1 00:00:00,716 --> 00:00:02,466 [Bach] Previously on Billions... 2 00:00:02,466 --> 00:00:04,591 Dr. Rhoades, your medical license is under review. 3 00:00:04,591 --> 00:00:06,132 I'm sorry. Why? 4 00:00:06,132 --> 00:00:08,216 There have been accusations of malpractice. 5 00:00:08,216 --> 00:00:10,216 You reported me to the Medical Board? 6 00:00:10,216 --> 00:00:11,549 Yes, I did. 7 00:00:11,549 --> 00:00:13,549 Are you going to say it wasn't warranted? 8 00:00:13,549 --> 00:00:16,758 Help me, Chuck, or I'm fucking lost. 9 00:00:16,758 --> 00:00:18,091 Make them drop the inquest? 10 00:00:18,091 --> 00:00:20,007 Is something you can do. 11 00:00:20,007 --> 00:00:21,883 [Taylor] Tomorrow is Rebecca Cantu's first day 12 00:00:21,883 --> 00:00:23,216 as CEO of Saler's. 13 00:00:23,216 --> 00:00:25,508 I want it to be a bad one for her. 14 00:00:25,508 --> 00:00:27,508 I'm going to need to withdraw from the board. 15 00:00:27,508 --> 00:00:29,341 Me, too. How come? 16 00:00:29,341 --> 00:00:30,675 We sold our shares. 17 00:00:30,675 --> 00:00:31,716 Who'd you sell to? 18 00:00:31,716 --> 00:00:33,466 Taylor Mason. 19 00:00:33,466 --> 00:00:35,049 I'm here to apply for a wiretap. 20 00:00:35,049 --> 00:00:36,716 On Chuck Rhoades, for public corruption. 21 00:00:36,716 --> 00:00:38,966 The relationship between the good judge and Mr. Rhoades 22 00:00:38,966 --> 00:00:40,675 is all the more reason why the wire is needed. 23 00:00:40,675 --> 00:00:41,841 Well played. 24 00:00:41,841 --> 00:00:43,299 You have your wire. 25 00:00:43,299 --> 00:00:48,341 I have run into a financing snag with my development. 26 00:00:48,341 --> 00:00:50,758 So how are we going to skin this-- 27 00:00:50,758 --> 00:00:54,049 Now have a seat, Mr. Secretary, we have much to discuss. 28 00:00:54,049 --> 00:00:55,758 Positive news, Dad. 29 00:00:55,758 --> 00:00:58,216 Qatar State Bank is going to be taken off the restricted list 30 00:00:58,216 --> 00:01:00,508 and it's ready to give you a sweetheart of a loan. 31 00:01:00,508 --> 00:01:02,424 [Senior] Are you sure about this? 32 00:01:02,424 --> 00:01:04,675 [Chuck] Got it straight from the Secretary Of The Treasury. 33 00:01:04,675 --> 00:01:07,257 In the last year, your house was paid off. 34 00:01:07,257 --> 00:01:09,966 Yeah, my wife came into some money. 35 00:01:09,966 --> 00:01:13,424 I'm sorry, do you... do you want a towel, or... 36 00:01:13,424 --> 00:01:15,257 I'm good. 37 00:01:15,257 --> 00:01:16,633 The Medical Board... 38 00:01:16,633 --> 00:01:18,257 I'm sorry, Wend. 39 00:01:18,257 --> 00:01:19,966 You're gonna have to take your chances with them. 40 00:01:19,966 --> 00:01:22,216 Then I know it couldn't be done. 41 00:01:30,925 --> 00:01:34,007 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 42 00:01:34,007 --> 00:01:37,633 ♪♪♪ 43 00:01:37,633 --> 00:01:41,299 ♪♪♪ 44 00:01:43,883 --> 00:01:47,257 ♪ U2's "New Year's Day" ♪ 45 00:01:47,257 --> 00:01:51,591 ♪ Yeah ♪ 46 00:01:51,591 --> 00:01:53,633 [Krakow] The bank I moved off the restricted list-- 47 00:01:53,633 --> 00:01:55,216 [Chuck] Qatar State Bank-- 48 00:01:55,216 --> 00:01:56,508 [Krakow] That's right. A report came in. 49 00:01:56,508 --> 00:01:58,132 [Krakow] I'm gonna have to move it 50 00:01:58,132 --> 00:01:59,216 [Krakow] back onto the restricted list. 51 00:01:59,216 --> 00:02:01,091 [Chuck] Shit. 52 00:02:01,091 --> 00:02:03,132 [Krakow] We need to meet. Your father too. 53 00:02:03,132 --> 00:02:05,299 [Chuck] [sighs] How about New Year's Day? 54 00:02:05,299 --> 00:02:07,591 [Chuck] Things will be quiet... 55 00:02:07,591 --> 00:02:11,800 ♪♪♪ 56 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:16,216 ♪♪♪ 57 00:02:16,216 --> 00:02:20,675 ♪♪♪ 58 00:02:20,675 --> 00:02:22,716 ♪ All is quiet ♪ 59 00:02:22,716 --> 00:02:24,007 Happy New Year. ♪ On New Year's Day ♪ 60 00:02:24,007 --> 00:02:26,508 Totally. And to you. 61 00:02:26,508 --> 00:02:28,091 Just how I planned to spend it. 62 00:02:28,091 --> 00:02:29,299 ♪ A world in white ♪ 63 00:02:29,299 --> 00:02:30,716 Where'd he pull you from? 64 00:02:30,716 --> 00:02:32,007 ♪ Gets underway ♪ Turks. You? 65 00:02:32,007 --> 00:02:33,508 St. Barths. 66 00:02:33,508 --> 00:02:34,675 I don't mind. 67 00:02:34,675 --> 00:02:36,257 If it wasn't for this job, the only way 68 00:02:36,257 --> 00:02:38,257 I'd see St. Barths is on the Travel Channel. 69 00:02:38,257 --> 00:02:40,174 If I could afford cable. Come on. 70 00:02:40,174 --> 00:02:42,424 ♪♪♪ 71 00:02:42,424 --> 00:02:47,299 ♪ Nothing changes on New Year's Day ♪ 72 00:02:47,299 --> 00:02:51,299 ♪♪♪ 73 00:02:51,299 --> 00:02:54,883 ♪ On New Year's Day ♪ 74 00:02:54,883 --> 00:02:59,800 ♪ I will be with you ♪ 75 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,966 I can win, right? 76 00:03:01,966 --> 00:03:05,007 We wouldn't be prepping if we didn't think-- 77 00:03:05,007 --> 00:03:06,091 Shit. 78 00:03:06,091 --> 00:03:08,508 You don't think I can win. 79 00:03:08,508 --> 00:03:11,257 Would Axe be Skyping in if he didn't think there was a-- 80 00:03:11,257 --> 00:03:13,508 Better if he were here. 81 00:03:13,508 --> 00:03:17,424 Always is. But the boys had their hearts set on Fiji. 82 00:03:17,424 --> 00:03:20,049 Skype is not the same. 83 00:03:20,049 --> 00:03:21,466 But I guess it'll be fine. 84 00:03:21,466 --> 00:03:23,466 Has to be better than fine. 85 00:03:23,466 --> 00:03:25,966 You've got to treat today like the real thing. 86 00:03:25,966 --> 00:03:27,591 We're going to make it hard on you. 87 00:03:27,591 --> 00:03:29,257 Because when you face the Medical Board, 88 00:03:29,257 --> 00:03:31,758 and your license is at stake, it'll be brutal. 89 00:03:31,758 --> 00:03:33,508 These are smart people. 90 00:03:33,508 --> 00:03:35,049 Can I win? 91 00:03:35,049 --> 00:03:37,925 You have to convince the Board that your work with Taylor, 92 00:03:37,925 --> 00:03:41,424 with all the people here, isn't part of your medical practice. 93 00:03:41,424 --> 00:03:42,758 That the sessions aren't. 94 00:03:42,758 --> 00:03:45,716 That they are performance coaching sessions. 95 00:03:45,716 --> 00:03:48,591 That Taylor wasn't a patient, but rather a client, 96 00:03:48,591 --> 00:03:51,758 who doesn't enjoy doctor-patient confidentiality-- 97 00:03:51,758 --> 00:03:53,549 Orrin. 98 00:03:53,549 --> 00:03:55,966 Can. I. Win? 99 00:03:55,966 --> 00:03:58,257 I'll let you know when we're done today. 100 00:03:58,257 --> 00:04:00,424 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 101 00:04:00,424 --> 00:04:02,257 [elevator dings] 102 00:04:02,257 --> 00:04:05,591 ♪♪♪ 103 00:04:05,591 --> 00:04:08,758 ♪♪♪ 104 00:04:08,758 --> 00:04:12,424 Old friends become enemies, old enemies become new-- 105 00:04:12,424 --> 00:04:14,174 We were never friends. 106 00:04:14,174 --> 00:04:16,007 So, when do we get this thing started-- 107 00:04:16,007 --> 00:04:17,591 I know: you only have the morning to give-- 108 00:04:17,591 --> 00:04:20,383 No. I'm eager. Eager to get you free of this, is all. 109 00:04:20,383 --> 00:04:22,966 As long as it can be 'accomplished by midday repast.' 110 00:04:22,966 --> 00:04:24,549 [exhales sharply] 111 00:04:24,549 --> 00:04:26,800 Well, we're all here, so let's get started-- Mm. 112 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,966 [Axe] Well. It's about time. 113 00:04:28,966 --> 00:04:30,966 Been waiting on you. 114 00:04:30,966 --> 00:04:33,675 You're here! 115 00:04:33,675 --> 00:04:36,466 Let's win this thing. 116 00:04:36,466 --> 00:04:39,132 ♪♪♪ 117 00:04:39,132 --> 00:04:41,841 ♪♪♪ 118 00:04:41,841 --> 00:04:44,299 [Axe] Yeah. Helo landed a few hours ago. 119 00:04:44,299 --> 00:04:45,925 The waves were a little big. 120 00:04:45,925 --> 00:04:47,174 Gordie got scraped on a coral. 121 00:04:47,174 --> 00:04:49,341 Deanie's surfboard got broken in half. 122 00:04:49,341 --> 00:04:51,549 We have front-row seats at the Rangers game tomorrow, 123 00:04:51,549 --> 00:04:53,299 [Axe] they were happy to bug out of there. 124 00:04:53,299 --> 00:04:57,966 ♪♪♪ 125 00:04:57,966 --> 00:05:02,466 [clears throat] 126 00:05:02,466 --> 00:05:05,633 You weren't expected to be here. 127 00:05:05,633 --> 00:05:08,007 Fair enough. 128 00:05:08,007 --> 00:05:11,508 Dr. Rhoades, we're holding this inquest 129 00:05:11,508 --> 00:05:13,341 over your severe ethics violation 130 00:05:13,341 --> 00:05:15,800 and misuse of patient records. 131 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,841 Tell us about the nature of your sessions with Taylor Mason. 132 00:05:18,841 --> 00:05:21,091 I never discuss what I talk about with patients. 133 00:05:21,091 --> 00:05:22,841 So Taylor was your patient? 134 00:05:22,841 --> 00:05:25,341 [Bach] If we find there was a breach, it was a breach of 135 00:05:25,341 --> 00:05:27,174 doctor-patient confidentiality then. 136 00:05:27,174 --> 00:05:28,174 Client. I meant client. 137 00:05:28,174 --> 00:05:30,216 Taylor was a client 138 00:05:30,216 --> 00:05:32,925 in my performance enhancement practice. 139 00:05:32,925 --> 00:05:36,424 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 140 00:05:36,424 --> 00:05:38,508 We have to assume Wendy Rhoades will be 141 00:05:38,508 --> 00:05:40,716 buttoned down, focused, primed to go. 142 00:05:40,716 --> 00:05:42,925 I rattled her. She was rattled. 143 00:05:42,925 --> 00:05:44,383 And then I rattled her. 144 00:05:44,383 --> 00:05:46,216 But I suspect, as Sara does, that Wendy will rally. 145 00:05:46,216 --> 00:05:48,049 And that she'll slay. 146 00:05:48,049 --> 00:05:49,549 So we have to slay harder. 147 00:05:49,549 --> 00:05:50,925 You do, Taylor. 148 00:05:50,925 --> 00:05:52,466 Tell me to slay, I'll slay. 149 00:05:52,466 --> 00:05:54,299 Let's get into it. 150 00:05:56,132 --> 00:05:58,383 Slayed me last night. 151 00:05:58,383 --> 00:06:00,966 What did you all do for New Year's Eve? 152 00:06:02,299 --> 00:06:04,675 I mostly stayed in and did some reading. 153 00:06:04,675 --> 00:06:05,925 Same. 154 00:06:05,925 --> 00:06:07,758 You stayed in. That doesn't sound like-- 155 00:06:07,758 --> 00:06:09,341 Not same. 156 00:06:09,341 --> 00:06:11,049 I just mean, I didn't do much. 157 00:06:11,049 --> 00:06:13,383 Amateur night, you know? 158 00:06:13,383 --> 00:06:15,716 I prefer to party on the nights they're not out. 159 00:06:15,716 --> 00:06:19,758 So I just hit a diner... with some friends. 160 00:06:19,758 --> 00:06:21,549 A friend. 161 00:06:21,549 --> 00:06:24,841 Ahh, I wish I'd known you were just chilling, Lauren. 162 00:06:28,633 --> 00:06:31,091 Happy New Year! Right? 163 00:06:32,257 --> 00:06:36,257 Hello. [clears throat] 164 00:06:36,257 --> 00:06:38,049 This is Lonnie Watley. 165 00:06:38,049 --> 00:06:39,716 He was a star under Rhoades at SDNY. 166 00:06:39,716 --> 00:06:42,299 Chuck trained me. I worked closely with him. 167 00:06:42,299 --> 00:06:44,925 I can tell you: if he is preparing his wife 168 00:06:44,925 --> 00:06:47,091 for the hearing, she will be well-prepped. 169 00:06:47,091 --> 00:06:48,216 She will be ready to kill. 170 00:06:48,216 --> 00:06:50,174 And she will say absolutely 171 00:06:50,174 --> 00:06:52,841 anything she needs to, in order to win. 172 00:06:52,841 --> 00:06:54,466 True or not. 173 00:06:54,466 --> 00:06:56,216 What is your relationship with them now? 174 00:06:56,216 --> 00:06:58,257 I need to know that-- Do they have hooks in me? 175 00:06:58,257 --> 00:07:00,716 No. They don't. 176 00:07:00,716 --> 00:07:03,216 Sara relayed to me what happened between you and Wendy. 177 00:07:03,216 --> 00:07:05,007 And my experience was similar. 178 00:07:05,007 --> 00:07:07,216 Brought close just to be expelled. 179 00:07:07,216 --> 00:07:08,758 Like Sammy Hagar in Van Halen. 180 00:07:08,758 --> 00:07:11,841 Because, in the end, the Rhoades' only really 181 00:07:11,841 --> 00:07:13,257 take care of the Rhoades'. 182 00:07:13,257 --> 00:07:15,299 Sounds a lot like the Axelrods. 