a moment of truth, a reckoning. 742 00:32:50,218 --> 00:32:52,470 What I would see if you were still the kid 743 00:32:52,512 --> 00:32:54,490 that I pulled out of Aurora, sat in front of a bank 744 00:32:54,514 --> 00:32:57,433 of screens and gave the secrets of the world. 745 00:32:57,475 --> 00:32:59,602 And enough money to move your mom 746 00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:01,646 out of a trailer into a house. 747 00:33:03,856 --> 00:33:05,608 This is that reckoning. 748 00:33:06,609 --> 00:33:08,277 Fuck. 749 00:33:27,714 --> 00:33:29,799 You proud of putting good companies out of business? 750 00:33:29,841 --> 00:33:32,343 - I'm sorry. I'm not sure... - Is this what you wanted? 751 00:33:32,385 --> 00:33:34,095 To destroy the progress we both made? 752 00:33:34,137 --> 00:33:36,347 To set impact investing back? 753 00:33:36,389 --> 00:33:39,517 Every company you sold off today will likely fold, 754 00:33:39,559 --> 00:33:43,021 and that market share will go right back to the polluters, 755 00:33:43,062 --> 00:33:44,522 the child labor employers, 756 00:33:44,564 --> 00:33:46,041 the people we committed to taking down. 757 00:33:46,065 --> 00:33:47,608 Are you proud? 758 00:33:51,446 --> 00:33:52,864 Jesus. 759 00:33:53,698 --> 00:33:55,074 You didn't know. 760 00:33:55,116 --> 00:33:57,535 He did it without telling you. 761 00:33:57,827 --> 00:34:01,372 Well, I guess we all know just how much 762 00:34:01,414 --> 00:34:03,750 that shingle of yours is worth. 763 00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:09,005 Are you okay? 764 00:34:09,547 --> 00:34:10,882 No. 765 00:34:19,223 --> 00:34:20,558 What happened? 766 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:21,893 Axe. 767 00:34:21,934 --> 00:34:23,811 Are you kidding me? 768 00:34:23,853 --> 00:34:26,355 So what, you were just following orders and that makes it okay? 769 00:34:26,397 --> 00:34:27,565 It does not make it okay. 770 00:34:27,607 --> 00:34:29,484 Explain yourself, Mafee. 771 00:34:29,525 --> 00:34:31,402 Axe. That's it. 772 00:34:31,444 --> 00:34:32,904 That's the explanation. 773 00:34:32,945 --> 00:34:34,256 What the fuck did we think would happen 774 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:35,698 when we walked back in here? 775 00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:38,034 The fallout from this is cataclysmic. 776 00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:39,535 You're damn right. 777 00:34:39,577 --> 00:34:41,079 This completely messes up our bonuses. 778 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:42,580 Not what I meant. 779 00:34:42,622 --> 00:34:43,748 Well, it's what I meant. 780 00:34:43,790 --> 00:34:45,208 Enough. I will fix this. 781 00:34:45,249 --> 00:34:46,435 Not as long as we're still reporting to... 782 00:34:46,459 --> 00:34:47,752 Not now, Rian. 783 00:34:53,007 --> 00:34:55,635 I spent my whole life building something additive. 784 00:34:55,676 --> 00:34:57,220 - Not your whole life. - Um-hmm. 785 00:34:57,261 --> 00:34:59,931 Some would argue that by virtue 786 00:34:59,972 --> 00:35:01,390 of just how much money you have, 787 00:35:01,432 --> 00:35:03,476 you have by definition done much wrong. 788 00:35:03,976 --> 00:35:06,479 So because I'm so rich, I'm inherently guilty? 789 00:35:06,521 --> 00:35:08,481 It's what I built a good chunk of my career on. 790 00:35:08,523 --> 00:35:10,316 Probably what drove me to that career. 791 00:35:10,358 --> 00:35:13,361 But I do believe you just said it better than I did. 792 00:35:13,402 --> 00:35:15,655 Wealth is always going to exist. 793 00:35:15,696 --> 00:35:17,031 Power along with it. 794 00:35:17,073 --> 00:35:18,991 People are so consumed with the idea 795 00:35:19,033 --> 00:35:21,035 that money buys freedom that they can't demand 796 00:35:21,077 --> 00:35:24,038 better of the powerful... or themselves. 