02x06 - What's in the Box?

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Politician". Aired: September 27, 2019 – June 19, 2020.*
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Payton Hobart, a student from Santa Barbara, has known since age seven that he's going to be President of the United States. But first he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School.
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02x06 - What's in the Box?

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[REPORTER] In other news,
the a*t*matic recount

in the th State Senate
District election

is in its third day

and is set to release its final
tally results this morning.

The a*t*matic recount was triggered

by a final vote count on Election Day

that had Senate Majority
Leader Dede Standish

leading upstart environmental
candidate Payton Hobart

by only votes,

well within the margin

that triggers a hand count
under New York State law.

Statements from both the Standish

and Hobart campaigns

insist that their candidates
will emerge the victor.

We turn now to Kyle Bernier,

who is out front of
Standish headquarters,

where Payton Hobart is expected to meet

with Dede Standish and election
board officials any moment.

It's a tie.

- [PAYTON] No f*cking way!
- [DEDE] You have got to be kidding!

I am not kidding.

The New York State Elections
Board is not known

for its collective sense of humor.

We take our jobs very seriously.

Very seriously.

How is a tie even possible?

Well, it happens when the
same number of voters

- cast a ballot for each of you.
- I know!

I am not a f*cking imbecile.

What she means is, she was up votes.

Where did those votes go?

Clearly, they never existed.

That tally was preliminary

and obviously an
overcount in your favor.

It's quite common for the
initial count to not be...

totally accurate.

- So, count them again.
- [MAN ] We did.

Still tied: , votes apiece.

Well, count them by hand!

It was a hand recount.

Two machine recounts and a hand
recount, all with the same result.

The board of elections has
officially certified this is a tie.

That decision is final.

You know what? You know who
probably didn't even vote?

James. I bet he stayed home out
of spite. Bet you a million bucks.

- [CHATTER CONTINUES]
- I busted my f*cking ass,

and I am tied with a
f*cking theater major?

After six years of working together,

he couldn't have shown
up on the one day?

Who the f*ck with half a brain
in their f*cking head...

- So...
- [CHATTER HALTS]

... let's talk next steps, hmm?

Anna.

Under New York State law,
we have two options,

but both campaigns have to agree.

We redo the election in ten days...

or we flip a coin.

- We flip a coin?
- [DEDE SPLUTTERS]

I am going to throw
myself out that window.

Strictly speaking, it does
not have to be a coin flip.

We pored through the historical records,

and it's actually kind of funny

because you could decide
it any way you want.

In ,

there was a Democratic primary for
the th House of Representatives,

and Bryce Edgmon won that

with a coin flip.

- [WOMAN] Heads.
- Yes!

f*ck!

[MAN] In ,

there was a tie in a race for
Virginia House of Delegates,

so they put both names
into film canisters,

- and then they pulled it out of a bowl.
- David Yancey.

[REPORTERS CHATTERING]

- [CROWD CHEERING]
- [MAN] And in Indiana in ,

a tie for county treasurer

was decided by a footrace.

Thank Providence!

I'm going to, uh, give you
a moment to discuss.

[DEDE] I want a revote.

I am not throwing away a
-year political career

for some frigging coin toss.

[HADASSAH] Dede, you gotta stay calm.

Let's talk about the trend lines.

A month ago, we were up points,

then ten.

Now, we're tied.

He's trending up, we're trending down.

In ten days,

he's gonna b*at you.

But flipping a coin...

[SOFTY] Let's do a revote, okay?
We can win this thing.

- Well, maybe.
- Maybe?

Maybe we could win a revote,

but it's probably less
than a - chance.

- What?
- We got out every possible vote for you,

we still couldn't b*at her.

And we'd struggle to
repeat that turnout.

I mean, most of your voters are young.

Young people don't like voting,
and what they really don't like

is voting twice.

You think we have better
odds if we flip a coin?

Yeah, kinda.

Maybe we could get them to
use, like, a weighted coin.

One that always comes up heads.

No. I'm not cheating.

So, here's what we
would like to suggest.

Let's honor this moment
in political history

with a commemorative coin.

One that my campaign is happy
to be responsible for fabricating.

We'll put my face on one
side, Dede's on the other.

We'll use that coin,
leave the rest to chance.

[LAUGHS] That's bullshit.

You think we're actually
gonna let you make the coin

that decides the election?

