1 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:14,680 So, I've pitched this piece on dating discourse. 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:15,960 You know, like, body count. 3 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,760 "She's a four, but maybe six after five pints." 4 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,200 Age, income bracket. All of it's numerical. 5 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,000 That car's been idling outside for two days. 6 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:24,640 - ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:25,920 ELAINE JORDAN: You know that girl 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,280 who fucks 1,000 guys in 24 hours for content? 9 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:31,320 I mean, she wasn't fucking a person. 10 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:32,479 She was fucking a number. 11 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,360 I mean, her spirit was dominated, 12 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,000 well gang-raped, almost, by market logic, essentially. 13 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:39,920 Yeah, individuals reduced to abstraction. 14 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,160 Kierkegaard. 15 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,120 ELAINE: Yeah, but why is it you have to take something modern, 16 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:44,880 and then you make it for cunts? It's... 17 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:46,520 ♪ (TENSE MUSIC BUILDS) ♪ 18 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,000 Someone's fucking jimmied the window. 19 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:50,800 - Shit! Fuck! - (CUTLERY CLATTERS) 20 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:52,720 My fucking keys have gone. 21 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,200 ELAINE: Why do you lease a Mercedes anyway? 22 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:55,800 Where's that money coming from? Do you owe again? 23 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:56,920 Look, do me a favor, yeah? 24 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,600 Could you just take Matty for the week, all right? 25 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,160 - While I sort this shit out. - (ELAINE SCOFFS) 26 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:01,400 Okay, we need to formulate 27 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,360 some sort of custody agreement so you cannot keep doing this. 28 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:04,760 - Also, you look like shit. - All right. 29 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:06,080 It's the fucking Ritalin, it's my skin... 30 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,080 ELAINE: Well, what is the excuse for the rest of it then? 31 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:09,880 Because you keep saying, "Oh, I'm working flat out," 32 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:11,440 and then I hear stories of you out on benders 33 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,840 - and sharking random women. - Well, hang on, you're in a fucking relationship! 34 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:15,560 - (ELAINE SHUSHES) - JIM DYCKER: (WHISPERS) All right? 35 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,880 - (MATTY DYCKER BABBLES) - You don't have jurisdiction over my sex life. 36 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:19,560 - We literally fucked once. - (SCOFFS) 37 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,360 You do realize that absolutely no one knows 38 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,320 - that you exist, right? - (SCOFFS) 39 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:24,480 (SOFTLY) Fuck off. 40 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,320 - ♪ (BROODING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - (GRUNTS SOFTLY) 41 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,479 (SNIFFLES, SIGHS) 42 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:34,840 (EXHALES) 43 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,720 - (DISTANT SIREN WAILING) - (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 44 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:42,479 (PILLS RATTLING) 45 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:46,759 (SNIFFLES) 46 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:50,560 (EXHALES) 47 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:54,400 (SNIFFS) 48 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:57,280 (GROANS SOFTLY) 49 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:01,440 (GROANS) 50 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:03,040 (GLASSES THUD) 51 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,840 (CELL PHONE RINGING, VIBRATING) 52 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:09,880 (GASPS SOFTLY) 53 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,840 (BREATHES SHARPLY) 54 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:14,320 (SIGHS) Edward, hiya. 55 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,480 - (OVER PHONE) Sorry, what time is it? - EDWARD BURGESS: Who cares? 56 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,520 Good news. We've heard from Tender's counsel. 57 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,600 I think they've come in way too hot. 58 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,560 Their response to the "Tender, investigated" piece, 59 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:24,720 it's as subtle as a Slade song in truth. 60 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,960 Injunction, threat, defamation. 61 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,200 I mean, it's a real dog's dinner. 62 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:30,520 And I did a little digging, 63 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,079 and it seems upper management there 64 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:33,640 are a proxy for the Norton Media Group, 65 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,560 so I'm happy to send you to Accra. 66 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,880 ♪ (INTRIGUING SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 67 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:40,440 JIM: Look, thank you, Ed. You won't regret it. 68 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:42,960 BURGESS: Listen, the main thrust of all their ire 69 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,240 is collusion and market manipulation 70 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,280 between you and these short sellers. 71 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:48,960 I mean, that's a shot in the dark, right? 72 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:49,960 Uh... 73 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:51,240 BURGESS: Tell me you aren't inveigled 74 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,480 - with these fucking short sellers. - (GROANS) 75 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:54,520 Huh? (CHUCKLES) 76 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:56,120 Yeah, I'm not... I've spoken to them, 77 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,360 - but, you know, tangentially. - Oh, "tangentially." 78 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:00,560 Like, "elliptically"? Whatever the fuck. 79 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:02,560 Just clean the slate with those contacts, okay? 80 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:06,080 Yeah. Look, man, I'm... I'm working on a follow-up. 81 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,600 Far more meat on the bone. 82 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:09,400 Major discovery in Sunderland, all right? 83 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:11,200 BURGESS: Well, I don't like being woken by bullies. 84 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,040 And it's in the public interest for us to respond aggressively, 85 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:15,280 especially if Tender have designs 86 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,720 on the UK consumer with this new banking app. 87 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,800 I'll get legal to word a stern and curt rebuke. 88 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,720 If I know anything about people who go this nuclear this early, 89 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,240 you can bet your loneliest penny 90 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,120 the cunts have a glass fucking jaw. 91 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:28,520 - JIM: Yeah. - BURGESS: Okay, bye. 92 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,200 - (BREATHES HEAVILY) - ♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 93 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:33,480 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 94 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:35,920 JIM: Oi! 95 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:38,880 - Hey, what? - JIM: Why are you watching my house? 96 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:40,920 What? Brother, I'm waiting for my girl. 97 00:03:42,079 --> 00:03:43,800 Get the fuck off my street, yeah? 98 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:46,079 Brother came here all tooled up 99 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,440 looking like some hard wanker, yeah? 100 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,520 Get the fuck away from my car, bro. 101 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:51,800 (HAWKS, SPITS) 102 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:53,840 - Fuck! - LEO GRAYSON: Pussyhole faggot. 103 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:59,079 ♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC BUILDS) ♪ 104 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:00,440 HARPER STERN: (OVER PHONE) All we've done 105 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:01,920 is share non-private information. 106 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,960 Your article was a non-event. 107 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:05,600 It helped our short for all of 20 minutes. 108 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,600 Well, proving a connection might be enough. 109 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:09,280 Now, I've started working on an air-gapped computer 110 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:10,400 so it can't be hacked. 111 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:12,160 But you're calling me on my work phone? 112 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:14,600 When are you publishing the follow-up? 113 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,000 I can't say. 114 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,560 - You can't or won't? - (INHALES SHARPLY) 115 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,640 Bro, we gave you the Sunderland piece. 116 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:21,160 You write it up and disseminate it. 117 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,920 - That was agreed. - Uh, no, it was never agreed. 118 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,920 Oh, fuck off. It was fucking implied. 119 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Come on. You're not being fair at all. 120 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:30,640 Yeah, I think you fundamentally misunderstood my ethics here. 121 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:31,800 It is important from here on out, 122 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:33,560 we deny any kind of communication. 123 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,159 (SCOFFS) And that's ethical, is it? 124 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,159 No, it's sensible. I appreciate your time. 125 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,440 If he doesn't publish again soon, 126 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,280 what's our next negative catalyst? 127 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,600 Market's pricing this app launch as a positive one. 128 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,920 - Stock climbs any higher, we'll face a margin call. - Um... 129 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,560 We feed the Sunderland piece to another reporter. 130 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,320 How long a lag time to get it understood, 131 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,640 - past seniors, printed? - Why don't we self-publish? 132 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,320 We'll just get Sweetpea to write it up, 133 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,280 like Hindenburg, GlassHouse, that sort of beat. 134 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,240 It's too clear a conflict of interest. 135 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:04,280 Okay. Well, obviously, 136 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:05,920 we would use the appropriate disclosures. 137 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,320 One wrong word, 138 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,760 we open ourselves up to a civil suit. 139 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:11,720 Plus, our name has no cachet. 140 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,600 Who gives a solitary fuck about "SternTao's view"? 141 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,200 It doesn't matter if Tender is a house of cards 142 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:17,560 if we don't have any breath to blow. 143 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:21,000 Don't you think I fucking grasp that by now? 144 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:22,800 Fuck! 145 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,200 - ♪ (DYNAMIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - HENRY MUCK: I wanna see the mortgage piece 146 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,040 more prominent on the landing page. 147 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,520 And... And wipe the fucking crypto component off it. 148 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,680 I've given that note three fucking times. 149 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,760 And yes, Robin, that is a user-over-profit decision 150 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:36,640 because the UI is part of the messaging 151 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,000 and the messaging is everything. 152 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:39,720 Yeah, the tone matters to our backers 153 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:40,920 in government too. 154 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,280 And why is the phrase "Pierpoint powered by Tender" 155 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,000 so prominent on the UI? 156 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:50,159 Whitney cleared that. This is his brainchild. 157 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:51,600 Has been for some time. 158 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,600 Okay, I didn't stake myself on the build of this app 159 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,120 to facilitate Pierpoint giving the already upwardly mobile 160 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:00,560 a fucking clickable option 161 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,520 to passively compound their wealth! 162 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:03,720 Okay? 163 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:05,160 ERIC TAO: Bannerman. 164 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,280 You wanna give us a state of play, please? 165 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:08,400 KWABENA BANNERMAN: Yes, sir. 166 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,480 Two hundred and fifty million assets under management. 