1 00:00:05,075 --> 00:00:07,452 Previously on Billions... 2 00:00:07,494 --> 00:00:10,038 The very first New York Olympics. 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,165 The city's down, hurting. 4 00:00:12,207 --> 00:00:14,626 It's the perfect opportunity to rebuild. 5 00:00:14,668 --> 00:00:18,839 Selecting a host city is a very political process. 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:20,900 I want to make an impression, but as I understand it, 7 00:00:20,924 --> 00:00:22,509 the men and women of the commission 8 00:00:22,551 --> 00:00:25,053 don't look kindly upon strangers bearing gifts. 9 00:00:25,095 --> 00:00:28,724 The office is not where my new war is going to be waged. 10 00:00:28,765 --> 00:00:30,684 Not at first. 11 00:00:30,726 --> 00:00:32,936 The venue matters less than the message. 12 00:00:32,978 --> 00:00:35,731 No, I realized it's not one billionaire 13 00:00:35,772 --> 00:00:37,399 having his way with the City. 14 00:00:37,441 --> 00:00:39,359 The overall effect of the billionaire class... 15 00:00:40,444 --> 00:00:42,028 they're a scourge. 16 00:00:42,070 --> 00:00:43,589 Prince has different priorities. 17 00:00:43,613 --> 00:00:45,091 He seems to be after more than profits here. 18 00:00:45,115 --> 00:00:47,093 - So, what are you saying? - I don't know yet, 19 00:00:47,117 --> 00:00:48,744 but I know he's not Axe. 20 00:00:48,785 --> 00:00:50,746 I am hereby creating the Prince List. 21 00:00:50,787 --> 00:00:53,915 Shedding all the dirty capital currently invested. 22 00:00:53,957 --> 00:00:57,335 From now on, clients will have to qualify to invest with us. 23 00:00:57,377 --> 00:00:59,921 Sometimes you just have to break some shit. 24 00:00:59,963 --> 00:01:02,048 Make them know that no one is safe. 25 00:01:02,090 --> 00:01:03,776 You promised me a winning season, Chuck. 26 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:05,236 I'm running out of time if I'll have to quit. 27 00:01:05,260 --> 00:01:07,095 I can't lose my MVP yet. 28 00:01:07,137 --> 00:01:08,430 I need you, Kate. 29 00:01:08,472 --> 00:01:10,056 Okay, boss. 30 00:01:10,098 --> 00:01:11,784 What do we do when the carpetbaggers 31 00:01:11,808 --> 00:01:15,437 and the land barons try to shove us out of the way? 32 00:01:15,479 --> 00:01:17,272 We shove back! 33 00:01:17,314 --> 00:01:19,399 Take back our city! 34 00:01:19,441 --> 00:01:21,485 Take back our city! 35 00:01:50,722 --> 00:01:53,099 I was approached. 36 00:01:53,141 --> 00:01:54,810 For a job? 37 00:01:54,851 --> 00:01:57,437 Nobody said anything about a job. 38 00:01:57,479 --> 00:01:59,064 It's a job. 39 00:02:03,527 --> 00:02:05,779 You did good by coming to me. 40 00:02:05,821 --> 00:02:07,572 So, obviously, I'm not going... 41 00:02:07,614 --> 00:02:08,907 Oh, no, you're going. 42 00:02:09,991 --> 00:02:11,368 But you're going for me. 43 00:02:13,495 --> 00:02:15,664 You'll be my Vincent Terranova. 44 00:02:20,210 --> 00:02:24,089 It's natural to celebrate, to go big. 45 00:02:24,130 --> 00:02:26,508 Especially with the tools you have here. 46 00:02:26,550 --> 00:02:29,261 The fun and the talent in this room. 47 00:02:29,302 --> 00:02:31,030 You think it's gonna go on and on and on. 48 00:02:31,054 --> 00:02:32,806 It's never gonna end. 49 00:02:32,848 --> 00:02:34,432 But we know that's not true. 50 00:02:34,474 --> 00:02:36,977 You all in this room are not immune 51 00:02:37,018 --> 00:02:39,896 to the mistakes other people make, 52 00:02:39,938 --> 00:02:43,358 where they spend more than they make. 53 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,070 The burn rate gets them every time. 54 00:02:47,112 --> 00:02:50,240 I've had 52 players drafted in the NBA. 55 00:02:50,282 --> 00:02:52,534 Thirty-five are in the league right now. 56 00:02:52,576 --> 00:02:55,203 My suggestion to them and to you: 57 00:02:55,245 --> 00:02:58,039 Put the first million away! 58 00:02:58,081 --> 00:03:00,250 Forget you have it. 59 00:03:00,292 --> 00:03:02,043 You put yours back in this fund, 60 00:03:02,085 --> 00:03:04,129 you know five, six, seven years, 61 00:03:04,170 --> 00:03:06,214 you're a multimillionaire. 62 00:03:06,256 --> 00:03:09,050 With that behind you, 63 00:03:09,092 --> 00:03:10,552 no fear. 64 00:03:10,594 --> 00:03:12,345 No anxiety seeps in. 65 00:03:12,387 --> 00:03:16,349 You have a clear mind to think good thoughts. 66 00:03:16,391 --> 00:03:18,894 All of a sudden, you get in the zone, 67 00:03:18,935 --> 00:03:21,330 and you're doing stuff you don't even believe you could do, 68 00:03:21,354 --> 00:03:23,857 and you win championships. 69 00:03:23,899 --> 00:03:26,067 National championships. 70 00:03:26,109 --> 00:03:27,989 And when you win a national championship... 71 00:03:28,028 --> 00:03:29,696 I've never played basketball, 72 00:03:29,738 --> 00:03:32,073 but I'd follow this man through the gates of hell. 73 00:03:32,115 --> 00:03:35,869 ...don't let the burn rate drag you down, 74 00:03:35,911 --> 00:03:38,330 because at the end of the day, 75 00:03:38,371 --> 00:03:42,292 it's about winning championships for all of us, isn't it? 76 00:03:44,419 --> 00:03:46,439 Coach gave us a great deal on the speaking fee. 77 00:03:46,463 --> 00:03:48,757 He really did. Worth every cent. 78 00:03:48,798 --> 00:03:50,401 And I hear he's donating it to charity, 79 00:03:50,425 --> 00:03:51,843 so a win for all. 80 00:04:18,828 --> 00:04:20,264 State-of-the-art facilities, 81 00:04:20,288 --> 00:04:23,041 accommodations, transportation. 82 00:04:23,083 --> 00:04:26,586 Designed to accommodate any and all environmental concerns. 83 00:04:26,628 --> 00:04:29,297 Everything pristine. 84 00:04:31,675 --> 00:04:32,884 Uh-huh. 85 00:04:32,926 --> 00:04:34,636 Yeah, well, I tell you, Mike, 86 00:04:34,678 --> 00:04:36,238 the whole thing'd be a lot more believable 87 00:04:36,262 --> 00:04:38,139 if there was, uh, dirt somewhere. 88 00:04:38,181 --> 00:04:39,599 I mean, just... 89 00:04:39,641 --> 00:04:41,077 New York City's never been this clean. 90 00:04:41,101 --> 00:04:42,686 It was never my mandate before. 91 00:04:49,526 --> 00:04:51,528 I told them, make it dazzling. 92 00:04:51,569 --> 00:04:53,839 Dazzle the man, don't leave anything to the imagination. 93 00:04:53,863 --> 00:04:55,156 And that's what I'm gonna do 94 00:04:55,198 --> 00:04:56,866 when the Games are actually here. 95 00:04:56,908 --> 00:04:58,886 You know, they used to have a sundae at Haagen-Dazs 96 00:04:58,910 --> 00:05:00,704 called the Dazzler. 97 00:05:00,745 --> 00:05:03,331 I think they still do. You know, it's dulce de leche ice cream 98 00:05:03,373 --> 00:05:05,083 with, like, ribbons of caramel, 99 00:05:05,125 --> 00:05:07,144 and then more dulce, more caramel. 100 00:05:07,168 --> 00:05:09,021 Then you'd put whipped cream on it, and then they would just 101 00:05:09,045 --> 00:05:10,648 cover the whole thing in, like, hot caramel sauce. 102 00:05:10,672 --> 00:05:12,590 It earns its name: the Dazzler. 103 00:05:12,632 --> 00:05:15,093 I would guzzle that sucker down. 104 00:05:15,135 --> 00:05:16,386 But, you know... 105 00:05:17,429 --> 00:05:19,139 before long, 106 00:05:19,180 --> 00:05:22,434 I'd start to feel milk-sick and bloated. 107 00:05:22,475 --> 00:05:24,704 And, you see, I'm afraid it's going to be the same way 108 00:05:24,728 --> 00:05:26,539 with the Olympic Games here in our city. 109 00:05:26,563 --> 00:05:28,481 Could be delicious, 110 00:05:28,523 --> 00:05:30,710 but more likely to make me ill when the voters paddle my ass 111 00:05:30,734 --> 00:05:31,961 'cause they don't like them, so... 112 00:05:31,985 --> 00:05:33,486 Everyone loves... 113 00:05:33,528 --> 00:05:34,964 Chuck Rhoades changed the conversation 114 00:05:34,988 --> 00:05:36,549 before it even started, all right? 115 00:05:36,573 --> 00:05:38,050 Now, we wouldn't be selling the Games, 116 00:05:38,074 --> 00:05:39,719 we'd be defending them from the jump. 117 00:05:39,743 --> 00:05:41,721 And the city council, legislator, activists, 118 00:05:41,745 --> 00:05:43,806 they're all going to crap on this Olympic bid 119 00:05:43,830 --> 00:05:45,516 and they're going to tag it with regulations, 120 00:05:45,540 --> 00:05:46,976 and that's after you jump through 121 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,461 a bunch of fucking hoops first... flaming ones. 122 00:05:49,502 --> 00:05:51,713 You can't win if you forfeit before the tip-off. 123 00:05:51,755 --> 00:05:53,983 Yeah, well, the only winner in this hopeless fucking outing 124 00:05:54,007 --> 00:05:55,526 is going to be your chief legal counsel 125 00:05:55,550 --> 00:05:57,093 in billable hours. 126 00:05:57,135 --> 00:05:59,679 You and I, we can solve these issues together. 127 00:05:59,721 --> 00:06:01,115 The Games are never coming to the city 128 00:06:01,139 --> 00:06:02,474 without the governor's support. 129 00:06:02,515 --> 00:06:04,267 I hope that I can count on it. 130 00:06:04,309 --> 00:06:08,271 Mike, public opinion is 2% positive on this. 131 00:06:08,313 --> 00:06:11,066 I believe cancer is polling at 3%. 132 00:06:11,107 --> 00:06:13,085 Chuck's stunt only worked 'cause it lit a fire 133 00:06:13,109 --> 00:06:14,712 under something that's already lighted. 