1. Previously on Billions...
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2. Yee!
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3. It's a road bottle.
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4. How do you get up and go to work?
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5. Patient concierge...
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6. Fixes me up with a room and an I.V.
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7. Forty-five minutes, and I
rebound like an undergrad.
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8. I'm sending you somewhere.
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9. Please, not rehab.
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10. No.
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11. I need help.
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12. Sandicot's downtown is
ripe for redevelopment.
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13. Why would I ever put any of my money
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14. in your corner of the state?
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15. I don't expect you to do this
deal as a favor to my uncle.
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16. I expect you to do it
because of the casino.
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17. Look, I don't think I'm gonna be able
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18. to help you get Boyd. I want to, but...
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19. Am I going to have to wear a wire?
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20. Mr. McKinnon, you're gonna be a hero.
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21. Steven Birch?
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22. It's either him or you.
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23. You do an autopsy on the deal,
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24. you'll find yourself a
Pulitzer in the carcass.
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25. The federal sentencing guidelines
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26. call for you to serve 11 years.
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27. I don't want to go to jail.
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28. Wise choice, Mr. Birch.
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29. I want to get out
from under this immediately.
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30. Then what can you give me now?
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31. There are a few mid-level guys.
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32. What if I sacrifice them?
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33. I have another source I can
check to be sure it's legit.
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34. I'll be careful.
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35. You better be.
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36. But not everyone out there's a savage.
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37. Rhoades opened his eyes
to the bigger picture.
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38. I don't like the
idea of Boyd going down.
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39. Doesn't... Doesn't sit right with me.
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40. You never give anyone your playbook,
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41. no matter how much you're
rooting for them to win.
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42. I'll move the car for you, Mr. Wagner.
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43. You will leave it right there.
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44. I and it will be gone before long.
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45. - Hey, Wags, how...
- It's Wags.
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46. Wags, where you been?
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47. Wags, I've been calling you.
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48. Call you back.
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49. You haven't been drinking.
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50. Your eyes are clear.
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51. Let me see.
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52. It's not shaking.
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53. I want to get this out.
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54. When I started here,
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55. I made a promise to you, and you to me.
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56. We've kept that promise no matter what.
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57. Well, with a windup like that,
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58. I'm sure whatever you have
to say must be important.
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59. It is.
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60. Momentous even.
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61. Yeah.
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62. Thing is, it's not your turn to speak.
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63. Why's that?
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64. Because while you have been
out there learning the Yaqui Way
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65. or how to run like the Tarahumara,
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66. I have been in here fighting the battle
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67. of fucking Thermopylae!
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68. Hell of a job, Sung.
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69. Corporate was going on about how we'd never
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70. make delivery on the Sapphire Super-Thin.
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71. I was like, shit, you don't know Sung.
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72. Axe, we're fucked!
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73. Gordie, say hi to Mr. Pawlowski.
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74. Fuck that. It's Nicky, kid.
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75. - Nicky.
- Hello.
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76. You know, I owe everything to your dad.
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77. You know that?
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78. We were getting killed out
here, couldn't make a dime.
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79. And then your dad figures
out how we could come away
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80. with $50k a race on the triple.
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81. - You see you real...
- All right, all right,
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82. we'll give him the full
education another time.
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83. He already knows the most important part.
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84. Who makes a bet if they don't
know how it's gonna turn out?
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85. Suckers.
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86. Go take some pictures, yeah?
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87. My phone's dead.
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88. Here you go.
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89. You didn't come up here
for a tip on a race?
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90. You heard anything about a new casino
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91. coming to upstate New York?
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92. Whispers, yeah. I heard whispers.
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93. It's important I find out
where exactly it's going.
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94. The town's unclear.
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95. But I did hear this big casino guy,
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96. Donald Thayer, he's getting ready
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97. to get busy building upstate.
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98. I know Thayer.
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99. 'Course you do.
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100. Dad, your phone is, like, blowing up.
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101. Yeah?
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102. Calling to tell me Sansomic's fucked?
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103. I just got word.
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104. Yeah, they're gonna stiff delivery
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105. on 400,000 Celestial phones.
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106. Their glass supplier beefed
on the new super-thin screens.
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107. They crack under the
heat gun during adhesion.
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108. Some guy in Korea
took a mickey over it.
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109. But that's only half the
reason why I'm calling.
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110. What?
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111. Sam Brandt... Street Scoop...
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112. Out hunting.
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113. She knows you're lugging the stock
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114. and you're facing your first
down quarter because of it.
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115. She wants you to be a
talking head on her show.
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116. Shit! Can you spike it?
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117. No, but if you say you'll go on,
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118. you can buy yourself the
last three days of the month.
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119. All right, I'll do it.
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120. Thanks for the heads up.
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121. Fuck.
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122. So, we're still talking about this?
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123. We are.
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124. It's beneath us.
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125. Petty.
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126. Let's not judge in that way.
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127. Wendy.
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128. I ask him not to overdress for dinner.
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129. Eight people on a patio,
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130. he says he won't, then he shows up in...
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131. that suit.
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132. I was coming from the office.
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133. Erica lives three blocks from us.
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134. Okay.
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135. So, I wanted to wear the suit.
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136. You know, we weren't white-water rafting
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137. down the Colorado,
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138. we were having bisque for fuck's sake.
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139. On a courtyard outside
a $7 million townhouse.
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140. Wendy...
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141. can you tell Chuck why
it bothered you so much
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142. that he wore that suit?