797 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,915 As soon as they gain some power of their own, 798 00:35:25,957 --> 00:35:28,251 they forget about better and just want to be rich. 799 00:35:28,292 --> 00:35:31,462 So the powerful have to demand it of ourselves. 800 00:35:31,504 --> 00:35:33,214 That's what I was trying to do. 801 00:35:33,256 --> 00:35:35,049 I can't save the world, 802 00:35:35,091 --> 00:35:36,902 but I was gonna leave it a lot better than I found it. 803 00:35:36,926 --> 00:35:40,138 And now I'm sucked into chaos by Bobby Axelrod. 804 00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:42,890 I can't arrest him because he's screwing 805 00:35:42,932 --> 00:35:43,975 with your savior complex. 806 00:35:44,016 --> 00:35:45,768 Would that I could. 807 00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:49,856 Bobby Axelrod has to be wiped off the face of the Earth. 808 00:35:50,356 --> 00:35:51,482 You're right. 809 00:35:52,275 --> 00:35:53,609 So do you want my help? 810 00:35:53,651 --> 00:35:54,819 No. 811 00:35:54,861 --> 00:35:56,320 - Hold on. - You came to me... 812 00:35:56,362 --> 00:35:57,840 He came to me and said he needed my help. 813 00:35:57,864 --> 00:35:59,031 Now I'm ready. 814 00:35:59,073 --> 00:36:00,783 I came to you when I needed you. 815 00:36:00,825 --> 00:36:02,243 And the getting was good. 816 00:36:02,285 --> 00:36:04,287 But you thought you were above me. 817 00:36:04,328 --> 00:36:07,582 And, now, Axe got a bank. 818 00:36:07,623 --> 00:36:09,167 Fuck, I gave him a bank. 819 00:36:09,208 --> 00:36:10,751 Me and her. 820 00:36:10,793 --> 00:36:12,378 And now that he's coming for you, 821 00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:14,672 you want me to what? Get hit with more shrapnel 822 00:36:14,714 --> 00:36:16,299 so you can campaign for a Nobel? 823 00:36:16,340 --> 00:36:17,550 No. Fuck no. 824 00:36:17,592 --> 00:36:19,302 Every time I move, 825 00:36:19,343 --> 00:36:21,762 I make his life better and mine worse. 826 00:36:21,804 --> 00:36:24,932 I even tried my luck with the Delaware AG 827 00:36:24,974 --> 00:36:26,976 only to be rolled into the street like a bum. 828 00:36:27,018 --> 00:36:29,020 So I've come to a halt. 829 00:36:30,229 --> 00:36:32,273 No, I can't lose any more of myself to this. 830 00:36:32,315 --> 00:36:33,524 You go figure it out. 831 00:36:33,566 --> 00:36:35,693 I'm offering titanic resources. 832 00:36:36,402 --> 00:36:38,279 Then what do you need us for? 833 00:36:45,244 --> 00:36:47,288 "That cupcake makes a mess, we got a case again." 834 00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:49,040 Well, 835 00:36:49,081 --> 00:36:51,161 it worked for Bobby D, I figured it was worth a shot. 836 00:36:54,253 --> 00:36:56,964 Okay, we can remake the order in Italy and reship. 837 00:36:57,006 --> 00:36:58,466 But that's two extra weeks. 838 00:36:58,507 --> 00:37:00,384 And then we lose the supermarket chains. 839 00:37:00,426 --> 00:37:03,137 Prince Company's got their mitts on the shipping line anyway. 840 00:37:05,139 --> 00:37:07,558 All right, look, I'm gonna tell Axe to forget the whole deal. 841 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,268 Give my cousin back his company. 842 00:37:09,310 --> 00:37:11,270 Anthony keeps banging out top-quality pies. 843 00:37:11,312 --> 00:37:12,772 At least he has two shops. 844 00:37:12,813 --> 00:37:14,208 That's more than what he was planning. 845 00:37:14,232 --> 00:37:15,775 No, you're not. 846 00:37:15,816 --> 00:37:18,152 Axe believes your cousin should be big-time. 847 00:37:18,194 --> 00:37:20,738 I have been charged with delivering your pizza empire, 848 00:37:20,780 --> 00:37:23,366 so to speak, and deliver it I fucking will, 849 00:37:23,407 --> 00:37:24,659 on time. 850 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:25,743 How? 851 00:37:25,785 --> 00:37:28,412 Now tell me. Why Italy? 