1 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:07,333 [Taylor] Previously on Billions... 2 00:00:07,417 --> 00:00:09,208 He's a rich man. 3 00:00:09,291 --> 00:00:11,417 There always have been rumors as to the way he earned it. 4 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:12,917 You are willing to testify 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,458 Jock Jeffcoat profited along with his brother? 6 00:00:15,542 --> 00:00:16,417 I know he does. 7 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:18,000 We're doing a massive cap raise. 8 00:00:18,083 --> 00:00:20,208 Welcome to the new quant headquarters. 9 00:00:20,291 --> 00:00:21,750 He fired you. 10 00:00:21,834 --> 00:00:24,542 I was fodder. Don't try to tell me different. 11 00:00:24,625 --> 00:00:27,083 So, is it prison or start talking? 12 00:00:27,166 --> 00:00:28,208 Let's do this. 13 00:00:28,291 --> 00:00:30,709 Who the hell gave you permission to talk to my son. 14 00:00:30,792 --> 00:00:32,166 [Partner is there's no paperwork. 15 00:00:32,250 --> 00:00:34,250 Off the books. The Chuck Rhoades Special. 16 00:00:34,333 --> 00:00:36,542 Your best friend sold you down the river for nothing. 17 00:00:36,625 --> 00:00:38,458 [Axe] I'm willing to pay you 30 million to tell the truth. 18 00:00:38,542 --> 00:00:41,166 But I sure as hell will testify about what Chuck Rhoades did. 19 00:00:41,250 --> 00:00:43,542 [Taylor] You sold out my relationship. 20 00:00:43,625 --> 00:00:45,583 No, no. You did. 21 00:00:45,667 --> 00:00:48,166 [Axe] That's why you told me he was at your dinner. 22 00:00:56,083 --> 00:00:59,083 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 23 00:00:59,166 --> 00:01:02,750 ♪♪♪ 24 00:01:02,834 --> 00:01:06,667 ♪♪♪ 25 00:01:08,875 --> 00:01:10,792 [Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game"] 26 00:01:10,875 --> 00:01:14,625 [indistinct conversations] 27 00:01:14,709 --> 00:01:17,542 ♪♪♪ 28 00:01:17,625 --> 00:01:22,208 ♪♪♪ 29 00:01:22,291 --> 00:01:25,959 ♪♪♪ 30 00:01:26,041 --> 00:01:29,208 ♪♪♪ 31 00:01:29,291 --> 00:01:31,500 I can't believe you brought me here. 32 00:01:31,583 --> 00:01:35,000 Thank you. 33 00:01:35,083 --> 00:01:36,458 I was surprised to learn 34 00:01:36,542 --> 00:01:38,208 the viral videos so afflicted you. 35 00:01:38,291 --> 00:01:39,625 Oh. They don't... usually... 36 00:01:39,709 --> 00:01:42,083 but I mean... 37 00:01:42,166 --> 00:01:44,000 -[woman] Oh, my God. -[woman laughs] Oh! 38 00:01:44,083 --> 00:01:45,959 You know we could just order the tomahawk 39 00:01:46,041 --> 00:01:48,625 and have him do his whole thing here at the table. 40 00:01:48,709 --> 00:01:50,333 -[man chuckles] -Uh, no. 41 00:01:50,417 --> 00:01:53,834 I'm all right looking at the eclipse through the cereal box. 42 00:01:53,917 --> 00:01:56,458 [laughs] 43 00:01:56,542 --> 00:01:59,500 Ah, well, well, well. 44 00:01:59,583 --> 00:02:00,792 How'd it go? 45 00:02:00,875 --> 00:02:02,667 [groans, exhales sharply] 46 00:02:02,750 --> 00:02:04,500 Bought you a present, 47 00:02:04,583 --> 00:02:05,583 had it sent straight to the office. 48 00:02:05,667 --> 00:02:08,625 Well, I hope that's not all you've brought me. 49 00:02:08,709 --> 00:02:10,917 Texas is a bizarro world. 50 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,583 Jock Jeffcoat's a pariah at Zabar's 51 00:02:13,667 --> 00:02:16,041 but he's the second coming on the 29th parallel. 52 00:02:16,125 --> 00:02:19,875 So you weren't able to substantiate what we know... 53 00:02:19,959 --> 00:02:21,792 the brother, the cable company. 54 00:02:21,875 --> 00:02:24,458 We have embarked on a one-way mission here. 55 00:02:24,542 --> 00:02:28,125 We either get to the other side and line dance on Jock's grave 56 00:02:28,208 --> 00:02:31,375 or he will most assuredly be doing the Tush Push on ours. 57 00:02:31,458 --> 00:02:33,291 Anybody who knew anything wasn't willing to go on the record, 58 00:02:33,375 --> 00:02:35,875 and anyone willing to go on the record 59 00:02:35,959 --> 00:02:37,750 didn't know anything. I'm sorry, Chuck. 60 00:02:37,834 --> 00:02:41,041 You know what's printed above the Rhoades family crest: 61 00:02:41,125 --> 00:02:42,667 "Never say sorry. 62 00:02:42,750 --> 00:02:43,792 Make the other fella sorry first." 63 00:02:43,875 --> 00:02:45,709 Can you do that? 64 00:02:45,792 --> 00:02:48,875 Will you do that? 65 00:02:48,959 --> 00:02:50,250 I will. 66 00:02:50,333 --> 00:02:52,959 Reach out to people you feel dirty talking to, 67 00:02:53,041 --> 00:02:55,333 employ tactics you wouldn't confess even to a priest, 68 00:02:55,417 --> 00:02:57,291 and find a way to crack someone 69 00:02:57,375 --> 00:02:59,917 inside the cable company. 70 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,959 Because we cannot build a case 71 00:03:02,041 --> 00:03:04,583 on the word of a confessed liar like Cutler. 72 00:03:04,667 --> 00:03:05,792 Yeah. On it. 73 00:03:05,875 --> 00:03:07,000 Yep. 74 00:03:07,083 --> 00:03:10,083 ♪ Dream of you ♪ 75 00:03:10,166 --> 00:03:13,083 ♪ What a wicked thing to say ♪ 76 00:03:13,166 --> 00:03:15,041 [chuckles] 77 00:03:15,125 --> 00:03:17,625 Mm-hmm. Thank you. 78 00:03:17,709 --> 00:03:18,834 Be right back. 79 00:03:18,917 --> 00:03:22,041 ♪ What a wicked thing to do ♪ 80 00:03:22,125 --> 00:03:23,083 Excuse me. 81 00:03:23,166 --> 00:03:25,709 ♪ To make me dream of you ♪ 82 00:03:25,792 --> 00:03:28,792 ♪ And I ♪ 83 00:03:28,875 --> 00:03:31,208 ♪ Don't want to fall in love ♪ 84 00:03:31,291 --> 00:03:32,834 [indistinct conversations] 85 00:03:32,917 --> 00:03:35,959 Well. Look at you, 86 00:03:36,041 --> 00:03:38,792 fat and happy, taking down the Cadillac of steaks. 87 00:03:38,875 --> 00:03:40,000 [scoffs] 88 00:03:40,083 --> 00:03:43,792 Well, you must have made a nasty nickel selling me out. 89 00:03:43,875 --> 00:03:46,041 Fucking right I did. 90 00:03:46,125 --> 00:03:47,959 Why didn't you come to me? 91 00:03:48,041 --> 00:03:50,208 You could have come to me. 92 00:03:50,291 --> 00:03:51,709 Ah. 93 00:03:53,542 --> 00:03:54,959 You're married. 94 00:03:56,834 --> 00:03:57,959 To Taiga. 95 00:03:58,041 --> 00:04:01,125 Of course to Taiga. 96 00:04:01,208 --> 00:04:03,750 Who was the best man? 97 00:04:03,834 --> 00:04:05,625 There wasn't one. 98 00:04:05,709 --> 00:04:06,959 Come on. Shapiro. 99 00:04:07,041 --> 00:04:09,834 Oh. Shit... Really? 100 00:04:09,917 --> 00:04:10,625 I'm sorry you could only to do it 101 00:04:10,709 --> 00:04:12,709 at 50 percent of my weddings. 102 00:04:12,792 --> 00:04:13,625 [chuckles] Wouldn't have made you 103 00:04:13,709 --> 00:04:15,083 Cal Ripken, but it would have been nice 104 00:04:15,166 --> 00:04:16,959 to keep the streak going. 105 00:04:17,041 --> 00:04:19,917 I whopped you a good one. 106 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,458 And you whopped me a good one. 107 00:04:23,542 --> 00:04:23,959 I don't believe in even, 108 00:04:24,041 --> 00:04:27,959 but, uh, maybe, 109 00:04:28,041 --> 00:04:30,291 we're even. 110 00:04:30,375 --> 00:04:31,625 Maybe we are. 111 00:04:31,709 --> 00:04:33,333 So... where is your bride? 112 00:04:33,417 --> 00:04:36,125 Uh, Taiga's out of town. Visiting family. 113 00:04:36,208 --> 00:04:38,917 Hmm. So you're a bachelor for the evening. 114 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,333 Boys' night out. Not quite. 115 00:04:40,417 --> 00:04:41,375 This is work. 116 00:04:41,458 --> 00:04:44,041 That guy's on the board of-- doesn't matter. 117 00:04:44,125 --> 00:04:45,959 Just-- I'm trying to impress him, build my book. 118 00:04:46,041 --> 00:04:47,333 Making it monsoon? 119 00:04:47,417 --> 00:04:48,917 Just trying to keep my head above the flood waters. 120 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,917 Taiga's expensive. 121 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,166 She decided to start a Yoga empire. 122 00:04:53,250 --> 00:04:54,709 SoulCycle, but-- 123 00:04:54,792 --> 00:04:57,083 Mm. For yoga. Mm. 124 00:04:57,166 --> 00:04:59,166 And of course you supported her. 125 00:04:59,250 --> 00:05:01,625 It's who you are. 126 00:05:01,709 --> 00:05:02,208 But how deep are you in? 127 00:05:02,291 --> 00:05:04,750 Deep... and descending. 128 00:05:04,834 --> 00:05:07,333 Location problems, design problems, 129 00:05:07,417 --> 00:05:09,208 all kinds of-- hypoallergenic?-- 130 00:05:09,291 --> 00:05:13,625 stuff that makes my eyes glaze over. 131 00:05:13,709 --> 00:05:14,709 Sorry to hear that. 132 00:05:14,792 --> 00:05:15,834 It'll all be fine. 133 00:05:15,917 --> 00:05:17,375 As soon as we get the first location open 134 00:05:17,458 --> 00:05:18,291 and have some money coming in 135 00:05:18,375 --> 00:05:19,959 instead of just going out... 136 00:05:20,041 --> 00:05:21,625 Right. 137 00:05:21,709 --> 00:05:24,208 Of course. 138 00:05:24,291 --> 00:05:26,166 Of course. Uh, well. 139 00:05:26,250 --> 00:05:29,291 My best to Mrs. Schirmer. 140 00:05:29,375 --> 00:05:33,333 And...it's good to see you, Ira. 141 00:05:33,417 --> 00:05:36,834 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 142 00:05:36,917 --> 00:05:41,750 ♪♪♪ 143 00:05:41,834 --> 00:05:45,917 ♪♪♪ 144 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,291 [keys clacking] 145 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:52,583 Where are the others? 146 00:05:52,667 --> 00:05:54,875 They left-- a while ago. 147 00:05:54,959 --> 00:05:56,250 They didn't contact you? 148 00:05:56,333 --> 00:05:57,583 To say? 149 00:05:57,667 --> 00:05:58,250 Uh... 150 00:05:58,333 --> 00:06:00,583 They quit. What happened? 151 00:06:00,667 --> 00:06:02,208 Well, they're hacks and lame. 152 00:06:02,291 --> 00:06:04,291 Did they quit because you called them hacks and lame? 153 00:06:04,375 --> 00:06:06,834 You backslid into being a dick. 154 00:06:06,917 --> 00:06:08,709 Fine. Yes. Big time. 155 00:06:08,792 --> 00:06:10,417 You know what? Those other two were sweet, 156 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:12,208 but you're more talented. I need you. 157 00:06:12,291 --> 00:06:13,542 Damn right you do. 158 00:06:13,625 --> 00:06:15,375 'Cause I'm the Yngwie Malmsteen of coding, 159 00:06:15,458 --> 00:06:16,792 total control of the instrument-- 160 00:06:16,875 --> 00:06:19,291 Sad. Look, I need you to model something for me. 161 00:06:19,375 --> 00:06:21,458 If we give the algo an extra 20 billion to play with... 162 00:06:21,542 --> 00:06:23,834 can it reliably generate returns in excess of eight percent? 163 00:06:23,917 --> 00:06:25,750 If so, how soon? How reliably? 164 00:06:25,834 --> 00:06:27,125 And can any other funds do the same? 165 00:06:27,208 --> 00:06:29,125 Wait, this isn't some T test. 166 00:06:29,208 --> 00:06:31,291 This is something you'd pitch an investor. 167 00:06:31,375 --> 00:06:33,166 Problem is: Bridgewater would have 50 PhDs 168 00:06:33,250 --> 00:06:35,250 writing software on this. 169 00:06:35,333 --> 00:06:36,583 Molly Hatchet had three guitarists. 170 00:06:36,667 --> 00:06:38,000 Rising Force had one. 171 00:06:38,083 --> 00:06:40,208 Are you going to tell me you can't play this solo? 172 00:06:40,291 --> 00:06:41,291 Of course not. 173 00:06:41,375 --> 00:06:43,792 I'm sure we'll go faster without the dead weight-- 174 00:06:43,875 --> 00:06:45,583 whoops-- You're working alone now, 175 00:06:45,667 --> 00:06:47,500 act however you want. 176 00:06:47,583 --> 00:06:50,583 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 177 00:06:50,667 --> 00:06:54,458 ♪♪♪ 178 00:06:54,542 --> 00:06:58,458 ♪♪♪ 179 00:06:58,542 --> 00:07:02,333 ♪♪♪ 180 00:07:02,417 --> 00:07:03,834 [Axe sighs] 181 00:07:03,917 --> 00:07:09,166 ♪♪♪ 182 00:07:09,250 --> 00:07:10,959 Take me to the fucking Regency. 