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143. Yeah.
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144. He can't for a second
let anyone forget he is
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145. the "United States Attorney
for the Southern District."
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146. So, the suit.
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147. It's not enough for him
to think his profession
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148. is... is a calling while
everyone else merely has a job.
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149. He needs to prove it at all times...
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150. Do you think I can't tell
the way people look at us?
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151. Don't you think that I know
that you can do better than me?
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152. Maybe I want to wear something
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153. that won't make them look at us and wonder,
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154. "Gee, what is she doing with him?"
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155. I had no idea you felt that way.
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156. If the quarter ended today,
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157. we'd be underwater like
Crimson fucking Tide.
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158. Sansomic has pulled us
down to negative 2.3%.
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159. But we have three days to turn that around.
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160. So, what do you have for me?
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161. I'm peeling back the skin
on Territory Petroleum.
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162. They're sitting on good numbers.
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163. If they come out, it'll bump seven...
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164. It's too late.
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165. When the numbers come out,
we're a dead man walking.
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166. Aren't you supposed to be on
the Sandicot muni-bond deal?
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167. Why are you even here?
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168. I thought it was an
all-hands situation, urgent.
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169. Yes, it is.
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170. But the greats never sacrifice
the important for the urgent.
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171. They handle the immediate problem
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172. and still make sure to secure the future.
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173. Ferguson?
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174. Rip our illiquid longs.
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175. I've got a few positions on my book
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176. that are ready for juicing.
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177. And we could add some classy
names to the investor letter...
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178. That's fucking window dressing.
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179. Graff?
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180. We flee to quality.
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181. Blue-chip time.
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182. It may not be fast,
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183. but at least we'll be able
to show our investors...
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184. Do you think I don't understand
what the fuck is going on?
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185. You are all playing it safe for the quarter
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186. so you have a shot of
personally being up on the year.
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187. You are all selfish motherfuckers!
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188. Looking to mitigate your downsides
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189. and protect your bonuses.
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190. The only currency that this firm has...
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191. that any firm has these days...
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192. is its winning streak.
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193. The Kevlar of "knowing the answer."
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194. You break that, you break the whole thing.
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195. Nobody leaves here
until you hand me an idea
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with in a few days time.
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197. Fuck this.
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198. Finally someone has something.
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199. The way I see it,
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200. we need a quick fix in
a non-quick-fix market.
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201. Yeah.
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202. I have an idea.
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203. I was talking to Victor.
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204. Why were you talking to Victor?
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205. You know why.
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206. She have to be here?
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207. Sure as shit.
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208. Changes what I can pitch.
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209. By design.
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210. Well, you may have solved one problem,
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211. but you made the crucial
one much harder to solve.
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212. So you got nothing.
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213. No, I have just what you need.
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214. But apparently, I can't give it to you.
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215. You're allowed, you know.
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216. You are not an algorithm,
you are not a machine,
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217. you're human.
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218. You are allowed to have a down quarter.
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219. All hedge funds do, eventually.
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220. Trust can be built on fallibility.
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221. There have been studies.
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222. You said you were determined
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223. to never come close to the line.
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224. Those are the terms under which I'm here,
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225. so you have to be prepared
for results like these.
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226. You have to be, if not okay with them,
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227. then at least accepting.
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228. I want some privacy. And
where the fuck is Wags?
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229. Find him.
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230. Mr. Watley, hold up, please.
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231. I have a meeting... very important.
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232. I'll make myself available to you
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233. first opening in my Filofax.
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238. No.
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240. - You do?
- Part of one.
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243. last night.
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244. But he can't know it's from me.
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245. It's sensitive.
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246. He's hiding from you.
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247. Is this where you do your best thinking?
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248. I was just finishing up.
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249. I know you, Mafee.
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251. There's no one else but
us. You should share.
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252. There's this currency play.
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the details telepathically?
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254. Okay, just...
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255. There's this guy... Everett Wright.
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256. We're bros. From college.
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258. Fucking Eveready, he was
always better than me.
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267. Mafee, no one could take
your place in my heart.
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271. Shit.
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277. No, I'm black.
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Canada to hunt wolves.
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sound like a dying rabbit.
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see a single blessed wolf.
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290. Well, after three brutal days of this,
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291. we came across a hunter, old guy...
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294. The next day, we saw three wolves...
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299. or Lawrence Boyd.
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300. He told him to...
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301. McKinnon called me.
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302. - Hey.
- Hey.
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303. Chef Ryan has everything
set up for your new friend.
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305. A little home court hospitality?
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306. I need you to do something for me.
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business to the next level.
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me before writing a check.
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have outside validation.
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if you're not ready...
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315. I'm ready.
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316. Okay. I'll call Boyd.
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317. And he'll have the
right guy at Spartan-Ives
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320. Yeah, to impress you.
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322. So, Mafee tells me
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326. I'd get fired just for having this meeting.
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330. They're leaving a lot of
money on the table at my firm.
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331. And I just have a
philosophical problem with that.
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332. Yeah, so what opportunities
are they scared to pursue?
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333. It's not a one-firm play.
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334. You need all five families
going in to make it work.
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337. is gonna devalue their currency.
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341. The Nigerian oil industry is weaker
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348. Could be a month from now.
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349. And with the right
pressure, could be tomorrow,
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350. if somebody takes a massive
short position against it.
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351. E-mail me your research... Encrypt it...
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352. as soon as we finish lunch.
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353. If I like what I see,
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354. this won't be the last
lobster we crush together.
