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You get to 100 mil by the end of this quarter,

and we'll give you your little Series B.

You talking about selling to Little Haiti.

We're talking about stretching our legs.

Bro, you can't do that.

Oh, my God!

What do you want me to do?

Do nothing.

They're gonna pay.

Oh, shit!

Find the canisters?

Not exactly.

If we can figure out a way to police the network ourselves...

It is a very slippery slope.

I've got a way in.

Stella's developed a software that can send data back to us.

I can take that and create a filter that dumps intel into a folder for you.

The NSA? Again.

Apparently they just love us over there.

We don't have an Agent Rebecca Stroud at the NSA.

Hey. You need to sign in, Kelly.

For Christ sakes.

You also need a visitor's badge. Are you shitting me, Earl?

I don't make the rules.

Please fire Earl.

Okay, I got ahold of my guy over at the DOD.

Credentials check out, 100%.wow.

So those two asshats are NSA. Yep. Correct.

Then who the fuck is Agent Rebecca Stroud?

I mean, who the hell leveraged a seizure of my money, Kel?

I don't know. A fraud. She's a frigging imposter.

Hey, look. They're waving at us.

What do you want me to do here?

Listen, you don't have to tell them anything, all right?

Jesus Christ.

Folks, we're a little concerned that you may have been compromised.

Which is extra concerning

when you consider the nature of our visit today.

Do these security cameras work?

Do you have footage of her by chance?

Yeah, the security cameras, they work,

but I don't know if we still got the footage though.

We can definitely check for you though.

That would be helpful.

I'm sorry. You said "the nature of your visit." What is that?

Your network, as you may be aware,

is sometimes used as a communication channel for terrorists.

No, we don't keep tabs on our users.

Regardless, we've picked up some intel.

A missing cache of chemical weapons

has fallen into the wrong hands.

Recent chatter suggests

these weapons are going to be used to carry out an attack.

Potentially on U.S. soil.

Potentially as early as next week.

For obvious reasons, it would be very helpful

if we could scrape the network just to check

for any possible transmissions. I'm sorry.

That's just not gonna be possible.

This is potentially thousands of innocent lives we're talking about.

And that is incredibly sad, and...

Maybe we should do...

Problem is, we're agnostic. We just don't work like that.

It's worth the discussion though, right?

Yeah, maybe it's worth this one specific...

Well, the tricky thing is,

you know, even if we want to cooperate, the way our network is built...

Completely decentralized. Massive encryption. I know, but...

There is no central ledger, so there's no way to scrub that data anyway.

Then we better find a way.

Well, look...

I mean, I, for one, am incredibly sympathetic

to the work that you are charged with, but we're just

not able to work with feds.

We're just not set up that way.

Then we're just gonna have to come back with a warrant.

No, you won't.

'Cause what you're asking is unconstitutional.

And, you know, it's logistically impossible.

Even with a warrant. So...

Anyway,

I think it's best we put a pin in this meeting.

We've got a business to run here.

So...

Okay.

Wow. All right.

Nobody out there can know about this. Okay?

It'll mess them up. They won't be able to work.

That's what you're worried about right now?

I'm just saying I don't think they need to be

thinking about chemical weapons.

I don't think you need to be thinking about what they're thinking about.

If you could stop the next 9/11 from happening,

you'd do that, right?

They had all the information on 9/11 and it happened anyway.

- That's not true. - How do you know?

Yeah, that's right. I forgot, Wes. You a heartless asshole.

Let me try this argument on you.

What would happen to your business

if people found out your business was responsible

for the next 9/11? Mmm-mmm.

Don't happen like that, brother. I'm thinking it's about to.

They had a mass shooting in San Bernardino. Okay?

The FBI goes to Apple, they say, "We need for you to unlock this phone."

Apple says, "Go fuck yourself."

Guess what. People are still buying Apple.

Apple stock actually went up after that.

God damn. Y'all done lost your minds.

We're talking about thousands of innocent people.

Are you guys being serious right now?

We don't even know. These guys might be bluffing.

We don't even know if these guys are who they say they are.

Okay, maybe we can find out for ourselves.

We can figure it all out. Right? Using Stella's police software.