167 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,000 Eric's five percent of fund, ten bucks. 168 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:14,960 Pierre, the anchor, 100 bucks. 169 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:16,480 Further 140 million 170 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,440 when we combine all other invested parties. 171 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,560 With Kenny as our primary broker, 172 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,880 we borrowed a further 250 million via Deutsche. 173 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:24,960 That's our margin. 174 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:26,360 Hundred percent gross leverage? 175 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,400 KWABENA: Yes, 250 million equity, 176 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:30,040 250 million margin. 177 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:31,680 ♪ (DYNAMIC MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 178 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,880 We remain excited by the potential synergies 179 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:35,360 of the partnership showcasing 180 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,600 Al-Mi'raj-Pierpoint's wealth management offering 181 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:39,840 - within the Tender app. - You know, I've long thought 182 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,320 that the copy should be "Tender powered by Pierpoint," 183 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:43,840 not "Pierpoint powered by Tender." 184 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:45,320 Our lawyers went back and forth on it 185 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,440 while red-lining, arguing points of construction. 186 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,280 We have the investment managers. We have the customer base. 187 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:54,000 That's baked in for you in exchange for a platform 188 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,600 and a route to more retail customers. 189 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,760 By any metric, to any investor's eyes, 190 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:00,400 Tender is the more valuable asset here. 191 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:02,280 The market caps are moving in opposite directions, 192 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:03,680 and we see this simply as offering 193 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:05,720 a dinosaur a digital future. 194 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:07,440 Why am I here negotiating something 195 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,400 I assumed had already been negotiated? 196 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,280 That isn't what this is. 197 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,760 We wanted to illustrate how amenable we've been 198 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,680 in the hope of asking you to, uh, solidify the partnership 199 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,960 with a further billion-dollar investment. 200 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:23,840 I really think we're missing a trick 201 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:25,720 by not featuring Henry more prominently. 202 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:27,800 What does that mean, and what would it even look like? 203 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,800 Leaning into the tech side of fintech. 204 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:32,520 A buzzy launch. Named entertainment. 205 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,800 Charli XCX expounding on the virtues 206 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:36,280 of a digitized spending report 207 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:37,840 to track her nocturnal trips to the ATM. 208 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:39,880 Yeah. Yeah! But a public launch, 209 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,280 with translation to socials, it's still achievable. 210 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,320 It might be smart to de-risk a little 211 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:46,920 ahead of Tender rolling out their app 212 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,760 because streets expect it to land and rally. 213 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,000 HARPER: Guys, we can't just start throwing down longs. 214 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,080 Then we'd be like any other run-of-the-mill long/short. 215 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,720 What if Dycker's next article lands as flat as his last one? 216 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:56,920 Not with the Sunderland piece. 217 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:58,520 SWEETPEA GOLIGHTLY: Yeah, and when is that coming? 218 00:07:58,600 --> 00:07:59,960 Yeah, FYI, we are edging from gray 219 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,560 to fucking black on market manipulation stuff. 220 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,080 SWEETPEA: Oh, I've been speaking with the former CEO, 221 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:06,080 Jonah Atterbury. 222 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:07,600 I haven't spoken business with him yet. 223 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,000 I'm just softening him up. 224 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:11,240 - HARPER: Is he replying? - Oh, yeah. 225 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:13,800 He is replying! 226 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,040 WHITNEY HALBERSTRAM: You know, it's an open secret that Al-Mi'raj 227 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,520 is divesting Pierpoint back to the market piecemeal. 228 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:20,560 Pierpoint's a fucking legacy name. 229 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:22,920 It's, uh, sun-bleached font on signage. 230 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,400 Gym bags on eBay. Ironic Fincore. 231 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,640 Tombstones for a once great thing now dead. 232 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,560 We are modernity knocking at your door, 233 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:30,720 offering a leg up. 234 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,760 And for that, all we're asking for is, uh, 235 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,320 - is a pittance. - (PEN CLICKING) 236 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:36,360 HENRY: When does the, uh... 237 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,200 when does the press release go out and to who? 238 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:40,880 ROBIN WILLIAMSON: Tabled for 1:00 p.m. PST, Thursday. 239 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,200 Right, so there is time to go bigger if we want to. 240 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:44,800 ROBIN: Usual channels, TechCrunch, 241 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:46,400 Wired, Breaking Banks podcast. 242 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:47,880 YASMIN KARA-HANANI: Yeah, I think that Henry 243 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:49,400 should feature on more lifestyle podcasts. 244 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,000 There should be a fucking tariff on podcast equipment. 245 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,000 (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) Right, well, I want a redraft of the release 246 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,760 and my notes enacted, and we can go from there. 247 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:58,560 (CLEARS THROAT) 248 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,120 - ♪ (DYNAMIC MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ - (SIGHS SOFTLY) 249 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,880 - (KNOCK ON DOOR) - (DOOR OPENING) 250 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:07,480 Yo. 251 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:09,960 What's up? 252 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:11,480 - ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ - Henry isn't happy 253 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:13,160 about how the app launch is being positioned. 254 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:14,600 WHITNEY: 'Cause your husband hasn't landed 255 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:15,800 on something he likes. 256 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:17,720 Robin says you want to "eventize" the launch? 257 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,680 Yeah, there should have been a laid 258 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:20,840 to eventize it from the start. 259 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:22,720 (GROANING) We gotta stop using the word "eventize" 260 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:23,760 like it's a serious word. 261 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:25,640 YASMIN: I don't think this is funny. 262 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:28,720 You know, if I had a proper job title, 263 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:30,520 a role in the comms department, 264 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:32,160 this would have been done properly. 265 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:33,800 You want to work directly under Robin? 266 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,560 I want to give Henry a pulpit. 267 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:37,440 If Henry wants to be prominent, 268 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:39,080 if he wants to be responsible for this, 269 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:40,280 I'm not gonna get in his way. 270 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:41,960 But I'm a little disappointed in him. 271 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:43,720 Thought I was hiring a rock star. 272 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:45,920 He was like a fucking ghost in our meeting with PRA. 273 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,080 Yeah, his confidence is coming back. 274 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:49,520 WHITNEY: Slowly. 275 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,120 (INHALES DEEPLY) 276 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:53,880 Have you ever thought about laying a path 277 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:55,680 in the company for Hayley? 278 00:09:58,560 --> 00:09:59,680 What do you see in her? 279 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:01,280 YASMIN: I think she may have some information 280 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:02,880 that could help us with Dycker. 281 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:04,160 But she might need some sweetening. 282 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:05,680 Mm. 283 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,200 Bright young things attract bright young things. 284 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaking of, when was the last time you spoke 285 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,240 to your friend, Harper, by the way? 286 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,640 - You guys still close? - Why? 287 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:18,240 I got a suspicion her venture's short. 288 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,840 - (CHUCKLES) Um... - ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 289 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,320 She's probably being spurred on by her former boss. 290 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,200 They're sort of a poisonous double act. 291 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,440 They like to enable each other's worst instincts 292 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:34,960 just 'cause... 293 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:36,840 Well, 'cause they're fucking insecure. 294 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:38,120 I can, um... 295 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,920 I can think of a comms angle to deal with them. 296 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:43,640 Great. 297 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,240 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 298 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:53,080 - (RISHI RAMDANI BREATHES DEEPLY) - ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 299 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,400 What was it, two black cross? 300 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:57,160 Whatever's most premium. 301 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:58,920 Red, 180. 302 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,040 BANKER: One, please. Do you only do coke? 303 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,160 You don't carry any liquid 'shrooms, do you? 304 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:05,520 No, mate. (SIGHS) 305 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,520 Can't be front office with a pinstripe that chalky. 306 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,560 Unless you're at a povvo dive like Royal Bank of Scotland. 307 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:22,120 (CAR DOOR SLAMS) 308 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,280 No, don't fucking touch it yet. I told you. 309 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:28,400 Please. 310 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:30,880 Please, Daddy. 311 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,040 - (MELANIE DOVER SUCKS, PANTS) - (RISHI PANTS) 312 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,160 If you want more treats, you'll say it. 313 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,760 MELANIE: I'm a good little whore for Papi. 314 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,800 - (MOANS, SUCKS) - ♪ ("ALL OF MY TOMORROWS" PLAYING) ♪ 315 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:47,520 - (MOANS, PANTS) - (CELL PHONE VIBRATING) 316 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:49,960 - Get off. - (MELANIE GASPS) 317 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,760 - Yeah, hi. Hello, Mary. - MARY SMITH: (OVER PHONE) Hello. 318 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:55,040 Yeah, I, um... 319 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:56,640 Yeah, I... I wasn't expecting to hear from you. 320 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:57,880 MARY: I hope you're well. 321 00:11:57,960 --> 00:11:59,680 Yeah, as... as well as, I guess. 322 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,080 Um, yeah, and... and you? 323 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:03,680 MARY: We thought we'd make arrangements 324 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:05,080 for you to see Hugo. 325 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,160 It was important that we got a few things in order before... 326 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:08,480 RISHI: You... You... No, no, you... you... 327 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:09,680 you don't owe me an apology. 328 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:11,040 MARY: (SIGHS) This isn't an apology. 329 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,120 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, no. Of course, of course. Um... 330 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:14,480 MARY: Let me send through the details. 