183 00:07:11,041 --> 00:07:14,291 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 184 00:07:14,375 --> 00:07:17,125 [indistinct conversations] 185 00:07:17,208 --> 00:07:20,667 ♪♪♪ 186 00:07:20,750 --> 00:07:23,375 [Tisch] Thanks. Excuse me one second. 187 00:07:23,458 --> 00:07:24,375 -Hey, Axe. How are you, man? -Hey. 188 00:07:24,458 --> 00:07:26,542 I don't think we knew you were coming. 189 00:07:26,625 --> 00:07:27,375 Just give us a second, and we're gonna have your table. 190 00:07:27,458 --> 00:07:29,834 Nah. No need, JT. Okay. Enjoy. 191 00:07:29,917 --> 00:07:31,667 Thanks. 192 00:07:31,750 --> 00:07:34,291 ♪♪♪ 193 00:07:34,375 --> 00:07:37,250 -Hey, Axe. -Hey, Lizzie. 194 00:07:37,333 --> 00:07:39,375 ♪♪♪ 195 00:07:39,458 --> 00:07:41,500 Ah, fuck, Axe. Can't you skip a year? 196 00:07:41,583 --> 00:07:45,166 I could. But what fucking fun would that be? 197 00:07:45,250 --> 00:07:46,375 I'm Martin Carlisle. 198 00:07:46,458 --> 00:07:47,959 Who you are is a witness 199 00:07:48,041 --> 00:07:51,667 to this year's edition of Fuck Ups Fucking Up. 200 00:07:51,750 --> 00:07:55,875 Today, at Axe Cap, it's comp day. 201 00:07:55,959 --> 00:07:59,875 And so, as always, I'm reminded of the best day of my life. 202 00:07:59,959 --> 00:08:01,333 The day that this man, 203 00:08:01,417 --> 00:08:03,625 Bill McGann of McGann Commodities, 204 00:08:03,709 --> 00:08:05,875 told me I didn't have enough Blarney in me. 205 00:08:05,959 --> 00:08:08,375 What he meant was: I didn't kiss enough ass. 206 00:08:08,458 --> 00:08:10,250 I meant you didn't have a soul. 207 00:08:10,333 --> 00:08:13,250 And so, by means of instruction, 208 00:08:13,333 --> 00:08:15,041 he wasn't gonna bonus me right. 209 00:08:15,125 --> 00:08:16,667 He shorted me by 50,000. 210 00:08:16,750 --> 00:08:17,625 Hey, I can leave you two to-- 211 00:08:17,709 --> 00:08:20,417 Stay. I'm leaving. 212 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:22,083 So, here I am, as I am every year, 213 00:08:22,166 --> 00:08:24,458 to thank you. 214 00:08:24,542 --> 00:08:25,542 And to buy you breakfast. 215 00:08:25,625 --> 00:08:26,583 [chuckles] 216 00:08:26,667 --> 00:08:27,959 Just think. 217 00:08:28,041 --> 00:08:28,834 If I'd stayed, 218 00:08:28,917 --> 00:08:31,375 you maybe could have owned this hotel. 219 00:08:33,375 --> 00:08:34,667 Least I can do is get your check. 220 00:08:34,750 --> 00:08:38,542 Right before I engage in the very same rumble 221 00:08:38,625 --> 00:08:42,250 that left you knifed and bleeding in the schoolyard. 222 00:08:42,333 --> 00:08:44,583 You're about the same age I was back then. 223 00:08:44,667 --> 00:08:45,667 You've had a good run, kid. 224 00:08:45,750 --> 00:08:48,917 But you can't stay clear of the switchblades forever. 225 00:08:49,792 --> 00:08:53,375 You're not a Greaser anymore, Axe, 226 00:08:53,458 --> 00:08:55,375 you're a Soc now... 227 00:08:55,458 --> 00:08:57,583 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 228 00:08:57,667 --> 00:08:59,667 [indistinct conversations] 229 00:08:59,750 --> 00:09:01,792 ♪♪♪ 230 00:09:01,875 --> 00:09:03,959 Do you want to lean down or bulk up? 231 00:09:04,041 --> 00:09:06,667 Because either way, suck my dick. 232 00:09:06,750 --> 00:09:08,125 [clicks tongue] 233 00:09:08,208 --> 00:09:09,834 Is this how one runs a service business? 234 00:09:09,917 --> 00:09:11,625 Whatever I'm doing, it seems to be working. 235 00:09:11,709 --> 00:09:13,542 Because I invested in one. 236 00:09:13,625 --> 00:09:14,542 And now I got five. 237 00:09:14,625 --> 00:09:17,458 Ah. Some guys just stumble into money. 238 00:09:17,542 --> 00:09:19,542 Like Leonard Cohen into the Chelsea Hotel. 239 00:09:19,625 --> 00:09:21,625 Mm. You're looking good, sweetheart. 240 00:09:21,709 --> 00:09:22,834 [woman] Thanks. 241 00:09:22,917 --> 00:09:24,417 Do you have any idea what it takes 242 00:09:24,500 --> 00:09:27,291 to make the pivot I did? 243 00:09:27,375 --> 00:09:30,625 This is my lifeblood now. 244 00:09:30,709 --> 00:09:32,458 I built it to where there are guys 245 00:09:32,542 --> 00:09:34,709 who would help me take it public... 246 00:09:34,792 --> 00:09:36,375 if I wasn't a fucking felon. 247 00:09:36,458 --> 00:09:38,375 In your estimation, that's my fault? 248 00:09:38,458 --> 00:09:39,458 You went after Axe. 249 00:09:39,542 --> 00:09:42,250 On the way you went after Dollar Bill Stearn. 250 00:09:42,333 --> 00:09:44,208 You didn't get any of them... except for me. 251 00:09:44,291 --> 00:09:46,667 Because I surrendered. 252 00:09:46,750 --> 00:09:47,959 Thank you. That was convenient. 253 00:09:48,041 --> 00:09:52,792 And it shows a remarkable sense of personal responsibility. 254 00:09:52,875 --> 00:09:55,834 Oh, I'd be glad to speak of that to judges and clerks 255 00:09:55,917 --> 00:09:59,792 and probation officers to get your record sanded clean. 256 00:09:59,875 --> 00:10:03,667 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 257 00:10:03,750 --> 00:10:05,208 And in return you want-- 258 00:10:05,291 --> 00:10:07,875 I do want. 259 00:10:07,959 --> 00:10:09,834 Help me investigate a money trail. 260 00:10:09,917 --> 00:10:10,792 [laughs] Don't you have all your boys 261 00:10:10,875 --> 00:10:12,834 with windbreakers to do that for you? 262 00:10:12,917 --> 00:10:15,166 This is of a more personal nature. 263 00:10:15,250 --> 00:10:17,917 Very few are as expert as you 264 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,417 at disguising and veiling and hiding money. 265 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:23,291 I'm a man of many talents. 266 00:10:23,375 --> 00:10:26,917 And it's in your field, 267 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:27,542 fitness. 268 00:10:27,625 --> 00:10:30,625 [elevator bell dings] 269 00:10:30,709 --> 00:10:33,208 [indistinct conversations] 270 00:10:33,291 --> 00:10:36,291 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 271 00:10:36,375 --> 00:10:38,333 ♪♪♪ 272 00:10:38,417 --> 00:10:41,750 [conversations stop] 273 00:10:41,834 --> 00:10:42,917 [man] Let me call you back. 274 00:10:44,417 --> 00:10:45,208 Shit. 275 00:10:45,291 --> 00:10:50,417 ♪♪♪ 276 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:54,875 ♪♪♪ 277 00:10:54,959 --> 00:10:59,125 ♪♪♪ 278 00:10:59,208 --> 00:11:03,291 ♪♪♪ 279 00:11:03,375 --> 00:11:04,875 This is chilling. 280 00:11:04,959 --> 00:11:07,375 Does he always do this at comp? 281 00:11:07,458 --> 00:11:10,250 To a degree. This is special. 282 00:11:10,333 --> 00:11:15,000 ♪♪♪ 283 00:11:15,083 --> 00:11:19,500 ♪♪♪ 284 00:11:19,583 --> 00:11:24,083 ♪♪♪ 285 00:11:24,166 --> 00:11:24,959 [Wendy] What's the mood down there. 286 00:11:25,041 --> 00:11:26,417 They've got that lean and hungry look. 287 00:11:26,500 --> 00:11:28,542 Like to leave 'em that way. 288 00:11:28,625 --> 00:11:30,250 Let the hunger set in. 289 00:11:30,333 --> 00:11:32,375 Starvation, in small doses, triggers an increase in energy, 290 00:11:32,458 --> 00:11:35,041 clarity, aggression-- 291 00:11:35,125 --> 00:11:35,792 Right up until it kills you. 292 00:11:35,875 --> 00:11:37,709 You gotta feed 'em something. 293 00:11:37,792 --> 00:11:39,583 Why? I make the decisions, 294 00:11:39,667 --> 00:11:41,166 do all the heavy-lifting, 295 00:11:41,250 --> 00:11:42,834 actually earn the money. 296 00:11:42,917 --> 00:11:44,583 Mortimer Duke said it best: 297 00:11:44,667 --> 00:11:46,542 No getting around the old minimum wage. 298 00:11:46,625 --> 00:11:47,750 Actually, that was said to Mortimer Duke, 299 00:11:47,834 --> 00:11:50,166 but that's a helluva pull. 300 00:11:50,250 --> 00:11:51,959 The thing is: most years, 301 00:11:52,041 --> 00:11:53,375 I'm paying with other people's money. 302 00:11:53,458 --> 00:11:55,583 Now it's my own money. 303 00:11:55,667 --> 00:11:57,041 [Wags] That reminds me of a prayer I said 304 00:11:57,125 --> 00:11:57,875 [Wags] every night as a kid: 305 00:11:57,959 --> 00:12:00,166 "And now I lay me down to sleep, 306 00:12:00,250 --> 00:12:01,625 I pray the Lord my soul to keep, 307 00:12:01,709 --> 00:12:03,041 and if I die before I wake, 308 00:12:03,125 --> 00:12:06,083 I pray that all my toys should break."... 309 00:12:06,166 --> 00:12:07,959 So my fucking brother and sister can't play with 'em. 310 00:12:08,041 --> 00:12:10,250 [Taylor] Why don't you just delay comp decisions 311 00:12:10,333 --> 00:12:11,125 until after the raise? 312 00:12:11,208 --> 00:12:13,000 Outside money will be back on board, 313 00:12:13,083 --> 00:12:14,542 you'll feel better about the whole thing. 314 00:12:14,625 --> 00:12:15,792 Three things in life you can't postpone 315 00:12:15,875 --> 00:12:16,625 without dire consequences: 316 00:12:16,709 --> 00:12:18,959 calling a doctor when gutshot, 317 00:12:19,041 --> 00:12:20,875 finding a toilet when traveling in India, 318 00:12:20,959 --> 00:12:21,959 and paying your people. 319 00:12:22,041 --> 00:12:23,875 The last two being more or less the same. 320 00:12:23,959 --> 00:12:25,375 Listen. Don't think the raise isn't the thing; 321 00:12:25,458 --> 00:12:26,834 it's the only thing. 322 00:12:26,917 --> 00:12:29,625 Without that money, I'm not bonusing people, 323 00:12:29,709 --> 00:12:31,041 I'm putting them out on an ice floe. 324 00:12:31,125 --> 00:12:34,208 Okay. Then I just want to make sure you're aware 325 00:12:34,291 --> 00:12:36,500 of a promise I made to everyone while you were gone: 326 00:12:36,583 --> 00:12:38,000 No one makes less than last year. 327 00:12:38,083 --> 00:12:39,542 That's why they stayed. 328 00:12:39,625 --> 00:12:41,917 I am aware that that was your promise. 329 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:42,583 [Axe] Anyone you think deserves more? 330 00:12:42,667 --> 00:12:45,500 -No. -Not even Ben Kim? 331 00:12:45,583 --> 00:12:47,250 Kid's practically your gimp. 332 00:12:47,333 --> 00:12:49,834 I think he's ready to move to PM. 333 00:12:49,917 --> 00:12:51,709 I could see that. 334 00:12:51,792 --> 00:12:53,333 Then let the promotion be his bonus this year. 335 00:12:53,417 --> 00:12:55,500 [Taylor] Too much too fast could overwhelm him. 336 00:12:55,583 --> 00:12:57,500 Has it overwhelmed you? 337 00:12:57,583 --> 00:13:01,625 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 338 00:13:01,709 --> 00:13:03,333 Looks like you're up. 339 00:13:03,417 --> 00:13:05,458 Let's move over to the desk. 340 00:13:05,542 --> 00:13:07,458 -You talk to Lara? -Mnh-mnh. 341 00:13:07,542 --> 00:13:09,458 Be bold. Check in with me later. 342 00:13:09,542 --> 00:13:11,542 First time in the ring without training in Catskill with Cus. 343 00:13:11,625 --> 00:13:13,875 [door opens] You ready? 344 00:13:13,959 --> 00:13:15,250 Yeah. I got my Kevin Rooney. 345 00:13:15,333 --> 00:13:17,542 I'll be fine. 346 00:13:17,625 --> 00:13:20,250 ♪♪♪ 347 00:13:20,333 --> 00:13:24,083 [door opens] 348 00:13:24,166 --> 00:13:25,458 [door closes] 349 00:13:25,542 --> 00:13:28,875 ♪♪♪ 350 00:13:28,959 --> 00:13:30,542 Fifteen million dollars. 351 00:13:30,625 --> 00:13:31,500 You aren't going to start with a performance review or-- 352 00:13:31,583 --> 00:13:33,834 Helluva year. Fifteen. 353 00:13:33,917 --> 00:13:37,417 I was thinking 50. How'd you get there? 354 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:39,709 Axe Cap made 929 million this year. 355 00:13:39,792 --> 00:13:40,959 When you account for expenses, nets to almost 700. 