God, that is just unbelievable!

Well, let's just do a revote.
We'd love to do a revote.

- Okay, that's fine.
- [PAYTON] Great.

- [DEDE] Fine.
- Wait! That's not an official answer.

Hold it, I just have to text here.

My grandson has croup. Oh, God.

"Plenty of fluids,

steam."

And...

send.

Oh, so sorry. He is the apple of my eye.

Okay.

Okay.

I propose...

rock paper scissors.

What?

- Really?
- Really.

I mean, let's be honest.
You're not gonna win a footrace...

- [BOTH LAUGH]
- ... or flipping a cheater-Payton coin.

Let's do the old roshambo!

Best two out of three.

- Right now?
- No, no, no, no. Friday, at noon,

so we have enough time to invite
the camera crews and the press.

Make it a big event.

I mean, this is so ridiculous,

but let's make it a thing.

Come on! It'll be fun.

Yay, democracy, yay, yay, yay!

Okay. Deal.

Deal.

[SUFJAN STEVENS'S "CHICAGO" PLAYING]

♪ I fell in love again ♪

♪ All things go, all things go ♪

♪ Drove to Chicago ♪

♪ All things know, all things know ♪

♪ You came to take us ♪

♪ All things go, all things go ♪

♪ To recreate us ♪

♪ All things grow, all things grow ♪

♪ We had our mindset ♪

♪ All things know, all things know ♪

♪ You had to find it ♪

♪ All things go, all things go ♪

There's an angle.

How do you know?

Hadassah would never suggest something

as out of the box as rock paper scissors

unless she had an angle.
She is a calculating...

mmm... merciless operator,
and I know that

because I'm a calculating,
merciless operator,

and I would never suggest

a game of chance to
decide an entire election

unless I knew I could game the system.

We should hire a private investigator
and a team of psychiatrists

to do a psychological profile
on Dede Standish to determine

which option she's most likely to play.

She strikes me as a
scissors kind of gal.

Mm-mm. Mm-mm.

We don't have time for
any of that, okay?

We can't analyze the player,
we need to analyze the game.

How do we do that?

We need to talk to an expert.

[DOOR BUZZES]

[DOOR SLAMS SHUT]

Okay. Uh, hi, Ricardo.

You're... You're looking really
good. It's good to see you.

Uh, did you lose weight?

[ALICE] We heard that you
were doing theater in here.

That's nice.

Guys and Dolls.

But we had to cancel the show 'cause
the guy playing Miss Adelaide

shanked the guy playing Nathan Detroit.

Probably not the first time
something like that's happened.

How's Infinity?

She told me she was gonna
come visit, but...

she must be real busy.

She's... She's great.

She, um... She wrote a book.

We'd be happy to get you a copy.

On tape, if you prefer.

[PAYTON] Now she's busy,
uh, saving the planet.

Enough of the chitchat.

We need your help.

Teach us how to win at
rock paper scissors.

Roshambo.

You came to the right place.

On the inside, roshambo is life.

Everything's decided

through roshambo:

property disputes,

- settling beefs.
- [ALL SHOUTING]

[SHOUTS CONTINUE]

- [CHEERING]
- Winner!

There's even underground games
that the guards organize

for gambling purposes.

- [CHEERING]
- Oh!

You wanna know something?

I like being in prison.

Out in the world, I'm nobody.

Just some punk

with no job and a cool mustache.

But in here,

I'm like a duke

or a lord

or something.

You know why?

Because I figured out the secret
to always win at roshambo.

[DEDE] There is no strategy

to rock paper scissors.

- It's a game of chance.
- Tell that to the researchers

of the China State Key Laboratory
for Theoretical Physics.

They wrote a paper on how
humans make decisions

in non-competitive,

- noncooperative, strategic actions.
- English, Hadassah.

They had a few hundred students

play games of rock
paper scissors each

to see if any patterns emerged.

And, guess what?

[BOTH] They did.

I cracked the code.

When I first got here,

I played it real cool and quiet.

[SHOUTS] Roshambo!

[RICARDO] Hands in
pockets, no eye contact,

never say yes to a favor.

But what I did do is watch.

And that's when I started
noticing patterns.

Men almost always start with a rock.

[DEDE] Of course they do.

It's their solution to everything:
just bash it into submission.

But assuming Payton starts

with rock,

that means we win round one,

but this is best two out of three.