852 00:37:28,621 --> 00:37:30,248 The ovens. 853 00:37:36,295 --> 00:37:37,338 Il Duce. 854 00:37:37,380 --> 00:37:39,257 We have a move we can make. 855 00:37:39,298 --> 00:37:42,009 A warehouse filled with ovens and a small army of workers. 856 00:37:42,051 --> 00:37:44,262 It's gonna cost close to 10 million to do it. 857 00:37:44,303 --> 00:37:45,346 Keep it on schedule. 858 00:37:45,388 --> 00:37:46,931 And keep it quiet. 859 00:37:46,973 --> 00:37:48,617 It's money you won't recoup for a long time. 860 00:37:48,641 --> 00:37:51,185 Ten million to not let Mike Prince win a round? 861 00:37:51,978 --> 00:37:53,271 Consider the money spent. 862 00:37:53,312 --> 00:37:55,606 Go get those fuckin' ovens. 863 00:37:58,943 --> 00:38:01,445 We have hundreds of LLCs in Delaware. 864 00:38:01,487 --> 00:38:03,656 And lots of associates with more. 865 00:38:03,698 --> 00:38:06,075 I've been considering Wyoming instead. 866 00:38:06,117 --> 00:38:08,286 I've got a 3,000-acre spread there 867 00:38:08,327 --> 00:38:10,955 and it's the original home of the LLC. 868 00:38:10,997 --> 00:38:13,749 The American Bar Association just released a white paper 869 00:38:13,791 --> 00:38:15,710 on the Delaware pitfalls. 870 00:38:15,751 --> 00:38:18,462 Seems like a good time to take a billion out of the state. 871 00:38:18,504 --> 00:38:19,922 Is it only a billion? 872 00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:21,757 - A few. - Hmm. 873 00:38:23,509 --> 00:38:25,428 Well, that would be unfortunate. 874 00:38:26,679 --> 00:38:28,597 Taking out a cowboy-sized chunk of the LLCs 875 00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:31,267 in Delaware is "unfortunate"? 876 00:38:31,309 --> 00:38:32,935 I'd imagined the unemployment filings 877 00:38:32,977 --> 00:38:35,146 of registered agents alone would put a nice dent 878 00:38:35,187 --> 00:38:37,315 in anyone's reelection hopes. 879 00:38:37,356 --> 00:38:38,941 Or... 880 00:38:39,483 --> 00:38:40,693 Or? 881 00:38:41,402 --> 00:38:42,862 You can do me a favor, 882 00:38:42,903 --> 00:38:44,280 and I'll stay in Delaware 883 00:38:44,322 --> 00:38:46,824 and protect the LLC farms from litigation. 884 00:38:46,866 --> 00:38:50,328 Especially from a very eager New York State AG. 885 00:38:54,123 --> 00:38:56,083 You told me to figure it out. That's what I did. 886 00:38:56,125 --> 00:38:57,626 And? 887 00:38:57,668 --> 00:39:00,087 Moody was persuaded to get the court to name 888 00:39:00,129 --> 00:39:01,922 a special trustee to Axe's bank. 889 00:39:01,964 --> 00:39:03,924 An Irving Picard-like son of a gun. 890 00:39:03,966 --> 00:39:06,177 The guy who got back the Madoff money. 891 00:39:06,218 --> 00:39:07,845 One penny at a time. 892 00:39:07,887 --> 00:39:10,222 Clawing every cent from the estate sale, 893 00:39:10,264 --> 00:39:12,099 finding every mattress they hid it under. 894 00:39:12,141 --> 00:39:13,225 Unrelenting. 895 00:39:13,267 --> 00:39:15,102 Well, Axe will hate that. 896 00:39:15,144 --> 00:39:17,521 Someone who'll ride herd over the institution 897 00:39:17,563 --> 00:39:18,856 from the inside. 898 00:39:19,065 --> 00:39:20,941 Clock its every move. 899 00:39:20,983 --> 00:39:22,777 Report it all back. 900 00:39:22,818 --> 00:39:24,362 Block what he can. 901 00:39:27,948 --> 00:39:29,658 Okay, we're in. 902 00:39:36,707 --> 00:39:37,666 You knew. 903 00:39:37,708 --> 00:39:39,168 When you told me to blow, 904 00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:41,170 you knew I'd come back with something. 905 00:39:41,212 --> 00:39:42,254 I've seen Cop Land. 906 00:39:42,296 --> 00:39:43,631 Did I? 907 00:39:43,672 --> 00:39:45,591 I thought I meant it at the time. 908 00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:47,385 But we're here now. 909 00:39:47,426 --> 00:39:49,595 Yeah. 910 00:39:49,637 --> 00:39:51,656 Yeah, we'll need someone who's served on a bank board. 