331 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:15,920 You know, whenever, whenever. I'm very... 332 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,600 - MARY: I'll send those through, thank you. - You... (SIGHS) 333 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,920 ♪ I would give All of my tomorrows... ♪ 334 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,800 They took my kid away from me. 335 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,040 Maybe they've got their reasons. 336 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:35,440 You ever tried shutting the fuck up? 337 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,680 (SIGHS) 338 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,560 One more thing. Do you know the WebHorizon guys? 339 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,680 WHITNEY: They asked Jonah and I to attend a bunch of times, 340 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:46,440 but I always passed 'cause I, uh, 341 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:47,640 never thought the two of us 342 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:49,360 were aligned enough about the future of the company 343 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,480 to share a stage and have it not be a... 344 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:52,640 stock-negative event. 345 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,640 Well, it... it might be a bit late in the day 346 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,680 for them to accommodate us, but if I say 347 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:59,800 that Henry's presenting a government darling 348 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:01,200 and then float the idea 349 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:02,840 that the Business Secretary might attend, 350 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,880 it may combat the negative press coming out of FinDigest. 351 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,000 - You can make that happen? - (SCOFFS) 352 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:09,400 WHITNEY: I mean, it would flatter 353 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:10,800 the programmers, for sure. 354 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,800 Let me proffer it. See where I get. 355 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:15,000 Great. And have FinDigest responded to legal yet? 356 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:16,280 WHITNEY: That piece was so undercooked, 357 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,440 it undermined whatever point they were trying to make. 358 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,120 But, uh, Louisa says they're doubling down. 359 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:22,880 (DRAWER SLAMS) 360 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:24,840 Okay, I'm gonna speak to Percy. 361 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,280 He's the business editor at the Sunday paper. 362 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,000 - (DRAWER LOCK CLICKS) - Robin's on board? 363 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:30,600 He will be. 364 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:32,320 Fuck yeah. 365 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:34,640 I got a 3:00 p.m. to Accra, but I'll be back soon. 366 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:35,880 Twenty-four hours. 367 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:37,720 YASMIN: God, that's a long way for such a short trip. 368 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:38,920 WHITNEY: Small management issue 369 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,480 which requires some hand-holding. 370 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:42,440 Hayley. (SNAPS FINGERS) Do me a favor. 371 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:44,160 Assist Yas with whatever she needs at the launch. 372 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:45,640 What, you don't need her in Ghana? 373 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,400 WHITNEY: She's supposed to split the load with Henry, 374 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,520 so let her take half of his load off you. 375 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:57,480 - (DIAL TONE RINGING) - (INHALES, CLEARS THROAT) 376 00:13:57,560 --> 00:13:58,800 JAY JONAH ATTERBURY: (OVER PHONE) Hey. 377 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:00,240 Jonah Atterbury? 378 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,160 - JONAH: Yeah, speaking. - ♪ (HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS) ♪ 379 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:03,680 SWEETPEA: Did I get you at a bad time? 380 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:05,680 Oh, just interrupting the prologue 381 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,160 to a story that I won't be able to finish. 382 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:10,520 You know, your voice sounds like I imagined. 383 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:11,960 - Hmm. - JONAH: Normally, chicks want 384 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,640 some kind of payment before getting personal so fast. 385 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:16,360 Um, Jonah, I actually have 386 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,400 a slightly ulterior motive for my call. 387 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,240 I work as a research analyst. 388 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,320 We believe your former employer is misrepresenting 389 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:24,840 - how they make their money. - What the fuck? 390 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:26,400 - Please don't hang up. - JONAH: Sorry, but, uh... 391 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:27,440 So much of this work 392 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:29,960 is just finding nuggets of encouragement, okay? 393 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:31,320 - (SLURPS) - People only open up 394 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,960 if the incentive outweighs their incentive to stay silent. 395 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,280 Yeah, I'm a little loaded for riddles right now, 396 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:39,600 and trust me... (INHALES) 397 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,320 ...I don't need your money. I mean... 398 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,080 I imagine that you have a bone to pick 399 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:44,960 with Whitney Halberstram. 400 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,960 You know, since he fired you. 401 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,720 Well, I'm in the middle of suing the prick for defamation. 402 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:55,080 - What the fuck is this? - Well, he shit on you, right? 403 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:57,640 - ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - JONAH: That fey little shit. 404 00:14:58,800 --> 00:14:59,920 I loved him. 405 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,280 SWEETPEA: In your legal complaint, 406 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:03,280 - is there anything that could help me? - STRIPPER: Hey, baby. 407 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,080 - Um, well, my, uh... - STRIPPER: Want a private dance? 408 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,040 ...or our correspondence was subpoenaed. 409 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,360 My team have access to gigs of emails. 410 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:14,240 Would you share them with me? I can just ping you my email. 411 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,560 JONAH: So, anything not pertaining to me is redacted. 412 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,960 I don't see how that would be useful. 413 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,120 The more I think about it, 414 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,480 the more I... I see I was blinded by history with him. 415 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:25,160 - SWEETPEA: How do you mean? - Um, small things. 416 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,200 I noticed he'd check the stock price 417 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,640 like an ECG last two years. 418 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,640 Down days, he'd mope around, suicide watch. 419 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:34,360 Up days, he was a prince. 420 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,200 Me coming to him with a question, 421 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:37,520 leaving with two more. 422 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,960 Rabidly social. Never seemed to fuck. 423 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:42,640 I also never saw him drunk. 424 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,960 Clients, investors, auditors, he'd drown them in Cristal, 425 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,120 leave them butt-fucked by a hangover lobotomy. 426 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,320 "Ooh, boy, that cad from Tender 427 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,200 parties like a pre-crisis Florida realtor." 428 00:15:55,240 --> 00:16:00,160 Oh, well, thank you, Jonah. I, um... (INHALES DEEPLY) 429 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:04,000 I hope I brought you pleasure in unexpected ways. 430 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,640 Listen, if you're gonna play me like this... 431 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,760 do me the courtesy of burying him deep enough 432 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:12,760 that his kind don't respawn. 433 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:15,520 - I will. - (ELEVATOR CHIME DINGS) 434 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,120 Why the fuck is Whitney in Africa again? 435 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,240 Guy sold me a fucking dummy. I don't want to be a host 436 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,880 for another capital markets vulture like Pierpoint. 437 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,080 The vision was meant to be utilitarian, 438 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,920 not some defibrillator for a zombie bank. 439 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,400 You still control how it's perceived. 440 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:33,760 Whitney's spoken to WebHorizon 441 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:35,960 about allowing you to make more of a splash. 442 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,200 You're gonna be on the main conference live stream. 443 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,560 I'll make sure it's picked up by all the trades. 444 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:41,720 HENRY: Yeah. 445 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:45,520 Why are the two of you colluding 446 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:47,760 on what are clearly executive decisions? 447 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,320 "Colluding"? Henry, we're strategizing 448 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,760 about how to maximize your potential. 449 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,240 We both see it as integral to the success of the co... 450 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:57,040 Actually, you know what? Fuck that. 451 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:59,560 I see it as integral to your success. 452 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:00,920 Okay? To our family's. 453 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,440 Yeah, a press release will allow us 454 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,400 to frame the narrative and control the audience. 455 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:08,079 Robin's words sound completely dead in your mouth. 456 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:09,839 Look, I get it. 457 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,160 You've stood on stages before and been embarrassed. 458 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,319 - But, look, just come here. - Not in here. 459 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,280 - Not in here. - Who are you afraid of? 460 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:21,839 I don't have it in me to be torn apart again. 461 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:24,920 Do you believe in this company? 462 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:30,200 Do you have any idea how tiring it is to have people 463 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,680 constantly question your integrity 464 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,080 because you fucked up once? 465 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,000 - Once! - ♪ (BROODING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 466 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,000 Listeners will lean in to the belief of the teller, 467 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:41,360 so go and tell it. 468 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:44,400 (SIGHS) 469 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:49,160 You always make me chase 470 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,120 the most egoistic part of myself. 471 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:52,440 Do you know that? 472 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:57,240 'Cause without it, Henry, nothing would fucking happen. 473 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:00,000 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 474 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:01,960 Thanks again for introducing us to Moritz. 475 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,160 He's a real firebrand. 476 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,120 ALEXANDER NORTON: His "In Defense of Jus Sanguinis" piece 477 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,080 was a bit of a poke in the eye, even for me. 478 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:08,960 PERCY CULSON: You think he actually believes this stuff? 479 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,520 Oh, who cares? As long as people are clicking. 480 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,400 NORTON: Your husband said he was in a product meeting. 481 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:13,480 Our tech editor said 482 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:15,600 he now expected Henry at WebHorizon. 483 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:16,800 It's all smooth sailing. 484 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:18,320 Well, we're supposed to be waiting for Robin. 485 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:19,640 He's our head of comms, 486 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,480 - but I think we should just crack on. - So, what are we thinking? 487 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:22,960 Some kind of inside look at Tender? 488 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,680 - Henry's second act? - Robin Williamson, comms. 489 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,280 We'll take any winning highlights 490 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:30,520 you can offer, 491 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,040 but there's a strategy around the rollout. 492 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:34,800 I actually wasn't thinking about any kind of puff piece. 493 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:37,480 It's more of a, uh, tip towards a scandal. 494 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,440 We've been made aware of direct contact 495 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:41,400 and conspiracy between the business press 496 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,280 and predatory hedge fund activity. 