Well, here's where it gets juicy.

Research found...

that if a player wins a round...

... they're more likely to play
the same play the next round.

So, if you win with paper,

you're feeling good about yourself,
and you wanna keep feeling good,

so you unconsciously choose paper again.

Okay, so what happens to the
loser's play after they lose?

If they lose two in a row, they get
fixated on what's b*ating them,

so they switch to the thing that
will b*at what just b*at them.

What?

Dede, this is so simple.

If you lose the first round,

you switch to the thing that
will b*at what just b*at you.

If you win, you should
switch to the thing

that would win against the thing
that you played the first time.

I'm sorry, can you say that
last part again, more slowly?

[GROANS]

If you win with rock,

play scissors.

If you lose with scissors,

play paper.

Jesus!

You guys wouldn't last
five minutes in prison!

[DEDE] This is brilliant,
but there's only one thing

that could throw a wrench
into this master plan.

[HADASSAH] Mmm?

What if Payton knows
about this study as well?

[HADASSAH GASPS]

- What is he doing here?
- I called him.

This is a campaign emergency,

and I wanted everyone involved to
be here to figure out what to do.

Well, I fired him. For cause.

Sorry I went behind your back
and talked to the Times.

I made an executive decision,
which, considering the way

the race tightened on Election Day,

was probably really wise and productive.

Yes, one that you only made
because I called you out

for not being aggressive enough.

I don't know if I wanna work with
someone who can be baited into

an emotional action that easily.

Yes, because we are all just
usually so emotionally stable.

Enough. Skye, you said
it was an emergency.

If you think it's serious enough
to warrant James being here,

then James should be here.

[SKYE] Thank you.

An hour ago, I got a visit
from Infinity Jackson.

She gave me this.

[MCAFEE] Is that an official ballot box?

[PAYTON] It's still locked.

Oh, my God. This is a stolen ballot box.

Being in possession of this
is a federal crime, okay?

We have to get out of here so we
can maintain plausible deniability.

Wait, wait. How did Infinity get this?

I stole it.

Well, we stole it.

We being my secret climate action group

called the Climate Underground.

I wanted to call it the
Weather Underground,

but apparently, the name was taken

by some jerks who don't even
care about climate change.

Anyway, I came up with the
ballot-stealing idea all on my own.

I called it "Operation Steal our Planet

from the Boomers Who
are Trying to k*ll It."

Mmm, aren't code names supposed
to be, like, shorter than that?

- Yeah, like, an acronym or something?
- Or be clever?

Can we get back to the crime that
could put us in jail for a decade?

Payton,

Dede Standish cannot win this election.

We are in a climate emergency,

and you are the only candidate
that can stop it, so...

I thought to myself, "Infinity,

how can you stop her from
winning this election?

I mean, you could assassinate her,

but that feels extreme even
under these circumstances."

Yeah, I agree with that.
Assassination is never the answer.

[INFINITY] Huh.

Then I realized,

this is a local election.

It'll be decided by just
a handful of votes.

What if we made sure

that a bunch of Standish
votes were never counted?

It could throw the election...

to you.

How do you know that is
full of Standish votes?

I found the polling place with the
highest percentage of old voters.

[MCAFEE] I know that place.

We canvased it. When we asked what
they thought of the environment,

their response was, because
their grandchildren never visit,

they hope to leave behind a
hellhole for them to live in.

[INFINITY] I read this study
by these Canadian scientists

that said old people are
more easily distracted

because a part of their brain

called the locus coeruleus
is deteriorated,

so I knew it wouldn't take
much to draw their attention.

[PEOPLE MURMURING]

Also, if there's one thing

that old people cannot resist,

it's mimes.

[PEOPLE CHEERING]

There are probably
ballots in this box.

That's more than enough to
give the election to Dede.

This is bad. [BREATHING HEAVILY]

Oh, God, this is really bad.

Worse than when you didn't have cancer,

- and I didn't tell anyone.
- Th... That bad?

It's that bad, Infinity.
We are all going to jail.

[SKYE] I'm not.

[CHUCKLES] I'd turn on
all of you in a heartbeat.

You saw that election board.

They told us they don't have
a sense of humor, right?

Don't think you're gonna find
stealing their ballot box funny.

In fact, I think they'd probably
find it definitively unfunny.

Payton, we are at w*r.

