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♪ ("BOY"
BY BOOK OF LOVE PLAYING) ♪

NEWS REPORTER: (OVER TV)
It's just gone 6 a.m.

The public inquiry
into the government's

three-month long bailout

of green energy startup Lumi

is being held today
in Westminster.

Taxpayers are outraged

by the two
billion-pound bailout.

It seems fingers
are being pointed

at the Lumi CEO, Henry Muck,

at the government
for bailing out a sinking ship,

and at investment bank
Pierpoint,

for overvaluing Lumi's
initial public offer.

(WATER DRIPPING)

HENRY MUCK: How's Rob feeling
about the select committee?

I can't believe they're sending
someone so junior.

It's total dereliction of duty
on Pierpoint's part.

Yes, borderline abusive
at this point.

I don't know why he's doing it.

Yeah, well,
it doesn't sit well with me.

I'm gonna make it right.

(YASMIN KARA-HANANI GIGGLES)

Oh...

Can you do something for me?

Can you be vulnerable with me
if I'm vulnerable with you?

Okay.

Can you relieve yourself on me?

What?

What the fuck
are you talking about?

I'm not a pervert.

It's like
an intimacy thing, okay?

Yeah, I feel like
we've reached the stage

where I can ask you to do this
for me and not be shamed.

♪ ("CHARMED" BY REDINHO
AND STELLA PLAYING) ♪

YASMIN: Okay.

I mean, I'm not sure
that I can relax, but...

Just piss and think of England.

You really want me to do this?

I'm not a pervert.

I'm practical.

This is the one situation

where I get
to control my helplessness.

♪ And now you're gone
Far away, far away ♪

Okay.

- ♪ If you could ♪
- Let me relax.

(CLEARS THROAT)

♪ Would you stay?
Would you stay with me? ♪

♪ Shoop, shoop ♪

♪ Shoop, shoop ♪

(URINE TRICKLING)

♪ Tell me, my love
Do you feel right? ♪

(SIGHS)

(YASMIN CHUCKLES)

HENRY: Thank you
for trusting me.

♪ And now you're gone
Far away, far away ♪

♪ (MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

RISHI RAMDANI: (OVER PA) Big up!

Children's Investment Trust
Charity Day.

This is your annual chance
to save your souls.

Remember, donations
are tax-deductible,

so it's a fucking win-win
in my opinion.

- Booyakasha!
- (STATIC FEEDBACK)

NAOMI:
People respond emotionally

before they respond
intellectually,

so we're gonna go with the blue.

Tory blue.

NAOMI: It's more
of a royal blue.

It's a sympathetic color.

And we'd like you
to wear these glasses.

♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

- I don't wear glasses.
- They're non-prescription.

DANIEL BURROWS:
It's very much in your interest

that you stick
to this statement.

If they ask you
any awkward questions,

just say,
"I refer to my statement."

Are you Pierpoint's lawyer
or mine?

BURROWS:
I'm instructed by Pierpoint.

You can be rest assured

that to the extent
that your interests

and Pierpoint's interests
coincide,

I shall be looking
after your interests today.

With respect,
that's not very encouraging.

Sorry, what if
I flat-out refuse to do this?

Rob, a company man
would do this.

You're a company man.

It's just an information
gathering exercise.

NAOMI: The government spent
billions bailing out Lumi,

and the opposition
is pointing fingers.

ERIC TAO: But that's not on you.
You're not on trial here.

Any questions come up
about Henry's integrity

or, indeed, Lumi's highly risky
business strategy,

we don't advise
that you implicate Lumi,

but your silence
on these matters would be useful

in allowing people
to draw their own conclusions.

Against Lumi
in favor of Pierpoint.

Henry and Lumi will take
any opportunity they can

to throw you under the bus.

(INHALES DEEPLY) So...

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

- Lisa Dearn's on that committee.
- ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

The Shadow Energy Secretary.

She's an up-and-comer.

And a fucking Rottweiler.

Means eyeballs and good
political capital for her,

but she's gonna grandstand,
play to the gallery.

What's the narrative gonna be?

Dearn's gonna paint this
as a big bank

over-inflating a startup
into a national utility,

which she believes
should be publicly owned anyway,

only for the taxpayer to foot
the bill when it went tits up.

Off the record,

what do Adler and the higher-ups
make of all this?

ERIC: They're disowning it,

pretending it's a local,
UK-centric issue

that'll be swallowed
by the next news cycle.

But the more we can do

to lay blame
at Lumi's feet, the better.

Why didn't we send a tank in?

Why didn't you go in
and rip Henry's head off?

Because after COP,
I'm the very public,

internal face of Lumi's failure.

I want a new one.

And so we're not
at cross purposes here,

Robert's expendable?

ERIC: He's a young man
early in his career.

He'll recover.

NAOMI:
The randomizer of the universe

is laughing at us
as it spits out our bingo card.

A select committee

and the Children's Investment
Trust event on the same day.

I've already spoken
to the photographer

about avoiding Yasmin Hanani,
but can you

sensitively adios her?

I don't think
that the charity want

the Charles Hanani association
on their Twitter feed.

