02x04 - There Are Some Women…

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- (BIRDS CHIRPING)
- (CELLPHONE VIBRATING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(CELLPHONE BEEPING)

(DIAL TONE RINGING)

ANSWERING MACHINE:
You have one new message.

DANIEL VAN DEVENTER:
Eric, hi. Me again. Uh, it's DVD.

Hey, I... I hope you enjoyed
your two weeks' vacation. I...

I... I haven't been able to
get a hold of you but I...

I just wanted to let you know
that I've spoken to Bill,

he's all good with me handling

annual compensation conversations

tomorrow in your stead.

And I'll... I'll make
sure we get you paid

when you're back on Monday. Okay?

Okay, uh, cheers. Oh, by the way,

the bonus pool is down on the year,

but we can get into
that when you're back.

Okay, cheers.

- (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
- (CELL PHONE BEEPS)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(TONGS CLACKING)

(GRUNTS)

- What are you doing?
- ERIC TAO: Gardening.

CANDICE ALLBRIGHT:
You've burnt the meat.

- (DOORBELL RINGING)
- sh*t!

- ERIC: Hey.
- You all right?

- Thank you.
- Okay.

- (CROCKERY CLATTERING)
- (WATER RUNNING)

When are you going back to work?

Why? Don't you like having me around?

It's fine.

- "It's fine"?
- It's good.

It's good.

DVD: Because you're a
third year it's mandatory

to cap you at total comp.

The desk is down overall, but you're up

almost percent year on year.

Since Jesse joined, I've
printed million for the firm.

You know, take it from me,

as someone who's been
paid at the top of the band

every year since I was
an analyst like you,

the band always felt like a brick wall.

Pay me like the superstar I am, bitch.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

Look, there really is a cap.

- So promote me.
- (CHUCKLES)

All right. Shall we put
a dent in the paycheck

- with some overpriced pints?
- (CHUCKLES)

O... or we could hit up All Bar One?

And it really pops off in there.

Uh, I've... I've got
dinner with Jesse tonight.

- (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
- Oh.

And my Black at Wharton group chat

don't believe we're covering him.

I'd get a real kick out of telling them

I watched him eat a steak up close.

He's a pretty private person.

Well, it's good, we
keep it intimate then.

(CHUCKLES)

Come on.

Let me meet the man who
doesn't take meetings.

- Sure.
- DVD: Yeah?

- As long as I lead.
- (EXHALES SHARPLY)

Why are you so territorial?

(CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES)

This feels strange though,
not coming from Eric.

Sidelining me is one thing.

Paying my guys down when they've gotten

through this hell year so well, that...

that's unacceptable to me.

Are you sure you don't
wanna sit this one out?

I pay my team.

Not some f*cking kid
who owes me his career.

You don't just get to
hand out the checks,

that's a privilege that you earn.

(CANDICE SPITTING)

Is Danny that handsome
Black kid from Connecticut?

He was a sweetie.

Would we call him handsome?

It's not like we need anything else.

These are formative years for our girls.

They need you at home.

Do not insinuate what I
think you're insinuating.

I'm as motivated and
fresh as I've ever been.

I have to do this face to face.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

So...

obviously in preparation

for moving my family's
funds over to Pierpoint,

our team here need access
to historical accounts.

Electronic is fine. Preferable actually.

- Your team? You moved over then?
- No, not officially,

but I kinda feel like

this is some sort of
practical interview.

SPEAKER: You're gonna have
to get a cab now, okay?

I don't think this is the right time.

Honestly. The last
thing your father needs

is any kind of instability
or lack of visibility

about where his money is.

Okay. With respect...

I think, I'm in more
of a position to decide

what's best for my family's money.

I don't need to tell
you how naïve that is.

It's a planet-sized
conflict of interest.

A key tenet of smart investing

is that it should be emotionless.

Forgive me for getting personal...

but we both know your father's
in the midst of a divorce.

And as someone that's actually,
deeply across this stuff,

now is the time for him to
stay as liquid as possible.

- (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
- Is there a liquidity issue?

Can you just trust me?

(CHUCKLES)

(POLICE SIREN WAILING)

AURORE ADEKUNLE: Thanks for
doing all my thankless admin.

I... I know you've got that
preliminary anti-trust meet

for the Health Select Committee.

- Hmm.
- I created some talking points

on OneMedical, Rican, FastAide, Lantum.

Uh, great initiative,

but I don't need you doing that for now.

Oh, maybe I could sit in
on one of the sessions?

JAMIE HENSON: Where's that woman, eh?

f*ck, not this nutter again.
Just hold the fort here.

I know this doesn't seem
like the most glamorous work,

but we like our constituents to know

that they have the ear of their MP.