356 00:13:41,041 --> 00:13:43,875 Seeing as how I ran the place for most of that time, 357 00:13:43,959 --> 00:13:46,250 less than one-tenth of the profits seems more than fair. 358 00:13:46,333 --> 00:13:47,959 Might be. But then again, I was the client. 359 00:13:48,041 --> 00:13:50,959 So you're kind of comparing apples to my money. 360 00:13:51,041 --> 00:13:51,500 I did more than just run your money. 361 00:13:51,583 --> 00:13:52,834 I kept us alive. 362 00:13:52,917 --> 00:13:55,417 I killed it at the Idea Dinner. 363 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:57,333 I convinced the Street that night, and every day since, 364 00:13:57,417 --> 00:13:59,417 that there was always someone at the helm. 365 00:13:59,500 --> 00:14:00,333 I got us through a natural disaster. 366 00:14:00,417 --> 00:14:02,583 I all but closed Kansas City before Ben Kim 367 00:14:02,667 --> 00:14:04,458 went Thunder From Down Under on them. 368 00:14:04,542 --> 00:14:05,959 And let's not forget that I was key in making up 369 00:14:06,041 --> 00:14:07,959 the shortfall from Grigor's redemption, 370 00:14:08,041 --> 00:14:10,125 at great personal cost. 371 00:14:10,208 --> 00:14:11,750 Still sore about Oscar? 372 00:14:13,250 --> 00:14:15,792 Yet here I am, still ready to help lock down the raise. 373 00:14:15,875 --> 00:14:17,583 About that. No, you're not. 374 00:14:17,667 --> 00:14:20,083 I don't actually need you in the pitches. 375 00:14:20,166 --> 00:14:22,041 For one thing, you bombed your first raise meeting, 376 00:14:22,125 --> 00:14:23,959 with Grigor's lieutenant, bombed it on purpose. 377 00:14:24,041 --> 00:14:25,625 And for another: the investors need to know 378 00:14:25,709 --> 00:14:27,667 that you're here at Axe Cap, 379 00:14:27,750 --> 00:14:31,375 that someone's "always at the helm." 380 00:14:31,458 --> 00:14:34,250 Besides... the raise is my thing. 381 00:14:34,333 --> 00:14:35,667 I'm thinking that the final number 382 00:14:35,750 --> 00:14:38,375 will be something just shy of half of what you're looking for. 383 00:14:38,458 --> 00:14:39,917 I don't agree. This isn't heavy petting 384 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,875 on the Oberlin campus: we don't both have to agree. 385 00:14:41,959 --> 00:14:43,208 I say what it is. You take it. 386 00:14:43,291 --> 00:14:44,709 Yes, that is so. But still. I don't accept. 387 00:14:44,792 --> 00:14:47,375 I never made that much at your age. 388 00:14:47,458 --> 00:14:48,208 I've accomplished more than you had. 389 00:14:48,291 --> 00:14:50,250 But you don't have your own shop. 390 00:14:50,333 --> 00:14:51,291 If you were ready for that, 391 00:14:51,375 --> 00:14:53,083 we wouldn't be having this conversation, 392 00:14:53,166 --> 00:14:55,625 I'd be looking at a Taylor-shaped hole in the wall. 393 00:14:55,709 --> 00:14:59,166 Twenty is as much as anybody's ever gotten out of me. 394 00:14:59,250 --> 00:15:00,625 Learn to be rich on that. 395 00:15:00,709 --> 00:15:03,125 And I was beginning to think you were done teaching me. 396 00:15:03,208 --> 00:15:04,875 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 397 00:15:04,959 --> 00:15:06,083 Let's finish this later. 398 00:15:06,166 --> 00:15:08,250 [sighs] 399 00:15:08,333 --> 00:15:10,458 ♪♪♪ 400 00:15:10,542 --> 00:15:13,000 ♪♪♪ 401 00:15:13,083 --> 00:15:15,208 [door opens] 402 00:15:15,291 --> 00:15:19,166 ♪♪♪ 403 00:15:19,250 --> 00:15:23,166 ♪♪♪ 404 00:15:23,250 --> 00:15:27,125 ♪♪♪ 405 00:15:27,208 --> 00:15:31,083 ♪♪♪ 406 00:15:31,166 --> 00:15:35,000 ♪♪♪ 407 00:15:35,083 --> 00:15:38,959 ♪♪♪ 408 00:15:39,041 --> 00:15:40,500 I'd like half a million. 409 00:15:40,583 --> 00:15:41,917 You just got here. Your signing bonus is your comp. 410 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,291 I didn't say I deserved half a million. 411 00:15:44,375 --> 00:15:45,542 But you rarely get what you don't ask for. 412 00:15:45,625 --> 00:15:47,041 So I'm fucking asking. 413 00:15:47,125 --> 00:15:48,667 Otherwise, why are we doing this? 414 00:15:48,750 --> 00:15:50,333 We've never talked one-on-one. 415 00:15:50,417 --> 00:15:51,709 I wanted to get a hit off of you. 416 00:15:51,792 --> 00:15:53,125 I hit like the Purple People Eaters. 417 00:15:53,208 --> 00:15:54,542 So be careful what you wish for. 418 00:15:54,625 --> 00:15:56,041 Oh. This is gonna be fun. 419 00:15:56,125 --> 00:15:58,041 I believe I've proved my value. 420 00:15:58,125 --> 00:15:59,750 Don't need to justify a thing to you at this point. 421 00:15:59,834 --> 00:16:01,500 Oooh, working stiff. 422 00:16:01,583 --> 00:16:03,542 Just like your personal totem, The Undertaker. 423 00:16:03,625 --> 00:16:04,583 Do you have people feeding you this shit 424 00:16:04,667 --> 00:16:05,500 about us ahead of time? 425 00:16:05,583 --> 00:16:08,250 Thing is, for the last couple of weeks, 426 00:16:08,333 --> 00:16:09,875 I haven't really felt your presence. 427 00:16:09,959 --> 00:16:11,208 You saying I've been coasting. 428 00:16:11,291 --> 00:16:14,291 I'm saying there's no garbage time at Axe Capital. 429 00:16:14,375 --> 00:16:16,667 Every minute of every quarter matters. 430 00:16:16,750 --> 00:16:18,667 No scrubs get playing time. 431 00:16:18,750 --> 00:16:21,166 And even if you are my MVP at the All-Star break, 432 00:16:21,250 --> 00:16:23,667 if you stop performing, you will be replaced. 433 00:16:23,750 --> 00:16:25,166 Pay me what you're gonna pay me. 434 00:16:25,250 --> 00:16:26,792 Save the pep talks for someone who needs 'em. 435 00:16:26,875 --> 00:16:29,458 I think I like that version of you. 436 00:16:29,542 --> 00:16:31,709 But I could hate it another time. 437 00:16:31,792 --> 00:16:34,208 Ok. What you did with the Wendy thing aside, 438 00:16:34,291 --> 00:16:36,125 and it's hard to put it aside, 439 00:16:36,208 --> 00:16:38,875 I'm paying you 1.3, a personal record. 440 00:16:38,959 --> 00:16:40,375 On top of your other bonus 441 00:16:40,458 --> 00:16:42,125 that's more than a two-ball for this year. 442 00:16:42,208 --> 00:16:43,917 But that is not a repeatable trick. 443 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,709 When we're here 12 months from now, 444 00:16:45,792 --> 00:16:47,542 if you're not still bodyslamming like... uh... 445 00:16:47,625 --> 00:16:49,834 King Kong Bundy... 446 00:16:49,917 --> 00:16:50,959 Did you pretend not to remember that 447 00:16:51,041 --> 00:16:51,667 to make me feel good? 448 00:16:51,750 --> 00:16:54,875 Goodbye Mafee. 449 00:16:54,959 --> 00:16:58,208 I think... I should not throw out the first number. 450 00:16:58,291 --> 00:17:00,583 Because I have a tendency to undervalue myself. 451 00:17:00,667 --> 00:17:02,291 I'd like to make you a PM. 452 00:17:02,375 --> 00:17:03,792 Portfolio Manager? 453 00:17:03,875 --> 00:17:04,792 I would have gone Prime Minister, 454 00:17:04,875 --> 00:17:07,083 but there you go, undervaluing. 455 00:17:07,166 --> 00:17:08,583 -And the money...? -Meet the new salary, 456 00:17:08,667 --> 00:17:10,500 same as the old salary. 457 00:17:10,583 --> 00:17:13,250 I'm a PM. 458 00:17:13,333 --> 00:17:16,458 ♪♪♪ 459 00:17:16,542 --> 00:17:16,959 [sighs] 460 00:17:17,041 --> 00:17:18,083 [horns honking] 461 00:17:18,166 --> 00:17:20,083 [Lynch] I've asked my special counsel, 462 00:17:20,166 --> 00:17:21,834 [Lynch] Bryan Connerty, to sit in. 463 00:17:21,917 --> 00:17:23,500 We meet again, young man. [door closes] 464 00:17:23,583 --> 00:17:24,458 The Axelrod case. 465 00:17:24,542 --> 00:17:26,667 Yeah. 466 00:17:26,750 --> 00:17:29,500 That thing was like cleaning out intestines 467 00:17:29,583 --> 00:17:32,291 before you eat 'em, a giant fucking waste of time. 468 00:17:32,375 --> 00:17:36,750 But I'm here to speak of something more concerning. 469 00:17:36,834 --> 00:17:38,291 It has come to my attention that there are men 470 00:17:38,375 --> 00:17:42,709 and probably women, within the Federal B-I, 471 00:17:42,792 --> 00:17:44,125 perhaps even within this very office, 472 00:17:44,208 --> 00:17:46,125 who are undermining our sacred purpose. 473 00:17:46,208 --> 00:17:48,208 -Which is... -I don't know if it's 474 00:17:48,291 --> 00:17:49,500 some Deep State bullshit, 475 00:17:49,583 --> 00:17:51,875 or just some vigilantes who think they know better, 476 00:17:51,959 --> 00:17:53,291 leaking to the press, and causing 477 00:17:53,375 --> 00:17:54,792 Lord knows what other ruckus. 478 00:17:54,875 --> 00:17:57,000 I will keep a lookout for what the Lord knows. 479 00:17:57,083 --> 00:17:59,291 The Lord knows all, madam. Took care of that for you. 480 00:17:59,375 --> 00:18:02,458 As for the rest, I want a hard-target search 481 00:18:02,542 --> 00:18:06,000 of every e-mail, text message, and online footprint 482 00:18:06,083 --> 00:18:09,417 so we know who's trustworthy and who needs to be purged. 483 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:11,625 I'm just not sure it's strictly legal for us 484 00:18:11,709 --> 00:18:12,458 to undertake this ourselves, 485 00:18:12,542 --> 00:18:14,667 or if it's too gray of an area. 486 00:18:14,750 --> 00:18:16,625 Maybe it would be best to have a court order first-- 487 00:18:16,709 --> 00:18:18,500 We can do it. 488 00:18:18,583 --> 00:18:20,333 And if you want to stay out of the deep gray, 489 00:18:20,417 --> 00:18:23,417 Director Lynch, I can lead the review myself. 490 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:26,875 You know, chart a-- a whiter shade of pale. 491 00:18:26,959 --> 00:18:29,000 Impressive. 492 00:18:29,083 --> 00:18:32,166 All too often I am told of obstacles and regulations 493 00:18:32,250 --> 00:18:35,208 when what I really wanna hear is "sí, se puede" 494 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,125 Ira, uh, this is Pete Decker. 495 00:18:42,208 --> 00:18:44,417 He's in the health and conditioning industry. 496 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:45,917 Is this a bailout? 497 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,291 More like an intervention. 498 00:18:47,375 --> 00:18:48,625 [sighs] 499 00:18:48,709 --> 00:18:49,959 Tell him what you told me, Pete. 500 00:18:50,041 --> 00:18:53,041 "The bitch is a booster. The bitch is a born thief." 501 00:18:53,125 --> 00:18:56,083 You talking about my wife? You looked into her? 502 00:18:56,166 --> 00:19:00,625 She needed looking into, so I looked. Go on. 503 00:19:00,709 --> 00:19:04,458 Her business is... well, there is no business. 504 00:19:04,542 --> 00:19:06,375 Everything you gave her was transferred 505 00:19:06,458 --> 00:19:09,208 into the account of her supposed business partner, 506 00:19:09,291 --> 00:19:10,959 Anthony Radaelli. 507 00:19:11,041 --> 00:19:12,291 I assume they, you know... 508 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:17,542 Thank you. 509 00:19:17,625 --> 00:19:18,875 Do right by me, Chuck. 510 00:19:18,959 --> 00:19:20,709 My middle name. 511 00:19:24,583 --> 00:19:26,208 I know this is hard to hear. 512 00:19:26,291 --> 00:19:28,250 [door closes] The commercial property 513 00:19:28,333 --> 00:19:29,750 she told you she plunked down on, 514 00:19:29,834 --> 00:19:31,959 that doesn't exist either. 515 00:19:32,041 --> 00:19:36,709 But there's an apartment, 516 00:19:36,792 --> 00:19:38,000 a very expensive apartment, 517 00:19:38,083 --> 00:19:42,667 they're about to close on. 518 00:19:42,750 --> 00:19:46,000 I'm sorry. 519 00:19:46,083 --> 00:19:48,583 Yeah... 520 00:19:48,667 --> 00:19:51,417 You knew. 521 00:19:51,500 --> 00:19:53,083 Yeah. Some. The rest I suspected. 522 00:19:53,166 --> 00:19:56,458 Oh, boy. To carry that around... 