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wool silk twill to show you.
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357. So, I've read his research.
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358. It's strong, but it's a big play.
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359. It's way out of my risk parameters.
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360. Come in on it for three billion.
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361. It'll be a huge score.
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362. I can't, Bobby. I deal
with Nigeria all the time.
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363. Same with all the primes.
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364. Their sovereign wealth fund.
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taking down a government.
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366. Look, if it's weak enough
to go, it's nobody's fault.
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they'll crack my position.
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370. Of course.
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371. You need to go to others like you
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372. who are free to operate in the margins.
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373. Big players. Cash heavy.
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374. Krakow, Malverne, even Birch.
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375. His family office had a nice year.
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come and play on my behalf.
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383. I'll be expecting to hear from you.
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386. Come... Wags,
where the fuck are you?
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babbling to Michael Arendt.
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game last night, Mike?
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it's a Thanksgiving turkey.
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401. I got a lot of work to do.
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403. I'm sorry.
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405. Come on.
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all had more success.
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408. Should we go after him?
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409. Let it eat at him.
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410. He'll beg me to get this back.
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to climb the Col du Tourmalet,
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414. No need. This'll be quick, and
then you can get back at it.
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415. Nope. You're in here.
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if you've heard from Wags.
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423. What, that he's off the
grid or that they miss him?
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425. towards a wall like Dale
Earnhardt at Daytona.
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426. And what did you do to stop it?
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428. If a crash is coming, I say you bring it.
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429. It's the only way to get to the other side.
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430. If you survive.
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431. Look, you hired me to
help you maximize results,
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433. He hired you.
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434. I sort of rubber-stamped it.
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435. And you listen to all of his suggestions?
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436. You said you were surprised
that they missed him?
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437. Well, they talk about him
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guts most of the time.
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441. So it's his loyalty that matters to you.
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444. to see if I knew where Wags was, boyo.
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446. You came in here because
you want it to be about you.
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447. Because you need it to be about you.
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448. And I am here for exactly that purpose.
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450. Let me into that kitchen.
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451. What specific role does Wags serve for you?
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Bracer across the chops.
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ever getting in my kitchen
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anyone who'd undercut the man
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Copy !req
470. Tight pitch.
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471. Cool business.
Copy !req
472. Thanks.
Copy !req
473. Why do you really want the money?
Copy !req
474. We need to outflank competitors now.
Copy !req
475. Grow our market share fast and fat
Copy !req
476. and chase them out of the fields.
Copy !req
477. We're paying retail for the drugs.
Copy !req
478. We need to buy in bulk,
increase our margins.
Copy !req
479. We see college campuses
as our next frontier.
Copy !req
480. Hangover central, you know?
Copy !req
481. And since we can show that our
product enhances performance,
Copy !req
482. the fitness industry is logical, too.
Copy !req
483. I could put you guys in front of the money
Copy !req
484. for a round of meetings.
Copy !req
485. They are going to lap you two up.
Copy !req
486. Well, thank you for your time.
Copy !req
487. We'll, um, be in touch to schedule.
Copy !req
488. Hey, anything for Lawrence Boyd.
Copy !req
489. It was a personal ask from him.
Copy !req
490. And anything for your husband.
Copy !req
491. Thanks.
Copy !req
492. Bryan.
Copy !req
493. I'm sorry. Gimme a sec.
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494. Okay.
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495. I heard you were in here.
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496. Is this Go club?
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497. Yeah.
Copy !req
498. My night to host, and
my apartment's too small.
Copy !req
499. I tried you.
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500. We put them in the basket
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501. before we play, because, you know...
Copy !req
502. Because Go players didn't have
cellphones in ancient times.
Copy !req
503. Okay. Got it.
Copy !req
504. And do you take a vow of celibacy, as well?
Copy !req
505. No, it's just the end result.
Copy !req
506. McKinnon just sent word.
Copy !req
507. He and his wife are having dinner
Copy !req
508. with Boyd and his wife tomorrow night.
Copy !req
509. That was quick. You were right.
Copy !req
510. Private table at Ai Fiori.
Copy !req
511. Cozy.
Copy !req
512. Coordinate with FBI to set up surveillance.
Copy !req
513. We're gonna be there.
Copy !req
514. Yes, sir.
Copy !req
515. I almost forgot,
Copy !req
516. you better block that
monkey jump at the bottom.
Copy !req
517. I don't walk in the fucking door
Copy !req
518. without it being Lawrence Boyd asking.
Copy !req
519. Why are we here?
Copy !req
520. Hi. What can I get you?
Copy !req
521. Could you get them three
lumberjacks, please?
Copy !req
522. Sure.
Copy !req
523. Nigeria is gonna devalue its currency.
Copy !req
524. Get the hell out of here.
Copy !req
525. How could you know that?
Copy !req
526. Because we're gonna make it happen.
Copy !req
527. Jesus fuck.
Copy !req
528. I have all the research for you.
Copy !req
529. Currency plays are all about timing.
Copy !req
530. You get in too late, there's nothing there.
Copy !req
531. But you get in too early,
they raise interest rates
Copy !req
532. and bleed you out of your position.
Copy !req
533. Agreed.
Copy !req
534. Being early is the same as being wrong.
Copy !req
535. That's why I'm here.
Copy !req
536. But if each of us take a monster position
Copy !req
537. against the Naira, we dictate the timing.