RECEPTIONIST: I'm afraid
you'll have to wait.

JAMIE: I need to see her now.

RECEPTIONIST: I'm afraid you'll
have to come back tomorrow, sir.

Some pricks learn to
love having the Tory boot

on their throat after
so many years, yeah.

They grow accustomed to it.

Me, ah, do I look like a bootlicker, eh?

No. No, you don't. Not at all.

Someone's been leaving sh*t
outside my house as a thr*at.

I come here and nothing gets done.

Your boss is never here.

I'm a f*cking constituent.

This is the constituency
office. Isn't it?

I want the elected
official, not mini-me.

I would ask someone to look into it,

but it's like pissing
up a wall, isn't it?

Hey. So, here you are.

Enjoy that, you Maggie loving c**t!

- (MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)
- (DOOR OPENING)

RECEPTIONIST: Do you
think he votes Labour?

(DOOR CLOSING)

(RETCHES)

I love the design of
vintage Hanani classics.

With the fuchsia spines.
I used to love those.

I really don't like the
look of the new stuff.

You know, they've done
that high fashion thing

of making everything
sans serif. (CHUCKLES)

I don't think my dad's
across those kind of decisions

- anymore.
- No. Of course, not.

I guess when they sold it cheap to KKR,

they relinquished all creative control?

I'm actually having
a bit of trouble, um,

wrangling Maxim for the due diligence.

Let me guess.

You stopped sleeping with
him and now he's pouting?

- Fragile male ego.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)

It was good of your father to invite me.

I invited you. (CHUCKLES)

("SUPERFICIAL" BY
TOMMY DOWN PLAYING)

♪ I don't like this club ♪
♪ But I'm here to game ♪

♪ I don't like these jeans ♪
♪ But they're Cheap Monday... ♪

- (SONG CONTINUES OVER SPEAKERS)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

- MAXIM ALONSO: Hey.
- Hi.

- Ça va ?
- CELESTE PACQUET: Oui, ça va. Et toi ?

- MAXIM: Bien.
- Uh, where's my father?

Papa got tickets to Rigoletto
last minute, invited him.

I'm gonna let you two catch up.

- Rigoletto. (CHUCKLES)
- Rigoletto.

- (CHUCKLES)
- Just double checking.

We don't have an issue...

- do we?
- Why would we have an issue?

Okay. So...

why are you being so obtuse with me

when it comes to my family?

Did you know we have nothing
to do with this anymore?

Of course, I did.

Why does nobody f*cking
communicate with me?

People want to protect you, Yasmin.

I don't need that
paternalistic f*cking bullshit.

Oh, God. I thought
you were mature enough

to let us f*cking go. We f*cked twice.

You hold it over my head

like I f*cking owe you something.

Are you f*cking high?

I just wanna know where
my family's money is.

You want a list?

It's a mishmash of diversification,

gaudy condos in Miami,

some two-bit f*cking
hotel chain in Helsinki,

a rapeseed oil renewable
energy start-up in Gdansk.

The Hanani name? Well,
you have nothing to do

with the publishing house anymore.

(IN SPANISH)

Just speak to your father.

(SNIFFS)

(CELESTE SIGHING)

I saw you speaking to Maxim?

Did he acquiesce?

Yeah, it's all sorted. (CHUCKLES)

(IN FRENCH)

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

(IN FRENCH)

(LIGHTER CLATTERS ON FLOOR)

(IN ENGLISH) Pick it up.

(CHUCKLES)

Pick the lighter up.

(WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)

Merci.

(DOOR OPENS)

(DOOR CLOSES)

FastAide is the traditional brick

and mortar physical pharmacy, right?

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Oh yeah, sure, like, uh, Walgreens,

an eyesore on every corner.

DVD: And we know behemoths
like Amazon and Apple

are looking to consolidate
in the healthcare space,

and part of that is via
circling these slow death,

high street retail spaces
with nosebleed short bases.

Now, the biggest issue
facing telemedicine

is the last mile of care.
The pipeline of people

needing annual booster sh*ts is endless,

and you can't get a sh*t online.

Not yet. Until iPhone gets
that retractable syringe.

- (CHUCKLES)
- Only so many times

you can upgrade a f*cking camera, right?

Uh, but for now, you
need a physical location.

Yeah.

- What's your take on this?
- It's compelling.

Uh, but slightly reductive,

in the sense that the bull
case is what, that it's...

an acquisition target?

I still think Rican is
the telemedicine play

and you could not be better
positioned for it now.

But, as you say, Jesse
already owns that.

It's compelling and I gotta concede

you're oddly watchable. (CHUCKLING)

I feel like I'm talking
to a young congressman.