911 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,742 Someone who's known for being tough on the institutions 912 00:39:53,766 --> 00:39:55,684 they're a board member of, not a yes man. 913 00:39:55,726 --> 00:39:57,645 Someone who won't care if they get booted 914 00:39:57,686 --> 00:39:59,188 a few months in due to politics. 915 00:39:59,230 --> 00:40:01,774 Someone who will go down swinging. 916 00:40:03,067 --> 00:40:05,277 Oh, I have just the guy. 917 00:40:19,583 --> 00:40:21,168 Dad? 918 00:40:24,547 --> 00:40:26,507 Hey. 919 00:40:26,549 --> 00:40:29,093 It's the son who can't seem to come through. 920 00:40:29,343 --> 00:40:31,929 Well, it is true. 921 00:40:31,971 --> 00:40:34,056 I can't get you a kidney by any moral 922 00:40:34,098 --> 00:40:36,142 or legal means. 923 00:40:36,183 --> 00:40:37,601 But, 924 00:40:37,643 --> 00:40:39,645 what if I could give you a reason to live? 925 00:40:39,687 --> 00:40:41,230 Huh. 926 00:40:41,272 --> 00:40:43,274 You mean other than my wife and child? 927 00:40:43,315 --> 00:40:44,775 Positive reinforcement 928 00:40:44,817 --> 00:40:47,319 never has been your raison d'être. 929 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,115 No, you love power via destruction, 930 00:40:51,157 --> 00:40:52,950 a motivation you have handed down to me 931 00:40:52,992 --> 00:40:55,578 and could bestow on your daughter 932 00:40:55,619 --> 00:40:57,246 if you live long enough. 933 00:40:57,621 --> 00:40:59,790 Oh, she's meant for something better. 934 00:40:59,832 --> 00:41:01,584 Oh, I have no doubt. 935 00:41:02,751 --> 00:41:05,212 But the chance to be in the game, 936 00:41:06,088 --> 00:41:07,798 to fuck with someone else's power 937 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,216 and take it for yourself, 938 00:41:09,258 --> 00:41:11,760 you can't deny that would feel good. 939 00:41:11,802 --> 00:41:15,139 Especially if that power was coming from Bobby Axelrod. 940 00:41:15,556 --> 00:41:18,142 I would enjoy seeing him squirm. 941 00:41:18,184 --> 00:41:20,311 Better yet, you would be the reason 942 00:41:20,352 --> 00:41:22,229 for said squirming. 943 00:41:22,271 --> 00:41:24,607 He just got himself a bank. 944 00:41:24,648 --> 00:41:26,984 And the bank requires a trustee. 945 00:41:28,194 --> 00:41:31,822 Someone with the power to torture his every decision, 946 00:41:31,864 --> 00:41:34,158 to turn the thing he wants so badly 947 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:38,871 into a cilice that he can't take off. 948 00:41:38,913 --> 00:41:41,123 Someone with experience in banking, 949 00:41:41,165 --> 00:41:43,959 committed to making Axelrod so uncomfortable 950 00:41:44,001 --> 00:41:46,921 he rips at his own skin. 951 00:41:48,547 --> 00:41:50,508 That's a job for a fighter. 952 00:41:52,218 --> 00:41:54,512 Man with something left in the tank. 953 00:41:56,347 --> 00:41:59,683 I could yank his puppet strings. 954 00:42:00,434 --> 00:42:02,811 Oh, yes, you could. 955 00:42:13,822 --> 00:42:15,366 Scooter. 956 00:42:16,909 --> 00:42:18,953 I just happened to be in your neighborhood grocer. 957 00:42:18,994 --> 00:42:20,704 That's hard to believe. 958 00:42:20,746 --> 00:42:22,373 Nothing is hard to believe 959 00:42:22,414 --> 00:42:24,875 if you have the will to make it happen. 960 00:42:28,379 --> 00:42:30,214 Wait, that's not one of... 961 00:42:30,256 --> 00:42:33,050 Yes. It certainly is. 962 00:42:33,425 --> 00:42:35,970 I'm wondering if we can file the insurance claim 963 00:42:36,011 --> 00:42:38,389 on the spoiled merchandise directly with Prince. 964 00:42:38,430 --> 00:42:40,057 You know, since you tools 965 00:42:40,099 --> 00:42:42,142 bought into that shipping company. 966 00:42:43,060 --> 00:42:46,021 Oh, you should try one of these. 