497 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:45,800 We shouldn't let this flare up any more than necessary. 498 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:46,800 We're using legal. 499 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,640 YASMIN: Legal tennis won't show any teeth 500 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,200 and it won't stop another article. 501 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:52,560 I don't think Whitney agrees 502 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,360 with stoking this particular fire. 503 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:56,840 WHITNEY: (OVER SPEAKER) Actually, I do. 504 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:58,800 Hey, Robin, please don't speak for me. 505 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:00,360 We should be proactive against anyone 506 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:01,880 trafficking fake news. 507 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,800 FinDigest put a hit piece out on Tender 508 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,160 full of vague and unsubstantiated allegations, 509 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:09,200 and they're in league 510 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,960 with people who stand to profit off of harming us. 511 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,120 Fat cat fund managers, City lawlessness. 512 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:15,400 When are we not telling this story? 513 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:17,800 YASMIN: I think this is a unique set of circumstances. 514 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,600 I mean, hamstringing a government-backed success 515 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,680 before it starts to run, benefiting the UK consumer, 516 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,040 I mean, there's a public interest angle. 517 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:28,280 Burgess at FinDigest is a bit of a twat. 518 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,560 Sort of virtue-signaling, man-of-the-people shyster. 519 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,400 I think our readers will enjoy hating 520 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:33,960 on the hypocrisy of it all. 521 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:35,160 NORTON: Public stoning of hypocrites 522 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:36,160 is like bloodletting. 523 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,760 Makes us feel better about our own hypocrisies. 524 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,000 - YASMIN: Mm-hmm. - And we have proof of this? 525 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,680 ♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 526 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:45,120 WHITNEY: (OVER SPEAKER) I do, yes. 527 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,360 Can coordinate. 528 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:48,720 I'll send you the photos. 529 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:54,640 Let us sidebar and decide on the shape 530 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,840 and how alarmist to go with the presentation. 531 00:19:57,880 --> 00:19:59,280 Thank you, Yasmin. 532 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,200 - Good nose. - Thanks. 533 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,520 WHITNEY: (OVER SPEAKER) Yasmin, stay on the line. 534 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,720 Robin, you're not needed now. Thanks. 535 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:18,960 (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) 536 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:21,000 WHITNEY: Is he off? 537 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:22,240 YASMIN: Yeah, he's gone. 538 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,080 Yeah, Robin's not aggressive enough. 539 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,720 He's a little bitch. Sorry. 540 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,600 Uh, what proof do you have for Norton? 541 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,040 WHITNEY: I have photographic evidence. 542 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:32,360 I'll send it to you. 543 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,360 Harper Co., whatever the fuck they're calling themselves, 544 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,120 they don't have the capital to touch us. 545 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:39,880 I'm gonna invite her in. 546 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:41,200 She needs to see the scale of things 547 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:42,800 so she knows how much she's bound to lose 548 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,120 if she plays in the dirt. 549 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:45,840 Do you think she's short because of Dycker? 550 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:47,240 (SCOFFS) 551 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,080 Morality might as well be fucking Latin to her. 552 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:59,040 - ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ - (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 553 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:00,280 Does he, um... 554 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:02,920 does he know who I am? 555 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,400 We've not been to our house in Biarritz since, uh... 556 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:08,480 HUGO RAMDANI: Um, yeah... 557 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:10,280 MARY: Well, it's a hard place to be, 558 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,880 given how much time we used to spend there together. 559 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,720 Practically, we're slightly worried about the disrepair. 560 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,760 We need to visit soon. 561 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:20,320 RISHI: Oh. 562 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:23,920 (SCOFFS) 563 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,080 - "Hugo Smith." - MARY: Yes. 564 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,000 That will be the surname on his new passport 565 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:29,520 so we can take him abroad. 566 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,280 Not permanently, of course. 567 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:34,320 - Just on holiday. - HUGO: I made a little cup of tea. 568 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:35,880 MARY: If you sign off on the name change... 569 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,640 - I made a tea for Mummy. - ...we can look at setting some further visitation. 570 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,120 Will I ever get to be alone with him? 571 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,400 MARY: Oh, I don't think that would be a good idea. 572 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:47,920 You don't get to set any terms, I'm afraid. 573 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,320 HUGO: I made a... 574 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:53,200 Yeah. 575 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,480 Yeah. (SNIFFS) 576 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,440 - Uh... - ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 577 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,960 Hugo will grow up in a house of love. 578 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,480 I promise you. 579 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:15,080 I appreciate you being civil with me. 580 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,960 MARY: Oh, Rishi, any anger I feel towards you 581 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,680 is dwarfed by the scale of my faith in God. 582 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,280 Every choice you've made denies it, but... 583 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,000 even a man like you doesn't stand outside His grace. 584 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:33,080 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC RISES) ♪ 585 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:34,240 Yeah. 586 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,560 (HUGO BABBLING) 587 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:40,560 ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪ 588 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,240 ATTENDEE 1: Here's a good spot, d'you think? 589 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,960 ATTENDEE 2: Yeah. I think here's great. 590 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,720 - Hi, hi. How are you? - Hi. 591 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,240 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 592 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:48,640 HAYLEY CLAY: Hey. (PANTS) 593 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:50,520 Hi. (SIGHS) 594 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,200 - (BREATHES DEEPLY) - ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 595 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,120 The FinDigest journalist is in the audience. 596 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:58,280 Let him watch. 597 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,120 Oh, unless... 598 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,080 if he's making you uncomfortable then we can tell him to leave. 599 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:08,040 No, no, it's not him. I just... I don't... I don't know. 600 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:09,960 I don't know, I just don't really feel like I can... 601 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,080 ground myself, you know? 602 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,440 - Do you suffer from anxiety? - ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 603 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:16,880 I do sometimes. 604 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:18,360 Try magnesium. 605 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,680 Just after what happened between us... (BREATHES HEAVILY) 606 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,920 ...uh, and... and your husband... and... 607 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:28,920 whether it was right, like... 608 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,240 professionally, even personally. 609 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,560 Well, we're all consenting adults. 610 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:39,120 Right. 611 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:40,440 And... (SCOFFS) 612 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,000 ...you enjoyed it. 613 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,400 So, it can't be that that's making you uneasy? 614 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:48,800 Calabasas? 615 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,080 I mean, you're the one that instigated it, right? 616 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,560 The way you've looked at me since we met. 617 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,400 Maybe you're sublimating experiences, 618 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:00,880 making a good thing bad. 619 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,040 That loser hack, 620 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:06,600 he came into your house under false pretenses. 621 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,440 You don't remember what happened. 622 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,360 I mean, God knows what happened. 623 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,040 The price of his action is your trauma. 624 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,760 You can't let him take away your agency as well. 625 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:21,760 Yeah. 626 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,320 Yeah, you're probably right. 627 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,280 YASMIN: I am. (CHUCKLES) I am right. 628 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,120 It was assault. Oh! (SIGHS) 629 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,600 (SIGHS, KISSES) 630 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:38,000 - (PANTS) - (KNOCK ON DOOR) 631 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,920 - Yeah? (EXHALES) - WHITNEY: Yo. 632 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,240 Just wanted to wish you good luck. 633 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:43,760 HENRY: Get the fuck in here for a second. 634 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,640 What is this fucking disappearing act 635 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:46,960 you keep pulling in Africa? 636 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,280 I was just smoothing the adoption of our app. 637 00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:52,160 Yeah, I'm not comfortable with the Pierpoint relationship. 638 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,080 Okay? This app shouldn't be some Trojan horse 639 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,040 for capital markets apparatus. 640 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:58,560 We're not a fucking broker! 641 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,160 WHITNEY: Well, you couldn't be more wrong. 642 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,240 Why should investment planning 643 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:02,920 only be the purview of the elite? 644 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,160 Give the man his broker. 645 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,600 - Yeah, but my role here... - (SIGHS) 646 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,640 ...isn't gonna be ambassadorial, okay? 647 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,800 I want it to be financial and strategic. 648 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,080 I don't wanna have to keep checking my corners. 649 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,600 WHITNEY: I agree. Total transparency. 650 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,960 Which is also what the app is offering. 651 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,520 Like we promised. ISAs, ETFs. 652 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:23,800 You're giving people the dignity 653 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,080 of being able to choose for themselves. 654 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,400 Pierpoint totally fucked the valuation of Lumi. 655 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:29,920 (SIGHS) Come on, man. 656 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,240 Is it even really Pierpoint anymore? 657 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,920 - Hey. - ♪ (DRAMATIC SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 658 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,120 Go out there. 659 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,600 Tell them about your conscience. 660 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:42,920 It's just a speech. 661 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,760 It's just a day. It's just a speech. 662 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:51,680 It's just deliverance. 663 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:58,560 Don't bullshit me. 664 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,160 Henry, I hired you 665 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:03,840 'cause I look at people like you 666 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,120 and I innately believe in them more than I believe in myself. 