Copy !req
538. I have traders shorting it
in Australasia as we speak,
Copy !req
539. and I have orders teed
up all across Europe.
Copy !req
540. I stand to make a huge kill on my own.
Copy !req
541. So you just felt the urge to share?
Copy !req
542. Bullshit.
Copy !req
543. You don't have enough ammo
to do this on your own.
Copy !req
544. You need us.
Copy !req
545. We have calendars, too.
Copy !req
546. You got wacked by Sansomic.
Copy !req
547. I bet this deal's all that stands
Copy !req
548. between mighty Axe Capital
taking a down quarter.
Copy !req
549. All we have to do is flush.
Copy !req
550. All right, you got me.
Copy !req
551. This deal only works if
we're all in it together.
Copy !req
552. The threshold is five billion.
Copy !req
553. I'm in it for two.
Copy !req
554. That leaves one each for you three.
Copy !req
555. So, which is the more powerful driver...
Copy !req
556. boning me,
Copy !req
557. or your own self-interest?
Copy !req
558. Fuck.
Copy !req
559. In.
Copy !req
560. Yep.
Copy !req
561. This is Everett.
Copy !req
562. He's gonna run you through the research.
Copy !req
563. My treat.
Copy !req
564. Is Mommy coming home to take us to school?
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565. No, sweetheart.
Copy !req
566. Remember, I told you.
Copy !req
567. Mommy and Daddy are spending
some time apart for awhile.
Copy !req
568. So, I'm home now, and
Mommy will be home tonight.
Copy !req
569. Mom doesn't even want to come home.
Copy !req
570. That is not true, Kevin.
Copy !req
571. Look at me.
Copy !req
572. I don't ever want to
hear you say that again.
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573. It's Daddy's fault
Copy !req
574. that Mommy and Daddy
aren't together right now.
Copy !req
575. When you're a kid your age,
Copy !req
576. you think that your
parents know everything.
Copy !req
577. But we don't. We're not perfect.
Copy !req
578. You know, we're just two people
Copy !req
579. trying and... often failing
Copy !req
580. to figure out the best way to be.
Copy !req
581. And I made some mistakes along the way.
Copy !req
582. Mistakes that we're all paying for.
Copy !req
583. So if you want to blame somebody,
Copy !req
584. blame me, not your mother.
Copy !req
585. European auto manufactures
use a ton of zinc.
Copy !req
586. Not a literal ton, just a hyperbole
Copy !req
587. for how much zinc can be found...
Copy !req
588. Good morning.
Copy !req
589. Not for you, Bobby.
Copy !req
590. Someone leaked.
Copy !req
591. The banks know, and
they've made Nigeria aware.
Copy !req
592. They're fighting back.
Copy !req
593. They're gonna raise rates
Copy !req
594. and prop up their dog-shit currency?
Copy !req
595. Looks like it. Thought you should know.
Copy !req
596. Bobby!
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597. Birch!
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598. Naira's fucked?
Copy !req
599. But I don't hear panic in your voice.
Copy !req
600. Come on. All the panic got shook out of me
Copy !req
601. about a year ago when
Chuck Rhoades came calling.
Copy !req
602. Yeah, I imagine it did.
Copy !req
603. You know, for the longest
time, I couldn't synthesize it.
Copy !req
604. How that story came out in the paper,
Copy !req
605. how there was just
enough in that article
Copy !req
606. to bait the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Copy !req
607. Yeah, it was a bad beat, no doubt.
Copy !req
608. Well, since then, I've had a lot of time
Copy !req
609. to just sit and think,
Copy !req
610. and slowly, it dawned...
Copy !req
611. If I lost, someone
else must've gained.
Copy !req
612. So I ran a thousand
simulations a day in my head.
Copy !req
613. And over and over again,
Bobby, it came back the same.
Copy !req
614. I was your stalking horse.
Copy !req
615. You did the transaction.
You left the opening.
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616. It's funny. I was just about
to say the same thing to you.
Copy !req
617. You left me the opening.
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618. You cost me my business.
Copy !req
619. Now you're gonna throw me
some deal as an apology?
Copy !req
620. No.
Copy !req
621. I'm not that easy.
Copy !req
622. So instead of betting against the Naira,
Copy !req
623. I went the other way.
Copy !req
624. And I let a few other folks
know what was going down.
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625. Strong move.
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626. Might have done the same in your spot.
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627. I know you would've, Bobby.
Copy !req
628. Deb!
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629. Yes?
Copy !req
630. You found me Wags, yet?
Copy !req
631. Not yet.
Copy !req
632. Just so we're communicating,
Copy !req
633. you know I mean the guy who
works across the hall, right?
Copy !req
634. Michael Wagner? Wags?
Copy !req
635. Yeah. I'm sorry.
Copy !req
636. I'm trying.
Copy !req
637. I know my research was right.
Copy !req
638. I also know it doesn't matter now,
Copy !req
639. 'cause the game has changed.
Copy !req
640. How strong is Nigeria defending?
Copy !req
641. It's their version of the Alamo.
Copy !req
642. Krakow and Malverne are
gonna be looking to pull out.
Copy !req
643. You should, too.
Copy !req
644. I don't want my second day here ending
Copy !req
645. with you personally exposed five billion.
Copy !req
646. Okay, let's say I manage
to keep it together.
Copy !req
647. Then you're looking at a global cockfight.
Copy !req
648. And you're gonna need
people betting on your bird.