183 00:07:15,299 --> 00:07:17,299 Either way, let's go get 'em. 184 00:07:17,299 --> 00:07:19,633 We will. But you should know: 185 00:07:19,633 --> 00:07:22,049 if you pursue this it's not risk-free for you. 186 00:07:22,049 --> 00:07:24,007 I'm not afraid of an attack from them-- 187 00:07:24,007 --> 00:07:26,132 If you appear and testify against Wendy, 188 00:07:26,132 --> 00:07:27,800 they could introduce information about you, 189 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:29,633 [Lonnie] information that you don't want out there. 190 00:07:29,633 --> 00:07:32,341 Shit gets written down. Leaks happen. 191 00:07:32,341 --> 00:07:35,132 Suddenly your character and your conduct's being questioned. 192 00:07:35,132 --> 00:07:37,049 That's how they roll. 193 00:07:37,049 --> 00:07:38,424 We don't need our investors 194 00:07:38,424 --> 00:07:39,758 learning about your personal demons-- 195 00:07:39,758 --> 00:07:41,383 Is this something you want to consider, Taylor? 196 00:07:41,383 --> 00:07:44,007 [Lauren] It's worth considering-- 197 00:07:44,007 --> 00:07:46,466 And now we have. We may come back to it. 198 00:07:46,466 --> 00:07:47,883 But first, let's figure out 199 00:07:47,883 --> 00:07:49,675 how to strip Wendy of her goddamn license. 200 00:07:49,675 --> 00:07:52,508 You know how we win? 'Cause I know how we win. 201 00:07:52,508 --> 00:07:53,966 We make it so Taylor doesn't show up. 202 00:07:53,966 --> 00:07:56,091 They stop cooperating with the Medical Board. 203 00:07:56,091 --> 00:07:58,007 [Bach] It's true, if Taylor didn't appear, 204 00:07:58,007 --> 00:07:59,591 or refused to state, on the record, 205 00:07:59,591 --> 00:08:02,299 what Wendy did-- this matter disappears. 206 00:08:02,299 --> 00:08:03,549 That's not going to happen, though. 207 00:08:03,549 --> 00:08:05,549 Well. Maybe I could induce it to happen. 208 00:08:05,549 --> 00:08:07,341 [Axe] Offer them something they need. 209 00:08:07,341 --> 00:08:09,925 Create leverage. You know, what I do. 210 00:08:09,925 --> 00:08:11,675 Oooh... I can't recommend-- 211 00:08:11,675 --> 00:08:13,049 Risky move, Bobby. 212 00:08:13,049 --> 00:08:14,633 Agreed. If Taylor doesn't go for it, 213 00:08:14,633 --> 00:08:17,299 and instead takes it to the Board, we're fucked worse. 214 00:08:17,299 --> 00:08:19,841 Well, Charl, none of this would have happened in the first place 215 00:08:19,841 --> 00:08:21,758 if you would have done what you were asked. 216 00:08:21,758 --> 00:08:23,049 Taylor should be dealing with 217 00:08:23,049 --> 00:08:24,675 their own legal problems right now-- 218 00:08:24,675 --> 00:08:27,216 Oh. I hardly think I'm to blame on this one, Bub. 219 00:08:27,216 --> 00:08:29,341 Your gang war resulted in extra bodies-- 220 00:08:29,341 --> 00:08:31,841 Stop. 221 00:08:31,841 --> 00:08:33,675 Taylor won't be bought, won't be moved, 222 00:08:33,675 --> 00:08:35,383 and trying will only make it worse. 223 00:08:35,383 --> 00:08:38,508 I can't let anyone engage and ask them to drop it. 224 00:08:38,508 --> 00:08:41,549 I won't give Taylor the fucking satisfaction. 225 00:08:41,549 --> 00:08:45,257 Sorry to pull you out, but, uh, there's an issue. 226 00:08:45,257 --> 00:08:47,508 Mm. 227 00:08:57,633 --> 00:08:59,466 What do you got? 228 00:09:00,883 --> 00:09:02,091 Fuck me. 229 00:09:02,091 --> 00:09:03,549 What is it? 230 00:09:03,549 --> 00:09:05,257 A shitty New Year's present. 231 00:09:05,257 --> 00:09:06,883 It's a Picasso-- Boy With Pipe. 232 00:09:06,883 --> 00:09:08,549 It's also a huge fucking tax problem. 233 00:09:08,549 --> 00:09:10,508 Once you sign that, I've got seventeen more crates 234 00:09:10,508 --> 00:09:12,591 scheduled to come to you after the holiday. 235 00:09:12,591 --> 00:09:14,591 I'm not signing that. 236 00:09:14,591 --> 00:09:17,049 Well. You got to. To take possession. 237 00:09:17,049 --> 00:09:18,758 You busy today? 238 00:09:18,758 --> 00:09:20,466 No, but I'd like to be done. You know. 239 00:09:20,466 --> 00:09:22,174 Go home and watch a bowl game. 240 00:09:22,174 --> 00:09:25,257 Oh, yeah, sure. 241 00:09:25,257 --> 00:09:30,257 That is a thousand bucks-- 242 00:09:30,257 --> 00:09:33,508 and a few more for them-- 243 00:09:33,508 --> 00:09:35,383 I need you to wait here awhile. 244 00:09:35,383 --> 00:09:38,716 Ho, a day changer. Alright. 245 00:09:38,716 --> 00:09:41,633 Okay. 246 00:09:41,633 --> 00:09:44,257 Get him a chair, a coffee, some food-- whatever he wants. 247 00:09:44,257 --> 00:09:45,925 Set up the game on the laptop for him. 248 00:09:45,925 --> 00:09:47,591 This may take a minute. 249 00:09:47,591 --> 00:09:50,758 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 250 00:09:50,758 --> 00:09:53,758 Right now that painting and 17 others like it 251 00:09:53,758 --> 00:09:56,007 are gonna run over me like a Mack truck. 252 00:09:56,007 --> 00:09:59,591 I need you to get Sean Ayles in here now--this is his fuck-up. 253 00:09:59,591 --> 00:10:00,925 Not that he'll be able to solve it. 254 00:10:00,925 --> 00:10:02,716 So get Victor in here too. Fast. 255 00:10:02,716 --> 00:10:04,758 I will. 256 00:10:04,758 --> 00:10:07,633 ♪♪♪ 257 00:10:09,049 --> 00:10:10,716 Judge Funt. 258 00:10:10,716 --> 00:10:13,883 Even though court is closed, justice never slumbers. 259 00:10:13,883 --> 00:10:16,633 At the SDNY, we are always open for business. 260 00:10:16,633 --> 00:10:17,633 [chuckles] 261 00:10:17,633 --> 00:10:19,925 And I'll play you today's. 262 00:10:23,716 --> 00:10:25,383 [Krakow] The bank I moved off the restricted list-- 263 00:10:25,383 --> 00:10:26,675 [Chuck] Qatar State Bank-- 264 00:10:26,675 --> 00:10:28,216 [Krakow] That's right. A report came in. 265 00:10:28,216 --> 00:10:29,549 [Krakow] I'm gonna have to move it 266 00:10:29,549 --> 00:10:30,716 [Krakow] back onto the restricted list. 267 00:10:30,716 --> 00:10:32,216 [Chuck] Shit. 268 00:10:32,216 --> 00:10:33,758 [Krakow] We need to meet. Your father too. 269 00:10:33,758 --> 00:10:35,800 [Chuck] [sighs] How about New Year's Day? 270 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,257 [Chuck] Things will be quiet... 271 00:10:39,508 --> 00:10:41,758 The wiretaps on their telephones are no longer enough. 272 00:10:41,758 --> 00:10:43,549 We need to step up surveillance. 273 00:10:43,549 --> 00:10:46,007 As you heard, Judge, they're going to meet in person 274 00:10:46,007 --> 00:10:49,007 in pursuit of their crimes and we need to be listening. 275 00:10:50,633 --> 00:10:53,007 The Title III intercept request. 276 00:10:56,925 --> 00:10:59,508 I'm going to deny bugging the NYAG office, 277 00:10:59,508 --> 00:11:01,758 that's outside the pale. 278 00:11:01,758 --> 00:11:05,508 But I'll grant-- reluctantly-- 279 00:11:05,508 --> 00:11:09,174 transmission bugs on Chuck and Rhoades Sr.'s residences. 280 00:11:09,174 --> 00:11:10,591 Not the bedrooms. 281 00:11:10,591 --> 00:11:13,508 [Funt] Home offices, living spaces only. 282 00:11:13,508 --> 00:11:15,549 Major conditions come along with this, 283 00:11:15,549 --> 00:11:17,091 [Funt] on what you can listen to. 284 00:11:17,091 --> 00:11:18,675 Of course. 285 00:11:18,675 --> 00:11:22,883 Anything not case related, and it's headphones off. 286 00:11:22,883 --> 00:11:26,758 And if a lawyer is present, then the recording stops absolutely 287 00:11:26,758 --> 00:11:29,549 to protect attorney-client privilege. 288 00:11:29,549 --> 00:11:31,466 We'll put in a taint team-- 289 00:11:31,466 --> 00:11:33,883 an FBI agent and an Assistant US Attorney here-- 290 00:11:33,883 --> 00:11:35,299 who will decide what is within 291 00:11:35,299 --> 00:11:37,132 and what is outside the scope of privilege. 292 00:11:37,132 --> 00:11:38,925 Good. 293 00:11:38,925 --> 00:11:42,007 They only pass on what you're allowed to hear. 294 00:11:42,007 --> 00:11:45,883 You violate this, your case is on a road to nowhere. 295 00:11:45,883 --> 00:11:47,716 Thank you, Judge. 296 00:11:54,216 --> 00:11:56,591 Ah. Good day for you and your case-- 297 00:11:56,591 --> 00:11:58,007 [Connerty] Dancshazy can pick the agent... 298 00:11:58,007 --> 00:12:00,091 [packet thuds] ...you'll run the taint team. 299 00:12:00,091 --> 00:12:02,841 Hold up. That idea is nicht gut. 300 00:12:02,841 --> 00:12:04,841 It's supposed to be somebody not involved with the case-- 301 00:12:04,841 --> 00:12:06,257 You're not. I'm running the case. 302 00:12:08,383 --> 00:12:10,841 [scoffs] You oversaw a surveillance, 303 00:12:10,841 --> 00:12:12,716 sat in on a meeting or two, loose facts. 304 00:12:12,716 --> 00:12:14,216 You're unbiased. 305 00:12:14,216 --> 00:12:15,925 We both know that I have done more than that, 306 00:12:15,925 --> 00:12:17,925 but you better believe that I am unbiased. 307 00:12:17,925 --> 00:12:19,591 And you'd better not be expecting to play 308 00:12:19,591 --> 00:12:21,758 the wink and nudge game with me. 309 00:12:21,758 --> 00:12:23,758 Or that I'll compromise my integrity. 310 00:12:23,758 --> 00:12:27,091 It's because I know you won't compromise, Kate. 311 00:12:27,091 --> 00:12:29,091 Anyone else in that office I could force to bend over. 312 00:12:29,091 --> 00:12:30,049 You won't. 313 00:12:30,049 --> 00:12:31,591 Damn straight I won't. 314 00:12:31,591 --> 00:12:33,633 Because I am not going to jail. 315 00:12:33,633 --> 00:12:36,758 And I'm not coming to visit you there either. 316 00:12:36,758 --> 00:12:39,424 Give me Agent Dancshazy's extension, 317 00:12:39,424 --> 00:12:41,800 I want his top Tac-Ops team 318 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:43,466 planting those bugs right away... 319 00:12:43,466 --> 00:12:46,424 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 320 00:12:46,424 --> 00:12:49,174 ♪♪♪ 321 00:12:49,174 --> 00:12:51,591 ♪♪♪ 322 00:12:51,591 --> 00:12:54,633 Fact pattern: A patient enters, 323 00:12:54,633 --> 00:12:58,174 complaining of an elevated HR, say, two hundred and ten BPM. 324 00:12:58,174 --> 00:12:59,508 Now, you suspect that 325 00:12:59,508 --> 00:13:01,675 he has been doing some kind of narcotic. 326 00:13:01,675 --> 00:13:05,091 What is your obligato per the Hippocratic? 327 00:13:05,091 --> 00:13:06,633 [sighs] 328 00:13:06,633 --> 00:13:07,925 Narcotics bring the heart rate down. 329 00:13:07,925 --> 00:13:09,424 That's why they're called downers. 330 00:13:09,424 --> 00:13:10,675 Jesus, Spyros. 331 00:13:10,675 --> 00:13:13,466 I don't know this Spyros of whom you speak. 332 00:13:13,466 --> 00:13:16,716 I am Medical Doctor Rodizio, as my name card clearly states-- 333 00:13:16,716 --> 00:13:19,091 That's it, Spyros. Now you've lost the coat. 334 00:13:19,091 --> 00:13:20,966 [Axe] Take it off. 335 00:13:27,466 --> 00:13:28,966 That goes too. 336 00:13:34,341 --> 00:13:35,549 Back to it then. 337 00:13:35,549 --> 00:13:37,341 Isn't it so, Ms. Rhoades-- 338 00:13:37,341 --> 00:13:40,758 Dr. Rhoades. Don't do that to them. No. 339 00:13:40,758 --> 00:13:42,591 Play through-- You play through-- 340 00:13:42,591 --> 00:13:46,633 Isn't it true, Dr. Rhoades, 341 00:13:46,633 --> 00:13:48,174 that this isn't the first time 342 00:13:48,174 --> 00:13:49,966 your patient's notes have been vulnerable 343 00:13:49,966 --> 00:13:51,925 and were used against the patient themself? 344 00:13:51,925 --> 00:13:54,091 Sometime in the recent past you were careless 345 00:13:54,091 --> 00:13:55,966 and someone in the US Attorney's office got a hold of-- 346 00:13:55,966 --> 00:13:57,675 Un-fucking-believable-- 347 00:13:57,675 --> 00:13:58,841 -Whoa-- -Whoa-- 348 00:13:58,841 --> 00:14:00,633 Whoa. Whoa, hey, hold up. 349 00:14:00,633 --> 00:14:02,591 If you're going to lose your poise that easily, 350 00:14:02,591 --> 00:14:03,716 I'll recommend you don't appear 351 00:14:03,716 --> 00:14:06,174 and take whatever decision they hand out. 352 00:14:06,174 --> 00:14:08,049 It's like that commercial: "never let 'em see you sweat." 353 00:14:08,049 --> 00:14:09,591 You've seen The Usual Suspects, 354 00:14:09,591 --> 00:14:11,341 only the guilty one can sleep through the night. 355 00:14:11,341 --> 00:14:14,466 Nope. Ya gotta keep as cool as a menthol. 356 00:14:14,466 --> 00:14:16,633 That's Kool with a K. 357 00:14:18,675 --> 00:14:20,341 Hey. 358 00:14:20,341 --> 00:14:21,549 Come on. 359 00:14:24,132 --> 00:14:26,257 [sighs] 360 00:14:26,257 --> 00:14:28,216 [door opens] 361 00:14:28,216 --> 00:14:32,883 You know. You're gonna have to answer some of the questions. 