667 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,560 Fuck knows what that says about the fascism of our neurology, 668 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,880 but everything in me screams you are more, I am less. 669 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,560 You're a man I'm incapable of lying to. 670 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:27,440 (CLEARS THROAT) 671 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:29,840 You'll be great, okay? 672 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:33,560 You got this. 673 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:40,000 ♪ (DRAMATIC SYNTH MUSIC BUILDS) ♪ 674 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,200 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 675 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,040 How you became the Labour prime minister's 676 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:53,520 appointed pet, I will never understand. 677 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,160 - Pussycat with nine lives. - Thank you for... 678 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,200 uh, the humility... (HESITATES) ...in introducing me. 679 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,800 I... I really do, um, appreciate your belief. 680 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,000 LISA DEARN: You have your wife's frankly 681 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:07,560 inappropriate relationship with a certain 682 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,320 precocious junior minister in my department 683 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,440 to thank for this. 684 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:11,520 Do you know how ugly 685 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,240 political sketch artists make me look? 686 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,480 - And they're right to mock my hypocrisy. - FLOOR MANAGER: Ms. Dearn? 687 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,640 Toeing the party line, that's it. Good luck. 688 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,760 - (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) - ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 689 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:24,920 Thank you. 690 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,560 - First, let me restate... - I... I really don't think I can do this. 691 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,160 - No. - (BREATHES HEAVILY) 692 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,520 Do you think I could have a... (STAMMERS) 693 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:36,720 ...a Lorazepam or something? 694 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,960 I don't know if that constitutes a relapse. 695 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,520 Tender is at the vanguard of a sector 696 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,200 we have championed since coming into government... 697 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,120 Listen, if you need to, of course, of course you can. 698 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,880 Why would you say that to me? You know that's not an option. 699 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,680 You're meant to talk me down off the fucking cliff. 700 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,640 Are you testing me? Henry, are you using again? 701 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,800 Its aims align with our core values. 702 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,280 Equity and transparency for the British consumer... 703 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,520 (BREATHES HEAVILY) How dare you say that to me now? 704 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:03,840 No, I don't... 705 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,640 Why can't you accept that I want what's best for you? 706 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,160 - LISA: I'm pleased to introduce to you this afternoon... - (SOFTLY) Oh, fuck. 707 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,600 - ...Tender's CEO, Henry Muck. - (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 708 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:15,960 You're gonna be amazing. 709 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,920 ♪ (TENSE MUSIC BUILDS) ♪ 710 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,760 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 711 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,400 (CLEARS THROAT) 712 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:37,360 Uh... 713 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,040 "So much of... of money, 714 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:46,560 its, uh, its structures and, um, and trading 715 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,960 are deliberately blackboxed. 716 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,960 For every winner, there must be a loser. 717 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,840 Fine for a market. 718 00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,840 Not fine for a society. 719 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:09,040 Let, uh... Let Tender 2.0 720 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:14,320 be the opening salvo against this hard reality. 721 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,120 Now, uh, I'm not a neoliberal cultist, 722 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:21,400 hopped up on the... the lie 723 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,960 that the market is the solution to everything. 724 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,360 Uh, interests can be co-opted, of course. 725 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,240 We are... We're not an NGO. 726 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,360 We're looking for value for our shareholders. 727 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:34,560 But, um... 728 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,120 But I would like it known... 729 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,640 that we have put our... our conscience 730 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,360 at the heart of all we do here at Tender." 731 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,360 - (INDISTINCT WHISPERING) - (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) 732 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,040 Uh, allow me to be, um... 733 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,240 be sincere with you all for a moment, um... 734 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,640 and tell you about my conscience. 735 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,720 ♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 736 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,800 I have failed prodigiously. 737 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,280 (CHUCKLES) 738 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,960 I have succeeded... 739 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,160 unfairly. 740 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:28,840 It's a matter of public record. (CHUCKLES) 741 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,840 If you are sick of listening to me, 742 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,800 I understand, believe me. 743 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,720 But this is how I see the world, 744 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,560 even with the... the blinkers of... of my privilege, 745 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:49,360 and perhaps especially because of them. 746 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:54,040 And if you think I am incapable of seeing the world that way, 747 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,760 then you are saying I am inhuman... 748 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,160 that I am incapable of empathy. 749 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,120 No. 750 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,000 I am only human. 751 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,360 ♪ (ROUSING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 752 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,160 He's laying it on a bit thick. Will anyone buy this? 753 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:14,880 If he buys it, then they will. 754 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,320 We have to believe that we can change 755 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,640 the intransigent structures and expectations 756 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,800 of where we happen to be born and to whom. 757 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,520 This is the bedrock of our app's philosophy. 758 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,400 Frictionless, 759 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,080 transparent access to the full suite 760 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,600 of banking and investment products, 761 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,960 demystifying the complex world of finance 762 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,240 for all members of the Great British public. 763 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,320 Now, observe the cumulative effect 764 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,120 of what happens when you give people that power 765 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,160 and stop patronizing them with handouts, 766 00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,760 admonishing their vices and sneering at their virtues. 767 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:03,840 Today... 768 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,360 I offer you my sincerity. 769 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:16,880 And sincerity is now the world's rarest commodity. 770 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:20,400 Not here. 771 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:22,440 Not at Tender. 772 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,480 Not under my watch. 773 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:32,000 - (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) - ♪ ("HAPPYNESS" BY MOLLY NILSSON PLAYING) ♪ 774 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:34,840 Thank you. 775 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,360 Let me walk you through our first offering. 776 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,080 - ♪ (SONG CONTINUES) ♪ - So... 777 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,200 My sincere thanks to all of you for coming today, 778 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:55,920 and if you have any further questions, 779 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,840 we'll meet in the press room afterwards. 780 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,960 - Thank you. - (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 781 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,120 See what happens when you listen to me? 782 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,360 - (HENRY LAUGHS) - (LAUGHS) Dude! 783 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,000 - (HENRY SIGHS) - WHITNEY: Good? 784 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,640 - ♪ It may happen in your life ♪ - (HENRY LAUGHS) 785 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,440 ♪ That you find a word That can describe ♪ 786 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,520 - WHITNEY: Good job. - HENRY: Good? 787 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,080 ♪ All the rooms That I have lived in... ♪ 788 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,000 - (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪ 789 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,080 Does Tender have plans around AI integration? 790 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,960 Uh, yeah, we have hopes that on a two-year roadmap, 791 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,600 we'll see AI-powered financial advice, 792 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,600 predictive analytics, and spending controls. 793 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:34,800 JIM: Can you tell me, um, 794 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,760 rather than what Tender hopes to do, 795 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:38,720 uh, what Tender actually does? 796 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,640 Hey, I'm sorry, can you repeat the question? 797 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,920 Yeah. (CLEARS THROAT) Uh, Tender. 798 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,000 - Sorry, wh... wh... what does it do? - ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 799 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,160 (SCOFFS) What do you mean, what do we do? 800 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,000 JIM: Well, it's a pretty straightforward question. 801 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,400 But Mr. Halberstram, 802 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,040 given how quickly you severed all ties with me 803 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,280 - after I profiled you... - ROBIN: (WHISPERS) The FinDigest writer 804 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:58,280 who's trying to fuck us. 805 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,320 Well, I take it you loathe simple questions. 806 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,600 WHITNEY: You're our friend from FinDigest, right? 807 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,240 It's a great piece, by the way. Really well-researched. 808 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,640 What is it that we do? 809 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,880 We are a successful payment processor 810 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,480 leveraging our existing user base 811 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,480 to, uh, make targeted acquisitions 812 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,639 and become a market leader in the UK fintech space. 813 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,280 JIM: Right, it's just a growing number of people 814 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,040 think your numbers don't stack up. 815 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,719 Well, you're trying to prove a prejudice, 816 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,719 so everything you look at is prejudicial. 817 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,400 These people you're speaking about, 818 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,000 do they brief you or do you brief them? 819 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,760 Or does it matter so long as you're making money 820 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,280 while you twist the knife? 821 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:31,719 Right, you're not denying anything though? 822 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,440 We are regularly audited by Ellis and Jung. 823 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,120 We have equity analysts poring over our balance sheet. 824 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:38,480 What is there to spotlight 825 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,320 other than the brutal success of our story? 826 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,719 And your processing facilities in Sunderland? 827 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:48,800 We've got outposts 828 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,520 that process payments all over Africa, 829 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,880 Europe, Asia-Pac, and the UK, 830 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,240 including, but not exclusive to, the North East. 831 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,440 JIM: It's just, you see, I think your fixation 832 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,080 on the future is, uh, 833 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,200 it's a smokescreen for the lies of your past. 834 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,240 WHITNEY: (SIGHS) Okay. Well, we'll happily sidebar. 