(JESSE BLOOM CHUCKLING)

Well, thank you, guys.

It's been a long time since I've been

- in a real city boy pub.
- Try the steak and kidney pie.

- Mm. (CHUCKLES) Yeah.
- (CHUCKLES)

I got dinner actually.

- Oh, I thought this was dinner.
- Well, Leo had a window

on short notice. So... (INHALES SHARPLY)

- Let's...
- JESSE: Anyways,

- good to see you guys.
- DVD: Yeah, let's do this again.

JESSE: Hmm.

(INHALES SHARPLY)

- Thanks.
- All right. Thanks man.

You got it.

- All right, see ya.
- Bye.

I hope that gets you your
clout for your group chat.

- Hundred percent.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

- (DISTANT CAR HORNS BLARING)
- (DISTANT POLICE SIRENS WAILING)

No. Stop, stop, stop. Stop.

(INHALES DEEPLY) This
is a lot. (CHUCKLES)

I don't usually let people in here.

- ROBERT SPEARING: Where?
- (BREATHES DEEPLY)

NICOLE CRAIG: (CHUCKLES)
Definitely not there.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

NICOLE: No. Don't, don't, don't.

You don't wanna see
this old bag of spanners.

(SCOFFS)

ROBERT: Actually, yeah, you're right.

- Ah! You bastard. (LAUGHING)
- (CHUCKLES)

(SIGHS)

(NICOLE MOANS)

(INHALES DEEPLY)

(MOANS) Ah, softer.

(CHUCKLES, MOANS) Yeah.

Yeah, like that.

(MOANS)

I bet your other girls
actually let you f*ck them.

- ROBERT: What other girls?
- (NICOLE CHUCKLES)

(BOTH MOAN)

By the way...

our best idea this
morning was long FastAide.

(NICOLE GRUNTS, MOANS)

FastAide Chemist Group.

- We like it as a buy.
- (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

- (CHUCKLES) What?
- (CHUCKLES)

Oh, my God.

- Oh, my God.
- (CHUCKLES)

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- What's next? (CHUCKLES)

I'm going home.

My wife has me on a
midnight curfew, mid-week.

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

(INAUDIBLE) Yeah.

(UPBEAT MUSIC SWELLS)

- Excrement, yeah.
- (UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES OVER SPEAKERS)

- Dog sh*t.
- (CHUCKLES)

- Whose dog sh*t?
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)

Maybe I should call in
a favor with Phil Boon?

Send it off for forensics.

- Isn't he a gynecologist?
- Retrained as a vet.

I just, like, don't
understand how someone

as well educated as you is,
like, satisfied doing that?

- What, helping people?
- (ROBERT SCOFFING)

Because that's why you got
into it. Helping people. Mm.

Do your parents know what you're doing?

I can't imagine them co-signing this?

(CHUCKLES) My parents still
think I'm at Pierpoint.

Mr. Sackey. I'm ready to be evaluated.

Are you still here?

LEO BLOOM: I left briefly for FaceTime

with Jesse and to get supplies.

- I weirdly love that kid.
- (CHUCKLES)

HARPER STERN: Okay.
I'm just gonna say this,

and I'm not trying to tell you
like, what to do with your body,

but please bear in mind who
introduced you to that kid,

- and...
- (ROBERT CHUCKLING)

... how your actions
might reflect back on me.

Would we refer to him as a child?

- Yes.
- Look, mate, if he's legal...

- go with God.
- (SNAPS FINGERS) I'm with God.

- I go. I'm going. I'm going now.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)

Oh, my gosh.

So what did you make of all that?

The d*ck wants what
the d*ck wants. Sadly.

- Amen.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)

- f*cking hell.
- (DOOR KNOCKING)

HARPER: That's all you, babe.

Your neighbor that looks
like Jonah Hill let me in.

- Can I get a glass?
- Yeah.

Two secs, I need to piss
like a f*cking racehorse.

- Hey, I'm gonna kick.
- Please don't, please don't.

Can you just stay for a like a sec?

- This is f*cking awkward.
- (CHUCKLES)

Mate, she's got needs that I can't meet.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

- ROBERT: Good celebration, yeah?
- Hmm.

I thought they paid me
well, but then I forgot

- who my competition was.
- HARPER: They paid you well?

- ROBERT: Why is that a surprise?
- (CHUCKLES)

HARPER: I just heard
the desk is down overall,

but it's good that you're doing well.

Yeah, Nicole really is

- one of one.
- HARPER: Hmm.

The other day, she gave
me a director's commentary

of every punter in Hakkasan.
(CHUCKLES) She's a funny fucker.

