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[DeGiulio] Previously
on Billions...

[Chuck] Your son.
The gay one.

[Chuck] You sent him to
that religious boot camp

to pray the gay away.

[Senior] Sweeney quit.

[Senior] Out of the race
before it even began,

on the heels
of your visit.

Jack.

Will you
make me governor?

[Wendy] His
unwillingness to lie...

[Wendy] His great,
big, sweet heart.

[Wendy] I can use them.

-Ahh.
-Ahh.

Oldest trick in the book.

And if I grant
this request...

There is nothing you can
ask me that I'll refuse you

for the rest of our days.

We're dismissing
the indictment.

[spectators murmur]

[Senior] Are you
out of danger, too.

[Chuck] That I am.

Now, Mr. Connerty,
as the Axelrod matter is done,

you are free to go
back to the barn.

Go back to Southern?

Be good to have
you back, Bryan.

I really wanted to put on
a show for you tonight.

It felt like we should...

♪ dramatic music ♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

...I felt like I was
actually floating...

This morning
when I went running.

Who the hell am I to actually
even go for a morning run?

While I was sleeping in!

You were sleeping like
a bear cub when I left.

I was.

Well, the sleep
of the free.

Now, prepare yourself.

I have something...

very special planned.

And you have earned it.
In every way.

Mm.

I have, indeed.

I was very good
at being bad.

And you are about
to pay for all of it.

I hope that's a promise.

And now address me
as mistress,

if you address
me at all.

Yes, Mistress.

They left me
no choice.

Said they were going to
destroy my business, my life.

I don't think we used
those words, exactly.

Fuck it, Jack. She got
the message, as we intended.

[Foley] People
usually do.

It's like
we have a gift.

Enough.

Enough. Get to it.

Whatever the fuck
it is.

I'm sorry.

♪ dramatic music ♪

♪♪♪

[door opens, closes]
I'm leaving, too.

[Senior] No.
Stay a while.

Get comfortable.
"Mistress."

Why don't you take
that coat off, 'ey?

It's hot in here--

Don't you dare talk
to her like that.

Just trying to lighten
the mood, sonny.

No. You're not.
You're gloating.

It's nothing
so arch as that.

This is, um...
this is an object lesson.

And as you know,

[Foley] people
learn much better

when heightened emotions
accompany the instruction.

♪♪♪

It's time to put away
childish enthusiasms.

Now, what you do at home,
it's your business.

But this,
with a third party,

who we just showed
could be compromised--

a candidate for governor
simply cannot do it.

You didn't do this so we would
have cellular memory.

No. No.

You did it 'cause
it's your kink.

Oh, you think we give
into our appetites

as easily as
you do yours?

Careful, Black Jack.

She might give ya
a crack across the ass.

Get to it.

Time is now, Chuck.

You need to start
raising money. Staffing up.

So we have arranged for you
to meet with Joe Scolari,

our man in Albany.

He will be running
your organization.

♪♪♪

All of this will make
our plans quite public.

And a sitting
United States Attorney

cannot be seen to be
coveting higher public office.

That's why
you need to resign

as United States Attorney.

Hmm?

Right away.

To announce
your intention to run.

♪♪♪

[sighs]

[Wendy] I'm not saying
you can't run.

I've been listening
for three hours.

And that's an awful lot
what it sounds like.

I'm saying you can't
run like this.

If you want to be governor,
that's what I want, too.

[sighs]

But only if you could
do it as you want.

Not as those
two old men want.

And right now they're
setting this thing up

to operate you
like a puppet.

Mm-hmm.

That's what's
bothering you?

What else?

Guilt, Wendy.

We had a narrow escape.

Or we seemed to
for a fleeting moment.

And seeing those two
'old men' shook you.

Made you feel
exposed again.

It might've.

-The things we did...
-Had to do.

Had to do.

But yes, of course.

Blood will have blood.

Maybe this is the time to
step back and deal with that

instead of
charging ahead--

No, ma'am.

The only way is to swallow
that guilt and move forward.

Otherwise that guilt
will swallow us.

[sighs]

And with the governorship,

we can do enough good,
for enough people--

Not if you're enacting
Jack Foley's agenda

of favor trading
and patronage.

He's setting you up
to be his lapdog.

He just showed us
he will snap that leash

whenever he
feels like it.

I won't live that way.

I got to get
the kids going.

But hear this: if
you're moving forward,

you gotta reverse
the power dynamic.

Not easy.

No.

But Foley's hurt
a lot of people.

♪ dramatic music ♪

Find one.

Use one.

Get back on top.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[Taylor] Good news people,

thanks to our strategy
coming into focus

over the past few weeks,
the main fund is up.

[applause]

As our friend Wags might say:
up like his morning wood.

Yes!

Up like his blood
pressure on Cialis...

Amen! Up like the--

[employees chanting]
Bo-bby! Bo-bby! Bo-bby!