835 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,560 We have investor days. We have earnings calls. 836 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,560 - We're wide fucking open. - ROBIN: Next question. 837 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,280 - (JOURNALISTS CLAMORING) - ROBIN: Yes, Hannah Murphy at the FT. 838 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:13,680 HANNAH MURPHY: How do you intend to cater 839 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,960 to an older, potentially AI-naive demographic? 840 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,800 HENRY: Uh, well, thank you, Hannah, 841 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,640 for the, um, sensible question this time. 842 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:22,800 Um, no, I... I think you're right. 843 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,800 AI is the great unknown of our time... 844 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,600 - JIM: Blue? Right. - It was blue. Yeah, uh... 845 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,360 JIM: Really? I blame Peter Risdale for everything... 846 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,800 - James. Can we talk? - JIM: Yeah, mate. 847 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:33,480 No, I'm just putting the final touches 848 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,080 - on the article. - BURGESS: Now. 849 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,720 - JIM: All right. - ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 850 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,040 Oh, my dad used to look at me like that. 851 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:47,840 What is it? 852 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:52,400 - This may run tomorrow. - (JIM SIGHS) 853 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,240 BURGESS: My name, your name, short sellers. 854 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,000 You know, corrupt, 855 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,520 money-grabbing enemies of British innovation. 856 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,760 They've even managed to link this Eric Tao bloke 857 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,240 to the fucking cultural revolution. 858 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,680 And there's heavy allusions to you being a drug user, 859 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,080 - which you're not, are you? - ♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 860 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:13,520 Yeah, you know what? No, no. 861 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,520 You know, displays of brute force in a velvet glove? 862 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,560 It's disgusting, and I'd love to brain Norton 863 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,440 and scatter the pieces all over his chessboard. 864 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:23,840 But I can't. 865 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,320 - What's this say? - Well, you... (HESITATES) 866 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,200 Yeah, of course I've spoken to short sellers. 867 00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:31,360 BURGESS: It says "cavorting with short sellers," 868 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,440 - does it not? - JIM: Well, being "in league" with them 869 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,800 is a fabulist construction. 870 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,720 (HESITATES) They're... They're fucking meaningless words, man. 871 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,040 They're words. That... That is what Halberstram does. 872 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:43,760 Where... Where... Where's the proof of profiting? 873 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,240 (HESITATES) You know what? Let's... Let's... 874 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:46,280 Let's start here, all right? 875 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:47,600 When I'm targeted this cheaply, 876 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,240 I expect the support of my editor. 877 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:50,320 Oh. 878 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,320 Look, why are we prostrating ourselves 879 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,760 to anonymous pictures? It's... It's blackmail. 880 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,520 BURGESS: I'm not perfect. 881 00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:08,280 I spent a lot of my early years lying. 882 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,640 Then I stopped, and my world got better. 883 00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:14,960 (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) 884 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:21,880 Who is Hayley Clay? 885 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,120 (SIGHS) 886 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:28,840 She... (SIGHS) 887 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:31,560 She works at Tender. 888 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,400 BURGESS: Okay, well, you coerced, 889 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,000 and according to the complaint, 890 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:38,600 - assaulted her. - No, no. 891 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,720 - I never fucking touched her. - BURGESS: They're pressing charges. 892 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,240 They're weighing charges. That's what it says. 893 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:43,840 Ed, Ed, Ed, I didn't touch her. 894 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,400 BURGESS: Well, even if I wanted to believe you, 895 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,880 what the fuck were you doing in her fucking house? 896 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,200 What am I supposed to say? 897 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,120 - And I can't, in good conscience... - JIM: I was... I was... 898 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,280 I was doing my job. 899 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:53,680 - I was looking for... - BURGESS: James. 900 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,160 - I was just trying to get a story. I didn't... - BURGESS: James. James! 901 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:58,840 I can't, in good conscience, 902 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,360 not make this an internal disciplinary matter 903 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,240 and recommend your termination. 904 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,320 Come on. Ed. 905 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,800 - No, no, no, no, no. You... - BURGESS: What do I do? 906 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:09,920 - I'm sorry. - Mate. 907 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,640 - You don't have to do that. - BURGESS: You're intrepid. 908 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:14,960 - You're fucking smart. - (SIGHS) 909 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:20,080 And in your gut, I know you know that when you went to her flat, 910 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,080 you were making a fatal fucking error of judgment. 911 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,360 (BREATHES SHAKILY) Mate, I need... 912 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,240 (SCOFFS) I need this. 913 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,760 BURGESS: I can't... I can't do anything now. 914 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,200 SWEETPEA: I'm burning my retinas out 915 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:45,760 trying to parse these Atterbury emails. 916 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,640 - HARPER: Anything material? - SWEETPEA: Not really. 917 00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:49,560 I mean, Whitney never really talks about business, 918 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:50,760 at least in writing. 919 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,360 I mean, maybe that's the unredacted correspondence. 920 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:54,840 One thing that is interesting though, 921 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,280 is his most active interlocutor is a guy called Tony Day. 922 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,600 I mean, they speak pejoratively about Jonah, 923 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,480 mostly from Tony's side. 924 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,720 It reads like sycophancy to Whitney. 925 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,520 It's like playground bullying. 926 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:07,720 Who is Tony Day? 927 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,360 SWEETPEA: Oh, based in Accra. I looked up his CV online. 928 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,000 A Durham alum. Decade-vet Morgan Stanley ops. 929 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,520 Drops to Daiwa Securities. Maybe redundancy or firing? 930 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,000 Lands in Accra in 2011 931 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,960 when Ghana's GDP growth is batshit, like low teens. 932 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,640 Has a failed telecom biz. 933 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,520 Has a failed high-speed rail thingy. 934 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:28,600 And then, all of a sudden, 935 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,680 he's the CFO of Tender in Africa. 936 00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:33,680 Meteoric over promotion even for a White guy. 937 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,200 - (MOUSE CLICKING) - SWEETPEA: And look at this. 938 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,320 ♪ (INTRIGUING SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 939 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:38,520 SWEETPEA: When have you ever seen 940 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,760 a 50-million-dollar acquisition closed with a novelty check? 941 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,160 That's what they paid for this third-party processor, 942 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:46,760 SwiftGC. 943 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,960 It's artificial, right? Like, gut read? 944 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,320 - Presentation as pretense. - Hmm. 945 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,280 He looks like the hated chairman of a lower league football team. 946 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:57,480 Not a... (CHUCKLES) 947 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,040 Not the CFO of a multinational payment processor. 948 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,160 It's a big song and dance. It's cheap. 949 00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:04,720 I wonder if anyone's flown to Accra 950 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,160 and knocked on their door. 951 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:09,840 WHITNEY: I'll call you back. 952 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,080 - You wanted to see us? - WHITNEY: Yeah, I did. 953 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,720 I want to propose a reshuffle. 954 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,360 Yas is gonna be co-running communications 955 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:18,560 for us going forward. 956 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,000 - On what grounds? - Forward-looking ones. (SIGHS) 957 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,680 Whitney, you know I won't stand to share the post, 958 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,600 especially with someone so ill-qualified. 959 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,960 I think qualifications are secondary to instincts. 960 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,280 I also anticipated that you'd have too much pride 961 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,680 to share the post, in which case... 962 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,840 Yas, if you'd like to do the honors. 963 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:37,480 Do what? 964 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,120 WHITNEY: Your first task as, uh, my new Head of Communications. 965 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:41,520 I don't follow. 966 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,360 Let him go. Fire him. Dismiss him. 967 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:44,640 She doesn't have the power to do that. 968 00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:46,000 Well, she does if she accepts the post. 969 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:47,120 - Do you accept it? - I do. 970 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,240 - WHITNEY: She accepted it, so... - We can work together. 971 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,040 - Uh, I don't think we can. - Right. 972 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,280 So, I guess you're dismissed then. 973 00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,080 - You're kidding me, right? - You're a little bit, uh, 974 00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,480 trad for what we want to do next. 975 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,400 This isn't a startup. 976 00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,920 You should Google the Dunning-Kruger effect. 977 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:09,880 Good luck. 978 00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:17,240 Thank you. 979 00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:19,880 You did a great job on Dycker. 980 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,920 You stopped the story from running, deserve this. 981 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,000 YASMIN: Well, those photos seemed to tell the whole story. 982 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:27,400 Yeah. 983 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,160 Hayley's yours if you want her, but you, me, Henry... 984 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,200 we ride together, we die together. 985 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,760 ♪ (PENSIVE DREAMY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 986 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,880 Whitney gave me the green light to promote you. 987 00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,080 Comms role, under me. 988 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,600 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 989 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,920 - You okay? About earlier? - Oh, yeah. Sure. 990 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,920 It's not like I haven't been sexually harassed before. 991 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,040 I was a child model for fuck's sake. 992 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,720 You're promoting me because you really rate me, right? 993 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,200 - Yeah, of course. - Phew! 994 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:09,400 Thought it was because of how good 995 00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,520 - I sucked your husband's cock. - ♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 996 00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,840 I wonder, why did it feel like it was your cock in my mouth? 