523 00:19:56,542 --> 00:19:57,875 Fucking kills me. 524 00:19:57,959 --> 00:19:59,291 [clears throat] 525 00:19:59,375 --> 00:20:01,417 But, uh, you know, Chuck, 526 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:02,417 I know you're only trying to help, 527 00:20:02,500 --> 00:20:03,583 but please stay out of it. 528 00:20:03,667 --> 00:20:06,166 It's, um... 529 00:20:06,250 --> 00:20:07,500 There's no prenup. 530 00:20:07,583 --> 00:20:08,291 And New York's a no-fault state. 531 00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:11,083 And I'd be halved financially. 532 00:20:11,166 --> 00:20:14,083 There's no prenup? 533 00:20:14,166 --> 00:20:17,333 Oh, Ira, you're a fucking lawyer. 534 00:20:17,417 --> 00:20:18,458 For once I didn't want to be. 535 00:20:18,542 --> 00:20:19,792 I wanted to be a romantic. 536 00:20:19,875 --> 00:20:23,542 Mm. I still do. 537 00:20:23,625 --> 00:20:25,041 I gave up on a marriage once. 538 00:20:25,125 --> 00:20:27,125 I've regretted it every day since. 539 00:20:27,208 --> 00:20:30,625 I'm not giving up this time. 540 00:20:30,709 --> 00:20:32,250 [chuckles] It'll blow over. 541 00:20:32,333 --> 00:20:35,792 She's young. It's a last hurrah. 542 00:20:35,875 --> 00:20:37,000 You know, she'll get whatever it is out of her system 543 00:20:37,083 --> 00:20:41,333 and then... then she'll come home. 544 00:20:41,417 --> 00:20:44,709 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 545 00:20:44,792 --> 00:20:45,875 [sniffs] 546 00:20:45,959 --> 00:20:49,667 [birds chirping] 547 00:20:49,750 --> 00:20:54,083 ♪ mid-tempo music ♪ 548 00:20:54,166 --> 00:20:58,959 ♪♪♪ 549 00:20:59,041 --> 00:21:03,792 ♪♪♪ 550 00:21:03,875 --> 00:21:08,667 ♪♪♪ 551 00:21:08,750 --> 00:21:12,750 ♪♪♪ 552 00:21:12,834 --> 00:21:18,250 ♪♪♪ 553 00:21:29,458 --> 00:21:30,333 I really have to watch what I tell you. 554 00:21:30,417 --> 00:21:32,375 It's like you're listening to every word. 555 00:21:32,458 --> 00:21:34,542 Especially when you start talking about 556 00:21:34,625 --> 00:21:37,542 hiding out in bathtubs. 557 00:21:37,625 --> 00:21:39,625 And places that remind you of what that felt like. 558 00:21:39,709 --> 00:21:41,834 I wasn't hiding. It's just that when I was younger 559 00:21:41,917 --> 00:21:43,208 the bathtub was the only place I could go 560 00:21:43,291 --> 00:21:44,875 to be alone and think. 561 00:21:44,959 --> 00:21:46,542 I'd press myself against the sides so hard 562 00:21:46,625 --> 00:21:47,542 eventually my legs would go numb. 563 00:21:47,625 --> 00:21:50,208 Then I'd start thinking I didn't have legs, 564 00:21:50,291 --> 00:21:51,750 and I'd wish for fins. 565 00:21:51,834 --> 00:21:54,625 Because then not fitting in would make more sense. 566 00:21:54,709 --> 00:21:55,625 I get it. 567 00:21:55,709 --> 00:21:58,166 I almost feel like a mermaid here. 568 00:21:58,250 --> 00:22:01,208 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 569 00:22:01,291 --> 00:22:04,583 ♪♪♪ 570 00:22:04,667 --> 00:22:06,542 Comp didn't go the way you wanted. 571 00:22:06,625 --> 00:22:09,208 He said I was off the raise team. 572 00:22:09,291 --> 00:22:11,667 Is he punishing me for doing exactly what he asked of me? 573 00:22:11,750 --> 00:22:13,041 Axe doesn't punish people. Unless they've wronged him. 574 00:22:13,125 --> 00:22:15,709 Or Lara. Or his kids. 575 00:22:15,792 --> 00:22:17,208 Or me. 576 00:22:17,291 --> 00:22:20,000 Or the New York Football Giants. 577 00:22:20,083 --> 00:22:22,083 I won't stagnate. 578 00:22:22,166 --> 00:22:24,750 Not for Axe. Not for anybody. 579 00:22:24,834 --> 00:22:26,417 You know Axe has never changed a comp decision. 580 00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:29,375 So I've heard. And I might be able to live 581 00:22:29,458 --> 00:22:30,917 with the number he can live with. 582 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,750 But what I need is forward momentum, 583 00:22:33,834 --> 00:22:36,083 above all things, even money. 584 00:22:36,166 --> 00:22:37,834 ♪♪♪ 585 00:22:37,917 --> 00:22:40,000 Yes. You do. 586 00:22:40,083 --> 00:22:43,458 I'll talk to him. 587 00:22:43,542 --> 00:22:45,333 Give me a day. 588 00:22:45,417 --> 00:22:48,333 ♪♪♪ 589 00:22:48,417 --> 00:22:50,834 ♪♪♪ 590 00:22:50,917 --> 00:22:55,083 ♪♪♪ 591 00:22:55,166 --> 00:22:58,625 ♪♪♪ 592 00:23:00,166 --> 00:23:01,792 [Duolingo] Kvankam. 593 00:23:01,875 --> 00:23:04,291 Although. 594 00:23:04,375 --> 00:23:05,792 [Duolingo] Pensis. 595 00:23:05,875 --> 00:23:07,291 Thought. 596 00:23:07,375 --> 00:23:08,625 Comp. 597 00:23:08,709 --> 00:23:11,291 Kompenso. 598 00:23:11,375 --> 00:23:13,500 So you're not here to help me with my Esperanto. 599 00:23:13,583 --> 00:23:16,458 I haven't had my comp meeting scheduled yet. 600 00:23:16,542 --> 00:23:18,125 Must be an oversight. 601 00:23:18,208 --> 00:23:19,667 Must be. 602 00:23:23,959 --> 00:23:25,166 Axe, you remember Ari Spyros. 603 00:23:25,250 --> 00:23:27,083 Works down in Compliance. 604 00:23:27,166 --> 00:23:29,625 Uh. Rings a bell. 605 00:23:29,709 --> 00:23:33,125 But like children of the 1800s, seen and not heard. 606 00:23:33,208 --> 00:23:34,125 And not even seen, you know? 607 00:23:34,208 --> 00:23:36,375 Spyros was concerned that his comp meeting 608 00:23:36,458 --> 00:23:37,750 wasn't on the books. 609 00:23:37,834 --> 00:23:39,166 I am sure it's an oversight. 610 00:23:39,250 --> 00:23:41,625 Was it an oversight? 611 00:23:41,709 --> 00:23:44,041 Compliance does not get performance-related comp. 612 00:23:44,125 --> 00:23:45,834 -Oh. -Sure. Usually. 613 00:23:45,917 --> 00:23:49,917 But Compliance doesn't usually turn around a shop overnight. 614 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,000 [Spyros] But before I got here this place was dirtier 615 00:23:52,083 --> 00:23:54,834 than the porta potty outside a third-rate donkey show. 616 00:23:54,917 --> 00:23:56,250 [chuckles] Arrests, fines, 617 00:23:56,333 --> 00:24:00,333 investigations up the wazoo. 618 00:24:00,417 --> 00:24:03,667 And since the Greek Freak has been on the scene-- 619 00:24:03,750 --> 00:24:04,458 You cannot call yourself that. 620 00:24:04,542 --> 00:24:07,166 There is no bonus for Compliance. 621 00:24:07,250 --> 00:24:09,375 What about the other stuff? 622 00:24:09,458 --> 00:24:12,333 Extracurricular stuff... 623 00:24:12,417 --> 00:24:15,291 I'm talking about the stuff in Bill's other garage. 624 00:24:15,375 --> 00:24:18,500 Doesn't Ari get to wet his beak? 625 00:24:18,583 --> 00:24:21,625 Ohh. I forgot about that... 626 00:24:21,709 --> 00:24:24,041 That reminds me of where you were 627 00:24:24,125 --> 00:24:26,250 right before you decided to share that little brainstorm. 628 00:24:26,333 --> 00:24:29,208 Fired. Halfway out the door. 629 00:24:29,291 --> 00:24:31,083 Three quarters. Literally. 630 00:24:31,166 --> 00:24:32,709 Dead to me. 631 00:24:32,792 --> 00:24:36,000 No, your comp is getting your job back. 632 00:24:36,083 --> 00:24:37,458 Getting to hiss and tinker 633 00:24:37,542 --> 00:24:39,625 with your little espresso erector set 634 00:24:39,709 --> 00:24:40,375 rather than pick through the Dumpster 635 00:24:40,458 --> 00:24:42,208 for your mangled steam wand. 636 00:24:42,291 --> 00:24:43,709 -I see... -If we were to do 637 00:24:43,792 --> 00:24:46,709 a little accounting of how much you meant to Axe Cap, 638 00:24:46,792 --> 00:24:49,291 we would first have to look at what you cost me 639 00:24:49,375 --> 00:24:50,458 by turning Wendy in. 640 00:24:50,542 --> 00:24:54,208 The consequences of your "chaos grenade." 641 00:24:54,291 --> 00:24:56,208 [whistles, imitates explosion] 642 00:24:56,291 --> 00:24:58,166 Yeah. To say nothing of the nightmare 643 00:24:58,250 --> 00:24:59,041 that you plunged her into, 644 00:24:59,125 --> 00:25:02,083 and the unthinkable acts I had to perform 645 00:25:02,166 --> 00:25:04,166 in order to set things right. 646 00:25:04,250 --> 00:25:06,250 [Axe] I mean dollars and cents alone. 647 00:25:06,333 --> 00:25:10,417 The fines, the bonuses, the jet fuel to Nova Scotia, 648 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:15,125 you owe me 1.195 million dollars. 649 00:25:15,208 --> 00:25:16,041 You know what? 650 00:25:16,125 --> 00:25:17,417 I don't think I need a comp meeting. 651 00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:19,625 My-- My base is very generous, 652 00:25:19,709 --> 00:25:24,375 and I think we should just leave it right there. 653 00:25:26,959 --> 00:25:29,417 That was the full Signor Roberto. 654 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:32,083 "The rent stays like before." 655 00:25:32,166 --> 00:25:33,750 [chuckles] Yeah. That's the first comp meeting 656 00:25:33,834 --> 00:25:34,583 I've actually enjoyed. 657 00:25:34,667 --> 00:25:37,333 You know, I'm tempted to fire 658 00:25:37,417 --> 00:25:38,875 the whole fucking lot of them. 659 00:25:38,959 --> 00:25:40,917 Except maybe like two. 660 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,250 But someone has got to roll the coins up 661 00:25:42,333 --> 00:25:43,500 into those little sleeves. 662 00:25:43,583 --> 00:25:44,458 Yeah. Practically all they do. 663 00:25:44,542 --> 00:25:47,125 Nah, you can't fire 'em, estro. 664 00:25:47,208 --> 00:25:49,125 Right before the raise, it'll look like panic. 665 00:25:49,208 --> 00:25:51,166 Like there's not enough grain to get everyone through the winter. 666 00:25:51,250 --> 00:25:52,125 I know. 667 00:25:52,208 --> 00:25:54,291 So I'm not doing it... 668 00:25:54,375 --> 00:25:56,625 But, you know, when I'm sitting across the table from them 669 00:25:56,709 --> 00:25:57,458 and I see their hungry little mouths, 670 00:25:57,542 --> 00:26:00,208 they're people, sure, my people, 671 00:26:00,291 --> 00:26:02,125 and I love 'em most of the year. 672 00:26:02,208 --> 00:26:05,333 But today, all I can see is 673 00:26:05,417 --> 00:26:07,458 their snapping fucking mouths, 674 00:26:07,542 --> 00:26:09,625 and instead of wanting to feed 'em, 675 00:26:09,709 --> 00:26:11,125 I just want to punch their teeth in. 676 00:26:11,208 --> 00:26:13,083 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 677 00:26:13,166 --> 00:26:17,208 ♪♪♪ 678 00:26:17,291 --> 00:26:19,834 [knock on door] 679 00:26:26,542 --> 00:26:28,709 The rest of them are scared to come in when I'm in here. 680 00:26:28,792 --> 00:26:32,208 I clocked you going in about 20 minutes ago, 681 00:26:32,291 --> 00:26:33,875 I figured this was as close to a Beta state 682 00:26:33,959 --> 00:26:34,417 as I'll ever find you in. 683 00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:38,709 Mm. What then? 684 00:26:38,792 --> 00:26:40,375 You've got personnel problems. 685 00:26:40,458 --> 00:26:41,583 That's what they'd all like you to think. 686 00:26:41,667 --> 00:26:42,667 None of 'em are going anywhere. 687 00:26:42,750 --> 00:26:46,166 I'm talking about one person in particular. 688 00:26:46,250 --> 00:26:47,500 Taylor is about to get paid the same as James Harden. 689 00:26:47,583 --> 00:26:49,875 You think they can't get by on that? 690 00:26:49,959 --> 00:26:50,959 It's not about money. 691 00:26:51,041 --> 00:26:52,333 They keep demanding more of it. 692 00:26:52,417 --> 00:26:53,959 Because you're not giving them what's more important 693 00:26:54,041 --> 00:26:55,542 than money. So money is all that's left. 694 00:26:55,625 --> 00:26:57,834 Well, I'm about to adopt the official policy 695 00:26:57,917 --> 00:26:59,166 of the United States and refuse 696 00:26:59,250 --> 00:27:00,583 to negotiate with terrorists. 