What

This is my thing. It's my pet project. It ain't her fault.

I asked her to develop an algorithm that triangulates chatter,

transactions, keywords.

Basically, ping us when something like this goes down.

Huh.

You know about this shit?

I tried to tell him. Nobody talked to me about this shit.

Well, we never finished it, Wes. So it don't matter.

- But we could finish it. - Exactly.

Fuck no, man. Just this once. Just this one time.

When does it end? I think right about there, Nick.

You know, it's really sad, Ronald. Really sad, okay?

But it's not our thing.

That ticker there, that's our problem.

We are nine million away from Series B.

Right? That's all we should be focused on right now.

You go down this slippery slope, nobody's gonna wanna fund us.

Bullshit. You know what? Fuck this shit!

Show of hands. Who's in agreement here?

All right, it's my two against your two.

Nick, you're the tie-breaker. What's it gonna be?

Some vigilante bullshit or Series B?

Wow.

Y'all evil.

I have some day-ones go dark. Broke inside.

I've seen some of them cap their own families.

But y'all,

I ain't never seen evil like that.

Hey. Hey.

Does anyone know you're up here? Mmm-mmm.

No? Okay.

Sorry, it's been a weird day.

Yeah, what's up with the suits that came in today?

Will you turn off your phone? What?

Power down your phone. Just power it down. Okay.

What's wrong with you? All right. So...

Ever since Araknet has been getting more attention,

some crazy shit has been happening.

About a month ago,

we got a visit from an agent of the NSA.

Now, she sat in our conference room, and she gave us her credentials,

and she wanted access to the network.

Of course, we told her no. Goes against everything Araknet is.

So, she starts messing with us.

She froze Wes' money, she tried to turn Ronald.

Probably a bunch of other shit we don't know about.

But we keep going, because screw surveillance,

and also, big finance is finally looking at us in a different way.

So, today, these two suits show up. Also NSA.

Turns out, they don't have any idea who she is.

She's like a con artist or something.

Yeah. Yeah.

So she's not even... Not NSA.

I do not know who the fuck she is.

Wow. Yeah.

So...

So, look, I know you've only been back a couple days, but...

I mean, can we go after this woman?

Legally? No. Go after her digital trail.

Do you have her information?

Well, I did, but, you know, apparently it's not real.

What about a picture?

We're going through the security footage now.

Okay. That will help.

I can run a facial scan program,

cast a net on any of her socials, Google images.

Okay. You name it.

Okay, obviously, no one can know about this.

Okay? Okay.

We'll get you that footage as soon as we have it.

Yeah. Just... Do you have another one of those?

A cigarette? Yeah.

You smoke? No.

Thank you.

You're late.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

Team's on deadline.

Would have been sketch if I just split early.

Want a drink?

No. That will knock me on my ass right now.

All right, well, you're all logged in already.

Just pick up where you left off.

How are you doing today?

Me? Yeah.

I'm great.

Went for a swim, got in some good brain work.

Cool.

Crazy thing, you know, when you get in the water,

get those endorphins going.

Allows you to see things different.

Perspective, it's a helluva thing.

You waiting in this line? No.

I'm waiting for you. Why are we here?

All right, this ain't about business, girl.

This is about right and wrong, all right?

What's happening?

Just sit down.

Okay.

Are you okay? Yeah.

All right, let's get this out.

What?

Them suits that came by the office yesterday,

they're NSA agents. What?

They picked up some chatter

that there gonna be another 9/11-type attack on U.S. soil.

And the intel to stop that shit...

Araknet?

What would you do, Stella,

somebody come and drop that shit on you?

Are you gonna protect neutrality

or are you gonna step in there and help them?

The police algorithm? We reinstate that.

We help them. This one time.

We don't tell Nick, we don't tell Mara. Can't tell Izzy.

You cannot tell Izzy.

I'm not gonna tell anyone.

So, you down for this?

Yeah.

Okay.

All right. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

So what we got to do?

Okay, technically speaking,

the algorithm that we had, it wasn't really that specific.

It would just index data that I intercepted from random nodes.

It was pinging on keywords.

So, if you got a list of keywords on the intel

that they think that they're looking for...