134 00:06:14,736 --> 00:06:16,988 I am not getting in the bucket bailing relay line 135 00:06:17,030 --> 00:06:18,591 next to you on this one, all right? 136 00:06:18,615 --> 00:06:20,950 Buzz me when you got something that'll work. 137 00:06:27,957 --> 00:06:30,877 God, is the stink of losing actually sticking? 138 00:06:30,919 --> 00:06:33,421 I don't want that gamy shit on me. 139 00:06:46,059 --> 00:06:50,063 If he's right and we're stuck in a municipal swamp, we need... 140 00:06:50,105 --> 00:06:51,397 Some serious legal firepower. 141 00:06:51,439 --> 00:06:52,690 Yes. 142 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,534 White-shoe firm. Maybe more than one. 143 00:07:10,542 --> 00:07:11,894 A fixer at bar. A street fighter. 144 00:07:11,918 --> 00:07:13,378 A master of the dark arts. 145 00:07:13,419 --> 00:07:15,147 Bill Barr's a little controversial right now. 146 00:07:15,171 --> 00:07:16,816 Someone to navigate the land mines, 147 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:19,008 specifically the ones planted by Chuck Rhoades. 148 00:07:19,050 --> 00:07:21,219 We have to hire from inside the government, 149 00:07:21,261 --> 00:07:23,405 to backslap and crony our way past the city council. 150 00:07:23,429 --> 00:07:25,116 You're saying hire the guy who set the speed traps, 151 00:07:25,140 --> 00:07:26,826 and you'll always know when to slow down. 152 00:07:26,850 --> 00:07:28,226 Absolument. 153 00:07:28,268 --> 00:07:30,186 Hell, we hired Spyros straight from the SEC, 154 00:07:30,228 --> 00:07:32,021 and as lame as he is, 155 00:07:32,063 --> 00:07:34,208 we haven't gotten calls from enforcement for two years. 156 00:07:34,232 --> 00:07:35,668 Someone like Manhattan D.A. Gramm. 157 00:07:35,692 --> 00:07:37,253 Seems likable, but full-on pit bull. 158 00:07:37,277 --> 00:07:39,737 She'd be perfect, but she's a lifer. 159 00:07:39,779 --> 00:07:41,990 M-Tap, I think he's right. 160 00:07:42,031 --> 00:07:44,409 Oh, I'm right, 161 00:07:44,450 --> 00:07:46,286 'cause this is the down and dirty, 162 00:07:46,327 --> 00:07:48,163 and I happen to be both. 163 00:07:48,204 --> 00:07:49,849 Yep, and if you can add Neil Young to your band, 164 00:07:49,873 --> 00:07:51,267 you do it, even if you were already 165 00:07:51,291 --> 00:07:53,001 getting by with Crosby and Nash. 166 00:07:53,042 --> 00:07:54,669 Good. Do it. 167 00:07:54,711 --> 00:07:57,130 Now, on another front: Colin has the advance team 168 00:07:57,172 --> 00:07:58,858 from the International Commission of Sport 169 00:07:58,882 --> 00:08:00,133 in from Europe. 170 00:08:00,175 --> 00:08:01,718 They need to leave so happy... 171 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:03,720 Ah, that's why you came to me. 172 00:08:03,761 --> 00:08:05,239 The down and the dirty, as you said, yes. 173 00:08:05,263 --> 00:08:07,032 So that they go home to their masters 174 00:08:07,056 --> 00:08:09,368 and tell them we're the ones that should top the short list. 175 00:08:09,392 --> 00:08:10,953 And that the gift bags you'll hand them 176 00:08:10,977 --> 00:08:12,872 will be pendulous and heavy as Bo Derek's... 177 00:08:12,896 --> 00:08:14,189 You can't just bribe them. 178 00:08:14,230 --> 00:08:15,749 Everyone's willing to bribe them. 179 00:08:15,773 --> 00:08:17,376 Don't use the "B" word in front of me. Come on. 180 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,378 Yes, but the point is, if we were the bribing type... 181 00:08:19,402 --> 00:08:20,820 Which we are not... 182 00:08:20,862 --> 00:08:23,031 They need to be made to feel special. 183 00:08:23,072 --> 00:08:27,202 Pretty certain we have different ideas on "special." 184 00:08:27,243 --> 00:08:30,830 Well, since you two are already happy bunkmates, do it together. 185 00:09:01,236 --> 00:09:05,073 No way. No way you get all that crap in that pack. 186 00:09:05,114 --> 00:09:07,784 Now, if you had a spatial algorithm 187 00:09:07,825 --> 00:09:10,870 and someone who knew how to use it along with you, maybe. 188 00:09:10,912 --> 00:09:12,956 Oh, I guess that'd be you. 189 00:09:12,997 --> 00:09:15,625 Do you want to come along with your spatial-packing algo? 190 00:09:15,667 --> 00:09:17,502 As your worthy Sherpa. 191 00:09:17,543 --> 00:09:19,230 I'll start optimizing the algo to our route 192 00:09:19,254 --> 00:09:20,773 for strategic climate-to-weight... 193 00:09:20,797 --> 00:09:23,299 Oh, bud, buddy. Yeah, no. Big no. 194 00:09:23,341 --> 00:09:26,052 So, you don't want... 195 00:09:26,094 --> 00:09:28,221 Company? Help? Unh-unh. 196 00:09:28,263 --> 00:09:29,990 I'll stuff it in with a toilet plunger 197 00:09:30,014 --> 00:09:32,642 and throw away half of it if I have to. 198 00:09:37,981 --> 00:09:41,401 But I won't have to, because Rolf shows us how. 199 00:09:50,243 --> 00:09:53,037 Feeling that Jack London, Elizabeth Gilbert call, huh? 200 00:09:53,079 --> 00:09:55,915 I don't aim to leave for another eight to ten months, at least. 201 00:09:55,957 --> 00:09:57,375 Just pre-planning. 202 00:09:57,417 --> 00:09:59,436 - Once you've saved up enough. - Right. 203 00:09:59,460 --> 00:10:02,588 No shame in the frugality game. I'll peace once I have 600k. 204 00:10:02,630 --> 00:10:04,799 But for now, it's more about grooving the feeling. 205 00:10:04,841 --> 00:10:06,301 Visualizing. 206 00:10:06,342 --> 00:10:08,720 Active anticipation has psycho-physical benefits, 207 00:10:08,761 --> 00:10:10,281 and you can afford the time off. 208 00:10:10,305 --> 00:10:12,473 But why do this here and not at home? 209 00:10:12,515 --> 00:10:14,600 I had enough at-home time, thanks. 210 00:10:14,642 --> 00:10:16,978 And the fantasy is, you go right from work, 211 00:10:17,020 --> 00:10:19,731 like one day you just stand up and grab your rucksack 212 00:10:19,772 --> 00:10:22,275 and take off from your desk into the sun-drenched deck 213 00:10:22,317 --> 00:10:24,610 of some Turkish hostel in the summer. 214 00:10:24,652 --> 00:10:26,338 If reality were as good as the fantasy, 215 00:10:26,362 --> 00:10:28,132 we wouldn't have had to invent "The Sims." 216 00:10:28,156 --> 00:10:30,658 If we start talking Sims, I'll never get back to work. 217 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:32,368 Yeah. I lost all of 8th grade 218 00:10:32,410 --> 00:10:35,955 in service of one particularly needy pet Sim dog, an Akita. 219 00:10:35,997 --> 00:10:38,666 Thing is, fantasy or reality, 220 00:10:38,708 --> 00:10:40,644 you aren't calculating opportunities lost. 221 00:10:40,668 --> 00:10:43,338 Here. To your career. To your development. 222 00:10:43,379 --> 00:10:47,008 Come on, you never think about getting free? 223 00:10:47,050 --> 00:10:48,384 No hidden agenda. 224 00:10:48,426 --> 00:10:49,695 I too have considered and calculated 225 00:10:49,719 --> 00:10:51,012 an out number. 226 00:10:51,054 --> 00:10:52,847 Assuming it's a little steeper 227 00:10:52,889 --> 00:10:54,849 than the cost of a Pittsburgh duplex, huh? 228 00:10:54,891 --> 00:10:56,726 How much? 229 00:10:56,768 --> 00:10:59,896 Twenty mil? Fifty? 230 00:10:59,937 --> 00:11:01,689 - About twice that. - Oof! 231 00:11:01,731 --> 00:11:03,542 Boss wants a beach house and a ski chalet. 232 00:11:03,566 --> 00:11:04,692 No. 233 00:11:04,734 --> 00:11:06,152 No, they do not. 234 00:11:06,194 --> 00:11:07,862 Or that's not the why, anyway. 235 00:11:07,904 --> 00:11:09,781 Correct. It's not for lifestyle. 236 00:11:09,822 --> 00:11:12,200 I plan to leave once I've accrued enough personal capital 237 00:11:12,241 --> 00:11:15,286 to drive real, measurable, prosocial advancement. 238 00:11:15,328 --> 00:11:18,289 A 5% withdrawal rate to protect against principal erosion? 239 00:11:18,331 --> 00:11:19,832 Exactly. 240 00:11:19,874 --> 00:11:21,643 One hundred million is a solid starting point 241 00:11:21,667 --> 00:11:24,670 to build a legacy of truly effective humanitarian progress. 242 00:11:24,712 --> 00:11:27,840 Okay, but if my math is right, and I'm p-sure it is, 243 00:11:27,882 --> 00:11:30,843 you still got a while before you get to temple-run. 244 00:11:30,885 --> 00:11:33,346 I do, so I gotta serve my master, get paid, 245 00:11:33,388 --> 00:11:34,907 and make sure I can move the needle 246 00:11:34,931 --> 00:11:36,849 even before I hit my number. 247 00:11:36,891 --> 00:11:39,244 To that end, there's something we need to work on for Prince. 248 00:11:39,268 --> 00:11:41,354 - He asked you to? - Not yet. 249 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,030 Oh. 250 00:11:51,072 --> 00:11:52,615 Yes. 251 00:11:52,657 --> 00:11:55,243 I do love a Taylor Ham. 252 00:11:55,284 --> 00:11:57,429 I made a swing out to Jersey and nabbed 'em. 253 00:11:57,453 --> 00:11:58,704 Nothing like the original. 254 00:11:58,746 --> 00:12:00,915 Absolutely so. Tremendous sandwich. 255 00:12:00,957 --> 00:12:02,434 The pork roll. John Taylor original. 256 00:12:03,709 --> 00:12:05,336 And you, Chuck Rhoades, 257 00:12:05,378 --> 00:12:06,855 went out to Jersey and snagged us a couple. 