Well, I'm glad she's
keeping it professional.

What do you mean?

Oh, no, no. I... it's
nothing. It's nothing really.

She just, um... (SMACKS LIPS)

... we had like a moment. Um...

What kind of moment? Like...
like a moment with you?

No, it's not a big deal.
She just got a little...

(HARPER SCOFFS)

She gets what she wants. (CHUCKLES)

She's Nicole, right? She's fine.

(UPBEAT MUSIC FADING)

- (DOOR OPENS)
- (TOILET FLUSHING)

Okay, uh, night.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Sorry, sorry. (CHUCKLES)

I'm unduly stressed about something

that shouldn't be causing me stress.

LEO: You mean that nutcase?

Why the f*ck?

(SIGHS) Because it's my f*cking job?

I don't wanna just
pay lip service to it.

I haven't worked in a year.

LEO: Well, fine then. Shall we...

go back into the office?

(SMACKS LIPS) Do a taste test?

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

Mm. How do you even
know it's a dog, hmm?

South London, innit?

Might be a fox.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

Speaking of lip service.

Do you mind?

I hate doing it in the loo.

We are celebrating.

- Are we?
- We got paid?

Yes. Yes.

Of course, we did. (SNIFFS)

Pocket money, right?

Barely touches the sides. (EXHALES)

I'm kidding.

Yeah.

- I'm weirdly not. (CHUCKLES)
- (SNIFFS)

I didn't think about money once
during the year out. Not once.

Okay, if you thought that I was gonna

absolve you of whatever

rich white-passing
guilt you may have...

No. I'm not doing that. (CHUCKLES)

I don't feel guilty. (CHUCKLES)

Not anymore than I usually do
when I... (CHUCKLES) ... wake up.

I spent COVID

going from enormous
kitchen to enormous kitchen,

seshing and not once did
I think about money...

and then I became obsessed

with finding the perfect
white pajamas, right?

So on one tab, there'd
be these f*cking pajamas,

and the other tab,

it would be these images of
piles of bodies in New York.

You know, the economy, all that sh*t,

all through a f*cking screen.
So I'd cycle through them,

you know. (CHUCKLES)

I was too f*cked to sleep and then...

and then I'd buy these
pajamas in four or five sizes,

and the returns would be all marked up

for my convenience. I still
have every single pair.

The ones that fit made me feel
really f*cking good for a bit.

And the worst part is,

I think it was the best
f*cking summer of my life.

All I had to worry about was pajamas.

(CHUCKLES)

Why did you come here, Yas?

If you wanted to talk at someone
you could have gone to a bar.

- Or...
- God, you're so f*cking cynical.

Do you ever wonder where
you'd be without money?

I know exactly where
I'd be without money.

I'm gonna get you some
water. Please drink it.

("THE ORDER OF DEATH" BY
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD PLAYING)

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪

- ♪ This is what you get... ♪
- (SCOFFS)

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get... ♪

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (POLICE SIRENS WAILING)

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get... ♪

- (CHUCKLES)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Eric, I heard you were in the building

before you stepped through the door.

Glad to hear my name still precedes me.

The Terminator! (CHUCKLES) Notorious.

How's, uh, how's Candice?

- It's relentless.
- (CHUCKLES)

- (ERIC CHUCKLES)
- Listen, uh,

I've got a mini emergency.
James Gorman wants a powwow

with the street-wide heads of FICC.

- A meeting of the five families.
- The food'll be worse.

Morgan Stanley calling the sh*ts.

A cold day in hell.
Slaves to the Japanese.

We b*mb them, they buy our banks.

- The world turns.
- Bill, I came all the way here.

I'd make time for you
at the drop of a hat

and knowing you, I can't envisage

what I need to say taking
longer than minutes.

Listen, I can clear a
full day for you tomorrow.

Chris can set you up in an office.

- After you.
- BILL ADLER: Actually...

I got a surprise for you.
Oh, you're gonna love this.

Come on!

(JOURNALIST SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY OVER TV)

(SONG CONCLUDES)

So, I, uh, thought you'd get a kick

out of working out of
your mentor's old office.

Ah, Newman.

Poor bastard worked
right up until the end

and we haven't had a
reason to move anyone in.

All right. Enjoy. You're home.
Let's pick this up tomorrow.

(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(SCOFFS)

- (TELEPHONE RINGING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

- Hello?
- ERIC: I thought, I'd do you the courtesy

of acknowledging your voicemail.

Yeah, you didn't get back to me
and people needed to get paid.

You kids can't take a hint.

(CHUCKLES) All right.

How was your mandatory? You get away?

A holiday was far from my mind,

Daniel. In truth...