In order to just like... That's it?

Well, I mean, it's not super-simple.

It takes time.

They said this shit could go down by next week. You know what I'm saying?

I don't know. I can't make any promises.

Especially if we're keeping this on the down-low.

Okay, I'mma get you the keywords.

I've got your back, okay? This stays between us, all right?

Yeah. I got you, okay?

Okay, I'mma call you. Of course.

Okay, cool. Yeah, let me know, please.

Hey.

Really nice to see you.

Mr. Dacey. 'Sup, man?

Smells good in here.

Yeah, it's the best damn ribs you'll ever eat.

Not better than my momma's.

Where your momma from? Tennessee.

I do like me some Memphis ribs. That's for sure.

These are a little different though. Yeah?

Yeah, got a nice little Cajun kick to them.

Yeah, sounds good.

You don't do spicy. Yes, I do.

I eat spicy food. No.

She's making stuff up. You don't.

We need to make this quick, 'cause my partners can't...

Of course. We really appreciate your help here.

So these are all the keywords we've been attempting to triangulate.

Damn. All these?

We need to be certain that we get the right hits.

Gotta break left.

Mmm-mmm. It's a tricky green. It's gonna turn right first.

Hard left, son.

Been putting this green since before you were sucking on your momma's titties.

All right, I'll tell you what. You make this putt,

I'll let you suck on those big old titties.

- Dude. - I'll tell you what.

If I miss it, you can suck my dick.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Turn. Turn!

Shocker.

Didn't turn.

Did you get my note? What's that?

New projection, 100 mil by Tuesday.

Yeah. But it doesn't really matter now, right?

What do you mean?

I mean, you're playing ball with the intelligence agencies, right?

Where did you hear that?

That's the word around the office.

Yeah, well, that's bullshit.

Yeah, well, I hope it is,

because neutrality's your big selling point, friend.

It's gonna be our big selling point when you guys come in with the Series B.

Well, we're gonna have to see how this whole thing shakes out

with the feds, you know, before we commit.

Even if it's just a rumor. You understand.

What'd you get, bro?

Put me down for a four.

- You got a four? - Mmm-hmm.

Lying piece of shit.

Wanna know something, man?

Did the NSA come to our office? Yeah, they did.

You wanna know what we told them?

"Go fuck yourself." Okay?

I consider that to be a badge of honor.

Okay, man. Okay.

Don't you guys get the potential here?

Wes Chandler, the Saginaws, coming together like two big Goliaths.

Shit, is it still 1999?

I didn't know that.

What's that, friend?

Nothing. Your name doesn't mean that much anymore.

All right, bro, come on. I'm just saying.

I'm just saying.

Really? This from a guy

whose name wouldn't be rat piss if it weren't for his daddy?

Pfft. Whatever, man. My mother busted her ass with two jobs

just to put food on the table.

Okay. Okay?

I've been humping since I could push a mop.

So don't come to me about names.

'Cause where I come from, the only thing that matters

is the calluses on a man's hands.

I got calluses, bro.

I'm sure you do. That's not...

Guys, can we make the turn? Please.

You know something, Martin? It's gonna be all right. It's gonna be all right.

We'll get you a girl. May have to go to craigslist.

But we'll get you a girl. You won't have to jerk off anymore.

I don't need to go to... I got girls. Plural.

You know what? Can we make the turn?

I'm waiting on you.

Take it easy. Yeah.

Piece of shit.

See ya.

Yeah. See you tomorrow.

Good work today. Yeah.

Okay, that's fine.

Yeah, have him take another crack at the release, because...

Right, we want to have it ready by the time we hit.

Okay, that's fine.

Yeah. Okay, bye.

You can hate me if you want, Mara. It's fine. I get it.

I gotta feel like we're all pulling for the same thing here, you know?

Make the jump.

Series B, Saginaw.

I heard Saginaw moved on.

Well, for now, yeah.

But...

What if, I don't know,

they get caught up in a situation

where they need a company like ours for their portfolio?

You know?

'Cause maybe some of their bigger accounts start pulling out.

I mean, it's just a hypothetical,

but, you know, what if they

somehow found themselves in some sort of scandal?