Copy !req
649. I'm gonna need to get word out wide.
Copy !req
650. Yeah, can't just be you.
Copy !req
651. It's gonna have to be somebody vaunted,
Copy !req
652. an economist... somebody
objective, trusted.
Copy !req
653. That'll say they have to devalue.
Copy !req
654. Someone like Lawrence Boyd?
Copy !req
655. Right.
Copy !req
656. Yeah, that'll do it.
Copy !req
657. I don't want you to worry
about being too tough on me.
Copy !req
658. All right?
Copy !req
659. Posture up, posture up.
Copy !req
660. I'm sorry, but is that a Swiss accent?
Copy !req
661. Stop it. No one guesses correctly.
Copy !req
662. Most people just assume I'm German.
Copy !req
663. Most people didn't spend the summer
Copy !req
664. in Zurich during law school.
Copy !req
665. That explains the suit.
Copy !req
666. You're a lawyer.
Copy !req
667. She said with an undertone of derision.
Copy !req
668. And what do you do that's so amazing?
Copy !req
669. At the moment, you
could call me a sculptor.
Copy !req
670. Well, I'd like to see your work.
Copy !req
671. One day I'll show you.
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672. Yes.
Copy !req
673. Axe, I didn't walk into that diner
Copy !req
674. so that I could lose a billion bucks.
Copy !req
675. You want out?
Copy !req
676. I'll take on your positions.
Copy !req
677. Right now.
Copy !req
678. I already bought up what
was supposed to be Birch's.
Copy !req
679. Now I'll buy up both of you.
Copy !req
680. You just say the word.
Copy !req
681. You'd be risking half your
net worth for the one play?
Copy !req
682. That's insane.
Copy !req
683. I am dug the fuck in.
Copy !req
684. No third-world nation
hinged on a dying industry
Copy !req
685. and a propped-up currency
Copy !req
686. is gonna ride me out of my position.
Copy !req
687. I will drive them into the goddamn ground.
Copy !req
688. Without Birch. Without either of you.
Copy !req
689. Wow.
Copy !req
690. The intensity.
Copy !req
691. I actually believe you.
Copy !req
692. So?
Copy !req
693. Fuck it. I'm sticking.
Copy !req
694. Me too.
Copy !req
695. But, Axe, if this is some
move, some game you're playing,
Copy !req
696. we'll hunt you in a pack
Copy !req
697. until we're gnawing on your fucking bones.
Copy !req
698. Hello, Mr. Allerd.
Copy !req
699. Here?
Copy !req
700. None of them
come here, believe me.
Copy !req
701. Lay out what you have.
Copy !req
702. The office is a fiefdom run on fear,
Copy !req
703. ambition, and advancement.
Copy !req
704. Probably why it's been so effective.
Copy !req
705. Loyalties are fading.
Copy !req
706. Cracks starting to show.
Copy !req
707. I've interviewed almost everyone
but Rhoades at this point.
Copy !req
708. I'll get to him last.
Copy !req
709. This has been...
Copy !req
710. It's been a fascinating one.
Copy !req
711. There are those who are
weak but don't have it,
Copy !req
712. and those who have it but are strong.
Copy !req
713. I've isolated the one who has it
Copy !req
714. and will give it... Watley.
Copy !req
715. He's been running an avoidance play,
Copy !req
716. but that's at its end.
Copy !req
717. I'll push for a suspension
Copy !req
718. if that's what it takes to sit him down.
Copy !req
719. There's plenty of support out there.
Copy !req
720. The AG wants this, and soon.
Copy !req
721. You'll have it.
Copy !req
722. I will if you say I will.
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723. Thank you, sir.
Copy !req
724. Something I learned when I
was working under Mondale...
Copy !req
725. take a little piece of yourself,
Copy !req
726. tuck it away in the basement.
Copy !req
727. You can give the rest to the job,
Copy !req
728. but keep a small piece.
Copy !req
729. I speak from experience.
Copy !req
730. Noted.
Copy !req
731. I find myself thinking
in your words sometimes.
Copy !req
732. The two that just came
to me are "shit hole."
Copy !req
733. Sandicot.
Copy !req
734. If they don't get the casino,
then we have to pass on it.
Copy !req
735. Even if all that urban
revitalization bullshit
Copy !req
736. comes into effect?
Copy !req
737. That'll make incremental change,
Copy !req
738. but not fast enough and not big enough.
Copy !req
739. Without that casino, it goes
from something to consider
Copy !req
740. to something to never think about again.
Copy !req
741. I see that.
Copy !req
742. Fuck.
Copy !req
743. I'm gonna carpet-bomb you
guys with so much fucking food,
Copy !req
744. you'll be reeling.
Copy !req
745. Thanks, David.
Copy !req
746. Don't thank me.
Copy !req
747. Just be there for us when Fugu goes public.
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748. Absolutely.
Copy !req
749. I know when someone's working me.
Copy !req
750. What's your play here?
Copy !req
751. The bond.
Copy !req
752. If your casino is going
to the town I need it to.
Copy !req
753. And because we're friends,
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754. I'm gonna come across with that info?
Copy !req
755. I was hoping.
Copy !req
756. A '69 Dodge Challenger.
Copy !req
757. The one I outbid you for at
Barrett Jackson last summer?
Copy !req
758. It's parked outside. Here.
Copy !req
759. The car
Copy !req
760. is a cute gesture.
Copy !req
761. And I'll take it.
Copy !req
762. But it alone,
Copy !req
763. it's not getting you what you want.