258 00:12:06,879 --> 00:12:08,089 I did. 259 00:12:08,131 --> 00:12:10,258 - I bagged a few for us. - Ah. 260 00:12:10,299 --> 00:12:12,885 It's a shame the Olympics only come every four years, 261 00:12:12,927 --> 00:12:15,930 or else I'd have guys like you and Prince playing fetch for me 262 00:12:15,972 --> 00:12:18,599 up and down the Eastern Seaboard on the regular. 263 00:12:18,641 --> 00:12:20,601 Could fire half my staff. 264 00:12:20,643 --> 00:12:22,770 Governor, I am a longtime friend and ally, 265 00:12:22,812 --> 00:12:24,564 while Mike Prince is... 266 00:12:24,605 --> 00:12:27,525 Between us, I told him he's mostly shit out of luck. 267 00:12:27,567 --> 00:12:29,610 Perfect. So you're with me on this. 268 00:12:29,652 --> 00:12:31,612 That's what I told Prince. 269 00:12:31,654 --> 00:12:33,114 And it might be true. 270 00:12:33,156 --> 00:12:37,118 Listen, I know I got to take a flume ride 271 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,138 with one of you two lunatics on this. 272 00:12:39,162 --> 00:12:41,098 I just haven't decided who I win with yet. 273 00:12:41,122 --> 00:12:43,249 And you both need me more, 274 00:12:43,291 --> 00:12:45,126 so I finally got my balls back. 275 00:12:45,168 --> 00:12:47,628 Can you hear 'em clank? 276 00:12:47,670 --> 00:12:50,673 Loud as the cymbal crashes on "Hungry Like the Wolf." 277 00:12:50,715 --> 00:12:53,301 But perhaps this isn't a decision 278 00:12:53,342 --> 00:12:55,511 that requires a great show of inner steel. 279 00:12:55,553 --> 00:12:57,638 Perhaps it merely requires remembering 280 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:00,975 that we, both of us, serve the people. 281 00:13:01,017 --> 00:13:04,437 And Mike Prince's grand plan, it doesn't really serve them. 282 00:13:04,479 --> 00:13:06,230 We know this. 283 00:13:06,272 --> 00:13:07,940 You may know this. 284 00:13:09,358 --> 00:13:11,903 But I may need a little more convincing. 285 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:19,243 I have an ask. 286 00:13:29,337 --> 00:13:31,923 I need your input on a new hire. 287 00:13:31,964 --> 00:13:33,341 Trader, PM, or analyst? 288 00:13:33,382 --> 00:13:34,634 Lawyer. 289 00:13:34,675 --> 00:13:36,135 I need one from the other side 290 00:13:36,177 --> 00:13:38,257 to break trail with city and state lawmakers. 291 00:13:39,639 --> 00:13:42,433 I know what you're asking, and I have the answer. 292 00:13:43,893 --> 00:13:45,579 Kate Sacker is the name you know you need to say 293 00:13:45,603 --> 00:13:47,164 but can't quite bring yourself to. 294 00:13:47,188 --> 00:13:48,898 Salut. 295 00:13:48,940 --> 00:13:50,358 Is she as good as they say? 296 00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:52,360 Steel-trap legal mind, charisma, 297 00:13:52,401 --> 00:13:54,004 knows how to work the angles. 298 00:13:54,028 --> 00:13:57,240 Has political ambitions too. Learned at Chuck's elbow. 299 00:13:57,281 --> 00:13:58,550 Sounds amazing. Is she gettable? 300 00:13:58,574 --> 00:14:00,493 No. She's completely loyal. 301 00:14:00,535 --> 00:14:02,179 - Right, who's next on your...? - There's no next. 302 00:14:02,203 --> 00:14:03,996 Kim Philby seemed loyal too. 303 00:14:04,038 --> 00:14:05,831 And he broke a nation's heart. 304 00:14:05,873 --> 00:14:07,542 What's my best first move? 305 00:14:08,584 --> 00:14:10,294 Nah. 306 00:14:10,336 --> 00:14:13,381 I'm going to respectfully stay out of this one. 307 00:14:13,422 --> 00:14:15,734 Things are fraught enough between me and my ex-husband 308 00:14:15,758 --> 00:14:18,886 without me steering you in the plucking of his personnel. 309 00:14:18,928 --> 00:14:21,180 There must be something that would induce you 310 00:14:21,222 --> 00:14:22,807 to do it for me, 311 00:14:22,848 --> 00:14:24,475 to make it worth it. 312 00:14:25,768 --> 00:14:27,395 I'm not that transactional. 313 00:14:27,436 --> 00:14:29,605 And it's not just because of Chuck. 314 00:14:31,274 --> 00:14:33,085 Sacker's special in all the ways I just mentioned, 315 00:14:33,109 --> 00:14:34,652 but in intangible ways too. 316 00:14:34,694 --> 00:14:37,405 The thought of bringing her in here? 317 00:14:37,446 --> 00:14:39,258 Even if I dealt with the Chuck-of-it-all... 318 00:14:39,282 --> 00:14:40,759 In here is not the place it used to be. 319 00:14:40,783 --> 00:14:42,201 We're different. 320 00:14:42,243 --> 00:14:44,912 I want to believe that that's true. 321 00:14:44,954 --> 00:14:46,581 Consider it. 322 00:14:46,622 --> 00:14:48,749 You hear what you're asking, right? 323 00:14:48,791 --> 00:14:50,918 You hear what I'm offering, right? 324 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:52,503 So will you? 325 00:15:00,511 --> 00:15:02,364 Well, if anyone could give Jersey a fighting chance, 326 00:15:02,388 --> 00:15:04,348 it's Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi. 327 00:15:04,390 --> 00:15:06,285 I'm glad to hear you fellas are down for the cause. 328 00:15:06,309 --> 00:15:08,269 I'll send you details. 329 00:15:08,311 --> 00:15:11,105 Great stuff. Just great. Thank you. 330 00:15:12,356 --> 00:15:13,566 The Boss and Bon Jovi. 331 00:15:13,608 --> 00:15:14,817 Ah. 332 00:15:14,859 --> 00:15:16,235 You starting a band? 333 00:15:16,277 --> 00:15:17,754 We may have a meeting across the river, 334 00:15:17,778 --> 00:15:19,381 if you know what I'm saying. 335 00:15:19,405 --> 00:15:22,700 Let's switch to you knowing what I'm saying. 336 00:15:22,742 --> 00:15:24,118 Congress. 337 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:25,911 It's time. 338 00:15:25,953 --> 00:15:27,723 I need you to get guys like that donating to me. 339 00:15:27,747 --> 00:15:29,790 - Playing for me. - And they will. We will. 340 00:15:29,832 --> 00:15:31,310 Soon enough, but not quite yet. 341 00:15:31,334 --> 00:15:32,936 We got big stuff on our plate. 342 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,921 I need to start raising money, building a staff, 343 00:15:35,963 --> 00:15:37,965 doing the grip-and-grins in my district, 344 00:15:38,007 --> 00:15:40,569 the kinds of things I cannot do while I'm on the state's dime. 345 00:15:40,593 --> 00:15:42,094 I get it. 346 00:15:42,136 --> 00:15:44,805 We all had to hit the pause button for months. 347 00:15:44,847 --> 00:15:46,783 But everyone's plans have had to take a back seat 348 00:15:46,807 --> 00:15:47,975 for the greater good. 349 00:15:48,017 --> 00:15:49,644 That was fine for a while. 350 00:15:49,685 --> 00:15:51,312 No more. 351 00:15:51,354 --> 00:15:53,481 All due respect, I need big cases with big wins 352 00:15:53,522 --> 00:15:55,524 to burnish the rep, or I need to get out. 353 00:15:55,566 --> 00:15:59,862 We are going to have big cases. You will. Very soon. 354 00:15:59,904 --> 00:16:01,882 We're stopping Citizen Prince from buying off 355 00:16:01,906 --> 00:16:05,034 the greatest metropolis in the history of mankind, 356 00:16:05,076 --> 00:16:07,453 which will cement your political place. 357 00:16:10,039 --> 00:16:12,291 You've stayed the course with me this far. 358 00:16:12,333 --> 00:16:14,019 All I ask is that you use your instincts 359 00:16:14,043 --> 00:16:16,962 and hang in with me a little longer. 360 00:16:17,004 --> 00:16:19,799 We're finally doing the good thing for good reason, 361 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,343 and it will be good for you, Kate. 362 00:16:25,554 --> 00:16:28,099 You know what the most powerful four-letter word is? 363 00:16:28,140 --> 00:16:29,350 I don't curse much. 364 00:16:29,392 --> 00:16:30,685 "Free." 365 00:16:30,726 --> 00:16:32,287 I know how to unlock it for our benefit, 366 00:16:32,311 --> 00:16:33,872 and to help a whole whack of people. 367 00:16:33,896 --> 00:16:35,981 We give Wi-Fi away as part of our gift to New York. 368 00:16:36,023 --> 00:16:37,858 -That a huge... -There's a company. 369 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:39,276 People of the World. 370 00:16:39,318 --> 00:16:40,879 They use blockchain to siphon unused Wi-Fi 371 00:16:40,903 --> 00:16:43,447 from existing networks of major telecom companies, 372 00:16:43,489 --> 00:16:45,801 then bundle the undetectable excess for civilian use. 373 00:16:45,825 --> 00:16:47,678 So free public Internet can start now in New York 374 00:16:47,702 --> 00:16:49,829 as a goodwill incentive pre-Olympics, 375 00:16:49,870 --> 00:16:51,723 and continue gratis through the Games for athletes, 376 00:16:51,747 --> 00:16:53,541 and to cover the influx of tourists. 377 00:16:53,582 --> 00:16:56,001 Dumpster diving for bit rate. Genius. 378 00:16:56,043 --> 00:16:58,879 - You have a line into it? - Yes. Here's the pitch: 379 00:16:58,921 --> 00:17:01,340 New Yorkers get it gratis, courtesy of the Games. 380 00:17:01,382 --> 00:17:03,610 Free Internet in the five boroughs is the holy grail. 381 00:17:03,634 --> 00:17:06,029 And we set it up so that every time a New Yorker uses it, 382 00:17:06,053 --> 00:17:07,430 someone in sub-Saharan Africa 383 00:17:07,471 --> 00:17:09,311 gets the same allotment of Wi-Fi. 384 00:17:10,474 --> 00:17:12,810 It's a do-good, feel-good, look-good play. 385 00:17:12,852 --> 00:17:14,913 The greatest trio since Run-DMC and Jam Master Jay. 386 00:17:14,937 --> 00:17:16,564 What's it gonna cost? 387 00:17:16,605 --> 00:17:18,899 Twenty-two million, and we control the company. 