697 00:27:00,667 --> 00:27:02,667 You know that's bullshit, right? Our government 698 00:27:02,750 --> 00:27:04,667 negotiates with terrorists all the time. 699 00:27:04,750 --> 00:27:06,625 Pays them with pallets full of hundreds. 700 00:27:06,709 --> 00:27:09,000 But when they're captured, what breaks them, 701 00:27:09,083 --> 00:27:11,417 in places like Gitmo, isn't overt torture, 702 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:12,250 it's a sense of disenfranchisement 703 00:27:12,333 --> 00:27:14,875 and purposelessness. 704 00:27:14,959 --> 00:27:16,125 That's what I'm sowing? 705 00:27:17,667 --> 00:27:21,542 Here's the thing: with someone like Taylor, 706 00:27:21,625 --> 00:27:22,542 what they need is forward momentum, 707 00:27:22,625 --> 00:27:26,875 above all things, even money. 708 00:27:26,959 --> 00:27:29,166 My recommendation: Take them to the raise. 709 00:27:33,125 --> 00:27:34,542 I could say yes. 710 00:27:34,625 --> 00:27:36,709 Why don't I want to say yes though? 711 00:27:36,792 --> 00:27:38,792 Because it's yet another fucking accommodation. 712 00:27:38,875 --> 00:27:42,000 I got this rich so I could stop making them. 713 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:46,041 Gates plays dollar poker. 714 00:27:46,125 --> 00:27:48,625 Buffett eats a drive in hamburger every day. 715 00:27:48,709 --> 00:27:51,208 There's no amount of money that frees you from being a person, 716 00:27:51,291 --> 00:27:52,500 from interacting with others. 717 00:27:52,583 --> 00:27:54,625 Those guys know that. You know that. 718 00:27:54,709 --> 00:27:55,750 It used to be an investment pitch 719 00:27:55,834 --> 00:27:59,083 entailed them begging you to take their money. 720 00:27:59,166 --> 00:28:02,083 Now you've got to peddle your wares along with everyone else. 721 00:28:02,166 --> 00:28:03,583 Like a fucking door to door Electrolux salesman. 722 00:28:03,667 --> 00:28:06,542 Giving up trading, taking on Grigor, 723 00:28:06,625 --> 00:28:08,625 now paying your people out of your own pocket. 724 00:28:08,709 --> 00:28:12,166 It must feel like death by a thousand cuts. 725 00:28:12,250 --> 00:28:13,709 Yeah. I'm at 999. And I'm sticking. 726 00:28:13,792 --> 00:28:16,500 You chose this person for a reason. 727 00:28:16,583 --> 00:28:18,709 Beyond their mathematical ability. 728 00:28:18,792 --> 00:28:20,917 Taking on Taylor as a real partner 729 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,250 isn't gonna kill you. 730 00:28:23,333 --> 00:28:25,333 It may be the very thing that makes you stronger. 731 00:28:25,417 --> 00:28:29,083 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 732 00:28:29,166 --> 00:28:33,291 ♪♪♪ 733 00:28:33,375 --> 00:28:37,041 ♪♪♪ 734 00:28:38,625 --> 00:28:40,875 [Sacker] The head of TexasSouthCable likes to hire 735 00:28:40,959 --> 00:28:42,500 undocumented workers and pay them under the table. 736 00:28:42,583 --> 00:28:45,709 Drivers, nannies, landscapers. 737 00:28:45,792 --> 00:28:47,458 [Allerd] But this guy still spends weekends 738 00:28:47,542 --> 00:28:49,333 with Jock and his brother, Zeb. 739 00:28:49,417 --> 00:28:51,250 Even if we manage to spook him, 740 00:28:51,333 --> 00:28:53,417 how can we make sure he doesn't run to Jock, 741 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:55,625 who then treats us to our own personal My Lai Massacre. 742 00:28:55,709 --> 00:28:58,542 The bloodshed and the cover-up. 743 00:28:58,625 --> 00:28:59,375 That would be obstruction of justice. 744 00:28:59,458 --> 00:29:01,000 Yes. Yes, it would. 745 00:29:01,083 --> 00:29:04,166 But that would not deter Jock in the slightest. 746 00:29:04,250 --> 00:29:06,291 He recognizes no legal or moral authority, 747 00:29:06,375 --> 00:29:07,959 no justice but his own. Keep looking 748 00:29:08,041 --> 00:29:10,333 for someone lower down: someone with the goods 749 00:29:10,417 --> 00:29:12,083 but without Jock in their speed dial. 750 00:29:12,166 --> 00:29:14,333 We can't let him get word and stop our investigation 751 00:29:14,417 --> 00:29:16,166 before it starts. 752 00:29:16,250 --> 00:29:18,250 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 753 00:29:18,333 --> 00:29:21,542 ♪♪♪ 754 00:29:21,625 --> 00:29:24,125 [indistinct conversations] 755 00:29:24,208 --> 00:29:26,208 What are we drinking? 756 00:29:26,291 --> 00:29:28,792 That is a complicated question here. 757 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,625 Bring me the closest thing you have 758 00:29:32,709 --> 00:29:34,166 to a Casamigos on the rocks. 759 00:29:34,250 --> 00:29:36,166 Make that two. And don't judge us for it. 760 00:29:36,250 --> 00:29:37,750 Hmm. 761 00:29:40,750 --> 00:29:42,667 So, you were right, my kid does need help. 762 00:29:42,750 --> 00:29:44,625 He doesn't talk much, but when he does, 763 00:29:44,709 --> 00:29:47,458 I don't love the way it sounds. 764 00:29:47,542 --> 00:29:50,166 I could give you the names 765 00:29:50,250 --> 00:29:52,208 of a couple of good people if you want. 766 00:29:53,208 --> 00:29:56,500 But right now it's time to help your husband. 767 00:29:56,583 --> 00:29:57,542 Ex, I mean. 768 00:29:57,625 --> 00:30:00,583 Not easy to get used to. 769 00:30:00,667 --> 00:30:02,375 No. 770 00:30:02,458 --> 00:30:03,417 With what? 771 00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:04,750 [bartender] Here you go. 772 00:30:04,834 --> 00:30:07,875 You know what time of year it is. 773 00:30:09,333 --> 00:30:12,542 Right, comp... 774 00:30:12,625 --> 00:30:15,709 You were his secret weapon. 775 00:30:15,792 --> 00:30:17,291 He gave me that much credit? 776 00:30:17,375 --> 00:30:19,500 I know you went through everybody with him. 777 00:30:19,583 --> 00:30:21,375 Told him when he was being too soft-- 778 00:30:21,458 --> 00:30:22,709 When he was being an asshole. 779 00:30:22,792 --> 00:30:24,583 He needs that. 780 00:30:24,667 --> 00:30:28,000 Without it, without... you, 781 00:30:28,083 --> 00:30:30,500 I think he's gonna make some big mistakes. 782 00:30:30,583 --> 00:30:32,750 Then he's gonna make some big mistakes. 783 00:30:32,834 --> 00:30:34,041 He doesn't want to hear that stuff from me anymore. 784 00:30:34,125 --> 00:30:36,875 I'm sorry. I'm not asking you as his wife or his ex, 785 00:30:36,959 --> 00:30:40,291 I'm asking you as the largest single investor 786 00:30:40,375 --> 00:30:42,417 in Axe Capital. 787 00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:44,542 You're gonna want to do it for your own sake. 788 00:30:44,625 --> 00:30:47,583 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 789 00:30:47,667 --> 00:30:49,583 ♪♪♪ 790 00:30:49,667 --> 00:30:51,250 [elevator bell dings] 791 00:30:51,333 --> 00:30:53,792 ♪♪♪ 792 00:30:53,875 --> 00:30:56,667 [sighs] 793 00:30:56,750 --> 00:30:58,500 Hey... You're not supposed 794 00:30:58,583 --> 00:30:59,417 to get the kids back until tomorrow. 795 00:30:59,500 --> 00:31:01,291 They're sleeping. 796 00:31:01,375 --> 00:31:02,625 Good. 797 00:31:02,709 --> 00:31:04,750 Then fucking talk to me. 798 00:31:04,834 --> 00:31:07,333 What are you thinking about comp? 799 00:31:07,417 --> 00:31:09,500 C'mon. My money's at stake, too. 800 00:31:09,583 --> 00:31:11,333 Yeah. I'm taking care of your money. 801 00:31:11,417 --> 00:31:12,709 I'm taking care of everything. 802 00:31:12,792 --> 00:31:14,417 You taking care of Taylor, too? 803 00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:16,792 [chuckles] Wow. Wendy. Good move, 804 00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:19,375 well, she's earning her money. 805 00:31:19,458 --> 00:31:20,959 And so is Taylor. 806 00:31:21,041 --> 00:31:22,458 Aren't they. 807 00:31:30,375 --> 00:31:32,750 Are you ever coming to bed? 808 00:31:32,834 --> 00:31:35,834 I could try to sleep, but I know I won't. 809 00:31:35,917 --> 00:31:37,417 I didn't want to keep you up. 810 00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:39,458 I seem to have done that anyway. 811 00:31:39,542 --> 00:31:42,792 Mm. 812 00:31:42,875 --> 00:31:43,959 Jock? 813 00:31:44,041 --> 00:31:46,542 Yeah. It's that. Sure. 814 00:31:46,625 --> 00:31:49,583 But more than that, it's still Ira. 815 00:31:49,667 --> 00:31:51,875 [groans] I could be bounded in a nutshell 816 00:31:51,959 --> 00:31:55,041 and count myself a king of infinite space, 817 00:31:55,125 --> 00:31:57,333 were it not that I have bad dreams. 818 00:31:57,417 --> 00:32:00,583 You've reached Shakespearean levels of insomnia. 819 00:32:00,667 --> 00:32:02,417 It's disorder in the house. 820 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,333 Ira is the brother I chose. 821 00:32:07,417 --> 00:32:08,667 And this rift between us, 822 00:32:08,750 --> 00:32:11,500 however he fought back, I caused it. 823 00:32:11,583 --> 00:32:13,834 I used him as an instrument, not thinking, 824 00:32:13,917 --> 00:32:17,291 not caring what I was taking from him. 825 00:32:17,375 --> 00:32:18,625 And I know, deep down, if I were back there, 826 00:32:18,709 --> 00:32:22,667 I would do it again. 827 00:32:22,750 --> 00:32:26,166 Every bit of this makes me feel like a... 828 00:32:26,250 --> 00:32:28,917 Shit heel. Indeed. 829 00:32:30,417 --> 00:32:33,709 But now that Ira's in jeopardy, 830 00:32:33,792 --> 00:32:36,834 I have a chance to put things right. 831 00:32:36,917 --> 00:32:40,250 To rescue him. To be a hero. 832 00:32:40,333 --> 00:32:42,875 If I pull it off, and make him well, 833 00:32:42,959 --> 00:32:44,709 does the reason really matter? 834 00:32:44,792 --> 00:32:46,458 [chuckles] 835 00:32:49,542 --> 00:32:51,667 Why can't you give Taylor what they want? 836 00:32:51,750 --> 00:32:53,291 Because it's too much. 837 00:32:53,375 --> 00:32:54,959 And what they want can't be given. 838 00:32:55,041 --> 00:32:56,208 It needs to be taken. 839 00:32:56,291 --> 00:32:57,959 And what would you do if they tried to take it? 840 00:32:58,041 --> 00:32:59,875 Cut 'em down like I was Connor MacLeod. 841 00:32:59,959 --> 00:33:02,709 [chuckles] What does it say 842 00:33:02,792 --> 00:33:05,166 that you always have to quote the damn Highlander? 843 00:33:05,250 --> 00:33:07,834 That I spent some time watching cable TV alone 844 00:33:07,917 --> 00:33:10,000 in high school. And that I have pristine taste 845 00:33:10,083 --> 00:33:12,834 in movies, even back then. 846 00:33:12,917 --> 00:33:14,709 Or, that you see every single challenge 847 00:33:14,792 --> 00:33:16,166 as a life or death contest 848 00:33:16,250 --> 00:33:18,375 to see who's gonna lose their head. 849 00:33:18,458 --> 00:33:20,542 Well, kind of is from where I stand. 850 00:33:20,625 --> 00:33:22,208 You really think I should give Taylor what they want? 851 00:33:22,291 --> 00:33:25,709 I think you should convince Taylor that you're partners. 852 00:33:25,792 --> 00:33:26,917 I'm kind of surprised that you're taking their side. 853 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,625 You and I are on the exact same side. 854 00:33:29,709 --> 00:33:32,375 They are on the other. 855 00:33:32,458 --> 00:33:34,250 But I want them happy and earning. 856 00:33:34,333 --> 00:33:36,875 Well, yeah. Me too. 857 00:33:36,959 --> 00:33:39,083 You sure? 858 00:33:39,166 --> 00:33:42,083 'Cause you know how to keep somebody, 859 00:33:42,166 --> 00:33:43,959 and how to drive them the fuck away-- 860 00:33:44,041 --> 00:33:46,125 I know some people bail-- 861 00:33:46,208 --> 00:33:48,417 We're talking about Taylor. 