I've been struggling

to sleep.

Why's that?

You tell me.

You tell me.

Um, dealer board says you're
in the Broadway office.

ERIC: Mm.

DVD: Um, Eric. You, uh, you still there?

Yeah, you?

(CHUCKLES) Excuse me?
Yeah, I'm still here.

ERIC: No. No, you're not...

because I'm now talking
to an empty seat.

- (LINE DISCONNECTS)
- f*ck.

(MUSIC FADES)

HARPER: All good?

Uh, yeah.

I just need to get off the
desk and make a quick call.

You're gonna leave me here alone?

No. (CHUCKLES)

Um... (SMACKS LIPS)

Look, I wanna trust you, um,

and if we're being
transparent with each other,

I know what lights Bloom up.

That's, like, the point
of being close to a client

is like you know what animates them.

- DVD: Hmm.
- I wanna do that by myself.

I understand

Bloom needs to make room
in his fund for FastAide,

but it's a screaming buy
at such depressed levels...

Yeah I'm... I'm not saying
that it's not a good thesis.

Okay, well, I dunno, then just
think about taking it to him.

I will think about it.

Territorial, right? (CHUCKLES)

- I was raised by wolves.
- Sure. (CHUCKLES)

Who are your parents?

- If you don't mind me asking.
- No, it's not that. (CHUCKLES)

It's totally fine. Um...

well, my dad slept

with one of his students, my mom.

- Wow. (CHUCKLES)
- DVD: Yeah. (CHUCKLES)

One week in Greenwich. One in Brooklyn.

Dislocated. I get that.

Part of me always feels
like I deserve the world.

And part of me feels kinda...

Less than?

That's the word. (CHUCKLES)

Um...

yeah, it's the, uh...

it's the thing Eric smells
on people like blood.

He gets validated by the idea
of creating people in his image.

Until they become him...

but younger. And...

you know, he can't f*cking live with it.

Well, if he can't pull his own weight,

then he should move aside.

You sound just like him.

You love it.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

- What about you?
- HARPER: Uh,

my mom moved to the US when she was .

- DVD: Okay.
- I think that's probably why

she married my dad.

- DVD: All right.
- She fled communist Hungary

to try and become a
ruthless American capitalist.

(CHUCKLES)

She didn't really let us see our dad.

Is your dad still in the picture?

He seduced her then married
her. So... (CHUCKLES)

What about yours?

HARPER: Just me, my mom

- and my brother.
- Hmm.

That sounds tight.

Actually, my mom was a
f*cking reptile growing up,

so... (CHUCKLES) ...
um, it kinda became me

and brother against her.

She put a lot of pressure
on him and he, uh...

he kind of ran away.

DVD: Your buddy's in Berlin, right?

HARPER: How do you remember that?

(CHUCKLES) What do you mean?

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Are you for real?

You seem...

so well adjusted.

How have you survived this long?

This is all that I am.

Face value.

Where's our f*cking Sushi Sambas?

- I ordered an hour ago.

- (CHUCKLES)
- HARPER: Um...

there is a great Chinese place, by me.

Oh. Okay.

Um, lemme just make that call first.

- Okay. (CHUCKLES)
- DVD: All right. I'll be back.

JIMMY: I did not believe them
when they said it! (CHUCKLES)

(SPEAKING CANTONESE)

Do my eyes deceive me
or is this Horny Jimmy?

- Yeah!
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (JIMMY SIGHS)

- You, I have seen more recently.
- (CHUCKLES)

JIMMY: She actually still comes here.

- ERIC: Uh.
- JIMMY: How you been?

Good, good.

I was scared I'd come here
and find it all boarded up.

Yeah, it's been tough, but
we weathered it. (CHUCKLES)

- Bit of trouble here and there.
- What? What kind of trouble?

JIMMY: You know...

The worst people in this
country feel a lot braver.

I'll send someone right over.

Hey, sorry again about your husband.

- Newman was one of a kind.
- Thanks.

You know that Chris Rock joke?

Being a minority in America

is like the uncle who paid
your way through college,

but molested you.

Come on. You know, Newman
had his way with words.

He'd call me panface, slope,

his little rice-eater.

All laced with affection, of course.

(CHUCKLES)

HOLLY NEWMAN: In years of marriage,

I never heard him speak like that.

I'm sorry.

I'm sure you know that's not who he was.

No, it... it wasn't all that he was.

But it was him.

Doesn't mean I didn't love him.

He got the best out of me.

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING IN CANTONESE)

You remember coming here at
lunch during the grad class?

Yeah. (CHUCKLES) We'd
inhale five of these.

Was there ever any...

overlap?