388 00:17:24,572 --> 00:17:25,781 Do it. 389 00:17:30,828 --> 00:17:32,913 You seem like a man who needs antioxidants. 390 00:17:32,955 --> 00:17:34,749 Hmm, shit, you're right. 391 00:17:34,790 --> 00:17:36,876 How's this whole "Tango and Cash" thing going? 392 00:17:36,917 --> 00:17:38,757 Ah, the Stallone-Russell classic. 393 00:17:38,794 --> 00:17:40,588 Which one is Stallone in that? 394 00:17:40,629 --> 00:17:42,524 - Tango. - Glad you know that one, Wags. 395 00:17:42,548 --> 00:17:44,109 Which is why you will relate, personally, 396 00:17:44,133 --> 00:17:46,111 so well to certain of these folks on the advance team. 397 00:17:46,135 --> 00:17:47,720 Make them feel special. 398 00:17:47,762 --> 00:17:49,781 I will handle the business forward part of the evening, 399 00:17:49,805 --> 00:17:52,558 the front of the El Camino, as it were, and you will... 400 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:54,077 Organize the junk in the trunk. 401 00:17:54,101 --> 00:17:56,604 Sure. I already went to the trouble to get... 402 00:17:56,645 --> 00:17:58,606 I don't need the granular detai... 403 00:18:01,942 --> 00:18:03,152 Are those Quaaludes? 404 00:18:03,194 --> 00:18:05,237 That's right. Methaqualone. 405 00:18:05,279 --> 00:18:08,532 A.K.A., Beiruts, Bandits, Wagon Wheels. 406 00:18:08,574 --> 00:18:10,826 They're not Lemmons. I couldn't get that lucky. 407 00:18:10,868 --> 00:18:12,244 But they are Rorers. 408 00:18:12,286 --> 00:18:14,014 Our friends will feel as warm and fuzzy 409 00:18:14,038 --> 00:18:16,290 as a baby kitten on the cover of Cat Fancy. 410 00:18:21,796 --> 00:18:23,899 Can you legally possess those in the U.S.? 411 00:18:23,923 --> 00:18:26,634 I have a prescription... of sorts. 412 00:18:26,675 --> 00:18:28,570 Another reason why I won't be there for that part. 413 00:18:28,594 --> 00:18:30,930 Neither will I. I'll just hand them out. 414 00:18:30,971 --> 00:18:32,973 I'm working on a project that... 415 00:18:35,518 --> 00:18:39,313 Chelz and I have decided to try, you know? 416 00:18:39,355 --> 00:18:41,124 She's got this app which tells her 417 00:18:41,148 --> 00:18:42,399 when she's... 418 00:18:44,151 --> 00:18:46,070 when she's ovulating. 419 00:18:47,655 --> 00:18:49,841 So when the thing bings or beeps or whatever it does, 420 00:18:49,865 --> 00:18:51,659 I need to hop to. 421 00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:53,929 I have got to be home and ready by 5:30 a.m. that morning, 422 00:18:53,953 --> 00:18:55,793 guns loaded, so to speak. 423 00:18:55,830 --> 00:18:59,124 Well, at the appropriate time, I cannot wait to wish you mazel. 424 00:18:59,166 --> 00:19:01,269 Tango and Cash, or is it more Bialystock and Bloom? 425 00:19:01,293 --> 00:19:03,379 I can't quite tell. 426 00:19:03,420 --> 00:19:05,381 But I think I like it. 427 00:19:05,422 --> 00:19:07,007 Night, gents. 428 00:19:17,017 --> 00:19:19,645 Initial infrastructure costs in sub-Saharan Africa 429 00:19:19,687 --> 00:19:21,146 are hella-spensive. 430 00:19:21,188 --> 00:19:23,065 Yes, as most things of value are. 431 00:19:23,107 --> 00:19:24,942 The numbers, they just... They don't... 432 00:19:24,984 --> 00:19:27,254 It's a sucky thing to say, but I'm just gonna say it. 433 00:19:27,278 --> 00:19:29,154 We should dump the Africa Wi-Fi piece. 434 00:19:29,196 --> 00:19:31,198 Not dump it, but hold it. 435 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,385 If that capital is rolled into marketing and development, 436 00:19:33,409 --> 00:19:35,262 the company comes out of the Olympics stronger... 437 00:19:35,286 --> 00:19:36,745 I'm sorry you did say it, 438 00:19:36,787 --> 00:19:38,598 because this is all about the Africa piece. 439 00:19:38,622 --> 00:19:40,916 That's the whole thing. We'll make money, and do good. 440 00:19:40,958 --> 00:19:43,544 It won't be as much money. Barely any, really. 441 00:19:43,586 --> 00:19:45,713 Willing to pay that price. 442 00:19:47,047 --> 00:19:49,216 Yeah. Me too. More than willing. 443 00:19:49,258 --> 00:19:50,467 That's what I always say. 444 00:19:52,595 --> 00:19:54,054 It's not really. 445 00:19:54,096 --> 00:19:56,223 It just seemed like what I should say now. 446 00:19:56,265 --> 00:19:57,391 Oh. 447 00:20:22,833 --> 00:20:24,126 Kate. 448 00:20:25,961 --> 00:20:27,755 So nice to see you. 449 00:20:27,796 --> 00:20:29,048 And you. 450 00:20:29,089 --> 00:20:30,591 Wasn't she incredible? 451 00:20:30,633 --> 00:20:32,426 Oh, I'm buzzing. 452 00:20:32,468 --> 00:20:35,804 I still remember how I felt reading Crenshaw's 1989 paper 453 00:20:35,846 --> 00:20:38,057 on intersectionality for the first time in law school. 454 00:20:38,098 --> 00:20:39,808 Hm. 455 00:20:39,850 --> 00:20:41,101 So how have you been? 456 00:20:41,143 --> 00:20:43,103 Bene. You? 457 00:20:43,145 --> 00:20:44,730 How goes Axe Cap? 458 00:20:44,772 --> 00:20:46,440 It's not Axe Cap anymore. 459 00:20:46,482 --> 00:20:48,776 I mean, okay, but... 460 00:20:48,817 --> 00:20:51,403 Different name on the shingle. Different vibe. 461 00:20:51,445 --> 00:20:53,781 - So you say. - No, no. 462 00:20:53,822 --> 00:20:55,783 It's, uh, different. 463 00:20:55,824 --> 00:20:58,202 This guy gives a shit about more than money. 464 00:20:58,243 --> 00:21:00,120 He still makes plenty. 465 00:21:00,162 --> 00:21:01,872 It's weird, but in a good way. 466 00:21:01,914 --> 00:21:03,791 But weird. 467 00:21:03,832 --> 00:21:06,293 - Hmm. Sounds like it. - Yeah, like right now, 468 00:21:06,335 --> 00:21:08,146 we're engaged in this big municipal project, 469 00:21:08,170 --> 00:21:09,922 poised to make major impact, 470 00:21:09,964 --> 00:21:12,299 but still facing public-sector resistance. 471 00:21:14,176 --> 00:21:17,805 You could hear what that sounds like, if you wanted. 472 00:21:17,846 --> 00:21:19,306 Hear it how? 473 00:21:20,307 --> 00:21:21,642 Come by for a half hour. 474 00:21:21,684 --> 00:21:22,893 Meet the guy. 475 00:21:22,935 --> 00:21:24,395 Listen. Talk. 476 00:21:24,436 --> 00:21:25,854 The whole thing. 477 00:21:25,896 --> 00:21:27,815 You suggesting I walk into your offices? 478 00:21:27,856 --> 00:21:29,942 That's right. 479 00:21:29,984 --> 00:21:32,528 Well, thanks anyway for thinking of me. 480 00:21:33,696 --> 00:21:35,072 You know, Kate... 481 00:21:36,699 --> 00:21:38,951 sometimes staying too long is a bigger risk 482 00:21:38,993 --> 00:21:41,662 than leaving too soon. 483 00:21:41,704 --> 00:21:44,024 There's never a right time to make a big change. 484 00:21:47,376 --> 00:21:48,836 It's good running into you. 485 00:21:48,877 --> 00:21:50,212 You too. 486 00:21:56,510 --> 00:21:58,387 Act interested, but coy. 487 00:21:58,429 --> 00:22:00,180 Be your charming self. 488 00:22:00,222 --> 00:22:02,683 Engage enough to keep them flashing the bait, 489 00:22:02,725 --> 00:22:05,352 but make them work for it. 490 00:22:05,394 --> 00:22:07,021 Elida Geisha? 491 00:22:07,062 --> 00:22:08,355 Thank you. 492 00:22:22,995 --> 00:22:24,705 Thanks for coming, Kate. 493 00:22:24,747 --> 00:22:26,457 Wendy said I had to sit with you. 494 00:22:26,498 --> 00:22:27,892 She said the same about you. 495 00:22:27,916 --> 00:22:29,519 Nice to be here without a warrant. 496 00:22:31,003 --> 00:22:32,605 Love what you've done with the place. 497 00:22:32,629 --> 00:22:34,715 No basis for warrants in these parts anymore. 498 00:22:34,757 --> 00:22:37,176 Then I'd love to know what this meeting is about. 499 00:22:37,217 --> 00:22:40,387 It's about me offering you the role of lead counsel 500 00:22:40,429 --> 00:22:43,265 for New York City's first ever Olympics. 501 00:22:43,307 --> 00:22:44,850 Nice and shiny. 502 00:22:44,892 --> 00:22:46,393 Why me? 503 00:22:46,435 --> 00:22:49,063 Your granular expertise in city bureaucracy, 504 00:22:49,104 --> 00:22:50,623 balanced by panoramic understanding 505 00:22:50,647 --> 00:22:52,274 of the political landscape. 506 00:22:52,316 --> 00:22:54,860 We want you at the epicenter of this undertaking. 507 00:22:54,902 --> 00:22:57,130 Leading the farthest-reaching legal proceedings 508 00:22:57,154 --> 00:22:59,364 the state has seen in a decade. 509 00:22:59,406 --> 00:23:01,217 There's just the tiny wrinkle of my current boss 510 00:23:01,241 --> 00:23:02,785 and entire career history. 511 00:23:04,286 --> 00:23:05,746 Why would you trust me? 512 00:23:05,788 --> 00:23:07,348 There's nothing illegal happening here, 513 00:23:07,372 --> 00:23:09,583 so we don't need you as our co-conspirator. 514 00:23:09,625 --> 00:23:11,335 Our only crime will be ushering in 515 00:23:11,376 --> 00:23:14,213 a new era of opportunity. 516 00:23:14,254 --> 00:23:17,716 A safer, cleaner, more prosperous New York. 517 00:23:17,758 --> 00:23:19,593 For who? 518 00:23:19,635 --> 00:23:21,095 Your investors? 519 00:23:21,136 --> 00:23:23,013 When Sinatra sang about this place, 520 00:23:23,055 --> 00:23:25,599 when Jay-Z and Alicia Keys did, they meant it. 521 00:23:25,641 --> 00:23:28,435 They captured that romance 522 00:23:28,477 --> 00:23:31,188 and the possibility of what this city could be. 523 00:23:31,230 --> 00:23:33,398 When you look around now, is that what you see? 524 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,085 - Of course you don't. - Of course you don't. 525 00:23:35,109 --> 00:23:37,277 The city's been gored and gutted. 