[Black Sabbath's
Never Say Die]

♪ People going nowhere,
taken for a ride ♪

♪ Searching for a reason,
looking for a rhyme ♪

[all chanting] Axe!
Axe! Axe! Axe! Axe!

♪ Snow White's mirror said
"partners in crime!" ♪

♪ Don't they ever
have to worry? ♪

[chanting continues]

Yeah!

♪ Don't you ever wonder why? ♪

[cheers and applause]

♪ It's a part of me
that tells you ♪

♪ Oh, don't you ever ♪

Yeah!

♪ Don't ever say die ♪

♪ Never, never ♪

Welcome back.

Thanks, buddy.

♪ Never say die again ♪

♪♪♪

O Captain! my Captain!
our fearful trip is done...

Get down from there.

[Axe] First.

Let's all tip our hats
to Taylor,

who outperformed the benchmarks
by a half point in my absence.

No mean feat...

[applause]

But, I'm not gonna waste time
now that I got the con back.

I have been thinking
about this moment

since the second
I gave up trading:

Clear the board.

Unwind all current positions.

We will rebuild a new book.

All new positions
will be run through me.

Oww!

[scattered applause]

Taylor, frag the quant
experiment too.

[Mafee] But, Axe, we've made
some good plays lately

and some of them
are ready to pay out.

This is true.

Guys, I hear you.

All the same:
fresh start.

♪ dramatic music ♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

And all is right
with the world again...

You know what
The Beatles did

when they got
back to England

after their first
whirlwind tour of America?

I imagine they all went
to their doctor

and got a shot of penicillin
in their dicks.

Yeah. Sure.
But after that--

They recorded
their next album.

That they did.
One every six months, in fact.

So instead of basking
in their victory,

they consolidated it.

They were young.
And there was only upside

in pressing
their advantage.

There is always only upside
in pressing your advantage.

That's the whole point of
having an advantage to press.

Which we finally do.

[Wags] So we're getting out
our selling shoes?

Going on a raise.

We're doing
a massive cap raise.

And quickly.
Twenty bill within six months.

But we position
ourselves as the buyer.

We make them beg us
to take their money.

Just like we did
back in 2015.

This isn't then.

That's not a very
Wendy thing to say...

-But accurate.
-Look.

This will be good for all of us.
Especially you, Taylor.

You've never
been on a raise.

This is the other
half of the job.

And the results that we've
generated are the seeds.

And the horseshit we will
spew is the fertilizer.

Horseshit works.

But it doesn't
get rid of the weeds.

By which you mean
our recent history.

Our legal troubles.
All of which are in the past.

I'm saying if I were on
the other side of the table,

I'd have questions.
And reservations.

Where's the rah rah shit
to counter this?

I'm not sure that's
what's required.

Taylor, when you
come with us,

you will see that this man
parries those questions

like Charles Van Doren.

Van Doren was
fed the answers.

But he got the money.
As will we.

And that's all
that matters.

I'll get you
the old pitch books.

You can work from there
on new stuff.

♪ tense music ♪

[clears throat]

You okay?

Mostly.

Not really.

I think I need to use your guys
to deal with something.

-Can you tell me why?
-If you need me to, I will.

But I'd prefer to
keep it to myself.

It involves family.

Yes. Absolutely.

I'll get them to
give what you need.

But it's not 'them' anymore.
Hall's back.

♪♪♪

♪ dramatic music ♪

[door opens]

♪♪♪

[indistinct conversations]

Hi.

[conversations stop]

Have to go.

♪ tense music ♪

You're in here now.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[mouse clicks, computer chimes]

So, you don't have
server access yet.

Your authorization's
underway.

What am I
supposed to do?

Await instructions.

Chuck will be
with you shortly.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

I love owning
the Flemish school,

but it is tough to hang
in a PoMo townhouse.

My wife says
the Dutch Masters

don't go with
the De Sede couch.

She's young.

She is indeed...

Look, Bobby, now that
we're together,

let me congratulate
you in person.

I hope you got the bottle
of Armand de Brignac.

I did. Thanks.

I always knew you were
falsely charged.

I hope you know I was doing
everything I could

from the inside.

Of course.
I felt you.

Score one
for the good guys.

Yeah.

Well.

-Hmm.
-So, get to it.

Well, you know I'm committed
to my government post.

The sense of service.

The good I'm doing
for the country

as the Secretary
of the Treasury--

We're all sleeping
a lot better

knowing you're watching
over the markets--

But, I do like to keep an eye
peeled for opportunities.

In this case?

Natural gas.

You know regulation has been
strangling the sector.

You know
something different?

I know many, many things

thanks to my proximity
to the FERC.

But what I need

is someone who can act
on the information.

Todd, I would
never trade

on privileged,
non-public information.

And I hope whatever audio
or video recording devices

running in here right now

have me saying
that loud and clear.

