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Previously on Billions...

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Mr. Andolov,

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My first act as attorney general

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was to freeze your funds
in the United States.

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My second act is inviting you
to leave our sunny shores.

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I, of course, picked up
the scent of the Axelrod

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behind this.

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Charles Rhodes, Jr.
Is hereby removed

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as attorney general
of the state of New York.

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Everywhere
he goes, we are watching.

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It's hard to march
toward the presidency

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when you're always
looking over your shoulder.

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The beginnings of a plan.

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Secrecy and deception.

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I'm starting to get misty.

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Jesus. You like
shaking people up.

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Like it? I don't know.

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It just happens.

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I love that you're loyal

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until I help get you
elected to Congress.

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You've accumulated so much,

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you think laws
don't apply to you?

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Who appointed you the
keeper of these cosmic rules

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in the first place?

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The fucking arrogance!

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I've always wanted

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to see Vestmannaeyjar
in the dark.

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Best way for a newly installed
U.S. Attorney not to be tracked.

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And for an international
fugitive not to be extradited.

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Something for everyone.

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Lay it out for me.

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I've been told I
needed to see you.

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When Wendy wants something,
she's very persuasive.

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That's why I called her.

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I need safe passage to America.

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- For you?
- No, not for me.

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I'll need a name, Robert.

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Yeah, Charles,
I'm working up to it.

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Is that because
I'm going to hate it?

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Well, you ain't gonna love it.

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Vasily Melnikov, stabbed.

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Vladislav Avayev, shot.

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Sergey Protosenya, hanged.

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Alexander Tyulyakov,
also hanged.

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And the list goes on.

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All friends and colleagues
of mine. All dead.

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My condolences.

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Dangerous time
to be an oligarch.

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Yet when you called and asked,

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even though we had agreed

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you would stay out
of my part of the world,

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I helped you anyway.

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Helped me?

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No, we both worked together

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to help the man in
the olive drab t-shirt.

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Because both he and
his country needed it.

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Yours, too. -

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Not how the Kremlin sees it.

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That's how you see it.

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You know, it's no good being
a citizen, even a rich one,

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from a country
that's isolated, bled dry.

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Well, like how I felt
when you chased me

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out of the United States.

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That's semi-ancient history.

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Now you have freedom
here in Europe. We both do.

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To walk the streets.
To wet our beaks.

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Thanks to the arms
that I financed,

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and you sourced.

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And you think this
wipes our ledger clean?

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Did I forget to send
you a fucking fruit basket?

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A few kumquats is not
going to change anything.

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But our ledger is not clean.

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It is like a windshield
that was tended to

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by your...

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squeegee men that thrived
under your Mayor Dinkins.

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All the showy effort and noise,

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and still, windshield
covered in grime and dirt.

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Until I am rehabilitated
in the United States,

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we are not square.

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I'm not even
rehabilitated there.

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And I'm not a foreign
national. You are.

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And I am the one
defying my government

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during a purge
that makes Joe Stalin

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look like Joan fucking Baez.

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If my loyalty is even questioned

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by the leaders of my country...

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I get it. You go on
the dead oligarch list.

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So now...

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to what I need.

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And what you will
deliver on a platter.

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I need to return to America.

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On a deeply personal mission.

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You do know that all
your funds are frozen?

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Down to the last kopek.

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Plus, you're on
a sanctions list.

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No matter what the mission,

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I suggest you conduct
it somewhere else.

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No, Axe.

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You will arrange it
so I can walk back in,

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do my business freely,

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and in return, I will
grant something to you.

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Could be tickets to the Bolshoi,

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could be to allow you

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to keep walking around here,

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breathing freely.

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Threats? Really?

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What in my history makes you
think I respond well to threats?

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What in my history
makes you think

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it's merely a threat?

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Grigor Andolov.

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It's within your authority,

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within your ability
to figure it out anyway.

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To give an
exiled criminal a visa?

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So he can, what,

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muscle in on the Brighton
Beach heroin trade?

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Fuck with our next election?

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His wife's still in New York.

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She's suing for divorce
on grounds of abandonment.

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Well, maybe he can
countersue for irony.

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And if he can't even show up...

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she gets a default
judgment worth billions.

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Now we're talking
your love language.

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This is important to me.

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Important to you.

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To the man who defied me

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on that heliport
not so long ago?

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I would consider
it a personal favor.

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When Ali was broke,
could no longer fight,

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couldn't even pick
up his dinner tab,

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Smoking Joe
hauled him into his limo,

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counted out a
thousand bucks, cash.

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Sure, the old combatants code.

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But based on the shiny new G800,

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plenty of purses
rolling your way.

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Yeah, I'm flush.

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So I'll make you an offer.

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You get Grigor to the U.S.,

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I'll owe you a debt.

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You do remember when I
kicked him out of there, that, too,

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was a favor to you?

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Yeah, it's all more perplexing

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than the betrayal
of Johnny Caspar.

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But I need it done.

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So if you do it,

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I promise that I will come
through for you when you ask.

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And I think you know,
when I make a promise,

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I don't come up short.

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Well, I'll say it.

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We aren't breaking through.

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Yet you remain undefined

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beyond rich, smart, nice guy.

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The party primaries are
sucking up all the media attention.

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Do I have to fly the
National damn Guard

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every time I want
some political ink?

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Can you?

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I'm not laughing.

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What else has had
that type of impact,

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historically, for an
outsider candidate?

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The only independent to
ever really get traction was...

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Yes. Perot.

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I saw it as a kid.

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I buy a... a half hour
on every major network.

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- Live speech.
- It'll play like you're

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making an acceptance speech
at your own national convention.

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Yeah, we call that
the primetime roadblock.

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No way around us, we'll
reframe the entire race.

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How do you win
outside the system?

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You run as the
antidote to the system.

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The theme will be
taking inventory,

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looking inside ourselves

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to see how we
let things get this bad.

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Yes. Asking the hard,
honest questions

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no politician dares ask...

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to remake ourselves in
order to remake the country.

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Before it's too late.

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The full Lincoln.
Do it the right way,

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the other candidates
will look like

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lawn jockeys at
the Belmont Stakes.

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Tell the story...

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of how you ask your people

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how you can do better,

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be better, as you will
also ask the country.

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I like that.

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Then you have to really do it.

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Solicit honest feedback
from your employees.

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Use it as fuel for the speech.

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Use it as an example.

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Yeah, great.

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I'll run focus groups with
your people to get that info.

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Boil it down to a lean
PowerPoint to present to you.

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I'm not sure inserting a layer

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between Mike and his
guys is the way to success.

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Happens to be the only way

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the political research
process works.

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Filters, funnels, all of it.

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No, no, no. I
want the full fire hose.

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That's the point.
As Wendy says.

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Okay, how about this?

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I run the process
with Mike in the room.

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We make it authentic,
substantial.

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Full fat, full flavor.

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So Mike can eat it up
and then spit it out.

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We'd spend all week
Heimliching the guy.

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This has to be a battle cry.

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No, no, no time for
self-recrimination or anything

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that blunts the
tip of the sword.

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Like actual self-knowledge?

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I have to run this process.

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So you can baby-proof
the credenza.

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So I can keep out the
noise. Same process I used

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to elect a third of the Senate.

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The same guys
that are so out of touch,

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Mike had to step in
and run 'em out of town?

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I don't need my candidate
picking pepper out of fly shit

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- on the eve of a major speech.
- I've heard enough.

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Brad, you can run the
process with me in the room.

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Wendy'll be there,
too. Team of rivals.

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Make the buy, set the meeting.

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We are gonna do
something extremely hard.

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Um, great?

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Yeah, everyone's
gonna be angry about it.

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It'll cause enormous
tension with Washington,

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with Albany, too.

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Sounds horrible.
What's it entail?

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Getting a previously
ejected oligarch

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back into the country.

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A Russian oligarch?

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One with a big red
target on his back.

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From DOJ, from DHS,
from Interpol, too.

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Grigor Andolov.

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And you want to do this now,

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during the second coming
of the Red Menace.

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Like I said, extremely hard.

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If it's doable at all.

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Why would you even consider it?

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As a favor to Bobby Axelrod.

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Those words just
tumbled out of your mouth

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like a meth addict's teeth...

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and
just as fucked up.

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How do you
figure you'll pull this off?

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I have to talk to
a special advisor.

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Big man in certain circles.

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Bunky Stevens is
going to be a father

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with his third wife, Candy.

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Neat trick, considering he died

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a few months back.

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Post-mortem jizz
retrieval, you dig?

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Not sure I do.

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Well, you
get the stiff on the table,

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even though he
ain't so stiff no more.

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Get my drift?

252
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And then you
drain those berries.

253
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You do it soon enough, you
end up with viable swimmers,

254
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Jizz. Stuff of life.

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Stuff of fraud.

256
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There's a new fertility
start-up out there doing this.

257
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Candy is just beefing up
her claim on the estate.

258
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The first and second
wives will get nothing...

259
00:12:54,982 --> 00:12:56,567
now that there's
going to be an heir.

260
00:12:56,650 --> 00:12:58,819
No respect for the starter
wives in our culture,

261
00:12:58,861 --> 00:13:00,154
chicks who break the seal.

262
00:13:00,237 --> 00:13:01,572
In Thailand,
even the minor wives

263
00:13:01,655 --> 00:13:03,282
get one hell of
a birthday bunfight.

264
00:13:04,617 --> 00:13:05,844
You're going to
want to think global

265
00:13:05,868 --> 00:13:07,119
but act local on this one.

266
00:13:08,454 --> 00:13:09,848
It's your worst
nightmare, isn't it?

267
00:13:09,872 --> 00:13:12,416
A paternity suit that
can't be settled out of court.

268
00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:15,461
It's a question of
basic fairness, don't you see?

269
00:13:15,544 --> 00:13:17,630
Never your concern.