Copy !req
764. My casino's gonna make that town, so...
Copy !req
765. I'm your partner on the muni-play.
Copy !req
766. On a no-risk basis to me.
Copy !req
767. 5% off the books.
Copy !req
768. Done.
Copy !req
769. I just need to know where.
Copy !req
770. Sandicot.
Copy !req
771. Still waiting on the official decision
Copy !req
772. to come out of committee, but
they gave me the high sign,
Copy !req
773. so I know it's a done deal.
Copy !req
774. You casino guys are all old-line crooks.
Copy !req
775. At least we wear it with pride.
Copy !req
776. Move forward with the bond.
Copy !req
777. The casino is coming to Sandicot.
Copy !req
778. I'm sure now.
Copy !req
779. We are committing to this play.
Copy !req
780. You have to tell me how it is.
Copy !req
781. You want a bite?
Copy !req
782. Well, one bite would be
like drowning in a puddle.
Copy !req
783. I'm sure the kitchen
would do one up for you.
Copy !req
784. Well, he's eating clean.
Copy !req
785. McKinnon's coming up.
Copy !req
786. Hey.
Copy !req
787. Right. You feeling ready, Tom?
Copy !req
788. Yeah, yeah, I'm good.
Copy !req
789. Probably should get back down to the bar.
Copy !req
790. They're about to seat us.
Copy !req
791. We only get one shot at this.
Copy !req
792. Now, remember... any chance you get
Copy !req
793. to have a private conversation
with Boyd, take it.
Copy !req
794. Express concerns about the bid rigging.
Copy !req
795. Make it clear that you know it's going on,
Copy !req
796. and you're worried that Mike Arendt
Copy !req
797. is bringing heat on the firm.
Copy !req
798. That should be enough to
get him to calm your fears.
Copy !req
799. I might go across the
table at that motherfucker.
Copy !req
800. Steady, Tom.
Copy !req
801. This'll hurt him a lot worse
Copy !req
802. and a lot longer than a punch in the mouth.
Copy !req
803. Use it well.
Copy !req
804. How's the feed?
Copy !req
805. Good to go.
Copy !req
806. Okay.
Copy !req
807. Forty-five
dollars for a tuna sandwich.
Copy !req
808. Somebody bring the drinks.
Copy !req
809. Two at the bar. That's his third.
Copy !req
810. It's lemony.
Copy !req
811. It's an island. Everything
has to be brought on by boat.
Copy !req
812. I know Mustique is an island.
Copy !req
813. Okay.
Copy !req
814. So what'd you do, Larry?
Copy !req
815. I said, "What do
you charge for the lemons?"
Copy !req
816. I'll squeeze them myself.
Copy !req
817. "Either that, or I'll fly
in a load of gold bullion."
Copy !req
818. Larry, Larry, don't... don't cry poor.
Copy !req
819. How much you take in this year so far?
Copy !req
820. Come on. Tell us.
Copy !req
821. Twenty-three, $24 million?
Copy !req
822. Maybe you've had enough, Tom?
Copy !req
823. Can we get Tom a cup
of black coffee, please?
Copy !req
824. I don't want a cup of fucking coffee.
Copy !req
825. He's drunk. We should pull him.
Copy !req
826. We've got an agent posing as a waiter.
Copy !req
827. We can pull him right
now with minimal damage.
Copy !req
828. We'll hold.
Copy !req
829. With Thai massage, you're wearing clothes.
Copy !req
830. What's the fun in that?
Copy !req
831. Exactly.
Copy !req
832. Larry. Larry, you fuck.
Copy !req
833. Sh... shh...
Copy !req
834. It's probably
going to stain that.
Copy !req
835. Bad to fucking worse.
Copy !req
836. Honey, take her to the ladies'.
Copy !req
837. Yeah, why don't you freshen up?
Copy !req
838. Tom, get your shit together.
You're embarrassing yourself.
Copy !req
839. You think I don't know
what's going on here?
Copy !req
840. What's that, Tom?
Copy !req
841. Arendt is putting us all in danger.
Copy !req
842. The Treasury bonds...
Copy !req
843. He's gonna send us all to prison.
Copy !req
844. The ten-years.
Copy !req
845. That's what this is about.
Copy !req
846. Mike's putting
the band back together again,
Copy !req
847. just like I told him to.
Copy !req
848. Fuck, you told him to?
Copy !req
849. I thought he was free-balling.
Copy !req
850. Conditions are right to get going again.
Copy !req
851. We'll tail the shit out of the auction.
Copy !req
852. The fucking Feds can spare the 15 bips.
Copy !req
853. Then we can talk
about the 26-weeks.
Copy !req
854. We have to get some volume going now.
Copy !req
855. So relax.
Copy !req
856. That'll do it.
Copy !req
857. When I started here,
I made a promise to you,
Copy !req
858. and you to me.
Copy !req
859. And we've kept that promise no matter what.
Copy !req
860. Thing is, it's not your turn to speak.
Copy !req
861. Why's that?
Copy !req
862. Because while you have been
out there learning the Yaqui Way
Copy !req
863. or how run like the Tarahumara,
Copy !req
864. I have been here fighting the battle
Copy !req
865. of fucking Thermopylae!
Copy !req
866. I was in sessions with
Wendy, doing deep work.
Copy !req
867. Well, that I do want to hear about.
Copy !req
868. Best I can put it together...
Copy !req
869. Wags, wake up. Get up.
Copy !req
870. Baby, no!
Copy !req
871. No, not baby. It's Wendy.
Copy !req
872. Get up!
Copy !req
873. Why?
Copy !req
874. Because you begged me for an appointment,
Copy !req
875. and then you didn't show up.