You've got it wrong.

Do I?

Look, I just got out of
the government's fucking web.

I'm not walking back
into it thanks to you.

I knew you'd be
reluctant to trust me.

That you would need some sort
of proof of my intent.

♪ dramatic music ♪

Security Bank
of Grand Cayman.

This is the bank--
one of them--

where I still have
my offshore accounts.

DC doesn't know about it,
of course.

Nor do they know
that I'm telling you

that the EPA is about
to rescind a certain regulation

that will prop up
the entire natural gas space.

♪♪♪

Hmm?

I'll give you
the details.

Take the account information
and give me my piece in crypto.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[slaps leg]

♪♪♪

I'll see you soon, Bobby.

♪♪♪

Kate, can you at least tell me
when Chuck's gonna see me?

♪ funky music ♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[indistinct conversations,
horns honk]

[Scolari] The success
of your campaign

[Scolari] is of the utmost
importance to us...

We will steer personnel.

The hiring of:
a campaign manager,

a head of comms,
a body person--

Do I have any say in this?

The success
of your campaign

is of the
utmost importance...

I can see how effective
that must be.

But before you go on,
let me say

that I'm ready to follow
your collective lead.

I'm willing not merely
to stoop to conquer,

I will breaststroke
through offal to do it.

[chuckles]

[chuckles]

Good.

So to get
things started,

you'll announce from
an event at your home

in the next few days.

Trot the wife and kids
out in front of the cameras.

And time it
with your resignation.

So, you say I'm looking
good downstate.

-Mm-hmm.
-And the rest?

Well, Bob Sweeney,
in Buffalo.

I know you two have
had your problems--

capped off by that wicked
J-Block you put on him.

[chuckles]

That a political term?

Roller derby.

I was a fan growing up.

Big, strong women
in fishnets, you know?

[chuckling]
Oh, I do. Yeah.

Anyway...you need
Buffalo now,

which means you need
Bob Sweeney.

You need to make it right,
bring him into the fold.

You think Foley could help
grease the skids with him

-for me?
-Nah.

[chuckles]

Foley tossed Sweeney aside
when you became favorite son

and he feels burned.

That's gonna be on you...

For you.

You'll look good in it
up in Hudson on weekends.

It's not for sale.

Oh, everything's
for sale.

-I'm not that easy to buy off.
-I'm not trying to.

I just thought you could
use a little love.

You did a lot of good work
under tough conditions.

This is not about ego.

It's about acting
rationally. Logically.

Like my quant project,
for instance.

I'd really like to
keep them on until--

Broom them,
like I told you.

You cleared the entirety
of our positions--

our successful,
money-making positions--

right before asking people
to trust you with outside money.

Won't that look like
erratic behavior?

No, it'll look like we're
putting our best foot forward.

And you're getting paid,
so you shouldn't worry about it.

Forget the car.

I want my own book.

A billion dollars.
To manage, unencumbered.

You took your ball back.
Give me something of my own.

♪ mid-tempo music ♪

Fine. Done...

So you don't want
the car? Let's go.

No.

♪♪♪

I'll take that, too.

♪♪♪

[Chuck] Thank you for
seeing me, Mayor Sweeney.

What now, Chuck?

You already turned me
into political roadkill.

You here to
back over me now?

Not like that.
I'm here to move forward.

To salve the wounds
of the past.

[chuckles]

You want my support now.

Of course.

Timing makes sense.

Well, know this: since
Foley turned away from me,

my future has...dimmed.

I'm a crippled mayor
with no route upward.

Let me do for you then.
All right?

First: this.

Your son's confessional,
about how you mistreated him.

It's my only copy.

It was wrong of me to have
played it in the first place.

[papers tearing]

Good.

As they say on the game shows:
But that's not all.

I will revive
your fortunes.

Your opponent
in the next election?

He's about to find himself
under indictment.

By my office.

You'd do that for me?

In exchange for some help
with Jack Foley.

♪ dramatic music ♪

Really?

His thumb
pressing down on me

like I'm an insect--
I don't like it.

♪♪♪

It's a ballsy
move, Chuck.

Well, there is no move unless
you have something for me.

You know him
better than I do.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

You have to keep me
out of this.

I may not have
his friendship anymore,

but I definitely don't
need him as an enemy.

Nothing will
stick to you.

♪♪♪

On the square?

♪♪♪

From one traveling man
to another.

♪♪♪

[Axe] I got The Beatles
on my mind again.

[Wags] Because he's about
to become Pete Best?

I was thinking
more of another one.

Phew.

I felt so charged
with Axe Cap-thusiasm

after yesterday's meeting

that I wrote a check
to the foundation for 4k.

I trust that Ayles will put
that thing to good use.

He will.
Though, in truth,

you might've saved it
for gas money.

Hah. If I stressed
about gas money,

I'd've never gotten the car
in the first place...