270
00:13:17,671 --> 00:13:20,049
And I don't recall
you thinking much of

271
00:13:20,132 --> 00:13:21,926
Bunky or his wives, either.

272
00:13:21,967 --> 00:13:24,678
So the fact that you're
suddenly the guardian

273
00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,014
of the product
of his vas deferens,

274
00:13:27,056 --> 00:13:29,809
I know there's
more to the story.

275
00:13:29,892 --> 00:13:31,185
That mean that you're not gonna

276
00:13:31,268 --> 00:13:32,978
club this company into oblivion

277
00:13:33,020 --> 00:13:36,482
and seize the embryos that
result from this unholy process?

278
00:13:36,565 --> 00:13:37,942
It means I'll look into it,

279
00:13:38,025 --> 00:13:40,611
and decide what
I'll do as usual.

280
00:13:40,694 --> 00:13:41,987
Bye, Dad.

281
00:13:42,029 --> 00:13:44,532
Hey, sugar, you be getting
that shit I've been sending you?

282
00:13:44,573 --> 00:13:47,117
I have. And I thank you.

283
00:13:48,828 --> 00:13:51,038
It's,

284
00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:52,915
I guess it's what
you'd call PEDs,

285
00:13:52,998 --> 00:13:54,625
but in lozenge form.

286
00:13:54,667 --> 00:13:56,460
So, put it under your tongue.

287
00:13:56,502 --> 00:13:58,212
It hits the bloodstream
instantly.

288
00:13:58,254 --> 00:13:59,755
Like a ball-peen fucking hammer.

289
00:13:59,797 --> 00:14:03,133
Turns any man into a
world-class sheet-athlete.

290
00:14:03,884 --> 00:14:05,010
Wonderful.

291
00:14:05,052 --> 00:14:06,804
And I'm left wondering why

292
00:14:06,846 --> 00:14:09,807
none of this sublingual
supreme has been sent my way.

293
00:14:09,890 --> 00:14:12,184
For the simple reason it
may kill you, big papa,

294
00:14:12,226 --> 00:14:14,144
like Dirty Harry in '71.

295
00:14:25,197 --> 00:14:27,575
He goes into this
speech confident,

296
00:14:27,616 --> 00:14:28,659
he comes out sailing.

297
00:14:28,701 --> 00:14:30,411
Zooming up the fucking polls.

298
00:14:30,494 --> 00:14:32,138
And we're just supposed
to stand there clapping

299
00:14:32,162 --> 00:14:34,498
like extras in
a Riefenstahl film.

300
00:14:34,582 --> 00:14:35,684
With Bradford running point,

301
00:14:35,708 --> 00:14:37,209
the feedbacks gonna be jet fuel.

302
00:14:40,504 --> 00:14:43,632
There is a potential
equal time issue.

303
00:14:43,674 --> 00:14:44,884
It's been dealt with.

304
00:14:44,925 --> 00:14:46,427
I spread some more
ad dollars around

305
00:14:46,510 --> 00:14:48,071
and if any candidate
tries to buy equal time

306
00:14:48,095 --> 00:14:50,764
within a week of Prince, they
won't find any left for sale.

307
00:14:50,806 --> 00:14:51,806
Nicely solved.

308
00:14:51,849 --> 00:14:53,368
Power of the
motherfucking purse.

309
00:14:53,392 --> 00:14:55,394
All over but the shouting.

310
00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:02,544
She's too effective.
We need her out of here.

311
00:15:02,568 --> 00:15:04,087
Isn't she supposed to
be running for Congress,

312
00:15:04,111 --> 00:15:05,779
instead of doing
henchman duty for Prince?

313
00:15:05,863 --> 00:15:09,033
She needs to understand
the hazards of staying.

314
00:15:13,787 --> 00:15:16,415
In my experience,
rich, powerful men

315
00:15:16,457 --> 00:15:18,500
think they want to hear
the unvarnished truth

316
00:15:18,584 --> 00:15:20,127
but don't actually
want to hear it.

317
00:15:20,210 --> 00:15:22,546
Yeah, is this really
just a loyalty test?

318
00:15:22,630 --> 00:15:24,274
If it is, let's pass it,
get back to our desks.

319
00:15:24,298 --> 00:15:25,758
It's earning season, people.

320
00:15:25,841 --> 00:15:27,569
I don't know, best just
call it the way you see it.

321
00:15:27,593 --> 00:15:29,470
You mean as long as
it's what he wants to hear?

322
00:15:29,510 --> 00:15:31,722
I mean, tell him
what he wants to hear

323
00:15:31,805 --> 00:15:33,015
no matter how you see it.

324
00:15:33,057 --> 00:15:34,784
What if that comes
across as inauthentic?

325
00:15:34,808 --> 00:15:37,019
Does your comp come
across as inauthentic?

326
00:15:37,102 --> 00:15:38,562
Guys, easy peasy.

327
00:15:38,604 --> 00:15:41,607
Like seeing your dorm-mate
in an off-off-Broadway play.

328
00:15:41,690 --> 00:15:44,276
You say something
vague, adjective free,

329
00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,028
"That was all you up there."

330
00:15:46,111 --> 00:15:48,989
And then let the ego
fill in the blanks.

331
00:15:50,658 --> 00:15:52,910
I'm calling bullshit
on this whole exercise,

332
00:15:52,993 --> 00:15:55,955
and I sure as fuck
won't suck up.

333
00:15:57,581 --> 00:16:01,669
Mike, you are like a
combination of Benjamin Graham

334
00:16:01,752 --> 00:16:04,004
and fucking Hal
from Space Odyssey,

335
00:16:04,046 --> 00:16:05,547
everywhere, all at once,

336
00:16:05,589 --> 00:16:09,301
processing, prodding me
to make better trades.

337
00:16:13,847 --> 00:16:16,767
Why is there anything you've
been wanting to say to Mike,

338
00:16:16,850 --> 00:16:18,102
but thought you couldn't?

339
00:16:18,185 --> 00:16:19,979
I don't deserve you.

340
00:16:20,062 --> 00:16:22,815
The guilt, it's crushing me.

341
00:16:22,856 --> 00:16:25,859
That's something I think
we should work on.

342
00:16:25,943 --> 00:16:28,570
And the challenges
trading with him, day to day?

343
00:16:28,654 --> 00:16:32,324
I have this recurring dream
in which you make bank.

344
00:16:32,408 --> 00:16:33,742
I'm talking 10X

345
00:16:33,784 --> 00:16:37,037
while doing an ungodly
amount of push ups.

346
00:16:37,121 --> 00:16:38,414
But is it really a dream?

347
00:16:41,208 --> 00:16:43,919
I'm just saying it ain't easy.

348
00:16:44,002 --> 00:16:47,423
When you set a standard
that's through the freaking roof.

349
00:16:49,424 --> 00:16:50,800
Mike, this is you and me.

350
00:16:50,843 --> 00:16:52,678
Criticism? Who are we kidding?

351
00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,681
Would you...
Would you like to...?

352
00:17:09,361 --> 00:17:10,821
- Jesus.
- Let's move on.

353
00:17:10,904 --> 00:17:12,322
Yep.

354
00:17:28,172 --> 00:17:31,175
I love that you're ditching
your race for Congress.

355
00:17:31,258 --> 00:17:33,802
- I am?
- As much as we need you there,

356
00:17:33,886 --> 00:17:34,928
we need you here.

357
00:17:35,012 --> 00:17:36,823
Besides, not enough
hand sanitizer in the world

358
00:17:36,847 --> 00:17:38,199
to make me do that job.

359
00:17:38,223 --> 00:17:41,268
You should go long Purell,
I'm not ditching a thing.

360
00:17:41,310 --> 00:17:43,645
But you're still here?

361
00:17:43,729 --> 00:17:44,998
My filing deadline's
months away.

362
00:17:45,022 --> 00:17:47,900
But we're days away
from Prince's campaign

363
00:17:47,941 --> 00:17:49,276
becoming a black hole.

364
00:17:49,318 --> 00:17:51,820
Everything in its
vicinity sucked right in.

365
00:17:51,904 --> 00:17:54,823
You'll just be part of
the fabric of the thing,

366
00:17:54,865 --> 00:17:57,785
unable to assert yourself
as anything other than

367
00:17:57,826 --> 00:17:59,661
"Prince's fill-in-the-blank".

368
00:17:59,745 --> 00:18:02,247
All because he's
about to throw down a gauntlet?

369
00:18:02,289 --> 00:18:03,582
More of a grenade.

370
00:18:03,665 --> 00:18:05,626
At the parties you'll
need to nominate you.

371
00:18:07,252 --> 00:18:10,839
So I just establish a little
distance when I leave is all.

372
00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:12,049
With your family dough?

373
00:18:12,091 --> 00:18:13,759
With the whitest
collar background

374
00:18:13,801 --> 00:18:15,344
of anyone at the firm?

375
00:18:16,053 --> 00:18:18,055
Ask Chang and Eng.

376
00:18:18,138 --> 00:18:20,933
Not a lot of distance
when you're joined at the hip.

377
00:18:32,653 --> 00:18:34,464
Must feel
different to walk this hall

378
00:18:34,488 --> 00:18:35,739
as an impresario.

379
00:18:35,823 --> 00:18:37,991
No longer the guy
in the squared circle.

380
00:18:38,033 --> 00:18:40,035
Still feel every bump.

381
00:18:40,077 --> 00:18:42,097
Whether you're giving 'em
whether you're taking 'em,

382
00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:43,872
whether you're scripting 'em.

383
00:18:43,914 --> 00:18:45,916
I've always wondered
if I could do it.

384
00:18:45,999 --> 00:18:47,251
Fall down for a living.

385
00:18:47,334 --> 00:18:50,879
You don't have that far to fall.

386
00:18:50,963 --> 00:18:53,006
Look, you could do it.

387
00:18:53,090 --> 00:18:55,008
When this crowd comes alive,

388
00:18:55,092 --> 00:18:56,260
you'd come alive.