It's endearing you try so hard.

- Nice calves.
- RISHI: Rishi in the porno.

It's for the kids.

- RISHI: Rishi in the punani.
- (NAOMI CHUCKLES)

RISHI: Rishi in the punani. Bop!

(CLEARS THROAT)

(IN ITALIAN ACCENT) Hey,
it's-a me, generic Italian plumber.

SWEETPEA GOLIGHTLY:
Okay. (CHUCKLES)

Rish, can I have a word, please?

Sweetpea, you do look
very fetching in your outfit.

All I wanna know is,

does the carpet
match the drapes?

That's pathetic.

- I'm not sure it is.
- So, thanks for that.

Thanks for making
such an effort.

You are welcome.

(CHUCKLES)

Ooh, this is nice.

What is it exactly
you're doing on my desk?

I don't know.

Call your boss, he'll tell you.

Yo, what time you
on the box, Bob?

You look like
you're due in court

for a racially motivated murder.

YASMIN: I spoke to Henry,
you know,

he says this has got
nothing to do with you.

He wouldn't lie to me,
so you're gonna be fine, okay?

Yeah.

That's the exact opposite
of what Eric just told me.

Yas, can I speak to you
about my rotation project?

Sorry, I, um... I have to firm up
a meeting with LeviathanAlpha.

Please, um... Please.

You could just listen to me,
like, for once.

I'm bringing this to you
because I do not want you

to look fucking stupid
as my line manager.

I'm making a call, Sweetpea.

- (SWEETPEA CLEARS THROAT)
- RISHI: Is it 'cause I is Black?

- Um, Eric, can I talk to you?
- In a little bit.

Uh, I was working
late last night

on this indicator model.

Well, it's turned into more
of a risk assessment now.

Sweetpea, Robert's my focus
this morning, okay?

SWEETPEA: Okay, yeah.
No, I get that, um...

And I'm sorry, I don't...
I don't wanna be too forthright

but I actually think this is
really important right now.

So I'm gonna, I'm gonna wait
in a meeting room over there

until you come and talk to me.

- RISHI: (OVER PA) All right,
in third place... - SWEETPEA: Okay?

- ...Paul and Ben, who've come
as Jimmy Savile... - Okay.

- ...and his mother's corpse.
- (CLEARS THROAT)

RISHI: In second place, Bilal,
who's come as Bobby Sands,

complete with very inventive
dirty protest make-up.

But the winner this year,
Leanne and Julie...

I'm gonna call you back.
I'll just see you at 4:00.

- Okay.
- ERIC: Uh, quick one.

It might be a good idea
for you to take a personal day.

What do you mean?
Like a day off?

Well... you want your privacy.

Yeah, when a fucking pap
is camping out on my cistern,

not when I'm doing my job.

Eric, the last thing I want
is for any of this shit

to affect my life in here.

Can you not throw your toys
out of the pram?

Don't patronize me, okay?
I'm not one of your daughters.

I'm just trying to offer you
a little protection

from the glare of the spotlight
in a tough time.

That's all.

I appreciate that.

But, you know, I've just gotten
off a call with LeviathanAlpha,

who, let's be honest,

left us a pretty shitty
quarterly review.

ERIC: What a surprise.

Harper's power
to give us a bad review

must really light up

the pleasure centers
in her brain.

I've just set up a 4 p.m.

between Harper and Daisy,
the CIT's new PM.

She's just moved over from Crux.

I have been speaking
to her for weeks.

She thinks that Petra and Harper
are cutting-edge.

You know, I can make
this connection.

ERIC: You know, we give
the Children's Investment Trust

five percent of our PNL
on Charity Day as gesture,

which they then
end up reinvesting through us

anyway.

It's a waste of my time.

Well, okay, it's not
a waste of mine.

We have no idea where Daisy's
gonna end up in a few years,

and I'm looking for longevity
in this business,

so I'm going
to introduce Harper and Petra

to the Children's Investment
Trust at 4 p.m. today.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

ERIC: By the way,
just so we're clear,

I certainly don't see you
as my daughter.

Okay?

(CLEARS THROAT)

Apologies, I know
this select committee

is like a...
it's a big deal, so...

I've just... I've been...
I'm a little freaked out

and no one here
is listening to me.

- (SCOFFS)
- So, I don't know.

I could, I could be adding two
and two and be getting five,

but I also could be adding two
and two and be getting four.

And four would be
like... really bad.

So, like, five minutes?
Ten minutes?

- Okay. Let's start with five.
- SWEETPEA: Okay. Okay, cool.

So, obviously, there's a trend
of IPOs being pulled,

and ESG is experiencing
a downturn.

Thank you for highlighting
that for me.

So, um, I was speaking
to my friend, Amir,

in Fixed Income, and he said
that Pierpoint issued,

like, a fuck ton
of senior secured debt

around five years ago,

and it's about
to reach maturity,

and there's literally
no bid for it anywhere.

So this,
this capital-raising strategy

coincidentally but also perhaps
dangerously lines up

with the timing
of our own ESG pivot.