Copy !req
876. You're still here.
Copy !req
877. No, I'm not.
Copy !req
878. I'm here, but not like that.
Copy !req
879. Okay.
Copy !req
880. Mr. Wagner, I can come back
at 11:30 or two or after five.
Copy !req
881. She has a key?
Copy !req
882. Why not?
Copy !req
883. You have a goddamned I.V.
stand living in your hotel room.
Copy !req
884. Turns out you have the day off.
Copy !req
885. With pay.
Copy !req
886. This is your third divorce,
Copy !req
887. but your first ass tattoo.
Copy !req
888. Any ideas?
Copy !req
889. My idea was the drinking, women,
and drugs in perfect balance.
Copy !req
890. An infinite Zen garden.
Copy !req
891. Simplicity, harmony between
the elements, purity,
Copy !req
892. that's what makes it a Zen garden.
Copy !req
893. I think you're confusing
it with the AVN Awards.
Copy !req
894. Okay.
Copy !req
895. Couple ways this can go...
Copy !req
896. We do, like, intense psychotherapy
Copy !req
897. for two years, five days a week,
Copy !req
898. break down your walls,
Copy !req
899. push past your
rationalizations and defenses.
Copy !req
900. Or you can tell me what
the fuck is going on.
Copy !req
901. How?
Copy !req
902. Isn't the point of
analysis that we don't know?
Copy !req
903. Which is why I'm not in that racket.
Copy !req
904. We don't have that kind of fucking time.
Copy !req
905. Not anymore.
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906. Fucking right we don't.
Copy !req
907. I got a goddamned I.V. stand
living in my hotel room.
Copy !req
908. Good.
Copy !req
909. Now, whatever caused this
didn't make you retreat.
Copy !req
910. You didn't become depressive.
You chose distraction.
Copy !req
911. I'm sad, lonely.
Copy !req
912. Give me an immediate answer.
Copy !req
913. I mean, it doesn't have to be
right, just... just blurt it.
Copy !req
914. When did this feeling first land?
Copy !req
915. I was in the bathroom.
Copy !req
916. I was in this club
on the Lower East Side.
Copy !req
917. I just overpaid
Copy !req
918. for what were supposed
to be actual quaaludes.
Copy !req
919. What were you doing
on the Lower East Side?
Copy !req
920. Drinking with this prick
I worked with years ago.
Copy !req
921. God, I hated that prick.
Copy !req
922. I hated him when we worked together.
Copy !req
923. I hated him even more that night.
Copy !req
924. Why did you agree to
drink with a guy you hate?
Copy !req
925. I drink with pricks I hate all the time.
Copy !req
926. It's the job.
Copy !req
927. It's the ones who aren't
that stand out like giants.
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928. Holy shit.
Copy !req
929. Holy shit. Phil.
Copy !req
930. I can't believe I missed this.
Copy !req
931. Phil?
Copy !req
932. Phillip Carroll.
Copy !req
933. Another prick?
Copy !req
934. No.
Copy !req
935. No, the opposite.
Copy !req
936. Guy was my mentor.
Copy !req
937. Back when I started at Lehman.
Copy !req
938. He was the Wilt fucking Chamberlain
Copy !req
939. of Wall Street.
Copy !req
940. Paid for the whole group's
vacations when he killed it.
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941. Didn't even close his
door when he got crushed.
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942. I saw him on the street.
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943. Hey, Phil!
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944. He looked at me, and I waved.
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945. He walked right past me.
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946. Fucking DK'd
me like I was a ghost.
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947. Turns out, he has
early-onset Alzheimer's.
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948. Can't even go
out by himself now.
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949. His wife left him.
His kids don't come around.
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950. It was... fucked.
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951. He was there,
but he wasn't there...
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952. a carcass with no further purpose.
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953. What you saw would have
brought up issues of mortality
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954. and diminished utility for anyone.
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955. You saw your hero,
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956. a man you deemed better than you, laid low.
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957. That's empathy.
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958. Why did his plight cut you so deep?
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959. What made you so vulnerable
to this idea of fading away?
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960. Axe hired a fucking Chief of Staff.
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961. Her name is Steph Reed.
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962. So now he doesn't need you anymore.
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963. And if he doesn't need you anymore,
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964. no one does.
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965. You have outlived your utility.
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966. There is nothing left
for you to do but die.
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967. But you're not dead.
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968. Which means it is time to pivot.
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969. To evolve into what it
is you'll become next.
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970. Wendy reassembled me, piece by piece,
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971. on that bench.
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972. That's what she does.
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973. And I decided I had to give you the chance
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974. to make the change here you need to.
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975. To modernize. Optimize.
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976. To put this old horse out to pasture.
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977. Yeah, well, I'm sorry about Phil,
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978. but this place doesn't
fucking run without you.
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979. I do need you.
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980. Especially since I just let Steph Reed go.
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981. You did?
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982. You were wrong.
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983. I'm not human. I am a machine.
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984. I'm a fucking Terminator.
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985. So, your resignation is rejected.
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986. Get some coffee.
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987. We are barely hanging on here.
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988. I just pulled the trigger
on the muni-bond in Sandicot,
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989. and I got one move left to get us
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990. into the black for this quarter.
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991. Coffee!
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992. Hey, Jeff.
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993. You never finished your story.