What, between us f*cking
and me f*cking our boss?

Oh, to be young again.

- (LOCK CLICKS)
- (HARPER SHUSHES)

Okay.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

- (SHUSHES, CHUCKLES)
- Sorry. (CHUCKLES)

(KEYS RATTLING)

("UNDER THE MOON"
BY SHAKE PLAYING)

(MOANS)

♪ How they got inside ♪
♪ Oh, really, I don't know... ♪

(BREATHES DEEPLY) Are you clean?

- I can double bag it.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)

♪ Drink too much to know ♪
♪ You drink too much to know ♪

♪ Spirits in your blood ♪

♪ Is seeping through your soul... ♪

(CHUCKLES) Sorry if this
tastes like chow mein.

Burp in my face then, I'm a fan.

- Oh, my God.
- (CHUCKLES)

- I'm just f*cking with you.
- (CHUCKLES)

I do like to eat ass, though.

It's just, like, my predilection.

No problem on this end.

- Oh, all right. (CHUCKLES)
- (SCREAMS, CHUCKLES)

♪ Not far, baby,
even when you leave ♪

♪ What happened under the moon ♪

♪ It stays under the moon... ♪

(MOANS)

♪ It stays under the moon ♪

♪ I wanna get high, high ♪

♪ I wanna get high ♪

♪ I wanna get high, high... ♪

- (PANTS) I'm gonna come.
- (PANTS) Okay.

- I want you to come on me.
- Okay. (PANTS)

(GRUNTS)

♪ Me, I'm gonna have
less than a little bit ♪

♪ Or I might just take the
rest and a little bit ♪

♪ We all know how it ends
when you're giving in... ♪

(DVD PANTS)

♪ Under the same sky when
you're missing it... ♪

- (PANTS, CHUCKLES)
- (CHUCKLES)

- (INHALES SHARPLY)
- How about that predilection?

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

DVD: I don't like to discriminate
between the ass and the p*ssy.

♪ Get on, get even... ♪

DVD: Yeah, that tastes
f*cking excellent.

(HARPER MOANS)

(SONG CONCLUDES)

So what is it you want now?

I want the check...
(CHUCKLES) ... and some sleep.

(CHUCKLES)

You know I love that focus.

A man passing through on a contract.

- Who's gonna get got?
- "Reasonable people,

doing reasonable things.

- Where does that get us?"
- "Unreasonable people,

doing unreasonable things.
That's how we begin to matter."

- (CHUCKLES)
- Oh, my God.

He really f*cked us up. (CHUCKLES)

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

"All I want is to enter
my house justified."

I earned a right

to be there. I earned my place.

- Big man in the big house.
- (ERIC SNICKERING)

I don't know.

Sometimes, I think...

you're born , men,
you die as just one.

- Hmm.
- ERIC: And I, maybe, helped...

some people...

find their feet.

You know what? I... I think,
you did all of it just for you.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

The lonely cowboy.

- Hey, I'm not lonely.
- The lonely cowboy in a suit,

his face plastered all over town.

Oh.

I'm wanted, am I?

(CHUCKLES)

(CLEARS THROAT) Check and some sleep.

- (SOFT MUSIC FADING)
- (DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE)

JESSE: (OVER PHONE)
I'm watching the Western Bulldogs

versus Port Adelaide.
Aussie rules football.

- Are you into that?
- JESSE: Oh, no.

But it's live and, uh, I'm sure
someone will make me a market.

- Do you bet?
- Only roulette.

- For fun. Sometimes.
- JESSE: What's your strategy?

- Uh...
- (WATER RUNNING)

Martingale. Double down. All on black.

You know, uh, in Monaco in ,

- red came up times in a row?
- (HARPER CHUCKLING)

I hope that guy was liquid.

(CHUCKLES) Why are you
calling me at this hour?

I was thinking

about how, maybe, my
colleague outshined me

a little bit.

It's been bothering me.

Oh, he's a smart kid, but I was puzzled

as to why he was pitching me
a long in an identical market.

It's repetitive and boring
and institutionalized.

- Are you any of those things?
- Just think maybe he wants

someone to buy FastAide
because he already has someone

who wants to get rid of it.

Maybe it's a screaming short.

I don't know, Harper. He
seems pretty convinced by it.

Um, do you not trust him?

He's a sales guy.

It's his job to be convincing.

- (DOOR CLOSES)
- It's unclear

if they will get regulatory approval

to implement their entire business plan.

The SPAC market is already languishing,

which could be a leading
indicator for things to come.

Valuations are sky high

and no other sector's been this overbid.

FastAide is just a blockbuster
flogging meds instead of VHS.

(CHUCKLES) I knew you thought that.