362 00:14:32,883 --> 00:14:35,716 And also, go easy on Chuck, he's merely doing what he's good at. 363 00:14:35,716 --> 00:14:37,883 [scoffs] Breaking my balls? 364 00:14:39,341 --> 00:14:40,841 Yeah. He's loving it. 365 00:14:40,841 --> 00:14:42,883 Just another special talent your man has. 366 00:14:42,883 --> 00:14:45,091 That's not what's giving me trouble. 367 00:14:45,091 --> 00:14:47,091 Yeah? What's the real problem? 368 00:14:47,091 --> 00:14:49,841 If Taylor was a patient, I've committed violations. 369 00:14:49,841 --> 00:14:51,883 If Taylor was a performance coaching 'client' 370 00:14:51,883 --> 00:14:53,758 and not a patient, then I'm in the clear. 371 00:14:53,758 --> 00:14:55,675 Yeah. No confidentiality. 372 00:14:55,675 --> 00:14:57,508 But then all the other Axe Cappers I've seen 373 00:14:57,508 --> 00:14:58,800 are that as well. 374 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:00,216 And what they've told me isn't protected. 375 00:15:00,216 --> 00:15:02,132 So if they question me about those sessions... 376 00:15:02,132 --> 00:15:04,800 Just share what you need to get you out of this. 377 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,091 Like Danzig's qualms about wrecking a town. 378 00:15:07,091 --> 00:15:09,132 Dollar Bill's struggles to gain inside information-- 379 00:15:09,132 --> 00:15:11,299 not whether or not to use it, he's sanguine about that-- 380 00:15:11,299 --> 00:15:13,341 but the challenge of getting it. 381 00:15:13,341 --> 00:15:15,758 Shell corps, shell funds, dirty edge. 382 00:15:15,758 --> 00:15:17,883 Axe Cap hit squads assembled to crush competitors, 383 00:15:17,883 --> 00:15:19,591 [Wendy] destroy businesses-- I get it. 384 00:15:19,591 --> 00:15:21,675 So, if those stories, those 'sessions,' aren't protected, 385 00:15:21,675 --> 00:15:23,925 I could be subpoenaed and dragged into depositions. 386 00:15:23,925 --> 00:15:26,299 Your best bet then would be to fire me. 387 00:15:27,925 --> 00:15:29,299 It might be already. 388 00:15:29,299 --> 00:15:31,299 [scoffs] Not happening. 389 00:15:31,299 --> 00:15:34,299 We'd fight all that. You shade it a bit. 390 00:15:34,299 --> 00:15:37,675 And, look, even if you took a hit, the work doesn't change. 391 00:15:37,675 --> 00:15:39,299 [Axe] Our team will still go see you. 392 00:15:39,299 --> 00:15:41,007 As long as the work is good, 393 00:15:41,007 --> 00:15:42,925 people look past this short-term reputational bullshit. 394 00:15:42,925 --> 00:15:45,341 Steven Birch didn't. His board didn't. 395 00:15:45,341 --> 00:15:47,508 He basically bounced me out of his office-- 396 00:15:47,508 --> 00:15:48,841 Why the fuck were you talking to him? 397 00:15:48,841 --> 00:15:51,466 In trade. Something for Chuck. 398 00:15:51,466 --> 00:15:53,132 And he threw you out? 399 00:15:53,132 --> 00:15:54,800 That motherfucker just went back on my kill matrix. 400 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:56,424 You really shouldn't have one of those-- 401 00:15:56,424 --> 00:15:57,800 [exhales sharply] 402 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,633 Come on. Let's go back in. 403 00:15:59,633 --> 00:16:01,257 Try to keep your cool. 404 00:16:02,841 --> 00:16:05,091 I know. I know, coming from me, right? 405 00:16:05,091 --> 00:16:07,800 Were you having psychological problems, 406 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,466 is that why you saw Wendy Rhoades? 407 00:16:09,466 --> 00:16:10,508 No. 408 00:16:10,508 --> 00:16:11,966 So it was business. 409 00:16:11,966 --> 00:16:14,007 You sought her out as a performance coach. 410 00:16:14,007 --> 00:16:15,383 No. 411 00:16:15,383 --> 00:16:16,966 Then what was it? What had you all messed up? 412 00:16:16,966 --> 00:16:18,800 Was it about gender identification? 413 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,841 Was it confusion, a crisis? 414 00:16:21,841 --> 00:16:23,591 My book was fine. 415 00:16:23,591 --> 00:16:24,883 And no, it had nothing to do with 416 00:16:24,883 --> 00:16:26,675 my non-binary gender identity. 417 00:16:26,675 --> 00:16:28,341 I wasn't having psychological problems-- 418 00:16:28,341 --> 00:16:31,257 just an issue I wanted to discuss, privately, safely. 419 00:16:31,257 --> 00:16:34,007 So you were looking for a way to salve your conscience, 420 00:16:34,007 --> 00:16:35,508 over all the illicit things you had to do 421 00:16:35,508 --> 00:16:37,341 while in the employ of Bobby Axelrod? 422 00:16:37,341 --> 00:16:39,549 The whole point is: that whatever I was talking to her 423 00:16:39,549 --> 00:16:41,257 about was supposed to be private. 424 00:16:41,257 --> 00:16:42,925 Because she wasn't my performance coach, 425 00:16:42,925 --> 00:16:45,091 she was my doctor. Dr. Rhoades. 426 00:16:45,091 --> 00:16:47,675 And the whole wing of medicine is based on confidentiality. 427 00:16:47,675 --> 00:16:49,091 "And for the record, 428 00:16:49,091 --> 00:16:50,883 while the climate there may have been corrupt, 429 00:16:50,883 --> 00:16:52,216 I never was." 430 00:16:52,216 --> 00:16:54,966 Exactly right. I'll tack that on. 431 00:16:54,966 --> 00:16:58,966 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 432 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,091 I would wait on line for exactly three things: 433 00:17:05,091 --> 00:17:09,049 One, the first batch of new Lemmon 714 quaaludes 434 00:17:09,049 --> 00:17:10,424 coming off the assembly line, 435 00:17:10,424 --> 00:17:13,174 two, a chance to meet Ellen DeGeneres 436 00:17:13,174 --> 00:17:15,966 and three, every time I go to Miami, 437 00:17:15,966 --> 00:17:18,216 for some Joe's Stone Crabs. 438 00:17:18,216 --> 00:17:21,591 Which is to say: I come bearing provisions and news. 439 00:17:21,591 --> 00:17:23,383 And a bit of a tan. 440 00:17:23,383 --> 00:17:25,341 Is the news as good as the provisions? 441 00:17:25,341 --> 00:17:28,383 Well, while this lunch break is in effect, 442 00:17:28,383 --> 00:17:30,591 perhaps we could have a word, Wendy? 443 00:17:30,591 --> 00:17:34,132 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 444 00:17:34,132 --> 00:17:37,174 I heard rumblings that Taylor is making a move on Kling. 445 00:17:37,174 --> 00:17:39,257 It's an appliance manufacturer. 446 00:17:39,257 --> 00:17:41,257 I ran into the CEO at LIV. 447 00:17:41,257 --> 00:17:43,049 He said that Taylor bought up a ton of stock 448 00:17:43,049 --> 00:17:45,174 right at the close on the last day of the year. 449 00:17:45,174 --> 00:17:47,341 Kling is the major supplier of Saler's. 450 00:17:47,341 --> 00:17:50,341 That's the one cash flow lifeline left at the store. 451 00:17:50,341 --> 00:17:52,800 Taylor's going to try to hold us hostage. 452 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,091 This is why I came back. Knew you needed the info. 453 00:17:55,091 --> 00:17:56,257 And might have a directive. 454 00:17:56,257 --> 00:17:57,591 Dollar Bill covers them. 455 00:17:57,591 --> 00:17:59,216 My directive: get him on the phone. 456 00:17:59,216 --> 00:18:02,758 ♪♪♪ 457 00:18:02,758 --> 00:18:04,257 [line ringing] 458 00:18:04,257 --> 00:18:05,966 Gonna need you to come in. 459 00:18:05,966 --> 00:18:07,841 [Dollar Bill] And a Happy Fucking New Year to you. 460 00:18:07,841 --> 00:18:09,549 What do you know about Kling? And Taylor Mason. 461 00:18:09,549 --> 00:18:11,383 [Dollar Bill] Nothing. It's New Year's Day. 462 00:18:11,383 --> 00:18:13,633 [Dollar Bill] That's why I said Happy Fucking New Year-- 463 00:18:13,633 --> 00:18:15,633 Knowing nothing's the fucking problem. 464 00:18:15,633 --> 00:18:18,091 Get your team, get here, get them in here. 465 00:18:18,091 --> 00:18:19,424 And find out why Kling is in play-- 466 00:18:19,424 --> 00:18:22,174 which you should have known in the first place. 467 00:18:22,174 --> 00:18:25,132 Maybe there'll be some stone crab left over for you. 468 00:18:25,132 --> 00:18:27,216 Not a chance. 469 00:18:28,299 --> 00:18:31,091 Having been on all sides of these situations, 470 00:18:31,091 --> 00:18:32,466 I feel I have a good instinct 471 00:18:32,466 --> 00:18:34,466 for where the equitable resolution is. 472 00:18:34,466 --> 00:18:36,966 That's the kind of thing you say to someone 473 00:18:36,966 --> 00:18:39,216 when you're about to encourage them to take a deal. 474 00:18:39,216 --> 00:18:42,091 So it is. Yes. And the deal you should make-- 475 00:18:42,091 --> 00:18:44,841 and it's one I believe will be out there--is: 476 00:18:44,841 --> 00:18:46,758 six month suspension of your license. 477 00:18:46,758 --> 00:18:48,466 A probationary period. 478 00:18:48,466 --> 00:18:50,883 Say a year. And then it reverts. 479 00:18:50,883 --> 00:18:52,800 And in another two years, 480 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,007 the record of the entire proceeding is expunged. 481 00:18:56,007 --> 00:18:59,633 You're recommending I try for that? 482 00:18:59,633 --> 00:19:00,758 Yeah. 483 00:19:00,758 --> 00:19:03,132 It'll be easier on you. 484 00:19:03,132 --> 00:19:06,007 No, Chuck. It'll be easier on you. 485 00:19:06,007 --> 00:19:08,216 Because then you can walk out of here and move onto other things 486 00:19:08,216 --> 00:19:11,675 without guilt or recrimination from me. 487 00:19:11,675 --> 00:19:14,257 I do need to move on to the rest of my day-- 488 00:19:14,257 --> 00:19:16,174 I've been working on that thing for months 489 00:19:16,174 --> 00:19:17,383 and it's time sensitive. 490 00:19:17,383 --> 00:19:19,633 But I'm not motivated by that. 491 00:19:19,633 --> 00:19:20,800 Take the deal. 492 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,341 "Take the deal." 493 00:19:24,341 --> 00:19:27,341 Not "try and make a deal." 494 00:19:27,341 --> 00:19:29,966 Not "perhaps there's a deal to be made." 495 00:19:29,966 --> 00:19:32,174 Oh, you fucker. 496 00:19:32,174 --> 00:19:34,925 You're not guessing. Or spitballing. 497 00:19:34,925 --> 00:19:38,174 You're doing what magicians call a "force." 498 00:19:38,174 --> 00:19:41,091 Letting me think I'm making a decision you've already made. 499 00:19:41,091 --> 00:19:44,216 You went behind my back and pre-negotiated a deal. 500 00:19:44,216 --> 00:19:46,049 And now all I have to do is say "yes." 501 00:19:46,049 --> 00:19:49,132 Well, if Penn and Teller ever need a guest judge on Fool Us, 502 00:19:49,132 --> 00:19:51,216 you're their man. You're right. 503 00:19:51,216 --> 00:19:53,216 But that doesn't make what I did wrong. 504 00:19:53,216 --> 00:19:55,424 It's the smart thing. Easy thing. 505 00:19:55,424 --> 00:19:57,383 Maybe the right thing. 506 00:19:59,675 --> 00:20:00,841 How's she doing? 507 00:20:00,841 --> 00:20:02,216 Not good, frankly. 508 00:20:02,216 --> 00:20:04,424 She looks guilty, sounds guilty-- 509 00:20:04,424 --> 00:20:06,466 That's 'cause she feels guilty. 510 00:20:06,466 --> 00:20:09,007 Says something good about her actually. 511 00:20:09,007 --> 00:20:13,883 I mean...most people... 512 00:20:13,883 --> 00:20:16,049 they don't even care. 513 00:20:20,675 --> 00:20:23,424 How can you know me so little after all this time? 514 00:20:23,424 --> 00:20:25,675 It is publicly admitting guilt. 515 00:20:25,675 --> 00:20:27,007 It is giving up. 516 00:20:27,007 --> 00:20:28,675 And giving in to what Taylor wants. 517 00:20:28,675 --> 00:20:29,800 And I'd never do any of that. 518 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,758 And I am fucking... 519 00:20:31,758 --> 00:20:33,925 [exhales sharply] 520 00:20:33,925 --> 00:20:36,341 Can I still be hurt by something you would do? 521 00:20:36,341 --> 00:20:37,925 [scoffs] 522 00:20:37,925 --> 00:20:40,383 Well, it seems I can. 523 00:20:40,383 --> 00:20:44,591 Why do you have so little confidence I can pull this off? 524 00:20:46,049 --> 00:20:48,424 You did, if we're honest here, 525 00:20:48,424 --> 00:20:50,800 use privileged information to work-over Taylor. 526 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,257 I don't care, morally. 