The biggest, most important
w*r of all time.

Every single day counts.

Two years with you with
the power to do something

could be the difference
between life and death.

Our planet is being m*rder*d
by people like Dede Standish.

Okay? This is...

not a crime.

It's self-defense.

Okay, so? What are we gonna do?

Like it or not, we're in it now.

We could cr*ck it open
and count the votes,

and if it helps us,
we turn it in anonymously,

and if not, we burn them.

Okay. Now that we've considered

the most dishonest version
of what we should do,

what are some other options?

We could just...

leave it on the doorstep
of a police station,

like an unwanted baby.

And risk them using DNA and fingerprints

to find out who did it? Mm-mm.

Or we could do a full Frank
Capra integrity play

and hold a press conference
and tell the truth.

Yeah, and then I go to jail, so...

Oh, God, I need time to think.

There is no time. We're in
possession of stolen ballots.

Don't you think I know?
Do I look like an idiot?

[JAMES] I'll look after it.

I'd like to regain your trust.

If you'll let me.

I don't wanna know where
you're keeping them.

Nobody talks to each other or
about this until we can fix it.

Astrid, I never...

I never thanked you for not
causing any trouble for Payton

before the election.

It's probably just pregnancy hormones.

[ALICE] That's not true.

[VOICE BREAKS] Our reaction
to your baby news was cruel.

[SOBBING SOFTLY]

- I'm sorry. [GASPING BREATHS]
- That's fine.

- It happens to me all the time.
- It's not because I'm pregnant.

[GASPING] Well, it is, but... [EXHALES]

... it's because...

I don't like the parents that
this baby is gonna have.

No, you and Payton
will be great parents.

Pretty good ones, at least.

You'll definitely be better than mine.

I don't like who we've
become. [SNIFFLES]

What politics has turned us into.

Payton is exactly the same
as he's always been.

What it's turned me into.

I'm selfish,

I'm unkind,

I'm willing to cheat,

to... wreck lives, if necessary.

How do you know that's
not just who you are?

Politics hasn't changed you.

It just so happens to be the perfect job

for your particular moral
and ethical skill set.

I got into Harvard.

Payton didn't.

I was the one who told him
to run on the climate.

I was the one encouraging
him to play fair.

I've deferred my entire life to him.

Taken on his worst qualities to serve...

his dreams...

and ego.

[ASTRID SIGHS]

I can't argue with you there.
You've been his bitch since I met you.

Thank you for always speaking
straight to me. [SNIFFLES]

My father always said my coldness
was my greatest asset.

Screw Payton.

Screw everyone.

We should just get out of this
town and never look back.

[ALICE LAUGHS, SNIFFLES]

Running away isn't gonna
help anything. [SNIFFLES]

Running away was the best
thing I did with my life.

When I got far enough, I realized

I wasn't running from
anything important,

I was running to the
life I actually wanted.

Is the fetus going with him?

I don't think so.

You know...

uh, this may sound strange, Hadassah,

but even though Marcus lied to me,
I still feel terrible for him.

He's losing his wife, his home,

and his young, gay lover,
all in the span of a few days.

He'll probably lose his job, too.

Writing those papers for those students.

Please. He has tenure.

He could be murdering
cats on the Internet

and he'd still keep his teaching job.

- Oh, God.
- Look, it's the right thing, Dede.

Politically, Marcus was
gonna drag you down

like a tweed-blazered anchor.

But, personally,

he's a liar!

And he clearly leans very heavily

towards the gay end of
the Kinsey spectrum.

Clearly.

[DEDE SIGHS HEAVILY]

I am...

so tired, Hadassah, of the game.

You can't be tired of the game.

That's like saying you're
tired of breathing.

Or you're tired of the
chicken parm at Elio's.

You are the game. You've
been defined by the game

- for four decades.
- [SIGHS]

- What are you gonna do? Take up golf?
- No.

Or play Rummikub at...
at the nursing home?

You gonna join the board
of a bullshit start-up?

Oh, God, just saying those
words gives me the creeps.

Oh, so does staying the course.

You know I love governing.

It's the campaigning part of
the job that I never liked.

And one of the only
things that kept me going

was that I didn't have to worry
about running again. God.

[DEDE SIGHS]

Oh, my God.

Ugh.

It's a new world, Hadassah.

Since AOC,

no incumbent is safe.

We may win this,

but we've shown weakness.