So what are you saying?

Look, I could,
I could probably get

in a lot of trouble for this.

You know, with, like,
the Chinese walls

and everything.

But, um, my friend,
Magdelena in Banking,

said that every IPO roadshow
that they've done

over the past three months
has gone badly.

No company coming to market

will want Pierpoint
to be its bookrunner.

And pretty much all of the IPOs

that Pierpoint
have underwritten are in limbo

between postponement
and pulling completely.

And the equity within these
prospective companies

is close to zero by now.

No one wants them.

The valuations
have completely collapsed.

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

Go on.

So, um... this is the kicker.

My friend, Keval,
in Asset Management

said that Pierpoint took
equity stakes

to facilitate these deals.

Is it possible
that these prop bets

are all going to zero?

So... (CHUCKLES)

...what you are saying
is two plus two equals fucked?

(ERIC CHUCKLING)

Well, yeah. (CHUCKLES)

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

- Sweetpea...
- SWEETPEA: Mm-hmm.

...this is what
we're gonna do about this.

The way you gleaned
this information

is potentially
a regulatory issue,

a confidentiality issue,

and a disciplinary issue.

I think it's best for you
and whoever you

concocted this
little conspiracy with

that you all
go back to your desks

and do your fucking jobs.

ERIC: Understood?

Yeah. (CLEARS THROAT)

Yeah, sorry.

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

(LINE RINGING)

ERIC: Hey, are you
still in the UK?

BILL ADLER: (OVER PHONE) At City
Airport. Just landed from Switzerland.

ERIC: Can you...
Can you come to the office?

I need to speak to you.

ADLER: Haven't you got both eyes
on the select committee?

Is this... Is this more urgent?

I'll lay it out,
and you can tell me.

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

You read the statement,
make it clear and concise,

but don't make it interesting.
The more boring, the better.

- Understood?
- Yeah, all right.

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
INTENSIFIES) ♪

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONCLUDES) ♪

ROBERT SPEARING:
Our role is to provide

fledgling businesses
with capital,

and we remind you

that throughout
bringing Lumi to market,

we made good on Pierpoint's
foundational tenet...

doing business with integrity.

Thank you.

Why are you here?

Actually, let me rephrase that.

Why are we here?

Sorry, I... I'm not following.

Um...

Why are we here?

I was asked to be.

We're here because your employer

overvalued Lumi,

which provided
an essential service,

fanned its untenable
growth trajectory

to the point
where it had to be placed

under emergency
government control

and bailed out by the taxpayer

to the tune
of two billion pounds.

Do you agree
that's why we're here?

I'd like to refer back
to my statement,

um, in that...

LISA DEARN:
I spent my weekend reading

testimony from customers
that Lumi failed.

And I'd share them aloud here,
but we'd be here till next week.

I'd implore you to avail
yourself of these.

But I fear the human cost
will always be something

of an abstraction for people
in your line of work.

STEPHEN CRIBBENS: I didn't think
I heard a question

in the Shadow Energy
Secretary's statement.

Rather an ad hominem attack.

LISA: One statement
from a Lumi employee

called you
Sir Henry's "whipping boy."

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

Is that a fair characterization?

I'd say you're more
Pierpoint's whipping boy,

given that they've sent
someone so junior

and youthful to face
the music for them.

I do find myself
feeling sorry for you.

I work
in Equity Capital Markets.

That requires a certain
level of time

- spent with management.
- (FINGERS TAPPING)

Sorry, I, um...
I refer to my statement...

LISA:
"Time spent with management"

seems underpowered
for what you really mean.

According to statements
from an anonymous Lumi employee,

your relationship with Mark was,

and I quote here, "intimate."

I don't understand

how this is relevant
to the inquiry.

I think a level
of incestuousness

between Pierpoint
and Lumi might be

at the crux
of the valuation problem.

I'd refer again to your use
of the word "integrity."

I wonder if you might actually
make good on that...

platitude.

Would you say
that we've established

that you spent enough time

in Muck's orbit to make
a character assessment of him?

I don't know.

Probably.

Then how would you
characterize his relationship

with the young women
he worked with?

ROBERT: I...

LISA:
Because I have a... a source

at Lumi who it is incumbent
on me to protect

who's made it very clear

that Muck ran
a predatory environment.

She was indeed a victim
of Muck's predation.

ADAM: Again, how is this germane
to our purpose here today?

LISA: This is the second
and now largest bailout

since the introduction

of the sweeping energy
bailout bill.

The British taxpayer
has been forced

to bail out a company created by
a force of personality.

They deserve to know
what kind of personality

they're footing the bill for.

Uh, sorry, Chair, um,
I need to, um...

Sorry, uh,
can I go to the toilet, please?

Let's reconvene in 20 minutes.

Keep it together.

♪ (TENSE MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

Who's the Arab kid
on my desk, by the way?

ADLER: That's Ali.

His family are high up
in the Egyptian government.

They have ties with the Al-Mi'raj
Holding Company out of the Gulf.

Big investors in our
asset management division.

They wanted
to give him a job, you know?

The usual "client's son"
nepo thing.