I hardly think your
camp will be impressed

when I ask for a bid in
the deal they're selling.

(INHALES SHARPLY) So don't call me.

Sell through Goldman or
anyone else on the street.

I'm sure they'd love to help.

(CHUCKLES) So,

you're pitching me
against the house view

and you're sending my
flow to a competitor?

The best idea wins.

And what's the best idea?

Mine, Jesse.

The one that thrills you.

- (JESSE SIGHING) Okay.
- (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

JESSE: I, uh, will call
Goldman in the morning.

You are a restless soul, Harper.

I don't know how to be anything else.

- (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
- (CHARLES HANANI CHUCKLING)

- What's this all for?
- (CHUCKLES)

CHARLES: You're making me
feel tremendously loved.

- (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
- (GRUNTS)

So, obviously, I've been trying

to get Maxim to give me
access to your accounts,

just so Pierpoint can
kick off the due diligence.

- He's being a brick wall.
- He can be a bit Balearic.

Hot-tempered. Affairs of the heart?

He says you told him not to speak to me.

If we want to have a relationship,

professional, personal, whatever,

you need to be honest with me.

I can handle it. I can handle bad news.

Just tell me.

There are some women.

("REQUIEM" BY MOZART PLAYING)

- What do you mean, "women"?
- Women that had designs on me.

- "Designs" on you?
- CHARLES: Women I saw.

Heartbroken women that felt hurt by me

and then subsequently
tried to ruin me...

ruin us,

- ruin our family.
- How many women?

CHARLES: I don't have to
tell you I had affairs.

Bitterly regret that... (INHALES DEEPLY)

... and whatever damage it did to this.

I was young, all ego.

- All id, actually.
- Sorry... (CHUCKLES)

What does this have to do
with our family's money?

Finickity agreements. Legal red tape.

Annual outgoings. You know, agreements.

Non-disclosure agreements?

CHARLES: I've got nothing to hide.

That's just how these
things are wrangled legally.

What I gave them...

was a better life.

(CHUCKLES)

Surely you knew I'd find out about this,

as soon as you brought
your finances to Pierpoint.

I don't know.

I don't know. Maybe it was my stupid,

tortured, backward way
of letting you find out

so that I could no longer ignore it.

Right.

I'm a coward, Mina.

As I get older,

I fear that may be my essence...

fear.

Okay.

But...

as far as our money is concerned,

do we still have any?

Well, what do you mean?

Do we have money? Are you wealthy?

Well, of course.

Of course. Generational.
Many lifetimes over.

(CHUCKLES)

(MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)

DVD: Too finance, bro! I don't know.

- (PHONE RINGING)
- DVD: Bummer because apparently

they do some really
wild sh*t on stage there.

RISHI RAMDANI: (CHUCKLING) What?

Like a couple of Black & Decker bolts

out the assh*le?

DVD: Dude, this is a place of work.

(PHONE RINGING CONTINUES)

Dude, pick up the phone.

Uh, she'll call back.

- (KEYBOARD CLACKING)
- (MOUSE CLICKING)

DVD: I got a res at Zuma tonight.

No, bro.

Me and someone special.

JAMIE: Knobheads! You f*cking knobheads!

RECEPTIONIST: I'm afraid she's busy!

- JAMIE: Come on, mate.
- (DOOR CLOSING)

They know I'm important,

so they're out to get me.

I know, I... I do... I know it.

I know, they're listening in on me.

James, it's James right?

- Jay. Yeah.
- Jay. (CHUCKLES)

Take a seat.

This is gonna surprise you.

You know, as a...

dyed-in-the wool
identikit Tory. (CHUCKLES)

But I looked into your request.
My mate's a failed doctor.

I sent him a picture of your...

- sample.
- It's not mine.

GUS SACKEY: I'm not saying it is.

It's not a dog's either.

I understand why
someone in your situation

might make a cry for help,

especially, if no one's listening.

I hope you don't mind, I...
I did some noodling around.

I understand you've been
between jobs for a while.

I have, yeah.

I mean...

do you wanna... do you
wanna talk about it?

(MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)

(JAMIE SNIFFLING)

CELESTE: We are very excited
to have you here at Pierpoint.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER IN ARABIC)

I have something I need
to discuss with you.

Um, I've done the work

on the Hanani financial situation

and um...

I found some...

God. (CHUCKLES) Not really
sure how to phrase it.

- Um...
- Yes?

You know what?

The more I think about
it, the more I think

I'm just fixating on
unnecessary details.

- (CHUCKLES)
- That's a habit of mine too.

Do you think, we'll have fun together?

I mean, working together.

- Yeah.
- CELESTE: Good.