526 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:39,446 We're gonna turn it around. 527 00:23:39,488 --> 00:23:41,490 The Games bring so much in their wake. 528 00:23:41,532 --> 00:23:43,659 Infrastructure. Excitement. 529 00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:45,828 Free cultural events. Free Wi-Fi. 530 00:23:45,869 --> 00:23:47,621 Sounds grand. 531 00:23:47,663 --> 00:23:49,832 Where do I fit in? 532 00:23:49,873 --> 00:23:51,834 I need someone to bushwhack 533 00:23:51,875 --> 00:23:53,293 through the legal thickets 534 00:23:53,335 --> 00:23:56,088 so I can make all that a possibility. 535 00:23:56,130 --> 00:23:58,340 Think about how landing a well-run Olympics 536 00:23:58,382 --> 00:24:00,676 could play for you in a congressional run. 537 00:24:03,262 --> 00:24:04,888 Nice info, 538 00:24:04,930 --> 00:24:08,142 but it's not at all clear that this would help 539 00:24:08,183 --> 00:24:10,686 if those were my plans. 540 00:24:10,727 --> 00:24:12,312 By the time I'm done, 541 00:24:12,354 --> 00:24:14,314 this city's gonna be begging for the big top. 542 00:24:14,356 --> 00:24:16,167 And you'll be touted as the woman who cleared the way 543 00:24:16,191 --> 00:24:17,484 to make it all possible. 544 00:24:17,526 --> 00:24:18,819 Yeah. 545 00:24:19,987 --> 00:24:21,238 Yeah, okay. 546 00:24:26,493 --> 00:24:28,579 Why don't I send over some good names. 547 00:24:32,541 --> 00:24:34,168 Thanks for the pricey coffee. 548 00:24:39,298 --> 00:24:42,301 You were right. It was a job offer. 549 00:24:42,342 --> 00:24:44,428 My experience with government in general, 550 00:24:44,469 --> 00:24:46,197 and, I think, this office, was the driver. 551 00:24:46,221 --> 00:24:48,557 Oh, I bet. What'd you pick up? 552 00:24:48,599 --> 00:24:51,643 They are going to vivify and beautify this fair city, 553 00:24:51,685 --> 00:24:52,978 first for the Games, 554 00:24:53,020 --> 00:24:54,539 then for all of us in their wake. 555 00:24:54,563 --> 00:24:56,416 -But there are, of course... -Regulatory... 556 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,192 Measures and thickets of... 557 00:24:58,233 --> 00:25:00,360 Rules, I'd imagine, that need... 558 00:25:00,402 --> 00:25:02,821 Just the sort of sharp knife I carry, yep. 559 00:25:02,863 --> 00:25:05,073 All sorts of infrastructure improvements, 560 00:25:05,115 --> 00:25:06,926 from buildings to the shit flying through the air 561 00:25:06,950 --> 00:25:08,327 connecting the world, 562 00:25:08,368 --> 00:25:10,204 which he's going to give away for free. 563 00:25:10,245 --> 00:25:11,788 Sure. 564 00:25:11,830 --> 00:25:13,349 Sure, they will need someone like you 565 00:25:13,373 --> 00:25:15,792 if they think the telecom and wireless folks 566 00:25:15,834 --> 00:25:17,874 are going to welcome whatever he's got planned. 567 00:25:19,087 --> 00:25:20,672 Not going to be me. 568 00:25:20,714 --> 00:25:22,483 You want me to pass right now, in front of you? 569 00:25:22,507 --> 00:25:23,842 No. Not yet. 570 00:25:23,884 --> 00:25:25,719 In 24 hours, you're going to pass. 571 00:25:25,761 --> 00:25:27,739 First, I know who I want to take that job: 572 00:25:27,763 --> 00:25:30,390 Ira Schirmer. 573 00:25:30,432 --> 00:25:32,368 And I know what I'm going to do about this bullshit, 574 00:25:32,392 --> 00:25:34,728 pandering free Wi-Fi initiative too. 575 00:25:35,938 --> 00:25:37,731 You're a wealthy man. 576 00:25:37,773 --> 00:25:40,984 Young wife, young child. 577 00:25:41,026 --> 00:25:42,986 You have it all. 578 00:25:43,028 --> 00:25:45,322 But you know what you don't have? 579 00:25:45,364 --> 00:25:48,533 An alpaca? 580 00:25:48,575 --> 00:25:50,428 Might be kind of tough in the apartment. 581 00:25:50,452 --> 00:25:53,413 But, no, it's true. I saw Downey on the newish Letterman thing. 582 00:25:53,455 --> 00:25:55,082 -Alpacas... -Relevance. 583 00:25:55,123 --> 00:25:56,625 Access. 584 00:25:56,667 --> 00:25:58,293 Being in the mix. 585 00:25:58,335 --> 00:26:00,480 I want this? This sounds like a pain in the ass. 586 00:26:00,504 --> 00:26:02,506 You need this. 587 00:26:02,547 --> 00:26:04,591 And I get it how? 588 00:26:06,635 --> 00:26:08,887 Prince offered Sacker a job 589 00:26:08,929 --> 00:26:11,348 steering him through the legal quagmire. 590 00:26:11,390 --> 00:26:13,850 You go be his baby driver instead. 591 00:26:13,892 --> 00:26:16,228 That guy is too smart to go for this. 592 00:26:16,270 --> 00:26:17,729 He knows I'm your friend. 593 00:26:17,771 --> 00:26:20,440 My best friend. And you lead with that. 594 00:26:20,482 --> 00:26:21,751 This is why you're perfect for it. 595 00:26:21,775 --> 00:26:23,443 You know my moves and... 596 00:26:23,485 --> 00:26:25,630 - And he sees right through it. - Not if you declaim: 597 00:26:25,654 --> 00:26:27,364 I won't hurt Rhoades personally. 598 00:26:27,406 --> 00:26:29,283 I love the man. 599 00:26:29,324 --> 00:26:31,785 But this is business, and I will be your lawyer, 600 00:26:31,827 --> 00:26:35,455 and couldn't betray you without risking my license. 601 00:26:35,497 --> 00:26:39,126 So I'm an asset, and you're running me at him. 602 00:26:39,167 --> 00:26:41,128 You been reading Ambler? 603 00:26:41,169 --> 00:26:43,297 Yeah, a bit. The Zaleshoff books. 604 00:26:43,338 --> 00:26:44,983 And I can tell you, it's not going to work. 605 00:26:45,007 --> 00:26:46,258 He's...  he's too smart. 606 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:47,884 So you go further. 607 00:26:47,926 --> 00:26:50,637 We use those very smarts and his ambition. 608 00:26:52,014 --> 00:26:53,974 You tell him that your friendship with me 609 00:26:54,016 --> 00:26:56,310 is hurting you professionally. 610 00:26:56,351 --> 00:26:58,079 You've lost clients over it. 611 00:26:58,103 --> 00:27:00,206 You have to show that you're not afraid to go against me, 612 00:27:00,230 --> 00:27:02,482 that you know my moves and how to blunt them. 613 00:27:02,524 --> 00:27:05,235 And you commit to it and mean it. 614 00:27:05,277 --> 00:27:07,112 I can mean it if I have to. 615 00:27:07,154 --> 00:27:08,914 As you have shown me in the past. 616 00:27:11,491 --> 00:27:12,701 Go do it. 617 00:27:22,252 --> 00:27:24,713 Can't wait to finish building this boat for you. 618 00:27:24,755 --> 00:27:26,316 - Can you hurry it up? - Yeah, I am. 619 00:27:26,340 --> 00:27:28,842 I'll have it done for you in three years. 620 00:27:28,884 --> 00:27:30,862 That includes greening, right? Has to. 621 00:27:30,886 --> 00:27:32,530 I need this thing carbon-neutral. 622 00:27:32,554 --> 00:27:35,640 No carbon footprint. Not just the power plant. 623 00:27:35,682 --> 00:27:37,309 Stem to stern. 624 00:27:37,351 --> 00:27:38,602 That's what I do. 625 00:27:50,530 --> 00:27:52,366 Ira, of course I know who you are, 626 00:27:52,407 --> 00:27:54,159 but not why you're calling. 627 00:27:54,201 --> 00:27:56,495 Well, how could you know before you've heard my spiel? 628 00:27:56,536 --> 00:27:58,705 You may be magnificent, but you're not Carnac. 629 00:27:58,747 --> 00:28:00,707 - Ira? - I'm calling because 630 00:28:00,749 --> 00:28:02,389 you're looking for a legal eagle. 631 00:28:02,417 --> 00:28:04,228 One who can be a big blocker against the government. 632 00:28:04,252 --> 00:28:06,838 Ah, and you're the Chuck whisperer? 633 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,715 The Chuck neutralizer. 634 00:28:10,717 --> 00:28:12,427 Your friendship is widely known. 635 00:28:12,469 --> 00:28:14,346 As is attorney/client privilege. 636 00:28:14,388 --> 00:28:15,907 I'd be sworn to work on your behalf 637 00:28:15,931 --> 00:28:17,658 and keep everything confidential. 638 00:28:17,682 --> 00:28:19,619 I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a man like Rhoades 639 00:28:19,643 --> 00:28:21,853 -has friends ready to... -I won't hit him personally. 640 00:28:21,895 --> 00:28:25,273 Ever. Even though I know what an utter hemorrhoid he can be 641 00:28:25,315 --> 00:28:27,442 when you're against him, I love the guy. 642 00:28:27,484 --> 00:28:29,087 But it's important for me professionally 643 00:28:29,111 --> 00:28:30,862 to be seen to stand up to him. 644 00:28:30,904 --> 00:28:33,740 And when I do, I will sit his ass down. 645 00:28:35,492 --> 00:28:37,095 Let's get together and talk in person. 646 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:38,763 I'll have Kristy get with your office to lock in. 647 00:28:38,787 --> 00:28:40,080 Sounds good. 648 00:28:44,251 --> 00:28:46,420 You really got with the spirit there. 649 00:28:46,461 --> 00:28:48,255 What can I say? 650 00:28:49,714 --> 00:28:52,092 - You can't consider it. - I consider everything. 651 00:28:52,134 --> 00:28:54,428 It's a setup. You know it's a setup. 652 00:28:54,469 --> 00:28:56,847 He had to know we'd think that, and called anyway. 