No one is ever going to let
us run unopposed again.

You were excited.

You were excited about running

- for vice president.
- Yes, of course I was!

But you and I know what
makes that different.

We would be busting our asses,

flying around the globe
on Air Force Two.

We would be negotiating giant
deals with major leaders.

I would be the first woman...

to be this close to the presidency.

I just... It's a little different

than busting our asses

up in Albany

to try to pass some f*cking bill

to get some light bulbs

- in some f*cking street lamps.
- No.

You're not giving up yet.
You'll miss it too much.

The... The... The fame,
the respect, the driver.

- [CHUCKLES]
- The luggage tags

that say "Senate Leader
Standish" on them?

And, woman to woman, I won't let you.

Look at those old farts in Congress.

Nothing but big, swollen prostates
and Brooks Brothers suits.

You don't see them walking
away because they're tired.

No! They hang on to power,

even if it means wetting themselves
at the State of the Union.

- Take a lesson.
- You...

Hadassah...

this is gonna be good for you.

Yeah.

Just think...

how a new candidate could recharge you.

You...

You've been with me for so long.

[CHUCKLES]

A fresh start will be good for you.

But I don't wanna work
for anybody but you.

I wanna keep going until
we go over the cliff.

Like Thelma and Louise.

I wanna win this,

you know I do,

but no matter what,

I'm sorry.

It's the last race I'm gonna run.

[SIGHS]

[FIRE CRACKLES SOFTLY]

Made any progress?

I'm just playing out every possible
scenario in my mind. [SNIFFS]

Like a Choose Your Own Adventure
book, but every ending sucks.

To be, or not to be.

Exactly. [SIGHING]

Oh, and the worst part of this is,
we didn't even make this mess.

It was thrust upon us.

Maybe.

Nobody asked Infinity to
steal that ballot box.

But...

maybe we created an environment
of moral ambiguity

that made her think that
doing that for us was okay.

Alice, this is hard enough
without you blaming us for it.

I'm leaving...

Manhattan, this campaign...

you.

I think that maybe...

we are bad people.

No, that's not right.

I think that I've...

become a bad person.

Because you're with me?

Yes.

[PAYTON CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

I don't think that you're a bad person.

I think that you're indifferent

to morality and ethics.

I think that you struggle with
these kinds of ethical conundrums

because you think that
you're supposed to,

but you only choose the
side of light when it means

that you'll still probably
get what you want.

That's not true.

Do you want examples?

When we go to the movies,

you put your jacket on
the chair next to you

to make sure no one else takes it.

Uh, excuse me. Is someone sitting there?

Oh, yeah, I think so. He just
dropped his coat and ran out.

I think he's at concession stand.

[PAYTON] Seriously?

That's the evidence that
I'm morally bankrupt?

That I don't want to share an armrest?

[ALICE] It's the principle.

We are members of a
community in a theater.

You are putting your comfort

over the comfort of every other member.

You also lie.

A lot.

You're always telling people you can
be somewhere, even if you can't.

And then you lie about
why you can't make it.

Yes. Yes, no, Rabbi, I know I promised
to attend Sukkoth services

in exchange for your endorsement.
Here's the thing.

Some shiksa waitress
served me real bread

instead of gluten-free
bread at breakfast today,

and I'm in the worst
gastrointestinal distress,

and... yeah. Uh-huh. Yes, exactly.

Serves me right for
being born Ashkenazi.

Okeydokey, thank you for understanding.

[GROANS]

That's not lying, that's politics.

You promise everything,

and then you embellish when
you can't follow through.

For God's sakes, Alice,

people expect me to lie
to them about that stuff.

How about the fact that this
office has been stealing Wi-Fi

from the Indian restaurant
downstairs since we moved in?

We're running on a shoestring
budget here. Okay?

If we win, I'll report
the Wi-Fi to the FEC

as an in-kind contribution.

There's always a rationalization
for everything.

Don't you see that that's
why Infinity thought

it was okay to steal
the election for you?

That she was just following your lead

and rationalizing away any guilt?

Just like you did when you put
her life in danger in high school.

Just like you did

when you didn't turn
around to look at me

when we passed each other in the hall.

Is that what this is all about?

Have you really not
forgiven me for that yet?

You know that's the biggest
regret of my life.

It's that.

[BREATH TREMBLING]

It's also the fact that
I have been there

for every one of those things.