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994. What trap did you and your father use
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995. to finally get that wolf?
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996. Yeah, it was, time, Sacker.
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997. We stayed in the same location all day.
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998. The trap was time.
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999. Late night?
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1000. Yeah. And I'm on the move.
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1001. Got television in the
city in a couple hours.
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1002. On your way in,
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1003. give Lawrence Boyd a call for me.
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1004. I'll be with him. What's up?
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1005. Tell him the woman he set me
up with wasted my fucking time.
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1006. I'm sorry?
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1007. It was a bullshit meeting.
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1008. You're a businesswoman, right?
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1009. That's how you went in there?
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1010. Damn right.
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1011. Well, then, was the woman discourteous?
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1012. Was she rude?
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1013. No. It wasn't...
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1014. She treated me like I was just the wife,
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1015. like my business wasn't ready.
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1016. I tried to tell you.
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1017. Yeah, you weren't ready,
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1018. but you wouldn't hear it from me.
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1019. You put me in touch with Spartan-Ives.
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1020. - You said to go ahead.
- Don't. Don't.
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1021. I don't have time to have this conversation
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1022. the way you need me to.
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1023. You weren't ready.
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1024. Leave it there.
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1025. Why the fuck not?
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1026. What is it that you do that
you're the best in the world at?
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1027. You offer a service you didn't invent,
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1028. a formula you didn't invent,
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1029. a delivery method you didn't invent.
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1030. Nothing about what you do
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1031. is patentable or a unique user experience.
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1032. You haven't identified an
isolated market segment,
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1033. haven't truly branded your concept.
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1034. You need me to go on?
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1035. So, why would an investment
bank put serious money into it?
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1036. I all but told you ahead of time,
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1037. but you wouldn't listen.
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1038. Now you've heard it, but it's too late.
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1039. You weren't ready.
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1040. Now, I gotta go into New York
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1041. to try and save my fucking quarter.
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1042. Mr. Axelrod, I'll be in to get you
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1043. in two minutes to go on the air.
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1044. Thank you. And thank you, Larry.
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1045. You locked in on how you want to do it?
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1046. Yeah.
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1047. When I follow you on, I'll
back whatever you said.
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1048. Former teaching
assistant of mine
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1049. clerks for a federal judge now.
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1050. She just told me that her judge
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1051. signed an arrest warrant for Lawrence Boyd.
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1052. They are coming for him.
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1053. He'll be in cuffs within the hour.
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1054. Thank you.
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1055. Ready?
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1056. Yeah.
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1057. Go get 'em.
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1058. I will.
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1059. Axe.
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1060. Let's do dinner again soon
with Savannah and Mike.
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1061. When we're on, I have to
get into all the action
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1062. against you on the Nigerian play.
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1063. You okay?
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1064. Yeah.
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1065. Will you ask me about my bracelet?
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1066. Fun way in.
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1067. We're pleased to welcome Bobby Axelrod,
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1068. the principal and founder of Axe Capital.
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1069. Bobby, it's a pleasure to have you here.
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1070. It's a pleasure to be here, Sam.
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1071. Before we get started, I have to ask...
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1072. You're wearing a very unique bracelet.
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1073. What's the significance?
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1074. This?
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1075. I wear this Yoruba bracelet in solidarity
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1076. with the people of Nigeria.
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1077. I have seen the hope and
purpose these people have,
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1078. and today I'm worried for them, Sam.
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1079. Their economy is on the verge of collapse.
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1080. Their oil reserves are severely overvalued.
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1081. In short, their currency is in jeopardy.
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1082. And so, yes, there is no doubt in my mind
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1083. that my good friend, Bobby Axelrod,
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1084. has this one right.
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1085. The Nigerian currency, the Naira,
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1086. is facing certain devaluation.
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1087. It's their only choice,
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1088. no matter how much it hurts the people.
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1089. I can see that.
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1090. We nailed that.
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1091. The old Malachi Crunch.
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1092. The market is shifting already.
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1093. It is done.
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1094. Yes, it is.
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1095. Larry...
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1096. in a few moments,
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1097. the FBI are gonna come
walking through that door
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1098. and they're going to arrest you.
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1099. You can't run.
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1100. There's no time.
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1101. Rhoades fucked me like
you thought he would.
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1102. And you got the call
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1103. before you went on, didn't you?
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1104. Your whole manner changed.
You didn't even warn me.
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1105. I couldn't.
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1106. Because you needed me to go on the air
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1107. to corroborate your story,
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1108. get your message out, save your quarter.
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1109. I get it. It was smart.
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1110. This is some fucked-up universe
we've decided to live in.
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1111. How can I help now?
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1112. Hold this for me.
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1113. And I need you to get word to my lawyer.
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1114. And Linda?
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1115. Make sure she tells the kids
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1116. before they find out from the news.
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1117. Done.
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1118. Larry.
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1119. I know.
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1120. Lawrence Boyd?
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1121. You're under arrest.
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1122. You have the right to remain silent.
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1123. Anything you say can and
will be used against you
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1124. in a court of law.
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1125. I thought you were ready
to take the next step.
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1126. I thought you understood the goddamn game.
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1127. I believe I do, sir.
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1128. I believe I do.
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1129. Hello, Bob.
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1130. I don't put any stock in
omens or fortune tellers,
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1131. but this must feel
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1132. a little like your future foretold?
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1133. You mean watching you arrest other people
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1134. while I walk right out the door?
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1135. Yeah. Kinda does.
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