[chuckles]

Uh,

[as Obi-Wan Kenobi] I sense
a disturbance in the force.

Do you know whose life has
always amazed me, Spyros?

George Harrison's.

Ah, that Beatle.

Yes.

Because Harrison
wasn't only a Beatle.

He was also
a Traveling Wilbury.

And it was no mean feat
to be a Wilbury.

[Wags] Legends only
need apply.

Dylan and Petty used to
make a game of it, in fact.

They used to throw a name
out there, and decide,

in an instant, if that person
was or was not a Wilbury.

It required some
ineffable combination

of wit, cool,
and credibility.

Like Jack Nicholson,
for example.

Wilbury.

Richard Dreyfuss--

-Great actor--
-But not a Wilbury.

And you Spyros.
It has become clear.

Are not a Wilbury.

But I am!

I am a Wilbury.

I can prove it
to you. I--

You're fired.

You're firing me?

I just did. It happened.
I said the words.

Long time coming.

But that Wendy thing
worked out.

-So there's no reason--
-Nothing you can say or do.

♪ dramatic music ♪

You might have done your job,
but you have failed

to provide
additional value.

And you've ostracized
the entire company.

I'll prove it to you.
I-I-I do have value.

I-I am a Wilbury.

I'm all the Wilburys.
Put together.

♪♪♪

I feel
five years younger.

[door closes]

♪♪♪

[container clanks]

♪♪♪

[chuckles heartily]

Oh, I've been having
wet dreams about this moment.

-Bill.
-Yeah?

-We've had our issues--
-Mm...

--But I have a play,
virgin intel.

Your kind of thing.

Nah. Real shame.

I only talk ideas

with current employees
of Axe Capital.

This is the
Clarence Beeks shit,

but I guess you don't
want to hear about it.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

The coffee gear
is company-owned.

Make sure
he leaves that behind.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[Dollar Bill] [claps]
Whoo! [laughs]

Buh-bye!

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[button clicks]

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

I'll take it from here.

[elevator door closes]

[beep]

You have thirty seconds.

I can still access a list
of all the public companies

being investigated
by the SEC,

but have not disclosed
the investigation

to their shareholders.

With your...special
brand of knowledge,

you can determine which
of these inquiries have teeth

and which are bullshit.

You can short the companies
that you think will go down

when the investigations
come to light--

And go long on those that
get dinged by the bad press

from being looked into,
and shoot up

when they're
ultimately cleared.

Right Said Fred.

[sighs slowly]

[chuckles lightly]

Okay.

I like what I hear.

Other than that
Right Said Fred bullshit.

[button clicks, beep]

[elevator motor whirring]

Hey, team.

Tough news.

Gonna need you to
back it up and shut it down.

Take down the paper on
the windows before you go...

[indistinct conversations]

Lara.

-Hey. What's up, Gord?
-Hi, Dad.

I'm taking him
to the dentist,

but I had to come by
to straighten something out.

Oh? What's that?

This 2 and 20
fee charge

has got to be some sort
of clerical error, Bobby.

No error.
It's no longer my money.

The fees go to Axe Cap's
hard-working employees

who ensure
your returns.

Seriously?

If I'm paying retail

I may as well yank it out
and spread it around--

Calm down.

Gord, hang here a sec.
Lara, with me...

[door closes]

Look, you can move
your money if you want.

But if you want me to
manage it, this is the cost.

Didn't you read the agreement?
Didn't Birch read it?

[scoffs]

[sighs]

Gordie!

Hi, Aunt Wendy.

Hey.

What's going on?

Mom and Dad are
having a smackdown.

Smackdown?

What Mom calls a fight.

Hmm.

Sit, sweetie.

After all the nice talk,

this is the truth of it:
you're pissed

and you're being vindictive,
that I got half your money.

I may be vindictive,
but it's not over that.

You threatened to take
my kids across the country

while I rotted in jail--

I was trying
to look out for them.

This is something
we don't come back from.

Instead of focusing on
what fees you're paying,

I suggest you focus
on the money you're making.

How you'll spend it.

What your life will be
like going forward.

Because that's
what I'm doing.

♪ dramatic music ♪

[indistinct conversations
in distance]

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

...So they say to us:
it's not your fault,

it's something that happened
between Mommy and Daddy.

-That's right.
-I know.

But Dean and I didn't even
think it was our fault--

until they started
saying that...

Hmm.

The thing you need to understand
is: you are not your parents.

-You are--
-Who the hell gave you

permission to talk
to my son.

Gordie! Wait outside.

You should listen to
your mother. Go, sweetie.

Thanks, Aunt Wendy.

Don't call her that.
She is not family!

[exhales]

The men in my life don't need
any more of your fucking advice.

I think you might be
in a place

where you can't even recognize
when someone is trying to help.

No. I can recognize
your intention.