389
00:18:56,301 --> 00:18:58,512
There is nothing else...

390
00:18:58,554 --> 00:19:00,597
- like this.
- Yeah.

391
00:19:00,681 --> 00:19:03,851
Well, no one knows the
game like you do, Hunter.

392
00:19:03,892 --> 00:19:05,727
And that's why
I need your advice.

393
00:19:05,811 --> 00:19:07,437
You got a game that
needs to be played?

394
00:19:07,479 --> 00:19:08,981
Yes, exactly.

395
00:19:09,064 --> 00:19:11,150
I need to turn one guy heel,

396
00:19:11,191 --> 00:19:14,194
and another guy
babyface. In one move.

397
00:19:14,236 --> 00:19:15,154
Oof.

398
00:19:15,237 --> 00:19:17,072
Double turn. Tough to pull off.

399
00:19:17,156 --> 00:19:19,032
But when it's done right,

400
00:19:19,074 --> 00:19:20,951
one of my personal favorites.

401
00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:23,287
How do I pull it off?

402
00:19:23,370 --> 00:19:25,122
You need to let the heel come in

403
00:19:25,205 --> 00:19:27,082
and get the heat from the crowd.

404
00:19:27,124 --> 00:19:29,418
Then your babyface
comes and gets the pop.

405
00:19:31,378 --> 00:19:33,255
The heat and the pop?

406
00:19:33,338 --> 00:19:34,631
Yeah.

407
00:19:34,673 --> 00:19:37,050
Tell me more about these
guys. What do you got on 'em?

408
00:19:37,134 --> 00:19:39,636
Well, they both think
they're babyfaces.

409
00:19:39,678 --> 00:19:42,181
That's for damn sure.
But neither one of them is.

410
00:19:42,264 --> 00:19:44,933
Every sitting senator
would give their gavel arm

411
00:19:44,975 --> 00:19:47,352
for a survey result like this.

412
00:19:47,436 --> 00:19:49,479
Did any of it feel real to you?

413
00:19:49,521 --> 00:19:51,190
I can read between the lines.

414
00:19:51,231 --> 00:19:53,317
I picked up that I
can be intimidating.

415
00:19:53,358 --> 00:19:55,360
I'll work on that.

416
00:20:00,449 --> 00:20:03,702
This is how Vietnams happen.

417
00:20:03,785 --> 00:20:05,579
How politicians lose
touch with reality.

418
00:20:05,662 --> 00:20:08,040
Hard questions stop being asked

419
00:20:08,081 --> 00:20:09,791
and they believe their own hype.

420
00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:11,418
So you want us to go back around

421
00:20:11,501 --> 00:20:13,337
and troll for negative feedback?

422
00:20:13,420 --> 00:20:15,005
So that's written
down somewhere,

423
00:20:15,047 --> 00:20:16,256
so it fucks with Mike's head?

424
00:20:16,298 --> 00:20:17,567
I wouldn't frame it like that.

425
00:20:17,591 --> 00:20:19,426
But if he's going to
ask the rest of us,

426
00:20:19,509 --> 00:20:21,011
the country, to take inventory,

427
00:20:21,094 --> 00:20:23,513
then he should
really fucking do it.

428
00:20:23,597 --> 00:20:24,890
Otherwise, he's as fake

429
00:20:24,973 --> 00:20:26,284
as the politicians
he's running against,

430
00:20:26,308 --> 00:20:27,660
and the voters are
going to smell it on him

431
00:20:27,684 --> 00:20:29,561
and send him packing.

432
00:20:31,605 --> 00:20:32,981
She's right.

433
00:20:34,233 --> 00:20:37,861
You want a samurai sword
and Hattori Hanz blade?

434
00:20:37,945 --> 00:20:40,405
Those only come
from the hottest flames.

435
00:20:40,489 --> 00:20:44,826
Find me a master swordsmith
without some serious burns.

436
00:20:55,754 --> 00:20:57,089
He's letting you

437
00:20:57,130 --> 00:20:58,524
run a second round
of honesty sessions?

438
00:20:58,548 --> 00:21:00,759
Without Prince
in the room this time.

439
00:21:01,426 --> 00:21:02,594
No Luke either.

440
00:21:02,636 --> 00:21:04,137
I'm not comfortable with this.

441
00:21:04,179 --> 00:21:05,939
We don't know where
actual honesty will lead.

442
00:21:06,014 --> 00:21:07,242
Fuck yeah, we do.

443
00:21:07,266 --> 00:21:08,600
The greatest televised meltdown

444
00:21:08,684 --> 00:21:10,102
since Howard Beale.

445
00:21:10,143 --> 00:21:12,271
Prince's narcissism
is a mile-wide

446
00:21:12,354 --> 00:21:13,522
and a micron thick.

447
00:21:13,563 --> 00:21:15,941
Watch the movie.
Beale stays on air,

448
00:21:16,024 --> 00:21:17,401
Schumacher gets
kicked to the curb.

449
00:21:17,484 --> 00:21:19,319
I want to keep
having a firm to run.

450
00:21:19,403 --> 00:21:20,404
Watch it to the end.

451
00:21:20,487 --> 00:21:21,989
Beale gets his brains blown out.

452
00:21:22,030 --> 00:21:23,448
Schumacher gets
to schtup a young,

453
00:21:23,532 --> 00:21:25,158
luscious-as-a-plum Faye Dunaway.

454
00:21:25,242 --> 00:21:27,202
Taylor isn't wrong.

455
00:21:27,286 --> 00:21:28,912
This could implode MPC,

456
00:21:28,996 --> 00:21:32,374
as well as the campaign
and all of our places in it.

457
00:21:37,045 --> 00:21:40,841
I wanna slam Prince's
ego with a battering ram.

458
00:21:42,634 --> 00:21:45,345
No telling where
the fragments will land.

459
00:21:46,722 --> 00:21:48,974
If it hurts business.

460
00:21:49,057 --> 00:21:51,018
If it blows us up, too...

461
00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:54,021
price we gotta pay.

462
00:22:11,038 --> 00:22:13,373
One question, related
to the files we discussed

463
00:22:13,457 --> 00:22:14,958
a few weeks back.

464
00:22:15,834 --> 00:22:17,669
Yep.

465
00:22:17,753 --> 00:22:19,314
If I stay on board
here, am I killing

466
00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:20,978
my chances with
the mainstream party?

467
00:22:21,006 --> 00:22:22,966
Can't expect either
party to bear hug you

468
00:22:23,008 --> 00:22:24,652
after he shoots
'em in the vitals.

469
00:22:24,676 --> 00:22:27,262
What if I wall myself
off from the campaign?

470
00:22:27,346 --> 00:22:29,431
Restrict myself to firm
business until I leave?

471
00:22:29,514 --> 00:22:32,100
The firm is the campaign.

472
00:22:32,184 --> 00:22:33,310
No wall to be built

473
00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:35,645
unless you wanna drywall
your own office door.

474
00:22:36,980 --> 00:22:39,483
I was hoping we could,
I don't know...

475
00:22:40,108 --> 00:22:41,234
think outside the box.

476
00:22:41,276 --> 00:22:43,779
Not so easy when you're in one.

477
00:22:46,823 --> 00:22:48,325
Got the case for ya.

478
00:22:48,367 --> 00:22:49,493
Commodities fraud.

479
00:22:49,576 --> 00:22:51,787
Market manipulation
in the oil industry.

480
00:22:51,870 --> 00:22:53,163
That'll do.

481
00:22:53,246 --> 00:22:55,040
Sure you want to
go down this road?

482
00:22:55,082 --> 00:22:57,417
We list Andolov
as an expert witness,

483
00:22:57,459 --> 00:22:59,419
then asked DOJ and DHS

484
00:22:59,503 --> 00:23:01,171
to parole him into the country.

485
00:23:01,213 --> 00:23:03,131
Get ready for
some hairpin turns.

486
00:23:03,215 --> 00:23:06,551
The guy's a sanctioned
oligarch who you chased out.

487
00:23:06,635 --> 00:23:08,053
I mean, there's impossible,

488
00:23:08,136 --> 00:23:10,013
then there's climbing
the Dawn Wall

489
00:23:10,097 --> 00:23:12,474
with a pair of Havaianas
and a bag of chalk.

490
00:23:12,516 --> 00:23:14,309
I think I can sell it.

491
00:23:14,351 --> 00:23:16,603
I also learned that
Grigor's wife is not alone

492
00:23:16,686 --> 00:23:19,022
in her divorce action...
She's got a backer,

493
00:23:19,106 --> 00:23:20,982
a hedge fund,
he's bankrolling her,

494
00:23:21,024 --> 00:23:22,377
no doubt for a big
piece of the settlement.

495
00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:25,821
- Who?
- Our very own Todd Krakow.

496
00:23:26,988 --> 00:23:28,740
And knowing him,
that's not the only reason

497
00:23:28,824 --> 00:23:30,117
he's lurking around.

498
00:23:30,158 --> 00:23:31,552
Because what we need here

499
00:23:31,576 --> 00:23:32,744
are some more obstacles.

500
00:23:36,081 --> 00:23:38,208
Damn the torpedoes,
file the parole request.

501
00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:39,751
I've got something else for you.

502
00:23:39,835 --> 00:23:41,253
Can it wait till morning?

503
00:23:41,294 --> 00:23:43,171
You're going to want
to see this today.

504
00:23:51,596 --> 00:23:52,764
Dad.

505
00:23:52,848 --> 00:23:56,435
Your pal Bunky
signed a consent form.

506
00:23:56,476 --> 00:23:58,757
Well, hold the fucking roll.
If your boy signed off on it,

507
00:23:58,812 --> 00:24:00,313
how come he didn't
get the missus

508
00:24:00,355 --> 00:24:01,690
to do the extraction pre-mortem?