862 00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:50,041 If you want Taylor gone-- I don't want them gone. 863 00:33:50,125 --> 00:33:52,875 So then give them more than what you want, 864 00:33:52,959 --> 00:33:54,583 even if it's less than what they want. 865 00:33:54,667 --> 00:33:56,875 Quickly. 866 00:33:58,625 --> 00:34:01,375 You're right. 867 00:34:01,458 --> 00:34:04,959 You're always right about this stuff. 868 00:34:05,041 --> 00:34:06,959 I'm right about a ton of stuff. 869 00:34:07,041 --> 00:34:07,750 Not just this. 870 00:34:07,834 --> 00:34:11,959 ♪ soft music ♪ 871 00:34:12,041 --> 00:34:14,125 Thanks for coming over. 872 00:34:14,208 --> 00:34:17,583 ♪♪♪ 873 00:34:17,667 --> 00:34:22,792 ♪♪♪ 874 00:34:22,875 --> 00:34:27,291 ♪♪♪ 875 00:34:27,375 --> 00:34:31,500 ♪♪♪ 876 00:34:31,583 --> 00:34:35,959 ♪♪♪ 877 00:34:36,041 --> 00:34:39,709 ♪♪ 878 00:34:39,792 --> 00:34:41,709 [exhales sharply] 879 00:34:41,792 --> 00:34:42,625 Stay. 880 00:34:42,709 --> 00:34:45,458 C'mon, Bobby. 881 00:34:45,542 --> 00:34:49,291 We're not gonna get sloppy, are we? 882 00:34:49,375 --> 00:34:52,500 [sighs] No, I guess not. 883 00:34:52,583 --> 00:34:56,250 ♪♪♪ 884 00:34:56,333 --> 00:34:59,834 ♪♪♪ 885 00:34:59,917 --> 00:35:02,041 I'll pick up the kids tomorrow. 886 00:35:02,125 --> 00:35:04,000 Like the lawyers agreed. 887 00:35:04,083 --> 00:35:07,083 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 888 00:35:07,166 --> 00:35:10,667 ♪♪♪ 889 00:35:10,750 --> 00:35:16,083 ♪♪♪ 890 00:35:16,166 --> 00:35:19,667 ♪♪♪ 891 00:35:19,750 --> 00:35:25,000 ♪♪♪ 892 00:35:25,083 --> 00:35:26,250 [indistinct conversations] 893 00:35:38,667 --> 00:35:42,291 [sighs] 894 00:35:42,375 --> 00:35:43,083 Let's settle this. 895 00:35:43,166 --> 00:35:45,709 You're a valued part of this place. 896 00:35:45,792 --> 00:35:47,542 You've been effective in every meeting 897 00:35:47,625 --> 00:35:49,750 you weren't deliberately trying to sabotage. 898 00:35:49,834 --> 00:35:51,875 Thank you. And about the 50 million. 899 00:35:51,959 --> 00:35:54,125 You can have half that. 900 00:35:54,208 --> 00:35:57,375 I've never come up that far, never paid that much. 901 00:35:57,458 --> 00:36:00,000 Now, okay, I know it's not exactly what you want. 902 00:36:00,083 --> 00:36:02,875 But I've been giving it some thought, 903 00:36:02,959 --> 00:36:05,166 and I realize that what you really need is... 904 00:36:05,250 --> 00:36:08,125 forward momentum, above all things, even money... 905 00:36:08,208 --> 00:36:10,959 So I'm putting you on the raise team. 906 00:36:11,041 --> 00:36:14,333 Fuckin' A. Onward and upward. 907 00:36:14,417 --> 00:36:16,667 There's gonna be 30 bil on the table, 908 00:36:16,750 --> 00:36:17,875 get ready to help me haul it outta there. 909 00:36:17,959 --> 00:36:21,834 Oh, I am ready. 910 00:36:21,917 --> 00:36:25,125 [knock on door] 911 00:36:25,208 --> 00:36:27,083 [Axe] Well, you may be the one person here 912 00:36:27,166 --> 00:36:28,083 who actually earns her bonus 913 00:36:28,166 --> 00:36:31,208 every single day on the job. 914 00:36:31,291 --> 00:36:31,709 You saw Lara. 915 00:36:31,792 --> 00:36:33,792 Because you did. 916 00:36:33,875 --> 00:36:36,166 Thanks for that. 917 00:36:36,250 --> 00:36:38,583 And for all of it. 918 00:36:38,667 --> 00:36:41,250 Your Ice Juice profits, listed under someone else's account, 919 00:36:41,333 --> 00:36:44,125 they've been put back under your name. 920 00:36:44,208 --> 00:36:45,875 And I doubled it. 921 00:36:45,959 --> 00:36:48,208 So you can take your comp meeting off the books, 922 00:36:48,291 --> 00:36:49,917 you just had it. 923 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,041 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 924 00:36:53,125 --> 00:36:57,458 ♪♪♪ 925 00:36:57,542 --> 00:37:01,917 ♪♪♪ 926 00:37:02,875 --> 00:37:05,000 He's in the library, waiting and stewing. 927 00:37:05,083 --> 00:37:07,000 -Good. -You didn't open it. 928 00:37:07,083 --> 00:37:08,458 Yeah. I meant to, then I got... 929 00:37:08,542 --> 00:37:10,458 Oh, no, you gotta open it. 930 00:37:14,959 --> 00:37:17,000 [sighs] 931 00:37:18,041 --> 00:37:22,458 Oh, you are so right. 932 00:37:22,542 --> 00:37:27,041 I won't wear it 'til we've got him. Bad luck. 933 00:37:27,125 --> 00:37:29,875 But once we do, yes, 934 00:37:29,959 --> 00:37:34,333 it's gonna be like Chris LeDoux came back to life in here. 935 00:37:34,417 --> 00:37:37,458 Can't wait to see it. 936 00:37:37,542 --> 00:37:38,959 Let's go. 937 00:37:45,333 --> 00:37:48,000 Anthony Radaelli. 938 00:37:48,083 --> 00:37:50,333 It's not quite what I pictured, 939 00:37:50,417 --> 00:37:52,959 but I guess she has a type. 940 00:37:53,041 --> 00:37:54,000 Who does? 941 00:37:54,083 --> 00:37:55,125 Uh, Taiga, of course. 942 00:37:55,208 --> 00:37:58,542 Oh. So that's what this is about? 943 00:37:58,625 --> 00:38:01,250 Mm. She is a key figure in this story. 944 00:38:01,333 --> 00:38:02,834 In your story. 945 00:38:02,917 --> 00:38:05,625 But not for long. No, because you are gonna 946 00:38:05,709 --> 00:38:07,417 give her back all of her money, 947 00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:08,875 really her husband's money. 948 00:38:08,959 --> 00:38:10,875 And then fuck off whence you came. 949 00:38:10,959 --> 00:38:12,417 Yeah. That's not gonna happen. 950 00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:15,041 Taiga and I, we're a good fit. 951 00:38:15,125 --> 00:38:17,583 I know. You were seeing her before Ira. 952 00:38:17,667 --> 00:38:19,667 Before her last boyfriend, too. 953 00:38:19,750 --> 00:38:22,208 You just keep popping up in her life, suddenly 954 00:38:22,291 --> 00:38:24,375 when things are going well for her. 955 00:38:24,458 --> 00:38:28,291 You're like that James Woods character in Casino. 956 00:38:28,375 --> 00:38:30,542 Come to think of it, maybe just like James Woods. 957 00:38:30,625 --> 00:38:33,291 Anyway, perhaps you think you're soul mates, 958 00:38:33,375 --> 00:38:35,041 maybe it's a scam. Either way, 959 00:38:35,125 --> 00:38:37,041 you're gonna forget she ever existed. 960 00:38:37,125 --> 00:38:39,375 Or I will summon the full power of my office 961 00:38:39,458 --> 00:38:43,208 to erase any and all meaning from your life. 962 00:38:43,291 --> 00:38:44,750 Mm. You wouldn't use your job like that. 963 00:38:44,834 --> 00:38:47,875 [chuckling] 964 00:38:47,959 --> 00:38:50,917 [Radaelli] Hmm. 965 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,000 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 966 00:38:54,083 --> 00:38:55,375 ♪♪♪ 967 00:38:55,458 --> 00:38:59,417 Uh, do you know the expression Federal Case? 968 00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:02,041 As in, "Hey, bub, don't make a federal case out of it"? 969 00:39:02,125 --> 00:39:04,250 -I guess. Yeah. -Yeah. Reason people say it is: 970 00:39:04,333 --> 00:39:05,917 because a federal case 971 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,500 is the worst fucking thing there is. 972 00:39:08,583 --> 00:39:11,417 State crimes, city violations, 973 00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:13,792 those can be defended, mitigated, fought. 974 00:39:13,875 --> 00:39:15,542 Yeah. And even if you do get convicted, 975 00:39:15,625 --> 00:39:19,667 you probably only serve a fraction of the time given, 976 00:39:19,750 --> 00:39:21,417 then you get off for good behavior, 977 00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:22,917 you get parole, 978 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,417 maybe you never even have to go 979 00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:26,500 'cause the jails are too crowded. 980 00:39:26,583 --> 00:39:29,083 So you stay at home with a bracelet on your ankle, 981 00:39:29,166 --> 00:39:31,208 and you spend your day trying to convince 982 00:39:31,291 --> 00:39:33,417 the pizza delivery girl to give you a blowjob. 983 00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:34,709 [chuckles] 984 00:39:34,792 --> 00:39:37,792 But, you see, there are no blowjobs 985 00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:39,750 in a federal case. 986 00:39:41,125 --> 00:39:44,333 Mm. Our conviction rate is 97 percent. 987 00:39:44,417 --> 00:39:46,125 And there is no parole, either. 988 00:39:46,208 --> 00:39:48,166 So you do the full time. 989 00:39:48,250 --> 00:39:49,709 And that time is almost always 990 00:39:49,792 --> 00:39:53,291 exactly what the prosecutor, what I, recommend. 991 00:39:53,375 --> 00:39:56,291 So I say to you, Anthony: 992 00:39:56,375 --> 00:39:58,500 Don't make this a federal case. 993 00:40:01,542 --> 00:40:03,417 Ah, Jesus. 994 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:05,291 Oh, and whatever I do to you, 995 00:40:05,375 --> 00:40:08,542 I can do to anyone you gave any of that money to, 996 00:40:08,625 --> 00:40:10,083 like your family. 997 00:40:10,166 --> 00:40:12,125 I really should take a closer look at them. 998 00:40:12,208 --> 00:40:13,959 You're a real sonofabitch. 999 00:40:14,041 --> 00:40:15,792 Oh. A lot of people hate me. 1000 00:40:15,875 --> 00:40:17,333 Tell him why they hate me, Karl. 1001 00:40:17,417 --> 00:40:18,875 You're a real sonofabitch. 1002 00:40:18,959 --> 00:40:20,583 I am. Especially when 1003 00:40:20,667 --> 00:40:23,542 you've fucked with someone I care about. 1004 00:40:23,625 --> 00:40:26,792 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1005 00:40:26,875 --> 00:40:28,750 Go away. 1006 00:40:28,834 --> 00:40:32,333 ♪♪♪ 1007 00:40:32,417 --> 00:40:35,959 ♪♪♪ 1008 00:40:36,041 --> 00:40:39,792 ♪♪♪ 1009 00:40:39,875 --> 00:40:40,792 That was fun. 1010 00:40:40,875 --> 00:40:43,959 Just like how Janet Reno and I used to run it. 1011 00:40:44,041 --> 00:40:45,792 You think he'll really disappear? 1012 00:40:45,875 --> 00:40:47,709 Like a fart in the wind on the Ponderosa. 1013 00:40:49,917 --> 00:40:50,500 Close the door. 1014 00:40:50,583 --> 00:40:52,542 [indistinct conversations] 1015 00:40:56,208 --> 00:40:57,834 How goes your data scrape? 1016 00:40:57,917 --> 00:40:59,417 I met with IT, explained the sensitivity. 1017 00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:02,375 I've established a series of searches 1018 00:41:02,458 --> 00:41:04,625 I can discreetly run on agents' messages. 1019 00:41:04,709 --> 00:41:06,750 If anything pings, I can widen out the search. 1020 00:41:06,834 --> 00:41:08,625 I'm sure the AG will eat that up with a camping spoon. 1021 00:41:08,709 --> 00:41:11,709 [Lynch] Maybe even put a letter in your file. 1022 00:41:11,792 --> 00:41:13,333 Isn't that why you made your move? 1023 00:41:13,417 --> 00:41:15,709 To help rebuild your rep. 1024 00:41:15,792 --> 00:41:17,625 Maybe I did it to shield you. 1025 00:41:17,709 --> 00:41:19,542 So it wouldn't be your ass on the line. 1026 00:41:19,625 --> 00:41:21,166 Uh-huh. Either way, 1027 00:41:21,250 --> 00:41:23,792 don't be too zealous in finding wrongdoing here. 1028 00:41:23,875 --> 00:41:25,917 Jock's perch is many miles away. 1029 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,542 But the people in this building, 1030 00:41:27,625 --> 00:41:29,834 you gotta live with them every day. 1031 00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:37,542 My boy, my boy, my prodigal boy. 1032 00:41:39,250 --> 00:41:42,667 What more can I do for you? 1033 00:41:42,750 --> 00:41:45,709 I'd like to use your apartment. 1034 00:41:45,792 --> 00:41:47,917 I know that Mom is in Palm Beach 1035 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,917 and I need some privacy. 