I have a lunch.

Is this that NSA bullshit?

Or is this still Charlie?

I mean, I told you, I fucked up. Okay? I'm sorry.

What do you expect, me to just stop caring about this company?

I mean, Jesus Christ, man, this is silly.

You know, we're a team.

You and me versus the world.

It's the way it's always been. We are not a team.

We never have been.

Because you've always been you

and I've always been your adorable little party favor.

That's all I've ever been to any of your prospects

and it's all I've ever been to you.

And I don't care what your excuses are or how hard it was to raise me,

'cause I think we both know that I did that on my own.

You're the head of PR in a company that I own,

so I'm not gonna ask anymore, I'm gonna tell you.

We need a PR take-down on these douches at Saginaw

before we hit 100 mil.

Let go of the door.

You're just gonna ignore your duties?

Fire me.

This is taking too long.

It should have been done by now.

They changed the lock while I was gone.

I can barely figure out... You're stalling.

Why are you stalling? I'm not.

Isabelle, I'm gonna go downstairs right now, get myself a drink.

By the time I get back up here, you better be finished.

Bar closed?

What's up, Zo?

What'd I do? Hey, you sweating. Are you all right?

I'm always sweating, dawg, you know that.

You seemed shook on the phone. Is it all good?

I'm good.

How's G? He up and walking?

Yeah, man, he good. He got this brace on.

This black... Kinda like RoboCop. You know?

Okay.

What you gonna do? All right, so spit. What's good?

Frantz would whoop my big ass if he knew I was talking to you.

E, you called me. What's up?

Dawg...

Shit getting real heavy with Declan's crew.

Real heavy. It's getting deep.

Heard about Mick's place?

No.

Torched it.

Damn.

Is Mick okay? He's all right.

That spot is gone.

It's Declan. You know... How you know it was him?

They sprayed a black swastika on the side.

That's how I know, dawg.

Man, Frantz and them don't get it.

Dawg, these fools ready to go all in. All in.

Back in the past, you know, we strap up, go handle business.

You strap up, handle business like we supposed to do,

taking care of our hood.

Frantz, he talking crazy shit

about what he gonna do. Is that right?

He gonna make it worse for everybody. Everybody, dawg.

The way I see all this playing out, a whole lot of people

on this side and that side,

about to get their tops blown off.

You feel me?

What you gonna do about it, man?

E,

everybody out here

have made it crystal clear

that I ain't a part of this no more.

I'm saying though, Ronnie, you started all this, man.

Every bit of it.

Now it's time for you to fix it.

Mmm-hmm.

Oh.

Now, I don't want to tell you this,

but I'm going to.

Because that's how we do it, you and me.

That's how we keep things afloat around here. Right?

Now, I know you ain't gonna like this,

so get ready to be upset with me.

Get ready to kick and scream. Just...

Just get ready.

Okay. Okay.

E and them, they in a really bad spot right now.

They need money? No.

But they need help.

Things with Declan's crew, they're escalating.

They torched Mick's pub

few nights ago.

And Frantz is getting ready to go HAM out there in Hallandale.

And, baby, if I don't step in,

then a whole lot of folk gonna end up dead or behind bars.

So I gotta do something.

You feel me?

Duty-bound, baby.

What you doing?

I am pretending

that you ain't sitting on that bed talking a bunch of crazy-ass shit.

Okay, I knew that you wouldn't understand, so...

That's why I'm gonna go ahead and do what I gotta do.

You gonna risk your career,

the well-being of this family, of this baby,

and you gotta do what you gotta do?

It ain't like that, Tam.

What's it like, Ronnie? Huh?

Tell me, what is it like?

Is it like when Declan rolled up on me

in a car full of children? You know that ain't...

Or is it like when you went back at him? Hmm?

I'm just asking.

You know,

it's about talking.

Okay? It's about bridging the gap, making peace.

That ain't how it works, and you know it.

Oh, Tam, how it work?

Why don't you educate me on how shit's done in the street?

I don't know how it's goddamn done in the street.

You wanna know why?

'Cause we ain't in the goddamn street no more.

We are good here.

Elsie likes her school, she's got friends.

I like it here. You said you like it here.