653 00:28:56,888 --> 00:28:59,117 Look, it's moot unless you guys close tonight, 654 00:28:59,141 --> 00:29:00,535 so let me worry about the barrister. 655 00:29:00,559 --> 00:29:01,768 You nail your part. 656 00:29:08,900 --> 00:29:11,194 Chuck Rhoades is fucking with our Wi-Fi play. 657 00:29:11,236 --> 00:29:14,781 Someone is coming for what's yours, folks. 658 00:29:16,074 --> 00:29:17,701 You're big telecom. 659 00:29:17,742 --> 00:29:19,578 We can't let that happen. 660 00:29:21,538 --> 00:29:22,890 Rhoades has mobilized big telecom 661 00:29:22,914 --> 00:29:24,458 against People of the World. 662 00:29:24,499 --> 00:29:26,185 They're calling it piggybacking, signal theft, 663 00:29:26,209 --> 00:29:28,104 antitrust, even though it's excess signal 664 00:29:28,128 --> 00:29:29,337 that no one's using. 665 00:29:29,379 --> 00:29:30,690 We need PR firms. Legal. Lobbyists. 666 00:29:30,714 --> 00:29:32,108 We've got to spend against this move. 667 00:29:32,132 --> 00:29:33,425 Ballpark it for me. 668 00:29:33,467 --> 00:29:35,302 Thirteen and a half million. 669 00:29:42,559 --> 00:29:44,769 Okay, I'll get into it. 670 00:29:44,811 --> 00:29:46,229 Thank you. 671 00:29:56,865 --> 00:29:58,241 The Games in New York City 672 00:29:58,283 --> 00:30:00,327 will be a sports and a cultural event. 673 00:30:00,368 --> 00:30:02,638 It'll be the only way you can still see the Gates again. 674 00:30:02,662 --> 00:30:04,307 We've secured the rights with Jeanne-Claude 675 00:30:04,331 --> 00:30:05,749 and Christo's estate. 676 00:30:12,380 --> 00:30:13,590 That is something. 677 00:30:13,632 --> 00:30:15,342 It's not nothing. 678 00:30:17,219 --> 00:30:18,970 Let's move to dinner. 679 00:30:19,012 --> 00:30:20,907 If Jeanne-Claude and Christo aren't blowing you away, 680 00:30:20,931 --> 00:30:23,016 I imagine Chef Scott and his team will. 681 00:30:25,894 --> 00:30:27,246 Oh, I know this lot. 682 00:30:27,270 --> 00:30:29,189 This is as interested as they get 683 00:30:29,231 --> 00:30:31,358 without being absolutely committed. 684 00:30:31,399 --> 00:30:33,235 Welcome, members. 685 00:30:33,276 --> 00:30:35,737 This is the whole hog. 686 00:30:35,779 --> 00:30:38,031 Understand, folks, that I have slow-cooked 687 00:30:38,073 --> 00:30:41,243 and hand-pulled for you to enjoy to the fullest. 688 00:30:50,043 --> 00:30:51,253 Hear, hear! 689 00:30:51,294 --> 00:30:52,921 Yum! 690 00:30:52,963 --> 00:30:54,899 And there'll be more stops pulled out after that, 691 00:30:54,923 --> 00:30:56,132 don't you all worry. 692 00:30:56,174 --> 00:30:58,218 Remember, I'm gone after dinner. 693 00:30:58,260 --> 00:31:01,638 Yeah, after we eat, it's off to Palazzo with our soft targets. 694 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,182 Place is loaded with talent. Clean talent. 695 00:31:04,224 --> 00:31:06,059 And I mean clean. 696 00:31:06,101 --> 00:31:07,894 Ladies, gentlemen, other. 697 00:31:07,936 --> 00:31:10,188 Everything they'll want. 698 00:31:10,230 --> 00:31:12,732 And all documented, vaxxed, and virus-free 699 00:31:12,774 --> 00:31:14,025 with antibodies onboard. 700 00:31:14,067 --> 00:31:15,235 Then I'll peel off, too. 701 00:31:15,277 --> 00:31:16,528 What? No, no, no. 702 00:31:16,570 --> 00:31:18,238 Gentlemen, if you both depart, 703 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,907 our friends will become uncomfortable. 704 00:31:20,949 --> 00:31:22,552 They'll have you right there with them. 705 00:31:22,576 --> 00:31:25,078 This is what you're getting paid for. 706 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,597 Yes, but if one of you doesn't partake, 707 00:31:26,621 --> 00:31:27,932 they'll be looking for cameras. 708 00:31:27,956 --> 00:31:29,583 They'll imagine it's a setup. 709 00:31:29,624 --> 00:31:32,043 A blackmail play. It's happened before in Bogotá. 710 00:31:32,085 --> 00:31:33,587 But Bogotá never had the Games. 711 00:31:35,005 --> 00:31:36,756 - Oh. - Exactly. 712 00:31:36,798 --> 00:31:38,049 Ah. 713 00:31:39,009 --> 00:31:40,635 Well, I've done my part. 714 00:31:40,677 --> 00:31:42,554 So it's on you, Wagsy. Enjoy. 715 00:31:42,596 --> 00:31:45,098 Now excuse me while I pander to my audience. 716 00:31:45,140 --> 00:31:47,726 Who is hangry for some hog? 717 00:31:54,774 --> 00:31:55,900 Whoa! 718 00:31:55,942 --> 00:31:57,986 Whew. 719 00:31:58,028 --> 00:31:59,988 You scared me there... 720 00:32:00,030 --> 00:32:02,115 with your Batmobile. 721 00:32:02,157 --> 00:32:04,701 What brings you up to the triple digits? 722 00:32:05,994 --> 00:32:08,788 We have to talk. It's your time, Kate. 723 00:32:08,830 --> 00:32:10,957 America doesn't elect pessimists, 724 00:32:10,999 --> 00:32:14,210 it elects those that see the brighter and better future. 725 00:32:14,252 --> 00:32:16,463 The Olympics will do for this town 726 00:32:16,504 --> 00:32:18,465 what they once did for Greece. 727 00:32:18,506 --> 00:32:20,800 And they'll do you some good too. 728 00:32:20,842 --> 00:32:23,053 This isn't America. It's New York. 729 00:32:23,094 --> 00:32:25,805 And the only thing worse than a pessimist is a bullshitter. 730 00:32:25,847 --> 00:32:27,325 If I come aboard and you are wrong, 731 00:32:27,349 --> 00:32:28,784 it'll be the end for me as a candidate. 732 00:32:28,808 --> 00:32:29,976 I know what I'm doing. 733 00:32:30,018 --> 00:32:31,829 You're smart. Exceptionally smart. 734 00:32:31,853 --> 00:32:33,653 That's why I want you on my team. 735 00:32:33,688 --> 00:32:37,984 But be careful not to let your brilliance get in the way. 736 00:32:38,026 --> 00:32:41,363 Having blind faith in anyone can be dangerous, even yourself. 737 00:32:41,404 --> 00:32:44,532 Adam Grant talks about this in Think Again. 738 00:32:44,574 --> 00:32:46,701 The best predictors of the future aren't smarter. 739 00:32:46,743 --> 00:32:49,537 They're just willing to take one more look, 740 00:32:49,579 --> 00:32:52,332 one more time, than the other folks. 741 00:32:52,374 --> 00:32:56,002 That's good advice. But, uh, I'm aware. 742 00:32:56,044 --> 00:32:57,688 If your mother asks how many eggs you want, 743 00:32:57,712 --> 00:32:59,023 and you say one, but she makes two 744 00:32:59,047 --> 00:33:00,507 and you eat both, 745 00:33:00,548 --> 00:33:02,026 who's better at math, you or your mother? 746 00:33:02,050 --> 00:33:04,010 Excuse me? 747 00:33:04,052 --> 00:33:05,762 What my old man used to say 748 00:33:05,804 --> 00:33:07,657 when I'd worked myself into a knot over something. 749 00:33:07,681 --> 00:33:09,033 Doesn't matter how good your gut is, 750 00:33:09,057 --> 00:33:10,975 don't double down on old instincts 751 00:33:11,017 --> 00:33:12,936 when presented with new insight. 752 00:33:12,977 --> 00:33:16,690 Marc Andreessen calls it having strong opinions, weakly held. 753 00:33:16,731 --> 00:33:18,983 Always being ready to change to the better idea. 754 00:33:19,025 --> 00:33:20,461 - Bingo. - Yeah, but I don't see how 755 00:33:20,485 --> 00:33:22,195 leaving to work for you, 756 00:33:22,237 --> 00:33:24,489 trashing the reputation I've built in the public sector, 757 00:33:24,531 --> 00:33:26,199 turning my back on my mentor... 758 00:33:26,241 --> 00:33:28,785 A mentor shouldn't get in the way of your success. 759 00:33:28,827 --> 00:33:31,996 Unlike Chuck, I want to invest in your future. 760 00:33:32,038 --> 00:33:33,540 Entwine it with my own. 761 00:33:33,581 --> 00:33:35,834 The last thing I need is another father figure 762 00:33:35,875 --> 00:33:37,919 with ideas about my future. 763 00:33:37,961 --> 00:33:40,672 Here's where I'm different from those you've come across. 764 00:33:40,714 --> 00:33:43,550 I don't want to be the one giving advice all the time. 765 00:33:43,591 --> 00:33:45,677 I want to take your advice. 766 00:33:45,719 --> 00:33:47,220 I need it. 767 00:33:47,262 --> 00:33:49,240 I'm not your father. I want to be your peer. 768 00:33:49,264 --> 00:33:50,849 Watch you score. 769 00:33:50,890 --> 00:33:52,726 Bask in your glow. 770 00:33:54,060 --> 00:33:55,603 That's a new wrinkle. 771 00:33:55,645 --> 00:33:56,938 Still... 772 00:33:56,980 --> 00:33:58,708 You see yourself as a civil servant. 773 00:33:58,732 --> 00:34:00,400 I get it. 774 00:34:00,442 --> 00:34:02,610 I, too, believe in service. 775 00:34:02,652 --> 00:34:04,797 The thing you've got to ask yourself is, 776 00:34:04,821 --> 00:34:07,574 am I still serving best where I am? 777 00:34:08,658 --> 00:34:10,577 Or is there something better? 778 00:34:11,786 --> 00:34:14,998 Once you complete the job for me, 779 00:34:15,039 --> 00:34:17,125 that'll be your campaign office. 780 00:34:20,044 --> 00:34:21,421 I see. 781 00:34:21,463 --> 00:34:23,548 Twenty-four hours after you declare, 782 00:34:23,590 --> 00:34:25,592 your field staff... Already hired... 783 00:34:25,633 --> 00:34:28,428 Will collect and submit all the signatures you need 784 00:34:28,470 --> 00:34:29,763 before the filing deadline... 785 00:34:31,306 --> 00:34:34,058 leaving you free to chase the real cheesecake. 786 00:34:34,100 --> 00:34:36,770 You sure you know what you're buying? 787 00:34:36,811 --> 00:34:38,956 You think I'm concerned because you brought my Wi-Fi play 788 00:34:38,980 --> 00:34:40,440 back to Chuck? 