967 00:42:46,063 --> 00:42:47,523 Fucking delicious. 968 00:42:47,565 --> 00:42:49,650 Freezer case is full of 'em. 969 00:42:57,950 --> 00:43:01,745 Your LLC office in Delaware is a literal post office box. 970 00:43:01,787 --> 00:43:03,747 Our bank is real, though. 971 00:43:04,456 --> 00:43:06,292 I imagine you want it to be. 972 00:43:06,333 --> 00:43:07,918 What's the problem 973 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,045 that brought you all this way north? 974 00:43:10,796 --> 00:43:12,464 Some things have changed. 975 00:43:12,506 --> 00:43:14,550 In my honest assessment of your past, 976 00:43:14,592 --> 00:43:16,844 I've come to believe that you require oversight. 977 00:43:16,885 --> 00:43:20,097 A trustee to look after consumer finance protection. 978 00:43:20,139 --> 00:43:21,932 Someone you'll need to run every move by. 979 00:43:21,974 --> 00:43:23,017 Every move? 980 00:43:23,058 --> 00:43:24,602 Pretty much. 981 00:43:25,311 --> 00:43:26,854 And if we refuse? 982 00:43:26,895 --> 00:43:28,897 I cancel your certificate of formation. 983 00:43:28,939 --> 00:43:31,442 Do we get to see a shortlist? 984 00:43:43,621 --> 00:43:45,956 That is a short fucking list. 985 00:43:45,998 --> 00:43:49,168 Charles Rhoades Senior has been selected and approved. 986 00:43:49,209 --> 00:43:51,462 We'll appeal this decision. I'll sue you. 987 00:43:51,503 --> 00:43:53,672 Oh, I imagine you will. 988 00:43:55,132 --> 00:43:57,343 Well, I guess I will see you across 989 00:43:57,384 --> 00:43:59,595 a courtroom to hash this out... 990 00:43:59,637 --> 00:44:02,139 in 18 months to two years, 991 00:44:02,181 --> 00:44:04,141 when the case finally comes up for trial. 992 00:44:04,183 --> 00:44:05,893 In the meantime, 993 00:44:05,934 --> 00:44:08,354 please see that Mr. Rhoades is welcome. 994 00:44:09,563 --> 00:44:10,814 Gentlemen. 995 00:44:17,780 --> 00:44:19,365 I need Wendy's research, 996 00:44:19,406 --> 00:44:21,009 what she was working on in the employee records 997 00:44:21,033 --> 00:44:23,202 when Spyros ratted her out. 998 00:44:36,799 --> 00:44:38,509 You reorienting where you work? 999 00:44:39,218 --> 00:44:40,427 Reorienting. 1000 00:44:40,469 --> 00:44:42,096 That's a word for it. 1001 00:44:42,137 --> 00:44:46,016 Another word for it is shutting it the fuck down. 1002 00:44:47,518 --> 00:44:49,687 Try using a word or two that'll make sense to me. 1003 00:44:49,728 --> 00:44:54,191 Axe. Used his black magic to get my commission squashed. 1004 00:44:54,608 --> 00:44:57,027 One thing I can't stand is getting fucked with. 1005 00:44:57,069 --> 00:44:58,862 Is it all bad though? 1006 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:01,824 Give you back your freedom. 1007 00:45:01,865 --> 00:45:04,410 You can just paint like you used to. 1008 00:45:04,451 --> 00:45:06,995 Yeah, I had that for a long time. 1009 00:45:07,621 --> 00:45:09,248 This was something new. 1010 00:45:09,289 --> 00:45:10,249 I kind of liked it. 1011 00:45:10,290 --> 00:45:12,292 You think you did. 1012 00:45:12,334 --> 00:45:15,921 But I saw the look in your eye when you were painting that 1013 00:45:16,755 --> 00:45:18,716 and it lit me up. 1014 00:45:18,757 --> 00:45:22,177 Because that was you in it for yourself. 1015 00:45:22,636 --> 00:45:25,055 Did you know Axe was gonna do this? 1016 00:45:27,307 --> 00:45:28,684 Oh, wait a minute. 1017 00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:31,061 Was... Was this your fuckin' idea? 1018 00:45:31,103 --> 00:45:32,271 No. 1019 00:45:32,563 --> 00:45:34,189 Not my suggestion. 1020 00:45:34,231 --> 00:45:35,899 But we did have a conversation about it 1021 00:45:35,941 --> 00:45:39,361 and he thought it'd be... helpful. 1022 00:45:39,403 --> 00:45:40,738 Wow. Shit. 1023 00:45:40,779 --> 00:45:42,239 You trying to help me, 1024 00:45:42,281 --> 00:45:43,991 or are you trying to help me stay broke? 