And now, why you wanna go and blow all that up?

You like it here, you like this house,

you like this bed... Ronnie, nothing wrong...

Wait, Tammy. Baby. What's the thread

I don't know.

I remember you talking a few months back

about some bullshit motherfucking thread-count.

Ronnie, I don't know. Since when do you care about...

All of a sudden, you care about a motherfucking thread-count!

It feels good. I like it here. What?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

You know how we pay for this thread With blood money.

This house, this bed, all this shit, you think this make us saints.

Ronnie, I don't...

Make it so we can turn our back on our friends.

But let me tell you something.

This real job that I go to every single day,

this real job that I put on clothes and go to,

it ain't no different than thugging.

Ronnie... Araknet is a gang!

Ronnie... Damn, Araknet is a gang!

It ain't no different than LH7.

We just do the shit from behind a desk, Tam.

And that's real talk.

I'll do what I can. With Saginaw.

This isn't an olive branch, it's simply business.

I don't want to lose Araknet, so I'll do whatever I can.

But you need to tell me everything you know about the shop.

Who's at the top, who's at the bottom and who's unhappy.

I like this plan.

Good.

Hey.

Yeah, baby.

Yeah.

Look who it is.

You just show up whenever you want now?

You're still my boy, bruh.

It's about D?

Just hear him out. Ain't no harm in that. Why don't y'all just sit down?

Sit down.

E was right. Looking like RoboCop over there.

Told you.

There ain't never gonna be no truce with D.

You're wasting your time, Zo.

Look, I hear that shit.

Last year, when we was up against it with them Russians,

we knew we wasn't gonna take them by force.

We was out-manned.

We was out-gunned. So what we do?

We made our ass important to them.

We made it so they need us alive more than they need us dead.

And that right there,

that's exactly what we need to do with D and them right now.

That's not right, man. Just hear me out, all right?

I got a way. A way to look like a chump maybe.

They shot me in the leg. They torched Mick's place.

Ran up on us at our spot...

Ain't got no respect for the Zo, LH7...

Just listen to the man. Damn.

Can I talk to you for a second?

Quit acting tough

for one damn second, bruh, and just come holler at your boy.

This shit, man.

Look, bruh,

I know what's going on.

I been done seeing this since before I even moved up outta here.

All these folks, looking up to you, they're counting on you, dawg.

And if you keep kicking that hornet's nest,

a lot of these folks that's trusting in you,

they're gonna end up dead.

And you know that shit's real. You've seen it happen before.

Ain't that right?

I already talked to Jordy about setting something up.

You did what now?

Bruh, I ain't gonna do nothing unless you agree to it first, all right?

I'm just talking about a sit-down with D

and his firsts, okay?

They ain't gonna do it unless it's at their spot.

We talking about the four of us roll through next Tuesday afternoon.

A sit A sit-down, bruh, that's all.

Just think about that shit.

All right? Just think about that shit.

I'm gonna go pee.

Shit.

You okay?

Yeah. Just...

Just give me a second.

It's all right. You don't need to put the vent back.

Just come on out.

Open the door, Izzy.

Izzy, open the door.

This makes me sad.

You wanna know why this makes me sad?

Because I thought

that we trusted each other, you and I.

I thought that we had a nice thing.

But now, somebody must have gotten to you, so who?

No one.

So you just all of a sudden decided I was the enemy?

That I did not have your best interest at heart?

I'm sorry.

Okay, well...

Guess what. Now, Isabelle, I am the enemy.

Because it seems like you and me, we lost our trust.

So, I'm gonna make this real simple.

I checked your work.

That virus was all but done.

There were three lines of unfinished code,

backdated from last Friday.

That means that you were stalling, that means you were lying to me,

and that means we have a problem!

'Cause I need you to deploy that virus this week!

Or else I'm gonna be forced to make those calls I told you about.

And all those ugly, dangerous people

who lost their asses when you crashed GenCoin,

they're gonna know it was you.

And, hell, I might as well just include the addresses of your family,

'cause why waste time, right?

You already got your sister killed.

And I would highly recommend you not let that happen again

unless you really don't care who it is you hurt.

Are we clear?

Yes.