How bad is our balance sheet?

Let's forget
the Chinese wall for a moment.

Give it to me undiluted.

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

Where have you been?

John Lindsay's stepping down.

We're getting a new CEO?

Captain for a storm.

Who is it?

I wouldn't wanna
preempt the final decision.

I, uh...

I want you to come see me
at my place tonight

for a more intimate confab.

Tell me, honestly.

Is there a storm coming, Bill?

It's already here.

Look, can you tell me
what's happening?

- ♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC FADES) ♪
- Like, what are they actually asking me?

None of this stuff
about Henry's character

was in any of the briefings.

Well, did you know
about any of this?

No, I don't know
what she's talking about.

Like, I really don't know.

They're giving you
an open goal to hurt him.

These allegations
could shift the attention

from Pierpoint to Henry.

So...

go for it. Hurt him.

- NAOMI: He's here.
- (CAR DOOR OPENING)

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)

NEWS REPORTER 1:
Are you a predator, Mr. Muck?

Henry, you said you'd be here.

NEWS REPORTER 2: How much
did you make, Mr. Muck?

NEWS REPORTER 1:
Do you feel guilty, Mr. Muck?

ROBERT:
What happened with Caedi?

It is not relevant.

Then why are they pinning me
to the wall

for the fact that you fuck
your employees?

Mate, lower your voice.

You don't know
what you're talking about.

None of it is pertinent
to why we are here.

No, it's pertinent
because you use your power

to get your dick wet

and somehow my job now
is to answer for it.

- Listen to me. Look at me.
- (FINGERS SNAPPING)

You have to believe me.

All right?

This isn't anything.

It's a whole load of nothing.

It's not going to go anywhere
because there's nothing there.

♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
PLAYING) ♪

Mr. Spearing,
a former Lumi employee

that I've had
close contact with,

attests that she was,

quote, "relentlessly
and romantically

pursued by Henry Muck."

He bought her clothes

and then offered
her a position of power

in exchange
for inappropriate relations.

The employee was then flown out
to the UN climate conference,

which you attended
with Mr. Muck.

And this employee was then,
quote, "frozen out."

Mr. Spearing, do you believe
this statement?

Do you believe this woman?

Spearing...

I'd like to speak
to my barrister privately, please.

Mr. Spearing,
are you aware that Henry is now

in a relationship
with a Pierpoint employee?

I'm sure that would
be of great interest

to the regulators.

I refer to my statement.

Oh, fuck.

We can dress this up

as an information
gathering exercise,

but ultimately,
we're here to assign blame.

I wanna be honest.

Uh, I have to face up
to my own culpability, and...

this is the most humble day
of my life.

I think the most important thing

is to be vulnerable
in front of you right now.

I, uh, like you,
believed I was engaged

in a public service.

Our mission was to disrupt

a stagnant
and monopolistic industry,

and the little guy failed.

Yeah, we... we overshot.

I assure you,
the animating spirit

that caused us to overshoot

is the same one
that made us feel

that we were doing good
for the country.

And your failure to model

for a correction
in natural gas prices?

Your unsustainably
low introductory price point?

Less than five percent
of your so-called "green power"

was from
renewable energy sources.

You've "greenwashed"
your credentials.

The only thing I'm guilty of
is optimism.

Now, I am happy to answer
any questions about my business,

and I will swiftly
and judiciously

respond to any contentions
about my private life,

privately, out of respect
for those who raise them.

(AUDIENCE MURMURS)

(DOOR OPENS)

I won't let this story
be just another bailout

consigned to the dustbin
of history

by the relentless pursuit
of capital.

What about
the 145 million pounds in stock

you sold before Lumi went into
emergency government control?

How much of that have you paid
in restitution to your victims?

This should have been a criminal
investigation from the outset.

You should serve prison time
for what you've done.

You are a mercenary.

Well, unlike you,
I don't take pleasure

in the suffering of others.

(HESITATES, EXHALES)

(HESITATES)

Yeah, and in terms of the, um,

the valuation and the, uh,
the overheated, uh...

excitement around the...
the IPO,

well, that would lay
at the feet of our bankers.

Now, you keep using
the word predatory.

If there is a predatory side
to capitalism,

they are on it, we are not.

BURROWS:
(WHISPERS) What a slippery shit.

(INDISTINCT MURMURING)

- ♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC FADES) ♪
- I hope this is worth it?

Just to see your old office?

(CHUCKLES)

I genuinely think
that it could be useful.

- Hmm.
- AUTOMATED VOICE: Door opening.

I'm just gonna pee,
but I'll catch up with you.

Okay, I'll see you
in the meeting room.

AUTOMATED VOICE: Door closing.

(EXHALES)

- (DOOR CREAKS OPEN)
- (SNIFFLES)

(CLEARS THROAT)

(SWEETPEA SNIFFLES)

What's going on?

I just...

I think I really
fucked it up with Eric.

YASMIN:
Oh, don't worry about him.

Why don't you sit
in on this meeting

with Harper and Petra?

- Eric's allergic to Harper.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)

YASMIN: Trust me, your tears
are wasted in here.