1036 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,166 You also had to know I'd ask why, so... 1037 00:41:54,250 --> 00:41:56,500 out with it. 1038 00:41:56,583 --> 00:41:59,542 I need a private place to meet with a young woman. 1039 00:42:01,667 --> 00:42:03,417 I appreciate that you're smart enough 1040 00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:05,625 not to take this to a hotel, 1041 00:42:05,709 --> 00:42:07,166 it's too public. 1042 00:42:07,250 --> 00:42:11,542 Even with things being the way they've been between us, 1043 00:42:11,625 --> 00:42:13,417 I'm proud you know 1044 00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:15,375 you can always come to me. It's not really like that, 1045 00:42:15,458 --> 00:42:17,375 Dad. I've always said: 1046 00:42:17,458 --> 00:42:20,417 monogamy is a form of socialism. 1047 00:42:20,500 --> 00:42:21,834 It's testosterone redistribution 1048 00:42:21,917 --> 00:42:25,959 so a few bucks don't keep all the does to themselves. 1049 00:42:26,041 --> 00:42:27,291 I'm doing this for Ira. 1050 00:42:27,375 --> 00:42:30,625 I'm taking care of something 1051 00:42:30,709 --> 00:42:33,834 that he can't take care of himself. 1052 00:42:33,917 --> 00:42:37,208 So it's not concupiscence, it's menschkeit. 1053 00:42:37,291 --> 00:42:39,458 I'm even prouder. 1054 00:42:39,542 --> 00:42:40,834 [chuckles] 1055 00:42:40,917 --> 00:42:42,291 When is she due? 1056 00:42:42,375 --> 00:42:43,709 Hour or so. 1057 00:42:43,792 --> 00:42:44,834 I could stay, 1058 00:42:44,917 --> 00:42:46,083 in an advisory capacity-- 1059 00:42:46,166 --> 00:42:47,583 No. No. 1060 00:42:47,667 --> 00:42:50,125 Thank you, Dad, no, um, I just need the space. 1061 00:42:50,208 --> 00:42:52,709 Mm-hmm. 1062 00:42:56,709 --> 00:42:59,875 Taiga, I don't know you very well. 1063 00:42:59,959 --> 00:43:00,834 I didn't try to get to know you, 1064 00:43:00,917 --> 00:43:02,583 and that's on me. Perhaps I thought Ira 1065 00:43:02,667 --> 00:43:04,959 would move on to someone more-- 1066 00:43:05,041 --> 00:43:07,792 Substantial? 1067 00:43:07,875 --> 00:43:10,417 Closer to his age bracket. 1068 00:43:11,417 --> 00:43:14,000 So I'm at a bit of a loss whether to appeal 1069 00:43:14,083 --> 00:43:19,000 to your decency, your vanity, your avarice... 1070 00:43:19,083 --> 00:43:22,834 or just to your fear center. 1071 00:43:22,917 --> 00:43:24,208 Please. 1072 00:43:24,291 --> 00:43:26,250 Anthony returned the money, 1073 00:43:26,333 --> 00:43:28,583 even got back the deposit on that apartment. 1074 00:43:28,667 --> 00:43:30,375 And now he's gone. 1075 00:43:30,458 --> 00:43:32,625 You chased him off. I did. 1076 00:43:32,709 --> 00:43:35,041 And I can't say that you were wrong. 1077 00:43:35,125 --> 00:43:36,583 I'm embarrassed and ashamed and, yes, 1078 00:43:36,667 --> 00:43:39,917 I am afraid of whatever you're gonna do next. 1079 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,041 So congratulations. 1080 00:43:42,125 --> 00:43:43,917 Your fucked up tactics fucked me up. 1081 00:43:49,417 --> 00:43:52,709 This is a postnuptial agreement. 1082 00:43:52,792 --> 00:43:54,834 It entitles you to 50,000 dollars 1083 00:43:54,917 --> 00:43:58,458 for every year you stay in the marriage. 1084 00:43:58,542 --> 00:44:00,542 Which means, all told, you'll be walking away 1085 00:44:00,625 --> 00:44:01,917 with 50,000 dollars. 1086 00:44:04,542 --> 00:44:06,166 You don't need to read it. 1087 00:44:06,250 --> 00:44:08,709 I may play dirty, but I don't deal dirty. 1088 00:44:08,792 --> 00:44:10,709 Just sign it, take it to Ira, 1089 00:44:10,792 --> 00:44:13,083 and then tell him that you're leaving, 1090 00:44:13,166 --> 00:44:17,208 but that you wanted to do it with integrity. 1091 00:44:29,166 --> 00:44:31,458 [sighs] 1092 00:44:34,166 --> 00:44:37,000 I liked him. 1093 00:44:39,083 --> 00:44:41,083 And I really did try to love him. 1094 00:44:41,166 --> 00:44:44,208 Try harder. 1095 00:44:44,291 --> 00:44:46,166 -Dad-- -You give a marriage seven years 1096 00:44:46,250 --> 00:44:47,417 before you even entertain 1097 00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:48,583 -the notion of a divorce. -Dad. 1098 00:44:48,667 --> 00:44:51,667 From the day the Dorsey Brothers showed that Presley boy 1099 00:44:51,750 --> 00:44:53,041 swiveling his hips, 1100 00:44:53,125 --> 00:44:54,250 there's been a slow but steady erosion 1101 00:44:54,333 --> 00:44:56,291 of the family. 1102 00:44:56,375 --> 00:44:58,250 Well, here is how you keep one going: 1103 00:44:58,333 --> 00:44:59,750 You find a group of friends better than you, 1104 00:44:59,834 --> 00:45:04,583 find one worse, bitch about them to each other, 1105 00:45:04,667 --> 00:45:06,750 and then when you're all bitched out, 1106 00:45:06,834 --> 00:45:07,834 run ten miles a day. 1107 00:45:07,917 --> 00:45:11,667 Take your birth control pills and flush them; 1108 00:45:11,750 --> 00:45:15,542 and make that kid your project together. 1109 00:45:15,625 --> 00:45:18,542 And if Ira doesn't know how to fuck you, 1110 00:45:18,625 --> 00:45:19,792 you teach him. 1111 00:45:19,875 --> 00:45:21,458 Okay. Yeah. 1112 00:45:21,542 --> 00:45:23,625 I'm not done. One more thing: 1113 00:45:23,709 --> 00:45:26,041 give yourself the lime test. You stick your finger 1114 00:45:26,125 --> 00:45:27,792 in lime juice and put it up inside. 1115 00:45:27,875 --> 00:45:29,834 And if it stings, get yourself cleaned out. 1116 00:45:29,917 --> 00:45:34,875 Do not bring the clap home to your husband; 1117 00:45:34,959 --> 00:45:36,291 it's uncivil. 1118 00:45:47,834 --> 00:45:49,959 That's what you meant by "advisor"? 1119 00:45:50,041 --> 00:45:53,458 Ira doesn't want or need another divorce. 1120 00:45:53,542 --> 00:45:55,333 [sighs] He needs a wife who's broken in. 1121 00:45:55,417 --> 00:45:58,500 And since he can't break her, I'll do it for him. 1122 00:46:00,875 --> 00:46:04,959 This is what's gonna make him happy. 1123 00:46:05,041 --> 00:46:09,000 And that's what you want, right, son? 1124 00:46:11,583 --> 00:46:15,083 I've missed you, Dad. 1125 00:46:22,083 --> 00:46:25,583 Normally we go over your legal bill on the phone. 1126 00:46:25,667 --> 00:46:28,333 To avoid... you know. 1127 00:46:28,417 --> 00:46:30,583 After today, I don't think I'm gonna be writing 1128 00:46:30,667 --> 00:46:32,834 any fat checks for a while. 1129 00:46:32,917 --> 00:46:33,667 Plus, this year's tab, 1130 00:46:33,750 --> 00:46:36,542 you outdid yourself. Record-setting. 1131 00:46:36,625 --> 00:46:38,375 I knocked 30 percent off the hours before 1132 00:46:38,458 --> 00:46:39,583 I even sent it to you. 1133 00:46:39,667 --> 00:46:40,792 Sure. Of course you did, 1134 00:46:40,875 --> 00:46:42,750 because you inflated 'em in the first place. 1135 00:46:42,834 --> 00:46:43,709 Ten million fucking dollars-- 1136 00:46:43,792 --> 00:46:46,291 You're gonna haggle with me, 1137 00:46:46,375 --> 00:46:48,000 after the victory I delivered? 1138 00:46:48,083 --> 00:46:49,375 You delivered it? 1139 00:46:49,458 --> 00:46:51,166 I seem to remember you encouraging me 1140 00:46:51,250 --> 00:46:53,208 to tuck tail and take a plea. 1141 00:46:53,291 --> 00:46:54,625 Leaving me to figure out how to work miracles. 1142 00:46:54,709 --> 00:46:57,375 How much do you want to fucking pay? 1143 00:46:57,458 --> 00:46:58,875 Not a penny over nine million. 1144 00:46:58,959 --> 00:47:00,875 You're doing this over a million dollars-- 1145 00:47:00,959 --> 00:47:02,667 -Mm. -A number that doesn't mean 1146 00:47:02,750 --> 00:47:05,291 jack shit to you, but would mean the world 1147 00:47:05,375 --> 00:47:07,458 to my firm and the dozen associates 1148 00:47:07,542 --> 00:47:09,542 who worked all-nighters on your fucking case. 1149 00:47:09,625 --> 00:47:12,375 And yet you push and push. 1150 00:47:12,458 --> 00:47:13,875 Most people pick their spots. 1151 00:47:13,959 --> 00:47:16,041 -Well, I pick every spot. -Of course. 1152 00:47:16,125 --> 00:47:17,917 You can't just engage, you've got to compete, 1153 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,041 you can't merely compete, you've got to win, 1154 00:47:21,125 --> 00:47:25,083 and a win isn't a win unless it's a kill. 1155 00:47:25,166 --> 00:47:27,458 You want the fucking nine million or not? 1156 00:47:27,542 --> 00:47:30,417 Fine. Send it. 1157 00:47:30,500 --> 00:47:32,166 See ya soon. 1158 00:47:32,250 --> 00:47:35,041 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1159 00:47:35,125 --> 00:47:36,375 There. 1160 00:47:36,458 --> 00:47:38,542 Ah. Look at that porterhouse. 1161 00:47:38,625 --> 00:47:39,709 Dynamic duo. 1162 00:47:39,792 --> 00:47:40,667 Filet for me. 1163 00:47:40,750 --> 00:47:42,125 Strip for this guy. 1164 00:47:45,166 --> 00:47:47,250 Lovely. Thank you. 1165 00:47:56,166 --> 00:47:57,792 Mmm. 1166 00:47:57,875 --> 00:48:00,166 [indistinct conversations] 1167 00:48:00,250 --> 00:48:01,583 Mmm. 1168 00:48:01,667 --> 00:48:03,125 [chuckles] 1169 00:48:04,875 --> 00:48:06,166 Salt? 1170 00:48:06,250 --> 00:48:07,083 Doesn't need it. [chuckles] 1171 00:48:09,375 --> 00:48:12,291 Three days seeing you in a row, Ira. I like this new streak. 1172 00:48:12,375 --> 00:48:14,834 And I'm in better spirits than when we last spoke. 1173 00:48:14,917 --> 00:48:15,458 Mm-hmm? 1174 00:48:15,542 --> 00:48:18,083 Taiga came home. 1175 00:48:18,166 --> 00:48:19,125 Did she? 1176 00:48:19,208 --> 00:48:19,625 With the money. 1177 00:48:19,709 --> 00:48:21,834 And a postnup. 1178 00:48:21,917 --> 00:48:24,625 Well, you were right. It all blew over. 1179 00:48:24,709 --> 00:48:27,000 She just needed to get it out of her system. 1180 00:48:27,083 --> 00:48:28,667 Thank you. 1181 00:48:32,834 --> 00:48:34,875 [sighs deeply] It's funny, 1182 00:48:34,959 --> 00:48:37,834 the thing I was most afraid of, 1183 00:48:37,917 --> 00:48:38,834 the thing that haunted me in the middle of the night, 1184 00:48:38,917 --> 00:48:43,583 was Taiga finding some other guy. 1185 00:48:43,667 --> 00:48:45,875 Thought it would absolutely end me. 1186 00:48:45,959 --> 00:48:48,709 But the strange gift in all this mishegas, 1187 00:48:48,792 --> 00:48:51,166 what it taught me. 1188 00:48:51,250 --> 00:48:55,834 sometimes the worst thing happening isn't so bad. 1189 00:48:55,917 --> 00:48:57,917 [Ira] I'm not saying I would have willed this 1190 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,750 on purpose, but... do I sound crazy? 1191 00:49:01,834 --> 00:49:03,500 No. On the contrary. 1192 00:49:03,583 --> 00:49:07,125 Very wise, my friend. 1193 00:49:07,208 --> 00:49:08,834 Very wise. 1194 00:49:08,917 --> 00:49:12,917 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1195 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,500 ♪♪♪ 1196 00:49:15,583 --> 00:49:17,792 [Chuck] Sacker, get us a meeting with the state 1197 00:49:17,875 --> 00:49:20,333 Attorney General, Alvin Epstein. 1198 00:49:20,417 --> 00:49:24,542 ♪♪♪ 1199 00:49:27,041 --> 00:49:28,500 What's the total? 1200 00:49:28,583 --> 00:49:30,500 Same as last year. 1201 00:49:38,500 --> 00:49:40,125 [bottle thuds] 1202 00:49:42,375 --> 00:49:43,709 To the raise. 1203 00:49:47,792 --> 00:49:49,291 Ahh. 1204 00:49:49,375 --> 00:49:52,417 Next year, when you've got 30 billion under management, 1205 00:49:52,500 --> 00:49:53,709 you're gonna look back fondly 1206 00:49:53,792 --> 00:49:57,500 on how little you paid today. 1207 00:49:57,583 --> 00:50:02,041 Actually I still have one comp meeting left. 1208 00:50:02,125 --> 00:50:04,291 Is it mine? I bet it's mine. 1209 00:50:04,375 --> 00:50:06,667 It is. I know it's been a strange year for you, 1210 00:50:06,750 --> 00:50:08,834 serving different masters, almost losing me... 1211 00:50:08,917 --> 00:50:10,208 Don't take me back there. 