1025 00:45:44,032 --> 00:45:46,869 You have a personal relationship with every painting. 1026 00:45:46,910 --> 00:45:48,245 A fucking love affair. 1027 00:45:48,287 --> 00:45:49,747 Or you do with the good ones. 1028 00:45:49,788 --> 00:45:51,081 Oh, good ones. 1029 00:45:51,123 --> 00:45:52,416 And you know the difference? 1030 00:45:52,458 --> 00:45:53,876 I know the difference in you. 1031 00:45:53,917 --> 00:45:55,270 I saw the way you were looking at me 1032 00:45:55,294 --> 00:45:56,837 when I was makin' that painting. 1033 00:45:56,879 --> 00:45:58,213 It was like a fucking show pony. 1034 00:45:58,255 --> 00:45:59,757 Like an artist. 1035 00:45:59,798 --> 00:46:00,841 Yeah. 1036 00:46:00,883 --> 00:46:02,593 Your idea of an artist. 1037 00:46:02,634 --> 00:46:04,011 Someone that you can control 1038 00:46:04,052 --> 00:46:05,530 because he has no resources of his own. 1039 00:46:05,554 --> 00:46:07,264 That's the last thing I want to do. 1040 00:46:07,306 --> 00:46:09,683 Good. Because after emptying my pockets, 1041 00:46:09,725 --> 00:46:11,810 Axe has no more control over me. 1042 00:46:11,852 --> 00:46:14,438 Because this is the last painting that I owe him. 1043 00:46:15,522 --> 00:46:17,191 Well then I helped you get free, didn't I? 1044 00:46:17,232 --> 00:46:19,067 Nah. No, you didn't. 1045 00:46:19,109 --> 00:46:22,279 You helped me realize that I was never free. 1046 00:46:23,238 --> 00:46:25,199 I'm a grown man. I decide what I need. 1047 00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:26,533 I decide when I need it. 1048 00:46:26,575 --> 00:46:28,869 - If you say so. - Yeah, I do. 1049 00:46:28,911 --> 00:46:30,829 I also need a girl who says, 1050 00:46:30,871 --> 00:46:32,664 "Of course you do," when I say, 1051 00:46:32,706 --> 00:46:34,082 "I don't know if I'm done." 1052 00:46:34,124 --> 00:46:35,584 Not some fuckin' seminar. 1053 00:46:35,626 --> 00:46:37,628 Yeah. 1054 00:46:37,669 --> 00:46:40,047 Your problem is you need a girl. 1055 00:47:03,612 --> 00:47:06,782 In case you're still not sure when something's finished, 1056 00:47:07,491 --> 00:47:09,326 this fuckin' is. 1057 00:47:11,787 --> 00:47:15,499 In the summer that I was baptized. 1058 00:47:15,916 --> 00:47:20,712 My father held me to his side. 1059 00:47:21,922 --> 00:47:26,009 As they put me to the water. 1060 00:47:26,301 --> 00:47:31,348 He said how on that day I cried. 1061 00:47:31,807 --> 00:47:37,020 We were prisoners of love A love in chains. 1062 00:47:37,062 --> 00:47:39,398 He was standin' in the door 1063 00:47:39,439 --> 00:47:42,109 I was standin' in the rain. 1064 00:47:42,150 --> 00:47:44,444 With the same hot blood. 1065 00:47:44,486 --> 00:47:49,700 Burning in our veins Adam raised a Cain. 1066 00:47:49,741 --> 00:47:52,369 Adam raised a Cain... 1067 00:47:54,705 --> 00:47:57,875 The security guys say he left an hour after Wendy did. 1068 00:47:57,916 --> 00:47:59,793 They heard shouting and banging 1069 00:47:59,835 --> 00:48:01,896 and when they checked it out, this is what they found. 1070 00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:03,690 You get the place cleaned up so I can sell it. 1071 00:48:03,714 --> 00:48:06,508 We gonna list it as the former art studio of Nico Tanner? 1072 00:48:06,550 --> 00:48:08,719 I don't give a shit. 1073 00:48:15,601 --> 00:48:17,728 Have that packed, brought to the office and hung. 1074 00:48:17,769 --> 00:48:19,646 As what? A cautionary tale? 1075 00:48:19,688 --> 00:48:22,232 That's a real Tanner original. 1076 00:48:23,191 --> 00:48:25,235 Filled with raw emotion. 1077 00:48:26,904 --> 00:48:30,908 They fit you with position. 1078 00:48:31,325 --> 00:48:35,245 And the keys to your daddy's Cadillac. 1079 00:48:36,830 --> 00:48:39,291 In the darkness of your room. 1080 00:48:39,333 --> 00:48:41,960 Your mother calls you by your true name. 1081 00:48:42,002 --> 00:48:44,338 You remember the faces. 