(SIGHS)

What happened?

♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
PLAYING) ♪

Um...

Well, that's kind of sensitive.

SWEETPEA: And I... I don't...
I don't really know

if there's anything to it.

Okay, well, don't say anything

that's gonna
get us into trouble.

There was this Euro Swaps kid
who once spoke

about the fact that he spent
his entire signing-on bonus

on Pornhub Premium
and Oliver Peoples glasses

- in a lift with an MD.
- All right.

He got sacked.

You never know who's listening.

SWEETPEA: Okay, so, um...
I outlined this hypothesis.

Eric shot it down
pretty viciously, but I think...

Pierpoint Asset Management
might have

taken an outsize prop bet
as part of our ESG pivot,

funded by debt
that is about to reach maturity.

It's a balance sheet motherload.

- Okay.
- Hmm.

Um...

- Honestly...
- Mm-hmm... (SNIFFLES)

...I think this is way above
our pay grades. (CHUCKLES)

Look, I have
a lot going on today, okay?

But just don't let
the geezers get you down.

Right?

I'm gonna go
for a piss now, okay?

But you're good.

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)

(DOOR CLOSES)

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC FADES) ♪

It was a stroke of genius.
I think you did brilliantly.

Look, I'm getting
a lot of heat about Henry

and the possibility
of criminal proceedings.

We can't
be associated with that.

What, I can, can I?

You need a fucking scapegoat.

Why fuck me?

Why did you choose to fuck me?

Because you're fuckable,
Robert, all right?

I'm sorry. From a company level,
you're fuckable.

Don't... Don't look at me.

Eric said you were expendable.

♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
PLAYING) ♪

- (LINE RINGING)
- (BREATHING HEAVILY)

Hey. Hey, Rob,
Rob, breathe, breathe.

It's Eric.

It's fucking... It's Pierpoint.

They've hung me out to dry, Yas.

They're gonna fire me.

Maybe don't question the jailer

when he hands you
the keys, you know?

Getting away
from all these people,

is that such a bad thing?

(CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY)

♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
CONCLUDES) ♪

LISA: And from
the very first instance,

I would contend
that Lumi was far too

closely enmeshed
with government.

We believed
Lumi could be a beacon

for what the British tech
and energy sectors

were capable of.

You were very quick
to ratify a bailout.

Was that because you wanted
to... soften the landing

for a Lumi CEO?

AURORE ADEKUNLE: I don't believe
in bailouts philosophically,

but it was a moral issue.

Homes were going cold.

In all my dealings
with Henry Muck,

I never questioned
his integrity.

LISA: You're defending a man
whose misconduct allegations

seem to be growing
exponentially.

I don't think that's what
we're here to talk about.

Pierpoint ended up
as Lumi's lead underwriter.

Did that have anything
to do with the fact

that you started
your career there?

Does the fact
that you started your career

at the energy regulator Ofgem,

have anything to do
with the lack of supervision

over Lumi's finances?

I don't follow.

What's that got
to do with anything?

My point exactly.

It's a coincidence.

Okay, so it's not Lumi's fault,

and I assume
you're here to ensure

that it's not
the government's fault, so...

Secretary of State,
whose fault is it?

My department dropped the ball

and therefore the responsibility
is mine and mine only.

(AUDIENCE MURMURING)

AURORE: The goalposts over
what's acceptable in public life

have shifted
over the last half-decade

due in part
to my party's leadership.

Scandal has become such
an iterative process for us

that it has ceased
to become scandal.

But I am here to prove to you

and the public,

that I still believe
in accountability in politics.

Which is why
I've come from Number Ten,

where I tendered my resignation
to the Prime Minister.

(COMMITTEE MEMBERS CHATTERING)

You have no idea
how lucky we just got.

She just made
the government the story.

What are you talking about
how lucky "we" got?

You mean me.

AURORE: And on the subject
of a criminal investigation,

this government welcomes
the opportunity

to engage the Attorney General
and the Serious Fraud Office

to mete out justice
where appropriate.

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(REPORTERS CLAMORING)

REPORTER:
How did the Prime Minister

take your resignation
as Secretary of State?

BODYGUARD: Now, back off.

(CAR DOOR CLOSES)

HENRY: If I knew
they were gonna use

Caedi like that,
or she felt like this,

I would have reached out to her.
It was traumatic.

- ♪ (TENSE MUSIC FADES) ♪
- (RAIN PATTERING)

And I didn't buy her
any clothes, by the way.

I let her use my
Net-A-Porter discount once.

Are you not worried...

about the...

the criminal implications
that Dearn raised.

You sat through that shit show.

Wouldn't you say
blame is complicated?

It lies with me,
my board, my bankers...

and the government.

But people want
a single reductive certainty.

Let me buy you an early dinner.

There's some friends of ours
I want you to meet.

All's fair in love
and war, right?

♪ (SERENE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

BYSTANDER:
Give us our money back, wanker!

Some pre-prandial martinis
to lube up the conversation.

Two? Three?
Oh, and a glass of Ruinart

for our absent guest.