But when I look at Bobby,

it's the results that seem
all fucked up to me.

♪ tense music ♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[elevator bell chimes]

♪♪♪

[sighs]

[chuckles] I bet you don't
even cheat at that, do you?

-Never saw the point.
-Sure.

Yeah, what do they say:
You'd only be cheating yourself.

Doesn't matter, boss.

If you show me a move
or two to gain advantage,

I'll try 'em.

Well, that's new!

Open to change.

Good.

Come on, let's get you
an office befitting.

-Thank you.
-Mm.

I-I thought you were
sending me to Siberia.

There's no need to worry
about any of that.

About hard feelings
or retribution.

No, you did everything
exactly the way I taught you.

Investigated the case fully,
followed where it led,

and refused to be
cowed by power.

That's more
than admirable.

It's heroic.

-I had the best teacher. You.
-[chuckles]

Thanks for
seeing it this way.

I worried maybe
you'd hold a grudge--

[chuckles] Grudge?

Nossir. No.

No, you said
it yourself.

None of this
is personal.

-Hm.
-Yeah, Bryan.

You learned every lesson
I had to teach.

[chuckles]

Except the one
that matters most.

You didn't win.

Didn't finish me off.

♪ dramatic music ♪

No, I'm still standing here
in the best job there is

because I can do what I want,
when I want, how I want.

Oh, I am
bad, bad Leroy Brown.

Baddest man in
the whole damn town.

-Just wait a second--
-You breached my threshold

and threatened me,

threatened my wife,
the mother of my children.

♪♪♪

How could you think
there's a universe

where you would
survive that?

[scoffs]

Oh, Bryan.

You are many things.

♪♪♪

A man. A boy.

A lawyer. A fighter.

A student of the dark side
of humanity.

And a lover
of jurisprudence.

But there's one thing
you're certainly not.

An Assistant
United States Attorney

for the Southern District
of New York.

Drop your credentials
at the guard's desk.

And GET THE FUCK
OUT OF HERE!

Here endeth the lesson.

[telephone rings,
indistinct conversations]

♪ dramatic music ♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

You told me to clear
the positions.

I didn't just clear
twenty-five percent of them.

[Taylor] You told me
to broom the quants.

[Taylor] I didn't just get
rid of a quarter of them.

I told you you'd get
the billion.

I didn't tell you when.

[Axe] You are CIO.
It's an advisory role.

So some oversight
is necessary.

You're going to oversee
my investments?

Call them suggestions.

And I'd like yours
on buying a basket

of natural gas names
and pipeline companies.

Then my suggestion
is: don't.

Regulations are
too unpredictable

and are hampering
the industry.

What do you know about
upcoming announcements

that might
mitigate that?

I don't
know anything.

Because I don't work
in the government.

But you know something.

About a coming ruling.
From inside?

Why don't you make the play,
jumpstart your new book.

Keep it.
I'll come up with my own.

Suit yourself.

You can lead a horse
to natural gas

but you can't
make it invest.

I question why you're
making this kind of move.

Not based on analysis,

but rather on
unsubstantiated information.

Is it because of the raise?
Wanting to look prescient?

It's about the future
of Axe Capital,

making it what
it's supposed to be.

What's that?

Unassailable.

Untouchable. Unbreakable.

An institution
that's TBTF-W--

too big to fuck with.

♪ tense music ♪

Do you know
how you sound?

Yeah.

Certain.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[door closes]

[Chuck Prophet's
"Ford Econoline"]

[Spyros] I would be
looking at Telemarket.

I met their chairman once,
and he was very sweaty.

There's something
guilty there.

No. Guy who gets
that sweaty

talking to the SEC
is not guilty.

He's neurotic.
And a loser.

But not a cheat.

♪♪♪

It's like you have a seventh
sense for the dark side.

Sixth sense?

I try to avoid cliché.

[chuckles]

[Ellen Rhoades] Don't worry.
I'll manage the caterers.

I'll send them over
when you're at your "work."

You say work as though
it's a sin.

So tomorrow we are
gonna get this horse

into the goddamned race.

I'm so glad, you're back
from your trip, Ellen.

And will be able
to be here for it.

I told her that she'd seen
enough of the world

and I'd had
enough nights alone.

It was time for her to be
back where she belongs.

[chuckles]

Well, uh, Dad,
why don't you finalize

those invitations, yeah?

-Good.
-All right.

I got to be
somewhere, so...

Those are the certs
on the 4140,

the high strength-low alloy,
and the nickel chromium.

And here is
your rightful compensation.

♪ dramatic music ♪

Take him.

[Foley] Let's talk about next
month's chromium vanadium.

[Ratings Guy] Your
stuff's not bad.

[Foley] Well, it's
gonna look much better

after you're done
with it.

[door bursts open]
[Officer] NYPD.

Keep your hands
where I can see them.

Cuff him.
Get him out of here.