I was counting on it.

("THE ORDER OF DEATH BY
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD PLAYING)

(CHUCKLES)

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get... ♪

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (CAR HORNS BLARING)

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ This is what you get ♪

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ What you want... ♪

ELEVATOR VOICE ANNOUNCER:
Floor seven. Doors opening.

♪ This is what you want ♪
♪ What you want ♪

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (SONG CONCLUDES)

ELEVATOR VOICE ANNOUNCER: Doors closing.

Revenue across the floor
is only up ten percent,

and CPS London is up over .

Every member of my
team is up year on year.

So why are you paying us less?

All roads lead back to Daniel.

He moves

as if he has the
confidence of your blessing.

I believe, you've
conspired to pay us down...

make us look expendable

and then conflate us with New York.

I want Daniel gone.

He's an ED. He's expensive.

Harper and I are nimbler without him.

Or are you forcing me and my team

to look for bids away?

Because let me tell you
there are plenty of shops

that'll take us in a heartbeat

and pay us what we're worth.

Shall we look at the data?

Uh, figures cut through
hot air because...

they can't lie.

Yeah, so, uh, average
comp is up over percent

on your team, but the...

overall desk pool is down because...

you're down.

And your production has
dropped from million to .

Your quartile ranking
dropped two places.

I had to rub my eyes. What
the hell happened to you?

(SCOFFS)

I mean, truth is paying you down
only percent leaves us space

for further reductions
now that Felim is gone.

Your comp to production
ratio is still the highest.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

You're paying me down percent?

You're a weight on your team.

What, for the last
four f*cking quarters?

- Out of what,
? - Mm-hmm.

But they're the only
four quarters that matter.

I assembled that team.

Their achievements are mine.

BILL: And I bet they're grateful.

But you and I are bigger than team-talk

and -review, lukewarm water.

If you stop producing,
you're simply a cost.

(CHUCKLES)

Have the grace to look me in the eye

when you do it, then.

I looked you in the eye...

when I f*cking hired you.

You know nobody owes
anybody a tomorrow here.

Ple...

Please...

don't let me go.

I'd never just let you go.

So, um... (CLEARS THROAT) ...
we've been talking and, uh...

we've got some good news.

DVD: We're moving you up.

BILL: So, Danny here mentioned
you, uh, had a chat yesterday

and he got straight on the phone

to figure out the next best
step for someone as loyal as you.

DVD: We want you to run the
Client Relationship effort

across Europe.

You both know what CRMS is.

DVD: Shorter hours. Less
stress. Increased interactions.

Socialize...

away from the melee of the floor.

- It's a retirement home.
- More time for your family.

You deserve this.

For what it's worth,

I think, you look better in a tie.

(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(CAR HORNS BLARING)

(DOOR CLOSING)

(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC FADES)

Thank you.

- (DOOR KNOCKING)
- (LOCKS CLICKING)

("THE BLACK ANGEL'S DEATH SONG"
BY THE VELVET UNDERGROUND PLAYING)

- ERIC: Hey.
- HOLLY: Hey.

♪ The myriad choices ♪
♪ Of his fate ♪

♪ Set themselves ♪
♪ Out upon a plate ♪

♪ For him to choose ♪

♪ What had he to lose? ♪

♪ Not a ghost bloodied country ♪
♪ All covered with sleep ♪

♪ Where the black angel did weep ♪

♪ Not an old city street in the east ♪

♪ Gone to choose ♪

♪ And wandering's brother ♪
♪ Walked on through the night ♪

♪ With his hair in his face ♪

♪ On a long-splintered
cut from the Kn*fe ♪

♪ Of GT ♪

♪ The rally man's patter
ran on through the dawn ♪

♪ Until we said so long to his skull ♪

♪ Shrill yell ♪

♪ Shining brightly red-rimmed ♪
♪ And red-lined with the time ♪

♪ Infused with the choice of the mind ♪

♪ On ice skates scraping chunks ♪

♪ From the bells ♪

♪ Cut mouth bleeding razors
forgetting the pain ♪

♪ Antiseptic remains ♪
♪ Cool goodbye ♪

♪ So you fly ♪

♪ To the cozy brown snow of the east ♪

♪ Gone to choose, choose again ♪

♪ Sacrificials remains ♪
♪ Make it hard to forget ♪

♪ Where you come from
the stools of your eyes ♪

♪ Serve to realize fame ♪

♪ Choose again ♪

♪ And Rovermans' refrain
of the sacrilege recluse ♪

♪ For the loss of a horse ♪

♪ With the bowels and a tail of a rat ♪

♪ Come again, choose to go ♪

(SONG CONCLUDES)