Wait, is someone else
joining us?

ALEXANDER NORTON:
Just a Perrier for me.

Oh.

I thought Dearn
was a little unsophisticated

how she went
for the jugular in there.

I had a similar grilling
from our current

Foreign Secretary
during the Leveson inquiry.

He's in your pocket now,
isn't he, Nortie?

You did hack
Hugh Grant's phone, no?

- I'm not rising to that.
- (OTTO MOSTYN CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES)

It takes a certain person
to not wilt under those lights.

♪ (SERENE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

You did well.

OTTO: Yeah,
your friend Harper realized

the sell-side is where
the fertile minds go to die.

She's doing
rather well with my money.

It's time for you to have
the same realization, Rob.

Well, if it isn't our future
Prime Minister.

(HENRY CLAPS)

Fuck me! Muah!

- Muah!
- (AURORE CHUCKLES)

Well done in there.

AURORE: This is purportedly
the worst day of my career.

I've just had to let
my entire private office go.

Where's Blanc de Blancs?

- OTTO: Oh, as if by magic.
- (CHUCKLES)

NORTON:
Just giving a nod to James

and the news team
on tomorrow's headline.

Aurore,
do you prefer "Third Way"

or "New Hope" for the sub?

You know best, Alexander.

NORTON:
After that disastrous budget,

they had to put
a centrist in as Chancellor,

but we'll have him out
by the election.

AURORE: Oh.

NORTON: The job's yours to lose.

What about the, um...
Well, the criminal proceedings?

Oh, I had a word
with the Attorney General.

It's in his in-tray.

He'll look at it,

then it'll be
in someone else's in-tray.

OTTO: Oh,
and if the press come knocking,

ask something
that'll use up oxygen,

like, um,
can a woman have a penis?

- AURORE: Oh, dear.
- (NORTON CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES)

Well, looks like
my uncle made some promises.

Good to have him in your favor.

Mm.

HENRY: I am surprised
you are such a bad bullshitter.

Isn't that what
the Oxford tutorial system

is meant to teach us?

OTTO: Um...

We should have a toast,
shouldn't we?

Um, to England?

No, uh, to, uh...
Well, to friends.

Old and, uh, new.

- To friends, old and new.
- Friends...

To friends, old and new.

- Cheers.
- ♪ (SERENE MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

(HENRY SNIFFS VIGOROUSLY,
EXHALES)

♪ (UPBEAT JAZZ MUSIC
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS) ♪

It's a shame that the, uh...

the heart palpitations
you get off shit gear

- don't count as cardio.
- (ROBERT SNIFFS)

(EXHALES)

Did you, uh...

did you ever,
you know, get with Yasmin?

(LIVELY CHATTER)

No.

Although she did once...

make me eat
my own ejaculate off a mirror.

(CHUCKLES)

I've invited her
to join us later.

And while... I'm not a...
I'm not a sexually jealous man,

I just don't want it
to be awkward, you know.

We're just friends.

She's a very good friend.

I think she might be it.

The bullet to take me out
of the Great War.

What?

Oh, for fuck's sake.
I think I'm in love with her.

Well, you shouldn't
tell her that.

She's not
in the emotional headspace

to hear things like that.

Oh.

So, you do love her.

(HENRY SNIFFS DEEPLY)

ERIC:
That now ex-cabinet minister

really took the heat for us
in there today.

ADLER:
Sorry I left you high and dry.

Senior management...
help yourself...

have had their eye on
who's gonna sail us

through this squall.

Is it premature
to toast your ascension

to the top job?

They're making you CEO, right?

(SCOFFS)

Please.

I'm honored you think
they'd even finger me for that.

No, I have it on
semi-good authority

it's gonna be Tom Wolsey.

You're fucking kidding me.

The ex-Bain turnaround guy?

He's... He's a kid.

I think if he's announced,
it tells us the story.

- He's gonna gut us?
- Is that a question?

Between us...

I think Wilhelmina
was part of the soft pressure

behind Lindsay's retirement.

She's gonna do everything
she can to pass the buck

about the ESG disaster
in front of Wolsey.

The grad was right.

ADLER: Not even a forensic
accountant could read our balance sheet.

It's too unwieldy.

What I can tell you
is we're not safe

from a plummeting share price.

We're not safe from panic.

HENRY: Epstein's island
was a naff Mustique.

- ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (CHUCKLES)

- Stop! - HENRY: You won't
find the Muck name

- on the flight manifesto.
- XANDER LINDT: (LAUGHS) Don't.

HENRY: Yeah, I heard
he was Mossad agent...

- I need talk to you.
- HENRY: Oh, in a bit,

in a bit, in a bit.

YASMIN: Henry, we need
to talk about this girl.

Oh, it was nothing, Yas.

It was fucking nothing.

You're high, Henry.

Why do you get yourself
into these fucking situations?

- Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
- YASMIN: No! No!

It's an abuse of power, Henry.

Fuck, everything's
an abuse of power

with me in relationships, Yas.
I can only fuck down.

(CHUCKLES) Who can I fuck
that's higher status?