527 00:20:54,257 --> 00:20:55,925 But it means the likelihood is 528 00:20:55,925 --> 00:20:58,716 that you lose in the hearing, unless you obfuscate. 529 00:20:58,716 --> 00:21:01,591 I've manufactured a way for you to end up where you want-- 530 00:21:01,591 --> 00:21:04,633 with your license, without it on your permanent record. 531 00:21:04,633 --> 00:21:06,800 And instead of thanking me, you cast me as 532 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,800 expedient, uncaring, a disappointment. 533 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,132 I'm offering you a solution. 534 00:21:13,132 --> 00:21:15,508 You'll only accept a miracle. 535 00:21:15,508 --> 00:21:18,633 Now, if you still need me to stay here and keep going-- 536 00:21:18,633 --> 00:21:20,299 No. No. Go do your 'thing.' 537 00:21:20,299 --> 00:21:21,466 I'll be fine. 538 00:21:24,716 --> 00:21:26,466 [door opens] 539 00:21:33,508 --> 00:21:35,049 [knock on door] 540 00:21:35,049 --> 00:21:38,007 Mafee has a matter he would like to run by the two of us. 541 00:21:38,007 --> 00:21:39,591 [Hammon] In person. 542 00:21:39,591 --> 00:21:41,424 Are you busy? You seem busy-- 543 00:21:41,424 --> 00:21:43,299 Shoot, Mafee. 544 00:21:43,299 --> 00:21:46,424 Well, new year, so I want to be upfront about something. 545 00:21:46,424 --> 00:21:48,383 We don't have any specific guidelines, 546 00:21:48,383 --> 00:21:50,633 but with things the way they are in the world, 547 00:21:50,633 --> 00:21:54,049 would it be okay if I asked an employee out, socially? 548 00:21:54,049 --> 00:21:55,716 Is it material for us to know who-- 549 00:21:55,716 --> 00:21:57,341 It's Lauren. 550 00:22:00,341 --> 00:22:01,508 Mafee, as long as you approach them 551 00:22:01,508 --> 00:22:03,257 in a respectful, consensual manner, 552 00:22:03,257 --> 00:22:05,007 you are free to 'socialize' with fellow employees 553 00:22:05,007 --> 00:22:06,299 who are not your direct subordinates. 554 00:22:06,299 --> 00:22:07,591 Including Lauren. 555 00:22:07,591 --> 00:22:08,883 Cool. Thanks. 556 00:22:08,883 --> 00:22:10,466 Not sure I'm gonna. 557 00:22:10,466 --> 00:22:12,132 So if you could not say anything-- 558 00:22:12,132 --> 00:22:13,966 Got it, Mafee. Don't worry. 559 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,675 [door closes] 560 00:22:18,675 --> 00:22:22,383 Like he said, new year, new start. 561 00:22:22,383 --> 00:22:24,424 So let's cut the bullshit. 562 00:22:24,424 --> 00:22:26,508 If you and Lauren are trying to keep your deal secret, 563 00:22:26,508 --> 00:22:28,633 keep it a fucking secret. 564 00:22:28,633 --> 00:22:30,216 So you know... 565 00:22:30,216 --> 00:22:31,591 You think we should tell people? 566 00:22:31,591 --> 00:22:34,883 No. I did not come to work for a hedge fund manager 567 00:22:34,883 --> 00:22:36,383 who's tagging the IR girls-- 568 00:22:36,383 --> 00:22:38,716 That's not the way it is. At all-- 569 00:22:38,716 --> 00:22:40,549 I know that. 570 00:22:40,549 --> 00:22:42,007 But it can be made to look that way 571 00:22:42,007 --> 00:22:44,383 by people on the outside who want it to. 572 00:22:44,383 --> 00:22:47,424 So do a better job of keeping it secret. 573 00:22:47,424 --> 00:22:49,216 Point taken. Thank you. 574 00:22:49,216 --> 00:22:52,633 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 575 00:22:52,633 --> 00:22:53,633 [door opens] 576 00:22:53,633 --> 00:22:55,257 [elevator dings] 577 00:22:55,257 --> 00:22:59,883 ♪♪♪ 578 00:22:59,883 --> 00:23:04,132 ♪♪♪ 579 00:23:04,132 --> 00:23:05,591 Does this guy really work here? 580 00:23:05,591 --> 00:23:07,383 [Rebecca] He said he does, so I brought him up-- 581 00:23:07,383 --> 00:23:10,758 I was told to come in, but I forgot my ID. 582 00:23:10,758 --> 00:23:13,049 Do something useful. 583 00:23:14,841 --> 00:23:16,591 Hey. Hey. 584 00:23:16,591 --> 00:23:19,257 Get that shit out of your maw and start talking. 585 00:23:19,257 --> 00:23:21,383 You sleeping at the switch is possibly gonna cost us 586 00:23:21,383 --> 00:23:23,341 hundreds of millions of dollars. 587 00:23:23,341 --> 00:23:25,299 With Taylor effectively in control of Kling, 588 00:23:25,299 --> 00:23:26,883 they also control the supply 589 00:23:26,883 --> 00:23:28,841 of household appliances that Saler's sells. 590 00:23:28,841 --> 00:23:31,424 And if Taylor decides to cut the flow of those appliances? 591 00:23:31,424 --> 00:23:33,925 It'll hurt them, but it'll gut you. 592 00:23:33,925 --> 00:23:36,299 Sales of Kling appliances account for 593 00:23:36,299 --> 00:23:38,716 sixty-three percent of Saler's revenue. 594 00:23:38,716 --> 00:23:41,257 Yeah. That would -- That would crush our business. 595 00:23:41,257 --> 00:23:43,424 And if Taylor gets outside backing, 596 00:23:43,424 --> 00:23:45,341 there's danger of a reverse merger. 597 00:23:45,341 --> 00:23:47,174 They could use Kling to take over Saler's. 598 00:23:47,174 --> 00:23:48,758 Yeah. God. That little asshole-- 599 00:23:48,758 --> 00:23:52,591 Look. I put you on their radar, it's on me to fix this. 600 00:23:52,591 --> 00:23:54,299 We need to get a new appliance supplier. 601 00:23:54,299 --> 00:23:55,925 So we're totally independent. 602 00:23:55,925 --> 00:23:58,633 I'll lead the way with the board, since this is my fault. 603 00:23:58,633 --> 00:24:02,383 Bosch, LG, Haier, Samsung... 604 00:24:02,383 --> 00:24:03,424 I need to figure out who's for sale 605 00:24:03,424 --> 00:24:05,966 or ripe for a hostile takeover. 606 00:24:05,966 --> 00:24:07,591 [sighs] 607 00:24:07,591 --> 00:24:09,591 Boss, I don't need to tell you that 608 00:24:09,591 --> 00:24:11,758 every one of those companies will cost billions. 609 00:24:11,758 --> 00:24:13,633 And Saler's has more debt than cash right now. 610 00:24:13,633 --> 00:24:15,383 Yeah. I am aware. 611 00:24:15,383 --> 00:24:17,883 You're more than welcome to find me the cheaper fucking option. 612 00:24:17,883 --> 00:24:19,257 [sighs] 613 00:24:25,383 --> 00:24:28,007 Do you recognize that? 614 00:24:28,007 --> 00:24:29,675 I do not. 615 00:24:29,675 --> 00:24:32,341 Victor, are you aware what happened last year at Art Basel? 616 00:24:32,341 --> 00:24:34,132 You went off, bought like twenty paintings, right? 617 00:24:34,132 --> 00:24:35,800 Eighteen. 618 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,174 The sales and usage tax that I'm facing 619 00:24:38,174 --> 00:24:39,549 is around seventy-five mil. 620 00:24:39,549 --> 00:24:41,508 Fuck me. Yeah. 621 00:24:41,508 --> 00:24:44,257 Instead my friend Sean Ayles here 622 00:24:44,257 --> 00:24:46,216 intro'd me to a very nice Swiss banker 623 00:24:46,216 --> 00:24:48,257 who said he was willing to store them for me-- 624 00:24:48,257 --> 00:24:51,174 because while they have started reporting cash holdings 625 00:24:51,174 --> 00:24:52,591 to the US government, 626 00:24:52,591 --> 00:24:55,299 Swiss banks didn't have to report art. 627 00:24:55,299 --> 00:24:57,466 Nice-- Until now. 628 00:24:57,466 --> 00:24:59,675 The bank decided to knuckle under 629 00:24:59,675 --> 00:25:01,633 and share the news with Uncle Sam. 630 00:25:01,633 --> 00:25:03,049 Oh my... 631 00:25:03,049 --> 00:25:06,091 So he did me the good service of shipping 'em here. 632 00:25:06,091 --> 00:25:07,800 But if I take it-- 633 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,007 It costs you seventy-five balloons. 634 00:25:10,007 --> 00:25:11,299 Oh my... 635 00:25:11,299 --> 00:25:12,508 Happy fucking New Year. 636 00:25:12,508 --> 00:25:14,049 Why's everybody keep saying that? 637 00:25:14,049 --> 00:25:17,341 Sean, you have anything to offer? 638 00:25:17,341 --> 00:25:18,716 No excuses, sir. 639 00:25:18,716 --> 00:25:21,132 Any advance word from your Swiss banker friend? 640 00:25:21,132 --> 00:25:22,299 No excuses, sir. 641 00:25:22,299 --> 00:25:24,007 Any fucking suggestions? 642 00:25:24,007 --> 00:25:26,383 No excuses, sir-- 643 00:25:26,383 --> 00:25:28,966 You're not a wartime consigliere, Sean. 644 00:25:28,966 --> 00:25:32,341 I need you to find me a workaround. 645 00:25:32,341 --> 00:25:33,383 On it. 646 00:25:33,383 --> 00:25:36,424 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 647 00:25:36,424 --> 00:25:40,716 ♪♪♪ 648 00:25:40,716 --> 00:25:41,883 [door closes] 649 00:25:41,883 --> 00:25:43,216 Isn't my assistant out there-- 650 00:25:43,216 --> 00:25:46,925 Do you think that, uh, Grasshopper 651 00:25:46,925 --> 00:25:49,216 left Master Po waiting in the dojo? 652 00:25:49,216 --> 00:25:50,841 I mean, it's not a fair comparison. 653 00:25:50,841 --> 00:25:52,758 Grasshopper was living there, and was kind of a servant, 654 00:25:52,758 --> 00:25:54,591 so he didn't have much of a choice. 655 00:25:54,591 --> 00:25:57,091 Yeah, well, you don't have much of a choice either there, Champ. 656 00:25:57,091 --> 00:26:01,091 Not if you want to get the stink of Eau De Loser off of you. 657 00:26:01,091 --> 00:26:03,716 But I didn't no-show you. I sent an email. 658 00:26:03,716 --> 00:26:05,758 Our first session was-- it's already paying dividends. 659 00:26:05,758 --> 00:26:07,341 I'm cooking here. You saw when you came in-- 660 00:26:07,341 --> 00:26:08,633 I wasn't sitting behind my desk. 661 00:26:08,633 --> 00:26:10,549 "Battle stance at all times. Ready for action." 662 00:26:10,549 --> 00:26:13,091 It is a no-show even if you email. Or call. 663 00:26:13,091 --> 00:26:15,675 Or send me a goddamned bugler to sound it to me. 664 00:26:15,675 --> 00:26:17,591 I am not offended. 665 00:26:17,591 --> 00:26:20,091 I am alert to the signs that you are sending, 666 00:26:20,091 --> 00:26:23,174 buddy boy, of a blockage. 667 00:26:24,883 --> 00:26:27,341 I can see that. But this was-- 668 00:26:27,341 --> 00:26:29,174 something big is happening today. 669 00:26:29,174 --> 00:26:30,591 Something that made it impossible. 670 00:26:30,591 --> 00:26:33,007 Are you dead? 671 00:26:33,007 --> 00:26:34,633 You ask that literally? 672 00:26:34,633 --> 00:26:38,424 Yeah. I do. Are. You. Dead? Mort. 673 00:26:38,424 --> 00:26:40,049 Because then, maybe it would have been 674 00:26:40,049 --> 00:26:41,549 impossible for you to show up. 675 00:26:41,549 --> 00:26:43,925 There is always a story to tell yourself. 676 00:26:43,925 --> 00:26:46,966 You say that word impossible to me again one more time, 677 00:26:46,966 --> 00:26:48,925 and I will kick it out of your mouth along with your teeth. 678 00:26:48,925 --> 00:26:52,091 Now, you finish your all-important task here. 679 00:26:52,091 --> 00:26:55,299 And then you find me tonight. 680 00:26:55,299 --> 00:26:57,966 Or never find me again. 681 00:26:57,966 --> 00:26:59,633 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 682 00:26:59,633 --> 00:27:03,132 ♪♪♪ 683 00:27:03,132 --> 00:27:06,466 ♪♪♪ 684 00:27:10,466 --> 00:27:11,966 Yo, sassy stems-- 685 00:27:11,966 --> 00:27:15,299 Not here, never here with that pet name bullshit. 686 00:27:15,299 --> 00:27:17,508 Not that it'll matter soon enough. 687 00:27:17,508 --> 00:27:19,174 Why's that? 688 00:27:19,174 --> 00:27:22,925 Axe is sending me on the road to rustle up new outside money. 689 00:27:22,925 --> 00:27:25,257 Since we don't have an IR person right now. 690 00:27:25,257 --> 00:27:27,091 I'm the IR person. 691 00:27:27,091 --> 00:27:28,299 That's bullshit. 692 00:27:28,299 --> 00:27:29,675 It's fun as fuck. 693 00:27:29,675 --> 00:27:31,007 See you when I'm off the road. 694 00:27:32,966 --> 00:27:35,174 Hey. 695 00:27:35,174 --> 00:27:38,091 I wanted to wish you good luck at the hearing. 696 00:27:38,091 --> 00:27:39,466 Go kill it. 697 00:27:39,466 --> 00:27:40,508 You go kill it. 698 00:27:40,508 --> 00:27:42,132 Nature is metal. 699 00:27:42,132 --> 00:27:43,675 And I'm nature. 700 00:27:43,675 --> 00:27:45,591 Will do. 701 00:27:48,508 --> 00:27:53,007 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 702 00:27:53,007 --> 00:27:55,299 ♪♪♪ 703 00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:56,299 [door closes] 704 00:27:56,299 --> 00:27:57,883 Your bug is in place. 