1212 00:50:10,291 --> 00:50:11,041 But through it all, you have been 1213 00:50:11,125 --> 00:50:13,792 the bulwark that Axe Cap needs. 1214 00:50:13,875 --> 00:50:17,625 And so for this, I have a special present. 1215 00:50:17,709 --> 00:50:18,625 That's more like it. 1216 00:50:18,709 --> 00:50:20,500 Reach behind the couch. 1217 00:50:24,959 --> 00:50:29,083 Whoa. [laughs] 1218 00:50:30,709 --> 00:50:32,750 Oh, it brings me back to childhood. 1219 00:50:32,834 --> 00:50:36,250 All the high-end nudity of a cadged Playboy, 1220 00:50:36,333 --> 00:50:37,291 but with sophistication, 1221 00:50:37,375 --> 00:50:41,917 and that certain je ne sais quoi of the French. 1222 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,458 [chuckles] 1223 00:50:44,542 --> 00:50:46,458 Oh, and your bonus is the age you were 1224 00:50:46,542 --> 00:50:48,500 when you first discovered that magazine. 1225 00:50:48,583 --> 00:50:51,667 Pains me to take from your personal vault... 1226 00:50:51,750 --> 00:50:54,041 but nine million feels good. 1227 00:50:56,709 --> 00:50:58,542 Where did you find these? 1228 00:50:59,542 --> 00:51:01,000 [Axe sighs] 1229 00:51:01,083 --> 00:51:03,458 I can't believe you kept all of Dad's crap. 1230 00:51:03,542 --> 00:51:05,083 Yeah, well, at first I thought he was coming back. 1231 00:51:05,166 --> 00:51:07,875 And then I was afraid he'd come back. 1232 00:51:07,959 --> 00:51:09,041 Then when I realized he wasn't... I thought 1233 00:51:09,125 --> 00:51:11,625 it'd be petty to toss everything. 1234 00:51:11,709 --> 00:51:13,792 So I didn't want to give him that power. 1235 00:51:13,875 --> 00:51:16,458 Yeah? So you asserted yourself... 1236 00:51:16,542 --> 00:51:20,333 by spending 34 years storing and toting all his stuff. 1237 00:51:20,417 --> 00:51:21,291 [chuckles] 1238 00:51:21,375 --> 00:51:23,250 Your father was your first great enemy. 1239 00:51:23,333 --> 00:51:26,625 Yeah, well, if you abandon your kid, that's what you get. 1240 00:51:26,709 --> 00:51:30,333 [bin bangs] 1241 00:51:30,417 --> 00:51:32,250 [chuckles] Found it. 1242 00:51:34,875 --> 00:51:38,875 You know, you hated him long before that. 1243 00:51:38,959 --> 00:51:41,166 The way you used to take the fight to each other. 1244 00:51:41,250 --> 00:51:44,291 I used to like the way you were such a fighter. 1245 00:51:44,375 --> 00:51:46,542 I'll admit that I didn't love when you tried 1246 00:51:46,625 --> 00:51:48,125 to take the fight to me, though. 1247 00:51:48,208 --> 00:51:49,959 [chuckles] That was a fucking mistake. 1248 00:51:50,041 --> 00:51:52,250 [chuckles] I maybe should have told you 1249 00:51:52,333 --> 00:51:54,041 not to talk like that when you were a kid. 1250 00:51:54,125 --> 00:51:56,500 I think I still would have. 1251 00:51:56,583 --> 00:51:59,000 Sure. But you also would have had a little voice 1252 00:51:59,083 --> 00:52:03,000 in the back of your head telling you not to. 1253 00:52:03,083 --> 00:52:05,166 Do you have that voice? 1254 00:52:05,250 --> 00:52:06,792 At all? 1255 00:52:06,875 --> 00:52:09,875 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1256 00:52:09,959 --> 00:52:14,041 ♪♪♪ 1257 00:52:14,125 --> 00:52:18,166 ♪♪♪ 1258 00:52:18,250 --> 00:52:22,208 ♪♪♪ 1259 00:52:22,291 --> 00:52:25,333 [Wags] So, come on. Where? 1260 00:52:25,417 --> 00:52:27,041 Just came across them. 1261 00:52:27,125 --> 00:52:31,166 ♪♪♪ 1262 00:52:31,250 --> 00:52:32,542 Hmm. 1263 00:52:32,625 --> 00:52:36,500 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1264 00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:46,417 Oliver. Solid whiskers. 1265 00:52:46,500 --> 00:52:48,959 Gets me into the professorial mindset. 1266 00:52:49,041 --> 00:52:50,709 Mm. 1267 00:52:50,792 --> 00:52:53,250 You enjoying the teaching? 1268 00:52:53,333 --> 00:52:55,500 When you know the practice is that different 1269 00:52:55,583 --> 00:52:57,667 from the letter and the spirit... 1270 00:52:57,750 --> 00:52:59,375 You feel like you're lying to them. 1271 00:52:59,458 --> 00:53:00,792 Telling the truth is worse. 1272 00:53:00,875 --> 00:53:02,750 We don't need lawyers pre-jaded. 1273 00:53:02,834 --> 00:53:03,959 Hmm. 1274 00:53:04,041 --> 00:53:04,834 At least the, uh-- 1275 00:53:04,917 --> 00:53:08,917 the wife is happy to have me home. 1276 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:10,417 Yeah. 1277 00:53:13,834 --> 00:53:15,917 So... 1278 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:17,583 What I couldn't say on the phone... 1279 00:53:17,667 --> 00:53:20,750 there is an FBI agent I know who did an opp for Chuck. 1280 00:53:20,834 --> 00:53:23,125 Off the books. 1281 00:53:23,208 --> 00:53:25,542 The agent told you about it? 1282 00:53:25,625 --> 00:53:27,750 Mnh-mnh. Found another way in. 1283 00:53:27,834 --> 00:53:29,083 Hmm. 1284 00:53:29,166 --> 00:53:30,959 I don't know where this ends, 1285 00:53:31,041 --> 00:53:32,417 but I have a start. 1286 00:53:32,500 --> 00:53:35,333 You're trying to convince me to help you go after Chuck. 1287 00:53:35,417 --> 00:53:39,458 No. I'm giving you a chance to convince me. 1288 00:53:39,542 --> 00:53:42,083 Why'd you let yourself get led astray? 1289 00:53:42,166 --> 00:53:43,959 Why'd you protect Chuck? 1290 00:53:44,041 --> 00:53:44,750 Why did you? 1291 00:53:44,834 --> 00:53:49,125 I believed in him. 1292 00:53:49,208 --> 00:53:51,083 I didn't believe in myself. 1293 00:53:51,166 --> 00:53:55,834 But I believe he must be stopped. 1294 00:53:55,917 --> 00:53:58,917 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1295 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,625 ♪♪♪ 1296 00:54:01,709 --> 00:54:04,542 ♪♪♪ 1297 00:54:04,625 --> 00:54:06,375 [Epstein] You said you had the cloak 1298 00:54:06,458 --> 00:54:10,125 and wanted me to provide the dagger. 1299 00:54:10,208 --> 00:54:13,750 No idea what that means, but it got me here. 1300 00:54:13,834 --> 00:54:15,792 I want you to launch an investigation 1301 00:54:15,875 --> 00:54:17,834 into Jock Jeffcoat's brother 1302 00:54:17,917 --> 00:54:19,834 and TexasSouthCable. 1303 00:54:19,917 --> 00:54:21,083 Based on what. 1304 00:54:21,166 --> 00:54:23,333 Based on this. 1305 00:54:24,125 --> 00:54:27,750 [Sacker] This is Ashley Cutler. 1306 00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,000 This is unusable. Weak witness. 1307 00:54:34,083 --> 00:54:36,500 Yeah. 1308 00:54:36,583 --> 00:54:39,250 So no actual deployable evidence. 1309 00:54:39,333 --> 00:54:41,041 None to speak of. No. 1310 00:54:44,041 --> 00:54:45,834 We know that our witness, Mr. Cutler, 1311 00:54:45,917 --> 00:54:48,041 isn't strong enough to win Case A, 1312 00:54:48,125 --> 00:54:50,875 but we're not trying to win Case A. 1313 00:54:50,959 --> 00:54:54,458 No. We're gonna get Jock on trying to stop it. 1314 00:54:54,542 --> 00:54:55,667 -Ah. -So, in the end, 1315 00:54:55,750 --> 00:54:58,625 the case you'll be bringing is: obstruction of justice. 1316 00:54:58,709 --> 00:55:02,208 Against the Attorney General of the United States. 1317 00:55:02,291 --> 00:55:03,834 [Stacker] Right now you're just 1318 00:55:03,917 --> 00:55:06,375 the Attorney General of New York state, Mr. Epstein. 1319 00:55:06,458 --> 00:55:08,375 But to be the man you gotta beat the man. 1320 00:55:08,458 --> 00:55:10,250 After you topple someone of Jock's stature... 1321 00:55:10,333 --> 00:55:13,375 you'll be the motherfucking man. 1322 00:55:13,458 --> 00:55:15,208 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 1323 00:55:15,291 --> 00:55:17,875 Nothing makes me feel so alive 1324 00:55:17,959 --> 00:55:20,542 as putting my head in a tiger's mouth. 1325 00:55:20,625 --> 00:55:22,041 Right up until the moment 1326 00:55:22,125 --> 00:55:24,208 the tiger snaps his jaws shut. 1327 00:55:24,291 --> 00:55:27,083 But we will be there with chairs and whips at the ready. 1328 00:55:27,166 --> 00:55:29,834 [Epstein] You sure he'll come? 1329 00:55:29,917 --> 00:55:32,792 The three of us, we'll cause him to. 1330 00:55:32,875 --> 00:55:35,333 I was sweating over the worst possible thing 1331 00:55:35,417 --> 00:55:36,792 that could happen, which was 1332 00:55:36,875 --> 00:55:38,709 Jock finding out what I've been up to 1333 00:55:38,792 --> 00:55:39,291 [Chuck] and stopping it. 1334 00:55:39,375 --> 00:55:43,250 And then I realized... 1335 00:55:43,333 --> 00:55:46,083 what if the worst thing did happen? 1336 00:55:46,166 --> 00:55:47,917 What if we made it so? 1337 00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,166 Rather than worry about Jock obstructing, 1338 00:55:50,250 --> 00:55:52,458 we're gonna invite it. 1339 00:55:52,542 --> 00:55:54,417 -Bait it. -Your part is simple. 1340 00:55:54,500 --> 00:55:55,625 Proceed as usual. 1341 00:55:55,709 --> 00:55:57,750 Try to keep everything a secret. 1342 00:55:57,834 --> 00:55:59,208 [chuckles] 1343 00:55:59,291 --> 00:56:00,917 The great impossibility. Right. 1344 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,583 And once Jock knows you're coming 1345 00:56:02,667 --> 00:56:03,542 for his brother, he will realize 1346 00:56:03,625 --> 00:56:05,291 that eventually it will come back to him. 1347 00:56:05,375 --> 00:56:07,208 And before he can let that happen-- 1348 00:56:07,291 --> 00:56:09,333 He'll try to get to Cutler, 1349 00:56:09,417 --> 00:56:11,166 to shut him up and shut it all down. 1350 00:56:11,250 --> 00:56:14,417 And that's what we'll get him on. 1351 00:56:14,500 --> 00:56:18,333 ♪♪♪ 1352 00:56:18,417 --> 00:56:22,250 ♪♪♪ 1353 00:56:22,333 --> 00:56:22,917 [chuckles] 1354 00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:27,792 ♪♪♪ 1355 00:56:27,875 --> 00:56:31,959 ♪♪♪ 1356 00:56:32,041 --> 00:56:35,792 [keys clacking] 1357 00:56:35,875 --> 00:56:37,375 It's ready. 1358 00:56:37,458 --> 00:56:41,000 It's fucking ready. Don't tell me it's not ready. 1359 00:56:41,083 --> 00:56:42,291 -It's ready. -[chuckles] 1360 00:56:42,375 --> 00:56:44,208 It's like a Trident missile in launch mode. 1361 00:56:44,291 --> 00:56:45,834 You sell Axe on deploying this, 1362 00:56:45,917 --> 00:56:46,625 he becomes state of the art. 1363 00:56:46,709 --> 00:56:49,291 He takes human decision making, 1364 00:56:49,375 --> 00:56:50,333 that fallibility, out of the game. 1365 00:56:50,417 --> 00:56:53,458 And he starts moving in micro-seconds. 1366 00:56:55,208 --> 00:56:57,750 We go live in a week. Good work. 1367 00:56:57,834 --> 00:56:59,792 [Don Babylon's "Ow, My Tiny Heart"] 1368 00:56:59,875 --> 00:57:03,834 ♪♪♪ 1369 00:57:03,917 --> 00:57:07,166 ♪♪♪ 1370 00:57:07,250 --> 00:57:11,583 ♪ 'Cause you are above me ♪ 1371 00:57:12,917 --> 00:57:17,542 ♪ And you always will be ♪ 1372 00:57:18,500 --> 00:57:23,041 ♪ You stay there just for fun ♪ 1373 00:57:23,125 --> 00:57:25,709 It looks like you're ready to get into business. 1374 00:57:25,792 --> 00:57:28,750 I need a meeting with your boss, Grigor Andolov. 1375 00:57:30,333 --> 00:57:32,667 ♪ You're so much fucking better ♪ 1376 00:57:32,750 --> 00:57:35,875 ♪ Than everyone ♪ 1377 00:57:35,959 --> 00:57:38,166 ♪ You're so much fucking better ♪ 1378 00:57:38,250 --> 00:57:41,291 ♪ Than everyone ♪ 1379 00:57:41,375 --> 00:57:44,000 ♪ You're so much fucking better ♪ 1380 00:57:44,083 --> 00:57:47,125 ♪ Than everyone ♪ 1381 00:57:47,208 --> 00:57:49,542 ♪ You're so much fucking better ♪ 1382 00:57:49,625 --> 00:57:52,875 ♪ Than everyone ♪ 1383 00:57:52,959 --> 00:57:55,917 ♪ So much fucking better ♪