Uh, Hillary Clinton,
Kamala Harris?

Not my tempo, babe.

- XANDER: I love a café au lait.
- (HENRY CHUCKLING)

Obviously...

Obviously,
I'm joking, I'm joking.

For fuck's sake, Yas.

You know, I'm with you now.

I'm with you.

Yeah? You're everything.

You're fucking everything.

- Stop.
- No, no, listen to me.

I love how vulnerable
you make me feel.

Yeah?

- I loved this morning.
- Okay.

You know,
that was a holy moment.

When we were that vulnerable
with each other...

- Okay, I...
- ...when you pissed on me.

XANDER: (CHUCKLING)
You got another girl

to piss on you?

(CROWD EXCLAIMS)

YASMIN: Lick it up
off the fucking floor.

- ROBERT: Hey, Yas.
- YASMIN: No, not right now.

Oh, I always liked her.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey, come on.

Let's give it
a good fucking nudge.

YASMIN: Did you know anything
about this Lumi girl?

- No.
- YASMIN: Like, what am I doing

involving myself
with someone like him?

Like, what is actually
wrong with me?

There's nothing wrong with you.

YASMIN: So many fucked up
fucking issues.

I surround myself
with these men.

Like... And I want them
to want me.

Why? I don't...

I even... wanted...
my dad to like me.

Yeah, but you know,

there's nothing wrong
with wanting your dad

to like you.

God, I spent years trying
to get my mom's approval.

PASSERBY 1:
Have you tried Bacchanalia yet?

I mean, you know, presentationally.

PASSERBY 1: Got some
god-awful Damien Hirst in there.

Can't you just
fall in love with me?

♪ ("NOBODY KNOWS (LADAS ROAD)"
BY LOYLE CARNER PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS) ♪

It would make everything
so much easier.

- (PHONE BUZZING)
- PASSERBY 2: Where we going tonight?

PASSERBY 3:
Thinkin' around Maison Estelle,

Koko...
YASMIN: Hello?

DENISE OLDROYD:
Yas, it's Denise.

Uh, are you somewhere private?

YASMIN: Is everything okay?

DENISE:
Are you somewhere private?

What's wrong?

DENISE: Okay, um, I'd rather
not do this over the phone,

but I thought speed
was quite important,

given how quickly
it might get out.

Um, they found a body.

It's, uh, it's most likely
your father.

Uh, um...

DENISE: Yes, do you...
do you need me to come to you?

- I'm gonna...
- DENISE: Yas...

I'll... I'll...
I'll call you later.

PASSERBY 4: Have you seen
those fucking mugs

queueing outside Greek Street?

It's like
a fucking labor exchange?

YASMIN: Sorry, I can't, I can't.

HENRY: Come on, fucking hell...

Fucking get in there.

I've got a surprise for later.

(SNIFFLES)

XANDER: Whoa, easy, easy,
easy, easy.

HENRY: I'm taking you
somewhere special.

XANDER: This is dark web coke.
None of your speed shit.

HENRY: Shit got real.

Right. (SNIFFS)

ADLER: So...

I wanted to bring you here
to tell you privately.

I've been living
with a medulloblastoma

in my left temporal lobe.

Rare in adults and inoperable.

Can you believe it?

I was repeating myself a lot,
so I got it checked out.

What's the prognosis?

Oh, years, no doubt.
Modern medicine.

Years.

Why are you looking
at me like that?

You think I'm in denial?

No, not at all. I'm just...

thinking about
how I always admired your hair.

It ain't budged.

Yeah, I decided
chemo wasn't practical.

What a life, eh?

You bet death
against your vanity

and your vanity still wins.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

Yeah, I didn't want people
in the office thinking

I was in any way incapacitated.

So, I, uh, flew to this clinic
in Switzerland.

They're trialing
a DCVax treatment

where they expose nude mice
to the tumor cells

to create a bespoke vaccine.

Cancer's like our business.
It's, uh...

It's a country
with its own language.

How are your daughters?

I'm fighting for custody.

But Candace
is a merciless bitch.

(ADLER CHUCKLES)

That's why I loved her.

You want the weekends,
or the week?

I used to see what my daughters
could become and achieve

in every successful
young woman I came across.

But now...

Now you wanna come across
every successful young woman?

Mr. Tao, HR are on the line.

I don't know what I feel.

Ooh, disgrace is coming.

Don't expedite it.

Luckily, cancer really
does a number on desire.

(SLURPING)

(SOBS INTENSELY)

ADLER: Hey, hey.

Who are you crying for?

- I hope it's not for me.
- ERIC: Sorry, sorry.

(SNIFFLES)

Remember...

we grew up in this bank.

We're lifers.

And I'm happy
we made that trade,

but only if we act like
we know its soul

and we're prepared
to fight for it.

Because the next few weeks
are gonna be a fight.

(HENRY GRUNTING SOFTLY)

How long was I out for?

I've been thinking
about my intentions.

One must think clearly

about what one will
ask the medicine.

You can't wear that.

You look like
a T.M. Lewin wanker.

GUEST 1: Expensive way
to get off your tits.