705 00:27:57,883 --> 00:28:00,091 Great fucking news! 706 00:28:00,091 --> 00:28:01,841 What's the time frame on Chuck's house. 707 00:28:01,841 --> 00:28:04,508 Well, Chuck and the missus were also both out... 708 00:28:04,508 --> 00:28:06,383 And their kids out with Grandpa Senior. 709 00:28:06,383 --> 00:28:08,549 So the house was empty. We got up on both. 710 00:28:08,549 --> 00:28:12,591 You are the man! 711 00:28:12,591 --> 00:28:14,299 Expect a bottle in your Christmas stocking on me. 712 00:28:14,299 --> 00:28:15,758 Top shelf. Sure thing. 713 00:28:15,758 --> 00:28:17,049 Happy it worked out. Yeah. 714 00:28:17,049 --> 00:28:18,758 One thing though: chalk a big ring 715 00:28:18,758 --> 00:28:20,591 around the listening room and taint team office. 716 00:28:20,591 --> 00:28:22,466 You cross that line, Judge'll burn your case. 717 00:28:22,466 --> 00:28:24,549 And you with it. You know I will. 718 00:28:24,549 --> 00:28:25,841 [hand pats] 719 00:28:25,841 --> 00:28:27,466 [chuckles] 720 00:28:30,883 --> 00:28:35,049 No one makes me smile like my boy! 721 00:28:35,049 --> 00:28:37,549 [chuckles] What about that sweet little baby girl 722 00:28:37,549 --> 00:28:39,257 with the champion's chin? 723 00:28:39,257 --> 00:28:41,591 She fills the chest with happiness, too, of course. 724 00:28:41,591 --> 00:28:43,675 In a much less complicated way. 725 00:28:43,675 --> 00:28:46,049 She never has to perform. Never has to achieve. 726 00:28:46,049 --> 00:28:48,049 Mm. As long as she merely is, 727 00:28:48,049 --> 00:28:49,633 she brings joy. 728 00:28:49,633 --> 00:28:53,758 But you, son, bring pride along for the journey. 729 00:28:53,758 --> 00:28:55,716 What the fuck kind of meds are you on? 730 00:28:55,716 --> 00:28:58,257 Pure adrenaline. I've been out walking the city today. 731 00:28:58,257 --> 00:28:59,424 Ah-ha. 732 00:28:59,424 --> 00:29:01,091 Youbetcha. 733 00:29:01,091 --> 00:29:03,716 Thinking of all the things that we're going to do. 734 00:29:03,716 --> 00:29:06,675 And it freshens the blood like Geritol. 735 00:29:06,675 --> 00:29:08,132 Uh-huh. And, uh, Mom? 736 00:29:08,132 --> 00:29:09,424 She's down in Palm Beach 737 00:29:09,424 --> 00:29:11,257 enjoying the weather and the shopping. 738 00:29:11,257 --> 00:29:12,257 Good for her. 739 00:29:12,257 --> 00:29:14,257 And speaking of joy. 740 00:29:14,257 --> 00:29:16,758 I saw your kids today. 741 00:29:16,758 --> 00:29:19,132 A delight! [chuckles] 742 00:29:19,132 --> 00:29:20,758 Real gentleman and lady. 743 00:29:20,758 --> 00:29:22,591 Well, they love their grandfather. 744 00:29:22,591 --> 00:29:24,383 [laughs] Cup of tea? 745 00:29:24,383 --> 00:29:26,466 Mm. 746 00:29:26,466 --> 00:29:28,341 Ira and-- The Secretary? 747 00:29:28,341 --> 00:29:29,966 En route. 748 00:29:29,966 --> 00:29:31,466 Shouldn't be long. 749 00:29:31,466 --> 00:29:34,257 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 750 00:29:34,257 --> 00:29:37,591 ♪♪♪ 751 00:29:37,591 --> 00:29:40,758 ♪♪♪ 752 00:29:40,758 --> 00:29:42,966 What the fuck is he doing here? 753 00:29:42,966 --> 00:29:45,299 [Axe] Ah. We like him again. 754 00:29:45,299 --> 00:29:46,800 Special project. 755 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,675 We're good-- 756 00:29:49,675 --> 00:29:52,257 ♪♪♪ 757 00:29:52,257 --> 00:29:54,966 ♪♪♪ 758 00:29:54,966 --> 00:29:59,591 [espresso machine whirring] 759 00:29:59,591 --> 00:30:01,299 [whirring stops] 760 00:30:03,966 --> 00:30:07,174 The Italians think anyone who puts milk on their coffee 761 00:30:07,174 --> 00:30:09,591 after 11AM is animale. 762 00:30:09,591 --> 00:30:11,883 I tend to agree. In theory, but in reality-- 763 00:30:11,883 --> 00:30:13,675 Just gimme the espresso. 764 00:30:13,675 --> 00:30:15,549 There's a guy from the shipping company here. 765 00:30:15,549 --> 00:30:17,675 Another guy. Kind of demanding to see you. 766 00:30:17,675 --> 00:30:20,466 [mug clinks] 767 00:30:22,299 --> 00:30:25,007 [exhales sharply] 768 00:30:27,966 --> 00:30:29,633 I can't afford to have my only guys 769 00:30:29,633 --> 00:30:31,841 working the holiday pulled out of service. 770 00:30:31,841 --> 00:30:34,049 You told him I spritzed you? 771 00:30:34,049 --> 00:30:35,257 [chuckles] 772 00:30:35,257 --> 00:30:36,716 He tells me everything. 773 00:30:36,716 --> 00:30:39,591 And I tell my brother-in-law everything. 774 00:30:39,591 --> 00:30:41,007 Don't you want to know 775 00:30:41,007 --> 00:30:42,675 what my brother-in-law does for a living? 776 00:30:42,675 --> 00:30:43,758 Do I? 777 00:30:43,758 --> 00:30:45,383 He works in a little outfit called 778 00:30:45,383 --> 00:30:47,966 United States Customs and Border Protection. 779 00:30:47,966 --> 00:30:50,383 Well, isn't that a sweet set-up. 780 00:30:50,383 --> 00:30:52,091 It really is. 781 00:30:52,091 --> 00:30:54,049 Ayles! 782 00:30:56,299 --> 00:30:59,216 Will you take this gentleman somewhere to talk in private. 783 00:30:59,216 --> 00:31:01,216 Make sure he's not recording it. 784 00:31:01,216 --> 00:31:03,299 And then make him happy. 785 00:31:03,299 --> 00:31:06,549 [clears throat] I am grateful of the opportunity to, 786 00:31:06,549 --> 00:31:09,049 as they say at the rummy table, get off the schneid. 787 00:31:09,049 --> 00:31:11,508 Sir? 788 00:31:11,508 --> 00:31:14,424 If any other guys like you show up to shake me down, 789 00:31:14,424 --> 00:31:15,758 I start burning paintings. 790 00:31:15,758 --> 00:31:16,966 I'd rather lose money than deal with 791 00:31:16,966 --> 00:31:19,549 this bullshit another minute. 792 00:31:21,675 --> 00:31:23,216 [elevator dings] 793 00:31:25,508 --> 00:31:26,758 HNY. 794 00:31:26,758 --> 00:31:28,091 Why are we here? 795 00:31:28,091 --> 00:31:30,174 Well. I didn't think you'd want all of them... 796 00:31:30,174 --> 00:31:32,049 Getting a jump-start on the year ahead of you. 797 00:31:32,049 --> 00:31:33,591 But why are they here? 798 00:31:33,591 --> 00:31:36,716 They don't want me getting a jump-start on them. 799 00:31:36,716 --> 00:31:40,883 [indistinct conversations] 800 00:31:55,758 --> 00:31:57,883 Why'd you really come back? 801 00:31:57,883 --> 00:32:00,883 How many margaritas and piña coladas can a man drink? 802 00:32:00,883 --> 00:32:03,257 When it's the man I'm looking at, a hell of a lot. 803 00:32:03,257 --> 00:32:05,925 And how long can you stay in the sun before getting burned? 804 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,800 What time is it? 805 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,299 Yes. The Patek is gone. 806 00:32:14,299 --> 00:32:15,925 Your dad gave that to you, didn't he? 807 00:32:15,925 --> 00:32:17,758 Bequeathed it ahead of his death. 808 00:32:17,758 --> 00:32:20,383 Quite a dry-eyed moment for him-- 809 00:32:20,383 --> 00:32:23,257 estate planning and so forth-- 810 00:32:23,257 --> 00:32:27,383 but for me, it meant a great deal. 811 00:32:27,383 --> 00:32:28,800 A great deal. 812 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,758 Where is it? 813 00:32:31,758 --> 00:32:33,132 Somewhere in South Beach. 814 00:32:33,132 --> 00:32:35,424 Or maybe already riding the Silk Road 815 00:32:35,424 --> 00:32:37,925 to some exotic destination. 816 00:32:37,925 --> 00:32:39,466 You didn't get so drunk you sold it. 817 00:32:39,466 --> 00:32:41,299 Nope. 818 00:32:41,299 --> 00:32:43,257 Went back to the hotel room with a young lady I had met. 819 00:32:43,257 --> 00:32:45,341 A yacht girl. But not really. 820 00:32:45,341 --> 00:32:47,132 She was... 821 00:32:47,132 --> 00:32:48,758 I thought she was special. 822 00:32:48,758 --> 00:32:50,174 How young? 823 00:32:50,174 --> 00:32:51,758 Does it matter? 824 00:32:51,758 --> 00:32:54,591 She had an old soul... 825 00:32:54,591 --> 00:32:56,132 22. 826 00:32:57,758 --> 00:32:59,341 I thought I liked her. 827 00:33:01,675 --> 00:33:03,174 I did like her. 828 00:33:03,174 --> 00:33:05,174 And then? 829 00:33:05,174 --> 00:33:08,174 Passed out. Woke up, she, and the watch, were gone. 830 00:33:08,174 --> 00:33:10,549 You call the police? 831 00:33:10,549 --> 00:33:13,508 Too embarrassed. 832 00:33:13,508 --> 00:33:15,383 Too sad. 833 00:33:15,383 --> 00:33:18,174 Put a real dent in my faith in humanity. 834 00:33:18,174 --> 00:33:20,174 It's sweet you still have some. 835 00:33:20,174 --> 00:33:24,675 ♪ soft music ♪ 836 00:33:24,675 --> 00:33:26,341 Lemme make a call. 837 00:33:26,341 --> 00:33:27,424 It'll make you feel better. 838 00:33:27,424 --> 00:33:29,007 Watch dealer? 839 00:33:29,007 --> 00:33:31,216 Close. She's a specialist. 840 00:33:31,216 --> 00:33:32,383 In what? 841 00:33:32,383 --> 00:33:34,049 Restoring faith in humanity. 842 00:33:34,049 --> 00:33:37,549 ♪♪♪ 843 00:33:37,549 --> 00:33:40,383 ♪♪♪ 844 00:33:40,383 --> 00:33:42,257 Let's dispense with the pleasantries 845 00:33:42,257 --> 00:33:44,049 and ball tickling, shall we. 846 00:33:44,049 --> 00:33:46,466 What's this about a problem? 847 00:33:46,466 --> 00:33:49,132 Political winds shift, I have to shift with them. 848 00:33:49,132 --> 00:33:51,341 And the Middle East is the windiest of them all. 849 00:33:51,341 --> 00:33:53,091 Qatar is persona non grata again. 850 00:33:53,091 --> 00:33:55,758 That may be. But your tit's in the wringer-- 851 00:33:55,758 --> 00:33:57,132 my son put it there-- 852 00:33:57,132 --> 00:33:58,633 so you'd better not shift too much 853 00:33:58,633 --> 00:34:01,049 or it'll get ripped off. He'll tear it off. 854 00:34:01,049 --> 00:34:04,216 What he's saying in his inimitable way is: 855 00:34:04,216 --> 00:34:08,800 what can we do to keep the financing in place? 856 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,299 Okay. Crap. Okay. 857 00:34:12,299 --> 00:34:13,883 Perhaps I can paper an exception 858 00:34:13,883 --> 00:34:15,841 and bury it deep in the halls of government. 859 00:34:15,841 --> 00:34:17,424 But for that, we have to go beyond 860 00:34:17,424 --> 00:34:19,508 the parameters of the original deal. 861 00:34:19,508 --> 00:34:22,049 I'm not gonna stay neutral, I need to go positive. 862 00:34:22,049 --> 00:34:24,091 -Hold on-- -[sighs] What are you saying? 863 00:34:24,091 --> 00:34:26,091 If the loan I help facilitate 864 00:34:26,091 --> 00:34:28,841 results in your development, I want to... 865 00:34:31,591 --> 00:34:33,675 From my bowl? 866 00:34:33,675 --> 00:34:34,800 -Mm-hmm. -Oh my god-- 867 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,675 Quiet, Ira. How much? 868 00:34:39,257 --> 00:34:41,091 Fucking shakedown. 869 00:34:41,091 --> 00:34:43,174 In line with standard finder's fees. 870 00:34:43,174 --> 00:34:44,424 He's right. 871 00:34:44,424 --> 00:34:46,508 Maybe he is. But I don't have to like it. 872 00:34:46,508 --> 00:34:50,007 Whatever our understanding, it can't just be verbal-- 873 00:34:50,007 --> 00:34:54,132 Ah. I've taken the liberty. 874 00:34:54,132 --> 00:34:56,132 For our comfort... 875 00:34:56,132 --> 00:34:58,591 All we need to do is-- 876 00:34:58,591 --> 00:35:02,800 And then everyone is nice. 877 00:35:05,299 --> 00:35:08,341 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 878 00:35:08,341 --> 00:35:10,549 ♪♪ 879 00:35:10,549 --> 00:35:12,591 [sighs] 880 00:35:12,591 --> 00:35:16,633 ♪♪♪ 881 00:35:16,633 --> 00:35:20,800 ♪♪♪ 882 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,299 Perhaps you'd like to take these-- 883 00:35:22,299 --> 00:35:24,049 I'm not touching that fucking thing. 884 00:35:24,049 --> 00:35:26,174 Suit yourself. I'll just put them in my safe. 885 00:35:26,174 --> 00:35:28,508 One second, fast guy. 886 00:35:28,508 --> 00:35:32,966 ♪♪♪ 887 00:35:32,966 --> 00:35:37,758 ♪♪♪ 888 00:35:37,758 --> 00:35:42,299 [copier whirring] 889 00:35:42,299 --> 00:35:44,424 There'll be no changing it after the fact now. 890 00:35:44,424 --> 00:35:46,966 I need to go back to DC. 891 00:35:46,966 --> 00:35:49,049 I have work to do. 892 00:35:49,049 --> 00:35:51,341 Gentlemen. 893 00:35:55,341 --> 00:35:58,591 [clears throat] 894 00:35:58,591 --> 00:36:00,675 [Ira] Now that it's just the three of us, I have to say, 895 00:36:00,675 --> 00:36:03,007 I did not know the nature of that conversation beforehand... 