997 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:19,280 I liked that. 998 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,760 An ex-boss told me, uh, an anxiety relief thing once. 999 00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:27,400 - (SIGHS) Breathing exercises? - No. 1000 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:33,640 No, he said, "Hayley, baby, when it all gets too much, 1001 00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:36,240 just remember, not a single one of us 1002 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:37,400 gets out of this alive." 1003 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,240 - AUTOMATED VOICE: Doors opening. - (ELEVATOR CHIME DINGS) 1004 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,160 (ELEVATOR DOORS OPENING) 1005 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:48,080 Thank you, Mommy. 1006 00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,080 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 1007 00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:54,720 FERDINAND SCHARZWALD: So, I just got off the phone 1008 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,680 with Wilhelmina, CEO of Al-Mi'raj-Pierpoint. 1009 00:42:57,720 --> 00:42:59,280 They offered the financing we asked for 1010 00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:00,360 in the form of a CoCo. 1011 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,600 (SIGHS) A contingent convertible bond. 1012 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:04,160 So, they're protecting their downside. 1013 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:05,480 Have they seen something they don't like? 1014 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:06,760 WHITNEY: It depends how you look at it. 1015 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,520 It's a good bridge while we grow our deposit base, 1016 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:10,920 repayment only gets triggered 1017 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,320 if stock falls beneath a certain threshold, 1018 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,440 which we know it won't, not with the momentum we have. 1019 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:19,080 Yeah, well, given how distressed an asset Pierpoint is 1020 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,080 and how readily Al-Mi'raj wants rid, 1021 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,120 it might be smart to deploy some cash, 1022 00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,480 silently buy some equity in it. 1023 00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:27,960 Gives us leverage in the partnership longer term. 1024 00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,200 Means we can finesse them a little. 1025 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,200 I think that's very smart. 1026 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,480 HENRY: You could see the hard-on in Dycker's knickers 1027 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:35,920 when he thought he was calling us out 1028 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,960 - in front of an audience. - (WHITNEY CHUCKLES) 1029 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,960 FERDINAND: Can I just say, I followed your speech online 1030 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:44,640 and it was just what was needed. A man possessed. Brilliant. 1031 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:51,480 - (DOOR CLOSING) - (FOOTSTEPS RECEDING) 1032 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,280 Thank you for, um, 1033 00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,640 everything you said to me before I went out. 1034 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,240 Your belief meant a lot. 1035 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,200 Permission to speak out of school? 1036 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,200 - HENRY: Please. - ♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1037 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,920 WHITNEY: Some people see people as just, um, 1038 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,160 moving parts in a social process. 1039 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,640 Objects that can either help or hinder. 1040 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,400 There's few things more toxic in this world 1041 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:21,840 than privileged people who are intellectually insecure. 1042 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,040 (SNIFFS) 1043 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:25,840 HENRY: You see, that's quite loaded. 1044 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:27,080 (WHITNEY CHUCKLES SOFTLY) 1045 00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:30,280 HENRY: If you want to insult my wife, 1046 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,840 have the good grace to come out and say it. 1047 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:34,960 I see people differently. 1048 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,040 You have an innate worth 1049 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,200 that supersedes the life you were born into. 1050 00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:44,040 I believe that about myself too. 1051 00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,400 It's what I live to achieve and I yearn to do. 1052 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:49,640 Show the world my true value. 1053 00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:54,840 Well, we helped each other do that. 1054 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,240 At least for a day. 1055 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:04,800 ♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC RISES) ♪ 1056 00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:14,120 ♪ (MUFFLED ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS) ♪ 1057 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,920 - (SNIFFS, SOBS) - (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1058 00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:26,160 RISHI: No, no, I'm going for a piss! 1059 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:27,280 - Fuck. - (DOOR OPENING) 1060 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,120 RISHI: Nah, these shitters are horrific for doing gear. 1061 00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:32,240 Oh, shit. (BREATHES HEAVILY, SNIFFLES) 1062 00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:35,920 - You all right, mate? - All right. 1063 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:39,920 JIM: I know who you are, by the way. (SNIFFLES) 1064 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,600 - (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - JIM: You know. 1065 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:46,640 (BREATHES SHARPLY) Sorry, I just... had to say something. 1066 00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:49,120 I'm sorry about what happened to your wife. (SNIFFS) 1067 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,520 You know, for what it's worth, I think they demonized you. 1068 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,520 - (INHALES DEEPLY) - I deserved it. 1069 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,920 (EXHALES, SNIFFS) 1070 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,080 I remember the skew of coverage. 1071 00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:00,960 And it would have been very different 1072 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:04,160 if you weren't you and, you know, she wasn't... 1073 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,880 you know, no offense, but... posh and White. 1074 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,160 They said the guy who, um, who went down for it 1075 00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:15,520 was, um, schizophrenic, right? Or... Or BPD, or something, 1076 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,480 some diminished responsibility thing. 1077 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,400 Yeah, her family are fighting the manslaughter charge. 1078 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,280 He got hospital disposal. 1079 00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:25,320 Brain went west 1080 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:29,800 after years of smoking weapons-grade skunk. 1081 00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,240 (LAUGHS) So his lawyer argued. 1082 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,040 JIM: Fuck's sake. 1083 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,240 - Mate, you saw it? - Do you want a cigarette? 1084 00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:39,760 - Eh? - Cigarette? 1085 00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:41,120 DEZ WATKINS: Oi! 1086 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,440 Fuck off, you urchin! Go on! Fuck off! 1087 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,720 I've seen him operate outside here. 1088 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:50,720 He looks for wasted people. 1089 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,000 Them fags are laced 1090 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,720 with some fucking spooky PCP or some shit. 1091 00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,280 It'll fuck you up, then he'll take you round the corner, 1092 00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,560 and he'll turn you over for your wallet and your watch. 1093 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:00,960 Right. Ch... Cheers, mate. 1094 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:02,120 - Cheers. - No worries. 1095 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,120 London's full of shit-heels on the take. 1096 00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,960 - Yeah. - Do you want a pint? 1097 00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,240 Yeah, mate, let's go. 1098 00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:13,400 - Do you want a pint? - DEZ: Oh, I could go an half. 1099 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,880 ♪ ("PERFUME (ALL ON YOU)" BY PARIS ANGELS PLAYING) ♪ 1100 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:17,920 Stella. 1101 00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,080 That one's on me, lads. 1102 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,680 ♪ Take a look and tell me What to find... ♪ 1103 00:47:25,720 --> 00:47:27,560 - (SNORTS) - (SNORTS) 1104 00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,200 Mate, I'm flying to Accra next week. 1105 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:31,520 I can still self-publish. 1106 00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:32,880 Someone will fucking pick it up. Trust me. 1107 00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:34,400 RISHI: I... I have to admit something though. 1108 00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:36,400 - I have to admit something. - Hey, hey. Hey, what... what... 1109 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:37,880 I know you too. I know you too. 1110 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:39,880 I... I did... I did a little work for Harper Stern... 1111 00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,040 - Huh? - ...before that silly cunt ghosted me. 1112 00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:43,280 Oh, right. You've been following me. 1113 00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,320 Well, I... I looked into you a little, yeah. 1114 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:46,560 - (JIM LAUGHS) - (LAUGHS) 1115 00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:48,080 Ah, you broke into my house. 1116 00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,160 I was just wondering whether to short Tender PA. 1117 00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:51,480 I thought there might be a little edge. 1118 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:52,760 You think I'm the type to tell you 1119 00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:54,400 when to fucking pile in before publishing? 1120 00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,680 RISHI: We are all just trying to secure our future, aren't we? 1121 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,920 JIM: Did you follow me tonight? Be honest. 1122 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,480 RISHI: I... I just... I just wanted a pint. 1123 00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:04,560 - And that pub is full of them. - ♪ (SONG PLAYING LOUDER) ♪ 1124 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,400 - Pints? - Nah. Women. 1125 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:08,240 I've got the disease, mate. I love birds. 1126 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:09,640 Then what the fuck you doing there, man? 1127 00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:11,640 - What? - It's a fucking gay bar. 1128 00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:14,760 - (CHUCKLES) - (LAUGHS) 1129 00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:16,880 I met this one bird, yeah? Hayley. Hayley. 1130 00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,960 Fucking corporate smoke show. She fucking threw it on me, man. 1131 00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:22,680 Fucking asked me to go down on her, yeah? 1132 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,080 So I do. I fucking look up... 1133 00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:27,480 she's fucking passed out. (SNIFFS) 1134 00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,400 Hope you stopped, mate! 1135 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:31,720 - (LAUGHS) - Fuck off. 1136 00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,000 - (RISHI SNORTS, GROANS) - I'm fucking sick of it. 1137 00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,680 I'm sick of the fucking forced discourse 1138 00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,360 between the sexes, right? 1139 00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,520 Not everything has to be a fucking minefield these days. 1140 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,440 (SNORTS, GROANS) 1141 00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:46,640 I mean, she gave me her fucking consent, man. 1142 00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:50,040 (BREATHES HEAVILY) 1143 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:53,120 Can I ask you a really, uh... really prurient question? 1144 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,400 - ♪ (SONG STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪ - (STEREO WHIRRING) 1145 00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,480 - ♪ ("VIENNA" BY ULTRAVOX PLAYING) ♪ - Yeah. 1146 00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,840 - What was it like... (SNIFFLES) - (CLEARS THROAT) 1147 00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:06,240 ...you know, just, uh, seeing your wife die like that? 1148 00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,440 ♪ (SONG PLAYING LOUDER) ♪ 1149 00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:12,080 - What? - Fucking sorry, mate. 1150 00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,200 Fucking... No... Oh! Whoa! Stupid fucking question. 1151 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:15,520 (SNIFFLES) Forget it. 1152 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:18,000 (SNIFFS) 1153 00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,400 You dissociated, right? 1154 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,560 - Right? - Yeah. Yeah. 1155 00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:25,800 JIM: Mate, I saw this fucking girl, right, 1156 00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,520 getting fucking DP'd on my feed the other day. 1157 00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:32,280 You know, these blokes just fucking... (CLAPS, GRUNTS) 1158 00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,880 Just fucking sharing her, mate. You know, jacked guys. 1159 00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,640 Must have been, like, fucking 18 max. 1160 00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:39,760 (ECHOES) Yeah, just black Air Force Ones, 1161 00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,240 and all tech fleeces, fucking balaclavas. 