509
00:24:01,731 --> 00:24:03,024
I mean, that's lots more fun.

510
00:24:03,108 --> 00:24:04,335
You know what I'm
sayin', baby girl?

511
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:05,610
He didn't want to raise a kid.

512
00:24:05,694 --> 00:24:08,029
He wanted a posthumous
tot to live on after him.

513
00:24:08,113 --> 00:24:10,153
That's like that fucking
movie about the octopus.

514
00:24:10,198 --> 00:24:11,592
She popped some
eggs from her cooch,

515
00:24:11,616 --> 00:24:14,161
and then she slides into
an undersea death spiral.

516
00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:20,709
This isn't about Bunky
at all. What is it?

517
00:24:22,627 --> 00:24:24,504
Okay, fine.

518
00:24:24,546 --> 00:24:26,006
I'll tell you.

519
00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:31,011
It's Roxanne and Willow.

520
00:24:34,181 --> 00:24:36,808
I saw them praying...

521
00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:39,436
to Jesus.

522
00:24:39,478 --> 00:24:41,605
When we agreed
we wouldn't raise Willow

523
00:24:41,646 --> 00:24:43,732
with religion at all.

524
00:24:45,817 --> 00:24:48,778
Beware, Sonny
Boy, legacy is a lie!

525
00:24:48,862 --> 00:24:52,240
There is no control
in the hereafter.

526
00:24:52,324 --> 00:24:53,658
Shit. It's true.

527
00:24:53,742 --> 00:24:55,511
You know, once they
get the Jesus fever,

528
00:24:55,535 --> 00:24:56,703
it's rarely treatable.

529
00:24:56,786 --> 00:24:58,580
Just like the fucking
Orthodox in my tribe.

530
00:24:58,663 --> 00:25:01,666
Yeah, a Rhoades
spouting the Lord's Prayer,

531
00:25:01,708 --> 00:25:04,503
I know what a disaster
that is for you.

532
00:25:04,586 --> 00:25:06,129
You need to talk to Roxanne.

533
00:25:06,171 --> 00:25:08,131
Just rein it in
before it takes root.

534
00:25:08,173 --> 00:25:11,092
Not in a talking mood.

535
00:25:13,386 --> 00:25:14,554
I'm drawing up my demands

536
00:25:14,638 --> 00:25:17,182
for the upbringing
of my progeny.

537
00:25:17,265 --> 00:25:21,186
Schooling, vacations,
earthly pursuits.

538
00:25:21,228 --> 00:25:23,605
This... This God shit?

539
00:25:23,647 --> 00:25:25,106
Strictly off the list.

540
00:25:25,148 --> 00:25:27,609
Because ultimatums
work so well in a marriage?

541
00:25:27,692 --> 00:25:31,696
If she won't heed mine, then
we are headed for divorce.

542
00:25:32,447 --> 00:25:34,366
And I'm going for custody.

543
00:25:52,175 --> 00:25:56,179
I knew you'd come.
I've been expecting you.

544
00:25:56,263 --> 00:25:59,349
I saw in the papers
you're back in your old job.

545
00:25:59,432 --> 00:26:00,642
Indeed.

546
00:26:00,725 --> 00:26:03,395
But I figured you'd
make an appointment.

547
00:26:03,478 --> 00:26:06,773
I'm not actually here for that.

548
00:26:08,024 --> 00:26:09,859
It's about my father.

549
00:26:09,901 --> 00:26:12,737
Well. Usually is.

550
00:26:12,779 --> 00:26:16,575
No, I need some information.

551
00:26:18,326 --> 00:26:20,745
About the nature of control.

552
00:26:20,787 --> 00:26:22,497
Dominance.

553
00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:26,209
Why some seem
unable to give it up.

554
00:26:26,293 --> 00:26:28,336
You trying to save yourself?

555
00:26:28,378 --> 00:26:30,463
No.
Not this time, no.

556
00:26:30,505 --> 00:26:33,049
My dad needs some peace.

557
00:26:34,092 --> 00:26:36,678
But his daughter...

558
00:26:36,761 --> 00:26:41,224
she needs to be spared
the kind of upbringing I had.

559
00:26:42,267 --> 00:26:44,769
That relentless,
controlling instinct which...

560
00:26:44,811 --> 00:26:46,730
Which led you here
in the first place.

561
00:26:46,813 --> 00:26:51,484
Which led me to mirror him
in 98% of my interactions.

562
00:26:51,568 --> 00:26:55,238
And then to have to
completely repudiate it here.

563
00:26:56,823 --> 00:26:58,408
Sometimes there's
a certain comfort

564
00:26:58,450 --> 00:27:01,411
in jumping at others' command.

565
00:27:01,453 --> 00:27:03,747
Control is all
an illusion anyway.

566
00:27:03,830 --> 00:27:05,415
Tell that to the guy

567
00:27:05,498 --> 00:27:07,792
in the business end
of the truncheon.

568
00:27:07,834 --> 00:27:11,212
But if you're paying
someone to wield it,

569
00:27:11,963 --> 00:27:14,007
who's really in control?

570
00:27:15,467 --> 00:27:19,429
End of the day,
client gets the meal.

571
00:27:19,471 --> 00:27:22,390
I just plate the food.

572
00:27:22,432 --> 00:27:25,101
You think my dad
is fooling himself?

573
00:27:25,185 --> 00:27:27,854
Raging against
his own impotence, maybe.

574
00:27:27,896 --> 00:27:30,398
His mortality.

575
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,193
Control is often
an expression of fear.

576
00:27:33,276 --> 00:27:35,737
People who truly believe
they're in control?

577
00:27:35,779 --> 00:27:39,991
More likely to escalate
their actions till they fail.

578
00:27:40,033 --> 00:27:42,035
Leads to poor decision making.

579
00:27:42,077 --> 00:27:44,371
Magical thinking..

580
00:27:45,413 --> 00:27:46,706
Problem is...

581
00:27:46,790 --> 00:27:49,959
telling a controller
not to doesn't work.

582
00:27:50,752 --> 00:27:51,753
I've noticed.

583
00:27:51,836 --> 00:27:53,546
Your hope lies in convincing him

584
00:27:53,630 --> 00:27:56,633
that his true power
is best displayed

585
00:27:56,675 --> 00:27:59,177
in not having to use it.

586
00:28:07,727 --> 00:28:09,437
I promised them anonymity.

587
00:28:09,479 --> 00:28:11,981
Then work to get them
past their instinct for flattery,

588
00:28:12,065 --> 00:28:13,817
for base self-interest.

589
00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:16,194
I'm ready for the
unplugged version.

590
00:28:17,404 --> 00:28:20,824
"Self-satisfied."
"Loves himself."

591
00:28:20,907 --> 00:28:23,201
"Mother Teresa of Wall Street."

592
00:28:24,369 --> 00:28:25,787
"Loves the smell
of his own farts,

593
00:28:25,829 --> 00:28:28,873
like the "Smug Alert"
episode of South Park"?

594
00:28:28,957 --> 00:28:30,625
- Never saw that one.
- I have.

595
00:28:30,709 --> 00:28:32,877
It's a top-tier episode.
Heh. Who said that?

596
00:28:32,919 --> 00:28:34,647
You can't think I'm
gonna name names.

597
00:28:34,671 --> 00:28:36,923
I just... I want to do
some relationship repair.

598
00:28:37,006 --> 00:28:38,758
Of course, no.

599
00:28:38,842 --> 00:28:42,262
"Entitled, thinks he can
buy us off with private planes.

600
00:28:42,303 --> 00:28:45,181
I mean, I'll take the
flights, but fuck that."

601
00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:50,645
"Forces you to come to his
party and act like you like it

602
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:52,439
while he slakes his appetite..."

603
00:28:52,522 --> 00:28:53,582
Stop right there.

604
00:28:53,606 --> 00:28:54,816
There's no reason for Mike

605
00:28:54,858 --> 00:28:57,444
to be subject to the
petty staff jealousies

606
00:28:57,527 --> 00:28:59,279
and... and character sniping.

607
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,281
I mean, we all sat
through your round.

608
00:29:01,322 --> 00:29:02,967
I didn't take you for
the squeamish type.

609
00:29:02,991 --> 00:29:05,034
And this is when we
bring it back around,

610
00:29:05,118 --> 00:29:07,120
put it in a context?

611
00:29:08,955 --> 00:29:10,999
Here's the context.
You have to decide

612
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,792
what taking inventory
actually means.

613
00:29:12,876 --> 00:29:14,636
Whether you can push
through the friction

614
00:29:14,669 --> 00:29:16,755
as commander in chief,
a lot fucking worse

615
00:29:16,796 --> 00:29:18,089
than what you heard just now.

616
00:29:18,173 --> 00:29:19,507
And do what must be done.

617
00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:21,068
What only you can
do for the country.

618
00:29:21,092 --> 00:29:24,471
Even if it turns you
into a dartboard.

619
00:29:24,554 --> 00:29:27,223
I think you can, or
I'd be lying to your face

620
00:29:27,307 --> 00:29:30,643
like everyone else on that
floor instead of, you know...

621
00:29:30,685 --> 00:29:32,812
giving you what you asked for.

622
00:29:40,653 --> 00:29:42,322
That'll be all.

623
00:30:07,931 --> 00:30:10,725
These are all A-list attorneys.

624
00:30:10,767 --> 00:30:12,060
Serious political chops, too.

625
00:30:12,101 --> 00:30:13,812
You think we
need more firepower?

626
00:30:13,895 --> 00:30:15,021
No.

627
00:30:15,104 --> 00:30:18,858
But I don't want to leave
without replacing myself.

628
00:30:18,942 --> 00:30:21,903
But it's time. Past time.

629
00:30:22,987 --> 00:30:24,447
The speech is tomorrow.

630
00:30:24,489 --> 00:30:27,492
I need to get with the party
that can nominate me.

631
00:30:27,575 --> 00:30:29,869
Terms of my hire, remember?