789 00:34:40,482 --> 00:34:43,568 Yes, it did screw me up for a minute. 790 00:34:43,610 --> 00:34:46,946 But I'd have been disappointed if you hadn't. 791 00:34:46,988 --> 00:34:48,239 I love that you're loyal. 792 00:34:48,281 --> 00:34:49,657 You did right by your boss 793 00:34:49,699 --> 00:34:51,135 despite the potential cost to yourself. 794 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:52,952 That's what matters. 795 00:34:52,994 --> 00:34:56,372 It's how I know that you'll serve me loyally as well. 796 00:34:57,791 --> 00:35:00,168 Until I help get you elected to Congress. 797 00:35:07,592 --> 00:35:10,345 Gentle-folk, it's been a pleasure. 798 00:35:10,386 --> 00:35:13,223 I look forward to doing it again in 2028. 799 00:35:13,264 --> 00:35:15,934 I wish you good night and bid you adieu. 800 00:35:15,975 --> 00:35:17,375 - Cheers. - Thanks very much. 801 00:35:19,312 --> 00:35:21,564 Fellows, exciting offer. 802 00:35:21,606 --> 00:35:23,167 It seems our friends in New Jersey 803 00:35:23,191 --> 00:35:25,568 have arranged an impromptu private concert. 804 00:35:25,610 --> 00:35:28,321 The Boss and Bon Jovi at the Stone Pony. 805 00:35:30,031 --> 00:35:31,658 Choppers are waiting. 806 00:35:31,699 --> 00:35:33,201 What the fuck? 807 00:35:34,702 --> 00:35:36,830 Colin, you said Jersey was on the sideline. 808 00:35:36,871 --> 00:35:38,432 How did you let them into the game? 809 00:35:38,456 --> 00:35:39,934 I didn't let them anywhere, I assure you. 810 00:35:39,958 --> 00:35:42,168 This is coming from outside. 811 00:35:42,210 --> 00:35:44,104 A concerted attack. Could this be Rhoades? 812 00:35:44,128 --> 00:35:45,505 Feels like him. 813 00:35:45,547 --> 00:35:47,131 That's it then, I guess. 814 00:35:47,173 --> 00:35:49,151 "It" nothing. It's right there for you to finish. 815 00:35:49,175 --> 00:35:51,511 Well, sure, like a diamond ring in a cesspool. 816 00:35:51,553 --> 00:35:53,155 I just have to dive in, swim around, 817 00:35:53,179 --> 00:35:54,806 find it and clean it off. 818 00:35:54,848 --> 00:35:56,534 However you want to say it. Ride the damn tiger. 819 00:35:56,558 --> 00:35:58,244 Go with them, get them back to the city, 820 00:35:58,268 --> 00:35:59,853 and give them an experience 821 00:35:59,894 --> 00:36:01,747 that knocks the taste of American rock and roll 822 00:36:01,771 --> 00:36:04,232 - right out of their mouths. - My guns, they can't be empty. 823 00:36:04,274 --> 00:36:06,317 Maybe you'll have a stray bullet left. 824 00:36:13,408 --> 00:36:16,035 "Wrecking Ball," into "Blaze of Glory..." 825 00:36:16,077 --> 00:36:20,456 With a twin acoustic guitar finisher of "Rosalita," 826 00:36:20,498 --> 00:36:22,250 in a tiny private club. 827 00:36:22,292 --> 00:36:23,710 "Rosalita,"  damn. 828 00:36:23,751 --> 00:36:25,169 Really incredible. 829 00:36:25,211 --> 00:36:26,522 I mean, what can you hope to do 830 00:36:26,546 --> 00:36:28,065 when the other side has freaking Bruce? 831 00:36:28,089 --> 00:36:31,050 - And Bon Jovi. - And Bon Jovi. 832 00:36:31,092 --> 00:36:33,070 It's all the more impressive you got it done. 833 00:36:33,094 --> 00:36:34,304 It really is. 834 00:36:34,345 --> 00:36:35,680 I mean, congratulations, Scooter. 835 00:36:35,722 --> 00:36:37,223 You saw the play. 836 00:36:37,265 --> 00:36:38,701 I knew I had the man for the job. 837 00:36:38,725 --> 00:36:40,685 But he was balking, and you got it out of him. 838 00:36:40,727 --> 00:36:42,896 Really, unbelievably done. 839 00:36:42,937 --> 00:36:47,066 "Him"  is me, right? 840 00:36:47,108 --> 00:36:49,253 He manipulated me and you're congratulating him for it? 841 00:36:49,277 --> 00:36:52,488 Absolutely. Always give props to the guy who made the assist. 842 00:36:52,530 --> 00:36:54,341 The guy who scored already knows what he did. 843 00:36:54,365 --> 00:36:56,534 I need a slap on the ass when I score. 844 00:36:56,576 --> 00:36:57,785 That's how I'm wired. 845 00:36:57,827 --> 00:37:00,246 Good job, Wags! Feel better? 846 00:37:00,288 --> 00:37:01,706 Yeah. 847 00:37:01,748 --> 00:37:03,017 How'd you get it done, Wags? 848 00:37:03,041 --> 00:37:05,919 Considering your other agenda? 849 00:37:24,729 --> 00:37:28,399 Ahh! Wags! 850 00:37:42,997 --> 00:37:45,142 I'd heard of these guys who go behind closed doors 851 00:37:45,166 --> 00:37:46,709 and only talked. 852 00:37:46,751 --> 00:37:48,646 I always imagined they were pathetic losers 853 00:37:48,670 --> 00:37:51,631 of the most desperate stripe 854 00:37:51,673 --> 00:37:54,050 looking for connection. 855 00:37:54,092 --> 00:37:56,094 But I guess they had their reasons. 856 00:37:56,135 --> 00:37:57,595 Like I did. 857 00:38:01,182 --> 00:38:03,101 Uh-oh, that's my cue. 858 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:05,955 Give it another five or six minutes, 859 00:38:05,979 --> 00:38:07,647 then finish it off big. 860 00:38:08,648 --> 00:38:09,983 You're a dear. 861 00:38:10,024 --> 00:38:11,168 Good luck with your dissertation. 862 00:38:17,865 --> 00:38:20,743 The truth is, we actually had a lovely chat 863 00:38:20,785 --> 00:38:22,554 before we got down to putting on the show. 864 00:38:22,578 --> 00:38:24,223 Well, Colin said you guys killed it. 865 00:38:24,247 --> 00:38:26,332 Figured out exactly which ones could be moved. 866 00:38:26,374 --> 00:38:29,168 Bid round's looking as good as it possibly can. 867 00:38:31,713 --> 00:38:34,716 Oh, thanks for warning me about Ira Schirmer. 868 00:38:34,757 --> 00:38:36,843 I do know you were trying to protect me. 869 00:38:36,884 --> 00:38:40,346 Nah. You were playing him from jump, to get Rhoades leaning. 870 00:38:40,388 --> 00:38:41,699 Couldn't believe I didn't see it. 871 00:38:41,723 --> 00:38:42,932 Won't miss it next time, sir. 872 00:38:44,559 --> 00:38:45,852 I believe you. 873 00:38:49,564 --> 00:38:51,274 Miss Sacker's already sat with him, 874 00:38:51,315 --> 00:38:53,192 so she can finish getting you prepped. 875 00:38:55,236 --> 00:38:56,988 Huh. 876 00:38:57,030 --> 00:38:58,364 Oh, no. 877 00:39:00,158 --> 00:39:02,035 Uh-oh. 878 00:39:02,076 --> 00:39:03,536 My meeting just got canceled. 879 00:39:03,578 --> 00:39:04,829 Son of a bitch. 880 00:39:06,414 --> 00:39:08,541 They played the Albin on me. 881 00:39:10,001 --> 00:39:11,502 Chuck? 882 00:39:13,004 --> 00:39:16,674 I fancied myself some chess grandmaster 883 00:39:16,716 --> 00:39:18,760 and brought my big piece out early. 884 00:39:20,344 --> 00:39:22,638 Albin's a hyperaggressive counter. 885 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,223 I lost my advantage... 886 00:39:26,851 --> 00:39:29,437 and failed to protect my goddamn queen. 887 00:39:50,249 --> 00:39:53,169 Welcome to Michael Prince Capital, Kate. 888 00:39:53,211 --> 00:39:54,670 Thanks. 889 00:39:56,089 --> 00:39:58,591 So, where do I work? 890 00:39:58,633 --> 00:40:00,093 Wherever you want. 891 00:40:00,134 --> 00:40:01,612 Welcome, Miss Sacker. 892 00:40:01,636 --> 00:40:04,097 Allow me to show you the place. 893 00:40:04,138 --> 00:40:05,431 Hmm. 894 00:40:10,728 --> 00:40:11,938 The Olympics. 895 00:40:13,314 --> 00:40:15,441 That's what I get for doing this. 896 00:40:15,483 --> 00:40:18,569 You want to be on the performance coaching team. 897 00:40:18,611 --> 00:40:20,446 To run it. 898 00:40:20,488 --> 00:40:23,116 Use my talents to turn those athletes into medal machines. 899 00:40:23,157 --> 00:40:27,286 Their goal, my goal, the country's goal: aligned. 900 00:40:27,328 --> 00:40:30,456 So that my heart and soul are engaged in all of it. 901 00:40:30,498 --> 00:40:32,333 Done. 902 00:40:32,375 --> 00:40:34,311 It's not that you weren't transactional. 903 00:40:34,335 --> 00:40:36,504 It's that you're very good at it. 904 00:40:36,546 --> 00:40:38,214 And for the right reasons... 905 00:40:39,507 --> 00:40:40,967 which pleases me. 906 00:40:51,936 --> 00:40:53,980 I can see you aren't happy. 907 00:40:54,021 --> 00:40:57,066 I imagine this is visible on my face and in my demeanor, yes. 908 00:40:57,108 --> 00:40:58,818 And how could it not be so? 909 00:40:58,860 --> 00:41:00,546 You made a deal that you knew would displease me. 910 00:41:00,570 --> 00:41:01,988 Once the telecom companies 911 00:41:02,029 --> 00:41:03,674 figured out what we were trying to do, 912 00:41:03,698 --> 00:41:05,592 the only move was to make a deal with them, 913 00:41:05,616 --> 00:41:07,496 include them, let them be a part of it. 914 00:41:07,535 --> 00:41:09,429 So they get the pop for agreeing to provide free Wi-Fi 915 00:41:09,453 --> 00:41:10,681 for the fortnight of the Games. 916 00:41:10,705 --> 00:41:12,165 Made the most sense. 917 00:41:12,206 --> 00:41:13,684 The city gets nothing leading up to that. 918 00:41:13,708 --> 00:41:15,001 Just two lousy weeks. 919 00:41:18,171 --> 00:41:20,256 And the Africa initiative, that just dies? 920 00:41:20,298 --> 00:41:22,466 This deal doesn't contemplate an Africa piece. 921 00:41:22,508 --> 00:41:24,653 But that was the whole reason I brought the idea to you. 922 00:41:24,677 --> 00:41:26,345 - Ideas change. - Or die. 923 00:41:26,387 --> 00:41:28,139 It's back-burnered, not dead. 924 00:41:28,181 --> 00:41:29,849 We were... 925 00:41:29,891 --> 00:41:32,185 I thought we could... And I know this sounds corny... 