I'm an even worse
rationalizer than you are.

I... I have turned to the dark side

and lost any concept of a
moral code for anything.

I mean, at least you can tell yourself

you're doing it for your dream.

Our dream. Our dream.

No, your dream.

I don't even know what mine is.

Okay.

So then, let's figure out what that is.

Right? And then...
And then, I promise you,

I will do everything in my power
to make that come true. Okay?

I owe you that.

After the election.

Yeah, of course.

And what if...

my dream interferes with yours?

Are you willing to put yours on
hold to make mine come true?

But why would we have to do that?

I'm asking if you would.

[SPUTTERS] Yeah, yes, yeah.
Absolutely, yes.

Okay?

I'm not some rabbi looking
for you to come to temple

in exchange for an endorsement.

Okay. Yeah, just go. Just walk out.

You got practice leaving men as
things are about to get serious.

I left Thad for you!

You're the one who wanted
to bring Astrid into our bed

so that you could shut her up, okay?
You're no better than I am!

You're right.

But leaving you is the
only way I can be certain.

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

Goodbye, Payton.

[GEORGINA] I didn't come all
the way across the country

to watch you starve yourself.

[PAYTON] I'm in a
constant state of nausea.

I've never experienced this
complicated a moral dilemma.

Or is it an ethical dilemma? I can
never remember the difference.

Ethics are the rules that
social systems provide us,

and morals are the principles
which we govern ourselves by.

That's why I'm struggling.

Am I confused about
what I'm supposed to do

because the culture says that it
matters that I do the right thing,

or does doing the right thing...

actually matter to me?

Who cares?

I care, Mom.

This is a defining moment
in my life and career.

Every politician has
his or her crossroads

when they finally have to
choose one path or the other.

So do I tell myself that,
no matter what I have to do,

what rules I break,

or people I have to k*ll,

backroom deals I have to cut,

I'm still a white knight because
I'm fighting for what's right?

Or am I a man of core values?

Am I a champion of truth and integrity

who's willing to sacrifice
what's good for what's right?

Am I ethical or moral?

Or neither?

You know, am I Jimmy
Carter or Bill Clinton?

Or Lyndon Johnson?

Clinton was reelected.

[SCOFFS]

Ethics says you should
turn this ballot box over

and explain what happened.

There will be an investigation,

Infinity will probably get arrested,
and they will count the votes.

I'd lose and be tainted,
and I'd send my friend to jail.

- What's the moral thing?
- I told you.

Morality is how we govern ourselves.

You can throw that ballot
box in the East River,

but can you live with the
consequences to your conscience?

What if I hear the ballots
from down there constantly?

Like that guy from The Tell-Tale Heart?

You once said that my
ambition frightened you.

Is that what you're talking about?
Did you always know that I...

[SIGHS]

... had the capacity to live

outside the normal boundaries
of ethics and morals?

When you were a little boy,

you used to love to steal cookies
and candy from the pantry.

Your father never really
noticed any of you,

but he was a true prude about sweets.

I'm not sure if it was...

that he was worried about obesity
or he was shorting sugar stocks

or maybe it was that Katie
Couric documentary,

but he was adamant.

I outwardly agreed, but
then looked the other way

when you did your pilfering.

Are you saying that you think it's okay

to steal under certain circumstances?

I would watch you

after you took a sleeve of Oreos
or a bag of Swedish Fish,

and for the first hour or so,

you would be paranoid
and agitated and upset.

At first, I thought that you felt
guilty over being dishonest,

but after a while,

when you realized that
you hadn't been caught,

you would start to relax.

Not only relax, you would
get a skip in your step.

- Sugar high?
- No.

Because I think, for you,

the best part was realizing that
you had gotten away with it.

You are who you are, Payton.

I think you've known exactly
what you're going to do

with that ballot box from
the moment you saw it.

Your struggle isn't deciding
what you're going to do.

It's accepting who you are.

Congratulations on winning
your election, Mom.

I'm very proud of you.

Are you gonna eat anything?

I'm gonna get stoned and have a bath.

- We're gonna do nothing about the box.
- Are you sure?

Alice left me.

All I have left is my career

and my dream,

so I will make it to the White House.

Even if I have to lie and cheat

and... burn the world down to get there.

[INSTRUMENTAL THEME MUSIC PLAYS]
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