632
00:30:29,953 --> 00:30:31,496
What do you want?

633
00:30:32,205 --> 00:30:33,498
What will it take

634
00:30:33,540 --> 00:30:36,501
to stick around longer
till we can right the ship?

635
00:30:36,584 --> 00:30:38,461
If I stay and help you right it,

636
00:30:38,503 --> 00:30:41,589
it'll be pretty
hard to get off it.

637
00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:43,675
If your departure
is made public,

638
00:30:43,758 --> 00:30:44,968
this of all weeks...

639
00:30:45,009 --> 00:30:46,219
Maybe we all go quiet on this

640
00:30:46,261 --> 00:30:47,679
until the hand-off's complete.

641
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,223
It has to be public.
It has to be now.

642
00:30:50,849 --> 00:30:52,100
A couple of days at the most.

643
00:30:52,141 --> 00:30:56,020
I need to establish
a little distance to him.

644
00:30:56,062 --> 00:30:58,982
Scrub your name off
mine while I still can.

645
00:30:59,023 --> 00:31:01,359
It's just politics, Mike.

646
00:31:02,735 --> 00:31:04,362
I hope you understand.

647
00:31:08,783 --> 00:31:10,827
Don't walk away
from Prince Capital

648
00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:12,120
or Prince himself.

649
00:31:12,203 --> 00:31:13,454
I don't quit now,

650
00:31:13,538 --> 00:31:15,456
both parties will freeze me out.

651
00:31:15,498 --> 00:31:17,017
Nothing on the plus
side of the ledger

652
00:31:17,041 --> 00:31:18,877
competes with that.

653
00:31:19,669 --> 00:31:21,588
"Love To Love You, Baby."

654
00:31:23,256 --> 00:31:24,632
Come again?

655
00:31:24,716 --> 00:31:27,343
It's the song that took dance
music from the club floor

656
00:31:27,427 --> 00:31:28,887
to the top of the charts.

657
00:31:28,970 --> 00:31:30,597
Broke me as a music manager.

658
00:31:30,638 --> 00:31:34,142
Made Donna Summer into
the queen of a whole new genre.

659
00:31:34,183 --> 00:31:36,185
You said it ended badly.

660
00:31:36,269 --> 00:31:37,604
Always does.

661
00:31:37,687 --> 00:31:41,941
But before that, she was
my double platinum ticket.

662
00:31:41,983 --> 00:31:43,693
No bigger pop star in the '70s.

663
00:31:43,776 --> 00:31:47,655
No Black woman, beside
Diana with her cultural power,

664
00:31:47,697 --> 00:31:49,449
her crossover cachet.

665
00:31:49,490 --> 00:31:51,159
And she knew it.

666
00:31:51,242 --> 00:31:53,077
Came to me to cut my percentage.

667
00:31:53,161 --> 00:31:55,705
Once, then again and again.

668
00:31:55,747 --> 00:31:57,916
Natural progression
with most stars.

669
00:31:57,957 --> 00:32:01,794
But I hung in, choked
down every indignity.

670
00:32:01,878 --> 00:32:03,755
And do you know why?

671
00:32:03,796 --> 00:32:05,548
Because everyone
answered my call.

672
00:32:05,632 --> 00:32:07,592
Just hoping it'd be about Donna.

673
00:32:07,634 --> 00:32:09,844
It would've been worth
it to do the job for free

674
00:32:09,928 --> 00:32:12,013
for that alone.

675
00:32:12,096 --> 00:32:13,848
No indignities
at Prince Capital.

676
00:32:13,890 --> 00:32:16,142
But unlike Donna,
the name is about to be

677
00:32:16,225 --> 00:32:17,894
a liability for me.

678
00:32:17,977 --> 00:32:20,229
You don't want to be frozen out.

679
00:32:20,313 --> 00:32:21,773
I get it.

680
00:32:21,856 --> 00:32:24,651
But how cold are you going
to feel in the wilderness?

681
00:32:24,734 --> 00:32:29,155
In the dead of winter? When
your calls go unanswered?

682
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,041
Surprise, surprise.
We've got a Russia problem.

683
00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:44,337
Apparently, it's going around.

684
00:32:44,420 --> 00:32:46,839
Chuck. My friends in DC

685
00:32:46,881 --> 00:32:49,008
tell me you're trying
to bring Grigor Andolov

686
00:32:49,092 --> 00:32:51,094
in as some bullshit witness.

687
00:32:51,135 --> 00:32:52,637
Are you fucking crazy?

688
00:32:52,679 --> 00:32:55,139
How's the country better
off with that droog in it?

689
00:32:55,223 --> 00:32:56,975
Let's reframe that.

690
00:32:57,058 --> 00:33:00,103
How many tens of millions
of dollars do you stand to lose

691
00:33:00,186 --> 00:33:01,938
if he can contest
his divorce action?

692
00:33:02,021 --> 00:33:04,565
You should know
better than to mock the crime

693
00:33:04,649 --> 00:33:06,150
of spousal abandonment.

694
00:33:06,234 --> 00:33:07,610
Or the stigma and isolation?

695
00:33:07,694 --> 00:33:09,487
The inability to
plan one's future?

696
00:33:09,570 --> 00:33:12,031
A woman's emotions
torn fucking asunder.

697
00:33:13,241 --> 00:33:15,034
You're not just bankrolling her.

698
00:33:15,118 --> 00:33:17,245
You're sleeping with her.

699
00:33:18,079 --> 00:33:19,789
Okay, look...

700
00:33:19,872 --> 00:33:22,250
It started off all business,

701
00:33:22,333 --> 00:33:24,585
but Oksana is a
very soulful woman.

702
00:33:24,669 --> 00:33:26,796
She's been through a lot.

703
00:33:26,838 --> 00:33:28,297
The heart wants
what the heart wants.

704
00:33:28,339 --> 00:33:31,259
So does the DOJ, and
we need the guy here.

705
00:33:31,342 --> 00:33:33,094
Then I may need
to align with forces

706
00:33:33,177 --> 00:33:35,054
whose interests run
counter to yours.

707
00:33:35,138 --> 00:33:37,265
In a big fucking way.

708
00:33:37,306 --> 00:33:40,517
And I never do my enemies
minor boo-boos, Chuck.

709
00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:47,942
Keep up that watered-down
Machiavelli shit with me,

710
00:33:48,026 --> 00:33:50,278
the feds will be a far
more pressing problem

711
00:33:50,319 --> 00:33:52,530
than some foreign actor.

712
00:33:52,571 --> 00:33:54,866
You better not mess with
that divorce proceeding.

713
00:33:54,948 --> 00:33:57,326
That one's all yours.

714
00:34:01,372 --> 00:34:02,874
He's not the only grouser.

715
00:34:02,957 --> 00:34:04,459
I just heard from DeGiulio.

716
00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:07,044
He got the request to parole
Grigor back into the States?

717
00:34:07,086 --> 00:34:08,671
Wants to discuss it in person.

718
00:34:08,754 --> 00:34:10,881
Along with your old
pals Governor Sweeney

719
00:34:10,965 --> 00:34:12,675
and Attorney General Mahar.

720
00:34:12,759 --> 00:34:13,926
The three of them together.

721
00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:15,779
When they come
at you as a three man,

722
00:34:15,803 --> 00:34:18,013
think chair shot,
not rubber stamp.

723
00:34:18,055 --> 00:34:20,683
My ink pad's at the ready.

724
00:34:20,767 --> 00:34:24,771
Chuck, is it really worth
choosing Grigor over Krakow

725
00:34:24,812 --> 00:34:27,023
and not one, but two
levels of government?

726
00:34:27,106 --> 00:34:28,417
To please this
guy of all people.

727
00:34:28,441 --> 00:34:29,960
I mean, what's he
ever done for you...

728
00:34:31,027 --> 00:34:32,904
Except wear you out
and haunt your days?

729
00:34:32,945 --> 00:34:36,866
No, this is the
vaunted Bobby Axelrod,

730
00:34:36,949 --> 00:34:39,035
mover of markets,

731
00:34:39,118 --> 00:34:41,788
puller of levers.

732
00:34:41,829 --> 00:34:45,166
And he needed me.

733
00:34:45,208 --> 00:34:49,212
Called me. Had to ask
me for a personal favor.

734
00:34:49,295 --> 00:34:52,090
Offered to be in my debt.

735
00:34:54,008 --> 00:34:58,137
Sure, I wanted to say
no, almost did. But...

736
00:34:58,179 --> 00:35:00,056
Well, that's too
rare and valuable

737
00:35:00,139 --> 00:35:02,141
a commodity these days.

738
00:35:03,434 --> 00:35:06,479
Especially from one
who knows what it means.

739
00:35:07,772 --> 00:35:10,733
Well, that is more old
school than Sammy Davis Jr.

740
00:35:10,775 --> 00:35:12,777
Tapping with
the Will Mastin Trio.

741
00:35:23,538 --> 00:35:24,914
I lead from the front.

742
00:35:24,997 --> 00:35:27,077
I do everything I ask of
those under my command

743
00:35:27,125 --> 00:35:28,769
and not from a
goddamn swivel chair.

744
00:35:28,793 --> 00:35:31,295
The difference between
you and General Patton?

745
00:35:31,379 --> 00:35:33,714
He didn't ask for his
employee's criticism.

746
00:35:33,798 --> 00:35:35,192
He just slapped
them in the face.

747
00:35:35,216 --> 00:35:36,843
Criticism informs, elucidates.

748
00:35:36,926 --> 00:35:38,511
This was insubordination.

749
00:35:39,428 --> 00:35:41,347
Maybe Luke was right...
Maybe you weren't ready

750
00:35:41,430 --> 00:35:43,182
for the full fire hose.

751
00:35:43,266 --> 00:35:46,602
My own people think
that they can lie to me,

752
00:35:46,644 --> 00:35:48,229
mock me.