1082 00:48:44,379 --> 00:48:47,382 The places, the names. 1083 00:48:47,424 --> 00:48:50,052 You know it's never over. 1084 00:48:50,093 --> 00:48:52,054 It's relentless as the rain. 1085 00:48:52,095 --> 00:49:00,095 Adam raised a Cain. 1086 00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:04,608 Hi. 1087 00:49:05,484 --> 00:49:07,027 Hello. 1088 00:49:07,069 --> 00:49:09,780 This is, um, a laptops closed sort of thing. 1089 00:49:10,238 --> 00:49:11,949 Okay. 1090 00:49:12,950 --> 00:49:14,326 We keep doing this. 1091 00:49:14,368 --> 00:49:15,994 I think this might be the last time 1092 00:49:16,036 --> 00:49:17,180 if that makes you feel any better. 1093 00:49:17,204 --> 00:49:18,789 I get the sense that it won't. 1094 00:49:18,830 --> 00:49:20,457 I spent all night doing the math 1095 00:49:20,499 --> 00:49:21,917 on the amount of money we lost. 1096 00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:23,293 It was wildly stupid. 1097 00:49:23,335 --> 00:49:24,962 Worse, we damaged entire sectors, 1098 00:49:25,003 --> 00:49:26,463 companies that were going to 1099 00:49:26,505 --> 00:49:28,173 spin off into petrochemical disruptors, 1100 00:49:28,215 --> 00:49:29,525 that were going to create new battery technology. 1101 00:49:29,549 --> 00:49:31,176 I told you there'd be sacrifices. 1102 00:49:31,218 --> 00:49:33,804 Yeah, but I'm not sure I can keep doing that. 1103 00:49:34,554 --> 00:49:35,889 Rian, give me some time. 1104 00:49:35,931 --> 00:49:37,140 I know how to fix this. 1105 00:49:37,182 --> 00:49:38,642 How? 1106 00:49:39,643 --> 00:49:41,895 I can't say right now. Just trust me. 1107 00:49:41,937 --> 00:49:44,856 If I see myself in you then you see yourself in me, right? 1108 00:49:44,898 --> 00:49:47,317 And you know you would be able to solve this. 1109 00:49:48,819 --> 00:49:50,821 Yeah, I guess I follow that. 1110 00:49:51,405 --> 00:49:53,198 So trust me. 1111 00:49:56,159 --> 00:49:57,661 Okay. 1112 00:49:57,703 --> 00:49:59,329 For now. 1113 00:49:59,371 --> 00:50:00,664 Okay. 1114 00:50:17,681 --> 00:50:19,182 Hmm. 1115 00:50:22,185 --> 00:50:24,604 We have successfully gotten my father named 1116 00:50:24,646 --> 00:50:26,356 the new trustee of Axe's bank. 1117 00:50:26,398 --> 00:50:28,650 He will have oversight, 1118 00:50:28,692 --> 00:50:30,986 full control to hold up anything and everything 1119 00:50:31,028 --> 00:50:33,155 they want to do with the bank. 1120 00:50:33,196 --> 00:50:34,906 Access to every transaction. 1121 00:50:36,074 --> 00:50:37,993 A man on the inside. 1122 00:50:38,618 --> 00:50:40,328 Right. 1123 00:50:41,121 --> 00:50:43,165 We got what we wanted. 1124 00:50:44,082 --> 00:50:45,834 Except we didn't. 1125 00:50:50,756 --> 00:50:52,424 Roxanne? 1126 00:50:54,259 --> 00:50:56,553 Okay, okay, slow down. 1127 00:50:56,803 --> 00:50:58,722 That's great. 1128 00:50:58,764 --> 00:51:00,700 You get there as soon as you can get back to the city. 1129 00:51:00,724 --> 00:51:02,267 I'm on my way. 1130 00:51:10,776 --> 00:51:12,152 Dad. 1131 00:51:13,361 --> 00:51:15,030 I just talked to Roxanne. 1132 00:51:15,072 --> 00:51:17,157 She says to give you a kiss for luck. 1133 00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:19,076 Ooh, give him a wet one. 1134 00:51:19,117 --> 00:51:21,078 Nothing to worry about though. Simple procedure. 1135 00:51:21,119 --> 00:51:23,056 I'd do it myself if I hadn't lost my privileges here. 1136 00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:24,748 Yeah, see? I told you. 1137 00:51:24,790 --> 00:51:27,417 Now you get to live and be my man on the inside. 1138 00:51:27,459 --> 00:51:29,419 Uh-huh. That's true, Sonny. 1139 00:51:29,461 --> 00:51:32,172 But it may not work out the way you think. 