1162 00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:45,560 You know, the "mandem" just fucking... (GRUNTS) 1163 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:47,480 Just fucking coming all over her face. 1164 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,120 Fucking cum, tears, real fucking horror show, 1165 00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:51,800 - you know, mate? - It's... 1166 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:53,280 It's... It's like I'm... It's like I'm... 1167 00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,360 I'm... I'm watching it, you know, but... 1168 00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,040 it really isn't me. 1169 00:49:58,120 --> 00:49:59,440 - It isn't, uh... - Hey, mate. 1170 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,080 Can you fucking turn the music down, man? 1171 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,360 ♪ (SONG INTENSIFIES) ♪ 1172 00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:07,440 ♪ This means nothing to me ♪ 1173 00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,480 - (JIM SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) - ♪ Oh, Vienna... ♪ 1174 00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,160 DIANA RAMDANI: (ECHOES) ...the worst kind of person, 1175 00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:13,280 because he might be sick and selfish, 1176 00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:14,760 but you feed off his sickness. 1177 00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,880 I bet you have no idea what it's like to feel love! 1178 00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:19,320 JIM: We used to be creatures of action. 1179 00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:20,800 And now... well, now 1180 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,320 we're just inter-passive spectators, you know? 1181 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,440 RISHI: I never... I never once dreamed of her. 1182 00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,400 You know, good or... or... or bad. 1183 00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,600 ...because we've become means of production. 1184 00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:29,800 (ECHOES) Right? We just... 1185 00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:31,480 We just age without getting old, right? 1186 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:35,040 Stuck on a wheel of production and consumption. 1187 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,160 I mean, it's bread and circuses, man. 1188 00:50:37,240 --> 00:50:38,920 Streamed in glorious 4K. 1189 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,520 Maybe I should... I should just kill myself. 1190 00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:46,280 (CHUCKLING) Eh? No, man. Suicide, mate? 1191 00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,120 - Don't make me laugh. (CHUCKLES) - (LAUGHS) 1192 00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,640 JIM: You are too selfish to conceptualize a world 1193 00:50:50,720 --> 00:50:51,960 without yourself in it, 1194 00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:53,800 having every base need catered for. 1195 00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:54,880 Our granddads, yeah? 1196 00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:56,800 They used to fucking paint Marilyn Monroe 1197 00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:58,600 on the side of a fucking plane, 1198 00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,400 and then they'd use that plane to firebomb Dresden. 1199 00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:03,880 They'd be lucky enough to meet one Marilyn-class type lady 1200 00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:05,240 in the flesh in their lives. 1201 00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:08,640 But us, man, we fucking jerk off to a dozen gang-banging, 1202 00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:10,960 squirting Marilyns before dawn, and we wonder why 1203 00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,040 we don't have the get-up-and-go to go die in a war. 1204 00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:14,680 We're on a ghost ship. 1205 00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:16,480 A fucking system that can incorporate 1206 00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,440 any critique, just turn it into a marketable commodity. 1207 00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:20,680 Didn't think about it, mate. 1208 00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:22,800 Nothing has depth. Nothing has traction. Nothing... 1209 00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,160 Nothing's fucking serious, right? 1210 00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,560 We're just steam on a mirror. (SNIFFLES) 1211 00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,240 You're gonna die a fucking spectator, yeah? 1212 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,080 A priest at the altar of your own fucking ego. 1213 00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,080 Oi! Fucking hell, mate. 1214 00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:36,560 Turn the fucking music down, will you? 1215 00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,240 RISHI: You know what? Go fuck yourself, 1216 00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,520 - you little fucking slug! - (LAUGHS) 1217 00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,520 RISHI: You... You... You are like the freak at the afters 1218 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,760 who doesn't know when to shut his fucking hole! 1219 00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:47,160 - (LAUGHS) - RISHI: Why are you laughing? 1220 00:51:47,240 --> 00:51:48,880 You don't know what it's like to be a father! 1221 00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:50,320 No, I fucking do, actually, mate. 1222 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:51,400 You know what? 1223 00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:52,680 It fucking doesn't change a thing. 1224 00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:54,320 You're in his life. You're out of his life. 1225 00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,880 - He's fucking damned either way. - That's such bullshit! 1226 00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:58,200 JIM: You know what I dream about, yeah? 1227 00:51:58,280 --> 00:51:59,320 I dream about the fact 1228 00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,320 that all my friends are richer than me. 1229 00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:02,840 And when I don't dream about that, 1230 00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:05,040 I dream about a faceless fitness influencer 1231 00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:08,320 making a pornographic payday out of her own fucking privacy. 1232 00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,240 Fucking, mate! I am not going to ask you again. 1233 00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,320 Turn the fucking music down, yeah? 1234 00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,600 - (INHALES SHARPLY) - And it's on us, man. 1235 00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:17,120 We've built an interface with the world 1236 00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,280 which gives us what we want, but not what we want to want. 1237 00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,320 ♪ This means nothing to me... ♪ 1238 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:24,840 DEZ: Sorry, lads, I'll, um... I will... 1239 00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,800 I've got... (HESITATES) I'll go and get some more beers. 1240 00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:29,000 JIM: Fuck yeah. 1241 00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:32,560 Good idea. 1242 00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:35,160 I like that idea. 1243 00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:37,880 (GROANING) 1244 00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:39,560 (SIGHS) 1245 00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,520 - (SNIFFS) We're out. - (RISHI GRUNTS) 1246 00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:51,680 - (SNIFFS) - I'mma use the gentleman. 1247 00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,280 I need a slash. 1248 00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:57,280 - Oh. (GROANS) Hello! - ♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪ 1249 00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,640 ♪ ("SET YOU FREE" BY N-TRANCE PLAYING) ♪ 1250 00:52:59,720 --> 00:53:01,440 - ♪ Oh, oh, yeah ♪ - (SNIFFS) 1251 00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:06,640 ♪ When I hold you, baby ♪ 1252 00:53:06,720 --> 00:53:08,600 (FAUCET SHUTS OFF) 1253 00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:10,680 ♪ Feel your heart beat Close to me ♪ 1254 00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:14,200 (RISHI BREATHES HEAVILY) 1255 00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:21,280 ♪ When I hold you, baby ♪ 1256 00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:27,280 ♪ Feel your heart beat Close to me... ♪ 1257 00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:29,800 (SNIFFS, SNORTS) 1258 00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:36,280 (GROANS, PANTS) 1259 00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:39,240 (EXHALES SHARPLY) 1260 00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:47,960 ♪ When I wake each morning ♪ 1261 00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:51,280 ♪ And the storm Beats down on me... ♪ 1262 00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:52,440 Mate. 1263 00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:56,560 Mate! 1264 00:53:57,280 --> 00:54:01,280 Mate? Mate, come on! Mate? 1265 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,360 Come on. Come on. Wake up, wake up, wake up. 1266 00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,120 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 1267 00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:07,480 Hey, mate! 1268 00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:08,840 Come on, come on, come on, come on. 1269 00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:11,000 - (BANGING ON DOOR) - Shit! 1270 00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:16,720 Evening, sir. There's been a complaint about the noise. 1271 00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:18,520 (CHAIN RATTLES) 1272 00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:21,720 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 1273 00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,600 OFFICER 1: Sir? Sir, open the door! 1274 00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:26,800 OFFICER 2: Can you please just open the door, sir? 1275 00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:29,640 - Sir! - (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 1276 00:54:29,720 --> 00:54:32,080 OFFICER 1: Sir, open this door. 1277 00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,560 OFFICER 2: I'm afraid we're gonna have to breach the door, sir. 1278 00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:40,120 ♪ Oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah ♪ 1279 00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:43,360 ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah ♪ 1280 00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:46,920 ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah ♪ 1281 00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:50,440 (BREATHES HEAVILY, GRUNTS) 1282 00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,560 (GRUNTS, BREATHES SHAKILY) 1283 00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:01,360 (LOUD THUDS ECHOING) 1284 00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:02,640 (DOOR BREAKING) 1285 00:55:02,720 --> 00:55:04,880 - (INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO) - OFFICER 1: Check down there. 1286 00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:08,840 (BREATHES SHAKILY, WHIMPERS) 1287 00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:10,520 - OFFICER 2: Clear. - OFFICER 3: Clear. 1288 00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,360 - OFFICER 1: Control priority. - (PANTS) 1289 00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:15,040 OFFICER 1: Can I get an ambulance to hurry up? 1290 00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,080 We've got an adult male, unconscious. Not breathing. 1291 00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:18,800 Possible drugs overdose. 1292 00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:20,160 OFFICER 2: There's a man on the balcony. 1293 00:55:20,240 --> 00:55:22,920 - (BREATHES HEAVILY) - OFFICER 1: Sir! 1294 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:29,880 ♪ Only love can set you free ♪ 1295 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:33,440 (BODY THUDDING) 1296 00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,120 ♪ ("FOREVER YOUNG" BY ALPHAVILLE PLAYING) ♪ 1297 00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:43,360 - (PANTS, GROANS) - (AMBULANCE SIREN WAILING) 1298 00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:51,720 (GASPS, PANTS) 1299 00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,080 ♪ Let's dance in style Let's dance for a while ♪ 1300 00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,120 (WHIMPERS, BREATHES HEAVILY) 1301 00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,800 ♪ Heaven can wait We're only watching the skies ♪ 1302 00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:02,120 ♪ Hoping for the best But expecting the worst ♪ (GROANS, PANTS) 1303 00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:05,800 ♪ Are you gonna drop The bomb or not? ♪ 1304 00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,240 ♪ Let us die young Or let us live forever ♪ 1305 00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:12,840 ♪ We don't have the power But we never say never ♪ 1306 00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:16,080 ♪ Sitting in a sandpit Life is a short trip... ♪ 1307 00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:17,560 - OFFICER 2: Show me your hands! - (WHIMPERS) 1308 00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:19,120 OFFICER 2: Put your hands behind your back now! 1309 00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:20,600 Okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay. 1310 00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,320 ♪ Can you imagine When this race is won? ♪ (HANDCUFFS CLICK) 1311 00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,840 ♪ Turn our golden faces Into the sun ♪ 1312 00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:29,720 ♪ Praising our leaders We're getting in tune ♪ 1313 00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:33,480 ♪ The music's played By the... the madman ♪ 1314 00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:35,720 ♪ Forever young ♪ 1315 00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,280 ♪ I want to be forever young ♪ 1316 00:56:40,720 --> 00:56:44,080 ♪ Do you really want To live forever? ♪ 1317 00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:47,440 ♪ Forever and ever ♪ 1318 00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:49,760 ♪ Forever young ♪ 1319 00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:53,120 ♪ I want to be forever young ♪ 1320 00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,760 ♪ Do you really want To live forever? ♪ 1321 00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:02,360 ♪ Forever young ♪ 1322 00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,760 ♪ (INSTRUMENTAL PLAYING) ♪ 1323 00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,480 ♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