753
00:35:49,522 --> 00:35:50,982
Plus, Sacker's leaving,

754
00:35:51,023 --> 00:35:52,567
planning on
"distancing herself"?

755
00:35:52,608 --> 00:35:53,943
We were cruising along

756
00:35:54,026 --> 00:35:55,444
at flank speed before all this.

757
00:35:55,486 --> 00:35:57,405
The presidential.

758
00:35:57,446 --> 00:35:59,490
When did I become Lex Luthor?

759
00:35:59,574 --> 00:36:01,075
Anytime somebody
runs for office,

760
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:03,536
they either become
Superman or that other thing.

761
00:36:03,578 --> 00:36:04,912
I didn't change.

762
00:36:04,954 --> 00:36:06,765
Everybody looks at you
through different eyes now,

763
00:36:06,789 --> 00:36:09,876
but that doesn't matter.
What matters is this:

764
00:36:09,959 --> 00:36:12,128
There's nothing wrong
with deciding you want

765
00:36:12,211 --> 00:36:14,005
the unvarnished,
unquestioned love.

766
00:36:14,088 --> 00:36:17,842
In fact, that may be
the most healthy choice.

767
00:36:22,221 --> 00:36:24,724
Sometimes quitting
isn't capitulation.

768
00:36:26,350 --> 00:36:30,021
Sometimes it shows
grit and wisdom.

769
00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:18,235
Scooter called you?

770
00:37:18,277 --> 00:37:19,820
He told me what happened.

771
00:37:19,862 --> 00:37:22,156
I know this is where you'd go.

772
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:23,467
Well, it used to actually work.

773
00:37:23,491 --> 00:37:25,011
Now I feel the chill
in this room, too.

774
00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:27,119
Well, too warm and
you slip on the court.

775
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,502
I used to feel the warmth
in every room I entered.

776
00:37:34,543 --> 00:37:36,143
Especially Michael
Prince Capital.

777
00:37:36,170 --> 00:37:37,463
Now it just seems like a lie.

778
00:37:37,546 --> 00:37:40,549
Those rooms were warm
because you paid them.

779
00:37:41,217 --> 00:37:43,302
I told myself I didn't care.

780
00:37:43,344 --> 00:37:46,222
But I thought the warmth
was real. Or I wanted to.

781
00:37:46,305 --> 00:37:47,890
Then let's
talk court conditions.

782
00:37:47,932 --> 00:37:51,435
I was at Indiana A&M, too.

783
00:37:52,353 --> 00:37:53,521
My teammates loved me there.

784
00:37:53,604 --> 00:37:55,147
If we're really
taking inventory,

785
00:37:55,189 --> 00:37:56,524
some of them hated your guts.

786
00:37:56,607 --> 00:37:59,026
Until they got to
know me, maybe.

787
00:37:59,110 --> 00:38:00,027
No.

788
00:38:00,069 --> 00:38:02,363
Until you lead them
to some wins.

789
00:38:02,446 --> 00:38:04,448
Then they loved you.

790
00:38:07,368 --> 00:38:09,537
I just had to show them
I was all about the team.

791
00:38:09,620 --> 00:38:12,498
The team was all
about you. Always.

792
00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:14,000
You always had the ball.

793
00:38:14,083 --> 00:38:15,960
You always made your
shots or dished it.

794
00:38:16,043 --> 00:38:18,713
They had to learn
that the path to glory

795
00:38:18,754 --> 00:38:21,048
ran through you.

796
00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:24,260
So I shouldn't worry
about seeking real love?

797
00:38:24,343 --> 00:38:28,180
I'm saying, the way to
get it is to be a winner.

798
00:38:28,222 --> 00:38:30,182
That's as real
as it fucking gets.

799
00:38:30,224 --> 00:38:33,602
Is that cold or
superficial or hollow?

800
00:38:33,644 --> 00:38:37,231
Well, that's the
world we're living in.

801
00:38:37,273 --> 00:38:40,067
And it's the one you
say you want to lead.

802
00:38:50,286 --> 00:38:51,912
And he's fucking late.

803
00:38:53,414 --> 00:38:56,375
Quite the assemblage for
a pro forma parole request.

804
00:38:56,417 --> 00:38:59,045
Pro fucking forma?
Coddling a Russian criminal

805
00:38:59,128 --> 00:39:00,504
on the dawn of
a second Cold War.

806
00:39:00,546 --> 00:39:03,466
Last I saw you, Governor,
you were forcing me from office

807
00:39:03,549 --> 00:39:04,842
in a bloodless coup.

808
00:39:04,925 --> 00:39:06,677
I'd say cold wars
are your métier.

809
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,846
Mr. Andolov has agreed

810
00:39:08,929 --> 00:39:10,931
to cooperate in a critical case.

811
00:39:10,973 --> 00:39:13,142
His safe passage
will be strictly limited...

812
00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:15,895
To rat-fucking me and my
biggest donor, Todd Krakow.

813
00:39:15,936 --> 00:39:18,522
Chuck,
my office, your old office,

814
00:39:18,564 --> 00:39:21,359
you personally ran
Grigor out of this country.

815
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,570
Surely, whatever grudge you
hold against the governor...

816
00:39:24,653 --> 00:39:27,323
Me? I'm all about
moving forward.

817
00:39:27,406 --> 00:39:29,158
This has to stop
at the water's edge.

818
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,178
Let this fucker in and we're
going to look ridiculous.

819
00:39:31,202 --> 00:39:32,536
Like patsies. Like...

820
00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:34,622
Putin's got pee tapes
on the lot of us.

821
00:39:34,663 --> 00:39:37,583
I know better than to
try to stop you, Chuck.

822
00:39:37,666 --> 00:39:39,043
You will find a way over,

823
00:39:39,126 --> 00:39:40,294
you will find a way through.

824
00:39:40,336 --> 00:39:42,630
Used to be my modus, sure.

825
00:39:42,671 --> 00:39:44,799
I am appealing to you, though.

826
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,258
Don't alienate us.

827
00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:47,968
And don't burn Todd Krakow

828
00:39:48,010 --> 00:39:49,720
and 50 other
political powerhouses

829
00:39:49,762 --> 00:39:51,555
in your first months
back at Southern.

830
00:39:51,597 --> 00:39:54,517
Don't make them your last.

831
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,353
I used to believe in zero-sum...

832
00:39:57,436 --> 00:40:00,064
in choosing a side,
generally my own,

833
00:40:00,106 --> 00:40:01,607
and alienating all others.

834
00:40:01,690 --> 00:40:07,113
But this go-around, I see
that we can all be winners,

835
00:40:07,196 --> 00:40:09,073
all be friends.

836
00:40:09,115 --> 00:40:11,158
Why draw lines in the sand

837
00:40:11,242 --> 00:40:12,993
when we can build a castle?

838
00:40:13,035 --> 00:40:15,287
Castles made of sand?

839
00:40:15,329 --> 00:40:18,833
You know, it's happened, Chuck.
You've lost your fucking mind.

840
00:40:18,916 --> 00:40:20,292
Maybe I just found it, Bob.

841
00:40:20,334 --> 00:40:23,421
Chuck, in a known
language, please.

842
00:40:24,338 --> 00:40:28,092
I'm talking about
telling our own story.

843
00:40:28,175 --> 00:40:31,178
A story in which we work
the emotional levers

844
00:40:31,262 --> 00:40:33,431
to all get what
we actually want.

845
00:40:33,514 --> 00:40:37,268
And how exactly do we
reach this promised land?

846
00:40:37,309 --> 00:40:42,314
My special advisor on this
will answer all your questions.

847
00:40:42,356 --> 00:40:45,609
You might say he
does it for a living.

848
00:40:46,527 --> 00:40:48,529
Time to play the game

849
00:41:03,252 --> 00:41:05,921
So, you found a good lawyer yet?

850
00:41:06,672 --> 00:41:07,673
Excuse me?

851
00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:09,467
Your custody case.

852
00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:12,386
I know your prenup's
a fortress of steel,

853
00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:15,473
and that you're ready to crush.

854
00:41:16,307 --> 00:41:17,516
I'm short-listing litigators

855
00:41:17,558 --> 00:41:20,227
and still building out
my list of demands.

856
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,273
Go ahead, son.

857
00:41:24,315 --> 00:41:25,774
I've known you
long enough to know

858
00:41:25,858 --> 00:41:27,443
when you've got a point to make.

859
00:41:27,485 --> 00:41:28,670
Well...

860
00:41:28,694 --> 00:41:30,696
probably not one
that's welcome here, so...

861
00:41:30,779 --> 00:41:32,615
Out with it.

862
00:41:34,074 --> 00:41:38,787
No, it's just that I've noticed
that power is the ability

863
00:41:38,871 --> 00:41:40,748
to influence others,

864
00:41:40,831 --> 00:41:43,292
not dictate to them.

865
00:41:43,375 --> 00:41:47,755
True power is
not having to use it.

866
00:41:50,257 --> 00:41:53,135
Are you gonna flash
your history chops now

867
00:41:53,219 --> 00:41:56,305
and hold forth on
how the great emperors

868
00:41:56,388 --> 00:41:58,974
and cons were such
because they showed mercy?

869
00:41:59,016 --> 00:42:00,184
I'm not.

870
00:42:00,267 --> 00:42:02,478
We both know I'm talking
about your daughter.

871
00:42:02,561 --> 00:42:03,687
That's right.

872
00:42:03,729 --> 00:42:05,856
Now, she ought not be beholden

873
00:42:05,898 --> 00:42:07,483
to some made-up deity.

874
00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:11,111
When you'd rather have
her be beholden to you.

875
00:42:12,863 --> 00:42:14,615
Your way.

876
00:42:14,698 --> 00:42:16,158
You'll have her obedience

877
00:42:16,242 --> 00:42:19,703
and you'll have moments
of her affection...

878
00:42:19,787 --> 00:42:21,580
She's human, after all.