896 00:36:03,007 --> 00:36:04,466 And further-- 897 00:36:04,466 --> 00:36:06,508 You can do all the mewling you want about matters legal 898 00:36:06,508 --> 00:36:08,341 once I get this copy locked in my safe. 899 00:36:08,341 --> 00:36:11,007 And then, Dad. You have to tell him everything. 900 00:36:11,007 --> 00:36:13,591 So he can defend us, whatever may come. 901 00:36:13,591 --> 00:36:16,049 You mean about the idiot who stands to lose the most? 902 00:36:16,049 --> 00:36:18,007 [Senior] Can I really-- Yes. 903 00:36:18,007 --> 00:36:19,299 I can't listen to future plans. 904 00:36:19,299 --> 00:36:20,841 But the things you've already done. 905 00:36:20,841 --> 00:36:22,883 And the people with whom you've done 'em, 906 00:36:22,883 --> 00:36:23,800 that I need to know. 907 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,424 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 908 00:36:26,424 --> 00:36:28,675 [lock beeping] 909 00:36:28,675 --> 00:36:31,549 ♪♪♪ 910 00:36:31,549 --> 00:36:34,549 ♪♪♪ 911 00:36:34,549 --> 00:36:37,633 [Krakow] I've taken the liberty. 912 00:36:37,633 --> 00:36:38,925 [Krakow] For our comfort... 913 00:36:38,925 --> 00:36:40,966 [Krakow] All we need to do is... 914 00:36:40,966 --> 00:36:43,007 This is fucking incredible. 915 00:36:43,007 --> 00:36:44,341 What-- What am I hearing-- 916 00:36:44,341 --> 00:36:45,925 that they've entered into a conspiracy? 917 00:36:45,925 --> 00:36:48,132 Fraud. A quid pro quo deal. 918 00:36:48,132 --> 00:36:49,424 International banking violations. 919 00:36:49,424 --> 00:36:51,007 Money laundering to follow. Shh... 920 00:36:51,007 --> 00:36:52,132 [rustling] What's that rustling? 921 00:36:52,132 --> 00:36:53,883 Did they paper this fucking deal? 922 00:36:53,883 --> 00:36:55,383 [Krakow] Perhaps you'd like to hold these-- 923 00:36:55,383 --> 00:36:57,466 [Ira] I'm not touching that fucking thing. 924 00:36:57,466 --> 00:36:58,633 [Krakow] Suit yourself. I'll just put them in my safe. 925 00:36:58,633 --> 00:37:00,549 Stay tuned for this next part. 926 00:37:00,549 --> 00:37:02,132 [Ira] Now that it's just the three of us, I have to say, 927 00:37:02,132 --> 00:37:03,758 [Ira] I did not know the nature of that conversation 928 00:37:03,758 --> 00:37:05,341 [Ira] beforehand... And further-- 929 00:37:05,341 --> 00:37:06,966 [Senior] You can do all the mewling you want 930 00:37:06,966 --> 00:37:08,883 about matters legal once I get this copy locked in my safe. 931 00:37:08,883 --> 00:37:10,257 [Chuck] And then, Dad. 932 00:37:10,257 --> 00:37:12,132 [Chuck] You have to tell him everything. 933 00:37:12,132 --> 00:37:14,049 [Chuck] So he can defend us, whatever may come. 934 00:37:14,049 --> 00:37:15,591 [Senior] You mean about the idiot 935 00:37:15,591 --> 00:37:17,091 [Senior] who stands to lose the most? 936 00:37:17,091 --> 00:37:18,883 [Senior] Can I really-- [static hisses] 937 00:37:18,883 --> 00:37:21,216 What the hell? 938 00:37:21,216 --> 00:37:22,841 We were just getting to the good part-- 939 00:37:22,841 --> 00:37:23,925 You know what the hell. 940 00:37:23,925 --> 00:37:25,549 [sighs] 941 00:37:25,549 --> 00:37:27,716 There's no attorney-client privilege with Krakow there. 942 00:37:27,716 --> 00:37:29,424 After Krakow leaves, 943 00:37:29,424 --> 00:37:31,383 Ira Schirmer clearly states that he is their lawyer-- 944 00:37:31,383 --> 00:37:33,633 in an exculpatory way for him, I might add-- 945 00:37:33,633 --> 00:37:35,341 and is about to give legal advice. 946 00:37:35,341 --> 00:37:37,216 And so it was headphones off for the agent 947 00:37:37,216 --> 00:37:38,257 and they killed the recording. 948 00:37:38,257 --> 00:37:39,758 [sighs] [headphones thud] 949 00:37:39,758 --> 00:37:41,257 So that--that was it, 950 00:37:41,257 --> 00:37:44,591 that was all he got before he had to minimize? 951 00:37:44,591 --> 00:37:45,800 Roughly all. 952 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,299 Fuck roughly. What else did he get, 953 00:37:47,299 --> 00:37:48,591 what else is on the unredacted tape? 954 00:37:48,591 --> 00:37:50,383 What, exactly, was getting locked in the safe? 955 00:37:50,383 --> 00:37:52,174 Bryan! We talked about this very fucking thing-- 956 00:37:52,174 --> 00:37:54,424 Ohh. Come on, Kate. This isn't fucking Girl Scouts. 957 00:37:54,424 --> 00:37:56,466 They were dancing around whatever they were doing-- 958 00:37:56,466 --> 00:37:58,049 if there's documentation to be retrieved, 959 00:37:58,049 --> 00:37:59,466 the audio will get me a warrant. 960 00:37:59,466 --> 00:38:01,466 Stop pushing me. 961 00:38:01,466 --> 00:38:04,383 And you shouldn't even be asking those questions. 962 00:38:04,383 --> 00:38:06,966 This is exactly what I was afraid of. 963 00:38:06,966 --> 00:38:09,716 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 964 00:38:09,716 --> 00:38:11,966 [sighs, clears throat] 965 00:38:11,966 --> 00:38:13,633 This meeting is over. 966 00:38:13,633 --> 00:38:15,800 ♪♪♪ 967 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,091 [door opens] 968 00:38:20,758 --> 00:38:23,341 Danny Margolis. 969 00:38:23,341 --> 00:38:26,800 You have done some good for me in the not too distant past. 970 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,174 And from what I hear, 971 00:38:28,174 --> 00:38:30,174 you made quite an impression on those Feds. 972 00:38:30,174 --> 00:38:33,091 For the record it was chilly that day by the pool. 973 00:38:33,091 --> 00:38:35,341 As I recall it was positively balmy. 974 00:38:35,341 --> 00:38:37,132 But whatever you need to tell yourself. 975 00:38:37,132 --> 00:38:39,508 Anyway, it motivated me to tighten up my game. 976 00:38:39,508 --> 00:38:41,257 I'm working out like six days a week now-- 977 00:38:41,257 --> 00:38:42,966 Good for you. Yeah. 978 00:38:42,966 --> 00:38:45,633 So. Business at hand. 979 00:38:45,633 --> 00:38:47,549 I believe I can do you some more good, Axe. 980 00:38:47,549 --> 00:38:49,091 Let me tell you what a freeport is-- 981 00:38:49,091 --> 00:38:50,925 A storage facility at a private airport 982 00:38:50,925 --> 00:38:53,132 where valuables purchased overseas can be stored 983 00:38:53,132 --> 00:38:55,341 and deemed perpetually 'in transit' so the customs, 984 00:38:55,341 --> 00:38:57,841 duties and sales tax can be avoided. 985 00:38:59,299 --> 00:39:01,132 So you do know-- Of course he does. 986 00:39:01,132 --> 00:39:03,132 But tell him the good part. 987 00:39:03,132 --> 00:39:05,508 I have one that I bought into. 988 00:39:05,508 --> 00:39:08,049 A freeport. Up in Newburgh, private airstrip. 989 00:39:08,049 --> 00:39:09,633 Is that right? Yeah. 990 00:39:09,633 --> 00:39:11,508 And I'm the commandant. 991 00:39:11,508 --> 00:39:13,841 So I can house your paintings in a permanent tax-free state. 992 00:39:13,841 --> 00:39:15,675 That is of value. 993 00:39:15,675 --> 00:39:17,508 And I can do you one even better: 994 00:39:17,508 --> 00:39:20,549 I'll store replicas, so you can hang the originals. 995 00:39:20,549 --> 00:39:22,549 If anyone asks, you say they're the replicas. 996 00:39:22,549 --> 00:39:24,883 For a small fee, of course. 997 00:39:24,883 --> 00:39:27,424 Medium fee? 998 00:39:27,424 --> 00:39:28,383 Okay. 999 00:39:28,383 --> 00:39:30,049 Stop talking. 1000 00:39:30,049 --> 00:39:32,341 The rest gets worked out between you and Victor. 1001 00:39:32,341 --> 00:39:35,341 The shipment from Europe will be rerouted to you. 1002 00:39:35,341 --> 00:39:37,132 You let me know when I can expect the 'replicas.' 1003 00:39:37,132 --> 00:39:39,383 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1004 00:39:39,383 --> 00:39:41,716 ♪♪♪ 1005 00:39:41,716 --> 00:39:44,341 ♪♪♪ 1006 00:39:44,341 --> 00:39:46,591 Hey. You did well here. 1007 00:39:46,591 --> 00:39:48,966 Keep it up. Impress me. 1008 00:39:48,966 --> 00:39:51,257 And soon enough you'll get off the austerity plan. 1009 00:39:51,257 --> 00:39:52,758 You can count on it. 1010 00:40:02,299 --> 00:40:05,174 Now, that puts a bounce in my man's step. 1011 00:40:08,591 --> 00:40:11,424 Though I'm not sure I'd use that room for that. 1012 00:40:11,424 --> 00:40:12,841 Hard floor. 1013 00:40:12,841 --> 00:40:15,049 Too hard. And very public-- 1014 00:40:15,049 --> 00:40:16,591 She's not what you think she is. 1015 00:40:17,841 --> 00:40:21,007 [door closes] 1016 00:40:21,007 --> 00:40:23,758 ♪ soft music ♪ 1017 00:40:23,758 --> 00:40:28,841 ♪♪♪ 1018 00:40:28,841 --> 00:40:31,299 You need to know that you might cry. 1019 00:40:31,299 --> 00:40:35,091 And if you do, that's just release. 1020 00:40:35,091 --> 00:40:38,633 It means connection. 1021 00:40:38,633 --> 00:40:42,132 It means freedom from having to hold it all in. 1022 00:40:42,132 --> 00:40:44,132 That sounds so good. 1023 00:40:44,132 --> 00:40:45,966 How do we... 1024 00:40:45,966 --> 00:40:49,549 ♪♪♪ 1025 00:40:49,549 --> 00:40:51,758 [hand pats] 1026 00:40:51,758 --> 00:40:56,716 ♪♪♪ 1027 00:40:56,716 --> 00:40:59,299 [exhales heavily] 1028 00:40:59,299 --> 00:41:03,341 ♪♪♪ 1029 00:41:03,341 --> 00:41:07,424 ♪♪♪ 1030 00:41:07,424 --> 00:41:09,675 [Wendy] She's a professional cuddler. 1031 00:41:09,675 --> 00:41:10,883 [sobbing] 1032 00:41:10,883 --> 00:41:12,549 [Wendy] And a star in her field. 1033 00:41:12,549 --> 00:41:15,383 [sobbing intensifies] 1034 00:41:15,383 --> 00:41:19,132 ♪♪♪ 1035 00:41:19,132 --> 00:41:23,007 ♪♪♪ 1036 00:41:23,007 --> 00:41:26,007 [Wags wailing] 1037 00:41:26,007 --> 00:41:28,966 ♪♪♪ 1038 00:41:28,966 --> 00:41:31,758 ♪♪♪ 1039 00:41:31,758 --> 00:41:33,216 [inhales sharply] 1040 00:41:33,216 --> 00:41:35,591 So... 1041 00:41:35,591 --> 00:41:36,716 Hmm? 1042 00:41:36,716 --> 00:41:38,800 Oh. This our own cuddle session? 1043 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,549 [chuckles] No. You already did the thing. 1044 00:41:41,549 --> 00:41:44,841 Made me feel warm and loved and cared for. 1045 00:41:44,841 --> 00:41:47,841 Oh. Well, that's something I don't hear every day. 1046 00:41:47,841 --> 00:41:50,383 Look. I don't know if Gordie really scraped his knee 1047 00:41:50,383 --> 00:41:52,132 and Dean broke his surfboard-- 1048 00:41:52,132 --> 00:41:55,174 but you came back for me. 1049 00:41:55,174 --> 00:41:58,383 As you would-- and have--for me. 1050 00:41:58,383 --> 00:42:00,633 It's more than touching, Axe. 1051 00:42:00,633 --> 00:42:05,299 It's...compared to what I have at this moment at home 1052 00:42:05,299 --> 00:42:07,633 it's, uh...really nice. 1053 00:42:07,633 --> 00:42:11,549 But also: you needed to come back for you. 1054 00:42:11,549 --> 00:42:14,508 For this... 1055 00:42:14,508 --> 00:42:16,132 What about it? They all fucked up. 1056 00:42:16,132 --> 00:42:17,925 They needed to come in and fix it. 1057 00:42:17,925 --> 00:42:19,675 No. If it wasn't today's reasons, 1058 00:42:19,675 --> 00:42:21,383 you'd have come up with others. 1059 00:42:21,383 --> 00:42:23,299 Okay. I suppose I might've. 1060 00:42:23,299 --> 00:42:25,049 You need to let them go home. 1061 00:42:25,049 --> 00:42:27,591 [sighs] Every single one of them. 1062 00:42:27,591 --> 00:42:29,508 I don't like it. If I'm here grinding, 1063 00:42:29,508 --> 00:42:31,007 they should be here grinding too. 1064 00:42:31,007 --> 00:42:32,716 Yeah. You can't let yourself take a day off, 1065 00:42:32,716 --> 00:42:34,007 so they can't take a day off. 1066 00:42:34,007 --> 00:42:35,925 So you can surround yourself. 1067 00:42:35,925 --> 00:42:40,466 Okay. Maybe I want the edge they'll get me. 1068 00:42:40,466 --> 00:42:42,424 Maybe I want them to regain their own edge. 1069 00:42:42,424 --> 00:42:43,675 Maybe I want them to feel the opposite 1070 00:42:43,675 --> 00:42:46,299 of the way Wags does right now-- 1071 00:42:46,299 --> 00:42:48,925 totally uncomfortable in their position and place, 1072 00:42:48,925 --> 00:42:51,716 scared to death of my disapproval, of failing, 1073 00:42:51,716 --> 00:42:53,466 of not being exactly where I need them to be 1074 00:42:53,466 --> 00:42:55,049 exactly when I need them there. 1075 00:42:55,049 --> 00:42:56,716 Many of them thrive under those conditions. 