[Foley] -Wait, wait, wait.
[Officer] -Keep your hands

[Officer] -where I can see them!
[Officer 2] -Hey! Quiet.

[Ratings Guy] What the fuck is
going on? Jack? Jack!

Okay. You can
stop recording.

[Ratings Guy] Did you
set this up, Jack?!

♪ dramatic music ♪

-Sir.
-Give him the space, boys.

♪♪♪

Chuck.

No.

Yes, Jack.

Looks like you just
got your manhood

caught in a tiger trap...

I know that you have built
a good chunk of your fortune

on cheap steel deals.

It's a helluva scheme.

I admire its grift
and effectiveness.

You import
the sub-par goods,

get your man
at the ratings agency

to mark it high grade,

sell it into state-run
projects at top dollar.

The problem is:
it's not only illegal,

it's fucking dangerous,

and someone is
gonna get hurt.

Imagine what people
would say if they learned

that the new bridges
and rails they ride on

were built
of inferior stuff.

And if they had cause
to look back

through your past
municipal works,

well [chuckles] the fallout
from that in terms of liability

could bankrupt an Astor.

What are you doing...

Hmm?

Just what are you doing?

You know, it's a good thing
that this is my operation,

and I alone have
the discretion

to move forward
in processing and prosecuting

the felons involved...

or I can take
a more tempered approach.

Now's certainly not the time
for hasty decisions.

No. No, it's not.

[chuckles]

♪♪♪

But now is the time
to set new terms.

Things will be different
moving forward.

I will take your counsel--
but that's all it will be.

I will make
the decisions.

You and your people
work for me.

Is that clear?

Clear as Catskills
spring water...

Damned impressive, Chuck.

It was frightening as hell
for a moment there.

But, uh, it was
damned impressive.

[glass clinks]

Downright gubernatorial...

[door opens]

[door closes]

[sighs]

[dog barking in distance]

Did it go well?

Well, as well as it
could've, operationally.

It never feels good
doing that to a man.

Even a man like Foley.

I need a Silkwood shower
right about now.

It'll have to wait.
You have a visitor.

Judge.

Wonderful to see you.

Last time I was here...
pretty momentous.

I thought we were
never to talk of it.

We're gonna talk
about everything.

Where are we starting?

With bracing honesty.

Because with all
that's passed between us.

I see no reason
to beat about the bush.

Begin.

Right here,
in this house,

you put me on a path that
leads to the Supreme Court.

Well, it's not exactly
a straight and easy one.

There's turns and twists

and highwaymen
hiding in the bushes

who might jump you
at any time.

I agree. The path
is treacherous.

Which is why I need you
to guide me.

As I have and will
continue to do.

From your current
perch, yes.

But if you leave office,
to go after another,

my flank
is unprotected.

I will give you
all the support

and assistance you need
from Albany.

Not good enough,
I'm afraid.

I see.

I'm here to ask you to honor
your promise to me:

that there was
no favor you'd refuse.

Well, you will have to
state the favor, directly.

I need you to stay
U.S. Attorney.

♪ dramatic music ♪

Ah, man.

♪♪♪

[scoffs]

I've set my sights
on governor.

I have bled
for this caper.

There must be another way
to help you get over.

There isn't.

If you're gone, AG Jeffcoat
will appoint someone new,

someone who won't
give a shit about me.

Or the kinds
of cases I need.

Or worse, back another judge
and bury me in garbage.

I can't let you go.

♪♪♪

I understand it isn't
convenient for you,

but it wasn't convenient
for me to help you either...

♪♪♪

The shit I have done to
position myself for this...

Among those things:
your oath to me.

I'm gonna need the night
before I can give you an answer.

[sighs]

I imagine you do.

♪♪♪

Each time I'm here,
I'm more and more impressed

with the warmth
of your home

and the life
you've built.

It speaks
to your character.

[door opens]

[door closes]

You are considering it.

It seemed the least
that I could do.

But I'm gonna
tell him no.

I mean, I've committed--
I've committed

too much thought and energy
to this governor thing.

♪ tense music ♪

What about passion?

Excitement.

What about fire?

I see those things
on your face

every day you go
to work at Southern.

I always have. It's one
of the things I love about you.

No matter how difficult
the situation,

how fucked it seems you are,
you relish the fight.

As long as there's
any game left,

you play it
'til the very end.

Full out.

♪♪♪

And why wouldn't that be
the case with the governorship?

Politics is a different
kind of fight.

It's about consensus building
and concession granting

and hand wringing
and ass kissing.

But in your job now,
you are a king.

You engage the battles
you choose.

In the manner
you choose.

You decide what's right
and what's wrong.

With no one to appease.

Well, you're forgetting
Jock Jeffcoat.

He's a more powerful king,
for the moment.

You've deposed
his kind before.

Look what you just did to
Jack Foley. And can do again.

You don't want
to be in politics,

you want to be
beyond politics.