926 00:41:32,226 --> 00:41:33,394 But it's the thing, right, 927 00:41:33,436 --> 00:41:35,038 that we are put in a position to do, 928 00:41:35,062 --> 00:41:36,540 and that's to change, to actually change the world, 929 00:41:36,564 --> 00:41:38,167 which is what this would have done. 930 00:41:38,191 --> 00:41:39,710 What I would have done. And now they get what? 931 00:41:39,734 --> 00:41:41,420 The consolation prize: a free tote bag? 932 00:41:41,444 --> 00:41:43,362 People love free tote bags. 933 00:41:43,404 --> 00:41:45,674 Especially when they don't know what they could have gotten. 934 00:41:45,698 --> 00:41:47,533 But, come on, what did you think 935 00:41:47,575 --> 00:41:50,203 your plan was really going to accomplish long term? 936 00:41:50,244 --> 00:41:52,181 - What was going to change? - You know the answer. 937 00:41:52,205 --> 00:41:53,891 With Wi-Fi they could connect to the... 938 00:41:53,915 --> 00:41:55,559 I don't have to spell it out for you. 939 00:41:55,583 --> 00:41:56,834 You know the answer. 940 00:41:57,919 --> 00:41:59,545 I do. 941 00:41:59,587 --> 00:42:02,131 You know, I've lived through versions of this before. 942 00:42:02,173 --> 00:42:03,883 More than that, Africa has. 943 00:42:03,925 --> 00:42:05,384 There was a great initiative, 944 00:42:05,426 --> 00:42:06,987 with great goodwill and good intentions, 945 00:42:07,011 --> 00:42:09,138 to build wells in different places. 946 00:42:09,180 --> 00:42:12,308 Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali. More. 947 00:42:12,350 --> 00:42:14,143 Ones that really needed it. 948 00:42:14,185 --> 00:42:15,412 Only once the wells were built, 949 00:42:15,436 --> 00:42:16,872 there was no money to maintain them. 950 00:42:16,896 --> 00:42:18,498 So when they broke and fell into disrepair, 951 00:42:18,522 --> 00:42:20,024 no one knew how to fix them. 952 00:42:20,066 --> 00:42:22,318 The people also became reliant on them. 953 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:23,903 So instead of making things better, 954 00:42:23,945 --> 00:42:25,571 the people ended up worse off. 955 00:42:25,613 --> 00:42:27,490 This would be like that. 956 00:42:27,531 --> 00:42:29,593 You'd get them dependent on the connectivity, 957 00:42:29,617 --> 00:42:32,578 and then, when it disappeared, they'd be lost. 958 00:42:32,620 --> 00:42:34,789 Sure, it's easy to take that position now. 959 00:42:34,830 --> 00:42:36,582 Nothing easy about it. 960 00:42:36,624 --> 00:42:39,126 But I pick and choose my shots to make things better, 961 00:42:39,168 --> 00:42:41,921 so that when I do it, it works. 962 00:42:41,963 --> 00:42:44,382 It holds. It sticks. 963 00:42:44,423 --> 00:42:48,135 That's what I'm going to do too, soon enough, full-fucking-time. 964 00:42:49,136 --> 00:42:50,721 You have a number. 965 00:42:50,763 --> 00:42:52,640 I do. 966 00:42:53,641 --> 00:42:54,892 Hundred. 967 00:42:55,851 --> 00:42:57,603 Gotta be a hundred mil. 968 00:42:57,645 --> 00:42:59,122 That's the nine-digit combination 969 00:42:59,146 --> 00:43:01,232 that opens the lock to the escape hatch. 970 00:43:01,274 --> 00:43:02,984 It is. 971 00:43:03,025 --> 00:43:04,211 You must be within striking distance 972 00:43:04,235 --> 00:43:05,545 of that number, too, by now. 973 00:43:05,569 --> 00:43:07,113 I am. Getting there. 974 00:43:07,154 --> 00:43:08,572 The problem is the number shifts 975 00:43:08,614 --> 00:43:10,574 when you see what it can and can't do. 976 00:43:11,659 --> 00:43:13,119 I'm at over 10 billion. 977 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:14,471 I'm a philanthropist, like you, 978 00:43:14,495 --> 00:43:16,622 yet I haven't left. 979 00:43:16,664 --> 00:43:18,433 Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach, 980 00:43:18,457 --> 00:43:19,977 and at your level, they should be. 981 00:43:20,001 --> 00:43:21,728 - Why is that? - If this had been my cause, 982 00:43:21,752 --> 00:43:24,297 those struggling folks would be getting their Wi-Fi, 983 00:43:24,338 --> 00:43:25,798 regardless of the business end, 984 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:27,317 with the money baked in to keep it going. 985 00:43:27,341 --> 00:43:29,760 Infrastructure, technicians on payroll 986 00:43:29,802 --> 00:43:31,446 to keep it reliable, sustainable, 987 00:43:31,470 --> 00:43:33,472 so the well would never run dry. 988 00:43:33,514 --> 00:43:36,642 Because even at a 150 mil a year personal OPEX, 989 00:43:36,684 --> 00:43:38,811 I can afford it, you can't. 990 00:43:38,853 --> 00:43:41,206 So you're trying to turn this into an object lesson on scale. 991 00:43:41,230 --> 00:43:43,858 Not trying to do anything. That's what it is. 992 00:43:43,899 --> 00:43:46,986 I'm independently wealthy. You're not. 993 00:43:47,028 --> 00:43:50,823 You're kind of rich, which is great. 994 00:43:50,865 --> 00:43:52,175 But if you want to change the world, 995 00:43:52,199 --> 00:43:53,784 nine digits ain't gonna do it. 996 00:43:56,871 --> 00:43:59,290 I can see that you are right that my number was faulty. 997 00:43:59,332 --> 00:44:01,542 I have a new one now. 998 00:44:03,627 --> 00:44:05,504 A billion. 999 00:44:15,389 --> 00:44:18,476 Darken the city Night is a wire 1000 00:44:18,517 --> 00:44:21,312 Steam in the subway Earth is afire 1001 00:44:21,354 --> 00:44:23,647 Do-do-do-do Do-do-do 1002 00:44:23,689 --> 00:44:27,526 Do-do-do Do-do-do-do-do 1003 00:44:29,987 --> 00:44:33,491 Woman, you want me Give me a sign 1004 00:44:33,532 --> 00:44:36,702 And catch my breathing Even closer behind 1005 00:44:36,744 --> 00:44:39,038 Do-do-do-do Do-do-do 1006 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,708 Do-do-do Do-do-do-do-do 1007 00:44:45,753 --> 00:44:47,588 In touch with the ground 1008 00:44:47,630 --> 00:44:51,050 I'm on the hunt I'm after you 1009 00:44:51,092 --> 00:44:54,845 Smell like I sound I'm lost in a crowd 1010 00:44:54,887 --> 00:44:58,766 And I'm hungry Like the wolf 1011 00:44:58,808 --> 00:45:02,770 Straddle the line In discord and rhyme 1012 00:45:02,812 --> 00:45:06,399 I'm on the hunt I'm after you 1013 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,944 Mouth is alive With juices like wine 1014 00:45:09,985 --> 00:45:14,573 And I'm hungry Like the wolf 1015 00:45:21,789 --> 00:45:23,499 Not hiding from you. 1016 00:45:23,541 --> 00:45:25,626 So I see. 1017 00:45:35,052 --> 00:45:36,846 How could you, Kate? 1018 00:45:38,973 --> 00:45:41,434 It'd one thing if you had ditched before. 1019 00:45:41,475 --> 00:45:43,811 But now, when I'm doing it right? 1020 00:45:45,271 --> 00:45:47,440 All the ways. And winning. 1021 00:45:49,358 --> 00:45:51,485 For us and the folks. 1022 00:45:51,527 --> 00:45:52,820 Finally. 1023 00:45:54,613 --> 00:45:58,117 I'd think you would know that this is the moment to stay, 1024 00:45:58,159 --> 00:45:59,618 not leave. 1025 00:46:00,619 --> 00:46:02,580 But after all I taught you... 1026 00:46:02,621 --> 00:46:04,081 Oh, you did. 1027 00:46:04,123 --> 00:46:05,749 You taught me. 1028 00:46:05,791 --> 00:46:08,752 It's maybe how I knew to make the decision I made. 1029 00:46:11,130 --> 00:46:14,091 Maybe I'm ready to do some teaching, too. 1030 00:46:14,133 --> 00:46:17,136 To be a peer, not just an acolyte. 1031 00:46:17,178 --> 00:46:18,846 We could do that. 1032 00:46:18,888 --> 00:46:21,056 No, we can do that. 1033 00:46:21,098 --> 00:46:22,308 No. 1034 00:46:22,349 --> 00:46:24,435 No, you made me wait. 1035 00:46:24,477 --> 00:46:26,520 Then you put me in play. 1036 00:46:28,481 --> 00:46:30,649 Some would ask, how could I have waited so long? 1037 00:46:30,691 --> 00:46:32,818 And what would you say to them? 1038 00:46:32,860 --> 00:46:35,404 That I felt I still had more to learn. 1039 00:46:36,864 --> 00:46:39,867 And I had the best professor. 1040 00:46:40,868 --> 00:46:42,077 What if that professor 1041 00:46:42,119 --> 00:46:43,787 isn't done teaching yet? 1042 00:46:43,829 --> 00:46:45,789 Then he'd better find someone who's still in need 1043 00:46:45,831 --> 00:46:48,501 of those particular lessons... 1044 00:46:48,542 --> 00:46:52,004 because this student has already left the campus. 1045 00:46:55,883 --> 00:46:57,402 High blood drumming On your skin 1046 00:46:57,426 --> 00:46:59,845 It's so tight 1047 00:46:59,887 --> 00:47:02,681 You feel my heat I'm just a moment behind 1048 00:47:02,723 --> 00:47:04,558 Do-do-do-do Do-do-do 1049 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:08,521 Do-do-do Do-do-do-do-do 1050 00:47:11,232 --> 00:47:13,275 In touch with the ground 1051 00:47:13,317 --> 00:47:16,987 I'm on the hunt I'm after you 1052 00:47:17,029 --> 00:47:18,906 A scent and a sound 1053 00:47:18,948 --> 00:47:20,741 I'm lost and I'm found 1054 00:47:20,783 --> 00:47:24,745 And I'm hungry Like the wolf 1055 00:47:24,787 --> 00:47:26,497 Strut on a line 1056 00:47:26,539 --> 00:47:28,499 It's discord and rhyme 1057 00:47:28,541 --> 00:47:32,002 I howl and I whine I'm after you 1058 00:47:32,044 --> 00:47:35,839 Mouth is alive All running inside 1059 00:47:35,881 --> 00:47:40,427 And I'm hungry Like the wolf