1076 00:42:56,716 --> 00:42:59,424 For long bursts. But then they need to recover. 1077 00:42:59,424 --> 00:43:00,716 On my time? 1078 00:43:00,716 --> 00:43:02,758 It's not all your time. It's a holiday. 1079 00:43:02,758 --> 00:43:05,591 There are no holidays when it's my money. 1080 00:43:05,591 --> 00:43:06,925 They are rich because of me. 1081 00:43:06,925 --> 00:43:08,841 So they can help me stay that way. 1082 00:43:08,841 --> 00:43:11,591 You're punishing them because they're not you. 1083 00:43:11,591 --> 00:43:14,299 You need to let them go home, Bobby. 1084 00:43:14,299 --> 00:43:16,800 So they can come back tomorrow and actually work. 1085 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,800 What's the point of any of you being rich 1086 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,383 if you can't fucking enjoy it. 1087 00:43:20,383 --> 00:43:22,800 I'll let you know when I do... 1088 00:43:25,132 --> 00:43:26,966 [scoffs] 1089 00:43:26,966 --> 00:43:29,675 This... 1090 00:43:29,675 --> 00:43:31,132 Yeah. 1091 00:43:31,132 --> 00:43:35,383 This is why I can't let you lose that hearing. 1092 00:43:35,383 --> 00:43:38,132 Because I have always known 1093 00:43:38,132 --> 00:43:41,466 I need you more than anyone else here. 1094 00:43:41,466 --> 00:43:43,633 At least I have since... 1095 00:43:43,633 --> 00:43:46,174 Have I ever told you 1096 00:43:46,174 --> 00:43:49,800 why and when, exactly, 1097 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,633 I knew that you were gonna be my partner at all this. Forever. 1098 00:43:53,633 --> 00:43:55,091 You remember? 1099 00:43:55,091 --> 00:43:57,925 What kind of man would I be if I didn't? 1100 00:43:57,925 --> 00:44:00,925 Mnh. 1101 00:44:00,925 --> 00:44:04,174 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1102 00:44:04,174 --> 00:44:06,007 Well, this was the one time in my life 1103 00:44:06,007 --> 00:44:09,216 I wasn't able to fight for myself, and you fought for me. 1104 00:44:09,216 --> 00:44:11,174 Well. I'm sure you didn't let on that was the case. 1105 00:44:11,174 --> 00:44:12,966 Whenever this was. 1106 00:44:12,966 --> 00:44:15,591 Yeah. But you knew. 1107 00:44:15,591 --> 00:44:18,716 It was right after 9/11. 1108 00:44:18,716 --> 00:44:21,758 When I'd made the bold but foolhardy statement 1109 00:44:21,758 --> 00:44:23,966 that I would take care of all the survivors, 1110 00:44:23,966 --> 00:44:27,007 and the families of those who didn't. 1111 00:44:27,007 --> 00:44:30,800 And that I'd not only find a way to pay for every funeral, 1112 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,007 put every kid through school, 1113 00:44:33,007 --> 00:44:36,049 but that I'd also pay out all the bonuses too, 1114 00:44:36,049 --> 00:44:37,424 for the next three years. 1115 00:44:37,424 --> 00:44:39,508 It wasn't foolhardy. It was generous. 1116 00:44:39,508 --> 00:44:41,216 It was the best of you. 1117 00:44:41,216 --> 00:44:43,633 Sure. But also: impossible. 1118 00:44:43,633 --> 00:44:47,424 Every business advisor I had 1119 00:44:47,424 --> 00:44:49,466 told me to shut down the company. 1120 00:44:49,466 --> 00:44:52,716 Act of God. Nothing for me to do. 1121 00:44:52,716 --> 00:44:54,841 I mean, we had no book, we had no personnel. 1122 00:44:54,841 --> 00:44:56,341 We were facing margin calls. 1123 00:44:56,341 --> 00:44:58,216 Every bank insisted I let it die. 1124 00:44:58,216 --> 00:44:59,841 But you didn't listen. 1125 00:44:59,841 --> 00:45:01,508 You'd been awake for, what, three weeks straight? 1126 00:45:01,508 --> 00:45:02,883 Mm. 1127 00:45:02,883 --> 00:45:04,466 I remember wondering how you were doing it. 1128 00:45:04,466 --> 00:45:07,007 How you stayed so lucid. 1129 00:45:07,007 --> 00:45:08,800 I didn't feel it. 1130 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,257 You still don't know the moment, do you? 1131 00:45:12,257 --> 00:45:14,883 I... don't. 1132 00:45:14,883 --> 00:45:16,132 It's all such a-- 1133 00:45:16,132 --> 00:45:18,216 Yeah. It was a blur. 1134 00:45:18,216 --> 00:45:20,675 Except for the few that stand out. 1135 00:45:20,675 --> 00:45:22,758 This was at one of the funerals. 1136 00:45:22,758 --> 00:45:25,675 God. For a while that was our days, right? 1137 00:45:25,675 --> 00:45:27,966 Going down to Ground Zero in the morning, 1138 00:45:27,966 --> 00:45:29,424 funeral in the afternoon, 1139 00:45:29,424 --> 00:45:32,800 then arguing with banks and investors, you know, 1140 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:37,174 every hour into the night, to try to save the company. 1141 00:45:37,174 --> 00:45:38,716 I mean, look. 1142 00:45:38,716 --> 00:45:40,257 I knew that I'd locked in a windfall. 1143 00:45:40,257 --> 00:45:42,007 But it hadn't been repatriated yet. 1144 00:45:42,007 --> 00:45:44,549 Back then, I was still just on loan to you guys 1145 00:45:44,549 --> 00:45:46,424 from that sports psych place I worked at. 1146 00:45:46,424 --> 00:45:48,716 Yeah. We used to do the funerals together. 1147 00:45:48,716 --> 00:45:50,549 You would help with the families. 1148 00:45:50,549 --> 00:45:52,675 And then at this one funeral, 1149 00:45:52,675 --> 00:45:56,675 I got bum rushed by this group of families. 1150 00:45:56,675 --> 00:45:59,424 Who told me I wasn't getting them all paid fast enough. 1151 00:45:59,424 --> 00:46:02,007 They attacked my integrity. They called me a thief. 1152 00:46:02,007 --> 00:46:03,508 Said I was stealing money from them. 1153 00:46:03,508 --> 00:46:05,132 When all I was fucking doing 1154 00:46:05,132 --> 00:46:09,049 was arguing and scheming 1155 00:46:09,049 --> 00:46:13,633 just to keep the firm going to give them their money. 1156 00:46:13,633 --> 00:46:16,216 Normally, I'd have-- I'd have fought it. 1157 00:46:16,216 --> 00:46:20,424 But [sighs] 1158 00:46:20,424 --> 00:46:24,383 right at that moment, 1159 00:46:24,383 --> 00:46:26,591 it all just became too much. 1160 00:46:26,591 --> 00:46:28,216 Of course. 1161 00:46:28,216 --> 00:46:31,424 The grief, the sleeplessness, the survivor's guilt, 1162 00:46:31,424 --> 00:46:34,174 the impossibility of the task... 1163 00:46:34,174 --> 00:46:37,216 I just stood there, as they unloaded on me. 1164 00:46:37,216 --> 00:46:39,508 [chuckles] I was struck dumb. 1165 00:46:39,508 --> 00:46:41,758 And then the whole place started watching. 1166 00:46:41,758 --> 00:46:44,508 It almost turned into a mob situation. 1167 00:46:44,508 --> 00:46:45,758 And that is when-- 1168 00:46:45,758 --> 00:46:48,341 I stepped in between them and you. 1169 00:46:48,341 --> 00:46:50,132 [chuckles] 1170 00:46:50,132 --> 00:46:51,341 I remember now. 1171 00:46:51,341 --> 00:46:52,383 You sure did. 1172 00:46:52,383 --> 00:46:53,800 You remember what you said? 1173 00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:55,633 'Cause I remember every word. 1174 00:46:55,633 --> 00:46:57,841 Loud enough for the whole place to hear: 1175 00:46:57,841 --> 00:47:01,341 "Shut the fuck up. 1176 00:47:01,341 --> 00:47:04,341 You lost family. So did everyone else here. 1177 00:47:04,341 --> 00:47:06,925 And this man is the only hope you--or any of you-- 1178 00:47:06,925 --> 00:47:09,091 have of paying for the rest of your lives. 1179 00:47:09,091 --> 00:47:12,675 And I'll tell you another thing, I have begged him not to. 1180 00:47:12,675 --> 00:47:16,174 Because I think it'll destroy him next. 1181 00:47:16,174 --> 00:47:17,549 He doesn't need it. 1182 00:47:17,549 --> 00:47:20,883 He can move on clean and in a couple of years 1183 00:47:20,883 --> 00:47:23,216 he'll have enough wealth for twenty lifetimes. 1184 00:47:23,216 --> 00:47:25,383 But if he's really too slow for you, 1185 00:47:25,383 --> 00:47:27,424 if you really think that he is stealing from you, 1186 00:47:27,424 --> 00:47:30,675 say another word, and I will make him shut it down. 1187 00:47:30,675 --> 00:47:34,049 Otherwise, shake his fucking hand, 1188 00:47:34,049 --> 00:47:37,424 say thank you, and we can all mourn together." 1189 00:47:37,424 --> 00:47:39,383 And that's just what happened... 1190 00:47:39,383 --> 00:47:40,883 [chuckles] 1191 00:47:40,883 --> 00:47:42,758 But that's not the moment. 1192 00:47:42,758 --> 00:47:44,716 The moment is when you got to my car after. 1193 00:47:44,716 --> 00:47:45,758 And you said-- 1194 00:47:45,758 --> 00:47:48,049 I said, "Bobby, 1195 00:47:48,049 --> 00:47:50,841 you better fucking deliver for those people. 1196 00:47:50,841 --> 00:47:52,424 Or I won't just make you quit. 1197 00:47:52,424 --> 00:47:53,675 I'll kill you myself." 1198 00:47:53,675 --> 00:47:56,049 And right then 1199 00:47:56,049 --> 00:47:58,800 I knew that you were my partner in this for life. 1200 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:03,383 Because you were loyal to me in the face of the world, 1201 00:48:03,383 --> 00:48:05,383 but in private you held me to account 1202 00:48:05,383 --> 00:48:07,758 and you were loyal to the bigger cause. 1203 00:48:07,758 --> 00:48:09,174 And you were fun as hell to watch. 1204 00:48:09,174 --> 00:48:10,591 And you still are. 1205 00:48:10,591 --> 00:48:13,925 So you say whatever you need in that hearing 1206 00:48:13,925 --> 00:48:15,424 to get you out of this. 1207 00:48:15,424 --> 00:48:18,841 And I will back you to the ends of the earth on it. 1208 00:48:18,841 --> 00:48:21,466 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1209 00:48:21,466 --> 00:48:26,007 ♪♪♪ 1210 00:48:26,007 --> 00:48:27,549 I hope I can. 1211 00:48:27,549 --> 00:48:30,257 [glass clinks] 1212 00:48:30,257 --> 00:48:33,800 And if you can't, you got to do the other thing. 1213 00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,925 The other thing? 1214 00:48:35,925 --> 00:48:38,174 You have the power to make this go away. 1215 00:48:38,174 --> 00:48:41,049 So that you don't have to defend yourself in that hearing. 1216 00:48:41,049 --> 00:48:44,132 I heard you earlier, that Taylor can't be moved. 1217 00:48:44,132 --> 00:48:47,675 And if it was me trying, then you'd probably be right... 1218 00:48:47,675 --> 00:48:52,299 But as much as it kills me to suggest: 1219 00:48:52,299 --> 00:48:53,508 Go to Taylor. 1220 00:48:53,508 --> 00:48:55,091 Talk to them. 1221 00:48:55,091 --> 00:48:58,883 And ask for their forgiveness. 1222 00:48:58,883 --> 00:49:00,966 [sighs] 1223 00:49:00,966 --> 00:49:04,007 ♪♪♪ 1224 00:49:04,007 --> 00:49:07,091 ♪♪♪ 1225 00:49:07,091 --> 00:49:10,508 Right. 1226 00:49:10,508 --> 00:49:13,800 ♪♪♪ 1227 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:17,132 ♪♪♪ 1228 00:49:17,132 --> 00:49:18,383 [door closes] 1229 00:49:18,383 --> 00:49:19,800 Oh. You look zenned out. 1230 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,466 Enjoy your hug? 1231 00:49:21,466 --> 00:49:23,508 Oh, she gives far more than that. 1232 00:49:23,508 --> 00:49:26,466 She imparts a total sense of well-being. 1233 00:49:26,466 --> 00:49:28,383 [elevator dings] 1234 00:49:28,383 --> 00:49:30,591 Ah. Ben Kim! Lookit that. 1235 00:49:30,591 --> 00:49:32,758 The only one to come in voluntarily. 1236 00:49:32,758 --> 00:49:34,966 I do this every year. 1237 00:49:34,966 --> 00:49:37,800 I sit at my desk, alone, visualize 1238 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:39,341 and do my goal setting for the year. 1239 00:49:39,341 --> 00:49:40,883 Of course you do. 1240 00:49:40,883 --> 00:49:45,424 Ben, my boy, you're not doing it alone this year. 1241 00:49:45,424 --> 00:49:48,257 Come on. 1242 00:49:48,257 --> 00:49:50,549 [Axe] I guess Ben Kim's gonna get cuddled. 1243 00:49:50,549 --> 00:49:52,508 [door opens] 1244 00:49:53,841 --> 00:49:55,508 Hey. 1245 00:49:55,508 --> 00:49:56,800 Good luck. 1246 00:50:02,424 --> 00:50:05,007 Ok everyone! I love the effort. 1247 00:50:05,007 --> 00:50:06,800 And seeing your beautiful fucking faces. 1248 00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:08,675 But you've done enough. 1249 00:50:08,675 --> 00:50:13,132 So fuck off out of here and enjoy the rest of your holiday. 