1140 00:51:32,214 --> 00:51:33,590 What do you mean, Dad? 1141 00:51:33,632 --> 00:51:35,342 Nice fucking job getting him up the list. 1142 00:51:35,383 --> 00:51:37,219 One month from now, these hospitals, 1143 00:51:37,260 --> 00:51:39,155 they're gonna be overrun with that damn Chinese bug. 1144 00:51:39,179 --> 00:51:40,222 How'd you do it? 1145 00:51:40,263 --> 00:51:41,598 Me? 1146 00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,642 I was about to ask how you did it. 1147 00:51:45,268 --> 00:51:46,645 Dad? Dad. 1148 00:51:46,686 --> 00:51:48,355 He's been sedated. 1149 00:51:49,689 --> 00:51:51,566 Excuse me. 1150 00:51:53,985 --> 00:51:55,278 Wait a minute. You're the donor? 1151 00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:56,506 - But you're Axe's... - Yes, I am. 1152 00:51:56,530 --> 00:51:58,073 His museum curator. 1153 00:51:58,115 --> 00:51:59,300 Heard from a friend your pop was in need. 1154 00:51:59,324 --> 00:52:00,617 I signed right up. 1155 00:52:00,659 --> 00:52:01,952 Looking to do all my good deeds 1156 00:52:01,993 --> 00:52:02,953 for a year right here. 1157 00:52:02,994 --> 00:52:04,621 Sure you are. 1158 00:52:05,789 --> 00:52:08,792 [Chuck] Axe stymied us smooth as Bobby Jones, 1159 00:52:08,834 --> 00:52:10,919 and Senior's not our man anymore. 1160 00:52:10,961 --> 00:52:13,797 Axe delivered my father something that at this moment 1161 00:52:13,839 --> 00:52:16,800 transcends even my familial bond. 1162 00:52:16,842 --> 00:52:18,802 He gave him life. 1163 00:52:20,011 --> 00:52:23,557 And so he became the son I couldn't be. 1164 00:52:27,269 --> 00:52:30,647 My father is owned by him now. 1165 00:52:31,106 --> 00:52:34,818 Axe claims he's not an emotional player, 1166 00:52:35,527 --> 00:52:37,487 but he's all emotion. 1167 00:52:37,529 --> 00:52:40,157 I saw how much he was willing to pour into a pizza business, 1168 00:52:40,198 --> 00:52:42,659 and that was just for sentimental reasons. 1169 00:52:42,701 --> 00:52:44,345 He dumped his positions in impact companies 1170 00:52:44,369 --> 00:52:46,163 just to hurt me, 1171 00:52:46,204 --> 00:52:49,583 even though he cost himself maybe more than he cost me. 1172 00:52:51,376 --> 00:52:53,295 When he wants something, 1173 00:52:53,336 --> 00:52:55,672 he's blind to everything else. 1174 00:52:55,714 --> 00:52:59,384 And right now Axe wants to gloat over my failures. 1175 00:52:59,426 --> 00:53:01,720 And probably make me fail some more. 1176 00:53:02,846 --> 00:53:04,681 We need to use that against him. 1177 00:53:05,682 --> 00:53:08,393 He has a new toy. A bank. 1178 00:53:08,435 --> 00:53:11,062 And now, thanks to us, no speed limit on it, 1179 00:53:11,104 --> 00:53:13,315 nothing to stop him from making mistakes. 1180 00:53:13,356 --> 00:53:15,025 Fatal ones. 1181 00:53:15,066 --> 00:53:18,028 The kind that put a man in prison. 1182 00:53:20,572 --> 00:53:24,201 I'm the bait, and the bank is the trap. 1183 00:53:34,211 --> 00:53:36,004 How are we taking down Bobby Axelrod? 1184 00:53:36,046 --> 00:53:40,133 I am a victim of the science age. 1185 00:53:40,425 --> 00:53:45,138 A child of the storm Whoa yes 1186 00:53:45,180 --> 00:53:48,725 I can't remember when I was your age. 1187 00:53:48,767 --> 00:53:55,065 For me Time's no more No more. 1188 00:53:55,106 --> 00:53:58,401 Nobody rules these streets at night but me. 1189 00:53:58,443 --> 00:54:00,904 The atomic punk! 1190 00:54:01,613 --> 00:54:06,409 Whoa yeah Wow! 1191 00:54:11,539 --> 00:54:16,044 I am the ruler of these netherworlds. 1192 00:54:16,670 --> 00:54:19,047 The underground. 1193 00:54:19,589 --> 00:54:21,549 Whoa yes. 1194 00:54:21,591 --> 00:54:25,595 On every wall and place my fearsome name is heard. 1195 00:54:26,471 --> 00:54:30,934 Just look around Whoa yes. 1196 00:54:30,976 --> 00:54:34,437 Nobody rules these streets at night but me. 1197 00:54:34,479 --> 00:54:37,440 The atomic punk! 1198 00:54:37,482 --> 00:54:45,482 Whoa yeah Wow!