♪♪♪

I am all in
for you, Chuck.

But I can't turn off
the part of me

that does the job I do.

And looking at you,

I see someone

who knows that
one of those things

makes them feel
truly alive.

And that the other is gonna
feel like an obligation.

♪ pensive music ♪

[sighs]

♪♪♪

[indistinct conversations]

[door opens]

[door closes]

I figured it'd last...

The feeling
of exhilaration?

Of winning. Last
longer than a day.

Did you even get
a full day?

The initial jolt
when it all worked out

and the judge gaveled it--
that was pretty good.

Felt like I was doing
220 miles an hour

on a dirt bike in Moab

and skidded to a stop
just before the cliff.

But then it ended
and there was nothing.

So no.

You know, I thought
that a battle of the kind

that we just fought
could truly be won.

I beat the case.
I'm back here trading.

I'll be around
for my boys--

-We need to talk about Gordie--
-We do.

There's residual damage.
He's part of it.

Can that ever
be undone?

No.

We're all scarred.

Yeah. I thought scar tissue
was supposed to be stronger.

That's actually medically
untrue, it's just rougher.

Well, I liked it
better the other way.

Yeah. Well.
Sure. Me too.

[clears throat]

Then what do you
got for me?

I can't help but feel that
whatever advice I offer you,

or Chuck for that matter,
now, is colored

by what we've all
been through and done.

It's less pure.
As am I.

Because of Mafee?

For one.

I set him up
really good.

Got his loyalty going
for as long as I needed it.

Look, give yourself
a pass on that.

It barely registers as bad,
the world I come from.

I'm not sure I can.

♪ pensive music ♪

Okay. Let me give you
some advice for a change.

Maybe I'll take it too:

you can sit here killing
yourself if you want,

but when you do something
to put yourself back in charge,

remind yourself
that you are not less,

but more powerful for
what you've come through--

that's when
you'll feel better.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[knock on door]

What the fuck
is he doing here?

We busted a cap
in his ass,

we didn't just
give him the day off.

I know, I know.

And I can't believe
I'm fucking doing this,

but I may have
been a bit hasty

in the personal insult
and car wrecking departments...

Ya think, Rickles?

You called him a pants shitter
on the trading floor.

Explain.

[snaps fingers]

I have to tell you
that Spyros here

has...shared a unique...
investment strategy with me.

One that is proprietary.

Based on his prior...
work experience.

Are you understanding
this gibberish?

Yeah, I may be.

And this...strategy,
you believe it'll pay off?

I do.

If we carefully
implement it,

it can remove
certain...

doubt, endemic
to the market.

Is this
a renewable source?

As long as we don't 'open
our proverbial overcoats'

and 'flash our junk'

at a particular
three-lettered agency.

As long as we
play it cool.

Right.

Alright, Spyros.

You may have provided
additional value.

I'm gonna give you a second
shot at Wilbury status.

"Handle me with care."

Pound it out.

No.

[chuckles lightly]

[door closes]
Still not a fucking Wilbury.

Not even close.

♪ funky music ♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[door opens]

Kids are being driven
to the restaurant.

Good, I'll be leaving shortly
when I finish up here.

So...?

I've thought
about it, and, uh,

I'm ready to give you
a discount on the fees.

Discount?

If you sign an agreement--
a seven year lock up.

-On the money.
-Mm-hmm.

1.5 and 15. It's not
the discount you wanted--

which, by the way,
I give to nobody.

But it's the best discount
I give to anybody.

Oh. I'm so
moved, Bobby.

Oh, and one more thing:
uh, the boys.

They're not going
anywhere 'til college.

So a seven year lock up
on our kids, too?

Mm.

Fine.

I'll do it...

For one and ten.

Deal.

♪ tense music ♪

But you got to
sign it right now.

In front of me.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[papers rustling]

♪♪♪

Terms already
drawn up, huh?

I figured where
we'd end up.

♪♪♪

[papers rustling]

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[pen clatters]

♪♪♪

[door closes]

[sighs]

I'm sorry you had
to see that.

I'm gonna need you to do
something else for me...

[Photographer] Smile.
[camera shutter clicks]

[Senior] Excuse me. Can I have
your attention, please, folks,

[Senior] just for
a moment or two?

And I, uh--

I promise not to
talk too long.

[laughter]

What a feeling it is
when that doctor

steps out of
the birthing room

to announce, "It's a boy!"

[laughter]

Now, they had put you
to sleep, honey,

so I was the one who got to
tell you, once you woke up.

We had a son.

And that day,
I said it to you.

He will do great things.

[Ellen Rhoades]
You did.

Right as
usual, Charles.

[laughter]

Well, today my boy has
something pretty special

to tell all of us.

And it's an honor
to bring him up here.

[applause, whistling]

Son, you tell the folks
the good news.