1250 00:50:13,132 --> 00:50:14,883 [applause] [Axe] Now, when you get home, 1251 00:50:14,883 --> 00:50:16,883 [Axe] you will find a case of champagne from me. 1252 00:50:16,883 --> 00:50:18,800 And a tin of caviar. 1253 00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,216 You'll have to order your own pizza, okay? 1254 00:50:21,216 --> 00:50:22,716 So, eat up, drink up. 1255 00:50:22,716 --> 00:50:25,216 And then get yourselves ready to get back here 1256 00:50:25,216 --> 00:50:26,966 for when the market opens 1257 00:50:26,966 --> 00:50:30,216 ready to motherfucking destroy for me. 1258 00:50:30,216 --> 00:50:32,800 [cheers and applause] 1259 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,716 ♪ mid-tempo music ♪ 1260 00:50:35,716 --> 00:50:36,716 Come on! 1261 00:50:36,716 --> 00:50:40,424 ♪♪♪ 1262 00:50:40,424 --> 00:50:43,925 ♪♪♪ 1263 00:50:43,925 --> 00:50:47,675 ♪♪♪ 1264 00:50:47,675 --> 00:50:51,383 [switch clicks] 1265 00:50:51,383 --> 00:50:53,633 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1266 00:50:53,633 --> 00:50:57,091 ♪♪♪ 1267 00:50:57,091 --> 00:51:00,424 ♪♪♪ 1268 00:51:00,424 --> 00:51:02,758 I really thought we were done with this. 1269 00:51:02,758 --> 00:51:04,508 One last conversation. 1270 00:51:04,508 --> 00:51:06,216 One last ask? 1271 00:51:07,841 --> 00:51:10,174 Are you hoping I just don't show up to the Med Board 1272 00:51:10,174 --> 00:51:12,091 or are you going to ask me not to? 1273 00:51:12,091 --> 00:51:14,966 Whichever. 1274 00:51:14,966 --> 00:51:19,257 Look. All I want to say is: 1275 00:51:19,257 --> 00:51:21,800 I'm sorry. 1276 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:26,216 [Wendy] I am truly sorry. 1277 00:51:26,216 --> 00:51:28,883 Some kind of desire for revenge, 1278 00:51:28,883 --> 00:51:32,466 or competitiveness, or bloodlust 1279 00:51:32,466 --> 00:51:34,216 got a hold of me and let me go too far. 1280 00:51:34,216 --> 00:51:38,883 No, I--I [clears throat] let myself go too far. 1281 00:51:38,883 --> 00:51:41,174 I'd say way too fucking far. 1282 00:51:41,174 --> 00:51:45,424 But know this: 1283 00:51:45,424 --> 00:51:47,466 you say you don't want to end up like Axe. Or me. 1284 00:51:47,466 --> 00:51:51,091 Well, that's where this kind of vengeance leads. 1285 00:51:51,091 --> 00:51:56,257 It's ugly, it's sickening 1286 00:51:56,257 --> 00:51:59,174 and I don't recommend it, to my worst enemy. 1287 00:51:59,174 --> 00:52:01,466 Much less someone I once cared so much for, 1288 00:52:01,466 --> 00:52:05,466 and--and still, oddly do. 1289 00:52:05,466 --> 00:52:08,758 Your apology isn't real. 1290 00:52:08,758 --> 00:52:10,174 Do I need to impress upon you 1291 00:52:10,174 --> 00:52:12,424 how much my medical license means to me? 1292 00:52:12,424 --> 00:52:15,716 This, like everything with you, is now merely transactional. 1293 00:52:15,716 --> 00:52:17,675 That's who and what you are. 1294 00:52:17,675 --> 00:52:20,049 So you have to actually ask me not to show up. 1295 00:52:20,049 --> 00:52:21,508 As a personal favor to you. 1296 00:52:21,508 --> 00:52:23,257 You have to say the words. 1297 00:52:23,257 --> 00:52:27,841 Please don't come to the hearing. 1298 00:52:27,841 --> 00:52:30,299 Do that for me. 1299 00:52:30,299 --> 00:52:33,341 You are torn up, Wendy. 1300 00:52:33,341 --> 00:52:35,883 The look in your eye tells me that there is still, 1301 00:52:35,883 --> 00:52:39,424 somewhere inside of you, someone who knows right from wrong. 1302 00:52:39,424 --> 00:52:41,591 This hearing is your chance to reclaim that person. 1303 00:52:41,591 --> 00:52:43,257 I am not setting you up for defeat. 1304 00:52:43,257 --> 00:52:45,466 I am giving you a chance to save yourself. 1305 00:52:45,466 --> 00:52:50,299 ♪♪♪ 1306 00:52:50,299 --> 00:52:53,007 And, in fact, that decides it. 1307 00:52:53,007 --> 00:52:54,216 I won't come to the hearing. 1308 00:52:54,216 --> 00:52:56,841 If you think you should keep your license 1309 00:52:56,841 --> 00:53:00,299 so you can continue to treat people, tell them why. 1310 00:53:00,299 --> 00:53:02,341 And I won't be there to tell them any different. 1311 00:53:02,341 --> 00:53:04,883 ♪♪♪ 1312 00:53:04,883 --> 00:53:07,633 ♪♪♪ 1313 00:53:07,633 --> 00:53:10,424 I will. Thank you. 1314 00:53:10,424 --> 00:53:12,049 I owe you one. 1315 00:53:12,049 --> 00:53:14,383 You do. 1316 00:53:14,383 --> 00:53:16,883 But you owe yourself even more. 1317 00:53:16,883 --> 00:53:19,049 ♪♪♪ 1318 00:53:19,049 --> 00:53:20,383 [scoffs] 1319 00:53:20,383 --> 00:53:24,675 ♪♪♪ 1320 00:53:24,675 --> 00:53:28,716 ♪♪♪ 1321 00:53:28,716 --> 00:53:33,007 ♪♪♪ 1322 00:53:33,007 --> 00:53:37,257 ♪♪♪ 1323 00:53:37,257 --> 00:53:41,466 ♪♪♪ 1324 00:53:41,466 --> 00:53:43,341 [Connerty] Come on. Seriously? 1325 00:53:43,341 --> 00:53:44,841 No. No. No. No. No. You're doing this. 1326 00:53:44,841 --> 00:53:48,383 You can. And will. 1327 00:53:50,466 --> 00:53:51,758 You know what this symbol is? 1328 00:53:51,758 --> 00:53:53,091 Yeah. Divine wind. 1329 00:53:53,091 --> 00:53:54,925 Kamikaze. Right? 1330 00:53:54,925 --> 00:53:56,383 Who made the ultimate sacrifice 1331 00:53:56,383 --> 00:53:58,257 for their emperor, their nation, their ideals. 1332 00:53:58,257 --> 00:54:00,341 But the board? The metaphor I get, 1333 00:54:00,341 --> 00:54:03,091 but this isn't--it's not kids' karate class. 1334 00:54:03,091 --> 00:54:04,758 Go beyond the metaphor. 1335 00:54:04,758 --> 00:54:06,341 Break through it. 1336 00:54:06,341 --> 00:54:08,257 Feel it. 1337 00:54:13,257 --> 00:54:14,716 Hyah! 1338 00:54:14,716 --> 00:54:16,257 Do you see that? 1339 00:54:16,257 --> 00:54:19,549 Do you see, Bryan, nothing makes you feel 1340 00:54:19,549 --> 00:54:23,091 the purest version of yourself more than going kamikaze. 1341 00:54:23,091 --> 00:54:26,383 I want you to make an all-out attack on success. 1342 00:54:26,383 --> 00:54:27,633 Hmm. 1343 00:54:27,633 --> 00:54:29,383 The kamikaze get a bad name 1344 00:54:29,383 --> 00:54:32,049 because everyone wants to focus on the suicide. 1345 00:54:32,049 --> 00:54:34,216 But what they miss out on 1346 00:54:34,216 --> 00:54:37,716 is the purity of the commitment. 1347 00:54:37,716 --> 00:54:39,007 Hmm. 1348 00:54:39,007 --> 00:54:40,466 Good. 1349 00:54:40,466 --> 00:54:44,675 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1350 00:54:44,675 --> 00:54:46,299 Again! 1351 00:54:46,299 --> 00:54:47,675 Ah! Yeah! 1352 00:54:47,675 --> 00:54:48,716 Yeah! Ah! 1353 00:54:48,716 --> 00:54:50,299 Yeah! Yeah! 1354 00:54:50,299 --> 00:54:52,675 Oh! One more! 1355 00:54:52,675 --> 00:54:56,466 ♪ Jackson Browne's "These Days" ♪ 1356 00:54:56,466 --> 00:54:58,675 [door closes, keys jangle] 1357 00:54:58,675 --> 00:55:02,633 ♪ Well, I've been out walking ♪ 1358 00:55:02,633 --> 00:55:04,633 You figure out your strategy? 1359 00:55:04,633 --> 00:55:08,591 Things were done, moves were made. 1360 00:55:08,591 --> 00:55:11,132 Good. 1361 00:55:11,132 --> 00:55:13,549 And your thing? 1362 00:55:13,549 --> 00:55:16,800 Productive. 1363 00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,424 Great. 1364 00:55:19,424 --> 00:55:23,800 ♪ These days I seem to think a lot ♪ 1365 00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:27,716 Chuck, when did you know you needed to marry me? 1366 00:55:27,716 --> 00:55:30,007 ♪♪♪ 1367 00:55:30,007 --> 00:55:34,758 I mean the--the exact moment 1368 00:55:34,758 --> 00:55:37,007 and why. 1369 00:55:37,007 --> 00:55:38,675 ♪♪♪ 1370 00:55:38,675 --> 00:55:40,841 [laughs] 1371 00:55:40,841 --> 00:55:44,174 ♪♪♪ 1372 00:55:44,174 --> 00:55:45,925 One single moment? Uh... 1373 00:55:45,925 --> 00:55:47,383 [chuckles] 1374 00:55:47,383 --> 00:55:52,216 ♪ And I had a lover ♪ 1375 00:55:52,216 --> 00:55:54,883 ...I don't remember. 1376 00:55:54,883 --> 00:55:59,216 ♪ It's so hard to risk another these days ♪ 1377 00:55:59,216 --> 00:56:01,966 [footsteps departing] 1378 00:56:01,966 --> 00:56:04,049 ♪ These days ♪ 1379 00:56:04,049 --> 00:56:06,675 Hey, kids! Dinner! 1380 00:56:06,675 --> 00:56:08,800 ♪♪♪ 1381 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:12,549 ♪ Now, if I seem to be afraid ♪ 1382 00:56:12,549 --> 00:56:14,591 ♪ To live the life ♪ 1383 00:56:14,591 --> 00:56:19,132 ♪ That I have made in song ♪ 1384 00:56:20,716 --> 00:56:23,591 [The Pogues' "The Sickbed of Cuchulainn" plays over speakers] 1385 00:56:23,591 --> 00:56:26,257 [indistinct conversations] 1386 00:56:26,257 --> 00:56:28,758 ♪ McCormack and Richard Tauber ♪ 1387 00:56:28,758 --> 00:56:31,466 ♪ Are singing by the bed ♪ 1388 00:56:31,466 --> 00:56:34,383 ♪ There's a glass of punch below your feet ♪ 1389 00:56:34,383 --> 00:56:37,508 ♪ And an angel at your head ♪ 1390 00:56:37,508 --> 00:56:39,257 ♪ There's devils on each side of you ♪ 1391 00:56:39,257 --> 00:56:40,424 [Jackie] ...sipping fucking Jamesons 1392 00:56:40,424 --> 00:56:42,424 [Jackie] in your fancy fucking jeans 1393 00:56:42,424 --> 00:56:44,883 and your hundred dollar haircuts and your BMWs. 1394 00:56:44,883 --> 00:56:47,925 You only remember you're Irish on St. Paddy's Day and Easter. 1395 00:56:47,925 --> 00:56:49,383 [man] Believe this guy? 1396 00:56:49,383 --> 00:56:51,132 You know what? Fuck-- 1397 00:56:51,132 --> 00:56:52,383 ♪ When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt ♪ 1398 00:56:52,383 --> 00:56:54,341 ♪ And got syph down in Cologne ♪ 1399 00:56:54,341 --> 00:56:55,841 ♪ And you heard the rattling death trains ♪ 1400 00:56:55,841 --> 00:56:57,299 ♪ As you lay there all alone ♪ 1401 00:56:57,299 --> 00:56:58,716 ♪ Frank Ryan bought you whiskey ♪ 1402 00:56:58,716 --> 00:57:00,383 Don't even fucking think about it. 1403 00:57:00,383 --> 00:57:02,424 Ah, what the fuck, Jackie? 1404 00:57:02,424 --> 00:57:04,716 He fell. 1405 00:57:04,716 --> 00:57:05,758 Both of 'em? 1406 00:57:05,758 --> 00:57:07,299 They're fucking clumsy. 1407 00:57:07,299 --> 00:57:09,591 Bryan. Get your brother outta here, would ya? 1408 00:57:09,591 --> 00:57:12,216 'So you know: I had those fake fucking Irish pricks-- 1409 00:57:12,216 --> 00:57:13,758 Yeah, course you did. 1410 00:57:13,758 --> 00:57:15,341 And when was the last time you've been over in Belfast 1411 00:57:15,341 --> 00:57:16,966 supporting the cause? Well. That'd be never. 1412 00:57:16,966 --> 00:57:18,341 C'mon... 1413 00:57:18,341 --> 00:57:21,299 Yeah, but I did go to Cape Cod once-- 1414 00:57:21,299 --> 00:57:24,049 ♪♪♪ 1415 00:57:24,049 --> 00:57:28,299 So, baby brother, 1416 00:57:28,299 --> 00:57:30,132 haven't seen you in years. 1417 00:57:30,132 --> 00:57:32,132 'Cause you don't come to Ma's for Christmas anymore. 1418 00:57:32,132 --> 00:57:34,299 I don't like her ham... 1419 00:57:34,299 --> 00:57:37,383 But you suddenly showing up here... 1420 00:57:37,383 --> 00:57:39,174 Must mean you want something. 1421 00:57:39,174 --> 00:57:41,633 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1422 00:57:41,633 --> 00:57:43,716 What is it you want? 1423 00:57:43,716 --> 00:57:46,508 The one thing you do with those hands better than fight. 1424 00:57:46,508 --> 00:57:49,257 ♪♪♪ 1425 00:57:49,257 --> 00:57:51,049 There's a safe? 1426 00:57:51,049 --> 00:57:53,883 You bet your ass there is. 1427 00:57:53,883 --> 00:57:55,633 ♪♪♪ 1428 00:57:55,633 --> 00:57:57,466 ♪ Now you'll sing a song of liberty ♪ 1429 00:57:57,466 --> 00:57:59,591 ♪ For blacks and paks and jocks ♪ 1430 00:57:59,591 --> 00:58:01,299 ♪ And they'll take you from this dump you're in ♪ 1431 00:58:01,299 --> 00:58:02,841 ♪ And stick you in a box ♪ 1432 00:58:02,841 --> 00:58:04,508 ♪ Then they'll take you to Cloughprior ♪ 1433 00:58:04,508 --> 00:58:06,591 ♪ And shove you in the ground ♪ 1434 00:58:06,591 --> 00:58:08,216 ♪ But you'll stick your head back out and shout ♪ 1435 00:58:08,216 --> 00:58:09,675 ♪ "We'll have another round" ♪ 1436 00:58:09,675 --> 00:58:11,591 ♪ At the graveside of Cuchulainn ♪ 1437 00:58:11,591 --> 00:58:13,257 ♪ We'll kneel around and pray ♪ 1438 00:58:13,257 --> 00:58:15,007 ♪ And God is in His heaven ♪ 1439 00:58:15,007 --> 00:58:16,591 ♪ And Billy's down by the bay ♪ 1440 00:58:16,591 --> 00:58:17,716 ♪ Yeah! ♪ 1441 00:58:17,716 --> 00:58:20,591 ♪♪♪