879
00:42:21,664 --> 00:42:26,293
And won't be able to escape
her inclination to love you,

880
00:42:26,377 --> 00:42:29,046
but she'll try.

881
00:42:30,256 --> 00:42:32,591
Boy, how she'll try,

882
00:42:32,675 --> 00:42:36,178
if you run power games
on her and her mother.

883
00:42:38,472 --> 00:42:40,558
Domination...

884
00:42:40,641 --> 00:42:43,435
is an all-or-nothing
proposition.

885
00:42:43,519 --> 00:42:47,523
It does not work if
you carve out exemptions.

886
00:42:47,565 --> 00:42:49,525
What is it that
you're suggesting?

887
00:42:49,608 --> 00:42:53,112
Go on dominating
everyone else in your life.

888
00:42:53,904 --> 00:42:56,907
Put your stamp on things
and mark your turf.

889
00:42:56,949 --> 00:42:59,702
Yes, and go ahead
and show her that,

890
00:42:59,743 --> 00:43:01,745
when she's old enough
to apprehend it.

891
00:43:01,829 --> 00:43:05,165
But when it comes to her now...

892
00:43:06,292 --> 00:43:08,544
give her a sense of stability...

893
00:43:09,044 --> 00:43:10,796
and self worth.

894
00:43:10,838 --> 00:43:15,676
Because that's where
true power comes from.

895
00:43:20,472 --> 00:43:22,433
Ease up.

896
00:43:22,516 --> 00:43:24,393
As a means of achieving
the same result.

897
00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:29,857
Actually, control them
more by seeming to cede it.

898
00:43:31,525 --> 00:43:33,152
Wouldn't have worked with you.

899
00:43:34,028 --> 00:43:35,362
Who's to say

900
00:43:35,446 --> 00:43:37,823
I may have needed the firm hand,

901
00:43:37,865 --> 00:43:39,992
but neither of these
women are me.

902
00:43:40,075 --> 00:43:41,452
That's for damn sure.

903
00:43:41,493 --> 00:43:43,579
It could spare
you a custody fight.

904
00:43:43,662 --> 00:43:46,749
You might even get
what's on that list of yours,

905
00:43:46,790 --> 00:43:48,208
and they'll never know

906
00:43:48,292 --> 00:43:51,629
they played right
into what you wanted.

907
00:43:58,010 --> 00:43:59,553
I like this plan.

908
00:44:00,596 --> 00:44:01,639
Some sense must have been

909
00:44:01,722 --> 00:44:03,557
whipped into you after all.

910
00:44:03,641 --> 00:44:06,101
That firm hand. Yep.

911
00:44:08,395 --> 00:44:10,606
Okay, sonny...

912
00:44:11,023 --> 00:44:12,524
I will try it your way.

913
00:44:12,566 --> 00:44:14,151
Good.

914
00:44:16,362 --> 00:44:17,839
Continental style in this house,

915
00:44:17,863 --> 00:44:20,282
left hand, tines downward.

916
00:44:20,324 --> 00:44:23,327
This look like Ruby
fucking Tuesday to you?

917
00:44:35,130 --> 00:44:36,590
Speech of his life.

918
00:44:36,632 --> 00:44:38,401
I cannot believe he
missed the run-through.

919
00:44:38,425 --> 00:44:39,944
Mike doesn't need run-throughs.

920
00:44:39,968 --> 00:44:41,637
He's Africa/Brass-era Coltrane.

921
00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:44,306
- He finds it as he goes.
- Can you find it if it went?

922
00:44:44,390 --> 00:44:46,517
We're live on eight
channels in five minutes

923
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,102
and he's not even here.

924
00:44:48,727 --> 00:44:50,020
There he is.

925
00:44:50,062 --> 00:44:53,148
Who's ready
to turn this upside down?

926
00:44:53,190 --> 00:44:54,608
Didn't need a run-through.

927
00:44:54,692 --> 00:44:57,027
Any more than Jay-Z
needs to write down his lyrics.

928
00:44:57,069 --> 00:44:59,154
Just roll tape and let me go.

929
00:45:03,742 --> 00:45:05,369
Thank you.

930
00:45:05,411 --> 00:45:07,705
For not keeping me safe.

931
00:45:07,746 --> 00:45:08,831
In my bubble.

932
00:45:08,914 --> 00:45:10,791
The idea that I would
reassess my campaign,

933
00:45:10,833 --> 00:45:13,419
quit, because of a few
grumblers in the company...

934
00:45:13,502 --> 00:45:15,963
Well, I needed to hear that.

935
00:45:16,046 --> 00:45:19,550
I was a professional
boot in the ass.

936
00:45:19,591 --> 00:45:21,927
Finally saw what you were doing.

937
00:45:22,553 --> 00:45:25,931
The destiny, it's in me.

938
00:45:26,014 --> 00:45:29,184
I knew you'd put
yourself back together.

939
00:45:29,226 --> 00:45:30,728
Glad you did.

940
00:45:31,270 --> 00:45:33,063
Ready?

941
00:45:37,651 --> 00:45:38,819
I put him back together

942
00:45:38,861 --> 00:45:42,197
after you kicked the
pieces across the floor.

943
00:45:56,587 --> 00:45:58,297
I thought you were out the door.

944
00:45:58,380 --> 00:46:01,800
I'd like to stay at MPC
until my filing deadline.

945
00:46:01,884 --> 00:46:04,678
Then run as an independent
on Mike's ticket.

946
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:06,930
Stay close to the
resources, the juice.

947
00:46:07,014 --> 00:46:09,349
If you're sure, I can get
you on a cutaway shot.

948
00:46:09,433 --> 00:46:12,144
I know it's a risk taking
on the party machinery.

949
00:46:12,227 --> 00:46:15,773
I'm not just going to be some
schmo out in the wilderness...

950
00:46:15,814 --> 00:46:17,691
in a run for Congress.

951
00:46:18,233 --> 00:46:20,486
We're live.

952
00:46:20,569 --> 00:46:26,116
In five, four, three...

953
00:46:34,333 --> 00:46:35,918
I'm Mike Prince.

954
00:46:36,001 --> 00:46:38,045
If you only follow
the primaries,

955
00:46:38,086 --> 00:46:39,588
you don't know me.

956
00:46:39,671 --> 00:46:40,923
That's by design.

957
00:46:40,964 --> 00:46:44,968
So the status quo can
keep a hold of your futures.

958
00:46:45,677 --> 00:46:47,971
I bought this time
and it didn't come cheap

959
00:46:48,055 --> 00:46:49,932
because I'm my own man.

960
00:46:50,015 --> 00:46:51,934
And because we need
to have a hard conversation

961
00:46:52,017 --> 00:46:56,897
about why both parties,
and our system, are broken.

962
00:46:57,773 --> 00:47:00,150
This is about the inventory
we all need to take

963
00:47:00,192 --> 00:47:02,611
in order to get
where we're going,

964
00:47:02,694 --> 00:47:05,364
even if we don't
always like what we see.

965
00:47:18,919 --> 00:47:20,754
Grigor.

966
00:47:20,838 --> 00:47:23,382
Buddy, you're back.

967
00:47:23,465 --> 00:47:26,802
You are surprised
to see me here?

968
00:47:26,844 --> 00:47:29,888
I'm surprised to
see you here as well,

969
00:47:29,972 --> 00:47:31,932
since four of
the last five nights,

970
00:47:32,015 --> 00:47:36,478
you've been spotted
outside Oksana's penthouse.

971
00:47:36,562 --> 00:47:38,814
My penthouse, not your own.

972
00:47:38,856 --> 00:47:41,233
She's been distraught
in your absence.

973
00:47:41,275 --> 00:47:42,776
I've tried to counsel her.

974
00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:45,445
Tell her to, you know, hang in.

975
00:47:45,487 --> 00:47:48,949
This is why I brought
you a special gift.

976
00:47:49,032 --> 00:47:51,493
You should open it now.

977
00:47:51,535 --> 00:47:56,665
Might come in handy in
case you need to "hang in."

978
00:47:56,707 --> 00:48:01,253
My friend Christian
designed them personally.

979
00:48:01,336 --> 00:48:03,046
Gossamer wings.

980
00:48:03,130 --> 00:48:06,800
Now, I cannot tell you
if they support flights,

981
00:48:06,842 --> 00:48:10,012
since I didn't test
them myself, but...

982
00:48:10,095 --> 00:48:13,807
Since you live
on the 29th floor,

983
00:48:13,849 --> 00:48:18,395
maybe you would
like to be the test pilot.

984
00:48:18,478 --> 00:48:21,607
You could have sent this
message in so many ways,

985
00:48:21,690 --> 00:48:23,442
without coming to New York.

986
00:48:23,525 --> 00:48:27,195
What fucking fun would there
be in letting someone else

987
00:48:27,279 --> 00:48:29,781
throw you out the window?

988
00:48:29,865 --> 00:48:32,701
I swear, Oksana and
I are just friends.

989
00:48:32,784 --> 00:48:33,911
W-we're not even friends.

990
00:48:33,994 --> 00:48:35,954
It was just a... a mere
business arrangement...

991
00:48:36,038 --> 00:48:40,000
But you spent so many
months in her company.

992
00:48:40,083 --> 00:48:41,627
I'll never see her again.

993
00:48:41,710 --> 00:48:43,104
I'll stop funding
the divorce action.

994
00:48:43,128 --> 00:48:45,797
In fact, I'll end it with
one fucking phone call.

995
00:48:45,839 --> 00:48:48,926
It's hard to argue
abandonment now anyway.

996
00:48:49,426 --> 00:48:51,595
This is good news.

997
00:48:51,678 --> 00:48:55,724
It clears the way for
my own divorce suit...

998
00:48:55,807 --> 00:48:58,894
on grounds of adultery.

999
00:49:01,313 --> 00:49:02,981
Thank you.