-Okay. All right.
-[laughs]

All right, Dad.
Thank you. Thank you, Dad.

[laughter, camera
shutters clicking]

It is indeed a great honor
to be standing here tonight.

And for the past several years,
my mission has been justice.

And it is one that I have
embraced with zeal.

[laughter]

[Chuck] I-I-I will
confess it.

Now, someone asked me
recently, why that was.

And the answer is:

nothing makes me feel more
like the best of myself

than knowing that I have fought
for those less fortunate,

for those that have been
bullied or beaten or bruised.

And this is why it is
so crucial to me

that the next governor
of New York State

be a man for whom
these things take primacy,

a man who can't sleep
unless justice is always served,

who will work tirelessly,
day and night,

for the people of New York.

[crowd murmurs]

Which is why I am thrilled

and moved to announce...

♪ dramatic music ♪

That I will be throwing
the full weight of my person

behind the one man
who can do the job,

Buffalo Bob Sweeney!

[cheers and applause]

[Sweeney] Thank you.

[applause continues,
camera shutters clicking]

[Sweeney] Thank you!

[Sweeney] -Thank you, Chuck.
[Chuck] -Sure.

[applause continues]

Folks, I am, uh,
determined to, uh,

to represent not the special
interests in this state,

but the interests
of every New Yorker.

[Sweeney continues
indistinctly in distance]

-Dad--
-I now know

the only way you could avoid
stepping on your dick

is if I'd made them cut it off
in that birthing room.

Okay. Jack--

You got the jump
on me. Fine.

But if you imagine
this is the first time

I've ever had to wrestle
with my shoulders near the mat,

you're gonna learn
something very different.

♪♪♪

[door opens]

[door slams]

[Sweeney continues
indistinctly in distance]

[Sweeney] We are the state of
Eastman, Cooper, the Roosevelts,

[Sweeney] the state that still
stands as a beacon of hope,

[Sweeney] of freedom, of
equality for the entire world.

[Sweeney] And together,
we can bring prosperity

back to the state.

[Sweeney] Which is why
I cannot wait to serve you

[Sweeney] as the next governor
of the State of New York.

[Sweeney] Thank you
very much. Thank you.

You seeing this?

"Gas stocks pop
on EPA lift of regs"!

This play is gonna
be a wave we ride

all the way
to the beach.

When we sell our position,
we got to cut Krakow his piece.

[door opens]

Big day--especially
in the natural gas space.

I guess your "hunch"
came in.

It happens...

[Axe] And you know what?

Even though you didn't
back my play,

I'm gonna release
another 100 million to you.

Thanks, I guess.

You heading out
for the night?

Soon. After I finish up
a few things.

You?

Same here...

[door opens]

I'm out. [clears throat]
You coming?

[door closes]
Not quite yet.

You know when I get on
the treadmill at the gym,

I got to stay on until the guy
next to me gets off.

Go further, longer.

It's just the way
I'm wired.

You go to a gym
with other people in it?

There was a time.

[door opens]

♪ dramatic music ♪

[door closes]

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[phone buzzes]

[Axe] I'm not gonna
make dinner.

[Axe] Buy the kids
every dessert in the place

[Axe] and take them home.

[Helena] Sure.
Not a problem.

[cellphone thuds lightly]

That was your dad, uh...

he got hung up
at the office.

♪♪♪

[silverware clatters]

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

Would you like me
to wait, just in case?

No. I think
I can handle it...

It's actually good
to see you back.

It's good to be back.

[door unlocks]

[door locks]

You shouldn't keep
a hungry man waiting--

Wendy? The fuck?!

She's not coming...

I'm sorry, that
reservation's been canceled.

But I was supposed
to meet him.

I'm sorry.
It's canceled.

♪ tense music ♪

[elevator bell dings]

♪♪♪

[button clicks]

♪♪♪

Goddamnit.

Maybe take
that robe off, 'ey?

It's hot in here.

Is that supposed
to be funny?

If you're wondering how
Chuck made his decision,

how that final
little feather

settled and tipped
the balance...

You...?!

[Wendy] The next time you
want to ambush, threaten,

humiliate, or otherwise
fuck with me,

you'd do well to remember
who you're fucking with.

[The Traveling Wilburys'
Handle With Care]

Enjoy your night alone.

♪ Been beat up
and battered around ♪

♪ Been sent up ♪

[door opens]
♪ And I've been shot down ♪

♪ You're the best thing ♪

[door closes]
♪ That I've ever found ♪

♪ Handle me with care ♪

♪ Reputations changeable ♪

♪ Situations tolerable ♪

♪ But, baby, you're adorable ♪

♪ Handle me with care ♪

♪ I'm so tired of being lonely ♪

♪ I still have
some love to give ♪

♪ Won't you show me ♪

♪ That you really care? ♪

♪♪♪

♪ Everybody's got somebody ♪

♪ To lean on ♪