ROBERT: Where the fuck
have you dragged me?

GUEST 2: Cheap way
to meet God though.

- Just sit on the blue blanket for me.
- All right.

Just sit on that blanket for me.

GUEST 3: I haven't paid 800
quid to sit in some woods in Kent.

(GUESTS CHATTERING)

GUEST 3: I better
fucking figure some shit out.

PIERRE: Hey, dude.

Pierre.

Is this your first journey?
This is my third set of cups.

I don't think I'm
in the right headspace for this.

Well, you look like
you've sobered up a bit.

I told Henry to abstain,
but he never listens.

PIERRE:
He doesn't respect the medicine.

And remember, the plant
finds you when you're ready.

(SHAMAN CHANTING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

You're here now.

Do you really have a choice?

(SHAMAN CONTINUES CHANTING)

(RETCHING)

GUEST: Diego!

Help me, Diego!

(SHAMAN CONTINUES CHANTING)

(HENRY LAUGHING)

(CHANTING ECHOING)

(HENRY CONTINUES LAUGHING)

SHAMAN: Guíanos...

Ayahuasca.

Ayahuasca.

- (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
- (HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)

- (WATER DRIPPING)
- (LIGHTS BUZZING FAINTLY)

- (RHYTHMIC RUSTLING)
- ♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (EERIE MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

(DISTORTED CHATTER ECHOING)

Shoeshine, shoeshine, shoeshine.

Shoeshine, shoeshine, shoeshine.

(DISTORTED)
Shoeshine, shoeshine, shoeshine.

(LOUD BUZZING)

- ♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
- (ABRUPT SILENCE)

(REPEATING DEEP SNIFFS)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(ECHOING VOICES CHATTERING)

(ELECTRIC BUZZING)

ERIC: (ECHOING)
You're a company...

You're a company...
You're a company man.

(WATER DRIPPING)

(CHILDREN LAUGHING, ECHOING)

NICOLE CRAIG: (ECHOING)
Go on, Mommy's not looking.

♪ (EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

(LAUGHS)

(HENRY LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY)

(LAUGHING DISTORTS)

(HENRY CONTINUES LAUGHING)

(BABY CRYING)

- ♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
- (BABIES CRYING)

ROBERT: (ECHOING)
She was a tyrant, you know?

You're just like my mother.

She was an unfillable void
of need too.

She was very...

present.

BOB SENIOR:
(ECHOING) She was restless.

Just like you,
always in your ear.

(WORDS ECHO)

BOB SENIOR:
She loved you.

(OVERLAPPING ECHOING WORDS)

(ECHOING WHOOSH)

(HENRY LAUGHING)

- (ABRUPT SILENCE)
- (PANTS)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(HENRY LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY)

(CONTINUES LAUGHING)

(GASPING)

(SHAMAN CHANTING SOFTLY)

We have to find a way
to monetize this.

(LAUGHS)

(BIRDS CALLING)

HENRY:
Christ, I'm coming down hard.

I had a very nasty experience
in the loo just now.

I saw a monster.

Whatever you do...

don't look in the mirror.

♪ ("CMON" BY FRED AGAIN...
AND BRIAN ENO PLAYING) ♪

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(YASMIN SIGHING)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Can I get in with you?

ROBERT: What time is it?

I don't know.

Where have you been?

YASMIN: I ended up
in some member's club.

Sat at the bar for a bit,
getting fucked up.

Got some guys
to buy me about eight Negronis.

And then when they left,

they realized that I wasn't
a paying member anymore.

So they asked me to leave.

And I came home.

Sorry I left you with them.

I think
I'm gonna sell the house.

How did you afford this place
in the first place? (CHUCKLES)

Clement...

He left me half a million quid
in his will.

I guess it doesn't really matter
where the money comes from.

I think it does.

I think I'm finally beginning
to see that.

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

What am I gonna do
if I lose my job?

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

Henry will look after you.

- But he's a cunt.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)

Yeah, he's your type.

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

I guess he is.

My fate is predetermined.

Yeah.

♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪

You're destined
to marry your dad.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

(ROBERT CHUCKLES)

(LAUGHS WHEEZINGLY)

That would be impossible
'cause I killed him.

(GIGGLES)

♪ ("BOY"
BY BOOK OF LOVE PLAYING) ♪

(GIGGLES)

(ROBERT CHUCKLES)

- ♪ Boy ♪
- ♪ Uh-huh ♪

♪ I want to be
Where the boys are ♪

♪ But I'm not allowed ♪

♪ I wait outside
Of the boy's bar ♪

♪ I wait for them
To all come out ♪

♪ I'm not a... ♪

♪ Boy ♪

♪ I'm not a... ♪

♪ Boy ♪

♪ It's not my fault ♪

♪ That I'm not a boy ♪

♪ It's not my fault ♪

♪ I don't have those toys ♪

♪ I'm not a... ♪

♪ Boy ♪

- ♪ Uh-huh ♪
- ♪ I'm not a... ♪

- ♪ Boy ♪
- ♪ Uh-huh ♪

♪ Boy ♪

♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