1000
00:49:26,755 --> 00:49:32,302
My business is concluded.
Now, yours can begin.

1001
00:49:33,261 --> 00:49:35,180
It's quite a favor
Axe granted you.

1002
00:49:35,263 --> 00:49:37,349
And that you granted him.

1003
00:49:39,893 --> 00:49:42,270
How the hell did you two
become friends again,

1004
00:49:42,354 --> 00:49:43,981
after what he did to you?

1005
00:49:44,022 --> 00:49:46,984
Well, one has
the greatest respect

1006
00:49:47,025 --> 00:49:49,778
for one's fiercest adversary.

1007
00:49:49,861 --> 00:49:54,700
Who else believes so
strongly in your abilities?

1008
00:49:56,159 --> 00:49:59,246
Well, it's time. You
ready to do the turn?

1009
00:49:59,287 --> 00:50:02,499
Like Andre in '87.

1010
00:50:47,085 --> 00:50:49,379
Let's go. Out of the car.

1011
00:50:49,421 --> 00:50:52,883
You have no authority over me.

1012
00:50:52,966 --> 00:50:54,634
I am a sovereign citizen.

1013
00:50:54,718 --> 00:50:58,972
I reject the right of the
United States to detain me,

1014
00:50:59,014 --> 00:51:01,725
or to compel my testimony.

1015
00:51:01,808 --> 00:51:05,479
I am a citizen of
the greatest nation

1016
00:51:05,562 --> 00:51:09,941
in the history of the world,
led by the greatest leader.

1017
00:51:10,025 --> 00:51:14,029
So fuck you and fuck America.

1018
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,160
Mr. Andolov
was here to testify

1019
00:51:20,243 --> 00:51:22,329
in a federal case,
to work with us.

1020
00:51:22,370 --> 00:51:24,581
However, he took that
opportunity to try and steal

1021
00:51:24,623 --> 00:51:27,334
sensitive military
technology for his country.

1022
00:51:27,417 --> 00:51:29,711
Now, upon receiving
this intel, I handed it off

1023
00:51:29,753 --> 00:51:32,547
to federal law enforcement
for coordinated action.

1024
00:51:32,589 --> 00:51:33,882
Chuck.

1025
00:51:35,634 --> 00:51:36,885
As U.S. Attorney,

1026
00:51:36,927 --> 00:51:38,762
I realized that this was

1027
00:51:38,845 --> 00:51:40,263
a complex federal matter,

1028
00:51:40,305 --> 00:51:44,309
so I contacted Solicitor
General DeGiulio and the DOJ.

1029
00:51:47,062 --> 00:51:49,773
Main Justice saw the
critical nature of this case

1030
00:51:49,815 --> 00:51:52,609
on New York and
included the state AG.

1031
00:51:55,362 --> 00:51:58,657
Using state police and
undercover operatives,

1032
00:51:58,698 --> 00:52:02,869
we conducted a sting operation
and interdicted Mr. Andolov

1033
00:52:02,953 --> 00:52:05,288
before any secrets
could be stolen.

1034
00:52:05,372 --> 00:52:06,748
As you can see in the video,

1035
00:52:06,790 --> 00:52:08,834
his true sentiments
came to light.

1036
00:52:08,917 --> 00:52:11,044
He will be deported immediately.

1037
00:52:11,128 --> 00:52:12,921
It is a bad day for the Kremlin,

1038
00:52:13,004 --> 00:52:15,549
a good day for justice
around the world.

1039
00:52:15,590 --> 00:52:16,967
Questions?

1040
00:52:19,386 --> 00:52:21,280
What about the
risk of rolling an old criminal

1041
00:52:21,304 --> 00:52:24,307
like Mr. Andolov into the
U.S. in the first place?

1042
00:52:24,349 --> 00:52:26,643
He was poised to have...

1043
00:52:27,477 --> 00:52:29,020
Wow...

1044
00:52:29,104 --> 00:52:30,939
He swoops in, kills my play,

1045
00:52:30,981 --> 00:52:32,190
does a heel turn here.

1046
00:52:32,274 --> 00:52:34,276
He's rehabbed in Russia,
a hero to the Kremlin,

1047
00:52:34,317 --> 00:52:36,111
quashing those rumors
that he helped Ukraine.

1048
00:52:37,195 --> 00:52:38,464
You guys are all
champions of the city.

1049
00:52:38,488 --> 00:52:40,490
It's quite a work you put on.

1050
00:52:40,532 --> 00:52:43,285
Except for the part with you.

1051
00:52:43,326 --> 00:52:45,370
That was a shoot..

1052
00:52:45,412 --> 00:52:47,122
Fuck. You weren't in on that?

1053
00:52:47,205 --> 00:52:48,206
No, real.

1054
00:52:48,290 --> 00:52:50,917
Only way I see it,
everything he said stands.

1055
00:52:51,001 --> 00:52:55,046
He'll now have Moscow's full
backing to do whatever he wants,

1056
00:52:55,088 --> 00:52:56,131
wherever he wants.

1057
00:52:56,173 --> 00:52:58,341
Long arms.

1058
00:52:58,425 --> 00:53:00,510
One warning was enough.

1059
00:53:00,552 --> 00:53:02,387
That and those fucking wings.

1060
00:53:02,429 --> 00:53:05,140
We cooperate...

1061
00:53:07,267 --> 00:53:09,603
The dial groups we
ran during the speech...

1062
00:53:09,644 --> 00:53:11,062
Spiked the whole time.

1063
00:53:11,146 --> 00:53:12,439
I've never seen
anything like it.

1064
00:53:12,522 --> 00:53:14,691
Mike is trending
on every platform.

1065
00:53:14,733 --> 00:53:16,985
Pundits on both sides
are calling it a major victory.

1066
00:53:17,027 --> 00:53:20,280
Calling me for jobs, too.
My phone's blowing up.

1067
00:53:20,322 --> 00:53:21,323
All this coverage,

1068
00:53:21,364 --> 00:53:23,241
- you couldn't buy it.
- But he did.

1069
00:53:23,283 --> 00:53:24,844
"Rising above the smallness

1070
00:53:24,868 --> 00:53:26,745
and negativity
of the primaries."

1071
00:53:26,786 --> 00:53:29,414
"Owning primetime,
because he can. Literally."

1072
00:53:29,456 --> 00:53:31,267
Mike wants to do one
of these every month.

1073
00:53:31,291 --> 00:53:34,419
Draw up a check,
I'll draw up a plan.

1074
00:53:42,636 --> 00:53:45,096
I owe you an apology.

1075
00:53:45,180 --> 00:53:46,932
We both had our points of view.

1076
00:53:47,015 --> 00:53:48,266
I had my own agenda.

1077
00:53:48,350 --> 00:53:50,185
Keeping control of the campaign.

1078
00:53:50,227 --> 00:53:52,145
You just served Mike.

1079
00:53:52,229 --> 00:53:54,314
No wonder he trusts you so much.

1080
00:53:57,192 --> 00:53:59,027
It's the kind of speech

1081
00:53:59,110 --> 00:54:00,403
no politician ever gives.

1082
00:54:00,487 --> 00:54:03,073
Because they can't afford
to. In more ways than one.

1083
00:54:03,114 --> 00:54:06,159
That alone gives Michael
Prince the edge tonight,

1084
00:54:06,201 --> 00:54:08,912
a true independent,
storming the gates...

1085
00:54:23,176 --> 00:54:24,427
It's done.

1086
00:54:24,469 --> 00:54:27,889
I saw. Thanks.

1087
00:54:27,931 --> 00:54:30,141
No, I should be thanking you.

1088
00:54:30,183 --> 00:54:32,018
For making me better. Sharper.

1089
00:54:32,060 --> 00:54:35,939
For raising the level of
play, as you always have.

1090
00:54:36,022 --> 00:54:37,399
I can't say I wish
I was back there

1091
00:54:37,482 --> 00:54:39,192
slugging it out with you.

1092
00:54:39,276 --> 00:54:41,278
- We went enough rounds.
- Yeah.

1093
00:54:41,361 --> 00:54:43,613
Took me some time to realize,
that was reason enough

1094
00:54:43,697 --> 00:54:45,323
to help you from the start.

1095
00:54:45,365 --> 00:54:47,200
Old combatants' code.

1096
00:54:47,284 --> 00:54:48,952
That's the other reason.

1097
00:54:49,035 --> 00:54:52,122
Someday, and that day
will definitely come,

1098
00:54:52,205 --> 00:54:56,001
I will call upon you
to repay this debt.

1099
00:54:57,252 --> 00:55:00,422
And I know you
won't come up short.

1100
00:55:02,590 --> 00:55:05,385
I'm going to twist
Your head off, see

1101
00:55:06,594 --> 00:55:08,221
Till you say don't you wish

1102
00:55:08,263 --> 00:55:10,348
You never Never met her?

1103
00:55:10,390 --> 00:55:12,642
Don't you don't you Wish you

1104
00:55:12,726 --> 00:55:14,269
Never, never met her?

1105
00:55:14,352 --> 00:55:16,229
Don't you, don't you Wish you

1106
00:55:16,271 --> 00:55:18,148
Never, never met her?

1107
00:55:18,231 --> 00:55:20,150
Don't you, don't you Wish you

1108
00:55:20,191 --> 00:55:22,319
Never, never met her?

1109
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,363
I beg you

1110
00:55:25,405 --> 00:55:29,284
My darling

1111
00:55:29,326 --> 00:55:33,163
Don't leave me

1112
00:55:33,204 --> 00:55:37,292
I'm hurting

1113
00:55:37,375 --> 00:55:40,545
I've been lonely

1114
00:55:40,628 --> 00:55:45,050
Above everything

1115
00:55:45,133 --> 00:55:48,428
Above every day

1116
00:55:48,470 --> 00:55:52,724
I'm hurting

1117
00:55:52,748 --> 00:55:54,748
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